The 2014 Massacre By Snipers Of Activists And Police Officers Still Remains Unsolved

We Know The Intelligence Was Manufactured And That Iraq Didn’t Have Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

On March 20, 2003, the United States led a coalition that launched a fully-fledged invasion of Iraq, closely supported by the United Kingdom.
The case it had made for invading the Middle Eastern nation was built on three basic premises: that the regime of Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD); that it was developing more of them to the potential advantage of “terrorist” groups; and that creating a “friendly and democratic” Iraq would set an example for the region.

However, 20 years after the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the question of whether the invasion of Iraq was the product of the wilful deception of U.S., UK and other voters, wrongful intelligence or a strategic calculus is still a matter of debate.
What appears inescapable is that the Iraq war has cast a long shadow over the U.S’s foreign policies, with repercussions to this day.

David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), told the U.S. Senate on January 29, 2004: “Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.”
His team, a fact-finding mission set up by the multinational force to find and disable Iraq’s purported WMDs, was ultimately unable to find substantial evidence that Hussein had an active weapons development programme.
The Bush administration had presented that as a certainty before the invasion.

In a speech in Cincinnati in the U.S. state of Ohio on October 7, 2002, the U.S. president declared that Iraq “possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons.”
He then concluded that Hussein had to be stopped. “The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons.”

Then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair had said the same thing on September 24, 2002, as he presented a British intelligence dossier affirming that Hussein could activate chemical and biological weapons “within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population”.

According to Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East North Africa programme at Chatham House, the decision to invade Iraq was a “huge violation of international law” and that the real objective of the Bush administration was a broader transformational effect in the region.
“We know that the intelligence was manufactured and that Hussein didn’t have the weapons,” Vakil told Al Jazeera.
( Federica Marsi, 19.03.2023 )  ..  aljazeera.com

The Islington Children’s Homes Abuse Scandal.

Liz Davies fought for more than 30 years for children she knew were being abused in Islington Council’s care.
The former social worker’s efforts eventually secured an apology and a support scheme, which has already paid out almost £1million.

1990 ..  Liz, a social worker, raises concerns about exploitation of children in homes.

1991  ..  Islington’s Area Child Protection Committee rejects her concerns.

1992  ..  Liz goes to Scotland Yard but no substantial investigation occurs.
The Evening Standard newspaper publishes a series of reports suggesting Islington’s children’s homes have been “infiltrated by paedophiles”.
Whistleblowing staff and children describe drug-dealing, sex trafficking and violence.

1995  ..  A report by Ian White, former president of the Association of Directors of Social Services, and Kate Hart, a former senior manager at Hampshire and Oxfordshire councils, finds Islington Council did not properly investigate allegations against workers.
Claims include: “sexual assaults on other staff, encouraging boys to be rent boys, sexual misconduct with residents, sale of drugs, poor child care, involvement in paedophile rings and child pornography”.
More than a third of accused staff were not investigated.
Others left on health grounds before disciplinary proceedings could progress.
The report warns that abusers may therefore now be working with children elsewhere with clean records.
Council bosses, including leader Margaret Hodge, resign.
The White Report is forwarded to the Metropolitan Police, but no investigation occurs.

1999  ..  Islington Council chases up the Met, asking whether the White Report’s findings merit investigation.
Detective Superintendent Sue Akers says there is “insufficient tangible evidence on which to base an holistic enquiry on the scale that would be necessary”.
The former Grosvenor Avenue children’s home in Highbury is one of many where abuse reportedly occurred.

2001  ..  An internal Met Police report says that since the White Report, the force has investigated “at least five former council employees” over “serious sexual abuse in care homes”.
“With the exception of one,” it says “none of these suspects were identified previously, despite being prolific offenders during the period under review.
“I suggest this tends to cast serious doubts about the thoroughness of the council enquiry.”
To date, 12 complainants have alleged sexual abuse at Gisburn House, in Watford.
Multiple staff have been accused from another home (Conewood Street, Park Place, N5).
Since allegations were made about a third home (1 Elwood Street, Highbury), the report adds, “two suspects have fled the country”.
There is “a high probability” that a “properly resourced cold case review” would identify new victims and offenders, it concludes.

2003  ..  Another internal report questions the Met’s continuing inaction, saying it gives the council “a solid security policy against criticism, in that they have asked police to investigate and police have, thus far at least, declined to do so.”
“Why did the police make this decision at all?” it asks.
“Why was the CPS apparently not involved?”
Still no major investigation occurs.

2016  ..  Dr Davies, now a professor of social work, launches the Islington Survivors’ Network, prompting many new complainants to come forward.
Two police officers meet Dr Davies and create a list of 26 alleged abusers.
But the investigation is closed down and the Met will not say why.
The Islington Gazette revealed that Sandy Marks, who oversaw the response to the abuse allegations in the early 1990s, had once been linked to a pro-paedophile activist group.

2017  ..  The Islington Gazette reports that ex-councillor Sandy Marks, chair of Islington’s Social Services committee when the abuse was unearthed in the early 1990s, was once linked to radical pro-paedophile campaign group “Fallen Angels”.
She initially admits this, saying she was manipulated, then changes her story, denying the link.
Lawyers advise the council to consider whether this undermines the White Report.

Islington finally admits that, “Children placed in our care were subjected to terrible physical and mental abuse.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that this was the darkest chapter in the council’s history,” says leader Richard Watts.
“We are deeply sorry for the council’s past failure to protect vulnerable children.”
He also apologises to Dr Davies for the way her own concerns were handled and commends the Gazette’s reporting.

2018  ..  An inquiry by Sarah Morgan QC finds Mrs Marks was affiliated with Fallen Angels, but there is “no evidence” it “affected her later role overseeing children’s services at Islington”.
The White Report is not critically undermined, she finds.
Islington Council leader Kaya Comer-Schwartz said the authority could not ‘make amends’, but could take responsibility.

