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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Queen insisted on Prince Charles meeting Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams during Ireland visit</b></span><br />
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BY STEVEN ALEXANDER – 19 MAY 2015 <br />
A meeting in the Republic between Prince Charles and Gerry Adams today is only going ahead because the Queen insisted, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. <br />
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The main political parties in the Republic had strongly objected to the behind-closed-doors meeting on the campus of the National University of Ireland, Galway. <br />
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But they were forced to back down at the 11th hour after Buckingham Palace officials insisted that it went ahead. <br />
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One senior London source familiar with the negotiations said: "The resistance of the southern Irish Government was eventually broken by the enthusiastic support of the Queen and Prince Charles. <br />
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"The other party leaders will get a private five-minute meeting to provide political cover." <br />
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The historic meeting, which also involves Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, will be held away from cameras, making a handshake more likely between the republican leader and the royal whose favourite uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten was blown up by the IRA. <br />
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With Dail elections to take place next year, and TDs concerned about Sinn Fein 'hijacking' Easter Rising centenary events, the parties in Dublin had fiercely opposed Mr Adams being portrayed as a peacemaker in the south. <br />
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However, sources said that after her groundbreaking handshake with former IRA commander Mr McGuinness at Belfast's Lyric Theatre in 2011, the Queen wanted to make another political gesture. A Buckingham Palace source said: "The past is the past. It is time to move forward." <br />
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And Sinn Fein chairman Declan Kearney said: "This was agreed to promote the process of resolving past injustices and promoting reconciliation and healing."<br />
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The meeting with Mr Adams comes ahead of a visit to the Sligo site of his great-uncle's murder and is widely seen as the next phase in ever deepening relations, friendships and bonds between the UK and Ireland.<br />
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Charles, who will be accompanied by wife Camilla on his first official visit to Ireland in 13 years, will make an emotional trip to Mullaghmore tomorrow where 79-year-old Mountbatten was killed in a 1979 IRA bomb attack as he set off in a boat with others to check lobster pots.<br />
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The royal couple will arrive in Northern Ireland on Thursday.<br />
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A spokesman for the Queen said: "As with all official overseas visits undertaken by Members of the Royal Family, The Queen was consulted, but the programme was drawn up on the advice of Government".<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Prince Philip: Is this the sickest man in the UK?</span></h2>
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Respectful: Britain’s <a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/?s=prince+philip">Prince Philip</a>, the Duke of Edinburgh visits the Field of Remembrance in the grounds of Westminster Abbey in central London on Thursday<br />
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Look at the photograph below? This picture will fill Millions of Brits with pride, nostalgia and patronism. Women, old and young will inevitably coo. Men, no doubt with a look of steely determination on their faces will give a quick nod at the photo and say to themselves; “Yes mate, you know”. I look at it and want to wring the hypocrites scrawny neck. The mere sight of him makes me want to puke.<br />
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You will not spot a single tear in this abomination’s eye. And for the Daily Mail newspaper and no doubt the vast majority of others to even suggest it, is tantamount to fraud. Worse still, it officially costs the tax payer nearly half a million pound a year to view propaganda like this. Unofficially, the true cost is in the millions.<br />
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You have no idea how hard I find it to write about The Duck of Edinburgh and his family of parasitic in-breeds without descending into a torrent of foul mouthed abuse.<br />
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Strange, that I cannot recall the old fart, pictured here all dressed up in his sailor suit so as to con the gullible nation into thinking he is some kind of battled hardened war hero, doing the same last year. Well certainly not with the same amount of press exposure as we see in the Daily Mail today. I may be wrong of course, but I doubt it.<br />
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In truth this is nothing more than a fake photo opportunity, staged by a nervous <a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/?s=royal">Royal family</a>, who are acutely aware that if they are not very careful, their house of cards could quickly come tumbling down right about now. In fact, there is as much sincerity on show as there are tears in the perverted old git’s eyes. Cry for our heroic war dead? Don’t make me laugh. The old pervert is doing nothing more than trying to get the nation on side before the truth comes out about him and his odious family.<br />
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Why on Earth would the Lizard looking old bastard cry for our war dead? If he was going to cry for any war dead, it would be those who spoke German, not English. Not that he would do. The Duck of Edinburgh along with the other Royal Monsters despise us.<br />
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They despise all commoners, whatever their nationality, however they die. We are nothing more than an irritation to be endured while they fleece us for all they can get. Why would the man… I use the term very loosely, shed a tear when the people he is pretending to respect are exactly how he wants them and the rest of us, i.e. Dead.<br />
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Let me tell you about this racist old pervert. Phil the Greek as he is commonly known, should in fact be called Phil the Nazi. He has no affinity with the British people what so ever, let alone our war dead. To understand why, we need to go back as far as Queen Victoria, whom some refer to as the last English queen… Even though she was half German. Victoria, according to historians was hated by her countryman, some even say she was spat upon… Can’t imagine that amused her much.<br />
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Queen Vicky, as she wasn’t known, married the German Prince Albert:<br />
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Albert was born on August 26, 1819 in Rosenau, Germany. He was the second son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and was greatly influenced by his uncle Leopold, who became the king of Belgium in 1831. As a teenager Albert travelled to Britain and met the Princess Victoria, who was his COUSIN and nearly the same age as Albert. (Source- About.com)<br />
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Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was our Royal family’s name then, until Sticky Vicky’s grandson, King George V, who was married to the German Queen Mary, changed it to Windsor in 1917. This was only because there was a good deal of anti German sentiment in Britain before the First World War which became almost hysterical after 1916. There were in fact, anti German riots with shops owned by people with German names or German sounding names being smashed up. This also happened in other parts of the Empire such as Johannesburg in South Africa.<br />
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So there you have another case of this closely interbred, dysfunctional family pulling out all the stops to save their own necks… But I digress.<br />
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Now, as well as the name changing King George V being the grandson of Sticky Vicky, so was our German opponent in the first world war, Kaiser Wilhelm II… Getting the picture yet? No? Fair enough, I will continue.<br />
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Our present Queen, Bizzy Lizzy and her husband Phil the Sauerkraut are both the great, great grandchildren of Queen StickyVicky. Or put another way, they are 2nd cousins, once removed… By then it was surprising that the in-breeds didn’t resemble the cast of ‘the Hills have eyes’. They did, and still do however, behave like them.<br />
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Further more, madness and genetic problems are common place within the Royal family, thanks entirely to their in-breeding. Everyone knows about King George the III. He was mad as a hatter. Sticky Vicky herself was a Haemophiliac, which resulted in the death of her son Prince Leopold at the age of 30. The Duck’s own mother was mad as a hatter and had to be sectioned, which might explain a lot.<br />
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However, the more modern day Royal family tend to do what all Monsters do with their mad relations. Lock them away and pretend they don’t exist. That is what happened with the Queen’s first cousins,Nerissa and Katherine, who were both nieces of the Queer Mother:<br />
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The Queen’s cousin Nerissa was 22 and the Queen’s look-alike cousin Katherine was 15 when they were sent to the grim Royal Earlswood Mental Hospital. Both were severely handicapped and virtually unable to speak. They were said to have a mental age of six.<br />
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Cousin Nerissa is now deceased but cousin Katherine, aged 86, is still alive as of 2012, although severely mentally retarded. She is neglected and never visited.<br />
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Burke’s Peerage which records the “who’s who” lineage of the British aristocracy, recorded false information that the first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II died in 1940 and 1961. <br />
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Despite the Queen’s fabulous wealth, she spent not one penny on cousin Nerissa’s burial. Nerissa was buried like a pauper in an unceremounious grave marked by a 6-inch-high plastic tag bearing a serial number and the name ”Bowes-Lyon”.<br />
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Cousin Katherine who spent decades in the Royal Earlswood Asylum, was moved to Ketwin House for the mentally disabled. Following allegations that male staff members were washing female patients, Ketwin House was forced to shut down. Witnesses found bruises on Katherine’s hand and hip.<br />
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Despite the Queen’s fabulous wealth, she spent not one penny to keep her cousin Katherine at Ketwin House. The cost ? About 770 pounds per patient per year. According to a former staff member, Katherine is alert, understands what she’s being told and communicates by pointing and smiling. Not one member of the Royal family has visited her in 60 years.<br />
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It turns out that the Queen’s mother also had cousins who were locked away in the same mental institution on the same day in 1941 as Nerissa and Katherine.<br />
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An ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach to family members with “embarrassing” problems like mental illness and epilepcy is nothing new in the royal household.<br />
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In 1905, George V(Of name change fame) and Queen Mary had a son, Prince John. Until the age of four, Prince John was just as much in the spotlight then as Prince William was in 1986 at the age of four.<br />
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When Prince John suffered his first epileptic fit, his royal parents excluded him from official family photographs.He wasn’t even allowed to attend his own father’s coronation as King of England in 1911. In 1917, the King hid his epileptic son by sending him to die in an isolated farmhouse. John never saw his parents again. He died two years later – reportedly in his sleep.<br />
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Another propaganda Oscar winner, The Kings’ Speech, focused on the Queen’s father and his speech impediment. There was no mention in the movie that the cause may have been from generations of royal inbreeding.<br />
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Monarchy blockbusters are designed to sell the image of the filthy rich royals as sensitive, caring, human and deserving of adoration and taxpayer support. No one would dare make a Hollywood movie about the King’s nazi brother, Edward VIII who abdicated.<br />
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Alice Battenberg was the mother of the Queen’s husband – Prince Philip. Alice was near deaf and a religious zealot. As the years went by, she began to have visions that she was Christ’s bride. She was declared a paranoid schizophrenic and committed to an asylum by force in 1930. Alice is Prince William’s great grandmother.<br />
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Now, moving on, Queen Bizzy Lizzy’s uncle Eddie the Duke of Windsor, the one who married the American slut Wallis Simpson (I believe Homer was her nephew, but I may be wrong), was great friends with Adolf Hitler. The fact Eddie did marry Wallis was much to the annoyance of Bizzy Lizzy’s Alcoholic, Paedophile, mother (Various Sources such as Bill Maloney), who also wanted him. Never the less, in the end the Queer Mother was forced to settle for the younger brother… Affectionately referred to as ‘the backward one’.<br />
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In fact, according to files released in 2003, high ranking Nazi officials considered Rock steady Eddie to be “no enemy to Germany”. They also considered him to be the “logical director of England’s destiny after the war”.<br />
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Eddie, who was also a paedophile and part time bum bandit, gave up the million pound hat to marry the much passed around slapper Simpson. I cannot imagine why, unless it was the fact that she would indulge Ed the Ball in his passion for being pushed around in a pram while dressed only in a nappy… I kid you not.<br />
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So, is it just a coincidence then, that Willie and Kate got married on the 29th of April 2011, sixty six years to the day that Hitler married Eva Braun? Remember, dates and numbers are extremely important to these freaks. Willie was in fact induced so as his birthday fell on the Summer Solstice, although the official line is that he was induced so as not to interfere with his father, Prince Big ears’ Polo Tournament.<br />
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Course, according to the Help Free the Earth website, the Royal family didn’t just offer moral support to those who were killing the British soldiers Philip is pictured shedding Crocodile tears over. That moral support also stretched to financial:<br />
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The British monarchy, and the City of London’s leading Crown bankers, enthusiastically backed Hitler and the Nazis, bankrolled the Fuhrer’s election, and did everything possible to build the Nazi war machine, for Britain’s planned geopolitical war between Germany and Russia. Support for Nazi-style genocide has always been at the heart of the House of Windsor policy. Long after the abdication of King Edward VIII, the Windsors maintained their direct Nazi links.<br />
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Meanwhile, Phil the Duck was sent to a German boarding school that specialised in bringing up mini Adolfs. In fact, as Phil put it himself, there was much heel clicking and Heil Hitlering. At the same time, his 4 sisters all married members of the Nazi Party.<br />
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His sister Sophie in fact, went on to marry Prince Christoph of Hesse, a colonel in the SS on Himmler’s personal staff and head of the Forschungsamt, an elite intelligence operation controlled by Hermann Goering.<br />
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Christoph, as coincidence would have it was also the great grandson of Queen Victoria and a paedophile… I’m lying. It wasn’t really a coincidence, but the other two facts are true. The 30 year old Christoph had become engaged to Prince Phillips sister, Sophie when she had only just turned 15 – Hmmm.<br />
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Mind you, Filthy Phil began dating the queen when she was only 13 years old. Then again, the Royals like to keep everything within the family. But I digress.<br />
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Now, as I have just said, what eventually happens when families are continually polluting their own gene pool is madness begins to occur and that is what happened to Phil’s mum, Slack Alice. So when she was carted off to the mad house and his father fucked off with some old sort, Philip, much to his delight, was left in the care of his uncle Lord Louie Mountbatten. The Mountbatten’s were also German’s who changed their name from Battenberg… As in the Marzipan cake that people pretend to like, but don’t really… Much in keeping with the way people feel about the Royals in general really.<br />
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Now, pay attention here. Lord Louis the Cake was also the Great Grandson of Sticky Fuckin’ Vicky and 2nd cousin of the name changing King George V. Louis was also a predatory paedophile.<br />
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The Authors of the controversial book ‘The War of the Windsor’s’ which was serialised in the Daily Mail state:<br />
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“Lord Louis Mountbatten had the nickname “Dickie” …and for good reason. Philip’s uncle Dickie was the last viceroy in India where he was a known paedophile who sexually exploited young working class Indian peasant boys”.<br />
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Mountbatten is also linked to the paedophile ring who abused boys living at the Kincora Care Home in Belfast Northern Ireland. An excellent website, dedicated to exposing the Royal Family <a href="http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/index.html">http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/index.html</a>, have this to say about a book written on that paedophile ring entitled ‘The Kincora Scandal’:<br />
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“The Kincora Scandal connects Lord Dickie Mountbatten to a child prostitution vice ring in Belfast, Ireland. Authorities failed to intervene at the Kincora care home for boys until 1981, despite reports over the years of child sexual abuse”.<br />
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The operators of the Kincora child prostitution ring were eventually convicted in 1981 of the RITUAL sexual abuse of defenceless young boys who were sold like prostitutes. No charges were ever brought against the VIP customers made up of Royals, Politicians, lawyers, and Judges. However, Belfast citizens finally had reason to celebrate when Prince Philip’s paedophile uncle was killed by an IRA bomb planted in his boat”. <br />
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It is alleged by many that Louis the Cake had at least two boys on the boat, possibly three, when they were all blown to kingdom come. It is further alleged by many, that Phil got his first taste of Cock, courtesy of Uncle Louis, who was almost certainly also shagging Bizzy Lizzy’s Uncle, Ed the Baby.<br />
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Other members of the ohhh sooo British Royal family, but who are in reality closet Nazi’s include; Marie Christine Reibnitz AKA Princess Michael of Kent. Then there is the brother of Princess Alice, a great-aunt to the Queen, who was a Nazi and said that Hitler had done a “wonderful job”.<br />
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Princess Michael of Kent’s (Sounds like a tranny doesn’t she) father, was Baron Gunther von Reibnitz, who just so happened to be a member of the Nazi party and an honorary member of the SS.<br />
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Slightly diverting away from the main topic, but relevant none the less, Princess Michael, who is married to the Queens Cousin Prince Michael of Kent was caught out shagging a toy-boy in 2006. As it happens, Prince Michael also looks extremely like my friend Terry from Cyprus. But I’m fairly sure that is just a coincidence.<br />
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Never the less, having his wife publicly identified as shagging about obviously pissed Prince Mick off. Now everyone knows, cept my good self of course, that you shouldn’t upset a Freemason. Especially not the highest wanking Freemason in the country, which is apparently who Prince Micky Boy is (Sorry about the speech impediment in that sentence. I was just trying out my impression of Bizzy Lizzy’s old man). He is also the Grandson of the name changing, half German King George V and the full German Queen Mary, don’t cha know.<br />
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Having said that, any inference you draw from the following is strictly down to your own over active imaginations. You see, this toy-boy Mikhail Kravchenko, who shared a 4 day break in a Venice hotel with Mick’s slapper wife Princess Michael, met a very sticky end when he was machine gunned to death while sat in his Mercedes. Not that he was the only one whom the Royal family had the hump with, to die in a Mercedes.<br />
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Anyway, an actress called Marina Golub who was a close friend of Mikhail Kravchenko started asking questions about his death and after getting too near to the truth, she was apparently warned off. Whether or not she took any notice of the warnings is unknown, but she did claim to have uncovered startling new details about the murder. However, before she could reveal what she knew she was killed in a ‘car crash’… Just saying.<br />
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Right, getting back onto the main thread. All these people, who were and are supposedly part of the English Royal family, were in reality aligned with the German War Machine. As an example of just how deep that involvement was, consider the following also taken from the Help Free The earth website:<br />
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Prince Philip’s uncle and sponsor, Lord Louis Mountbatten (originally, Battenberg of the House of Hesse) was a central figure in the 1930s Nazi-British channel. Until he was forced to abdicate, King Edward VIII enjoyed the full backing of Dickie Mountbatten. Through much of World War II, secret channels of communication were maintained between the British royal family and their pro-Hitler cousins in Germany, by Lord Mountbatten, through his sister Louise, who was crown princess of pro-Nazi Sweden. Louise was Prince Philip’s aunt.<br />
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The spin doctors at Buckingham Palace have tried to depict the wartime collaboration of the British royal family with the Nazi enemy as just family correspondence but the messages from Prince Philip’s secret ally, the Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII) are impossible to cover up. On Nov. 20, 1995, the Washington Times reported that the Duke of Windsor had been in close collaboration with the Nazis in Spain and Portugal to foment a revolution in wartime Britain, that would topple the Churchill government, depose his brother King George VI, and allow him to regain the throne.<br />
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Starting with an exchange between King George VI and President Eisenhower, the House of Windsor has been desperate to keep incriminating documents collected from Kronberg Castle classified. The incriminating documents fell into American Army hands.<br />
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With that in mind, now take a look at the photo below. This is Phil the Duck in his Nazi Sister Cecile’s funeral cortège. In the row behind and slightly to the left is Louis The Cake, wearing an old style sailor hat. This was taken a couple of years before the War. Jews were already being persecuted and slaughtered. Philip admitted himself that his family had a problem with Jews. That leaves me to wonder how he feels about his grand-daughter in law Kate, who is Jewish.<br />
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Another senior Royal who was apparently racist was Bizzy Lizzy’s sister, Princess Margaret . I deal with Slaggy Maggie in detail in Monsters Inc, but here is what is said about her on the Scandalous Woman website:<br />
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Princess Margaret was a spoiled, vain, racist, promiscuous waster who never worked a day in her life, called the Irish people “Pigs, all pigs”, was an adulteress, who also, most insidiously, sponged tens of MILLIONS from the people of Great Britain through the civil list at a time when most British “subjects” were near starving due to rationing.<br />
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Her Uncle was an unrepentant Nazi sympathizer and friend of Oswald mosley who would have (if given the chance) allowed the perptrators of the holocaust a foothold in Britain.<br />
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Course, as I have already said, Phil the Nazi is well known for being racist. According to the book The Duke of Hazard: The Wit & Wisdom of Prince Philip, Famous gaffe’s include:<br />
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• During a state visit to China in 1986, the duke told a group of British students: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”<br />
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• Another jab to the Chinese came at a World Wildlife Fund dinner: “If it swims and it’s not a submarine, the Chinese will eat it.” <br />
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• To an Australian Aborigine he met in 2002, Philip asked: “Still throwing spears?”<br />
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• When a Kenyan woman gave Philip a gift, he was perplexed at her appearance. “You’re a woman, aren’t you?” he asked.<br />
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• When he met Lord Taylor of Warwick, who is black and comes from Birmingham, “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”<br />
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• When he saw an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh, the duke said: “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.”<br />
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• When he met a group of deaf people in Cardiff in1999, Philip referred to the school’s steel band: “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”<br />
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• “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” Philip asked someone from the Cayman Islands in 1994.<br />
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• When he met the president of Nigeria, who was dressed in a traditional robe, Philip said: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”<br />
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So don’t even try to tell me that the Nazi Bastard shed any tears over our war dead. The very fact that the MSM take his photograph any where near a tribute to those who died in the war is a gross insult to their memory.<br />
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Worse still, when you know that he is only doing it in order to gain support for his yokel family in case the nation find out that these piss takers, who do not give a fuck for anyone but themselves are up to their perverted necks in the Jimmy Savile cesspit, your blood begins to boil.<br />
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Not convinced? No? Then I will carry on.<br />
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That the Duck of Edinburgh didn’t know about Louis the letch’s preference for boys is inconcievable. As I said, the chances are Louis was abusing Philip anyway. Never the less, that didn’t stop him leaving his eldest son, Prince Big Ears in his care:<br />
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“Mountbatten was a strong influence in the upbringing of his grand-nephew, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and later as a mentor—”Honorary Grandfather” and “Honorary Grandson”, they fondly called each other according to the Jonathan Dimbleby biography of the Prince”.<br />
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Now you tell me what kind of sick fuck leaves their child in the capable hands of a predatory Paedophile? The answer can only be someone who views paedophilia as being normal. Just look at their history. It is littered with child molesters. Child Molesting is not the same as being Gay. A person has no choice as to whether they are gay or not. A child molester on the other hand does have a choice.<br />
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However, as we have already seen. Many of the Royals do seem to be gay. That said, I do not believe that to be true. I do however believe that many of them take part in same sex, sex. Princess Diana, for instance, hinted that her ex husband used to have a merry old time forcibly sodomising his male staff.<br />
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Talking of Paedophiles and the Prince of Wales, I feel that I must mention another Royal paedophile Prince Albert Victor, who was also known as Prince Eddy. You can tell how in-bred these monsters are. They all have the same fucking name, don’t cha know. Anyway Prince Eddy was the eldest son of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales. Here’s what the author John Hamer wrote about him: <br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_Victor,_Duke_of_Clarence_and_Avondale">Prince Albert Victor,</a> the Duke of Clarence otherwise known by his colloquial name of ‘Prince Eddy was the eldest son of Albert Edward the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra (later Queen Alexandra), the grandson of the reigning monarch, Queen Victoria and older brother of the future king of England, King George V and as such would have been first in line to the throne.<br />
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Unfortunately, due to centuries of Royal in-breeding, Eddy was partially deaf and of well below average intelligence and was thus shunned by the majority of his cold-hearted family.<br />
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Queen Victoria, the reigning monarch at the time was a great supporter and patron of Freemasonry as were all the Royal males of the age (and as they still are today). Indeed it was the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family (the current British royals) who had sponsored the rise of Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati, originally a Freemasonry offshoot, in Bavaria in the 18th century. Weishaupt was indeed born and raised in the Bavarian town of Gotha.<br />
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There are several Masonic lodges in the Royal palaces of Britain, the most significant one perhaps being the Royal Alpha Lodge in Kensington Palace (where Prince and Princess Mick live. I’m getting good at this history lark – Spivey). In 1885 Prince Eddy was initiated into the Royal Alpha Lodge at the behest of his father.<br />
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As well as his membership of the lodge, Eddy was also a regular ‘customer’ at a homosexual-paedophile brothel in Cleveland Street, London and indiscreetly instigated a series of explicit love-letters with a young boy employed at these most vile of premises.<br />
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In the meantime, Prince Eddy, his mental health by now completely shattered, was given into the care of the Earl of Strathmore who owned Glamis Castle in Scotland. The royal family then blatantly lied to the world and announced that Eddy had sadly passed away at the age of only 28, on the 14th January 1892 due to influenza, but of course Eddy was still alive and being held in Balmoral Castle having not yet made the final move to Glamis.<br />
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Balmoral is approximately 1000 feet (300 metres) above sea-level and as such is partly surrounded by steep cliffs. This was the intended site for the planned murder of Eddy to be undertaken by Randolph Churchill (Winstons old man – Spivey) and John Netley the coachman. The prince was pushed from the cliff-top but somehow managed to survive his fall and after the passage of two days had endeavoured to crawl all the way back to Balmoral where he was found at the door by his disbelieving hosts.<br />
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It was decided after this that the best option would be to just incarcerate him at Glamis for the rest of his life and the Earl of Strathmore agreed to undertake this task on behalf of the royals in return for one simple favour. The favour he stipulated was that one of his daughters be allowed to marry a future king of England.<br />
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Poor Eddy died in 1933, forty one years after his ‘official’ death date and during this time, his mother visited him only once, but took a photograph of him which she apparently sent to her cousin. This photograph is still in existence and shows a much older Eddy thoughtfully painting a picture which would sadly never be seen by anyone outside the walls of Glamis Castle.<br />
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The pact between Strathmore and the royal family was eventually fulfilled in 1923 when Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (his daughter, b. 1900) married the future King George VI of England after originally being betrothed to his brother, the former King Edward VIII (he of abdication fame) (Told ya she had the hots for him – Spivey).<br />
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In 1936 George ascended the throne upon his elder brother’s abdication and Elizabeth became his queen consort. Elizabeth of course was more commonly known as the Queen Mother and the mother of the current incumbent of the family firm, Queen Elizabeth the second. She went to her grave in 2002 without ever revealing the secret and thus the world was never aware of this unholy pact. <br />
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There you have a perfect example of our Royal family; inherently Mad, Paedophile tendency’s, happy to murder their own and extremely conniving… Lets give them a few more millions of pounds. Prince Charles is always lobbying for more anyway. So is Prince Randy Andy. He wants his daughters, one of whom had a tendency to run around her school naked, added to the Civil list… The greedy bastards.<br />
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Mind you, what with the likes of Paul Burrell and Paul Kidd working for the perverted family, I don’t imagine Prince Charles had to force himself on the staff too violently.<br />
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I have documented the sexual exploits of Paul Burrell, who appointed himself Princess Diana’s Rock, in my forth coming expose of Diana’s murder. So you will just have to wait to read them. However, I will say that Burrell swore never to reveal Diana’s secrets, but has since made millions writing books about them and by just trading off her name in general.<br />
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Paul Kidd is a different kettle of fish all together. He was apparently charged at Manchetser crown court with sexually abusing a large number of boys over a 30 year period. Manchester also just so happened to be the hang out of Jimmy Savile. The Daily Mail had this to say about Paul Kidd:<br />
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A former Buckingham Palace butler has been unmasked as a sexual predator who ran a paedophile ring while serving the Royal Family.<br />
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Bachelor Paul Kidd, 55, groomed at least one of his teenage victims for sex by taking him for tea with the Queen Mother at Clarence House, it has emerged. To the public, he had been the urbane gent who waited on the Royals for nine years – first the Queen at the Palace and then her mother.<br />
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You can take any inference you like from that, but as I said in my article ‘Parliamentary Paedophiles’ , the MSM like to drop hints. You may also like to Google Bill Maloney and hear what he has to say about the Queer Mother. The nickelinthemachine.com website also says the following about Kidd:<br />
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Paul Kidd claimed he walked the same corridors as Sir Anthony Blunt the Rothschild gopher who betrayed Britain to the Soviets in W W II for £20,000. <br />
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Now Anthony Blunt was a Russian Spy. He was also a notorious paedophile… Surprised? Nah, course your not. He was also definitely related to the Queen in some way or another. Some historians have him down as a cousin, others say he was in fact Bizzy Lizzy’s half brother. The MSM laughingly had an article out just the other week that said the Queer Mother, had cottoned on to Blunt the …. What rhymes with Blunt? Runt… The Queer Mother had cottoned on to Blunt the Runt a long time before the security services’s did.<br />
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Are the MSM for real? It is a very dangerous game they play. They, like myself and many others know the truth yet they print bollocks like that in order to give the Royals an alter ego. Do these journalists not realise that they are just as expendable as the rest of us?<br />
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Course the Queer Mother knew about Blunt. You only need read the following, which is taken from the website United Nations on Film to realise that:<br />
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At the end of the war, in June 1945, the British King, George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth and puppet of the Queen Mother, sent the former MI5 officer, Anthony Blunt, to the Kronberg Castle of Prince Philip’s sister Sophie, and her Nazi husband Prince Christoph of Hesse, to recover correspondence between the British Royal Family and their Nazi relatives, for propaganda aimed at convincing the aristocrats of Britain they had not been in contact all along. Blunt was the ‘surveyor of the Queens Pictures’ and a world expert in the paintings of Poussin, the initiate who painted pictures called ‘The Shepherds of Arcadia’ which related to the Rennes-le-Chateau mysteries. Blunt was named as a member of a KGB unit inside British Intelligence along with Burgess, MacLean, and Philby, the fifth man was never named, but was in fact, Lord Victor Rothschild.<br />
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Course, the Duck of Edinburgh also used Blunts services. It seems that Filthy Phil was caught up in the Perfumo Scandal of the early 1960′s via his connection with Stephen Ward, the society pimp, Artist and Satanist who was heavily implicated in the Scandal. Ward was good friends with Phil and had been a frequent visitor to the palace where he did some, ahemm ahemm, ‘Drawings’ of The Duck and ‘other members of the family.<br />
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Ward later died under very mysterious circumstances, while supposedly on trial, but who was in fact in hospital after trying to top himself. Whatever was contained in the drawings of Ward’s obviously worried Phil greatly as he sent Blunt to retrieve them at any cost.<br />
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Course, by then even Bizzy Lizzy was fed up with her oversexed, deviant of a husband and as such had sworn never to sleep with him again. This claim was repeated in a book written by Nicholas Davies and revealed “a shocking world of royal adultery, passion and betrayal”<br />
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The book stated – as fact, not surmise – that the Duke of Edinburgh’s liaisons with his cousin, Princess Alexandra and the film star Merle Oberon, not to mention his former Daughter in Laws mother, Susan Barrantes (among others!)- as the reason “why the Queen banned her husband from her bed”.<br />
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More damming still, the Telegraph reported in an article on the 5th of September 2004, about how Philip had sat “impassively, incensed but silent” when a Journalist from a “Sunday broadsheet” had suggested to the Duke that he might have a raft of illegitimate children and had enjoyed a homosexual liaison with Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the former President of France. Do I need to go on? Yes? Ok.<br />
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If you want to know who had Diana murdered, the trail would appear to lead firmly to Phil the Sauerkraut’s door. Course, for the benefit of the Royal Lawyer’s, I should tell you that I base that claim on the omitted evidence from the Paget report and subsequent inquest, Claims by Mohammed Al Fayed and the book by Jon King.<br />
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Now, what kind of man deprives his grandchildren of their mother? The answer can only be the same kind of man who grossly insults our war dead by sickeningly pretending to shed a tear while cynically saluting them… God that family nauseate me.<br />
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One of my dearest wishes is that he is still alive when his family are finally exposed for the greedy, robbing, murdering, parasitic monsters that they are. Perhaps, before we hang them for mass genocide and countless other crimes against humanity, he along with his equally obnoxious wife – a woman rich enough to end world poverty and still have an un-spendable fortune left – will tell the world what they did with the 10 Canadian orphans they took away with them, never ever to be seen again.<br />
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Course, the 3 children lucky enough not to be chosen as one of the ten would testify that they were made to kiss the queens foot first before her and the Duck fucked off with the 10 unlucky ones. Or at least they would if they too had lived long enough to testify.<br />
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To far fetched for you? It would be for me too, if I hadn’t spent countless hours researching the nonces and the afore mentioned incident wasn’t so well documented. Here is just one example of that, which was reproduced on the Help Free The Earth website:<br />
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Star Eyewitness Dies Suddenly. Written by Rev. Kevin Annett<br />
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William Combes was the sole survivor of a group of three aboriginal boys who claim to have witnessed the abduction of ten children during a royal visit to the Kamloops residential school in mid October, 1964, when both the Queen and Prince Philip were in British Columbia, Canada.<br />
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“They took away those ten kids and nobody ever saw them again.” – William Combes, Eyewitness.<br />
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William Combes, age 59 and in good health, was scheduled to be a primary witness at the opening session of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) on September 12, 2011 in London, England.<br />
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Combes, an aboriginal man, claimed to witness the abduction of ten fellow residential school children by the Queen of England and her husband in October, 1964 at the Catholic school in Kamloops, British Columbia.<br />
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According to his partner Mae, William was in stable health when he was assigned a new doctor at St. Paul’s Hospital where he was committed for “tests”. His health began to immediately deteriorate. He died suddenly of a still-undisclosed cause.<br />
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The Vancouver Coroner’s Office refused to comment on William’s recent death.<br />
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William was the sole survivor of a group of three aboriginal witnesses to the royal abductions. In his public statements made during a Vancouver Co-op radio program and also in the following signed and witnessed declaration made on February 3, 2010 Combes said:<br />
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“I am an Interior Salish spirit dancer and am 58 years old. I live in Vancouver, Canada. I am a survivor of the Kamloops and Mission Indian residential schools, both run by the Roman Catholic church. I suffered terrible tortures there especially at the hands of Brother Murphy, who killed at least two children. I witnessed him throw a child off a three story balcony to her death. He put me on a rack and broke some of my bones, in the Kamloop school basement, after I tried running away. I also saw him and another priest burying a child in the school orchard one night.<br />
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In October, 1964 when I was 12 years old, I was an inmate at the Kamloops school and we were visited by the Queen of England and Prince Phillip. I remember it was strange because they came by themselves, no big fanfare or nothing. But I recognized them and the school principal told us it was the Queen and we all got given new clothes and good food for the first time in months the day before she arrived.<br />
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The day the Queen got to the school, I was part of a group of kids that went on a picnic with her and her husband and some of the priests, down to a meadow near Dead Man’s Creek. I remember it was weird because we all had to bend down and kiss her foot, a white laced boot. After a while, I saw the Queen leave the picnic with ten children from the school, and those kids never returned. We never heard anything more about them and never met them again even when we were older. They were all from around there but they all vanished.<br />
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The group that disappeared was seven boys and three girls, in age from six to fourteen years old. They were all from the smart group in class. Two of the boys were brothers and they were Metis from Quesnel. Their last name was Arnuse or Arnold. I don’t remember the others, just an occasional first name like Cecilia and there was an Edward. What happened was also witnessed by my friend George Adolph, who was 11 years old at the time and a student there too. But he’s dead now.”<br />
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Rev. Kevin Annett (note Reverend, and not just any old Joe Bloggs – Spivey) believes that William Combes died of foul play and that his murder was arranged to prevent him from his speaking out about the child abductions and other crimes of murder and torture that he witnessed at the Catholic Indian residential schools.<br />
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Arnett is writing a soon to be issued eulogy for William Arnold Combes. William’s videotaped statements, including his witness report of the 1964 abductions, have been registered in the archives of the ITCCS, and will be made public at the opening session on September 12, 2011.<br />
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Five other aboriginal members and activists have also died since December, and a sixth is missing and presumed dead. All were public critics of the Roman Catholic church’s killing of residential school children, and had participated in protests against this church and the Anglican Church and the United Church of Canada.<br />
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Their names are: Johnny Dawson, died December 8, 2009 after a severe beating by three Vancouver policemen. Mike Wickson, died February, 2010, cause unknown. Elder Phillipa Ryan, died April 26, 2010 from “cancer” in less than a month. Norma Jean Baptiste, died early May, 2010, apparent heart attack. Chief Louis Daniels, died May 16, 2010 in a Winnipeg hospital, cause unknown.<br />
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The Squamish nation believes that these activists and eyewitnesses were murdered, now that the Catholic church is facing criminal charges for the Pope’s personal complicity in the rape and torture of children. Canada and its churches may be censured and investigated by European politicians and human rights groups.<br />
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For more information on the ITCCS go to: <a href="http://itccs.org/">http://itccs.org/</a><br />
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Now, while that is shocking, it is very much in keeping with the Royal Family’s less publicised life. The Duck hates people… Absolutely despises them… The very same people who he and his family leech off. Piss taking bastard. Here is what Alex Jones and Steve Watson had to say about the idiot:<br />
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In the foreword to his 1986 book If I Were an Animal, <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/100604_prince_philip.html">Prince Philip wrote</a>, “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”<br />
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Borrowing the idea from American scientists who pioneered the field in the 1930′s, the Nazis advanced the pseudo-science of eugenics and incorporated it into Adolf Hitler’s dream of the Aryan super-race. Bearing in mind Philip’s Nazi connections, his views on the subject of overpopulation are unsurprising, but shocking nonetheless.<br />
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Just last year he reiterated these views, announcing that there are too many people in the world, and <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/051208_prince_philip.htm">attacking large families</a> in a television interview, despite the fact that Prince Philip himself has four children and eight grandchildren. (Debatable, especially if you have read Monsters Inc – Spivey)<br />
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His son, Charles, the next King of England, has continued such ideology as he tours the world in private jets lecturing about the impact of climate change and how too many people are killing the planet.<br />
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Charles, who has inherited the entire Duchy of Cornwall estate, which stretches over 135,000 acres across 23 counties mainly in the south-west of England, is also a “patron” of the genocidal Optimum Population Trust, a notorious UK-based public policy group that campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population to what it sees as a “sustainable” level.<br />
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Charles’ fellow patrons at the OPT include Futurist and top Eco-Fascist James Lovelock, who recently <a href="http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2010/300310Lovelock.htm">called for the ending of freedom </a>in order that an overriding global power made up of “a few people with authority” can oversee the radical stemming of the planet’s human population in order to combat climate change.<br />
