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  • Ex-FBI boss blasts MI5’s Ulster record
    13 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A former director of the FBI has attacked MI5 for its "long and painful history" in Northern Ireland.
    Louis Freeh told the Wall Street Journal that the spying agency’s operations in the province had been characterised by decades of "secrecy and non-transparency" and argued against a similar agency being established in the US.
    This year MI5 - officially known as the Security Service and to be locally based in Holywood - will take over the lead role in intelligence gathering about national (…)

  • "Looking from the side."
    13 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Looking from the side."
    It takes an Ozzie mainstream journalist in Britain to have the courage to warn us that Blair is conniving with the Bushistas to drag the West into an even more horrible war in the Middle East: in Iran.
    "We are being led towards perhaps the most serious crisis in modern history as the Bush-Cheney-Blair ’long war’ edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation’s independence from rapacious America."
    He uses a phrase, "looking from the side", used by a (…)

  • Wren Turney’s Knickers & the Royal Navy at War
    12 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The aftermath of the captured Brit sailors business descended first into farce and then into a nauseating performance by pseud celebrity WRN, Faye Turney, denouncing the behaviour of her captors —"I thought they were measuring me up for a coffin" when they were measuring her for new clothes— and excusing her earlier confession by claiming, "I decided to play the dumb blonde."
    She didn’t have to try very much.
    Watching this spoilt, self-possessed, obese brat declaring to the world how she (…)

  • Five-legged frogs to invade rivers in Britain
    8 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Scientists in England are trying to determine why some frogs in a river in Peterborough have five legs, the first known occurrence in Britain.
    The discovery was made by naturalist Sharon Harris, who said she also spotted one frog with only three legs, the Peterborough Evening Telegraph reported.
    ’I was amazed to see them swimming about,’ Harris said. ’They are fully grown, but theyve got extra limbs growing out their legs.’
    She contacted the Natural England environmental agency, and (…)

  • BBC: "Keep taking the Blue Pills!"
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BBC News 24, the international version of Blair TV’s media war machine, has just announced a decision by the British Ministry of Defence to ’allow’ the 15 navy ex-detainees to sell their stories to the press. This will only be permitted after the stories are vetted by their commanding officers!
    What blatant propaganda from the British corporate state!
    No intelligent person is going to believe that this is anything but another seedy attempt on behalf of the Blairite war party to sell the (…)

  • ArchBishop has that wailing and gnashing of teeth moment
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Church of England is guilty of "corporate failure" because it has not properly spread the message of Christ, the Archbishop of York has said.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/6534587.stm
    This is getting really fascinating. It’s like the Anglican church is in total meltdown. How long will it be before he checks out what Constantine did, and realises it has all been a lie?
    He needs some Bob Marley, to help him along
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzxAwQHhccw (…)

  • Millions Escaping from the Matrix
    7 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The 15 British sailors, under pressure from their military commanders, are now changing their story and state they were mistreated in Iran. We had expected exactly such an outcome, these 15 young people or for that matter any other person within the Matrix will not be allowed to get out of it. This Matrix has been carefully created and crafted by the Western Military/Industrial complex over centuries. Once you are in it you are not allowed to get out of it except as dead.
    – (…)

  • FOOL BRITANNIA
    6 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    One thing is certain, Tony Blair’s idiotic behaviour during the Anglo-Iranian maritime dispute did no one any favours, least of all the 15 British service personnel who were detained in Iran for just under a fortnight.
    Blair and his cohorts did a lot of huffing and puffing, insisting that the Iranians had grabbed the sailors whilst in Iraqi waters. This is the front that the British, with an orgy of jingoism from its media, have put up all along.
    In fact, the incident took place in a (…)

  • Released sailors tell of ordeal
    6 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran were blindfolded, bound and held in isolation during their 13 days in captivity, the crew have said.
    They were lined up while weapons were cocked, making them "fear the worst", one of the 15 freed sailors revealed.
    The crew were told that if they did not admit they were in Iranian waters when captured that they faced seven years in prison, a press conference heard.
    Opposing their captors was "not an option," they said.
    And after the 15 marines and (…)

  • A Steady Squeeze on Tehran
    5 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A steady squeeze on Tehran
    By Amandeep Sandhu
    As the conflict over the British hostages held by Iran plays out, another conflict is taking place in the boardrooms of banks and oil companies. The United States is leading a quiet charge, focusing
    on the Iranian financial and energy sectors.
    While the US has had sanctions in place against Iran since the Iranian revolution in 1979, there is a new, pointed sanctioning aimed at starving Iran of capital. The US is waging a quiet campaign on (…)