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Former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare has been found dead. Picture: AP Source: AP


THE sudden death of Sean Hoare, the former News of the World reporter who blew the whistle on phone hacking at the paper, has stunned former colleagues and those connected with the investigations into the scandal.

As the first former News of the World reporter to claim publicly that his old friend and boss Andy Coulson had "actively encouraged" him to hack into voicemail messages, Mr Hoare, who was thought to be in his forties, was likely to have been a key witness in the judicial inquiry into hacking. He would probably also have been called to appear at any criminal proceedings brought by police against senior editors and executives at News International.

Friends of the pair said that Mr Coulson, who is holidaying in Cornwall, was shocked by the latest development.

Officers were called to a first-floor flat at a modern block in Watford yesterday morning after concerns for Mr Hoare's welfare were raised by a family member. His body was found and he was pronounced dead shortly after ambulance and police arrived.

Details surrounding Mr Hoare's death were unclear last night, with the police yet to inform family members or formally to identify the body. Two officers were on duty outside the entrance last night and the curtains were drawn.

In a statement, Hertfordshire Constabulary said the "death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious".

Inspector Rod Reeves said that a family member had become concerned when Mr Hoare had not returned calls. He would not comment on where Mr Hoare's body was found in the flat, but said he was alone.

He is understood to have lived in the block with his partner, Jo.

A neighbour said: "I feared the worst a couple of months ago. He wasn't looking in great shape physically. He was not his usual, bubbly, friendly self."

Another neighbour said Mr Hoare was "paranoid" about people seeing him and spoke of a "conspiracy" and that he was afraid of the police and the Government. "He talked about all sorts of problems that he had in his life. A lot of it was alcohol-related. His passage through life has not been an easy one." The neighbour added: "He said he was in trouble and he was worried about people coming to get him."

Tributes were paid to Mr Hoare on Twitter last night with David Yelland, a former Editor of The Sun, writing: "Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God."

Mr Hoare was sacked from the News of the World by Mr Coulson because of the effects his drink and drug problems were having on his health. Mr Hoare, who had previously worked with Mr Coulson on The Sun's Bizarre showbiz section and later at the Sunday People under Neil Wallis, was notorious on Fleet Street for his destructive lifestyle.

He told a fellow journalist of his "rock star's breakfast" - Jack Daniels and a line of cocaine. He said he took three grams of cocaine a day, which cost him about $1500 a week.

"Everyone got overconfident. We thought we could do coke, go to Brown's, sit in the Red Room with Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence. Everyone got a bit carried away," he once told The Guardian.

Former colleagues said that his dismissal had left him bitter and resentful. In an interview with the New York Times he claimed that Mr Coulson not only knew of phone hacking at the News of the World but he had "actively encouraged" it. He said he had played tape recordings of hacked messages for Mr Coulson. His allegations were heavily rejected by his former boss, who had become David Cameron's Director of Communications in May last year.

He made stronger allegations in a subsequent interview with the BBC, claiming Mr Coulson had personally asked him to hack phones and that the practice was "endemic".

In September last year he was interviewed by police about his claims but would not make a further comment, according to Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions. He was understood to be affronted when John Yates, then the Met's Assistant Commissioner, instructed officers to interview him as a suspect, rather than as a witness.

Then, a week before his death, he made separate allegations again to the New York Times that reporters at the News of the World had paid police to use technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, a technique called "pinging".

Although he was known to be in ill health and smoked and drank, he was still active. He recently attended a weekend children's party and had been injured taking down the marquee. He told The Guardian that he had broken his nose and injured his foot when he was struck by the pole.

One neighbour said last night: "He was physically going down hill. He was yellow in colour and wasn't looking well for the last month and was off sorts and I was really worrying about him.

"He had a constant struggle with alcohol and talked to me about how much he had put his wife through. He was talking about how he was in trouble and that he thought someone was going to come and get him, but I didn't known whether to believe half the stuff he was saying. He did say something about phone hacking and I think that was his main worry."

Phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

Sean Hoare, the reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the 

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James Hipwell


Fleet Street whistleblower James Hipwell, who says the News of the World was not the only newspaper to hack phones. Source:The Australian

Whistleblower ready to tell inquiry that other UK newspapers hacked phones

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A FORMER reporter for the Daily Mirror says the News of the World was not the only British newspaper involved in phone hacking.

James Hipwell, 45, told The Australian Online he saw show business reporters on the Daily Mirror regularly intercept voicemail messages when he worked there from 1998 to 2000.

He says he's likely to make himself available to testify to the judicial inquiry into the scandal.

Hipwell is the only Fleet Street whistleblower who is offering to go on the record with accounts of voicemail hacking at newspapers other than the News of the World, which was closed down by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation two weeks ago.

“I know that for one simple reason: I used to see it going on around me all the time when I worked at the Daily Mirror,” he said in an interview that will appear in The Australian tomorrow.

“I sat right next to the show business desk and there were some show biz reporters who did it as a matter of course, as a basic part of their working day.

“One of their bosses would wander up and instruct a reporter to `trawl the usual suspects', which meant going through the voice messages of celebrities and celebrity PR agents.”

“For everyone to pretend that this is some isolated activity found only at the News of the World is ridiculous, it's just a lie.”

Hipwell said that depending on legal advice he would be willing to speak to the police and to the inquiry headed by Lord Justice Brian Leveson into the hacking scandal and the future regulation of Britain's press.

Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, denied Hipwell's claims, issuing a statement declaring that: “Our journalists work within the criminal law and the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct.”

Chris Hughes, a show business reporter during Hipwell's time at the Mirror who has since become a defence correspondent, told The Australian Online that he had never hacked voicemails or been aware of the practice at the Mirror.

The first whistleblower in the scandal, Sean Hoare, worked at Trinity Mirror's Sunday People as well as News Corporation's Sun and News of the World, but he died this week from what was rumoured to be a drug overdose.

Paul McMullan, the other prominent whistleblower who has repeatedly spoken about phone hacking and other illegal practices, worked at the News of the World.

Hoare was sacked by the then NOTW editor Andy Coulson in 2005 because of his drug and drink addictions. McMullan has left the industry to run a pub and admits that he has a grudge against his former editor, Rebekah Brooks.

Hipwell also fell out with his former employer. He left the Mirror in disgrace in 2000 before being convicted five years later on market-rigging charges over “City Slickers”, a share-tipping column he wrote with a colleague.

Hipwell served 59 days in jail and was bitter to see his former editor Piers Morgan escape charges.

Morgan told investigators that it was a coincidence that he suddenly ploughed all the money he could get his hands on, Stg67,000, into shares of a relatively small firm on the day that City Slickers was about to tip it as a hot prospect, doubling its share price.

Hipwell has since written for The Guardian and The Observer. He has now moved his career to Lebanon, and writes largely about the issue of organ donation, having received a kidney transplant from his wife.

Hipwell's interview with The Australian Online is the first time he has discussed the phone hacking issue since giving an interview to The Guardian after a News of the World reporter and private investigator were first arrested five years ago.

The New York Times yesterday reported that five former journalists at the Mirror's stablemate The People had said that they regularly witnessed hacking in that newsroom in the late 1990s to early 2000, but they spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“I don't think anyone quite realised the criminality of it,” said one of the unnamed former reporters at The People.

London bombings


Fresh claims: Victims of the 2005 London bombings have said they believe police may have leaked their details to a tabloid. Picture: Paco Serinelli Source: AFP

Cops 'gave victim info to paper'

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BRITISH cops are facing fresh claims they leaked details about victims of terrorism and crime to the News of the World.

The allegations deepen the scandal surrounding phone-hacking at the paper, which has shaken Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, claimed the jobs of two of Britain's top police officers and dragged in British Prime Minister David Cameron.

The Observer newspaper reported that survivors of the July 7, 2005 London bombings had asked lawyers to probe their belief that the capital's Metropolitan Police had sold or passed on a confidential contact list of victims.

Beverli Rhodes, chair of the Survivors Foundation Coalition, said journalists from the paper approached survivors with false stories about how they got their details.

"Scotland Yard had the full list of survivor contact details. I am pretty sure that is how the News of the World got my home address," she told the Observer.

Four suicide bombers blew themselves up on three underground trains and a bus in the worst terror attacks on British soil, killing 52 people.

Separately the BBC reported that police had removed an officer from the inquiry into the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002 after information was allegedly leaked to the News of the World (NotW).

Police in Surrey, a county southwest of London, confirmed that a detective constable was accused by a colleague of inappropriately disclosing information about the case to a "retired police officer friend".

The officer "received words of advice and was removed permanently from the inquiry", the force said in a statement. It did not mention the NotW.

The tabloid has already been accused of hacking Milly Dowler's voicemails and those of families of 7/7 victims, but this is the first time police have directly been linked to the paper's activities on the two events.

Mr Murdoch has now closed the NotW and personally apologised to Dowler's parents.

Revelations that police employed a former NotW executive who has since been arrested over hacking claimed the jobs of Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson and the force's anti-terror boss John Yates a week ago.

Scotland Yard was heavily criticised for botching an initial investigation, which resulted in the jailing of the paper's former royal editor and a private investigator in 2007 but concluded he was a "rogue reporter".

When the force bowed to pressure and reopened the probe in January it emerged that nearly 4000 people may have had their phones hacked.

Other British papers were dragged into the row this weekend when former journalists at the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror - Mr Murdoch's main British tabloid rivals - reportedly said phone-hacking was rife at their papers too.

But the main effects have been on the Mr Murdoch's US-based News Corporation, which also owns this publication.

In a further blow British Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday there were "big questions" over whether the mogul was fit to control a British broadcaster.

"We have learned from the past that having media moguls dominating the British media is deeply unhelpful, not simply in terms of plurality but because of the wider impact on the political world," he said.

News Corp. was forced by the scandal to scrap its bid for full control of pay-TV giant BSkyB earlier this month.

Mr Cable was stripped of responsibility for deciding the fate of the BSkyB deal last year after a newspaper secretly recorded him saying he was at "war" with Mr Murdoch.

Mr Murdoch's son James meanwhile faces calls for a police probe into evidence he gave to lawmakers last week saying he did not know hacking was more widespread.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Cameron has also come under pressure due to his decision to employ Andy Coulson, another former editor of the tabloid, as his media chief.

Mr Coulson then quit Downing Street in January and was arrested on July 8. Ten people have been detained since January.

MP to refer Murdoch claims to police

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A SENIOR Labour British MP said last night he would refer to police accusations New International chairman James Murdoch misled a parliamentary committee.

Tom Watson said he would formally ask police to investigate Mr Murdoch's evidence this week to the House of Commons media committee after the accusations from two senior executives of the closed News of the World.

Colin Myler, the last editor of the newspaper, and Tom Crone, its top lawyer, issued a statement yesterday saying Mr Murdoch was wrong when he told MPs he had not been told in 2008 about a crucial piece of evidence in the phone hacking scandal at the newspaper.

Mr Watson, a Blair and Brown government minister and a member of the media committee, alleged that Mr Murdoch may have been involved in perverting the course of justice, and failing to report a crime.

"Myler and Crone . . . are clearly concerned that they have effectively been hung out to dry by James Murdoch in the evidence session earlier in the week," he said. "If their statement is accurate it shows James Murdoch had knowledge that others were involved in hacking as early as 2008, it shows he failed to act to discipline staff or initiate an internal investigation, which undermines Rupert Murdoch's evidence to our committee that the company had a zero tolerance to wrongdoing.

"More importantly it shows he not only failed to report a crime to the police but because there was a confidentiality clause involved in the settlement it means that he bought the silence of (Professional Footballers Association chief executive) Gordon Taylor and that could mean he is facing investigation for perverting the course of justice."

Mr Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation's British operations and a potential successor to his father, Rupert, as overall chief executive, stood by the evidence he gave to the committee on Tuesday. News Corporation is the ultimate owner of The Weekend Australian.

The split among the former leaders of the NOTW is over the payment of a large secret settlement in a phone hacking case which Mr Watson and other MPs have suggested was an attempt to cover up the extent of the newspaper's voicemail hacking.

Another former News International employee -- the firm's most senior lawyer during the scandal, Jon Chapman -- issued a statement saying there had been "a number of serious inaccuracies" in statements to the committee on Tuesday, when the Murdochs and former chief executive Rebekah Brooks appeared.

MPs suggested this week that News International gave Mr Taylor a large payment with a gag clause to avoid the airing of an email, which would have destroyed the company's claim that hacking at the NOTW was the work of "one rogue reporter", as the company insisted until this year.

Mr Murdoch told the house media committee that when he authorised the payment in April 2008 Mr Crone and Mr Myler had not informed him that Mr Taylor's lawyers had obtained a copy of a highly incriminating email, which showed that the newspaper's chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, knew about phone hacking.

Entitled "for Neville", the email was written in 2005 by a junior reporter and contained transcripts of 35 hacked voice messages. "I was not aware of that at the time," Mr Murdoch told the committee.

The payment to Mr Taylor kept the incriminating email under wraps because it was conditional on a gag clause that banned Mr Taylor from revealing even the fact that there was a confidentiality agreement. Mr Crone, who lost his job when the NOTW was shut two weeks ago, told the Evening Standard last week that he would closely watch the Murdochs' evidence to the committee and warned he could speak out "if they completely screw me over".

Yesterday he and Mr Myler issued a joint statement "just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's select committee hearing".

"We would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken.

"In fact, we did inform him of the 'for Neville' email which had been produced to us by Gordon Taylor's lawyers."

In a statement issued by News International's parent firm, News Corporation, Mr Murdoch later said: "I stand by my testimony to the select committee."

The committee's chairman, John Whittingdale, said that he would like Mr Murdoch to respond "within a week" to the statement by Mr Myler and Mr Crone.

Matt Nixson, a journalist on the NOTW's sister newspaper, The Sun, was sacked and escorted from News International's premises yesterday over further phone hacking disclosures but the firm said it related to his activities when he worked at the NOTW, not at The Sun.

Amid growing speculation about whether the practice was confined to the NOTW, a former Fleet Street reporter, James Hipwell, has told The Weekend Australian he was likely to make himself available to the judicial inquiry and police to give evidence about phone hacking he says he saw while working at the Daily Mirror.

Mr Hipwell, a former stockmarket columnist, was jailed in 2005 over a stock-rigging scandal at the Mirror.

The FBI said it would contact the actor Jude Law over claims NOTW intercepted one of his voicemails while he was in New York, possibly an offence under US law.

The Wall Street Journal reported the US Justice Department was preparing subpoenas for preliminary investigations into News Corporation relating to alleged foreign bribery and alleged hacking of voicemails of 9/11 victims.

The issuance of subpoenas would represent an escalation of scrutiny of the New York-based media company. While it has sought to isolate the legal problems in Britain, it has been bracing for increased scrutiny in the US from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to people familiar with the company's strategy.

PI Glenn Mulcaire may lift lid on News of the World's secrets

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THE former private investigator at the heart of the phone hacking scandal has hinted he may lift the lid on the News of the World's secrets.

Glenn Mulcaire, 40, was on an alleged 105,000 pounds annual contract to supply the now defunct paper with phone numbers used to hack the voicemails of celebrities, politicians, murder victims, including schoolgirl Milly Dowler, and people killed in the Middle East and terrorism attacks.

Despite being arrested and jailed for his role in phone hacking, Mr Mulcaire's legal fees were paid for by News of the World publisher News International.

But less than 24 hours after News International's James Murdoch dramatically revealed to British lawmakers at Tuesday's phone hacking hearing that Mr Mulcaire was being financially supported, the company announced they had stopped all legal payments to the convicted hacker.

As news of the ceased payments broke yesterday, the father-of-five, who has previously remained tight-lipped on the scandal, spoke to reporters outside his London home.

"As you can appreciate, we are in the middle of a number of inquiries at the moment," Mr Mulcaire said.

"It's a very fluent and developing situation. Like I said, the developments have been different from day to day and I have no further comment to make at this stage.

"However, this may change," he added.

Mr Murdoch denied allegations that Mulcaire's legal payments were hush money, telling MPs he was "as surprised as you are" when he discovered "certain legal fees were paid to Mr Mulcaire" by News International, a sister company to News Limited.

Mr Mulcaire reportedly faces about 24 potential civil law suits from alleged hacking victims.

Files seized by police allegedly reveal Mr Mulcaire had more than 4000 names on a list of potential phone hacking victims.

The High Court yesterday ruled that Scotland Yard must hand over police information to comedy actor Hugh Grant and his ex-girlfriend and socialite Jemima Khan showing that their telephone messages might have been intercepted by Mr Mulcaire.

Speculation is also rampant on Twitter that the late Princess Diana have been a phone hacking victim.

Her brother the Earl of Spencer told BBC's Newsnight that press intrusion had a "pretty massive" effect on his family and that he was certain other newspapers, beside the News of the World, had engaged in phone hacking.

"I am absolutely sure there are other newspaper groups who are waiting for the spotlight to move to them. I know that without a doubt," he said.

Australian pop star Peter Andre, who is a popular celebrity in Britain, also revealed he may have been the victim of alleged phone hacking.

The revelations come as News International yesterday said it had authorised law firm Harbottle & Lewis to answer any questions from Scotland Yard and the Commons Home Affairs Committee about its work for the firm.

The law firm yesterday faced renewed pressure to explain claims that it failed to raise the alarm over evidence of police bribes at News International.

Meanwhile, the New Zealander who last week replaced Rebekah Brooks as News International's chief executive has slammed News of the World phone hackers as lazy, corrupt and having "fake scoops".

Tom Mockridge - a former adviser to former Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, while Keating was Treasurer in the 1980s and the recent head of Sky Italia - told staff at the Times newspaper yesterday that an internal phone hacking investigation would look at other News International titles.

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No foul play in Hoare death


NO evidence of outside involvement has been found in the death of phone hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare, British police said yesterday.

Hertfordshire police said an autopsy confirmed "no evidence of third party involvement and the death is non-suspicious".

Hoare, in his mid-40s, was the first journalist to declare his former friend and editor at the News of the World, Andy Coulson, knew about the now defunct tabloid's widespread use of phone hacking.

Police hope toxicology tests will solve the riddle of Hoare's death.

AP, PA

British PM says with hindsight, would have not hired Coulson

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BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron admitted today that with hindsight, he would not have hired former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his media chief.

"People will of course make judgements about it. Of course I regret and I am extremely sorry about the furore it has caused," Cameron said in an emergency statement to parliament on the phone-hacking scandal.

"With 20-20 hindsight and all that has followed, I would not have offered him the job and I expect that he wouldn't have taken it.

"But you don't make decisions in hindsight, you make them in the present. You live and you learn and believe you me, I have learned."

Cameron has come under intense pressure over his decision to hire Coulson, shortly after the journalist quit as editor of the News of the World in 2007 following the jailing of two people at the tabloid over phone hacking.

Coulson has always denied wrongdoing but he was arrested earlier this month on over the scandal, and on allegations of police bribery. He resigned as Downing Street communications chief in January.

The prime minister however refused to formally apologise for hiring Coulson.

He repeated his earlier assertion that if it turned out that Coulson had lied to him about his knowledge of hacking at the News of the World tabloid, and had lied to the police, it would be a matter for criminal charges.

"I have an old-fashioned view about innocent until proven guilty but if it turns out I have been lied to that would be a moment for a profound apology," he added.

Andy Coulson

UK PM David Cameron has defended his hiring of Andy Coulson (pictured), the former editor of News of the World.Source: AP

UK Prime Minister David Cameron defends Andy Coulson over hacking

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PRIME Minister David Cameron emphatically denied claims that his staff tried to stop an inquiry into phone hacking and police bribery at the News of the World and defended his decision to hire one of the tabloid's editors as his communications chief.

In a raucous emergency session overnight in parliament, Cameron admitted, however, that both the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour parties had failed to pursue key developments in the hacking case over the years.

"The greatest responsibility I have is to clear up this mess," Cameron told MPs, promising that a government inquiry would investigate whether other media organisations besides News of the World also committed illegal acts over the years.

Cameron cut short his Africa trip to appear before the House of Commons, which delayed its summer break to debate issues engulfing Britain's political and media elite and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which owned the troubled News of the World.

Cameron's former communications chief Andy Coulson - a former editor at the tabloid - is among 10 people who have been arrested in the scandal. One person has been cleared by police.

MPs want to know why Mr Cameron insisted on hiring Mr Coulson despite warnings and how much the prime minister knew about the phone-hacking investigation.

Some have alleged that some of Mr Cameron's staff may have met with police in an attempt to pressure them to drop the investigation.

"To risk any perception that No 10 (Downing Street) was seeking to influence a sensitive police investigation in any way would have been completely wrong," he said.

Mr Cameron did, however, meet with News Corp executives more than two dozen times from May 2010 to this month - meetings that were criticised in parliament by Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, who said Mr Cameron made a "catastrophic error of judgment" in hiring Mr Coulson.

Mr Cameron defended Mr Coulson's work in government and said if it emerged that Mr Coulson had lied to him about his role in the hacking case he would take it seriously.

"You don't make decisions in hindsight," Mr Cameron said.

Britain's Conservative Party said yesterday it had learned that another recently arrested phone-hacking suspect, former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis, may have advised Mr Coulson before the 2010 national election that put Mr Cameron into power. It said Wallis was not paid for the advice, however.

Mr Cameron also said the hacking affair raises questions over the ethics and values of London's police force. He told MPs yesterday that he would look at ways to bring in new leadership to Britain's police force and named six people who will assistant Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry into the culture, practices, and ethics of the press.

The scandal has captivated audiences from America to  Australia, and there's more to come; only a fraction of about 3870 people whose names and telephone numbers were found in News of the World files have been contacted by police so far. It remains unknown how many of those names were targeted for hacking.

Yesterday, a judge awarded Notting Hill actor Hugh Grant - one of the most prominent celebrity critics of News Corp - the right to see whether he was one of them.

Meanwhile, a House of Commons committee yesterday blasted both News International, the News Corp unit which operates the British papers, and London Metropolitan Police for their performance on the scandal.

"We deplore the response of News International to the original investigation into hacking. It is almost impossible to escape the conclusion ... that they were deliberately trying to thwart a criminal investigation," said the home affairs committee, which has been grilling past and present Metropolitan Police officials about their decision not to reopen the hacking investigation in 2009.

However, the panel said it was astounded that police would blame the newspaper's tactics for their failure to mount a robust investigation.

"The difficulties were offered to us as justifying a failure to investigate further and we saw nothing that suggested there was a real will to tackle and overcome those obstacles," the committee said.

The committee said it was "appalled" by testimony on Tuesday from Dick Fedorcio, director of public affairs for the Metropolitan Police press office, about a short-term contract given to Wallis to advise the department on press and publicity. Fedorcio testified that he couldn't remember who recommended Wallis and "attempt(ed) to deflect all blame" to Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who has resigned as head of the anti-terrorist command.

The revelation of the Wallis contract led to the resignation on Sunday of the police chief, Paul Stephenson.

Buckingham Palace reacted sharply to a claim by legislator Chris Bryant that the palace had raised concerns with Cameron's office over his decision to hire Mr Coulson.

"It is outrageous to suggest this," said a palace spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with royal practice.

Hack detectives take a long, hard look in the Mirror

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DETECTIVES investigating phone hacking and corruption at the News of the World are studying evidence of how other British newspapers used illegally obtained crime records from the police national computer.

Last week it emerged that the files from Operation Motorman, an investigation into a private detective in 2003, had been passed to police.

The Sunday Times has obtained details of some of the alleged offences. They reveal how a civilian worker based at a south London police station was trawling criminal records for any information on celebrities.

In April 2005, private investigator Steve Whittamore and Paul Marshall, a communications worker at Tooting police station in London, admitted trading in confidential data.

According to the court files, Whittamore used Marshall to obtain information from the police national computer on several celebrities. In May 2002, he searched for information on Jessie Wallace, who stars in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. The same day, Whittamore called Mirror newspapers at 10.56am.

Three days later, the Sunday Mirror reported that Wallace had once refused to take a breath test and had been involved in a minor offence as a teenager. The headline read: "TV Kat's guilty secrets: she hides criminal past from EastEnders bosses".

Whittamore and Marshall also conducted illegal criminal-record checks on Clifton Tomlinson, the actor Ricky Tomlinson's troubled son, who died in December 2004 from alcoholic liver disease, and Andrew Goody, the father of Jade Goody, the Big Brother contestant who has since died of cancer. Within days of the checks, articles on the individuals appeared in the Sunday Mirror.

The Whittamore files contain 4000 requests from 31 news outlets, including 952 from the Daily Mail, 266 from The Mail on Sunday, 103 from The Observer and four from The Sunday Times.

Many of the requests were legitimate, such as checks on company directorships and the electoral roll, but others could breach data-protection laws unless a public interest can be shown. The maximum penalty for each offence is pound stg. 5000 ($7500).

Trinity Mirror insists its journalists operate within the law and the Press Complaints Commission code, but last week it was facing more allegations.

In an interview with the BBC, a former Sunday Mirror reporter claimed Liz Hurley was among the targets. The source said: " I saw Liz Hurley's phone being hacked and a reporter listen to her mobile phone messages and take a note of what was said . . . I was told there wasn't much on there . . . so they would keep trying to see what they could find." James Hipwell, a former reporter at the Daily Mirror who was jailed for manipulating share prices, also said last week that phone hacking had been used at the paper by show-business reporters. He claimed they were ordered to "trawl the usual suspects", which meant going through voicemails.

Trinity Mirror has written to Britain's Culture, Media and Sport committee about incorrect claims by MP Louise Mensch that Piers Morgan, a former Mirror editor, had admitted phone hacking was used to reveal the affair between Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England football manager, and television presenter Ulrika Jonsson. Ms Mensch said any correction would be made in parliament.

THE SUNDAY TIMES


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Sean Hoare NOTW Whistle Blower – Murdered because he knew too much?

 
tony roma
come on guys murdoch naaaa.
now mi5 clean up for the government that is different.
Loose lips sink ships.
funny how while the body was still warm nick mi5 davies the greatest journalist in the country was writing an article about how ill sean was.
why would an award winning guardian hack state that it was natural causes before a blood test had even been done.
why even mention sean”s drug taking alcohol binges and yellow skin.
so much for an investigation.
 
 
Sean Hoare, The News of the World journalist who blew the whistle on the corruption in Murdoch’s media and the political class, has been found dead .
Was he murdered because he knew too much?
Let’s examine the facts.
Ever since Rupert Murdoch hired PR giants Edelman  last week, we’ve been seeing a onslaught of activity by News Corp to save it’s battered reputation.
We’ve seen Murdoch’s key Colonel’s Rebekah Brooks  and Les Hinton  leave their positions with the NOTW and WSJ, but rather tellingly, they are still employed by News Corp.
We saw Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Alsaud (The largest shareholder in Murdoch’s media empire, after Murdoch himself) wheeled into carrying out presser duties  where he declared his undying love for Murdoch, and blamed the whole situation on a few bad apples within the company.
We saw Britain’s most powerful policeman, Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, quit his post  after he was given a free reported £15,000 holiday at a resort where Neil Wallis , former deputy editor of NOTW, was senior management.
Let’s just work out the formula thus far:
Phone hacking + Big media + Police + Politicians X Corruption =
The coverage on Sean Hoare death has been contemptuous to say the least.
Last night’s BBC Newsnight dedicated all of two minutes  on “discussing” his death.
You would have thought that a media that has been salivating over every nuance and angle connected to this ever widening story would be going into the stratosphere with the news that the man who kick started the whole affair, the man who crucially had not signed any confidentiality agreement with Murdoch’s media and thus was free to speak his mind, winds up dead.
The police of course have already been quick to state that  “The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious”.
What is clear to me is that Sean Hoare knew too much and he couldn’t be paid off.
There will now be a smear campaign against him in the media.
Already I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern with a build up of accusations about his character to undermine his credibility as a reliable source of information – alcoholic, fantasist, paranoid, conspiracy theorist, couldn’t be sure what to believe of what he said, scared of people coming to get him etc etc.
It will be interesting to see if there is a proper coronial inquiry into this death.
As Steve Richards commented in The Independent recently,  “Here was a company that evidently thought it was powerful enough to get away with it, able to block police enquiries and to pay off victims of crime.”
Phone hacking + Big media + Police + Politicians X Corruption = Whistle blower Sean Hoare murdered.
Do the math, no conspiracy theory needed.
What happened to the last whistle blower to break ranks?
Dr. David Kelly was “suicided”.
His formula was very similar.
Iraq + Big media + WMD’s + Politicians X Oil = Whistle blower Dr. David Kelly murdered.
Do the maths, no conspiracy theory needed.
§ Police already closed the case on Sean Hoare the #NOTW #Hackgate  whistle blower murdered because he knew too much http://t.co/uZHWAFv 8 hours ago 
§ #British  say "Thank You"#Americans  say "Awesome Buddy!" That is an Americanisms if there ever was one 8 hours ago 
§ ain't nothing worse than finding a bunch of people you can't stand in your house, talking sh*t & you want peace & quiet#WhenBloodIsSpilled  1 day ago 
§ Hitting the gym. On an "inverted pyramid" training regime. Last few sessions before Ramadan. Find a new way to release anger for 30 days. 1 day ago 
§ Don't be fooled by #Murdoch broken bumbling old man act.Emperor Palpatine is coherent & wrote book on how to play the game.Oscar winning act1 day ago 
§ Did someone just custard pie rupert murdoch? next time I'm in a tight spot, I'll get someone to waltz in & do the same to me...MEETING OVER 1 day ago 
§ Robin Cook & David Kelly - Add Sean Hoare to the list of dissenters who were murdered because they knew too muchhttp://t.co/uZHWAFv  #NOTW 1 day ago 
 
We’d be interested to hear your thoughts in an interview please contact me if you might be able to spare time today for an interview.
Thanks
Lorenzo Ervin
This appears to be a political assassination to silence a critic dangerous to Murdock and news Corp. Murdoch forces clearly were involved with his demise, and Hoare’s death is being covered up by dirty cops on the payroll. Today’s Parliamentary hearings were an embarrassment, with the amount of fear and deerence to R. Murdoch and his son James. This is high level crime, and they are keen to cover it all up.
So this man takes a chunk out of the police, Murdock, the goverment and says he has a fear for his life and then goes and drop dead.
The media are doing all they can to discredit this man using un-named sources but it does look and smells like another Dr David Kelly
tony roma
come on guys murdoch naaaa.
now mi5 clean up for the government that is different.
Loose lips sink ships.
funny how while the body was still warm nick mi5 davies the greatest journalist in the country was writing an article about how ill sean was.
why would an award winning guardian hack state that it was natural causes before a blood test had even been done.
why even mention sean”s drug taking alcohol binges and yellow skin.
so much for an investigation.
Whistle Blower – Murdered because he knew too much?    Sean Hoare NOTW
 
 
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 823160
 United Kingdom
7/19/2011 7:20 AM
 
WHO KILLED SEAN HOARE AND IS THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MIXED UP IN IT.
 v:shapes="_x0000_i1026">

Who murdered sean hoare was it someone from government ie mI5 
to stop the truth about the prime ministers involvement in this hacking 
probe getting out or was it a police operation done and paid for by the
police to the LONDON underworld CRIMINALS, something is not right 
at all in this case are we going to have another whithall whitewash like 
we did in the so called DR DAVID KELLYS death i suspect so , who the 
hell can you trust anymore the police are corrupt, mp's are corrupt, 
newspapers are corrupt the court system is corrupt , what are we the 
people going to do about it just stand there and watch the government 
and its employess MI5 go around killing willinly and without question. 
This so called partime priminister baby face cameron is mixed up in
this to the eyeballs.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1473663
 v:shapes="_x0000_i1027"> Australia
7/19/2011 7:32 AM
Re: WHO KILLED SEAN HOARE AND IS THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MIXED UP IN IT.
uote [+#

I'd say a professional poison killer...Its the easiest most undetected way
to murder someone..I'd say some MI6 young professional..
 
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 815644
 v:shapes="_x0000_i1028"> United States
7/19/2011 7:35 AM
without even knowing who this guy is by name, i could have told you he is the guy that busted Murdoch!

he's been killed by a goon squad and they probably won't find any trail of evidence!

it's just a strange coincidence the guy comes up dead after Murdoch is found to be doing crooked business!
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1460911
United Kingdom
7/19/2011 7:36 AM
Be patient... the impact of all of this on the public consciousness is huge... most are aware our system is corrupt but this has provided the tipping point, and as whistleblowers emerge hourly, the whole thing is like a runaway train that will not stop.
Those who have been involved against their better judgement or more likely forced to comply, are making a stand and doing the right thing!

The people are being shown a glimpse of the extent of the corruption and tyranny, the people have a choice. There are many non-violent options to change the situation.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1402415
United States
7/19/2011 8:36 AM
MI6 on the PM's orders.. brits are living in a slave state.. they are not allowed to see freedom or get out of line.. everything else is just theater
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1155747
 v:shapes="_x0000_i1031"> United Kingdom
7/19/2011 8:38 AM
 
whiterussian
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User ID: 1473636
Thailand
7/19/2011 8:45 AM
Very odd... no pin on the live feed.

proof that America is too dumbed down by decades of FOX to care that the Wizard of Oz is about to get busted?
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1474041
United Kingdom
7/19/2011 1:38 PM
the fact that rupert murdoch is being dragged through the dirt by the brits suggests that a larger power struggle is playing out.
thelady
User ID: 1474045
United Kingdom
7/19/2011 1:39 PM
They have been doing it for years, killing the dirt, I found something out that happened in 1962, investigating something that happened to a whole family, 5 years ago I dug up the dirt, "They" frightened me off. I did not want to go the same route as the family in 62.
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 1470364
 United States
7/19/2011 1:47 PM
tptb are getting close to panic mode.


It's a rare thing for a brand to be the focus of such a wave of revulsion
--Simon Middleton, brand strategist

British scandal sheet wracked by scandal of its own

By Bryony Jones, CNN
July 7, 2011

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
(CNN) -- Britain's News of the World newspaper and its parent company News International will likely be seriously damaged by the phone-hacking scandal, analysts say.Experts are divided, though, on how the paper's owner, media magnate Rupert Murdoch, will weather the storm. News International also owns the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times in Britain. Murdoch's media empire also encompasses Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Harper Collins publishers in the United States. Journalists at News of the World, a tabloid that is the world's top-selling English-language newspaper, have been accused of hacking into the mobile phone account of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, intercepting messages in search of news. They then allegedly deleted messages to keep her mailbox from filling up, giving her family and friends false hope that the schoolgirl -- later found murdered -- was still alive. Police also are investigating suggestions the paper -- known for its exposes of celebrities and politicians -- may have targeted the relatives of other high profile crime victims, including at least one of those killed in the 2005 London bombings.  The controversy has sparked a "wave of revulsion" towards the weekly, prompting calls for a boycott by both readers and advertisers which look set to hit it this Sunday. Hollywood star Hugh Grant, who says his own phone was hacked by News of the World, is among those encouraging Britons to "vote with their wallets." And several experts have warned that even firing the reporters and editors responsible is unlikely to repair the paper's wrecked reputation. Murdoch has condemned the allegations against News of the World as "deplorable and unacceptable," and said, "We are committed to addressing these issues fully and have taken a number of important steps to prevent them from happening again." But Murdoch insists he is standing by Rebekah Brooks, editor of News of the World at the time and now News International chief executive. In a memo to the newspaper's staff, Brooks said, "it is inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations." But Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff believes Brooks, whose relationship with Murdoch has often been compared to that of a daughter, is among the high profile heads likely to have to roll. "Rebekah is toast," he told CNN. "It wouldn't be the first time that Rupert has thrown a family member overboard.

""I think the question is, 'Is it too late to fix?' At one point, they could have come forward and said 'this is terrible,' they could have explained it was part of a culture that got out of control, they could have fired everybody, even closed the newspaper.


"Instead they covered it up, and once a cover-up has started, I'm not sure you can back out of it. It may be that the only way to fix it now is to purge the company of people called Murdoch. "Even that, Wolff says, is unlikely to be enough to repair the damage.


Hacking scandal exposes secrets at Murdoch's tabloid

""I think the question is, 'Is it too late to fix?' At one point, they could have come forward and said 'this is terrible,' they could have explained it was part of a culture that got out of control, they could have fired everybody, even closed the newspaper.

Business strategist Simon Middleton, author of "Build a Brand in 30 Days," agrees that the company has gone well beyond the point of instituting basic damage limitation measures. "It's a rare thing for a brand to be the focus of such a wave of revulsion around the country," he told CNN, predicting a "perfect storm" of trouble for the paper following the recent "skin-crawling" revelations. "Firing somebody isn't going to fix this. It will take years," he said. Middleton said the impact of the phone-hacking scandal could spread far beyond the News of the World -- and that the paper itself may not survive. "It's like a family: If one member gets a bad reputation, the others can be tarnished too -- you get damage by association, and that could be the case for the other papers in News International stable. "The whole Murdoch empire is tarnished by it. The wider Murdoch empire is big enough to survive, but I'm not so sure about the News of the World." But media analyst Claire Enders said the scandal was unlikely to affect Murdoch's business on a global level. "News International is still immensely powerful. The story is not making much impact outside the UK." Middleton said that - like an alcoholic recognizing he has a drink problem -- the paper's only hope was to acknowledge its faults and say it's sorry - before rebuilding from scratch. "Brands that have made big mistakes have been forgiven in the past, but only after they recognized that they got it wrong, and apologized," he said.


Experts say heads are likely to roll over the hacking scandal -- but Rupert Murdoch insists he is standing by Rebekah Brooks.
Experts say heads are likely to roll over the hacking scandal -- 
but Rupert Murdoch insists he is standing by Rebekah Brooks.







News International whistleblower's death 'non-suspicious,' police say

By the CNN Wire Staff

The Question in everyone' mind is...
The statement by the London Met Police that mysterious sudden death on the 18th July, 2011 of Sean Hoare the whistleblower into illegal phone hacking- illegal blinging and illegal police bribes at Rupert Murdoch's News International-NEWS OF THE WORLD a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's  all powerful News Corp, the day before the start of the Parliamentary  Select Committee into illegal phone hacking- illegal blinging and illegal police bribes at Rupert Murdoch's News International-NEWS OF THE WORLD a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's  all powerful News Corp due to start on the 19th July, 2011 is the most suspicious press release statement the London Met Police has ever released and that statement it self makes the ordinary person on the street wonder if the London Met Police at a very high ranking level with the help of organisations like MI5 and MI6 who would capable of the murder of Whistleblower Sean Hoare  in such a way that it all looks to the public as death by natural causes... if is starting to become well known that organisations like MI5, MI6, the CIA, Mossad, the KGB etc have drugs that can cause death such as a heart attach within 24 hours of unwittingly taking them in a glass of water or a cup of tea... that are absolutely undetectable by any autopsy or post-mortam and have no colour or taste so the drug can be placed in a clear glass or bottle of water and the person who drank the water would never guess or know  that this drug had been placed into the water he or she was drinking... that is how the well known multi millionaire Western Australian businessman and and financier Laurie Connel was murdered when he threatened to expaose many of the most powerful people in political and business circles in Australia during his contraversial fraud trial where Mr Connel ended up deciding to represent himself after sacking his large team of attorneys who Mr Connel said he could no longer trust..  " James Kleck Editor of www.awn.bz and USAWeeklynews.com 

London (CNN) -- Investigators have found no sign of foul play in the death of a man identified as the whistleblower behind the scandal surrounding media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International, British police announced Tuesday.
Sean Hoare was one of the first journalists to go on the record and allege phone hacking at Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World. He was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, northwest of London, the British Press Association said.
An autopsy conducted Tuesday afternoon "has concluded there is no evidence of third-party involvement and the death is non-suspicious," Hertfordshire police said in a statement. Earlier, police had called his death "unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious."

Hoare had publicly accused News of the World of phone-hacking and using "pinging" -- a method of tracking someone's cell phone using technology that only police and security officials could access -- according to the New York Times. He was one of the few sources who allowed his name to be used when speaking to the Times last year for an investigative report about allegations of phone-hacking by the British tabloid, which was shuttered last weekend as the scandal grew.
The rapidly metastasizing scandal has led to the resignations of several of Murdoch's top lieutenants and of the two top officials of London's Metropolitan Police, whose officers were accused of taking payments from journalists in exchange for confidential information.
The scandal has led to 10 arrests, including those of two former News of the World editors, Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks. Brooks' arrest came two days after her resignation as head of News International, the British subsidiary of Murdoch's global conglomerate News Corp., while Coulson had gone on to become Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director.
Hoare specifically accused Coulson of wrongdoing, saying Coulson "encouraged" phone-hacking." Coulson resigned his Downing Street post in January when police launched a new probe into the hacking allegations.
The Times described Hoare has a "onetime close friend of Coulson's." The report added that Hoare said he was "fired during a period when he was struggling with drugs and alcohol. He said he was now revealing his own use of the dark arts -- which included breaking into the messages of celebrities like David and Victoria Beckham -- because it was unfair for the paper to pin the blame solely on" one reporter who covered the royal family.
Hoare "repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former News of the World colleagues with that aim in mind," Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.
His allegations ultimately led to Tuesday's testimony by Murdoch to a House of Commons committee, where he denied ultimate responsibility for illegal phone hacking carried out by his employees.
"I feel that the people I trusted, I don't know at what level, let me down and I think they behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company and me, and it's for them to pay," he said. "I think that frankly I'm the best person to clear this up."

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: Sean Hoare's death was declared "non-suspicious" after an autopsy

Hoare told the New York Times the phone hacking included celebrities' phone

His death comes amid a widening scandal around Rupert Murdoch's media empire


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British scandal sheet wracked by scandal of its own

By Bryony Jones, CNN
July 7, 2011

STORY HIGHLIGHTSNews of the World accused of hacking phones of murder victims, dead soldiers

Former editor Rebekah Brooks says it is "inconceivable" she knew of scandal

Analysts say Brooks and others are likely to lose their jobs over the controversy

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Rupert Murdoch (L) is pictured leaving his London residence with Rebekah Brooks (R) on July 10
Rupert Murdoch (L) is pictured leaving his London residence with Rebekah Brooks (R) on July 10.

Rebekah Brooks, ex-editor for News of the World, quit as News International chief executive over the hacking scandal.
Rebekah Brooks, ex-editor for News of the World, quit as News International chief executive over the hacking scandal



Hacking scandal: Who is Rebekah Brooks?

Hacking scandal: Who is Rebekah Brooks?  By Bryony Jones, CNN
July 19, 2011 --

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief executive of News International, is arrested and questioned by police
  • Brooks had agreed to testify before British lawmakers in the phone hacking scandal
  • Brooks became the youngest-ever editor of a national British newspaper in 2000
  • Murdoch is said to treat Brooks like a daughter
  • London (CNN) -- Rebekah Brooks, who resigned on Friday as chief executive of News International, was the youngest person ever to edit a national British newspaper, and made a stellar rise through the ranks of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
  • She held the top job at News International, the News Corp.'s British subsidiary, for two years after editing the country's best-selling daily tabloid, the Sun, and its best-selling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World. But following sweeping allegations of illegal eavesdropping by News of the World journalists when she was editor, British lawmakers asked her to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the scandal. She has agreed to appear on July 19, alongside former boss Rupert Murdoch and his son James. She held the top job at News International, the News Corp.'s British subsidiary, for two years after editing the country's best-selling daily tabloid, the Sun, and its best-selling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World. But following sweeping allegations of illegal eavesdropping by News of the World journalists when she was editor, British lawmakers asked her to testify before a parliamentary committee investigating the scandal. She has agreed to appear on July 19, alongside former boss Rupert Murdoch and his son James. However, following her arrest by police investigating the hacking scandal on Sunday, it is unclear if she will answer MPs' questions. Brought up in Cheshire, northern England, in the 1970s, Rebekah Brooks is said to have decided on a career in journalism at the age of 14, beginning with a job as a "tea girl" at her local paper. In her late teens, she moved to Paris, where she is reported to have worked at architectural magazineL'Architecture d'aujourd'hui and studied at the Sorbonne. On her return to the UK, she worked in regional papers before making the move to Sunday tabloid News of the World in the late 1980s. Starting out as a secretary, Rebekah Wade -- her maiden name -- swiftly made her way up the editorial food chain, becoming deputy editor by the age of 27. She tells of how, at a corporate golf day shortly after she was appointed, one senior executive ordered her to sew the buttons back on his shirt. Sexism in the workplace aside, Brooks' rise through the ranks continued. She was named deputy editor of the hugely popular Sun newspaper, the News of the World's sister title, in 1998. In 2000, she returned to the News of the World, this time in the top job, becoming the youngest-ever editor of a national British paper. While editor of the weekly, Brooks argued for the creation of a U.S.-style "Sarah's Law," which would allow parents with young children to know about anyone convicted of child sex crimes living close to their homes. As part of the controversial campaign, which was inspired by the murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in July 2000, Brooks took the decision to name and shame offenders in the pages of her paper. The lists sparked witch-hunts and riots, as communities across Britain tried to hound pedophiles out of their neighborhoods. It was condemned by police, but Brooks remains unrepentant. In a 2009 speech, she admitted the campaign was "a blunt and contentious way of informing the public... hard lessons were learnt but I don't regret the campaign for one minute." She married soap star Ross Kemp, famous for his hard-man role as Grant Mitchell in long-running British TV show "Eastenders." In 2003, she was promoted again, becoming editor of the Sun. In addition to working for two of the UK's most famous tabloids, Brooks hit the headlines herself on a number of occasions. In March 2003 she courted controversy -- and hinted at the scandal to come -- when, appearing before a government committee, she admitted that her paper had paid police officers for information. Two years later, in November 2005, she was arrested after an alleged assault on her then-husband, Kemp. No charges were ever filed against her. The couple divorced in 2009. Later the same year she married horse trainer Charlie Brooks. The couple's wedding party was attended by a host of big names, including the Murdoch clan (Rupert, James and Elisabeth), then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and future-Prime Minister David Cameron. Brooks held the Sun post until 2009 when she was handpicked for the role of News International chief executive by Rupert Murdoch. The pair had been close for many years: Murdoch is said to treat Brooks like a daughter.