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Charles and the OPT are closely affiliated with <a href="http://infowars.net/articles/july2010/120710Depopulation.htm">The Royal Society</a>, a 350 year old elitist institution granted royal charter status by King Charles II. The Royal Society is also crawling with eugenics enthusiasts and depopulation fanatics.<br />
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Prince Philip Care about the war dead? … Don’t make me laugh. The old bastard wants us all dead.<br />
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Before the Duck appeared in yesterdays Daily Mail, acting like he gives a fuck, I had in fact wondered how long it would be before the Palace began to distance themselves from Jimmy So-vile. Apparently, that day was the 1st of November when most of the MSM newspapers carried a story which would have us believe that there was some concerns about So-vile’s behaviour when he visited his mate Prince Big Ears at St James’ Palace.<br />
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Strangely enough however, these concerns were never officially addressed, which I suppose would be the excuse as to why the Heir to the Throne continued to socialise with the Paedophile. The same fairy tale would also have us believe that So-vile acted as a kind of marriage counsellor for the Prince and Diana… What a load of old bollocks.<br />
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Little wonder then, that people are turning to the ‘alternative’ media for information.<br />
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Now, the question you have to ask yourself is: Why would a man like The Duck, want to be friends with Jimmy Savile, because they were in fact very good friends. That is till they fell out spectacularly. That further begs the question: Why on earth would Savile and Phil have the need to fall out to the extent that they no longer spoke? For that to happen it must have been one hell of a close friendship.<br />
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I am in fact amazed that Savile had the time to be friends with anyone since he seemed to spend all his spare abusing Children… Still, perhaps the Police will ask Phil about it? … Nahhhh course they won’t.<br />
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Furthermore, police chiefs have known about So-vile since at least the early 1970’s if not before, so for the parasites to now try and distance themselves from the sicko DJ with the old “we didn’t know” routine, just doesn’t hold water.<br />
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The Duck’s eldest son Big Ears on the other hand, managed to remain great friends with Savile right up until his death. Hell, the future King of England even took the time out to go for a meal at Saviles Poky, out of the way highland cottage. The very same cottage that the Police raided the other week after suspecting Savile of raping some of his young victims there… Two fact’s that the MSM even linked in a headline… Is there another one of those MSM hints there?<br />
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I would imagine that the Christmas Card that Big Ears sent the Vile, bleach Blonde Necrophile, which said;“Jimmy, with affectionate greetings from Charles. Give my love to your ladies in Scotland.” was a reference to the Scottish Cottage. Then again, for the benefit of the Royal Legal Eagles, that is just my opinion.<br />
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Never the less, anyone, and I mean anyone, who is in contact with the Royal family is closely vetted. The security services would be woefully failing in their duty if they failed to do so. Predictably, the true cost of protecting the in-breeds is impossible to find out. However, realistic estimates put the yearly bill somewhere between £120 Million – £200 Million. Personally, I strongly suspect the cost as being a lot higher.<br />
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Now, if you read the ‘Alternative Media’ regularly, you will know that So-vile was known to be a supplier of children to the rich and famous. Most noteable of those was the Paedophile, child killer and Satanist, Edward Heath, the former Prime Minister of England.<br />
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It has also be reported in the MSM recently that So-vile was implicated in the Yorkshire Ripper murders. So much so in fact, that the Police even took a mould of his teeth in order to compare them with bite marks found on the murder victims bodies.<br />
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Couple that with the other things the Police knew about Savile and you quickly come to the conclusion that there is not a cat in hells chance that the Security Services – assigned to Royal protection – had not made the in-breeds aware of So-viles sexual preferences. Yet they still associated with him, as did just about every other high powered Establishment figure over the past 30 or 40 years or so.<br />
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Now, why is that? There can only be one reason unless you are one of those who is still living in cloud cuckoo land.<br />
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Course,The Monarchy, who have a long tradition of entertaining mass murderers and deviants of all persuasions, recently invited charity worker and convicted sex offender, Harbinder Singh aboard the Royal barge during the Diamond Jubilee pageant. Why?<br />
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Big Ears and Paedo Jim were in fact such good mates, that, looking at the many, many photos of the pair, I cannot recall Big Ears having any where near the the same level of intimacy as he and So-vile appeared to share… And that includes his wives… Why?<br />
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Some Royal watchers have suggested that Diana was murdered because she was going to tell the world about her ex husband and his family’s sexual preferences… Note Royal Lawyer’s, I’m not one of those.<br />
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Never the less, Princess Diana did refer to Savile as being her husbands mentor. A mentor, according to the Cambridge on-line dictionary is: A person who gives another person help and advice over a period of time and often also teaches them how to do their job.<br />
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That claim of Diana’s takes on an even more sinister twist when you consider who arranged for So-vile to mentor Big Ears:<br />
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Prince Philip’s uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten ‘fixed it’ for Savile to mentor Prince Charles and they became lifelong friends. Savile invited the Prince of Wales to his cottage in Glencoe, which he hoped to turn into a home for disabled and disadvantaged children, called Jimmy’s Place! Uncle Dickie, with his predilection for ‘peasant’ boys, was linked to the Kincora Boy’s Home vice-ring, which allegedly sent Belfast orphans to Birr Castle in the Irish Republic, the home of Lord Snowdon’s stepbrother, for ritual abuse at the Hellfire Club. Snowdon was Princess Margaret’s ex-husband (You couldn’t make this shit up, don’t cha know – Spivey).<br />
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Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, a yachting enthusiast, was also a visitor at Kincora Boy’s Home and it’s claimed that Savile supplied him with victims from Haute de la Garenne in Jersey to misuse aboard his boat. Another of Savile’s close friends, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, often played host to him at Chequers and her successors, Major, Blair and Brown were all “fans” deaf to the ‘open secret’ which everyone knew. Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, friend of the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, sent Christmas cards to Savile right up until he died and Charles led the tributes after his death in 2011 saying, how “saddened” he was… the Prince has not issued a statement about his sadness over the allegations…[…] <br />
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Now surely Savile wasn’t teaching Big Ears how to be king? So what was he teaching him and once again, why were they such close friends. I cant imagine Big Ears getting on down to ‘Rock and Roll part 1′ by Gary Glitter, can you?<br />
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Perhaps the police will ask the future king why he was such good friends with a man who was particularly fond of fucking dead bodies?… Nahhh, they wont ask him either, will they?<br />
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Course, the Duck’s 2nd son Andrew, who is in fact more likely to be the son of Randy Lord Porchester (see my article Monsters Inc <a href="http://www.ccs-rochford.co.uk/spivey/?p=3786">http://www.ccs-rochford.co.uk/spivey/?p=3786</a>) also has paedophile tendencies. That is at least according to the excellent website Help Free the Earth:<br />
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Andrew, who 4th in line to the British throne, has been exposed in the news as a paedophile. His buddy, Jeffrey Epstein, is a convicted paedophile who served up underage girls to Prince Andrew like lolly pops.<br />
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Photos published in the British media show Andrew strolling in a park with Epstein — the New York billionaire jailed for soliciting child prostitutes in Florida. A photograph has also emerged showing Andrew with his arm around the waist of the child prostitute who is at the centre of that case. It has emerged that Andrew allegedly enjoyed massages at the Florida mansion where the Epstein child sexual abuse went on.<br />
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Epstein also gave Andrew $30,000 to help pay off his ex-wife Fergie’s massive debts that she was blackmailing him for. Andrew was finally forced to step down as Britain’s trade ambassador because of #1 – his criminal behaviour with underage girls. Two – a six million dollar tax evasion charge. Three – conflicts of interest from friendships with a convicted paedophile and with Libyan leader Gadafi’s son whose country was being bombed by the British military.<br />
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Do I need to carry on? No? I didn’t think so. But believe me I could… In fact I could go on and on and on. But all the other information I have will keep… For now.<br />
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However, as a foot note to this article, I will leave you with the following story that just about sum’s the Queens attitude up.<br />
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A few weeks ago, I was left a comment on an article about Jimmy Savile by a man calling himself Frank Jackson. I have since been in contact with Frank and now know his real identity.<br />
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In his comment, Frank had urged me to look into the background of two St John Ambulance men from New Zealand who are both in line to be decorated sometime this month, in honour of their service. New Zealand is of course owned by the current UK Monarch and as such, the honours that these two men are having bestowed on them by the Governor General have been sanctioned by the Queen.<br />
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The two men in question are Karl Berghan and Sam Brens. However, far from receiving top awards, sanctioned by our Queen, the pair of pond life should both be strung up by their bollocks. You see, Berghan and Brens are both prolific paedophiles who groomed Franks 14 year old daughter and persuaded her into having a regular threesome with them. Franks daughter was just one of 5 similar girls these two men, along with another man, laid their grubby little hands on.<br />
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However, that is only the beginning of what, had I not seen the proof, would have been a totally unbelievable story. That the Queen is unaware of these two monsters crimes just isn’t possible, as you will see once you read the full story.<br />
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Never the less, the award ceremony is still going ahead. Sadly, I cannot say that I am surprised since I am aware of the many, many people who have received awards sanctioned by the Queen and who have subsequently been convicted of crimes relating to child sex abuse.<br />
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You can read Franks horrific story and the devastating toll it has taken on his family – courtesy of the NZ government, Police, judiciary, and Social Services, all of whom are every bit as corrupt as ours – at the following link: <a href="http://bit.ly/ourNZexperience">http://bit.ly/ourNZexperience</a><br />
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So, that just leaves you to now enjoy the Daily Mails twisted take on a man they would have you believe, has selflessly devoted his life to Royal duty. If after reading the above, the article below doesn’t get your gag reflex going… You are either brain dead, or part of the problem.<br />
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Until the next time.<br />
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<b><br /><br />Provisional Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and the Deputy First Minister of Occupied Ireland Martin McGuinness will meet Britain’s Prince Charles in Galway on Tuesday.<br /><br />The private meeting is scheduled to take place in the afternoon.<br /><br />The decision to participate in the visit was made at a meeting of the party’s ard comhairle in Kilkenny on Saturday.<br /><br />Gerry Adams said: “Thankfully the conflict is over. But there remain unresolved injustices. These must be rectified and a healing process developed.<br /><br />“There is a responsibility on us all to promote reconciliation and seek to promote healing.”Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall Camilla Parker Bowles begin their four-day trip to Ireland on Tuesday with a visit to NUI Galway’s (NUIG) university campus.</b>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">May 18, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - "</span><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_pathology_of_the_rich_white_family_20150517" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Truthdig</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">" - The pathology of the rich white family is the most dangerous pathology in America. The rich white family is cursed with too much money and privilege. It is devoid of empathy, the result of lifetimes of entitlement. It has little sense of loyalty and lacks the capacity for self-sacrifice. Its definition of friendship is reduced to “What can you do for me?” It is possessed by an insatiable lust to increase its fortunes and power. It believes that wealth and privilege confer to it a superior intelligence and virtue. It is infused with an unchecked hedonism and narcissism. And because of all this, it interprets reality through a lens of self-adulation and greed that renders it delusional. The rich white family is a menace. The pathologies of the poor, when set against the pathologies of rich white people, are like a candle set beside the sun.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are no shortages of acolytes and propagandists for rich white families. They dominate our airwaves. They blame poverty, societal breakdown, urban violence, drug use, domestic abuse and crime on the pathology of poor black families—not that they know any. They argue that poor black families disintegrate because of some inherent defect—here you can read between the lines that white people are better than black people—a defect that these poor families need to fix.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peddle this simplistic and racist garbage and you will be given a column at The New York Times. It always pays to suck up to rich white families. If you are black and parrot this line, rich white people are overcome with joy. They go to extreme lengths to give you a platform. You can become president or a Supreme Court justice. You can get a television talk show or tenure at a university. You can get money for your foundation. You can publish self-help books. Your films will be funded. You might even be hired to run a company.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rich white families, their sycophants opine, have tried to help. Rich white families have given poor people numerous resources and government programs to lift them out of poverty. They have provided generous charity. But blacks, they say, along with other poor people of color, are defeated by self-destructive attitudes and behavior. Government programs are therefore wasted on these irresponsible people. Poor families, the sycophants tell us, will not be redeemed until they redeem themselves. We want to help, rich white people say, but poor black people need to pull up their pants, stay in school, get an education, find a job, say no to drugs and respect authority. If they don’t, they deserve what they get. And what the average black family ends up with in economic terms is a nickel for every dollar held by the average white family.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Starting at age 10 as a scholarship student at an elite New England boarding school, I was forced to make a study of the pathology of rich white families. It was not an experience I would recommend. Years later, by choice, I moved to Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood when I was a seminary student. I lived across the street from one of the poorest housing projects in the city, and I ran a small church in the inner city for nearly three years. I already had a deep distaste for rich white families, and that increased greatly after I saw what they did to the disenfranchised. Rich white people, I concluded after my childhood and Roxbury experiences, are sociopaths.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The misery and collapse of community and family in Roxbury were not caused by an inherent pathology within the black family. Rich people who treated the poor like human refuse caused the problems. Layers of institutionalized racism—the courts, the schools, the police, the probation officers, the banks, the easy access to drugs, the endemic unemployment and underemployment, the collapsing infrastructures and the prison system—effectively conspired to make sure the poor remained poor. Drug use, crime and disintegrating families are the result of poverty, not race. Poor whites replicate this behavior. Take away opportunity, infuse lives with despair and hopelessness, and this is what you get. But that is something rich white families do not want people to know. If it were known, the rich would have to take the blame.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://psychology.berkeley.edu/news/how-rich-are-different-poor"><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Kraus, Paul Piff and Dacher Keltner</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, social scientists at the University of California, did research that led them to conclude that the poor have more empathy than the rich. The poor, they argued, do not have the ability to dominate their environments. They must build relationships with others to survive. This requires that they be able to read the emotions of those around them and respond. It demands that they look after each other. And this makes them more empathetic. The rich, who can control their environments, do not need to bother with the concerns or emotions of others. They are in charge. What they want gets done. And the longer they live at the center of their own universe, the more callous, insensitive and cruel they become.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rich white family has an unrivaled aptitude for crime. Members of rich white families run corporations into the ground (think Lehman Brothers), defraud stockholders and investors, sell toxic mortgages as gold-plated investments to pension funds, communities and schools, and then loot the U.S. Treasury when the whole thing implodes. They steal hundreds of millions of dollars on Wall Street through fraud and theft, pay little or no taxes, almost never go to jail, write laws and regulations that legalize their crimes and then are asked to become trustees at elite universities and sit on corporate boards. They set up foundations and are admired as philanthropists. And if they get into legal trouble, they have high-priced lawyers and connections among the political elites to get them out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">You have to hand it to rich white families. They steal with greater finesse than anyone else. If you are a poor black teenager and sprint out of a CVS with a few looted bottles of shampoo, you are likely to be shot in the back or sent to jail for years. If there were an Olympiad for crime, rich white families would sweep up all the medals; blacks would be lucky to come within a mile of the first elimination trial. I don’t know why black people even try to compete in this area. They are, by comparison, utter failures as criminals. The monarchs of crime are rich white people, who wallow in their pilfered wealth while locking away in prisons a huge percentage of poor men of color.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rich white families are also the most efficient killers on the planet. This has been true for five centuries, starting with the conquest of the Americas and the genocide against Native Americans, and continuing through today’s wars in the Middle East. Rich white families themselves don’t actually kill. They are not about to risk their necks on city streets or in Iraq. They hire people, often poor, to kill for them. Rich white families wanted the petroleum of Iraq and, by waving the flag and spewing patriotic slogans, got a lot of poor kids to join the military and take the oil fields for them. Rich white people wanted endless war for the benefit of their arms industry and got it by calling for a war on terror. Rich white people wanted police to use lethal force against the poor with impunity and to arrest them, swelling U.S. prisons with 25 percent of the world’s prison population, so they set up a system of drug laws and militarized police departments to make it happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The beauty of making others kill on your behalf is you get to appear “reasonable” and “nice.” You get to chastise poor people and Muslims for being angry fanatics. You get to spread the message of tolerance with a cherubic smile—which means tolerating the crimes and violence of rich white people. Compare a drive-by shooting in Watts with the saturation bombing of Vietnam. Compare a gangland killing in Chicago with militarized police shooting a person of color almost every day. No one else knows how to churn out corpses like rich white people. One million dead in Iraq alone. And the rich and powerful kill staggering numbers of people and never go to prison. They can retire to a ranch in Crawford, Texas, and paint amateurish portraits of world leaders copied from Google Image Search.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is no decadence like the decadence of rich white people. I knew a billionaire who in retirement spent his time on a yacht smoking weed and being catered to by a string of high-priced prostitutes. The children of rich white families—surrounded by servants and coddled in private schools, never having to fly on commercial airlines or take public transportation—develop a lassitude, sometimes accompanied by a drug habit, that often leads them to idle away their lives as social parasites. Mothers never have to be mothers. Fathers never have to be fathers. The help does the parenting. The rich live encased in little kingdoms, one guarded by their own private security, where the real world does not intrude. They are cultural philistines preoccupied with acquiring more wealth and more possessions. “Material success,” as <a href="http://www.cwrightmills.org/" target="_blank">C. Wright Mills</a>wrote, “is their sole basis of authority.” They meld into the world of celebrity. And the organs of mass media, which they control, turn them into idols to be worshiped solely because they are rich. Public-relations specialists manufacture their public personas. Teams of lawyers harass and silence their critics. Acolytes affirm their sagacity. They soon believe their own fiction. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family:_The_Case_For_National_Action" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Daniel Patrick Moynihan</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> in 1965 wrote what is known as the Moynihan Report, or “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” The report concluded that “at the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.” The oppressed were to blame for their oppression. Social programs alone could not save the poor. The report offers a classic example of a neoliberal economic model repacked as an ideology.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pathologies of the rich will soon drive us over an economic and ecological cliff. And as we go down, the rich, lacking empathy and understanding, determined to maintain their privilege and their wealth, will use their Praetorian Guard, their mass media, their corporate power, their political puppets and their security and surveillance apparatus to keep us submissive. “The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been discovered, because it was properly executed,” Honoré de Balzac wrote of the rich in his novel “Le Père Goriot.” </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rich executed a coup d’état that transformed the three branches of the U.S. government and nearly all institutions, including the mass media, into wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate state. This coup gives the rich the license and the power to amass unimaginable wealth at our expense. It permits the rich to inflict grinding poverty on growing circles of the population. Poverty is the worst of crimes—as George Bernard Shaw wrote, “all the other crimes are virtues beside it.” And the ability of a rapacious power elite to let children go hungry, to let men and women suffer a loss of dignity and self-worth because there are no jobs, to abandon cities to decay and squalor, to toss the mentally ill and the homeless onto the streets, to slash the meager services that give some hope and succor to those who suffer, to lock hundreds of thousands of poor people in cages for years, to wage endless war, to burden students with crushing debt, to unleash state terror and to extinguish hope among the least fortunate exposes our wealthy oligarchs as the most dangerous and destructive force in America.</span></span><br />
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<b><figure id="s31216251" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><br /></b></figure>Nicola Sturgeon criticised the Conservatives' plan to replace the Human Rights Act</b><br /><br /><b>BY JON STONE – 15 MAY 2015</b></figure></div>
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<b><br />A petition calling for the North to secede from England and become part of Scotland has got over 28,000 signatures. How practical would this be? <br /><br /><br />Where would become part of Scotland? <br /><br /><br />The authors of the original petition have drawn a line south of Sheffield, Liverpool, and Hull. <br /><br /><br />The new border would run between the River Dee and the mouth of The Humber, with the three UK regions of the North West, the North East, and Yorkshire and the Humber included. <br /><br /><br />Stoke, Nottingham, and Derby would narrowly miss out on being part of New Scotland. <br /> Why do people want it to happen? <br /><br /><br />The petitioners feel that the Government of the UK is “becoming increasingly irrelevant to the north of England”. <br /><br /><br />The only cabinet minister with a seat in the North of England is George Osborne himself, who represents Tatton and Cheshire. <br /><br /><br />“The needs and challenges of the north cannot be understood by the endless parade of old Etonions lining the frontbenches of the House of Commons. The north of England should join the newly independent Scotland and regain control over its own destiny,” they say. <br /><br /><br />“We, the people of the north, demand that in the event that Scotland becomes independent the border between England and the New Scotland be. <br /><br /><br />The petition comes after an election in which Scotland was swept by an SNP positioning itself to the left of the Labour party, a stance apparently appealing to many northern cities. A poll before the election found that millions of people in England and Wales would vote SNP if given the opption. <br /> How could the North join Scotland? <br /><br /><br />Northern secession to Scotland would face number of significant hurdles. At the very least, there is a precedent that a referendum would have to be held and won. <br /><br /><br />After a referendum, the results would have to be accepted by both the UK government and the Scottish government. <br /><br /><br />But even getting to the point at which a referendum was held would be difficult. The north as a whole has no regional assembly or parliament like Scotland in which such a debate could be conducted and separatist politicians elected to. <br /><br /><br />Realistically, individual local councils would either have to hold referenda, or a vote would have to be organised independently of the state using civil society organisations. <br /><br /><br />It would be nigh-on impossible to get all the 70+ northern local authorities to agree to the former, while the latter would probably be ignored by central government. <br /><br /><br />If a referendum was secured it would be a huge turnaround from the one held under the last Labour government where the North East rejected even having a regional assembly. <br /><br /><br />Border towns could in theory hold local referendums and secede in a piecemeal manner. Other possibilities like unilateral annexation of the North by the Scottish Parliament or armed insurrection are even more remote possibilities. <br /> Has this ever happened anywhere before? <br /><br /><br />The good news for secessionists is that transfers of territory between states have historically been fairly common. The bad news is that annexations have unfortunately have historically usually involved violence. <br /><br /><br />The most recent examples tend to involve Russia. South Ossetia, a disputed territory in the caucasus, is being absorbed into Russia after a brief war in 2008. A 1992 referendum held in the region was not recognised as valid by most countries. <br /><br /><br />The Crimea has also been annexed from Ukraine by Russia, though again under circumstances of conflict. A referendum was held in the territory in 2014, though again, it was not widely recognised. <br /><br /><br />It could be argued that conversely, many former constituent republics of the USSR were transferred to the European Union after gaining national independence. <br /><br /><br />Further reading <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/sturgeon-pumped-up-for-showdown-with-cameron-as-snp-demand-priority-devolution-of-powers-over-welfare-business-taxes-employment-and-minimum-wage-and-welfare-31224807.html">Sturgeon pumped up for showdown with Cameron as SNP demand 'priority devolution' of powers over welfare, business taxes, employment and minimum wage and welfare</a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/pm-to-consider-further-devolution-31224327.html">PM open to devolution powers debate</a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/draft-scotland-bill-falls-short-31221865.html">Draft Scotland Bill 'falls short'</a></b>
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<b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span>Historical Whitewash: Great Britain </span></b><b><br /><br />Must be Held Accountable for its Role in the Nakba<br /><br />By Nu'man Abd al-Wahid<br /><br />May 16, 2015 "<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/">Information Clearing House"</a> - "<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/05/historical-whitewash-accountable#sthash.WwbKn29i.dL9Zy42L.dpuf">Mondoweiss</a>" - Nothing more exemplifies the historical whitewash of British rule in Palestine between 1917 and 1948 than the response (or lack of) to David Cameron’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/david-camerons-speech-to-the-knesset-in-israel">speech in the Israeli Kneeset</a> in March 2014. Therein he briefly propounded the much overlooked fact that Britain was the main western supporter of the Zionist colonial experiment in Palestine from the very beginning.<br /><br />“From the early pioneers,” boasted Cameron, “the men and women of the Palestine Exploration Fund, who saw the Jewish history in this land and the possibilities for the future to the Balfour Declaration – the moment when the State of Israel went from a dream to a plan Britain has played a proud and vital role in helping to secure Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people.”<br /><br />Cameron clearly defined the Balfour declaration as the moment Israel went from “a dream to a plan.” This plan was then ‘secured’ which strongly seems to be euphuism for implemented. More so, he then, somewhat self-incriminatory, said that British imperialism “played a proud and vital role in helping to secure Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people.”<br /><br />Not one commentator in the UK, critical or otherwise, latched on to this crucial point. Presumably, it’s far less taxing on one’s moral conscience to emulate American, Arab and even Israeli commentators on the current Palestinian situation than face up to your own government’s historical criminal culpability – a culpability which Cameron drew attention to at the Knesset of all places?<br /><br />Obviously, Cameron naturally never outlined how Britain ‘secured’ the homeland for the Jewish people.<br /><br />However, it was in these years, i.e. 1917-1948, that the “only democracy in the Middle East” as Zionist propagandists lovingly refer to their colonial project was secured by Britain by first, <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2011/06/britain%E2%80%99s-denial-of-democracy-and-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestine.html">denying Palestinians representative democracy</a> which would have inevitably limited colonial immigration to their country. Secondly, when the first Palestinian uprising finally exploded in 1936 it was the British that led the repression against the Palestinian resistance and in doing so, also educated the nascent Zionist-settler forces on how to military crush and oppress the indigenous population.[1]<br /><br />By the time the state of Israel was declared on 14th May 1948, 400,000 Palestinians and 250 villages and towns had already been ethnically cleansed by the Zionist forces under Britain’s secured watch.[2] Further ethnic cleansing took place after the Zionists declared their state. Ghassan Kanafani, the Palestinian revolutionary, was to argue that the Zionists in the late 1940’s were plucking “the fruits of the defeat of the 1936 revolt which the outbreak of the war had prevented it from doing sooner.”[3]<br /><br />Progressive British activists, writers and politicians rarely acknowledge, if ever, the central role played by their Empire in laying the foundations and facilitating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Cameron’s and Great Britain’s national hero, Winston Churchill on the other hand, specifically justified the “proud and vital role” of the Empire at the Peel Commission on Palestine in 1937 on this basis:<br /><br /><br />“I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, ‘The American Continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here’. They had not the right, nor had they the power.”[4]<br /><br />As Churchill strongly implies the Zionist project with its attendant occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, i.e. the Nakba, had nothing to do with Jewish history as discovered by the so-called ‘Palestine Exploration Fund’ and everything to do with racist colonialism backed by the power of the foreign policy of an Empire that has escaped accountability for its role in this ongoing tragedy.<br /><br />Nu'man Abd al-Wahid is a UK based freelance Yemeni-English writer specialising in the political relationship between the British state and the Arab World. My focus is on how the United Kingdom has historically maintained its interests in the the Middle East. A collection of articles are posted at <a href="http://www.yamyam-yemeni.net/">www.yamyam-yemeni.net</a> .<br /><br />Notes<br /><br />[1] Laleh Khalili, “The Location of Palestine in Global Counterinsurgencies”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 42, Issue 3, pg. 413-433 and Matthew Hughes, The Banality of Brutality: British Armed Forces and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, English Historical Review, 124 (2009).<br /><br />[2] Rosemarie M. Esber, “Under the Cover of War”, Aribicus Books and Media, Alexandria (V.A), 2009. This book deals with the ethnic cleansing in final six months<br /><br />[3] Ghassan Kanafani, ‘The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine’, Tricontinental Society, London, 1980, pg. 30.<br /><br />[4]Quoted in Angela Clifford, ‘Serfdom Or Ethnic Cleansing? – Churchill’s Evidence to the Peel Commission (1937)’, Athol Books, Belfast and London, 2003, pg.34<br /><br />© 2015 Mondoweis</b></div>
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<b><br /><br />By Andre Vltchek<br /><br />May 15, 2015 "<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/">Information Clearing House"</a> - First they manufacture monstrous lies, and then they tell us that we should be objective!<br /><br />Is love objective; is passion?<br /><br />Are dreams defendable, logically and philosophically?<br /><br />When a house is attacked by brigands, when a village is overran by gangsters, when smoke, fire and cries for help are coming from every corner, should we award ourselves with the luxury of time to calculate, analyze and aim at complete logical, ethical, holistic and objective solutions?<br /><br />I strongly believe no! We are obliged to fight those who are burning our dwellings, to hit with full force those who are attempting to rape our women, and to confront fire with fire when innocent beings are slaughtered.<br /><br />When the most powerful and the most destructive force on earth employs all its persuasive might, utilizing everything from the mainstream media to educational facilities, in order to justify its crimes, when it spreads its poisonous propaganda and lies in order to oppress the world and suppress hope, do we step back and begin endless and detailed work on precise and objective narratives? Or do we confront lies and propaganda with our own narrative, supported by our intuition, passion and dreams for a better world?<br /><br />***<br /><br />The Empire lies continuously. It lies in the morning, during the day, in the evening, even at night, when most of the people are sound asleep. It has been doing it for decades and centuries. For grand deceits it relies on countless numbers of propagandists who pose as academics, teaches, journalists and “public intellectuals”. Perfection in the art of disinformation has been reached. Western advertising (so much admired and used by the German Nazis) has some common roots with propaganda, although propaganda is much older and “complete”.<br /><br />It appears that even some leaders of the Empire now believe in most of their fabrications, and most of the citizens certainly do. Otherwise, how could they sleep at night?<br /><br />The western propaganda apparatus is enormously efficient and effective. It is also brilliant in how it ensures that its inventions get channeled, distributed, and accepted in all corners of the world. The system through which disinformation spreads, is incredibly complex. Servile local media and academia on all continents work hard to guarantee that only one narrative is allowed to penetrate the brains of billions.<br /><br />The results are: intellectual cowardice and ignorance, all over the world, but especially in the West and in its client states.<br /><br />***<br /><br />What are we, who oppose the regime, supposed to do?<br /><br />First of all, things are not as hopeless as they used to be.<br /><br />This is not the morbid unipolar world that we experienced in the early 90’s. Now Venezuela, Russia, China, and Iran support large media outlets that are opposed to the Empire. Powerful television stations emerged: RT, Press TV, TeleSUR and CCTV. Huge English language Internet-based magazines and sites in the United States, Canada and Russia are also exposing the lies of the official Western propagandists: Counterpunch, Information Clearing House, Global Research, Veterans News, Strategic Culture, New Eastern Outlook quickly come to mind. And there are hundreds of important sites doing the same in Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese and French languages.<br /><br />The fight is on: the fight for an intellectually multi-polar world. It is a tough, mortal fight! It is a crucial battle, simply because the metastases of the Western propaganda cancer have spread everywhere, contaminated all continents, and even some of the most courageous countries and brains that are earnestly fighting against the Western imperialism and fascism! No one is immune. To be frank, all of us are contaminated.<br /><br />Unless we win this battle, by first clearly identifying and proving “their narrative” as fraudulent, and later by offering humanist and compassionate perceptions, we cannot even dream about the revolution, or about any significant changes in arrangement of the world.<br /><br />***<br /><br />How do we achieve victory? How do we convince the masses, those billions of people? How do we open their eyes and make them see that the Western regime is dishonest, toxic, poisonous and destructive? Most of humanity is hooked on the Empire’s propaganda; that propaganda which is not only spread by mainstream media outlets, but also by pop music, soap operas, social media, advertisement, consumerism, ‘fashion trends’ and by many other covert means; cultural, religious and media junk that leads to total emotional and intellectual stupor and is administered like some highly addictive narcotic, regularly and persistently.<br /><br />Do we counter the tactics and strategy of the destructive and ruthless Empire with our honesty, with research, with telling and writing meticulously investigated facts?<br /><br />The Empire perverts facts. It repeats lies through its loudspeakers and tubes. It shouts them thousands and thousands of times, until they sink into the sub conscious of people, penetrate the skin, spread all through their brains.<br /><br />Good will, naive honesty, “speaking truth to power”, could this change the world and the power itself? I highly doubt it.<br /><br />The Empire and its power are illegitimate, and they are criminal. Is there any point of speaking truth to a gangster? Hardly! Truth should be spoken to people, to masses, not to those who are terrorizing the world.<br /><br />By talking to villains, by begging them to stop torturing others, we are legitimizing their crimes, and we are acknowledging their power. By trying to appease gangsters, people are putting themselves at their mercy.<br /><br />I absolutely refuse to be in such position!<br /><br />***<br /><br />To win over billions of people, we have to inspire them, to fire them up. We have to outrage them, embrace them, shame them, make them laugh and make them cry. We have to make sure that they get goose bumps when they see our films, read our books and essays, listen to our speeches.<br /><br />We have to detox them, make them feel again, wake up natural instincts in them.<br /><br />Simple truth as a detox agent will not work. The poison of our adversaries has sunk too deeply. Most of the people are too lethargic and too immune to simple, quietly stated truths!<br /><br />We have tried, and others have tried as well. My acquaintance (but definitely not my comrade) John Perkins, former US apparatchik educated by the State Department, wrote a detailed account of his horrid deeds in Ecuador, Indonesia and elsewhere – “Confession of An Economic Hitman”. It is a meticulous, detailed account of how the West destabilizes poor countries, using corruption, money, alcohol, and sex. The book sold millions of copies, worldwide. And yet, nothing changed! It did not trigger a popular revolution in the United States. There were no protests, no demands for regime change in Washington.<br /><br />In the recent past, I wrote and published two academic, or at least semi-academic books, packed with great details, quotes and tons of footnotes: one on Indonesia, a country used by the West as a model horror scenario for the rest of the world, after the 1965-US-sponsored military coup. The coup killed 2-3 million people, murdered all intellectualism, and lobotomized the 4th most populous country on earth. The book is called “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Indonesia-Archipelago-Fear-Andre-Vltchek/dp/0745332005">Indonesia – Archipelago of Fear</a>”. The second book, unique because it covers an enormous part of the world – Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia (“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Oceania-Neocolonialism-Nukes-Andre-Vltchek/dp/0992245338/">Oceania – Neocolonialism, Nukes and Bones</a>”), showed how the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and France, literally divided and destroyed the great South Pacific island cultures and the people. Now classes are being taught using my books, but only a very limited number of people are influenced by the facts exposed in them. The elites in both Indonesia and Oceania made sure that the books are not widely read by the people.<br /><br />I have spent years and years compiling facts, researching, investigating. The revolutionary effectiveness of my academic work is – I have to admit – nearly zero.<br /><br />It is easy to see the contrast: when I write an essay, a powerfully crafted, emotional essay, demanding justice, accusing the Empire of murder and theft, I get millions of readers on all continents, as well as translations to dozens of languages!<br /><br />Why do I write this; why do I share this with my readers? Because we should all be realistic. We have to see, to understand, what people want – what they demand. The people are unhappy and scared. Most of them don’t know why. They hate the system, they are lonely, frustrated, they know that they are lied to and exploited. But they cannot define those lies. And academic books, exposing the lies are too complex for them to read since the masses have no time to read thousands of indigestible pages or the necessary education to allow them to understand what they are reading.<br /><br />It is our duty to address those people, the majority, otherwise what kind of revolutionaries are we? After all, we are supposed to create for our brothers and sisters, not for a few researchers at the universities, especially when we realize that most of the universities are serving the Empire by regurgitating official nomenclature and supporting demagogues.<br /><br />***<br /><br />The Empire speaks, writes and then repeats some outrageous lies, about its benevolence, and exceptionality of its rule, or about the “evils” of the Soviet Union, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea or Cuba. This is done daily. In fact it is designed so that almost every human being gets his or her dose of the toxin at least several times a day.<br /><br />We feel we have to react – we begin spending years of our lives, meticulously proving, step by step, that the Empire’s propaganda is either one big fat lie, or exaggeration, or both. After we compile our arguments, we publish the results in some small publishing house, most likely in the form of a slender book, but almost nobody reads it because of its tiny circulation, and because the findings are usually too complex, too hard to digest, and simply because the facts do not shock anybody, anymore. One million more innocent people were murdered somewhere in Africa, in the Middle East, in Asia; what else is new?<br /><br />Researching and trying to tell the truth, fully and honestly, we feel that we are doing great, professional, scientific work. All the while the propagandists of the Empire are dying of laughter watching us! We are representing little danger to them. They are winning effortlessly!<br /><br />Why is that? Doesn’t the detailed truth matter?<br /><br />It does – from the point of higher principles it matters. Ethically it matters. Morally it matters. Philosophically it matters.<br /><br />But strategically, when one is engaged in an ideological war, it does not matter that much! The truth yes, always; the truth matters! But simplified, digestible truth, presented powerfully and emotionally!<br /><br />When immorality is ravishing the world, when it is charging mercilessly, when innocent millions are dying, what matters is to stop the slaughter, first by identifying the murderous force, then by containing it.<br /><br />Language has to be strong, emotions raw.<br /><br />When facing murderous hordes, poetry, emotionally charged songs, and patriotic odes have always been more effective than deep academic studies. And so were political novels and films, passionate documentaries, even explicit cartoons and posters.<br /><br />Some would ask: “Just because they are lying, should we lie as well?” No! We should try to be as truthful as we can. But our message should be often “abridged”, so the billions, not just those selected few, could understand it.<br /><br />It does not mean that the quality of our work should suffer. Simplicity is often more difficult to achieve than encyclopedic works with thousands of footnotes.<br /><br />Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” is short, just a pamphlet, straight to the point. And so is the “Communist Manifesto”, and ‘J’accuse!”<br /><br />Our revolutionary work does not have to be necessarily brief, but it has to be presented in a way that could be understood by many. I am constantly experimenting with the form, while never compromising on substance. My recent book, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Lies-Empire-Andre-Vltchek/dp/6027005866">Exposing Lies of the Empire</a>” has more than 800 pages, but I made sure that it is packed with fascinating stories, with testimonies of people from all corners of the globe, with colorful description of both victims and tyrants. I don’t want my books to collect dust in university libraries. I want them to mobilize people.<br /><br />***<br /><br />I truly believe that there is not much time for “objectivity” in any battle, including those ideological ones, especially when these are battles for the survival of humanity!<br /><br />The lies of the enemy have to be confronted. They are toxic, monstrous lies!<br /><br />Once the destruction stops, millions of innocent men, women and children will cease being sacrificed, and we can return to our complex philosophical concepts, to details and to nuances.<br /><br />But before we win our final battles against imperialism, nihilism, fascism, exceptionalism, selfishness and greed, we have to fully and effectively utilize our most powerful weapons: our visions of a better world, our love for humanity, our passion for justice. Our determination and our beliefs have to be presented in a loud, potent, even “dogmatic” manner, our voice should be creative, artistic, powerful!<br /><br />The house is on fire, comrades! The entire town is turning to ashes. The entire planet is plundered, devastated, lobotomized.<br /><br />We cannot confront bigots with nukes and battleships. But our talents, our muses, and our hearts are here, with us, ready to join the battle.