Opium production in Afghanistan has increased by 4,000% since the start of the US/UK/Others occupation. 4,000%. Really. For the first time, this year production of processed opium exceeded 7,500 tons. This industrial manufacture would be impossible without the active participation both of the puppet government we installed, and the command structures of our intelligence services. The Karzai and Dostum families, alongside other of our clients, have become terribly wealthy. Secret funds of intelligence services have swelled.
Opium production amounts to a staggering 60% of Afghanistan’s GDP. Yet we have that pompous fool Jon Simpson on the BBC opining what a great success our occupation was, how Afghanistan is transformed.
The UK spent 37 billion pounds of money we do not have on the occupation of Afghanistan, when our health service is creaking and hungry children are reliant on foodbanks. That 37 billion is a drastic underestimate – it is based on “marginal costing”, the extra cost of operating the troops and equipment in Afghanistan compared to the cost of keeping them on Salisbury Plain. The fact you would not need this massive offensive army and all that equipment, were you not conducting worldwide simultaneous invasions, is not taken into account at all. The true cost of the Afghan occupation is many times higher than 37 billion.
Bear that in mind when you see Cameron posturing about a routine EU subscription cost of 1.7 billion. There are unlimited funds for attacking and occupying Johnny Foreigner, but money spent on co-operation with other nations is an absurd waste. A view to be reinforced by increasing racist rhetoric about being “swamped” by the Eastern Europeans who are now adding so much to our economy and our culture.
There is an irony here because one of the major reasons for the EU contribution recalculation was the UK government’s decision to include, for the first time, an estimate for illegal trade – in drugs and prostitution – in UK GDP figures, thus producing a spurious blip in economic growth. Prostitution alone was estimated at 6.5 billion pounds, which makes it one of our major industries, while the drugs figure was still higher and represented a direct contribution to UK GDP from the result of our Afghan occupation.
So it was all worthwhile after all! Those soldiers did not die in vain! When you add to that, the fact that the prostitution figure itself is boosted by the many unfortunates, mostly women, who enter the trade to fund a heroin habit, you have a perfect circle of serendipity.
Who can possibly claim that UK policy is unplanned and immoral?
” Really, you are an arse. And if you believe it is the Taliban who are the major beneficiaries of the poppy trade, you are such an arse as to be not worth considering. ”
Falling back on crude schoolboy insults again Craig? Looks like I’ve won unless you can provide some evidence or is this going to be another “20,000 died in Sirte” moment?
Here’s everyone’s favourite, RT, on the subject.
http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-opium-un-warlords-657/
Kempe. So your argument is it’s incompetence rather than corruption?
“In December 2001, a number of prominent Afghans met in Bonn, Germany, under United Nations (UN) auspices to develop a plan to reestablish the State of Afghanistan, including provisions for a new constitution and national elections. As part of that agreement, the United Kingdom (UK) was designated the lead country in addressing counter-narcotics issues in Afghanistan. Afghanistan subsequently implemented its new constitution and held national elections. On December 7, 2004, Hamid Karzai was formally sworn in as president of a democratic Afghanistan.”
Two of the following three growing seasons saw record levels of opium poppy cultivation. Corrupt officials may have undermined the government’s enforcement efforts. Afghan farmers claimed that “government officials take bribes for turning a blind eye to the drug trade while punishing poor opium growers”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan”
Kempe, Chris Spivey was arrested in the middle of the night by four policemen he refers to as thugs. His computer was taken away (stolen he calls it) and the press thought it was to do with what he exposed about the Lee Rigby “hoax”. If it was not a hoax surely the authorities would be able to charge him with an offence. They have not. But they have been trying for more than twelve months to make his life miserable.
This is the Kafkaesque, Orwellian world we live in where anybody questioning “official” details can get a knock on the door at 4 am.
http://chrisspivey.org/scandal-2/
As Mark has pointed out “do not misquote me – I was referring to Robin Beste’s sub-piece about Captain Holloway in Afghanistan ‘and you know it.”
But as you tried to belittle Chris Spivey’s attempts to take on the establishment I thought it only right that you should read what actually happened, according to Spivey. You can discuss it when you’ve read it if you like.
John Goss
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Re Spivey.
