The Secret of a Good Joke (or Tragedy?)......Timing.

Paris and Just a Few Coincidences

Ever since 9/11, when its architects incorrectly, fraudulently and illegally sought to perpetuate a lie by blaming the wrong people, there has been a concerted effort to denigrate, ruin or remove (ie kill!) those that sought to reveal the truth. We should be in no doubt that the ppl that had no compunction in bringing down the WTC towers and all the rest, can continue doing more of the same. 

How can we explain Britain's ever closer 'security' ties with Israel, even sending our policemen there to train in the pernicious methods of repression and torture? How can we explain the chiefs of British, French, US and Israeli secret services meeting only a little over a week BEFORE the Paris bombings but apparently knowing nothing about what was planned? How do we explain both in the case of Paris and the Russian plane, GCHQ and their equivalents know everything about 'whodunnit' immediately AFTER the event but crucially not before? 

These are questions that should be asked, MUST be asked if we are not to be herded into a sheep pen of their making. Of course the MSM obstinately refuse to propagate any line except that put out by the very governments that have blood on their hands, either domestically or abroad.

An account of a London simulated attack carried out in 30th June/1st July, 2015 here: http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-06-30/realistic-mock-terror-attack-staged-in-london-today/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3143410/Police-stage-mock-Tunisia-style-marauding-gun-attack-streets-London-biggest-counter-terror-exercise-prepare-atrocity-British-soil.html   http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fears-isis-inspired-attack-london-6239804  From the latter there is this quote:

"Over the course of two days, the Met, emergency services, the Government and key London agencies were "put through our paces to test our response to a major incident", Ms de Brunner said. "What is particularly significant about this exercise is that throughout it there will be significant live play elements. That means us and our colleagues actually responding to an incident on the ground," she said. "So the exercise scenario is designed to test command and control and co-ordination of a multi-site marauding terrorist attack." 

Note the ominous warning that there will be 'significant live-play elements' of the sort we are familiar with on New York 9/11, London 7/7, Boston and now Paris 13/11. Was a terrorist plan in the making? There was certainly rumour of on targeting even the Queen! Or was this yet another attempt to instill panic, fear and confusion in the minds of the London public? The very realistic injuries of 'casualties' illustrates the difficulty distinguishing between the real and theatrical in such situations.

The even bigger question that hangs in the air but is never addressed in the media, the 'elephant in the room' so to speak, is that if these parallel simulated exercises can only be instituted and controlled by Government agencies, and given the statistical unlikelihood (in millions to one) that as one-offs they would occur on the very same day, at the very same place in the very same way, in at least FOUR known terrorist incidents, used to such great effect to influence both domestic and foreign policy, the unavoidable logical conclusion MUST be that those governments also knew about the real terrorist events or worse were implicated in carrying them out!

Coincidences do happen in life but when they keep occurring in respect of huge events they become ever less likely to be such particularly if they are attached to multiple layers of lies and disinformations coming from those same sources.  Can it be coincidence that the two air disasters of Mh17 over Ukraine, falsely and immediately ascribed to the Russian State, and ..... a Russian plane, over Sinai could have occurred within hours of the biggest Israeli assault on Gaza that Britain refused to condemn and the arrival of the Egyptian President in London?

James Corbett commented as follows. 

"Let us for one moment accept the whole Paris attacks narrative hook, line and sinker. That the French government could not possibly have foreseen an attack. That a multi-site emergency exercise planned for the same day just happened to be simulating an armed group committing attacks around the city just hours before that very scenario unfolded. That the “mastermind” of the attacks just happens to be the latest in a string of terrorist boogeymen who manage to escape capture time and time again.

"OK, fine. The question that the French people should STILL be asking themselves, even if they believe all of that, is this: How does the Islamic State, a ragtag band of jihadists who are supposedly at war with the combined military might of the US, Turkey, the Saudis, the Russians, the Iraqis, the Iranians and many others (including, of course, the Syrians) manage to fund and coordinate spectacular international terror attacks, including not only the Paris attack, but also (apparently) bombings in Turkey and Lebanon, and the take down of Russian airliners?"

