tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.comments2023-08-13T12:20:53.393+01:00Anything that defies my sense of reason....The Antagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comBlogger1523125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-44021142132303966332020-03-24T16:09:05.521+00:002020-03-24T16:09:05.521+00:00I don't think he's been on national news l...I don't think he's been on national news lately, but his letter did get top billing on the Letters page of the New Milton Advertiser this week. You may enjoy the following for old times' sake, especially the cheeky reference to "sensational news coverage" as if he had never indulged in such a thing.<br /><br />SIR – Over 20 years ago I was flattered to be asked by the then Department for Trade & Industry (DTI) to write a guide, to be issued by them to all UK organisations, on how to continue business operations in the face of any unforeseen drama.<br /><br />The guidance was called Preventing Chaos in a Crisis (after an excellent book with the same title written by French researcher Patrick Lagadec many years earlier).<br /><br />My research back then indicated that:<br /><br />(1) if you were good at ‘just in time’ (JIT) business operations, as companies still are encouraged to remain competitive, you were very poor at ‘just in case’ contingency planning as there was no slack left in any systems to absorb sudden shocks;<br /><br />(2) weak operational risk management was rife where fear or disbelief was often disconnected from fact;<br /><br />(3) general cynicism prevailed of any government advice during a crisis to anyone at the coal face of our economy.<br /><br />It’s sad to note that nowadays as we face the worsening Covid-19 crisis, JIT has perhaps resulted in even more immediate economic impact, helping global share prices to immediately plummet, alongside many companies waking up too late to the idea of working from home (seldom easy).<br /><br />Fear usually exceeds reality and, linked to this, sensational news coverage often dwarfs well intentioned government advice.<br /><br />You only have to look at empty supermarket shelves this week right across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset to realise that preventing chaos in a crisis seems to be even more elusive today than it was yesterday.<br /><br />Sadly, no end of government guidance or standards seems to make much difference. Plus ça change…<br /><br />Peter Power FIRM FCMI FBCI BA, Lyndhurstcmainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-49175903442497624592014-01-17T17:07:48.888+00:002014-01-17T17:07:48.888+00:00Well obviously MI5 aren't in the Criminal Inve...Well obviously MI5 aren't in the Criminal Investigation business. They are, in part, in the business of politically motivated deceit. The creation of the "Libyan Solution" to Lockerbie for motives that I suspect were primarily concerned with MI5's central objective - disarming the PIRA - may be regarded as laudable. However it has little to do with the bombing itself, save it allowed the authorities to pretend the case had been solved. bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-56832411343154874542013-05-17T00:18:21.837+01:002013-05-17T00:18:21.837+01:00This is not a race issue. This is the social mileu...This is not a race issue. This is the social mileu from which Jade Goody, Amy Winehouse and Wayne Rooney (all of whom have had close associations with people imprisoned for violence) emerged just as much as it is gangs of Somalis and Nigerians – and it is indeed that too. It is a product of a contemptible urban sub-culture driven by a detestation of education and an avid materialism. That its devotees can argue that the corrupt bankers and politicians are morally no better is a perfectly valid point, but no justification.<br />Johnattonhttp://www.animal-clinic-nyc.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-24156042325472487862013-03-13T21:44:36.149+00:002013-03-13T21:44:36.149+00:00Who gives a shit about Harry Roberts?
A scumbag w...Who gives a shit about Harry Roberts?<br /><br />A scumbag who terrorises old folks and gets his mates to attack the animals at their shelter. Great cause that one.<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/5182769/Jack-Straw-faces-questions-over-alleged-intimidation-by-police-killer-Harry-Roberts.html<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-55119937941146103402012-08-12T22:43:13.016+01:002012-08-12T22:43:13.016+01:00Yeah I can't believe he's not better known...Yeah I can't believe he's not better known. I found this trying to find some news of him. Any ideas? There's a couple of slightly ominous posts on other pages about him having difficult times. All from ages ago though. I didn't know him, but saw him play a few years back, and his music still makes me happy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-18678836262301990492012-05-30T03:09:45.364+01:002012-05-30T03:09:45.364+01:00The day and the night are full of colour, a mix of...The day and the night are full of colour, a mix of emotions and <a href="http://removalfirmlondon.com" rel="nofollow">removal companies London</a> feelings that causes the play out of different scenes. The mood of a person is mostly dependant on how his day has started and if his expectations were proven wrong right from the beginning of the day.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231637542474196964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-33437524756728484482012-04-25T19:45:58.601+01:002012-04-25T19:45:58.601+01:00....
