On Tuesday (5/7/16) the FBI announced the findings of its investigation in Hillary Clinton and her use of a private email sever whilst Secretary of State.
Those findings were devastating.
It found that Hillary Clinton had stored 110 classified documents on that private server. Ten of those documents were classified as "Top Secret."
Each of those documents represents a separate offence under Title 18 of the US Federal Criminal code. This is sometimes referred to as the 1917 Espionage Act.
It is under this act that former CIA Director David Petraeus was sentenced to 2 years probation and a USD $100,000 fine. He of course lost both his job and his security clearance. It is the same act that saw Chelsea (nee; Bradley) Manning convicted of 21 offences and sentenced to 35 years in a maximum security prison after prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty.
The specific offence under the act relevant to Hillary Clinton's case is sub-section 793(f) which can be read here; https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
It clearly states that; "Whoever [...] through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody [...]" has committed the offence.
Therefore it is not relevant whether Hillary Clinton intended to commit the offence. The mere fact that she has removed these 110 emails from their proper place of custody to her private server means that she has committed the offence.
The FBI also determined that any reasonable person would have known that a private email server is not the proper place of custody for classified government documents. After all I like most people am quite clear about the fact that my house is not a US Federal Government building.
Therefore the only logical step following the FBI's conclusions is for Hillary Clinton to be charged with the relevant offences. It would then be up to a Court of law to determine whether her actions constituted gross negligence or whether she is somehow so mentally deficient as not to be considered a "Reasonable Person."
The FBI's recommendation that charges are not filed against Hillary Clinton is therefore legally inexplicable.
It also presents a very serious constitutional problem for the US ahead of the November 2016 Presidential election in which Hillary Clinton is presumed to be standing as a candidate.
Even without charges let alone conviction the FBI's findings have proved that Hillary Clinton is a threat to national security who cannot be trusted to properly handle classified documents.
Therefore the US security establishment cannot give Hillary Clinton security clearance to handle classified documents in the future. If they do other nations are going to have to seriously question whether it is safe for them to share sensitive information with the US.
Obviously handling classified documents is a very large part of the President's role as Commander-in-Chief of the US military. Therefore with Hillary Clinton being unable to do that she is also unable to discharge the duties of the President as laid out in Article 2 of the US Constitution.
The electorate nominating a Presidential candidate who is unable to take the oath of office needed become President is without precedent in US history.
However I assume the Vacancy & Disability clause 6 would apply and with no Vice President in place the Speaker of the House would become President. The US of course would then need to go through another Presidential election cycle in November 2017.
Therefore I think it would be better all round for Hillary Clinton to be charged and go to trial.
That way the Democrats have the opportunity to nominate an eligible candidate for election at their upcoming convention and through the process of a public trial everyone gets to see why Hillary Clinton could not stand.
Fortunately if Obama appointee and Democrat Party member Loretta Lynch continues to dig her heels in and act against the best interests of the US and its Constitution an alternative solution has emerged.
The FBI investigation also found that the facts of the case are materially different to the testimony on the matter that Hillary Clinton gave to Congress. Therefore Congress can charge Hillary Clinton with contempt.
Loretta Lynch would not have any role in the process. She of course would then be impeached for her attempt to pervert the course of justice by obstructing the prosecution of Hillary Clinton for the espionage offences.
16:15 on 7/7/16 (UK date).
Thursday, 7 July 2016
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Saudi Arabia Attacks.
Yesterday (4/7/16) Saudi Arabia was struck by
not one but three extremely minor suicide bombings.
However before I explain that I first have to go off in a different direction to put them in their proper context.
As I've explained Europe is currently in the grips of the Euro 2016 football which is being held in France. The threat of radical Islamist terrorism to that tournament is considered very high. That is because of the November 13th 2015 (13/11/15) Paris Massacres.
Although on that night multiple targets were struck and 130 people murdered the attacks began with twin (failed) suicide bomb attacks on the Stade de France football stadium during a friendly match between France and Germany.
The big area of concern for Euro 2016 are the Fanzones. These large vast public areas in major cities where members of the public gather together in vast numbers to watch the matches live on giant TV screens.
During Saturday's (2/7/16) match between Germany and Italy there was a serious incident at the Fanzone by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Here someone set off a firework. The panic this small explosion caused triggered a stampede of several thousand people as they all rushed to escape what they thought was a terrorist attack.
This type of stampede is extremely serious.
Just last September (24/9/15) an estimated 2,110 people were trampled to death in a stampede in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. In 2010 (24/7/10) 20 people were killed at a stampede during the "Love Parade" music festival in Berlin, Germany. The most serious tragedy to strike European football was the 1985 (29/5/85) Heysel Stadium disaster in which 39 were trampled to death during a stampede at the UEFA Cup Final.
In order to prevent a repeat of Saturday's events the organisers will have to increase their searches of those entering the Fanzones in order to ensure that fireworks and similar contraband do not make their way inside the cordon. This will obviously mean longer queues and less fun for those attending.
I think that event organisers will also have to look at the way that layout of the Fanzones is designed. Simply by putting crash barriers in strategic positions you can break up these stampedes before they start or at least limit them to small groups rather than having them ripple out through the entire crowd.
The problem though is that if you put the barriers in the wrong places they can make the situation much worse. In a full panic people will crush each other into the barriers killing them. This is similar to what happened during the 1989 (15/4/89) Hillsborough disaster.
Therefore in order to give specific advice on how to alter the design of the Fanzones I will first need to know the exact layout of each Fanzone and run various computer simulations of any design changes. With only four matches left in the tournament and no deaths or serious injuries reported from Saturday it might just be safer to leave it at an enhanced search regime.
Provided no-one else is stupid enough to let off a firework in a Fanzone.
There was another security incident prior to Sunday's (3/7/16) between France and Iceland which was played at the Stade de France. Here an unattended vehicle was found parked inside the security cordon close to the stadium. Although it did cause some alarm the vehicle was found not to contain any explosives after it had been destroyed in a controlled explosion and the match went ahead as planned.
France went on to beat Iceland setting up a semi-final tie against Germany. This will be the first time that France & Germany have played each other since the Paris Massacres. This match will be played at Stade Velodrome in Marseille which due to Marseille's reputation probably increases the threat.
There are several possibilities of what Sunday's incident was about.
Firstly it could just simply be a mistake.
When I was working in football due to a groundshare there was a match played at the ground every Saturday. These matches were widely publicised in both national and local TV, newspapers and radio.
However invariably there was always one local resident who would be completely oblivious to the fact there was a football match going on and park their car somewhere it shouldn't be parked. In those days we simply had the cars towed away. However we did often talk about just blowing them up to punish the owner for making our lives so much more difficult.
The controlled explosion at Stade de France sounded a lot like the firework going off at the near-by Eiffel Tower Fanzone. Therefore it is possible that the French staged the whole thing to promote discussion about events of the previous night. After all if there had been deaths or serious injuries at the Fanzone France would currently be getting slammed for all sides. The rest of the tournament would also likely be cancelled.
Similarly it is possible that France staged the controlled explosion as a reminder to - particularly the Americans - of the security challenges they are being forced to deal with due to Barack Obama's - at best incompetent - policies.
The third explanation though is more sinister. It is possible that a third party deliberately parked the car inside the security cordon to increase the pressure on France by showing that they had the capability to bomb the stadium if they so wished.
This possibility gained credence due to events in Saudi Arabia in the very early hours of the following day.
Here a suicide bomber was stopped at a security checkpoint close to the US Consulate building in Jeddah where he blew himself up. If you look on a map the location of where the Jeddah suicide bomber blew up his car is remarkably similar to the location of where the car was parked close to the Stade de France.
Apart from the connection to Euro 2016 the message of the Jeddah bombing to the US was quite clear; If the US doesn't give the Saudis what they've been demanding in the Orlando and Dhaka terror attacks Saudi Arabia will start bombing US government buildings across the world.
Following on from the Dhaka, Bangladesh (nee; East Pakistan) and picking up the themes of the Orlando attack the Jeddah attacker has been identified as a Pakistani national by the name of Abdullah Qlazar Khan. This A.Q Khan is not to be confused with Abdul Qadeer Khan who helped build Pakistan's nuclear weapons program before going rogue and selling nuclear weapons technology to the highest bidder.