He/Spivey, wrote a comprehensive piece on the Rigby, false flag, with many photographs, and illustrations included in his report, I found it very difficult to disprove anything he wrote about the Rigby incident.
In conclusion I find it very frightening indeed on just how many levels of civil servants would have needed to be in on the Rigby event.
As for Spivey himself as you say he’s been arrested twice the second time they smashed his windows and broke down his door, they’re also threatening his daughter with having her child removed, our government really does know how to intimidate its denizens.
not quoting a Russian source lets try the US Military – what do they say?
from the colorful 13 page US military 2014 special project report on Opium cultivation in Afghanistan
http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/Special%20Projects/SIGAR-15-10-SP.pdf
quick summary ‘We’re all doomed’ and the US Military ought to know about that
actual summary
who got this report?
kempe, please don’t hold back from apologising, if you have the brevity to do so that is, you were wrong to assume that warlords = Taliban and you have no argument.
Rather than berating Craig you should realise that those in power and those who pulled their strings have all benefited from the drug trade.
This the official UN talk of an aircraft accident
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9434&Cr=Richard&Cr1=Conroy#.VFEKTo-9pTg
And here, Yacubov, an Uzbek spy, collaborating evidence of the Andijan massacre. He backs Craig’s evidence and why should one want to cut off the back of someone’s head with a saw, if one had nothing to hide, like a bullet hole for example.
http://www.rferl.org/content/Former_Uzbek_Spy_Seeks_Asylum/1195372.html
Richard Conroy was most likely killed because he had information relating to the drug trade going through Termez and of Uzbekistan’s/the US’s collaborative effort in supplying everything that is needed for their mate general Dostum to produce his heroin.
Anybody aware of the methods used by the Taliban to persuade farmers not to grow Poppies?
Are these methods being condoned here?
RoS, there is something really strange about the Lee Rigby murder, if it ever took place. First of all I could not, when I last looked, find anything on the internet about his childhood, like where he went to school and who knew him then, and what kind of a child he was. The Guardian says “Rigby was born in Crumpsall, Manchester, in July 1987, went to a local school and joined the army as a teenager in 2006.” Which school? There appear to be 56 schools within a mile radius of Crumpsall. These are the kind of questions that out of interest in a murder case people wish to know about.
Before coming across Chris Spivey’s exposure there were people posting analysis of film of the alleged murderers.
Then I happened to notice on the news one night that the ‘parents’ of Lee Rigby were laying a wreath on his grave at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, so I paid attention. The face of his ‘father’, Philip McClure, was obscured on the footage, which I found strange. His father’s face is also obscured in this Mail photo of him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2740063/Brave-son-murdered-soldier-Lee-Rigby-lays-wreath-National-Memorial-Arboretum-fathers-added-wall-honour.html
While this seemed odd it appears not to have been. With further searching I found this photograph in the Birmingham Mail. So it does not always pay to jump to conclusions.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/heartbroken-family-murdered-soldier-lee-7703569
Perhaps Lee Rigby did exist. It would be nice to hear what kind of a child he was since he is now a national hero. Did he play football? Who for? Who played with him? Who remembers him? What anecdotes have they got about Lee? If he is a fabrication as Chris Spivey believes it would give the spooks a lot of tiring work to create a plausible biography.
Who will rid us of this turbulent fool?
I don’t think many people outside Australia know who Tony Abbott is. For those who do, they, like many of us here in Oz, cannot stand him and wish he would ‘disappear’. He is, quite possibly, the worst PM we have ever had to endure.
Those of you who reside in the UK might be able to help us make Abbott ‘disappear’.
One requirement of standing for election to the Australian parliament is that the candidate is not a dual citizen nor eligible for foreign citizenship. Abbott was born in London in 1957 and became an Australian citizen 24 years later. He entered federal parliament for the first time in 1994. People with dual citizenship, or even elibility for foreign citizenship, are required to formally renounce their citizenship and/or eligibility and are required to declare their compliance when applying to stand as a candidate. Falsely declaring one’s compliance with these requirements is a federal criminal offence that can land a person in prison for 12 months.
