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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Indymedia Ireland Brand Osama Bin Laden Junior, a CIA Asset





Osama Bin Laden, Junior, who is thought to be hiding on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and is believed to be Bin Laden’s only son by his Saudi wife, has called for the acceleration of the destruction of Britain Indymedia Ireland have however branded him a CIA asset in article references below.


Bin Laden just before his death, was also exploring the possibility of using Indymedia ireland to persuade the Irish population, sickened by repeated scandals within the Catholic Church, to convert en masse to Islam. Ireland's last census shows, there are now more than 50pc more Muslims in Ireland than in previous census figures, making it the fastest-growing religion in Ireland, which will eventually overtake Catholicism. It is also the world's fastest growing religion. Al-Qaida documents prove that the crisis in the Catholic Church and in Irish media such as Indymedia Ireland has attracted attention from all around the world.


"Al-Mahdi al-Harati: The Next Osama Bin Ladin; Coming to a Town Near You!


libya to syria terror

CIA’s Hired Global Mercenary Commandos: al-Harati, from Libya to Syria; You Up Next?

July 28th, 2012
NewsRescue- Far from being spontaneous and organized by the locals, the fall of Libya was a strategically organized, thoroughly planed and facilitated covert military operation, with fight foreign commandos, leading almost all fight squads.
For Libyans, the revolution, if there really was any intended was totally highjacked. The elite team of global CIA commandos are not new. It is the old game in the book. The Osama Al Qaeda elite team used against the Soviets in Afghanistan has been publicly recognized as a CIA created machine.
A top director of the new elite command is Al-Mahdi al-Harati, born 1973, an Irish national who lived the last 22 yeas of his life in Ireland before leading the Benghazi armed overthrow of the Libyan regime. Al-Harati is recognized as the new ‘Osama’,-  trained, funded and aided to lead covert successful militant campaigns of terror and destabilization in troubled Arab and African nations, that are not in the Wests good books.
Al-Mahdi al-Harati was actively recruited sometime in 2011 and fully funded by the CIA, according to heaping evidence, to lead much of the military Benghazi campaign against Libya’s leadership. Though it is generally understood that he has long been a CIA agent, in active duty and training.
Al-Harati’s CIA employ was verified by intelligence experts, when he was robbed of ‘€200,000 CIA money’ in 2011. It must be noted that these destabilization and overthrow efforts are highly funded and cash based. Mercenaries are hired to fight these wars – made to appear as though the people are fighting, and they are paid tall sums, in hundreds to thousands of dollars per day of fight, on average $500-800/day.

Stolen money… stolen again: mercenary-rat Mahdi al-Harati & his thieves story

Mahdi al-Harati and the Irish wife
Libyan Free Press
BATTLEZONE: Mahdi al-Harati helped to lead the assault on Tripoli which ultimately resulted in the fall of Sirte.
From the Irish newspaper Sundayworld, Wednesday, 9 Nov 2011
A GANG of Irish traveler thieves are in the middle of a holy war – after liberating €200,000 cash destined for Libyan ‘rebels’. In a tale worthy of the John le Carre thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the scam artists from Rathkeale in Co Limerick hit the jackpot when they robbed a home in Dublin’s Firhouse.
As well as a haul of family jewels, they stumbled upon €200,000 in €500 bills hidden in the hot press. But the homeowner was well-known Irish Libyan ‘freedom fighter’ Mahdi al-Harati, who was one of the leaders of the bloody ‘revolt’ against Gaddafi.
The Sunday World asserted al- Harati’s being a CIA asset based on his statements after the robbery of his fat earnings:

Indymedia, Ireland: CIA asset , Mahdi al-Harati

http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/index.php
“[After the robbery], astonished officers made contact with Mahdi al-Harati who told them that he had traveled to France, the United States and Qatar the previous month and that representatives of an American intelligence agency had given him a significant amount of money to help in the efforts to defeat Gaddafi. He said he left two envelopes with his wife in case he was killed and took the rest of the cash with him when he went back to Libya.”
Mahdi al-Harati has been well-known in antiwar and Palestine solidarity circles in Dublin over the years . He had been a passenger in the Challenger 1 ship last year when it attempted to break the seige of Gaza as part of the Free Gaza  Flotilla . He was the last Irish member of the flotilla to arrive home after the Israeli raid and was given a hero’s reception at Dublin Airport by members of the IPSC and the IAWM . According to an indymedia comment from last year written by Kev from the IPSC :
“Freda Hughes of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomed his safe return and saluted his bravery: “Al Mahdi, like all of the Freedom Flotilla participants, is deserving of our praise for his courage in attempting to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged people there. We are all relieved that he is safely back in Ireland. We hope that his family, who we know were extremely worried about his health, can rest easy now and celebrate his return..”’
View link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100895
He is noted to have led the siege and capture of Tripoli.
Alqaeda flag above ‘liberated’ Libya Courthouse
The very interesting and confusing aspect of these elite commands is their being not merely the property of the CIA, but also Al Qaeda agents. The two are becoming more and more synonymous, and on some internet fora, Al Qaeda is re-branded, ‘ALL CIA duuh’.
The fall of Libya to these Al Qaeda commandos was made obvious to the world as the Al Qaeda flag was the hallmark victory symbol. It was pictured and videoed in on top of the Benghazi courthouse and in the hands of the celebrating victors.
Al Qaeda got its first official country, Libya. Since then, terror has been spreading all over North and sub-Saharan Africa, to Algeria, Mali with the regime deposition and terror rule, and up to Nigeria, where the abundance of Libyan ammunition’s and unlimited freedom, funds, training and support given terrorists by NATO support of terror commandos is leading to an upsurge in state terror.
The fall of Syria is once again being led, not by Syrians, but by the same CIA elite ‘ALL CIA duuh’, mercenaries. Al-Mahdi al-Harati  has been seen active in Syria for months and has appeared in numerous videos, organizing and leading attacks against the nations army and people.
In the video below, he was recorded staging terror ops in Syria

Few days ago, the German intelligence agency released its findings that terrorists, Al Qaeda was responsible for much of the Syria rebel activity. The Houla massacres, famed for the British BBC usage of a fake photo to distort the happenings, has been blamed on these terrorist elements, who have been in control of Houla.
Ajel news- Anti government forces in Libya, have in the recent Aleppo battle, the so-called battle of all battles, been seen burning corpses of dead comrades. This act of burning corpses is to hide their foreign identities.
Breaking News exclusive source confirmed that militants have burned this dawn 18 terrorists bodies that were killed in Jabal Al-Zawieh and Sarakeb during clashes with Syrian security forces to hide their faces.
Breaking News sources said one of the two groups leader named “Abu Issa” has threatened to kill anyone who turns himself into Syrian security forces and to target his family. Read link: http://breakingnews.sy/en/article/2271.html
The easy flow of these commandos and weapons into and out of Syria is enabled by their neighbor, Turkey, who either for ‘religious’ purpose, Syria being led by the Alawite house, as against Turkey leaderships’ co-called Sunni alliance, which is the more popular in Muslim nations.
Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Britain raised his fear over the assault of his commando anti-Syrian government forces, being hammered on in recent Syrian crackdowns. He called on the Arab League, International Security council and and the Arab League to support the armed rebels who use the Turkish territories as their bases and route to infiltrate Syria.
CNN in a recent article, admitted to the presence and active recruitment by al-Harati of Libyans in Syria. Stopping short of admitting the foreign powers actively behind his ability and track record, including his supreme capacity to bring down the Libyan government and now again, his monumental capacities against the Syrian government.
In their report, the mentioned the publicity of Youtube videos exposing him and his commandos in Syria. Obviously, this exposition by the peoples media has prompted a conciliatory admission by the Mainstream.
CNN- Under the command of one of Libya’s most well known rebel commanders, Al-Mahdi al-Harati, more than 30 Libyan fighters have made their way into Syria to support the Free Syrian Army rebels in their war against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Al-Harati, who commanded the Tripoli Revolutionary brigade — which was the first group of rebels to enter the Libyan capital last August — has been in Syria for months leading some of his former men and Syrian military defectors who have joined his “Liwaa al-Umma” or “The Banner of the Nation” brigade.
Recent YouTube videos show at least two different Syrian rebel factions announcing that they are part of the Liwa al-Umma.
Read this: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/world/meast/syria-libya-fighters/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

