1. In April 2010, Turkish Northern Cyprus elected a new president, the hard-line right wing Dervid Eroglu.
This will 'embolden' the right-wing Ergenekon (stay-behind) forces in Turkey and North Cyprus.
2. Turkish Northern Cyprus is used by Jewish 'gangster tycoons', who are involved in casinos and money laundering.
North Cyprus has always benefited from the quiet support of Israel.
3. Israelis run hotel-casino complexes in North Cyprus.
The proceeds can be laundered into funding Ergenekon activities in North Cyprus, as well as mainland Turkey. Turkish Northern Cyprus
4. In the late 1990s, Ariel Sharon and his family began to make casino deals on the West Bank and Cyprus.
Israeli casino flights now fly to North Cyprus.
5. Israeli businessman Roni Kuperberg owns the Chateau Lambousa casino, west of Kyrenia in northern Cyprus.
Israel's Ofer Grou, owned by Israeli businessman Sami Ofer, announced plans in 2007 to build a hotel casino complex in North Cyprus.
One major Israeli player in North Cypriot gambling is Teddy Sagi.
In 1999, Sagi and three other Israelis started Playtech, a provider of on-line gambling software.
"Sagi is a convicted stock fraudster, having been convicted of fraud in the 1996 'Discount affair,' a stock manipulation scheme."
In 2009, Playtech Cyprus, Ltd. began providing casino equipment to a new Bucharest casino owned by Africa-Israel Investments, Ltd, owned by Israeli multi-billionaire Lev Leviev. Northern Cyprus 6. The North Cyprus connection to Ergenekon was highlighted in 2006 when an armed clash broke out in between gangs loyal to two casino owners in Northern Cyprus.
One of the parties was reported to have been Yasar Oz, a suspect in the Ergenekon network.
Yasar oz was exposed in the Susurluk car crash incident in 1996, in which documents related to Ergenekon first surfaced. Northern Cyprus
It looks as though UK Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg could be an asset of the security services.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has admitted that he worked for Britain's MI6 security service.
Ashdown shakes hands with Powell
Hubris supplied this comment:
From Paddy Ashdown onwards, and possibly before for all I know, the Security Services/Military 'clique' in the Brit establishment has controlled the Lib Dems.
Paddy Ashdown was their man, which he proved during the 'Rape of Yugoslavia'.
After Pantsdown came Charles Kennedy. It appears Kennedy was a bit too much of a wild cannon for the SS/military clique.
Kennedy was kicked out after 'revelations' about his drinking - of course his actual real opposition to the Iraq Slaughter had nothing to do with 'the powers that be' wanting to shut him up (end sarcasm) - his ousting was so well-coordinated it had to qualify as a conspiracy - IMHO a Security Services conspiracy.
SO after him came the security services/Military-connected Menzies Campbell
His 'election' was a strange one indeed. After the media and Security Services conspired (IMHO) to oust Kennedy, they then proceeded to conspire to nobble every other candidate, bar Campbell
EVERY other candidate was kyboshed along the way, usually by embarrassing 'revelations' leaked to the media.
Once again this appeared to be so well-coordinated it had to qualify as another conspiracy - IMHO another Security Services conspiracy - or if you like - a continuation of the same conspiracy which ousted Kennedy.
Since it was obvious to me at the time that Campbell hadn't a hope in hell of attracting voters to the Lib Dem camp, since most people wouldn't vote for him in a fit, I remarked to many that he was intended merely as a place-holder until some murky forces could better-position their own candidate to take over from the doddery old Campbell, with a view to challenging the other two parties - so as to continue the illusion that the UK is an actual real-live 'Democracy™'
Lo and behold, within a week or two of Campbell's 'election', little Nicky Clegg, previously a complete non-entity, was fast rising in stature within the media and therefore the party (or vice-versa, makes no difference)
So I immediately surmised that Clegg was the Security Services plant to take over and run the Lib Dems - so as to continue the illusion that the UK is an actual real-live 'Democracy™'
"David Cameron failed to secure an audience with Obama at the White House." (Shrunken ambitions)
Is there a plot, by the powers that be, to have the UK run by a national government, led by someone like the Liberal Democrat's Nick Clegg, or the Labour party's David Miliband, who is Jewish?
The BBC seems to have been going out of its way to promote Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrat Party and thus bring about some kind of coalition or national government.
