Friends, Just got back from holiday. I always forget how valuable those are, as regards gaining perspective - until once again I have the experience. One can step back from the trees and remember about the forest. Not that I have any great insights to report, just a kind of rededication to my work. I got to watch BBC news reports every night, and found the UK propaganda regime fascinating. So much richer than the black & white / good-guy bad-guy American stuff. The Menezes story was still breaking. On the day of the event the police reported, without qualifications or reservations, than the young Brazilian jumped a barricade, refused commands to stop, was wearing a bulky jacket, and that one witness saw him carrying a bomb with wires dangling out. They needed to shoot him, it seemed, to prevent him from setting off his bomb. (It was only after this event that we were informed that the UK had recently adopted a 'shoot in head without warning' policy for 'suspected suicide bombers'.) It seems the police would have stuck to their story, except that someone in the independent investigator's office leaked some new facts to the media. We now know, and the police have admitted, that Menezes was wearing a light denim jacket, used a ticket to enter the subway, did not run, and was being firmly restrained by an officer at the time he was shot. Then the head of Scotland Yard comes on saying that the one thing he wants to make perfectly clear is that there has been no cover up - he "didn't know for 24 hours" that they had shot the wrong man. Well why then, if information was slow in coming in, was he so sure of his original story? Where did he get that story? Why did he not correct the mis-impressions until after the leaks? And are we really to belive that all the CATVs in the vicinity of the shooting happened to be out of tape?...just like in the bus bombing? No cover up??...Who is kidding who? They threw a little wrinkle into their spin. Supposedly, the 'unfortunate confusion' began when the original surveillance agent, who spotted 'the suspect', couldn't get a really good look because he was relieving himself at the time: "Now who would make up an embarrassing story like that? Certainly they are telling us the whole truth now!" This is a UK culture wrinkle that wouldn't play as well in the States, but seems to have been effective on this side of the pond. The question I've had from the beginning: WHY did they execute him? My first suspicion was that he knew something - perhaps he was recruited to be one of the 'suicide bombers' (who thought they were taking part in an exercise with fake bombs), backed out of his deal, and they didn't want him blabbing. But as time passes, it seems the most likely explanation is that the government had decided to go ahead and create a precedent, establishing the kill-on-suspicion policy: "The next time some suspect is identified, off him." All the discussion on TV is about the carelessness of the incident; this has succeeded in distracting discussion of the underlying policy itself. They actually WANTED it to be an embarrassing incident: we must, after all, give the Brits credit for this level of subtlety. It seems that none of the murdering cops, nor their superiors, will be punished. The whistleblower, on the other hand, has been suspended from his job. That's what they call 'British justice'. They've come a long way since the days of the neighborhood bobby whose main weapon was a whistle. We all know there were no suicide bombers. An article in the Observer laid out the facts - round-trip tickets, parking stickers on cars, etc. - and said that 'some senior investigators' think there was a mastermind who detonated the explosives remotely, unexpected by the backpack wearers. The appearance of this article seems to have succeeded in ending discussion of that topic, and all subsequent reports refer specifically to 'suicide bombers'. That fits in best with the 'kill on hunch' policy, a policy that will be convenient in suppressing any mass protests. Meanwhile, the Muslim-demonization progrom - I mean program - continues apace. Under new rules, or existing legislation, the story keeps changing, Mosques can be shut down, citizens can be deported, websites can be shut down - on suspicion of inciting extremist views. Racist incidents against Muslims are on the increase, and the government feigns concern for this atmosphere it has intentionally created. I think the situation is much like that with the Japanese in America during World War II. In that case, racist hatred of 'the Japs' had been decided as a propaganda policy, and it wasn't helpful to have lots of peaceful, patriotic Japanese Americans hanging around and spoiling the evil image. So they locked them up. We can surmise that 'hatred of Muslims' is considered necessary for the attack on Iran for British audiences, and the ground is being carefully prepared, given that Britain has a very large population of very law-abiding Muslim citizens. --- It seems that the 'security exercise' in Charleston (not Charlottesville, sorry about that) has or has not happened, and in any case we have not had our expected domestic terrorist incident - yet. Over the holiday, and I did read my incoming mail, I was noticing several different threads of the Iran project - including the UK police-state and hate-Muslim threads I mentioned above. Perhaps we can get a better grasp on the overall schedule, if we consider all the threads. We can assume, as with any well-planned Pentagon operation, that each thread is considered to be necessary to the project. The domestic 'terrorist incident' can of course be carried out at any time. We can assume the bomb is in place, and the fuse can be lighted whenever the other ducks are lined up. Iranian passports and the like are all ready to be placed in the cars of the 'designated suspects' - providing more than enough 'evidence' for Operation Nuke Iran. Israel has been supplied with 'bunker buster' bombs, and is ready to initiate the first strike, which America can deny it authorized. Iran has clearly indicated it will hit back with modern missiles against Israel, American forces in Iraq, and shipping lanes. America, faced then with a created dilemma, will be 'forced' to intervene decisively The opening moves of the engagement seem to be rather clear. As an outer bound on the schedule, presumably, we can take the September-October timeframe, in which it seems that all U.S. military leaves have been cancelled. By this criterion, the war launch could be scheduled any time in this timeframe: obviously once the shooting starts there are no such things as leaves. The date could be as late as end October. One of the threads involves the stirring up of U.S.