Since becoming Prime Minster of Australia, in 2013, curiosity regarding his UK citizenship was aroused with claims that he has not formally renounced his UK citizenship. Subsequent inquiries through Freedom of Information requests have been rebuffed and the Prime Minister’s office has made unsupported statements that he is not a British citizen. Requests for Mr Abbott to produce documentary evidence of him having renounced his UK citizenship have been refused.
This leads to three possible scenarios :
1. (Unlikely) He renounced his UK citizenship prior to his first election to parliament in 1994 and has lawfully held office since then. He chooses to ignore requests to present documentary evidence of this renunciation for unknown reasons despite the effect this has on fomenting continued speculation that he did not renounce his UK citizenship.
2. (Not likely) He unlawfully entered parliament as a dual citizen and has continued to submit false applications to the Australian Electoral Commission for subsequent elections. He refuses to present documentary evidence of this renunciation because he knows he is disqualified to hold a seat in parliament and fears the consequences of having committed a criminal offence.
3. (Most likely) He unlawfully entered parliament as a dual citizen in 1994 and subsequently, and quietly, renounced his citizenship believing that his belated compliance was merely a technicality of no practical consequence. He refuses to present documentary evidence of this renunciation because he knows he could lose his seat for having committed a criminal offence.
Whether Tony Abbott renounced his UK citizenship after his maiden election or is still ineligible to be a member of parliament makes little difference. If he did not renounce his foreign citizenship, then he has submitted a false application at least once and this is grounds for prosecution which would make his tenure as Prime Minister impossible to retain.
Because there is a reasonable, serious and credible question of the Prime Minister’s compliance with constitutional requirements of election to high office, it is wholly incumbent on Mr Abbott to put this question to rest regarding his foreign citizenship and proceed to govern as Prime Minister without the uncertainty that he is allowing to foment. Failure to address the matter decisively can only be taken as an arrogant gesture of contempt to the Australian people.
So, if any of you Brits have contacts in the public service who can verify with certainty whether he did or did not renounce his UK citizenship, you could be instrumental in ridding my country of this demonic imbecile and freeing Australia of its worst PM.
Indeed, Craig himself might even know someone who could pass on their knowledge on to the media. He might even see merit in writing a post on the subject.
What do you say, Craig?
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Lying in your application for candidacy :-
Division 137 of the Criminal Code Act 1995
(Commonwealth) (the Criminal Code) makes it an offence to provide false or misleading information or documents in purported compliance with a law of the Commonwealth, with a maximum penalty of 12 months imprisonment.
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Petition : Tony Abbott’s office responds to FOI request
https://www.change.org/p/tony-abbott-show-us-your-papers-renouncing-your-british-citizenship-before-you-were-elected/u/8543774?recruiter=1444914&fb_action_ids=10152546700935958&fb_action_types=og.shares
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The truth about our PMs citizenship
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-truth-about-our-pms-citizenship
Yes John there’s a huge gap in Rigby’s life, what I found puzzling was the shootings of the two Michael’s, by the police, both were said to have been shot several times, yet when they appeared in court a short while later especially Michael Adbolajo, he only had a bandage type support on his arm. After supposedly being shot in the stomach, leg and arm.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517389/Moment-police-shoot-men-murdered-soldier-Lee-Rigby-Woolwich.html
Jemand 29 Oct, 2014 – 4:09 pm
“So, if any of you Brits have contacts in the public service who can verify with certainty whether he did or did not renounce his UK citizenship, you could be instrumental in ridding my country of this demonic imbecile and freeing Australia of its worst PM.”
I’ve checked. He’s definitely an Australian now, no doubt about it. Don’t send him back. Definitely not a UK citizen, he’s all yours, keep him. 100% bone fide Aussie.
@Glenn
As immigrant populations arrive, and they indulge in our tolerance towards women doing whatever they want (sigh – for the better times, eh?) it’s highly likely they become a bit more interested in building their own lives.
So it’s highly possible they won’t just breed like fruit-flies until the UK is crushed under their weight. I feel reasonably assured.
But it’s elementary math, if the indigenous people of Britain, who we can define for the purpose of discussion as those descended exclusively from those born in the UK before 1950, have a significantly below replacement fertility, which is the case, while the total population of the UK is maintained (or, as at present, rapidly increased) through immigration, the original population will, within several generations, be essentially eliminated. Hence, the process is correctly described as genocide.