According to journalist Martin Walker, Nick Clegg is a "passionate internationalist who believes in global government." (The US and the UK?)
Clegg, in a speech at Chatham House, said: "Globalization requires us to formulate a system of supranational governance capable of controlling forces which escape the limitations of the nation state."(The US and the UK: A Special Relationship?)
It was Nick Clegg who said: "After the economic9/11, we will face a new world order…"
Scottish National Party.
On 27 April 2010, the Financial Times reported that "David Cameron’s campaign team is exploring the possibility of a deal with ... Scottish and Welsh nationalist MPs in the event of a hung parliament, in an attempt to avoid giving in to Liberal Democrat demands for electoral reform." (Tories eye pact with smaller parties)
The Northern Ireland unionists, the Scottish National party and Wales's Plaid Cymru might do a deal with Cameron if such a deal would "protect their parts of the UK from the worst effects of any spending cuts."
Cameron's team want to avoid a deal with Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats, who say that electoral reform would be the price of any post-election pact.
The Scottish and Welsh nationalists want to bring the troops home from Afghanistan, want to scrap Trident, and want to avoid the London funding to Scotland and Wales being cut by 10%.
A Labour - Liberal Democrat alliance, or a national government, would have no difficulty in cutting funding to Scotland and Wales by 10%.
The best hope for Scotland and Wales is a big vote for the nationalists.
But the nationalists are being got at by the media.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has refused to confirm or deny Israeli allegations his group has obtained long-range Scud missiles from Syria. Nasrallah, in an interview said the claims were an attempt to intimidate, but he did not see a repeat of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war on the horizon. Nasrallah said that his group can strike deep inside Israel if a new war breaks out but has refused to confirm whether or not his militants have long-range Scud missiles.
Belgium's lower house of parliament on Thursday voted in favor of draft legislation banning certain veils sometimes worn by Muslim women. If approved, the measure would ban all clothing that partially or completely covers the face. Those who violate the ban would be fined between about $20 or jailed. If the law passes, Belgium would be the first European Union country to ban the face veil. Critics of the ban say it violates freedom of expression and unfairly targets Belgium's Muslim community. The human rights group Amnesty International swiftly denounced the vote. Supporters of the ban say it reinforces women's right. They add that it is a critical security measure that will prevent Muslim radicals from hiding behind veils. France is contemplating a similar ban.
Small amounts of oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico have reached US shores. Officials said the leak, from an oil rig sunk by a massive explosion last week, was five times worse than previously thought, and could trigger a disaster of "national significance" on the Gulf coast. By sunset on Thursday, the oil had reached the mouth of Mississippi river, lapping at the shoreline in long, thin lines and threatening birds, marine life and some of the country's richest seafood grounds. The massive slick has prompted the southern US state of Louisiana to declare a state of emergency and the White House to step up its response.
Rajiv Mahajan president of Jammu based Hindu organisation Shri Ram Sena has appealed Government of India should treat Sania Mirza, who become a Pakistani National after her marriage with a Pakistani cricket player, Shoaib Malik, as Pakistani national. He also appealed to Central Government and Sports Club of India to not allow to Sania Mirza for joining any sports from India as she has no rights to represent India after her marriage with Pakistani national. Giving the reference of Maduri Gupta, an Indian female diplomat working in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, who allegedly passed on sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence agencies, Rajiv requested Central Government for not trusting on any person who will move towards Pakistan.
India and Pakistan on Thursday agreed to revive dialogue – without any preconditions – following a meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the 16th SAARC summit in Bhutan. The meeting between Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart, Dr Manmohan Singh, took place at Bhutan House in the SAARC village and lasted for 90 minutes. After the one-on-one session ended, the foreign ministers and the foreign secretaries were asked to join in. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao separately briefed the media after the bilateral meeting.
Conservative Party education spokesman Michael Gove said: 'Over 1,000 pupils a day are excluded for assault and abuse.
'Teachers don't feel they have the power to deal with disruption.'
The Conservatives have pledged to make it easier for teachers to use reasonable force to deal with violence and remove disruptive pupils.
In the UK city of Hull, just 25 per cent of secondary schools were judged good or better for pupil behaviour at their last inspection.
A survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers found that teachers believe behaviour in schools is worse than it was five years ago, with pupils as young as five being disrespectful, intimidating and violent.