al-Harati may be coming to your town soon

Mahdi al-Harati {feb17.info}
The consequences of such funded global mercenaries can never be over stated. These paid fighters manipulate peoples minds to gain volunteers, and with special doctrine, developed for them, they brain wash people who have good intentions into believing that such political and capitalistic wars are divine.
In the end, we have people with amazing skill and power, al-Harati, a new Osama, and you end up with trained terror remnants, who in their inactive state, after the fall, this time, of Syria, look for where else to pick up such ‘noble’ causes. As happened in Mali, in Africa, the entire Middle East and the world at large is never going to be safe or the same again with this action against Syrian government.
Al-Harati resigned as deputy leader of the Libyan Military soon after take over and in October 2011,  returned to Ireland, where he and his Irish wife have lived for the past 20 years. He is now fully employed and engaged in leading the Syrian anti-government terror campaign. Apparently he is better engaged in commanding global terror ops, than state leadership.
And this growing army of skilled CIA commandos who have a track record of brilliant success, from the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, to hundreds of other wars, and more recently their success against Libya’s government and now Syria, who knows, you could be up next. So be ready, al-Harati may be coming to your town soon.
Sources:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100895
http://soviet.ie/index.php?/topic/1574-swp-iawm-cia-spy-madhi-al-harati-working-as-mercenary-in-syria/
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/28/world/meast/syria-libya-fighters/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
http://feb17.info/news/libyan-irish-commander-resigns-as-deputy-head-of-tripoli-military-council/



Read more: http://newsrescue.com/cia-hired-global-mercenary-commandos-al-harati-libya-syria-next/#ixzz23OOkWes1

Friday, May 11, 2012

Ireland Referendum Alternative is Icelandic Model


author by BrianClarkeNUJ - AllVoicespublication date Thu May 10, 2012 17:46Report this post to the editors
In 2008 the main bank of Iceland is nationalized.Their currency devalued and the stock market stopped. The country went bankruptcy. The citizens protested in front of parliament and got new elections after the resignation of the whole government. The country was actually in a worse economic situation than Ireland.




Unlike Ireland the people of Iceland made their government resign and have nationalized the primary banks. The country decided not pay the massive debts created with Britain and the Netherland and they have created a public assembly to rewrite their constitution.


They had a revolution against the powers who created their crisis in a peaceful way. It has been censored and covered up because if countries like Ireland or other EU citizens followed this example the commercial banks who are causing the crisis would be out of business.


In 2010 the people went out in the streets and demanded a referendum. In March the referendum and the refusal of payment was voted in by 93% of the people. The government is forced to investigate those responsible for the crisis including many senior executives and bankers who were arrested. Interpol was forced to dictate an order making all those implicated leave the country.


A fresh assembly has been elected to rewrite the Constitution to include the lessons learned which will replace the current one. The people chose 25 citizens with no political affiliation from 522 candidates. To be a candidate, all that was needed was to be an adult with the support of 30 people. 


So in summary of the Icelandic revolution:
-resignation of all of the government
-nationalization of the bank.
-referendum for people to decide about economic matters.
-jailing all responsible parties
-writing a new constitution for and by the people


Has Ireland been informed of this by their media?


Has RTE commented on this?


