If it wobbles like a duck, and quacks like duck, then it's a Duck. The Stormont Junta of both the DUP and British Sinn Fein are Tory Ducks. When the Tories quack, the Junta quacks. Both the working and middle class, are heading for dire poverty in Occupied Ireland, where the majority of both communities are about to become people of no property, with no political party to defend their interests, in a non-democratic junta, without an opposition. People will be forced to take to the streets, in the same numbers as in the south, to create real change and protect each others interests, with unity. There is no other alternative to unity, with authentic leadership, to defend their class interests. Both parties to the Junta, have proven their fake claims of leadership, with regard to their respective communities interests. People need to organize themselves, against the coming onslaught of poverty, homeleseness, lack of medical care and utility services, which are impending, for most working people in Ireland, to empower their own future.
Power of Ten: How Neocons and the Fake-left Took Over British Establishment
By Neil Clark March 15, 2015 "ICH" - Forty years ago, Britain could be described as a vibrant democracy. Our parties lived up to their names: a conservative Party believed in conserving things, a Labour Party represented the interests of working people and a Liberal Party was liberal. We had a mixed economy, in which majority interests were put first, a sensible foreign policy - we pursued detente with the Soviet Union - and didn't seek to go around the world trying to stir up conflicts. The only foreign “wars” we got involved with in those days were the so-called “Cod Wars” with Iceland. Today, it's a very different story. Our political parties have converged around what author Tariq Ali has labelled “the extreme center.” The range of views which can be freely expressed in Britain without adverse personal consequences ensuing is narrowing by the day. Genuinely left-wing writers, who were regulars on television and in newspapers in the 70s, are now dissidents and subject to constant attack by obnoxious gatekeepers. “In politics as in journalism and the arts, it seems that dissent once tolerated in the 'mainstream' has regressed to a dissidence: a metaphoric underground”, says John Pilger. Genuinely conservative writers - who reject endless war and crony capitalism - have also been marginalized. Instead we’ve got a political commentariat dominated by a smug, mutually-adoring clique of neocons and fake-leftists, all espousing the same Pentagon-friendly, crony capitalism-friendly views, and supporting the same“humanitarian” military “interventions.” We saw this new establishment orthodoxy in the way the “Iraq has WMDs which threaten the world” propaganda was peddled in the lead up to the illegal 2003 invasion, and we see it today in the promotion of a non-existence “threat” from Russia and the relentless demonization of Vladimir Putin. In 1975 we had a state that didn’t go to war, but which generously funded public libraries, today, in the words of Andrew Murray of the Stop the War coalition, we have a state that is big enough for a war, but too small to keep public libraries open. Anyone who dares step out of line and who challenges the “extreme center” faces attack from the cozy elite club that rules Britain today. The pressures on free-thinking journalists and politicians to conform to this new neocon/fake left “consensus” are enormous: a pernicious new McCarthyism worse than anything which took place in Britain in the old “Cold War” is at large. Tweet or say the wrong thing - and you’ll have the Extreme Center’s Thought Police on to you within minutes. And this harassment is carried out by people who claim to be “democrats” and who say they are opposed to “censorship” and totalitarianism. How did we get here? How was our country taken over by these people whose extremist pro-war views most certainly do not reflect the views of the majority of the British public? Well, here are 10 important events (in chronological order) in the takeover of Britain by the neocons and their faux-left allies. As you’ll see, it was in the 1980s that much of the damage was done. 1. March 16, 1976: Harold Wilson announces his resignation as Prime Minister and Labour Party leader. Wilson’s resignation was a disaster for the left in Britain and for British democracy. He was an adroit political operator, (he won four general elections out of five) and had he stayed as Prime Minister and Labour leader he would probably have defeated Margaret Thatcher (see point 2) in the next general election. As it was, Wilson’s successor, James Callaghan, made some key mistakes that led to a long period of Conservative hegemony and the demise of the old British left. 2. May 4, 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister, following