That seemed to be a clear threat from Saudi Arabia to the US that it will obtain and then use nuclear weapons against US interests unless its demands are met.
Saudi Arabia's second bombing of the day occurred in the eastern city of Qatif. Unlike the majority of Saudi Arabia the Qatif region is dominated by Shia rather than Sunni Muslims and this attack targeted a Shia Mosque. Fortunately none but the attacker were killed.
This seemed intended to promote discussion about Saudi Arabia's use of radical Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associates to wipe all Shia Muslims from the face of the Earth.
Saudi Arabia's third bombing of the day occurred in the Holy City of Medina. It occurred at a security building at what is known as the Prophet's Mosque/tomb where the Prophet Muhammad is buried. This is the second most holy site in Islam behind Mecca itself.
This was intended as a threat to me personally. It was essentially Saudi Arabia saying to the World that unless their demand that my opposition to ISIL is stopped they're going to come and blow my house up. I'd like to say that's the first time that I've been threatened like that but sadly it really isn't.
It also seems to have been a crude attempt to limit my influence amongst Muslim readers. After all I understand just how offensive it is to compare myself to the Prophet. Even if I am just quoting someone else.
As for why we're seeing this uptick in Saudi aggression now it would be nice to pretend that it's because it is the end of the Holy month of Ramadan. Sadly though it's because the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is holding its July meeting in Germany.
Clearly the Paris Agreement is going to be so excellent at combating climate change the Saudis are concerned everybody might suddenly get cold feet and try and replace it.
16:55 on 5/7/16 (UK date).
However before I explain that I first have to go off in a different direction to put them in their proper context.
As I've explained Europe is currently in the grips of the Euro 2016 football which is being held in France. The threat of radical Islamist terrorism to that tournament is considered very high. That is because of the November 13th 2015 (13/11/15) Paris Massacres.
Although on that night multiple targets were struck and 130 people murdered the attacks began with twin (failed) suicide bomb attacks on the Stade de France football stadium during a friendly match between France and Germany.
The big area of concern for Euro 2016 are the Fanzones. These large vast public areas in major cities where members of the public gather together in vast numbers to watch the matches live on giant TV screens.
During Saturday's (2/7/16) match between Germany and Italy there was a serious incident at the Fanzone by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Here someone set off a firework. The panic this small explosion caused triggered a stampede of several thousand people as they all rushed to escape what they thought was a terrorist attack.
This type of stampede is extremely serious.
Just last September (24/9/15) an estimated 2,110 people were trampled to death in a stampede in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. In 2010 (24/7/10) 20 people were killed at a stampede during the "Love Parade" music festival in Berlin, Germany. The most serious tragedy to strike European football was the 1985 (29/5/85) Heysel Stadium disaster in which 39 were trampled to death during a stampede at the UEFA Cup Final.
In order to prevent a repeat of Saturday's events the organisers will have to increase their searches of those entering the Fanzones in order to ensure that fireworks and similar contraband do not make their way inside the cordon. This will obviously mean longer queues and less fun for those attending.
I think that event organisers will also have to look at the way that layout of the Fanzones is designed. Simply by putting crash barriers in strategic positions you can break up these stampedes before they start or at least limit them to small groups rather than having them ripple out through the entire crowd.
The problem though is that if you put the barriers in the wrong places they can make the situation much worse. In a full panic people will crush each other into the barriers killing them. This is similar to what happened during the 1989 (15/4/89) Hillsborough disaster.
Therefore in order to give specific advice on how to alter the design of the Fanzones I will first need to know the exact layout of each Fanzone and run various computer simulations of any design changes. With only four matches left in the tournament and no deaths or serious injuries reported from Saturday it might just be safer to leave it at an enhanced search regime.
Provided no-one else is stupid enough to let off a firework in a Fanzone.
There was another security incident prior to Sunday's (3/7/16) between France and Iceland which was played at the Stade de France. Here an unattended vehicle was found parked inside the security cordon close to the stadium. Although it did cause some alarm the vehicle was found not to contain any explosives after it had been destroyed in a controlled explosion and the match went ahead as planned.
France went on to beat Iceland setting up a semi-final tie against Germany. This will be the first time that France & Germany have played each other since the Paris Massacres. This match will be played at Stade Velodrome in Marseille which due to Marseille's reputation probably increases the threat.
There are several possibilities of what Sunday's incident was about.
Firstly it could just simply be a mistake.
When I was working in football due to a groundshare there was a match played at the ground every Saturday. These matches were widely publicised in both national and local TV, newspapers and radio.
However invariably there was always one local resident who would be completely oblivious to the fact there was a football match going on and park their car somewhere it shouldn't be parked. In those days we simply had the cars towed away. However we did often talk about just blowing them up to punish the owner for making our lives so much more difficult.
The controlled explosion at Stade de France sounded a lot like the firework going off at the near-by Eiffel Tower Fanzone. Therefore it is possible that the French staged the whole thing to promote discussion about events of the previous night. After all if there had been deaths or serious injuries at the Fanzone France would currently be getting slammed for all sides. The rest of the tournament would also likely be cancelled.
Similarly it is possible that France staged the controlled explosion as a reminder to - particularly the Americans - of the security challenges they are being forced to deal with due to Barack Obama's - at best incompetent - policies.
The third explanation though is more sinister. It is possible that a third party deliberately parked the car inside the security cordon to increase the pressure on France by showing that they had the capability to bomb the stadium if they so wished.
This possibility gained credence due to events in Saudi Arabia in the very early hours of the following day.
Here a suicide bomber was stopped at a security checkpoint close to the US Consulate building in Jeddah where he blew himself up. If you look on a map the location of where the Jeddah suicide bomber blew up his car is remarkably similar to the location of where the car was parked close to the Stade de France.
Apart from the connection to Euro 2016 the message of the Jeddah bombing to the US was quite clear; If the US doesn't give the Saudis what they've been demanding in the Orlando and Dhaka terror attacks Saudi Arabia will start bombing US government buildings across the world.
Following on from the Dhaka, Bangladesh (nee; East Pakistan) and picking up the themes of the Orlando attack the Jeddah attacker has been identified as a Pakistani national by the name of Abdullah Qlazar Khan. This A.Q Khan is not to be confused with Abdul Qadeer Khan who helped build Pakistan's nuclear weapons program before going rogue and selling nuclear weapons technology to the highest bidder.
That seemed to be a clear threat from Saudi Arabia to the US that it will obtain and then use nuclear weapons against US interests unless its demands are met.
Saudi Arabia's second bombing of the day occurred in the eastern city of Qatif. Unlike the majority of Saudi Arabia the Qatif region is dominated by Shia rather than Sunni Muslims and this attack targeted a Shia Mosque. Fortunately none but the attacker were killed.
This seemed intended to promote discussion about Saudi Arabia's use of radical Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associates to wipe all Shia Muslims from the face of the Earth.
Saudi Arabia's third bombing of the day occurred in the Holy City of Medina. It occurred at a security building at what is known as the Prophet's Mosque/tomb where the Prophet Muhammad is buried. This is the second most holy site in Islam behind Mecca itself.
This was intended as a threat to me personally. It was essentially Saudi Arabia saying to the World that unless their demand that my opposition to ISIL is stopped they're going to come and blow my house up. I'd like to say that's the first time that I've been threatened like that but sadly it really isn't.
It also seems to have been a crude attempt to limit my influence amongst Muslim readers. After all I understand just how offensive it is to compare myself to the Prophet. Even if I am just quoting someone else.
As for why we're seeing this uptick in Saudi aggression now it would be nice to pretend that it's because it is the end of the Holy month of Ramadan. Sadly though it's because the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is holding its July meeting in Germany.
Clearly the Paris Agreement is going to be so excellent at combating climate change the Saudis are concerned everybody might suddenly get cold feet and try and replace it.
16:55 on 5/7/16 (UK date).
Monday, 4 July 2016
The Pulse Terror Attack: The Motives Pt.2
This should be read as a direct continuation of Part 1; http://watchitdie.blogspot.in/2016/06/the-pulse-terror-attack-motives.html
Afghanistan: Although I doubt they will ever admit it publicly the gunman's father Mir Seddique Mateen is a CIA agent. As opposed to a CIA officer. It was through this role that he was granted permission to enter the US back in 1984.