Geller has expressed support for the EDL and.......<br /><br /><i>Geller has expressed support for the EDL and advocated ties between the Tea party and the EDL; while Brim, who has direct links with the EDL, has proposed connections with other Far Right factions like Le Pen's National Front on the condition they ditch their traditional anti-semitism. EDL have already met up with Tea Party groups in the US.<br /><br />Chris Knowles in a US blog radio interview in 2007 unveiled a mission to establish "a network of networks" of Far Right groups across the US and Europe. Also disclosed was the idea of a network of counter-jihad (read Far Right) blogger radio stations. Edward May (aka Baron Bodissey), another director of CVF, also called for "a network of networks." Did this idea originate with CVF head, Christine Brim and her associates at the CSP? Breivik was a contributor to the anti-islamic website, Gates of Vienna, run by Edward May (- a website registered at Virginia, where Brim is a resident). A common feature of the website are calls for lone wolf actions.<br /><br />So we have a direct link between prominent Neocons in the US, the founding of the EDL, and a network of networks of Far Right groups across Europe and the US.<br /><br />Behind the counter-jihad front of these shadowy movers is fundamentalist free-market ideology, support for US militarism and pro-Israeli advocacy. The counter-jihad front is aimed not only at Muslim anti-imperialists but at Marxists and Anarchists.<br /><br />Brim rails against Marxism, Geller’s blog was called 'Atlas Shrugs' in tribute to Ayn Rand, while Breivik told the police he was with the Anti-Communist Resistance Movement. The EDL, who claim to be against Islamification of the UK, have attacked anarchist Indymedia offices, and threatened and harassed Occupy camps (who are radical democrats).<br /><br />Historical precedents (Operation Gladio, the Pinay Circle etc.) would point to the secret services as the shadowy puppet masters.<br /><br />The leadership of the EDL have been vigorously pro-Israeli, which has provoked some disapproval among Far Right members who are historically anti-Jewish. From the beginning there have been Israeli flags waved at EDL demos, and in 2010 an EDL Jewish division was set up. The Israeli advocacy is not coming from the rank and file. It is part of a coordinated agenda from a higher command.<br /><br />I also doubt if it's a coincidence that the EDL was formed around the homecoming parades for soldiers - which are part of a wide-ranging campaign orchestrated by the shadow state to brainwash the public into supporting militarism.<br /><br />Frank Gaffney, Caroline Glick, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Paul Weston - are all cited by Breivik in his manifesto.</i>The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-81954427003655473032012-04-25T19:45:22.935+01:002012-04-25T19:45:22.935+01:00WellWell
17 April 2012 3:58PM
Who is behind the r...<i><b>WellWell<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/16/anders-breivik-toxic-legacy?commentpage=8#comment-15687927" rel="nofollow">17 April 2012 3:58PM</a></b><br /><br />Who is behind the rise of this network of the Far Right in Europe (and the US) that influenced Breivik? It is a question that demands deeper investigation.<br /><br />Frank Gaffney, one of the founders of The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), is the head of a Neocon think tank called the Center for Security Policy (CSP), of which Christine Brim is Chief Operating Officer. On the advisory council of the CSP are fellow PNAC members, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle. Basically the CSP is a front for the same agenda as PNAC.<br /><br />Brim founded a group called Center for Vigilant Freedom (CVF). The head of this group in the UK is Chris Knowles (aka Aeneas Lavinium). Accompanying Knowles while representing CVF at far-right gatherings across Europe was a woman under the alias of Dominique Devaux (also thought to be Gaia).<br /><br />A Sunday Times investigation revealed Knowles and Gaia/Devaux were present at the founding meeting of the EDL. The Times has claimed Gaia is Ann Marchini, a buy-to-let property tycoon. Marchini's name also surfaced on a leaked list of EDL donors.<br /><br />Marchini – who is also a friend and backer of Paul Weston, formerly of UKIP and now head of the British Freedom Party (BFP), a splinter group of the BNP – was present at the meeting where the BFP and the EDL formed their alliance.<br /><br />The prominent figurehead who whipped up the outrage against the proposed Islamic Community Centre near the site of 9/11 (provocatively labelled by the right as the 'Ground Zero mosque') was free-market devotee and former financial journalist with the New York Daily News, Pamela Geller. Geller was lauded in the press by Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing Editor of The Jerusalem Post, and senior fellow of Middle East affairs at the CSP. Glick also served as assistant foreign policy advisor to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.<br /><br />Apparently, the registration of the website of the Coalition to Honor Ground Zero was traced to the CSP. The CSP also produced an ad for the Ground Zero Coalition against the 'mosque at Ground Zero.'<br /><br />Geller also co-wrote a Neocon (& anti-Obama) book with Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, the foreword of which was written by PNAC associate, John Bolton.</i><br /><br />....The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-83007146416498736382012-04-25T19:43:57.163+01:002012-04-25T19:43:57.163+01:00On the subject of comments deleted by 'comment...On the subject of comments deleted by 'comment is free' [to be deleted arbitrarily]:<br /><br />....The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-52460619813450613782012-02-26T13:42:45.186+00:002012-02-26T13:42:45.186+00:00What a wonderful rant - and true too! :)What a wonderful rant - and true too! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-79344555392995555242011-12-10T00:38:16.766+00:002011-12-10T00:38:16.766+00:00The Misplaced Stuff: NASA loses moon, space rocks