"How is it that governments can flag and track the “suspicious” financial transactions of anyone withdrawing or transferring over $10,000 from their own bank account, but can’t seem to find a way to restrict cash flows, arms and munitions to a geographically isolated enemy who are dependent on oil sales for their financial survival?"

Source: https://www.corbettreport.com/follow-the-money-from-paris-to-isis-to-paris/

"In an eerie coincidence, last Friday morning Paris’s ambulance, fire services and hospitals had rehearsed a scenario based on a Charlie Hebdo-style attack, with more than 100 casualties from shooting. Hours later this scenario happened for real. The wounded were distributed smoothly across at least five city hospitals, with an emergency plan activated."
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/19/normality-inches-back-at-french-hospitals-after-facing-surgery-of-war?

"Staff at the Pitié salpêtrière, one of Europe’s largest hospitals, and a major teaching centre...medical director Pierre Carli.....We did a rehearsal on Friday morning. As we know now we were close to reality. We could never have imagined reality would have been worse.”

One is the hospital Saint Louis, which is immediately across the road from Le Carillon cafe bar and a Cambodian restaurant. A gunmen shot and killed 14 people here, metres away from the hospital entrance. Last weekend members of the public queued here for three hours to give blood, next to a mound of growing floral tributes and candles."

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SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN89lVPkli0&feature=em-subs_digest-g

Ole Dammegard: Pres. Hollande, G-20, Climate Summit part of Paris Friday 13th classic False Flag

WAR WITH RUSSIA?

Anti-Russian Propaganda and 'Cornering Russia'

From 'Critical Thinking'. Critical Thinking is a collaborative, educational project relying on contributions from diverse sources.

Hi Tim,

As citizens, we are all accountable for the actions of our "elected" governments. That we are lied to constantly explains but does not excuse our acceptance of government crimes - ignorance is no defence.

The first step is to understand that governments have taken powers way beyond what we as individuals could reasonably expect to have, eg. we regard the taking of a human life by another human being as unacceptable yet we empower the state to do it with impunity. The state is accountable to the people but has taken on powers unavailable to those who elect them. How does that work?

Five Questions ("Government on Trial") (4 minute video)

Empowered thus, the US government and its vassals (mainly the UK) have been conducting illegal wars to destroy nation states across the Middle East. Just this century, starting with Afghanistan under the false pretext of 9/11, the "coalition of the willing" began their "war of terror"; in 2003 we moved on to destroy Iraq (which had been under siege for over a decade) under the false pretext of WMD. The justification for attacking the most successful secular state in the region was the fake UN Responsibility to Protect (R2P) resolution used to bomb Libya to destruction - any protection the people of Libya enjoyed under Muammar Gaddafi is now long gone.

Syria is current work-in-progress but Russia has spoiled the party by attacking NATO/Israel's primary asset in the country, ISIS. Now the American people (and the rest of us) are being softened up for direct confrontation with Russia, the result of which could be catastrophic. So before we citizens allow that to happen, it is our responsibility to understand the illegal activities of our governments and remove them before they plunge the world into irreversible chaos and destruction.

Dear Fellow Americans: Do You Have Any Idea What’s Being Done In Your Name In Syria?By Washington's Blog

Americans have some vague understanding that the U.S. wants Syria’s Assad to go, while Russia wants him to stay.
And Americans know that the U.S. “war against ISIS” hasn’t done much, while the Russians have been pounding Syrian targets with jets.

But Americans have no idea that the U.S. is deploying fighter jets designed solely to engage in plane-to-plane dogfighting … in order to counter the Russians.

According to a former British ambassador to Syria:  "Western powers have impaled themselves on this policy of calling for the downfall of Assad... but they can help by, for example, lifting sanctions on the Syrian economy which penalise only the poor Syrian people; this is one reason why so many are fleeing Syria - the western sanctions, about which we never hear a word!" 

If we don''t stand up to confront these crimes, we're guilty because they are committed in our name and allegedly for our "safety and security". Do you feel safer than before 9/11 and thewars of the 21st century?