Timeline of the UK phone hacking scandal

By the CNN Wire Staff
July 19, 2011

Editor's Note: Watch UK lawmakers question Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks live from 1:30 p.m. GMT / 9:30 a.m. ET Tuesday on CNN.com and also via CNN Apps including iPhone, iPad, Android and selected Nokia devices. Also watch lawmakers question leading members of the Metropolitan Police including former chief Paul Stephenson from 11 a.m. GMT / 7 a.m. ET Tuesday.
London (CNN) -- Accusations that journalists at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers hacked into the phones of politicians, celebrities and unwitting people caught up in the news -- including child murder victims -- have severely bruised his media empire.
It has forced the closure of Britain's biggest-selling paper, a withdrawal for his bid for the broadcaster BSkyB and the resignation of his trusted UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks.
The following is a timeline of the scandal:
November 2005
News of the World prints a story about Prince William injuring his knee, prompting royal officials to complain to police about probable voice mail hacking.
January 2007
News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire are convicted of conspiracy to hack into phone voice mails of royals and are jailed. Andy Coulson, the paper's editor, claims to be unaware of hacking but still resigns.
July 2007
Goodman and Mulcaire sue the tabloid for wrongful dismissal. Goodman receives £80,000 (currently $129,000) and Mulcaire receives an undisclosed amount.
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Also in July, Andy Coulson is hired as director of communications for Conservative party leader David Cameron, who becomes prime minister in May 2010.
June 2008
News Group Newspapers pays a £700,000 ($1.13 million) settlement to soccer executive Gordon Taylor, whose phone was hacked by Mulcaire.
November 2009
Britain's Press Complaints Commission releases a report concluding that there is no evidence of continued phone hacking.
March 2010
A celebrity public relations agent agrees to drop his lawsuit against News of the World for a payment of more than £1 million ($1.6 million).
September 2010
Former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare alleges that phone hacking was a common practice at the paper and encouraged by Coulson.
January 21, 2011
Coulson resigns as Cameron's spokesman because of coverage of the phone-hacking scandal.
January 26, 2011
London's Metropolitan Police launch a new investigation into voice mail hacking allegations at News of the World.
April 5, 2011
News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and former editor Ian Edmondson are arrested on suspicion of intercepting voice mail messages.
April 10, 2011
News of the World officially apologizes for hacking into voice mails from 2004 to 2006 and sets up a compensation system for unnamed victims.
April 14, 2011
Senior News of the World journalist James Weatherup is arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept communications.
June 7, 2011
Actress Sienna Miller settles with News of the World for £100,000 ($161,000) in damages and legal fees.
June 23, 2011
Freelance journalist Terenia Taras is arrested on suspicion of phone hacking.
July 4, 2011
It is revealed that News of the World journalists possibly hacked into then-missing teenager Milly Dowler's voice mail and deleted messages to free space, causing her parents to believe she was still alive.
July 6, 2011
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., the parent company of News of the World owner News International, promises full cooperation with the investigation and calls the accusations against News of the World "deplorable and unacceptable."
July 7, 2011
News International announces that the July 10 edition of News of the World will be the paper's last.
July 8, 2011
Coulson is arrested. Goodman, the paper's former royal correspondent who served a four-month jail term in 2007, is also arrested on corruption allegations.
July 10, 2011
The 168-year-old News of the World publishes its final edition with the headline "Thank you and goodbye."
Rupert Murdoch flies into London to take personal charge of the crisis.
July 11, 2011
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown accuses other News International papers of illegally obtaining private information about him.
July 12, 2011
British lawmakers ask Rupert and James Murdoch and Brooks to testify before them.
July 13, 2011
-- News Corp. withdraws its bid to take over British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
-- UK Prime Minister Cameron announces a wide-ranging public inquiry into the British press.
July 14, 2011
-- The FBI launches an investigation into allegations that News Corp. employees or associates hacked into the phones of 9/11 victims, a federal source says.
-- Rupert and James Murdoch agree to give evidence to a committee of British lawmakers.
-- A 60-year-old man, widely reported to be Neil Wallis, a former executive editor of the News of the World, is arrested.
July 15, 2011
-- Brooks resigns as chief executive of News International.
-- Les Hinton resigns as head of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal; he was Brooks' predecessor at News International.
-- Rupert Murdoch visits the family of murdered teenager Milly Dowler, whose voice mail had been hacked.
July 16, 2011
Rupert Murdoch apologizes to the British public with full-page advertisements in seven national newspapers.
July 17, 2011
-- Rebekah Brooks is arrested, questioned for about nine hours, and released on bail until October, police and her spokesman say.
-- Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson -- who leads London's police and is the UK's highest ranking policeman -- resigns. It comes after revelations that former News of the World executive editor Neil Wallis later became a communications consultant for the police.
Stephenson says he decided to resign because increased scrutiny connected to the case would burden his department and detract from its accomplishments.
July 18, 2011
-- News International places more ads in UK newspapers, explaining how it is "putting right what's gone wrong."
-- Former reporter Sean Hoare is found dead. Police say the death is being treated as "unexplained" but not "suspicious."
-- Assistant police Commissioner John Yates, who ruled two years ago that there was no reason to pursue an investigation into phone hacking by journalists, also resigns. He was due to be suspended when he quit, police said.
-- The hacker collective, LulzSec, claims credit for hacking the website of the News Corp. paper, The Sun. It redirects those on the paper's website to a false story claiming Murdoch had been found dead in his garden.
July 19, 2011
-- Murdoch, his son James and Brooks are set to appear in parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about the phone scandal.






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By Les Blough, Editor, Axis of Logic. News article (BBC)
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Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011

In their report below, the BBC announces the sudden and "unexplained" death of Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter and before that a reporter at The Sun, who blew the British media and political establishment wide open. He left News of the world in 2005. In March, Mr. Hoare told theBBC that illegal phone hacking was "endemic" at News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch that sold 2.7 million copies a week. In that report, the BBC led their program by depicting Mr. Hoare as a drug addict. Last week, the New York times reported that Mr. Hoare told them that News of the World paid police to use technology that could track people through their mobile phone signals.Yesterday morning (Monday, July 18, 2011) Hertfordshire police discovered Mr. Hoare's body in the garden outside his home north of London. They said they went to his house because they had concerns for his welfare.
Sean Hoare's revelations have implicated everyone from low level members in media to names of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, British Parliamentarians and Britain's present and former prime ministers, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Tony Blair. AP reported:
"The scandal has come uncomfortably close to Prime Minister David Cameron, who, like predecessors Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, courted the powerful Murdoch empire whose endorsement is considered capable of swinging elections."
The many who have been arrested include arrested have been: Rebekah Brooks, a Murdoch Aide and Chief Executive of his News International: Andy Coulson, Editor of News of the World; and former royal editor Clive Goodman. Rebekah Brooks is/was a close personal friend of Brown, Cameron and Blair. Coulson is central to these crimes in which he links the scandal to Prime Minister David Cameron for whom he worked as communications chief.In the week past, Britain's Top Cop, Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Police Commissioner, John Yates were forced to resign due to corruption and their links to Murdoch's media empire.
"Mushrooming allegations of immoral and criminal behavior at the paper — including bribing police officers for information, hacking into the voice mail of murdered schoolgirls' families and targeting the phones of the relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and the victims of the London transit attacks. Police say they are examining 4,000 names of people who may have been targeted by the tabloid, which sells about 2.7 million copies a week."
Think there is enough motivation in all this for people burned by the whistleblower to kill him - either for revenge or to eliminate him as a witness? Well, the BBC reassures us otherwise by stating not once - but twice that Sean Hoare's death was "unexpected" but "not thought to be suspicious."
"A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious."
With Britain's top police officials resigning over this, why are we now expected to believe their 'spokesman?'
In another report, Associated Press is quick to nail Sean Hoare's coffin lid down with an assassination of his character accusing the dead man of being,
"the kind of reporter who could knock back several whiskeys and a few lines of cocaine before filing salacious stories of celebrity misbehavior ... ahard partier who got high and drunk with the celebrities ... of starting the day with a " 'rock star's breakfast' — a line of cocaine and a Jack Daniel's ... of heavy drinking and drug-taking [which] became problematic ... angry that he was being treated like a suspect rather than a witness [and of] struggling with addiction."
In the end of their salacious story, AP tried to cover their character assassination by throwing in a tidbit of redemption Sean Hoare by quoting David Yelland, former editor of The Sun in a mixed message:
"Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God." On a BBC program broadcast Monday night, Hoare said phone hacking was "endemic" in his former newspaper.
Of course Sean is no longer here to defend himself.
The corporate media and their imperial bosses are scrambling to distance themselves of the same practices employed by News of the World. They are hard pressed to bury this story as quickly and simply as Sean Hoare has been buried. Some think they will be successful. Others think this story has gone far to deep and wide and that more revelations and arrests among heads of media and government will continue to blow up in their faces.
- Les Blough, Editor
 

NoW phone-hacking whistle-blower Sean Hoare found dead
BBC
July 19, 2011
A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead at his home in Watford.
Mr Hoare had told the New York Times hacking was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.
Sean Hoare also told the BBC's Panorama phone hacking was "endemic" at the NoW.
A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.
Meanwhile computer hackers have tampered with the website of The Sun, which is also owned by News International.
Readers were briefly directed to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch has been found dead in his garden.
A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted games companies and US government websites, claimed responsibility via Twitter.
Visitors to the Sun website were redirected to the group's Twitter page.
News International said it was "aware" of what was happening but made no further comment.
Earlier Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after growing pressure amid the phone-hacking scandal.
It has also emerged that a former senior News of the World (NoW) journalist carried out work for Scotland Yard dealing with witnesses and suspects while employed by the paper.
Alex Marunchak was employed by the Met as a Ukrainian language interpreter and was on Scotland Yard's list of interpreters between 1980 and 2000.
According to the BBC's Panorama, the former NoW Irish edition editor obtained e-mails hacked into by a private detective in 2006. Mr Marunchak denied receiving "any unlawfully obtained material".
In a statement, the Met said it would look into the matter, saying: "We recognise that this may cause concern and that some professions may be incompatible with the role of an interpreter."
Hertfordshire Police said Mr Hoare's body was discovered after police were called to his home in Langley Road, Watford at 1040 BST on Monday.
They said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."
When he first spoke out, Mr Hoare told Panorama the then NoW editor Andy Coulson had asked him to hack phones - something Mr Coulson has denied.
Suspension move

Earlier, Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after he was informed he would be suspended pending an inquiry into his links with a former NoW journalist.
Mr Yates had checked the credentials of the paper's former deputy editor Neil Wallis before he too was employed by the Met.
Mr Wallis was arrested and released on bail on Thursday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.
Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, the most senior policeman in Britain, resigned on Sunday after also facing criticism for the force's recruitment of Mr Wallis as a PR consultant.
A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead at his home in Watford.
Mr Hoare had told the New York Times hacking was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.
Sean Hoare also told the BBC's Panorama phone hacking was "endemic" at the NoW.
A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.
Meanwhile computer hackers have tampered with the website of The Sun, which is also owned by News International.
Readers were briefly directed to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch has been found dead in his garden.
A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted games companies and US government websites, claimed responsibility via Twitter.
Visitors to the Sun website were redirected to the group's Twitter page.
News International said it was "aware" of what was happening but made no further comment.
Earlier Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after growing pressure amid the phone-hacking scandal.
It has also emerged that a former senior News of the World (NoW) journalist carried out work for Scotland Yard dealing with witnesses and suspects while employed by the paper.
Alex Marunchak was employed by the Met as a Ukrainian language interpreter and was on Scotland Yard's list of interpreters between 1980 and 2000.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said Deputy Commissioner Tim Godwin would be in charge at Scotland Yard until Sir Paul's replacement was appointed. Mr Yates will be replaced in the interim as the Met's head of counter-terrorism by Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick.
Mr Johnson said it was right for both Sir Paul and Mr Yates to stand down. Mr Yates said his conscience was clear and had "deep regret" over his resignation.
Job probe

The IPCC said four referrals relating to the police's phone-hacking investigation involved Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned on Sunday, and Mr Yates, as well as two other former senior officers.
The BBC understands the other two officers are former Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman and former Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke.
A fifth referral relates to the alleged involvement of Mr Yates in inappropriately securing a job at the Met for the daughter of a friend.
The BBC understands the woman to be Amy Wallis, daughter of Mr Wallis, and she works in a civilian non-operational role.
In the Commons, Home Secretary Theresa May announced Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary would look into corruption in the police, and an Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation on the same issue would be part of the judge-led inquiry into the hacking scandal.
Source: BBC

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Murdoch Meltdown: News Corp Imploding; Raising Questions about Corporate Personhood

By Rob Kall
OpEd News
Saturday, Jul 16, 2011

The recent developments unfolding at News Corp challenge the idea of corporate personhood and whether justice can really be served when corporations are given the privileges of personhood. There are also the aspects of accountability that come with being considered a person. 

The events at News Corp Are raising some very thorny questions. Two of the top people at News Corp have resigned. The NY Times reports
Les Hinton, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal since 2007, who oversaw Mr. Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary when voice mail hacking by journalists was rampant, and Rebekah Brooks, who has run the British papers since 2009 and become the target of unrelenting public outrage, both resigned in the latest blow to the News Corporation and its besieged chairman.
Many former staffers of News Corp have been arrested in England. The FBI has begun an investigation into whether News Corp staffers hacked or tapped the phones of 911 victims.
There are major questions in England about whether News Corp staffers bribed police and other officials. This is a federal crime-- if a US citizen or his representatives engages in bribery in another country.
That raises some interesting questions based on the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United decision.
If a corporation is rife with corruption. If numerous top officials in the company are suspected of participation in criminal activity, can the company be charged with crimes. If so, can it be tried and convicted. If so, and it is found guilty, can punishments set for individuals be applied to the company?
If the sentence for a human would be death or incarceration, would that mean shutting down or stopping the company from doing any of its usual business for the duration of the sentence? Of course, preventing a company from doing any business would be like a death penalty.
That raises the question of whether it is possible to treat a company like a person in terms of justice. We know that companies can pursue to positive rights of personhood, but if they can not be held accountable when it comes to crimes, perhaps the supreme court should be required to take a look at its past decisions on the rights of corporate personhood. Perhaps it is time that corporations lose those rights... or that the state of personhood for corporations also include the liabilities, particularly those of facing punishment.
If there was ever a criminal corporation, then News Corp appears to be one, and we might throw in Haliburton and KBR and Monsanto as well. It is time for America to re-assess corporate personhood.
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc. He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com
Source: OpEd News


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Every Predator drone in use in Afghanistan cost taxpayers $4.5 million. And a third of them crash.


AGM-114 Hellfire missile hung on the rail of an US Air Force (USAF) MQ-1L Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) 

Dec. 1, 2010 - An AGM-114 Hellfire missile hung on the rail of an US Air Force (USAF) MQ-1L Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is inscribed with, "In Memory of Honorable Ronald Reagan." Every single Hellfire missile fired in Afghanistan costs $58,000.00. U.S. and allied forces are dropping huge numbers of these bombs in Afghanistan this year: So far this year, coalition aircraft have used 4,615 bombs and Hellfire missiles, already exceeding the 4,184 dropped in all of last year.

By James Petras. Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Sunday, Jul 10, 2011

The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated “50 -75 ‘Al Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5). During the past 30 months of the Obama presidency, Washington has spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan, which adds up to $4 billion dollars for each alleged ‘Al Queda type’. If we multiply this by the two dozen or so sites and countries where the White House claims ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorists have been spotted, we begin to understand why the US budget deficit has grown astronomically to over $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year.
During Obama’s Presidency, Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment has been frozen, resulting in a net decrease of over 8 percent, which is exactly the amount spent chasing just 5 dozen ‘Al Qaeda terrorists’ in the mountains bordering Pakistan.
It is absurd to believe that the Pentagon and White House would spend $10 billion a month just to hunt down a handful of terrorists ensconced in the mountains of Afghanistan. So what is the war in Afghanistan about? The answer one most frequently reads and hears is that the war is really against the Taliban, a mass-based Islamic nationalist guerrilla movement with tens of thousands of activists.
The Taliban, however, have never engaged in any terrorist act against the territorial United States or its overseas presence. The Taliban have always maintained their fight was for the expulsion of foreign forces occupying Afghanistan. Hence the Taliban is not part of any “international terrorist network”. If the US war in Afghanistan is not about defeating terrorism, then why the massive expenditure of funds and manpower for over a decade?
Several hypotheses come to mind
The first is the geopolitics of Afghanistan: The US is actively establishing forward military bases, surrounding and bordering on China.
Secondly, US bases in Afghanistan serve as launching pads to foment “dissident separatist” armed ethnic conflicts and apply the tactics of ‘divide and conquer’ against Iran, China, Russia and Central Asian republics.
Thirdly, Washington’s launch of the Afghan war (2001) and the easy initial conquest encouraged the Pentagon to believe that a low cost, easy military victory was at hand, one that could enhance the image of the US as an invincible power, capable of imposing its rule anywhere in the world, unlike the disastrous experience of the USSR.
Fourthly, the early success of the Afghan war was seen as a prelude to the launching of a sequence of successful wars, first against Iraq and to be followed by Iran, Syria and beyond. These would serve the triple purpose of enhancing Israeli regional power, controlling strategic oil resources and enlarging the arc of US military bases from South and Central Asia, through the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
The strategic policies, formulated by the militarists and Zionists in the Bush and Obama Administrations, assumed that guns, money, force and bribes could build stable satellite states firmly within the orbit of the post-Soviet US empire. Afghanistan was seen as an easy first conquest the initial step to sequential wars. Each victory, it was assumed would undermine domestic and allied (European) opposition. The initial costs of imperial war, the Neo-Cons claimed, would be paid for by wealth extracted from the conquered countries, especially from the oil producing regions.
The rapid US defeat of the Taliban government confirmed the belief of the military strategists that “backward”, lightly armed Islamic peoples were no match up for the US powerhouse and its astute leaders.
Wrong Assumptions, Mistaken Strategies: The Trillion Dollar Disaster

Every assumption, formulated by these civilian strategists and their military counterparts, has been proven wrong. Al Qaeda was and is a marginal adversary; the real force capable of sustaining a prolonged peoples wars against an imperial occupier, inflicting heavy casualties, undermining any local puppet regime and accumulating mass support is the Taliban and related nationalist resistance movements. Israeli-influenced US think-tanks, experts and advisers who portrayed the Islamic adversaries as inept, ineffective and cowardly, totally misread the Afghan resistance. Blinded by ideological antipathy, these high-ranking advisers and White House/Pentagon civilian-office holders failed to recognize the tactical and strategic, political and military acumen of the top and middle-level Islamist nationalist leaders and their tremendous reserve of mass support in neighboring Pakistan and beyond.

The Obama White House, heavily dependent on Islamophobic pro-Israel experts, further isolated the US troops and alienated the Afghan population by tripling the number of troops, further establishing the credentials of the Taliban as the authentic alternative to a foreign occupation.
As for the neo-conservative pipe dreams of successful sequential wars, cooked up by the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Libby et al, to eliminate Israel’s adversaries and turn the Persian Gulf into a Hebrew lake, the prolonged wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan has, in fact, strengthened Iran’s regional influence, turned the entire Pakistani people against the US and strengthened mass movements against US clients throughout the Middle East.
Sequential imperial defeats have resulted in a massive hemorrhage of the US treasury, rather than the promised flood of oil wealth from tributary clients. According to a recent scholarly study, the military cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have exceeded $3.2 trillion dollars (“The Costs of War Since 2001”, Eisenhower Study Group, June 2011) and is growing at over ten billion a month. Meanwhile the Taliban “tightens (its) psychological grip” on Afghanistan (FT 6/30/2011, p. 8). According to the latest reports even the most guarded 5-star hotel in the center of Kabul, the Intercontinental, was vulnerable to a sustained assault and take over by militants, because “high security Afghan forces” are infiltrated and the Taliban operate everywhere, having established “shadow” governments in most cities, towns and villages (FT 6/30/11 p.8).
Imperial Decline, Empty Treasury and the Specter of a Smash-Up
The crumbling empire has depleted the US treasury. As the Congress and White House fight over raising the debt ceiling, the cost of war aggressively erodes any possibility of maintaining stable living standards for the American middle and working classes and heightens growing inequalities between the top 1% and the rest of the American people. Imperial wars are based on the pillage of the US treasury. The imperial state has, via extraordinary tax exemptions, concentrated wealth in the hands of the super-rich while the middle and working classes have been pushed downward, as only low paid jobs are available. In 1974, the top 1% of US individuals accounted for 8% of total national income but as of 2008 they earned 18% of national income. And most of this 18% is concentrated in the hands of a tiny super-rich 1% of that 1%, or 0.01% of the American population, (FT 6/28/11, p. 4 and 6/30/11, p. 6). While the super-rich plunder the treasury and intensify the exploitation of labor, the number of middle income jobs is plunging: From 1993 to 2006, over 7% of middle income jobs disappeared (FT 6/30/11, p. 4).
While inequalities may be rising throughout the world, the US now has the greatest inequalities among all the leading capitalist countries. The burden of sustaining a declining empire, with its the monstrous growth in military spending, has fallen disproportionately on middle and working class taxpayers and wage earners. The military and financial elites’ pillage of the economy and treasury has set in motion a steep decline in living standards, income and job opportunities. Between 1970 -2009, while gross domestic product more than doubled, US median pay stagnated in real terms (FT7/28/11, p. 4). If we factor in the added fixed costs of pensions, health and education, real income for wage and salaried workers, especially since the 1990’s, has been declining sharply.
Even greater blows are to come in the second half 2011: As the Obama White House expands its imperial interventions in Pakistan, Libya and Yemen, increasing military and police-state spending, Obama is set to reach budgetary agreements with the far right Republicans, which will savage government health care programs, like MEDICARE and MEDICAID, as well as Social Security, the national retirement program. Prolonged wars have pushed the budget to the breaking point, while the deficit undermines any capacity to revive the economy as it heads toward a ‘repeat recession’.
The entire political establishment is bizarrely oblivious to the fact that their multi-hundred- billion-dollar pursuit of an estimated 50-75 phantom Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan has hastened the disappearance of middle income jobs in the US.
The entire political spectrum has turned decisively to the Right and the Far-Right. The debate between Democrats and Republicans is over whether to slash four trillion or more from the last remnants of our country’s social programs.
The Democrats and the Far-Right are united as they pursue multiple wars while currying favor and funds from upper 0.01% super-rich, financial and real estate moguls whose wealth has grown so dramatically during the crisis!
Conclusion
But there is a deep and quiet discomfort within the leading circles of the Obama regime: The “best and brightest” among his top officials are scampering to jump ship before the coming deluge: the Economic Guru Larry Summers, Rahm Emmanuel, Stuart Levey, Peter Orzag, Bob Gates, Tim Geithner and others, responsible for the disastrous wars, economic catastrophes, the gross concentration of wealth and the savaging of our living standards, have walked out or have announced their ‘retirement’, leaving it to the smiling con-men - President Obama and Vice-President ‘Joe’ Biden - and their ‘last and clueless loyalists’ to take the blame when the economy tanks and our social programs are wiped out. How else can we explain their less-than-courageous departures (to ‘spend more time with the family’) in the face of such a deepening crisis? The hasty retreat of these top officials is motivated by their desire to avoid political responsibility and to escape history’s indictment for their role in the impending economic debacle. They are eager to hide from a future judgment over which policy makers and leaders and what policies led to the destruction of the American middle and working classes with their good jobs, stable pensions, Social Security, decent health care and respected place in the world.
James Petras' New Book:
FROM THE PREFACE: The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide.
Clarity Press 05.03.2011
As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a blood bath.

While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN’s new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention. Already NATO intervention has exceeded the UN mandate by bombing the Libyan capital and inflicting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, western governments openly pursue regime change in Libya while seeking to forestall it elsewhere.

These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic revolution and the imperial backed satraps; between Libyans fighting for their independence and the Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the country on behalf of their inept local clients.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO ORDER

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

Washington Faces the Arab Revolts: 
Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State

Egypt’s Social Movements, The CIA and Mossad

Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations

The Euro-US War on Libya

Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics

Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘Rebel Uprising’

Contextualizing the ‘Arab Spring’:
Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power

APPENDIX:
Indicators of Social Well Being in Pre-invasion Libya

AUTHOR

James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Life Time Career Award, Marxist Section, of the American Sociology Association, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968.

Some recent titles include Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000), Unmasking Globalisation (2001), System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-authorEmpire With Imperialism (2005), co-author) Multinationals on Trial (2006). His most recent titles are The Power of Israel in the United States and Rulers and Ruled in the United States, (acquired for Japanese, German, Italian, Indonesian, Czech and Arabic editions), Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, Global Depression & Regional Wars, and War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, La Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.




The UN Is Aiding a Corporate Takeover of Drinking Water
By Scott Thill
AlterNet

Monday, Jul 4, 2011

Early last month, pharmaceutical titan Merck became the latest multinational to pledge allegiance to the CEO Water Mandate, the United Nations' public-private initiative "designed to assist companies in the development, implementation and disclosure of water sustainability policies and practices."

But there's darker data beneath that sunny marketing: The CEO Water Mandate has been heavily hammered by the Sierra Club, the Polaris Institute and more for exerting undemocratic corporate control over water resources (PDF) under the banner of the United Nations. It even won a Public Eye Award for flagrant greenwashing from the Swiss non-governmental organization Berne Declaration. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

"There is no admission of problems with the Water Mandate, or the United Nations Global Compact itself" -- the strategic policy initiative committed to human rights, labor and the environment -- Blue Gold and Blue Covenant author and activist Maude Barlow, who also chairs the National Council of Canadians and Food & Water Watch, explained to AlterNet. "These initiatives continue to flourish, not least because the most powerful member states of the United Nations are fully behind them. This also means that the United Nations is not funded fully. Programs and agencies often rely on private sponsorship to function, and are often barely getting their core administrative budgets funded."

Another major problem is that routinely compromised and controversial institutions like World Bank, International Monetary Fund and regional development banks in general are in control of the United Nations' biggest projects. In April, the World Bank assumed control of the United Nations Climate Conference's new $100 billion Green Fund, which is the opposite of a comforting proposition, considering the World Bank's repeatedly noxious financing of oil and coal projects.

"That gives control of billions of dollars to those who have been the most ardent promoters of water privatization," added Barlow, whose foreword for the Council of Canadians' recently damning report on private sector influence over the United Nations (PDF) argued that the planet is on the verge of a water crisis of terrifying proportions. "We're also seeing the IMF forcing indebted nations to sell off public assets, including water systems, as a condition of receiving financial support. The whole system is rigged for these corporations, and they still are losing contracts, not meeting their obligations and watching as remunicipalization moves forward in France and other core markets."

That kind of illogical corporate performance would logically lead to less control, not more. But the United Nations continues to hand over the reins to multinationals like its new cosigner Merck, which has repeatedly settled in court over everything from carcinogenic pollution to deceptive marketing. Despite the fact that the United Nations' own Joint Inspection Unit stated in a 2010 report (PDF) that the Global Compact's corporate partnerships were an unregulated mess.

"The lack of a clear and articulated mandate has resulted in blurred focus and impact," the report stated. "The absence of adequate entry criteria and an effective monitoring system to measure actual implementation of the principles by participants has drawn some criticism and reputational risk for the Organization, and the Office’s special set up has countered existing rules and procedures. Ten years after its creation, despite the intense activity carried out by the Office and the increasing resources received, results are mixed and risks unmitigated."

The report suggested that not only was a clearer mandate from Member States required to "rethink and refocus" the Compact's corporate partnerships, but that the United Nations' General Assembly must better direct the Secretary-General to delineate the Compact's overall functions "in order to prevent a situation whereby any external group or actor(s) may divert attention from the strategic goals agreed to promote interests which may damage the reputation of the United Nations." The short version? It's not working, and won't work in its current form for the foreseeable future.

But the United Nations' own advice to itself has evidently fallen mostly on deaf ears.

"Unfortunately, the United Nations appears to be embracing more and more partnerships with the corporate sector across the board," Corporate Accountability International campaign director Gigi Kellett told AlterNet. "Civil society has been raising concerns about this flawed approach for over 10 years. There are strong voices within the United Nations, including some Member states, who are questioning the partnership paradigm adopted by the UN and calling for more transparency and accountability."

But they are voices in the wilderness without the concerted support of a motivated public, as well as the usual civil society champions who make stopping this strain of corporate abuse their life's work. Power truly respects only one thing, and that is equally exercised power. And the public is fully empowered to make all the change it wants, provided it can unplug itself from distracting sex scandals and mainstream media marketing primarily designed to nurture its collective complacency.

"Corporations rely on people's tacit support and willingness to look the other way when they engage in conduct that harms people or the environment and undermines democratic governance and decision-making," Kellett said. "When people come together in coordinated fashion and withhold their support from a corporation, that relationship is turned on its head. Boycotts are one powerful way that individuals can withhold their support, but there are range of other strategies. When activists come together and raise questions about a corporation's actions and tie them to its brand and image, the resulting media exposure can greatly impact how the corporation is perceived by consumers, investors or even government regulators."

But how do you boycott a multinational that controls your water supply? Can you shame a mammoth corporation into abdicating control over a lucrative commodity that should instead be regarded as a universal human right? Talk about your Sisyphean tasks.

"Boycotts are much more difficult with water than a product like Coke," said Barlow. "There are no substitutes for water, and when these corporations are given monopoly power over water systems, boycotts are very unrealistic. Suez, Veolia and others are very concerned about their corporate image, but there is no effective means to hurt them financially except to end or block the contracts before they are signed. Boycotts have been very effective as public awareness campaigns, but citizens need to apply pressure on their governments as the first step in stopping the proliferation of voluntary initiatives."

Demanding regulation of the private sector's products -- from water and natural resource commodification to inscrutable financial instruments and beyond -- as well as the public's political electives appears to be the paramount first principle. Because the problem is getting worse and going nowhere, especially now that our dystopian climate crisis has permanently disrupted business, and existence, as usual. From escalating warming and extreme weather to destabilized nations and environments, Earth is already precariously balanced on the tipping point. And giving profit-minded corporations voluntary control over their power and procedures is a 20th century anachronism best left behind.

"We have not proven to have what it takes to deal with the climate crisis," argued Barlow, "and this is because it is all seen as a giant political and financial game, rather than the best and only chance to head off a catastrophe like we have never before imagined. Climate change is upon us, but we will never admit it fully, nor invest in stopping it, if our governments continue to represent corporate interests above others. It is up to us to challenge our states, and make sure they know we are engaged and aware."

Scott Thill runs the online mag Morphizm.com. His writing has appeared on Salon, XLR8R, All Music Guide, Wired and others.

Someone's coming to get me': Terrified phone-hacking whistleblower
feared for his life before he was found dead

Sean Hoare found dead at his flat in Watford, Herts
Ex NotW reporter's claims last autumn reignited scandal
Mr Hoare claimed Coulson's denials of phone hacking were 'a lie'
Police probing former showbiz reporter's 'suicide'
Friends suggest he may have died of natural causes
Post mortem being carried out this morning

By Sam Greenhill, Tom Kelly and James Chapman

Last updated at 12:54 PM on 19th July 2011

Mr Hoare in the sitting room of his home. A friend and neighbour
claimed Mr Hoare had become increasingly reclusive and paranoid in
recent weeks

Evidence: The death of Mr Hoare is currently being treated as
unexplained, said authorities

Guarded: Two police officers stand outside Mr Hoare's flat


"Last year Mr Hoare (right) claimed that Andy Coulson was aware of
phone hacking while he was editor at the News of the World.

He gave an interview to the New York Times, and then to the BBC, about
the use of phone hacking at the newspaper.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme, he said phone hacking was
'endemic' in the newspaper industry.

Mr Hoare, who worked on the Sun before being recruited by Mr Coulson
to work on the NOTW, said: 'He was well aware that the practice
exists. To deny it is a lie, simply a lie.'

Mr Coulson denies the allegations.

Later, Mr Hoare was interviewed by police over the allegations he had
made but would offer no comment, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir
Starmer said in December."


Tragic: Police are investigating the death of Mr Hoare after his body
was found at his Hertfordshire home

Investigation: Forensic officers and a policeman at the flat of Mr Hoare

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Allegations: Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was aware
phone hacking took place at the paper, Mr Hoare claimed last year

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The man who launched the entire phone hacking scandal had become a
paranoid recluse who believed someone was out to get him, a friend has
revealed.

Sean Hoare, who was found dead at his flat in Watford, Hertfordshire,
yesterday, had spent much of the last weeks of his life 'hiding' in
his flat with the curtains drawn.

Last night a friend and neighbour claimed Mr Hoare, 47, had become
increasingly reclusive and paranoid in recent weeks.

‘He would talk about someone from the Government coming to get him,' he said.

'He’d say to me, “If anyone comes by, don’t say I’m in”.

'He was physically going downhill. He was yellow in colour and wasn’t
looking well for the last month.

‘He had a constant struggle with alcohol and talked to me about how
much he had put his wife through.

‘He did say something about phone hacking and I think that was his
main worry. He had definite concerns with the media. He did mention he
was paranoid and would mention conspiracy stuff.’

Former News of the World journalist Mr Hoare had accused former Tory
media chief Andy Coulson of lying about his role in the affair.

He said that when editor of the paper, Mr Coulson actively encouraged
his staff to intercept the calls of celebrities.

It was his explosive claims last autumn that reignited the scandal and
ultimately led to the tumultuous events of the past fortnight which
have shaken the political, police and media establishments.

Police were investigating the possibility that he had killed himself,
saying his death was ‘not thought to be suspicious’.

His death came on a day when:

The Metropolitan Police was left in turmoil as counter-terrorism
officer John Yates was forced to follow Commissioner Sir Paul
Stephenson and resign;
Mr Yates faced investigation over claims that he secured a
Scotland Yard job for the daughter of hacking suspect Neil Wallis;
David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and said he will fly back
to Britain today after agreeing to delay Parliament’s summer break to
discuss the affair;
London Mayor Boris Johnson infuriated Number Ten by refusing to
say whether the PM should quit over his hiring of Mr Coulson;
Police recovered a bag containing a computer, phone and paperwork
found in a bin near Rebekah Brooks’s London home.
The body of Mr Hoare, 47, was discovered by police yesterday morning
at his modern first-floor flat in Watford.

The former reporter blew the whistle during an investigation by the
New York Times last September, pointing the finger directly at Mr
Coulson, by then the Prime Minister’s communications chief.

Until Mr Hoare spoke out in September, pressure had eased on Mr
Coulson, recruited by David Cameron as his media chief in 2007 after
resigning as editor of the News of the World when royal reporter Clive
Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed.

Last week, Mr Hoare was back in the spotlight with further claims,
telling the New York Times that reporters at the News of the World
were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile
phone signals in exchange for payments to police officers.

Mr Coulson, who quit Downing Street in January and was arrested over
hacking earlier this month, has strenuously denied Mr Hoare’s
allegations.
He issued a statement last year that he had ‘never condoned the use of
phone hacking and nor do I have any recollection of incidences where
phone hacking took place’.

But Mr Hoare told Radio 4’s PM programme that phone hacking was
‘endemic’ at the newspaper and said of his former boss: ‘He was well
aware that the practice exists. To deny it is a lie, simply a lie.’

Mr Hoare’s death remained unexplained last night.

Police could not rule out suicide but friends suggested natural causes
was also a possibility as he had been suffering from ill health.

A post-mortem examination was taking place this morning as police
continued to investigate the death.

A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman added: 'The man's next of kin have
been informed and the family are being supported by police at this sad
time.'

Officers have yet to confirm arrangements for an inquest to be opened.

His solicitor David Sonn said: ‘I last spoke to him a week ago and he
seemed fine. I am shocked and saddened. It is a terrible tragedy.’

He added: ‘In giving his statement to the New York Times, he was
arguably the catalyst for everything that has happened since.’  When
Mr Coulson was made editor of the News of the World in 2003, he
recruited Mr Hoare as a showbusiness reporter.
They had previously both worked on The Sun’s showbusiness column Bizarre.

One former colleague said: ‘At The Sun, they were absolutely the best
of buddies. They used to go out to Covent Garden and socialise all
night together. Andy would cover for Sean, or vice versa, if one of
them was too hung over for work.

‘I last saw Sean at a do not all that long after he left the News of
the World. He was looking very scrubbed and sober and I asked what he
planned to do, and he said he wanted to get back into journalism but
added, “Journalism has turned its back on me”.’

Mr Hoare was sacked from the News of the World over drink and drug
problems in 2005, and last year sources at the paper said that his
claims should be treated with ‘extreme scepticism’.

But a friend who saw him more recently described him as ‘sober’ and
wanting to rebuild his career.

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Glenn Beck announced Monday that his "Restoring Courage" rally will
have to move locations because he fears than an assassination attempt
may take place if he hold the rally at the Temple Mount, as he
originally intended.

The Temple Mount is one of the holiest and most heavily contested
religious sites in the world. Beck said on his Monday show that his
security team informed him that holding a polarizing rally at the site
might not be the best idea. He said that, because of some of the
as-yet-to-be-announced guests who are planning to attend the rally,
"some of the security services were getting a little nervous."

Beck brought up the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, and said that he did not want to risk having anyone
killed at his rally.

"Courage must be coupled with wisdom, and the last thing we want to
happen is for anyone to be injured in any way, or there to be any kind
of conflict," he said.

The rally is taking place August 24th in Jerusalem.

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Mass psychosis in the US
How Big Pharma got Americans 
hooked on anti-psychotic drugs.

James Ridgeway Last Modified: 12 Jul 2011 06:20

Drug companies like Pfizer are accused of pressuring doctors into
over-prescribing medications to patients in order to increase profits

"The use of psychoactive drugs - including both antidepressants and
antipsychotics - has exploded...[yet] 'the tally of those who are
disabled...increased nearly two and a half times."

Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine

Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think
so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In
2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single
top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United
States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid
reflux.

Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small
number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily
schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as
delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder. Today, it
seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their
unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while
old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once
reserved largely for schizophrenics. Americans with symptoms ranging
from chronic depression to anxiety to insomnia are now being
prescribed anti-psychotics at rates that seem to indicate a national
mass psychosis.

It is anything but a coincidence that the explosion in antipsychotic
use coincides with the pharmaceutical industry's development of a new
class of medications known as "atypical antipsychotics." Beginning
with Zyprexa, Risperdal, and Seroquel in the 1990s, followed by
Abilify in the early 2000s, these drugs were touted as being more
effective than older antipsychotics like Haldol and Thorazine. More
importantly, they lacked the most noxious side effects of the older
drugs - in particular, the tremors and other motor control problems.

The atypical anti-psychotics were the bright new stars in the
pharmaceutical industry's roster of psychotropic drugs - costly,
patented medications that made people feel and behave better without
any shaking or drooling. Sales grew steadily, until by 2009 Seroquel
and Abilify numbered fifth and sixth in annual drug sales, and
prescriptions written for the top three atypical antipsychotics
totaled more than 20 million.  Suddenly, antipsychotics weren't just
for psychotics any more.

Not just for psychotics anymore

By now,


Who or what organisation and/or group was behind the murder and coverup of the murder of whistleblower on illegal phone hacking by police and other people working for the London Met Police and other reporters in the News Media, illegal blinging by members of the London Met Police and police bribery Sean Hoare who was about to tell his full story through providing

 evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 


the-murdoch-empire-the-short-answer-is-no-2317226.htm

Martin Hickman: Was Sean Hoare killed by the Murdoch empire?

 The short answer is no

The who organised the murder and cover up of the murder of Sean Hoare?
Who had most to lose if Sean Hoare had lived to tell his story in a court of law, judicial inquiry and/or in front of the parliamentary select committee on the 19th July 2011?
Answer: The London Metropolitan Police

Who has the best ability to cover up the murder of Sean Hoare?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

Who has the best ability and resources and has access to MI5 and MI6resources as well to use to murder Sean Hoare?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

Who is in charge of the investigation of the murder of Sean Hoare?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

Who is mostly to blame in the Murdoch-News of the world phone hacking, blinging, police bribery etc scandal?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

How many London Met Police Officers have been charged for bribery and the illegal use of police information and resources?

Answer: None

Who do the London Met Police think that  the public going to point the finger at for the murder of Sean Hoare?

Answer? The Murdoch Gang

What were the new serious statements that Sean Hoare were making to New York Times Reporters in recent days that would want some one or some group to murder Sean Hoaare in a rather hurry before he was called to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 that would have blow the lid of this affair right open?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police involvement with the news staff at the News of the World in using police sources and technology to find where someone was buy using police computers and other police technology to locate a person's whereabouts by through their mobile phone for a fee of £300 a time. Sean Hoare was starting to make statements to international reporters about the endemic practice and involvement of the London Met Police in this practice known as blinging in the news trade. Yes the London Met Police had to immediately silence Sean Hoare and make sure he could not attend the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 to give evidence for the whole world to see on line about his knowledge of this practice of blinging that members of the London Metropolitan Police had been doing for years for a fee of £300 a time. There is no doubt that the most senior members of the London Metropolitan Police including the one that has just resigned Sir Paul Stephenson, simply had to call in a favour of MI5 and M16 to have Sean Hoare quietly murdered using a new drug they have that can cause a heart attack and can not be detected after death in the body and can be placed in a glass of water without the person drinking it being able to detect that it has been put into the water as it has no taste and no colour. This is what was used to murder the famous millionaire businessman Laurie Connel on Western  Australia when he threatened to expose many of the most powerful  people in Australian politics and business circles if he went to jail over fraud charges he was defending in court at the time of his death when he collapsed during his trial where he was defending himself because he realised all his lawyers were corrupt and could not be trusted and decided the only way to try and obtain a fair hearing was to represent himself and expose all the powerful people he was the Bag Man for all their millions in cash money transactions for many years in Australia. Those that Laurie Connel could expose, just like the London Metropolitan Police could not allow Sean Hoare to be alive on the morning of the 19th July, 2011 to give evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 , simply could not allow Laurie Connel ( known as the Lender of the Last Resort) to live and tell his story...to the court and expose all those powerful people...






20th July 2011

Sean Hoare looks likely to take his place behind Princess Diana and David Kelly in the roll call of controversial deaths. Within hours of reports of his untimely demise, conspiracy theorists were questioning whether he had been murdered.
"Another murder cover-up?" asked one online. Another wrote: "Nothing that the British police can say will convince me that Sean Hoare's death was natural causes."
The decision of many newspapers, but not The Independent, to splash on the sensational death of the "phone-hacking whistleblower" posed the question in some readers' minds: was this man killed by the Murdoch empire? The answer is – unexcitedly but almost certainly – "no".
True, we do not yet have all the facts, but there are many reasons why Mr Hoare's death presents no more of a conspiracy than the failure of Princess Diana to fasten her seatbelt while being driven through the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris in 1997.
Firstly, Mr Hoare was not in possession of unique information about the wrongdoing at the News of the World, nor was he the only one to point the finger at Andy Coulson, its former editor. During its excellent investigation into the "hack attack" last year, The New York Times spoke to 12 current or former NOTW staff, who said hacking was rife.
Secondly, the new inquiry into phone hacking, Operation Weeting, was always unlikely to base its case on the testimony of one ex-employee. While statements may form part of its case, a much bigger part will rely on emails discovered or forensically recovered from News International's digital archive, electronic payment invoices and phone records.
Even if Weeting were to make personal testimony central, it was unlikely to have been Mr Hoare's, since he had been dismissed from the NOTW for drink and drug problems and could be portrayed as an unreliable witness.
Thirdly, the (unspoken but tangible) suggestion that News International might want to send death squads scuttling round Britain to silence witnesses is absurd, and especially so given the trouble it already faces.
Notwithstanding its dark arts, deceit and links to criminals, NI's new strategy is PR-led; it wants to now co-operate with the police and apologise for the mess.
Fourthly, Mr Hoare's death is not being investigated by the Metropolitan Police but by the Hertfordshire force, whose statement that the death was not thought to be suspicious was probably a disappointment to Hertfordshire's best detectives, who may have been only too keen to get one over on their big city colleagues.
Finally, Mr Hoare was not in good health. He was reported to be looking yellow and his doctor had remarked that he should have been dead.
And this is where Mr Hoare almost certainly was a "victim" of News International. He was told to do whatever it took to get the story; he went on marathon benders and snorted coke with rock stars. He had some great times as a show business journalist. But he decided to tell the truth about the illegal methods used to land stories. In that he was brave, and that is what he should be remembered for, not the manner of his passing.