The thing about people from Afghanistan is that they rarely consider themselves to be Afghani instead defining themselves along ethnic and tribal lines such as Uzbek, Tajik, Hazara etc. Mir Mateen is part of the Pashtu ethnic group. Sometimes referred to as "Eastern Iranians" the Pashtu's tend to be Shia Muslims and consider themselves closer to Iran than they do to other Afghan ethnic groups.
Mir Mateen actually claims that he is the legitimate President of Afghanistan and frequently does Internet broadcasts calling for people to back groups like the Taliban to overthrow the Afghan National government. In making these broadcasts Mir Mateen looks and sounds utterly ridiculous.
So although he may not realise it his role for the CIA is to strengthen a sense of Afghan national identity in order to fight the Taliban by making all the people who support the ethnic/tribal system and the Taliban look like idiots. At the same time they hope to limit Iranian influence in Afghanistan.
Due to his work for the CIA all intelligence agencies involved in Afghanistan are aware of Mir Mateen and have files on him and his entire family. It is through this that the son Omar Mateen was recruited to carry out the attack.
The big problem in Afghanistan at the moment is the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). By publicly associating the Afghan National government and the Taliban group it is negotiating to share power with to the CIA and therefore the US undermines the credibility of both organisations. The hope being that this will encourage more Afghans to join up with ISIL causing major problems for the US as it tries to finally withdraw from Afghanistan.
Also there seems to have been a hope that once it was revealed that Mir Mateen was Pashtun the American right's reflex of blaming everything on Iran would see them accuse Iran of sponsoring the attack. Not realising that Mir Mateen is working for the CIA against Iran.
Yes I'm Just That Important: As I've mentioned Europe is currently in the grips of the Euro 2016 football tournament.
The early part of the tournament has been marred by hooliganism and violence. Many people would have found those scenes from particularly Marseille to be shocking and confusing. I though can look at footage like that and almost instantly know exactly what is going on.
That is because I spent 10 years working in a security/stewarding role for not one but two top-flight English football clubs. At the time I worked directly for the clubs however the way that the business of football has changed if I was working in that role now I would likely be employed by a third party private security firm such as G4S.
The reason why I no longer work in that field is simply that unlike Omar Mateen I would fail the background checks on security grounds. After all it was in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup I had my passport revoked.
Although I have let things slip recently I have been heavily involved in the fight against ISIL and associated groups in both Syria and Iraq. It is testament to just how good I am at my job that this has absolutely enraged those who support ISIL and their associates. As a result they really want me to be denied access to information about what is going on in the conflict.
A prime example of this is the Twitter account of the US-led anti-ISIL coalition Combined Joint Task Force: Operation Inherent Resolve (@CJTFOIR). The last time I checked this account had hundreds of thousands of followers.
However I am one of the very small group of people they have gone to the trouble of blocking so I can't read their Tweets. This block dates back to July of 2015 and appears to have been a condition of CJTFOIR being granted permission to use Incirlik airbase in Turkey.
Apart from denying me access to information ISIL's backers also want to deny me the freedom and space to operate. In short they want to return my personal security situation to the point that it was back in 2013.
During this period I was getting into physical altercations both with people who were forcing their way into my home either to steal or do me harm or with random people in the street on an almost daily basis.
In one of these altercations I broke some bones in my hand which as a writer rendered me half-mute for about six weeks. Another led to a rather tense weekend in jail while the police decided with whether they could get away with sending me to prison for an offence equivalent to attempted murder.
This all creates an environment where you are constantly on edge and it is impossible to relax. After sustained periods this hypervigilence makes it very hard to concentrate on and complete complex tasks.
Also at the danger of becoming all melodramatic if you get involved in a war you have to accept the risk that you might be killed. However being some 4,200km (2,600 miles) behind the nearest frontline it's certainly not something I'm planning on getting paranoid about just yet.
As I reveal every year during the Eurovision Song Contest despite not being gay I do have rather a lot of knowledge of gay culture and customs.
In part this is because my mother is gay and in a long term relationship with another woman. Also I lived for a good number of years in Brighton which is effectively the UK's gay capital.
Although gay people only make up 3% of the general population in Brighton that figure is much closer to 30%. Therefore living there you will get to know gay people either as work colleagues or socially through friends of friends.
The big reason why I know so much about gay culture though is that although the gay community doesn't like to put labels on things I had a bisexual girlfriend. For a significant part of the relationship she worked in and lived above a gay bar called "The Queen's Head." The "Queen" in question being the rockband Queen which was headed by Freddie Mercury.
Obviously if I had a day off and my girlfriend was working I would spend the afternoon with her in the gay bar just sort of watching the world go by. If it got busy or I got bored I would simply go upstairs and take a nap.
There is actually one particular anecdote that links these themes together.
One day this young, wannabe butch lesbian was hitting on my girlfriend. She was trying to play up how macho and tomboy like she was by talking constantly about how she'd just obtained her Security Industry Authority (SIA) license to work security at a quiet and oh so friendly local lesbian bar.
After a good half hour of her really not taking the hint my girlfriend - knowing full well what I was doing the next day - asked me if I wanted to go watch a movie or something. This forced me to reply that I couldn't because I had to work at this Millwall match. With them once again being at war with West Ham there was absolutely no way I could get out of it.
This had the wonderful effect of dropping the bomb on this suitor of; "The dude with the penis has got the macho covered. Try offering something else."
Hanging out at gay bars for purely heterosexual reasons is probably not the most controversial thing I've ever done in my life. It's certainly in the top ten though.
Of course if your culture teaches that women are merely the property of men and homosexuality is punishable by death all those times I took my bisexual girlfriend to lipstick lesbian bars to help her hook up with other women would absolutely blow your mind.
After all even a quarter of the British LGBT community weren't exactly comfortable with that either.
Apart from the rumours that Omar Mateen frequented gay bars including Pulse prior to launching his attack it has also been claimed that he used a number of gay dating apps - Grindr probably being the most famous.
There is actually a growing problem of homophobes using these type of dating apps to lure in particularly gay men in order to attack and rob them.
In November 2015 there was a rather famous case in the US in which NBA draft pick for the New York Knicks Michael Wright was murdered after going to meet someone he'd met on Grindr. Having done some research following the Pulse attack there actually seems to have been a spate of these attacks in Florida in the early part of 2016.
The risk of gay dating apps being used to launch homophobic attacks in Russia was actually highlighted by Britain's Channel 4 News in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. This of course was part of the hate campaign that was launched against Russia for their opposition to ISIL that culminated in the creation of Shamali Province as apology for not letting Saudi Arabia launch terror attacks against the games.
As with Sochi the speed at which the US and almost global gay community pledged to stand with the Muslim community against hatred following the Pulse attack is something I actually found extremely alarming.
That is because although you always need to deal with the person rather than the stereotype in front of you violent homophobia is not a fringe or extremist view within Islam. Instead it is very much a mainstream view within moderate Islam on a much more serious scale than it ever was in the Christian Church.
So while the gay community were falling over themselves not to blame Islam for this homophobic terrorist attack many American Muslims were quietly laughing about the perverted homosexuals being put to death as God intended.
I am so much aware of the levels and ferocity of homophobia amongst Muslim communities I've learnt to downplay my links to the gay community unless it is strictly necessary. Specifically because I know it will alienate Muslim readers detracting from anything I have to say.
Obviously the Pulse terror attack has forced me to write thousands of words about my links to the gay community just days after I'd written hundreds of thousands of words about the Eurovision Song Contest and its links to the gay community.
At around 16:55 on 4/7/16 (UK date) I have a little bit left to do which will be much easier after dinner.
Edited at around 18:35 on 4/7/16 (UK date) to add;
Who's Afraid of Donald Trump: The Pulse terror attack was a mass shooting carried out by the Muslim son of a refugee at a predominately Hispanic gay nightclub.
I believe it even culminated in one of those gender non-binary bathrooms that Barack Obama has got himself all hot and bothered about lately.
Gun control. Immigration, particularly Hispanic immigration. Gay Rights. Racism - particularly Islamaphobia against refugees. These are all key issues that the Democrat Party have identified to differentiate themselves from Donald Trump and the Republican Party to allow Hillary Clinton to win the November 2016 Presidential election.
Therefore this terror attack which was carried out by a registered Democrat voter was designed to help Hillary Clinton's election campaign.
The reason for this is quite simple. Radical Islamist terror groups such as ISIL and their associates are absolutely terrified of Donald Trump because he is going to defeat them. However without Hillary Clinton's sponsership there would be no ISIL.