<br /><br />Let us outsmart our enemies; let us make sure that the world begins laughing at them! Have you seen them, those pathetic losers, the buffoons – the CEO’s? Have you listened to those Prime Ministers and Presidents, those servants of the “market”? Let us convince the masses that their tyrants –the imperialists, the neo-colonialists and all their dogmatic preachers – are nothing more than pitiful, greedy, poisonous fools! Let us discredit them! Let us ridicule them.<br /><br />They are robbing and murdering millions. Let us begin by at least pissing on them!<br /><br />Let us fight Western propaganda by first exposing those who are really behind it. Let’s get personal.<br /><br />Let’s turn this revolution into something creative, hilarious, truly fun!<br /><br />Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. His latest books are: “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Lies-Empire-Andre-Vltchek/dp/6027005866">Exposing Lies Of The Empire</a>” and “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Against-Western-Imperialism-Vltchek/dp/6027005823">Fighting Against Western Imperialism</a>”.Discussion with Noam Chomsky: <a href="http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745333878">On Western Terrorism</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0977459071/counterpunchmaga">Point of No Return</a> is his critically acclaimed political novel. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1409298035/counterpunchmaga">Oceania</a> – a book on Western imperialism in the South Pacific. His provocative book about Indonesia: “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745331998/counterpunchmaga">Indonesia – The Archipelago of Fear</a>”. Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and the Middle East. 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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;">From experience, I have learned, that no one has a monopoly on the truth, including myself, that is why I detest censorship, along with political internment, which has been used so much, by the Blueshirts, up to the present day revisionist provos, to enforce the Bad Friday Agreement, for the British. In ancient Athens, they might spend days, discussing among themselves, some moot point, in order to ascertain the truth of the matter. Today the time factor of contemporary life, is often used to censor ongoing debate. It is coming up to the anniversary of Ray McCreesh, another particular hunger striker, with whom I feel a particular affinity, because of local history. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the death of Bobby and Francis, there were elements of the stickies, who were strong in Newry, still going around the housing estates of the people of no property in Newry, pulling young lads, who supported the hunger strike, into vans such as the above, (photo connected with Dublin, sent to me by a friend). Don't get me wrong, there were many good people with positive contributions, from the Officials but they certainly had elements like todays provos, that remind me of recent events in Belfast. </span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: small;">They would go around the estates in their van, and pull young lads, who supported the Hunger Strikers, into the back of the van and give them a beating. They would justify it on spurious grounds, like some sort of anti-social behavior. They were simply spirited young lads, who were rebels, who simply needed to have a chat about a better ways to rebel and needed to be listened to, who often had a drop too much of the Buckfast, supplemented with valium. </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: small;">This is what the present day provies in collaboration with the RUC/psni seem to be doing today. This started to change after the death of Raymond McCreesh. I honestly believe, some form of dialogue, needs to be initiated with these youth and they need to be patiently listened to. They have much to offer but are being manipulated for political reasons by British Intellegence and their collaborators. Perhaps if they were invited to some voluntary meetings of the 12 fucked steps on the right of this post, organized by some genuine Irish people, as opposed to British collaborators, it might be a start. I qualify this by saying, that communities may be forced, to give a clear warning to heroin dealers before any action is taken, to leave and go somewhere else, to get treatment, that the present Stormont Junta, does not provide. It requires a lot of patience, listening to talking heads, to hear the essence of the Spirit of Freedom.</span></h2>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">by Gil Fronsdal<br /><br />Without a commitment to truth there is no Buddhist path. Dharma is a synonym for truth and Dharma practice is synonymous with living a life of truth. In Buddhist mythology, it is said that, in his many lifetimes of training, the Buddha-to-be never lied. While there are stories in which he transgressed other ethical precepts, his dedication to truthfulness was unwavering.<br /><br />One of the primary characteristics of psychologically or spiritually mature people is that they never lie to themselves. Being honest with oneself is a prerequisite to personal growth and a genuine liberation of the heart. This is so important that we can safely say, as an absolute truth in Buddhist practice, that deceiving oneself is never acceptable. Serious practitioners strive to be impeccably honest with themselves.<br /><br />Truth brings inner peace by overcoming the conflicts and turmoil we carry within our own minds. Truth can bring an inner security that frees us from neurotically defending, apologizing for, hating, or hiding ourselves from ourselves. Truth can also help overcome conflict between people, as we have seen with the profound work done by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<br /><br />Truth is not the same as facts. Facts alone carry no power whereas truth does. Mahatma Gandhi expressed this in coining the term “satyagraha” or “the power of truth.” (Inspired by Gandhi, Martin Luther King translated truth as “soul,” and satyagraha became “Soul Power” in the American civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s.)<br /><br />A variety of forces come together to give truth its power. One is the force of inner purity and calm that can only be found in truth and honesty. Another is the confidence that comes with knowing what is true. Yet another is the strength of the good intentions that stand behind speaking the truth. Still another is the way that truth makes reconciliation and forgiveness possible. And finally there is the impact of the many beautiful qualities of heart released when truth helps liberate us from fear, hatred, or greed.<br /><br />One place we see the power of truth is in AA and other twelve-step meetings. AA may have saved more lives than any other spiritual tradition in our modern times. It insists that alcoholics tell the truth. By admitting their powerlessness over the addiction and making a careful moral inventory, alcoholics learn how to use the truth to release themselves from their compulsions.<br /><br />Buddhism also uses truth as a way to find release from clinging and the suffering that ensues. The Four Noble Truths are not meant to be truths in the sense of a creed that a Buddhist must believe. They are pragmatic truths, much like how it is true that if you cut yourself deeply with a knife, you will hurt and if you keep the wound clean, you promote its healing. The Four Noble Truths is the Buddha’s way of saying that, if you cling or grasp to anything, you will suffer; if you let go of that clinging, that suffering will end. The Four Noble Truths have no value in the abstract. They are verified through direct experience, by discovering how to be directly honest about our suffering and its causes.<br /><br />The need for personal honesty is the reason that Buddhist practice depends on mindfulness. Mindfulness is sometimes defined as the practice of being honest about what is happening in the present moment. The awesome freedom and profound peace toward which the Buddhist path moves has nothing to do with how much we know, whom we know, how rich, smart, or beautiful we are, or who admires or even loves us. Rather, this path has everything to do with telling ourselves the truth and, in doing so, becoming a true person.<br /><br />Through mindfulness we discover a truth that is deeper than beliefs. These truths will transform our character, our deepest sense of being. What we say and do comes to be in harmony with who we are. If we donít become someone who is true, we have no peace nor freedom. When our life is firmly based on truth, peace is not something we have-it is who we are.</span></b></div>
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The ruins of an Indian spiritual retreat in northern India have become a place of pilgrimage - but not because of the guru who once lived there. It's all about the Beatles, and the time they spent there meditating and writing songs in 1968.</div>
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<b>In the wooded hills near India's holy city of Rishikesh, a 67-year-old British man trudges gingerly through a forest. He is on his way to a derelict ashram where his musical idols once stayed.</b></div>
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<b>He first saw the Beatles in the summer of 1963, he says, when he was one of about 200 people in the audience at a seaside resort. The ticket cost 7d (3p).</b></div>
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<b>Half a century later, he has brought his family from Wales to the ashram on the banks of the Ganges once run by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - one of the most flamboyant of the self-styled gurus to emerge from the era of hippiedom.</b></div>
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<b>The Fab Four were there, according to a newspaper report, for an course in "transcendental meditation, which the guru promises can cure anything that ails the Beatles or the world".</b></div>
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<b>"This place is a pilgrimage for Beatles fans," says the British tourist. "They come from all over the world. I had to bring my family here."</b></div>
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<b>The Beatles had planned a three-month-retreat at the sprawling 18-acre estate. According to some accounts, it descended into a fiasco.</b></div>
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<b>Ringo Starr went home after 10 days complaining about the spicy food - even though he had packed a suitcase full of baked beans. His wife, Maureen, also had a phobia of flies, and both missed their children.</b></div>
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<b>Paul McCartney stayed for a month, while John Lennon and George Harrison left abruptly after six weeks - there were financial disagreements, apparently, and there have long been unverified reports of the Maharishi groping another guest, the actress Mia Farrow. Lennon later wrote a scornful song, Sexy Sadie, about the guru. "Sexy Sadie, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone," goes one line.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Other accounts are more upbeat. Paul Saltzman, author of The Beatles in Rishikesh, says the band wrote some 48 songs in fantastic burst of creativity, many of which made it on to the White Album.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"I was there when they were working on Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," says Saltzman, who spent two weeks at the ashram.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Then it was grass and gardens. There were monkeys and emerald green parakeets in the trees."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Today the ashram is a ghostly relic of those days.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Mildewed and grotty stone and concrete buildings peep out of overgrown bushes and thick forests in a national park where some 1,700 elephants live, alongside tigers and leopards.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But the place remains a big draw with Beatles fans. A dilapidated meditation hall christened The Beatles Cathedral Gallery, by fans has become the beating heart of the ruins. Its walls are ablaze with colourful graffiti, many of them riffing on Beatles songs, "And life flows on with you and without you," says one.</b></span></div>
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<b>The roof is peeling off and sunlight streams through the cracks.</b></div>
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<b>Fans sing and play guitar, and a cow lazily ambles out of the woods and across the hall.</b></div>
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<b>A bunch of teenagers in low-slung jeans and tight T-shirts, practise hip-hop dance moves. "We know this place is about the Beatles, but it is good for us too," one of them says. Outside, in another tumbledown building, a yoga teacher shoots a promotional video.</b></div>
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<b>A Russian fan talks about the Beatles' "positive energy", while an Australian student admires the graffiti and hails the band as "rebels".</b></div>
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<b>Legends about the Beatles' time here abound.</b></div>
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<b>One has it that Lennon used to live in an orb-shaped stone-floored hut. In reality, the ashram was pretty comfortable, with "ultramodern apartments tastefully furnished with hot and cold water" according to one account - and the Maharishi's residence was rumoured to have cost £35,000 ($55,000 at today's exchange rate).</b></div>
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<b>A helicopter flew guests in and out and a special European kitchen served up vegetarian meals three times a day. Among other star guests were singer Donovan and Beach Boy, Mike Love.</b></div>
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<b>According to Donovan, the Beatles wore "embroidered overblouses, fanciful brass pendants, cotton pyjama trousers broadly striped in bright colours, robes for all occasions". He adds: "They looked like gypsies."</b></div>
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<b>The Maharishi had promised to turn the pop stars into "fully qualified teachers or semi-gurus of Hindu meditation". One journalist reported that Lennon and Harrison were on a course of instant mysticism, and being "fed high-level philosophy in simple words".</b></div>
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<b>The ashram itself - leased to Maharishi by the government in 1957 - was abandoned by the guru and his followers in the mid-1970s and gradually reclaimed by nature. The yogi himself died in 2008.</b></div>
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<b>The Beatles received a tumultuous reception when they landed in Delhi on their way to Rishikesh, in February 1968.</b></div>
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<b>A "hysterical mob of Delhi's teenagers gave the mop-headed, lovable Beatles a tumultuous welcome", reported the Times of India.</b></div>
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<b>"As soon as the announcement of their arrival came over the amplifier system, the teenagers ran helter-skelter, yelling and shouting: 'They are here, they are here.'"</b></div>
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<b>The Beatles were dressed in their "fancy shirts, their hair as shaggy as ever," The Statesman noted.</b></div>
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<b>In a Delhi hotel, the Beatles registered under the name of Brown and party. Reporters later found a Sikh sitar player giving lessons to George Harrison, while John Lennon was found trying to play a snake-charmer's flute.</b></div>
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<b>"Women are just beautiful here," said Lennon. "In what way?" the reporter asked. "Oh their saris and they just glide. And they are so different," Lennon replied.</b></div>
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<b>The Times of India reporter asked Lennon whether the Beatles would perform in Delhi.</b></div>
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<b>"Would you have given a performance if you had your instruments with you?" the reporter persisted.</b></div>
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<b>"We don't give performances just like that. They have to be arranged beforehand," Lennon said.</b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"><b>Our Right to be Marxist-Leninists</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; line-height: normal;"><br /><br />In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution expresses his profound admiration for the heroic soviet people who provided an enormous service to humanity<br /><br /><b>By Fidel Castro Ruz</b><br /><br />May 14, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large; line-height: normal;"> - The 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War will be commemorated the day after tomorrow, May 9. Given the time difference, while I write these lines, the soldiers and officials of the Army of the Russian Federation, full of pride, will be parading through Moscow’s Red Square with their characteristic quick, military steps.<br /><br />Lenin was a brilliant revolutionary strategist who did not hesitate in assuming the ideas of Marx and implementing them in an immense and only partly industrialized country, whose proletariat party became the most radical and courageous on the planet in the wake of the greatest slaughter that capitalism had caused in the world, where for the first time tanks, automatic weapons, aviation and poison gases made an appearance in wars, and even a legendary cannon capable of launching a heavy projectile more than 100 kilometers made its presence felt in the bloody conflict.<br /><br />From that carnage emerged the League of Nations, an institution that should have preserved peace but which did not even manage to stop the rapid advance of colonialism in Africa, a great part of Asia, Oceana, the Caribbean, Canada and a contemptuous neo-colonialism in Latin America. Barely 20 years later, another atrocious world war broke out in Europe, the preamble to which was the Spanish Civil War, beginning in 1936.<br /><br />After the crushing defeat of the Nazis, world nations placed their hopes in the United Nations, which strives to generate cooperation in order to put an end to aggressions and wars, such that countries can preserve the peace, development and peaceful cooperation of the big and small, rich or poor States of the world. Millions of scientists could, among other tasks, increase the chances of the survival of the human species, with billions of people already threatened by food and water shortages within a short period of time. We are already 7.3 billion people on the planet. In 1800 there were only 978 million; this figure rose to 6.07 billion in 2000; and according to conservative estimates by the year 2050 there will be 10 billion.<br /><br />Of course, scarcely is the arrival to Western Europe of boats full of migrants mentioned, traveling in any object that floats; a river of African migrants, from the continent colonized by the Europeans over hundreds of years. 23 years ago, in a United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development I stated: “An important biological species is in danger of disappearing given the rapid and progressive destruction of its natural life-sustaining conditions¬: man.” I did not know at that time, how close we were to this.<br /><br />In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, I wish to put on record our profound admiration for the heroic Soviet people, who provided humankind an enormous service. Today we are seeing the solid alliance between the people of the Russian Federation and the State with the fastest growing economy in the world: The People’s Republic of China; both countries, with their close cooperation, modern science and powerful armies and brave soldiers constitute a powerful shield of world peace and security, so that the life of our species may be preserved.<br /><br />Physical and mental health, and the spirit of solidarity are norms which must prevail, or the future of humankind, as we know it, will be lost forever. The 27 million Soviets who died in the Great Patriotic War, also did so for humanity and the right to think and be socialists, to be Marxist-Leninists, communists, and leave the dark ages behind.</span></div>
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<b><br />Since the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, it’s time for the American living beings (aka, the real people) to recognize the toxic impact of granting what amounts to sociopathic monsters in the human realm control over the government.<br /><br />Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to make a profit, to put their economic and profit interests first above all else. Clearly, civilization and democracies are not built on the premise that money takes precedent over all else.<br /><br />In the movie <a href="http://www.thecorporation.com/">“The Corporation” </a>they use the personality diagnostic checklist DSM-IV to test corporations for pathological symptoms:<br /><br /><br />Callous disregard for the feelings of others. Check.<br /><br />Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships. Check.<br /><br />Reckless disregard for the safety of others. Check.<br /><br />Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conniving others for profit. Check.<br /><br />Incapacity to experience guilt. Check.<br /><br />Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors. Check.<br /><br />Result? Corporations are Psychopaths.<br /><br />Watch the trailer here:<br /><br />Watch the first chapter of the film, “What is a corporation?” here:<br /><br />This brings up Colbert’s joke that if corporations are people, than Mitt Romney is a serial killer. It’s funny, but it’s not. Because in reality, modern day corporations are monsters killing human beings in the name of profit.<br /><br />The “conservatives” who advance the corporate agenda will straw man their way out of having a real discussion about the inevitable result of granting legislative power to entities whose sole purpose is to make a profit by taking refuge in faux capitalism, America-is-great cheers.<br /><br />But capitalism is an economic system, and does not equate to fascism (and I do not use this word lightly or hyperbolically, but rather literally) or giving corporations the right to govern the people, influence elections, and buy access to legislators in order to advance their agenda.<br /><br />Capitalism can exist and has existed within the framework of a democratic republic; it’s just not happening right now. Capitalism and corporatism are not the same systems, contrary to the convenient leap made by those desperate to sell corporatism as patriotism.<br /><br />In America, we have an entire party devoted to turning the government over to corporations, and another party barely able to maintain even the smallest of struggles against this push. In a system where money can buy elections and the people aren’t awake enough to look past the corporate memes being sold under the auspices of religion and entertainment “news”, a politician has to play along to some degree or be rendered impotent.<br /><br />But here’s where it gets interesting. The Occupy movement is the one movement that really took hold and gave the people some power. In order to distract from the Occupy movement, and with the luck of a cold winter dimming the Occupy voice, corporations have had their puppets assail the American people with shock and awe courtesy of a mountain of legislation meant to attack assumed rights.<br /><br />Political fascism is <a href="http://www.iamericanspirit.com/dictionaryf-h.html">defined</a> as “a nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-communist movement founded by Benito Mussolini in Italy in 1919. Fascism was a response to the economic hardship and social disorder that ensued after the end of World War I. The main elements of fascism were pride in the nation, anti-Marxism, the complete rejection of parliamentary democracy, the cultivation of military virtues, strong government, and loyalty to a strong leader.”<br /><br />It’s important to distinguish that just because the Nazis were a form of Fascism by no means suggests that I am calling Republicans Nazis. That’s quite a stretch, but I guarantee that readers who aren’t paying attention will scream Godwin’s Law in order to avoid having a necessary discussion about the direction of this country under Republican rule.<br /><br />I am not accusing Republicans of genocide. I am accusing them of ruthlessly promoting social Darwinism via policies of inequality (the view that natural selection applies as much to human society as it does to biological organisms) and corporatism, traits that indicate their push for economic Fascism.<br /><br />We are discussing the political and economic systems advanced by the party, not the tragic, unthinkable results of Fascism as employed by the Nazis. Although it can hardly go unsaid that fostering psychopathy as nationalism won’t likely end well, and we already see the results in less dramatic fashion as quietly, the poor and disabled are cut off from resources, the elderly left to die while waiting for services, public education for all being privatized for the few, and of course, using corporations as paid for profit military police accountable to no one with billions of taxpayer dollars overseas.<br /><br />The economics of Fascism reveal how closely Republicans defending corporatist plutocracy as “free market capitalism” are simulating Fascism in this respect. According to Alexander J. De Grand in his book Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, (pp. 47-51), Fascism operated from a Social Darwinist view of human relations. Their aim was to promote superior individuals and weed out the weak. As applied to economics, this meant killing trade unions and other voices for the working class while promoting the interests of the businessman.<br /><br /><br />Fascism socializes business losses while privatizing profit (bail outs that aren’t paid back, federal subsidizes for oil companies that are making record profits, etc.). Private enterprise is valued more than the people. In this vein, it could be argued that tax rules set up to benefit the wealthy and corporations at the expense of the middle class and poor as pushed by Republicans is just another form of socializing losses, funding corporations on the backs of the working class.<br /><br />Fascism is highly militaristic and we see that Republicans are so<a href="http://www.politicususa.com/small-government-gop-hypocrites-freak-out-over-possible-defense-cuts/">unwilling to cut military funding</a> that they gave up on the Debt<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/08/363656/super-committee-military-cuts-end-run/">Super Committee</a> after <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/obama-super-committee-fail/">trying to run an end game around the automatic kick in of military cuts</a>, which came as a result of their pushing our country into a lowered credit rating over the deficit. Republicans want to cut everything for the people, while increasing military contracts and spending.<br /><br />A straw man would now insert an argument about how we are under attack, and insert nationalism here spiced up with requisite fear. But as a fiscal conservative, allow me to point out that the military wastes money just like any government agency, and it wastes even more money when it privatizes services to known abusers like <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204319004577089021757803802.html">Academi</a> (formerly infamous as Blackwater and formerly also known as XE), DynCorp, and others. On top of wasting money, when we privatize, we lose accountability and oversight, which naturally result in the loss of even more money for the payor (the government; i.e., the taxpayers).<br /><br />If nothing else, government contractors like Halliburton et al demonstrate exactly what kind of monsters corporations are and why some services were designed to be kept out of the profit industry. A true fiscal conservative would never argue that unregulated, for profit corporations should be given unlimited access to government money with no accountability under the guise of “small government”. That is, in essence, economic Fascism. It socializes losses and privatizes profits, and it also gives corporations the power to police citizens in other countries, with immunity and zero oversight, with their singular purpose being to make a profit.<br /><br />If that isn’t psychopathic, what is?<br /><br />Citizens United opened the door for the Republican vision of America as social Darwinism grants ungodly profits to corporations and public money props the corporations up for the good of the Republican Party. That is one way Republicans differ from economic Fascism; the Fascists demanded that the economic activities of the corporations served the public interest, as defined of course by the party/leaders in charge.<br /><br />Economic Fascists often don’t even have an ideology, and Republicans often appear as if they no longer subscribe to their own ideology of limited government, but rather to political expediency. Their agenda is purely driven by the endless needs and hunger of the Corporation.<br /><br />They can change the dogma to fit the situation, easily adapting and redefining the party line to fit the latest agenda of the Corporation. In order to achieve this, they sell the narrative with emotional and often religious dogma, which serves to distort how the fundamental values are being betrayed or don’t even exist.<br /><br />Thus, it’s disingenuous to point out how Republican economic “theory” or “values” differ from other infamous Fascist regimes. The objective is promoting social Darwinism for the purpose of those in power; however this is achieved, disguised or justified is not the point. In fact, the relative “ideas” of the movement are often only pushed for the real agenda, and as such, are irrelevant to the larger issue.<br /><br />This isn’t conservatism, it’s not Republicanism, and it’s not small government. It is economic Fascism, or corporatism.<br /><br />If corporations are people, then they are serial killing psychopaths who should never be granted the right to govern the people. Corporations are predators plundering the people and Republicans want to give them full control over our government. Corporatism is not patriotic and it’s not a necessary part of Capitalism or free market ideology.<br /><br />In a bitter twist of irony, corporatism is the monster Republicans keep telling their base about. Our freedom is at stake. But it’s not Marxists who are hiding under the bed.<br /><br />Under the collective beds of Americans, greedy corporate monsters without a conscience lie in wait while Republicans sell social Darwinism as the path to economic success, as if the profits of the few were all that this proud country represents.<br /><br />This pathological pursuit of political power at the expense of the people must stop. 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<b><span style="font-size: large;">BY SARA NEILL – 13 MAY 2015<br />The GAA has distanced itself from a message of support for former IRA commander Gerard 'Jock' Davison, who was gunned down last week.<br /><br />A Catholic church also sought to disassociate itself from a youth club based on its premises that also signed up to the tribute.<br /><br />A full page tribute to the 47-year-old appeared in Saturday's edition of The Irish News. Signed by 63 groups, it paid tribute to the "highly esteemed" father-of-three.<br /><br />Mr Davison was shot dead while walking in the Markets area of Belfast last Tuesday morning. Police are still hunting the killer. Davison was a leading republican and was linked to the murder of Robert McCartney outside Magennis's bar 10 years ago - claims he always denied. It is claimed he was ousted from the IRA following the brutal killing, and he became well-known as a community worker in the area.<br /><br />The advert in the paper claimed it had been written to do "justice to the memory" of Jock Davison.<br /><br />The statement said: "They say that the hardest thing for a man to do is change with the times. Jock not only managed and adapted but managed to thrive in difficult circumstances, without compromising an iota of his deeply held principles."<br /><br />St Malachy's GAC joined other organisations, including residents' associations, women's groups and youth projects in putting their name below the message.<br /><br />Mr Davison was a senior figure at the club, and a spokesman for the GAA said it was "not uncommon" for clubs to take out death notices for members.<br /><br />He said: "This decision was entirely up to the discretion of the committee of the club. The tribute is community-orientated. I think this individual was involved in the club and he's being remembered in his capacity at the club."<br /><br />He added that the page-long tribute was in "recognition of the deceased".<br /><br /><br />"The club has nothing to do with anything [Mr Davison] does away from it. When people cross the door of a GAA club they leave their past outside."<br /><br />When asked if he agreed with St Malachy's decision to lend its support to the page, the GAA spokesman said: "St Malachy's hasn't breached any GAA rule."<br /><br />A Catholic church also declined to put its full weight behind the tribute while Clonard Monastery Youth Centre also appears on the list supporting Mr Davison.<br /><br />A spokesman for Clonard Monastery said: "The signatory was acting in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the management of the youth centre. The Clonard Monastery Youth Centre is a voluntary youth centre governed by a management committee."</span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="//www.thepetitionsite.com/embed.js"></script><div class="care2PetitionEmbed" rssPath="571641283" adSize="interstitial" publisherId="180301876" buttonColor="#94a513"></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12073651560854311258noreply@blogger.com0Belfast, Belfast, UK54.597285000000007 -5.930119999999988154.450095000000005 -6.2528434999999885 54.744475000000008 -5.6073964999999877tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431408923998878370.post-75481654621520417422015-05-13T05:58:00.000+01:002015-05-13T05:58:27.322+01:00POOTS HOOTS GERRY ADAMS CHILD RAPE ENABLER<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Gerry Adams<br /><br />BY SUZANNE BREEN – 12 MAY 2015<br />Former Health Minister Edwin Poots is demanding that the Public Prosecution Service immediately publishes a report into its decision not to prosecute Gerry Adams for withholding information about his paedophile brother, Liam.<br /><br />RELATED ARTICLES<br /><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/gerry-adams-let-down-his-abused-niece-31214045.html"><br />SF president Gerry Adams let down his abused niece</a><br /><br /><br />Mr Poots said that the PPS "risked losing public confidence" if it didn't quickly release the material which has been in its possession for around a year.<br /><br />"This is the gravest possible matter, it concerns the safety and welfare of children, and a senior politician disgracefully not passing on vital information in an abuse case for nine long years," he added.<br /><br />He said the PPS's previous reason for not publishing the report - Liam Adams' outstanding appeal - no longer held as he lost his appeal last week.<br /><br />The DUP MLA said he would be raising the issue as "very urgent business" at Thursday's Justice Committee meeting in Stormont.<br /><br />A PPS spokeswoman last night said: "We are committed to publishing the report and it will be announced shortly."<br /><br />After Liam Adams' conviction in 2013 for raping his daughter Aine, the Attorney General John Larkin began a review of the PPS's decision not to prosecute Gerry Adams for withholding information in the case.<br /><br />Gerry Adams said that his brother confessed to him in 2000 that he had sexually abused Aine. But the Sinn Fein President did not report this to police for nine years.<br /><br />Liam Adams was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping and sexually abusing Aine from 1977 to 1983 from when she was four years old until she was nine.<br /><br />Mr Poots said: "Liam Adams has been found guilty of the most serious child abuse at both his original trial and now appeal.<br /><br />"There is grave public concern that Gerry Adams had information that could have brought this evil paedophile to justice years ago.<br /><br />"Instead, the police were deprived of information which could have seen Liam Adams behind bars a lot sooner.<br /><br />"We must immediately have access to the Attorney General's findings on the PPS's decision not to prosecute Gerry Adams.<br /><br />"The PPS had previously indicated that it couldn't publish the report because of any impact it might have on Liam Adams' appeal of his conviction.<br /><br />"Liam Adams lost his appeal last week. His legal proceedings have now concluded and there are no possible reasons for the PPS to continue letting dust gather on this report."<br /><br /><br />The Belfast Telegraph understands that the Attorney General's findings and a number of recommendations were forwarded to the PPS around a year ago.<br /><br />Gerry Adams gave evidence for the prosecution during his brother's first trial in April 2013.<br /><br />Untruths and evasions in Mr Adams' account of his dealings with his brother Liam were exposed under cross-examination.<br /><br />That trial collapsed for unconnected legal reasons.<br /><br />The prosecution decided not to call Gerry Adams as a witness during the second trial.<br /><br />After four hours' deliberations, the jury found Liam Adams guilty of all 10 counts of sexual abuse by a majority of 11 to one.<br /><br />Liam Adams did not appear in court for his appeal verdict last week but watched proceedings via video link from Maghaberry.<br /><br />Neither he, nor his wife Bronagh who was in the public gallery, showed any emotion as his appeal was refused.<br /><br />In their judgment, Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan, Lord Justice Gillen and Lord Justice Coghlin said: "The court has not been persuaded that the verdict of the jury was unsafe and, consequently, the appeal must be dismissed."</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 11, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - "</span><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_nation_of_snitches_20150510" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Truthdig</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">" - A totalitarian state is only as strong as its informants. And the United States has a lot of them. They read our emails. They listen to, download and store our phone calls. They photograph us on street corners, on subway platforms, in stores, on highways and in public and private buildings. They track us through our electronic devices. They infiltrate our organizations. They entice and facilitate “acts of terrorism” by Muslims, radical environmentalists, activists and <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_cancer_of_occupy_20120206">Black Bloc</a> anarchists, framing these hapless dissidents and sending them off to prison for years. They have amassed detailed profiles of our habits, our tastes, our peculiar proclivities, our medical and financial records, our sexual orientations, our employment histories, our shopping habits and our criminal records. They store this information in government computers. It sits there, waiting like a time bomb, for the moment when the state decides to criminalize us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Totalitarian states record even the most banal of our activities so that when it comes time to lock us up they can invest these activities with subversive or criminal intent. And citizens who know, because of the courage of Edward Snowden, that they are being watched but naively believe they “have done nothing wrong” do not grasp this dark and terrifying logic.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Tyranny is always welded together by subterranean networks of informants. These informants keep a populace in a state of fear. They perpetuate constant anxiety and enforce isolation through distrust. The state uses wholesale surveillance and spying to break down trust and deny us the privacy to think and speak freely.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A state security and surveillance apparatus, at the same time, conditions all citizens to become informants. In airports and train, subway and bus stations the recruitment campaign is relentless. We are fed lurid government videos and other messages warning us to be vigilant and report anything suspicious. The videos, on endless loops broadcast through mounted television screens, have the prerequisite ominous music, the shady-looking criminal types, the alert citizen calling the authorities and in some cases the apprehended evildoer being led away in handcuffs. The message to be hypervigilant and help the state ferret out dangerous internal enemies is at the same time disseminated throughout government agencies, the mass media, the press and the entertainment industry. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“If you see something say something,” goes the chorus.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In any Amtrak station, waiting passengers are told to tell authorities—some of whom often can be found walking among us with dogs—about anyone who “looks like they are in an unauthorized area,” who is “loitering, staring or watching employees and customers,” who is “expressing an unusual level of interest in operations, equipment, and personnel,” who is “dressed inappropriately for the weather conditions, such as a bulky coat in summer,” who “is acting extremely nervous or anxious,” who is “restricting an individual’s freedom of movement” or who is “being coached on what to say to law enforcement or immigration officials.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What is especially disturbing about this constant call to become a citizen informant is that it directs our eyes away from what we should see—the death of our democracy, the growing presence and omnipotence of the police state, and the evisceration, in the name of our security, of our most basic civil liberties.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Manufactured fear engenders self-doubt. It makes us, often unconsciously, conform in our outward and inward behavior. It conditions us to relate to those around us with suspicion. It destroys the possibility of organizing, community and dissent. We have built what <a href="https://www.fsu.edu/profiles/gellately/" target="_blank">Robert Gellately</a> calls a “culture of denunciation.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Snitches in prisons, the quintessential totalitarian system, are the glue that allows prison authorities to maintain control and keep prisoners divided and weak. Snitches also populate the courts, where the police make secret deals to drop or mitigate charges against them in exchange for their selling out individuals targeted by the state. Our prisons are filled with people serving long sentences based on false statements that informants provided in exchange for leniency.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are no rules in this dirty game. Police, like prison officials, can offer snitches deals that lack judicial oversight or control. (Deals sometimes involve something as trivial as allowing a prisoner access to food like cheeseburgers.) Snitches allow the state to skirt what is left of our legal protections. Snitches can obtain information for the authorities and do not have to give their targets a <a href="http://www.mirandawarning.org/" target="_blank">Miranda warning</a>. And because of the desperation of most who are recruited to snitch, informants will do almost anything asked of them by authorities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just as infected as the prisons and the courts are poor neighborhoods, which abound with snitches, many of them low-level drug dealers allowed to sell on the streets in exchange for information. And from there our culture of snitches spirals upward into the headquarters of the National Security Agency, Homeland Security and the FBI.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Systems of police and military authority are ruthless when their own, such as Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, become informants on behalf of the common good. The power structure imposes walls of silence and harsh forms of retribution within its ranks in an effort to make sure no one speaks. Power understands that once it is divided, once those inside its walls become snitches, it becomes as weak and vulnerable as those it subjugates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We will not be able to reclaim our democracy and free ourselves from tyranny until the informants and the vast networks that sustain them are banished. As long as we are watched 24 hours a day we cannot use the word “liberty.” This is the relationship of a master and a slave. Any prisoner understands this.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-bio.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> in his masterpiece “The Gulag Archipelago,” which chronicles his time in Josef Stalin’s gulags and is a brilliant reflection of the nature of oppression and tyranny, describes a moment when an influx of western Ukrainians who had been soldiers during World War II arrived at his camp, at Ekibastuz. The Ukrainians, he wrote, “were horrified by the apathy and slavery they saw, and reached for their knives.” They began to murder the informants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Kill the stoolie!” That was it, the vital link! A knife in the heart of the stoolie! Make knives and cut the stoolie’s throats—that was it!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now as I write this chapter, rows of humane books frown down at me from the walls, the tarnished gilt on their well-worn spines glinting reproachfully like stars through the cloud. Nothing in the world should be sought through violence! By taking up the sword, the knife, the rifle, we quickly put ourselves on the level of tormentors and persecutors. And there will be no end to it. …</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There will be no end. … Here, at my desk, in a warm place, I agree completely.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground—from the hole you’re in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There will be no end of it! ... But will there be a beginning? Will there be a ray of hope in our lives or not?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The oppressed at least concluded that evil cannot be cast out by good.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">The eradication of some snitches and intimidation of others transformed the camp. It was, Solzhenitsyn admits, an imperfect justice since there was no “documentary confirmation that a man was an informer.” But, he noted, even this “improperly constituted, illegal, and invisible court was much more acute in its judgments, much less often mistaken, than any of the tribunals, panels of three, courts-martial, or Special Boards with which we are familiar.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Of the five thousand men about a dozen were killed, but with every stroke of the knife more and more of the clinging, twining tentacles fell away,” he wrote. “A remarkable fresh breeze was blowing! On the surface we were prisoners living in a camp just as before, but in reality we had become free—free because for the very first time in our lives we had started saying openly and aloud all that we thought! No one who has not experienced this transition can imagine what it is like!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And the informers … stopped informing.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The camp bosses, he wrote “were suddenly blind and deaf. To all appearances, the tubby major, his equally tubby second in command, Captain Prokofiev, and all the wardens walked freely about the camp, where nothing threatened them; moved among us, watched us—and yet saw nothing! Because a man in uniform sees and hears nothing without stoolies.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The system of internal control in the camp broke down. Prisoners no longer would serve as foremen on work details. Prisoners organized their own self-governing council. Guards began to move about the camp in fear and no longer treated prisoners like cattle. Pilfering and theft among prisoners stopped. “The old camp mentality—you die first, I’ll wait a bit; there is no justice so forget it; that’s the way it was, and that’s the way it will be—also began to disappear.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Solzhenitsyn concluded this chapter, “Behind the Wire the Ground Is Burning,” in Volume 3 of his book, with this reflection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Purged of human filth, delivered from spies and eavesdroppers we looked about and saw, wide-eyed that … we were thousands! That we were … <i>politicals!</i>That we could </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">resist!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had chosen well; the chain would snap if we tugged at this link—the stoolies, the talebearers and traitors! Our own kind had made our lives impossible. As on some ancient sacrificial altar, their blood had been shed that we might be freed from the curse that hung over us.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The revolution was gathering strength. The wind that seemed to have subsided had sprung up again in a hurricane to fill our eager lungs.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">Later in the book Solzhenitsyn would write, “Our little island had experienced an earthquake—and ceased to belong to the Archipelago.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Freedom demands the destruction of the security and surveillance organs and the disempowering of the millions of informants who work for the state. This is not a call to murder our own stoolies—although some of the 2.3 million prisoners in cages in America’s own gulags would perhaps rightly accuse me of writing this from a position of privilege and comfort and not understanding the brutal dynamics of oppression – but instead to accept that unless these informants on the streets, in the prisons and manning our massive, government data-collection centers are disarmed we will never achieve liberty. I do not have quick and simple suggestions for how this is to be accomplished. But I know it must.