The decision of many newspapers, but not The Independent, to splash on the sensational death of the "phone-hacking whistleblower" posed the question in some readers' minds: was this man killed by the Murdoch empire? The answer is – unexcitedly but almost certainly – "no".
True, we do not yet have all the facts, but there are many reasons why Mr Hoare's death presents no more of a conspiracy than the failure of Princess Diana to fasten her seatbelt while being driven through the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris in 1997.
Firstly, Mr Hoare was not in possession of unique information about the wrongdoing at the News of the World, nor was he the only one to point the finger at Andy Coulson, its former editor. During its excellent investigation into the "hack attack" last year, The New York Times spoke to 12 current or former NOTW staff, who said hacking was rife.
Secondly, the new inquiry into phone hacking, Operation Weeting, was always unlikely to base its case on the testimony of one ex-employee. While statements may form part of its case, a much bigger part will rely on emails discovered or forensically recovered from News International's digital archive, electronic payment invoices and phone records.
Even if Weeting were to make personal testimony central, it was unlikely to have been Mr Hoare's, since he had been dismissed from the NOTW for drink and drug problems and could be portrayed as an unreliable witness.
Thirdly, the (unspoken but tangible) suggestion that News International might want to send death squads scuttling round Britain to silence witnesses is absurd, and especially so given the trouble it already faces.
Notwithstanding its dark arts, deceit and links to criminals, NI's new strategy is PR-led; it wants to now co-operate with the police and apologise for the mess.
Fourthly, Mr Hoare's death is not being investigated by the Metropolitan Police but by the Hertfordshire force, whose statement that the death was not thought to be suspicious was probably a disappointment to Hertfordshire's best detectives, who may have been only too keen to get one over on their big city colleagues.
Finally, Mr Hoare was not in good health. He was reported to be looking yellow and his doctor had remarked that he should have been dead.
And this is where Mr Hoare almost certainly was a "victim" of News International. He was told to do whatever it took to get the story; he went on marathon benders and snorted coke with rock stars. He had some great times as a show business journalist. But he decided to tell the truth about the illegal methods used to land stories. In that he was brave, and that is what he should be remembered for, not the manner of his passing.


Head of Met press admits they employ 10 ex News of the World journalists

by James Lyons, Daily Mirror 20/07/2011
THE Met Police’s communications boss yesterday admitted 10 out of 45 press office staff used to work at the News of the World.
Dick Fedorcio also told the Select Committee he never asked former NoW deputy editor Neil Wallis about phone hacking before taking him on as a consultant. He instead claimed assistant commissioner John Yates, a friend of Mr Wallis, undertook a process of due ­diligence in vetting him.
But when quizzed by MPs, Mr Yates said this was “over-egging the pudding” and the tendering process was ultimately down to Mr Fedorcio. Asked if he would have appointed Mr Wallis in hindsight, Mr Fedorcio said: “Certainly not”, adding he could not remember who suggested Mr Wallis for the job but denied it was then-News International chief Rebekah Brooks.
Mr Fedorcio also said he was “dismayed” at reports he favoured the NoW when placing stories, even though almost a quarter of his staff were ex-employees. The Met has referred his dealings with Mr Wallis to the ­Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Meanwhile, former Met chief Sir Paul Stephenson yesterday said he resigned to prevent continuing damaging speculation over his role in the scandal in the run-up to the London Olympics.


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Rebekah Brooks faces MPs

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Murdoch: I knew nothing about hacking

News Corp chief gives hesitant performance in front of MPs, but son admits firm contributed to private investigator's legal fees. By John Plunkett

Rupert Murdoch


Brooks: hacking payments not my remit

Rebekah Brooks gives evidence on phone hacking
Former News International chief says News of the World's managing editor approved payments to private detectives. By John Plunkett

NoW whistleblower found dead

Sean Hoare
Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious

News Corp faces bribery investigation

Eric Holder
Pressure mounting in US for a full-scale inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

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All-party home affairs committee report into phone hacking to be published in time for David Cameron's statement





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Tycoon expresses regret for News Corporation's involvement in scandal but insists he was kept in dark
Phone hacking claims



Wendi Deng defends Rupert Murdoch from attacker – video

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News Corp management 'misled by very bad people at a very low level'

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How the US papers are previewing today's Commons appearance by the Murdochs. By Roy Greenslade

Select committee report: the verdicts

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The News International team tell Commons committee they were as shocked as everyone by the Milly Dowler revelations

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Rupert Murdoch's shaving-cream assailant first faced a slap, and then had his pie thrown back at him





Met admits only warning 36 people

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How the Guardian broke the story

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News of the World bugging led to £700,000 payout to PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor
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Rebekah should have gone ages ago

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Q&A with Alan Rusbridger

The Guardian's editor debated issues arising from the phone-hacking scandal with readers
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Phone-hacking: Neil Wallis 'advised' Andy Coulson before election

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News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious

Sean Hoare
Hoare first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World. Photograph: Hazel Thompson/Eyevine
Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead .
Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, was said to have been found at his Watford home.
Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but said in a statement: "At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for the welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.
"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."
There was an unexplained delay in the arrival of forensics officers at the scene.
Neighbours said three police cars and two ambulances arrived at the property shortly before 11am. They left around four hours later, around 3pm, shortly after a man and a woman, believed to be grieving relatives, arrived at the premises. There was no police presence at the scene at all for several hours.
The curtains were drawn at the first-floor apartment in a new-build block of flats.
At about 9.15pm, three hours after the Guardian revealed Hoare had been found dead a police van marked "Scientific Services Unit" pulled up at the address, where a police car was already parked. Two officers emerged carrying evidence bags, clipboards, torches and laptop-style bags and entered the building. Three officers carrying cameras and wearing white forensic suits went into the flat at around 9.30pm.
Hoare was in his mid-40s. He first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations  at the News of the World. He told the newspaper that not only did Coulson know of the hacking, but he also actively encouraged his staff to intercept the calls of celebrities in the pursuit of exclusives.
In a subsequent interview with the BBC he alleged he was personally asked by his editor at the time, Coulson, to tap into phones. In an interview with the PM programme he said Coulson's insistence he did not know of the practice was "a lie, it is simply a lie". At the time a Downing Street spokeswoman said Coulson totally and utterly denied the allegations; he had "never condoned the use of phone hacking and nor do I have any recollection of incidences where hacking took place".
Hoare said he was once a close friend of Coulson's, and told the New York Times the two first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played recordings of hacked messages for Coulson. At the News of the World, Hoare said, he continued to inform Coulson of his activities. He "actively encouraged me to do it", Hoare said. In September last year he was interviewed under caution by police over his claim the former Tory communications chief asked him to hack into phones when editor of the paper, but declined to make any comment.
Hoare returned to the spotlight last week, after he told the New York Times that reporters at the NoW were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to use "pinging", which measured the distance between a mobile handset and a number of phone masts to pinpoint its location.
Hoare gave further details about "pinging" to the Guardian last week. He described how reporters would ask a news desk executive to obtain the location of a target: "Within 15 to 30 minutes someone on the news desk would come back and say 'Right, that's where they are.'"
He said: "You'd just go to the news desk and they'd come back to you. You don't ask any questions. You'd consider it a job done.
"The chain of command is one of absolute discipline, and that's why I never bought into it, like with Andy saying he wasn't aware of it and all that. That's bollocks."
He said he stood by everything he told the New York Times of "pinging". "I don't know how often it happened. That would be wrong of me. But if I had access, as a humble reporter … "
He admitted he had had problems with drink and drugs, and had been in rehab. "But that's irrelevant," he said. "There's more to come. This is not going to go away."
Hoare named a private investigator who he said had links with the News of the World, adding: "He may want to talk now, because I think what you'll find now is a lot of people are going to want to cover their arse." Speaking to another Guardian journalist last week, Hoare repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up, and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former NoW colleagues with that aim in mind.
He also said he had been injured the previous weekend while taking down a marquee erected for a children's party. He said he broke his nose and badly injured his foot when a relative accidentally struck him with a pole from the marquee. Hoare also emphasised that he was not making any money from telling his story.
Having been treated for drug and alcohol problems, Hoare reminisced about his partying with former pop stars and said that he missed the days when he was able to go out on the town.
On Monday evening the curtains were drawn at his home, a first-floor apartment in a new-build block of flats.
A neighbour living opposite, Nicky Dormer, said three police cars and two ambulances arrived at the property at 11am; police left at 3pm, shortly after a man and a woman, believed to be grieving relatives, arrived at the premises.
She and another neighbour described Hoare as a jovial man who would often sit on his balcony, overlooking the block entrance, and talk to residents. They said he lived in the block with his partner, a woman called Jo, who they believed had been away on holiday. Neither had seen Hoare for a few days.
Paul Pritchard, 30, another neighbour, said Sean Hoare was "the most sociable" resident, and they would regularly see him watering the communal front lawn.
"It is just such a shock. About a month ago he said he felt unwell and he said he went to the doctors for a checkup. Then I saw him again and he seemed well."
Sean Hoare
Detectives seek to discover preliminary cause of death of former News of the World journalist who spoke out about Andy Coulson. By Paul Lewis

Sean Hoare
Detectives seek to discover preliminary cause of death of former News of the World journalist who spoke out about Andy Coulson. By Paul Lewis


Sean Hoare death: postmortem being held on hacking whistleblower

Detectives seek to discover preliminary cause of death of former News of the World journalist who spoke out about Andy Coulson
Home of Sean Hoare, former reporter for the News of the World,
The Watford home of Sean Hoare, the former reporter for the News of the World who has been found dead. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features

A postmortem on the body of Sean Hoare, the News of the Worldwhistleblower found dead on Monday, is expected to provide a preliminary cause of death.
Police are treating the death of Hoare, 47, as "unexplained but not thought to be suspicious". Hoare was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, was aware of phone hacking by his staff.
Hoare worked for the Sun and NoW with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, and had spoken openly to a number of news organisations about the practice of phone hacking.
Detectives from Hertfordshire police's major crimes unit are running the investigation because of the high profile of Hoare's death.
They are understood to be awaiting the outcome of the postmortem, due to begin at 2pm on Tuesday, while seeking to establish the last time he was seen alive.
The force said in a statement: "Police investigations continue into the unexplained death of a man who, whilst formal identification is yet to take place, police believe to be Sean Hoare. The postmortem is set to take place today [Tuesday]. The man's next of kin have been informed and the family are being supported by police at this sad time."
The former tabloid journalist is understood to have lived at the first floor flat in Watford with his partner, Jo. Hoare's body was found in the flat at 10.40am on Monday. Neighbours described seeing police and ambulance at the scene until about 3pm.
It was not until after 9pm, two hours after news broke that the phone-hacking whistleblower had been found dead, that more uniformed and plainclothes police arrived at the scene. At about 9.15pm, a police van marked Scientific Services Unit pulled up at the address, where a police car was already parked.
Two officers emerged carrying evidence bags, clipboards, torches and laptop-style bags and entered the building. Three officers carrying cameras and in white forensic suits followed at 9.30pm.
Police sources said that it was "not unusual" for a forensics team to investigate the scene of an unexplained death. The former showbusiness reporter struggled with drug and alcohol problems, and is known to have been unwell in recent weeks.
Hoare returned to the spotlight last Tuesday, after he told the New York Times that reporters at the NoW were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to purchase the mobile phone tracking data from police for just £300.
That evening he had dinner with two New York Times journalist involved in the story, Don Van Natta Jr and Jo Becker. Van Natta Jr tweeted on Monday night: "RIP Sean Hoare. Jo Becker and I had dinner with him last Tues night. He was ailing but defiant and funny. And no regrets. All-courage."
Hoare gave further details about so-called "pinging" to Guardian journalists on Tuesday and Wednesday. He described how reporters would ask a newsdesk executive to obtain the location of a target. He said: "Within 15 to 30 minutes someone on the newsdesk would come back and say 'Right, that's where they are.' "
He added: "You'd just go to the newsdesk and they'd come back to you. You don't ask any questions. You'd consider it a job done."
Hoare repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up, and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former NoW colleagues with that aim in mind.
Repeated calls to Hoare's home telephone number on Thursday and Friday went unanswered.
Sean Hoare
Colleagues pay tribute after death of former News of the World entertainment correspondent who spoke out on phone hacking. By Hannah Godfrey


Sean Hoare: journalists remember 'old fashioned Fleet Street character'

Colleagues pay tribute after death of former News of the World entertainment correspondent who spoke out on phone hacking
Sean Hoare
Sean Hoare, a tabloid reporter who worked at the Sun and the People as well as the News of the World, in his sitting room at home. Photograph: Hazel Thompson /eyevine
Former colleagues have been paying tribute to Sean Hoare, the formerNews of the World entertainment correspondent who was found dead at his Watford home on Monday.
David Yelland, who edited the Sun from 1998 to 2003, used Twitter to say: "Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God."
Ben Proctor, who worked with Hoare over many years and was most recently deputy editor of the People, recalled him fondly as "an old fashioned Fleet Street character".
"Typically with Sean he managed to became close to Liam Gallagher. Liam even helped Sean's fledgling freelance career when the News of the World cut him adrift, offering to assist him with background info on a book about Oasis," he said.
Proctor told the Guardian that Hoare was "imbued with an incredible earthy charm", as well as being a great reporter.
"Like a cross between Arthur Daley and Del Trotter, you could always rely on Sean to persuade people to part with the facts."
Hoare, said Proctor, was a journalist of traditional vintage: "An old fashioned Fleet Street character, always in the pub but always with a story."
Though the most of the tributes were warm, Proctor portrayed a man with some hard edges:
"When I first met him he offered to break my knee caps over some 'creative differences'. But another time, when word went round I had a problem, he was first to my home to lend support. I always loved him, everybody did."
Others who worked alongside Hoare recounted fond memories from when they were young and green.
They included the Guardian's columnist Marina Hyde, who worked as a secretary at the Sun, and wrote on Twitter: "Utterly tragic news about my friend Sean Hoare, the first journalist to speak to me when I started as a secretary ... He continued to be kind to me until the very end, and he was more special than I can possibly say."
Simon Ricketts, a Guardian journalist, recalled on Twitter that Hoare was "a lovely generous man" who took him under his wing as a work experience reporter on a local paper: "He handed me a story on a plate. I went out to investigate, got all my notes and got back to the office and started to write it."
"I finished and Sean had a look. He got my notebook, extracted the best quotes, the one's I'd left in the notebook. He tickled, edited and expanded my story.
"By the time he'd finished, it was 100 times better. It got put on the front page of the paper. Sean insisted that my name go on the story. When the paper came out, he walked over with a copy. He gave me it with a flourish. "Congratulations on your first-ever splash," he said."
Ricketts concludes, "I shall raise a glass or 12 tonight to him."

PA journalist arrested over phone hacking faces no further action

Laura Elston, a royal reporter for the Press Association, dropped from inquiry after police speak to Clarence House
Paddy Harverson
According to reports, Laura Elston was arrested on suspicion of hacking the voicemails of Paddy Harverson, pictured, Prince Charles's spokesman. Clarence House reportedly told police she was innocent. Photograph: John Peters/PA

A journalist arrested by police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World faces no further action, her lawyer said on Monday.
Laura Elston, 34, who works for the Press Association news agency, was held for several hours on 27 June when she voluntarily went to a central London police station.
Her solicitor, David Corker, said he had been told she faced no further action: "She has been dropped from the inquiry."
Scotland Yard confirmed a 34-year-old arrested in June had had her bail cancelled and been told she faced no further action.
Elston had been questioned on suspicion of intercepting communications, contrary to section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and was the only journalist arrested so far with no known News International links.
Elston works as a royal correspondent and was originally released on police bail until October. She joined the organisation as a graduate trainee in 2000.
PA editor Jonathan Grun said: "Laura Elston is a journalist of integrity who has had a distinguished career since joining us as a trainee more than a decade ago. We are pleased that this matter has been cleared up."
She was interviewed by detectives on Operation Weeting, the investigation launched by the Metropolitan police in January following new allegations of phone hacking.
According to the Sunday Mirror, Elston was arrested on suspicion of hacking the voicemails of Prince Charles's spokesman Paddy Harverson.
The allegation related to Elston's phone being used to call Harverson when they were both in Lesotho in 2006.
The paper said it understood Harverson told police he borrowed her phone to access voicemails because his own mobile was not working.
Clarence House was reportedly satisfied Elston did nothing criminal and told detectives she was innocent.
Clarence House, the official residence of the Prince of Wales, declined to comment on the claim on Monday.

Paul Dacre accused Rebekah Brooks of trying to 'tear down' British press

Former Sun editor launched strategy designed to spread the blame for hacking to other papers, according to reports
Paul Dacre
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre said he received reports that News International executives had encouraged celebrities to investigate whether their phones had been hacked by Mail newspapers. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, told senior managers he had received reports from PR agencies, footballers and others that News International executives had encouraged them to investigate whether their phones had been hacked by Mail group newspapers, according to the New York Times.
Based on interviews said to have been carried out with former News International staff, the New York Times also claimed Rebekah Brooks had spearheaded a strategy in recent months that appeared designed to spread the blame for hacking across Fleet Street. Several former NoW journalists claimed she asked them to dig up evidence of hacking by others, while one said Brooks's target was not her own newspapers, but those of her rivals.
In an account relayed to his management team, Dacre confronted Brooks at a hotel, telling her: "You are trying to tear down the entire industry."
Lady Claudia Rothermere, wife of the owner of the Mail, was also said to have overheard Brooks say at a dinner party that the Mail was just as culpable as the NoW.
"We didn't break the law," Lady Rothermere said, according to two sources who spoke to the New York Times. Brooks was said to have asked who Rothermere thought she was – "Mother Teresa?"
By the middle of last year, News International's lawyers and some executives were also said to have been urging that the company accept some responsibility – but Brooks disagreed. "Her behaviour all along has been resist, resist, resist," one company official was reported to have said. The US newspaper reported that Rupert Murdoch wanted to "fly commercial to London," so that he might be seen as a man of the people as he prepared to leave a conference in Idaho and come to the UK to take charge of the crisis enveloping his media empire.
He was said to have been told that would hardly do the trick, and Murdoch instead arrived in the UK on a Gulfstream G550 private jet.
Former company executives and political aides also told the New York Times that News International executives engaged in a campaign of selective leaks implicating previous management and the police.

Daily Mail would not use phone hacking or 'blagging', says Paul Dacre

Editor-in-chief tells MPs that PCC needs radical reform and defamation law is having 'chilling effect' on UK's newspapers
Paul Dacre
Paul Dacre said the Daily Mail would never 'countenance' using phone hacking or 'blagging'. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Wire/PA Photos

The Daily Mail has never knowingly published a story based on information gleaned from phone hacking or "blagging", the paper's editor, Paul Dacre, told MPs on Monday.
Dacre, the editor-in-chief of Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, told a joint parliamentary select committee on defamation law reform that he had "absolutely not" published a story he knew was based on unlawfully-accessed material.
Asked by Baroness Hayter whether he had ever "countenanced" phone hacking or blagging – a phrase used to cover a range of techniques used to get hold of private information – in his 19 years at the Mail, Dacre said: "No."
Asked whether unlawful newsgathering techniques could ever be justified, he said: "Goodness me, deep waters. I have considerable sympathy that if there's a great public interest then those methods can be justified."
However, he added later: "I don't think you should ever use hacking or blagging as a [public interest] defence because they're criminal offences."
Dacre made the rare public appearance to give evidence before a joint Commons and Lords committee on the government's draft defamation bill.
Fleet Street's longest-serving editor and a longtime supporter of the Press Complaints Commission, conceded that the self-regulatory body needed to be "radically reformed". But he conceded that it was the "least imperfect system known to man".
The Daily Mail editor is the chairman of the editors' code of practice committee, which formulates the PCC's guidelines for newspapers and magazines.
Dacre described defamation law in the UK as having a "chilling effect" on newspapers, adding that it had got "exponentially worse" in recent years. "There's not a day goes by when predatory lawyers don't try it on, encouraged by vast sums of money which can be made – most of which goes to them."
He added: "The law is becoming more and more onerous and journalists are having to become more and more respectful so it is having a chilling effect."
In April 2009, Dacre revealed that the Daily Mail had recently sacked a journalist for unauthorised use of a private detective to obtain illegal information about people.
An investigation by the information commissioner in December 2006revealed that more than 50 Daily Mail journalists had paid private detectives to obtain 982 pieces of information about celebrities and other individuals.
Associated Newspaper dismissed the investigation, dubbed Operation Motorman, at the time as "utterly meaningless" as it was a snapshot based on the activities of one private detective agency, run by Steve Whittamore. Whittamore, sold information he obtained from the police national computer until he was exposed and convicted in 2005.
The Daily Mail came out on top of a list of newspapers that had used Whittamore's services. Others included the Mail's Associated Newspapers stablemate the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday People, Daily Mirror, Sunday Times and Observer (which is published by Guardian News & Media).
When the information commissioner's report was published in late 2006 an Associated spokesman said the publisher "in common with all newspapers and broadcasters, and many other organisations, including lawyers, use search agencies to obtain information entirely legitimately from a range of public sources ... In addition, the law specifically makes provision for journalists making inquiries in the public interest".
Dacre told the Commons culture, media and sport select committee in 2009 that following the information commissioner's 2006 report, the Daily Mail had banned reporters from using outside agents to supply personal information following, except in cases of overwhelming public interest.
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Sean Hoare knew how destructive the News of the World could be

The courageous whistleblower who claimed Andy Coulson knew about phone hacking had a powerful motive for speaking out
Nick Davies

Andy Coulson
Sean Hoare worked with Andy Coulson (above) at the Sun and News of the World, but was later fired by him. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

At a time when the reputation of News of the World journalists is at rock bottom, it needs to be said that the paper's former showbusiness correspondent Sean Hoare, who died on Monday, was a lovely man.
In the saga of the phone-hacking scandal, he distinguished himself by being the first former NoW journalist to come out on the record, telling the New York Times last year that his former friend and editor, Andy Coulson, had actively encouraged him to hack into voicemail.
That took courage. But he had a particularly powerful motive for speaking. He knew how destructive the News of the World could be, not just for the targets of its exposés, but also for the ordinary journalists who worked there, who got caught up in its remorseless drive for headlines.
Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: "I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle."
He knew this very well, because he was himself a victim of the News of the World. As a showbusiness reporter, he had lived what he was happy to call a privileged life. But the reality had ruined his physical health: "I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get drunk with them, take pills with them, take cocaine with them. It was so competitive. You are going to go beyond the call of duty. You are going to do things that no sane man would do. You're in a machine."
While it was happening, he loved it. He came from a working-class background of solid Arsenal supporters, always voted Labour, defined himself specifically as a "clause IV" socialist who still believed in public ownership of the means of production. But, working as a reporter, he suddenly found himself up to his elbows in drugs and delirium.
He rapidly arrived at the Sun's Bizarre column, then run by Coulson. He recalled: "There was a system on the Sun. We broke good stories. I had a good relationship with Andy. He would let me do what I wanted as long as I brought in a story. The brief was, 'I don't give a fuck'."
He was a born reporter. He could always find stories. And, unlike some of his nastier tabloid colleagues, he did not play the bully with his sources. He was naturally a warm, kind man, who could light up a lamp-post with his talk. From Bizarre, he moved to the Sunday People, under Neil Wallis, and then to the News of the World, where Andy Coulson had become deputy editor. And, persistently, he did as he was told and went out on the road with rock stars, befriending them, bingeing with them, pausing only to file his copy.
He made no secret of his massive ingestion of drugs. He told me how he used to start the day with "a rock star's breakfast" – a line of cocaine and a Jack Daniels – usually in the company of a journalist who now occupies a senior position at the Sun. He reckoned he was using three grammes of cocaine a day, spending about £1,000 a week. Plus endless alcohol. Looking back, he could see it had done him enormous damage. But at the time, as he recalled, most of his colleagues were doing it, too.
"Everyone got overconfident. We thought we could do coke, go to Brown's, sit in the Red Room with Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence. Everyone got a bit carried away."
It must have scared the rest of Fleet Street when he started talking – he had bought, sold and snorted cocaine with some of the most powerful names in tabloid journalism. One retains a senior position on the Daily Mirror. "I last saw him in Little Havana," he recalled, "at three in the morning, on his hands and knees. He had lost his cocaine wrap. I said to him, 'This is not really the behaviour we expect of a senior journalist from a great Labour paper.' He said, 'Have you got any fucking drugs?'"
And the voicemail hacking was all part of the great game. The idea that it was a secret, or the work of some "rogue reporter", had him rocking in his chair: "Everyone was doing it. Everybody got a bit carried away with this power that they had. No one came close to catching us." He would hack messages and delete them so the competition could not hear them, or hack messages and swap them with mates on other papers.
In the end, his body would not take it any more. He said he started to have fits, that his liver was in such a terrible state that a doctor told him he must be dead. And, as his health collapsed, he was sacked by the News of the World – by his old friend Coulson.
When he spoke out about the voicemail hacking, some Conservative MPs were quick to smear him, spreading tales of his drug use as though that meant he was dishonest. He was genuinely offended by the lies being told by News International and always willing to help me and other reporters who were trying to expose the truth. He was equally offended when Scotland Yard's former assistant commissioner, John Yates, assigned officers to interview him, not as a witness but as a suspect. They told him anything he said could be used against him, and, to his credit, he refused to have anything to do with them.
His health never recovered. He liked to say that he had stopped drinking, but he would treat himself to some red wine. He liked to say he didn't smoke any more, but he would stop for a cigarette on his way home. For better and worse, he was a Fleet Street man.

News Corp board shocked at evidence of payments to police, says former DPP

Lord Macdonald tells committee it took him 'three to five minutes' to decide NoW emails had to be passed to police
Lord Macdonald
Lord Macdonald was in charge of the CPS when the phone-hacking prosecution of the NoW’s royal correspondent took place. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

"Blindingly obvious" evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, when he inspected News of the World emails, the home affairs select committee was told.
Explaining how he had been called in by solicitors acting for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation board, Lord Macdonald said that when he inspected the messages it took him between "three to five minutes" to decide that the material had to be passed to police.
"The material I saw was so blindingly obvious that trying to argue that it should not be given to the police would have been a hard task. It was evidence of serious criminal offences."
He first showed it to the News Corp board in June this year. "There was no dissent," he recalled. "They were stunned. They were shocked. I said it was my unequivocal advice that it should be handed to the police. They accepted that."
That board meeting, the former DPP said, was chaired by Rupert Murdoch.
Lord Macdonald shortly afterwards gave the material to Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick at the Metropolitan police. The nine or 10 emails passed over led to the launch of Operation Elveden, the police investigation into corrupt payments to officers for information.
Lord Macdonald, who had been in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service when the phone-hacking prosecution of the NoW's royal correspondent took place, said he had only been alerted to the case due to the convention that the DPP is always notified of crimes involving the royal family.
Members of the committee were highly critical of the CPS's narrow definition of what constituted phone hacking, claiming that it was at odds with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
Mark Reckless, the Conservative MP for Rochester, said that the original police investigation was hindered by the advice from the CPS that phone hacking was only an offence if messages had been intercepted before they were listened to by the intended recipient. However, Reckless said, a clause in the RIPA makes it an offence to hack in to messages even if they have already been heard.
Keir Starmer, the current DPP, said that the police had been told that "the RIPA legislation was untested". Listening to messages before they had been heard by the intended recipient was illegal, the police were told, but the question of whether intercepting them afterwards constituted a crime was "untested", he said.
Mark Lewis, the solicitor who has followed the scandal since its start, said he was the first person to lose his job over the affair when the firm in which he was a partner said it no longer wished him to pursue other victims' claims.
Lewis also told MPs that he had been threatened by lawyers acting for John Yates, the former assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, because of comments he had made about phone hacking.
"I have copies of a letter from Carter Ruck [solicitors] threatening to sue me on behalf of John Yates," Lewis told the home affairs select committee. He said the Guardian and the Labour MP Chris Bryant had also received threats of being sued. "The costs of the action were paid for by the Metropolitan Police, by the taxpayer," he added.
Lewis said the reason for the investigation taking so long was not due solely to the police. "The DPP seems to have got it wrong and needs to be helped out," he said.


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By Eric Walberg
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Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011

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Ahmad Wali Karzaï killed at his home in Kandahar on July 12 by the Afghan Resistance.








Ahmad Karzai: From dishwasher to drug kingpin

By Eric Walberg
Axis of Logic
Tuesday, Jul 12, 2011
Editor's Note: Compare this report by Eric Walberg with the Reuter's report republished earlier today on Axis of Logic:


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Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum. 
  
The 50-year-old Ahmad, a restaurant worker in Chicago before catapulting to fame on Hamid’s shirt-tails, was appointed chairman of the Kandahar Provincial Council in 2005. A ruthless autocrat, he was widely despised, and escaped multiple assassination attempts in the past, but his death nonetheless comes as a major blow to President Karzai in the homeland of the Taliban, and will set off a vicious power struggle to fill Ahmad’s shoes. 
  
US ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann, the CIA’s station chief and their British counterparts pleaded with the president in 2006 to exile his brother, accused of drug dealing. Hamid angrily rejected these accusations and Ahmad stayed in place, rigging the 2009 Afghan presidential elections for him, as he continued to amass wealth, extorting kickbacks on construction contracts, even shaking down bus- and truck-drivers at police posts. 
  
Whatever they thought of him, the American military readily rented properties he specially confiscated for them, including the former residence of Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Omar. The CIA paid him to organise several mercenary forces to help them kill Taliban, even as he was working with the Taliban behind the scenes. He had the support of US Senator John Kerry and even General David Petraeus: “President Karzai is working to create a stronger, more secure Afghanistan, and for such a tragic event to happen to someone within his own family is unfathomable.” 

Resentment against the king of Kandahar was long ready to explode, and his murder was welcomed by Kandaharans and Taliban alike. Though he unwittingly recruited even more Taliban than he helped kill, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi was happy to take responsibility for sending him on his way: “Today in Kandahar city, Hamid Karzai’s brother was killed during Operation Al-Badr. Ahmad Wali Karzai was punished for all his wrongdoings.” Qari’s comrade Mullah Adam Haji concurred: “Ahmad Wali was the best US friend and the Taliban’s worst enemy. He and his whole family have the blood of thousands of Taliban on their hands. His death is very good news for us.”

 


Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly  
You can reach him at http://ericwalberg.com/  His book,Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games is available at http://claritypress.com/Walberg.html 


Ahmad Wali Karzaï killed at his home in Kandahar on July 12 by the Afghan Resistance.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum. 

The 50-year-old Ahmad, a restaurant worker in Chicago before catapulting to fame on Hamid’s shirt-tails, was appointed chairman of the Kandahar Provincial Council in 2005. A ruthless autocrat, he was widely despised, and escaped multiple assassination attempts in the past, but his death nonetheless comes as a major blow to President Karzai in the homeland of the Taliban, and will set off a vicious power struggle to fill Ahmad’s shoes. 

US ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann, the CIA’s station chief and their British counterparts pleaded with the president in 2006 to exile his brother, accused of drug dealing. Hamid angrily rejected these accusations and Ahmad stayed in place, rigging the 2009 Afghan presidential elections for him, as he continued to amass wealth, extorting kickbacks on construction contracts, even shaking down bus- and truck-drivers at police posts. 

Whatever they thought of him, the American military readily rented properties he specially confiscated for them, including the former residence of Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Omar. The CIA paid him to organise several mercenary forces to help them kill Taliban, even as he was working with the Taliban behind the scenes. He had the support of US Senator John Kerry and even General David Petraeus: “President Karzai is working to create a stronger, more secure Afghanistan, and for such a tragic event to happen to someone within his own family is unfathomable.” 

Resentment against the king of Kandahar was long ready to explode, and his murder was welcomed by Kandaharans and Taliban alike. Though he unwittingly recruited even more Taliban than he helped kill, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi was happy to take responsibility for sending him on his way: “Today in Kandahar city, Hamid Karzai’s brother was killed during Operation Al-Badr. Ahmad Wali Karzai was punished for all his wrongdoings.” Qari’s comrade Mullah Adam Haji concurred: “Ahmad Wali was the best US friend and the Taliban’s worst enemy. He and his whole family have the blood of thousands of Taliban on their hands. His death is very good news for us.”
 

Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly 
You can reach him at http://ericwalberg.com/ His book, Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games is available athttp://claritypress.com/Walberg.html




Afghanistan: Why Civilians are Killed
By James Petras. Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Thursday, Jun 9, 2011



As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a blood bath.

While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN’s new “responsibility to protect” doctrine 


Obama apology for Afghan civilian deaths. 12 children killed in US-led airstrike.

Introduction
The recent rash of civilian killings by NATO forces in occupied Afghanistan raises several basic questions: Why do US – NATO air and ground forces kill so many civilians, so persistently, over such long stretches of time, in regions throughout the country? Why have the number of civilians killed, increased in the course of the conflict? Why do NATO-US airplanes continue to bomb civilian housing and village gatherings and ground troops indiscriminately assault homes and workshops? Why are the pleas of NATO collaborator President Karzai to desist in home bombings go unheeded? Finally, knowing that the killing of civilians, entire families including children, mothers and the elderly alienates the local population and breeds widespread and profound hostility, why do the NATO-US military refuse to alter their tactics and strategy?
Explanations and Excuses for Civilian Killings

Apologists for the NATO killings of civilians are as abundant as their explanations are lacking in substance. Pentagon spokespeople speak of “accidents”, “errors of war”, “collateral damage”; media pundits blame the guerrilla fighters for engaging in warfare in areas populated by civilians; neo-conservative academics and their “think tank” colleagues blame Islamic fundamentalism for converting villagers to their cause and “forcing” NATO to kill civilians in order to create martyrs and to use their deaths as a recruiting device.
These patently superficial explanations raise more questions than answers, or in some cases, inadvertently refute the justification for the entire war. The “error of war” argument begs a more basic question: what kind of war is NATO-US engaged in that constantly finds the guerrillas ‘melting’ into the population, while the occupation breaks down doors and perceives each and every household as a possible sanctuary, or outpost of the resistance? What kind of military relies on high altitude fighter planes and pilotless planes directed from distant command posts to attack population centers, in which commerce, farming and household economies engage the population? Clearly only an army of occupation, an imperial army, is willing to repeatedly sacrifice a multitude of civilians to kill a single or a few suspected combatants. Only a military operating in a hostile civilian environment is going to assume that lodged behind every door of every home there is an “enemy”; that every family is sheltering a combatant; that it is better to “go in shooting” then to risk a bullet in the gut.
‘Accidents of war’ do not ‘just happen’ for an entire decade, covering an entire country. The killing of civilians is a result of a war of imperial conquest against an entire people who resist the occupation in whatever form is appropriate to their circumstance. The pilots and ground troops recognize that they are a hostile alien force, whose presence is commanded from above by Generals and politicians dealing with abstract schemes of ‘terrorists-linked to Al Qaeda’ that have no relation to the dense web of personal bonds of solidarity between resistance fighters and civilians on the ground in Afghanistan.
Working from these abstract categories, the strategists label extended family compounds as ‘hideouts’; family gatherings as ‘terrorist meetings’; trade caravans as ‘guerilla smugglers’. The conflicting interests of the imperial politicians, generals, strategists and military officers on the one hand and the civilian population and resistance form an immense gap. The greater the number of civilian/combatants killed the faster the career advances for imperial officers –eager for promotions and prized pensions. “Success”, according to the imperial world view is measured internationally by the number of client rulers; nationally by the number of flags pinned to the war maps denoting ‘secure cities’; and locally by the body counts of massacred families.
On the ground, among the millions in intimate family and clan circles, where sorrow and anger co-exist, resistance in all of its manifold forms unfolds: Sacred vows and the profane pledges to ‘fight on’ grow out of the millions of daily humiliations affecting young and old, wives and husbands, in homes, markets, roads and by-ways. The hostile stare of a mother sheltering an infant from soldiers breaking into a bedroom is as telling as the crackle of gunfire of a sniper hidden in a mountain crevice.
A People’s War: Not a War on Terror
The killing of civilians is not “accidental”. The fundamental reason that so many civilians are killed, everyday, in every region for over a decade, is because the civilians and the combatants are indistinguishable. The image of the Afghan combatants as some kind of footloose professional bomb throwing terrorist is completely off the mark. Most Afghan fighters have families, cultivate farmland and tend herds; they raise families and attend mosque; they are ‘part-time civilians’ and part-time fighters. Only in the schematic minds of the “great strategists of war” in the Pentagon and NATO headquarters do such distinctions exist. Their deadly military mission to ‘save the people from terrorist fundamentalists’, a self-serving self-deception, is, in fact, a ladder up the military-political hierarchy. Each step up depends on waging a ‘just war’ to a successful conclusion.
The civilian-combatants are a mass popular phenomenon. How else can we explain their capacity to sustain armed resistance for over a decade, indeed, advancing with the passing of time? How can we explain their military success against the armed forces and advisers from 40 countries, including the US, Europe and a clutch of Afro-Asian-Latin American mercenaries? How can we explain the growing resistance despite suffering from military occupation, backed by the most advanced technological instruments of war? How can we explain the ebb of popular support for the war in the ‘Conqueror’s country and the growing number of recruits for the Resistance? The combatants have the loyalty of the Afghan people; they do not have to spend billions to buy the spurious ‘loyalties’ of mercenaries who can and have at any moment ‘turned their guns the other way’.
Weddings are bombed because combatants attend weddings – along with hundreds of relatives and friends. Villages are bombed because peasants cultivate crops, which contribute to the resistance. Civilian shelters become military sanctuaries. Afghanistan is polarized: the US military versus a people in arms. Faced with this reality, the real policy of NATO-Pentagon is to rule or/and ruin. Each bomb killing dozens of civilians in search of one sharpshooter deepens the isolation and discredit of the puppet ruler. “President” Karzai has seen his mission of building a ‘civilian base’ to reconstruct the country utterly discredited. His impotent complaints to NATO to cease bombing civilian targets fall on deaf ears; because the NATO command knows very well that ‘the civilians’ are the ‘deep resistance’ – the vast reserve of support for the combatants; their eyes and ears far excel all the electronic intelligence devices of the Occupier. Just as Karzai cannot convince the civilians to turn against the combatants so he cannot convince the imperial armies to stop bombing civilian homes and gatherings.
Washington knows that with each withdrawal (or retreat), the terrain, the towns and villages are occupied by resistance fighters who emerge from everywhere. The best that the US-NATO politicians can negotiate is a safe orderly departure. The best that they can hope is that their local collaborators do not defect or flee abroad prematurely turning over billions of dollars in military ordinance to the resistance. The best the collaborators can hope is that they will secure an exit route, a visa, an overseas account and a comfortable second home abroad. What is absolutely clear is that the US, NATO and its collaborators will have no role to play in the newly independent Afghanistan.
James Petras' New Book:
FROM THE PREFACE: The popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia have overthrown the public face of the imperial-backed dictatorships in the region, and inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide.
Clarity Press 05.03.2011

As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has cracked down on the prodemocracy movement and looks to its autocratic “partners” in the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula to drown the civil society movements in a blood bath.

While standing by the crumbling dictatorships elsewhere in the region, the United States, France and the United Kingdom raced to intervene when it seemed the revolt had spread to Libya. NATO was deployed, using the UN’s new “responsibility to protect” doctrine authorizing humanitarian intervention. Already NATO intervention has exceeded the UN mandate by bombing the Libyan capital and inflicting civilian casualties. Meanwhile, western governments openly pursue regime change in Libya while seeking to forestall it elsewhere.

These essays chronicle the growing militarization of US policy in North Africa and the Gulf and the historic confrontation between the Arab democratic revolution and the imperial backed satraps; between Libyans fighting for their independence and the Euro-American naval and air forces ravaging the country on behalf of their inept local clients.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO ORDER

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

Washington Faces the Arab Revolts: 
Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State

Egypt’s Social Movements, The CIA and Mossad

Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations

The Euro-US War on Libya

Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics

Libya and Obama’s Defense of the ‘Rebel Uprising’

Contextualizing the ‘Arab Spring’:
Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power

APPENDIX:
Indicators of Social Well Being in Pre-invasion Libya

AUTHOR

James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of 64 books published in 29 languages, and over 560 articles in professional journals, including the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Peasant Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review, Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and his commentary is widely carried on the internet. His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Routledge, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto Books. He is winner of the Life Time Career Award, Marxist Section, of the American Sociology Association, the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book, 2002, and the Best Dissertation, Western Political Science Association in 1968.