the Conservatives’ win in the general election. This marked the end of the genuinely progressive post-war consensus and a move to a new kind of politics - one in which elite interests came first. As I argued here, although Mrs Thatcher left power in 1990, her influence lives on; we are all still living in Thatcher’s Britain. Revealingly, Thatcher herself said that New Labour was her greatest achievement. She destroyed socialism, but she also destroyed genuine conservatism too. 3. February 12, 1981: The Times, the leading British establishment newspaper, is bought by hard-right media baron Rupert Murdoch. Britain‘s newspaper of record, which dated back to 1785, followed a moderate right-of-center political line, but under Murdoch’s ownership, it morphed into a rabid neocon propaganda organ, playing a key role in disseminating the war party’s propaganda, as I highlighted here. In recent years, the paper has been beyond parody in its relentless pushing of the neocon/fake left agenda, beating the drums of war for western military “intervention” against Iraq, Libya and Syria. It was revealed in 2012 that Rupert Murdoch did meetwith Margaret Thatcher a few weeks before the Cabinet committee discussed the mogul’s bid for the Times and Sunday Times. “This direct personal lobbying was critical, as the government had the power to block his acquisition by referring the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission… the government's subsequent refusal to do so paved the way for the creation of what is easily the largest newspaper group in Britain,” Alan Travis wrote in the Guardian. 4. March 26, 1981: the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Today few people remember the so-called “Gang of Four” - a quartet of right-wing Labour politicians who broke away from the Labour Party in 1981 to form their own party. But the damage they did to the anti-Thatcher cause in Britain was enormous. The SDP crowd helped ensure re-election for Thatcher in 1983. Yes, they “broke the mold” of British politics, but not in a good way as they helped destroy the cause - social democracy - that they claimed to support. 5. March 3, 1985: the defeat of the miners’ strike. Whatever one’s personal view of Arthur Scargill, the National Union of Mineworkers leader, the defeat of the miners - after a strike lasting one year - undoubtedly had devastating consequences, not just for the miners themselves but for British politics in general. It represented a victory of the forces of finance capital over organized labor and meant that the neo-liberal restructuring of the British economy, which had begun in 1979, could proceed at an even faster rate (see event 6). If the miners had won their battle the Iraq war, the privatization of the railways and “New Labour” would probably have never happened. Far from being a victory for “democracy” the defeat of the miners helped make Britain a less democratic country. 6. 1986: Richard Ingrams stepping down as editor of leading satirical magazine Private Eye. Peter Cook, the comedian who owned Private Eye, was a true rebel. He once received a telephone call inviting him to a dinner party where Prince Andrew, the son of the Queen, and his bride-to-be Sarah Ferguson would be attending. “Oh, hang on, I’ll just check my diary,” he replied. “On dear, I find I’m watching television that night.” Ingrams was of a similar ilk - a self-described “conservative Christian anarchist” who really didn’t give a damn. But since 1986, under the editorship of Ian Hislop, the leading satirical magazine has become increasingly pro-Establishment; its targets are in general people who the new “Extreme Center” establishment doesn’t like much either, like George Galloway. It’s the pro-war ”left” and their neocon allies who satirists should be attacking - not their opponents, but in Britain today satirists defend the status quo. 7. October 26, 1986. ‘Big Bang’- the Thatcher government’s deregulation of financial markets. The removal of sensible controls on the City of London ushered in the era of turbo-globalization and meant political power transferred from the ballot box to the new financial elites. Its effects on our democracy have been disastrous. A recent survey showed that almost half of the funds of the Conservative Party come from hedge funds. Before Thatcher’s reforms, Britain was a democracy; after the “Big Bang” it became a bankocracy. 8. January 28, 1987: The removal of Alisdair Milne as Director-General of the BBC. Seumas Milne, Alisdair’s son, has written about this in depth here. The BBC had to start toeing the line of the “new” establishment in its political programs - and for future BBC executives, Milne’s removal was a warning from the government about lines which should not be crossed. A few months before Milne was pushed out, a former Times Newspapers managing director, Marmaduke Hussey, was appointed as Chairman of the BBC. On the night of Milne’s axing, media journalist Maggie Brown attended a function attended by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “I asked her what she thought of Milne's departure. She looked triumphant, flushed. ‘Talk to the chairman of the BBC,’ she said with a happy smile.” 