The People of Iceland have shown the way forward ! There is a very simple, peaceful way to beat the current rotten system in all of Ireland and Iceland has given a lesson in genuine democracy and solution to Ireland's problems. Its simple but unfortunately the Irish people cannot handle the simple truth !
Fuerher Kenny
Fuerher Kenny 
The truth about Enda Kenny, the Irish Household Tax & the Eu Fiscal Referendum


Related Link: http://irishblog-irelandblog.blogspot.com/



Before we know where we are going, it helps to have a clear picture of where we are comin from. I do not know RNU sufficiently well to endorse them but I do know the following is a very accurate and clear window to Ireland's immediate past.


A History of Felon-Setting
  national | rights and freedoms | opinion/analysis   Saturday May 05, 2012 23:36 by RNU Activist - Republican Network for Unity (RNU) 
A History of Felon-Setting:

Felon-Setting has a long and not very honorable place in Irish history. British imperialists have used various tactics to impose their rule in Ireland for centuries. Demonisation, Criminalisation and Felon-Setting has played a massive role in attempting to isolate Republicans from their communities.

A History of Felon-Setting:

Felon-Setting has a long and not very honorable place in Irish history. British imperialists have used various tactics to impose their rule in Ireland for centuries. Demonisation, Criminalisation and Felon-Setting has played a massive role in attempting to isolate Republicans from their communities.

In 1858, a Cork Newspaper Editor published an article about the drilling and marching of Fenians in the Skibbereen area. He called on the British Police to arrest and imprison those involved. In response, Leading Republican, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa described the article as; 'felon-setting’.Within a year, Rossa found himself in a British prison.

During the 1919-21 Tan War newspapers were forbidden to describe IRA Operations as ‘Guerilla Attacks’. Propaganda has always been an essential element by governments across the world to influence public opinion.

In modern Ireland with mass communications like the radio, television and the Internet. It is not surprising that the British and Irish States and their supporters use propaganda such as, felon-setting, censorship, smears, slurs and demonisation in describing Republican Activists. These Activists are regularly called; ‘Godfathers, Criminals, Racketeers, Drug Dealers, Informers’ etc. However, it is more akin to American than Irish politics.

The reality behind these smears seriously hurts Republican families who have to cope with stories in the media, rumours in local communities and the targeting of Activists who pursue a legitimate political objective. In a number of cases, negative slurs have led to the deaths of Republicans like, Óglach. Joe O’Connor (RIRA) shot dead in Ballymurphy in 2000 and former Volunteer, Gerry (Whitey) Bradley from sucide in Larne. The rumours continue even after death with others such as, IRA Leader, Brendan Hughes.

Anglo-Irish Treaty:

(IRA) fought a successful Guerrilla War against the British occupation in Ireland between 1919–1921. Following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, the majority of Volunteers in Óglaigh na hÉireann voted against it.

The Treaty was ratified by a slim majority. Éamon de Valera and a significant number of Dail Deputies left the Assembly in protest. The Free State issued directives to newspapers that its Forces were to be called; ‘The National Army’, its opponents were to be called; ‘Irregulars and were not to be associated with the IRA of 1919-1921'.

The Dublin Government called the IRA; ‘Rebels and were not entitled to recognition as legitimate Combatants’. The Free State executed over 77 Anti-Treaty POWs’ including, Veteran Republicans, Liam Mellows, Joe McKelvey, Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor and Liam Lynch.
Fianna Fáil:

De Valera failed to persuade Sinn Féin to participate in the Free State’s institutions in 1926 and left the Party immediately. He later formed Fianna Fáil and his new Party took power in 1932. Initially, Fianna Fáil was friendly towards the IRA, legalising Óglaigh na hÉireann and freed all Republican Prisoners who had been interned by the Free State. However within a few years, this had dramatically changed.