Some recent titles include Unmasking Globalization: Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century (2001); co-author The Dynamics of Social Change in Latin America (2000),Unmasking Globalisation (2001), System in Crisis (2003), co-author Social Movements and State Power (2003), co-author Empire With Imperialism (2005), co-author) Multinationals on Trial (2006). His most recent titles are The Power of Israel in the United States and Rulers and Ruled in the United States, (acquired for Japanese, German, Italian, Indonesian, Czech and Arabic editions), Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, Global Depression & Regional Wars, and War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, La Jornada, and previously, for the Spanish daily, El Mundo. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Comments:

Ozymandias 
Because it's part of the strategy, and it can be fun too. Let's not forget the US army took part in one of the largest genocide ever during the conquest of North America. In every war at least since WW2, civilians have been targets for US pilots and soldiers one way or another. When Uncle Sam came to "rescue" Europe, it was not that uncommon to have US soldiers shooting innocent passers by from their vehicles, for the sake of fun, and I won't talk about the many rapes which also occurred.
10 June 2011, 08:06:44
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Guest 
I think of Charles Manson. Is he crying when he sees so much killing going on and can not get a share? Is he laughing because we did not have the heart to kill one single soul back then? Has the switch in morals just baffled him? Was he a terrorist and just did not know it?
11 June 2011, 06:23:49
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Dady 
Civilians in Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere are being bombed as part of a collective punishment. Even the most depraved warmongers feel they must apologize for bombing weddings, funerals, markets, mosques, hospitals, and schools, because they know that this is criminal. Civilians are not "indistinguishable" from combatants -- not even if they are related to the combatants or are sympathetic to the resistance against invasion.
17 June 2011, 23:28:33
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The ICC issues warrants against Col. Qaddafi and his son while US/NATO bombs civilians and their 'rebels' force cannibalism on captured Libyan soldiers

By Richard Falk with Axis of Logic Commentary
Al Jazeera
Friday, Jul 1, 2011
Editor's Comment: This juridical analysis indicts the U.S. and NATO for their genocidal war on Libya in the midst of US/NATO-spawned ICC warrants being issued for the arrest of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, as well as his son, Seif al-Islam. But it doesn't take a Professor Emeritus of International Law like Peter Falk to come to the same conclusions. Any honest person with common sense sees the absurdity of the illegal-legal attack on Col. Qaddafi and his son and the way the US and NATO have turned the international court into warmongering tribunal. While accusing Col. Qaddafi and his son of "crimes against humanity," the U.S. and NATO continue their slaughter of Libyan civilians with aerial bombing and missile attacks.
One Axis of Logic reader sent us videos of the treatment of Libyan soldiers taken prisoner by the so-called 'rebels', funded and supported militarily by the U.S. and NATO. They included live decapitations, hangings, dismemberment, fatal beatings and Libyan prisoners forced suck on the tongue of a dead dog and to crawl on their knees, hands tied behind their backs and eat and swallow the flesh of fellow prisoners taken captive and executed. The morality of the leaders in Washinton and European capitals is no different. The videos we reviewed were too sickening and awful to show on Axis of Logic but we want the world to know just who and what these 'unarmed protestors' are -with the backing of the U.S. and NATO. The ICC warrants are a transparent mockery.
- Les Blough, Editor

Doubts surround Gaddafi arrest warrants 
Al Jazeera
June 29, 2011
The timing and nature of the issuance of arrest warrants against Gaddafi and his allies verifies complex geopolitics.
The International Criminal Court has accused Gaddafi of crimes against humanity and of ordering attacks on civilians [EPA]
The International Criminal Court has formally agreed that warrants should be issued for the arrest of Col. Muammar Qaddafi, as well as his son, Seif al-Islam, who has been acting as Prime Minister along with Libya's intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi. These three Libyan leaders are charged with crimes against humanity involving the murder, injuring, and imprisoning of Libyan civilians between Feburary 10-18, 2011, the first days of the uprising and prior to NATO's military involvement. The ICC judge speaking on behalf of a three-judge panel authorized the issuance of the arrest warrants, Sanji Monogeng of Botswana, on the basis of the evidence presented by the prosecutor that 'reasonable grounds' existed to support the charges contained in the outstanding indictments against these three individuals. Judge Monogeng clarified the ruling by explaining that issuing an arrest warrant was meant to convey the conclusion that sufficient evidence of criminality existed to proceed with the prosecution, but it is not intended to imply guilt, which must be determined by the outcome of a trial.
The ICC assessment is likely to withstand scrutiny so far as the substance of the accusations directed at the Qaddafi leadership are concerned. Qaddafi clearly responded to the popular challenges directed against the Libyan government with extreme violence against civilians, reinforced by genocidal rhetoric, which certainly seems to involve crimes against humanity. But why was such an effort to arrest and indict was pushed so hard at this time. The timing of the indictment, and now the arrest warrants, arouses strong suspicions, and not just of bad judgment! It is relevant to recall that in the course of NATO's Kosovo War in 1999 against Serbia, the Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, was indicted by another European-based international tribunal--the special ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. Are we now to expect that whenever NATO has recourse to war the political leader heading its opposition will be charged with international crimes while the fighting ensues? How convenient! Lawfare in the service of warfare!
Rather than a matter of convenience, the motivation seems more sinister. Criticism is deflected from NATO's own lawlessness. In both of these instances, NATO had itself has resorting to war unlawfully, engaging in what was designated at Nuremberg as a 'crime against peace,' and held by that tribunal to be the greatest of war crimes embracing within itself both crimes against humanity and gross violations of the laws of war (war crimes). In the Kosovo War NATO acted without a mandate from the UN, thereby violating the UN Charter's core principle prohibiting non-defensive uses of force unless authorized by the Security Council. In Libya there was such an initial authorization to protect civilians by establishing a no fly zone (Security Council Resoultion 1973, 17 May 2011), but the NATO mission as executed almost immediately grossly exceeded the original mandate, and did little to hide its unmandated goal of regime change in Tripoli by way of ending Qaddafi's role as ruler and thereby achieving victory for opposition forces in a civil war. It is certainly worthy of comment that in both of these wars initiated by NATO the leader of a country attacked was targeted for criminal prosecution before hostilities has ended. Even the Allies in World War II waited until after the end of combat before trying to impose their version of 'victors justice' on surviving defeated German and Japanese leaders.
A similar manipulation of criminal accountability occurred in Iraq a few years ago. There the American led aggressive war waged against Iraq in 2003 was quickly followed by a carefully planned and orchestrated criminal prosecution, stage managed behind the scenes by the US occupation commanders), followed by the execution of Saddam Hussein (and his close associates). The Iraqi trial was politically circumscribed so as to exclude any evidence bearing on the close and discrediting strategic relationship maintained between the United States and Iraq during the period of Saddam Hussein's most serious instances of criminality (genocidal operations against Kurdish villages), as well as by disallowing any inquiry into American criminality associated with the attack on Iraq and subsequent allegations of criminal wrongdoing in response to Iraqi resistance to military occupation. This American potential criminality was never discussed, much less investigated in a responsible manner.
What converts these separate instances into a pattern is the Eurocentric (or West-centric) selectivity evident in most recent efforts to enforce international criminal law. It should be noted that this selectivity is made more objectionable by the impunity accorded to European, American, and Israeli leaders. Double standards so pervasively evident in this behavior undermine the authority of law, especially in relation to a subject-matter as vital as war and peace. Unless equals are treated equally most of the time, what is called 'law' is more accurately treated as 'geopolitics.'
The geopolitical nature of this approval of arrest warrants just issued by the ICC is unintentionally confirmed when it is acknowledged by NATO officials that it will not be possible to arrest Qaddafi unless in the unlikely event that he is captured by the Rebels. Governmental representatives in Washington admitting this, have declared that the warrants will nevertheless be useful in forthcoming UN debates about Libyan policy, presumably to push aside any objections based on the failure by NATO to limit military operations to the no fly zone initially authorized by the Security Council. It should be remembered that the initial authorization in SC Resolution 1973 was itself weakened by five abstentions, including China and Russia, and further, by South Africa that voted with the majority, while expressing strong objections to the subsequent undertaking. One wonders whether China and Russia would not have used their veto had they anticipated how far beyond what was insisted on limited humanitarian purposes by the proponents of the use of force would the actual operation become. In effect, to overcome any impression of unlawfulness on NATO's part it is useful to demonize the adversary, and an opportune way to reach this goal is to put forward premature accusations of severe criminality.
Of course, as has been pointed out more than once, there was an embedded hypocrisy in the central argument put forward by the states seeking a UN green light to intervene in Libya, which was based on the responsibility to protect norm that supposedly confers a duty on the international community to protect civilian populations that are being subjected to severely abusive behavior. Too obvious contradictions were present. Why not Syria in the current regional setting? And even more starkly, why not Gaza back in 2008-09 when it was being mercilessly attacked by Israel? The answers to such questions are 'blowin' in the wind.'
There are further more technical reasons in the present setting to challenge the timing of the arrest warrants. They seem legally and politically dubious. Legally dubious because the most serious criminality associated with the behavior of the Qaddafi regime during the conflict occurred after the ICC cutoff date of 18 February (e.g. the siege of Misrata). Why other than ulterior motivations was there this rush to prosecute? Politically dubious because there is now a new obstacle to diplomacy in a situation where the alternative seems likely to be a prolonged civil war. Negotiating space for an accommodation is definitely reduced by this implication of Qaddafi's criminality that creates incentives for the Tripoli leadership to fight on as long as possible.
Perhaps, cynics would argue that law always reflects power, and of course they are correct to a certain extent. Progress in human affairs arises from a struggle against such pretensions. And the locus and nature of power is changing in the world: the West is losing its capacity to shape history and high technology warfare, upon which the West depends to enforce its will on the non-West, is losing its capacity to produce political victories (e.g. anti-colonial wars, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan). This politicized use of the ICC in the course of the Libyan War offers an opportunity for those dedicated to global justice, especially in the Arab world, to insist that international law should no longer serve as a plaything for those who intervene with hard power in their region from the comfort zone of NATO headquarters.
Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades. His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009).
He is currently serving his fourth year of a six year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.
Source: Al Jazeera


Dick's Personality Disorder
By Les Blough. Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Sunday, Jul 10, 2011

The classic drunk has often been a favorite subject in comedy - the staggering, loudmouthed, speechslurring, disoriented, bragging drunk who wakes after a night of revelry asking himself, "Oh my God, what did I say last night! What did I do!!" An excessively high blood alcohol count produces delusional thinking, overestimated abilities, poor reaction time, arrogance, swagger, a sense of invincibility and impaired judgment. I suppose most of us have laughed at one time or another at foolish drunks and maybe we've been among them from time to time, but we’ve also seen their tragic car accidents, loss of careers and jobs, violence, crimes committed and broken lives and families.
Strangely enough, as with the mismanagement of alcohol, some scientists think that men who mismanage their levels of the hormone testosterone can also produce maladaptive behaviors such as aggression, etc. Particularly, young men may ride high T-levels to their own destruction or that of others. Others may react to low T-levels with sometimes bizarre behaviors such as aggression and impaired judgment. Among older men this is known as Aging Male Syndrome (AMS). As the US/French/British/Israeli/NATO war wears on in Libya we may be seeing both, the young bucks riding jets of high T-Levels and the onset of AMS among the aging leaders who suffer from feelings of emasculation. The point of this essay is not to argue the science of T-levels. But should either be true, perhaps NATO, now 62 years old, suffers from AMS, resulting in impaired judgment, massive tragedy and crimes of global proportions.
Dick
The "US/French/British/Israeli/NATO" reference is a bit cumbersome for the writer and reader of this essay. So to facilitate the discussion, we will use a rather common English name for this coalition of the semi-willing. We'll collectively call them "Dick." Now unlike ordinary folks who have only two eyes, Dick is blessed with many eyes. At the onset of the assault on Libya, some of this drunk's eyes glistened with reflections of oil derricks; some of the eyes in Dick's head shone with more land and a coveted, giant aquifier for an expanded Israel; other pupils in his crossed-eyes widened with thoughts of the advent of the apocalypse ushering in the arrival of their Savior to take them all under his protection in the sky while unbelivers descend into a millenium of hell and suffering on planet earth. Still other Dickeyes blicked with uncertainty but agreed to go along with Dick's war when they smarted bitterly with the dust of their failing economies and threats of being excluded from the Big Prize when the war would finally be won.
But the biggest eye of all, located in the middle of Dick's forehead, shone brightly with visions of a Corporate Global Empire (GCE), breaking up OPEC and making one more stride toward 'full spectrum dominance' and control of all global resources. When notified of the plan, the eyes of the GCE's corporate CEOs smiled and spoke confidently with their trustees in board rooms as they thought of end-of-year bonuses and the trustees smiled back, thinking about returns on their investments. Dick was very pleased with himself.
The Little Dicks
It was with all these eyes on the prize that Dick entered the war on Libya bristling with missiles, jet fighters, helicopter gunships and a ragtag, uneducated tribe of angry, disgruntled men that Dick called "the rebels." Reluctantly, but to remain consistent with the casting of this comedy noir, we will call them the "Little Dicks."
Dick convinced his little dicks that they have been disenfranchised, oppressed and that they should be the ones in power in Tripoli. He told them he would give them all the arms they needed to rise up and overthrow their perceived oppressor, the Libyan government. With their own swollen organs and misguided judgement in their ability to run a country, the little dicks fussed with each other who should lead the coup, who would get the best small arms, RPGs, explosives and whatever other weapons Dick would give to them. The rather disorganized little dicks gathered in small groups whispering, "We can do this and maybe we can even do that!" But they worried that the Libyan military might be too strong for them. Dick reassured the little dicks not to worry - that he would provide furious air support and bomb the hell out of any Libyan forces that tried to kill them.
So the war began with Dick and his little dicks against the soverign nation of Libya, their legitimate government, military and the vast majority of the Libyan people. Dick dropped bombs, destroyed infrastructure, killed Libyan soldiers, civilian men, women and children and even accidentally killed a few little dicks who were in the wrong place in the wrong time. The little dicks used their gifts from Dick to attack and destroy government buildings, Libyan police stations, capture a few Libyan tanks and arms, kill Libyan soldiers and torture those whom they captured. Months before OPEC's June 8 meeting in Vienna, Dick helped the little dicks organize a provisional government in Benghazi which they named, "The National Transitional Council of the Libyan Republic." The NTCLR was to become the only legitimate Libyan government and the political face of the little dicks. They proudly announced that they would represent Libya at the OPEC meeting but they were sadly disappointed when OPEC refused to recognize them and hosted the Libyan government's legal representative whom they know so well.
Since then, the little dicks have been licking their wounds, burying their dead and accusing Dick of breaking his promises to them. Dick's multiple eyes on the other hand are glaring at each other and some have closed altogether. One of his members accuses the other and some are heading home, wimpering with tails between legs, glancing back over their shoulder and snarling at Dick. Dick has become smaller and a little more limp while accusing his traitors' personalities of cowardice and impotence.
Like the drunk, Dick and his little dicks are now turning over in their shared bed, rousing from their slumber, hung over, disoriented, wondering where the hell they parked their cars and experiencing a massive, collective headache. Big Dick also appears to be waking to a multiple personality disorder, with their various identities accusing one another of not doing enough, not sticking together, not dropping enough bombs and not paying their fair share in their ambitious enterprise.
 
Dick's Schizoid Personality
So poor Dick also seems to be suffering from a form of multiple personalities in conflict with one another. The fault lines run in economic and pragmatic patterns but not along lines of conscience. Conscience is a lost trait among psychotics.
Of Dick's 28 NATO countries, only 8 initially agreed to participate in the war: the United States, France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, Spain and Turkey. Ok, there were a few other minor league players like Norway that got wrangled from the farm teams but these were the primary belligerants. When Dick first entered Libya's bedroom, the U.S. suppport for all of the NATO expenditure was 75 percent. In June, Dick's head spokesman and US War Secretary, Robert Gates complained specifically about the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Germany and Poland as "big NATO countries that are not doing their share." He whined about NATO not sharing its burden of the costs and military. Hillary Clinton, who arguably has no testosterone, echoed Gate's complaint from the U.S. State Department.
When some of Dick's disparate personalities wimpered that things weren't going well, they treatened to withdraw from the war on Libya. NATO's Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen dutifully followed Gates, lock-step, warning that Dick would not be able to complete the gang rape of Libya unless NATO invested more in military spending and patching together their fractured alliance, chinning up with greater political will. Dick's fissures began to open.
Germany
Surprising some and angering others, one of Dick's personalities strongly opposed the war on Libya from the very beginning. They abstained from voting in favor of UNSC's Resolution 1973 on Libya. On June 23, Germany abstained in the UN security council vote authorising the air strikes and ignored criticism from other Dick members, the U.S., the U.K. and France. Thomas de Maiziere, the German defence minister, then said Berlin had decided not to get involved and"That's the way it will stay."
On March 23, a German military spokesman said it was even recalling two frigates and AWACS surveillance plane crews from the Mediterranean, fearing they would be drawn into the assault if NATO takes over control from the U.S.
German government consultant and political analyst, Christoph Horste explained:
“At first hand our ministries told the foreign affairs minister ‘Don’t go to Libya. It is a very bad conflict. It was started by the CIA, and it is a dirty business. Don’t go there!’ So this is why he voted with Russia and China. Now the backlash from Washington is so tough that obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision. In fact, what we see here is that deliberately the country is being destroyed, which is by far transgressing the decision by the Security Council and that is a very bad story right now.”
It was then, after over 100 days of aerial attacks and with more than 2,000 of Dick's bombs dropped, the gang rape ran into an unexpected problem: a lack of munitions to drop on Libyans. So on July 5, under enormous pressure from Dick and with the reflection of the sweet euro symbol in their eyes, Germany agreed to stroke Dick with an agreement to supply munitions for his airstrikes in Libya. As the saying goes, where there is demand, there is supply and where there is desire, there is pleasure.
 
The United Kingdom
At the onset, the perpetrators of Dick's war against the Libyan people were France, England and the U.S. In March, Chancellor George Osborne told the people of the UK that it would cost tens of millions of pounds. Now the cost of the war has grown to hundreds of millions of pounds. The UK economy is already in bad shape and these costs are increasing rapidly on a daily basis. When asked if the UK can afford to continue in the war, Jim Bran (Stop the War Coalition in London) recently told Press TV:
"I think in a sense you could say they can afford it because it comes out of something called a contingency reserve. But clearly there's a problem that they really don't know where it's going to end - they have no idea. Every calculation back in March has gone out the window. It was supposed to be a quick war. It was supposed to be tens of millions as you've mentioned and a number of days. I think they thought they could dive in and do kind of an armed coup within about a week and that's all gone wrong; its' all up in the air."
Of course Bran's reference to money coming from the UK's "contingency reserve" war chest ignores the massive debt in EU countries like Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy which in our view could easily trigger a domino collapse of the EU and the euro having devastating effects on the UK and the U.S.
France
On March 19, according to Press TV Dick's French president Nicolas Sarkozy proudly reported that "Paris will lead an attack on Libyan territories in a bid to protect the civilian population and preserve human consciousness." On the same day, the peaceful war advocate, NPR reported,
 
"France was one of the most strident countries against the invasion of Iraq so it's unusual to see that country taking the lead in the strike against Libya, according to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Still, the French seem to be proud of how diplomatically Nicholas Sarkozy has handled the effort. The French president has said that, there are some risks, but they are calculated and there is great moral authority to go in and protect people.
The plan congealed on March 19, when Dick met in Paris and ordered the bombing of Libya "to end the assaults on civilians launched by Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's forces."Representatives of the United States, Britain, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar attended the meeting.
On March 25, Sarkozy declared, "France will lead the attack on Gaddafi!”
Stone Pinkerton writing for the 21st Century Wire accused Sarkozy of suffering from a Napoleon Complex, standing only 5 feet 5 inches tall while shaking hands with England's 6 foot David Cameron to their Libyan invasion agreement. 
So " Odyssey Dawn: The military operation" (c'mon, doncha love it?) began. Eight French Rafale and four Mirage jets were first launched against Libya in the aerial attack, 20 in all before the day was over. The French Rafale jets were credited with the honor of being the first to bomb Libya, evoking images of Sarkozy fondling those missiles before they took off from their base at Saint-Dizier in eastern France.
On June 19 a French bombing killed nine civilians including 2 toddlers and seriously injuring dozens of others in the Arada neighbourhood of Tripoli. A day before, the Libyan government accused NATO of specifically targeting civilians. According to French and English news reports, Dick said he was investigating the killings and was "very sorry" about them.
Norway
But in spite of the continuing demand for unity within NATO for its war on Libya, the cracks in the dike began to widen with Norway's recent decision to withdraw and sparked fears that others may follow.
On July 5, 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported,
"Norway, whose small air force has carried out a disproportionate 10% of the strikes with six fighter planes, last month became the first country to set an end date to its role. The government has been facing calls for withdrawal from its leftist coalition partners. Norway's Defense Ministry said it planned to reduce its contribution to four fighters and to withdraw entirely by Aug. 1."
Denmark
 
As early as March 30, 2011, the Red-Green Alliance of Denmark stated that the war on Libya was no longer just about achieving a ceasefire between the Libyan government and the little dicks for protection of civilians. They determined that instead, it is about participating in a civil war, something they would not support. Frank Aaen, the alliance's defence policy spokesperson covered Denmark's behind stating,
"The direction that the action has taken is in clear opposition to the UN resolution, and there has been no serious attempts to establish a ceasefire ... Since last Friday they had succeeded in stopping the attacks from Gadaffi on the civilian population. It was a correct decision to stop his attack, and we are pleased to have been part of it ... But lately the operation has changed its character, so now we are involved in a civil war. The last couple of days the rebels had received air support to help them push forward, and even though we feel a great sympathy with the rebels, it is not the task of the military action to support one of the parties in a civil war."
U.S. officials accused Denmark and Norway for “punching above their weight,” (read 'for not being real men.')
The Netherlands
NATO's fractures continued as the Netherlands broke rank early this month with Defense Minister Hans Hillen complaining of "mission creep", suggesting that the leading countries in the war were deluded in believing they could crush Qadaffi and his forces. Hillen told reporters in Brussels,
"People who thought that merely by throwing some bombs it would not only help the people, but also convince Kadafi that he could step down or alter his policy were a little bit naive."
The United States
Meanwhile, the Republicans in Washington continued their objections to the war. Now the Republicans are well-known for their collective warmongering personality. Their objections are motivated strictly by their aspirations to replace Obama and the Democrats with their own in the next national elections. We only have to see their support for the wars under George W. Bush in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and by their Israeli proxy in Palestine. They've continued their attack on the Obama regime declaring that Obama did not seek approval from the U.S. Congress for the attacks on Libya, something Bush did before attacking the aforenamed countries when the Republicans gleefully approved the bloodletting.
Italy
On July 6, Italy further softened Dick with its withdrawal of the Garibaldi. The Garibalidi is their aircraft carrier in service to Dick. For a real man like Berlusconi, well known for his virility, this must come with great humiliation and loss of self confidence in Dick's bed. But never to admit weakness in this area, Italy quickly explained that their weakening support for the war was due to their dismay at the humanitarian disaster and civilians killed by Dick's bombs. Nearly a month ago, Italy called for a suspension of hostilities in Libya among NATO's 'coalition of the unwilling' as more and more civilians were being killed by NATO airstrikes and as the Libyan government and military defended their country with a force that surprised Dick with his pants around his ankles. On June 22, 2011, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told a parliamentary committee meeting:
"We have seen the effects of the crisis and therefore also of NATO action not only in eastern and southwestern regions but also in Tripoli. I believe an immediate humanitarian suspension of hostilities is required in order to create effective humanitarian corridors."
Frattini recommended that negotiations should continue on a more formal ceasefire and peace talks stating,
"I think this is the most urgent and dramatic point ... I think it is legitimate to request ever more detailed information on the results", and he condemned "the dramatic errors that hit civilians, which is clearly not an objective of the NATO mission."
Reporting on the same June 22 parliamentary meeting, AFP reported Italy breaks ranks over NATO's Libya mission:
"Italy called for a suspension of hostilities in Libya on Wednesday in the latest sign of dissent within NATO as the civilian death toll mounts and Moamer Kadhafi shows no signs of quitting power."
Frattini told the committee:
"I believe an immediate humanitarian suspension of hostilities is required in order to create effective humanitarian corridors," while negotiations should also continue on a more formal ceasefire and peace talks.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the first belligerent to follow US/Israeli urging the attack on Libya, quickly reacted to Italy's discord ruling out any pause in the Libya campaign. French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero told the corporate media:
"The coalition and the countries that met as the Abu Dhabi contact group two weeks ago were unanimous on the strategy: we must intensify the pressure on Kadhafi. Any pause in operations would risk allowing him to play for time and to reorganise. In the end, it would be the civilian population that would suffer from the smallest sign of weakness on our behalf."
On July 6, Italy followed through with it's threat by announcing the withdrawal of its aircraft carrier, the Garibaldi from Libya which in reality was due to two factors:
  1. the burden it's aircraft carrier in Libya places on its failing economy. Withdrawal of the Garibaldi will relieve Italy of 80 million euros ($114 million) in financial emissions.

  2. the fact that the legitimate Libyan government and military has been successfully repelling Dick's attacks and the Italians are running scared.
However, Italy did admit that they didn't have the juice for Dick's demands, but said they would offer him a partial dose of Viagra. Italian Minister Ignazio La Russa explains:
"We have cut back costs in Libya, from 142 million euros forecast in the first half of the year to less than 60 million for the second half." He indicated that the Italian plan is to pull the Garibaldi, it's three fighter jets and 1,000 personnel out of the mission because they were "no longer necessary."
But he offered Dick a little something saying that the Garibaldi would be replaced by a smaller boat and other planes from military bases would be used.
As the late Rollo May, philosopher/psychologist extraordinaire, once wrote, people and nations locate their own sins outside of themselves and then set about to expiate their sins by attacking and killing the ones upon whom they've projected their own evil. We saw a lot of this action during the Cold War with the Soviets and now with Arabs and Muslims. Dick's psychosis is now well advanced and his delusions are becoming super-real. He is not unlike the serial killers who self righteously murder prostitutes to destroy their own darkness (Ironically, serial killers have been studied a lot in Dickland.) In time, killers suffering from paranoid schizophrenia become increasingly frenzied by their own impotence and bloodlust. They break their patterns that worked so well for them with earlier victims and they begin to make mistakes. Likewise, Dick's rage is gaining intensity with his fear of impotence as his Libyan rampage seeks to destroy all that he cannot have. His mask of protecting civilians has been removed, revealing his real identity, rapidly bringing nearer the day of his reckoning.
READ MORE ESSAYS AND POETRY BY LES BLOUGH


Ex-Blackwater guard sentenced to 37 months for Afghan's death 

Ex-Blackwater guard sentenced to 37 months for Afghan’s death. Grey Mailing and Judge Shopping
By Les Blough, Editor. Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Sunday, Jun 19, 2011

Blackwater employees, Christopher Drotleff and Justin Cannon murdered two unarmed Afghan people and wounded a third in 2009. They were tried for the killings in 2010 and half of the stacked jury (see the Wayne Madson video below) acquitted them of all charges and the other half disagreed and voted for conviction - a hung jury. Prosecutors tried them again and Drotleff was found guilty of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter and has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. Cannon is to be sentenced in July in what amounts to another coverup trial. They shot and killed a passenger of a car involved in an accident of one of their own SUV - and a pedestrian who was out walking his dog with a friend. Websites like The Ranger Defense Fund  were created to collect money for Drotleff and Cannon and to conjure up popular sympathy for these mercenaries and their families. "The Virginia Pilot ", a U.S. government mouthpiece wrote:
"Family members were clearly upset by the decision. Drotleff's wife, who sat through every day of the trial, left the courthouse in tears. Cannon's father, also there every day, declined to comment.
The authors obviously have no sympathy for the murdered Afghans and their shattered families.
Christopher Drotleff
Justin Russell Cannon
The prosecutors alleged, "the shootings on May 5, 2009, were fueled by alcohol and anger. The case against Drotleff and Cannon only worsened afterward when they tried to cover up the crime." Witnesses said the two mercenaries had been drinking alcohol throughout the day before they opened fire on the unarmed civilians. Other media friendly to these two killers claimed they are "sacrificial lambs" hung out to dry by their employer - the U.S. government. We say yes - sacrificial lambs drunk on booze and bloodlust, armed to the teeth and trained to kill. But we have no argument with their claim that they are being sacrificed in faux courts to give the impression that their killings are any worse than the murders of millions by the U.S. government Afghanistan and Iraq, many never identified and buried in mass graves.
Blackwater mercenary killer, Christopher Drotleff, sentenced to 3 years and 1 month on a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Blackwater mercenary killer, Justin Russell Cannon to be sentenced on the same conviction on July 27, 2011.
RT News  interviewed investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen who provides details of how Blackwater protects their own by "grey mailing" and how the CIA protects Blackwater killers, including Drotleff and Cannon by "jury shopping" and "judge shopping" to obtain the results they want.
In the video above, Wayne Madsen says U.S. District Court Judges T.S. Ellis and Ricardo Urbina "have long-standing relationships with the CIA and this is known as 'judge shopping'." Other judges in the system indirectly channel government-sensitive cases to these two men.
Judge T.S. Ellis III presiding over the Blackwater case in US District Court in Alexandria, VA, "A favorite court of the CIA with their 'rocket docket'." Judge Ricardo Urbina who dismissed charges against the 4 Blackwater killers in Iraq in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.
We pray that some day those ultimately responsible for these two murders will be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned - the Neocons and Neolibs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pentagon, CIA, owners of private corporations like Blackwater and two U.S. Presidents, George Walker Bush and Barack Obama - will one day be tried for an illegal invasion and occupation, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Think this is can never happen? Prior to September 11, 2011 none of us thought possible what we have seen happen in the world over the last ten years. Therefore, we cannot predict what will happen in the future. You personally may think that you are insignificant and helpless to do anything. Everyone can think creatively and do something no matter how big or small. We must do what each of us can to add our own brick in the wall to see that justice will be done, from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan to Palestine, Libya and other countries where the U.S., NATO, Israel and the international banking cartel press on to advance their terrorist war on "terrorism."
- Les Blough, Editor
Ex-Blackwater guard sentenced to 37 months for Afghan’s death
By Agence France-Presse 
WASHINGTON — A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to three years and one month in prison Tuesday for involuntary manslaughter in a Kabul shooting in 2009, the US Justice Department announced.
Christopher Drotleff, 31, and Justin Cannon, 29, another former Blackwater employee, were convicted in March of involuntary manslaughter of Romal Mohammad Naiem, an unarmed Afghan civilian. Cannon will be sentenced on June 27.
Both men fired several multiple shots at a passing car after the lead vehicle in their convoy crashed in the middle of the night and overturned on its side.
Naiem, the passenger in the car, was fatally shot, and his driver injured. Another Afghan man walking his dog in the area was also fatally shot, although both men were acquitted of charges in his death and the shooting of the driver.
Both Drotleff and Cannon said they had legitimate concerns for their safety, and had pleaded not guilty.
"Christopher Drotleff recklessly fired his nine millimeter pistol at unarmed Afghan civilians, killing two people and shattering the lives of many more," said US Attorney Neil MacBride in a statement.
According to the statement, both Drotleff and Cannon left their military base on May 5, 2009 to transport local translators when the accident took place.
Blackwater was renamed Xe after it was caught up in several scandals in Iraq, in particular the deaths of between 14 and 17 civilians in Baghdad in September 2007.
Ozymandias 
3 years & 1 month ?? Come on... this is ridiculous ! Thousands of people are jailed for a longer time every year Because a few MJ plants in their backyard or cupboard and these guys get just 3 years for killing innocent people ? Oh wait, my mistake, for killing "Afghans", not people...
Monday, June 20, 2011, 09:04:35
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Guest 
Rotten to the core, from mercenary to judge. Thank you for this excellent expose.
Monday, June 20, 2011, 18:34:02
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the.official black.widow 
I say lets call these guys what they really are. COWARDS. Only a coward shoots an unarmed person or animal for that matter. But I guess if you are an American you can shoot people dead in other countries and it will not be treated like a murder case and people will say you are a mercenary. CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE WHEN THEY COMMIT ACTS OF COWARDICE..AND SEE IF THE CIA JUMPS TO HELP THEM THEN.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 17:06:10
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Ex-Blackwater guard sentenced to 37 months for Afghan’s death
By Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON — A former Blackwater security guard was sentenced to three years and one month in prison Tuesday for involuntary manslaughter in a Kabul shooting in 2009, the US Justice Department announced.
Christopher Drotleff, 31, and Justin Cannon, 29, another former Blackwater employee, were convicted in March of involuntary manslaughter of Romal Mohammad Naiem, an unarmed Afghan civilian. Cannon will be sentenced on June 27.
Both men fired several multiple shots at a passing car after the lead vehicle in their convoy crashed in the middle of the night and overturned on its side.
Naiem, the passenger in the car, was fatally shot, and his driver injured. Another Afghan man walking his dog in the area was also fatally shot, although both men were acquitted of charges in his death and the shooting of the driver.
Both Drotleff and Cannon said they had legitimate concerns for their safety, and had pleaded not guilty.
"Christopher Drotleff recklessly fired his nine millimeter pistol at unarmed Afghan civilians, killing two people and shattering the lives of many more," said US Attorney Neil MacBride in a statement.
According to the statement, both Drotleff and Cannon left their military base on May 5, 2009 to transport local translators when the accident took place.
Blackwater was renamed Xe after it was caught up in several scandals in Iraq, in particular the deaths of between 14 and 17 civilians in Baghdad in September 2007.

Who or what organisation and/or group was behind the murder and coverup of the murder of whistleblower on illegal 

phone hacking by police and other people working for the London Met Police and other reporters in the News Media, 

illegal blinging by members of the London Met Police and police bribery Sean Hoare who was about to tell his full story 

through providing

 evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 


the-murdoch-empire-the-short-answer-is-no-2317226.htm

Martin Hickman: Was Sean Hoare killed by the Murdoch empire?

 The short answer is no

The who organised the murder and cover up of the murder of Sean Hoare?
Who had most to lose if Sean Hoare had lived to tell his story in a court of law, judicial inquiry and/or in front of the parliamentary select committee on the 19th July 2011?
Answer: The London Metropolitan Police

Who has the best ability to cover up the murder of Sean Hoare?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

Who has the best ability and resources and has access to MI5 and MI6resources as well to use to murder Sean Hoare?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

Who is in charge of the investigation of the murder of Sean Hoare?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

Who is mostly to blame in the Murdoch-News of the world phone hacking, blinging, police bribery etc scandal?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police?

How many London Met Police Officers have been charged for bribery and the illegal use of police information and resources?

Answer: None

Who do the London Met Police think that  the public going to point the finger at for the murder of Sean Hoare?

Answer? The Murdoch Gang

What were the new serious statements that Sean Hoare were making to New York Times Reporters in recent days that would want some one or some group to murder Sean Hoaare in a rather hurry before he was called to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 that would have blow the lid of this affair right open?

Answer: The London Metropolitan Police involvement with the news staff at the News of the World in using police sources and technology to find where someone was buy using police computers and other police technology to locate a person's whereabouts by through their mobile phone for a fee of £300 a time. Sean Hoare was starting to make statements to international reporters about the endemic practice and involvement of the London Met Police in this practice known as blinging in the news trade. Yes the London Met Police had to immediately silence Sean Hoare and make sure he could not attend the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 to give evidence for the whole world to see on line about his knowledge of this practice of blinging that members of the London Metropolitan Police had been doing for years for a fee of £300 a time. There is no doubt that the most senior members of the London Metropolitan Police including the one that has just resigned Sir Paul Stephenson, simply had to call in a favour of MI5 and M16 to have Sean Hoare quietly murdered using a new drug they have that can cause a heart attack and can not be detected after death in the body and can be placed in a glass of water without the person drinking it being able to detect that it has been put into the water as it has no taste and no colour. This is what was used to murder the famous millionaire businessman Laurie Connel on Western  Australia when he threatened to expose many of the most powerful  people in Australian politics and business circles if he went to jail over fraud charges he was defending in court at the time of his death when he collapsed during his trial where he was defending himself because he realised all his lawyers were corrupt and could not be trusted and decided the only way to try and obtain a fair hearing was to represent himself and expose all the powerful people he was the Bag Man for all their millions in cash money transactions for many years in Australia. Those that Laurie Connel could expose, just like the London Metropolitan Police could not allow Sean Hoare to be alive on the morning of the 19th July, 2011 to give evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the 19th July, 2011 , simply could not allow Laurie Connel ( known as the Lender of the Last Resort) to live and tell his story...to the court and expose all those powerful people...






20th July 2011

Sean Hoare looks likely to take his place behind Princess Diana and David Kelly in the roll call of controversial deaths. Within hours of reports of his untimely demise, conspiracy theorists were questioning whether he had been murdered.

 

"Another murder cover-up?" asked one online. Another wrote: "Nothing that the British police can say will convince me that Sean Hoare's death was natural causes."

The decision of many newspapers, but not The Independent, to splash on the sensational death of the "phone-hacking whistleblower" posed the question in some readers' minds: was this man killed by the Murdoch empire? The answer is – unexcitedly but almost certainly – "no".

True, we do not yet have all the facts, but there are many reasons why Mr Hoare's death presents no more of a conspiracy than the failure of Princess Diana to fasten her seatbelt while being driven through the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris in 1997.

Firstly, Mr Hoare was not in possession of unique information about the wrongdoing at the News of the World, nor was he the only one to point the finger at Andy Coulson, its former editor. During its excellent investigation into the "hack attack" last year, The New York Times spoke to 12 current or former NOTW staff, who said hacking was rife.

Secondly, the new inquiry into phone hacking, Operation Weeting, was always unlikely to base its case on the testimony of one ex-employee. While statements may form part of its case, a much bigger part will rely on emails discovered or forensically recovered from News International's digital archive, electronic payment invoices and phone records.

Even if Weeting were to make personal testimony central, it was unlikely to have been Mr Hoare's, since he had been dismissed from the NOTW for drink and drug problems and could be portrayed as an unreliable witness.

Thirdly, the (unspoken but tangible) suggestion that News International might want to send death squads scuttling round Britain to silence witnesses is absurd, and especially so given the trouble it already faces.

Notwithstanding its dark arts, deceit and links to criminals, NI's new strategy is PR-led; it wants to now co-operate with the police and apologise for the mess.

Fourthly, Mr Hoare's death is not being investigated by the Metropolitan Police but by the Hertfordshire force, whose statement that the death was not thought to be suspicious was probably a disappointment to Hertfordshire's best detectives, who may have been only too keen to get one over on their big city colleagues.

Finally, Mr Hoare was not in good health. He was reported to be looking yellow and his doctor had remarked that he should have been dead.

And this is where Mr Hoare almost certainly was a "victim" of News International. He was told to do whatever it took to get the story; he went on marathon benders and snorted coke with rock stars. He had some great times as a show business journalist. But he decided to tell the truth about the illegal methods used to land stories. In that he was brave, and that is what he should be remembered for, not the manner of his passing.


The decision of many newspapers, but not The Independent, to splash on the sensational death of the "phone-hacking whistleblower" posed the question in some readers' minds: was this man killed by the Murdoch empire? The answer is – unexcitedly but almost certainly – "no".

True, we do not yet have all the facts, but there are many reasons why Mr Hoare's death presents no more of a conspiracy than the failure of Princess Diana to fasten her seatbelt while being driven through the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris in 1997.

Firstly, Mr Hoare was not in possession of unique information about the wrongdoing at the News of the World, nor was he the only one to point the finger at Andy Coulson, its former editor. During its excellent investigation into the "hack attack" last year, The New York Times spoke to 12 current or former NOTW staff, who said hacking was rife.

Secondly, the new inquiry into phone hacking, Operation Weeting, was always unlikely to base its case on the testimony of one ex-employee. While statements may form part of its case, a much bigger part will rely on emails discovered or forensically recovered from News International's digital archive, electronic payment invoices and phone records.

Even if Weeting were to make personal testimony central, it was unlikely to have been Mr Hoare's, since he had been dismissed from the NOTW for drink and drug problems and could be portrayed as an unreliable witness.

Thirdly, the (unspoken but tangible) suggestion that News International might want to send death squads scuttling round Britain to silence witnesses is absurd, and especially so given the trouble it already faces.

Notwithstanding its dark arts, deceit and links to criminals, NI's new strategy is PR-led; it wants to now co-operate with the police and apologise for the mess.

Fourthly, Mr Hoare's death is not being investigated by the Metropolitan Police but by the Hertfordshire force, whose statement that the death was not thought to be suspicious was probably a disappointment to Hertfordshire's best detectives, who may have been only too keen to get one over on their big city colleagues.

Finally, Mr Hoare was not in good health. He was reported to be looking yellow and his doctor had remarked that he should have been dead.

And this is where Mr Hoare almost certainly was a "victim" of News International. He was told to do whatever it took to get the story; he went on marathon benders and snorted coke with rock stars. He had some great times as a show business journalist. But he decided to tell the truth about the illegal methods used to land stories. In that he was brave, and that is what he should be remembered for, not the manner of his passing.

 







Head of Met press admits they employ 10 ex News of the World journalists

THE Met Police’s communications boss yesterday admitted 10 out of 45 press office staff used to work at the News of the World.

Dick Fedorcio also told the Select Committee he never asked former NoW deputy editor Neil Wallis about phone hacking before taking him on as a consultant. He instead claimed assistant commissioner John Yates, a friend of Mr Wallis, undertook a process of due ­diligence in vetting him.

But when quizzed by MPs, Mr Yates said this was “over-egging the pudding” and the tendering process was ultimately down to Mr Fedorcio. Asked if he would have appointed Mr Wallis in hindsight, Mr Fedorcio said: “Certainly not”, adding he could not remember who suggested Mr Wallis for the job but denied it was then-News International chief Rebekah Brooks.

Mr Fedorcio also said he was “dismayed” at reports he favoured the NoW when placing stories, even though almost a quarter of his staff were ex-employees. The Met has referred his dealings with Mr Wallis to the ­Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Meanwhile, former Met chief Sir Paul Stephenson yesterday said he resigned to prevent continuing damaging speculation over his role in the scandal in the run-up to the London Olympics.



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Brooks: hacking payments not my remit

Rebekah Brooks gives evidence on phone hacking

Former News International chief says News of the World's managing editor approved payments to private detectives. By John Plunkett


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News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead

Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious

 

 


Sean Hoare
Hoare first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World. Photograph: Hazel Thompson/Eyevine

Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead .

Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, was said to have been found at his Watford home.

Hertfordshire police would not confirm his identity, but said in a statement: "At 10.40am today [Monday 18 July] police were called to Langley Road, Watford, following the concerns for the welfare of a man who lives at an address on the street. Upon police and ambulance arrival at a property, the body of a man was found. The man was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

"The death is currently being treated as unexplained but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

There was an unexplained delay in the arrival of forensics officers at the scene.

Neighbours said three police cars and two ambulances arrived at the property shortly before 11am. They left around four hours later, around 3pm, shortly after a man and a woman, believed to be grieving relatives, arrived at the premises. There was no police presence at the scene at all for several hours.

The curtains were drawn at the first-floor apartment in a new-build block of flats.

At about 9.15pm, three hours after the Guardian revealed Hoare had been found dead a police van marked "Scientific Services Unit" pulled up at the address, where a police car was already parked. Two officers emerged carrying evidence bags, clipboards, torches and laptop-style bags and entered the building. Three officers carrying cameras and wearing white forensic suits went into the flat at around 9.30pm.

Hoare was in his mid-40s. He first made his claims in a New York Times investigation into the phone-hacking allegations  at the News of the World. He told the newspaper that not only did Coulson know of the hacking, but he also actively encouraged his staff to intercept the calls of celebrities in the pursuit of exclusives.

In a subsequent interview with the BBC he alleged he was personally asked by his editor at the time, Coulson, to tap into phones. In an interview with the PM programme he said Coulson's insistence he did not know of the practice was "a lie, it is simply a lie". At the time a Downing Street spokeswoman said Coulson totally and utterly denied the allegations; he had "never condoned the use of phone hacking and nor do I have any recollection of incidences where hacking took place".

Hoare said he was once a close friend of Coulson's, and told the New York Times the two first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played recordings of hacked messages for Coulson. At the News of the World, Hoare said, he continued to inform Coulson of his activities. He "actively encouraged me to do it", Hoare said. In September last year he was interviewed under caution by police over his claim the former Tory communications chief asked him to hack into phones when editor of the paper, but declined to make any comment.

Hoare returned to the spotlight last week, after he told the New York Times that reporters at the NoW were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to use "pinging", which measured the distance between a mobile handset and a number of phone masts to pinpoint its location.

Hoare gave further details about "pinging" to the Guardian last week. He described how reporters would ask a news desk executive to obtain the location of a target: "Within 15 to 30 minutes someone on the news desk would come back and say 'Right, that's where they are.'"

He said: "You'd just go to the news desk and they'd come back to you. You don't ask any questions. You'd consider it a job done.

"The chain of command is one of absolute discipline, and that's why I never bought into it, like with Andy saying he wasn't aware of it and all that. That's bollocks."

He said he stood by everything he told the New York Times of "pinging". "I don't know how often it happened. That would be wrong of me. But if I had access, as a humble reporter … "

He admitted he had had problems with drink and drugs, and had been in rehab. "But that's irrelevant," he said. "There's more to come. This is not going to go away."

Hoare named a private investigator who he said had links with the News of the World, adding: "He may want to talk now, because I think what you'll find now is a lot of people are going to want to cover their arse." Speaking to another Guardian journalist last week, Hoare repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up, and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former NoW colleagues with that aim in mind.

He also said he had been injured the previous weekend while taking down a marquee erected for a children's party. He said he broke his nose and badly injured his foot when a relative accidentally struck him with a pole from the marquee. Hoare also emphasised that he was not making any money from telling his story.

Having been treated for drug and alcohol problems, Hoare reminisced about his partying with former pop stars and said that he missed the days when he was able to go out on the town.

On Monday evening the curtains were drawn at his home, a first-floor apartment in a new-build block of flats.

A neighbour living opposite, Nicky Dormer, said three police cars and two ambulances arrived at the property at 11am; police left at 3pm, shortly after a man and a woman, believed to be grieving relatives, arrived at the premises.

She and another neighbour described Hoare as a jovial man who would often sit on his balcony, overlooking the block entrance, and talk to residents. They said he lived in the block with his partner, a woman called Jo, who they believed had been away on holiday. Neither had seen Hoare for a few days.

Paul Pritchard, 30, another neighbour, said Sean Hoare was "the most sociable" resident, and they would regularly see him watering the communal front lawn.

"It is just such a shock. About a month ago he said he felt unwell and he said he went to the doctors for a checkup. Then I saw him again and he seemed well."

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Sean Hoare death: postmortem being held

Detectives seek to discover preliminary cause of death of former News of the World journalist who spoke out about Andy Coulson. By Paul Lewis


Sean Hoare

Sean Hoare death: postmortem being held

Detectives seek to discover preliminary cause of death of former News of the World journalist who spoke out about Andy Coulson. By Paul Lewis


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Sean Hoare death: postmortem being held on hacking whistleblower

Detectives seek to discover preliminary cause of death of former News of the World journalist who spoke out about Andy Coulson

Home of Sean Hoare, former reporter for the News of the World,
The Watford home of Sean Hoare, the former reporter for the News of the World who has been found dead. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features

A postmortem on the body of Sean Hoare, the News of the Worldwhistleblower found dead on Monday, is expected to provide a preliminary cause of death.

Police are treating the death of Hoare, 47, as "unexplained but not thought to be suspicious". Hoare was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, was aware of phone hacking by his staff.

Hoare worked for the Sun and NoW with Coulson before being dismissed for drink and drugs problems, and had spoken openly to a number of news organisations about the practice of phone hacking.

Detectives from Hertfordshire police's major crimes unit are running the investigation because of the high profile of Hoare's death.

They are understood to be awaiting the outcome of the postmortem, due to begin at 2pm on Tuesday, while seeking to establish the last time he was seen alive.

The force said in a statement: "Police investigations continue into the unexplained death of a man who, whilst formal identification is yet to take place, police believe to be Sean Hoare. The postmortem is set to take place today [Tuesday]. The man's next of kin have been informed and the family are being supported by police at this sad time."

The former tabloid journalist is understood to have lived at the first floor flat in Watford with his partner, Jo. Hoare's body was found in the flat at 10.40am on Monday. Neighbours described seeing police and ambulance at the scene until about 3pm.

It was not until after 9pm, two hours after news broke that the phone-hacking whistleblower had been found dead, that more uniformed and plainclothes police arrived at the scene. At about 9.15pm, a police van marked Scientific Services Unit pulled up at the address, where a police car was already parked.

Two officers emerged carrying evidence bags, clipboards, torches and laptop-style bags and entered the building. Three officers carrying cameras and in white forensic suits followed at 9.30pm.

Police sources said that it was "not unusual" for a forensics team to investigate the scene of an unexplained death. The former showbusiness reporter struggled with drug and alcohol problems, and is known to have been unwell in recent weeks.

Hoare returned to the spotlight last Tuesday, after he told the New York Times that reporters at the NoW were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals, in exchange for payments to police officers. He said journalists were able to purchase the mobile phone tracking data from police for just £300.

That evening he had dinner with two New York Times journalist involved in the story, Don Van Natta Jr and Jo Becker. Van Natta Jr tweeted on Monday night: "RIP Sean Hoare. Jo Becker and I had dinner with him last Tues night. He was ailing but defiant and funny. And no regrets. All-courage."

Hoare gave further details about so-called "pinging" to Guardian journalists on Tuesday and Wednesday. He described how reporters would ask a newsdesk executive to obtain the location of a target. He said: "Within 15 to 30 minutes someone on the newsdesk would come back and say 'Right, that's where they are.' "

He added: "You'd just go to the newsdesk and they'd come back to you. You don't ask any questions. You'd consider it a job done."

Hoare repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up, and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former NoW colleagues with that aim in mind.

Repeated calls to Hoare's home telephone number on Thursday and Friday went unanswered.

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Journalists remember 'old fashioned Fleet Street character'

 

Colleagues pay tribute after death of former News of the World entertainment correspondent who spoke out on phone hacking. By Hannah Godfrey


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Sean Hoare: journalists remember 'old fashioned Fleet Street character'

Colleagues pay tribute after death of former News of the World entertainment correspondent who spoke out on phone hacking

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Sean Hoare, a tabloid reporter who worked at the Sun and the People as well as the News of the World, in his sitting room at home. Photograph: Hazel Thompson /eyevine

Former colleagues have been paying tribute to Sean Hoare, the formerNews of the World entertainment correspondent who was found dead at his Watford home on Monday.

David Yelland, who edited the Sun from 1998 to 2003, used Twitter to say: "Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God."

Ben Proctor, who worked with Hoare over many years and was most recently deputy editor of the People, recalled him fondly as "an old fashioned Fleet Street character".