This is far from the first time that radical Islamist terrorists have campaigned for Hillary Clinton.
Back in December 2015 Hillary Clinton claimed that ISIL were using Donald Trump's 'Islamaphobia' in their recruitment videos. Hillary Clinton was then asked to show everyone one of these videos. Amid much embarrassment she could not because no such video existed.
Days later the Somalia based radical Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab moved to save Hillary Clinton's blushes by releasing a recruitment video featuring the exact Donald Trump quotes that Hillary Clinton had referenced. It was almost as if Hillary Clinton had written the script for the terrorist recruitment video herself.
Two days after the Brussels Attacks ISIL on March 24th (24/3/16) released a video entitled "The Exile of Islam and Brussels Attacks." Apart from claiming responsibility for those attacks this video featured footage of Donald Trump promising to "hit ISIL so hard you wouldn't believe it." To emphasise their hatred of him ISIL used video effects to give the impression they were burning Donald Trump alive.
Sadly the Democrats did not hesitate for a second before trying to capitalise on the boost one of their supporters had tried to give to their campaign. The Democrats gun-control sit-in in Congress was particularly offensive. This was a blocking tactic to prevent any legitimate discussion over what had actually led to the Pulse attack. Particularly Hillary Clinton's support for ISIL.
So I find it very hard to believe that freed from the political interference by Obama appointee Loretta Lynch the FBI would have any option other than to indict Hillary Clinton as a threat to US national security.
As for which nation state was responsible for the Pulse terror attack.
Well. The very next day the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir began a week long state visit to the US which culminated in a private audience with Barack Obama at the White House on Friday June 17th (17/6/16).
4/7/16 (UK date).
Afghanistan: Although I doubt they will ever admit it publicly the gunman's father Mir Seddique Mateen is a CIA agent. As opposed to a CIA officer. It was through this role that he was granted permission to enter the US back in 1984.
The thing about people from Afghanistan is that they rarely consider themselves to be Afghani instead defining themselves along ethnic and tribal lines such as Uzbek, Tajik, Hazara etc. Mir Mateen is part of the Pashtu ethnic group. Sometimes referred to as "Eastern Iranians" the Pashtu's tend to be Shia Muslims and consider themselves closer to Iran than they do to other Afghan ethnic groups.
Mir Mateen actually claims that he is the legitimate President of Afghanistan and frequently does Internet broadcasts calling for people to back groups like the Taliban to overthrow the Afghan National government. In making these broadcasts Mir Mateen looks and sounds utterly ridiculous.
So although he may not realise it his role for the CIA is to strengthen a sense of Afghan national identity in order to fight the Taliban by making all the people who support the ethnic/tribal system and the Taliban look like idiots. At the same time they hope to limit Iranian influence in Afghanistan.
Due to his work for the CIA all intelligence agencies involved in Afghanistan are aware of Mir Mateen and have files on him and his entire family. It is through this that the son Omar Mateen was recruited to carry out the attack.
The big problem in Afghanistan at the moment is the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). By publicly associating the Afghan National government and the Taliban group it is negotiating to share power with to the CIA and therefore the US undermines the credibility of both organisations. The hope being that this will encourage more Afghans to join up with ISIL causing major problems for the US as it tries to finally withdraw from Afghanistan.
Also there seems to have been a hope that once it was revealed that Mir Mateen was Pashtun the American right's reflex of blaming everything on Iran would see them accuse Iran of sponsoring the attack. Not realising that Mir Mateen is working for the CIA against Iran.
Yes I'm Just That Important: As I've mentioned Europe is currently in the grips of the Euro 2016 football tournament.
The early part of the tournament has been marred by hooliganism and violence. Many people would have found those scenes from particularly Marseille to be shocking and confusing. I though can look at footage like that and almost instantly know exactly what is going on.
That is because I spent 10 years working in a security/stewarding role for not one but two top-flight English football clubs. At the time I worked directly for the clubs however the way that the business of football has changed if I was working in that role now I would likely be employed by a third party private security firm such as G4S.
The reason why I no longer work in that field is simply that unlike Omar Mateen I would fail the background checks on security grounds. After all it was in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup I had my passport revoked.
Although I have let things slip recently I have been heavily involved in the fight against ISIL and associated groups in both Syria and Iraq. It is testament to just how good I am at my job that this has absolutely enraged those who support ISIL and their associates. As a result they really want me to be denied access to information about what is going on in the conflict.
A prime example of this is the Twitter account of the US-led anti-ISIL coalition Combined Joint Task Force: Operation Inherent Resolve (@CJTFOIR). The last time I checked this account had hundreds of thousands of followers.
However I am one of the very small group of people they have gone to the trouble of blocking so I can't read their Tweets. This block dates back to July of 2015 and appears to have been a condition of CJTFOIR being granted permission to use Incirlik airbase in Turkey.
Apart from denying me access to information ISIL's backers also want to deny me the freedom and space to operate. In short they want to return my personal security situation to the point that it was back in 2013.
During this period I was getting into physical altercations both with people who were forcing their way into my home either to steal or do me harm or with random people in the street on an almost daily basis.
In one of these altercations I broke some bones in my hand which as a writer rendered me half-mute for about six weeks. Another led to a rather tense weekend in jail while the police decided with whether they could get away with sending me to prison for an offence equivalent to attempted murder.
This all creates an environment where you are constantly on edge and it is impossible to relax. After sustained periods this hypervigilence makes it very hard to concentrate on and complete complex tasks.
Also at the danger of becoming all melodramatic if you get involved in a war you have to accept the risk that you might be killed. However being some 4,200km (2,600 miles) behind the nearest frontline it's certainly not something I'm planning on getting paranoid about just yet.
As I reveal every year during the Eurovision Song Contest despite not being gay I do have rather a lot of knowledge of gay culture and customs.
In part this is because my mother is gay and in a long term relationship with another woman. Also I lived for a good number of years in Brighton which is effectively the UK's gay capital.
Although gay people only make up 3% of the general population in Brighton that figure is much closer to 30%. Therefore living there you will get to know gay people either as work colleagues or socially through friends of friends.
The big reason why I know so much about gay culture though is that although the gay community doesn't like to put labels on things I had a bisexual girlfriend. For a significant part of the relationship she worked in and lived above a gay bar called "The Queen's Head." The "Queen" in question being the rockband Queen which was headed by Freddie Mercury.
Obviously if I had a day off and my girlfriend was working I would spend the afternoon with her in the gay bar just sort of watching the world go by. If it got busy or I got bored I would simply go upstairs and take a nap.
There is actually one particular anecdote that links these themes together.
One day this young, wannabe butch lesbian was hitting on my girlfriend. She was trying to play up how macho and tomboy like she was by talking constantly about how she'd just obtained her Security Industry Authority (SIA) license to work security at a quiet and oh so friendly local lesbian bar.
After a good half hour of her really not taking the hint my girlfriend - knowing full well what I was doing the next day - asked me if I wanted to go watch a movie or something. This forced me to reply that I couldn't because I had to work at this Millwall match. With them once again being at war with West Ham there was absolutely no way I could get out of it.
This had the wonderful effect of dropping the bomb on this suitor of; "The dude with the penis has got the macho covered. Try offering something else."
Hanging out at gay bars for purely heterosexual reasons is probably not the most controversial thing I've ever done in my life. It's certainly in the top ten though.
Of course if your culture teaches that women are merely the property of men and homosexuality is punishable by death all those times I took my bisexual girlfriend to lipstick lesbian bars to help her hook up with other women would absolutely blow your mind.
After all even a quarter of the British LGBT community weren't exactly comfortable with that either.
Apart from the rumours that Omar Mateen frequented gay bars including Pulse prior to launching his attack it has also been claimed that he used a number of gay dating apps - Grindr probably being the most famous.
There is actually a growing problem of homophobes using these type of dating apps to lure in particularly gay men in order to attack and rob them.
In November 2015 there was a rather famous case in the US in which NBA draft pick for the New York Knicks Michael Wright was murdered after going to meet someone he'd met on Grindr. Having done some research following the Pulse attack there actually seems to have been a spate of these attacks in Florida in the early part of 2016.