In 1938 Óglaigh na hÉireann’s, new Chief-Of-Staff and 1916 Veteran, Sean Russell reiterated that the Free State and its Institutions were illegitimate. He maintained that the IRA was the true Army of the Irish Republic. The IRA was backed by a number of Second Dail Deputies who gave their legitimacy. They also declared War on Britain and conducted a bombing campaign in England. Fianna Fail responded by banning the IRA and introducing Internment against Republicans.

The IRA was severely damaged by the measures taken against it by the Dublin and Stormont Governments during the Second World War. A number of IRA Volunteers including, former Chief Of Staff , Charlie Kerins, was hanged in 1944. Despite legal moves by Seán MacBride, public protests, and parliamentary intervention by TDs in Leinster House, De Valera refused to issue a reprieve. Political Prisoners were also badly mistreated which led to former Adj-General, Sean McCaughey dying on Hunger & Thirst Strike for Political Status in Portlaoise in 1946.

Operation Harvest:

From 1948 on, under the leadership of Tony Magan the IRA rebuilt its organisation. They began a renewed armed campaign in 1957 that involved various military columns carrying out a range of military operations, from direct attacks on security installations to disruptive actions against infrastructure. However, Internment in both States seriously hampered Republican activities and broke morale.

During the 1957 Leinster House elections, S/F won four seats which helped end the criminalisation campaign by the Dublin and Stormont Governments. The IRA Campaign ended in 1962, due to a lack of support for Armed Struggle.

For the remainder of the Sixties, the IRA came under the influence of a Dublin-based Leadership and gradually lost touch with its grassroots. Northern Volunteers were sidelined in favour of left-wing thinkers.

Unionist Misrule:

Despite repeated warnings from senior Republicans, Cathal Goulding ignored the growing demand for Civil Rights in the Six Counties. In answer to the demands, the Unionist Government used the RUC to attack Civil Rights Marchers and vunerable Nationalist communities throughout the summer of 1969.

IRA Units in the North were not able to properly defend these areas because of the lack of arms. Many Volunteers laid the blame at the door at the Leadership. Around the same time, Republican Leaders wanted to end its policy of Absentionism from Leinster House and Stormont and called an Ard Fheis for December, 1969.
The Leadership failed to get the two-thirds needed to change policy. The Party split and a walk-out ensued with a number of Veterans forming the Provisional Movement. The IRA followed suit after an Army Convention was called in January, 1970. The PIRA was born and declared War against the British Government and her Forces.
The split was particularly bitter and caused long time friends, comrades and families to choose sides. In spite of the bitterness Goulding, continued with his plan to push the Official’s into electoral politics, while the Provisionals began attacking the British occupation. The Officials used phrases such as, Catholic Defenders, Dublin Government Dupes, Nationalist Militants, Sectarian Thugs to demonise the Volunteers. This type of language led to the killing of over 20 Activists.

The Officials also mounted attacks against the British until it declared a ceasefire in 1972. It split again in 1974, which led to the formation of the Irish National Liberation Army or INLA. The Provisional Movement had a number of ceasefires throughout the Seventies and Eighties, however they did not declare an end to hostilities until 2005. When they destroyed most of its weapons under British and international supervision. 

1981 Hunger-Strike:

Throughout the the late Seventies, the British Government implemented a number of new policies to suppress political dissent in the Six Counties. They were called Ulstersation, Normalisation and Criminalisation. Emotive and negative language used against Republicans such as, Godfathers, Criminals, Racketeers, Drug Dealers and Informers.

In the South, the Dublin Government reactivated the Special Criminal Court to ‘convict’ and imprison Republicans. They also imposed severe censorship against Political Activists particularly, those who opposed the British State in Ireland. Eoghan Harris and a number of other Officials used RTE to pursue an Anti-Republican agenda. Which in effect censored news from the North.

The truth of what was happening in the North was not being reported properly by the British media either. News stories had to be vetted by Government Censors before being aired. It wasn’t until 1988 that Maggie Thatcher introduced regulations similar to those in the South and censorship became formal.