9. July 21, 1994. Tony Blair’s election as Labour Party leader and the birth of “New Labour.” Blair made the Labour Party acceptable to the new establishment - he got rid of Clause IV, - the party’s commitment to nationalization, in 1995 - and was rewarded with support from the Murdoch media empire. He led Britain into a series of“military interventions,” all cheered on by neocon/faux-left commentators who by now had become entrenched in the British media. Meanwhile, he ensured that there would be no return to the genuinely progressive post-war economic settlement which had served the interests of the majority of people so well. The railways remained privatized and received more taxpayers subsidies than in the days of British Rail, and PFI (Private Finance Initiative) expanded. The crony capitalists and endless war brigade were delighted that Britain’s Labour Party had been captured. 10. December 18, 2007: The election of Nick Clegg, of the Orange Book faction, as Liberal Democrat leader. The Liberal Democrats fought the 2005 election on positions to the left of New Labour: they supported re-nationalization of the railways and opposed the Iraq war and still clung to a form of social democracy which Labour, under Blair, had deserted. But in 2007, this party was captured too by the “Extreme Center” with the election of banker’s son and enthusiastic neoliberal Nick Clegg as leader. In office, the Orange Book Lib Dems have carried on with the policies of war and privatization, policies which they were criticizing only a few years earlier. New Labour destroyed Iraq, the Lib Dems have helped destroy Libya and Syria. What a difference they made! But the neocons and faux-left establishment knew Clegg’s party wouldn’t make a difference, so they were happy for them to come to power. Neil Clark is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. His award winning blog can be found at www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. Follow him on Twitter
The Stormont Junta, located at the former "Protestant Parliament for a Protestant People" by Lord Craigavon, was created by the Pseudo Peace Process in Ireland. Unlike any democratic regime with a modicum of transparency or with some semblance of an Opposition, the Junta is above inquiry, courtesy of Her Majesty's Service in the interests of secrecy. The DUP and Provisional Sinn Fein leaders of the Junta, spent almost forty years, courtesy of British Intelligence, engaged in a profitable, British Dirty War, with both parties, publicly declaring intent of smashing it as fuel for the very bloody war. Now, they run it exclusively together. The huge scandal, around the rape of young boys, by the British Political Establishment, British Royalty, British Intelligence and British Military, at Kincora Bots Home, has been excluded from an Official Inquiry, into child rape at British foster care homes, without a murmur or a whisper, from any member of the Junta, which does not allow opposition or such questions in it's "Protestant Parliament". In the last month, Irish people have been mesmerized by the spectacle, of a former Chief Of Staff of the IRA, make a public declaration, that his work, is inspired by Her Majesty the Queen of England. Bearing in mind the core of Republican ideology worldwide, is the removal of Royalty from public life, coupled in this instance of a Chief of Staff of the IRA, who fought in a very bloody British Dirty War, for forty years, with thousands of victims, this was a stunning and revealing declaration, indeed. It has prompted serious questions, both in Britain and Ireland about the integrity and credentials of the former Chief of Staff of the Provisional IRA and the extent of the contrived British Dirty War using Occupied Ireland, as a test laboratory, for practices, since used in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan and the subsequent creation of puppet regimes. This question was further enforced last month, by another public declaration, of the IRA enforcer of the pseudo, peace process, Gerry Kelly, another member of the Stormont Junta, who called on all Irish people, to become informers to British Intelligence and Occupation forces, on all political activity by Republican activists in Ireland. Now the vast majority of activity by Irish republicans, is perfectly, transparent, legitimate, political activity, such as the Republican Party in the U.S., which has now been criminalized by the Stormont Junta. In fact, scores of these legitimate politicos are