The risk of gay dating apps being used to launch homophobic attacks in Russia was actually highlighted by Britain's Channel 4 News in the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. This of course was part of the hate campaign that was launched against Russia for their opposition to ISIL that culminated in the creation of Shamali Province as apology for not letting Saudi Arabia launch terror attacks against the games.
As with Sochi the speed at which the US and almost global gay community pledged to stand with the Muslim community against hatred following the Pulse attack is something I actually found extremely alarming.
That is because although you always need to deal with the person rather than the stereotype in front of you violent homophobia is not a fringe or extremist view within Islam. Instead it is very much a mainstream view within moderate Islam on a much more serious scale than it ever was in the Christian Church.
So while the gay community were falling over themselves not to blame Islam for this homophobic terrorist attack many American Muslims were quietly laughing about the perverted homosexuals being put to death as God intended.
I am so much aware of the levels and ferocity of homophobia amongst Muslim communities I've learnt to downplay my links to the gay community unless it is strictly necessary. Specifically because I know it will alienate Muslim readers detracting from anything I have to say.
Obviously the Pulse terror attack has forced me to write thousands of words about my links to the gay community just days after I'd written hundreds of thousands of words about the Eurovision Song Contest and its links to the gay community.
At around 16:55 on 4/7/16 (UK date) I have a little bit left to do which will be much easier after dinner.
Edited at around 18:35 on 4/7/16 (UK date) to add;
Who's Afraid of Donald Trump: The Pulse terror attack was a mass shooting carried out by the Muslim son of a refugee at a predominately Hispanic gay nightclub.
I believe it even culminated in one of those gender non-binary bathrooms that Barack Obama has got himself all hot and bothered about lately.
Gun control. Immigration, particularly Hispanic immigration. Gay Rights. Racism - particularly Islamaphobia against refugees. These are all key issues that the Democrat Party have identified to differentiate themselves from Donald Trump and the Republican Party to allow Hillary Clinton to win the November 2016 Presidential election.
Therefore this terror attack which was carried out by a registered Democrat voter was designed to help Hillary Clinton's election campaign.
The reason for this is quite simple. Radical Islamist terror groups such as ISIL and their associates are absolutely terrified of Donald Trump because he is going to defeat them. However without Hillary Clinton's sponsership there would be no ISIL.
This is far from the first time that radical Islamist terrorists have campaigned for Hillary Clinton.
Back in December 2015 Hillary Clinton claimed that ISIL were using Donald Trump's 'Islamaphobia' in their recruitment videos. Hillary Clinton was then asked to show everyone one of these videos. Amid much embarrassment she could not because no such video existed.
Days later the Somalia based radical Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab moved to save Hillary Clinton's blushes by releasing a recruitment video featuring the exact Donald Trump quotes that Hillary Clinton had referenced. It was almost as if Hillary Clinton had written the script for the terrorist recruitment video herself.
Two days after the Brussels Attacks ISIL on March 24th (24/3/16) released a video entitled "The Exile of Islam and Brussels Attacks." Apart from claiming responsibility for those attacks this video featured footage of Donald Trump promising to "hit ISIL so hard you wouldn't believe it." To emphasise their hatred of him ISIL used video effects to give the impression they were burning Donald Trump alive.
Sadly the Democrats did not hesitate for a second before trying to capitalise on the boost one of their supporters had tried to give to their campaign. The Democrats gun-control sit-in in Congress was particularly offensive. This was a blocking tactic to prevent any legitimate discussion over what had actually led to the Pulse attack. Particularly Hillary Clinton's support for ISIL.
So I find it very hard to believe that freed from the political interference by Obama appointee Loretta Lynch the FBI would have any option other than to indict Hillary Clinton as a threat to US national security.
As for which nation state was responsible for the Pulse terror attack.
Well. The very next day the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Adel al-Jubeir began a week long state visit to the US which culminated in a private audience with Barack Obama at the White House on Friday June 17th (17/6/16).
4/7/16 (UK date).
Saturday, 2 July 2016
The Dhaka, Bangladesh Terror Attack.
At around 18:20 local time (13:20 GMT) yesterday (1/7/16) six armed
attackers stormed an Italian owned bakery/restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital
Dhaka starting a siege that lasted for the next 12 hours.
Although details still remain sketchy it appears that 20 of the hostages were murdered almost immediately while 13 were rescued during a police raid before finally 5 of the 6 attackers were killed bringing the siege to an end.
This seems to be the almost follow up chapter to the terrorist attack that occurred at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US on June 12th (12/6/16).
In the immediate aftermath of the Pulse terror attack US President Barack Obama came under immense pressure over his refusal to use the term "Radical Islam" either in talking about that attack or the wider war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and their associates. Obama has repeatedly insisted that using the term "Radical Islam" would have no material difference on the war against ISIL or reducing the global threat from terrorism.
On this point Obama could not be more wrong.
If Obama were able to distinguish between radical Islam and moderate Islam it would have an immediate and positive effect on the battlefield in Syria. It would force Obama to back the moderate Muslim Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rather than the radical Islamist forces of Al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of the Freemen of the Levant/Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Ahrar al-Sham) and the Army of Islam/Jaish al-Islam (JAI). Although mercifully much smaller Jaish al-Islam in particular have this habit of making ISIL seem moderate by comparison.
Obama's inability to distinguish between radical and moderate Islam also presents a much wider, global problem that is less immediate but no less serious.
On this planet there are currently around 1.7bn Muslim with almost as many different interpretations of Islam. However the big ideological split is between Shia Islam and Sunni Islam. Running across this faultline there is another distinction between the Sufis who are really considered the Hippies of the Islamic world and the Salafis who are the headbanging lunatics who want to drag the world back to Medieval times when the Prophet Muhammad was alive.
At the Salafi end of the spectrum you have two particular sects; Wahhabist and Deobandis. These are so similar in ideology that the lesser known Deobandis often refer to themselves as Wahhabists rather than having to explain the differences to outsiders.
The problem is that as Hillary Clinton well knows it is in the promotion of radical Islam where the money is.
As such the Wahhabists and Deobandis spend vast amounts of money building Mosques and religious schools across the World to make sure their radical interpretation of Islam is the only accepted version of Islam. If brainwashing the population doesn't work they simply kill Muslims who disagree with them.
The military government of Pakistan actually long viewed the promotion of radical Deobandi Islam as part of their sacred duty in ruling the country. Prior to 1971 Bangladesh was simply East Pakistan. So while there are certainly differences between the two parts of the partioned nation there are certainly still a lot of similarities.
Largely due to the problems caused by radical Islamist terror groups in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) - particularly the December 16th 2014 (16/12/14) Peshawar School Massacre - the Pakistani military has very much backed off from its promotion of radical Islam. However the practice still very much persists within Bangladesh.
This has created an extremely hostile environment within Bangladesh both for non-Muslims and even moderate Muslims.
On an almost weekly basis non-Muslims and secular Muslims - particularly bloggers and gay-rights activists are being shot or hacked to death with machetes on the streets by radical Islamist terrorists. Following one recent attack the Bangladeshi Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan declared that there was not an extremism problem in the country and the victims were responsible for their own deaths by insulting Islam.
Last night's attack was significantly more sophisticated than all previous attacks suggesting that it was planned and organised from outside of Bangladesh.
While I'm still trying to gain a clear picture of what happened the fact that the attackers seem to have taken hostages rather than immediately massacring all those in the restaurant along with the fact they seem to have divided Muslim and non-Muslim hostages suggests to me that they were closer to Al Qaeda than ISIL in ideology. Apart from ISIL murdering the son of a senior Al Qaeda commander it was the issue of violence against Muslims that saw ISIL spilt from Al Qeada. However the fact that ISIL have claimed the attack demonstrates that the division between ISIL and Al Qaeda is nowhere near as significant as Obama likes to pretend.
As for why this particular restaurant was targeted on this particular day. Well it turns out that I am just that important apparently.
At around 13:20 GMT yesterday I was sitting down to lunch with my lesbian mother in a restaurant chain called; "Pizza Express." As the name suggests this is an Italian-style pizza restaurant. However their big selling point is the amount of work they put into their dough. So it is impossible to order a pizza there without answering a series of questions about what type of dough you would like making up the pizza base. As I don't think Pizza Express have yet expanded to Bangladesh the Italian owned Holey Artisan Bakery seems close enough.
What I did find strange about lunch yesterday is that without any knowledge of the Dhaka attack during a lull in conversation I found myself wondering what I would do if the restaurant was suddenly attacked by terrorists. I then immediately found myself questioning why I was wondering what would happen if the restaurant was attacked by terrorists.
