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As a former ambassador Craig Murray knows his stuff and stands out as one of the most credible critics of the UK State.
The
Broader View Reveals
the Ugliest of Prospects
Standing
back a little and surveying the events of the last couple of weeks,
gives a bleak view of the current state of western democracy.
Limpet
mines are placed below the waterline. There are numerous reasons for
this. Firstly, holes above the waterline will not sink a ship.
Secondly, the weight of the water helps contain the blast against the
ship. Thirdly, it is obviously harder to detect both the diver
placing the mine and the mine once placed if it is below the water.
In fact it would be very difficult for a diver to place a limpet mine
four feet above the waterline, even if they wanted to.
It
is worth noting that the Guardian obeyed completely the DSMA
committee ban on mentioning Pablo Miller in reporting the security
service fantasy version of the Skripal story. As Kennard points out,
it is also very interesting indeed that the Guardian published Luke
Harding’s front
page fabrication of
Manafort/Assange meetings two weeks after MOD Director Dominic Wilson
congratulated Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson on “re-establishing
links” with the security services. The Guardian is, like other
British newspapers, as controlled by the military and security
services just like in any other decent autocracy.
Incidentally,
I cannot find Matt Kennard’s excellent work set out anywhere,
except in that twitter stream. Surely there is an article on a
website somewhere? I cannot find anything on Google, but as it is
exactly the kind of information Google routinely suppresses, that
does not mean it is not out there. Anyone seen it?
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the Ugliest of Prospects
Craig
Murray
17
June, 2019
We
have seen what appears to be the most unconvincing of false flags in
the Gulf. I pointed
out why
it was improbable Iran would attack these particular ships. Since
then we have had American military sources pointing to video evidence
of a packed small Iranian boat allegedly removing a limpet mine from
the ship the Iranians helped to rescue, which was somehow supposed to
prove it was the Iranians who planted the alleged device. We also
have had the Japanese owner specifically
contradict the
American account and say that the ship was hit by flying objects.
The
Iranians certainly have a strange method of bomb disposal if they
carry it out using unarmoured personnel, with as many as possible
crammed into a small boat in immediate contact with the “mine”.
It is also hard to understand why the alleged “limpet mines”
would be four feet above the waterline.
There
seems to be a remarkable disconnect between the widespread popular
disdain at yet another fake western power casus belli in the Middle
East, and the near universal complicity of the UK political and media
class in promoting this transparent lie. It is as though even
pretending to have any respect for truth and fact has simply been
discarded within the UK’s governmental system. Which ought to worry
us a lot.
The
second development ought to have been the biggest media story of the
decade in the UK, if we had anything like a free and honest media.
Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State, made
plain the Trump administration’s intent to prevent the
election of Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister. Pompeo told a meeting of
Jewish leaders:
It could be that Mr. Corbyn manages to run the gantlet and get elected. It’s possible. You should know, we won’t wait for him to do those things to begin to push back.
This
blatant interference by a foreign power in the UK’s democracy is an
absolute scandal. Compare the lack of media outrage at Pompeo’s
intervention with the ludicrous claims made about much less high
profile Russian attempts at influence. This incident provides
incontrovertible proof that the world does indeed operate in the way
that I have been explaining here for a decade. It is not a
“conspiracy theory” that democracy is manipulated by hidden
powers, it is fact. Pompeo’s description of Corbyn’s route to
election as “running the gauntlet” is particularly revealing.
Even more so is the cursory coverage this story was given, and I have
seen no evidence to date of any MSM “journalist” attempting any
follow-up investigation on the methods the US are planning to employ
– or more likely already employing – against Corbyn.
Everybody
should be incandescent at this, no matter who they vote for.
Something
else which revealed the truth of the way the political world now
operates, and which again did not get nearly the media attention it
deserves, was Matt Kennard’s stunning
revelation of the way the Guardian has been taken over by
the security services. I have been explaining for years that the
Guardian has become the security services’ news outlet of choice,
and it is very helpful to have documentation to prove it.
Finally,
we have of course seen Sajid Javid sign the extradition warrant for
Julian Assange to be sent to the United States for the “crime” of
publishing truthful information about US government illegalities.
Julian’s extradition hearing was, contrary to normal practice, held
despite the fact he was too sick to attend in person. And it was
presided over by Judge Arbuthnot, despite the fact that her husband
is a former Tory defence minister who
started a “security consultancy” in partnership with a
former head of MI6, the war criminal John Scarlett who oversaw the
fabrication of the dossier of lies about Iraqi WMD, in order to
launch an illegal war of aggression that killed and maimed millions.
The Assange team had asked her to recuse herself on that pretty
obvious basis, but she had refused. At an earlier hearing she taunted
Assange with the observation that he could get adequate exercise in
the Embassy on a 1.5 meter Juliet balcony.
Just
as the Guardian has never apologised for, nor withdrawn, the utter
lie of the Assange/Manafort story, so the identity politics
promoting, false “left” has never apologised for its pursuit of
Assange over sexual allegations in Sweden, which were obvious on the
slightest scrutiny to be only a fit-up designed to get him into
custody. Those figures like David Allen Green, Joan Smith and David
Aaronovitch, among scores of other pustulous hacks, who mocked and
scorned those of us who always said that Assange faced not
extradition to Sweden but to the United States for publishing, have
been shown up as, at the very best, stupid naive and unwitting tools
of the state, and more likely, insincere and vicious propagandists.
This
brief review of current issues reveal that not only do western
governments lie and fake, they have really given up on trying to
pretend that they do not. The abuse of power is naked and the
propaganda is revealed by the lightest effort to brush away the
veneer of democracy.
I
find it hard to believe that I live in times where Assange suffers as
he does for telling the truth, where a dedicated anti-racist like
Corbyn is subjected to daily false accusations of racism and to US
and security service backed efforts to thwart his democratic
prospects, where the most laughable false flag is paraded to move us
towards war with Iran, and where there is no semblance of a genuinely
independent media. But, starkly, that is where we are. This is not
unrelated to the massive and fast growing inequality of wealth; the
erosion of freedom is the necessary precondition that allows the
ultra-wealthy to loot the rest of us. It remains my hope there will
eventually come a public reaction against the political classes as
strong as the situation demands.
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