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15 February 2012 — Bahrain crackdown: Tactics & weapons imported from UK — RT
Pictures of a crackdown by heavily armed police on protesters in Bahrain appear to be similar to many others during the Arab Spring. This time the weapons, as well as the tactics, have been imported from the UK.
20 July 2011 — williambowles.info
The political/corporate class must be rueing the day email arrived, it is proving to be the undoing of many a powerful individual and perhaps even the downfall of the government? But only if the media do the job they claim to be doing, investigating malfeasance at every level.
And if he goes, then what? An election, a change of leadership only? Corrupt, utterly or otherwise, makes little difference, it’s the institution that’s corrupt and entirely self-serving, as this scandal exposes so vividly. The only saving grace is that perhaps it’s one obstacle removed in redressing the total imbalance between the state/media control of events.
Good article William – saw it in Global Research.
I was born in England (1943) but migrated to Australia during 1971 and so got to know Murdoch before he span a global web.
He was instrumental in destroyng the Whitlam government here in the mid-70s, in league with the CIA … I kid you not.
A docu-movie got made: “The Falcon and the Snowman.”
Sorry I cannot provide more details right now, because I am quite ill and disabled … only able to type one finger and slowly … however if you want to follow-up, I will do my best to provide you with more detail.
Yes I have a vendetta against this bastard, though latent until now.
Anyhow feel free to contact me, if you wish: ghilesc@hotmail.com
Though I cannot write at length, I can provide links.
Regards, Gerry.
PS I have added your site to my favourites.
could you incorporate the following into your analysis, as the only media which will touch this story is an Archant Publishing (owned by Richard Jewson (Pro-Chancellor of the Uni of East Anglia) local paper, a link for which you will find in the Climate Audit comments at the links below. CA is the blog of canadian statistician, Steve McIntyre who, with Ross McKitrick, uncovered the falsity of the now infamous global warming “hockey stick” of michael mann:
14 July: “Covert” Operations by East Anglia’s CRU
http://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/
20 July: East Anglia’s Toxic Reputation Manager
http://climateaudit.org/2011/07/20/east-anglias-toxic-reputation-manager/#comments
Paddy: Why? What has the debate about climate change got to do with things?
lnl –
neil wallis, ex-NotW, was employed by UEA to do “reputation management”/damage control when Climategate broke in November 2009, while he was still working for Scotland Yard and advising Andy Coulson and running back to Murdoch.
lots of info in the comments by the informed people who post at CA, many of whom were contacted by the Norfolk Police CounterTerrorism Unit post-Climategate. best way to understand is to read the two threads.
Sorry Paddy.
Whilst I also have questions about “climate change”, this has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Hey Paddy, how about dealing with one thing at a time (albeit that the Murdcoch affair is hydra-headed, for sure).
What are you trying to achieve? China, etc. steams ahead and mocks at your (presumably) CO2 concerns, about which you can do nothing.
At least you have a tiny chance of influencing things in your own country … the politicians of which would dearly love to concentrate on your pet beef, so as to distract “the masses” … as is happening here in Australia with Jooliar Gillard pushing a “carbon tax”, whilst avoiding endemic corruption, mounting economic problems and sending Australian troops to die in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I watched all through it and was struck by the blatant lying. One example, Sir Paul claimed he had no knowledge of the recruitment process that led to the employment of Wallis but later made a contemporaneous reference to details contained in the letter that was sent to three companies, including Wallis’s, during the tender process – he can’t have it both ways.
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info
From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth imperialism was the dominant national ideology, transcending class and party divisions. Britain was saturated in the ethos and attitudes of empire. They infused plays and books and, later, films. They informed school textbooks. They inspired paintings, prints and engravings. They filled newspapers and magazines. They figured in advertisements and packaging. The impact was arguably greater than that of any previous dominant ideology because its pre-eminence coincided with the rise of the mass market and the mass media. — ‘Imperialism and juvenile literature’ edited By Jeffrey Richards. Manchester University Press, 1989
So what’s changed? Not much really. Today of course, the ideology of imperial expansion now masks itself as ‘humanitarian intervention’ or ‘democracy-building’.
Thanks for your very illuminating article and for drawing attention to the reality that, since the Labour Party was founded by our reformist, industrial trade unions, we have lived under what are “effectively one-party states.”
To fully understand how this actually works, it is firstly necessary to distinguish between the Governmental coalitions of the British state and the Party coalitions that are formed to provide a majority government, such as the present Conservative/Liberal, Party coalition.
From the beginning of the last century, the Governmental coalition was Conservative-Liberal and, from 1945 right up to the present day, the Governmental coalition of the British state has been Conservative-Labour or, perhaps more precisely since 2009, the Con/Lib-Labour, Governmental coalition. Either way, and here I must take issue with you, we are most definitely not back to the Conservative-Liberal, Governmental coalition of the pre-war years.
I think it is important to recognise this because opportunists in various guises are now hard at work struggling to get the Labour Party off its neoliberal hook by putting everything nasty down to the Conservative/Liberal, Party coalition.
More importantly however, Governmental coalitions are the political and organisational form for the exercise of government/opposition, bourgeois democracy whether it be of the neo-feudal variety as with the UK or the republican variety as with the United States. And the capitalist media, with its oh-so, democratic journalists, persistently peddles the nonsense that, without an ‘opposition’, there cannot be democracy.
Of course, our rulers are only too well aware that in those states where the capitalist class has been overthrown, where the building of some form of socialism can only be but one step in the transition to a communist society, an ‘opposition’ cannot be anything other than a counter revolutionary ‘opposition’.
That is why the battle for democracy must begin in the here and now as part of socialist transition and, in this, particular attention must surely be given to the role played by the Labour Party in the Governmental coalition of the United Kingdom for the past 65 years.
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As this story unfolds, and we are only at the beginning of it, I’m quietly confident that David Cameron has to go.
There is, as you say, corruption, but not everyone is “utterly corrupt”. A number of heads will roll, and the general public will become more aware of probity.