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Official Washington is awash with tough talk about Russia and the need to punish President Putin for his role in Ukraine and Syria. But this bravado ignores Russia’s genuine national interests, its “red lines,” and the risk that “tough-guy-ism” can lead to nuclear war, as Alastair Crooke explains.

Alastair Crooke, Consortium News, 11 Dec 2015

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/12/11/cornering-russia-risking-world-war-iii/ 

We all know the narrative in which we (the West) are seized. It is the narrative of the Cold War: America versus the “Evil Empire.” And, as Professor Ira Chernus has written, since we are “human” and somehow they (the USSR or, now, ISIS) plainly are not, we must be their polar opposite in every way.

“If they are absolute evil, we must be the absolute opposite. It’s the old apocalyptic tale: God’s people versus Satan’s. It ensures that we never have to admit to any meaningful connection with the enemy.” It is the basis to America’s and Europe’s claim to exceptionalism and leadership.

And “buried in the assumption that the enemy is not in any sense human like us, is [an] absolution for whatever hand we may have had in sparking or contributing to evil’s rise and spread. How could we have fertilized the soil of absolute evil or bear any responsibility for its successes? It’s a basic postulate of wars against evil: God’s people must be innocent,” (and that the evil cannot be mediated, for how can one mediate with evil).

Westerners may generally think ourselves to be rationalist and (mostly) secular, but Christian modes of conceptualizing the world still permeate contemporary foreign policy.

It is this Cold War narrative of the Reagan era, with its correlates that America simply stared down the Soviet Empire through military and – as importantly – financial “pressures,” whilst making no concessions to the enemy.

What is sometimes forgotten, is how the Bush neo-cons gave their “spin” to this narrative for the Middle East by casting Arab national secularists and Ba’athists as the offspring of “Satan”:  David Wurmser was advocating in 1996, “expediting the chaotic collapse” of secular-Arab nationalism in general, and Baathism in particular. He concurred with King Hussein of Jordan that “the phenomenon of Baathism” was, from the very beginning, “an agent of foreign, namely Soviet policy.”

Moreover, apart from being agents of socialism, these states opposed Israel, too. So, on the principle that if these were the enemy, then my enemy’s enemy (the kings, Emirs and monarchs of the Middle East) became the Bush neo-cons friends.  And they remain such today – however much their interests now diverge from those of the U.S.

The problem, as Professor Steve Cohen, the foremost Russia scholar in the U.S., laments, is that it is this narrative which has precluded America from ever concluding any real ability to find a mutually acceptable modus vivendi with Russia – which it sorely needs, if it is ever seriously to tackle the phenomenon of Wahhabist jihadism (or resolve the Syrian conflict).

What is more, the “Cold War narrative” simply does not reflect history, but rather the narrative effaces history: It looses for us the ability to really understand the demonized “calous tyrant” – be it (Russian) President Vladimir Putin or (Ba’athist) President Bashar al-Assad – because we simply ignore the actual history of how that state came to be what it is, and, our part in it becoming what it is.

Indeed the state, or its leaders, often are not what we think they are – at all. Cohen explains: “The chance for a durable Washington-Moscow strategic partnership was lost in the 1990 after the Soviet Union ended. Actually it began to be lost earlier, because it was [President Ronald] Reagan and [Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev who gave us the opportunity for a strategic partnership between 1985-89.

“And it certainly ended under the Clinton Administration, and it didn’t end in Moscow. It ended in Washington — it was squandered and lost in Washington. And it was lost so badly that today, and for at least the last several years (and I would argue since the Georgian war in 2008), we have literally been in a new Cold War with Russia.

“Many people in politics and in the media don’t want to call it this, because if they admit, ‘Yes, we are in a Cold War,’ they would have to explain what they were doing during the past 20 years. So they instead say, ‘No, it is not a Cold War.’

“Here is my next point. This new Cold War has all of the potential to be even more dangerous than the preceding 40-year Cold War, for several reasons. First of all, think about it. The epicentre of the earlier Cold War was in Berlin, not close to Russia. There was a vast buffer zone between Russia and the West in Eastern Europe.

