The truth surrounding the events that led to the murder of an innocent
man by armed police at Stockwell tube station five weeks ago, continues
to be elusive. Recent leaks indicate that a cover-up is taking place,
with fresh revelations emerging faster than the official story can be
altered to hide them.
The Observer newspaper published a story
on August the 21st, which showed that Police officers from the team
involved in the killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, did not
believe that he posed 'an immediate threat'. An article
in the Guardian newspaper on August 26th reported that an eyewitness
statement made to the investigators immediately after the shooting,
indicated that armed police officers had fired eleven shots at Mr de
Menezes, spaced out over 30 seconds. This is more than double
the amount reported in the original story.
Following on from this, is a story
that appeared in yesterdays London Independent, claiming that police
and station managers have been unable to agree on exactly which cameras
were working at the time of the shooting. The original story stated that none of the cameras at the scene were working, but this has also now been changed.
Meanwhile, the UK's tabloid media have happily returned to their regularly
scheduled diet of salacious celebrity gossip, child kidnap, murder, and
seasonal silliness. Sadly, none of the issues and/or the inconsistencies in the
official story of either this case, or the events surrounding 7/7 or
7/21 are being widely discussed.
We spent the whole weekend clearing rubbish and old possessions from
the garage. Something about being surrounded by boxes is not conducive
to clear thinking! Nonetheless, it can produce a constructive catharsis,
and such has proved to be the case. I think we've both come to realize,
that carrying useless baggage with you into the future, is only likely
to reduce the pace of your progress to a slow crawl. Sometimes you're
better off simply letting it go, and using the sudden lightening of the
load, to enable you to attempt to get over those hills in your life
that seemed impossible when you were weighed down by your supposedly
'indispensable' luggage!
Today's been a tough day. Mind you that doesn't entirely come as a
surprise, as I've noticed a bit of a trend in that direction lately! I
guess these things have a tendency to hang out together, as a kind of
negative support group! :)
Still, I'm baffled by the way certain things seem to be working in my
life at the moment. Equally, I'm struggling to come to terms with a
world that is controlled by a terribly destructive and repressive
elite. I know I shouldn't think like this, but honestly, sometimes, I
can't quite believe the level of ignorance that most ordinary folk live
with. Is it a willful and deliberate disconnect? Or the product of a
powerful and persuasive culture of control? Perhaps a little of both,
but either way, many people seem intimately meshed, into a mindset
that has been carefully crafted by those who control the terms of almost very
meaningful debate.
The funny thing is, most folk don't see it like that, and believe
themselves to be part of the most informed version of humanity that has
ever existed! Never mind the fact that many of us are spectacularly
ignorant of even the most basic facts of history and geography. We
still cling blindly to the illusion that we 'know' the truth. That is,
if we even recognize that truth exists anymore. The influence of
determinism, and a kind of creeping moral relativism seems to have
ensured, that for many of us, 'truth' is now a moveable and relative
concept.
The sinister and deeply disturbed individual Adolph Hitler once
commented, that it was "fortunate for governments that their people did
not think" and sadly he was correct in that singular detail. For how
else would it be possible to explain why millions of people continue to
be shepherded (at regularly scheduled intervals), into destructive
cycles of conflict and hatred against their own species? Some people
would no doubt answer that these things occur naturally, and that there
is some innate Darwinian principle of competition at work in our race.
There may well be some truth in the theory, that for certain
individuals, power is an aphrodisiac of sorts, and the exercise of it
is an end in itself, but this does not explain why this tendency does
not seem to be shared by everyone.
Personally I have no real desire to 'rule the world'. Or even to
establish a petty fiefdom of my own! As important as my worldview is
(to me), I would not wish to compel by force or mandate that others
follow or practice it. That doesn't mean I don't sometimes WISH they
did, but that I would not be willing to kill large numbers of people in
order to enforce it. The sad fact is, that war is generally targeted at
the innocent, and that those who create and foster the conditions that
allow it to exist, are often the 'generals on the hill', and never
allow themselves or their own families to be placed in harms way.
Nonetheless, they appear quite happy to place everybody else's children
in the frontline of the conflict. History indicates that most war is
manufactured by these elite's, for the express purpose of exercising
their desire for power and dominance over others. The sad fact is, that
the price payed, (in blood and suffering), by ordinary people, never
seems to bring them any closer to the fulfillment of the promises made
their leaders when they originally sent them out to fight it.
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete
truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold
simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be
contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against
logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that
democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of
democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw
it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then
promptly to forget it again."
Winston Smith : Taken from the novel 1984 by George Orwell.
The latest line of information being fed out of British Intelligence is
that there never was a mastermind behind the London bombings. The men
involved were a self-starting unit, and were radicalized in their
hometown environment of Leeds with only minimal help from sources in
Pakistan. This news comes despite the stream of reports being issued over the
past month, telling us that police were hunting a mysterious mastermind,
and that this figure had slipped in and out of the country in the days
prior to the attack. Mobile phone records of the alleged bomber Mohammed
Sadique Khan were said to have revealed up to 20 calls placed to it
from a phone linked to a mysterious man named Haroon Rashid Aswat. Surprisingly Aswat had been declared dead
by security services after his identity documents turned up on the body
of a young Muslim killed fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in
2003.