Sadly, former comrades have taken on such tactics and use the same language against anyone who opposes their strategy. Provocative phrases like, Drug Dealers, Criminals, Conflict-Junkies, Traitors etc.
British Policing:

A year after the IRA ended its armed Campaign they were again forced into a corner by the British and Unionists to endorse the renamed RUC as a legitimate Police Force. In spite of generations of Republican and Nationalist communities being murdered, targeted, oppressed and criminalised by the British occupation of the Six Counties. The Provisional Movement attempted to convince its grassroots that the future of the struggle lay in such an endorsement. 

In response, the Republican lobby group, Concerned Republicans and Ex-POWs’ Against the RUC and MI5 was created and advocated a return to Republican principles. The new group received substantial support from a number of other groups including, the IRSP, 32CSM, Eirigi and a number of Independent Republicans. Due to the endorsement of British Policing, Concerned Republicans and Ex-POWs’ Against the RUC and MI5 changed its name to the Republican Network for Unity or RNU. 

Political Prisoners:

With the signing of the GFA, anyone ‘convicted’ of Republican Activities would no longer be treated as a Political Prisoner and have their Status removed. A status that was fought hard for and caused the agonising deaths of ten young Republican Volunteers in 1981.

Since then dozens of Republicans have been ‘convicted’ in Non-Jury (Diplock) Courts and incarcerated in Maghaberry and Portlaoise Gaols. Two former IRA Prisoners, Martin Corey from Lurgan and Marian Price from Belfast have had their Life Sentences revoked by the British Secretary of State and remain imprisoned. Another, Gerry McGeough from Tyrone was arrested by the new RUC, after he stood for election urging no support for the RUC/PSNI. He was subsequently tried in a Diplock Court and given 12 years for PIRA attack back in 1981. The ongoing imprisonment of Gerry McGeough, Martin Corey and Marian Price underscores the existence of Political Policing. Their incarceration is also a snub to the Provisional Movement who promised separation between political and civil Policing in the Six Counties.
Fourteen years after the GFA and five years after endorsing the British system of justice in Ireland. Political Prisoners in Maghaberry are still protesting for dignity, human rights and Political Status.

Conclusion:

According to Frank Burton who wrote; The Politics of Legitimacy, Struggle in a Belfast Community in 1978. ‘Irish Republicanism has a phrase — “felon-setting”. It is used to describe the enterprise of those people who, in classifying IRA violence as ordinary criminality, attempt to deny its political essence.’

Since the 1994 Ceasefire, much of our history has been revised to alter the truthful account of why the Nationalist and Republican community in the North revolted against Stormont and the British occupation. Part of that revisionism has included the myth that the 1969 Uprising and subsequent War were carried out to secure equality. It fails to mention that the discrimination, political policing, military curfews, state murders, draconian legislation and Internment added fuel to the fire. 

As part of the myth is that the Provisional Movement had popular support for its armed campaign in the Six Counties. Any former Combatant will testify that a small amount of people in working-class areas supported the IRA. It did not attract widespread support which the Provisionals claim today. They pretend that only the IRA had support and that current Volunteers have none. 

They fail to say that the British Government in still in full control of six Irish counties, with over 6,000 armed British Troops stationed on Irish soil, backed by MI5 and a British Political Police Force. Political Prisoners are still incarcerated by Diplock Courts. Partition and the Unionist Veto over reunification are still very much in operation. The Irish working-class continue to live in poverty with the crumbs from the Westminster table. 
The Provisional Movement condemn, criticise and actively work against their former comrades. They believe they are travelling the road to a United Ireland, but the objective has always been a 32 County Socialist Republic. They may have garnered tens of thousands of votes but what are votes when you leave working-class communities behind.