“Today, the epicentre is in Ukraine, literally on Russia’s borders. It was the Ukrainian conflict that set this off, and politically Ukraine remains a ticking time bomb. Today’s confrontation is not only on Russia’s borders, but it’s in the heart of Russian-Ukrainian ‘Slavic civilization.’ This is a civil war as profound in some ways as was America’s Civil War.”

Cohen continued: “My next point: and still worse – You will remember that after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Washington and Moscow developed certain rules-of-mutual conduct. They saw how dangerously close they had come to a nuclear war, so they adopted “No-Nos,’ whether they were encoded in treaties or in unofficial understandings. Each side knew where the other’s red line was. Both sides tripped over them on occasion but immediately pulled back because there was a mutual understanding that there were red lines.

“TODAY THERE ARE NO RED LINES. One of the things that Putin and his predecessor President Medvedev keep saying to Washington is: You are crossing our Red Lines! And Washington said, and continues to say, ‘You don’t have any red lines. We have red lines and we can have all the bases we want around your borders, but you can’t have bases in Canada or Mexico. Your red lines don’t exist.’  This clearly illustrates that today there are no mutual rules of conduct.

“Another important point: Today there is absolutely no organized anti-Cold War or Pro-Detente political force or movement in the United States at all –– not in our political parties, not in the White House, not in the State Department, not in the mainstream media, not in the universities or the think tanks. … None of this exists today. …

“My next point is a question: Who is responsible for this new Cold War? I don’t ask this question because I want to point a finger at anyone. The position of the current American political media establishment is that this new Cold War is all Putin’s fault – all of it, everything. We in America didn’t do anything wrong. At every stage, we were virtuous and wise and Putin was aggressive and a bad man. And therefore, what’s to rethink? Putin has to do all of the rethinking, not us.”

These two narratives, the Cold War narrative, and the neocons’ subsequent “spin” on it: i.e. Bill Kristol’s formulation (in 2002) that precisely because of its Cold War “victory,” America could, and must, become the “benevolent global hegemon,” guaranteeing and sustaining the new American-authored global order – an “omelette that cannot be made without breaking eggs” – converge and conflate in Syria, in the persons of President Assad and President Putin.

President Obama is no neocon, but he is constrained by the global hegemon legacy, which he must either sustain, or be labeled as the arch facilitator of America’s decline. And the President is also surrounded by R2P (“responsibility-to-protect”) proselytizers, such as Samantha Power, who seem to have convinced the President that “the tyrant” Assad’s ouster would puncture and collapse the Wahhabist jihadist balloon, allowing “moderate” jihadists such as Ahrar al-Sham to finish off the deflated fragments of the punctured ISIS balloon.

In practice, President Assad’s imposed ouster precisely will empower ISIS, rather than implode it, and the consequences will ripple across the Middle East – and beyond. President Obama privately may understand the nature and dangers of the Wahhabist cultural revolution, but seems to adhere to the conviction that everything will change if only President Assad steps down. The Gulf States said the same about Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq. He has gone (for now), but what changed? ISIS got stronger.

Of course if we think of ISIS as evil, for evil’s sake, bent on mindless, whimsical slaughter, “what a foolish task it obviously [would be] to think about the enemy’s actual motives. After all, to do so would be to treat them as humans, with human purposes arising out of history. It would smack of sympathy for the devil. Of course,” Professor Chernus continues, “this means that, whatever we might think of their actions, we generally ignore a wealth of evidence that the Islamic State’s fighters couldn’t be more human or have more comprehensible motivations.”

Indeed, ISIS and the other Caliphate forces have very clear human motivations and clearly articulated political objectives, and none of these is in any way consistent with the type of Syrian State that America says it wants for Syria. This precisely reflects the danger of becoming hostage to a certain narrative, rather than being willing to examine the prevailing conceptual framework more critically.

America lies far away from Syria and the Middle East, and as Professor Stephen Cohen notes, “unfortunately, today’s reports seem to indicate that the White House and State Department are thinking primarily how to counter Russia’s actions in Syria. They are worried, it was reported, that Russia is diminishing America’s leadership in the world.”