...<i><b>The Misplaced Stuff: NASA loses moon, space rocks</b><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9986607/print" rel="nofollow">AP foreign, Thursday December 8 2011</a><br />SETH BORENSTEIN<br /><br /><b>AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA's Inspector General says the space agency seems to have misplaced some pieces of the moon, meteorites and other space stuff.</b><br /><br />NASA concedes that <b>more than 500 pieces of space material have been stolen or been missing since 1970. That includes 218 stolen moon samples that were returned and about two dozen moon rocks and chunks of lunar soil that were reported lost last year.</b><br /><br /><b>NASA has loaned more than 21,500 samples to researchers, who in some cases said they never ended up using the material.</b><br /><br />The report says NASA needs to keep better track of what's sent to researchers and museums.</i><br /><br />That recommendation should probably have been made in about 1969.The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-48772711169460180942011-11-27T16:12:18.668+00:002011-11-27T16:12:18.668+00:00^ "We don't do stealing" - and the B...^ "We don't do stealing" - and the British Museum full of 'borrowed' artifacts from around the world is absolute proof of that.<br /><br />Meanwhile: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/18/mark-duggan-ipcc-investigation-riots" rel="nofollow">New questions raised over Duggan shooting | The Guardian</a>The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-25822393180562087032011-11-15T02:05:18.324+00:002011-11-15T02:05:18.324+00:00"There is a world of difference between the v..."There is a world of difference between the violence of the oppressor and the violence of the oppressed."<br /><br />Ain't that the truth! Only there are some who seem incapable of figuring it out, including a British soldier who called a phone-in show to say, "This is England, we don't do stealing."SEO New Yorkhttp://www.seonewyork1.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-3732180692732107212011-11-07T14:34:14.962+00:002011-11-07T14:34:14.962+00:00From patrolling the streets to enforcing traffic l...From patrolling the streets to enforcing traffic laws, police officer jobs perform the most important role in every community these are to keep the streets safe and protect citizens from harm.police force jobshttp://www.police-recruitment.co.uk/police-jobs.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-20627479222454361582011-09-02T01:57:36.553+01:002011-09-02T01:57:36.553+01:00The Lockerbie Case<a href="http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The Lockerbie Case</a>Minimhttp://lockerbiecase.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-68505951618745518542011-09-01T07:46:22.144+01:002011-09-01T07:46:22.144+01:00Thanks for all the links, Bridget.
Interesting h...Thanks for all the links, Bridget. <br /><br />Interesting how there's no shortage of suspects materialising 27 years after the fact, some of whom were named in a report two decades ago.<br /><br />Nothing suspect about that, or the way the names are being released in the midst of the latest in a long line of Imperial conquests.The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-7784043880657080522011-08-31T10:35:15.911+01:002011-08-31T10:35:15.911+01:00Libya: suspect in killing of WPc Yvonne Fletcher f...<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8732090/Libya-suspect-in-killing-of-WPc-Yvonne-Fletcher-found-by-rebel-government.html" rel="nofollow">Libya: suspect in killing of WPc Yvonne Fletcher found by rebel government - Telegraph</a><br /><br /><i>The administration has confirmed that it knows the whereabouts of Matouk Mohammed Matouk, who was named in Crown Prosecution Service papers as one of two “conspirators” who could be charged in connection with the killing outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984. He is the last named suspect believed to still be alive. </i><br /><br />They could always have a look closer to home if they are really intent on finding the killer.Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220942517267393608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-13298638917393065512011-08-31T00:50:23.312+01:002011-08-31T00:50:23.312+01:00Nice to see extra-judicial execution doesn't j...Nice to see extra-judicial execution doesn't just happen at Stockwell Tube station or in Tottenham. Not.The Antagonisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459201402366077472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-41708176693873266992011-08-30T23:18:24.056+01:002011-08-30T23:18:24.056+01:00Yvonne Fletcher murder suspect 'shot dead'...