Obviously I need to complete the Pulse chapter before I'm able to fully explain this chapter. However I think it is safe to assume that if your culture holds that women are the property of men and that homosexuality should be punished by death lesbianism is going to absolutely blow your mind.
While events in Dhaka were still unfolding there was another restaurant shooting this morning. This time in Zitiste, Serbia where five people were shot and killed in an incident which was non-terrorist related.
As I mentioned during the recent Eurovision Song Contest the Balkan region where Serbia is located actually has an extremely high Muslim population. Being located close to the Alps Mountain range it also has a climate that lends itself to winter sports such as skiing. As such it has become a growing destination for rich Muslims from the Gulf states that want to enjoy skiing holidays in an Islamic environment.
This increase in tourism has led to massive inflow of money from Turkey and the Gulf states to build Wahhabist Mosques and religious schools in the Balkans. The recent opening on May 7th 2016 (7/5/16) of the Turkish funded Ferhat Pasha Mosque in Bosnia & Herzegovina being just one case in point.
Given the problems that Serbia has had with Muslims - particularly Albanian Muslims - in the past this is obviously the sort of trend that we need to keep a close eye on.
15:50 on 2/7/16 (UK date).
Although details still remain sketchy it appears that 20 of the hostages were murdered almost immediately while 13 were rescued during a police raid before finally 5 of the 6 attackers were killed bringing the siege to an end.
This seems to be the almost follow up chapter to the terrorist attack that occurred at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, US on June 12th (12/6/16).
In the immediate aftermath of the Pulse terror attack US President Barack Obama came under immense pressure over his refusal to use the term "Radical Islam" either in talking about that attack or the wider war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and their associates. Obama has repeatedly insisted that using the term "Radical Islam" would have no material difference on the war against ISIL or reducing the global threat from terrorism.
On this point Obama could not be more wrong.
If Obama were able to distinguish between radical Islam and moderate Islam it would have an immediate and positive effect on the battlefield in Syria. It would force Obama to back the moderate Muslim Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rather than the radical Islamist forces of Al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of the Freemen of the Levant/Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Ahrar al-Sham) and the Army of Islam/Jaish al-Islam (JAI). Although mercifully much smaller Jaish al-Islam in particular have this habit of making ISIL seem moderate by comparison.
Obama's inability to distinguish between radical and moderate Islam also presents a much wider, global problem that is less immediate but no less serious.
On this planet there are currently around 1.7bn Muslim with almost as many different interpretations of Islam. However the big ideological split is between Shia Islam and Sunni Islam. Running across this faultline there is another distinction between the Sufis who are really considered the Hippies of the Islamic world and the Salafis who are the headbanging lunatics who want to drag the world back to Medieval times when the Prophet Muhammad was alive.
At the Salafi end of the spectrum you have two particular sects; Wahhabist and Deobandis. These are so similar in ideology that the lesser known Deobandis often refer to themselves as Wahhabists rather than having to explain the differences to outsiders.
The problem is that as Hillary Clinton well knows it is in the promotion of radical Islam where the money is.
As such the Wahhabists and Deobandis spend vast amounts of money building Mosques and religious schools across the World to make sure their radical interpretation of Islam is the only accepted version of Islam. If brainwashing the population doesn't work they simply kill Muslims who disagree with them.
The military government of Pakistan actually long viewed the promotion of radical Deobandi Islam as part of their sacred duty in ruling the country. Prior to 1971 Bangladesh was simply East Pakistan. So while there are certainly differences between the two parts of the partioned nation there are certainly still a lot of similarities.
Largely due to the problems caused by radical Islamist terror groups in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) - particularly the December 16th 2014 (16/12/14) Peshawar School Massacre - the Pakistani military has very much backed off from its promotion of radical Islam. However the practice still very much persists within Bangladesh.
This has created an extremely hostile environment within Bangladesh both for non-Muslims and even moderate Muslims.
On an almost weekly basis non-Muslims and secular Muslims - particularly bloggers and gay-rights activists are being shot or hacked to death with machetes on the streets by radical Islamist terrorists. Following one recent attack the Bangladeshi Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan declared that there was not an extremism problem in the country and the victims were responsible for their own deaths by insulting Islam.
Last night's attack was significantly more sophisticated than all previous attacks suggesting that it was planned and organised from outside of Bangladesh.
While I'm still trying to gain a clear picture of what happened the fact that the attackers seem to have taken hostages rather than immediately massacring all those in the restaurant along with the fact they seem to have divided Muslim and non-Muslim hostages suggests to me that they were closer to Al Qaeda than ISIL in ideology. Apart from ISIL murdering the son of a senior Al Qaeda commander it was the issue of violence against Muslims that saw ISIL spilt from Al Qeada. However the fact that ISIL have claimed the attack demonstrates that the division between ISIL and Al Qaeda is nowhere near as significant as Obama likes to pretend.
As for why this particular restaurant was targeted on this particular day. Well it turns out that I am just that important apparently.
At around 13:20 GMT yesterday I was sitting down to lunch with my lesbian mother in a restaurant chain called; "Pizza Express." As the name suggests this is an Italian-style pizza restaurant. However their big selling point is the amount of work they put into their dough. So it is impossible to order a pizza there without answering a series of questions about what type of dough you would like making up the pizza base. As I don't think Pizza Express have yet expanded to Bangladesh the Italian owned Holey Artisan Bakery seems close enough.
What I did find strange about lunch yesterday is that without any knowledge of the Dhaka attack during a lull in conversation I found myself wondering what I would do if the restaurant was suddenly attacked by terrorists. I then immediately found myself questioning why I was wondering what would happen if the restaurant was attacked by terrorists.
Obviously I need to complete the Pulse chapter before I'm able to fully explain this chapter. However I think it is safe to assume that if your culture holds that women are the property of men and that homosexuality should be punished by death lesbianism is going to absolutely blow your mind.
While events in Dhaka were still unfolding there was another restaurant shooting this morning. This time in Zitiste, Serbia where five people were shot and killed in an incident which was non-terrorist related.
As I mentioned during the recent Eurovision Song Contest the Balkan region where Serbia is located actually has an extremely high Muslim population. Being located close to the Alps Mountain range it also has a climate that lends itself to winter sports such as skiing. As such it has become a growing destination for rich Muslims from the Gulf states that want to enjoy skiing holidays in an Islamic environment.
This increase in tourism has led to massive inflow of money from Turkey and the Gulf states to build Wahhabist Mosques and religious schools in the Balkans. The recent opening on May 7th 2016 (7/5/16) of the Turkish funded Ferhat Pasha Mosque in Bosnia & Herzegovina being just one case in point.
Given the problems that Serbia has had with Muslims - particularly Albanian Muslims - in the past this is obviously the sort of trend that we need to keep a close eye on.
15:50 on 2/7/16 (UK date).
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Brexit Strategy.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned this but on June 23rd (23/6/16) Britain voted to exit the European Union (EU) - The Brexit.
The day before the vote I said that this result would lead to one of the longest and most complicated political negotiations the World has ever seen. It appears that Britain has now decided on the strategy it is going to pursue during those negotiations.
Unfortunately that strategy seems to have been drawn up in that 30 minute meeting between the Prime Minister David Cameron and the Queen on the morning after the vote (24/6/16). When nobody had slept and everyone was still slightly in shock. As a result it seems rather militant.
As I also said the day before the vote there is nothing that stockmarkets and the business world in general hates more than uncertainty. It is for this reason that Britain seems to have made uncertainty the central plank of its negotiating strategy.
So for example we have this rather strange situation where Prime Minister Cameron has resigned but won't actually be leaving post until September. This a triggered a drawn out leadership contest in a Conservative Party that is bitterly divided between members who supported the Leave campaign and members who supported the Remain campaign.
When we get to September and a new Conservative Party leader has been chosen there is then the question of whether they will automatically become Prime Minister or whether a divided nation demands that a General Election needs to be held.
If there is to be a General Election the next becomes will the opposition Labour Party be in any position to fight it.
On Monday (27/6/16) almost the entire shadow cabinet resigned in order to put pressure on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to resign triggering a Labour leadership contest. A new shadow cabinet was appointed on Tuesday (28/6/16) but on Wednesday (29/6/16) the first new appointee resigned in protest.
