July 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 6 July 28-31 2005
31 July 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest July 28-31 2005 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Death of a Brazilian or how to massage the facts to fit the crime By William Bowles
As more information has come to light on the circumstances surrounding the assassination of the unfortunate Brazilian, it is abundantly clear that from the moment he stepped out of his apartment building in Tulse Hill to go to his job as an electrician, Menezes was a dead man. Continue reading
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“Mein Kampf “ by George Bush & Tony Blair By Edward Teague
28 July 2005 — The New Dark Age A major shift in the language of conflict has commenced on both sides of the Atlantic this week. It is a shift we should note with concern, because it helps to mask another rasp on the ratcheting up of control over our freedoms of speech, thoughts and Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 July 2005 (29/05)
28 July 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. Special: EU: Schengen III Treaty 2. EU: Draft European Commission proposal on data retention 3. EU: Commission proposal on transfers of funds 4. Expulsions to Kabul and Joint charter flight 5. UK: ID Card Bill as amended in Committee 6. Democracy at the crossroads? Counter-terrorism Continue reading
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A collective shitting in the pants By William Bowles
27 July 2005 What kind of a mess have our erstwhile leaders got us into? It’s not too late you know, to do something about this gang of murdering politicos who have their cold, hard hands around our throats. It struck me that the common message I have been getting of late is not only Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 July 23-27 2005
27 July 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest July 23-27 2005 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: The New Statesman Editor And Blair’s “Mistake” – In The Service Of A Machine
How often, dear reader, do we go away hungry from the media board, and for the same reasons? What a dismal experience it is to spend twenty minutes leafing through a two-inch wedge of newsprint on a Saturday morning, finding almost nothing of human interest but plenty that offends and grates. Continue reading
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Ramping up the fear quotient By William Bowles
A sure fire way of keeping the spotlight off a murderous government that is neither believed nor trusted by the majority of the population, is to have a diversion of enormous magnitude caused by an enemy, preferably of an elemental kind (anarchists, communists, fanatics, fundamentalists, terrorists, take your pick). Continue reading
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HM Government announces “No Bomber Left Behind” Policy Edward Teague
25 July 2005 — The New Dark Age DialloIn several announcements today the UK Government made it clear that the NBLB (just a bloodied mess) policy which had been covertly introduced by the previous Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Lord Stevens, as “Operation Kratos” would continue and if necessary be extended. What this policy Continue reading
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Six decades on the third rock from the sun By William Bowles
24 July 2005 Day 4 of Open Season on those who are “darker than blue” First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 July 19-22 2005
22 July 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest July 19-22 2005 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Evil ideology + young Muslims + DIY Bombs = Terror By William Bowles with Edward Teague
Talking of which, my pal Edward Teague who is, as they say from ‘oop North’, has been making extensive inquiries, talking to Asians (or at least British of Asian extraction) trying to find out what they make of it all, especially what they think of the idea of how four young and apparently quite normal… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 July 15-18 2005
18 July 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest July 15-18 2005 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Ordinary Fascism By William Bowles
Conveniently, along comes 9/11, a ‘Pearl Harbour’ re-run, a convenient hitching post for a new Horse of the Apocalypse that in turn is used to ride rough-shod over our hard-won rights and liberties and to justify the assault on the planet. But any assault by the rich and powerful must first win the backing of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The London Bombings
Terrible ironies attend the use of violence for political ends. Despite their ostensible opposition, two warring factions are often united in their fundamental view of the world. Both insist that continued violence is the only realistic option. Both insist the enemy is the incarnation of mindless evil, completely beyond reason. Both reject as treasonous rational… Continue reading
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Forcing the facts to fit the theory By William Bowles
17 July 2005 A story in the Daily Mirror, 16/7/05 titled ‘Exclusive: Was it suicide?’, attempts to use essentially the same facts presented here but still make them out to be bombers. There are a lot of problems with this approach, especially in the light of the latest information to emerge. Continue reading
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Dead men tell no tales: Were the London bombings a set up? By William Bowles and Edward Teague
I’m leery of conspiracy theories, especially when they involve convoluted plots. Occam’s Razor is my guide, however, ever since the events of July 7 something has been nagging at me about the nature of the latest terrorist attack, and not merely the timing but the methods. Call it a gut reaction if you like but… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 July 11-14 2005
14 July 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest July 11-14 2005 Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 July 2005 (27/05)
13 July 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: UK Presidency proposes that all ID cards have biometrics 2. UK-EU: Call for mandatory data retention of all telecommunications 3. EU policy “putsch”: Data protection handed to the DG for “law, order and security” 4. EU: UK Presidency programme on asylum and immigration 5. Continue reading
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Bush and Blair’s ‘Prime Evil’ By William Bowles
In the light of the increasingly orchestrated hysteria surrounding the slaughter in London last week, it’s worth taking a deep breath and a step back and look at the history of the ‘war on terror’ and how the concept came to be and its inevitable and horrific consequences, consequences that rarely, if ever target the… Continue reading
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