November 25, 2006
Sydney Morning Herald As the British Prime Minister refuses to face the facts in Iraq, he is revealing deep-seated psychological tendencies common to many politicians, writes Alistair Mant.
Tony Blair's recent interview with Sir David Frost got a few observers quite worried about the Prime Minister's state of mind. His response to Frost's observation that Iraq has been "so far pretty much of a disaster" was so far removed from reality as to be alarming. It is worth noting the Prime Minister's reaction in full: |
Scotsman
26/11/2006 Breaking up the Union would leave Scotland vulnerable to terrorist attack and a flood of illegal immigrants, John Reid, the Home Secretary, said yesterday in Labour's most scathing attack yet on the SNP.
Comment: What a boon this phony war on terror is for our vainglorious leaders. Everything from the government's policies on troublesome teenagers to the state of Union can now be successfully forced into law just as long as a liberal dose of "terror threat" is thrown into the mix.
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Scotsman
23/11/2006 IT SAYS its members brought about the conviction of radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, uncovered insurgent tactics in Iraq and are now working to provide intelligence from North Korea.
The organisation is not the US Central Intelligence Agency or Britain's MI6 but Vigil, a shadowy network of retired spies, senior military personnel, anti-terrorism specialists and banking experts. The group's director Dominic Whiteman said he set up Vigil with two other businessmen last year to act as an conduit between retired spies who were still party to good, raw intelligence, and the police and security services. "This evidence was just getting lost in the system," Mr Whiteman said. Vigil numbers more than 30 members, from India to the United States. Sixty per cent of Vigil's work involves gaining information via the internet, by infiltrating chatrooms. The information gleaned is passed on to authorities such as the FBI, and British Counter Terrorism Command (CTC). Comment: Abu Hamza al-Masri was an MI5 agent, so it is hardly likely that MI5 needed a bunch of retired spook-monkeys to pass them dodgy information gleaned from internet chatrooms.
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The Sunday Times
November 26, 2006 Steven Swinford and Nicola Smith POLICE and councils are considering monitoring conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras.
The microphones can detect conversations 100 yards away and record aggressive exchanges before they become violent. The devices are used at 300 sites in Holland and police, councils and transport officials in London have shown an interest in installing them before the 2012 Olympics. Comment: For years, we have read books and watched TV and movies that portray the dark spirit of surveillance societies, and yet, in spite of our reactions of horror at the thought of being photographed and recorded round the clock, we are arriving there. From reality TV to CCTV cameras, Big Brother is watching.
Where are the protests? They have been subdued through fear via the demonisation of Arabs and Islamic fundamentalism, and through the portrayal of urban life as a hostile jungle environment where the law of dog eats dog prevails. People are now relieved when new "security measures" are brought in, with a few solitary voices pointing out that the emperor has no clothes. Rule through fear. It never fails. |
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