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="//www.thepetitionsite.com/embed.js"></script><div class="care2PetitionEmbed" rssPath="571641283" adSize="interstitial" publisherId="180301876" buttonColor="#94a513"></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12073651560854311258noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431408923998878370.post-2753146488375162432015-05-11T08:06:00.002+01:002015-05-11T10:43:36.865+01:00GROVELLING BARSTURDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Oliver Twist Manifesto</span><br /><br />Get off your knees you grovelling bastards<br />This is Oliver twist pissing over Britannia<br />200 years of Tin Pan Alley<br />I learned good from a king thief mentor<br />Newgate, Broadstreet, Langdales Distillery<br />Papist threats and no popery<br />It's a beautiful night again<br />So paint the wall white again<br />Brutality for the kids<br />Oliver Twist<br /><br />There was this gang who I used to run with<br />Ragamuffins, urchin scum, spivs<br />Looking good comes in handy<br />When you're dipping in the pockets of a dandy<br />And there's treason in the air, it's just a leap of faith<br />There's murder in the air at Rillington Place<br />A Christie lives in Soho<br />This is the Oliver Twist Manifesto<br />Totality for the kids<br />Oliver Twist</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Neoliberalism? Neocons? These are the fraudulent names, $hame Fein operate under, while still claiming the Republican tag, as they administer the merger of state and corporate power, from a still sectarian Stormont in Occupied Ireland.. Mussolini called it "Fascism." It is now impossible to know in either parts of Ireland, where the corporations end or the government begins, with privatization and if people believe voting for Provisional $inn Fein will change that, the proof that they are in reality, old wine in new bottles, can be seen in their Stormont Administration. They have lost every shred of republican ideology and enforced Nazism, with street gangs and mafia law of the Baggot/Kray Twin variety, in collaboration, with British, political policing of the RUC/psni. The German Nazi party lived the high life and so do $inn Fein, with their padded, expense accounts. Their opulent lifestyle, is supported by British menial labour, that results in deprivation, in most of their scum state. Twenty years after they grovelled to the Bad Friday Agreement, on the backs of dead Freedom Fighters, it is time we stopped using obscure terms, like Neocon, Neoliberal, for these collaborators and their Blueshirt cousins in the south, and use the commonly understood name of Nazis. <br /><br /><br />The proof of their Mafia Law of street gangs, can be found in the graveyards of Belfast, Derry and South Armagh. The proof of their political policing and internment of Community Activists in Maghaberry, and their censorship of alternative voices in their manipulation and dirty tricks of social media and murdered victims of their mafia. Once again we have another Stormont ragime, sowing another bitter harvest. Their mantra of claiming to be forced to adminster Tory cuts, will simply not wash. Their predecessors the SDLP, had the politcal principles to boycott the monstrosity of Stormont, on these issues, along with political internment. You will find no principles, among the fat cats of unprincipled $hame Fein, who simply pad their bank accounts and blame dissident tactical voting, for their decline and loss of seats. If these dissident voices are as a scarce, as they claimed a few months ago, how come the SDLP, now have almost the same number or that they failed in North Belfast and Fermanagh/South Tyrone, where they campaigned, on a sectarian majority headcount and sectarian politics, that violate every non-sectraian traditional Irish Republican Principle. In so doing so, they have demonstrated in plain view, their opportunist, unprincipled, populist, self-serving, grovelling nature, in their lust for power at all costs, with a sociopathic zeal, that puts Hitler in the shade.<br /><br /><br />Almost fifty yeara ago, the Civil Rights Movement, exercised their right to march on Irish Occupied streets, along with exercising their right to Free Speech. Even those two Civil rights have now been removed from the people by the $inn Fein Administration. The people marched for equality and against Internment. Almost fifty years later, those demands have not been met. They were shot off the streets of Derry and Ballymurphy and as result, Freedom Fighters fought for the freedom of Irish citizens, who still remain British commoners, at her Majesty's service, courtesy of $inn Fein collaboration with the Orange Order. The ideals of freedom loving people, have been betrayed by collaborators, fascists with their mafia goons of enforccement. People of no property, will be forced to march again, to restore their birthright, Power to the People. The $inn Fein Stormont Junta excuses, of blaming the Tories or the Dissidents, will simply not wash anymore. They have utterly failed, to take the responsibilities of elected office, and in so doing enabled the rape of Irish children and the material rape of their communities. They are now, once again failing, with their blame games in the face of draconian cuts of basic services of any civilized society. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><br />The dire conditions of deprivation, almost thirty years after election, in their constiuencies of West Belfast, Derry and Newry, are testament, to their utter failure in elected office. Neither have the grovelling bastards, inpressed the Unionist tradition, as the recent election demonstrates. Their justifcation of persuasion, for Bad Friday, has no credibilty, whatsoever with Unioniosts, who watch their mix of grovelling brown nosing, coupled with sectarian headcounts, in utter disgust . Whether one calls it the Stocholm Syndrome, Gombeenism or Slave Mentality, they exhibit all the qualities of inter-generational paedophillia or poacher turned game-keeper. They are neither Republican or Socialist b</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>+y any measure. They are in reality Nazi, who blindly follow their Fuerher. Irish people will soon be confronted with this monster. We must call out it's activites for what they actually are, before it is too late, and get back on the street for our Civil Rights and Birth Rights!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>By David William Pear<br /><br />May 09, 2015 "</b></span><b><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - "</span><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/05/05/the-inhuman-failure-of-austerity/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consortium News</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">" - Close your eyes and imagine an affluent society with subsonic trains crisscrossing the continent. One that produces unlimited clean energy. Provides basic healthcare for everyone. Values education for its own sake. Cultivates the arts and research to discover beauty and the unknown. An affluent society that responds with compassion to natural disaster. Conserves natural resources and protects the environment. And enjoys more leisure time. Cares about eliminating poverty and illiteracy. That ends racism and prejudice.</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Does the affluent society seem like a dream? Is it an impossible goal? The neoliberals think it is. They imagine a world of austerity and a new <a href="http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=9" target="_blank">Gilded Age</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The neoliberals are prisoners of the Eighteenth Century. They have not advanced since the neo-feudal teachings of Adam Smith (1723-1790). Smith is the godfather of economics and wrote the “bible” of capitalism, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inquiry-Nature-Causes-Wealth-Nations-ebook/dp/B00847CE6O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1430348793&sr=1-1&keywords=wealth+of+nations+kindle+free" target="_blank">An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations</a></em>. Smith was among the first to give much thought about economics.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In Eighteenth Century Great Britain, half the population lived in poverty. They survived, if they did, with disease, famine, illiteracy, lack of sanitation and in slums. It was normal then. Things had always been that way. They thought the poor, starving and ignorant mass of people would always be among them. They thought their society was according to the law of nature.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Smith was a charitable man. He fretted about poverty, and gave a great deal of thought about wages. With a large pool of the unemployed, the new industrial class only had to pay subsistence wages.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Smith tried to tell the industrialists that people were like cattle. He said if one gave their cows more grass, then they would produce more milk. The industrialists said that if they gave their workers higher wages, then it would come out of profits, and the workers would just produce more children with mouths to feed, leading to greater starvation. The neoliberals still think this way.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Every progressive social project the neoliberals call it socialism, as if that is an obscene word. The only government projects they like are those that benefit the private sector, corporations and the wealthy.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Almost every modern democracy has done better than the US at providing good government for its people. All the evidence proves it. The US consistently ranks far below more progressive countries on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI" target="_blank">United Nations Human Development Index</a> that measures health, education and equality of income.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>On the Social Progress Index, which measures “Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Wellness, and Opportunity” (<a href="http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/about/the-imperative" target="_blank">see interactive map</a>); the US is ranked sixteenth, and well behind other developed democratic nations. Those countries doing better have not degenerated into totalitarianism, as the neoliberals predict.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The neoliberals see Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin behind every government social program. In the 1940s the neoliberal’s idol, Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) wrote a thesis called <em>The Road to Serfdom</em>. It is a simple book in its Eighteenth Century theories about government and freedom. There is a <a href="http://stewartglass.net/readings/the_road_to_serfdom_in_cart.pdf" target="_blank">comic book version</a>, courtesy of General Motors. Hayek won the <a href="https://mises.org/library/hayek-and-nobel-prize" target="_blank">Nobel Prize</a> for it.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and Hayek were colleagues at the London School of Economics. They had a long-running debate for years over the role of government. Keynes realized that government was important, that it has an active role in the economy. He said the government could do “good” and manage the economy well. Hayek said it was the road to serfdom.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Keynes was an economic advisor for the British government during World War I. He also advised the British during the <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/keynes-predicts-economic-chaos" target="_blank">Treaty of Versailles</a> to negotiate Germany’s surrender. Keynes resigned from his position at Versailles in disgust, saying the harsh austerity the Allies were demanding of Germany and Austria would cause massive poverty and starvation. He said it was inhumane and would result in the rise of fascism and war. He proved to be right. He was not awarded the Nobel Prize.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the Twenty-first Century, the European Union is imposing harsh austerity on its weaker members. The neoliberals are dismantling Europe’s progressive social programs. We are seeing the rise of fascism again too. So which is more likely to cause fascism and war: Austerity for the people, or progressive government social programs? Hayek said he did not mind a dictatorship, as long as it is neoliberal. The neoliberals like right-wing dictators.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>During the Great Depression (1929-1939), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned to Keynes for advice about the Great Depression. Keynes <a href="http://newdeal.feri.org/misc/keynes2.htm">wrote a letter</a> to Roosevelt advising him on the need for government social programs to stimulate the economy. Keynes further warned FDR that lowering interest rates and increasing the money supply alone would only bailout speculators, but would not sustain economic recovery.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>By contrast, President Barack Obama took the neoliberal advice in the Great Recession and bailed out the speculators. Keynes would have predicted that the result would be anemic economic recovery. He would have been right.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Keynes gave worthy advice that would do the American people well in the Twenty-first Century. The neoliberals keep sabotaging good advice from past sages. Their sabotage is well-funded by corporations, foundations, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-powers-buy-influence-at-think-tanks.html?_r=0" target="_blank">foreign governments</a> and the wealthy.</b></span><br />
<b><a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Galbraith.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">John Kenneth Galbraith</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> (1908-2006) was a genius with Twenty-first Century ideas. Galbraith served as an economic advisor to both FDR and John F. Kennedy. His most famous book isThe Affluent Society (1958), a popular book during the 1960s.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>During the Stagflation of the 1970s, the neoliberals allied with the religious-right and racists to <a href="https://seanmichaelbutler.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/the-neoliberal-revolution/" target="_blank">purge Keynes’s and Galbraith’s teachings</a>. In the 1980s, the Reagan-Thatcher revolution established neoliberals, corporate hegemony and right-wing extremists in the halls of power.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The first experiment of the neoliberals was in Chile during the 1970s. It led to the rise of Pinochet, fascism and crimes against humanity. <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http://americanempireproject.com/empiresworkshop/chapter5/LetterFromFAVonHayekInSupportOfPinochetsDefensorPacis%28July111978%29.doc&ei=_iJEVfnkD4migwS7rYC4Bg&usg=AFQjCNFBm9EQH-xDNoBcO9KyvwxVDYfTjw&sig2=CtXKWJUhVSmTSipav9Anww" target="_blank">Hayek said</a> in a 1978 letter to the Times of London that he personally approved of Pinochet, preferring a dictator to a democratic government without neoliberalism.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hayek made one excuse after another for Pinochet. He was not even faithful to his own principles, and <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/17/the-mad-dream-of-a-libertarian-dictator" target="_blank">said</a> Pinochet’s firing squads would transition to democracy. Those on the wrong end of Pinochet’s firing squads would not live to see that miracle. The neoliberals never take responsibility, admit they are wrong, or say they are sorry. (See example, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html#10" target="_blank">here</a>.)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Galbraith’s discarded ideas had some excellent questions and answers to ponder in the Twenty-first Century. What is our obsession with economic growth and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), when an affluent society already produces all the private goods and services needed, Galbraith asked? And, shouldn’t we be more concerned about what is produced instead of how much? He said there is a “problem with social balance … private affluence and public squalor … as well as related environmental, aesthetic, and cultural concerns.” He was a man for the Twenty-first Century.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Neoliberals are not against fascist and corporate planning of the economy. Fascists use the firing squad as their economic planning tool. Corporations use monopoly power, public relations departments and political graft. Corporations are hierarchical organizations that meet in secret to decide what to produce and the price people will pay. They spend billions of dollars on advertising to change consumer preferences and move their products off the shelves. Their propaganda has created a privatized culture of consumerism, materialism and gluttony.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The corporations are dictating government programs too. Their oligarchies have taken over governments globally at all levels. They plan the government and the economy for their own profit and greed. Corporate oligarchies and neoliberals attack every social program for the public. They impose austerity on the public sector and the people. The impoverished public sector is in dire need of investment.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Education could use a tsunami of new investment. The lack of investment for education, especially in poor neighborhoods, is glaring. The neoliberals blame “bad teachers.” They want to privatize public schools and hire proctors that will work for the minimum wage, so their hedge funds can make billions of dollars in profits that should be going to education.</b></span><br />
<b><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-what-it" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Higher education is failing too</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. Students are condemned to indentured servitude to payoff student loans. Young people have been indoctrinated that the value of education is to learn how to work for corporations and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-joel-klein-condi-rice-ed-report-what-it-will-and-wont-say/2012/03/03/gIQA21Pp7R_blog.html" target="_blank">the military</a>.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>College graduates discover that there are no jobs for their qualifications. Neoliberals stuck in the Eighteenth Century <a href="http://robertreich.org/post/114356426465" target="_blank">say</a> the answer is that not everybody needs an education to be a widget or carry a gun. They want other people’s students to enroll in online schools pushed by their hedge funds, while their kids go to Harvard, Yale and MIT.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>An affluent society needs educated people. There is a cadre of potential teachers, healthcare workers, nutritionists, scientists, sociologists, historians, artists, engineers and administrators now working at meaningless minimum wage jobs. There is an abundance of opportunity for college graduates in an affluent society.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>New community centers could staff professionals to enrich the lives of seniors, teens and children. With people living longer, retired seniors could improve their lives and social activity by taking courses and enjoying the arts. Teens could have tutoring, learn to play chess, take music lessons, cooking classes, creative writing, languages, and have supervised sports. The possibilities for public investments and to improve the quality of life, and provide meaningful jobs are endless. Neoliberals want everybody to sit alone at home and watch TV.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Malnourished and neglected children are unacceptable in an affluent society. The problem is not a lack of resources. It is because of unequal distribution. There is a shameful lack of prenatal care. As a result, <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html" target="_blank">infant mortality</a> in the US is higher than every developed nation. It is 30 percent higher than even Cuba, which the neoliberals constantly chastise about its human rights.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>New parents could get healthcare, infant care and education in an affluent society. Instead, Eighteenth Century neoliberals want to kill Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid; and they want to privatize the Veterans Administration. Their greed is insatiable.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Obama promised single-payer healthcare. The public got excited and wanted it. The Eighteenth Century neoliberals killed it in the womb. Long-term health care and homecare goes uncovered by any public insurance. Neoliberals let the old and disabled go without and die, as if those people are just useless eaters. Instead an affluent society would treat the old and disabled humanely; and single-payer healthcare would create more careers and professional jobs.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Twice a day every workday the highways are in gridlock with automobiles idling, burning fossil fuel and polluting the air. Clean, fast and comfortable light-rail and motor coaches would be quicker, more comfortable and use less energy. Building and operating a Twenty-first Century mass transportation industry would make commuting time productive and leisurely; and create more skilled jobs.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>An affluent society should not neglect the unemployed. The public sector has the responsibility of full-employment and providing for those unemployed. Employees did not volunteer to be the risk-takers of capitalism. They should not be condemned to their fate because they were unlucky and chose the wrong industry or employer years ago.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Society must also face the reality that some people are permanently unable to work because of social, emotional and health reasons. The unemployed need treatment, counseling, education and care; which would also create more jobs.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>These are just a few ideas, some from Galbraith’s The Affluent Society. As Galbraith said in 1958, the private sector is a king; the public sector is a pauper. They can both be royalty.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The neoliberals and their alter-ego, the neocons, do not have any good ideas for the Twenty-first Century. They have caused financial disasters and endless wars, and they tell us <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/16/milton-friedman-meltdown-oped-cx_pr_1017robinson.html" target="_blank">not to expect better</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Part of the public sector that is not a pauper but should be is the military. The military-industrial complex is wasting vast resources making machines of death. Society is spending trillions of dollars to send armies to invade other countries. We spend trillions of dollars in order to protect us from imaginary enemies and those that our wars have created. It does not make us any safer. The jobs that it creates do not add any value.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Eighteen Century neoliberals and the neoconservatives say that government economic planning will destroy our freedom, while they plan the economy for war and financial speculation. The neocons say the American people must give up the Bill of Rights in exchange for safety. The neoliberals say that austerity will bring prosperity. Instead we are less free and more poor. They are leading us down the road to fascism and serfdom.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let’s open our eyes and stop listening to the neoliberals.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">News Blackout on London Protest</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">By Craig Murray</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">May 10, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - The almost total blackout on broadcast media of the police attack on the popular protest by thousands outside Downing Street – with 30 injured and 17 arrests – is in stark contrast to the wall to wall coverage of the staged fake “riot” in Glasgow in which 6 people were slightly rude to Jim Murphy with no arrests and no injuries.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the UK’s appalling electoral system, we now have a seriously right wing government with absolute power from an absolute parliamentary majority, but which 63% of voters voted against, and which was supported by only 23% of those eligible to vote. Many of the 38% who did not vote at all, were not apathetic but actively disgusted by a corrupt political system which offers little meaningful choice in most of the UK.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Legitimacy is a different question to legality. The government is undoubtedly legal under the current rotten system, but its legitimacy is a different question entirely. Legitimacy lies on the popular consent of the governed. With an extreme government supported by only 23% of the population, actively planning to inflict actual harm on many more than 23% of the population, there are legitimate philosophical questions to be asked about the right of the government to rule. With so many, particularly but not exclusively young people, now reading sources like this one and not being enthralled by the mainstream media, today’s protest is but a start.</span><br />
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<b>Time Bomb in Cameron Government. A Future “Little Britain”, separated from Scotland, subservient to America, outside the EU?</b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />The Irreconcilable opposition of SNP to CFI lobby as well as Trident<br /><br /><b>By Anthony Bellchambers</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">May 10, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - "</span><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/time-bomb-in-cameron-government-a-future-little-britain-separated-from-scotland-subservient-to-america-outside-the-eu/5448417" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">GR"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - </span><span style="font-size: large;">A future Little Britain: separated from Scotland, subservient to America, outside the European Union and beholden to the conflicting agendas of the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) lobby and the SNP is a frightening prospect.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A government expenditure of £100 billion to replace the Trident nuclear deterrent would be about as protective to Britain as writing a powerful computer virus which if used would permanently damage our own entire communications infrastructure leaving all state security systems disabled. The Trident weapon of mass destruction has no legitimate purpose: its use would be impossible as huge numbers of civilians, including millions of British citizens, would be unavoidable victims.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The plain facts are that: </span><em><span style="font-size: large;">‘international terrorism, cyber-attacks and natural hazards as greater threats than nuclear war. The cost of replacing Trident would be enough to fully fund A&E services in UK for 40 years, employ 150,000 new nurses, build 1.5 million affordable homes, build 30,000 new primary schools, or cover tuition fees for 4 million students.’</span></em><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Trident so-called deterrent is for status reasons only. It should be scrapped and Britain’s defence infrastructure should be rebuilt without nuclear or chemical weapons of mass destruction and without any collaboration from Israeli-owned arms suppliers. Britain’s defence should not be compromised by the use of equipment sourced from outside the EU or NATO. To do so, potentially places us, in Britain, all in danger in the event of any future conflict.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Conservative government’s current defence policy is dangerously flawed and with an isolated Britain divorced from Scotland and outside the EU – would be an easy target for international terrorism.</span><br />
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<b>How Big Money and Big Brother won the British Elections<span style="font-size: large;"><br />By Nafeez Ahmed<br /> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 10, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - </span><span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">The Conservatives have won the 2015 elections with a slim majority. Labour and the Liberal Democrats suffered unexpected crushing defeats, prompting their leaders, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, to resign. And despite winning a significant percentage of votes, UKIP only managed to win one seat, with its leader Nigel Farage also resigning after losing to a Tory MP.</span></span></div>
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<span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">But the Tory victory reveals precisely why British democracy is broken.</span></span></div>
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<span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">The ultimate determinant of which party won the elections was the money behind their political campaigns — the winning and losing parties correlate directly with the quantity of funding received. Yet there is also compelling evidence of another factor — interference from Britain’s security services.</span></span></div>
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<strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">The best democracy money can buy</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As of the end of last year, the Electoral Commission <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31535635" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31535635" rel="nofollow">found</a> that the Tories received the largest amount of donations, at £8,345,687, the bulk of which came from financiers associated with banks, the hedge fund industry, and big business. Two million pounds worth of donations were associated with hedge funds, and a further £4 million with people attending private dinners hosted by senior Tories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next up in donations was Labour at £7,163,988, much of which came from trade unions, as well as corporate donors like PricewaterhouseCoopers, a major proponent of corporate tax avoidance; then the Liberal Democrats with £3,038,500, UKIP with £1,505,055, and the Green Party with £248,520.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was last year. This year, donations continued to come in. In the final week of the campaign, the Tories managed to raise <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/05/conservatives-raise-10-times-more-than-labour-in-late-donations" href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/05/conservatives-raise-10-times-more-than-labour-in-late-donations" rel="nofollow">10 times more</a> donations than Labour — a total of a further £1.36 million — once again largely from hedge fund managers, property tycoons, and a telecoms firm that has avoided paying corporation tax in the UK since 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Political parties appear to have achieved electoral success in direct proportion to the amount of money received to fund their political campaigns, indicating that the most important precondition for victory in Britain’s broken democracy is the party’s subservience to corporate power.<br /> </span></div>
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<strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">Oligarchy</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The role of party donors in determining election outcomes — by determining the effectiveness and reach of national public relations campaigns — has consistently been overlooked by the main parties, despite some obligatory lipservice that has gone nowhere tangible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the last five years, 41% of all individual and corporate donations to British party political-related causes have come from <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-concerns-raised-as-just-76-individuals-account-for-41-of-all-political-related-donations-in-the-past-five-years-10187474.html" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-concerns-raised-as-just-76-individuals-account-for-41-of-all-political-related-donations-in-the-past-five-years-10187474.html" rel="nofollow">just 76</a> extremely wealthy people, including City financiers, corporate moguls, and owners of multi-million pound businesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Public relations spin has increasingly played a critical function in permitting corporate power to translate its wealth into political power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In their study of the subject, <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">A Century of Spin</em> (2007), Prof. David Miller and Dr. William Dinan, sociologists and directors of the public interest investigations body, Spinwatch, show how the corporate co-optation of PR has been used to subordinate liberal democracies to corporate rule, and to limit the scope of populist grassroots movements to influence the political party system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Under a climate of economic uncertainty and lack of independent sources of news and information, public opinion has become evermore vulnerable to slick partisan campaigns that mobilise wealth to create highly effective media spin by which to manipulate voters.<br /> </span></div>
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<strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">The Tory-UKIP money machine</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While UKIP has positioned itself as an independent counterweight to the ‘establishment’ parties, standing up for swathes of under-represented working people, the truth is the opposite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A large <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/meet-ukips-5-biggest-donors-4909075" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/meet-ukips-5-biggest-donors-4909075" rel="nofollow">bulk</a> of UKIP’s funding boost came from former <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10833644/Ukip-enjoys-donation-surge-after-Tory-donors-defect.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10833644/Ukip-enjoys-donation-surge-after-Tory-donors-defect.html" rel="nofollow">Tory donors</a>, millionaire bankers, and corporate executives, pushing the fringe party to receive the third largest percentage of the vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But not all these former Tory donors are former Tory donors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘Former’ Tory donor Robin Birley, for instance, who owns a Mayfair nightclub and who is one of UKIP’s biggest donors, had also bankrolled the campaign of Tory MP Michael Gove, government chief whip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another major former Tory donor, Growth Financial Services, switched to UKIP in 2014, giving the party £90,000 before <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/ukip-donor-is-also-bankrolling-michael-goves-re-elec" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/ukip-donor-is-also-bankrolling-michael-goves-re-elec" rel="nofollow">switching back</a> to fund the re-election campaigns of two prominent Tory MPs, Amber Rudd and Mark Field, who sits on the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Similarly, hedge fund millionaire Crispin Odey donated to UKIP in 2014, but in late March 2015 provided funds to support the re-election of Tory MP and climate denier Jacob Rees-Mogg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, a number of major Tory donors plugged into the heart of the Conservative Party establishment were funding both UKIP and Tory political opponents.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Days before the elections, Tory-UKIP funder Robin Birley told pro-Tory newspaper<em class="markup--em markup--p-em">The Telegraph</em> that UKIP supporters should <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11587745/Major-Ukip-donor-urges-partys-supporters-to-vote-Conservative-in-unwinnable-seats.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11587745/Major-Ukip-donor-urges-partys-supporters-to-vote-Conservative-in-unwinnable-seats.html" rel="nofollow">strategically vote Conservative</a> in seats that UKIP could not win — which was most of them. In seats that Tories were unlikely to win, he urged Tory supporters to vote UKIP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Tory-UKIP switch strategy, he said, would “stop Britain being left with a government being formed by a hard left rabble of parties.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ironically, Birley’s recommendations for UKIP supporters to vote tactically for the Tories were vehemently opposed by Nigel Farage, the very leader of the party he had funded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the idea of a Tory-UKIP strategic voting bloc had also been <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11581655/Vote-Ukip-where-Tories-cant-win-oldest-Conservative-think-tank-says.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/11581655/Vote-Ukip-where-Tories-cant-win-oldest-Conservative-think-tank-says.html" rel="nofollow">endorsed</a> just days before Birley’s announcement by the Bow Group, the oldest conservative think-tank in Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chaired by Ben Harris-Quinney, who has worked on foreign policy issues for the Conservative Party in the UK and EU parliaments, the Bow Group includes on its board of patrons several senior Tory figures, such as Lord Norman Lamont, Lord Michael Heseltine, Lord Michael Howard, and Lord Earl Howe — who as of 2010 was appointed by David Cameron as Department of Health minister.<br /> </span></div>
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<strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">MI5 and The Bow Group</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bow Group’s Conservative Party patrons had all served in senior Cabinet positions, under either Margaret Thatcher or John Major. All four of them made a point of publicly distancing themselves from their chairman’s exhortations to vote UKIP, which were published by <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">The Telegraph</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But also on the board of patrons is renowned philosopher, Prof. Roger Scruton, who has been connected to dubious anti-left intelligence information operations. Unlike his colleagues in the Tory party, Scruton was silent throughout this affair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the 1980s, Scruton was a member of the neoconservative <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/white-supremacists-heart-whitehall-789183852#sthash.B1nXvVwx.dpuf" href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/white-supremacists-heart-whitehall-789183852#sthash.B1nXvVwx.dpuf" rel="nofollow">Hillgate Group</a>, a network of British academics who coordinated various policy publications to influence government. Their focus was hyping up the threat of Marxist, leftwing or “radical” infiltration of British universities and schools. Scruton admitted to historian David Callaghan, however, that the Group’s policy reports were “quietly encouraged by 10 Downing Street to concoct an outside pressure group to influence policy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scruton’s Hillgate Group was run by Baroness Caroline Cox, another senior Conservative Party figure with a history of political agitation on behalf of British intelligence. In 1977, Cox was part of a study group behind a report on how leftwing “radical minorities” were subverting “capitalist, free market civilisation.” The report was published by the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC), a “think tank” created jointly by the British and American intelligence services, specifically the CIA, an MI5-MI6 linked intelligence unit in the Cabinet Office, and the Foreign Office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bow Group’s role in promoting the Tory-UKIP voting strategy was therefore not a curious aberration. Rather, it reflected a strategy being explored by senior elements in the Tory establishment and its elite support-base in the corporate oligarchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scruton’s role in the Bow Group further raises questions about the role of Downing Street and Britain’s intelligence services in the use of UKIP to ramp up pro-Tory votes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roger Scruton could not be reached for comment.<br /> </span></div>
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<strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">MI5 and UKIP</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unbeknown to many, UKIP too had early roots in Britain’s intelligence services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2001, former Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit called for an independent inquiry into <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://news.sky.com/story/35324/tebbits-mi5-infiltration-claims" href="http://news.sky.com/story/35324/tebbits-mi5-infiltration-claims" rel="nofollow">revelations</a> that UKIP had been infiltrated by MI5. In a televised interview on BBC News, Tebbit said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“A chap came to me and said UKIP had been infiltrated by the British intelligence services and then he gave me two names of people and from various ways I came to the conclusion that I was absolutely and completely certain that these people — although they had left the service and the Foreign Office some years earlier — in fact had been intelligence agents.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Tebbit explained in a <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Spectator</em> <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2013/04/did-mi6-plot-against-ukip/" href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2013/04/did-mi6-plot-against-ukip/" rel="nofollow">article</a> that even Douglas Murray recently endorsed, he “half-heartedly” made his “own inquiries” after a source inside UKIP raised the concerns with him, “and unexpectedly struck gold… I am perfectly sure that the individuals had been active agents, although both would claim to have retired some years ago.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tebbit had not suggested that UKIP’s leadership was aware of the intelligence operation. At the time, Nigel Farage admitted that he could not discount Tebbit’s allegations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It eventually turned out that the two people identified by Tebbit — Heather Conyngham and Christopher Skeate — had indeed been former MI6 officers, who had worked together at one time in Latin America. They were also both senior figures in the now defunct Referendum Party, Skeate as a candidate in 1997.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Robin Birley, the major Tory-UKIP donor who had urged a Tory-UKIP mutual tactical voting strategy, was at that time operations director of the Referendum Party, a Eurosceptic party similar to UKIP. Both Conyngham and Skeate had transferred their allegiance to UKIP after the death of Referendum Party founder, Sir James Goldsmith (Birley’s stepfather).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Birley and his Referendum Party also had a wider relationship to Latin America, specifically Chile. In 1998, Birley had recruited Referendum’s communications director, Patrick Robertson, to work with his campaign group, ‘Chilean Supporters Abroad,’ in support of notorious dictator Chilean General Pinochet, who had been supported by Margaret Thatcher herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The late Pinochet had been installed in a brutal military coup in 1973, which had been planned and backed by the CIA and MI6 since the democratic elections that brought leftwing nationalist President Salvador Allende to power in 1970. Birley’s ‘Chilean Supporters Abroad’ published a pro-Pinochet pamphlet that promulgated a range of <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.economist.com/node/184063" href="http://www.economist.com/node/184063" rel="nofollow">MI6 and CIA disinformation</a> about Allende.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Senior Tory pro-Pinochet apologists Norman Lamont and Michael Howard are today senior patrons of the Bow Group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It later transpired that Tebbit’s original informant was then UKIP press officer Chris Jones, who months earlier had written a <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.borderland.co.uk/travel-mainmenu-32/22-the-secret-state/the-secret-state/42-dummy-article5.html" href="http://www.borderland.co.uk/travel-mainmenu-32/22-the-secret-state/the-secret-state/42-dummy-article5.html" rel="nofollow">formal letter</a> to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Tribunal about his “allegation, based on detailed circumstantional [sic] evidence gathered over 5 months that UKIP has been penetrated and is largely controlled by British Intelligence agents.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The letter requested that the Tribunal:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“… call upon files on UKIP: myself: Dr R AE North: G Franklyn-Ryan: Nigel Farage MEP: Heather Coyningham a former FCO official; Christopher Skeate also FCO: Tony Stone: Mark Daniel (alias): Janet Girsman and G Lance Watkins.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The curious overlap of MI5-MI6 officers with the Referendum, UKIP and Tory parties, and the movement of donors between all three parties, raises questions about the manipulation of the popular vote by a nexus of powerful British interests encompassing a network of corporate elites and Whitehall officials<br /> </span></div>
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<strong class="markup--strong markup--h4-strong"><span style="font-size: large;">MI5 and SNP</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Tory-UKIP nexus is not the only instance offering disturbing evidence of the interference of British intelligence in our national elections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last month, <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">The Telegraph</em> — which had also promoted the Tory-UKIP strategy put out by the Bow Group and Robin Birley — published an ‘exclusive’ about a leaked FCO memo, which purportedly recorded Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon telling the French Ambassador she would prefer a Tory government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But as former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan and longtime Foreign Office (FCO) official, Craig Murray, remarked about the alleged <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/04/uk-intelligence-services-attack-snp/" href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/04/uk-intelligence-services-attack-snp/" rel="nofollow">memo</a>, “both sides of the alleged conversation categorically deny it was said. Nicola Sturgeon denies she said it and the French Embassy deny she said it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Supposedly, the confidential contents of Sturgeon’s meeting with the French Ambassador had been passed to the Foreign Office and transcribed by a Whitehall official as a matter of FCO <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/04/ed-miliband-nicola-sturgeon-allegations-damning-labour-snp-david-cameron" href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/04/ed-miliband-nicola-sturgeon-allegations-damning-labour-snp-david-cameron" rel="nofollow">protocol</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The extraordinary thing is, this is just a lie,” said Murray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“As someone who worked in the FCO for over twenty years and was an Ambassador myself, I can assure you there is absolutely no protocol requirement on the French Ambassador to give the FCO the content of the meetings she, her Consul-General or anybody else from the French Embassy held in Edinburgh. That claim is absolute nonsense.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even more bizarrely, it turned out that the Foreign Office itself <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/sturgeon-memo" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/sturgeon-memo" rel="nofollow">denied</a> being the source of the alleged ‘leaked memo.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drawing on the example of the MI6-forged Zinoviev letter ‘leaked’ to the <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Daily Mail</em> in 1924, which triggered the fall of the Labour government, Murray concluded: “The fake FCO memo has MI5 written all over it. This is the worst example of British security services influencing an election campaign since the Zinoviev letter.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I have been warning the SNP that we are going to be the target of active subversion by the UK and US security services. We are seen as a danger to the British state and thus a legitimate target,” the former Ambassador added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“That the attempt to destabilise Nicola Sturgeon originates with the UK government and the <em class="markup--em markup--pullquote-em">Telegraph</em> should give everyone pause. It is very obviously a security service effort. How otherwise is an account which the French Embassy says is completely false, contained in an official memo to be leaked? This episode raises very serious questions. But they are not questions about Nicola Sturgeon. They are questions about the subversion of democracy by the security services, and the willing complicity of the corporate media.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is thus alarming evidence that not just Big Money, but Big Brother, made a concerted effort to disrupt the SNP and co-opt UKIP, as a mechanism to sideline what Birnley characterised as a “hard left rabble of parties,” cementing a Tory parliamentary majority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next five years promises more of what we have already seen over the last five years: austerity, corporate empowerment, privatisation of public services widening inequality, continued obfuscation on climate change, subservience to Big Oil and nuclear lobbies, and a return of the <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/snoopers-charter-set-to-return-to-law-as-theresa-may-suggests-conservative-majority-could-lead-to-huge-increase-in-surveillance-powers-10235578.html" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/snoopers-charter-set-to-return-to-law-as-theresa-may-suggests-conservative-majority-could-lead-to-huge-increase-in-surveillance-powers-10235578.html" rel="nofollow">snoopers’ charter</a> — previously blocked by the Lib Dems — that would enshrine excessively intrusive surveillance powers into law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we should make no mistake. This is not a victory for British democracy. It is a victory for Britain’s increasingly draconian corporate-security complex.</span></div>