Today Labour MP Angela Eagle was supposed to announce that she was going to formally challenge Corbyn for the leadership triggering a contest. However she seems to have changed her mind at the last minute and is putting off that announcement at least until tomorrow.
Then of course there is the question of the UK regions - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
On Saturday (25/6/16) the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and First Minister in the regional Scottish (sub) Parliament Nicola Sturgeon announced that she intends to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence to allow Scotland to join the EU separately from Britain.
On Sturgeon's claim that Scotland voted to remain part of the EU that is entirely false.
This was a national referendum where every vote was counted regardless of where it was cast. So Scotland didn't vote to send a Remain delegate or Electoral College vote to the national count. In fact with more than 1 million Scots voting the Leave and the winning margin being roughly 1 million votes you could argue that actually Scotland voted to take Britain out of the EU.
When Sturgeon made her announcement on Saturday she was speaking only for herself and the SNP.
However on Sunday (26/6/16) the "Tsunami" rollercoaster at the M&D Amusement Park in Scotland crashed dramatically. The Eagle logo used on every single car of that rollercoaster looks suspiciously close to the Eagle logo used by the Egypt Air airline. This was the apparatus of the British state throwing its weight behind Scotland. Not to create an independent Scotland but to create uncertainty around the issue.
You will notice that no-one has been quite so keen to create that level of uncertainty around Northern Ireland's future.
That's because with the nation of Ireland only being partitioned less than 100 years ago Northern Ireland could very easily vote to return to being part of the Republic of Ireland and thus remain a member of the EU. I'm not saying they will do it or that they should do it. Just that if they decided to do it the mechanics of it would be relatively easy.
Then of course there is the issue of when Britain is going to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty formally starting the process of leaving the EU. The current joke being; "Are we invoking Article 50? Well, Theresa May." Incidentally don't get "Theresa May" and "Teresa May" muddled up. Particularly if you are at work.
The reason why the UK is trying to create all this uncertainty is because it wants to drive the global and the certainly the European economy into recession. The thinking being that this will strengthen Britain's position in negotiations with the EU.
Presiding over an economy in recession is extremely stressful for any political leader. However it will be particularly stressful for Eurozone leaders.
That's because quite apart from the ongoing economic carnage in Greece a number of other Eurozone economies such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Republic of Ireland are not exactly what you would term strong. Even France which along with Germany is likely to be expected to fill the gap in the EU budget left by Britain's exit spends most of its time between low growth and no growth.
As such the calculation is that if the Eurozone economy is in crisis then the EU is less likely to make that crisis worse by taking a tough line with the UK.
However the UK has more specific targets in mind - Elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany.
In May of 2017 France will be holding its Presidential election. It is widely accepted that the incumbent Francois Hollande will not be winning the election. It is even rumoured that his Socialist Party is going to force him to go through the primary procedure in an effort to stop him being their candidate.
The UK's hope is that a global economic collapse will help the fascist Front National/National Front (FN) will come to power in France. They too want to hold a referendum on leaving the EU. Therefore Britain's calculation is that the French FN will fight to give the UK very favourable Brexit terms in order to generate support for a French exit.
Even if the FN don't win there are still enough Eurosceptics in the centre-right Republican Party that a strong FN showing will allow them to give the UK favourable terms.
Before the French Presidential election there is a General Election in the Netherlands in March 2017. Amid a global financial collapse the equally fascist Dutch Party of Freedom (PVV) could win this election.
Like the FN in France they too want to hold a referendum on leaving the EU so would be prepared to give the UK extremely favourable Brexit terms to further their own cause. Even if they don't win an outright majority even as a minority coalition partner with a centre-right party the PVV would certainly exert pressure in the UK's favour.
In October 2017 Germany will hold its General Election. Although a global financial collapse coupled with an actual invasion by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) would not be enough for the far-right Alternative for Germany/Deutschland (AfD) to seize power Germany very much functions on the principle of coalition governments.
Therefore even a reasonable showing by the AfD would prevent Germany taking a hardline on Brexit. Particularly if that involved standing up to a French FN government and a PVV government in the Netherlands.
However the global financial markets seem to have already seen through the UK's "Hooligan Strategy."
So when the British stockmarket opened on Monday (27/6/16) two British banks - Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) - took an absolute thumping. So much so that trading in their shares had to be suspended to stop the businesses being driven into collapse.
Barclays is Britain's dirty bank. So if British intelligence need someone to subvert international sanctions of fund a "The Night Manager" style dodgy arms deal it will be Barclays who do it. The majority of RBS shares are owned by the British government making Britain's Chief Finance Minister (Chancellor) George Osborne its main shareholder.
As a result the losses by Barclays and RBS were not the result of some post-Brexit panic. Instead they were specifically targeted to send the message that if the UK tries trigger a global financial collapse as part of the negotiations then the UK will come off worst.
Later in the day the ratings agency Standard & Poors (S&P) cut the UK's credit rating from AAA to AA. Although independent S&P are on good terms with the US establishment. As such this was the US sending the message that it will not be assisting the UK in its efforts to engineer a global financial collapse. After all they've got Poland and Shamali Province to think about.
On Tuesday (28/6/16) Prime Minister Cameron attended the first day of the EU Council (EUCO) summit to discuss the Brexit vote and attempt to start informal negotiations prior to the invocation of Article 50. Sadly the UK did not get the message from the markets and attempted to continue its hooligan strategy.
So early on Tuesday morning the area around Saint Paul's Cathedral was evacuated following the discovery of a "suspect package." This both highlighted the UK's financial capital - the City of London - and that it is separate from the Greater London area that Sadiq Khan claims to be Mayor of. I hope the term; "Khanistan" sticks.
Later in the day another "suspect package" was discovered on Westminster Bridge forcing a similar evacuation. Westminster Bridge is of course right outside the Palace of Westminster aka; The Houses of Parliament.
On Tuesday evening there was a protest outside the Palace of Westminster called "London Stays." The protesters thought they were calling for Khanistan to stay as part of the EU. What they were actually doing was trying to informally negotiate the City of London remaining the European financial capital post-Brexit.
All through the day the Conservative Party were constantly issuing conflicting statements about when they would hold their leadership election.
Throughout this the EU made clear that it would be standing firm and would not be holding informal negotiations until the UK formally invokes Article 50.
With it being clear that the World will be taking Britain's hooligan strategy in its stride calm returned to the markets yesterday. The London FTSE 100 is now actually at higher levels than it was when the referendum was announced in February 2016 while the US Dow Jones was up 200 points.
Therefore it wasn't a "Brexit Crash" it was a "Oh My God. The UK's Going to do Something Very Stupid Crash."
You will notice how Britain's very pro-Remain media has suddenly stopped reporting on the financial markets.
Sadly with the search for the missing children on Wales' Brecon Beacons yesterday the UK doesn't seem to have fully got the message yet.
However today's announcement that Boris Johnson won't be standing for leader of the Conservative Party seems like a step in the right direction.
After all Boris is the sort of person who would forget where he'd parked the country during negotiations.
17:30 on 30/6/16 (UK date).
The day before the vote I said that this result would lead to one of the longest and most complicated political negotiations the World has ever seen. It appears that Britain has now decided on the strategy it is going to pursue during those negotiations.
Unfortunately that strategy seems to have been drawn up in that 30 minute meeting between the Prime Minister David Cameron and the Queen on the morning after the vote (24/6/16). When nobody had slept and everyone was still slightly in shock. As a result it seems rather militant.
As I also said the day before the vote there is nothing that stockmarkets and the business world in general hates more than uncertainty. It is for this reason that Britain seems to have made uncertainty the central plank of its negotiating strategy.
So for example we have this rather strange situation where Prime Minister Cameron has resigned but won't actually be leaving post until September. This a triggered a drawn out leadership contest in a Conservative Party that is bitterly divided between members who supported the Leave campaign and members who supported the Remain campaign.
When we get to September and a new Conservative Party leader has been chosen there is then the question of whether they will automatically become Prime Minister or whether a divided nation demands that a General Election needs to be held.
If there is to be a General Election the next becomes will the opposition Labour Party be in any position to fight it.
On Monday (27/6/16) almost the entire shadow cabinet resigned in order to put pressure on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to resign triggering a Labour leadership contest. A new shadow cabinet was appointed on Tuesday (28/6/16) but on Wednesday (29/6/16) the first new appointee resigned in protest.