It is a meme of perpetual national insecurity, of perpetual fears about America’s standing and of challenges to its standing, Professor Chernus suggests.

But Europe is not “far away”; it lies on Syria’s doorstep.  It is also neighbor to Russia. And in this connection, it is worth pondering Professor Cohen’s last point: Washington’s disinclination to permit Russia any enhancement to its standing in Europe, or in the non-West, through its initiative strategically to defeat Wahhabist jihadism in Syria, is not only to play with fire in the Middle East. It is playing with a fire of even greater danger: to do both at the same time seems extraordinarily reckless.

Cohen again: “The false idea [has taken root] that the nuclear threat ended with the Soviet Union: In fact, the threat became more diverse and difficult. This is something the political elite forgot. It was another disservice of the Clinton Administration (and to a certain extent the first President Bush in his re-election campaign) saying that the nuclear dangers of the preceding Cold War era no longer existed after 1991. The reality is that the threat grew, whether by inattention or accident, and is now more dangerous than ever.”

As Europe becomes accomplice in raising the various pressures on Russia in Syria – economically through sanctions and other financial measures, in Ukraine and Crimea, and in beckoning Montenegro, Georgia and the Baltic towards NATO – we should perhaps contemplate the paradox that Russia’s determination to try to avoid war is leading to war.

Russia’s call to co-operate with Western states against the scourge of ISIS; its low-key and carefully crafted responses to such provocations as the ambush of its SU-24 bomber in Syria; and President Putin’s calm rhetoric, are all being used by Washington and London to paint Russia as a “paper tiger,” whom no one needs fear.

In short, Russia is being offered only the binary choice: to acquiesce to the “benevolent” hegemon, or to prepare for war.

- See more at: http://www.conflictsforum.org/2015/cornering-russia-risking-world-war-iii/#sthash.NWuk1pp5.dpuf

Glyphosate: Avaaz Petition to EU.

(Reproduced verbatim)

Urgent! In 48 hours, European regulators could approve glyphosate mainly based on faulty studies provided by the chemical companies producing glyphosate! Send an urgent message to the Commission to demand they ban the pesticide until a full independent study is done that proves it is safe: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_against_glyphosate/?tHRWubb

Dear friends across the EU,

Top scientists warn the most commonly used herbicide in the world probably causes cancer! Monsanto is demanding the World Health Organisation retract their ground-breaking report. And experts say the only way to ensure the science is not silenced is if the public demands action, now. 

The regulatory system is renowned for being secretive and captured by the agro-chemical industry. But we have a unique moment right now -- the EU is officially reassessing glyphosate, with similar processes underway in the US, Canada, and Brazil. And the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, and El Salvador are all looking at a ban.

The threat is clear -- this poison is used on our food, our fields, our playgrounds, and our streets. Let's get it suspended. Join the urgent call and tell everyone: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_against_glyphosate/?tHRWubb

Monsanto is up in arms. Glyphosate brings in $6 billion per year. It is the basis of RoundUp, the chemical cornerstone of Monsanto’s Genetically Modified empire. The company says the WHO report ignored studies showing glyphosate is safe. But these scientists are 17 of the world's top oncology experts, not a bunch of crazies! They comprehensively reviewed independent studies, excluding those done by companies seeking product approval. 

Regulators rely mainly on tests done by the companies trying to sell the poisons! Key results are kept from the public because they contain 'commercially confidential information', and 58% of the scientific panels in the EU Food and Safety Agency are linked to the sector. It's nuts, but that is the system we have. And that’s why it's going to take all of us to make sure this crucial independent report isn't ignored. 

Some countries have already put bans on glyphosate. Now with the EU, the US, Canada, and Brazil all reviewing it, we have an incredible chance to turn the tide worldwide. 