Almost four in 10 teachers said they have encountered physical aggression in the classroom.
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Reportedly, in Malaysia, Teoh Beng Hock was tortured and murdered by the authorities.
In 2009, Pornthip Rojanasunand, a Thai pathology expert, testified in the Teoh Beng Hock case that there is an 80% probability that Teoh Beng Hock's death was caused by homicide.
No policeman has been, or is expected to be, prosecuted.
Buddhism teaches that 'enlightenment' ends suffering.
But not all Buddhists get it right.
In Tibet, young boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. (Friendly Fuedalism - The Tibet Myth)
Tashì-Tsering, a monk, reported that peasant children were sexually mistreated in the monasteries.
He himself was a victim of repeated rape, beginning at age nine. (The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashì-Tsering, 1997)
The monastic estates conscripted children for lifelong servitude as domestics, dance performers, and soldiers.
A group of Jewish religious leaders asked one of the Dalai Lama's group, a Buddhist scholar named Geshe Sonam Rinchen, if the Holocaust was due to past karma.
Senator Carl Levin claims: 'Banks such as Goldman Sachs...bundled toxic mortgages into complex financial instruments, got the credit rating agencies to label them as AAA securities, and sold them to investors, magnifying and spreading risk throughout the financial system, and all too often betting against the instruments they sold and profiting at the expense of their clients.' (Goldman Sachs bosses.)
In Soviet Russia, the communist party centralised the collection of bribes.
In South Korea, bribes are paid by business leaders to a president's campaign fund.
But, in many countries, different ministries, agencies and levels of local government all set their own bribe rates independently. (Corruptionc)
At Inside Indonesia 92, Apr-Jun 2008, Ari Kuncoro, who lectures in economics at the University of Indonesia and who has a PhD from Brown University USA, wrote 'Corruption Inc'
He makes the following points:
1. Economists Shleifer and Vishny, in 1993, distinguished between centralised and decentralised bribery.
Decentralised bribery is worse for economic growth than centralised bribery.
2. In Suharto's Indonesia, corruption was centralised and predictable.
Corruption was controlled by the Suharto family and the top military leadership, in partnership with the big businesses run by the Chinese-Indonesians.
3. In 2001, after the fall of Suharto, Indonesia had a decentralisation program.
More power was given to the regions.
Today, a lot more people are demanding bribes - including local politicians, officials, soldiers and police.
4. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made tackling corruption his central campaign promise.
But, the judicial system and the civil service remain somewhat corrupt.
"The scandalous acquittal by the South Jakarta court of former Bank Mandiri director E. C. W. Neloe ... is just one example."
In 2006, a bribery scandal involved the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Bagir Manan.
5. There have been successes.
For example, in 2006, former Minister of Religion Said Agil Husein al-Munawar was jailed for seven years for corruptly using Mecca pilgrimage money.
Several former or current directors of state enterprises are now also in court or jail.
6. At a lower level, anti-corruption prosecutions are having some effect.
7. In provincial governor elections in West Java and North Sumatra, 'evidently corrupt and inept incumbents' were soundly defeated.
8. In 2008 it was revealed that the central Bank of Indonesia paid large bribes to national parliamentarians debating a new finance bill.
While the deputy governor of the bank was detained, catching 'the big fish' in parliament proved to be more difficult.
President Yudhoyono publicly disapproved of the anti corruption body's method of 'sting' operations.
9. One big issue is political party funding.
Much of the parties' money is thought to come from corrupt government officials.
10. Lawmaker Al Amin Nasution was arrested in 2008 for receiving a bribe from Riau Islands provincial officials in return for persuading the Ministry of Forestry to change the status of some land sites in Bintan Island.
Many Indonesians believe the arrests so far have only exposed the tip of an iceberg.
11. "As long as corruption in core national institutions of the state is addressed only half-heartedly, the prospects for substantial improvement remain dim...
"In order to succeed nationally, the anti-corruption drive must be accompanied by sweeping reforms in the judicial system and the civil service."