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<b>Lessons of the Tory Victory<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />By Jonathan Cook </span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">May 10, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - </span><span style="font-size: large;"> There’s much that could be said about the Conservative party’s victory today in Britain’s election. Not least David Cameron has emerged stronger: he now has a small but absolute majority in parliament, compared to his last government, in which he had to share power, a little of it anyway, with his minor coalition partners, the Lib Dems.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">According to the rules of the British system, he has won a supposed mandate to carry out all his party’s policies, even though the Tories gained the support of slightly less than 25% of the total electorate, and little more than a third of those who actually voted. That in itself should be enough to discredit the idea that Britain is a democracy in any meaningful sense.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But I want to focus on two issues that this particular election highlighted. Although this refers to the British election, the lessons apply equally to US elections.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The first is a debate that gripped some on the far left after Russell Brand interviewed Labour leader Ed Miliband and subsequently gave Miliband his backing. This was quite a surprise – and disappointment – given that Brand had shaken up British politics over the previous 18 months by arguing that the whole political system was inherently flawed and undemocratic. He had called on people not to vote as a way to show that the system had no popular legitimacy, and invest their energies instead in a different kind of grassroots politics. Britain’s two main parties, Brand and others argued, represented the interests of the big corporations that now dominate Britain and much of the globe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The labels of Conservative and Labour are the misleading vestiges of a time when there was some sort of class politics in Britain: the Tories representing the unalloyed interests of the capitalist class, and Labour the interests of organised labour. But the Tories under Margaret Thatcher long ago destroyed the power of the trade unions. Labour became a shell of its former self, its finances and ability to organise workers crumbled as the corporations entrenched their power, assisted by the Tories.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Under a power-hungry Tony Blair, Labour allowed itself to be captured by those same corporations, famously illustrated by his Faustian pact with media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Labour sold what was left of its soul, becoming a Tory-lite party, and winning the support of Murdoch and his media empire as a result.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Brand seemed to understand this, arguing that what we needed was to turn our back on sham elections every five years between two parties representing the interests of the 1%. Instead the people needed to foment a non-violent political revolution, and take back power. How did voting for Miliband, a man who had largely adopted the Blair credo, make sense in the light of Brand’s earlier claims?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Brand justified his change of mind using a familiar argument. He admitted Miliband was far from perfect but was still the preferable choice because he was prepared to listen to the people, unlike Cameron’s Conservatives. He was the “lesser evil” choice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The problem with his logic – aside from its faith-based component – was that the same argument could have been used about any recent British election. It was an excuse to avoid engaging in real politics.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Supporters of Tony Blair, even after he committed the supreme war crime by invading Iraq, could have argued quite convincingly that the Tories too would have invaded Iraq – plus they would have done worse things at home, inflicting greater damage on the health and education systems. Thus, on the lesser-evil argument, it was legitimate to vote for the war criminal Blair. A man like Blair could destroy another nation, cause suffering on a scale unimaginable to most of us, and yet still claim the moral high ground because the alternative would be even worse.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The faulty logic of the lesser-evil argument is apparent the moment we consider the Blair case. If there is no political cost for committing the ultimate war crime, because the other guys are worse, what real leverage can the electorate ever have on the political system. The “left” vote will always gravitate to the slightly less nasty party of capital. No change is really possible. In fact, over time the political centre of gravity is likely to shift – as has in fact happened – ever more to the right, as the corporations accrete ever greater power.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Further, where does Brand’s logic take us now that Miliband has lost. If we were supposed to have faith that Miliband would have listened had he achieved power, then why not extend that faith to his successor? If we are satisfied by the lesser-evil argument, why not wait till the next election to see if we can get another slightly less nasty candidate into Downing Street? We can defer the choice to demand real change indefinitely.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The second point is that the programme of extreme austerity at the heart of Cameron’s manifesto has been fully discredited by most economists over the past few years. Not only does it penalise the overwhelming majority of the population by redistributing wealth away from the working and middles classes to the financial elite, but it also inflicts great damage on the long term health of the economy. In other words, British voters look like supreme masochists. They voted to seriously harm their own, and their country’s, interests. Are Britons collectively insane?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, not. So how can we explain their insane choice this week? The answer is staring us in the face. In fact, Blair showed us what was required to win a British election. A party hoping to win power needed first to seduce the corporations, and their media divisions. Without most of the media on your side, no party stands a chance of winning because the media subtly controls the narrative of the election: what count as “the issues”, how the leaders and their platforms are presented, what and who is considered credible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Miliband’s failure was that, unlike Blair, he looked a little half-hearted about his desire to be the 1%’s mouthpiece in parliament and Downing Street. Maybe what seduced Brand about Miliband was the sliver of humanity that was still just visible below the surface of the corporate employee the Labour party had groomed their leader to become.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The revolution that we need in Britain and the US has to start with a disengagement from the mainstream media’s representation of events. We have to discard their narratives. Even more important than an overhauled electoral system, one that fairly reflects the electorate’s preferences, we need a grassroots media that is free of the control of fabulously wealthy proprietors and major corporations, that does not depend on the massive subsidies of corporations (in the form of advertising), and that does not rely, like the BBC, on funding from government. We need independent journalists, and we need to demand a new funding model for the media. And we need to do all this while the mainstream media entirely control the narrative about what a free media is.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is a huge challenge – and one that reflects the extent of our own ideological confinement. Just like the political parties, we have been captured by the 1%. We cannot imagine a different world, a different economic system, a different media landscape, because our intellectual horizons have been so totally restricted by the media conglomerates that control our newspapers, our TV and radio stations, the films we watch, the video games we play, the music we listen to. We are so imaginatively confined we cannot even see the narrow walls within which our minds are allowed to wander.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As long as the media represent the span of interests of the 1% – from the psychopathic Murdoch empire to the capitalism with a little heart of the Guardian Media Group – our politicians will range from the Blue Tories of the Conservative party to the Red Tories of the Labour party. And we will remain enslaved.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="//www.thepetitionsite.com/embed.js"></script><div class="care2PetitionEmbed" rssPath="571641283" adSize="interstitial" publisherId="180301876" buttonColor="#94a513"></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12073651560854311258noreply@blogger.com0Belfast, Belfast, UK54.597285000000007 -5.930119999999988154.450095000000005 -6.2528434999999885 54.744475000000008 -5.6073964999999877tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431408923998878370.post-70740715409585617852015-05-09T11:11:00.000+01:002015-05-09T17:06:02.958+01:00DIALECTIC OF DIRTY TALK & DIRTY WAR<br />
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<b><br />Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has got one, however, we would all be full of crap without them. Neither has anyone a monopoly on the truth, which is rarely pure and never simple, as Oscar Wilde stated. When I first came across the subject of the Dialectic, I responded that it sounded too complicated for me but it was pointed out to me, that it was my resposnibility to educate myself about it, if I ever wanted to contribute anything progessive to the future. I found it hard to stomach, coming from an English woman, but I learned in subsequent years, there was much, that is useful, I could learn from the English. </b><br />
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<b>They tend to be always prepared, before they go into battle, they are organized and they stick together, so it would be foolish with our own history, to ignore this, aside from the Dialectics of Materialism. Being raised a Catholic, I was taught concepts, like the Pope was infallible and while I have a certain respect for the present incumbent, I have learned from experience, that no one is infallibe, especially myself. What I have learned to trust, is the commonsense of experience, both personally and historically, with the proviso of finding truthellers, which are rare. I believe Truth is the most powerful thing on the face of this earth but to find truth and commonsense, I need to have the patience and tolerance, to listen through the many talking heads that abound. </b><br />
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<b>This most certainly also applies to what I read or observe on virtual reality screens, which are a far cry from reality. I present below what I believe, are some very important articles, on contemporary political events. I have a lot of respect for political prisoners, who have done time for their community and country, but I also have learned from bitter, bitter, experience, to put no one on a pedestal and I share this health warning, to include everyone, including myself. Ireland desperately needs an honest Dialectic, unrestricted by censorship, disinformation or time constraints It is being currently being poisoned, restricted, censored and interned by low intensity British Dirty War in all of Ireland.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> Republican Sinn Féin North Armagh Combat Scourge Of Drugs In Community</span><br />
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<b>A press release from Republican Sinn Féin about a drugs issue in North Armagh. </b><br />
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<b>Over the May bank holiday weekend a member of the public handed over a quantity of drugs to a member of Sinn Fein Poblachtach which had been found in the Lurgan/Craigavon area.</b><br />
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<b>These were then in turn handed to a local clergyman to arrange for safe disposal. Daire Mac Cionnaith, Leas Uachtarain, Shinn Fein Poblachtach commended the person who handed over the drugs for their civic mindedness. </b><br />
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<b>North Armagh is awash with drugs of all sorts, with drug dealers openly dealing on street corners and driving around in high-performance cars. The only response to this crisis must be a community based response. The Republican and nationalist people must work together to combat the scourge of drugs and those who deal them.</b><br />
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<b>It is quite evident that the RUC/PSNI has no intention of dealing with this issue; on the contrary, they seem happy to see our children hooked on drugs and to take advantage of those addicted to use as informers.</b><br />
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<b>We call on all within our community, who are aware of drug dealing to make it known to local activists and work together as a community to rid ourselves of this scourge.</b><br />
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<b><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null"></a>frankie white said... </b><br />
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<b>I know unionists and shinners often use malicious rumours about republican involvement in the drugs trade, but as a resident of North Lurgan I can categorically state RSF are in no place to combat the scourge of Drugs in working class communities, several members of RSF I know for a fact are involved in the drugs trade, some of the old guard have members of their families who are well known drug users and hoods, and the main supplier of drugs in North Armagh, his father was previously associated with RSF.</b><br />
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<b>It may seem like the sort of Sunday World sensationalism that we all rightly scoff at but anyone who lives in Kilwilke or Drumbeg knows exactly who I am talking about.</b><br />
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<b>1:26 PM, May 08, 2015 <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null"></a>Daire Mac Cionnaith said... </b><br />
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<b>Frankie as a member of RSF in North Armagh I can state that no member of RSF is involved in the drug Trade and the old guard as you call them also have no association with RSF there blind protection of their family members involved in drugs is a total Disgrace, if you had any evidence of this I would urge you to bring it forward, but like all those who hide behind fake profile's on social media I wouldn't hold out much hope of you producing evidence,</b><br />
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<b>I have been a member of RSF for the past ten year in north lurgan ,and as a member I have never been associated with drugs / drug dealers during this time. I also can assure the people of lurgan that my associates have also never been involved in any such dealings. The people of lurgan know who the drug dealers are. It's easy for people like Mr white to muddy the water by spreading lies and rumours. It is a well known fact that RSF have openly challenged these drug dealers and will continue to do so. There has never bein anyone associated with drugs or drug dealing in RSF and never will . Being apart of RSF means openly challenging these issues that our young people face therefore i strongly suggest that Mr white take into great consideration the consequences that can arise from pointing fingers at the wrong people. Drug abuse and drug dealings will continue if the real culprits are not dealt with.11:38 PM, May 08, 2015</b><br />
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<b>larry hughes said...<br /><br />Accusations are the easiest thing to sling around. Sadly people love it and thrive on it. I don't live in Lurgan but I have family there and 3 grown up 'kids' so I have an idea of what is going on now and then. I have never even heard the suggestion republicans were dabbling in drugs. So personally I'm inclined to throw that story over my shoulder like a pinch of salt and walk on.9:15 AM, May 09, 2015</b><br />
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<b><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Irish republican socialists call on Real IRA to end 'armed struggle' </span><br /><br /><br />Internal paper from political wing of Irish group that assassinated Airey Neave is made public, calling armed republican actions ‘self-defeating’ <br /><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgZ9b6P7TGqLNBHctWzJkJjYupBeIJcT77tBUergUEUZBL8hmOG27vdpIxylpH5aTaKi4vbWCksBPtny6etDZ0G39tIfp4CsQyEghKsPxGFZI6UMK3CL8nRIfqkn4_Axx6UHBtoRVhKJSkBQXU3dxysPLgbkDm2l_Ei6s5Tmj4Ciff0FK29-fMg9sQ7Lfpt3kNuLD8VpTGkH_VtFXQbQQqBqcU1Iqq-eD7jT0vmNawAZWSUYZKvmdKZslUwSVpMh4THL1DZKb-J9COlNBv1DGAGTQAeoyQ=" /> Members of the Real IRA at a republican Easter commemoration ceremony in 2010. The new paper says armed actions are hampering the republican movement. Photograph: Niall Carson/P<br /><br />Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent<br /><br /><br />Monday 4 May 2015 18.26 BSTLast modified on Monday 4 May 201519.54 BST<br /><br /><br />An internal document from the political wing of the Irish terror group that assassinated one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest allies calling on the Real IRA, also known as New IRA, and other dissident republicans to end their “armed struggle” has been made public.<br /><br /><br />The Irish Republican Socialist party discussion paper describes the hardline republicans’ ongoing armed campaigns as a “self-defeating dynamic”.<br /><br /><br />The IRSP are the political allies of the Irish National Liberation Army, which in 1979 exploded a booby trap bomb under the car belonging to the Conservative party’s Northern Ireland spokesman and second world war hero Airey Neave in Westminster. The Colditz escapee’s murder in the House of Commons car park catapulted the INLA, then a small splinter organisation, into international infamy. Neave, a strong supporter of unionism, was a close adviser and personal friend to Thatcher, who was elected prime minister a few months after his death.<br /><br /><br />The intervention in the debate over the future of republican armed struggle is significant because dissidents opposed to the peace process remain on friendly terms with and respect many IRSP and INLA veterans.<br /><br /><br />In its discussion paper, the IRSP refers to the continued New IRA, Continuity IRA and Óghlaigh na hÉireann: “Sporadic armed actions are not working; they are placing zero pressure upon either the British/Stormont or Free State regimes nor upon the capitalist economic systems which underwrite all of those states.”<br /><br /><br />Former INLA hunger striker Willie Gallagher said he hoped that the publication of the document on the republican website The Pensive Quill would add to the debate about the efficacy of ”armed struggle”.<br /><br /><br />Gallagher said: “We are hoping that at the very least the paper will produce some discussion among all the anti-Good Friday Agreement republican family. It’s the first time it’s been made public and no longer behind closed doors ... the debate can be conducted in a comradely fashion.”<br /><br /><br />In their document, the IRSP claim the continued campaigns of violence are now counterproductive.<br /><br /><br />The republican socialist movement said the infrequent attacks on police, army and some symbolic targets are simply “...bolstering the budgets of British military intelligence and handing a monthly propaganda victory to those who wish to make partition, capitalism, austerity and overt security measures appear to the general public as the rational state of affairs in Ireland; rational in comparison to actions which only achieve a temporary sense of personal achievement for the individuals involved and their supporters on the ground.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/04/irish-republican-socialists-paper-real-ira-groups-end-armed-struggle#img-2"><img height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjl-F0mlHIa-I0Az3N1gfvOyfZhSSMMWssRk94vs_Q-Po1hkSpPUAc_NJCfNJDOq8Dit9WpMWcyTiT6RmOo8YilHXnzxVhOIg9tXxgH5XP_p4MbYkyEr50heRLa1X-GGNJFoe8knMbgmYBAjp5JvOzAle3mvebQOVt5_UL533yKo_jdt5dUayhP-LhXzlTKf1QmXS_QZpFK_PmOiUF93ilqK_rc9J42C3HhW4-IYgKuYZgeOzvzq66-RhVXrX4J2ID4D9oUwRmfN4kEmzQ_Ito9EPf3gK8=" width="408" /></a> The wreckage of a car hit by an INLA bomb killing the Tory spokesman on Northern Ireland, Airey Neave, in 1979.<br /><br /><br />The continuation of the armed campaigns were also hampering the growth of a broad-based leftwing republican alternative to Sinn Féin, the IRSP said.<br /><br /><br />“Just as advocates of current armed actions assert that they have a right to bear arms in the name of Irish freedom; in the spirit of comradeship we must urge them to consider what duties come with that right. Not least the duty to consider the logistical limitations which come with practicing armed struggle perpetually in a woefully unsuitable environment. And the very real costs of that decision, both to you personally and to the cause of building a capable revolutionary momentum, which the Irish people so dearly need and deserve,” the IRSP document continues.<br /><br /><br />It noted the increasing number of New IRA, CIRA and ONH members that were arrested and imprisoned in thwarted terror attacks.<br /><br /><br />“The imprisonment of so many political activists has been a godsend to the state and to opponents of popular political struggle in Ireland and not only in terms of bodies lost on the ground.<br /><br />“In addition to locking up scores of republicans; Britain has seized the opportunity to tie down remaining activists in an endless cycle of prison-based campaigns; ensuring that the time, resources and energies of militantly minded republicans are eternally deflected from the vital task of building a viable street-based alternative to the corrupt political and economic setup which now exists in Ireland.”<br /><br /><br />This is the latest critique of armed struggle within the broad-based and often factional wing of republicanism that opposes the Good Friday Agreement and Sinn Féin’s participation in the devolved power-sharing executive in Belfast funded by the UK treasury.<br /><br /><br />In 2014 Gerard Hodgins, a former Provisional IRA hunger striker and now one of Sinn Féin’s harshest critics in West Belfast, called on the dissident groups to declare ceasefires. Hodgins said that the British state had the surveillance technology to watch the armed organisations “24/7” and that the conditions were not right for continuing armed campaigns.<br /><br /><br />Earlier this year Hodgins’ warning was echoed by the hardline Irish-American critic of the peace process Martin Galvin, whom the Thatcher government once banned from Northern Ireland in the 1980s.<br /><br /><br />The Pensive Quill is run by former IRA prisoner Anthony McIntyre. It gives a voice to republicans and republican socialists opposed to Sinn Féin’s peace strategy and opposes any return to violence.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">UK: Election 2015: The Horror</span><br /><br />By Matt Carr<br /><br />May 08, 2015 "<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/">Information Clearing House"</a> - I didn’t stay up to watch the nightmare unfold last night. The exit polls filled me with such shock, outrage, and disgust that I knew my blood pressure wouldn’t be able to cope with it. After eleven o’clock there was no way I was going to spend any more time in the company of Michael Gove and Andrew Neil and the endlessly cheery and upbeat BBC journalists with their gimmicky nausea-inducing BBC graphics showing the House of Commons filled with virtual reality politicians.<br /><br /><br />I have never been impressed by Miliband either before the campaign or during it, but the things that this government have done – and which it promises to do – have been so brutal, so dishonest and so horrendous, that I believed that even an electorate that too often seems all too willing to believe anything and accept anything could not give the Tories a mandate. Regardless of the coming Labour meltdown in Scotland, I thought there would be a close result overall, possibly a narrow Labour victory and most likely a hung parliament that would have stymied the Tories and forced Miliband into some kind of progressive, anti-austerity coalition.<br /><br /><br />After all, you don’t need to be particularly radical to think that proposals like abolishing non-dom status or imposing an energy freeze might appeal even to people whose political passions are as lukewarm as the Labour Party leadership’s, especially when compared with the prospect of five more years of a government poised to introduce the most savage cuts to social welfare since the 1930s. But nope, even those little social democratic sweeties couldn’t bring the electorate round. Instead British – I mean English – voters chose to reward one of the most vicious rightwing governments in British history with a near majority.<br /><br /><br />It’s a result that was made possible by a sheeplike, frightened and rancorous population that appears increasingly disposed to believe all the lies that it is told by its vile newspapers. It is an irrational, stupid and fearful vote by an electorate that doesn’t even recognize its own self-interest, let alone the interests of others, that has abandoned any commitment to even the most elementary principles of social justice; that didn’t couldn’t even see that Miliband’s tepid, focus-group-manufactured One Nation ‘fairness’ was still preferable to the dismal social cruelty that the government has already inflicted and which is certain to intensify in the next five years.<br /><br /><br />In doing so the English have demonstrated extraordinary political cowardice. Lacking the gumption to challenge the powerful, they have preferred to elect a government that victimizes the powerless. This is a population that prefers to doff the cap than bite the hand that it thinks feeds; that expresses its digusts with politicians by voting in the worst of them; that drapes itself in the Union Jack and doffs its collective hat to its masters in the hope that it can be like them; that would rather blame the Scots who want to fight austerity than fight it themselves.<br /><br /><br />I know that this vote doesn’t represent majority opinion either in England or in the UK as a whole; the British voting system ensures that few votes ever do. But the Tories have so far picked up some 30 percent of the vote share. Equally alarmingly, UKip have gained more than 3 million votes even though they have so far only won one seat, and they even managed to increase their vote share in Wales by ten percent.<br /><br /><br />So we are witnessing an extraordinary disaster for the majority of the population that is not and never will be Conservative, and a catastrophe for the Labour Party in particular. Now as Ed Miliband prepares to depart, the Blairites are sharpening their knives, and there are rumours that David Miliband is flying back to the country. So Miliband will be replaced by Miliband, and they wonder why so few people were convinced by Labour.<br /><br /><br />Miliband has said that his party was ‘overwhelmed’ by a ‘surge of nationalism’ in Scotland. This is rubbish. Labour could still have won even without the seats it lost to the SNP. Miliband’s pseudo-explanation doesn’t explain why that ‘surge’ took place, or what it was in the SNP’s ‘nationalism’ that led so many former Labour voters in Scotland came to regard Labour as ‘Red Tories.’<br /><br /><br />Even in Gordon Brown’s constituency, the SNP won with with a 10,000 swing. So much for the big clunking fist who ‘saved the union.’ Labour’s fate was clearly sealed in Scotland long before the election, through years of taking its electorate for granted and through its alliance with the Tories over the referendum campaign. But even during this campaign Nicola Sturgeon continually put forward the idea of a ‘progressive anti-austerity alliance’ on both sides of the border, which Miliband continually rejected.<br /><br /><br />What a coward and what a fool. Instead he tried to convince the electorate that Labour was the party of social justice, even as he remained committed to an austerity programme of unspecified cuts that was essentially a ‘softer’ version of what the Tories were already planning. He tried to please all the people and ended up pleasing very few of them. He didn’t convince left-leaning voters that he would ‘change the way the country is run’ and he didn’t convince those who already believe in Tory economic ‘competence’ that he could run it more effeciently.<br /><br /><br />In the end the head boy failed to become PM. He failed to offer a convincing, compelling and inspiring vision of the future to counter the Tories’ crude but effective choice between ‘stability’ and ‘chaos’ or the notion that Labour would damage the fledgling ‘recovery’ that is already faltering. This message was rammed relentlessly home by the rightwing press and even by the Independent, which declared itself in favour of Tory/Lib Dem ‘stability.<br /><br /><br />The Cameron/Crosby team didn’t just convince a timid electorate that the status quo was better than the future that Labour was offering; they also appealed directly to English nationalism, with a ‘Vote Labour – Get Sturgeon/Salmond’ mantra that will always have traction in a country that always believes it is being unfairly treated and taken advantage of by foreigners of some kind or another, even if those ‘foreigners’ are Scots.<br /><br /><br />Whatever you think of the SNP’s ability to deliver on its social democratic credentials, its appeal to the Scots electorate is clearly based on very different premises than the beligerent, rancorous, flagwaving, royal baby worshipping, foreigner-hating nativism that is driving English nationalism in its current manifestation.<br /><br /><br />In Scotland, ‘nationalism’ produced a movement in which a 20-year-old student can overturn a Labour majority of 16,000 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South. In her victory speech Mhairi Black promised that she would fight to end austerity cuts that are hurting communities ‘ both north and south of the border.’<br /><br /><br />God only knows what might have happened if we had had more people of her age and with her passion and commitment down here in darkest England. Black, and the voters who elected her, have been inspired by a new and postive vision of Scotland’s collective future to take a gigantic leap into the political unknown. Here we have the rancid pseudo-rebellion of Ukip, and a population that is too terrified of its own shadow to abandon a spurious ‘stability’ which promises nothing but the demise of many of the things that it claims to hold dear.<br /><br /><br />Ironically, voters who may have seen a Tory mandate as a vote for the Union may have helped to bring its demise closer, since it is difficult to imagine how a government like this can keep the Scots on board, when Cameron and his gang of millionaires set about imposing the next swathe of cuts in a country where they no longer hold any mandate at all.<br /><br /><br />There were some consolations in this debacle; the well-deserved humiliation of the Lib Dems, whose opportunism and ambition for power did so much to make this outcome possible, by keeping in place a government that should never have made it out of 2010. There will hopefully, be the defeat of Nigel Farage in South Thanet.<br /><br /><br />But these are small crumbs of schadenfreude that cannot compensate for the monumental disaster for progressive politics that took place yesterday. Maybe something positive will come from it. But right now I can’t think what it can be. And I feel ashamed of my country and disgusted with it.<br /><br />Matt Carr is a writer and journalist, living in Derbyshire England.http://infernalmachine.co.uk<br /><br /><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Seamus Costello</span><br /><br /><br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br /><br />Seamus Costello <br /><br /><br />Wicklow County Councillor <br /><br /><br />In office<br /><br />March 1967 – October 1977 <br /><br /><br />Constituency <br /><br />Bray <br /><br /><br />Personal details <br /><br /><br />Born <br /><br />1939<br /><br />Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow <br /><br /><br />Died <br /><br />5 October 1977 (aged 38) <br /><br /><br />Nationality <br /><br />Irish <br /><br /><br />Political party <br /><br />Irish Republican Socialist Party <br /><br /><br />Other political<br /><br />affiliations <br /><br />Sinn Féin (1955–1970)<br /><br />Official Sinn Féin (1970–1974) <br /><br /><br />Spouse(s) <br /><br />Maeliosa Costello <br /><br /><br /><br />Seamus Costello (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language">Irish</a>:Séamus Mac Coisdealbha, 1939 – 5 October 1977) was a leader of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Ireland">Official Sinn Féin</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Irish_Republican_Army">Official Irish Republican Army</a> and latterly of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Socialist_Party">Irish Republican Socialist Party</a> (IRSP) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Liberation_Army">Irish National Liberation Army</a> (INLA).<br /><br /><br />He argued for a combination of socialist politics on economic issues and traditional <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_force_Irish_republicanism">physical force Irish republicanism</a>. He is best remembered for the founding of the IRSP and the INLA. He was a victim of a feud with his former comrades in the Official IRA.<br /><br /> Early life and IRA Border Campaign<br /><br /><br />Born into a middle-class family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bray">Bray</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Wicklow">County Wicklow</a>, he was educated at Christian Brothers College, Monkstown. He left school at 15 and became a mechanic and later car salesman in Dublin.<br /><br /><br />At the age of 16 he joined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sinn_F%C3%A9in">Sinn Féin</a> and the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1922-1969)">Irish Republican Army</a>. Within a year, he was commanding an active service unit in south<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Londonderry">County Londonderry</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Campaign_(IRA)">Border Campaign</a>, where his leadership skills and burning down of the courthouse in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magherafelt">Magherafelt</a>earned him the nickname of "the Boy General".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Costello#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The unit's most publicised actions included the destruction of bridges.<br /><br /><br />He was arrested in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencree">Glencree</a>, County Wicklow, in 1957 and sentenced to six months in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountjoy_Prison">Mountjoy Prison</a>. On his release, he was immediately interned in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curragh_Camp">Curragh</a> prison camp for two years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Costello#cite_note-3">[3]</a><br /><br /><br />He spent his time in prison studying. He was particularly inspired by his studies of the Vietnamese struggle for independence. He became a member of the escape committee which engineered the successful escapes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruair%C3%AD_%C3%93_Br%C3%A1daigh">Ruairí Ó Brádaigh</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1ith%C3%AD_%C3%93_Conaill">Dáithí Ó Conaill</a>, among others. Costello would later refer to this time as his "university days".<br /> Political activism<br /><br /><br />After his release, Costello worked to rebuild the republican movement, beginning by building a local base of support in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Wicklow">County Wicklow</a> as Sinn Féin's local organiser. Costello strongly supported the movement's left-wing orientation of these years – especially its emphasis on grassroots political activism. He helped found a strong tenants' association in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bray">Bray</a>, and also became involved with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_union">credit union</a>movement and various farmers' organisations. During this period, he found time to marry a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipperary">Tipperary</a> woman, Maeliosa, who also became active in the republican movement. Costello was elected to both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bray_Urban_District_Council">Bray Urban District Council</a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicklow_County_Council">Wicklow County Council</a> in 1966.<br /><br /><br />After <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles">the Troubles</a> broke out in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>in 1969, the IRA and Sinn Féin squabbled over<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstentionism">abstentionism</a> and the left-wing faction's socialist politics. The Republican Movement divided into Official and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_IRA">Provisional</a> movements in 1969, but Costello remained with the Officials, owing to a greater commitment to left-wing politics. He served as Vice-President of Official Sinn Féin and as a staff officer in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_IRA">Official IRA</a>.<br /><br /><br />Costello was opposed to the 1972 ceasefire, started to clash openly with the leadership and with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eoin_O%27Murch%C3%BA&action=edit&redlink=1">Eoin O'Murchú</a>. Costello was subjected to court martial in 1974. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigid_Makowski">Brigid Makowski</a>, who was called to testify at his court martial in Mornington in County Louth, remarked that "Jesus could have testified on Costello's behalf and it wouldn't have changed the verdict."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Costello#cite_note-5">[5]</a>He was dismissed from OSF in 1974 after the OSF leadership blocked his supporters from attending the party convention.<br /><br /><br />He enjoyed considerable political support, being elected as chairman of Bray Town Council and topping the poll in his Bray constituency for Wicklow County Council.<br /> Founds INLA and IRSP<br /><br /><br />At a meeting in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan,_County_Dublin">Lucan</a> Spa Hotel near<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin">Dublin</a>, on 10 December 1974, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Socialist_Party">Irish Republican Socialist Party</a> was formed by republicans, socialists, and trade unionists with Costello as the Chairperson.<br /><br /><br />At a private meeting later the same day, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_National_Liberation_Army">Irish National Liberation Army</a> was formed with Costello as the Chief of Staff, although its existence was to be kept secret for a time. The new grouping intended to combine left-wing politics with the "armed struggle" against British security forces in Northern Ireland.<br /><br /><br />Within days of its founding, the fledgling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Socialist_Movement">Irish Republican Socialist Movement</a> was embroiled in a bitter feud with the Official IRA. The feud resulted in the attempted assassination of Official IRA leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Garland">Sean Garland</a> who was wounded in an IRSP attack near his home in the Ballymun area of Dublin (Garland was wounded six times but survived the attack). Before a truce was reached, three members of the IRSP were dead. Later that same year, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_McAliskey">Bernadette McAliskey</a> resigned from the IRSP over the failure of a motion that would have brought the INLA under IRSP control, taking over half of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%81rd_Chomhairle&action=edit&redlink=1">Árd Chomhairle</a> members with her.<br /><br /><br />In July 1976 Costello was replaced as INLA chief-of-staff by South Derry man <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eddy_McNicholl&action=edit&redlink=1">Eddy McNicholl</a>, although he still wielded considerable influence within the movement, retaining his position as chairman of the IRSP.<br /> Death<br /><br /><br />Despite the truce, Costello was shot dead as he sat in his car on the North Strand Road in Dublin on 5 October 1977 by a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Irish_Republican_Army">Official IRA</a>, Jim Flynn, who happened to be in the area at the time.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Costello#cite_note-6">[6]</a> The Official and Provisional IRAs both denied responsibility and Sinn Féin/The Workers' Party issued a statement condemning the killing. Members of an opposing INLA faction in Belfast also denied the killing. However, the INLA eventually deemed Flynn the person responsible, and he was shot dead in June 1982 in the North Strand, Dublin, very close to the spot where Costello died.<br /><br /><br />Costello is the only leader of an Irish political party murdered to date.<br /><br /><br />At the time of his death, he was a member of the following bodies: <br />Wicklow County Council <br />County Wicklow Committee of Agriculture <br />General Council of Committees of Agriculture <br />Eastern Regional Development Organisation <br />National Museum Development Committee <br />Bray Urban District Council <br />Bray Branch of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Transport_and_General_Workers_Union">Irish Transport and General Workers Union</a> <br />Bray and District Trade Unions Council (of which he was president 1976–77) <br />Cualann Historical Society <br /><br /><br />as well as still holding the positions of <br />Chairperson of the IRSP and <br />Chief of Staff of the INLA. <br /><br /><br />His funeral was attended by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruair%C3%AD_%C3%93_Br%C3%A1daigh">Ruairí Ó Brádaigh</a>, the then president of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in">Sinn Féin</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Riordan">Michael O'Riordan</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ireland">Communist Party of Ireland</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_McAliskey">Bernadette McAliskey</a> and local Wicklow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachta_D%C3%A1la">TDs</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Kavanagh">Liam Kavanagh</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(Ireland)">Labour</a>), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciar%C3%A1n_Murphy">Ciarán Murphy</a>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il">Fianna Fáil</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_Timmins">Godfrey Timmins</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Gael">Fine Gael</a>). At his funeral, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann">Senator</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Connolly_O%27Brien">Nora Connolly O'Brien</a>, daughter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising">Easter Rising</a> leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly">James Connolly</a>, gave the oration.<br /><br />“ <br /><br />Of all the politicians and political people with whom I have had conversations, and whom I have had conversations, and who called themselves followers of Connolly, he was the only one who truly understood what James Connolly meant when he spoke of his vision of the freedom of the Irish people <br /><br />” <br /><br />—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Connolly_O%27Brien">Nora Connolly O'Brien</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dialectical Materialism</span><br /><br /><br />Dialectical Materialism is a way of understanding reality; whether thoughts, emotions, or the material world. Simply stated, this methodology is the combination of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/i.htm#dialectics">Dialectics</a> and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#materialism">Materialism</a>. The materialist dialectic is the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/t/h.htm#theory">theoretical</a> foundation of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#marxism">Marxism</a> (while being <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/c/o.htm#communist">communist</a> is the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#practice">practice</a> of Marxism).<br /><br /><br />"It is an eternal cycle in which matter moves, a cycle that certainly only completes its orbit in periods of time for which our terrestrial year is no adequate measure, a cycle in which the time of highest development, the time of organic life and still more that of the life of being conscious of nature and of themselves, is just as narrowly restricted as the space in which life and self-consciousness come into operation. A cycle in which every finite mode of existence of matter, whether it be sun or nebular vapour, single animal or genus of animals, chemical combination or dissociation, is equally transient, and wherein nothing is eternal but eternally changing, eternally moving matter and the laws according to which it moves and changes.<br /><br /><br />Fredrick Engels<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm">Dialectics of Nature</a><br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch01.htm">Introduction</a><br /><br /><br />"Motion is the mode of existence of matter. Never anywhere has there been matter without motion, or motion without matter, nor can there be."<br /><br /><br />"Change of form of motion is always a process that takes place between at least two bodies, of which one loses a definite quantity of motion of one quality (e.g. heat), while the other gains a corresponding quantity of motion of another quality (mechanical motion, electricity, chemical decomposition).<br /><br /><br />"Dialectics, so-called objective dialectics, prevails throughout nature, and so-called subjective dialectics (dialectical thought), is only the reflection of the motion through opposites which asserts itself everywhere in nature, and which by the continual conflict of the opposites and their final passage into one another, or into higher forms, determines the life of nature."<br /><br /><br />Fredrick Engels<br />Dialectics of Nature<br /><br /><br />But dialectical materialism insists on the approximate relative character of every scientific theory of the structure of matter and its properties; it insists on the absence of absolute boundaries in nature, on the transformation of moving matter from one state into another, that from our point of view [may be] apparently irreconcilable with it, and so forth.<br /><br /><br />Vladimir Lenin<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/05.htm">Materialism and Empirio-criticism</a><br /><br /><br />With each epoch-making discovery even in the sphere of natural science, materialism has to change its form; and after history was also subjected to materialistic treatment, a new avenue of development has opened here, too. [<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/ch02.htm#010">Ch. 2, The End of Classical German Philosophy</a>]<br /><br /><br />"For dialectical philosophy nothing is final, absolute, sacred. It reveals the transitory character of everything and in everything; nothing can endure before it except the uninterrupted process of becoming and of passing away, of endless ascendancy from the lower to the higher."<br /><br /><br />Fredrick Engels<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/index.htm">The End of Classical German Philosophy</a><br /><br /><br />An example of dialectical materialism applied is the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/h/i.htm#historical-materialism">materialist conception of history </a>.<br /><br /><br />'Dialectical Materialism' was coined by <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/k/a.htm#kautsky-karl">Karl Kautsky</a> and popularised in the Second International after the death of Marx and Engels.<br /><br /><br />See also: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/i.htm#dialectics">dialectics</a>, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#materialism">materialism</a>, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/h/i.htm#historical-materialism">Historical Materialism</a> and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/o.htm#political-economy">Political Economy</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dialectics<br /><br /><br />Dialectics is the method of reasoning which aims to understand things <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/b.htm#abstract">concretely</a> in all their movement, change and interconnection, with their opposite and contradictory sides in unity.<br /><br /><br />Dialectics is opposed to the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/o.htm#formalism">formal</a>, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm#metaphysics">metaphysical</a> mode of thought of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/u/n.htm#understanding">ordinary understanding</a> which begins with a fixed definition of a thing according to its various attributes. For example formal thought would explain: ‘a fish is something with no legs which lives in the water’.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/d/a.htm#darwin-charles">Darwin</a> however, considered fish dialectically: some of the animals living in the water were not fish, and some of the fish had legs, but it was the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/g/e.htm#genetic">genesis</a> of all the animals as part of a whole interconnected process which explained the nature of a fish: they came from something and are evolving intosomething else.<br /><br /><br />Darwin went behind the appearance of fish to get to their <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/s.htm#essence">essence</a>. For ordinary understanding there is no difference between the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/p.htm#appearance">appearance</a> of a thing and its <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/s.htm#essence">essence</a>, but for dialectics the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/o.htm#form">form and content</a>of something can be quite contradictory – parliamentary democracy being the prime example: democracy in form, but dictatorship in content!<br /><br /><br />And for dialectics, things can be contradictory not just in appearance, but in essence. For formal thinking, light must be either a wave or a particle; but the truth turned out to be dialectical – light is both wave and particle. (See <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/x.htm#excluded">the principle of excluded middle</a>)<br /><br /><br />We are aware of countless ways of understanding the world; each of which makes the claim to be the<a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/b.htm#absolute-truth">absolute truth</a>, which leads us to think that, after all, “It’s all <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/b.htm#absolute">relative</a>!”. For dialectics the truth is thewhole picture, of which each view is a more or less one-sided, partial aspect.<br /><br /><br />At times, people complain in frustration that they lack the Means to achieve their Ends, or alternatively, that they can justify their corrupt methods of work by the lofty aims they pursue. For dialectics, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm#means">Means and Ends</a> are a <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/u/n.htm#unity-of-opposites">unity of opposites</a> and in the final analysis, there can be no contradiction between means and ends – when the objective is rightly understood, "the material conditions [means] for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation" (Marx, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/index.htm">Preface of Contribution to a Political Economy</a>)<br /><br /><br />An example of dialectical reasoning can be seen in Lenin's slogan: “All Power to the Soviets” spoken when the Soviets were against the Bolsheviks. Lenin understood, however, that the impasse could only be resolved by workers’ power. Since the Soviets were organs of workers’ power, a revolutionary initiative by the Bolsheviks would inevitably bring the Soviets to their side: the form of the Soviets during the time (lead by Mensheviks and SRs) were at odds with the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#content">content</a> of the Soviets as Workers’, Peasants’ and Soldiers’ Councils.