"Typically with Sean he managed to became close to Liam Gallagher. Liam even helped Sean's fledgling freelance career when the News of the World cut him adrift, offering to assist him with background info on a book about Oasis," he said.

Proctor told the Guardian that Hoare was "imbued with an incredible earthy charm", as well as being a great reporter.

"Like a cross between Arthur Daley and Del Trotter, you could always rely on Sean to persuade people to part with the facts."

Hoare, said Proctor, was a journalist of traditional vintage: "An old fashioned Fleet Street character, always in the pub but always with a story."

Though the most of the tributes were warm, Proctor portrayed a man with some hard edges:

"When I first met him he offered to break my knee caps over some 'creative differences'. But another time, when word went round I had a problem, he was first to my home to lend support. I always loved him, everybody did."

Others who worked alongside Hoare recounted fond memories from when they were young and green.

They included the Guardian's columnist Marina Hyde, who worked as a secretary at the Sun, and wrote on Twitter: "Utterly tragic news about my friend Sean Hoare, the first journalist to speak to me when I started as a secretary ... He continued to be kind to me until the very end, and he was more special than I can possibly say."

Simon Ricketts, a Guardian journalist, recalled on Twitter that Hoare was "a lovely generous man" who took him under his wing as a work experience reporter on a local paper: "He handed me a story on a plate. I went out to investigate, got all my notes and got back to the office and started to write it."

"I finished and Sean had a look. He got my notebook, extracted the best quotes, the one's I'd left in the notebook. He tickled, edited and expanded my story.

"By the time he'd finished, it was 100 times better. It got put on the front page of the paper. Sean insisted that my name go on the story. When the paper came out, he walked over with a copy. He gave me it with a flourish. "Congratulations on your first-ever splash," he said."

Ricketts concludes, "I shall raise a glass or 12 tonight to him."

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PA journalist arrested over phone hacking faces no further action

Laura Elston, a royal reporter for the Press Association, dropped from inquiry after police speak to Clarence House

Paddy Harverson
According to reports, Laura Elston was arrested on suspicion of hacking the voicemails of Paddy Harverson, pictured, Prince Charles's spokesman. Clarence House reportedly told police she was innocent. Photograph: John Peters/PA

A journalist arrested by police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World faces no further action, her lawyer said on Monday.

Laura Elston, 34, who works for the Press Association news agency, was held for several hours on 27 June when she voluntarily went to a central London police station.

Her solicitor, David Corker, said he had been told she faced no further action: "She has been dropped from the inquiry."

Scotland Yard confirmed a 34-year-old arrested in June had had her bail cancelled and been told she faced no further action.

Elston had been questioned on suspicion of intercepting communications, contrary to section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and was the only journalist arrested so far with no known News International links.

Elston works as a royal correspondent and was originally released on police bail until October. She joined the organisation as a graduate trainee in 2000.

PA editor Jonathan Grun said: "Laura Elston is a journalist of integrity who has had a distinguished career since joining us as a trainee more than a decade ago. We are pleased that this matter has been cleared up."

She was interviewed by detectives on Operation Weeting, the investigation launched by the Metropolitan police in January following new allegations of phone hacking.

According to the Sunday Mirror, Elston was arrested on suspicion of hacking the voicemails of Prince Charles's spokesman Paddy Harverson.

The allegation related to Elston's phone being used to call Harverson when they were both in Lesotho in 2006.

The paper said it understood Harverson told police he borrowed her phone to access voicemails because his own mobile was not working.

Clarence House was reportedly satisfied Elston did nothing criminal and told detectives she was innocent.

Clarence House, the official residence of the Prince of Wales, declined to comment on the claim on Monday.

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Paul Dacre accused Rebekah Brooks of trying to 'tear down' British press

Former Sun editor launched strategy designed to spread the blame for hacking to other papers, according to reports

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Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre said he received reports that News International executives had encouraged celebrities to investigate whether their phones had been hacked by Mail newspapers. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, told senior managers he had received reports from PR agencies, footballers and others that News International executives had encouraged them to investigate whether their phones had been hacked by Mail group newspapers, according to the New York Times.

Based on interviews said to have been carried out with former News International staff, the New York Times also claimed Rebekah Brooks had spearheaded a strategy in recent months that appeared designed to spread the blame for hacking across Fleet Street. Several former NoW journalists claimed she asked them to dig up evidence of hacking by others, while one said Brooks's target was not her own newspapers, but those of her rivals.

In an account relayed to his management team, Dacre confronted Brooks at a hotel, telling her: "You are trying to tear down the entire industry."

Lady Claudia Rothermere, wife of the owner of the Mail, was also said to have overheard Brooks say at a dinner party that the Mail was just as culpable as the NoW.

"We didn't break the law," Lady Rothermere said, according to two sources who spoke to the New York Times. Brooks was said to have asked who Rothermere thought she was – "Mother Teresa?"

By the middle of last year, News International's lawyers and some executives were also said to have been urging that the company accept some responsibility – but Brooks disagreed. "Her behaviour all along has been resist, resist, resist," one company official was reported to have said. The US newspaper reported that Rupert Murdoch wanted to "fly commercial to London," so that he might be seen as a man of the people as he prepared to leave a conference in Idaho and come to the UK to take charge of the crisis enveloping his media empire.

He was said to have been told that would hardly do the trick, and Murdoch instead arrived in the UK on a Gulfstream G550 private jet.

Former company executives and political aides also told the New York Times that News International executives engaged in a campaign of selective leaks implicating previous management and the police.

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Daily Mail would not use phone hacking or 'blagging', says Paul Dacre

Editor-in-chief tells MPs that PCC needs radical reform and defamation law is having 'chilling effect' on UK's newspapers

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Paul Dacre said the Daily Mail would never 'countenance' using phone hacking or 'blagging'. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Wire/PA Photos


The Daily Mail has never knowingly published a story based on information gleaned from phone hacking or "blagging", the paper's editor, Paul Dacre, told MPs on Monday.

 

Dacre, the editor-in-chief of Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, told a joint parliamentary select committee on defamation law reform that he had "absolutely not" published a story he knew was based on unlawfully-accessed material.

 

Asked by Baroness Hayter whether he had ever "countenanced" phone hacking or blagging – a phrase used to cover a range of techniques used to get hold of private information – in his 19 years at the Mail, Dacre said: "No."

 

Asked whether unlawful newsgathering techniques could ever be justified, he said: "Goodness me, deep waters. I have considerable sympathy that if there's a great public interest then those methods can be justified."

 

However, he added later: "I don't think you should ever use hacking or blagging as a [public interest] defence because they're criminal offences."

 

Dacre made the rare public appearance to give evidence before a joint Commons and Lords committee on the government's draft defamation bill.

 

Fleet Street's longest-serving editor and a longtime supporter of the Press Complaints Commission, conceded that the self-regulatory body needed to be "radically reformed". But he conceded that it was the "least imperfect system known to man".

 

The Daily Mail editor is the chairman of the editors' code of practice committee, which formulates the PCC's guidelines for newspapers and magazines.

 

Dacre described defamation law in the UK as having a "chilling effect" on newspapers, adding that it had got "exponentially worse" in recent years. "There's not a day goes by when predatory lawyers don't try it on, encouraged by vast sums of money which can be made – most of which goes to them."

 

He added: "The law is becoming more and more onerous and journalists are having to become more and more respectful so it is having a chilling effect."

 

In April 2009, Dacre revealed that the Daily Mail had recently sacked a journalist for unauthorised use of a private detective to obtain illegal information about people.

 

An investigation by the information commissioner in December 2006revealed that more than 50 Daily Mail journalists had paid private detectives to obtain 982 pieces of information about celebrities and other individuals.

 

Associated Newspaper dismissed the investigation, dubbed Operation Motorman, at the time as "utterly meaningless" as it was a snapshot based on the activities of one private detective agency, run by Steve Whittamore. Whittamore, sold information he obtained from the police national computer until he was exposed and convicted in 2005.

 

The Daily Mail came out on top of a list of newspapers that had used Whittamore's services. Others included the Mail's Associated Newspapers stablemate the Mail on Sunday, the Sunday People, Daily Mirror, Sunday Times and Observer (which is published by Guardian News & Media).

 

When the information commissioner's report was published in late 2006 an Associated spokesman said the publisher "in common with all newspapers and broadcasters, and many other organisations, including lawyers, use search agencies to obtain information entirely legitimately from a range of public sources ... In addition, the law specifically makes provision for journalists making inquiries in the public interest".

 

Dacre told the Commons culture, media and sport select committee in 2009 that following the information commissioner's 2006 report, the Daily Mail had banned reporters from using outside agents to supply personal information following, except in cases of overwhelming public interest.

 

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Sean Hoare knew how destructive the News of the World could be

The courageous whistleblower who claimed Andy Coulson knew about phone hacking had a powerful motive for speaking out


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Sean Hoare worked with Andy Coulson (above) at the Sun and News of the World, but was later fired by him. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

At a time when the reputation of News of the World journalists is at rock bottom, it needs to be said that the paper's former showbusiness correspondent Sean Hoare, who died on Monday, was a lovely man.

In the saga of the phone-hacking scandal, he distinguished himself by being the first former NoW journalist to come out on the record, telling the New York Times last year that his former friend and editor, Andy Coulson, had actively encouraged him to hack into voicemail.

That took courage. But he had a particularly powerful motive for speaking. He knew how destructive the News of the World could be, not just for the targets of its exposés, but also for the ordinary journalists who worked there, who got caught up in its remorseless drive for headlines.

Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: "I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle."

He knew this very well, because he was himself a victim of the News of the World. As a showbusiness reporter, he had lived what he was happy to call a privileged life. But the reality had ruined his physical health: "I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get drunk with them, take pills with them, take cocaine with them. It was so competitive. You are going to go beyond the call of duty. You are going to do things that no sane man would do. You're in a machine."

While it was happening, he loved it. He came from a working-class background of solid Arsenal supporters, always voted Labour, defined himself specifically as a "clause IV" socialist who still believed in public ownership of the means of production. But, working as a reporter, he suddenly found himself up to his elbows in drugs and delirium.

He rapidly arrived at the Sun's Bizarre column, then run by Coulson. He recalled: "There was a system on the Sun. We broke good stories. I had a good relationship with Andy. He would let me do what I wanted as long as I brought in a story. The brief was, 'I don't give a fuck'."

He was a born reporter. He could always find stories. And, unlike some of his nastier tabloid colleagues, he did not play the bully with his sources. He was naturally a warm, kind man, who could light up a lamp-post with his talk. From Bizarre, he moved to the Sunday People, under Neil Wallis, and then to the News of the World, where Andy Coulson had become deputy editor. And, persistently, he did as he was told and went out on the road with rock stars, befriending them, bingeing with them, pausing only to file his copy.

He made no secret of his massive ingestion of drugs. He told me how he used to start the day with "a rock star's breakfast" – a line of cocaine and a Jack Daniels – usually in the company of a journalist who now occupies a senior position at the Sun. He reckoned he was using three grammes of cocaine a day, spending about £1,000 a week. Plus endless alcohol. Looking back, he could see it had done him enormous damage. But at the time, as he recalled, most of his colleagues were doing it, too.

"Everyone got overconfident. We thought we could do coke, go to Brown's, sit in the Red Room with Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence. Everyone got a bit carried away."

It must have scared the rest of Fleet Street when he started talking – he had bought, sold and snorted cocaine with some of the most powerful names in tabloid journalism. One retains a senior position on the Daily Mirror. "I last saw him in Little Havana," he recalled, "at three in the morning, on his hands and knees. He had lost his cocaine wrap. I said to him, 'This is not really the behaviour we expect of a senior journalist from a great Labour paper.' He said, 'Have you got any fucking drugs?'"

And the voicemail hacking was all part of the great game. The idea that it was a secret, or the work of some "rogue reporter", had him rocking in his chair: "Everyone was doing it. Everybody got a bit carried away with this power that they had. No one came close to catching us." He would hack messages and delete them so the competition could not hear them, or hack messages and swap them with mates on other papers.

In the end, his body would not take it any more. He said he started to have fits, that his liver was in such a terrible state that a doctor told him he must be dead. And, as his health collapsed, he was sacked by the News of the World – by his old friend Coulson.

When he spoke out about the voicemail hacking, some Conservative MPs were quick to smear him, spreading tales of his drug use as though that meant he was dishonest. He was genuinely offended by the lies being told by News International and always willing to help me and other reporters who were trying to expose the truth. He was equally offended when Scotland Yard's former assistant commissioner, John Yates, assigned officers to interview him, not as a witness but as a suspect. They told him anything he said could be used against him, and, to his credit, he refused to have anything to do with them.

His health never recovered. He liked to say that he had stopped drinking, but he would treat himself to some red wine. He liked to say he didn't smoke any more, but he would stop for a cigarette on his way home. For better and worse, he was a Fleet Street man.

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News Corp board shocked at evidence of payments to police, says former DPP

Lord Macdonald tells committee it took him 'three to five minutes' to decide NoW emails had to be passed to police

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Lord Macdonald was in charge of the CPS when the phone-hacking prosecution of the NoW’s royal correspondent took place. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA

"Blindingly obvious" evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, when he inspected News of the World emails, the home affairs select committee was told.

Explaining how he had been called in by solicitors acting for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation board, Lord Macdonald said that when he inspected the messages it took him between "three to five minutes" to decide that the material had to be passed to police.

"The material I saw was so blindingly obvious that trying to argue that it should not be given to the police would have been a hard task. It was evidence of serious criminal offences."

He first showed it to the News Corp board in June this year. "There was no dissent," he recalled. "They were stunned. They were shocked. I said it was my unequivocal advice that it should be handed to the police. They accepted that."

That board meeting, the former DPP said, was chaired by Rupert Murdoch.

Lord Macdonald shortly afterwards gave the material to Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick at the Metropolitan police. The nine or 10 emails passed over led to the launch of Operation Elveden, the police investigation into corrupt payments to officers for information.

Lord Macdonald, who had been in charge of the Crown Prosecution Service when the phone-hacking prosecution of the NoW's royal correspondent took place, said he had only been alerted to the case due to the convention that the DPP is always notified of crimes involving the royal family.

Members of the committee were highly critical of the CPS's narrow definition of what constituted phone hacking, claiming that it was at odds with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.

Mark Reckless, the Conservative MP for Rochester, said that the original police investigation was hindered by the advice from the CPS that phone hacking was only an offence if messages had been intercepted before they were listened to by the intended recipient. However, Reckless said, a clause in the RIPA makes it an offence to hack in to messages even if they have already been heard.

Keir Starmer, the current DPP, said that the police had been told that "the RIPA legislation was untested". Listening to messages before they had been heard by the intended recipient was illegal, the police were told, but the question of whether intercepting them afterwards constituted a crime was "untested", he said.

Mark Lewis, the solicitor who has followed the scandal since its start, said he was the first person to lose his job over the affair when the firm in which he was a partner said it no longer wished him to pursue other victims' claims.

Lewis also told MPs that he had been threatened by lawyers acting for John Yates, the former assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police, because of comments he had made about phone hacking.

"I have copies of a letter from Carter Ruck [solicitors] threatening to sue me on behalf of John Yates," Lewis told the home affairs select committee. He said the Guardian and the Labour MP Chris Bryant had also received threats of being sued. "The costs of the action were paid for by the Metropolitan Police, by the taxpayer," he added.

Lewis said the reason for the investigation taking so long was not due solely to the police. "The DPP seems to have got it wrong and needs to be helped out," he said.


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A new witness statement handed to the High Court of Justice showing Julian Assange was set up by the CIA


A new witness statement dated 13th July, 2011 has now been presented to Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley who are the two High Court Judges hearing the Julian Assange Extradition and also presented to Clare Montgomery QC, appearing for the Swedish prosecution authority on the last day of Assange's appeal against extradition, who has falsely stated to a packed said complaints against him showed a lack of consent during a string of sexual encounters in Stockholm last August. Clare Montgomery QC said the charges set out on the European arrest warrant and supported by witness statements amount to valid allegations. However, in fairness to Clare Montgomery QC of Matrix Chambera London WC1R 5LN Telphone: +44(0) 207 404 3447 Fax: +44(0) 207 611 9369 until she received a copy of the witness statement varifying that Julian Assange’s rape accusers, Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén had fabricated their stories to set up Julian Assange for the CIA and the USA, Clare Montgomery QC had not realised she had been hoodwinked by the Swedish Government to present a fasified set of facts and story to the High Court of Justice. In the light of being presented this new evidence it is understood that Clare Montgomery QC is going to recommend to the Swedish Government that they immediately withdraw from the extradition proceedings and drop all charges against Julian Assange. If the Swedish Govement do not drop these false and wrongful charges, based on fabricated evidence against Jilian Assange in the light of the new evidence, this will cause a international media revolt against the Swedish Government and a hugh 'public outcry for justice for Julian Assange'.  The High Court would then have to step is under the inherent jurisdicton of the court to stop this traversity of just occuring, which could end up with Juilan Assange being wrongly/and unjustly executed and/or murdered in a US Jail, the two High Court Judges Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley hearing the Julian Assange Extradition appeal will have step in in the interest of' justice not only being done, but seen to be done', to grant Julian Assange Extradition Appeal and immediately stop an innocent man being sent to his likely murder and/or wrongful execution in the USA, once Julian Assange is extradited to Sweden and then to the USA.
 The only just and fair and humaen way to handle this case now is to set aside and or 
permanently stay any extrations orders against Julina Assange. 

The alternative is for Julian Assange to apply for political Asylum in the UK.


Rape accuser took "trophy photo", says Assange AFP

December 27th 2010

Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro GroupDecember 5, 2010  AFP

Julian Assange’s rape accusers are Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén 


Julian Assange’s rape accusers are Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilén who have fabricated their stories to set up Julian Assange for the CIA and the USA Government because they are upset about Wiki Leaks a website Julian Assange founded told the world the truth about what was really going in the bankers-oil and power wars going on in Iraq and Afganistan other places as well. CIA agent Marko also told News of the World that the CIA and USA Government, as a favour for Rupert and James Murdoch and their all powerful media giant News Corp to was making sure' Julian Assange does not see the light of day once he arrives in Sweden and then extradited to the USA'.' Well known in the world media as 'Rothchild's Choice' Barrack Obama' and the extrememly powerful Rothchild Family who control, in various ways and methods, over 60% of ther worlds wealth, mineral and oil resources, governments etc owe hugh favours to Rupert and James Murdoch and their all powerful media giant News Corp for usung their Fox News Net Work in the USA to help Barrack Obama become elected president of the USA. Of course no one would ever dream that after Rupert and James Murdoch and their all powerful media giant News Corp helped David Cameron and his cinservative Party gain power int he U.K, that the would of Westminister including David Cameron who openly trun on Rupert and James Murdoch and their all powerful media giant News Corpas they have now donw, which has encourage other governments around the world to start a Stand Uop to Rupert Campaign and ti is widely now sia dthat Rupert Murch on News Corp are no longer King, President and Prime Minster Makers as they have been for the last 30years... through the pwer their media outlets and organisations have had on convincing the average oerson which way their should vote in a particular elelction.



Power as president of the USA through Rupert Murdoch's  

who has it turns out are CIA operatives as admnited by CIA Agent Marko in an exclusive internview with News of the World . A witness statement of this excluiove inbetrview has now been handed ot the two judges handlign the 
Ah, then came the dawn. Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group By Kirk James Murphy, M.D. 04 Dec 2010 [As reported by Israel Shamir and Paul Bennett in Counterpunch in September]

Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder of seventy three Cubans on an airliner he [Luis Posada Carilles] was involved in blowing up... Who is Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden? She’s a gender equity officer at Uppsula University -- who chose to associate with a US funded group openly supported by a convicted terrorist and mass murderer.  She just happens to have her work published by a very well funded group connected with Union Liberal Cubana -- whose leader, Carlos Alberto Montaner, in turn just happened to pop up on right wing Colombian TV a few hours after the right-wing coup in Honduras.


http://www.legitgov.org/Assange-Accuser-Worked-US-Funded-CIA-Tied-Anti-Castro-Group


Julian Assange is Controlled Opposition Under Mind Control
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=194294.0

NSA nexus: former Google security boss Ben Laurie on Wikileaks' advisory board!!
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=194274.0

Assange literally in bed with CIA asset/operative: his Swedish accuser is CIA op
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=194293.0

 

Assange prosecutor: “Lock the men up anyway”

http://www.indymedia.org.au/2010/12/08/assange-prosecutor-%E2%80%9Clock-the-men-up-anyway%E2%80%9D Wed 08 Dec 2010
By Diet Simon

The Swedish prosecutor out to get Julian Assange, described as “overzealous” in the prestigious German weekly, Die Zeit, once advocated that men accused of mistreating women be locked up even without a conviction to give the accusing women time and space to think.

There is heated debate in Sweden whether the hard line taken against Assange by the state attorney is right, the paper says.

“Not an international conspiracy of secret services, but an overzealous state attorney is regarded as the main reason for (Assange’s) arrest.

“Even an association of young feminist women within the Social Democratic Party now doubts the seriousness of the accusations and the professionalism of the state attorney.

“That is remarkable inasmuch as Assange’s alleged victim (Anna Ardin) is a member of this group.”

Even within the group, Die Zeit writes, it is assumed that the allegations rest only on Assange allegedly not having used a condom against the will of his sex partner.
“These claims are not officially confirmed, however. But they would fit with the behaviour of the Swedish judiciary in the Assange case.”

When the accusations were first voiced to the Swedish police in August, the prosecutors did not lay charges.

Then personnel changed.

A new prosecutor, Marianne Ny, took over the case, distanced herself from the previous decision and laid a rape charge.

Marianne Ny is regarded as a prosecutor who goes especially far. “In one case of a woman being mistreated she voiced the opinion that men accused by women but not convicted should in any case be preventively locked up – to give the women “space to think things over”.

"Only when the man is in captivity and the woman in quietude gets time to look at her existence with some distance, does she get the opportunity to discover how she was treated,” she is quoted as saying at the time.

To Swedish media Assange’s British lawyer has likened Marianne Ny to an "unsecured firearm on the tossing deck of a ship in stormy sea”.

The second woman who accuses Assange is Sofia Wilen. Both alleged victims, who went to the police together “to seek advice”, are described as frauds at this site:http://www.inmalafide.com/2010/12/04/the-name-of-julian-assanges-other-f...

Also have a look at http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?301387-Anna-Ardin-and-Sofia-Wilen

http://www.w54.biz/showthread.php?949-WikiLeaks-founder-blasts-Pentagon-amid-Afghan-files-row&p=12144

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange fears he is subject of an 'illegal investigation'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that there could be
 an "illegal investigation" being carried out into him.


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange celebrates as he prepares to address the media outside the High Court in central London yesterday. Photo: AFP/GETTY


News Of The World Exclusive

CIA Agent 'Marko' 


who was at the High Court of Justice in London on the 12th July 2011  to monitor the Julian Assange  extradition appeal and who were involed in the protests  opened up to  News Of The World that the the two accusers  against Julain Assange which form the basis of the Swedish's Government's attempt to extradite Julian Assange  that have filed complaints against Julian Assange in Sweden, are actually 
  Anna Ardin, is a radical feminist who convinced Wilén to file charges against Assange.... 



Julian Assange extradition appeal: QCs clash over 'conceptions 

of  consent'

High court judges adjourn case to consider Swedish prosecution 

authority's case against WikiLeaks founder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/13/julian-assange-appeal-sexual-complaints



WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the high court in London after his appeal against extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, must be extradited to Swedento face accusations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, the high court in London heard.

Clare Montgomery QC, appearing for the Swedish prosecution authority on the last day of Assange's appeal against extradition, said complaints against him showed a lack of consent during a string of sexual encounters in Stockholm last August. She said the charges set out on the European arrest warrant and supported by witness statements amount to valid allegations.

Speaking to a packed court four at the Royal Courts of Justice before Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley adjourned to consider their verdict, she spelled out in graphic detail Assange's alleged behaviour and said the two female complainants known as AA and SW described "circumstances in which they did not freely consent without coercion".

"They were coerced, either by physical force or they were trapped into a situation where they had no choice," Montgomery said. "AA says in her case the prelude to the offence was Mr Assange ripping her clothes off, breaking her necklace, her trying to get dressed again and then letting him undress her." He then had sex with her after pinning her arms and trying to force her legs apart to insert his unprotected penis, which she did not want, she said.

In an increasingly hard fought legal battle, Assange's counsel, Ben Emmerson QC, hit back at what he said were attempts by Montgomery to characterise him as having "19th-century conceptions of consent". It was "crazy" of Montgomery to isolate a moment of lack of consent within sexual encounters that were otherwise consenting. He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges. She had only wanted the police to force Assange to take a blood test after she became worried about HIV after unprotected sex with him, he said.

Emmerson said a friend of AA, Donald Bostrom, said "she didn't say at all she had been exposed to abuse and didn't even want to go to the police", and a charge of sexual molestation arising from Assange sharing a single bed with AA was also unfounded.

The European arrest warrant said Assange "deliberately molested the injured party on 18 August 2010 by acting in a manner designed to violate her sexual integrity".

In an interview, AA said Assange undressed below the waist and rubbed his erect penis against her. She found it "strange" and "awkward" and moved to sleep on a mattress on the floor. But Assange's erection was normal, Emmerson told the court.

"He's lying beside her in a single bed my lord," he said. "Men will get erections involuntarily and at different times during a night's sleep. If she chooses to spend a night in a single bed with a man there is a strong possibility she will come into contact with an erect penis. I don't mean that as a joke."

"I agree with you," said Thomas.

However, Montgomery told the court the definition of an extradition offence "means the conduct complained of. It has nothing to do with the evidence."

Thomas appeared to concur: "We are not concerned with whether this is a good case or a bad case but whether what is charged amounts to acrime."

In one of several criticisms of the Swedish authorities, Emmerson said: "The clearest possible facts have been concealed through the terminology of the warrant. That is wrong and it is the responsibility of this court to put it right."

Assange left court without comment and returned to Norfolk to continue his house arrest. A verdict is expected in around a month.





     Outside High Court of         
        JusticeLondon 
      Julian Assange Extradition Appeal
 
                     12th July 2011











                                                             CIA Agent Marko watching all the proectors all day 

  Marko, a self confessed CIA agent 
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              Julian Assange 
    for the Swedish Government
                                                                     Marko said 'I do not personally 
         like what the CIA are doing...'      
              but says, 

          "...I am just doing my job...."


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'Brown's sick babies targeted by hackers'
by John Higginson -London MetroTuesday 12th July 2011
who says:
" Journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's newspapers 'blagged' detaild of Gordon Brown's sich children, it was alleged yesterday. They obtained details from the medical files of Mr Brown's four month-old son, Fraser, showing he eas sufefreing from cystic fibrosis. They also attemoted to access the former prime minister's voice mail, his legal file and hisbank account, the latest reports show. The claims, involving, The Sun and the SundayTimes, suggested for the first time thatthe hacking scandal was spreading beyond the now-closed News Of The World. It also cast further serious doubt over Mr Murdoch's bid to obtan full control of BSkyB; yesterday the move was referred by ministrs to competition wtachdogs. Last night, Mr Brown ans h wife, Sarah, spoke of their sadness and shock at the 'level of criminality' used to prociure some of their children's most intimate details... The scandal, which erupted last week when it emerged that the News of the World had hacked the phone of murdered schollgirl Milly Dowler, took another dark twist with the latest allefations publish by the Guardian. In 2006, Sun editor Rebekah Brooks contacted the Browns to ell them they had detaild formRaser's mefical files, the paper claimed. Five years earluer, sensitive information about the couple's first child, Jennifer, who died at ten days old, also found its way to newspapers.  The Sunday Times was also linked to an actor impersonating Mr Brown trying to get access to his Abbey National account and legal file. The claims were even more devistating to Mrs Brown who considered Mrs Brooks a friend and even organised her 40th birthday party in 2008. She said yesterday: 'So sad to learn about all I have about my family's provacy. It is really sad if true,' It is being cliamed that a royal protection officer was paid to provide the News of the World with information and phone numbers of memebrs of the royal family."
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The media barrob will feel the backlash from the phon ehacking scandal when Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour MP's vot against him gaining control of BSkyB.
Their vote on a Commons motion may carry little legal weight but will send out a clear signal that his days as political kingmaker are numbered.
Labour leader Ed Milband, who put forward the motion said: 'There are times when thehouse of Commons has got to rise to the occasion and speak for the public.'
David Cameron's spokesman said 'the 80-year-old tytoon, whoe papers claimed the power to sway elections, should 'heed the will of parliament.'
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Julian Assange a great dissident, says his father

WikiLeaks founder's biological father, attending extradition hearing, tells of son's 'immense desire for justice in the world'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/julian-assange-father-interview

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaving the high court this week
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaving the high court this week. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Julian Assange's biological father has described his son as a "great dissident" in what he said would be his first and probably only media interview.

John Shipton, who has been attending the Assange extradition hearing in London, spoke to the Spanish newspaper el País and confirmed that his son did not get to know him until his mid-20s.

"I have kept my mouth closed so as not to hinder things," said Shipton, whose name Assange used to register the Wikileaks.org domain name in 2006.

Shipton met Assange's mother, Christine, then aged 17, at an antiques shop on his way to a Vietnam war demonstration – which she joined. Little is known about the relationship, except that it had ended by the time of their son's first birthday – if not earlier. Christine then married theatre director Brett Assange.

Shipton told el País that he first got to know his son after Christine rang his Sydney home in 1996. Assange was 25 at the time. "It was extraordinary," Shipton said. "Certain of his thought processes made it seem like I was staring into a mirror. I could barely believe it. He had the same logic, the same intense curiosity, the same obtuse way of constructing sentences ... that never end."

That meeting coincided with, or came soon after, Assange's 1996 trial for computer hacking – where his lawyer talked of a "really quite tragic" nomadic childhood that saw him attend at least a dozen schools.

His mother became pregnant in her early 20s after she "effectively ran away from home" to Sydney, according to court documents used by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding in their book WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy. The documents state that Shipton "never took up residence or if he did only took up residence for a very short time" and "had no contact with [Assange]".

Assange nevertheless later felt confident enough to use his father's name to register WikiLeaks' internet domain name, re-registering Shipton's nominal address in 2008 as Nairobi in Kenya.

Shipton had worried that his son was a modern Don Quixote. "At that time it seemed as though Julian loved tilting at windmills, but it turned out not to be like that." He warned Assange that he was setting himself tough, idealistic targets. "When someone tells you they want to turn the world upside down, you reply: 'OK, try it. But it's not that easy!'"

Shipton, who is believed to work as a freelance architect in Sydney, said Assange had inherited Christine's fighting spirit. "He is a great dissident, well-prepared for a new era in which direct action is practised via the internet."

He said his son's style of dissidence followed in the tradition of people like Che Guevara, Apollinaire or south American hero Simón Bolívar.

Shipton is convinced Assange is the victim of a conspiracy. "I think all this has been organised," he said, while adding that he did not want to hurt Assange's alleged Swedish victims with his words. "The intelligence agencies got involved in this business from the very start."

Assange's father apparently sees the US government behind the decision by Mastercard and Visa to prevent WikiLeaks accepting donations from their credit cards. "There is no separation between governments and finance," he said.

"There are many intelligent people in the world, but most seem to be wicked, while Julian seems to have the moral courage and ability to carry his vision through. He seems to have an immense desire for justice in the world."

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Assange stuck on snail mail as Celebs

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July 15, 2011


Fighting extradition ... Julian Assange arrives at court.

Fighting extradition ... Julian Assange arrives at court. Photo: Reuters

Either some of the world's biggest secrets are passing through an Australian P.O. box or WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taking a break from his transparency mission to court the celebrity lifestyle and fight his legal battle.

For the past year, the whistleblower site has been unable to receive leaked documents online after Assange's former right-hand man, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, took the organisation's encrypted submission system with him on his way out to start a rival site, OpenLeaks.

WikiLeaks has also shut down its online chat service designed to facilitate submissions so the only way leakers can blow the whistle is via snail mail: Australian PO Box 4080 at the University of Melbourne.

Supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside the High Court.

Supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside the High Court. Photo: AFP

It's a decidedly low-tech approach from one of the world's best-known computer hackers. Emails sent to Assange's own personal address have also been bouncing.

Assange, who has to wear an electronic tag and report to police every day, has been busy fighting extradition to Sweden to face sexual misconduct claims. While under house arrest at a friend's mansion in Eastern England the Australian has been on a donation drive to pay for his legal fees and keep WikiLeaks running.

But despite spending the past seven months confined to a rural house Assange has not said when submissions will be re-opened. A notice on the website only says submissions will be accepted "in the near future" following "re-engineering improvements" designed to make the site "more secure and more user-friendly".

Power couple ... Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Snubbed Assange's birthday ... Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Photo: AFP

Assange courting celebrities for birthday bash

Last weekend Assange hosted a lavish 40th birthday party at the mansion he is staying in. The guest list reportedly included Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, but none are believed to have turned up.

"You can charter a private plane to Norwich International Airport which has a private air strip and is a half-hour taxi journey from Ellingham Hall, or alternatively you can land helicopters on the Ellingham Hall property on the field in the north-west quadrant of this map," read the invitation to the bash.

The Guardian reported about 100 people attended the party in a massive marquee set up at the mansion but there were no reports of planes, helicopters or celebrities.

"Heading back to London after party in Norfolk. No sign of Branjelina or any helicopters," tweeted activist Ryan Gallagher, who attended the bash.

 Fighting extradition

This week, Assange has been back in the high court in Britain fighting his extradition to Sweden to face claims he sexually assaulted two women. Assange argues the sex was consensual and has said the court case is a political smear by the US government.

In February Assange was ordered to return to Sweden by Senior District Judge Howard Riddle, who dismissed claims by defence lawyers that the extradition was without legal basis and would result in a violation of human rights.

Assange has appealed the extradition order in Britain's High Court, overseen by Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley, who on Wednesday heard a second day of argument over the detail of a European Arrest Warrant which alleges three counts of sexual assault and one of rape against two women on two separate occasions.

Assange has not been charged and denies the allegations, including that he deliberately broke a condom to have unprotected sex, saying that on each occasion sex was consensual and that Judge Riddle's extradition order was "wrong".

"If a woman chooses to spend the night in a single bed with a male, there is an inevitable possibility that she will come into contact with an erect penis at some time," barrister Ben Emmerson, QC, told the court.

Lawyers for Assange further argued that the extradition warrant fails to meet points of law, including that he is not named for prosecution, but instead simply wanted for questioning, which could be done by phone.

 'They did not freely consent'

However prosecutor Clare Montgomery, QC, said that the warrant is valid and contains allegations capable of justifying criminal charges.

"Those charges as claimed are substantiated by probable cause," she told the court.

"With that as a factual background, your Lords would need evidential clarity of quite monumental proportions to displace what the (Swedish) prosecutor has complained about."

Comparing evidence in the arrest warrant to that detailed in a prosecution dossier and not yet made available to the court, Ms Montgomery said the particulars are essentially the same.

"In my opinion, when one does that (comparison) it is perfectly plain that what one is looking at is not only ... non-consensual, coerced sex .... but that that is clearly the only inference that can be drawn from the claimants," she said.

"They did not freely consent ... (but) were coerced either by physical force or after having been trapped into a position where they couldn't (refuse) and ... they let him continue.

"If what they say matters, they are clearly describing violent sex acts where there was no reason to believe consent had been granted."

Assange wanted to 'impregnate virgins'

Ms Montgomery accused Assange's lawyers of "19th Century conceptions of consent", adding that in contemporary law, consent to share a bed, or even engage in foreplay, does not translate to consent to have intercourse.

Furthermore, to Assange's desire to engage in unprotected sex, Ms Montgomery referred to a witness statement made by one of the complainants that: "(Assange) preferred virgins because he would be the first to impregnate them".

Mr Emmerson said the allegations needed to be considered in their entirety and not with the "socially desirable interpretations of consent" suggested by the prosecution.

Throughout this week's hearings Assange's legal team trialled a new approach and most notably has brought an end to Assange's long media conferences outside court which typically degenerated into rants about the failings of Europe's legal system.

On both Tuesday and Wednesday, Assange remained tight-lipped as he left court, although he gave the impression he was bursting to have his say.

Has the man who achieved global fame championing for freedom of speech himself been gagged?

The bench overseeing Assange's extradition appeal have reserved their judgment, to be handed down at a date to be fixed.

Book deal collapses

Meanwhile, the book deal for Assange's memoirs, which would've seen the Australian net £850,000, has collapsed because Assange feared the US government could use the details to extradite him to the US.

"I don't want to write this book, but I have to. I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat," he said when the book deal was first announced.

Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old US soldier accused of leaking confidential US embassy cables and other data to Assange, has been languishing in a military prison for the past year. He is awaiting a hearing to decide whether he will face a court martial.

While much attention has been focused on Assange, many are now turning to the plight of Manning, who has been profiled recently in both New York magazine and The Atlantic.

Manning was turned in by Adrian Lamo, a hacker who struck up a relationship with Manning online. The full logs of the online chats between Manning and Lamo that ultimately led to Manning's arrest were this week published by Wired.

- with wires

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Held: Ellingham Hall in Bungay, where Mr Assange is under house arrest

Held: Ellingham Hall in Bungay, Norfolk, where Mr Assange is under house arrest



Public backing: Supporters of Mr Assange protest outside the High Court

Public backing: Supporters of Mr Assange protest outside the High Court



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European Arrest Warrant was issued on September 1. 

Since then Assange, who is currently under house arrest in Norfolk, has been fighting extradition to Sweden over the allegations.

Ben Emmerson QC, representing Assange, said that consent was given in both cases, adding that SW had become captivated by Assange when she saw him on TV and that she had consensual sex with him while 'half asleep'.

Yesterday Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ouseley reserved their judgment in the case.

Assange says the allegations against him are politically motivated and could result in him being extradited to the U.S., where the government was rocked by his website's mass leaking of diplomatic cables.



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Julian Assange



Assange in 2010
Born 3 July 1971 (age 40)[1][2][3]
TownsvilleQueensland, Australia

Occupation Editor-in-chief and spokesperson for WikiLeaks


Assange, in or before 2006

Julian Paul Assange (play /əˈsɒnʒ/ ə-sonzh; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian publisher,[4][5]journalist,[6][7][8] computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief ofWikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open governments. Assange was a hacker in his youth, before becoming a computer programmer.[9] He has lived in several countries and has made public appearances in many parts of the world to speak about freedom of the press, censorship and investigative journalism.

Assange serves on the WikiLeaks advisory board.[10][11] WikiLeaks has published material about extrajudicial killings in Kenyatoxic waste dumping in Côte d'IvoireChurch of Scientology manualsGuantanamo Bay procedures, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer.[12] In 2010, WikiLeaks published Iraq War documents and Afghan War documents about American involvement in the wars, some of which was classified material. On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and its five international print media partners (Der SpiegelThe New York TimesLe MondeThe Guardian and El País) began publishing U.S. diplomatic cables.[13]

Assange received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readers' Choice for TIME magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.[14]

Assange appealed a February 2011 decision by English courts to extradite him to Sweden for questioning in relation to a sexual assault investigation.[15][16][17][18] He said the allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis".[19] A two-day High Court hearing started on 12 July; he remains on bail.[20]

Early life


Assange was born in TownsvilleQueensland, and spent much of his youth living on Magnetic Island.[21]

His biological father was John Shipton, and his mother Christine was the daughter of Scottish-born principal of Northern Rivers College, Warren Hawkins.[22][23] When Julian was one year old, Christine married theatre director Brett Assange, who gave him his surname.[2][24][25]Brett and Christine Assange ran a touring theatre company. His stepfather, Julian's first "real dad", described Julian as "a very sharp kid" with "a keen sense of right and wrong". "He always stood up for the underdog... he was always very angry about people ganging up on other people."[25]

Assange has asserted: "Capable, generous men do not create victims; they nurture victims." He says he is a combative person and that perhaps he is not so good at nurturing, but that "there is another way of nurturing victims, which is to police perpetrators."[26]

In 1979, his mother remarried; her new husband was a musician whom Julian Assange believed belonged to a New Age group calledSantiniketan Park Association led by Yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne. The couple had a son, but broke up in 1982 and engaged in acustody struggle for Assange's half-brother. His divorced mother fled her boyfriend across Australia, taking both children into hiding for the next five years. Assange moved 30 times before he turned 14, attending many schools, including Goolmangar Primary School from 1979 to 1983, sometimes being home-schooled.[2][27][28] In an interview conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Assange stated that he had lived in 50 different towns and attended 37 different schools.[29]

Hacking and conviction


In 1987, after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name "Mendax" (derived from a phrase of Horace: "splendide mendax", or "nobly untruthful").[2] He and two other hackers joined to form a group they named the International Subversives. Assange wrote down the early rules of the subculture: "Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information".[2] The Personal Democracy Forum said he was "Australia's most famous ethical computer hacker."[30] The Australian Federal Police became aware of this group and set up "Operation Weather" to investigate their hacking. In September 1991 Mendax was discovered in the act of hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, the Canadian telecommunications company.[2] In response the Australian Federal Police tapped Assanges' phoneline and subsequently raided his Melbourne home in 1991.[31] He was also reported to have accessed computers belonging to an Australian university,[2] the USAF 7th Command Group in the Pentagon[32] and other organisations, via modem.[33] It took three years to bring the case to court, where he was charged with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. Nortel said his incursions cost them more than $100,000. Despite representing hacking as a victimless crime, he nonetheless pleaded guilty to 25 charges of hacking. Six charges were dropped. He was released on bond for good conduct after being fined A$2,100.[2][34] The judge said "there is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what's the expression—surf through these various computers"[2] and stated that Assange would have gone to jail for up to 10 years if he had not had such a disrupted childhood.[32]

Assange later commented, "It's a bit annoying, actually. Because I co-wrote a book about [being a hacker], there are documentaries about that, people talk about that a lot. They can cut and paste. But that was 20 years ago. It's very annoying to see modern day articles calling me a computer hacker. I'm not ashamed of it, I'm quite proud of it. But I understand the reason they suggest I'm a computer hacker now. There's a very specific reason."[4]

In 2011, court records revealed that in 1993, Assange helped the Victoria Police Child Exploitation Unit by providing technical advice and assisted in prosecuting persons.[35]

Child custody issues

In 1989, Assange started living with his girlfriend and they had a son, Daniel Assange.[36] They split up during the period of Assange's arrest and conviction. They subsequently engaged in a lengthy custody struggle and did not agree on a custody arrangement until 1999.[2][37]

The entire process prompted Assange and his mother to form Parent Inquiry Into Child Protection, an activist group centered on creating a "central databank" for otherwise inaccessible legal records related to child custody issues in Australia.[37] In an interview with ABC Radio, his mother explained their "most important" issue was demanding "that there be direct access to the children's court by any member of the public for an application for protection for any child that they believe is at serious risk from abuse, where the child protection agency has rejected that notification."[38]

Computer programming and university studies


In 1993, Assange was involved in starting one of the first public internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network.[4][39]Starting in 1994, he lived in Melbourne as a programmer and a developer of free software.[34] In 1995, he wrote Strobe, the first free and open source port scanner.[40][41] He contributed several patches to the PostgreSQL project in 1996.[42][43] He helped to write the bookUnderground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (1997), which credits him as a researcher and reports his history with International Subversives.[44][45] Starting around 1997, he co-invented the Rubberhose deniable encryption system, acryptographic concept made into a software package for Linux designed to provide plausible deniability against rubber-hose cryptanalysis;[46] he originally intended the system to be used "as a tool for human rights workers who needed to protect sensitive data in the field."[47] Other free software that he has authored or co-authored includes the Usenet caching software NNTPCache[48] and Surfraw, a command-line interface for web-based search engines. In 1999, he registered the domain leaks.org; "But", he says, "then I didn't do anything with it."[49]

From 2003 to 2006, Assange attended the University of Melbourne, mainly studying physics and mathematics and briefly studying philosophy and neuroscience.[27][30][50] In most of his maths courses, he received the minimum "pass" grade. He did not graduate; the fact that his fellow students were doing research for Pentagon's DARPA was reportedly a factor in motivating him to drop out and start WikiLeaks.[2][27][50][51]

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks was founded in 2006.[2][52] That year, Assange wrote two essays setting out the philosophy behind WikiLeaks: "To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not."[53][54][55] In his blog he wrote, "the more secretive or unjust an organisation is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.... Since unjust systems, by their nature, induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance."[53][56]

Assange is a prominent media spokesman on WikiLeaks' behalf. While newspapers have described him as a "director"[57] or "founder"[31] of WikiLeaks, Assange has said, "I don't call myself a founder";[58] he does describe himself as the editor in chief of WikiLeaks,[59] and has stated that he has the final decision in the process of vetting documents submitted to the site.[60] Assange says that WikiLeaks has released more classified documents than the rest of the world press combined: "That's not something I say as a way of saying how successful we are – rather, that shows you the parlous state of the rest of the media. How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the rest of the world press combined? It's disgraceful."[52] He advocates a "transparent" and "scientific" approach to journalism, saying that "you can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism."[61][62] In 2006, CounterPunch called him "Australia's most infamous former computer hacker."[63] The Age has called him "one of the most intriguing people in the world" and "internet's freedom fighter."[49] Assange has called himself "extremely cynical".[49] He has been described as being largely self-taught and widely read on science and mathematics,[34] and as thriving on intellectual battle.[64]

WikiLeaks has been involved in the publication of material documenting extrajudicial killings in Kenya, a report of toxic waste dumping on the coast of Côte d'IvoireChurch of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike video, and material involving large banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer among other documents.[12] In 2008, Assange published an article entitled "The Hidden Curse of Thomas Paine", in which he wrote "What does it mean when only those facts about the world with economic powers behind them can be heard, when the truth lays naked before the world and no one will be the first to speak without payment or subsidy?"[65]

In late 2010, Assange was in the process of completing his memoirs for publication in 2011.[66]

Public appearances

Assange in Copenhagen, 17 November 2009

In addition to exercising great authority and editorial control within WikiLeaks, Assange acts as its public face. He has appeared at media conferences such as New Media Days '09 in Copenhagen,[67] the 2010 Logan Symposium in Investigative Reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,[68] and at hacker conferences, notably the 25th and 26th Chaos Communication Congress.[69] In the first half of 2010, he appeared on Al Jazeera English,MSNBCDemocracy Now!RT, and The Colbert Report to discuss the release of the Baghdad airstrike video by WikiLeaks. On 3 June he appeared via videoconferencing at the Personal Democracy Forum conference with Daniel Ellsberg.[70][71] Ellsberg told MSNBC "the explanation he [Assange] used" for not appearing in person in the U.S. was that "it was not safe for him to come to this country."[72] On 11 June he was to appear on a Showcase Panel at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Las Vegas,[73] but there are reports that he cancelled several days prior.[74]

On 10 June 2010, it was reported that Pentagon officials were trying to determine his whereabouts.[75][76] Based on this, there were reports that U.S. officials wanted to apprehend Assange.[77] Ellsberg said that the arrest of Bradley Manning and subsequent speculation by U.S. officials about what Assange may be about to publish "puts his well-being, his physical life, in some danger now."[72] In The Atlantic,Marc Ambinder called Ellsberg's concerns "ridiculous", and said that "Assange's tendency to believe that he is one step away from being thrown into a black hole hinders, and to some extent discredits, his work."[78] In Salon.comGlenn Greenwald questioned "screeching media reports" that there was a "manhunt" on Assange underway, arguing that they were only based on comments by "anonymous government officials" and might even serve a campaign by the U.S. government, by intimidating possible whistleblowers.