If the immigrants adapt to the reproductive performance of the indigenous people, they they in their turn, will also be replaced.
That is the globalist program, or at least that is the consequence of the globalist plan. People are disposable. The nation is a thing of the past. All nations are to die. Only those people required to operate the industrial/technological machine will remain, these to be bred, culled, and brainwashed as required by the plutocratic elite, who the liberal mouthpieces so diligently serve (presumably for adequate remuneration).
Node, I’m not asking for you to have him back, only some help in our efforts to end his reign of terror. We’ll keep him, and you can forget that he was ever on British soil.
@ Habbabkuk: “I just took a leaf out of the book of numerous other regular correspondents* on here and cut-and-pasted something I thought might be of interest. After all, we get reams of stuff from voltairenet, “globalresearch.org” and various other blogs and websites, don’t we. ”
We do indeed, at astonishing length at times, and no criticism being offered by me for your quoting from the CC blog. Quote away! But my note was prompted by the realisation of who our correspondent on here actually was, after all this time. Did I get it wrong?
Glenn_uk
Do you seriously think Charles Crawford would waste his time jousting on here with the likes of Scorgie, Ben, Jives, Mary, Macky, Tony M and so on?
@ Habbabkuk: It’s not up to me to say. But if it’s considered entertainment, then surely it’s not a waste of time. Don’t you find it entertaining, posting on here?
Fields of poppies in Lincolnshire last Summer!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2353535/Not-Afghanistan-Lincolnshire-Bumper-crop-lilac-morphine-poppies-grown-medicinal-purposes-heart-Britain.html
John Simpson (aka John Cody Fidler) is on another planet.
29 October 2014
Barack Obama’s best years could still be ahead of him
By John Simpson
World affairs editor, BBC News
PS Below. Nice work if you can get it. Probably more now six years later.
BBC’s John Simpson ‘expects to be sacked’ |
http://www.theweek.co.uk › People
Oct 14, 2008 – John Simpson, the BBC’s veteran world affairs correspondent, has … on top of his £459,000 salary, and also claimed fully £13,000 in expenses.
http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/39771/bbc%E2%80%99s-john-simpson-%E2%80%98expects-be-sacked%E2%80%99
!!
Barack Obama’s best years could still be ahead of him
By John Simpson
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29735983
Silvio thanks for post re new Peter Dale Scott book on deep state and wall st. He is all worth while reading.
@ Brian
Hmmmm. That piece you just posted is also incredibly clever and insightful … just like Tony M’s at 10.37 …. hmmm …. two, one after the other …. could be a lucky co-incidence, or it could be that tahose tasty biscuits my friend gave me have put me in a better mood than I realised … could be both!! ….. better go to bed and read them again in the morning, see if they’re still so brilliant then ……..
…… ” Goodnight, Mary Jane” ….. “Goodnight, John-Boy” …..
D’oh, wrong thread
Just to be Fair to Facebook..yes I think I probably slagged them off too today…..and this guy responded..accepting my criticisms and well kind of asked…
What is Your |Point??
Well I could hardly Respond That I used Facebook To See My EX…who I hadn’t seen since 1981..just before I met my wife….
You see after we split up we still phoned each other up..and we were still kind of trying to look after each other…and then..My Girl turned up we moved from Manchester to London and had completely lost contact…
So after all that time.she turned up in a Thunderstorm at Cambridge Rock Festival..and My Wife invited her into our tent just after we had …well you know…
I thought that was pretty cool.
My Other Lancashire Girlfriend Said Well..I would ‘cking Would..Do You Want To Invite Me Back To Your Tent In The Rain For a Shag???
My Ex is an Angel Too.
I can’t believe I said that to her…but you do not do that…My Ex Exhibited more courage than you…and you have a go at her…cos she had the balls to do that..
My Wife Was Just So Nice Throughout…She Had Met Her Ex..The Day Before..Total Co-incidence..
Sure We Fall in Love and Make Friends..what is wrong with that..The “Elite” are trying in their own sad and lonely way to make Falling In Love is a Sin
Yet They Have Never Had Love In Their Life.