<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/yvonne-fletcher-murder-suspect-shot-dead-2346284.html" rel="nofollow">Yvonne Fletcher murder suspect 'shot dead' - Africa, World - The Independent</a>Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220942517267393608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-31965838167593507242011-08-30T16:34:14.062+01:002011-08-30T16:34:14.062+01:00SAS squad hunt killer of Pc Yvonne Fletcher amid f...<a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23982281-sas-squad-hunt-killer-of-pc-yvonne-fletcher-amid-fighting-in-libya.do" rel="nofollow">SAS squad hunt killer of Pc Yvonne Fletcher amid fighting in Libya | News</a>Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220942517267393608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-959134905979112072011-08-30T00:03:53.753+01:002011-08-30T00:03:53.753+01:00"Is the left despite all the professors and l..."Is the left despite all the professors and lecturers in their ranks, all their sinecures inside the “bourgeois” institutions they affect to despise, a rather silly group who just don’t pay attention to what is going on or are they a reserve propaganda arm of the militarists, a sort of B team to catch any who fall through the net of the mainstream media."<br /><br />From: <a href="http://williambowles.info/2011/08/29/the-british-left-spreads-misinformation-about-libya-by-cailean-bochanan/" rel="nofollow">The British left spreads misinformation about Libya By Cailean Bochanan</a>Minimhttp://williambowles.info/2011/08/29/the-british-left-spreads-misinformation-about-libya-by-cailean-bochanan/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-16794798795155649302011-08-29T17:25:56.602+01:002011-08-29T17:25:56.602+01:00"Shabab" in Somalia is designated as a t..."Shabab" in Somalia is designated as a terrorist affiliate of "Al Quaeda". This could all get doubleplus cogdis.<br /><br />There's an article in the current TIME called "A famine we made?" but I can't find a free version of it.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-22353758780306573632011-08-29T12:31:20.077+01:002011-08-29T12:31:20.077+01:00Clues?
It’s also worth looking at the web sites p...Clues?<br /><br /><i>It’s also worth looking at the web sites purporting to be from Libyan youth, notably http://www.libyafeb17.com/ or http://twitter.com/EnoughGaddafi. Also quite professional, and no Arabic language site connected with them. Curiouser. However, the English-language ShababLibya/LibyanYouthMovement twitter and Facebook sites do have an Arabic web site (http://shabab-libya.com/). What do we learn there? That the “director of Youth Site for Libya” is a certain Allaedin Ezzedin, a “senior on-line marketing expert in the Bay Area, California,” one of whose role models is Hasan Al Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Shades of the Google marketing exec Wael Ghonim who left his posh villa in the United Arab Emirates to set up a Facebook site in Egypt that attracted many youth. And recently the London Financial Times (12 March), in an article about “Civil Society on Rise in Rebel Areas of Libya,” interviewed Ahmed ben Musa, a founder of the Libyan Youth Movement, who just happens to be a “30-year-old Halliburton employee.” Halliburton?! Are Dick Cheney’s cronies in on this?<br /><br />Something’s fishy here, and, as you suspected, it’s all connected … to the United States Government. LibyaFeb17 and EnoughGaddafi are pushed by Movements.org, the web site of an Alliance of Youth Movements. This “alliance” turns out to be a USG-sponsored outfit “dedicated to identifying, connecting, and supporting digital activists from around the world.” It was launched by, and funded by, the State Department in 2008 with corporate sponsors including Facebook, Howcast, MTV, Google, YouTube, AT&T, Pepsi, CBS News, MSNBC, JetBlue, Gen-Next and Access 360 Media, as well as Columbia Law School (see graphic, right). The Alliance’s 2009 Summit was addressed by Hillary Clinton, heard papers such as one by State Department official Jared Cohen (now Director of Google Ideas) on “Moldova’s Twitterrevolution,” and included such “youth movements” as the Teheran Bureau, Un Millón de Voces contra las FARC (Colombia) and the Movimiento Joven de Venezuela which has been active against the government of Hugo Chávez. These are “youth movements” made to the measure, and on the orders, of imperialism.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.internationalist.org/libyanshowdown1103.html" rel="nofollow">Libyan Showdown</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-1801402084892173122011-08-28T22:11:34.318+01:002011-08-28T22:11:34.318+01:00Disunity amongst the TNC?
None other than Peter P...<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/28/libya-extradition-yvonne-fletcher-killer" rel="nofollow">Disunity amongst the TNC?</a><br /><br />None other than <a href="http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/july-7-terror-rehearsal.html#career" rel="nofollow">Peter Power</a> was also present:<br /><br /><i>Peter Power was the deputy forward controller at the Libyan People's Bureau siege at which WPC Yvonne Fletcher was shot. Fletcher's murder would later become a major factor in the then prime minister Thatcher's decision to allow U.S. President Ronald Reagan to launch the USAF bombing raid on Libya in 1986 from American bases in Britain. </i>Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220942517267393608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892105.post-33448863511000266982011-08-16T07:32:10.912+01:002011-08-16T07:32:10.912+01:00WV: CopperWV: CopperAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com