currently, politically interned and tortured, without trial in Maghaberry Prison, overseen by the Stormont Junta. and British Viceroyal, who answer only to the Queen of England. Now this further declaration, had many Republicans, including the few who are left in Provisional Sinn Fein, reaching for their medicine cabinets, in astonishment. However, the final coup de gras of any republican credentials, being attached to Provisional Sinn Fein, partner in the Stormont Junta, came last week. The President of the Party, Gerry Adams, who grew up in a home, where his father raped his children, while his brother is currently serving a long prison sentence, for also raping his daughter, was a bizarre, dog revelation.These child rape practices started to be tolerated within the Provisionals, after Mr. Adams became President, where previously, there was very serious consequence within his organization, for such activity. Now as anyone who is familiar with large dogs will tell you, they do have some very embarrassing habits and devious sexual practices, that can be very unhygienic, to say the least. This behavior, is often aroused by intimate human contact, particularly if the human is overtly displaying, full frontal nudity. This sexual arousal is, further aroused physically, by high octane fun and games, coupled with the intimacy. Well, what do you think, the political public of Ireland were disseminating last week. Mr Adams, Mr Gerry Adams, President of provisional Sinn Fein, declared to the world, that his free time, was consumed, in full nudity, bouncing up and down on his trampoline in his garden, consistently, with his dog who is also naked. Now as anyone who knows this writer will attest, I myself have a particularly, liberated outlook on nudity, in fact, skinny dipping is one of my favourite pastimes and like Mr Adams, I have been known, to hug the odd tree or two but this intimate activity, is beyond the Pale. I have just spent a couple of months berating Wille Frazer along with the Orange Order, for their practice of "Riding the Goat' and decided I had enough of it and to give it a rest but Gerry Adams and his dog both naked, jumping up and down on a trampoline in private, is something else. The matter so disturbed me, that I decided to go and do some serious research on the matter. I have been assured by experts, that the practice is often used by therapists, to counter pedophile tendencies. Now I am not, for one moment suggesting Mr Adams'activity, falls under these criteria. However, the experts have confirmed for me, that the intimate practice of a naked tall man and his dog, both jumping up and down together, on a trampoline, does indeed create considerable sexual passion and arousal. So much so in fact, that as the both the dog and man, fall down regularly often in 69 positions, that premature ejaculations often occurs on the face and head of both parties, indeed in the many Kamasutra positions, thus created, a dog may ejaculate up to twenty times on the head of a human playmate. This, dear reader, is not political bias, it is the hard fact and reality, resulting from this activity. Now I have always tried to be sensitive, when writing about these matters, in relation to the Adams family but hey, I do have a responsibility to be frank with readers to whom I post. So seeing as it was suggested by the Orange Goat of the Chinese New Year, to Give Willie a Hug, I suppose I am obliged to extend the same empathy to Mr. Adams. Is there anybody out there who would like to give Gerry Adams a Hug, in a hot shower, if he disinfects himself after a session of intimate trampolining, with his naked dog? Now some readers have questioned, why I occasionally use humour, with regard to Irish politics, Well dear reader, I can tell you, in no uncertain terms, that if you do not have a sense of humour, with regard to the British Occupation of my country, you will either be driven to drink, drugs, religion or revolution but you will not stay around for the long haul, otherwise. To return to the serious implications of all of this, Ireland is trying to come to terms with the fact that there has been serious "systemic" child rape on the island, as declared by a very expensive Official Inquiry. This has involved thousands upon thousands of innocent young children, both girls and boys, with immense cruelty. Young children were taken from the Irish Free Sate, to Belfast, to be prostituted to British Royalty. Both the British and Roman Empire, have been engaged in the practice of cultivating Child Rape, as a cultural norm for centuries. It has been used as an instrument of blackmail, by British Intelligence, to acquire political, military and judicial compliance, from much of the Irish establishment, and is currently very much alive and operating, in all arms of both scum states, that the British have artificially created. It's