On 21 June 2010, he took part at a hearing in Brussels, Belgium, appearing in public for the first time in nearly a month.[79] He was a member on a panel that discussed Internet censorship and expressed his worries over the recent filtering in countries such as Australia. He also talked about secret gag orders preventing newspapers from publishing information about specific subjects and even divulging the fact that they are being gagged. Using an example involving The Guardian, he also explained how newspapers are altering their online archives sometimes by removing entire articles.[80][81] He told The Guardian that he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert and will avoid travel to America, saying "[U.S.] public statements have all been reasonable. But some statements made in private are a bit more questionable." He said "politically it would be a great error for them to act. I feel perfectly safe but I have been advised by my lawyers not to travel to the U.S. during this period."[79]

On 17 July, Jacob Appelbaum spoke on behalf of WikiLeaks at the 2010 Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York City, replacing Assange due to the presence of federal agents at the conference.[82][83] He announced that the WikiLeaks submission system was again up and running, after it had been temporarily suspended.[82][84] Assange was a surprise speaker at a TED conference on 19 July 2010, in Oxford, and confirmed that WikiLeaks was now accepting submissions again.[85][86][87] On 26 July, after the release of the Afghan War Diary, he appeared at the Frontline Club for a press conference.[88] On 15 March 2011, Assange gave a speech at the Cambridge Union Society.[89][90] After initially discouraging recording, a video of this has been made available by the Society.[91]

Release of U.S. diplomatic cables

On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing some of the 251,000 American diplomatic cables in their possession, of which over 53 percent are listed as unclassified, 40 percent are "Confidential" and just over six percent are classified "Secret". The following day, the Attorney-General of Australia, Robert McClelland, told the press that Australia would inquire into Assange's activities and WikiLeaks.[92] He said that "from Australia's point of view, we think there are potentially a number of criminal laws that could have been breached by the release of this information. The Australian Federal Police are looking at that".[93] McClelland would not rule out the possibility that Australian authorities will cancel Assange's passport, and warned him that he might face charges should he return to Australia.[94] The Federal Police inquiry found that Assange had not committed any crime.[95]

The United States Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation related to the leak. U.S. prosecutors are reportedly considering charges against Assange under several laws, but any prosecution would be difficult.[96] In relation to its ongoing investigations of WikiLeaks, on 14 December 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a subpoena ordering Twitter to release information relating to Assange's account, amongst others.[97][98]

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that Assange "is serving our democracy and serving our rule of law precisely by challenging the secrecy regulations, which are not laws in most cases, in this country." On the issue of national security considerations for the U.S., Ellsberg added, "He's obviously a very competent guy in many ways. I think his instincts are that most of this material deserves to be out. We are arguing over a very small fragment that doesn't. He has not yet put out anything that hurt anybody's national security."[99]Assange told London reporters that the leaked cables showed U.S. ambassadors around the world were ordered "to engage in espionage behavior", which he said seemed to be "representative of a gradual shift to a lack of rule of law in U.S. institutions that needs to be exposed and that we have been exposing."[100]

The WikiLeaks diplomatic cable revelations have been credited with sparking the Tunisian Revolution.[101][102]

Recognition as a journalist

Assange received the 2009 Media award from Amnesty International for Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances,[8] and he has been recognized as a journalist by the Centre for Investigative Journalism.[7] Assange has been a member of the Australian journalist union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, for several years, and in 2011, was made an honorary member.[103][104] Alex Massie wrote an article in The Spectator called "Yes, Julian Assange is a journalist", but acknowledged that "newsman" might be a better description of Assange.[6] Alan Dershowitz said "Without a doubt. He is a journalist, a new kind of journalist".[105] Assange has said that he has been publishing factual material since age 25, and that it is not necessary to debate whether or not he is a journalist. He has stated that his role is "primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists".[106]

Financial developments

On 6 December, the Swiss bank, PostFinance, announced that it had frozen assets of Assange's totalling 31,000 euros, because he had "provided false information regarding his place of residence" when opening the account.[107] MasterCard,[108] Visa Inc.,[109] and Bank of America[110] also halted dealings with WikiLeaks. Assange described these actions as "business McCarthyism".[111] The English-language Swedish newspaper web-site "Local" quoted Assange on 27 December 2010, as saying that legal costs for the whistleblowing website and his own defence had reached £500,000. The decisions to halt donations to WikiLeaks by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal had cost it £425,000, the same amount it costs the website to publish for six months. Assange said WikiLeaks had been receiving as much as £85,000 a day at its peak.[112]

Autobiography

In December 2010, Assange sold the publishing rights to his autobiography for over £million. He told The Sunday Times that he was forced to enter the deals for an autobiography due to the financial difficulties he and the site encountered, he told them "I don't want to write this book, but I have to. I have already spent £200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat".[113] On 14 February 2011, Assange filed for the trademark JULIAN ASSANGE in Europe. The trademark is to be used for "public speaking services; news reporter services; journalism; publication of texts other than publicity texts; education services; entertainment services".[114]

Criticism

A number of political and media commentators, as well as current and former U.S. government officials, have accused Assange of terrorism. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said "I would argue it is closer to being a high-tech terrorist than the Pentagon papers."[115] In May 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had used the phrase, calling Assange "a high-tech terrorist", and saying "he has done enormous damage to our country. I think he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law".[116] Also in May 2010, former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich said: "Information terrorism, which leads to people getting killed, is terrorism, and Julian Assange is engaged in terrorism. He should be treated as an enemy combatant."[117]

In July 2010, after WikiLeaks released classified documents related to the war in AfghanistanChairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff,Mike Mullen, said at a Pentagon news conference, "Disagree with the war all you want, take issue with the policy, challenge me or our ground commanders on the decisions we make to accomplish the mission we've been given, but don't put those who willingly go into harm's way even further in harm's way just to satisfy your need to make a point. Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is, they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family." Assange responded later in an interview by saying, "There is, as far as we can tell, no incident of that. So it is a speculative charge. Of course, we are treating any possible revelation of the names of innocents seriously. That is why we held back 15,000 of these documents, to review that".[118]

Retractions of, or apologies for, criticism

The Australian government considered charging Assange for treason.[119] It has retracted its previous comments that the actions of Julian Assange constituted a crime. They also found no grounds to withdraw his Australian passport after an investigation by the Australian Federal Police. Since then, government representatives and the major opposition, including Craig Emerson the Minister for Trade and Helen Coonan the former minister for Communications, have made statements supportive of WikiLeaks and deprecated some threats. Emerson stated on ABC's Q&A program; "We condemn absolutely the threats that have been made by some people in the United States against Julian Assange and he deserves all of the rights of being an Australian citizen."[120]

Support

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, then president of Brazil, expressed his "solidarity" with Assange following his 2010 arrest in the United Kingdom.[121][122] He further criticised the arrest of Assange as "an attack on freedom of expression".[123]

Prime Minister of RussiaVladimir Putin condemned Assange's detention as "undemocratic".[124] A source within the office of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested that Assange be nominated for a Nobel Prize, and said that "Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him."[125]

In December 2010, the United Nations' Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Frank LaRue, said Assange or other WikiLeaks staff should not face criminal charges for any information they disseminated, noting that "if there is a responsibility by leaking information it is of, exclusively of the person that made the leak and not of the media that publish it. And this is the way that transparency works and that corruption has been confronted in many cases."[126]

Daniel Ellsberg, who was working in the U.S. Department of Defense when he leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, was a signatory to a statement by an international group of former intelligence officers and ex-government officials in support of Assange's work, which was released in late December 2010. Other signatories included David MacMichaelRay McGovern, and five recipients of annual Sam Adams AwardFrank GrevilKatharine GunCraig MurrayColeen Rowley and Larry Wilkerson.[127] Ellsberg has said, "If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me ... I would be called not only a traitor – which I was [called] then, which was false and slanderous – but I would be called a terrorist... Assange and Bradley Manning are no more terrorists than I am."[128]

Demonstration in support of Assange in front of Sydney Town Hall, 10 December 2010.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has come under widespread condemnation and a backlash within her own party for failing to support Assange after calling the leaks "an illegal act" and suggesting that his Australian passport should be cancelled. Hundreds of lawyers, academics and journalists came forward in his support with Attorney-General Robert McClelland, unable to explain how Assange had broken Australian law. Opposition Legal Affairs spokesman, Senator George Brandis, a Queen's Counsel, accused Gillard of being "clumsy" with her language, stating, "As far as I can see, he (Assange) hasn't broken any Australian law, nor does it appear he has broken any American laws." Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, who supports Assange, stated that any decision to cancel the passport would be his, not Gillard's. Queen's Counsel Peter Faris, who acted for Assange in a hacking case 15 years ago, said that the motives of Swedish authorities in seeking Assange's extradition for alleged sex offences are suspect: "You have to say: why are they [Sweden] pursuing it? It's pretty obvious that if it was Bill Bloggs, they wouldn't be going to the trouble." Following the Swedish Embassy issuing of a "prepared and unconvincing reply" in response to letters of protest, Gillard was called on to send a message to Sweden "querying the way charges were laid, investigated and dropped, only to be picked up again by a different prosecutor."[124][129][130][131][132]

On 10 December 2010, over five hundred people rallied outside Sydney Town Hall and about three hundred and fifty people gathered in Brisbane[133] where Assange's lawyer, Rob Stary, criticised Julia Gillard's position, telling the rally that the Australian government was a "sycophant" of the U.S. A petition circulated by GetUp!, who have placed full page ads in support of Assange in The New York Times andThe Washington Times, received more than 50,000 signatures.[131]

Awards

He won the 2009 Amnesty International UK Media Award (New Media),[134] for exposing extrajudicial assassinations in Kenya by distributing and publicizing the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR)'s investigation The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances.[135][136] Accepting the award, Assange said, "It is a reflection of the courage and strength of Kenyan civil society that this injustice was documented."[137]

In 2010, Assange was awarded the Sam Adams Award,[138][139] Readers' Choice in TIME magazine's Person of the Year poll,[14] and runner-up for Person of the Year.[140] In April 2011 he was listed on the Time 100 list of most influential people.[141] An informal poll of editors at Postmedia Network named him the top newsmaker for the year after six out of 10 felt Assange had "affected profoundly how information is seen and delivered".[142]

Le Monde, one of the five publications to cooperate with WikiLeaks' publication of the recent document leaks, named him person of the year with fifty six percent of the votes in their online poll.[143][144][145]

In February 2011, it was announced that Assange had been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation gold medal by the Sydney Peace Foundation of the University of Sydney for his "exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights."[146] There have only been four recipients of the award in the foundation's fourteen year history: Nelson Mandela; the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin GyatsoDaisaku Ikeda, a Japanese Buddhist leader; and Assange.[146]

In June 2011, Assange was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. The prize is awarded on an annual basis to journalists "whose work has penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or 'official drivel'". The judges said, "WikiLeaks has been portrayed as a phenomenon of the hi-tech age, which it is. But it's much more. Its goal of justice through transparency is in the oldest and finest tradition of journalism."[147]

Allegations of sexual misconduct

On 20 August 2010, Swedish police began an investigation into two sexual encounters involving Assange.[148][149] Assange has said allegations of wrongdoing are "without basis",[19] describing all the sexual encounters as consensual.[150][151] In December 2010, Assange, then in Britain, learned that the Swedish authorities had issued a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to extradite him to Sweden for questioning.

An extradition hearing took place on 7–8 and 11 February 2011 before the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court [152][153] when the extradition warrant was upheld.[154][155][156][18]

On 2 March 2011, his lawyers lodged papers at the London High Court to challenge the ruling to extradite Assange to Sweden.[157] Assange remains under strict bail conditions.[157][158] His appeal started on 12 July 2011 at the High Court in London.[159]

Residency

Though an Australian citizen, Assange has not had a permanent address for several years.[5] He has lived for periods in Australia, Kenya and Tanzania, and began renting a house in Iceland on 30 March 2010, from which he and other activists, including Birgitta Jónsdóttir, worked on the 'Collateral Murder' video.[2]

For much of 2010, he was visiting the United Kingdom, Iceland, Sweden and other European countries. On 4 November 2010, Assange told Swiss public television TSR that he was seriously considering seeking political asylum in neutral Switzerland and moving the operation of the WikiLeaks foundation there.[160] In December 2010, it was reported that U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland Donald S. Beyer had warned the Swiss government against offering asylum to Assange.[161]

In late November 2010, Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas of Ecuador spoke about giving Assange residency with "no conditions... so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just over the Internet but in a variety of public forums".[162]Lucas believed that Ecuador may benefit from initiating a dialogue with Assange.[163] Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino stated on 30 November that the residency application would "have to be studied from the legal and diplomatic perspective".[164] A few hours later, President Rafael Correa stated that WikiLeaks "committed an error by breaking the laws of the United States and leaking this type of information... no official offer was [ever] made."[165][166] Correa noted that Lucas was speaking "on his own behalf"; additionally, he will launch an investigation into possible ramifications Ecuador would suffer from the release of the cables.[166]

In a hearing at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 7 December 2010, Assange identified a post office box as his address. When told by the judge that this information was not acceptable, he submitted "Parkville, Victoria, Australia" on a sheet of paper. His lack of permanent address and nomadic lifestyle were cited by the judge as factors in denying bail.[167] He was ultimately released, in part because journalist Vaughan Smith offered to provide Assange with an address for bail during the extradition proceedings, Smith's Norfolk mansion,Ellingham Hall.[168]

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                                                                                                                         WhyWasNickClayMurderedP1

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1500522/pg1

< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >, Anonymous Coward, User ID: 1355436 United States 05/21/2011 09:22 PM

Re: >>><<<< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >>><<<<
nwo murder is NOT mysterious
Anonymous Coward, User ID: 1370832, United States, 06/07/2011 08:05 PM
Re: >>><<<< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >>><<<<
Google Rik Clay Red Ice and listen to all 4 hours of the groundbreaking interviews. It is a MUST. He exposes prisonplanet.com, 9/11 truth, etc. Classic researcher with work as pertinent as ever.
CaladoriCooperSimmonsClaySchafer
mafia have paid murderers for "hits"
nwo mafia have paid murderers who wear pentagrams on their devil "uni-form"
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1370832 United States 06/07/2011 08:08 PM
Re: >>><<<< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >>><<<<
and don't forget Jim Keith. Add him to the above list of folks taken out for not being controlled opposition.
nothing mysterious about RIK CLAYs murder, tragic, horrible, disgusting, shameful, but not mysterious
RIP Rik Clay
Silenced by liars for telling the truth.





Nik Clay

"......Many observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve......"
Reece Woodstock
Chief Editor, Vision Report Watch






Above: London 2012 Olympic Games Logos....


".......Why was Nik Clay murdered?
Why Murdered Nik Clay?
These questions need to be answered by someone....."
stated by Michael McMannus .... Head of The AWN News Investigation Team appointed into finding out why and how and whom murdered Nick Clay just after
Rik Clay went public with his work about  into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind)  on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008,



 Its because of a specific set of circumstances that occurred in  2008 involving someone called Rik Clay.

Many of you may not be aware of the case surrounding Rik Clay. Rik  Clay was  a young researcher into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind) who apparently took his own life after an adrenal breakdown.
After Rik Clay went public with his work on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008, he went missing a few days later. 
Everything connected to Rik’s work was removed and a few weeks  later Rik Clay was found dead. 
Rik’s friends who had published back up’s of his blog took them down  and refused to discuss it any further stating they were scared.

Many 
observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve.



http://www.jdtippit.com/

J.D. TIPPIT
Credit: Dale K. Myers/Tippit Family Collection 
(1924-1963)

In Dallas, Texas there is a city memorial honoring the dedicated men and women of law enforcement who have given their lives in the line of duty. They are Dallas heroes - men and women whose strength of character endured the ultimate test. They leave family and friends who will forever wonder what might have been.

One of those so honored is J.D. Tippit, the 39-year-old father of three who was gunned down on an Oak Cliff side-street on November 22, 1963 - forty-five minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The man arrested for Tippit�s murder was Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old employee of the Texas School Book Depository who was later accused of assassinating the President. The world press declared Tippit a hero for trying to stop Oswald�s escape. Sympathy and thousands of dollars in donations poured in from the heart of a grieving nation.

Two days later, in a dizzying culmination of violence, Oswald himself was murdered by nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. On Monday the twenty-fifth, amid rumors of conspiracy, the President, his accused assassin, and Dallas� faithful public servant were laid to rest.

Four decades of official investigations into the events of November 22nd have not squelched the curiosity of an increasingly distrustful nation. Conspiracy theorists have demonized all of the major players in this tragic drama - including the Dallas cop who was once called a hero. In the cynical world of conspiracy, Tippit is instead a cop on the take, paid to kill Oswald as part of an elaborate plot to overthrow the government.

To others, J.D. Tippit was just an ordinary man who through a chance encounter stumbled into history. But to those who knew him, J.D. Tippit embodied the essential ingredients of the American hero.

This website is lovingly dedicated to his memory.


http://www.erichufschmid.net/JFK/Toronto-connection.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Tippit

J. D. Tippit


Dallas Police Department photo of Tippit in 1952
J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department who, according to two government investigations including the Warren Commission, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald's initial arrest was for Tippit's murder, not Kennedy's.

Tippit was born in Clarksville, Red River County, Texas, to Edgar Lee Tippit, a farmer, and Lizzie Mae Rush. The Tippit and Rush families were of Englishancestry, their ancestors having immigrated to Virginia from England by 1635.[1] It is sometimes reported that J.D. stood for "Jefferson Davis", but in fact, the letters did not stand for anything in particular.[2] Tippit attended public schools through the tenth grade and was raised as a Baptist. He entered the United States Army on July 21, 1944, and was assigned to the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 17th Airborne Division. He saw combat in Operation Varsity, the airborne crossing of the Rhine River in March 1945, earning a Bronze Star, and remained on active duty until June 20, 1946.
Tippit was married to Marie Frances Gasway on December 26, 1946, and the couple had three children (whose ages were 14, 10, and 5 at the time of his death[3]). That same year, he went to work for the Dearborn Stove Company. He next worked for Sears, Roebuck and Company in the installation department from March 1948 to September 1949, when he moved to Lone Star, Texas, and attempted cattle raising.
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service 1944 – 1946
Unit 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
Battles/wars World War II
*Battle of the Bulge
*Operation Varsity
Awards Bronze Star
World War II Victory Medal
Tippit attended a Veterans Administration vocational training school at Bogata, Texas, from January 1950 until June 1952. He was then hired by the Dallas Police Department as a patrolman on July 28, 1952. Officer Tippit served capably and was cited for bravery in 1956 for his role in disarming a fugitive.
At the time of his death, Tippit was assigned to Dallas Police vehicle #10, had badge #848 and was earning a salary of $5,880 a year as a Dallas police officer. He was also working two other part-time jobs.


Tippit's squad car on E. 10th Street in Dallas shortly after his shooting.

Murder

On November 22, 1963, J.D. Tippit was working beat number 78, his normal patrol area in south Oak Cliff, a residential area of Dallas.[4] At 12:45 p.m., 15 minutes after the President's assassination, Tippit received a radio order to move to the central Oak Cliff area as part of a concentration of police around the center of the city. At 12:54 Tippit radioed that he had moved as directed. By then several messages had been broadcast describing a suspect in the Kennedy assassination[5] as a slender white male, about 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, and weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg).
According to the Warren Commission, at approximately 1:11–1:14 p.m.,[6] Tippit was driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street when — about 100 feet (30 m) past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue — he pulled alongside a man who resembled the broadcast description of Lee Harvey Oswald.[7][8] The man walked over to Tippit's car and apparently exchanged words with him through an open vent window.[9] Tippit opened his car door and as he walked toward the front of the car, the man drew a handgun and fired three shots in rapid succession, hitting Tippit three times in the chest. The man then walked up to Tippit's fallen body and fired a fourth shot directly into his head, fatally wounding him.[10]
The Warren Commission identified twelve people who witnessed the shooting,[11] or its aftermath.[12] Domingo Benavides saw Tippit standing by the left door of his parked police car, and a man standing on the right side of the car. He then heard shots and saw Tippit fall to the ground. Benavides stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street from Tippit's car. He observed the shooter fleeing the scene and removing spent cartridge cases from his gun as he left. Benavides waited in his truck until the gunman disappeared before assisting Tippit. He then reported the shooting to police headquarters, using the radio in Tippit's car.[13] Helen Markham witnessed the shooting and then saw a man with a gun in his hand leave the scene.[14] Markham identified Lee Harvey Oswald as Tippit’s killer in a police lineup she viewed that evening.[15] Barbara Davis and her sister-in-law Virginia Davis heard the shots and saw a man crossing their lawn, shaking his revolver, as if he were emptying it of cartridge cases. Later, the women found two cartridge cases near the crime scene and handed the cases over to police. That evening, Barbara Davis and Virginia Davis were taken to a lineup and both Davises picked out Oswald as the man whom they had seen.[16]
Taxicab driver William Scoggins testified that he saw Tippit's police car pull up alongside a man on the sidewalk, as he his sat in his taxicab nearby. Scoggins heard three or four shots and then saw Tippit fall to the ground. As Scoggins crouched behind his cab, the man passed within twelve feet of him, pistol in hand, muttering what sounded to him like, "poor dumb cop" or "poor damn cop."[17] The next day, Scoggins viewed a police lineup and identified Oswald as the man whom he had seen with the pistol.[citation needed]
The Commission also named several other witnesses[18] who were not at the scene of the murder, but who claimed to have seen a man they later identified as Oswald running between the murder scene and the Texas Theater, where Oswald was subsequently arrested.[19]
Four cartridge cases were found at the scene by eyewitnesses. It was the unanimous testimony of expert witnesses before the Warren Commission that these spent cartridge cases were fired from the revolver in Oswald's possession to the exclusion of all other weapons.[20]

Criticism of the case against Oswald

Since the Warren Commission Report was published in 1964, some researchers have alleged discrepancies in witness testimony and physical evidence which they believe calls into question the Commission's conclusions regarding the murder of Tippit. These critics cite evidence indicating that Oswald may have had an accomplice in the killing, or that possibly Tippit was killed by an assailant (or assailants) other than Oswald. According to Warren Commission criticJim Marrs, Oswald's guilt in the assassination of Kennedy is placed in question by the presence of "a growing body of evidence to suggest that [he] did not kill Tippit".[21] Others say that multiple men were directly involved in Tippit's killing. Conspiracy researcher Kenn Thomas has alleged that the Warren Commission omitted testimony and evidence that two men shot Tippit and that one left the scene in a car.[22]
William Alexander, the Dallas assistant district attorney who had recommended that Oswald be charged with the Kennedy and Tippit murders, has also been critical of the Commission's version of the murder, stating that its conclusions on Oswald's movements "did not add up", and that "certainly, he may have had accomplices."[23]

Allegations regarding timeline

Some researchers, including Anthony Summers and Robert Groden, point to evidence that Tippit's murder may have taken place earlier than the time given in the Warren Report.[24][25][26] The Warren Commission concluded that the shooting occurred at 1:16 p.m. from the police tapes that logged Domingo Benavides' use of the radio in Tippit's car. However, Benavides testified that he did not approach the car until "a few minutes" after the shooting, because he was afraid that the gunman might return.[27] He was assisted in using the radio by witness T.F. Bowley, who testified to Dallas police that he arrived at the scene after the murder, and that the time was 1:10 p.m.[28]
Some critics of the Warren Commission version believe that Oswald did not have sufficient time to travel the nine-tenths of a mile from his house to the scene where Tippit was killed.[29] The timing is of critical importance because, according to the Warren Commission, Oswald arrived at his rooming house at around 1:00 p.m.,[30] then left "3 or 4 minutes" later,[31] and was last seen by his housekeeper a moment later standing at the corner bus stop.[32] The Commission’s own test[33] and estimation of Oswald’s walking speed[34] demonstrated that one of the longer routes to the Tippit shooting scene took 17 minutes and 45 seconds to walk.[35] Additionally, no witness ever surfaced who saw Oswald walk from his rooming house to the murder scene.[36]
Witness Helen Markham initially told the FBI that the shooting occurred "possibly around 1:30 p.m.,"[37] but she later told the Warren Commission: "I wouldn't be afraid to bet it wasn't 6 or 7 minutes after 1."[38][39] Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig stated that when he heard the news that Tippit had been shot, he looked at his watch and noted that the time was 1:06 p.m. However, in a later statement to the press, Craig seemed unsure about the time of the shooting.[40]
Warren "Butch" Burroughs, who ran the concession stand at the Texas Theater where Oswald was arrested, told author James Douglass in 2007 that Oswald came into the theater between 1:00 and 1:07 p.m., which if true would make Oswald's alleged 1:16 shooting of Officer J.D. Tippit impossible.[41] This was a claim that Burroughs had made earlier in the documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy.[42]

Allegations regarding witness testimony and physical evidence

Only two Commission witnesses were identified as actually having seen the shooting, Helen Markham and Domingo Benavides. Joseph Ball, senior counsel to the Commission, has referred to Markham's testimony as "full of mistakes," and characterized her as an "utter screwball."[43]
Domingo Benavides initially said that he did not think he could identify the assailant and was never asked to view a police lineup,[44] even though he was the person closest to the killing.[45] Benavides later testified that that the killer resembled pictures he had seen of Oswald.[46] Other witnesses were taken to police lineups. However, these lineups have been criticized as flawed in that they consisted of people who looked very different from Oswald. In one case, the lineup was composed of five "young teenagers" and Oswald.[47][48]
Additionally, certain witnesses who did not appear before the Commission identified an assailant who was not Oswald. Both Acquilla Clemons and Frank Wright witnessed the scene from their respective homes, within one block of the murder. Clemons saw two men near Tippit’s car just before the shooting.[49]After the shooting, she ran outside and saw a man with a gun whom she described as "kind of heavy." He waved to the second man, urging him to "go on".[50] Frank Wright also emerged from his home and observed the scene seconds after the shooting. He described a man standing by Tippit’s body who had on a long coat, and who quickly ran to a car parked nearby and drove away.[51][52][53] There have also been concerns about ballistic evidence and finger print evidence on the police car that seemed to make it less likely that Oswald was the killer.
Some researchers have questioned whether the cartridge cases recovered from the scene were the same as those that were subsequently entered into evidence. Two of the cases were recovered by witness Domingo Benavides and turned over to police officer J.M. Poe. Poe told the FBI that he marked the shells with his own initials, "J.M.P." to identify them.[54] Sergeant Gerald Hill later testified to the Warren Commission that it was he who had ordered police officer Poe to mark the shells.[55] However, Poe's initials were not found on the shells produced by the FBI six months later.[54][56][57] Testifying before the Warren Commission, Poe said that although he recalled marking the cases, he "couldn’t swear to it."[58][59] Poe later told researchers that he was absolutely certain that he had marked the shells.[60] The identification of the cartridge cases at the crime scene raises more questions. Sergeant Gerald Hill examined one of the shells and radioed the police dispatcher, saying: "The shell at the scene indicates that the suspect is armed with an automatic .38 rather than a pistol."[61] However, Oswald was reportedly arrested carrying a non-automatic .38 Special revolver.[62][63] The number of cartridge shells found at the crime scene raises further questions for some. Sergeant Gerald Hill, who took possession of Oswald's revolver upon his arrest, reported that the gun's six chambers were fully loaded with unspent cartridges and that Oswald had no ammunition on his person.[64]

Aftermath

On the evening of the assassination, both Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, called Tippit's widow to express their sympathies.[65] Jacqueline Kennedy wrote a letter expressing sorrow for the bond they shared. The plight of Tippit's family also moved much of the nation and a total of $647,579 ($4.5 million in 2009) was donated to them following the assassination. One of the largest individual gifts was the $25,000 ($176,600 in 2009) that Abraham Zapruder donated after selling his film of the assassination.
A funeral service for J.D. Tippit was held on November 25, 1963, at the Beckley Hills Baptist Church, with the burial following at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas.[65] His funeral occurred on the same day as those of both Kennedy and Oswald.[66][67]
In January 1964, Tippit was posthumously awarded the Medal of Valor from the American Police Hall of Fame, and he also received the Police Medal of Honor, the Police Cross, and the Citizens Traffic Commission Award of Heroism.
Tippit's widow married Dallas police lieutenant Harry Dean Thomas in January 1967.
In movies, Tippit has been portrayed by Price Carson in 1991's JFK, and David Duchovny in 1992's Ruby.

References

Compiled From Records of Land Patents, 1633–1680, in The Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, 1968, Genealogical Publishing Co., p.465 ^ Dale K. Myers, "Biography: A Boy Named J.D.", J.D. Tippit Official Home Page. ^ Congressional Record of the 88th Congress, 1963: House of Representatives. p. 23471. ^ Warren Commission Report, Chapter 4 — The Assassin, The Killing of Patrolman J. D. Tippit, p. 165. ^ Warren Commission Report, page 5. ^ Thefirst report of Tippit's shooting was transmitted over Police Channel 1 some time between 1:16 and 1:19 p.m., as indicated by verbal time stamps made periodically by the dispatcher. Specifically, the first report began 1 minute 41 seconds after the 1:16 time stamp. Before that, witness Domingo Benavides could be heard unsuccessfully trying to use Tippit's police radio microphone, beginning at 1:16. Dale K. Myers, With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit, 1998, p. 384. ISBN 0-9662709-7-5. ^ Oswald was 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighed 150 pounds (68 kg). Warren Commission Hearings Vol. XXVI, p. 521. ^ Warren Commission Report, page 7. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 19, p. 113, Barnes Exhibit A, Right side of Tippit squad car, showing open wing vent window. Mrs. Markham was on the opposite side of the street and a half block back. ^ Groden, Robert. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (New York: Penguin Group, 1995), p. 129. ISBN 0-670-85867-6 ^ Warren Commission Report, page 166 ^ By the evening of November 22, five of them (Helen Markham, Barbara Davis, Virginia Davis, Ted Callaway, Sam Guinyard) had identified Lee Harvey Oswald in police lineups as the man they saw. A sixth (William Scoggins) did so the next day. Three others (Harold Russell, Pat Patterson, Warren Reynolds) subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph. Two witnesses (Domingo Benavides, William Smith) testified that Oswald resembled the man they had seen. One witness (L.J. Lewis) felt he was too distant from the gunman to make a positive identification. Warren Commission Hearings, CE 1968, Location of Eyewitnesses to the Movements of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Vicinity of the Tippit Killing. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, Testimony of Domingo Benavides. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 305, Testimony of Mrs. Helen Markham. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 318, Testimony of Helen Markham. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 342, Testimony of Mrs. Barbara Jeanette Davis. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 454, Testimony of Mrs. Charlie Virginia Davis. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, pp. 322-27, Testimony of William W. Scoggins. ^ Warren Commission Report, pp. 166–169. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 23, p. 817, CE 1968, Location of eyewitnesses to the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald in the vicinity of the Tippit killing. ^Warren Commission Report, page 8. ^ Warren Commission Report, Appendix 10: Expert Testimony, Revolver Cartridges and Cartridge Cases. ^ Marrs, Jim.Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 340. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Thomas, Kenn, ed. (2000). "The Tippit Connection".Cyberculture Counterconspiracy: A Steamshovel Web Reader. 2. Escondido, California: The Book Tree. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-58509-126-3. ^ Summers, Anthony,Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 75. ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 72. ^ Groden, Robert. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (New York: Penguin Group, 1995), pp. 134-137. ISBN 0-670-85867-6 ^ The Killing of Patrolman J.D. Tippit, Warren Commission Report, Chapter 4, The Assassin, p. 165. ^ Testimony of Domingo Benavides, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 448. ^Commission Exhibit No. 2003, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 24, p. 202. ^ Perry 2003, p. 391. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 440, Testimony of Earlene Roberts. His housekeeper testified that "it must have been around 1 o'clock, or maybe a little after," but then concluded, "what time I wouldn't want to say." The Warren Commission estimated that Oswald arrived at his rooming house "about 12:59 to 1 p.m." (Warren Commission Report, Chapter 4: The Assassin, p. 163). The HSCA, in its reconstruction of the event, concluded Oswald arrived at “approximately 12:55 P.M.” (HSCA Record 180-10115-10004, September 19, 1977, p. 2). ^ Testimony of Earlene Roberts, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 440. ^ Affidavit of Earlene Roberts, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 439, December 5, 1963. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p.434, Testimony of William W. Whaley. The route Commission investigators walked "at an average walking pace" to the Tippit shooting site in 17 minutes 45 seconds was described in testimony as the "long way around route", and "not the most direct route". ^ calculated from the time of events given in the Warren Report by researcher Sylvia Meagher, see Accessories After the Fact, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-74315-4, p. 255 ^ Other researchers disagree. The Warren Commission measured the distance from Oswald's rooming house to the site of Tippit's shooting as nine-tenths of a mile (1.4 km). A person walking at a pace of 4 miles (6.4 km) per hour would take 12 minutes 45 seconds to make the journey. A filmed reenactment traveled the distance in 11 minutes 10 seconds. ^ Hurt, Henry, Reasonable Doubt, Henry Holt & Co., 1988. ISBN 0-03-004059-0 p.145 ^ FBI report of interview with Helen Markham on November 22, 1963, Warren Commission Document 5, FBI Gemberling Report, p. 79. ^ Testimony of Mrs. Helen Markham, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 306. ^ Groden, Robert. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (New York: Penguin Group, 1995), p. 136. ISBN 0-670-85867-6 ^ Craig, Roger, When They Kill a President, 1971, ASIN: B00072DT18. Yet Craig wrote in that same account,
At that exact moment [of the discovery of Oswald's rifle in the Texas School Book Depository] an unknown Dallas police officer came running up the stairs and advised Capt. Fritz that a Dallas policeman had been shot in the Oak Cliff area. I instinctively looked at my watch. The time was 1:06 p.m. A token force of uniformed officers was left to keep the sixth floor secure and Fritz, Day, Boone, Mooney, Weitzman and I left the building.
However, witness Seymour Weitzman testified to the Warren Commission that Oswald's rifle was not discovered until about 1:22 p.m. (Testimony of Seymour Weitzman, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 109) Craig gave an even later time for the Tippit shooting — 1:40 p.m. — in an interview with Penn Jones published in the Los Angeles Free Press in March 1968. He accepted Jones' correction that it was "a little before 1:15." ^ Douglass, James. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2008), pp. 290, 466. ISBN 978-1-4391-9388-4 ^ Turner, Nigel. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Part 4, "The Patsy", 1991. ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 68. ^ Testimony of Domingo Benavides, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, pp. 451-52. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 341. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Testimony of Domingo Benavides, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 452. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 341. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Turner, Nigel. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Part 5, "The Witnesses", 1991. ^Turner, Nigel. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Part 4, "The Patsy", 1991. ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, pp. 70-71. Two eyewitnesses to the aftermath, Sam Guinyard and Ted Callaway, ran to 10th and Patton and found Tippit lying in the street beside his car. Callaway picked up Tippit's gun, which lay beneath him outside of the holster. He and Scoggins attempted to chase down the gunman in Scoggin's taxicab.Warren Commission Report, p. 169. ^ Interview November 12, 1964 by George and Patricia Nash for The New Leader. Wright claimed that the killer escaped the crime scene in a gray automobile; he later altered his story, claiming that it was another man who drove off in the gray coupe, while the killer ran alongside, yelling back and forth with the driver. Myers, pp. 76–78. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 342. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 71. ^ a b Commission Exhibit No. 2011, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 24, p. 415. ^ Testimony of Gerald Lynn Hill, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 49. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 343. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 69. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 343. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Testimony of J.M. Poe, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 69. ^ Hurt, Henry, Reasonable Doubt, Henry Holt & Co., 1988. ISBN 0-03-004059-0 p.153 ^ Commission Exhibit No. 1974, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 23, p. 870. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 342. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 70. ^ Groden, Robert, "The Killing of a President," Penguin Books, 1993 ISBN 0-670-85267-8 pp. 97–100. ^ a b Herbers, John (November 26, 1963). "Slain Policeman Is Honored by Dallas". The New York Times: p. 15. ^ Associated Press (November 26, 1963). "Bells Toll for Officer Tippit". The Boston Globe: p. 10. ^ Janson, Donald (November 26, 1963). "Oswald Is Buried in Texas in a Wooden Coffin". The New York Times: p. 14.  

External links

    J.D. Tippit website by Dale Myers.
    "Pain lingers for Tippit's widow," Dallas Morning News, January 27, 2004.
    Entry on J.D. Tippit
    J.D. Tippit at Find-A-Grave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Tippit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Tippit



JFK  A Toronto connection? 18 April 2007
Is this one of the assassins?
Were the Bronfmans involved?




Two important lessons to learn from the 9/11 attack:
1) The 9/11 "truth seekers" who get publicity or promotion are protecting the Zionists; they are trying to deceive, control, and manipulate.
2) The Zionists played a major role in the 9/11 attack. The other people are only in a supporting role, and may even have been duped into joining. 
 

The JFK assassination seems to be exactly the same. Virtually all of the JFK "researchers" who get publicity are Zionist Deniers. 
 
Ignore the primary JFK investigators
If there are any honest researchers in the JFK assassination, they are certainly in the same situation as Bollyn and Hufschmid; namely, they are ignored by most of the JFK investigators.
Mark Lane, a Jewish lawyer who works with the American Free Press, has written books about the Kennedy assassination, and he was involved in the legal cases of other suspicious events.
However, the evidence suggests that Mark Lane is actually a Zionist who pretends to protect the Goyim: 
 Bollyn-MarkLane.html 
 AmericanDeceptionPress.html
“Trust me! 
I love Goyim”
Who might have been shooting at JFK?
Mary Moorman took a photograph of Kennedy as he drove by. A news reporter named Featherstone was extremely concerned about this photograph, and he took it from her. (If you have my book, Painful Questions, an Analysis of the September 11 Attack, you can find a description of this on page 143 under the title America's Free Press is a Disgrace)
If you realize that the Zionists are dominating the media, you must consider that Featherstone realized that Mary Moorman was in a location to get a photo of very critical evidence that would expose the Kennedy assassination as a scam. Apparently, it did not contain any damaging evidence, so he eventually returned it to her.
The photograph does not have much detail. The center portion of her photo is below, and a higher resolution, full size version is here.
In the upper right corner of the Moorman photo, standing on the light-colored concrete wall, are Abraham Zapruder and a woman who is holding him steady as he films the assassination.
As I imply in my book, Zapruder wanted the woman to hold him steady because he was concerned that the numerous loud gunshots would cause him to tremble.
A PDF file of the 2 chapters on Kennedy are here: 
Hufschmid-Kennedy-chapters-only.pdf 
(these chapters are actually my initial reaction to the Warren report, not an analysis of the JFK killing):
The Americans consider that day to be a tragedy, but to the Zionists it was just another successful event in the development of Israel and their takeover of the USA.
They wanted it documented for their historical records. Zapruder was equivalent to those five dancing Israelis who were documenting the event of September 11. 
Info about the dancing Israelis: 
Bollyn-dancing-Israelis.html 
 
A higher quality photograph of the same scene taken by a different photographer a few seconds earlier than the Mary Moormon photo is in a book by Robert Groden: 
www.jfkmurder.com/home.html
The important section of his photo is below: 
Zapruder and the women are in the upper right corner, but in this photograph are two figures which appear to be men wearing hats standing behind the concrete wall.
Robert Groden's book has a photo (below) of a man reenacting the scene to show how the men would stand behind the concrete wall. This also shows that they had a nice view of the street.
Zapruder was standing close to these two men, and as he moved the camera to follow Kennedy down the street, it appears that one of the men can be seen in some of the frames.
At the bottom of frame # 413 of Zapruder's film, there appears to be a man with a hat among the vegetation (green arrow):
Robert Groden's book has a photo taken from Zapruder's position to help us understand frame # 413. By comparing the light poles and the signs on the light poles, you can see that the vegetation has been trimmed. Below is a close-up, and below that is a wide shot.
 


The witnesses to the assassination describe lots of gunshots, which implies there was more than one shooter.
Also, in my chapters on Kennedy in my book, I point out that most of the witnesses were certain that the shots were coming from this area, and that the witnesses said police were looking for bullet shells in that area.
It would appear that one or both of the two men behind the concrete wall may have been shooters. But who were they?
I cannot verify the following speculations. I put them out in the hope so that other people will come forward with information to verify or disprove them. 
 
Was Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico?
The official story says that Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
This man is supposed to be Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico.
Either people are getting photographs mixed up, or this person was pretending to be Oswald.
Some people think he might be a Russian; some people think he was one of the shooters; and some people think his name is Jack (Forshaw?), from Toronto, Canada.
Robert Groden's book about Oswald has the photograph below of Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.
On the right side -- a close-up is below -- some people think the man #1 is Clyde Forshaw, the nephew of Jack Forshaw, and that he is worried about the photographer taking his photo.
Man #2 is Jack Ruby (yellow box shows Ruby in a similar position for comparison), and #3 is the Oswald double, not the Oswald who was arrested for the killing.
If the accusations are true that these two men are Clyde and Jack Forshaw from Toronto, that means some of the main assassins were brought in from Toronto, not France, Russia, or the CIA.
By the way, some people think Clyde was the man who shot officer Tippit.
Furthermore, since the Forshaws supposedly work for organized crime, not government agencies, then everybody who blames the assassination on the American government is either mistaken or deliberately lying.
Photos of Oswald and/or the double: 
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LHO.htm
Which of the many thousands of theories on JFK are correct? We may never know, but learn from 9/11: be suspicious of the people who are getting promotion as JFK investigators. 

 
The mysterious plane crash of JFK Jr.
If the Toronto connection is correct, then we may have an explanation of what happened to JFK Jr.'s airplane.
On July 12, JFK Jr. flew his private plane to the small Buttonville Airport outside of Toronto to meet with officials of Magna International Inc., including vice-president Keith Stein and Belinda Stronach, daughter of the company's founder, Frank Stronach. 
www.cbc.ca/world/story/1999/07/19/pilot990719.html
Frank Stronach supposedly arrived in America with no money. Today he is a billionaire in auto parts and horseracing. 
www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/stronach.html
Some newspapers were wondering about the relationship between Bill Clinton and Frank Stronach's daughter Belinda, such as this. She also denied other relationships, such as thiswith hockey player Tie Domi.
Why would an American president associate with billionaire families who have such suspicious friends and behavior?
The gambling businesses have always attracted organized crime, so we should consider the possibility that Stronach is involved in a crime network.
If Stronach's company is involved in organized crime, why would Kennedy fly to Toronto to meet with them? The official story is that Stronach was considering investing in Kennedy's magazine, which was not profitable.
Four days later, as he was flying his little airplane from the Essex County Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey back to his home city, the airplane crashed into the ocean. There are accusations that the tail of the plane broke off, although the official story is that Kennedy was a lousy pilot, at least compared to the pros, such as Hani Hanjour, who crashed into the Pentagon.
Here is the speculation I need help verifying:
• Frank Stronach and Keith Stein are involved in organized crime, and at a very high level.
• Stronach tricked Kennedy into visiting by pretending that he might invest in Kennedy's newspaper. He may have also have offered information about the JFK assassination. He insisted that Kennedy come up for a meeting because he didn't want to discuss it over the telephone.
• Stronach wanted Kennedy to fly into the small Buttonville airport outside of Toronto because there is very little security at small airports.
• Somebody put an explosive device in the airplane that would be activated by radio control. They waited until Kennedy was over the ocean, and then they set off the explosives and blew the tail off the airplane.
• If the photo of the man at the Mexican Embassy is Jack Forshaw from Toronto, and if the man in the other photo is his nephew, Clyde, then we should consider the possibility that the same Zionist gang that killed JFK also killed JFK Jr., and the Forshaw family are their hired assassins. 
 

