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Labour’s Glasgow East defeat is a portent of worse to come

Posted by smeddum on July 27, 2008

Independent

Saturday, 26 July 2008

The catastrophe that was last night’s by-election result for Labour had loomed ever since David Marshall MP announced his decision to step down. Glasgow East was the party’s third-safest seat in Scotland and one of the safest in the country. Yet everything, from the political climate to the timing, conspired to make even a 13,000 majority seem marginal. In the end, Labour lost the seat to the Scottish National Party by 365 votes. They are votes that could decide the fate not only of a Prime Minister, but of his party. Read the rest of this entry »

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McKinney Blazes NC Trail With Incendiary Speech

Posted by seumasach on July 25, 2008

 

Matt Saldana

Common Dreams

24th July

See also: McKinney takes on Rumsfeld

Cynthia McKinney on 9/11

Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has moved from blue to green, and similarly, she demonstrated her move to the left side of the political spectrum in a speech she gave in Durham: “It’s time to move from protest to resistance.”0724 06 1

McKinney, a former six-term Democratic congresswoman turned newly minted Green Party candidate for president, spoke at two events Tuesday, laying out her policy stances on more than a half-dozen issues.

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Karadzic’s Arrest Puts the Lid on the Fake War on Terror

Posted by smeddum on July 22, 2008

Karadzic’s Arrest Puts the Lid on the FAKE War on Terror
22.07.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/105849-karadzic-0

Corporate western media gleefully announced the arrest of Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday, thereby adding one more nail on the lid of their hypocrisy, duplicity and self serving arrogance. How these postulating, perverse, immoral demons of hell can stand themselves defies the sensibilities of anyone who truly stands for truth and justice, not the justice of the law of the jungle where the strong crush the weak, but true justice. Read the rest of this entry »

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More Evidence Madrid Bombing was a False Flag Op

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2008

Kurt Nimmo

Infowars

Agence-France Presse reports:

Spain’s supreme court Thursday overturned the guilty verdicts on four of the 21 people convicted over the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004.

It also upheld a lower court’s decision to acquit one of the alleged masterminds of the Al Qaeda-inspired attacks, Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, known as “Mohammed the Egyptian”.

And it handed down a four-year prison term to a Spaniard, Antonio Toro, who had been acquitted on charges of transporting explosives.

Note: the attack is no longer considered the direct handiwork of al-Qaeda but is rather an “al-Qaeda inspired attack.” Back in March, 2004, the corporate media resoundingly declared al-Qaeda to be responsible.

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Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents

Posted by alfied on July 21, 2008

Just another example of the tired, worn out stories that are part of Britain’s desperate propaganda campaign against China. It won’t be long before, the already,  befuddled brits are being told to check for Chinese under their beds.

The Times Online

David Leppard and Claire Newell
A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a “honeytrap” operation by Chinese intelligence agents.

The aide, a senior Downing Street adviser who was with the prime minister on a trip to China earlier this year, had his BlackBerry phone stolen after being picked up by a Chinese woman who had approached him in a Shanghai hotel disco. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Madrid Bombings: Rise and Fall of the “Official Version”

Posted by seumasach on July 17, 2008

 

Auge y caída de una versión oficial

Luis del Pino

Libertad Digital

17th July, 2008

English translation at foot of each paragraph.

Hoy se ha derrumbado un poco más ese edificio en ruinas denominado “versión oficial del 11-M”.

[Today the edifice called “the official version of 11-M” collapsed further.]

Sin autores intelectuales

[A plot without plotters]

La sentencia del Tribunal Supremo da por buena, para los tres autores intelectuales que la Fiscalía había presentado, la absolución de los cargos que se les habían realizado en ese sentido. A Mohamed El Egipcio, a quien durante tanto tiempo se presentó como el máximo ideólogo del atentado, ni siquiera se le condena por pertenencia a banda armada, puesto que El Egipcio ya está siendo juzgado por ese motivo en Italia. A Hassan el Haski, otro de los “autores intelectuales” presentados por la Fiscalía, no sólo no le condenan comoinductor de la masacre, sino que le rebajan la pena que le había caído por pertenencia a banda armada.

 

[The Supreme Tribunal absolves those charged with planning the 11-M bombings as follows. Mohamed El Egipcio, for so long presented as the master planner behind the attacks, isn’t even charged with being a member of an armed band, since he was already charged with being that in Italy. Hassan el Haski, another of the “ringleaders” according to the prosecutors, is not only not charged as being behind the massacre, but his sentence for membership of an armed band has been reduced]

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Three Years, No Justice- Menezes Commemorative Events

Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2008

 

22nd July, 2008


Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead on 22nd July 2005 at Stockwell tube station during a pre-planned police anti-terror operation.  Not a single police officer has faced any disciplinary action for the killing. This is despite a jury at the Old Bailey finding the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan police guilty of ‘catastrophic errors’ at the health and safety trial in October last year.


3 years on, his family continue to tirelessly campaigning to find out all the circumstances into how Jean died and for justice and accountability. 


Please join the family to mark the 3rd anniversary of his death on the 22nd July 2008 by attending one of the following events:


  •  At 9.45am a vigil outside Stockwell tube station to mark the exact moment Jean Charles was killed.

 

If you can only make one event we encourage people to come to the lunchtime event in parliament. 

For further information please contact justice4jean@gmail.com or 07931337890 or 07709656251

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Russia: The Hague tribunal should be scrapped

Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2008

Russia Today

10th July, 2008

The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia of being biased and said it should be dismantled as soon as possible. This follows the acquittal of Bosnian Naser Oric last week.

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Britain: The significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election

Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2008

 

 

Here is a useful and informative report on the by-election which was generally ignored.

WSWS

By Chris Marsden
12 July, 2008

What is the political significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election?

Former Conservative Shadow Home Secretary David Davis forced the election by resigning as an MP. He did so with the stated intention of demonstrating the degree of popular opposition to Labour’s anti-terror legislation, which extends the period of detention without charge to 42-days. Moreover, he linked this to broader opposition to the erosion of civil liberties.

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The truth about “Operation Redemption” of Ingrid Betancourt and the American Mercenaries

Posted by seumasach on July 10, 2008

Pravda

9th July, 2008

To be able to understand “Operation Redemption” to free Ingrid Betancourt and the mercenaries of the company Northrop Grumman Corporation who were released together with her, it is necessary to connect the pieces published in the media and their meaning, to filter the content, and from there to form a true understanding of the facts of what happened.

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Spoof:’Assholes For Lies’ Demands No Further Investigation Into 911

Posted by smeddum on July 9, 2008

‘Assholes For Lies’ Demands No Further Investigation Into 911 spoof.com
Written by Clifford Rutley
Story written: 07 July 2008

911 debunking group Assholes For Lies were shocked by the BBC’s latest hit peace of a documentary ‘The Conspiracy Files – 911 The Third Tower’, which aired on BBC2 on Sunday night. Read the rest of this entry »

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