<br /><br /><br />Formal thinking often has trouble understanding the causes of events – something has to be a cause and something else the effect – and people are surprised when they irrigate land and 20 years later – due to salination of the land, silting of the waterways, etc – they have a desert! Dialectics on the other hand understands that <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/a.htm#causality">cause and effect</a> are just one and another side of a whole network of relations such as we have in an ecosystem, and one thing cannot be changed without changing the whole system.<br /><br /><br />These are different aspect of Dialectics, and there are many others, because dialectics is the method of thinking in which concepts are flexible and mobile, constrained only by the imperative of comprehending the movement of the object itself, however contradictory, however transient.<br /><br /><br />History: Dialectics has its origins in <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm">ancient society</a>, both among the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/t/a.htm#taoism">Chinese</a> and the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/h/e.htm#heraclitus">Greeks</a>, where thinkers sought to understand Nature as a whole, and saw that everything is fluid, constantly changing, coming into being and passing away. It was only when the piecemeal method of observing Nature in bits and pieces, practiced in Western thinking in the 17th and 18th century, had accumulated enough <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/o.htm#positive">positive knowledge</a> for the interconnections, the transitions, the genesis of things to become comprehensible, that conditions became ripe for modern dialectics to make its appearance. It was Hegel who was able to sum up this picture of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/u/n.htm#universal">universal</a> interconnection and mutability of things in a <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/y.htm#system">system</a> of Logic which is the foundation of what we today call Dialectics.<br /><br /><br />As Engels put it:<br /><br /><br />“the whole world, natural, historical, intellectual, is represented as a process – i.e., as in constant motion, change, transformation, development; and the attempt is made to trace out the internal connection that makes a continuous whole of all this movement and development.” [<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm">Socialism: Utopian & Scientific</a>]<br /><br /><br />It was in the decade after Hegel’s death – the 1840s – when Hegel’s popularity was at its peak in Germany, that Marx and Engels met and worked out the foundations of their critique of bourgeois society.<br /><br /><br />Hegel’s radical <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/y/o.htm#young-hegelians">young followers</a> had in their hands a powerful critical tool with which they ruthlessly criticised Christianity, the dominant doctrine of the day. However, one of these Young Hegelians, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/f/e.htm#feuerbach-ludwig">Ludwig Feuerbach</a>, pointed out that Holy Family was after all only a Heavenly image of the Earthly family, and said that by criticising theology with philosophy, the Young Hegelians were only doing the same as the Christians – Hegel’s <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/b.htm#absolute-idea">Absolute Idea</a> was just another name for <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/g/o.htm#god">God</a>! For Feuerbach, ideas were a<a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm#reflection">reflection</a> of the material world and he held it to be ridiculous <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/o/b.htm#objective-idealism">that an Idea could determine the world</a>. Feuerbach had declared himself a <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/a.htm#materialism">materialist</a>.<br /><br /><br />Marx and Engels began as supporters of Feuerbach. However, very soon they took up an <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm">opposition to Feuerbach</a> to restore the Hegelian dialectic which had been abandoned by Feuerbach, and to free it from the rigidity of the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/i/d.htm#idealism">idealistic</a> Hegelian <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/y.htm#system">system</a> and place the method on a materialist basis:<br /><br /><br />“Hegel was an idealist. To him, the thoughts within his brain were not the more or less abstract pictures of actual things and processes, but, conversely, things and their evolution were only the realized pictures of the ‘Idea’, existing somewhere from eternity before the world was. This way of thinking turned everything upside down, and completely reversed the actual connection of things in the world. ” [Fredrick Engels, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm">Socialism: Utopian and Scientific</a>]<br /><br /><br />Thus, for Marx and Engels, thoughts were not passive and independent reflections of the material world, but products of human labour, and the contradictory nature of our thoughts had their origin in the contradictions within human society. This meant that Dialectics was not something imposed on to the world from outside which could be discovered by the activity of pure <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/e.htm#reason">Reason</a>, but was a product of human labour changing the world; its form was changed and developed by people, and could only be understood by the practical struggle to overcome these contradictions – not just in thought, but in<a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#practice">practice</a>.<br /><br /><br />Further Reading: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm">[The Science of Dialectics]</a>, by Fredrick Engels, <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm">Dialectics of Nature</a>, by Fredrick Engels, an example of dialectics in: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02.htm">The Metaphysics of Political Economy</a>, by Karl Marx; <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/abc.htm">The ABC of Materialist Dialectics</a>, by Leon Trotsky; Lenin's <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/summary.htm">Summary of Dialectics</a>.<br /><br /><br />See also the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/sampler.htm#dialectics">Sampler</a> for multiple definitions; <a href="https://www.marxists.org/subject/dialectics/index.htm">Dialectics Subject Section</a>. For examples of Dialectics: references to <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/sampler.htm#society">Examples from History and Society</a> and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/sampler.htm#personality">Examples from Personal Life</a> in Hegel’s Logic; and see the definition on <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/t/a.htm#taoism">Taoism</a> for a look at an ancient process of dialectics.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dictatorship<br /><br /><br />Dictatorship means the imposition of a rule on others who do not consent to it. Sometimes ‘dictatorship’ is wrongly used in contrast to ‘democracy’, but ‘democracy’ implies the imposition of the will of a majority, i.e., a dictatorship, on a minority.<br /><br /><br />The word originates from the dictatura of the ancient Roman Republic, an important institution that lasted for over three centuries. The Dictatura provided for an emergency exercise of power by a trusted citizen for temporary and limited purposes, for six months at the most. Its aim was to preserve the republican status quo, and in the event of a foreign attack or internal subversion of the constitution.Dictatura, thus had much the same meaning as “state of emergency” has today. Julius Caesar gave thedictatura a “bad name” by declaring himself dictator for life.<br /><br /><br />Right into the nineteenth century, ‘dictatorship’ was used in the sense of the management of power in a state of emergency, outside of the norms of legality, sometimes, but not always, implying one-man rule, and sometimes in reference to the dominance of an elected government over traditional figures of authority.<br /><br /><br />The French Revolution was frequently referred to by friends and foes alike as a dictatorship. Babeuf’s “Conspiracy of Equals” advocated a dictatorship exercised by a group of revolutionaries, having the task of defending the revolution against the reactionary peasants, and educating the masses up to the eventual level of a democracy, a transitional period of presumably many decades. It was this notion of ‘dictatorship’ that was in the minds of Auguste Blanqui and his followers who actively advocated communist ideas in the 1830s and ’40s.<br /><br /><br />In general political discourse in the nineteenth century, however, it was quite routine to describe, for example, the British Parliament as a ‘dictatorship’. Given that in most countries the franchise was restricted to property-owners, this usage was quite appropriate, but it was also used to attack proposals for universal suffrage, which, it was held, would institute a dictatorship over the property owners.<br /><br /><br />Modern usage of the term begins to appear in connection with the Revolutions which swept Europe in 1848. The Left, including its most moderate elements, talked of a dictatorship, by which they meant nothing more than imposing the will of an majority-elected government over a minority of counter-revolutionaries. Terrified by the uprising of the Parisian workers in June 1848, the Provisional Government handed over absolute power to the dictatorship of General Cavaignac, who used his powers to massacre the workers of Paris. Subsequently, a state-of-siege provision was inserted into the French Constitution to provide for such exigencies, and this law became the model for other nations who wrote such emergency provisions into their constitutions. From the middle of the nineteenth century, the word ‘dictatorship’ was associated with this institution, still more or less faithful to the original Roman meaning — an extra-legal institution for the defence of the constitution.<br /><br /><br />It was only gradually, during the 1880s, that ‘dictatorship’ came to be routinely used to mean a form of government in contrast to ‘democracy’ and by the 1890s was generally used in that way. Prior to that time, throughout the life-time of Karl Marx for example, it was never associated with any particular form of government, everyone understanding that popular suffrage was as much an instrument of dictatorship as martial law.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie<br /><br /><br />The most democratic bourgeois republic is no more than a machine for the suppression of the working class by the bourgeoisie, for the suppression of the working people by a handful of capitalists.<br /><br /><br />Even in the most democratic bourgeois republic "freedom of assembly" is a hollow phrase, for the rich have the best public and private buildings at their disposal, and enough leisure to assemble at meetings, which are protected by the bourgeois machine of power. The rural and urban workers and small peasants – the overwhelming majority of the population – are denied all these things. As long as that state of affairs prevails, "equality", i.e., "pure democracy", is a fraud.<br /><br /><br />"Freedom of the press" is another of the principal slogans of "pure democracy". And here, too, the workers know – and Socialists everywhere have explained millions of times – that this freedom is a deception because the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists, and while capitalist rule over the press remains – a rule that is manifested throughout the whole world all the more strikingly, sharply and cynically – the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example...<br /><br /><br />The capitalists have always use the term "freedom" to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. In this respect, too, the defenders of "pure democracy" prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people, who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.<br /><br /><br />V.I. Lenin<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/comintern.htm">First Congress of the Communist International</a><br /><br /><br />See Also: The same government: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/b/o.htm#bourgeois-democracy">Bourgeois Democracy</a>, save put in the perspective of the ruling class; and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/e.htm#democracy">Democracy</a> in general.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dictatorship of the Proletariat<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/r.htm#freedom">Freedom</a> consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it; and today, too, the forms of state are more free or less free to the extent that they restrict the "freedom of the state".<br /><br /><br />Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.<br /><br /><br />Marx/Engels<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm">Critique of the Gotha Programme</a><br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm">Part IV</a><br /><br /><br />This dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination,but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. This dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class – that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people.<br /><br /><br />Rosa Luxemburg<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/index.htm">The Russian Revolution</a><br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch08.htm">Democracy and Dictatorship</a><br /><br /><br />What, then, is the relation of this dictatorship to democracy?<br /><br /><br />We have seen that the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm">Communist Manifesto</a> simply places side by side the two concepts: "to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class" and "to win the battle of democracy". On the basis of all that has been said above, it is possible to determine more precisely how democracy changes in the transition from capitalism to communism.<br /><br /><br />The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. We must suppress them in order to free humanity from wage slavery, their resistance must be crushed by force; it is clear that there is no freedom and no democracy where there is suppression and where there is violence.<br /><br /><br />V.I. Lenin<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm">The State and Revolution</a><br />Chpt. 5: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm">The Economic Basis of the Withering Away of the State</a><br /><br /><br />The real tasks of the workers' state do not consist in policing public opinion, but in freeing it from the yoke of capital. This can only be done by placing the means of production - which includes the production of information - in the hands of society in its entirety. Once this essential step towards socialism has been taken, all currents of opinion which have not taken arms against the dictatorship of the proletariat must be able to express themselves freely. It is the duty of the workers' state to put in their hands, to all according to their numeric importance, the technical means necessary for this, printing presses, paper, means of transportation.<br /><br /><br />Leon Trotsky<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/08/press.htm">Freedom of the Press and Working Class</a><br /><br /><br />See Also: The same government: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#proletarian-democracy">Proletarian Democracy</a>, save put in the perspective of the ruling (working) class; and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/e.htm#democracy">Democracy</a> in general.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Difference<br /><br /><br />Difference is part of the very first stage of Essence in the genesis of a Notion in the grade of Reflection. Difference is the negation of Identity. The identity of something is defined by what is deemed to be not-equal to it, different. But Difference soon cancels itself through the discovery that 'everything is different', which is the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/i.htm#diversity">"maxim of Diversity"</a> (inessential difference). Difference is only meaningful where the objects considered are also in some sense identical, and thus passes over into <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/o/p.htm#opposition">Opposition</a> (essential difference) and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#contradiction">Contradiction</a>, the unity of identity and difference.<br /><br /><br />In recent European philosophy, especially Derrida, quite of lot is made of Difference, but it is noteworthy that Difference is given a systematic development by Hegel in the earliest, most abstract part of the Logic. Marx can be seen developing the concept of Difference in Chapter 3 of Capital.<br /><br /><br />Further Reading: Hegel on Difference in the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slessenc.htm#SL116">Shorter Logic</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Direct Struggle<br /><br /><br />A theory set out by the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/p/e.htm#peoples-will">People's Will</a> party in Russia. The theory stipulated that revolution could be instigated through terrorism, called a "direct struggle" against the government apparatus. Direct Struggle aimed to show, through terrorism, an "uninterrupted demonstration of the possibility of struggling against the government, in this manner lifting the revolutionary spirit of the people and its faith in the success of the cause, and organising those capable of fighting." (from the Programme of the People's Will, 1879)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Discrete<br /><br /><br />Discrete is a synonym for discontinuous, denoting breaks in development, "leaps" in Nature, matter in the form of distinct objects or particles, counting-numbers as opposed to indefinitely divisible magnitudes.<br /><br /><br />See Also: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#continuous">Continuity and Discontinuity</a>.<br /><br /><br />Distribution and Exchange<br /><br /><br />Distribution is the process whereby the total social product is divided up among the population.<br /><br /><br />Exchange is the practice of trading of different products of equal value, between different individuals or organisations.<br /><br /><br />In this relation, distribution is determined by the community, exchange by the individual, but the individual is able to exchange only what has been allocated to her in the process of distribution.<br /><br /><br />Distribution and exchange only arise on the basis of a <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/d/i.htm#division-labour">division of labour</a> which creates a separationbetween <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#production">production</a> and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#production">consumption</a>, and requires a socially determined means of mediating between the two.<br /><br /><br />But distribution and exchange do not only <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm#mediation">mediate</a> between production and consumption: they are themselves <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#productive-forces">forces of production</a>. For example, it is the system of distribution which creates the propertyless labourers and it is the system of distribution which is then needed to realise the surplus value acquired by exploiting them.<br /><br /><br />Thus, the system of distribution and exchange is inseparably bound up with the development of the productive forces themselves. Distribution and exchange are not just external appendages of the labour process, but its life blood.<br /><br /><br />A system of distribution which provides for the concentration of a social surplus is the fundamental precondition for the development of civilisation; a system of distribution which creates a class of people who have nothing to sell but their labour power and a class of people who own the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm#means-production">means of production</a> as their private property is the fundamental pre-condition for the development of bourgeois society. Socialist society, on the other hand, implies a system of distribution which eradicates social inequality and transcends the need for exchange.<br /><br /><br />Exchange begins as a marginal and incidental practice at the periphery of self-sufficient communities based on <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#collaboration">Collaboration</a>, and gives rise to the genesis of the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/o.htm#form-value">form of value</a> which takes on an independent form in <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/o.htm#money">money</a>, and on the basis of money arises a developed system of distribution as well as an elaborate social division of labour which is the foundation for the development of all modern forces of production.<br /><br /><br />The exchange relation is the essential relation of bourgeois society, and Marx takes it as the starting point of Capital in terms of the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#commodity">commodity</a>. Increasingly relations of exchange, and even distribution, penetrate into the labour process itself as a result of the process of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/o.htm#socialisation">socialisation</a>.<br /><br /><br />See <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/x.htm#exchange">Exchange</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Diversity, the maxim of<br /><br /><br />The maxim of Diversity – ‘There are no two things completely like each other’ is attributed to<a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/l/e.htm#leibnitz-gottfried">Leibnitz</a>.<br /><br /><br />This maxim is dealt with in Hegel's Doctrine of Essence as part of a series of “Laws” beginning with the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/i/d.htm#identity">Law of identity</a> - ‘everything is equal to itself’, the Maxim of Diversity (or Variety), Opposition, Contradiction and Ground, in which understanding of the essentially contradictory sides of a concept is successively deepened.<br /><br /><br />Further Reading: Hegel on the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hl409.htm#HL2_411c">Law of Identity</a> in the Science of Logic and Trotsky's <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/abc.htm">ABC of Materialist Dialectics</a>; and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/help/mean04.htm#04">Essential Identity</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Division of Labour<br /><br /><br />The division of labour is a specific mode of cooperation wherein different tasks are assigned to different people. Division of labour is as old as labour itself, stretching back to the birth of the human race.<br /><br /><br />“This division of labour is a necessary condition for the production of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#commodity">commodities</a>, but it does not follow, conversely, that the production of commodities is a necessary condition for the division of labour. In the primitive Indian community there is social division of labour, without production of commodities. Or, to take an example nearer home, in every factory the labour is divided according to a system, but this division is not brought about by the operatives mutually exchanging their individual products.<br /><br /><br />“... In a community, the produce of which in general takes the form of commodities, i.e., in a community of commodity producers, this qualitative difference between the useful forms of labour that are carried on independently of individual producers, each on their own account, develops into a complex system, a social division of labour.<br /><br /><br />“... Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor. [<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#050">Capital, Chapter 1</a>]<br /><br /><br />More than anything else, human history is characterised by the ever-increasing complexity of the division of labour. The form of the division of labour changes however, passing through a number of distinct phases.<br /><br /><br />“The various stages of development in the division of labour are just so many different forms of ownership, i.e. the existing stage in the division of labour determines also the relations of individuals to one another with reference to the material, instrument, and product of labour.” [<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm#5a3">German Ideology</a>]<br /><br /><br />Prior to the rupture of society into <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/l.htm#class">classes</a>, the social division of labour was almost exclusively based on kinship relations, within a relatively closed circle, wherein the character of an individual’s labour was determined by their age, sex and position within the family. This division of labour based on kinship relations continues up to the present day, but with the collapse of tribal society and the formation of social classes there began a new kind of division of labour, based on class relations, including the division between mental and manual labour.<br /><br /><br />The division of labour has the most profound effect on the forms of consciousness predominating in a given society since such forms can only be, after all the internalised forms of social activity.<br /><br /><br />During the whole feudal period, the division of labour is still determined along kinship lines, but now on a much wider class encompassing social classes.<br /><br /><br />With the development of manufacture however, division of labour takes a big step upwards:<br /><br /><br />“That co-operation which is based on division of labour, assumes its typical form in manufacture, and is the prevalent characteristic form of the capitalist process of production throughout the manufacturing period properly so called. That period, roughly speaking, extends from the middle of the 16th to the last third of the 18th century.<br /><br /><br />“Manufacture takes its rise in two ways:<br /><br /><br />“(1.) By the assemblage, in one workshop under the control of a single capitalist, of labourers belonging to various independent handicrafts, but through whose hands a given article must pass on its way to completion. ...<br /><br /><br />“(2.) Manufacture also arises in a way exactly the reverse of this namely, by one capitalist employing simultaneously in one workshop a number of artificers, who all do the same, or the same kind of work [<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch14.htm">Capital, Chapter 14</a>]<br /><br /><br />All subsequent developments in the forces of production correspond to qualitative changes in the social division of labour. In the last hundred years, the most significant markers in the development of the social division of labour are the successive management ideologies which achieved dominance: <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/t/a.htm#taylorism">Taylorism</a>,<a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/o.htm#fordism">Fordism</a> and <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/t/o.htm#toyotism">Toyotism</a>.<br /><br /><br />Up till the present time, the development of the social division of labour has tended to channel individuals into narrowly defined occupations, situating them in a well-defined position in the social division of labour for a life-time. That is to say, no-one is a person, she is rather a labourer in this or thatoccupation. Nowadays however, in the developed capitalist countries, it is rare for someone to work in a specific line of work for more than a decade without being obliged, if not by their own will, to change occupation.<br /><br /><br />In a socialist society of the future, there would remain of course a highly developed social division of labour, but it is likely that a person who is one day an artist, will be on another a tourist guide, on another a teacher and on another a machinist. It is in this sense that Marx and Engels said:<br /><br /><br />“In the present epoch, the domination of material relations over individuals, and the suppression of individuality by fortuitous circumstances, has assumed its sharpest and most universal form, thereby setting existing individuals a very definite task. It has set them the task of replacing the domination of circumstances and of chance over individuals by the domination of individuals over chance and circumstances. .... This task, dictated by present-day relations, coincides with the task of organising society in a communist way.<br /><br /><br />“... the abolition of a state of affairs in which relations become independent of individuals, in which individuality is subservient to chance and the personal relations of individuals are subordinated to general class relations, etc. - that the abolition of this state of affairs is determined in the final analysis by the abolition of division of labour. We have also shown that the abolition of division of labour is determined by the development of intercourse and productive forces to such a degree of universality that private property and division of labour become fetters on them. We have further shown that private property can be abolished only on condition of an all-round development of individuals, precisely because the existing form of intercourse and the existing productive forces are all-embracing and only individuals that are developing in an all-round fashion can appropriate them, i.e., can turn them into free manifestations of their lives. We have shown that at the present time individuals must abolish private property, because the productive forces and forms of intercourse have developed so far that, under the domination of private property, they have become destructive forces, and because the contradiction between the classes has reached its extreme limit. Finally, we have shown that the abolition of private property and of the division of labour is itself the association of individuals on the basis created by modern productive forces and world intercourse.” [<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch03o.htm#p438">German Ideology</a>]<br /><br /><br />Further Reading:<br /><br /><br />[In the Iron Age] the second great division of <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/l/a.htm#labour">labor</a> took place: handicraft separated from agriculture. The continuous increase of production and simultaneously of the productivity of labor heightened the value of human labor-power. Slavery, which during the preceding period was still in its beginnings and sporadic, now becomes an essential constituent part of the social system; slaves no longer merely help with production -- they are driven by dozens to work in the fields and the workshops. With the splitting up of production into the two great main branches, agriculture and handicrafts, arises production directly for exchange, commodity production; with it came commerce, not only in the interior and on the tribal boundaries, but also already overseas. All this, however, was still very undeveloped; the precious metals were beginning to be the predominant and general money commodity, but still uncoined, exchanging simply by their naked weight.<br /><br /><br />The distinction of rich and poor appears beside that of freemen and slaves -- with the new division of labor, a new cleavage of society into classes. The inequalities of property among the individual heads of families break up the old communal household communities wherever they had still managed to survive, and with them the common cultivation of the soil by and for these communities. The cultivated land is allotted for use to single families, at first temporarily, later permanently. The transition to full private <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#property">property</a> is gradually accomplished, parallel with the transition of the pairing marriage into monogamy. The single family is becoming the economic unit of society....<br /><br /><br />[In overview:] At the lowest stage of barbarism men produced only directly for their own needs; any acts of exchange were isolated occurrences, the object of exchange merely some fortuitous surplus. In the middle stage of barbarism we already find among the pastoral peoples a possession in the form of cattle which, once the herd has attained a certain size, regularly produces a surplus over and above the tribe's own requirements, leading to a division of labor between pastoral peoples and backward tribes without herds, and hence to the existence of two different levels of production side by side with one another and the conditions necessary for regular exchange. The upper stage of barbarism brings us the further division of labor between agriculture and handicrafts, hence the production of a continually increasing portion of the products of labor directly for exchange, so that exchange between individual producers assumes the importance of a vital social function.<br /><br /><br />Civilization consolidates and intensifies all these existing divisions of labor, particularly by sharpening the opposition between town and country (the town may economically dominate the country, as in antiquity, or the country the town, as in the middle ages), and it adds a third division of labor, peculiar to itself and of decisive importance: it creates a class which no longer concerns itself with production, but only with the exchange of the products -- the merchants. Hitherto whenever classes had begun to form, it had always been exclusively in the field of production; the persons engaged in production were separated into those who directed and those who executed, or else into large-scale and small-scale producers. Now for the first time a class appears which, without in any way participating in production, captures the direction of production as a whole and economically subjugates the producers; which makes itself into an indispensable middleman between any two producers and exploits them both. Under the pretext that they save the producers the trouble and risk of exchange, extend the sale of their products to distant markets and are therefore the most useful class of the population, a class of parasites comes into being, "genuine social icbneumons," who, as a reward for their actually very insignificant services, skim all the cream off production at home and abroad, rapidly amass enormous wealth and correspondingly social influence, and for that reason receive under civilization ever higher honors and ever greater control of production, until at last they also bring forth a product of their own -- the periodical trade crises....<br /><br /><br />Fredrick Engels<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch09.htm">Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State</a><br /><br /><br />With commerce the prerogative of a particular class, with the extension of trade through the merchants beyond the immediate surroundings of the town, there immediately appears a reciprocal action between production and commerce. The towns enter into relations with one another, new tools are brought from one town into the other, and the separation between production and commerce soon calls forth a new division of production between the individual towns, each of which is soon exploiting a predominant branch of industry. The local restrictions of earlier times begin gradually to be broken down....<br /><br /><br />The existence of the town implies, at the same time, the necessity of administration, police, taxes, etc.; in short, of the municipality, and thus of politics in general. Here first became manifest the division of the population into two great classes, which is directly based on the division of labour and on the instruments of production. The town already is in actual fact the concentration of the population, of the instruments of production, of capital, of pleasures, of needs, while the country demonstrates just the opposite fact, isolation and separation. The antagonism between town and country can only exist within the framework of private <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#property">property</a>. It is the most crass expression of the subjection of the individual under the division of labour, under a definite activity forced upon him -- a subjection which makes one man into a restricted town-animal, the other into a restricted country-animal, and daily creates anew the conflict between their interests. Labour is here again the chief thing, power over individuals, and as long as the latter exists, private property must exist. The abolition of the antagonism between town and country is one of the first conditions of communal life, a condition which again depends on a mass of material premises and which cannot be fulfilled by the mere will, as anyone can see at the first glance.....<br /><br /><br />Marx and Engels<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01c.htm#c1">German Ideology -- Section 3</a><br /><br /><br />How far the productive forces of a nation are developed is shown most manifestly by the degree to which the division of labour has been carried. Each new <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#productive-forces">productive force</a>, insofar as it is not merely a quantitative extension of productive forces already known (for instance the bringing into cultivation of fresh land), causes a further development of the division of labour....<br /><br /><br />Further, the division of labour implies the contradiction between the interest of the separate individual or the individual family and the communal interest of all individuals who have intercourse with one another. And indeed, this communal interest does not exist merely in the imagination, as the "general interest", but first of all in reality, as the mutual interdependence of the individuals among whom the labour is divided. And finally, the division of labour offers us the first example of how, as long as man remains in natural society, that is, as long as a cleavage exists between the particular and the common interest, as long, therefore, as activity is not voluntarily, but naturally, divided, man's own deed becomes an alien power opposed to him, which enslaves him instead of being controlled by him. For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in <a href="https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/c/o.htm#communism">communist society</a>, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. This fixation of social activity, this consolidation of what we ourselves produce into an objective power above us, growing out of our control, thwarting our expectations, bringing to naught our calculations, is one of the chief factors in historical development up till now.<br /><br /><br />Marx and Engels<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01a.htm">German Ideology -- Section 1</a><br /><br /><br />The great progress of the division of labor began in England after the invention of machinery. Thus, the weavers and spinners were for the most part peasants like those one still meets in backward countries. The invention of machinery brought about the separation of manufacturing industry from agricultural industry. The weaver and the spinner, united but lately in a single family, were separated by the machine. Thanks to the machine, the spinner can live in England while the weaver resides in the East Indies. Before the invention of machinery, the industry of a country was carried on chiefly with raw materials that were the products of its own soil; in England, wool, in Germany, flax, in France, silks and flax, in the East Indies and the Levant, cottons, etc. Thanks to the application of machinery and of steam, the division of labor was about to assume such dimensions that large-scale industry, detached from the national soil, depends entirely on the world market, on international exchange, on an international division of labor. In short, the machine has so great an influence on the division of labor, that when, in the manufacture of some object, a means has been found to produce parts of it mechanically, the manufacture splits up immediately into two works independent of each other.<br /><br /><br />Karl Marx<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ch02b.htm">The Poverty of Philosophy</a></b></div>
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<b>Irish Republicanism founded by Wolfe Tone, a Protestant, along with many colleagues from the same denomination, is a noble non-sectarian tradition, with a cause for the Liberation of Ireland, for which thousands of Irish Freedom Fighters gave their lives. It has been hijacked by sectarian, criminal, thugs, who have also hijacked the name Sinn Fein. During the British Election just completed, their candidates introduced a sectarian head count and a sectarian rallying call, to the electorate in North Belfast. The candidate Gerry Kelly, a self professed informer of the British Police, the very antithesis of the Irish republican tradition, has in doing so, destroyed any credible claims of their political party, belonging in the Irish Republican family, whose basis is non-sectarian.</b></div>
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<b>He is one of the Chief enforcers, of what was termed the Peace Process, while besmirching the name of the IRA in the process. The Pseudo Peace Process, without Truth & Reconciliation, was driven by agents of British Secret Intelligence and is being enforced by fascist thugs and criminals. For anyone outside Ireland, who wishes to understand the reality, the fear based, fascist, dynamic of the Irish Peace Process, devoid of Justice and Reconcilaition, I suggest you read the following article, from the Belfast Telegraph, generally regarded as an organ of British Unionism. </b></div>
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<b>It demonstrates clearly, the modus operandi of the thug enforcers of British Sinn Fein in the Pseudo Peace Process, which is the reality across Ireland, that censors alternative voices and murdered several of them. For the last two weeks, my computer has been incessantly hacked, with the distribution of Irish Blog, continously interupted and interfered with. Irish people can either lie down in the face of this fascist intimidation or get up and fight it together, like they did with the blueshirt fascists, in years gone by. The civilized way to fight it, is to persistently reveal them for what they really are, with the truth of their activities, from paedophillia, intimidation, censorship, internment and murder, persistently held up to the light by everyone to see, without engaging in reactionary violence.</b></div>
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The sisters of Robert McCartney have said their campaign for justice has now ended after the murder of Gerard 'Jock' Davison, whom they believe gave the order to kill their brother.</h2>
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RELAT"We wanted Jock to face justice in a courtroom, not down the barrel of a gun," said Catherine McCartney.</h3>
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<b>"But the type of justice we hoped for has eluded us. We will never see Jock standing in the dock now.</b></div>
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<b>"Our campaign for Robert is effectively over because Jock's death means he can never be held accountable for what he did that night."</b></div>
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<b>Speaking exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph, the McCartney sisters condemned Davison's murder.</b></div>
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<b>The former IRA commander was shot dead on Tuesday morning near his home in the Markets area of Belfast.</b></div>
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<b>Catherine said: "Murder is wrong and can never be justified. As a family, we condemn Jock's murder. But we are sickened that politicians are pretending that he was a saint.</b></div>
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<b>"This man brought death and destruction into our family and into many families across Belfast. It is nauseating that politicians from a range of parties are trying to whitewash his murderous past."</b></div>
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<b>Another sister, Paula McCartney, said: "We have no sympathy for Jock Davison but we do have sympathy for his family. They are now grieving just like we grieved 10 years ago. They now know the pain of losing a loved one."</b></div>
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<b>Robert McCartney, a 33-year-old father-of-two from the Short Strand, was stabbed to death by IRA members outside Magennis's bar in Belfast in January 2005.</b></div>
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<b>His five sisters stepped forward to challenge the Provisionals and the code of omerta which ruled in working-class nationalist areas.</b></div>
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<b>Their impassioned campaign for justice took them across the world, including Strasbourg and Washington where they met President Bush.</b></div>
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<b>The McCartneys have always insisted that Jock Davison gave the order for their brother's murder - a claim he denied.</b></div>
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<b>They say that after the fight broke out in the bar, Davison drew a finger across his throat to indicate to his henchmen what he wanted done to Robert and his friend, Brendan Devine.</b></div>
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<b>Both men were followed into Market Street where they were beaten, kicked, stabbed and left to die. Devine survived but McCartney died in hospital nine hours later.</b></div>
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<b>Catherine said: "Jock Davison didn't wield the knife that killed my brother but we hold him more responsible than the Provo who frenetically stabbed Robert.</b></div>
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<b>"Jock Davison chose to let the mad dog off the leash."</b></div>
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<b>Paula said: "Had Jock Davison not been in Magennis's bar that night, Robert would be alive today.</b></div>
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<b>"The fight in the bar would still have happened but that is all it would have been, a fight.</b></div>
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<b>"At worst, Robert would have been left with bruises and a bloody nose. There would not have been a dead body. It was Jock Davison who chose to turn it into something far more deadly that night.</b></div>
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<b>"As a family we are still living with the repercussions of Jock's actions. We can't even visit Robert's grave. I went a few times but found no comfort there - it was too traumatic."</b></div>
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<b>The McCartney sisters said they were incensed at politicians paying tribute to Davison as a respected and valued community worker.</b></div>
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<b>Catherine said: "Jock is obviously a loss to his family but he is not a loss to the community.</b></div>
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<b>"Jock Davison wasn't a positive person in the community. His legacy to the community is one of death and mutilation. He was involved in numerous murders and punishment beatings.</b></div>
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<b>"There are dozens of families who lost loved ones because of him or who had loved ones beaten to a pulp in alleyways in the dark of night.</b></div>
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<b>"This is a so-called community worker who put people in early graves. Yet nobody is mentioning his victims.</b></div>
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<b>"Had this been Mark Haddock, politicians wouldn't be getting away with spouting this rubbish. I view Jock Davison no differently to Mark Haddock. To whitewash this man's legacy is an insult to his victims. How dare they."</b></div>
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<b>Haddock is a notorious former loyalist terrorist and police informer who was jailed for 12 years last June in London for a knife attack on friend and fellow informer Terry Fairfield. The former Mount Vernon UVF leader has been linked to 21 murders but never convicted of any.</b></div>
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<b>The McCartneys said they were particularly disgusted at Alliance's South Belfast Westminster candidate, Paula Bradhsaw, who expressed "extra sadness" at Davison's murder, stating: "I knew Gerard through the community sector and of his hard work for the Markets community."</b></div>
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<b>Catherine said: "Is that all it takes to wipe out somebody's murderous past, for a politician to cut a yellow ribbon with them at a community event?</b></div>
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<b>"Paula Bradshaw's crass comment illustrates how badly victims are treated in Northern Ireland.</b></div>
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<b>"Politicians bemoaning the loss of Jock Davison is highly offensive to bereaved families sitting at home with empty chairs because of him." The McCartneys also lambasted the police for their comments about Davison.</b></div>
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<b>Detective chief inspector Justyn Galloway said that although Davison, like many people in Northern Ireland, had a past "that is in the past".</b></div>
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<b>Catherine said: "I am appalled at Justyn Galloway's statement. It contradicts everything the PSNI has told us. The police never informed us that Robert's murder investigation was over.</b></div>
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<b>"The police had evidence against Jock Davison. For us, he remained a central suspect in a murder investigation. By these comments it feels like the police had already relegated Robert to the dustbin of history.</b></div>
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<b>"But maybe if a murderer puts on a community worker hat, sits down and has tea and buns with the police, the slate is wiped clean."</b></div>
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<b>In 2008, three men went on trial in connection with Robert's death. Terry Davison, Jock's uncle, was charged with murder; Jim McCormick and Joe Fitzpatrick with causing an affray. All three were found not guilty.</b></div>
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<b>The McCartneys alleged that the police never had any interest in bringing Robert's killers to justice and the prosecution was "just window-dressing".</b></div>
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<b>Catherine said: "Jock was the person we most wanted in the dock because the murder was carried out at his behest.</b></div>
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<b>"But we felt the police were never interested in seriously going after him.</b></div>
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<b>"We felt he was protected. We repeatedly asked detectives if he was an informer. We were just told the issue of informers was irrelevant to the investigation."</b></div>
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<b>The sisters believe that Davison's senior rank in the IRA meant that the organisation initiated a cover-up after Robert's murder, destroying vital evidence.</b></div>
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<b>"Had it been just run-of-the-mill Provos involved, our family would have had a far greater chance of achieving justice," Catherine said.</b></div>
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<b>"But Jock's senior position in the movement meant they were never going to just spit him out."</b></div>
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<b>While Davison was publicly expelled by the IRA for events in Magennis's bar, Catherine said the presence of senior republicans on the ground after his shooting on Tuesday, and the warm tributes paid to him, showed that he remained intricately involved with the organisation.</b></div>
