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Colonel Mahoney, in Porton Down, with the flawed data

Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2011

7/7 Inquests

13th February, 2011

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

 

We know there may exist unknown unknowns but, in the instances of the 7 July Inquests, should unknown unknowns form the basis of an open, just and transparent inquest process?

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7/7 Inquest: Was someone afraid to reveal the causes of deaths?

Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2011

Terror on the Tube

26th February, 2011

It is quite startling to realise that a special room had been set up to receive the dead of the July 7thbombings in a temporary morgue built on army land, the contract for which (see [1] below) arrived on the contractor’s desk on July 6th, the day before the massacres.

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At Clinton Speech: Veteran bloodied, bruised and arrested for standing silently

Posted by seumasach on February 20, 2011

Justice Online

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.

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Reinvestigate 9/11 update

Posted by seumasach on February 17, 2011

Reinvestigate 9/11
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Iraq Inquiry ties itself in more knots. RI911 has been writing to MPs and Peers seeking support for our call on London’s Iraq Inquiry to start asking questions about 9/11. Tony Blair told them that the attacks changed the “calculus of risk” and hence were critical in the decision to invade Iraq. The Inquiry nonetheless wrote to tell us that 9/11 is outside its terms of reference. We suspect promises were made to the US as indicated by Wikileaks documents. A supporter is opening judicial review proceedings against the Iraq Inquiry. Our letters have elicited replies from several curious Parliamentarians including an eminent ex-Foreign Secretary.

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I will not dignify this witch hunt

Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2011

Maureen Murphy

Antiwar.com

26th January, 2011

I have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago on Jan. 25. But I will not testify, even at the risk of being put in jail for contempt of court, because I believe that our most fundamental rights as citizens are at stake.

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‘We went to war to keep the Army busy’

Posted by smeddum on January 15, 2011

By Daily Mail Reporter
14th January 2011

Daily Mail

A furious row has erupted in Whitehall after a former Kabul envoy claimed British commanders committed troops to war in Afghanistan because they feared cuts if they did not use them.

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles said he had been told by the former head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, that if he did not re-deploy battlegroups coming free from Iraq he would lose them in a future defence review. Read the rest of this entry »

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Agenda Dictators: Democracy smothered by US policy of dictating debate with dollars

Posted by smeddum on January 14, 2011

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Radio:Kevin Barrett speaks with Susan Lindauer, ex-CIA asset and imprisoned 9/11 whistleblower

Posted by smeddum on January 9, 2011

http://www.radiodujour.com/mp3/20110104-kevin-barrett-susan-lindauer.mp3

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Incipient fascist state: America has gone away

Posted by seumasach on December 30, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research

29th December, 2010

Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Jason Ditz reports (antiwar.com Dec. 28) that Fox News (sic) “no longer content to simply shill for a growing police state,” turned in a grandmother to the Department of Homeland Security for making “anti-American comments.”

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Airline call for terrorist profiling rejected by Berlin

Posted by smeddum on December 29, 2010

Dec 29, 2010,

monsters and critics

Berlin – A call by an airline industry leader for Germany to focus security checks on high-risk passengers, as Israel does, was rejected Wednesday by senior officials in Berlin.

Christoph Blume, soon to take over as president of the German Airports Association, or ADV, had called for Germany to categorize passengers by ethnic origin, sex, age and marital status, so that people unlikely to be terrorists are not so closely checked.

He said the procedure, known as profiling, would make more sense than more elaborate baggage searches.

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Fox News anchor Shepard Smith joins Jon Stewart in exposing 9/11 first responders scandal

Posted by smeddum on December 19, 2010

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