If this scenario is true, who would have hired the Forshaws? We many never know, but we should consider that the Bronfmans are one of the key decision makers.
The Bronfman family is from Canada, and they initially became rich from their Seagram Company, which sells liquor. 
The Bronfmans worked with Meyer Lansky and lots of other Jewish criminals, such as Arnold Rothstein, who owned gambling casinos in New York.
By the way, some people believe Rothstein has a relative, Murray, who changed his name to "Sumner Redstone" to hide the connection. We are foolishly allowing a member of this criminal gang to influence our view of the world.
Joe Kennedy was also involved in the sale of alcohol, but he was a rival with the Bronfman and Lansky gang. 
 
Now consider that the rumors are true that John and Robert Kennedy:
• did not want to be part of organized crime; actually, they wanted to arrest the criminals.
• wanted to get the Rothschilds and other families out of the American monetary system.
• wanted to stop Israel from developing nuclear weapons
• were standing up to Henry Kissinger and Walt Whitman Rostow, who wanted the Vietnam War
• were forcing J. Edgar Hoover -- of the Federal Bureau of Israel -- to clamp down on organized crime rather than continue to pretend that there is no such thing as organized crime
• did not want to fake the Apollo moon landing 
 

Even if only some of these rumors are true, you can see that there would be thousands of Zionists and other criminals who would want to kill the Kennedys.
The Bronfman family rules over a large Zionist criminal enterprise. Toronto seems to be a center for organized crime, and not just Jewish gangs, but Italian, Vietnamese, and who knows how many others.
The Bronfmans have had decades of experience with crime, so they are easily capable of arranging complex murders. They also control a lot of politicians, such as the McCain family, and their Zionist friends in the media will help cover up their crimes. 
  
 
John McCain and other officials should dress in the appropriate manner so that we don't mistake them for independent humans.

  
 
They always “Blame the Gooooys!”
Most of the 9/11 truth seekers and Kennedy investigators blame the Goyim.... the Goy in the CIA, the Goy in the Pentagon, the Goy in the New World Order. 
Over and over and over, it's always the same story. “The Goy did it!
But the evidence shows that it's the Zionists in the Pentagon, the Zionists in the FBI, the Zionists in the media, the Zionists in the government.
We are suckers, fools, jerks, and losers if we continue to allow these Zionists to instigate wars, blow up levees in New Orleans, and fabricate Holocaust stories. Are the police or citizens ever going to get fed up with organized crime?
If the citizens would stop going to horse races, strip clubs, and movie theaters, and if they would stop buying newspapers, magazines, and drugs, they could drive these criminal gangs into financial difficulty, and then maybe the hired assassins would turn on their masters. 
  
  
 
Investigate Toronto's crime network
Toronto has a lot of wealth




Nik Clay

"......Many observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve......"
Reece Woodstock
Chief Editor, Vision Report Watch



".......Why was Nik Clay murdered?
Why Murdered Nik Clay?
These questions need to be answered by someone....."
stated by Michael McMannus .... Head of The AWN News Investigation Team appointed into finding out why and how and whom murdered Nick Clay just after
Rik Clay went public with his work about  into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind)  on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008,



 Its because of a specific set of circumstances that occurred in  2008 involving someone called Rik Clay.

Many of you may not be aware of the case surrounding Rik Clay. Rik  Clay was  a young researcher into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind) who apparently took his own life after an adrenal breakdown.
After Rik Clay went public with his work on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008, he went missing a few days later. 
Everything connected to Rik’s work was removed and a few weeks  later Rik Clay was found dead. 
Rik’s friends who had published back up’s of his blog took them down  and refused to discuss it any further stating they were scared.

Many 
observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve.










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Above: London 2012 Olympic Games Logos....


London Olympics 2012 and ZYON


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Welcome to the Vision Report Watch
The 2012 London Summer Olympics marks the first time a city has hosted the coveted spectacle on  three different occasions. The first was in 1908 and the second in 1948 after a delay owing to World War  II. Then, like now, the event was mired in controversy before it had even begun. The bid process for the  2012 Olympics got off to an inauspicious start when London unveiled its Olympic logo on 4 June 2007. 
Those who did not ridicule it expressed their bemusement at its amateurish design, despite the fact that  it cost £400,000.
Then came the controversy over its overtly, some would say brazen,  depiction of the word 'Zion' in the numbers 2012,complete with a dot  over the 'i'. Proponents of the logo's hidden associations believe the  emotive word signals the start of a New World Order, and the London  Olympics will be its stage.
Further suspicion was raised in what amounted to a surprise selection  of London as the 2012 Summer Olympic host city. Paris had been the  heavy favourite, but on 6 July 2005 the International Olympic  Committee  announced that London had won. 
The face of the former Olympic champion and London 2012 bid Chairman, Lord Coe, said it all. He  appeared stunned. Coe and his team not only jumped for joy, but were also startled by the news. It was  later revealed that some of the votes may have been placed 'in error'.
Tragically, London's celebration was abruptly curtailed the very next day, 7 July, when a series of alleged  suicide attacks occurred on three London underground trains and one bus during the morning rush hour. 
Four UK resident Islamists were identified as the guilty terrorists. Each was killed in the blasts, along with  48 other commuters, and more than 700 others were injured. 
Disturbingly, survivors commented on how the explosions came from under the seats of the trains. 
Inexplicably, no formal inquest was held, due to the fact that an investigation would, in the words of  Prime Minister, Tony Blair, “undermine support” for the British Intelligence Agency MI5. 
Were the bombings a form of retaliation for the IOC’s selection, or was there another motive? Many  believe they were an inside job and that we should expect another ‘False Flag’ at the 2012 London  Summer Olympic Games.
London’s 2012 Olympic odyssey continued on 19 May 2010, when the Games’ official mascots were  introduced. two peculiar looking metallic figures by the names of Wenlock and Mandeville. One is blue  and the other orange, and each has one eye. Curiously, each looks more like an alien caricature from a  1950s B-movie than a collection of molten steel consumed during the construction of the Olympic  stadium that they are supposed to represent.

So with  this month heralding the beginning of the London 2012 Olympics why  has the Vision Report  Watch decided to focus on this subject?

 Its because of a specific set of circumstances that occurred in  
2008 involving someone called Rik Clay.

Many of you may not be aware of the case surrounding Rik Clay. Rik  Clay was  a young researcher into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind) who apparently took his own life after an adrenal breakdown.
After Rik Clay went public with his work on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008, he went missing a few days later. 
Everything connected to Rik’s work was removed and a few weeks  later Rik Clay was found dead. 
Rik’s friends who had published back up’s of his blog took them down  and refused to discuss it any further stating they were scared.

Many 
observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve.

One of Clay’s most provocative conclusions was his suggestion that the 2012 Olympic site in the United  Kingdom was being prepared as the New Jerusalem by the New World Order. Clay along with others  such as Ian Crane believed it was highly probable that the 2012 London Olympics would be meant to be  the stage for a false-flag terror attack, a UFO/alien type event, or some other such large scale  manipulation
Clays work was documented in a report known as “London, Olympics 2012: Zion” which we will present  in its entirety for you to review. We may not entirely agree with everything that Clay states or represents,  for instance his theology of the universe is bizarre which he has written about elsewhere is certainly at  odds with the biblical world view of life and the universe. However it his views on the London 2012  Olympics which catch our interest as there is certainly some material which makes a good starting point 
for further research on whether there is a underlining masonic influence behind the worlds greatest  sporting event.
All the best
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1. LONDON OLYMPICS 2012: ZION (THE NEW JERUSALEM)
When the logo for the London Olympics was unveiled in June 2007 at the cost of £400,000 there was 
significant public uproar due to both the cost and how terrible it  looked. Despite public pressure, the 
International Olympic Committee stood fast on keeping the logo, with no flexibility. In other words, this 
particular logo was very important. Why?
            
There are many interpretations spread about the net, all intended to dissolve the true symbolic meaning 
behind the logo. It has been claimed to look like a swastika, a runner and even Lisa Simpson but these 
are all ridiculous diversions.
On first glance you can easily make out the numbers 2012, but why the random 'dot'? Here's why. Are 
we to believe that the London 2012 Olympics are going to facilitate the implementation of Zion - the 'New 
Jerusalem'?
To recite William Blake's poem 'Jerusalem':
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On 
England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's 
green and pleasant land.
An 18th century writer, artist and esotericist, William Blake had connections with Freemasonry. Was this 
early work a declaration of the esoteric agenda, for all to see? After all he was 'involved'.
1.1.  LONDON OLYMPICS 2012: ZION: STREET PLAN
I shall start by stating my intentions. With my research, I do not intend to cause panic or fear, or to create 
a platform for prejudice and hate. I publish these views in order to simply raise awareness. To raise 
awareness on the grounds, that if indeed something does transpire during the London Olympics 2012, 
you can observe the event with a critical eye. It is my intention to ensure we shall not be duped!             
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Following my two previous articles concerning the Olympics 2012, I decided to cast my eyes into the air 
and look down again. You guessed it, out came Google Maps.
Here's a map and satellite view of the Olympics 2012 Site. Zoom in and take a look:
      
Stratford in London, is to become host to the Olympic village, which is undergoing massive regeneration 
due to the project. The site was claimed to be the last area of suitable waste land in London. Pretty lucky 
eh? Or maybe it was left alone for years for this very reason! I choose the latter. And so... to the point. 
Take a look at the Olympic site with the Google Maps road view. On a first glance it looks like any other 
map view, but persevere... take a closer look at the road names.
You will find that the entire site of the Olympic Village is surrounded by somewhat biblical and mystical 
road names. The New Jerusalem you ask? 1.2. THE ROADS
1. East Cross Route (actually the A12 or A'20'12) : ref. "The Eastern Cross"
The Eastern Orthodox cross (also known as Crux Orthodoxa, the Byzantine cross, the Eastern cross, 
and the "Russian" cross) can be considered a modified version of the Patriarchal cross, having two 
smaller crossbeams, one at the top and one near the bottom, in addition to the longer crossbeam.
Notice how the East Cross Route is also an A road - numbered A12.
Given the UK has hundreds of A roads, what's the likelihood that of all roads, the
A'20'12 intersects the Olympic site?
Pause for a second and think about the shape of the letter A... yes it's a pyramid with a capstone. So 
symbolically the only major road which 'crosses' the Olympic site, is the A(Pyramid) (20)12. 
2. Carpenter's Road: ref. "Joseph"
Joseph's profession is described in the Gospels as a τεκτων, a Greek word for a variety of skilled 
craftsmen, but Christian tradition has him as a "carpenter".
3. Great Eastern Road: ref. Eastern Star
The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world that both men and women 
can join. It was established in 1850 by Rob Morris, a lawyer and educator who had been an official with 
the Freemasons.
Logo Of The Order Of The Eastern Star
As you can see the emblem for the "Order Of The Eastern Star" is a pentagram - similar to that found on 
the UK Passport. An acknowledgement of the pagan deity Satan / Saturn.
4. Angel Lane: ref. Angel Gabriel / The Holy Spirit
Angels visit Joseph and Mary. Angels announced Christ's birth to Mary and Joseph. The angel Gabriel 
visited Mary in Nazareth. She was engaged to Joseph. Gabriel told Mary she would give birth to the Son 
of God. Mary was a virgin. Gabriel told her God's power would make the conception possible. Gabriel 
said, "Nothing will be impossible with God".             
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5. Temple Mills Lane
Temple Mills were water mills belonging to the Knights Templar - "The Poor Fellow- Soldiers of Christ 
and of the Temple of Solomon".
6. Church Road (Update)
Although not shown on the above map (but please do look in Google), the road on the north east 
perimeter of the complex takes it's name from the Christian place of worship, a church. 
1.3. THE LOCATION - LEY LINES
The Olympics 2012 site is situated between Leyton and Leytonestone. The "Ley" found in their names 
originates from the term 'Ley lines'. For those who are in the dark:
Ley lines, or Leys, are alignments of ancient sites stretching across the landscape. Ancient sites or holy 
places may be situated in a straight line ranging from one or two to several miles in length. A ley may be 
identified simply by an aligned placing of marker sites, or it might be visible on the ground for all or part 
of its length by the remnants of an old straight track.
Our ancestors knew that ley lines, earth grids and vortexes were energy sources and centers that were 
to be considered holy.
A "Ley Line" is one a number of lines which form part of an energy grid which cross the Earth. The 
energy - metaphysical in nature.
So is there any documentary proof that 'Ley lines' cross near Leyton and Leytonestone? You bet there 
is... The bender site, and the old yew tree in it, were the short-lived heart of Leytonstonia, decorated with a 
kerb-henge, a replica of Stonehenge made with kerbstones. (Some talked of the significance of the 
names Leyton and Leytonstone, of their relation to ley lines more generally, as though this might explain 
the energy of the protest sites. A brickhenge was made at Clarement Road, halfway between Leyton and 
Leytonstone.)
The Olympics site lies in an area synonymous with mystical - metaphysical - earth energy. Is this yet  another coincidence or part of a plan for the 2012 Olympics which was put into motion way before the  event was officially finalised?
1.4. LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 : THE LOGO'S CREATOR





Above: London 2012 Olympic Games Logos....


To further my coverage of the Olympics 2012 and the plans for a 'false flag' / fake alien invasion (or an  event on the scale of biblical second coming), we have to go back to the very roots of the Olympics 2012  brand and logo.
The brand was designed by Wolff Olins - a brand  consultancy based in London and New York. They ] have been responsible for the brand design work behind GE Capital, Sony Ericsson, Unilever and 
(RED). The company was founded in Camden Town, London, in 1965 by designer Michael Wolff and  advertising executive Wally Olins. Wolff left the business in 1983, and Olins in 2001, though both are still  active in the field of branding.                                                                  
      
From 1965 to the early 1990s, Wolff Olins played a central part in  developing the craft of corporate  identity in Europe and working with over 500 organizations worldwide. Among his clients were Audi, 
Apple records, P&O, Renault, 3i, Pilkington and Volkswagen. The current designs for Shell and BP are  also some of Wolff Olins work.  Is it a coincidence that the Olympics logo can resemble the word 'Zion', and that, on the website of the  agency who created the logo, you can find the word 'Sion'? No. This can't happen by chance.
Zion (Hebrew: ציון%, tziyyon; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn;) transliterated Zion or Sion
Of the two founders, Wally Olins became the real success story. Wally Olins is generally recognised to  be the world’s most experienced practitioner of corporate identity and branding. Given this, I felt a few  Googles were required to see what else could be found on Wally Olins .Take a trip to the British Library 
Archival Sound Recordings, and you will find an audio interview with the man himself.
Wally Olins born London 19 December 1930. Father Alfred Olins; Mother Rachel Muskowicz, both born  in London in 1896 into Jewish immigrant families escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe in the 1880's and  90's.  Talks about parents' European origins. Briefly describes mother's family background through  memories of grandmother living with them. Father second son of large family who developed a road  transport business. Wally Olins talks of mother having mental health problems and the impact this had  on his parents' marriage and the family in general as well as on himself. Describes his father's  successful role in family business. Talks about father persuading him to become a Freemason and its  triggering a recognition of insider/outsider issues and their relationship to his drives and ambitions.
It just so turns out that Wally's father was a Freemason and, more than likely, he's one too. And you  wonder why it is, that many of the corporate logos you see plastered around our cities, contain the 'All  Seeing Eye' and hidden occult symbology  - well here is your answer. Everything is connected so to  speak.
The designers behind some of Europe's major corporate brands have been and still are, educated in  esoteric and occult philosophies. Wally Olins may have left the Wolff Olins brand consultancy in 2001,  ruling him out as the designer of the 2012 logo, but ask yourself this - would he leave the company which  bears his name in such un-educated hands? Or is it more than likely that he found the perfect  replacements to continue his legacy?
So to summarise, the man behind the company responsible for the Olympics 2012 logo was involved in  Freemasonry.
Do you believe that the logo for the 2012 Olympics Games is still so innocent? 1.5. THE 2012 STADIUM DESIGN VIDEO
Hypothetically speaking, if 2012 is to see London established as the 'New Jerusalem' for a New World  Order (a global government under a one world religion)... how could this be achieved?
We can safely assume that a stereotypical terrorist attack is no longer sufficient to implement a global  unification strategy. In essence an event is required with the magnitude of a biblical second coming, a  threat from outer-space - or even both? An event with the capacity to create all as 'one'.
In the film Fight Club, a scene depicts Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) inserting a frame of pornography into a  movie whilst the audience in the cinema watch. Most of them don't notice it on a conscious level, but  they did see it and it did enter their brains. This demonstrates how subliminal programming works on the  subconscious, and it happens to all of us - everyday.
A video released by the 2012 Olympic Committee depicts the construction phases of the new Olympic  stadium. (Do a search on Youtube on “London 2012 Olympic Stadium Insight Promo” to see the video) Since when was the London Olympics  affiliated with small flying saucers, projected "blue energy"  beams, a big 'Independence Day' style mothership and huge robotic street walkers? Who came up with  this concept?
Time stamps of note in the 4:52 youtube video.
0.40 minutes = 11:11 symbology with the 4 chimneys
1.00 minutes = UFO's flying around the London "All Seeing Eye"
1.40 minutes = Independence Day style mothership
2.00 minutes = Robotic street walkers in the streets of London
3.51 minutes = Three flashes of an Athletes head with sunglasses. At first glance it looks like an Alien 
face! and played at normal speed acts as a blatant subliminal.
This video serves one purpose - to plant a seed in your mind! and adds more fuel to the fire for the 
proposed "Project Bluebeam"
1.6. THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS CONNECTION
The Wikipedia page for the 2012 London Olympics draws a strange comparison between the 2012 logo 
and the logo used for the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
"BBC Sport acknowledged that 'London 2012’s new logo has got the country talking', and compared the 
innovative design to that of the logos of Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972"
The 1972 Munich Olympics were host to the first 'official' global terrorist attack, in which 11 Israelis were 
killed by Black September (the 9th month - 9/11), a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization. 
The Olympics were host to 121 countries.  Returning to pyramid numerology and the significance of the number 11:
1234321 = 11:11 x 11:11
121 countries = 11:11
11 fatalities             
                        
In essence, the 1972  Munich Olympics provided the first world stage for global terrorism and the  inclusion of the significant number '11' was anything but a coincidence.
1.7. THE 1984 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS VIDEO
The year '1984' has become synonymous with the George Orwell  book of the same name. "1984 is  about life in a dictatorship as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at
the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania."
This famous novel introduced the concept of 'Big Brother', symbolised by an "All Seeing Eye", and in  recent years has been the basis for the reality TV show. At its core, '1984' represented life under the  New World Order:
1.8. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH\
'1984' has become a talisman of fear for the people of England, Europe and the rest of the world. It makes sense that, today, those deliberately disseminating fear around the globe would use that talisman  against us.
The '1984' Los Angeles Olympics marked an opportunity for such a symbolic event. The closing  ceremony for the 1984 Olympics involved a UFO flying over the Olympic
stadium and communicating with the audience. The UFO eventually lands, amid smoke and lights, at  which point an alien steps out and greets the public.
Considering the 1984 Olympics had no other connections to UFO and alien phenomena, the only logical  reasoning as to why this happened was again to plant a seed in the publics mind and to judge our  reaction.
1.9. THE OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY & THE RELIGION OF THE NWO
With the recent commotion over the torch relay for the 2008 Beijing Olympics you'd be forgiven for asking why we even bother with it? Any responsible committee would have halted the parade after it 
became obvious it was being followed by violent protests. But no, we had to remain 'in the Olympic spirit'  and presume that the keeping of a long- running tradition was so important that a little police brutality  and a few hundred arrests were mere necessities.
Tibet's been in an international dilemma for nearly 60 years since China sent in thousands of troops in  1950. Over the decades, several uprisings have been violently quashed by Chinese authorities, with  many monks arrested or killed. The latest of these was in March 2008 and the outcome was once again predictable. China accused Tibet's exiled "spiritual leader" the  Dalai Lama of masterminding the violence – an accusation that should sound ludicrous for anyone who  knows who the Dalai Lama is. The press then used the violence to aggravate global disapproval of 
China.
Conveniently the torch relay followed in the same month, and we were shown daily footage of "Free  Tibet" supporters being rugby-tackled and beaten, all around the world, and this time none of us could  avoid feelings of empathy and outrage.
Like with any clear theme in the media, questions must be asked as to the agenda - to whose advantage  is a world of powerless pro-Tibetans? My alarm bells started ringing when I heard George W. Bush make  comments in support of the movement. With this political support, and apparent propaganda campaigns 
 benefiting from global compassion for "Free Tibet"?
like the US-backed pro-Tibet radio station Radio Free Asia, and calls for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics  from celebrity actor- turned-activist Richard Gere, I started wondering how might our governments be  Historically, Tibet has long captured the West's imagination as the site of a mystical Utopia. This is 
fundamentally due to the Tibetan Monks' practice of Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is both non-violent  and non-dogmatic and uses meditation as a means to attaining a higher spiritual understanding. 
Buddhism is different to Christianity in that it is not centred on a 'God' and is aimed at gaining insight into  life's true nature. The Buddhist believes there are 7 chakras in the human body of which four are of  particular importance.
Hearing of the Tibetan plight on the news every day for a month, I couldn't help but think that there in  itself lies an agenda. Western news channels successfully manage to feed the population's 
consciousness with fear and negativity in an effort to distort the reality around us. They are used as  emotional tools providing the 'elite' with a powerful method of control. I have learnt they are not to be  trusted, but there is a great deal to be learned from them.

1.10. THE RELIGION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
First and foremost, I would like you to consider the Tibetan flag. Symbolically you could say that Tibet 
became the blueprint for a religion based on 'spiritual sun  worship'. Given that the 14th Dalai Lama 
predominantly takes refuge in Western countries, you could assume that he is in 'the inner circle of those 
in the know', given the 'sun' symbolism attributed to him.
Like any country, Tibet still has a class hierarchy and its religious leaders. With rumours abound that 
those on the bottom rungs still suffer in tremendous poverty, it becomes apparent that the last 'spiritual' 
hope in the world, still abides to a pyramidal power structure.
As I explained in my other  post : Beijing Olympics 2008 : Zion & The Fifth World : BeiBei, the blue 
mascot for the Olympics 2008, represents spirit and is the only one to have a spiritual third eye. This 
correlates with the blue Olympic Ring, which represents the new cycle of time of which we are moving 
into.
One of my very first posts, involved the discovery of a spiritual chakra system in the UK Passport (sealed 
with inverted pentagrams). Who is responsible for this if not our own government or royal figures?
To take this one step further, you can look to the Bible (a road map depicting the plan for a 'New Order 
Of The Ages') for answers. The Book of Revelations makes numerous references to the 'seven seals'. 
This is again symbolic for the seven chakras.
You could even look to the Mayan prophecies for more clues... In a prophecy written in 1560, a Mayan 
high priest wrote:   "There 'the masters of our souls' arrived... there the counties were distributed to their chiefs. There we 
began to learn the holy faith. There water began to enter our heads. There were laid the foundations of 
the high church. The palace of God, the virtuous open house of God. There the principle of the seven 
sacraments was founded."
Simply replace sacraments with chakras.
And this is where I propose that the religion of the New World Order, is indeed that of spirituality, but 
spirituality based on a power pyramid of oppression, based on the ascendancy of a 'false messiah' who 
is going to be declared the 'Son of God', the 'Return of the King'!   piritual hierarchy. With our current capitalist society on the edge of collapsing under its own weight, it 
becomes clear that civilisation founded upon the principles of spirituality - not greed - is crucial for the 
survival of our home planet.
You may be aware of the Georgia Guidestones. Known as A Guide stone For The Future of Humanity 
these stones were erected by an elusive character called RC Christian (with clear  links to Christian 
Rosencrantz - founder of the Rosicrucians). Take note of the 3rd commandment for a new age which is 
found on the stones: Found in the UK Passport issued in 1998, on a page entitled  "This page is reserved for official 
observations, if any" followed by the French equivalent and "(11)".  This image means nothing to joe 
public, but the designers surely meant something by this. Now for the interesting part... I'm sure you're all 
familiar with the spiritual chakra system:
Look at the descending order of the chakras  (image above to the right) and remember the specific 
locations of the heart chakra and the solar plexus chakra. Observe this:
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
How do you propose, with our multi-lingual planet, that we could phase out all but one language, unless 
indeed this refers not to a spoken language, but to telepathy?
1.11. CHAKRAS IN THE UK PASSPORT - SEALED WITH PENTAGRAMS
NOTE. This blog does not insinuate the spiritual chakra system is Satanic, but it does reveal that the 
chakra system hidden from view in the UK passport is sealed with the sign of Satan.
To further my investigation into British Royalty and the symbolism of the New World Order, I would like to 
draw your attention to this image. (Below left found on all British Passports issued since 1998)    shape and a bright star, as are the remaining 5 chakra's of the 
body.
Remember that 11:11x11:11 = 1234321. Why is there a random 
number 11 on this page?
And to complete the design, we have not one, but two 5 sided 
pentagonal flowers. In between the flower petals are 5 angular 
points... join the dots and you have two pentagrams - the seal of 
Satan!
So as a full image interpretation, you have a human chakra 
system on an observations page in the UK Passport containing 
the number 11, sealed by two pentagrams, the sign of Satan. 
This design can also be found on the passport photo, as the 
hologram, where the seal of Satan sits appropriately on your third 
eye chakra.
If you have read my previous post deciphering the British Coat Of Arms (found on the front of the UK 
Passport) you may be starting to wake up! Since when did the UK Government and Monarchy 
acknowledge the chakra system in the first place? Never...
CONCLUSION
It seems the Olympics 2012 site was picked for reasons which go far beyond that of 'spare waste land'. 
The roads which encompass the site, contain biblical and Masonic references, lying dormant for years, 
as if to become part of some majestic ritual.
And if that wasn't enough, a new construction intersecting 'Angel Lane' looks to be forming a grand 
procession. In the BBC interview "It will be a lasting legacy" with Jean Pickering, the former Olympic 
bronze medallist was quoted as saying:
I remember running along Angel Lane to get the train to work and hearing all the market stall holders 
cheering me on. That's true East End spirit. 
References to 'lasting legacy', 'Angel Lane', and 'true spirit' sound ominous to me, given our 'Zion' street 
map.
Britain's spiritual landmarks - Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor and Avebury, all rest upon 'ley lines' (areas 
of intense earth energy). Could it be any more bewildering that they have chosen such a site for our 
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2. BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008: ZION & THE FIFTH WORLD
• On 5th May 2005, Tony Blair held a UK general election, which secured him another 3 years in 
power. (555)
• On 6th June 2006, everyone expected a day of the devil. Nothing happened. (666)
• On 7th July 2007, Al Gore organised a series of concerts around the world, initiating a 3 year 
campaign to combat climate change. (777)
At Live Earth, not only did the audience take part in a 'sun worship' ritual during the opening number to 
'Genesis' (credits to Matthew Delooze for his brilliant work on 'Breaking The Serpent Spell'):
We were also treated to a fantastic finale by our lady 'Madonna' (unfortunately she didn't perform her 
crucifixion act):  Are you starting to see a pattern here? It appears that numerologically significant days of the year 
entertain events controlled by 'the governing powers'. With all the commotion surrounding the Beijing 
Olympics, it's hard to remember why we actually do these events... maybe it's because of what they 
symbolically represent.   "There are many myths surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. The most popular legend describes 
that Heracles was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings as 
an honor to his father Zeus, after completing his 12 labours. The Olympics were of fundamental religious 
importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood 
at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia."
So you could say that the Olympic Games, at the very least, are a pagan event honouring Zeus 'King Of 
The Gods' or the 'creator' if you like. Makes you wonder what his '20'12 labours were?
Moving swiftly on to Beijing 2008, let's take a look at the logo  With a little 'cut and paste' (taking elements from the suprisingly 'unathletic' figure for an Olympic logo), 
this can be written as:
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You bet it is! What are the chances? Two Olympic games in succession where the logo contains the 
word 'Zion'. Is it me or is this something that just doesn't happen by chance? Here lies every insinuation 
that, between the years of 2008 and 2012, there is a 4-year plan for the creation of 'Zion', a 'New 
Jerusalem'.
Let's delve deeper... You may recall that sometime last year the Beijing Olympic Committee unveiled the 
5 mascots for the Olympics. The date for this was, are you ready?
11th November 2007. Yes... 11th of the 11th, or 11:11.
"A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on  November 11, 
exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony."  xin_4411031616391521020167
Here's the little critters... all 5 of them, coloured just like the Olympic rings. Ignore their pyramidal hats for 
a moment because there's something much weirder going on here...
You may recall my interpretation of the Olympic rings a month or two back, but to repeat - symbolically 
each of the rings represents one of the 5 cycles of time which the Mayan calendar comprises. Each ring 
connects to one other... giving the impression that a new cycle starts before the end of an old... a 
transition period so to speak - a bit like the one we're in now (1992-2012), the 'time of no-time', according 
to the Mayans.
Without further ado, here's the official stance on the Beijing 2008 mascots:
Nini (green): Wind. Every spring and summer, the children of Beijing have flown beautiful kites on the 
currents of wind that blow through the capital.     YingYing (orange): Animal. Like all antelopes, Yingying is fast and agile and can swiftly cover great 
stretches of land as he races across the earth.
Huanhuan (red): Fire. He is the "big brother". He is a child of fire, symbolizing the Olympic
Flame.
Jingjing (black): Nature. Symbolizing the lush forest and the harmonious relationship between man and 
nature.
BeiBei (blue): Water. Strong in water sports, she reflects the blue Olympic ring. Take note of BeiBei, the 
blue mascot representing water:
What's that on BeiBei's forehead? A 'spiritual' third eye?
If you order the mascots, just like the Olympic rings - red (fire), green (wind), black (nature), orange 
(animal), blue (spirit), a pattern emerges describing what could be seen as the evolution of  consciousness as taught in esoteric circles.
Mineral / Element > Plant > Animal > Human > ... (into spirit?)
Coma > Deep Sleep > Dreaming > Waking > ...  If the Olympic mascots and official logo do indeed correlate with the five 5125 year cycles of the Mayan 
Calendar and the evolution of consciousness, does the arrival of 2012 bring about the transition into the  spiritual consciousness of the 'blue' Olympic ring, leaving the 'orange' ring of animal consciousness  behind?

To further correlate the significance behind the 'blue' ring, and to draw a link to the London Olympics  2012:
"In the past few weeks an 11-mile  blue fence has sprung up around the 2012 Olympics site in east  London. Is it a necessary security measure - or a reminder of how divisive the games are?" Please read  to see how significant the 'blue' fence is!   

With the ritual use of the number 11, and the colour blue... it appears the Olympic Games is the perfect  demonstration of how our governments can get things right if they really want to!
How does this all tie in? As Rik Clay and Justin Stephens have announced, it is their belief that come the  Olympics 2012, we are going to see one of the largest hoaxes ever perpetrated on man. With the rife  symbolism in the promotional material, it can be assumed that people at the very top have an acute  understanding of what is about to happen to our planet.

The Beijing Olympics slogan: "ONE WORLD ONE DREAM"
The premise of spiritual ascension, the opening of our third eyes and telepathic powers all sound  exhilarating and beyond belief, but what if this is real and our impending reality is everything we've 
dreamed of?
Do you suppose that the ruling powers who have domineered over us for eternity are likely to let that one  slip, or is it more than likely they are going to try and hijack it and dupe the public into believing that it is  they who are responsible? A biblical, angelic event powered by a 'Project Blue Beam' anyone? The  scene is set... it just depends on what their dream is. 

2.1. THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS TORCH RELAY
The Dalai Lama's recent actions, involving China and the Olympic Games, are all part of an intended 
plan to bring 'sun worship' and 'spirituality' to the forefront of everyone's mind. There are numbers and 
dates surrounding the Olympic Torch relay and the foreign relations between the Dalai Lama and China, 
which insinuate a much greater plan is
taking place! But first, the Olympic flame...
THE ORIGINS OF THE OLYMPIC FLAME
The Olympic Torch today is ignited several months before the opening celebration of the Olympic 
Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the roles of 
priestesses, perform a ceremony in which the torch is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays 
concentrated by a parabolic mirror.
THE MODERN DAY TORCH RELAY
The 1936 Games were the first to employ the torch run. This was the 11th modern day Olympiad. The 
games were opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Incidentally, Adolf Hitler came to power in 
1933 (33 degrees of Freemasonry anyone?).
The Flame Passes Through Lhasa, Tibet 2008
"The Olympic torch is set to pass through the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on June 20-21. Chinese government officials 
have confirmed their plans to continue despite the ongoing protests and crackdown across ethnic Tibetan areas."
Yes that's right, the Olympic Flame which is lit by the 'sun' passes through Lhasa in Tibet on the Summer 
Solstice - the sun of most high! The Dalai Lama's Visit To The UK in 2008
The Dalai Lama began an 11-day visit to Britain Tuesday, including talks with Prime Minister Gordon 
Brown who faces a delicate balancing act of supporting Tibetan rights while not offending China. Source  So as you can see here, the history of the Olympic Torch relay and the Dalai Lama's recent actions are 
compounded with number 11 - sun worshipping symbolism...
Oh and we mustn't forget that the Olympic Torch symbolises our 'veiled' moon Goddess -  Isis (as seen 
here, 'starring' as the Statue Of Liberty in Escape From New York and holding the flame which 
represents the Sun God 'Nimrod' also known as 'Baal' - more info here):
This also relates to the origins of the Christian/Pagan celebration of 'Easter'- (info here) which derives
from Babylonian/Sumerian times, thousands of years before the so called birth of Christ!
2.2. 'XXX' EXPLAINED - OLYMPICS, PORN AND THE PROOF
Today a new realisation hit me, with regard to the significance and true meaning behind the sequence of 
letters 'XXX'.
As most will be aware, 'XXX' permeates our lives in a multitude of ways:
* The London 2012 Olympic Games (XXX Olympiad)
* Pornography
* Kisses on a letter, e-mail or greetings card
* 'Britain's Got Talent' or 'America's Got Talent' TV Show (for the few who still watch TV!)
* In the cinema (xXx with Vin Diesel)
* A certain someone's birthday in 2012
Imagine for a moment, that when you've been showing respect, releasing emotion and energy to any of 
the above 'XXX' sequences, you have been feeding the biggest occult agenda known to man. An 
agenda which will bring about the spiritual ascen'sion' of the world under a 'false messiah' known as the 
'Son Of God'.
Now imagine for a moment, it's all true...
THE 'X' OLYMPICS
It is my belief that the 2012 London Olympic Games (XXX Olympiad) are going to witness a pre-planned 
'alien visitation' alongside the anointment of an 'end times' messiah.
Our focus here is the letter 'X', so let's take a look at two previous Olympic games:  XX Olympiad - The Munich Summer Olympics of 1972             
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To quote an earlier article of mine:
The 1972 Munich Olympics were host to the first 'official' global terrorist attack, in which 11 Israelis were 
killed by Black September (the 9th month - 9/11), a group with ties to Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah organization. The Olympics were host to 121 countries:
1234321 = 11:11 x 11:11
121 countries = 11:11
11 fatalities
The emblem of the games was a blue solar logo (the "Bright Sun"). I will be covering the significance of 
the colour blue shortly.
X OLYMPIAD - THE LOS ANGELES (THE ANGELS) SUMMER OLYMPICS OF 1932
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were celebrated in 1932 
in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during 
the worldwide Great Depression, many nations and athletes were unable to pay for the trip to Los 
Angeles. Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam 
competed in 1932.  The Games of the X Olympiad were also the first to use the victory podium (that's right, a pyramid):
2.3. WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN?
As you can see, the X and XX Olympiads both witnessed remarkable world events, unrivalled by any 
other Olympic Games.
The 1932 games were held in the midst of the worldwide 'Great Depression', whilst the  1972 games 
gave a stage for the world's first dose of 'global terror'.
Does it seem so unrealistic, that the XXX Olympiad may have a surprise in store?
XXX - UNVEILED
The letter X is more significant than you think.
First of all, you need to understand that the characters of the English alphabet are more than just letters. 
They are symbols with meaning, sometimes multiple meanings - much like the Egyptian hieroglyphs. 
They are talismans.             

X is the 24th letter of the English alphabet. 2+4/2+4/2+4 = 666. XXX can be seen to represent the 
number of the beast.
The letter X originated from a letter in the Greek alphabet known as 'Chi'
'Chi' is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet - that's 11:11 for any of you who've been following.
The Spirit Of X or 'Chi'
'Chi' or 'X' were the origins of the Chinese word 'Qi' meaning 'life force' or 'energy flow'. 'Chi' was also the 
origins of the Japanese word 'Ki', as in 'Reiki'. 'Chi' also features in 'Tai Chi'.
As you can see, the letter X or 'Chi' is very much about 'spirit'.
X - THE MOTHER GODDESS, ISIS
"In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands which form the soul of the world cross each other 
like the letter Χ."
Plato, an ancient Greek esoteric philosopher (important to remember, considering who we're dealing 
with) associates the letter X with the 'soul of the world'. 'Soul of the world' in Latin becomes 'Anima 
mundi'. Both of these terms are identified with 'Gaia'.
Gaia can be defined as:
"A complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting 
a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on 
this planet."
Gaia is the 'Mother Goddess', who can be identified as Isis - the mother figure of the Egyptian trinity.
X - THE 'SON OF GOD', HORUS
"Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas (Xmas)."
Jesus Christ, the 'Son Of God' can be attributed to the sun, much like Horus - the son figure of the 
Egyptian trinity.
X - THE FATHER
"A person normally has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell. Females have two X chromosomes, 
while males have one X and one Y chromosome."  
The Spirit Of X or 'Chi'    A father has one X chromosome. The father can be identified with 'Our father who art in heaven' or 
Osiris - the father figure in the Egyptian trinity.
XXX - The Trinity
As you may have realised, this becomes all too easy now. XXX simply means the father, the son and the 
mother or should we say the trinity!
If you've listened to Rik Clays recent Red Ice Creations Radio interview, you'll already know  that he 
believes the 2012 Olympic Games are going to witness the implementation of the 'trinity for a new age', 
and here you have it - encoded in the very letters of the games themselves.
To reiterate, X is far more than just a letter... home
XXX AND THE OCCULT
Imagine your body is a biological computer, and that your 5 senses are filters. If you were to remove 
these filters, you would be bombarded by an all engrossing white light  - a whole array of different 
energies, which you cannot perceive under normal conditions.
When you show emotion to a symbol, an object, a person, your lover - you are generating frequencies of 
energy which cannot be perceived through your 5 senses.
Now imagine, that an 'intelligence' which resides outside of your 5 senses, in  another dimension of 
reality perhaps, is capturing that energy for itself - for its own personal gain.
The occult operates in co-ordinance with this 'intelligence'.
The letters 'XXX' have been empowered as an occult symbol representing the trinity. If you have no 
awareness of the occult meaning behind 'XXX', and you go on to show it emotion, you are feeding this 
symbol with the energy (from outside of your 5 sense reality) that it desires.
You are feeding the trinity, or even closer - a trinity event, at the 2012 London
Olympics.
'The truth is always hidden in plain sight'
XXX PORNOGRAPHY 
(single men around the world, giving away their every energy to the computer screen, the most potent 
energy of all!)
Here's Amsterdam's Coat Of Arms (a city founded upon its red light district) for good measure:  XXX the movie (shown in cinemas around the globe, designed to excite the audience.)
Britain's (America's) Got Talent - 3 judges (2 men, 1 woman - father, son and mother - the trinity) sat in 
front of a live TV audience, beaming into homes around the world via the televi'sion' set. Laughter, tears, 
panic, applause... a range of emotions feeding yet more energy unto the symbol 'XXX'.
And finally... something that we're all guilty of doing. We don't even know why we do it, only that it's 
drilled into us from a young age:
We all sign our greetings cards and emails with 'kiss kiss kiss'  - 'XXX'. As previously mentioned, X 
originates from the Greek letter, 'Chi' which in Japanese is 'Ki'. The word 'Ki'ss can be broken down into 
'Ki' or 'spirit' accompanied by SS. You could view this as two snakes, much like the structure of our DNA. 
home
2.4. 4 MORE YEARS AND COUNTING...
'XXX' symbolises the trinity, much like the early Egyptian creation trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus.
We, the world, 'consciousness', have been feeding a 'trinity event', blissfully unaware for over a hundred 
years. I believe that this event is going to take place at the 2012 London Olympics, the XXX Olympiad.
So this leads to the question... who are the members of this 'new trinity'? Who plays Osiris, the role of 
'Father'? Who plays Isis, the role of 'Mother'?
Who plays Horus, the 'Son', the 'end game' messiah for a 'New World Order Of The Ages'? His birthday 
is on the 21st June, the summer solstice - the sun of the most high. In the year 2012, he will be 30 years 
old = 'XXX'.
His name is Prince William....
The 2012 Olympic Games
Without doubt there is imagery and word play at work connecting a significant event to the
2012 Olympics:
* The 2012 logo which spells 'Zion'
* A movie which could insinuate an alien visitation (here)
* A 1984 Olympics ceremony which stages an alien visitation (here)
* A slogan which spells out the plans for a 'New World Order'
* The Olympic Rings and their connotations of cyclical time   3. SYMBOLOGY OF THE NUMBER 11 (11:11)
With the number 11 appearing frequently throughout my studies, I felt the following introduction / 
summary may eliminate the need to repeat myself thus allowing new-comers and regular readers alike to 
quickly be brought up to speed.
The facts:
11: IN THE UNIVERSE
* On 11th August 1999 at 11:11am there was a total solar eclipse observed throughout
Europe
* 21st December 2012 at 11:11am is the winter solstice of the final day of the Mayan calendar
* The current astrological sign of the zodiac is Pisces, we are currently moving into
Aquarius - the 11th sign of the zodiac
* 21st December 2012 = 21/12/2012 = 2+1+1+2+2+0+1+2 = 11
* The sunspot cycle lasts 11 years - the next one peaking in 2012.
11: PYRAMID NUMEROLOGY
* 11:11 x 11:11 = 1234321 (Numerical sequence ascending and descending in the fashion of a pyramid)
* 111 x 111 = 12321 (Pyramid number)
* 11 x 11 = 121 (Another pyramid number)
* 11 = 3 in binary arithmetic. 3 makes the cornerstones of the Trinity or pyramid
11: 9/11
* The World Trade Centre stood like an '11'
* 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
* September 11th is the 254th day of the year. 2+5+4 = 11
* September 11th was 111 days until the end of the year
* The 1st plane to hit the World Trade Centre was 'Flight 11'
* Total crew on Flight 11 was '11'
* New York is the 11th state of the US Constitution
* September 11th 2001 stands '11' years from 2012 (Note that in the Mayan calendar, it was said that 
there would be 20 years of 'no-time'. A period of unrest where the planet is making a transition from one 
age to another. 9/11 stood 9 years from the start of this 'no- time' and 11 years from the end.)
* The World Trade Centre was built between 1966 to 1977... taking 11 years  11: SEPTEMBER 11TH IN HISTORY
* On September 11th 1990 at 9.09PM, 11 years prior to September 11th 2001, George
Bush Senior made a speech to Congress entitled "Toward A New World Order":
Just google george bush senior new world order and you should find it. 
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nrP1VJ9hd0
"A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. 
The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic 
period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world order—can emerge."             

* On September 11th 1941, 60 years prior to September 11th 2001, the soil was broken and the 
foundations set for "The Pentagon" in Washington DC
* A book written in 1981, 20 years prior to the 2001 attacks, called "The Birth of Christ Recalculated". 
The author, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, claims to have calculated the exact date of Jesus Christ's birth based 
on the celestial charts for that era. The date of Christ's birth, based on the famous Star of Bethlehem, is 
calculated to be September 11, 3 B.C.
* According to Hebrew Scriptures September 11, 1999 was the 6,000th anniversary of
Adam's creation, and year 1 on the Hebrew calendar
11: SIGNIFICANT DAYS
* Remembrance Day - Two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh 
month (11:00 am, 11 November), supposedly marking the time (in the United Kingdom) when armistice 
became effective.
11: SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
* The first NASA space mission to successful land two men on the moon was Apollo 11
* Hurricane Katrina was recorded as "Storm #11". Hurricane
Katrina's wikipedia page states:
On August 28, 11 counties and eleven cities issued evacuation orders, a number which increased to 41 
counties and 61 cities by the following morning
To coincide, NASA's Hurricane Katrina page states:  "The storm formed late on August 23 and developed quickly into a tropical storm by 11 a.m. the next 
morning."
* Uri Geller stopped Big Ben at 11.11 AM GMT 30th April 1997 (a hoax in my opinion, but feel free to 
research)
11: ROYALTY
* A google search into the etymology of the word "crown" establishes it was derived from the AngloFrench word "coroune" in the year 1111.  "1111, from Anglo-Fr. coroune, from O.Fr.  corone, from L. 
corona "crown""
11: RELIGION
* Jesus Christ = 11 letters
11: SPORT
* There are 11 players in a football team. A football game becomes 11:11.
* There are 11 players in a cricket team. Again, 11:11.
11: A SUMMARY 
The number 11 finds itself embedded in the very fabric of existence. Observed in both the heavens and 
in the workings of shadowy world rulers, there are three schools of thought as to how this could be:             

* The first points towards a series of 'inevitable events' deep rooted in the fabric of material existence. 
Fate so to speak and that the universe is playing out its script.
* The second speculates that 'the powers that be' have realised the significance of the number 11 in our 
ancient past and hijacked it for their own gain.
* The third leads to an assumption that the pyramid builders, are the same people in control today, and 
have used the number 11 symbolically throughout recorded history. Could it be that this 'intelligence' at 
work, created the solar system (so as to explain the connections between the number 11 and the 
universe) or is it simply working to a universal numerical code?  The above information is all based on published fact, without even going into my own experiences with 
the numbers 11:11.
At first I held my own reservations about the significance of the number 11, until I found it work itself into 
my life.
Most, if not all of my knowledge and research in this blog, found its way into my life through moments 
where I've see an 11:11 on a digital clock, on the microwave or on the TV. Of late, these have taken a 
new form, including full blown audible 11:11's from random members of the general public and 
arrangements of seemingly random objects forming something greater than just coincidence.
11:11 has come to signify a change in consciousness or at least the exposure of a new reality. Puzzling 
to say the least, but exciting - definitely! 