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<b>She said: "Jock Davison entered our lives uninvited 10 years ago. He took away Robert's precious life.</b></div>
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<b>"Had Jock been held accountable by the state for his many murderous actions, justice would never have been meted out to him on the streets.</b></div>
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<b>"I see his murder as an unfortunate, awful result of what happens when the system fails victims.</b></div>
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<b>"You can't leave people without justice."</b></div>
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<b>Paula added: "Had the police acted on evidence, Jock Davison would now be doing time in Maghaberry jail.</b></div>
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<b>"By not upholding the rule of law, the authorities have paved the way for mafia law on the streets."</b><br />
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In the mid 1990’s, this Amsterdam-based band of L.A. expats toured extensively all over Western Europe, playing clubs and festivals, both small and large. They eventually released an album and a pair of singles on Roadrunner Records.<br />
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Once described by a reviewer as, “Neil Young meets Patti Smith, smoking a spliff with Dinosaur Jr.,” POP was one of Melody Maker’s Picks of the Year for 1993. That year they played their biggest co-billing for 35,000 people, at the Bevrijdingsdag festival in Haarlem NL, with headliner 2 Unlimited.</div>
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<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Painting+Over+Picasso/_/Some+Seeds" style="text-decoration: none;">Some Seeds</a></h3>
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<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Painting+Over+Picasso/_/The+Dolphin+Song" style="text-decoration: none;">The Dolphin Song</a></h3>
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<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Painting+Over+Picasso/_/Shy" style="text-decoration: none;">Shy</a></h3>
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<b>I have a friend of 25 years, who had the cheek to tell me a couple of years back, that I would get up on a frog, if it stopped hopping. Of course it's not true, especially for a Catholic boy from Ireland. However,there is a certain truth to it, in the sense that I hardly ever have been monogamus in my life, up to a couple of years ago and I would probaly do the same all over again,if given a chance. Howver that comes with a health warning, that it can be a very expensive in many different ways.. I regard myself as fortunate, in the sense that I am attracted to women, it's just in my case, I find most women beautiful and sexy, so in that sense my life is relatively eimple. There was just one occasion, when I was about three years sober, when I visited the Red Light District in Amsterdam a lot, that I may have had sex with a man by mistake. It was late at night and they were closing shop, so it was very dark and I went in without paying much attention. Towards the end of the session, it felt different, so I asked he/she if they were man or a woman, when it was over, to which I got the reply,"Does it make any difference now?". I had to agree it didn't but it was definitely a learning experience. However at the end of day, I am partial to women, full stop but I have learned, not to take myself too seriously, when it comes to sex.</b><br />
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<b>When I come across stuff in reality, on a daily basis that shocks me, I have learned to put it in the category of, 'it is what it is!'. In my experience and travels, I have marvelled time after time, about the wonderful diversity of life and for anyone who is passionate about living, it certainly is not boring,when I am in touch with my heart. People from different cultures, colours, sexual orientation, have brought much joy and experience to my life and have made my life fun on many occsions. As a result I am very reluctant from to pass judegment on anybody, including myself and a lot of personal liberation comes from that. A lot of the people I knew in Amsterdam came from dysfunctional homes, some of which included child rape. Initially, as I had no personal experience of sexual rape, it was subject I tried to steer clear of but often our friends choose us.</b><br />
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<b>Initially I was horrified, both with the stories and the resulting damage it had done to many friends of mine. In fact the stories were so horrific, particularly those who were victims of satanic cults, that I was inclined to wonder, if they were exaggerated. However the stories were so persistent and consistent from many sources, that I eventually concluded they were mostly factual. Bearing in mind, that I myself came from an extremely violent home, it took many years to come to terms with it, in fact I am not sure, that I still have. Having led a very promiscous life myself and being no paragon of virtue, I am extremely reluctant to rush to judgement of anyone else. However there does come a time, where a line has to be drawn. I have in the course of my life, on occasions come across pubescent young women, who can be quite sexually aggressive. One occasion stands out from a time I was in London, in my early twenties, when I would strip abandoned house of lead and copper,for the price of a drink. On one occasion, I went into an abandoned house, with windows and doors, galvanized up, so it was very dark inside. I was working away when I realized a young girl had crept into the house.</b><br />
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<b>She had very strong, expensive perfume and I retreated into a corner to hide but she saw me. She pursued me into the corner slowly, with the scent of her perfume being very strong. She came right up against me and I could see she had a beauticul face and frankly her demeanour, was sexually aggressive, combined with the overwhelming scent of her perfume, she was sexually arousing. I declined and got to fuck out of there, as fast as I could, because I could see, she was at the most fourteen years of age. That incident often crossed my mind years later, as there was something about it, that defies logic, and of course if I had crossed that line, I would be politcally compromised. I am certain that over the years, that many sexual practices, which were regarded in their time as deviant, went into the little black book of British Intelligence Services, particularly in the matter of colonial Ireland.</b><br />
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<b>The wondeful spiritual gift of sobriety, that was unconditionally given to me, is however conditional in one aspect, that I pass it on to anyone, who requests my help, who is entirely willing to go to any lengths to have it. I don't believe I would be breaking anyone's anonymity by revealing, that on one occasion a paedophile asked me for help, in the matter of sobriety but I picked up from him, that it is complex condition. I tried as best I could to help but had to refer him to someone else, who might understand the matter better than me. It is a fact, that in many ancient civilizations, and indeed in some today, that this practice was culturally acceptable, something Imperialists became aware of and used to great advantage. At the end of the day, I am no expert in these matters and can only come to my own conlusions, as a result of experience. I know that the best definition, I have come across of that much abused word Love, is that Love is Patient, something absent in my own life, until I was the fortunate receipient of it, coupled with tolerance.</b><br />
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<b>My own conclusion, is that until a child reaches the age of consent, both mentally, emotionally and physically, sexual activity with an adult involves rape to a lesser or greater extent and that it often is persistent rape, of the worst kind, that inflicts considerable damage, in all three aspects of a victim's life. To compound this crime, it is even further accentuated by both political and commerial exploitation of the worst kind, that destroys the integrity of whole communities and cultures. From my own experience, until there is a fully transparent, dialectic, without any form of censorship on this matter, we are not on the path to recovery in Ireland, froma problem that is 'sytemic,' despite all the millions spent on Official Inquiries. I believe most of our politcians are compromised, along with elemnts in every aspect of our establisment, more often than not, being in the little black book of British Intelligence Services. I do not make this charge lightly and am fully aware of the many potential consequences. Until people stand up and be counted this state of affairs will continue, for many generations to come.</b><br />
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<b>I believe that the Pseudo Peace Process in Ireland, without Truth & Reconciliation, was built on the little black book of paedophillia and Orange Order Beastiality, for purposes of exploitation. I believe every single canididate, standing for high office in the current British General Election, should come under particular scutiny in this matter. While I personally, for the sake of sanity, have consigned much of this. to the box of it is what is, there is one particular aspect of the matter, that I cannot come to terms with. How can hundreds of thousands of parents, with young children in Ireland, vote for known pedophile politcal parties either engaged or enabling it or those parties engaged in beastiality. I simply cannot for the life of me understand this. Again for my own sanity,I often use black humour, which many find tasteless, to take care of my own well being. If you are a parent who is still connected with your heart, I would ask you to share this post, with as many people as you can, as it will, like Irish Blog be mostly censored by intranets to either slow it or prevent you reading it.</b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript" src="//www.thepetitionsite.com/embed.js"></script><div class="care2PetitionEmbed" rssPath="571641283" adSize="interstitial" publisherId="180301876" buttonColor="#94a513"></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12073651560854311258noreply@blogger.com0Belfast, Belfast, UK54.597285000000007 -5.930119999999988154.450095000000005 -6.2528434999999885 54.744475000000008 -5.6073964999999877tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4431408923998878370.post-85814084911666035962015-05-05T08:35:00.000+01:002015-05-05T15:42:35.210+01:00BOYCOTT BRUTISH SINN FEIN FASCIST COLLABORATORS<br />
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<strong>By Bobby Sands</strong></h3>
<b><br /><br />There’s an inner thing in every man,<br /><br /><br />Do you know this thing my friend?<br /><br /><br />It has withstood the blows of a million years,<br /><br /><br />And will do so to the end.<br /><br /><br />It was born when time did not exist,<br /><br /><br />And it grew up out of life,<br /><br /><br />It cut down evil’s strangling vines,<br /><br /><br />Like a slashing searing knife.<br /><br /><br />It lit fires when fires were not,<br /><br /><br />And burnt the mind of man,<br /><br /><br />Tempering leadened hearts to steel,<br /><br /><br />From the time that time began.<br /><br /><br />It wept by the waters of Babylon,<br /><br /><br />And when all men were a loss,<br /><br /><br />It screeched in writhing agony,<br /><br /><br />And it hung bleeding from the Cross.<br /><br /><br />It died in Rome by lion and sword,<br /><br /><br />And in defiant cruel array,<br /><br /><br />When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’<br /><br /><br />Along the Appian Way.<br /><br /><br />It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,<br /><br /><br />And frightened lord and king,<br /><br /><br />And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,<br /><br /><br />As e’er a living thing.<br /><br /><br />It smiled in holy innocence,<br /><br /><br />Before conquistadors of old,<br /><br /><br />So meek and tame and unaware,<br /><br /><br />Of the deathly power of gold.<br /><br /><br />It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,<br /><br /><br />And stormed the old Bastille,<br /><br /><br />And marched upon the serpent’s head,<br /><br /><br />And crushed it ‘neath its heel.<br /><br /><br />It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,<br /><br /><br />And starved by moons of rain,<br /><br /><br />Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,<br /><br /><br />But it will come to rise again.<br /><br /><br />It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,<br /><br /><br />As it was knelt upon the ground,<br /><br /><br />And it died in great defiance,<br /><br /><br />As they coldly shot it down.<br /><br /><br />It is found in every light of hope,<br /><br /><br />It knows no bounds nor space<br /><br /><br />It has risen in red and black and white,<br /><br /><br />It is there in every race.<br /><br /><br />It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,<br /><br /><br />It screams in tyrants’ eyes,<br /><br /><br />It has reached the peak of mountains high,<br /><br /><br />It comes searing ‘cross the skies.<br /><br /><br />It lights the dark of this prison cell,<br /><br /><br />It thunders forth its might,<br /><br /><br />It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,<br /><br /><br />That thought that says ‘I’m right!’</b><br />
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<b>Tá guth i gcroí an duine,<br /><br /><br />An eol duit cad é féin?<br /><br /><br />Is ann dó ó thús ama,<br /><br /><br />Beidh sé linn go deireadh ré.<br /><br /><br />Rugadh é sularbh ann don domhan,<br /><br /><br />De phréamh na beatha é,<br /><br /><br />Ghearr sé anuas féithleoga an oilc<br /><br /><br />Le scian ghéar.<br /><br /><br />D’adhain sé tine sa dorchadas<br /><br /><br />A chuir lasair faoinár gcroí,<br /><br /><br />Dhein cruach de luaidhe na hintinne<br /><br /><br />Go síoraí.<br /><br /><br />Chaoin sé cois uiscí na Bablóine<br /><br /><br />Is nuair a bhí an dóchas gann<br /><br /><br />Scréach sé as corp réabtha<br /><br /><br />A bhí céasta ar Chrann.<br /><br /><br />Chuir an leon is an claíomh chun báis é<br /><br /><br />Sa tSean-Róimh fadó,<br /><br /><br />Ach ba chlos an focal Spartacus<br /><br /><br />Gan aon agó.<br /><br /><br />Le Wat Tyler sea do mháirseáil sé,<br /><br /><br />Chuir sceimhle ar thiarna is ar rí<br /><br /><br />Sceimhle a sheas ina súile<br /><br /><br />Mar mharbh-lí.<br /><br /><br />Aoibh air, naofa saonta,<br /><br /><br />Roimh an Conquistador,<br /><br /><br />Ceansa is neamheolach<br /><br /><br />Ar chumhacht an óir.<br /><br /><br />Réab sé trí shráideanna Pháras<br /><br /><br />Is d’ionsaigh an sean-Bhastille,<br /><br /><br />Shatail ar chloigeann na nathrach<br /><br /><br />gur fhág sé í gan bhrí.<br /><br /><br />Leagadh é ar Mhá na mBuabhall,<br /><br /><br />D’fhulaing ocras is plá,<br /><br /><br />Cuireadh a chroí i nGlúin Leonta -<br /><br /><br />Ach tiocfaidh a lá.<br /><br /><br />Ba chlos a liú thar lochanna Chiarraí<br /><br /><br />Is é ar a dhá ghlúin,<br /><br /><br />Is maraíodh é, a dhorn san aer,<br /><br /><br />Le croí fuar.<br /><br /><br />Is faightear é i lóchrann dóchais,<br /><br /><br />Níl teorainn lena réim,<br /><br /><br />I gcroí gach treibh is cine<br /><br /><br />Faoin ngréin.<br /><br /><br />Scréach na laochra ar lár<br /><br /><br />I súile na dtíoránach,<br /><br /><br />Ag réabadh trí na spéartha<br /><br /><br />Go dtí na beanna arda.<br /><br /><br />Soilsíonn an cillín uaigneach seo<br /><br /><br />Lena dhóchas, lena neart,<br /><br />An smaoineamh úd, dochloíte</b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the British in Occupied Ireland, post Peace Process. A Proper Peace Process has Truth & Reconciliation, followed by Consent as in South Africa. Obviously there are many dark secrets, that are afraid of the Light of Day. This is the Blueshirts all over again, albeit in a slightly more covert form. This is NOT, what Irish Freedom Fighters died for. On the Anniversary of the murder of Bobby Sands, we can be eertain, that He and his 9 comrades, did not give their lives for this. Ireland and the Process are as sick as it's secrets. The Internment of Dee Fennell and his comrades, are proof of a return to Orange Order Rule, with British Sinn Fein, being their fascist puppets and collaborators. The Truth Will Out! These activities, along with the secrets that are fuelling them, must be exposed to the Light of Day and it is the responsibilty of all those who stand in Solidarity with the Donnelly Family, to work consistently, to expose the Truth. Ultimately it is the Love of Ireland and it's People, as demonstrated by Volunteers like Bobby Sands, along with the Truth being exposed, that will set Ireland Free. Our Cause is noble and will prevail over the dark secrets of repression, that fuel these attacks. There is nothing more Powerful on the Face of this Earth, than the Unadulterated Truth, coupled with with what Mairead Farrell said, "Our Head is our Best Weapon." I call on all citizens of the Republic, to stand in Solidarity with the Donnelly family and their stand for exposing the truth about the collaborators of British repression. I used to believe the best way to fight fire was with fire. On this occasion, I would ask republicans to remember that we fight fire with water and by exposing the secrets of repression! I offer the Donnelly Family my full support and Solidarity and I call on all freedom loving people, to Boycott British Sinn Fein and all parties who have enabled and continue to enable Child Rape, Censorshup and brutal repression in Ireland on behalf of British Imperialism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Provisionals sent five of its party militia to attack the Donnelly family in their home in Derry city. <br /><br />Michael Donnelly (49), his wife Martina (47), and two of their children, Niamh (10) and Caoimhe (6) arrived at the house at 11.10pm. Five minutes earlier they had been stopped by members of the British colonial police (RUC) and interrogated at length as to their movements that night, and in particular, if they would be going home soon. <br /><br />Michael's son Deaglán (22), described the subsequent attack to SAOIRSE: <br /><br />"My parents and sisters returned from a trip to buy milk. My other sister Úna (11), my fianceé Tina (22) and I were also at home and we were all in the living room. Exactly ten minutes later four masked men wearing combat clothing burst into the room and one shouted ‘IRA Provisionals'. One sprayed ‘mace' tear gas into my mother's eyes and into my little sisters' faces and started to beat my father. <br /><br />"They had baseball bats studded with nails and iron crowbars. Niamh climbed on top of the armchair and jumped on one of the thugs to protect her Daddy, but he threw her to the ground and clubbed her on the leg with a nail-studded baseball bat. <br /><br />"Úna then jumped across her father to protect him and her back was badly beaten. Caoimhe was still sitting on his knee and she was also beaten by the Provisional thugs. <br /><br />"Despite the ferocity of the attack, my father made it to his feet and was able to tackle three Broy Harriers while I grabbed the fourth's iron bar and fought back. We were beating them out of the room towards the front door, but one pulled a revolver and fired a shot. We turned to protect the children and as my father stood over the girls they beat his back. <br /><br />‘You cost us a seat, you bastard'<br /><br />"We fought them out to the kitchen where they beat my father to the ground. One was shouting "you cost us a seat you bastard." I was still fighting the fourth one, but he pulled another revolver and shouted ‘stop or you're shot'. <br /><br />"A fifth Broy Harrier, also carrying a baseball bat, then came into the kitchen. He was obviously the driver and was worried that the others were taking so long — they weren't expecting a fight. He came after me, along with the one who pulled the gun on me and another, but I got away and raised the alarm. <br /><br />"They went back into the kitchen and all five cease-fire soldiers went about beating one unrepentant Republican, as he lay on the ground, for refusing to surrender his ideals. Although my father was now lying on the floor with a broken leg he wrenched a crowbar from one of them and kneecapped him with it. My mother tried to intervene, but one of them stuck his arm in her face and said ‘IRA Provisionals, fuck off'. Tina got to the phone and raised the alarm, the Broy Harriers left. <br /><br />"Although five members of the Provisionals' party militia walked into our house two of them had to be carried out. Some of them fell on the driveway and one injured himself badly on some building blocks by falling on them. The blocks were covered in blood. <br /><br />"The fascists escaped in a hijacked taxi which they dumped in Shantallow. Local people saw the car and have told us that its seats and floor are covered in blood. The Broy Harriers' blood shows the Provisionals' party militia have failed to break my father and it is common knowledge in Derry that they will never defeat Michael Donnelly, neither physically or politically. <br /><br />"In 1971 my father was singled out for special torture by British police and the SAS. He was one of the longest serving internees and the last of the original internees of August 9, 1971, to be released. They failed to break him then. <br /><br />"The new British policemen who attacked our family on June 28 learned the hard way that Michael Donnelly will not surrender to any British agent, whether that Brit be foreign born or a native imperialist. <br /><br />"The Republican Sinn Féin boycott campaign was very successful and in Derry it lost the Provisionals one seat that they thought would easily be theirs, Gerry O'Hara's, while Mary Nelis only got in on the eight count. What saved her seat was the fact that she was in the SDLP until 1983 and got second preferences from SDLP voters. That is why they attacked our family. <br /><br />"The Republican Movement is beating them politically and is exposing them as the British agents and quislings that they are." <br /><br />McGuinness confronted by Martina Donnelly <br /><br />The night following the attack Michael Donnelly's wife, Martina, confronted the Provisionals' leader in Derry, Martin McGuinness. Thinking that Martina had come to plead for clemency McGuinness naively invited Martina into his house but instead she questioned him about the fascist attack on her family on his own doorstep, in full public view. <br /><br />McGuinness opened his door but stepped back into his hallway on recognising Martina. When she asked him why five members of his party beat her children and her husband with iron bars and baseball bats studded with nails, McGuinness replied, significantly, "I wasn't here." <br /><br />He then stepped forward in what an eyewitness described as "an absolutely threatening manner" and proceeded to point his finger into Martina's face. He then said "Your husband has been calling me a traitor all around this town for the past twelve months". <br /><br />After a slight pause Martina said "Oh, so that's why you did it". McGuinness did not deny this accusation and Martina said "Sure, that's all you are, Martin – a traitor and a collaborator. On Wednesday you'll be sitting with the British government in their assembly. In fact, you'll be part of the British government there." <br /><br />McGuinness replied, "Keep your voice down. My children are inside" while his wife, Bernie shouted "Just shut the door on them". Martina then asked, "What about my children? You sent five masked men to spray gas into my children's eyes and to beat them and their father up." McGuinness then declared "I'm not listening to this" and slammed his door violently. <br /><br />Martina then addressed him loudly through his open window repeating "child-beater", "collaborator" and stated "Sure, you'll be running the place for them on Wednesday". <br /><br />On Wednesday, July 1, three days after the Provisionals attacked the Donnelly family in their home, Martin McGuinness signed himself into the British parliament at Stormont where he is now a colonial assemblyman. <br /><br />Provisionals issue further threats <br /><br />Since the Provisionals' vicious attack on the Donnellys the family has been harassed by the British colonial police (RUC) and the Provisional police. This harassment includes a threatening telephone call, made by a woman whose identity is known to Republican Sinn Féin. <br /><br />Deaglán Ó Donghaile has also received threats, one issued by two individuals from the Provisional office in Creggan. <br /><br />They stated that if they had gone to carry out the attack "Deaglán would not be walking now. But that doesn't matter because he is next anyway."<br /><br />Both cease-fire soldiers went on to celebrate the fact that Michael's children had been sprayed with teargas and beaten, saying that "they deserved it for getting in the way". </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Biography by Bio <br /><br />Activist (1954–1981) <br /><br /><br />Bobby Sands was an Irish nationalist who led a hunger strike in prison in 1981. He was elected Member of Parliament during the strike and died May 5, 1981. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b><br /> Synopsis <br /><br />Born in 1954, Bobby Sands grew up in Belfast under the cloud of nationalist and loyalist divisions. He joined the Republican Movement when he was 18 and was soon arrested and imprisoned for possessing a firearm. A second arrest in 1976 led to a 14-year-sentence. In prison, Sands embarked on a long hunger strike that led to his death. During the strike he was elected a Member of Parliament.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qaJOs_sATVdZeyBPBG0ARaLDyW4KxGXUq5h3mt2Kyx_qUtfMzQqIUFz2MTcSXFEK_KD0QXdf1SeA9CJgbeDe6lGKnTgdul0Qf_YQ61n9mWPOvLb3odlt5AbMdd_fF9haSLEVUFPnsOI/s1600/ands.jpg"> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3qaJOs_sATVdZeyBPBG0ARaLDyW4KxGXUq5h3mt2Kyx_qUtfMzQqIUFz2MTcSXFEK_KD0QXdf1SeA9CJgbeDe6lGKnTgdul0Qf_YQ61n9mWPOvLb3odlt5AbMdd_fF9haSLEVUFPnsOI/s1600/ands.jpg"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null"></a><br /> Early Years <br /><br /><br />A hero among Irish nationalists, Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands was born in Belfast, Ireland on March 9, 1954. Bobby Sands was the oldest of four children born to John and Rosaleen Sands, and the couple's first son. At an early age, Sands's life was affected by the sharp divisions that shaped the north of Ireland. At the age of 10, he was forced to move with his family out of their neighborhood due to repeated intimidation by loyalists. <br /><br /><br />"I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto," Sands later wrote about his childhood. "But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom." <br /><br /><br />Loyalist intimidation proved to be a theme in Sands' life. At the age of 18, he was forced out of his job as an apprentice car builder. (He had joined the National Union of Vehicle Builders just two years before.) Not long after, he and his family had to move again, as a result of political trouble. <br /> <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null"></a><br /> Activism <br /><br /><br />The steady number of conflicts pushed Sands to join the Republican Movement in 1972. His ties to the movement soon captured the attention of the authorities, and later that year, he was arrested and charged with possessing firearms in his house. He spent the next three years of his life in prison. Upon his release, Sands immediately returned to the Republican Movement. He signed on as a community activist in Belfast's rough Twinbrook area, quickly becoming a popular go-to person for a range of issues affecting the neighborhood. <br /><br /><br />In late 1976, authorities arrested Sands again, this time in connection with a bombing that had taken place at a large furniture company and an ensuing gun battle. After weathering a brutal interrogation and then a court proceeding that offered up questionable evidence connecting Sands and three others to the attack, a judge sentenced Sands to 14 years in prison at Her Majesty's Prison's Maze, Long Kesh, a facility used to house Republican prisoners from 1971 until 2000, located just outside of Belfast. <br /><br /><br />As a prisoner, Sands's stature only grew. He pushed hard for prison reforms, confronting authorities, and for his outspoken ways he was frequently given solitary confinement sentences. Sands's contention was that he and others like him, who were serving prison sentences, were actually prisoners of war, not criminals as the British government insisted. <br /> Hunger Strike <br /><br /><br />Beginning on March 1, 1981, Sands led nine other Republican prisoners into the H Block section of the Maze, Long Kesh, on a hunger strike that would last until death. Their demands ranged from allowing prisoners to wear their own clothes to permitting visits and mail, all of which were central in improving the inmates' way of life. <br /><br /><br />Unable to move authorities to give in to his requests, and unwilling himself to end his hunger strike, Sands's health began to deteriorate. During the first 17 days of the strike alone, he lost 16 pounds. <br /><br /><br />A hero among his fellow nationalists, Sands was elected as a Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. To the shock of Unionists, he won more than 52 percent of the vote in the north Ireland. While cheered by the victory, Sands seem to know that he was destined to be a martyr. <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null"></a><br /> Death and Legacy <br /><br /><br />Only days after slipping into a coma, on the morning of May 5, 1981, Sands died from malnutrition due to starvation. He was 27 years old, and had refused to eat for 66 days. He'd become so fragile over his final weeks, he spent his final days on a water bed to protect his deteriorating and fragile body. At time of his death, Sands was married to Geraldine Noade, with whom he had one son, Gerard. <br /><br /><br />While loyalists dismissed Sands's death, others were quick to recognize its significance. Over the next seven months, nine other IRA supporters died on a hunger strike. Eventually, the British government gave proper political recognition to the prisoners, many of them earning their release under the 1998 Bad Friday agreement.</b></span></div>
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<b>Leaders of a breakaway UDA faction in north Antrim have warned that their violence is likely to escalate further.</b></div>
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<b>In the last 18 months the group has been responsible for six ‘punishment’ shootings, one of which resulted in a man losing his leg, as well as the murder of 42-year-old Brian McIlhagga in Ballymoney in January.</b><br />
<b>The upsurge in violence came after the organisation’s long-standing leader in north Antrim, Billy ‘The Mexican’ McFarland, was removed in 2013. A spokesman for the paramilitary group said this week that there had been “a gradual deterioration in the mood and loyalists are angry, especially young loyalists”.</b><br />
<b>The hardline UDA group said it had never declared a ceasefire and it would continue to exist as long as loyalists felt “marginalised”.</b><br />
<b>“We have always been outside of the peace process,” the spokesman said.</b><br />
<b>Last month, Independent Moyle councillor Padraig McShane accused British forces of “running” members of the gang. The former Sinn Fein councillor was the first to draw attention to the unchecked series of 40 attacks, including shootings, arson and pipe bombings, in the last two years.</b><br />
<b>“The type, level and concentration of attacks coupled with the fact that a small number of arrests are not turning into criminal charges and convictions follows a similar pattern when collusion was at its height,” he said.</b><br />
<b>“Rank and file PSNI members are openly communicating that they are not allowed to intervene with UDA individuals who enjoy immunity on criminal acts.”</b><br />
<b>Mr McShane’s home was badly damaged in a firebomb attack last October, which he has blamed on the UDA. Last summer the message ‘Padraig McShane - dead man’ was also painted on a white sheet and placed on a loyalist bonfire in Dervock, County Antrim.</b><br />
<b>East Derry SDLP assembly member John Dallat said he had raised the loyalist threat with the Dublin government. He said the gang involved was desperate to reassert their influence in an area running from Dervock in County Antrim to Derry city.</b><br />
<b>“There is deep concern that it is only a matter of time before they turn their attention to the Catholic community that they murdered in the past,” he said.</b><br />
<b>“If they would inflict this kind of violence and horrendous injuries on their own community what else are they capable of?”</b></div>
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David Cameron defends Israel's right to commit mass murder of Palestinian civilians</h1>
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When Israel killed 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, in its 2014 war on Gaza, Cameron says it was just 'defending itself'.</h4>
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<b>BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has defended the Israeli regime’s 2014 military aggression against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.</b></div>
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<b>Cameron said in <a href="http://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/interviews/135458/david-cameron-israel-was-right-defend-itself-over-gaza-%E2%80%94-i-feel-very-cle" style="color: #005580; text-decoration: none;">an interview with the UK-based <em style="color: #ca4417;">Jewish Chronicle</em></a>on 30 April 2015 that Tel Aviv had a right to “defend” itself when it began its war on Gaza in July 2014.</b></div>
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<b>Israel started airstrikes against the besieged Palestinian territory in early July 2014 and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion. The war ended in late August that year.</b></div>
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<b>Nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, were killed in<a href="http://stopwar.org.uk/news/how-israel-deliberately-targeted-homes-in-gaza-killing-over-500-children" style="color: #005580; text-decoration: none;">Israel’s 50-day onslaught</a> and over 11,100 others, including nearly 3,380 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people, were injured. Tens of Israelis were also killed during the war.</b></div>
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<b>Cameron said it was “important to speak out” about standing by Israeli.</b></div>
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<b>The British prime minister’s remarks are his latest ones in showing support for the Israeli regime.</b></div>
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<b>Cameron’s support for the Israeli war on Gaza last summer resulted in the <a href="http://stopwar.org.uk/news/lindsey-german-blog/from-ukraine-to-syria-time-for-joined-up-opposition-to-the-war-makers" style="color: #005580; text-decoration: none;">resignation of Britain’s then Foreign Office Minister. Sayeeda Warsi</a>. Warsi stepped down in August 2014 over Cameron’s “morally indefensible” failure to condemn the sufferings in Gaza.</b></div>
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<b>Numerous rights groups and NGOs have also condemned the 2014 Israeli war.</b></div>
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<b>Last month, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) declared month in a report that Israel perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity during its devastating military onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip in July-August 2014.</b></div>
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<b>Furthermore, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat announced on March 30 that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had started investigating war crimes committed by Israel during the war on Gaza.</b></div>
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<b>The Palestinian Authority formally became a member of the ICC on April 1, which enables Palestinians to sue Israeli officials for war crimes.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Natural resources were also essentially the reason for reducing Iran to a Western vassalage. That never had anything to do with Tehran developing a nuclear weapon, which was banned by both the leader of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The ‘New Great Game’ in Eurasia was always about control of the Eurasian land mass. Minor setbacks to the American elite project do not mean the game will be restricted to a mere <a href="http://rt.com/news/251889-us-russia-war-attrition/" target="_blank">“war of attrition”</a>. Rather the contrary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Ukraine, the Kremlin has been more than explicit there are two definitive red lines. Ukraine won’t join NATO. And Moscow won’t allow the popular republics of Donetsk and Lugansk to be crushed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We are coming closer to a potentially explosive deadline – when EU sanctions expire in July. An EU in turmoil but still enslaved to NATO – see the pathetic “Dragoon Ride” convoy from the Baltics to Poland or the “Atlantic Resolve” NATO show-off exercise - may decide to expand them, and even try to exclude Russia from SWIFT.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Only fools believe Washington is going to risk American lives over Ukraine or even Poland. Yet let’s plan a few steps ahead. If it ever comes to the unthinkable – a war between NATO and Russia in Ukraine – Russian defense circles are sure of conventional and nuclear superiority on sea and land. And the Pentagon knows it. Russia would reduce NATO forces to smithereens in a matter of hours. And then would come Washington’s stark choice: accept ignominious defeat or escalate to tactical nuclear weapons.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Pentagon knows that Russia has the air and missile defense capabilities to counter anything embedded in the US Prompt Global Strike (PGS). Simultaneously though, Moscow is saying it would rather not use these capabilities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Major General Kirill Makarov, Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces’ deputy chief, has been very clear about the <a href="http://rt.com/news/246869-global-strike-missile-defense/" target="_blank">PGS</a> threat. Moscow’s December 2014 new military doctrine qualifies PGS as well as NATO’s current military buildup as the top two security threats to Russia.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike non-stop Pentagon/NATO bragging/demonizing, what Russian defense circles don't need to advertise is how they are now a couple of generations ahead of the US in their advanced weaponry.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The bottom line is that while the Pentagon was mired in the Afghanistan and Iraq quagmires, they completely missed Russia’s technological jump ahead. The same applies to China’s ability to hit US satellites and thus pulverize American ICBM satellite guidance systems.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The current privileged scenario is Russia playing for time until it has totally sealed Russia’s air space to American ICBMs, stealth aircraft and cruise missiles – via the S-500 system.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This has not escaped the attention of the British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) – as it gamed sometime ago whether Washington might launch a first strike against Russia.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">According to the JIC, Washington might go rogue if "a) an extreme government were to take over in the United States, b) and there was increased lack of confidence by the United States in some if not all of her Western allies owing to political developments in their countries, c) and there was some sudden advance in the USA in the sphere of weapons, etc. that the counsels of impatience may get the upper hand."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">US ‘Think Tankland’ spinning that Russian military planners should take advantage of their superiority to launch a first strike nuclear attack against the US is bogus; the Russian doctrine is eminently defensive.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yet that does not exclude Washington doing the unthinkable the next time the Pentagon thinks of itself to be in the position Russia is now in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The whole game used to be about who ruled the waves – the geopolitical gift the US inherited from Great Britain. Control of the seas meant the US inheriting five empires; Japan, Germany, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands. All those massive US carrier task forces patrolling the oceans to guarantee “free trade” – as the hegemonic propaganda machine goes – could be turned against China in a flash. It’s a mechanism similar to the carefully choreographed “leading from behind” financial op to simultaneously crash the ruble/launch an oil war and thus smash Russia into submission.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Washington’s master plan remains deceptively simple; to “neutralize” China by Japan, and Russia by Germany, with the US backing its two anchors, Germany and Japan. Russia is the de facto only BRICS nation blocking the master plan.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This was the case until Beijing launched the New Silk Road(s), which essentially mean the linking of all Eurasia into a “win-win” trade/commerce bonanza on high-speed rail, and in the process diverting freight tonnage overland and away from the seas.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So NATO’s non-stop Russia demonizing is in fact quaint. Think about NATO picking a fight against the constantly evolving, complex Russia-China strategic partnership. And in a not so remote future, as I indicated <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175935/tomgram:_pepe_escobar,_eurasian_integration_vs._the_empire_of_chaos/#more" target="_blank">here</a>, Germany, Russia and China have what it takes to be the essential pillars of a fully integrated Eurasia.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As it stands, the key shadow play is Moscow and Beijing silently preparing their own SWIFT system while Russia prepares to seal its air space with S-500s. Western Ukraine is doomed; leave it to the austerity-ravaged EU – which, by the way, doesn’t want it. And all this while the same EU tries to handicap the US commercially with a rigged euro that still doesn’t allow it to penetrate more US markets.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As for an irrelevant NATO, all it can do is cry, cry, cry</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In recent days, a member of the Thomas Harte Cumann, Republican Sinn Féin North Armagh, was stopped and approached by British Intelligence while driving in his car with his young child. He was driving his car towards Portadown when he noticed an RUC/PSNI bike sitting at the side of the roadroad just before the roundabout on the Armagh road.</span></b></div>
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<b>He continued: “The RUC/PSNI bike pulled out and followed me and then <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">pulled me over asking for my licence and where I was going. I gave the RUC/PSNI member my licence and he walked to the rear of the car. It was then I noticed two other men. They came from behind and ran up to my car, one on each side.</span></b></div>
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<b>“I told them to go away. I was not interested in speaking to them. One was holding my licence. I asked for my license back to which he replied that I needed ‘to get my address on it changed over’ and would I hear them out ‘for one minute’.</b></div>
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<b>“I was very angry at this stage and told them to keep the license. I pulled back onto the main road with one still leaning into the car. The other one threw my license back on my lap saying ‘hold on, there's your license.’ I continued driving and he finally let go of the door and stepped away from the car. I drove off but the RUC/PSNI bike followed me as far as Portadown.</b><br />
<b>“I had a child in the car with me, but thankfully the child slept through it all.”</b></div>
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<b>Daire Mac Cionnaith, Vice President of Republican Sinn Féin and member of the Thomas Harte Cumann, said in a statement on April 2, that this latest approach was “a sinister development” though this was not the first attempt by the British Intelligence to recruit him as an informer”.</b></div>
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<b>He continued: “This behaviour by the RUC/PSNI is a sinister development. The Republican and Nationalist community in British Occupied Ireland need to be cautious and withstand these attempts. It is clear that the RUC/PSNI member was just a stalking horse for British Intelligence who was obviously attempting to recruit our member as an informer. This is only one of many attempts by the RUC/PSNI to recruit informers in the North Armagh area</b></div>
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<b>Ardoyne residents’ spokesperson Dee Fennell was effectively interned by a judge at Craigavon court on Friday, confirming fears of republicans since his arrest two weeks ago.</b></div>
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<b>Mr Fennell was refused bail in connection with incitement charges and ordered to be held indefinitely at Maghaberry jail. The republican activist was arrested last month in connection with a speech he delivered to a commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Lurgan, County Armagh, on Easter Sunday.Mr Fennell is chairperson of the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective, which campaigns against anti-Catholic parades in the area. He also works on behalf of republican prisoners. His supporters said he intends to challenge the decision to deny him his liberty to the High Court.</b><br />
<b>Activists have pointed to the draconian nature of the legislation being used to erode the right of republicans to speak out against British rule. Peter Corrigan, representing Mr Fennell, also pointed out that he was a father with a very young family and had not been charged with membership of an illegal organisation.</b><br />
<b>The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association offered its support to Mr Fennell’s family.</b><br />
<b>“Once again we have witnessed the full force of the British judicial system utilised against an Irish citizen,” IRPWA spokesperson Mandy Duffy said.</b><br />
<b>“Historically, British courts have been utilised to deny Irish people, and in particular Irish Republicans, their rights and their freedom. Today is no different, as we observed an all too willing so-called judicial system pander to the wishes of the British government and its security agencies.”</b><br />
<b>“Let us be clear. This is internment, regardless of how they might try to disguise it. Dee Fennell has been interned because he is a dedicated Irish Republican activist who dared to challenge the false narrative, carefully fostered by the British Government and its willing Irish natives, that exists in Ireland today.”</b><br />
<b>She called on all republicans, at home and abroad, to challenge this new aspect of Britain’s strategy in Ireland and organise to end the internment of Irish republicans.</b><br />
<b>Mr Fennell’s imprisonment was “an attempt to silence and suppress a genuine republican narrative,” she said. “This is nothing new to republicans. They will fail.”</b><br />
<b>BOMB ALERTSMr Fennell’s detention coincided with a bomb alert in the Ardoyne area on Friday. A local priest said he received a phone call indicating that a device intended to target a passing PSNI patrol had been abandoned. The alert caused traffic chaos after several main roads into the city were closed. A British army bomb squad team carried out an elaborate sweep of the area for most of the day before it was reported that a “significant” device had been recovered.</b><br />
<b>A smaller device at a Probation Service office in Derry on Monday also prompted a lengthy alert. According to the PSNI, one improvised home-made pipe bomb partially detonated, while a second failed to explode.</b><br />
<b>There was no claim of responsibility for either incident.</b></div>