vile nature and practice, has fuelled Irish revolutionaries, to go out and give their lives, in their thousands, to resist British Occupation. This vile perversion, is practiced, in the torture of Irish POWs, with strip searches and anal cavity probes, that are designed to degrade, dehumanize and criminalize some of Ireland's bravest women and men, who are interned and incarcerated. It has forced 23 of Ireland's bravest, to give their lives on hunger strikes, rather than tolerate this perverse, criminal, cruel torture on their bodies. The whole of both political systems on the island, have become morally bankrupt as a result. The sad result of this practice, is that like the Stormont Junta and the Leinster House establishment, the British have infected some of their victims, with the heartless, immoral practices and blackmailed many of these who formerly resisted. The Adams family are the testament of how this sickness is passed on to the next generation, in both parts of Ireland, which as a result, is as sick, as it's numerous, dark secrets, that will require some benign, outside help, in order to recover from such endemic sickness. I appeal to anyone in a position of influence worldwide, to try and help change this, without considerable more bloodshed being inflicted on the island, which is inevitable otherwise. I demand, that the British Occupation, leave the island of my birth immediately and leave us alone to recover in peace. 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Kincora victim Richard Kerr in explosive new claims as he returns to horror house 30 years on
Richard Kerr (53), who now lives in the US, visited the site of the former care home as he returned to Northern Ireland to launch legal action so the truth about Kincora can finally be told
BY LIAM CLARKE – 20 FEBRUARY 2015 A former resident of Kincora has made a poignant return to the notorious care home where he was abused decades ago.
Richard Kerr (53), who now lives in Dallas, visited Belfast this week to support a legal challenge against the Government's refusal to include Kincora in its forthcoming child abuse inquiry.
While he was here Mr Kerr went to the east Belfast site for the first time in more than three decades.
Kincora was the subject of a high-profile child sex abuse scandal in the 1980s. Three senior staff were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys in their care at the home. Those convicted were the warden Joseph Mains, his assistant Raymond Semple, and Kincora's housefather William McGrath.
Mr Kerr was among the young residents who were abused. He was sent to live there in 1975 when he was just 14. Mr Kerr's evidence about Kincora is potentially explosive because he claims he was taken out of the care home and introduced to other men for sex at hotels. He also alleges MI5 involvement in the abuse at the home. This contradicts previous police investigations and a public inquiry into the scandal, which found there was no evidence of a paedophile ring connected to Kincora. Mr Kerr choked back tears as he walked through the grounds of the locked-up building.
He pointed out where abusers and victims had their rooms, where abuse took place and where abusers had parked. The visit jogged his memory. He pointed to a nearby building where he said boys were taken for sexual encounters. He also described a shed or hut in what is now a yard behind Kincora which was used for sex. "It had a chair and a mattress in it, that's about all," he said.
Mr Kerr was in Belfast High Court this week to support the application of Gary Hoy, another Kincora resident, to have the issue examined by the UK-wide institutional child abuse inquiry in England rather than the local one chaired by Anthony Hart QC.
On Thursday they were granted leave to appeal after a statement by Mr Kerr was presented to the court. He gave further statements to his solicitor, Kevin Winters, about sexual abuse which happened in London, Manchester and other parts of Britain. Some may have occurred on a weekend trip from Kincora, where he lived most of the time between 1975 and 1978.
Other abuse occurred after he was sent to live in England. One of Mr Kerr's most explosive allegations is that Joseph Mains used to send him to collect other men. Although some met him in the city centre, often near the Europa where he worked for a while, he called at some of their homes.
"One on the Shore Road seemed like he might be an Army captain, he had loads of medals," he said. He is making a list of the names, at least one of whom was a well-known loyalist.
Kevin Winters said: "My clients include three Kincora inmates - the other two are Gary Hoy and Clint Massey. I have put their names in to the Police Ombudsman who is investigating. All of these people are bringing civil litigation as well and I have another solicitor dealing with the compensation claims."