Fifty years ago Monsanto's pesticide DDT was everywhere until the seminal book Silent Spring showed it could cause cancer -- a decade later it was banned. If this could cause cancer, let's not let it be sold for ten more years. Let's demand emergency precautionary action now. Join now and spread the word: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_against_glyphosate/?tHRWubb

We've done it before -- we helped win a moratorium on bee-killing neonicotinoids in the EU and stop a Monsanto mega seed factory in Argentina. Now let's protect our health and make sure we aren’t being used as lab rats. This could be a breakthrough moment in the fight for the safe, sustaina ble agriculture our world needs.

With hope,

Bert, Marigona, Antonia, Oliver, Alice, Emily, Danny, Nataliya, Ricken and the whole Avaaz team

More information:

New study points to link between weedkiller glyphosate and cancer (FT) 
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b79a572-cf14-11e4-893d-00144feab7de.html#axzz3XOmCcv9c

Monsanto seeks retraction for report linking herbicide to cancer (Reuters) 
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/monsanto-herbicide-idINL2N0WP0UM20150324

Weed Killer, Long Cleared, is Doubted (New York Times) 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/business/energy-environment/decades-after-monsantos-roundup-gets-an-all-clear-a-cancer-agency-raises-concerns.html

The Real Reason to Worry About GMOs (Mother Jones) 
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/03/bittman-right-its-not-gmos-its-how-theyre-used 

Groups seek EPA glyphosate review after WHO 'carcinogenic' link (Agri Pulse)
http://www.agri-pulse.com/Groups-seek-EPA-glyphosate-review-after-WHO-carcinogenic-link-03272015.asp 

More sources: 
https://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/Roundupsources.pdf

Glyphosate ban in Europe? 'Avaaz' Petition.

The internet-based environmental campaigning organisation 'Avaaz' has launched a petition directed at the EU Commission, aimed at banning the pesticide 'Glyphosate' in common use here and abroad. In Britain its more common name is 'Roundup' and is aggressively marketed by its manufacturer Monsanto. The following (excluding the references in brackets below) is a direct lift of the Avaaz post. To date it has apparently attracted over a million signatures world-wide. To add your own, go to https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_against_glyphosate/?copy

(See also: http://veaterecosan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/poisoning-earth-countricide-tim-veater.html

http://veaterecosan.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/human-health-implications-of-glyphosate.html)

"In 48 hours, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) could approve a herbicide that the World Health Organisation announced probably causes cancer! 

"The risk is huge, and a leaked report found European regulators have based their assessment mainly on unpublished regulatory studies provided by the chemical companies producing glyphosate!

"Use the form on the right to send an urgent message to the Commission to demand glyphosate is suspended until a full independent assessment has been done. 

"Here are the facts and some talking points to use in your letter, but remember the more personal the message the better:

• The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) study found glyphosate a “probable carcinogen”. It was carried out by 17 world-class independent experts looking at multiple published peer-reviewed studies over a year.
• The EFSA peer review of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) found “there is no carcinogenic risk related to the intended herbicidal uses”. It was largely based on unpublished regulatory studies provided by the chemical companies producing glyphosate.

"I call on you to:

• Exercise the precautionary principle and immediately suspend glyphosate to protect the public from exposure to harm. The Commission has this obligation in the absence of scientific consensus.
• Task the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to carry out a thorough assessment and delay the EFSA review until the ECHA classification can be incorporated.
• Ensure that the EFSA peer review is transparent, based on independent studies, and evaluated by independent researchers without conflicts of interest.
• Over 1.4 million people are calling on you to ensure the European public is not exposed until glyphosate can be proven safe.

Open letter to the European Commissioner.

Zionism, David Kelly and British Government Villany

Two videos that should send shivers through every Englishman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEf77LD3cYU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXLXhiJfFv4

Russian Plane Crash. Cui bono?

TIMING is an important in pointer to the controlling mind of any 'terrorist' act. The fact that it has occurred immediately prior to a long planned and important meeting between Cameron and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is unlikely be just coincidence. A bill is currently passing through the British Parliament permitting increased surveillance powers, predicated on the risk of such events.