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<b>Mark Hayes and Paul Norris offer a lengthy analysis of the PSNI which argues that Sinn Fein not the RUC was reformed beyond recognition in order to allow the party to accept the legitimacy of British policing in Ireland. The authors are Senior Lecturers at Southampton Solent University. Both have a record of publishing material regarding Northern Ireland and have taken a particular interest in policing and human rights.<br /><br />This article will focus attention on the key issue of structural reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) which was a central component of the “peace process” in Northern Ireland. It will critically evaluate how far this apparently substantive re-calibration of policing contributed to the process of inter-communal conflict resolution, and how far the narrative of “security” still dominates the agenda of policing. This will necessitate a broader contextual evaluation of the dynamics which have driven the “peace process”, principally the pragmatic political engagement of Sinn Fein, and the re-casting of Provisional Republican policy toward policing. It will be argued that pro-active participation by Provisional Sinn Fein, along with cautious acquiescence at key moments, has played a significant role in stabilising the Northern Ireland regime whilst pacifying political resistance. This article will also discuss how far this process of pacification reflects a genuine transformation from conflict to consent, and what implications this may have for the long-term legitimacy of the state.<br /><br />The very first efforts to develop a professional police force in Ireland, via a Peace Preservation Force and then County Constabularies, controlled by Chief Secretary Sir Robert Peel, were designed to deal with a society where British imperial “law and order” was breaking down, particularly in rural areas. Even the more unified, centralised and quasi-military Constabulary of Ireland (1836) was preoccupied with the threat of Nationalist insurrection. The Constabulary was essentially a colonial force, superimposed upon a society suspicious of its intentions and well aware of its exogenous origins. In 1867 the Constabulary was awarded its “Royal” epithet for suppressing the Fenian uprising, thus becoming the Royal Irish Constabulary, which thereby solidified the connection between Crown, colonialism and coercion. Indeed the British government considered the RIC’s training programme to be “ideal” and from 1907 insisted that all commissioned officers in colonial forces be tutored by the RIC in Dublin (see Mulcahy 2005: 195). The Royal prefix was, in fact, to survive the partition of Ireland in the form of the Royal Ulster Constabulary which contained a nucleus (over 50%) of former RIC officers, and the new Northern organisation retained the same rank, structure, uniform and terms and conditions of service.<br /><br />The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officially came into existence on 1 June 1922. As Mulcahy says, policing in the newly formed entity of “Northern Ireland” retained “a strongly colonial feel owing not least to its prominent and problematic role in securing the state” (Mulcahy 2005:195). The one third Catholic quota, set as an initial target, was never filled, and by the late 1920s only 17% of the force was Catholic, falling to 10% in 1969 and less than 8% by the 1990s (see Farrell 1983). The RUC’s early links with the Orange Order, its use of emergency legislation, such as the 1922 Special Powers Act, which Chris Ryder described as “a truly draconian piece of legislation” (Ryder 1997: 57), and the prevailing Loyalist ethos, all contributed to making the RUC an explicitly pro-Unionist police force. Consequently the RUC was seen by most Nationalists as an integral component of the unwanted, artificially created “Northern Ireland” state. <br /><br />Coercive policing, in effect, ensured that Catholics were discriminated against in terms of culture, employment, housing and the franchise. The ensuing civil rights marches in the 1960s, and the aggressive manner in which they were policed, marked a significant watershed in the history of the RUC and the Unionist state. The events that took place at Burntollet Bridge and in the subsequent “Battle of the Bogside” in Derry in 1969 were to damage, irreversibly, the reputation of the RUC. The Cameron Report (1969) criticised the conduct of the RUC and the Scarman Tribunal (1969) found that “there was a lack of confidence in the police” (Hainsworth 1996: 104), whilst the Hunt Report (1969) recommended a number of substantive reforms in an effort to salvage the credibility of the organisation.<br /><br />The lineage of the RUC is, therefore, a matter of historical record, and the policing of Northern Ireland was, self-evidently, closely tied to the nature of the state – which was irredeemably Unionist in its ideological outlook and policy practice. In effect the RUC, an overwhelmingly Protestant force, policed “a cold house” for Nationalists, who perceived the RUC as the coercive arm of a sectarian state which denied Catholics equal rights. <br /><br />By the end of the 1960s Northern Ireland was a deeply divided society. In 1968 76% of Catholics considered themselves to be Irish, and 71% of Protestants identified themselves as British, 84% of whom were opposed to a united Ireland (Boyle and Hadden 1994: 54-62; see Rose 1971). Within the context of this cultural, religious and political dichotomy, and given the asymmetrical power relationship which existed between the respective communities, the police, in robustly defending Unionist hegemony, actually accentuated the ethnic division within society and further alienated the Nationalists.<br /><br />After the civil rights agitation gave way to armed insurrection by Republicans against the Unionist state (and in the context of on-going Loyalist violence), the RUC became embroiled in a series of major controversies. As the situation in Northern Ireland deteriorated, events in the 1970s and 1980s ensured that attention remained firmly focused on issues relating to policing and the justice system. As the state sought to re-establish its authority policing became further politicised: internment without trial, the creation of non-jury (Diplock) courts, the use of aggressive interrogation techniques and “confession” evidence, the use of plastic baton rounds, accusations of a “shoot to kill” policy and collusion with Loyalist paramilitaries – these were all examples of areas where punitive law enforcement and the maintenance of order precipitated controversy and resistance. As Mulcahy points out, “policing was perhaps the most emotive, divisive and controversial aspect of the conflict” (Mulcahy 2006: 4). <br /><br />Hence policing and justice issues were central to the dynamics of the conflict in Northern Ireland, although as Ellison explains:<br /><br /><br />it would be a mistake to situate the problems with policing in Northern Ireland solely with the RUC’s counterinsurgency role…the RUC was a potent reminder for many Catholics and nationalists of their exclusion from the cultural life of the state and its practices. Conversely, for many Protestants and unionists, the RUC provided a symbolic conduit that went right to the heart of their identities within the Northern Ireland state - (Ellison 2007: 246).<br /> Consequently it would be reasonable to conclude that the RUC was, essentially, a sectarian police force, and a coercive instrument of Unionist domination, without legitimacy in Nationalist communities. Unsurprisingly Sinn Fein, as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, was the foremost critic of the RUC’s repressive reflexes, portraying the “crown forces” as, in effect, an anachronistic instrument of colonial administration which should be completely de-constructed and replaced. As the Sinn Fein documentScenario for Peace (1987) clearly states (point 4): “British security forces, namely the RUC and UDR must be disbanded” [1].<br /><br />It is obvious, therefore, that policing was an integral part of the on-going political crisis in Northern Ireland, and substantive reform of policing structures, particularly the RUC itself, had to become an essential element in any proposals designed to to resolve the conflict (see Bayley 2001; 2006; Caparini and Marenin 2004; Stenning and Shearing 2005; Weitzer 1996). As a result, police reform became a central feature of the so-called “peace process” in Northern Ireland. In fact protracted negotiations produced an Independent Commission on Policing (ICP) chaired by Chris Patten, which was established as part of the Belfast Agreement (1998). Substantive reform of the RUC was seen as a crucial component in the construction of a sustainable political compromise and, most importantly, securing the confidence of the Catholic community in policing was considered central to the stability of the agreement, and an essential pre-requisite for a sustained peace. The aim of the Commission was to provide proposals that would, once implemented, create a police service that would operate in partnership with, and be accountable to, the entire community, including Catholic Nationalists. Indeed the “Good Friday Agreement” stated that the ICP’s proposals “should be designed to ensure that policing arrangements, including composition, recruitment, training, culture, ethos and symbols, are such that in a new approach, Northern Ireland has a police service that can enjoy widespread support from, and is seen as an integral part of, the community as a whole” (UK Government 1998: 22). The ICP consulted widely via a large number of public meetings in which it was estimated that approximately 10,000 people attended, and it reviewed 2,500 written submissions, which led some to conclude that the breadth of the ICP’s consultations endowed its report with a legitimacy that had long been lacking (see Mulcahy 2006). The ICP published its report on 9 September 1999 entitled A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland, which became known colloquially as the “Patten Report” and contained 175 recommendations. The report was based on four guiding principles:-<br /><br /><br />1. Policing should be a collective responsibility: a partnership for community safety<br /><br />2. Policing should be informed by the protection of human rights for all<br /><br />3. Policing must be democratically accountable, politically, legally and financially <br /><br />4. Policing must be transparent and open<br /><br /><br />The Report’s main recommendations included: re-naming the service and removing obvious symbols of “Britishness” to reflect the new consociational, power-sharing dispensation; creating a new Policing Board (with 19 members, ten from the Assembly and nine appointed as representatives of the wider community); forming new District Policing Partnership Boards to enhance accountability; having a new Police Ombudsman and Complaints Tribunal; introducing a 50-50 recruitment policy for Catholics and Protestants; implementing a new code of ethics with a strong emphasis on human rights; an emphasis on “normal” community policing and the need for genuine accountability and effective governance (see cain.ulst.ac.uk 2012).<br /><br />The Patten Report was quite clear that the police should take steps to improve transparency, the presumption being that “everything should be available for public scrutiny unless it is in the public interest – not the police interest – to hold it back” (Patten Report: para 6.38). Police should be “encouraged to address the causes of problems as well as the consequences”, “there should be a substantial reduction in the numbers of officers engaged in security work” (para 12.14) and indeed, police powers to “combat terrorism” should be “the same as in the UK” (para 8.14). It would be fair to say that the recommendations contained within the report caused considerable controversy, not least amongst Unionist politicians who were sceptical about the value of policing reform. In fact the Unionist leader at the time, David Trimble, described it as “the shoddiest piece of work [he had] seen in thirty years” (The Guardian 10 September 1999), and both the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party rejected many of the proposed reforms. On the other hand the SDLP, Alliance Party welcomed it, as did the British and Irish governments [2].<br /><br />However, by the time The Police (Northern Ireland) Bill was published in May 2000, it was clear that the Patten Report had been watered down, or as one of the Patten Commissioners, Clifford Shearing, put it: “The Patten Report has not been cherry picked – it has been gutted” (cited in The Guardian, 14 November 2000; see CAJ 2012: 30). Some academic experts, such as Hillyard and Tomlinson, were also critical, arguing that the outcome “completely rejects the PCR’s core project” and that the blueprint had “fallen foul of entrenched interests” (Hillyard and Tomlinson 2000: 410 and 415). However, Maurice Hayes (a member of the ICP) took the view that “basically the nationalists have to decide whether they want 90% of something or 100% of nothing” (cited in Irish Times 25 November 2000). <br /><br />The Bill received the Royal assent on the 23 November 2000 after a lengthy legislative process. The Patten reforms created the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the Northern Ireland Policing Board and District Police Partnerships. As well as a reformed police service, the Office of the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland (OPONI) was established on the 6 November 2000, with the first Ombudsman being Nuala O’Loan. Indeed Ellison argues that this was vital in generating legitimacy for the new policing structures: “without the establishment of the OPONI, the entire reform process would have stalled years ago, and its role in enhancing the legitimacy of the PSNI should not be underestimated” (Ellison 2007: 261). Many of the primary recommendations of the Patten Report were implemented via the Police (Northern Ireland) Acts 2000 and 2003.<br /><br />The new PSNI was designed to denote a significant, qualitative departure for policing in Northern Ireland, embodying a new ethos compliant with the ECHR. According to the new organisation’s public relations material:<br /><br /><br />the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s purpose is to make Northern Ireland safer for everyone through professional, progressive policing. We achieve this goal through policing with the community. This pro-active community-driven approach sees the police and local community working together to identify and solve problems. (www.psni 2012).<br /><br />The “values” of the PSNI were said to be “honesty and openness” and “fairness and courtesy”, with an emphasis on “partnerships, performance and professionalism” which would precipitate a form of policing that “respects the rights of all” (www.psni 2012). This commitment was apparently reflected in the fact that growing numbers of Catholics began to join the force.<br /><br />It is, however, absolutely crucial to note that the Patten Report and reform of policing became a central plank of Sinn Fein’s strategy in the peace process (along with the human rights “equality” agenda and the release of paramilitary prisoners). Short of their ultimate aim of Irish unification – which was effectively relegated to the status of a long-term aspiration, given the party’s acceptance of the principle of Unionist “consent” – delivering a qualitative transformation in the nature of policing became a key priority for Sinn Fein. Reform of policing was, in short, a critical component in terms of sustaining Sinn Fein’s continued credibility with its own core Republican constituency, in that it was designed to provide a tangible benefit, short of the ultimate ideological objective. <br /><br />At first Sinn Fein remained sceptical about the extent to which Patten would “transform” the RUC, and remained reluctant to endorse the new arrangements. However, as a consequence of the St. Andrews Agreement (2006), the British government set clear conditions on the restoration of devolved power. It was a critical moment. The Agreement envisaged the devolution of policing and judicial powers after the Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland Executive had been restored. In the context of significant pressure, applied principally by the British government, Sinn Fein decided to support the PSNI. The Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Hain referred to the decision as an “astonishing breakthrough”. <br /><br />On 28 January 2007 a special Sinn Fein Ard Fheis approved a motion calling for the devolution of policing and justice services, support for the PSNI and sanctioning the appointment of party representatives to the Policing Board and District Policing Partnership Boards. The motion, stated: <br /><br /><br />This Ard Fheis supports civic policing through a police service which is representative of the community it serves, free from partisan political control and democratically accountable …The PSNI needs to make strenuous efforts to earn the trust and confidence of nationalists and republicans …This Ard Fheis is totally opposed to political, sectarian and repressive policing. The experience of nationalists and republicans in the Six Counties is of a partisan, unionist militia which engaged in harassment, torture, assassination, shoot-to-kill, and collusion with death squads. The Good Friday Agreement requires and defines a ‘new beginning to policing’ as an essential element of the process” (www.sinnfein June 2012).<br />After a six hour debate, over 95% of the 900 or so delegates voted in favour. The Ard Chomhairle (National Executive) was tasked to implement the motion. The Sinn Fein spokesperson on policing, Alex Maskey claimed that, through the Sinn Fein members of the Policing Board (himself, Martina Anderson and Daithi McKay) along with local DPPs, they would be able to deliver a new civic police service, fully accountable and representative of the community, and that “partisan, political policing” and “collusion” would be consigned to history. In effect Sinn Fein, according to Maskey and others, was going into the Policing Board to hold the PSNI to account. A commitment to law and order, the party noted, was critical for a stable and inclusive power-sharing government based upon partnership, consent and good faith, and the party encouraged everyone in the community to co-operate fully with the police and other criminal justice institutions [3]. <br /><br />The Northern Ireland Assembly met on 8 May 2007, precipitating the remarkable “photo-opportunity” of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness working together in government. The “spin doctors” at Stormont had a unique field-day, disseminating the extraordinary images and commenting upon the so-called “chuckle-brothers” performing their duties together. Crucially, it was Sinn Fein’s acceptance of the policing framework, and its commitment to the “law and order” agenda, that underpinned this unlikely political liaison with the loyalists in the DUP. In effect the last vestiges of equivocation about Sinn Fein’s support for the Northern Ireland state were removed. As The Times (London) announced, with appropriate solemnity: “Irish republicans have served notice that they will work with British sovereignty in Ulster” (29 January 2007). The US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Mitchell Reiss, commended the leadership of Gerry Adams, whilst many others, including the Independent Monitoring Commission (whose members included an ex-CIA Deputy Director and a former high ranking Metropolitan Police Officer), were effusive in their praise for Sinn Fein’s capacity to compromise on this fundamental issue. The “new” Police Service of Northern Ireland was, therefore, not only designed to be the cornerstone of the new political dispensation, and the key to securing a sustainable long-term peace, its success was actually crucial to the political integrity of Sinn Fein. <br /><br />However, the PSNI has been beset by difficulties, and criticism of “post-peace” policing in Northern Ireland, although somewhat diminished, has by no means disappeared. Awkward questions are still being asked about whether the Patten reforms have indeed provided a genuinely new type of “community” policing.<br /><br />For example, the issue of accountability for state security is both interesting and indicative. Sinn Fein noted with some satisfaction the prospect of removing MI5 from policing structures in Northern Ireland, which would thereby effectively separate, they argued, political from civic policing and apparently obviate the danger of perpetuating a “force within a force”. In fact this was a misunderstanding, if not a myopic misrepresentation, of the actual proposals. The Patten Report made it clear that policing would be devolved “except for matters of national security” (Patten: para 6.15) and Annex E of the St. Andrews Agreement allowed MI5 to take overall charge of security arrangements in Northern Ireland, whilst continuing to run agents in collaboration with the PSNI (see CAJ 2012:10). <br /><br />From 2007 the primacy of MI5 in terms of security policing in Northern Ireland has been explicit, and the various security services, run from Whitehall, continue to play a key role in the pacification of “the province”. Indeed “the transfer to MI5 has ensured that policy on ‘national security’ covert policing remains largely secret, under the direct political control of London Ministers, and subject to very limited oversight” (CAJ 2012:14). Of course MI5 has an extremely controversial history of nefarious activity in Northern Ireland, along with the RUC’s Special Branch and the British Army’s clandestine Force Research Unit. For example, British security services ran special agents in the IRA, such as Freddie Scappaticci and Denis Donaldson, and British agents colluded with Loyalist paramilitaries in the assassination of the lawyer Pat Finucane. <br /><br />Moreover, nobody seriously believes that the full extent of MI5 infiltration into the highest leadership levels of the Provisional Republican movement has been fully revealed. In effect it can be plausibly argued that the British state’s security services, often acting beyond the law, actually “fuelled and exacerbated the conflict” (CAJ 2012:15). Yet the same organisation(s) have retained control of security affairs, and their influence remains undiminished. In effect, according to the Committee for the Administration of Justice, the available information tends to confirm the fact that MI5 has “dictated” security strategy in Northern Ireland (CAJ 2012: 7). A new MI5 HQ is being built at Palace Barracks outside Belfast (Loughside), and MI5 has actively recruited ex-RUC Special Branch Officers. Indeed, of MI5’s total UK budget, one third remains allocated to operations in Northern Ireland and it takes the lead role in monitoring “dissident” republicans - and any substantive “executive action” will be taken by MI5 (with the PSNI in a supporting role). MI5 may “brief” the Policing Board in secret session about issues considered “appropriate”, but will not be accountable to that body on “security related” issues. In short, the same intelligence structures that organised collusion throughout the “troubles” and murdered innocent Catholics not only remains in place but, in some senses, have been strengthened. <br /><br />Moreover, the indication is that MI5 has been tasked with focusing on “dissident” Republicans rather than Loyalists, which raises the spectre of “two-tier” covert policing (see CAJ 2012:15). Certainly the claim made at the time by British Secretary of State Shaun Woodward that Britain’s continued control of security in the six counties was due to the threat of Al Qaeda is risible, and assurances about accountability should be treated with scepticism. <br /><br />This ongoing controversy surrounding clandestine policing in Northern Ireland has led CAJ Director Brian Gormally to call for an independent review into the “unaccountable” security services which constitute “a disaster waiting to happen” (cited in McCaffrey 2012). If RUC Special Branch was a “force within a force” then MI5 has become a “force outside a force”, or as some commentators have suggested - “Special Branch has just moved down the road”! (McCaffrey 2012; CAJ 2012: 98 and 104). The proposed insertion of the “National Crime Agency” into the Northern Ireland security framework can only further entrench British control from London and widen the accountability gap (see CAJ 2012). <br /><br />In addition to this, in 2009, the PSNI confirmed that the British Army’s Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) was active in Northern Ireland (CAJ 2012: 75). The SSR was established in 2005 to replace the 14th Intelligence Unit and Force Research Unit, which had played a key, clandestine role in the “dirty war” in Ireland. Hence, the notion of “state security” remains vague enough to be subject to flexible interpretation by British secret agencies and sufficiently important to transcend the normal requirements for oversight, accountability and democratic control. Overall there is little doubt that strategic control of state security resides in London with the PSNI playing a supportive, subsidiary role. This is a situation which Sinn Fein has been prepared to accept, if not explicitly endorse.<br /><br />Then there has been the problem of the Police Ombudsman. Acrimonious debate surrounded the much-delayed publication of Nuala O’Loan’s damning Police Ombudsman’s Report (2007) on the murder of Ray McCord, which revealed collusion between RUC Special Branch and UVF Loyalists in North Belfast, particularly Mount Vernon UVF member and police informer Mark Haddock. Unionists and Loyalists predictably attacked O’Loan, and the British government anxiously referred to a “culture of conflict” which should be consigned to the past. Al Hutchinson took over from Nuala O’Loan in 2007 but lost the support of key members of his staff, indeed some resigned claiming that key information had been withheld from them during the course of investigations. The allegation, made in a University of Ulster Report, was that the NIO had effectively interfered in the Ombudsman’s office and that there was a lack of real and practical independence from the PSNI (especially with regard to the investigation of historic murders). A report by Criminal Justice Inspector Dr. Michael Maguire reached similar conclusions, claiming that a number of Ombudsman reports were altered or re-written to exclude criticism of the RUC and PSNI. In effect the Ombudsman was accused of covering up police criminality. Michael Maguire himself was confirmed as the new Police Ombudsman after Hutchinson stepped down in January 2012. <br /><br />There has also been controversy over former RUC officers who have been re-hired as part of the reform process as “civilian contractors” for the PSNI (of 399 contracts – 304 were secured by former RUC men, nearly half of whom are involved in “intelligence”). In fact former RUC Special Branch Officers have migrated into the new Department of Justice on large salaries, having already been paid off by the RUC [4]. The PSNI, in effect, exploited a loophole in the Patten report which allowed the re-hiring of officers in a “civilian” capacity. These re-hired officers are not accountable to the Ombudsman, do not take the police oath or sign up to the code of ethics. The “re-hiring” issue has added considerable weight to claims that genuine reform has proven to be elusive, and that the changes in policing practice have been largely cosmetic.<br /><br />Controversy continues to follow the PSNI. Recent statistics, obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, indicate that there were 33 suspensions (on full pay) of PSNI officers between July 2011 and July 2012, with two officers dismissed and four required to resign. Allegations included assault, death threats, perjury, being drunk in charge of a loaded firearm and sending sectarian text messages (see Irish Times 8 August 2012). <br /><br />In the same period, the PSNI relied heavily on Section 44 of the Terrorism Act (2000) before such activity was declared unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights; key reports sent to PSNI regarding certain killings were mysteriously “lost”, throwing inquests into confusion; they have kept DNA samples of innocent people, contrary to EU law; they have formalised liaison with the Israeli police force over public order policing; and they have continued to use plastic baton rounds and water canon in public order situations (the use of unmanned aerial surveillance “drones” is being considered to combat crime and “dissident” Republicans). Indeed, the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act still affords the PSNI extensive discretionary power to “stop and search” without reasonable suspicion, which appears to be most extensively used in certain working class Nationalist areas i.e. precisely those communities that have questioned the legitimacy of “partisan” state policing in the past (see CAJ 2012: 73-74).<br /><br />Meanwhile there has apparently been systematic harassment of certain political activists, notably Gary Donnelly in Derry, Micky Lavelle in Newtownbutler and Stephen Murney in Newry, which has included arrest on spurious charges, house raids, and extensive stop and search intimidation. The detention, without trial, of Marian Price after her part in a Republican Commemoration was emblematic of both the fragile nature of civil liberties in Northern Ireland and the coercive capacity of the PSNI. There has even been strong evidence of the security services running “agents provocateurs” in an effort to deter and disrupt “dissident” Republicans and, perhaps, de-stabilize the peace process (see, for example, the controversy surrounding the aborted prosecution of Anton Craig and the murder of Kieran Doherty, CAJ 2012: 70 and 71). This kind of narrative suggests a continuing combination of sectarianism and social control rather than consensual community policing based upon accountability and civic responsibility. <br /><br />As David Garland has pointed out in a broader context:<br /><br /><br />in any institutional setting there are basic recipes that shape thinking and guide decision making. These recipes are not articulated theories or legal guidelines but instead habits of thought and routine styles of reasoning that are embedded in the precedents and practices of the institution” (Garland 2002:188).<br />This is the idea of an ingrained, institutional “common sense” precipitated by the structure, culture and historical logic of the organisation itself. Such values are deeply rooted and extremely difficult to unlearn. Indeed members of the institution, having assimilated the values so completely, may be (to a significant extent) unaware of their significance – there exists, in short, a reflexive disjuncture, which reflects a culture that is apparently impervious to exogenous influences. The extent of the reflexive disjuncture with regard to policing in Northern Ireland is perhaps best illustrated by the Assistant Chief Constable William Kerr who, in the PSNI “Programme of Action” 2010-2011, states unequivocally:<br /><br /><br />The PSNI is committed to a rights based approach to policing. This is well established in our current working practices and policies, and we are widely acknowledged as international leaders in this area…We are wholly committed to the primacy of rights based policing in everything we do (www.psni 2012).<br />In fact the culturally assimilated values and organisational ethos of the PSNI - those deeply ingrained ideas and attitudes – have been inherited from the RUC. These are notions about the importance of monitoring and controlling political protest, and the need to coerce political opponents, particularly Republicans, who are assumed to be irredeemably wicked and immoral. These are the values that many PSNI officers (especially those involved in intelligence) have assimilated, almost instinctively, and which forms part of the cultural memory of a colonial force which Patten has altered somewhat, but singularly failed to eliminate. In effect, therefore, the colonial logic of counter-insurgent security, so evident in the RUC during the “troubles”, has simply been retained and refined by the PSNI. Using the pre-emptive, anticipatory and value-laden lexicon of “dissident” and “terrorist”, various state sanctions can be applied without reference to empirical evidence or recourse to law via the criminal justice system (see McCulloch and Pickering 2009). Here the emphasis on “security” and the preventative “management of risk” constitutes, at least in part, a continued reliance on circumstantial “intelligence” information and subjectively applied coercion.<br /><br />Inevitably, in this process, the construction of the exceptional “other”, through a heavily politicised frame of reference, fatally undermines key judicial notions such as the presumption of innocence and the importance of impartial due process. The danger of this approach being driven principally by the discriminatory dynamic of political and social prejudice is obvious, and the underlying parallels here with the authoritarian logic of Carl Schmitt’s “friend-enemy” thesis are disturbing, but unmistakeable. Unfortunately Chief Constable Matt Baggott’s conclusion in the PSNI Annual Report 2010-11 that “the PSNI will continue to provide an impartial, personal, professional and protective police service for all’ (PSNI Annual Report 2010-11, italics added) remains, to a significant degree, an unsubstantiated assertion rather than a statement of fact. The discourse and dispensation of “state security” and “colonial counter-insurgency” remains deeply woven into the fabric of practical “policing” in Northern Ireland. As the recent CAJ Report concluded:<br /><br /><br />if the transition to a peaceful society is our goal it is clear that such change will be hampered if past practices which caused the legitimacy of policing to be called into question are allowed to continue (CAJ 2012).<br /><br /><br />Although it might be persuasively argued that policing is, fundamentally, about power and legitimacy, and that this phenomenon is also inherent in most policing structures (to a greater or lesser degree), in Northern Ireland policing has been, and is, particularly problematic. As Neocleous has explained: “all roads lead to the state in the concept of police” (Neocleous 2000:118) and this observation is particularly apposite in post-Patten, post-Peace Process Northern Ireland. Policing in this contested corner of the dis-United Kingdom has been so controversial because the legitimacy of the state has been seriously questioned and there has been a recent (unsuccessful) attempt at armed insurrection. The recent “Peace Process” was constructed upon a commitment to the reform of policing structures, principally the RUC, and the failure of this reform may yet prove to be critical.<br /><br />Crucially, those “dissident” republicans keen to continue resistance and destroy the Belfast Agreement realise that policing is likely to be the key component in their campaign to consign it to the dustbin of history. In short, “dissident” Republicans have seized on the issue of policing. The more heavy-handed the police are in dealing with Republicans, the more radicalized they will become and the more support they are likely to receive from those alienated elements in Nationalist communities. As Pantazis and Pemberton have pointed out:<br /><br /><br />it is well documented that the use of ‘hard’ approaches during the Irish conflict against the Catholic community served as a recruitment tool for the Irish Republican Army” (Pantazis and Pemberton 2009: 660).<br /><br /><br />There is no reason to suppose that this equation will produce a different result now, and the very strategy deployed to provide “security” contains within it the capacity to undermine it. Once more the PSNI are being portrayed as an exogenous “foreign” force imposed upon the Nationalist community and are therefore a “legitimate target”, and a wide variety of Republican “dissidents” evidently believe resistance will coalesce around community responses to the continued existence of coercive policing. <br /><br />It would, of course, be easy to dismiss the criticism of the PSNI by such groups as entirely predictable and ideologically motivated, but fear of the political consequences of poor policing is not confined to Republican groups - it was (ex Chief Constable of Northern Ireland) Hugh Orde who acknowledged that it was what he called “the Continuity RUC” which itself constituted a critical danger to the stability of the Peace Process. So huge question marks remain over the PSNI and policing in Northern Ireland which reflect the difficulties encountered by policy-makers when attempting to reform an institution that has a long and distinctive cultural and political memory and which is tied, in essence, to the continued existence of the Northern Ireland (i.e. Unionist) state. <br /><br />In this context Sinn Fein’s transformation with regard to policing has been remarkable. Despite some robust rhetoric from key strategists about the persistence of “reactionaries” in the PSNI, the party has stood squarely behind the “reformed” organisation. The extent of Sinn Fein’s integration in the new policing dispensation can be gauged with reference to one highly pertinent example, which occurred after the party was presented with unambiguous evidence of PSNI links with Loyalist gangs. <br /><br />Whereas historically “collusion” was always considered a reason not to engage with policing organisations and, indeed, a justification for complete abolition – it was now identified as a reason to engage with such organisations! According to Gerry Adams “collusion” was another compelling reason why Republicans should take ownership of the policing mechanisms, in order to ensure full accountability. Sinn Fein’s integration as part of the Northern Ireland state could hardly be clearer.<br /><br />In fact it might also be argued that former PIRA insurgents have been deployed to “police” their own communities in order to “protect” the new political arrangements. Importantly, the impulse of the new PSNI to assert coercive control has been re-calibrated to incorporate some pro-state Provisional “Republican” elements in ensuring the continued intimidation and harassment of non-conformist, so-called “dissident” Republicans. There is disturbing evidence that ex-Provisional paramilitaries have harassed, intimidated and even killed recalcitrant members of their own community - the cases of Anthony McIntyre, Micky Donnelly and Jo Jo O’Connor provide disturbing evidence of extra legal sanctions, including murder, being applied by Provisionals with the complicity of police officers [5]. In this sense the Provisional Republicans have not only effectively accepted British jurisdiction over the northern six counties, they have been co-opted by the British state as junior partners in a strategy designed to subdue its core constituency and intimidate ideological Republicans who refuse to accept the “new” political arrangements. <br /><br />In this way, as Niall O’Dochartaigh has suggested, Sinn Fein has been effectively “Ulsterised”, indeed: “as Sinn Fein members condemn dissident republicans and offer strong support to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Irish republicanism in the North seems at times to have been comprehensively domesticated, a Northern Ireland phenomenon that can be safely contained within the boundaries of the state, distinguished now from ‘normal’ political parties only by its empty rhetorical commitment to an alternative nation” (O’Dochartaigh 2012: 256). <br /><br />There is no doubt that Sinn Fein’s participation in the peace process and the dramatic scaling down of its political aspirations were a critical component in the “success” of the peace process and GFA. Critically, the party’s continued commitment to policing is crucial to sustaining the integrity of the new arrangements – Sinn Fein has effectively aligned itself with the PSNI and the fate of both organisations and, more generally, the Peace Process, are inextricably inter-twined. In essence Sinn Fein has little choice but to continue to work with the PSNI given that it is administering British rule in Northern Ireland. As a result it is the issue of policing which exposes Sinn Fein’s political vulnerability in a most practical and obvious way. Sinn Fein may have reached what it sees as a pragmatic political compromise, but to critics it appears to look much more like outright capitulation. In that sense the performance of the PSNI has profound implications for Sinn Fein and peace in Northern Ireland. <br /><br />Certainly the issues raised here point to the gradual erosion of Sinn Fein’s strategic bridgehead, which was designed to lead (by “hollowing out” the Union) to a united Ireland. The weakness of that strategy (certainly in terms of securing ultimate ideological objectives) is obvious. In terms of Republican ideology the Provisional movement has clearly failed – the Unionists and Loyalists have won, even though at times it appears as though they lack the cognitive capacity to recognise this fact themselves . The recent protests by Loyalists over the issue of the Union flag protests cannot obscure this fundamental political reality. The more disturbing consequence for the pro-treaty pro-state Republican movement is that their failure to oversee a distinct qualitative change in the nature of policing in Northern Ireland not only reflects their tactical and strategic weakness, but may re-enforce the “dissident” contention that any substantive transformation in policing (and society) is ultimately contingent upon securing the political objective so spectacularly denied to Sinn Fein – Irish unification. For many Republicans (and socialists) Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness have put the cart before the horse, and the credibility-deficit in the core Republican constituency is expanding exponentially. The consequences for the Peace Process, and indeed the legitimacy of the Unionist state, may yet prove to be profound. <br /><br /><br />Notes<br /><br />[1] Sinn Fein, on numerous occasions, accused the RUC of collaborating with Loyalist paramilitaries. For example Gerry Adams even accused the RUC of collusion in the Milltown cemetery attack by Loyalist Michael Stone on 16 March 1988, during which three people were killed. It might also be noted that Sinn Fein was also fond of deploying the slogan “SS-RUC”.<br /><br />[2] Academic reaction to reaction to Patten was mixed, with some being quite positive, for example Chris Ryder (a former member of the Police Authority of Northern Ireland, and author of the history of the RUC) who said the report was “’an unusually articulate and elegantly written document by the standard of official public reports. It is an intellectually reasoned and logically argued manifesto to transform the 77 year old Royal Ulster Constabulary from a police force to a renamed and rebranded Northern Ireland Police Service’” (cited in Irish Times, 10 September 1999). Others were more critical, see for example: Hillyard and Tomlinson (2000), Brogden (2001), Beirne (2001) and Ellison and Mulcahy (2001) who nevertheless argued that “if the Patten Report is not perfect, and if its implementation leaves a lot to be desired... it should not blind us to its potential” (Ellison and Mulcahy 2001: 256).<br /><br />[3] Cynical observers noted that the abolition of the Assets Recovery Agency and the promise of a “spending review” may have helped Sinn Fein sell the deal to rank-and-file activists, especially those having an acquaintance with the lucrative robbery of Northern Bank in 2004.<br /><br />[4] The Patten Report said that the early retirement or severance package offered to regular officers and full-time reservists aged 50 or above should include “a generous lump sum payment according to length of service” and include pension enhancement of up to five years (para13.12). UK and UN agencies employing police services were also encouraged to take note of the experience of ex-RUC men (para 13.19). Interesting articles relating to this issue can be found in local newspapers such as Newry Times, Fermanagh Herald and Impartial Reporter.<br /><br />[5] Anthony McIntyre is an ex-IRA member and academic who was persistently harassed by Provisionals in Belfast over his principled opposition to Sinn Fein’s political strategy. He moved his wife and family from Ballymurphy to Drogheda. Micky Donnelly is a prominent Republican activist in Derry who was brutally attacked in his own home in June 1998 by ex-Provisional paramilitaries (the police “investigation” into what was, in effect, attempted murder was extraordinary even by RUC standards!). Jo Jo O’Conner was a “dissident” Republican murdered, it’s widely believed, by pro-state Provisionals in Belfast in October 2000.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong class="b-article__lead">By Finian Cunningham<br /> </strong></span><span style="font-size: large;">April 30, 2015 "</span><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Information Clearing House"</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> - "</span><a href="http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150430/1021571145.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sputnik</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">" -</span><span class="b-article__lead"><span style="font-size: large;"> The claims that Merkel’s government knew about German state intelligence spying on behalf of the Americans against the country's own industrial interests raise disturbing questions about the i ntegrity of German government leaders.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The apparent betrayal of German national interests by Chancellor Angela Merkel is not only evident over the recent industrial spying scandal on behalf of America. The slavish pursuit by Merkel of Washington's anti-Russian policy over Ukraine — in contradistinction to her country's national interests — also cogently suggests that the chancellor is serving a foreign master.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Recent reports that German state intelligence was spying on behalf of the Americans against the country's own industrial interests are bad enough. But then added to that are claims that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel knew about the espionage — and turned a blind eye.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">This raises disturbing questions about the integrity of German government leaders, and primarily Angela Merkel. Is Merkel an asset for American intelligence, serving the geopolitical interests of Washington rather than the good of her own nation, or the wider good of Europe?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The news story in question refers to reports in the German media last week of how Germany's Federal Intelligence (BND) collaborated with the US National Security Agency (NSA) in spying on multinational European defence companies, including EADS and Eurocopter. The specific eavesdropping on these firms — in which Germany has major national economic interests — reportedly dates back to 2008. It is inconceivable that the highest levels of German government, including Chancellor Merkel — did not know about the industrial espionage. Yet Merkel appears to have countenanced the illegal activity, even though such activity would have vitiated German national interests, affording advantage to American competitors.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">First of all, the idea that German state intelligence is thoroughly penetrated by American secret agencies is not an outlandish theory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Far from it. The functioning of the BND as part of the American intelligence apparatus has been going on for decades, since the US oversaw the postwar rehabilitation of defeated Nazi Germany. The Americans and the British wove German intelligence — much of it inherited from the Nazi war machine — into their European-wide operations. German historian Josef Foschepoth and expert on postwar allied intelligence operations says that the West German government signed a secret pact with Washington and London, in 1968, known as the NATO Status of Forces Agreement. That pact mandates "intensive collaboration" and continues to this day — more than two decades since the reunification of Germany.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">In essence, the American secret services like the NSA and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), have a free hand to carry out massive surveillance in Germany against whomever they want, whether private citizens or industrial companies. And all with the help of German state intelligence and the federal government.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The tip of this iceberg in espionage and snooping was further revealed with the disclosures in 2013 by former American NSA operative Edward Snowden. Among the trove of revelations made by Snowden was the finding that American intelligence had been tapping the personal communications of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The eavesdropping dated back to 2002 — three years before the leader of the Christian Democrat Union first became chancellor.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">The telling thing is how puny and pusillanimous was the reaction from the German authorities to this disclosure of illicit spying by Washington. Apart from an initial bout of handwringing by Merkel and other Berlin figures, the whole scandal was quickly swept under the carpet as if it never happened. That suggests that the German government was already well aware of its compromised, subservient relation to Washington, as manifested by intrusive access to communications at the highest level.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">As noted above such a master-servant relationship between the US and Germany was a fundamental tenet of the postwar American reconstitution of that country, and the predominant role devolved to NATO by Washington over European security affairs. The German government was apprised of, indeed was a willing party to, its subservient role to American intelligence and the free hand given to the latter. So, when the rest of the world learnt of American government spying on Merkel back in 2013 from the Edward Snowden's leaks, perhaps the least surprised person would have been Merkel and her administration. Hence the meek response from Berlin towards Washington and, to any objective observer, its shockingly invasive conduct against German "allies".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Further explosive testimony on the systematic penetration of American intelligence of German institutions came in recent months from former senior newspaper editor, Udo Ulfkotte. In several media interviews and in a best-selling book, Ulfkotte tells how German journalists and politicians are routinely recruited as CIA assets to spin stories or promulgate policies that are aimed at serving the geopolitical interests of Washington, not the interests of the German people. The former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung — one of Germany's best-known newspapers — confessed that he was one of the CIA's assets for many years, publishing stories that he knew to be false and which were damaging to international relations, and in particular antagonistic towards Russia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">In an interview with RT last year, Ulfkotte said: "It is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do, and have done in the past, because they are bribed to betray the people not only in Germany, all over Europe… I am very fearful of a new war in Europe, and I don't like to have this situation again, because war is never coming from itself, there is always people who push for war, and this is not only politicians, it is journalists too."</span><span style="font-size: large;">There is no reason to believe that the same domineering relation does not hold between US secret government and other European counterparts.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">But given Germany's central importance to the economy and policies of the European Union and its historical growing ties with Russia since the Second World War, Berlin would be a prime target for the Americans to exert leverage for their geopolitical advantage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">When we look at German policy towards Russia over the Ukraine conflict it seems absurd on the face of it. German small businesses, major export companies and farmers are losing heavily from the Western sanctions imposed on Russia and from Moscow's counter-sanctions. Polls also indicate German public opinion is not supportive of the hostile policies, policies that have emanated from Washington and which the European allies have adopted, largely at the behest of Berlin.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">This week Chancellor Merkel warned that EU sanctions against Russia may be extended if Russia does not "fulfil the Minsk ceasefire accords".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Merkel's logic is risible. There is no evidence that Russia has subverted Ukraine or has a military presence there. It was Russian President Vladimir Putin who helped broker the Minsk ceasefire. All the evidence, including reports by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, points to the truce being breached by the Western-backed Kiev regime. It is the Kiev regime that is not fulfilling its commitments under the Minsk accords, yet Merkel chooses, illogically, to castigate Russia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Moreover, it is Washington that has sent hundreds of its troops into Ukraine in the past week to carry out military exercises with the armed forces of non-NATO member Ukraine. Why is Merkel so silent when it comes to censuring Washington and its puppet-regime in Kiev over what are egregious threats to peace? Her silence is incriminating.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Merkel's take on Ukraine and Russia is so completely at odds with reality and against the national interests of her own people, the question of just who is she serving comes to the fore. The recent industrial spying scandal on German companies carried out by the US — with German federal collusion — and the long-time surveillance of the chancellor's personal life points to Merkel being a compromised leader. Or, in a word: bought.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;">© 2015 Sputnik</span><span style="font-size: large;">See also</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/germany-spied-on-european-partners-on-behalf-of-us-for-years"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Coverup claims over revelation that Germany spied on EU partners for US</strong></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">: Germany has been spying and eavesdropping on its closest partners in the EU and passing the information to the US for more than a decade, a parliamentary inquiry in Berlin has found, triggering allegations of lying and coverups reaching to the very top of Angela Merkel’s administration.</span></span></div>
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