2021  ..  Islington Council announces the Support Payment Scheme, offering £10,000 payments to survivors.
Council leader Kaya Comer-Schwartz says: “We know that nothing can make amends for the trauma caused, but it is our responsibility as a council to try to address past failings.”
The Metropolitan Police would not comment on why it had never fully investigated the Islington scandal.
( Charles Thomson, 07.05.2023 )  ..  islingtonsurvivors.co.uk

More than 180 complainants have come forward since last May, yielding a wealth of new intelligence about paedophiles who infiltrated the borough’s care system.
The support scheme was launched last year, more than three decades after whistleblowers first reported that Islington’s care system had been “infiltrated by paedophiles”.
( Charles Thomson, 23.02.2023 )  ..  islingtongazette.co.uk

Former Head Of Israeli Intelligence Says Netanyahu’s Government Is Worse Than The Ku Klux Klan.

The former head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad said that his country’s government is in the grip of extremist factions that are “a lot worse” than the Ku Klux Klan.
Tamir Pardo told Kan radio that he believed government ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich represented “horrible racist parties” that are “a lot worse” than the U.S. white supremacist group.

Pardo, who served Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as head of Mossad from 2011 to 2016, said that by inviting Ben Gvir, Smotrich and other far-right politicians to join his coalition, Netanyahu had taken the Israeli equivalent of the “Ku Klux Klan and brought it into the government”.

“The leader has lost his mind. Nothing that has happened would have happened if the prime minister didn’t lead this process,” the former spy chief said, dismissing the idea that Netanyahu is being led by extremists in the government as an “urban legend”.
( Middle East Eye, 27.07.2023 )  ..  middleeasteye.net

The UN And Their Fat Controllers Manipulated The Situation In Ukraine.

We now know that the Ukraine war is being used entirely by the Tory government and the establishment as a blatant propaganda exercise that hides a flagrant desire to profit from misery, again.
As in World War 2 when the corporations maintained their trading relationship with the Nazis, they are at it again.

From minute one the evidence was sky high that the UN and their fat controllers had manipulated the situation in Ukraine to incite a response from Putin and that it was part of a much bigger global strategy.

Since then the evidence has increased exponentially as one act after another suggests this is much more about profiteering and control than it is about fighting back against an illegal attack.
And all the while Ukrainians have suffered as part of this global strategic plan.
( James Finlayson, 25.03.2023 )  ..  dorseteye.com

Former Politicians Can Secure Privileged Access To Government For Their New Paymasters.

More than 170 former UK government ministers and senior officials have taken private sector jobs related to their old policy briefs since 2017.
A report from Transparency International found large numbers of ex-ministers and senior officials were going straight from their government jobs into private sector roles relevant to their former responsibilities, which it said raised serious questions over how potential conflicts of interest are managed in Westminster.

Overall, 177 out of 604 jobs since 2017 were linked to the former policy responsibilities of government ministers and officials, with the highest prevalence among former defence and education office holders.

Duncan Hames, the director of policy at Transparency International UK, said: “Britain’s revolving-door watchdog has proved powerless to stop former ministers and officials cashing in on the contacts they made in public service. The Greensill saga highlighted just how easily former politicians can secure privileged access to government for their new paymasters, with potentially huge implications for public policy and the use of taxpayers’ money.”
( Rowena Mason, 24.03.2023 )  ..  Source:  theguardian.com

Sewage Discharges Into The Sea Affect UK Popular Tourist Destinations.

New warnings have been applied to dozens of beaches across the UK after sewage water was discharged into the sea, with the newly-crowned ‘best beach in the UK’ among those affected.
Members of the public have been told to steer clear of 83 beaches across the country due to sewage leaking into the water.

New pollution alerts from swimming charity Surfers Against Sewage have been unveiled following heavy rainfall over recent days, which has caused waste water to be discharged into the sea.
An alert has even been applied to Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, which was last month (February) named by Tripadvisor as the best beach in the UK.

Other popular tourist destinations affected by the warnings include Brighton, Scarborough, Blackpool and Whitstable.
In just one year, England and Wales’ waterways had sewage pumped into them for at least 3.4million hours, according to recent figures analysed by Top of the Poops.
( Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas, 16.03.2023 )  ..  mirror.co.uk

The 2014 Sniper Killings Still Remain Unsolved Today.

The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev’s Maidan Square in late February 2014 was a defining moment in the U.S-orchestrated overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government.
The death of 70 protesters triggered an avalanche of international outrage that made President Viktor Yanukovych’s downfall a fait accompli.

Yet today these killings remain unsolved.
Enter Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa.
For years, he marshaled overwhelming evidence demonstrating that the snipers were not affiliated with Yanukovych’s government, but pro-Maidan operatives firing from protester-occupied buildings.

Though Katchanovski’s groundbreaking work has been studiously ignored by the mainstream media, a scrupulous study he presented on the slaughter in September 2015 and August 2021 and published in 2016 and in 2020 has been cited on over 100 occasions by scholars and experts.
As a result of this paper and other pieces of research, he was among the world’s most-referenced political scientists specialising in Ukrainian matters.

In the final months of 2022, Katchanovski submitted a new investigation on the Maidan massacre to a prominent social sciences journal.
Initially accepted with minor revisions after extensive peer review, the publication’s editor effusively praised the work in a lengthy private note.

They said the paper was “exceptional in many ways,” and offered “solid” evidence in support of its conclusions.
The reviewers concurred with this judgment.
However, the paper was not published, a decision Katchanovski firmly believes to have been “political.”
He filed an appeal, but to no avail.
( Kit Klarenberg, 12.03.2023 )  ..  thegrayzone.com