Prior to this, Aswat was involved in the now banned terror group Al
Muhajaroun, and in the Finsbury Park mosque in North London run by the
radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. By the late 1990's he was boasting
that he was a “hit man” for Osama bin Laden, and was said to have
attempted to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999.
Strangely though, the US Justice Department blocked attempts by their own officials to charge Aswat with these offenses when they had the opportunity to do so in 2002.
Having been declared dead in 2003, Aswat promptly turned up alive on
Mohammed Khan's mobile phone memory in July 2005. After an international
police operation, he was arrested in Zambia late last month whilst attempting to cross
the Zimbabwean border. Early reports indicated he may have been
carrying explosives. He was duly extradited back to Britain, in what
was described as a major breakthrough in the London bombings
investigation. Then on a Fox news program broadcast on July 29th,
terror analyst and former US Department prosecutor John Loftus revealed
that that Aswat was in fact an MI6 asset (a double agent), and that the
British Secret Service had been hiding him for some time.
Scotland Yard have now declared that they have no interest in
questioning Aswat in relation to the London bombings, and that instead
he will be extradited to the US to face exactly the charges that the
headquarters of the Seattle Justice Department ordered Seattle
prosecutors not to charge him with in 2002. When asked by the Fox news
commentator why officials had refused to prosecute him for his role in
setting up the terror training camp, Mr Loftus stated; "Apparently he
was working for British Intelligence."
If as has been reported, up to 20 calls were placed between the phone
linked to Aswat, and the mobile devices belonging to the four men said
to be the London bombers, why would British police be "uninterested" in
pursuing this line of inquiry? Is there no longer any evidence (despite
earlier reports to the contrary), that Aswat had these phone
conversations? What has happened to the 'mysterious man' whom the
international press reported was able to leave the UK in the hours
prior to the attack? Did he never even exist, and was he in fact only a
figment of the over active imaginations of a fevered press pack!?
It seems more likely to me, that what we are witnessing, is a blatant
attempt to create a version of events that never really existed. To
rewrite history, and selectively erase the past. In this process, truth
is a malleable and nebulous concept, one that can be stretched, edited, and
rewritten, until it is completely replaced by a carefully crafted lie.
Perhaps the operating premise is similar to the one put forward by
George Orwell in his novel 1984; that he who controls the past, controls the
future, and that he who controls the present, controls the past. One
thing is certain though, the official story being propagated in the
aftermath of 7/7, more accurately resembles an incident of doublethink
than it does anything remotely related to the truth.
Pakistan's President and it's senior Intelligence officials are
insisting that the four British bombers involved in the attacks in
London on 7/7 were trained and radicalized in Britain. Collaborative
investigations between MI5/6, the FBI, and Pakistan intelligence, have
found no direct link between the four men and Pakistan. A senior
Pakistan intelligence official was quoted as saying "The attacks
damaged Pakistan's credibility, however all sorts of inspections
satisfied investigators that the problem was rooted in Britain, and had
no direct link with Pakistan." (Article)
Meanwhile the man with more links to the London bombings than just about anybody else, appears likely to be extradited to the United States to face lesser charges. (See my podcast and the links on this blog for further information on this story).
Could this get any stranger? Well yes it could, because apparently Osama is planning a visit to Iraq
for Ramadan in October! I swear I'm not making this stuff up! Somebody
may be doing so, but you'll have to figure out who for yourselves!
British intelligence received advance warning
about a planned attack on the UK from Saudi security sources, according
to a report published in the Observer newspaper on Sunday. "It was
clear to us that there was a terror group planning an attack in the
UK," a Saudi official was quoted as saying. "We passed on all this
information to both MI5 and MI6."
This again raises the question, as to how the security threat
assessment level managed to be downgraded in the weeks prior to the
attacks, to it's lowest level since September 11th 2001. It also
appears to contradict
official story that led intelligence officials to conclude, that there
were no individuals or groups with the intent or capability to attack
Britain at that time.
Well this is bizarre. Splashed all over the end of the week newspapers,
were pictures of Ayman al-Zawahiri, a man described as Osama's
"deputy", and as the second most powerful man in al-Qaeda. These
appeared after a video was played on al-Jazeera television, purportedly
showing Mr al-Zawahiri warning of further terror attacks, unless
Britain and the United States withdraw troops from Iraq.
What is most surprising, is that according to the Guardian newspaper on February the 18th 2002, Mr al-Zawahiri was captured by the Iranians and jailed in Iran! The new video has itself has provoked speculation, with some
claiming it contains errors, and has been enhanced with digital
effects. Whatever the truth, it is no longer the case that what you see
on the news, is necessarily either real or true.
The latest podcast is currently in a state of flux! By which I mean it
is to a large extent finished, but currently lies unposted. I
have had some serious glitches, and my computer is really showing the
strain of trying to handle all the work I'm throwing at it. Conversion
to mp3 has for some reason created considerably more distortion on the
file than normally occurs. Whilst not unlistenable, I am not happy to
post it in int's present condition. Either way, my computer is
crawling along, and my cpu is not very happy with the workload!
Anyway the podcast is delayed (slightly) until I have a few moments to resolve this.
In case you are wondering, I'm at work on the latest podcast. It should
be done today, at the latest early tomorrow. In the meantime here are 3
differing links of interest.
until I have a few moments to resolve this. 