A particular 'left wing' view of El Sisi and his relationship with European powers can be viewed here: https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/41611/General+Sisi%E2%80%94Egypts+butcher+president+at+large A 'right wing' view of Mrs May's proposals here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11591937/Now-Tories-can-push-through-snoopers-charter-says-May.html 

Meanwhile the Israeli State is engaged in an unprecedented campaign of urban military terror, in response to what has been termed a new Palestinian Intifada in which knife attacks have left 11 Israelis dead and 145 injured. However whether this in any way justifies a shoot-to-kill policy by both army and police, of primarily young men not necessarily committing serious crime and offering no resistance to arrest is very much open to question.

Some visual images of the consequences of the current civil war in Israel can be found here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9138976/Israeli-air-strikes-on-Gaza-and-Palestinian-rocket-attacks.html?frame=2165809 

The start of the Intifada, October, 2015:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukN6XcMNGw

The statistics and images on Youtube are chilling. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 1 now stands at 75, including 17 children and two women. Over the same period, at least 2,350 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli gunfire, while thousands of others have suffered temporary asphyxia as a result of excessive teargas. Last month, Israeli forces arrested more than 1,500 Palestinians, the Israeli army stated.

Meanwhile missile assaults on Gaza have continued.

For a detailed list see: http://www.imemc.org/newswire/israeliattacks

Another aircraft disaster that can be blamed on Muslim forces, is a highly convenient distraction from the brutal Israeli repression and fits a pattern. After all MH17, also directly linked to Russia, occurred within literally hours of the major Gaza 2014 offensive that killed at least 72 Israelis and more than 2,100 Palestinians plus huge infrastructure damage. Apparently over 100,000 remain homeless as a result. Israel is past master at getting the world to look in another direction as it gets on with its important work of territorial expansion and empire building.

Aircraft, even old, poorly maintained ones - although I am not suggesting this was the case with Metrojet Flight 9268 - do not usually violently fall to pieces at 30,000 feet without a little 'help'. Sadly civilian aircraft have again become the plaything of covert agencies, to make points and pursue agendas.

People's lives in this context are of no consequence. We are dealing here with sociopaths and psychopaths behind the scenes that determine such things. Sadly the truth is they can be buried deep within the very governments that condemn them.

What is worrying is that already, from American sources particularly, in this case CNN (although as usual British ones are running behind crying "Wait for me, Wait for me") the finger is being pointed at ISIS. Of course this is wholly convenient and expected.

Unreliable and unspecific claims from what purports to be the organisation itself, are reported as follows: 'The latest U.S. intelligence suggests that the crash was most likely caused by a bomb planted on the plane by ISIS or an affiliate, according to multiple U.S. officials who spoke with CNN.' It adds: 'The signs pointing to ISIS, another U.S. official said, are partially based on monitoring of internal messages of the terrorist group. Those messages are separate from public ISIS claims of responsibility, that official said.'

See: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/04/africa/russian-plane-crash-egypt-sinai/

As always, the question arises, why when the enormous monitoring resources of the American and British agencies (not to mention Israeli, Egyptian and Russian ones as well) are targeted on this area and parties, it could pick up these 'internal messages', but no hint of an attack was detected? Is this credible? Some might see parallels with the abject failure of intelligence agencies on 9/11.

So what are the messages conveyed by this event?

'Egypt is clearly incompetent at stopping 'terrorist' attacks and is vulnerable to them.' That is a bargaining chip in anybody's language hammered home with the quite predictable consequences to its biggest foreign exchange earner – tourism. It also acts as a warning to Russia to stay away and stay out of an American/Israeli plan, in which Britain is still a willing participant as it has been since 9/11. It adds a further 'terror' dimension and capability to the oft touted ISIS and 'Muslim Extremist' narrative.

Unfortunately, knowing now as we do that ISIS is a creation and implementer of these Western schemes, the tactic of blaming it, has rather lost its efficacy and appeal. It is rather appropriate that Australia as a fully signed up member of this disingenuous and corrupt conspiracy, has contributed its very own very distinctive weapon: the boomerang. Making 'ISIS' the preferred terrorist agency in this latest outrage, could well prove such a phenomenon. Those that plan and execute such cruel acts certainly deserve it to rebound on them.

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