-sponsored terrorism within Iran. Just today I received a reliable report that the Kurds in Turkey have suspended their resistance operations in Turkey and are now beginning operations in Iran, with U.S. support. Iran has a large Kurdish population and this operation - a typical CIA destabilization scenario - could be somewhat troublesome for Iranian security forces. We see perhaps here a replay of the KLA scenario, vis a vis Kosovo. The KLA - Kosovo Liberation Army - was presented in the Matrix media as a group of freedom fighters. In fact they were a CIA-created mercenary terrorist organization that included, as usual for such actions, Al Qaeda operatives. Nonetheless, the existence of the KLA helped sell the destruction of Serbia to Western audiences. This thread has not gotten much attention yet in the media. When it starts heating up, we might be seeing the beginning of the countdown. Another thread has to do with Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who is noted for "going for the man at the top", and for being relentless and fearless. He is presiding over the Grand Jury investigation in Chicago into the Pflame affair. I've seen several reports that claim indictments have been laid down against Cheney, Bush, and others on high offenses. Evidently a Supreme Court justice has been dispatched to Chicago to try to moderate the situation. Fitzgerald doesn't seem to be the moderating type. We're getting very close to a Watergate scenario here, just before Nixon lost it and fired Archibald Cox. Developments here might act as a spur: to start the war before impeachment raises its head. Another thread has to do with the increase in the number of non-U.S. citizens in the American military. I've seen various reports on this over the past few months from diverse sources. Given the recruitment problems, would-be immigrants are being offered full citizenship in return for doing a stint for Uncle Sam. I can believe there are countless takers - an offer you can't refuse in such a position. A report I received today claims that these foreign mercenaries are being concentrated on the U.S. mainland, and are to be the troops assigned to Homeland Security in the event of domestic martial law. One is reminded of the Hungarian uprising against the Soviets, when Chinese troops were brought in to do the dirty work that Soviet troops didn't have the stomach for, being more familiar with the Hungarian people. If indeed there is to be a major 'terrorist incident' - on the scale of an attack on a whole city by blowing up a nearby nuclear facility - and if this is to be followed up by a nuclear engagement - basically Word War III - then it would seem to make sense for martial law to be established at the outset, as soon as the 'terrorist' event occurs. It would be easiest then, almost welcome. If a city just got wiped out, most people would feel more secure with tanks on the street corners and helicopters overhead. They're 'watching out for us.' And during a war, martial law makes everything a lot easier to manage. Who knows what are those strange screams in the night, after curfew. I would also suspect that the Internet would be to some extent shut down at the same time. Again, it's easier to do all the big things at one time, when the iron is hot, when people are ready to accept anything, as in the shadow of 9-11. It would be dead simple to somehow involve the Internet in the incident - "It was all planned by email, and used technology from websites!". The authorities know all the traffic patterns for websites, news groups, email lists, etc.. By shutting down, let's say, 10,000 specific domains, they could black out the part of the Internet that for you and me is the most important, and specifically prevent organized protests, etc. One report I saw about a recent Bilderberger conference said that 'getting rid of the Internet' was seen as a top priority. Of course they're referring to citizen discourse, not the commercial aspects. Working in tandem with the forces of suppression are the commercial media, who would like the Internet to be like cable television, simply a channel over which to deliver products, an AOL kind of world. What we can expect then, is that one day we'll wake up, the radio and TV will all be carrying official broadcasts, telephones will probably be inoperative particularly for long distance, and we won't be able to use the Internet. We won't be able to believe anything they tell us. We'll know something big is happening, but we'll only hear what Big Brother tells us. Troops will be in the streets and FEMA will be running the country. It will be a different kind of war than we've seen before. rkm -- ============================================================ If you find this material useful, you might want to check out our website (http://cyberjournal.org) or try out our low-traffic, moderated email list by sending a message to: •••@••.••• You are encouraged to forward any material from the lists or the website, provided it is for non-commercial use and you include the source and this disclaimer. Richard Moore (rkm) Wexford, Ireland blog: http://harmonization.blogspot.com/ "Escaping The Matrix - Global Transformation: WHY WE NEED IT, AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT ", old draft: http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/rkmGlblTrans.html _____________________________ "...the Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution followed the Reichstag fire." - Srdja Trifkovic There is not a problem with the system. 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