Former British Premier Gordon Brown has said that he is "upping the tempo" of his campaign for re-election. Recent survey suggests signs that Labour could be beaten back into third place in the May 6 election. The Prime Minister admitted that his popularity declined during the debate however he denied that he was tearing up his strategy with less than two weeks to go until polling day. But he said: "As you get nearer to election day you are always upping the tempo. Aides said he would be engaging more with ordinary members of the public, including more question and answer sessions with people who are not Labour Party members. The move appears to acknowledge criticism that the Prime Minister's contact with the public has been limited, his focus being on gatherings with mostly Labour sympathizers.
The fortunes of the richest people in Britain have soared by 30 percent in a year while much of the country is struggling to recover from recession, according to an annual list published today. Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and his family remain top of the list with 22.45 billion pounds (34.5 billion dollars, 25.8 billion euros), more than double the 10.8 billion pounds they were estimated to have last year. Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire who owns Chelsea Football Club, retains his second place on the Sunday Times Rich List with wealth of 7,400 million pounds, up 400 million pounds from last year. The compilers of the 2010 list say the rise in the wealth of Britain's richest individuals is the largest since the list was first published 21 years ago. The recovering health of global stock markets and property values following the global downturn has fuelled the rise. The 1,000 richest people in the country increased their wealth by 77 billion pounds last year, bringing their total wealth to 335.5 billion pounds. Another ten individuals joined the ranks of billionaires in the past 12 months -- there are now 53 in Britain. A boom in commodity markets lifted the fortunes of the mining magnates Alisher Usmanov, up 213 percent to 4.7 billion pounds, and Anil Agarwal, up 583 percent to 4.1 billion pounds.
Bangkok is bracing for more unrest after the Thai prime minister rejected an offer by anti-government protesters to end their demonstrations in return for fresh elections within 30 days. Instead, Abhisit Vejjajiva reiterated in a nationally televised address on Sunday that the authorities will retake the main protest site of the so-called red shirts in Bangkok's main shopping area of Ratchaprasong. "There will be a retaking of Ratchaprasong, but the process, measures, how and when it will be done, we cannot disclose because it depends on several things," Abhisit said with the army chief, General Anupong Paojinda, by his side.
Syria, according to recent reports, is supplying Hezbollah with Scuds and other missiles that possess a range covering all of Israel - prompting the question as to the implications of such military hardware during wartime. The missiles have the capacity to carry a ton of explosives or another warhead, and they don't require great sophistication to operate. The use of solid fuel might also make it possible to launch these missiles more quickly than the smaller missiles that were directed at Israel during the Second Lebanon War. Though the larger weapons are launched from mobile launch pads, they are more easily identified and destroyed than the smaller missiles. The accuracy of the current Scuds is a matter of hundreds of meters, a higher level of precision than that of the missiles which landed in Israel during the Second Lebanon War. At the same time, a missile that strikes an urban area does not require great accuracy. If Hezbollah arms itself with several hundred Scuds, over the course of a two-week war it could fire several dozen large missiles a day, causing physical damage or injury as well as affecting morale. And a strike at the commercial heart of the country could deter foreigners from doing business with Israel.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe backs Iran’s controversial nuclear programme and has accused the West of seeking to punish the two countries for asserting their independence. “Be also assured, comrade president, of Zimbabwe’s continuous support of Iran’s just cause on the nuclear issue,” Mugabe told Ahmadinejad at a banquet he hosted for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who arrived in Harare on Thursday for a two-day visit.. Iran faces a possible new round of United Nations sanctions over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. Zimbabwe itself escaped U.N sanctions in 2008 after Mugabe’s re-election in a second round poll marred by political violence, which forced his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai to pull out despite outpolling Mugabe in the first round voting.
Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik wants to cash on his extensively reported wedding with Indian tennis sensation Sania Mirza, as he has reportedly demanded Rs 35 million for media rights of his 'walima' reception, which would be held today (April 25) in his hometown, Sialkot. According to a private television channel, Shoaib is in consultation with two media houses for leasing out the rights of coverage of his reception ceremony, but a deal has not been struck so far.
Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces have clashed after Jewish settlers marched in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem. The rightwing settlers, who staged the march on Sunday, want Palestians removed from the area and their homes pulled down. The march, led by Baruch Marzel and Itamar-Gvir, comes as Israel prepares to declare the beginning of US-mediated indirect talks with the Palestians. It was originally scheduled for March but was delayed by the police until after the Jewish Passover.
1. During the crisis, the main aircraft used by the UK Meteorological Office to measure ash density was grounded, 'as it was due to be repainted'.