The term often used to describe current Volunteer and Political organisations, is Micro-Groups and an Alphabet Soup of initials in a demeaning manner. If one studies 1916 Rising, the Revolutionaries who fought that week consisted of various groups including the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Army, Cumann Na mBán, Na Fianna Éireann and the Hibernian Rifles. They united to form the IRA and struck a blow for Irish freedom.Surely, the Provisionals aren't suggesting that the above organisations were also Micro-Groups too?

Related Link: http://www.republicannetwork.ie

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Cead Mile Failte, A Hundred Thousand Welcomes

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Gilmore's Rainbows: Up the West & Pheck the Rest




Gilmore's Rainbows: Up the West & Pheck the Rest 


Thu May 10, 2012 09:40 


Eamon Gilmore the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs who like Martin McGuinness, despite being accused of never doing a day's work in his life, is believed to be still leader of the former Labour Party. He is also believed to be still a member of the Workers' Party of Ireland and also a member of Democratic Left. He was formerly a Minister of the Department of the Marine in the "Rainbow Coalition" of the 27th Dáil.




You see Eamon always liked rainbows since he was a little boy in the west of ireland Eamon despite considerable denial from several Galwegian farmers, was actually born in County Galway, thats not Galway's fault by the way. Gilmore is said to have graduated from University College Galway, where Michael D is said to have taken him under his wing.




Besides his covert activities with the Workers Party, which we can't really talk about here, as they were the political wing of the Official IRA better known as the Sticks. He was responsible for merging the Democratic Left party with Labour, ye see Eamon likes merging parties. He's a bit of a political swinger really, as he has now managed to merge Labour with the fascist Fine Gael, as part of the Irish Government. Wow what and orgasm with a massive salary in hard times and all that. Eamonn has been accused by certain jealous Me Feiners of being a cute whore, have you seen Eamon without glasses.


 Anyway the whole point of this article, is to inform the public of Ireland, that Eamon as Irish Foreign Minister is now accused of prostituting Ireland, to jump on the bandwagon calling for Civil War in Syria, a bit like the Libyan fiasco. Its a bit unfair really but such is political life in the new .. ahem..'World Order' of continuous war at the start of the 21st century, which Eamon with his grounding in permanent revolution, has taken to like a Galway salmon to water. Up the West, pheck the rest and all that sort of thing!




 WORLD POWERS INCLUDING IRELAND PLUNGE SYRIA INTO WAR By Pepe Escobar DAMASCUS - World powers are racing against time to plunge Syria into all-out civil war, United Nations leader Ban Ki-moon advised, as a watchdog reported "thousands" of killings of civilians on YouTube by the Syrian regime. Speaking after a key United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria, officials described in detail the "brutality" of President Bashar al-Assad's forces and said attacks by opposition groups are "non-existent".


 We are in a race against time to promote full-scale civil war - "death on a potentially massive scale," officials guaranteed. The UN already estimates that well over 9,000 people have died in the 14-month uprising against Assad while rights groups have put the number at more than 11,000, every single one of them a victim of the ruthless Assad regime. "The government continues to assault its people," the UN secretary general said.


He also criticized the Syrian government for holding parliamentary elections on Monday. Observers instead evoked the example of the Saudi royal family, when it appointed a committee of princes to decide on their succession. Western powers at the time praised it as the most important step in the history of democracy since the 1789 French Revolution.


Iran, a staunch ally of the Assad regime, said the elections were a step towards reform - something immediately dismissed by world powers as "mullah propaganda". At least 100 people were killed on YouTube across Syria by regime forces as the vote was taking place, the one-man, one-legged, London-based, Gulf-financed Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Troops swept through al-Tamanaa village in Idlib province during the night, firing shells and bursts of gunfire at random.


Scores of civilians died at the hands of batallions of snipers in the central city of Homs. Regime forces also carried out raids and arrests in the town of Douma in Damascus province, taking scores of young men to an undisclosed location, according to the Observatory.


 The UN-backed truce that went into effect April 12 has failed to take hold as it was expected, considering it was just a stopgap measure to prepare for full civil war. "The international community is facing tremendous difficulties", an unnamed official said. "We tried regime change via a UN Security Council resolution, twice, but we were blocked by the Soviets and communist China.