Tony
I know, I should have bought that Bass Guitar…and I Really did Haggle for it..The Guitar just looked so Beautiful..But I didn’t Get it..Then These People From Brighton Did it..what the fuck is their names..You Can’t do That…but they did…Just Two of Them…One Bloke With One Bass Guitar and a Bloke on Drums…Don’t Be Ridiculous..Even The White Stripes…Didn’t Do That..Lemmy Has Never Done That…but wtf are they called…co s they did that…they are sold out..can’t get in there either..nah it ain’t Rival Sons..Its Royal Blood.
Do you want the links.
Royal Blood – Figure It Out [Official Video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhgVu2lsi_k
Tony
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References to “catamites” by a certain attention seeking troll are certainly unacceptable in this blog. I request Craig attends to this creeping homophobia before it becomes nasty. Life may be good but homophobia is bad and hate crimes are illegal. Please note this, you silly spammer with no friends here.
It would be better for the opium crops worldwide to be destroyed by biological warfare, but I leave that problem to Porton Down.
For the UK government to include immoral earnings to artificially boost the GDP and then receive a demand for increased contribution to the EU makes me smile. Poetic justice!
The sheeple have been successfully conditioned.
Crowds ignore Tower of London poppy garden half-term Tube woes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29861969
‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ – All the poppies have been sold – £25 each. The installation is a collaboration between Historic Royal Palaces, created by the ceramic artist Cummins and the stage designer Piper.
Dannatt who is Constable of the Tower and who lives there, is a trustee of HRP.
‘General the Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL 159th Constable of the Tower of London, following 40 years in the British Army. Final appointment was as Chief of the General Staff from 2006 to 2009. He is a Trustee of the Royal Armouries; President and Founder Patron, Help for Heroes; Patron, Royal British Legion Norfolk; Patron, Hope and Homes for Children; Patron, Street Child of Sierra Leone; Army President, The Not Forgotten Association; Governor, Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse; President, ABF / The Soldier’s Charity Norfolk; President of YMCA Norfolk, Veterans Norfolk and President of the Norfolk Churches Trust. He is a Senior Adviser to a number of companies in the defence and security sectors and Chairman of the Durham Global Security Institute Strategic Advisory Board. He is a Crossbench Member of The House of Lords and a Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Greater London and Norfolk.’
Place persons. http://www.hrp.org.uk/aboutus/whoweare/trusteesanddirectors
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The Last Act of Harry Patch – By Andy Croft
“The noblest of all the generations has left us, but they will never be forgotten.”
– Gordon Brown
“We go to gain a little patch of ground/That hath in it no profit but the name.”
– Hamlet
“War is organised murder and nothing else.”
– Harry Patch
His murder was arranged at Ypres
With half a million other men,
But now he’s dead, the simpering vipers
Come crawling out from Number 10
To bury him with loud laudation
And hymns to reconciliation –
The poisonous, forked-tongued response
Of those who tried to kill him once,
Who justify each round of killing
From Langemarck to Afghanistan,
Then shed a tear for one old man.
It’s hard to say which is more chilling.
These snakes are deaf to what he said.
There’s nothing else. And now he’s dead.
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Medialens:
BBC: “Afghanistan: The Lion’s Last Roar”, Part 2.
Posted by Ed on November 2, 2014, 4:34 pm
The propaganda continues tonight on BBC2.
The “enemy” in Afghanistan were “implacable”?
synonyms for “implacable”: unappeasable, unforgiving, unsparing; inexorable, intransigent, inflexible, unyielding, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, relentless, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, pitiless, cruel, hard, harsh, stern, tough, iron-fisted….
Not like the British military then, they are pussycats.
quote:
‘In 2006, five years in to the war against the Taliban, the British army found that it was facing military disaster in Afghanistan. In Helmand province, its troops were fighting an implacable and well-armed enemy that seemed impossible to defeat. As the death toll mounted, the British public began to lose faith in the campaign and question whether the sacrifice was necessary. The episode tells the story of the British attempts to extricate itself from the conflict, and asks whether the country will ever have the desire to put its troops into such battles again.’
◦This tendentious shite will be a puff-writer for the Ray-Joe Times, I suppose? NOM – Rhisiart Gwilym Today, 5:31 pm