2. Computers at the Met Office produced maps showing the ash would cover an area stretching from Russia to Newfoundland.
But across almost all of this area, there was virtually no ash at all.
There was none visible to satellites.
3.The maximum density of ash over Britain was about one twentieth of the limit that scientists, the Government, and aircraft and engine manufacturers have now decided is safe.
Jim McKenna, the Civil Aviation Authority's head of Airworthiness, Strategy and Policy has admitted: 'It's also true that for some of the time, the density of ash above the UK was close to undetectable.'
1. The media manipulated the images of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
The media used images of the volcano which were a week old.
Imagery of an eruption was shown at a time when the mountain was peaceful.
2. If there was a lot of ash, filming the volcano would be difficult. The lens would be covered in ash?
3. There have always been volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Many were worse than the present eruption. But past eruptions have not caused problems for airlines.
4. There have been very big eruptions from the largest volcano in Europe, Mount Etna in Sicily.
Etna erupted in 2002.
Satellite images showed a many hundred of kilometer long time plume of smoke from Etna.
But neither smoke nor ash stopped air traffic at that time.
"Some wonder whether there is something else going on under the cover of earthquake eruptions, such as a test run to shut down air travel internationally."
This large scale NATO Response Force Air Live Exercise was hosted by Germany. (arthurzbygniew.blogspot/)
So, they cleared the air of civil aircraft?
"NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on 19 April 2010 that the ash cloud was not affecting the alliance's military readiness." (Iceland eruption )
On 20 April 2010, The Mail reported that 40 test flights across Europe found NO evidence of ash in jet engines, windows or lubrication systems. (Iceland volcano eruption: Met Office criticised. )
Matthias Ruete, the European Commission's director general of transport, said air traffic authorities should not have imposed a widespread ban on flights.
Iceland has had fairly frequent volcanic eruptions and sometimes they have gone on for many months.
None of the previous eruptions has affected international air travel in the same way as the April 2010 eruption.
As the Telegraph points out today, "Volcanoes have pumped ash plumes of this size and bigger into the atmosphere many times in the past without turning an entire continent into a no-fly zone."
Volcanic erruptions are fairly frequent in Indonesia.
In 1982, in Indonesia, a British Airways Jumbo flew directly over an erupting volcano and lost power to all its engines.
1. After the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland on April 14 air traffic across Europe was grounded.
2. Joachim Hunold, CEO of Germany's second largest carrier, Air Berlin, stated in Bild am Sonntag, "not one single weather ballon has been put up in Germany to measure if and how much volcanic ash there is in the air. The closing of the airspace is entirely based on the results of a computer simulation at the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) in England."
3. Veteran Air France pilot, Steven Savignol, said: "I can tell you from my own experience that with blue skies, aircrafts can fly perfectly and very safely. They made test flights with Air France, KLM, Lufthansa and of course, all is ok!"
4. The VAAC in England was working from a "computer simulation," and "has not even conducted an actual sky ash measurement."
The agency responsible for Volcanic Ash measurement for the region, including Iceland, is Britain's "Met Office," the UK's National Weather Service, which in turn is a Trading Fund within the Ministry of Defence, operating on a commercial basis under set targets according to their website.
5.The Iceland eruption is a relatively minor one.
6. Modern jet aircraft engines are robust, says Air France's Savignol.
They have to face not only the hazards of bird strikes, but rain, hail and even salt spray on take-off from coastal airports. Furthermore, sand is a common hazard from dust storms and from desert airfields.
7. The blanket ban under clear blue skies and glorious sunshine across Europe made some wonder whether there was something else going on under the cover of earthquake eruptions, such as a test run to shut down air travel internationally.
Since no one has ever been injured from an aircraft disabled by a volcanic eruption, it is a question that lingers.
Luis posted this comment:
The Spanish version of Meyssan's VoltaireNet mentions that the NATO exercise was to test new tactical weapons related to the anti-missile shield.
Seeing as the US's anti-missile programme is such crap, clearing the skies was the only way to make the buggery thing work.
He also points out that the costs to the European airlines industry was devastating, leaving them exposed to takeovers by US operators.
The election of a right-wing president in Northern Cyprus could help Israel and the 'fascists' in Turkey who have links to the Pentagon.
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