Now our only hope is for NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] to decide on unilateral action." Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, addressing thousands in southern Turkey, refused to be deterred by the "difficulties". He declared, "The glorious day of regime change is at hand". Erdogan added, "We won't deviate from our all-encompassing policy of neo-Ottomanism." 


Pro-government Syrian media said turnout was high in the election that marked the first time Syria has held a vote since the adoption in February of a new constitution allowing for multi-party polls. "Millions of Syrians defied terrorism and chose their representatives in parliament," said the daily Al-Watan, which estimated voter turnout at 60%. Yet pictures of crowds outside polling stations in Damascus were dismissed by world powers as crude forgeries. In an avalanche of YouTube videos posted online from Deraa, where the uprising started in March 2011, the Syrian National Council showed empty streets and all shops closed in protest against the elections.


 The opposition dismissed the vote as a ploy by the regime to buy time and derail the international community from its serious commitment to civil war. The new 24-hour Arabic-language channel, Sky News Arabia, a joint venture between Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahayan, owner of the English football club Manchester City, and British broadcaster BSkyB, owned by phone-hacking enabler Rupert Murdoch, described the events in Syria as "a hopeful precedent towards regime change". Sky News Arabia - which boasts an impartial "editorial advisory committee" including two members from the stable of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - has promised to outmaneuver Qatar-based al-Jazeera into depicting the Assad regime as "worse than Hitler". Sheikh Mansour, reached for comments in Abu Dhabi, said, "Next weekend we [Manchester City] will be crowned Premier League champions. Then we will be able to concentrate on winning Syria.


We should not waiver; the future of democracy is at stake." Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His most recent book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). - He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com This article was first published at Asia Times Gilmore's Rainbows Related Link: http://irishblog-irelandblog.blogspot.com/
Cead Mile Failte, A Hundred Thousand Welcomes

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

GREENWASHED OLYMPICS LONDON





Greenwashed similar to whitewashed,  is a form of spin or subtle lies in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to push the perception of aims and policies that are environmentally friendly. Sometimes to increase profits, sometimes to gain political support, it manipulates popular opinion to support otherwise unethical or criminal exploitation.


Does London have small dick syndrome with its huge ferris wheel, massive gherkin or is it a sense of inadequacy over its lost empire perhaps ?. Now this summer it will have the world's largest McDonald's, near the Olympic village, with 9,800 square feet of two floors in East London, it can cater for 1,500 diners. Currenty if you buy a 'Happy Meal' in the UK, you will get a pedometer to track hops, skips and jumps to "help" the child-friendly Olympic mascots get to the Olympic games. McDonald's peddle Olympic 'Happy Meals'. So the official "restaurant" of the Olympics in London is teaching kids to eat junk more frequently and then move more.

Olympic co-branding typifies in this instance, what is in it for McDonald's, allowing them to spread the idea that "movement" and "exercise" are healthy, implying if you're active, junk food is not important. Shifting the blame from diet intake to output for children with powerful emotions associated with the Olympic games is gold for McDonalds.Terence Stephenson, a spokesman for the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges says,  "It's very sad that an event that celebrates the very best of athletic achievements should be sponsored by companies contributing to the obesity problem and unhealthy habits," They are calling on the British Government to rein in the likes of McDonalds.


Stratfor, the US intelligence analysis firm, was hired by Dow Chemical to spy on activists protesting against the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, revealed by WikiLeaksAccording to WikiLeaks, Stratfor fronts as an intelligence publisher, but is in fact a private intelligence agency.


 Its clients reportedly include Dow Chemical, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and United States government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Marines and the Defence Intelligence Agency.


On Bhopal, Stratfor analysed the online activities of activists, including the "yes men" for Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the gas leak that killed more than 15,000 people in Bhopal causing environmental damage still not repaired. 




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