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Vote now: No FlyZone over Palestine!

Another peace-loving yiddish fruitcake...


"If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day. If we don't kill we will cease to exist."
 -Israeli Prof. Arnon Sofer of Haifa University, Jerusalem Post


TER-ROR-ISM: noun 1 The Act of terrorising. 2 A system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation. Funk and Wagnall’s New Practical Standard Dictionary (1946)


“Those who beat their swords into ploughshares shall plough for those who don’t!”
Anon.


“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
Dante’s Devine Comedy

Stand up and shout it out, because...


Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

by Henry David Thoreau


Independent thinking...


Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.
Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.
Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
And on issues that seem important to you:
Stand up and be counted at any cost.

~ Thomas J Watson (1874-1956)

Murderous Psycho Pig! Protect and serve whom?

Murderous Psycho Pig! Protect and serve whom? 
"Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." - H.L. Mencken

Click on pic: "Snippits & Snappits" excellent Post on yiddish khazar control of Sex Slavery!

Click on pic: "Snippits & Snappits" excellent Post on yiddish khazar control of Sex Slavery! 
Sex Slavery is a Global business controlled by the "Chosen".
“Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!”
This line was written by the French poet Baudelaire, in a short story about meeting the Devil. The story is called “Le Joueur Généreux” and was published Feb. 7, 1864.
“My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!”
"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb."

Pink Floyd

Churchill quote:


"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack." 


-Winston Churchill
 (Jewish mother) 


The Reality of Corporate Government and hegemony for our kids...

The Reality of Corporate Government and hegemony for our kids... 

'Click' on picture to support the Palestinian Children

'Click' on picture to support the Palestinian Children 
Photo: http://suehepworth.com/

The spirit of 2006...

The spirit of 2006... 
Invincible Merkava "chariot of yahweh" needs work, some panel-damage due to cowardly scramble to avoid fighting armed men, rather than the usual unarmed women and children; drove in blind panic off the edge of a road cutting while being chased by the Lebanese Army, un-registered, un-insured; will consider any genuine offers.

Cutting edge Business reporting at Fox

Cutting edge Business reporting at Fox 
Business as usual for Murdoch's professional team of gifted journalists and titty girls.
 

Lest We forget the Christians that are being murdered by the satanic jews that control the jU.S.A

Lest We forget the Christians that are being murdered by the satanic jews that control the jU.S.A 
Palestine Blogs - The Gazette

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." 


H.L. Mencken, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast. 


The end of the ashkenazim is nigh...


"I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Judahites, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan." - Revelation 2:9



 
 
 
UN is a muppet of israhell
 
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

JOIN NOW!

JOIN NOW! 
Australians All let us rejoice, for we are young and FREE! Well, if that German jewess in London that changed her name to Windsor by Deed Poll and does impersonations of an English Queen didn't own our arses!
 
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crop circle image 2011

Check out Suzanne Toro's recent interview with Cliff High for some thought provoking speculations on sacred plants and crop circles.

Image credit goes to crop circle connector.com via the Half Past Human website.
Posted early Thursday morning, August 11th, 2011Tags: interview media podcast
Truth on a road sign in New Mexico

I've been a subscriber to Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country for a couple of weeks now and have been very much enjoying his huge archive of excellent interviews.

The monthly fee is half of what most places are charging and you get what in my opinion is over twice the dedication and attention to detail. Mr Stieber not only reads the books of the people he interviews but he really seems to comprehend the big picture in a way that draws on decades of experience in uncovering the layers of deception that guard some of the more esoteric truths that his DreamLand show explores.

He also has a talent for having experts interviewing experts. The show with Peter Levendainterviewing Joseph P Farrell about Nazi time travel technology was worth the subscription price alone.
Posted Tuesday afternoon, February 8th, 2011Tags: media podcast reviews time website
Whitley Strieber's Dreamland podcast

I had a strange reaction to Whitley Strieber's "true" account of his encounters with some sort of alien entity in his book "Communion" back in the late 1980's. Normally I would have been intrigued about any tale with such an unknown factor, but something about his story struck me as a bit too convenient and lucrative to get past my young and immature P.T. Barnum filter.

Fast forward over 20 years and Mr Strieber is still exploring the unkown with his excellent podcast called Dream Land

I'm still new to the Dream Land podcast, but I'm already impressed with his interview style that goes way beyond what other similar shows produce. I'm ready to admit I was wrong about him back in 1988 when I was a 19 year old sailor without enough data to give his information a fair shake. 

Add to that a weekly 30 minute show by William Henry and you've got something worth checking out in my opinion.
Posted Wednesday afternoon, January 26th, 2011Tags: abduction podcast reviews website
slackware ion guff style?

What do you get when you put the Prince of SlackDr Carolyn Dean, and a group consciousness from the Guf on James Martinez's radio show?

I'm not sure what to make of this weekly 3 hour long show, but it's made me laugh more than once and has a mood and frequency that is unlike anything else I've come across.
Posted late Thursday evening, January 6th, 2011Tags: media podcast review slack website
Freeman is fearless

Freeman is one of the most fascinating characters I've had the pleasure of listening to lately in this far out field of so called alternative research.

He actually predicted something fishy was going to happen concerning the government on September 11th 2001 by extrapolating all his previous findings along with a refined sense of instinct.

Check out his new show on American Freedom Radio for in depth interviews that in my opinion take these subjects to some new heights with his impressive attention to detail. I especially liked his talk with Kerry Cassidy from Project Camelot where they talked about her recent trip to see the great pyramid and why Egyptian guards will not let you meditate at any of the sacred sites in that region.
Posted Wednesday afternoon, December 1st, 2010Tags: interviews media podcast radio sacred sites website
James Corbett independent and alternative with integrity
new world order V old world order
In my opinion the process of unplugging from the control system is a slow and gradual ordeal. Eventually you get to a point where you realize just how corrupt our current state of journalism and news reporting is and you just give up on it all together.

This has been a healthy move for me. I cut mainstream news and talk radio out of my media diet and slowly began to feel some of my creativity and critical thinking skills coming back to life.

These days I get informed of daily events from the wikipedia home page, and when I feel like expanding on that I seek out an independent, alternative source. My current favorite is The Corbett Report by James Corbett. He lives in Japan and does a great job at connecting dots and reading between the lines.

It feels like he's keeping up to date on what little bit of real information is leaking out so you don't have to.

Comic credit goes to notsylvia.wordpress.com for the cool Icelandic humor.
Posted Tuesday evening, October 12th, 2010Tags: media podcast review website
matrix red/blue pill close up
Sofia red ice collageRed Ice Creations did an interesting interview recently with Sophia Stewart: The true mother of the Matrix.

She makes the claim that Hollywood has not denied the accusation and once the F.B.I. got involved she says it was revealed that the Terminator movies were also stolen from her1981 novel titled "The Third Eye".

My instincts are telling me this story goes beyond common greed, which is why I'll be keeping a close eye on Sophia Stewart's case.
Posted late Wednesday evening, October 6th, 2010Tags: book myth podcast reviews
check out check the evidence

I'm often surprised at how spot on Mel Fabregas is with his guest selection and how the people he interviews that I've not heard of always seem to be of a frequency that resonates with my Cosmic Cookout direction.

The Veritas interview with Andrew Johnson was another great discusion that connected some interesting dots concerning anti-gravity technolgy and the events of September 11th 2001. Mr Johnson is one of the first investigators to seriously look at the evidence of Dr Judy Wood and her directed energy beam hypothesis, which to me shows his level of openness.

Registering on his site is free and worth it due to the additional audio archive you get access to. It's safe and spam free with hours of intriguing interviews that I've found enlightening and educational.
Posted late Wednesday morning, September 29th, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews website
Jim Marrs and his hat gang

Chris Geo and Sheree from the Truth Frequency have done an excellent job interviewing one of my all time favorite researchers Jim Marrs.

This dynamic conversation is one of those gems worth listening to multiple times due to the complexity and level of detail they cover.

The first observation I had was when Jim Marrs was referring to the Old Testament story of Genesis and the apple from the tree of knowledge. I always thought this was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, occasionally called the Tree of Conscience, which I translate as a particular stage of development where "Self Awareness" kicks in.
Ancient Sumerian seal depicting Annunaki
I think Mr Marrs is being too general when he speaks of this knowledge given to theAnunnaki hybrid clones. Maybe before this Self Awareness upgrade we were more manageable like a mule or horse? Maybe a group within the Anunnaki decided it was ethically wrong to treat hybrid clones of themselves with such low regard? and the solution to the problem was this "Good and Evil Knowledge" upgrade?

Image credit goes to Micah A Hanks from the Gralien Report blog for the excellent picture of Jim Marrs with him and friends sharing a beverage. I think I'd gladly pay a couple hundred bucks to hear what Jim Marrs has to say after a few beers and off the record.
 
Maybe Jim Marrs should start his own secret society of truth seekers who also enjoy a good brew? That's just what a Cosmic Cookout would entail if I knew enough people in my neighborhood with open minds and a thirst for beer and the truth.
Posted Wednesday evening, August 11th, 2010Tags: media podcast
Infinity Hole Podcast secretI'm happy to report a fresh new podcast on the horizon that is shaping up to be something original and different.

Sam, Steve, and Miles make up theInfinity Hole podcast where they have already found a unique and balanced rhythm that is stimulating to follow.

Recent topics include some brief information on new digital drugs in the form of downloadable sound files, DMT and LSD experiences, and calling out dis-information agents like Andrew Basagio and Aaron McCollum.

I noticed in the 2nd hour of the Veritasinterview with Richard Hoagland that he also expressed doubts to the validity of Mr Basagio's quantum claims, pointing out how Mr Basagio has been employed by some key government agencies that cause me to be skeptic.

Is it possible Andrew Basagio is being played by certain intelligence agencies to be such a fine story teller? He does seem very lucid and articulate, but claims of time traveling with his father when he was a boy are just too much for even me to swallow without more data. The fact that his website has been so minimal speaks volumes to me about his intention.
Posted late Wednesday evening, August 4th, 2010Tags: media podcast review time
Gnostic Media MasterpieceJan Irvin at Gnostic Media has created another great show with hisrecent conversation/interview with psychedelic researcher and author Dr James Fadiman.

I was intrigued by Dr Fadiman's work with "enhanced problem solving" where he worked with industry scientists who had been trying to solve a problem for at least 3 months. He provided a safe space and a controlled dose of LSD and reports several positive situations where a viable solution was achieved.
Posted late Wednesday evening, July 21st, 2010Tags: media podcast
Cosmic Gnostic artwork by John Kale

John Kale at Cosmic Gnostic.com has a great interview with Red Ice Creations founder Henrik Palmgren.

Mr Kale has an impresive collection of podcast shows dating back to 2008.

It was really great hearing an interview where Henrik was answering questions instead of dishing them out. The two together make for a stimulating conversation that shines a little light on what drives Henrik Palmgren on his journey to uncover the protective layers which seem to be hiding what some would call the truth.
Posted Wednesday evening, July 14th, 2010Tags: interview media podcast
Free Energy montage of pioneers

There's been a growing wave of interest in the fringe field of Free Energy where independent inventors try to tap into a yet unidentified source of power. These inventions are generally considered perpetual motion machines and usually are followed by some sort of rolling of the eyes or a furrowing of the brow by those who hold any type of authority in these circles. Some say the energy comes from another dimension and is therefore not created out of thin air.
sailing beyond knowledge image
Thanks to a new addition at Neil Kramer's Cleaver blog link section I got turned on to a new podcast by the name of Sailing Beyond Knowledge.

The latest episode is a comprehensive summarization of the many Free Energy theories floating out there today. Patrick Kelly is the guest and he is clearly moved by a sincere passion to get this information out in the world so it can begin to take root.

Go to his excellent website where you can download a free E-book which will list individuals and their specific system they've been working with. 
John Bedini at work bench experimentingI've been drawn to the work of John Bedini and the amazing results he's achieved with magnetic pendulums and motors. With any luck I'll have some real world results to share in the coming months in my attempt to learn more about this mysterious power and how I can put it to use on our little farm here as an energy source for my new deer deterrent contraption.
Posted at midnight, June 11th, 2010Tags: energy invention podcast
Paratopia radio podcast

Jeff Ritzmann and Jeremy Vaeni have a lively show called Paratopia that is just over 60 episodes old.

They both have a skeptical perspective that bounces off each other in a natural fashion.

Flying saucer image credit goes to U.F.O. painter James Nichols.
Posted Monday evening, April 19th, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews
Tragedy and Hope

Sometimes a book has so much knowledge and perspective it can take on a life of its own. Tragedy and Hope seems to be one of those books.
John Taylor Gatto
The first I've heard of the story behind this book was a recent interview done by Gnostic Media with education reform expert John Taylor Gatto. He points out the connection between its author Carroll Quigley and former president Bill Clinton, but the part that caught my attention is the obvious suppression of this particular book and how Mr Gatto had to end up obtaining a pirated copy for 50 bucks. He goes on to illustrate how he has since surveyed several libraries in major cities only to discover that each branch is missing their copy of this book.

John Taylor Gatto speculates that this form of censorship happens with other books that get too close to the truth and are gradually removed from circulation. It's hard to dismiss such an outlandish theory when it comes from a respectable source such as Mr Gatto. 

Thanks to the internet you can download and read this book without paying 50 bucks. Check outTragedy and Hope.com for a free copy and decide for yourself if Carroll Quigley's version of history is worthy of such a high level of censorship.
Posted late Thursday morning, April 8th, 2010Tags: books podcast reviews
Veritas radio show photo montage

I've only been a subscriber to the Veritas show for two weeks now and I'm already wondering why it took me so long to discover this treasure trove of knowledge.

Mel Fabregas is the force behind this truth machine. His central motto, which he borrowed from Jordan Maxwell, should tell you everything you need to know.

 "I am an ordinary man pursuing extraordinary knowledge."

His three hour interview with trial lawyer and environmental scholar Andrew D. Basiago is in my opinion the best one out there with this guy. The story is nothing less than incredible and Mel asked some very astute questions which really helped to flesh this story out a bit more than other radio hosts have done in the past. Mr Basiago claims to have photographic evidence of life on Mars, but the real fantastic part of the story is his participation in a program called Project Pegasus along with the claim of making two separate trips to Mars using Tesla teleportation technology. I'm a bit skeptical of these claims and wonder why Mr Basiago didn't have the foresight to take some sort of camera with him when he "telelported" to Mars and back with his CIA escort.

At 8 dollars a month I call the Veritas show a solid value. Add to that his frequently updated blogand members forum and you've got yourself a better deal than most entertainment choices out there.
Posted late Monday morning, April 5th, 2010Tags: podcast reviews
truth frequency radio podcast

Truth Frequency Radio.com is hosted by a dynamic duo that bring a much needed balance of male and female energy to a table that in the past has too often been dominated by men.

Chris Geo and Sheree have an obvious chemistry that complements each other in just the right places for a tight and informative radio experience. 

I especially enjoyed their recent in depth conversation with the legendary Jordan Maxwell

What stands out most about these two is their level of passion and knowledge. They've done some serious research and it shows in the thoughtful and informative questions being presented to an impressive list of fascinating guests.

Truth Frequency Radio combines original music with fantastic ideas to form a special edge that can't be found anywhere else. I appreciate the chances they take and will be paying close attention to how this team progresses in the future.
Posted late Thursday morning, April 1st, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews
Zapruder Ruby Tippit connection photo montage

I heard a new twist on one of the JFK conspiracy wrinkles today that caused me to pause and ponder if it might be true.

The interview was between Mel Fabregas and Ralph Epperson on the Veritas radio show.

Mr Epperson briefly touches on some of the findings he presents in his video titled "The driver shot Kennedy!" The detail that caught my attention is the implication that somehow Abraham Zapruder, the man who captured the event on film, had previous knowledge of the assassination and was there that day to document it with his Bell and Howell 8 mm movie camera. Ralph goes on to point out how Mr Zapruder asked his secretary who was named Marilyn Sitzman to stand on a concrete pad with him to hold him from behind in case he got dizzy. 
Jack Ruby in background at Carousel strip club
Ralph Epperson speculates that Mr Zapruder was attempting to compensate for the anticipated gun shot and the jerking action it might cause by having Marilyn Sitzsman steady him from behind. A clear viewing of the film points out that Abraham Zapruder held the camera steady and true at the exact moment of the first gun shot and subsequent shots.

This does strike me as unusual, although I'm not sure what a normal reaction might be for such an event. What really caught my attention is the accusation that Abraham Zapruder was known to be in the company of Jack Ruby and Officer J.D. Tippit at Jack's Carousel Club strip joint.

Is it possible Officer Tippit was sent to take out Lee Harvey Oswald and instead was killed during the altercation? It's clear the facts around J.D. Tippit's death are fuzzy and eye witness accounts of the shooting have been called into question after the fact. Take that with the fact from Tippit's Wikipedia page that he was also working 2 part time jobs in addition to being a full time police officer at the time. His salary was $5,880 which compares to over $41,000 today. Although it's not uncommon for police officers to work other part time jobs it does beg the question as to why his middle class wage wasn't enough? Keep in mind that he grew up on a farm and according to the Tippit website he was known to say "working 2 or 3 jobs was nothing compared to walking behind a plow".

Photo credit goes to erichufschmid.net for the above image which is an actual shot from Jack Ruby's bar. You can go to his site to see an incredible blow up of the right hand corner that reveals Jack Ruby with a few other noteworthy characters which was taken jd tippitfrom Robert Groden's book about Oswald. 

The other photos are thanks to wikipedia and theofficial J.D. Tippit website which is a beautiful tribute to a man who was a war hero from World War 2 and a family man that left behind several who cared deeply for him. 

Rest in peace J.D. Tippit and everybody else known and unknown that got too close to this temporal distortion.
Posted late Thursday morning, March 25th, 2010Tags: JFK podcast reviews
 Lorenzo Hagerty with Bruce Damer and Acid Placid

The Pyschedelic Salon podcast hosted by Lorenzo Hagerty is probably the best place to get straight information on the early history and modern happenings of consciousness exploration.

Lorenzo is providing a valuable service by sorting through old lecture tapes of pioneers like Terrence McKenna, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson to name a few. He's built an awesome archive of over 200 episodes where he presents a chunk of information from the past and introduces it in a way that calms and excites at the same time. 

The Salon is a great place to stay up to date on the latest developments in this community and hear from new voices and some of the places they've discovered.

Image credit goes to DJ Hitspinner for the incredible cyberdelic art.
Posted late Monday morning, March 15th, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews
  Doug Lain is the Diet Soap podcast

Douglas Lain is a fiction writer who has built an impressive collection of interviews at his Diet Soap podcast. I've watched the show grow from figuring out he needs a USB microphone back in episode number 6 to being what I consider a serious voice for the consciousness culture in just under a year's time.

I especially enjoyed his 3 part conversation with Neil Kramer where they brought up the concept of an artificial control network and freely came to the conclusion that they are both still plugged into this mysterious and ancient form of bondage.

In my opinion Douglas Lain is one of the more grounded personalities in this field and his curiosity and sense of humor makes the show a stimulating experience well worth downloading.
Posted at lunch time on Thursday, March 4th, 2010Tags: consciousness media podcast reviews
  5 MeO DMT Martin Ball

Martin Ball has proven how plant-based medicine can be used as a tool to help awaken a deeper connection with the non physical side of our personality. Yes...he uses the God word, but you'll never hear him pushing any kind of dogmatic belief. On the contrary, this guy uses Occam's razorto rip through any beliefs that get in his way in a lucid and composed manner.

The Entheogenic Evolution podcast is a place where Martin articulates his evolving view of consciousness and brings many esoteric concepts down to Earth without any extra mystery or fanfare. It's an impressive expression of Martin's genuine desire to distill down all the years he's spent researching and working on his Ph.D. in this fascinating field. I suggest you try at least one of his episodes and I'll bet you'll be hooked just as I was with his no nonsense approach and musical style.</span
Posted at noon on Monday, February 15th, 2010Tags: media podcast
 Alex at Skeptiko

Alex Tsakiris is a successful entrepreneur turned science philanthropist who hosts the Skeptiko podcast, which is a labor of love and an obvious passion. In 2007 Tsakiris foundedOpenSourceScience.net, a non-profit project that helps to fund controversial science experiments. 

I've only heard a few episodes of Skeptiko so far, but I really like where this guy is coming from. I think he did a great job at separating out some of the historical facts from fiction when heinterviewed Jon Ronson, the author of "The men who stare at goats" and then followed it up byinterviewing Paul Smith, the author of "Reading the Enemy's Mind". The comparison helps to show how one author was more concerned about weaving a funny Hollywood story for George Clooney and the other had a true desire to shed some light on a fascinating program that seems to have made some real breakthroughs in the field of remote viewing and psychic spying.
Posted at lunch time on Thursday, February 11th, 2010Tags: media podcast
 Joseph P Ferrell

If you like research heavy with documentation and technical schematics then you will love Joseph P Farrell. He's fast becoming one of my favorite personalities in the alternative research community, mainly because he's so darn thorough, which is a trait I appreciate when dealing with such far out speculations like the Great Pyramid of Giza being originally designed as a huge weapon or how post war Nazi scientists have been operating a secret space program that makes NASA look like childs play.

A great way to get introduced to Dr Ferrell's train of thought would be some of the free interviews available out there. Erskine Overnight has a good collection of Ferrell conversations on his 2009 archive page where he has graciously edited out the advertisements. The next place I would suggest is the Byte show, which is run by GeorgeAnn Hughes. This collection is a bit more personal and provides a deeper look into the mind and ideas of Dr Ferrell thanks to the friendly back and forth style of GeorgeAnn and the obvious history the two share. Red Ice Creations has an excellent collection of Ferrell interviews with information I have not heard anywhere else, but you'll have to be a member to get access, which I can honestly say is well worth the small fee.
Posted at noon on Monday, February 8th, 2010Tags: media physics podcast
popularC-Realm podcast with KMO

The C-Realm podcast represents a water shed moment in my personal search for a better way to explain time and its relation to consciousness. It was my first real dose of true independent media in this field and was instrumental in pointing out a whole host of personalities that were also on a path towards the same frequency of truth. KMO helped me to realize that I wasn't alone in this quest and his creative style serves as one of the major inspirations behind the Cosmic Cookout website.
Posted late Monday evening, January 25th, 2010Tags: media podcast research time
Jan Irvin and sacred mushroom

Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com is clearly one of the hardest working researchers in the expanding culture of consciousness. The Gnostic Media podcast brings together leading independent and academic scholars to focus in on subjects like shamanism, entheogens, religion, archaeoastronomy, fertility cults, and so much more.

I'm really excited about his most recent direction of focus towards the area of education. It's a complex subject, and he's taking the time to build a foundation of facts on how and why our current state of academic learning for the masses is in such poor condition. 

A good place to begin unraveling the mess of modern education is the Gene Odening interview that delves into some of the meat behind concepts like critical thinking and logic. The number 2 installment of Peace Revolution which Jan is hosting at his site and participating in does a great job at setting the ground work for a hypothesis that suggests how critical thinking is being hijacked by a small group of elite families to further their own agenda. This is one of the most lucid and grounded arguments I've heard to date concerning what some call a "hidden" course of action to dumb down America.
Posted Monday evening, January 25th, 2010Tags: media podcast research
Red Ice creations team photo

Red Ice Creations.com is the first alternative research website I'm reviewing here because they are in my opinion the best. I've been a subscriber for the past 5 months and can honestly say the monthly fee of about 7 bucks feels like one of the better education and entertainment values available in this field. It's really tough to sort through some of the piles of disinformation out there and when I first came upon Red Ice I was immediately skeptical when I saw the highly refined format the website is presented in. It seemed too good to be true and I wondered if some big corporation was behind all the style. They have the last year of first hour interviews available for free, and I started off by skimming through that section and listening to the interviews from researchers I was more familiar with. It hooked me right away.

Henrik Palmgren is the founder, editor, researcher, film maker, artist, musician, and voice behind the interviews and films available on the site. He's put together an impressive team that consists of his brother Fredrik, Lana Lokteff and Elizabeth Leafloor. What pushed me over the fence from being a casual free listener to a dues paying subscriber was the Rik ClayRik Clay story. This was an energetic and enthusiastic young man Henrik had interviewed relating to some fascinating insight he had concerning the upcoming London Olympics and its strange logo. The story ends with the tragedy of Rik's suicide, which was followed by reports that the conditions around his death were suspicious. It's the kind of situation a big corporation would have exploited by implying all sorts of unsavory speculation with the motivation being to entice the listener to subscribe to hear the whole story. Red Ice did nothing of the kind. They made the subscriber portion of Rik Clay's interview available for free, which was a move that won me over and proved from where I'm standing that their intentions are pure and their honor is intact. Rest in peace, Rik.

I could go on about how Henrik takes such good care of his guests and always seems to ask just the right questions while at the same time knowing when to get out of the way and let the information flow, but what would be more productive is for me to suggest a beginning so you can start getting turned on to research you never knew existed. The November 2009 interview withPeter Levenda would be my first choice because Henrik and Peter somehow manage to present some very outlandish material in a grounded fashion that I found stimulating and tasteful. Go next to the recent John Lash interview, which opened my eyes to his MetaHistory.org website where John presents a lifetime worth of research that directly challenges the building blocks of fundamental Christianity in a calm and collected manner.
Posted Wednesday afternoon, January 20th, 2010Tags: media podcast


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FRIAday 05 18 2012= 5 9 5 = 19 = 10
FREE us from the EARTH CHANGES, SOLAR ECLIPSES, POLE SHIFTS and incoming SPACE JUNKspacerock http://7thfire.biz/spacerock.htm

05 20 2012= 5 2 5 = 12 = 3= May 20 Solar Eclipse // NATO summit // 3 days of Darkness !!! 
Mother Sekhmet: 13th May 2012.  http://organiccosmos.ning.com/profiles/blogs/greetings-this-is-mother-sekhmet-reporting-from-niburu-happy-moth

Athabantian Caution- posted on May 17, 2012  - We believe that a major geological event for your planet may occur within thenext few days. It will be centered off the northwestern coast of the United States. It will affect the coast and somewhat further inland. We can not predict the full affects of this undersea movement.
Conditions appear to be such that a major disruption could occur along the
 edge of the Juan de Fuga Plate where it intersects the Pacific Plate, many miles off the coast. There are stresses building there that may cause an earthquake of some magnitude and a resulting tsunami — if they are released in a violent manner. There is the possibility that they may be released more gradually and little will be disrupted. It is not clear to us how things will proceed from this point forward.
It is a natural phenomenon that is part of Earth’s adjustment of her physical form. It involves no nuclear reactor such as was the case off Japan.
 
 

SUNday 05 13 2012- 5 U get WHAT U PRAY FORPURITY and TRUTH. (NARROW GATE 555or LILITH and LUST (WIDE ROAD 666).
Separation of WHEAT and TARES has begun! NO FENCE SITTING. narrow555 http://7thfire.biz/narrow555.htm
  
 
 
Illuminatreee.info Sept 2011 aka Sangrailian ( KEEP and EYE on LILITH cause ALTERNATIVE MEDIA is IGNORING THIS.)

HOMEWORK-PLANT SPUDs with BUDs CITY WIDE, while the PUPPETs pop PROZAC and FUND BOGUS PENSIONS PLANs!
I TOLD U SO... NOW U are ACCOUNTABLE!
ACCOUNTABLE WAGE SLAVES- APRIL EMAILMAYA EMAIL March- 2012

 
 

REPTOIDS and the GREYS feed on your FEAR. Square housestriangle roof tops, enable them to SUCK out your LIFE FORCE.
MOON MATRIX. WAKE UP! CN TOWER = PHALLUS ENERGY (-) DOMEZAPPERSOULUTION http://7thfire.biz/DOMEZAPPERSOULUTION.htm
PARASITES like mosquitoes die in high frequencies.
SOULution= GEODESIC GREEN HOME DOMES. NOW NOW NOW. More triangles, the higher the Frequency.
 
 

(WAR against the MACHINE) Accountability meter has EXPIREDTIME to get the PROBLEM FIXED with HUMAN HELP.
 
 

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FRIAday 05 11 2012 =12 = 3 = FREE US from the CLAWS and CROSSES of the VATICAN VAMPIRES and DRACO CANNIBALS rikclayrip http://www.7thfire.biz/rikclayrip.htm
Rik has suggested that the 2012 Olympic site is being prepared as the New Jerusalem by the New World Order and suggested it may be possible that a staged alien invasion will be used at that time to unite humanity under the new world order.
Why is it both the Beijing and London Olympic logos can be arranged to form the word "Zion"
Was 
Rik Clay murdered shortly after releasing all this explosive information about a possible royal family conspiracy to make Prince William the new messiah?
SUICIDE??? August the 28th. His ashes were scattered upon Ilkley Moor, overlooking the town above Rocky Valley, Thursday the 11th of September, 2008.
 
-BELLIAL LYING MEDIA still spinning the PsyWar - Wake UP! bellbullshit http://7thfire.biz/bellbullshit.htm
REMEMBER it is all PSYOPS MIND CONTROL PROGRAMMING on TEEVEE. WATCH ANALYTICALLY!
TREASONOUS INVADERS and DANGEROUS MURDERERS and RAPISTS...GET OFF OUR LAND!
PRINCE Charles and CAMILLA INVASION coming to CANADA CORPSE SOON ( Get out the ORGONE MASTERS!)
 
2012 - The Future of Mankind 3:24:48 - 3 years ago 
Michael Tsarion gives a talk at the Granada Forum in Los Angeles, 2006
Join us for an excellent three part live program with Michael Tsarion, author of The Irish Origins of  Civilization. We discuss the chronology of tyranny, timelines, the rise of empires around the world and we look back into history to discover the roots of tyranny and dictators. We begin the first segment to talk about the origins, the psychology of Akhenaton, the dragon court, Akhenaton as Moses, the origins of Monotheism, Freud, Solar Cultism, Amenism & Atenism, Egypt, the Bible, biblical characters as Pharaohs of Egypt, Sol Invictus, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism and much more. We begin the second segment to talk about the Exodus & the Hyksos. We then move on to discuss the Invasion of Atonism in Britain & Ireland. We talk about theKnights Templar and the Masons. We end the second segment to specifically look into the timelines, the dates of rise and fall of Empires, movements and invasions. In our final and third "bonus" segment we dive deeper into the Druidic and Irish symbolism that are prominent throughout the world today. We look at some of the symbols of Politics, Science, Christianity, Royalty, America, Nazi Germany, the UN and much more. Do not miss this program!
We are going to examine freemasonry, the roots, masonry and the connection to Judaism, symbolism, the Royal connections and the question of hierarchy. We'll look into: Catholic Orders and Fraternities, Holarchy versus Hierarchy, Imperialism Old and New, Colonization, The Rule of Psychopaths, Origin of the Jews, the Gaonim, the Sadducees, Zadokites, Essenes, Cistercians, Templars, Teutons, the etymology of the name David, the Dividers, Masonic Symbolism, the Twins, the Tree of Life Symbol. Further ahead in the series we'll discuss corruption and masonry and also the fascinating ripper case and the connection to masonry
This is part two of our series with Michael Tsarion on the Brotherhood of Death. Go to redicecreations.com to watch part one. In part two we look at the Question of Antiquity, The Catholic Fraternities, Alleged Rivalries, Knights Templar. We'll also look into: Masonic Symbolism, Catholic Fraternities, the Knights Templar, the Nazi Connection and much more.
 
 

MOONday 05 07 2012 =17=8 LONDON LIES, WASHINGTON WARS, ROMA's BLOOD SACRIFICES and ZIONs NEW WORLD ORDER
DON'T BLAME MOTHER EARTH for all this CRAZY WEATHERBLAME your GLOBAL GANGSTER godless GOVERNMENTS, who control your weather thru HAARP.
Dear WAGE SLAVEBlack OP's Projects were funded by YOU and are being used against YOU! You're NEXT- if you don'tWAKE UP!
HAARP is a weapon of mass destructionRadio Waves strong enough to cause earthquakes are controlled by the U.S. military.
HAARP can shift the NEW MADRID and San Andreas FAULTS, leaving aMERIca DISABLED. No coincidence.
HAARP stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research  Program. It is funded by the US navy, US AirForce, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and our Govt.
- HAARP has be used for multiple purposes. Its basic concept is a giant antennautilize a large amount of power,and shooting beam powers into the upper atmosphere. Thus being able to change and manipulate weather through the ionosphere. How much power is needed to modify weather?  To say the least it can beam more then 1.7 gigawatts (billion watts) of radiation into the ionosphere. It is the opposite of a radio. It transmits the powers instead of recieving. It heats the upper atmosphere, after effecting the ionosphere, the radiations come back to earth and form long waves. The waves then enter the ground, the oceans, even our bodies. These people have the power to not only create but dismantle storms such as tornados, hurricanes, etc..
It is believed that HAARP is also:
An ionospheric heater / A research tool / A military test bed
A tax-subsidized boondoggle / A directed-energy weapon
A communication system for submarines / A source of field-aligned ionospheric VHF reflectors / A way to improve satellite links
A planetary x-ray machine / A plot to depopulate the Third World 
A means of creating power blackouts at will / Electronic warfare
Tesla's wireless power transmission /Tesla's secret death ray

Searching for space aliens / Killing space aliens / 
Killing off the militias / Keeping them awake at night (through RF head rectification) / Enforcing the New World Order / Creating nuclear-scale explosions // Weather modificationCIA mind control / Brain wave modification // The end of HF radio // The end of wildlife in Alaska // The end of atmospheric ozone // The end of the human race // The end of Earth itself
 

 
 
 Full 10 hour DVD Series available from: irishoriginsofcivilization.com In his companion DVD Series to The Irish Origins of Civilization (Volumes 1 and 2), Michael Tsarion discusses the historical significance of ancient Ireland and takes us on a truly fascinating journey through time, from the Emerald Isle to Egypt and back again full circle. Along the way we are introduced to the Druids and also to their destroyers, the Atonists. We discover the origins of the world's most powerful secret societies and the New World Order they labor to create. We discover secret facts about the royal dynasties of Britain and Europe, the Empire of Rome, and about Masonic influence in America. Featuring over 560 illustrations, and rare source material, this DVD series dramatically revolutionizes our view of history and explains what can be done to combat the tyrannical forces that have long conspired to undermine truth, freedom and justice. Also see http://www.michaeltsarion.com
Thank You Michael Tsarion for your TRUTH!
 
 
 
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DEACTIVATE ARCHONS NOW!!! ( CLOCKWISE (+) ORGONE MASTERS) - SATAN SATURN 6 pointed stAR of DAVID HEXED HEXAGON, SOUL SUCKERS, DARK ENERGY, NEG ( -) , ELECTrons, ANTI CLOCKWISE, ARCHONS, DEMIURGE, Ialdabaothhttp://7thfire.biz/orgonemasters.htm
 

SATURNday MAYDAY 05 05 2012 (5)= tonight. 555 SUPER MOON ! PRAY IT FORWARD
MAYDAY 05 01 2012 LIZARDO gives special permission for CONRAD BLACK SATANIST VAMPIRE LIZARD HYBRID to SUCK THE LOOSH off the RAINBOW ANGELS in CANADA AGAIN.
CONRAD BLACK to be released from USA PRISON to return to CANADA CORPSE to resume BOHEMIAN GROVE RITUALS / NEW WORLD ORDER PLANS at CANADA's SATANIST GROVEKING CITY ONTARIO. LIZARD CROWN INVASION. evitapendragon
CONRAD BLACK HANGS with PEDOPHILE SATANISTS in the BROTHERHOOD of DEATH! evitapendragon
ARE U THINKING that you will continue KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE in KING CITY, after CALIFORNIA goes under the OCEAN?
NOT!  (we have a HEMP PARACHUTE waiting for U when you return)
According to media magnate and permanent Bilderberg member Conrad Black, the ban on reporters "makes discussion more intimate and candid. There are no massive indiscretions, but the exchanges can be quite heated." This is a polite way of saying that members can secretly speak their minds about whatever grandiose schemes of world conquest they envision themselves as having the divine right to exec ute, without fearing that their words will ever be heard by the public. "It was from Bilderberg that our company's eventual vocation as an international newspaper organization arose." This tactic is very similar to the Non-Attribution Rule used at Council on Foreign Relations meetings, which prevents statements made by attendees from being reported in the media. Many media CEOs, news anchors and influential members of the press fill seats in the CFR
 
"Black Plays Host to World Leaders."- 1996 Bilderberg Conference - 30th May - 2nd June, CIBC Leadership Centre, Toronto, Canada http://www.bilderberg.org/bildlist.htm
- As far as global politics and finance go, the Bilderberg is the top of the pyramid, the all-seeing eye gazing upon the construction of a New World Order This one-world system of governance, lurking in the shadows cast by flowery language about our new “global village,” will transfer nearly all economic and political power into the hands of a small group of the world elite.
Bilderberg discussed global control of the air, water and public healthas well as the possible multi-billion dollar sale of the Canadian government-owned electric utility Ontario Hydro. http://www.bilderberg.org/bildlist.htm
Transatlantic power élite's secret Bilderberg conferences & state terror research http://www.bilderberg.org/
 
ELITE ETHNOGRPAHY- According to Conrad Black, the Bilderberg, "was set up in the mid-fifties by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.... [Meetings] normally include senior officials of the governments of all the countries represented, with a wide swath of enlightened business, academic, media and military leaders...http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_bilderberg_11.htm
 
The network today - After thousands of years of evolution, the reptilian network is now a vast and often unf athomable web of interconnecting secret societies, banks, businesses, political parties, secu rity agencies, media owners, and so on. But its basic structure and Agenda remains very simple.
The centre of the operational web is the City of London with interlocking leaderships in places like France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. These are the spiders in the web with the City of London, New Troy’, the most important. From this centre the Global Agenda and policies are administered and their ‘branch managers’ introduce those policies in each country. So if it suits the Global Agenda to crash the US dollar, the Mexican peso, the South African rand, or the Far East stock-markets, the branch managers in those areas will take the action necessary to do that. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/biggestsecretbook/biggestsecret13.htm

-ROTHCHILD, ROCKEFELLER, other 13 ILLUMINATI SATANIC BLOODLINES and the oil industry were well-represented at Bilderberg meetings.
http://prorev.com/elitethnog.htm // http://www.conspiracywatch.net/2011/01/bilderberg-group-conspiracy.html // http://www.serenitystreetnews.com/HERSTORY%20CRAMNOTES/audio%20urgent/ //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black // http://sinistar666.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/the-21-points-of-satanism/ /// http://goatofmendes.ning.com/group/themendeslibrary/forum/topics/the-black-book-of-satan //http://api.ning.com/files/y9tP2SFBIi9q*Fveg4MhNfA0XkfD2brYORS7kfG8H4TqKCQYu3BVbnUZfK1f6M8aPhB9EKoa4M0yKledPWX8kNo*zXSE34Mq/BlackBookofSatan.pdf // http://www.apfn.org/apfn/bilderberg.htm //http://www.true-facts.co.uk/articles/ddd-400.html // http://fakeapoc.blogspot.ca/2011/10/conrad-black-joins-satans-big-rear.html // http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/08/conrad-black-amanda-knox-and-the-slow-but-steady-wheels-of-italian-justice/ // http://fratres.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-satanic-bumblebee-conrad-black-on-the-church-and-her-enemies/ /// http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/satanism/ona/onastnblkmgk.html //http://www.whale.to/m/media.html // http://dagobertobellucci.wordpress.com/2011/10/page/56/

2012 Predictions and future possible SUDDEN DEATHS - Death and Health Watch Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Swarzenhagger, Annette Funicello, Penny Marshall, Hillary Clinton, Doris  Day, Dario Franchaetti, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Paul Tracey, Brittany Spears, Latoya Jackson, John Walsh, Steven Harper, Burt Reynolds, David Hasselhoff (The Hoff), Bernard Madoff, Ex-President Mubarak of Egypt, Rupert Murdoch, Mickey Rooney,  Phyllis Diller, Carol Channing, Lauren Bacall, Loretta Lynn, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Billy Graham, Jerry Lewis, Kirk Douglas, Joanne Woodward, Debbie Reynolds, Barak Obama, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dick Clark, Nelson Mandela, Larry King, Jimmy Carter, Barbara Bush, The Duke of Edinborough, Shirley Temple, Bob Barker, Keith Richards, Barry Manilow, Jackie Stallone, Charles Manson, Nancy Reagan, Ryan Seacrest, Leaders in Syria and Iran, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Bill Clinton, Howie Mandel, Hugh Hefner, Danny Glover, Betty White, Prime Minister of Australia, Woody Allen, Daniel Craig, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Osborne, Michelle Williams, Heidi Montague, Dick Cheney, John Travolta, George Bush Sr., Regis Philbin, Robin Williams, Natalie Portman, George Bush Jr., Taylor Swift, Tony Bennett, David Letterman, Justin Beiber, Ru Paul, Selina Gomez, Tippi Hendren, Melanie Griffith, Mick Jagger, Ed Asner, Sean Coombs (Puff Diddy), Karl Lagerfield, Michael Douglas, Kreskin, Donald Trump, Cloris Leachman, Queen Elizabeth, Chaz Bono, Madonna, Pink, Harry Belafonte, Mary Tyler Moore, Princess Fergie, Shia La Bouef, Alice Cooper, Carol Burnett, Steven Tyler, Mark Anthony, Gordon Lightfoot, Avril Lavigne, Prime Minister of England, Chris Angel (Mindfreak), Ronnie Hawkins, Alex Trebek, Jay Leno, Paul McCartney, Anderson Cooper, Robert Evans, Barbara Streisand, Sir Richard Branson, Prince William, Prince Harry, Nicole Richie, Simon Cowell, David Copperfield, Desi Arnaz Jr., Ralph Lauren, and Ernest Borgnine.
It does not mean the above mentioned will pass but they might have to watch their health and also watch for danger in their life. http://www.psychicnikki.com/predictions.html
 
 

SUNNY TIMES, HEAVEN is NORTH of 7, See U at the NEW YORK YORK REGION, OTTAWA KANATA KINAKWII NATION tworowwampum
 
SIOUX OTTAWA KANATA KINAKWII- be 50 feet above the lake level and 10 miles from shore for lake sloshing, and if you are not on rock then to add more elevation or milage for safety as soil can melt. As we mentioned when detailing changes for the Great Lakes, the area of Wisconsin and upper Michigan will be splitting open, which is the trend in place already. Sault Saint Marie is positioned where Lake Superior drains, and this of course is where a widening split can be expected. There can also be local tearing, as we have described for Wisconsin, which will be ripped down along the Green Bay peninsula. Stretch areas have silent quakes, as these crevasses just open up with little warning, as occurred recently on the Michigan peninsula. If anything, Lake Superior will ultimately be lower, due to the locks being broken, though the torrential rains following the pole shift will createtemporary flooding everywhere. The rise in sealevel elevation to 675 feet will of course not affect the lands around the Great Lakes, which are at a higher elevation. Thus,except for local sloshing and the tearing that can be expected from a widening Seaway, your area will have a relatively uneventful pole shift experiencehttp://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx038.htm

3rd HIDDEN PROPHECY of FATIMA= the Catholic people will WAKE UP, COME to THEIR SENSES and destroy the SATANIC ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH by ripping the PRIESTS APART LIMB BY LIMB on VATICAN HILL. ( Priests= POLITICIANS + PASTORS funded by $$$SIN and SATAN ) .
GATHERING of the BRIDE (DIVINE FEMININE= HEART) (CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS) IN CANADA, little ROMA will become NEW YORK, YORK REGION, OTTAWA KANATA KINAKWII NATION. NAMASTE and MEEGWETCH!
Goddess tradition ( EVE) vs evitapendragon ( LILITH)
Sophia /Magdalene / EVE /Tetragrammaton / LUNA
EMMANUEL/ ADAM / SOL (God with us)
written by (suppresssed ) ROBERT MORNINGSKY  and read by  Dana Horochowski  http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_20b.htm
 
 
 

SUNday 04 29 2012- 4/11/5= 9/11= 11 PATTERN of HORRIFIC VEHICLE CRASHES announced on BELIAL PROPAGANDA NEWS this weekend KILLING SEVEN.
Prince WILL I AM arthur Pendragon and his SCARLET COUSIN KATE celebrate HITLER's and THEIR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 04 29 2011
HERE COMES the ANTICHRIST! RED DRAGON! Veil_of_Invisibility


   danahorochowski       resume


 

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     they have frozen the maps and crashed my servers many many many many many times but they are finished. bye ROMA- you are NOBODY!




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