Today Labour MP Angela Eagle was supposed to announce that she was going to formally challenge Corbyn for the leadership triggering a contest. However she seems to have changed her mind at the last minute and is putting off that announcement at least until tomorrow.
Then of course there is the question of the UK regions - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
On Saturday (25/6/16) the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and First Minister in the regional Scottish (sub) Parliament Nicola Sturgeon announced that she intends to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence to allow Scotland to join the EU separately from Britain.
On Sturgeon's claim that Scotland voted to remain part of the EU that is entirely false.
This was a national referendum where every vote was counted regardless of where it was cast. So Scotland didn't vote to send a Remain delegate or Electoral College vote to the national count. In fact with more than 1 million Scots voting the Leave and the winning margin being roughly 1 million votes you could argue that actually Scotland voted to take Britain out of the EU.
When Sturgeon made her announcement on Saturday she was speaking only for herself and the SNP.
However on Sunday (26/6/16) the "Tsunami" rollercoaster at the M&D Amusement Park in Scotland crashed dramatically. The Eagle logo used on every single car of that rollercoaster looks suspiciously close to the Eagle logo used by the Egypt Air airline. This was the apparatus of the British state throwing its weight behind Scotland. Not to create an independent Scotland but to create uncertainty around the issue.
You will notice that no-one has been quite so keen to create that level of uncertainty around Northern Ireland's future.
That's because with the nation of Ireland only being partitioned less than 100 years ago Northern Ireland could very easily vote to return to being part of the Republic of Ireland and thus remain a member of the EU. I'm not saying they will do it or that they should do it. Just that if they decided to do it the mechanics of it would be relatively easy.
Then of course there is the issue of when Britain is going to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty formally starting the process of leaving the EU. The current joke being; "Are we invoking Article 50? Well, Theresa May." Incidentally don't get "Theresa May" and "Teresa May" muddled up. Particularly if you are at work.
The reason why the UK is trying to create all this uncertainty is because it wants to drive the global and the certainly the European economy into recession. The thinking being that this will strengthen Britain's position in negotiations with the EU.
Presiding over an economy in recession is extremely stressful for any political leader. However it will be particularly stressful for Eurozone leaders.
That's because quite apart from the ongoing economic carnage in Greece a number of other Eurozone economies such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Republic of Ireland are not exactly what you would term strong. Even France which along with Germany is likely to be expected to fill the gap in the EU budget left by Britain's exit spends most of its time between low growth and no growth.
As such the calculation is that if the Eurozone economy is in crisis then the EU is less likely to make that crisis worse by taking a tough line with the UK.
However the UK has more specific targets in mind - Elections in the Netherlands, France and Germany.
In May of 2017 France will be holding its Presidential election. It is widely accepted that the incumbent Francois Hollande will not be winning the election. It is even rumoured that his Socialist Party is going to force him to go through the primary procedure in an effort to stop him being their candidate.
The UK's hope is that a global economic collapse will help the fascist Front National/National Front (FN) will come to power in France. They too want to hold a referendum on leaving the EU. Therefore Britain's calculation is that the French FN will fight to give the UK very favourable Brexit terms in order to generate support for a French exit.
Even if the FN don't win there are still enough Eurosceptics in the centre-right Republican Party that a strong FN showing will allow them to give the UK favourable terms.
Before the French Presidential election there is a General Election in the Netherlands in March 2017. Amid a global financial collapse the equally fascist Dutch Party of Freedom (PVV) could win this election.
Like the FN in France they too want to hold a referendum on leaving the EU so would be prepared to give the UK extremely favourable Brexit terms to further their own cause. Even if they don't win an outright majority even as a minority coalition partner with a centre-right party the PVV would certainly exert pressure in the UK's favour.
In October 2017 Germany will hold its General Election. Although a global financial collapse coupled with an actual invasion by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) would not be enough for the far-right Alternative for Germany/Deutschland (AfD) to seize power Germany very much functions on the principle of coalition governments.
Therefore even a reasonable showing by the AfD would prevent Germany taking a hardline on Brexit. Particularly if that involved standing up to a French FN government and a PVV government in the Netherlands.
However the global financial markets seem to have already seen through the UK's "Hooligan Strategy."
So when the British stockmarket opened on Monday (27/6/16) two British banks - Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) - took an absolute thumping. So much so that trading in their shares had to be suspended to stop the businesses being driven into collapse.
Barclays is Britain's dirty bank. So if British intelligence need someone to subvert international sanctions of fund a "The Night Manager" style dodgy arms deal it will be Barclays who do it. The majority of RBS shares are owned by the British government making Britain's Chief Finance Minister (Chancellor) George Osborne its main shareholder.
As a result the losses by Barclays and RBS were not the result of some post-Brexit panic. Instead they were specifically targeted to send the message that if the UK tries trigger a global financial collapse as part of the negotiations then the UK will come off worst.
Later in the day the ratings agency Standard & Poors (S&P) cut the UK's credit rating from AAA to AA. Although independent S&P are on good terms with the US establishment. As such this was the US sending the message that it will not be assisting the UK in its efforts to engineer a global financial collapse. After all they've got Poland and Shamali Province to think about.
On Tuesday (28/6/16) Prime Minister Cameron attended the first day of the EU Council (EUCO) summit to discuss the Brexit vote and attempt to start informal negotiations prior to the invocation of Article 50. Sadly the UK did not get the message from the markets and attempted to continue its hooligan strategy.
So early on Tuesday morning the area around Saint Paul's Cathedral was evacuated following the discovery of a "suspect package." This both highlighted the UK's financial capital - the City of London - and that it is separate from the Greater London area that Sadiq Khan claims to be Mayor of. I hope the term; "Khanistan" sticks.
Later in the day another "suspect package" was discovered on Westminster Bridge forcing a similar evacuation. Westminster Bridge is of course right outside the Palace of Westminster aka; The Houses of Parliament.
On Tuesday evening there was a protest outside the Palace of Westminster called "London Stays." The protesters thought they were calling for Khanistan to stay as part of the EU. What they were actually doing was trying to informally negotiate the City of London remaining the European financial capital post-Brexit.
All through the day the Conservative Party were constantly issuing conflicting statements about when they would hold their leadership election.
Throughout this the EU made clear that it would be standing firm and would not be holding informal negotiations until the UK formally invokes Article 50.
With it being clear that the World will be taking Britain's hooligan strategy in its stride calm returned to the markets yesterday. The London FTSE 100 is now actually at higher levels than it was when the referendum was announced in February 2016 while the US Dow Jones was up 200 points.
Therefore it wasn't a "Brexit Crash" it was a "Oh My God. The UK's Going to do Something Very Stupid Crash."
You will notice how Britain's very pro-Remain media has suddenly stopped reporting on the financial markets.
Sadly with the search for the missing children on Wales' Brecon Beacons yesterday the UK doesn't seem to have fully got the message yet.
However today's announcement that Boris Johnson won't be standing for leader of the Conservative Party seems like a step in the right direction.
After all Boris is the sort of person who would forget where he'd parked the country during negotiations.
17:30 on 30/6/16 (UK date).
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
So Erdogan's Thrown a Strop.
Yesterday evening three people launched an attack on Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey with assault rifles and explosive vests. At the time of writing they have succeeded in murdering 41 people and wounding 239 more.
If you've been even vaguely following politics in the region you would immediately understand why Turkish President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan desperately needed a distraction such as this.
Certainly since the summer of 2015 Erdogan has systematically weaponised refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq against the European Union (EU). This means that Turkey has literally been picking refugees up from camps on the border and busing them to the Aegean coast where they are put aboard boats bound for the Greek islands.
For Erdogan and his goons this is simply a old fashioned protection racket. If the EU wants to conduct its business as usual it must pay Erdogan to stop using refugees as weapons.
Apart from handing over roughly 15% of its entire budget the big price Erdogan wants the EU to pay is to allow Turkey visa-free access to the EU's Schengen migration zone. This is of course will make it much easier for Erdogan to flood the EU with both refugees and terrorists.
The big EU Council (EUCO) Summit at which Turkey's access to Schengen is confirmed was supposed to start yesterday and continue into today. However on Friday (24/6/16) the UK voted to leave the EU - the Brexit - with Turkey's joining of Schengen being a major issue for voters. As a result talks on Turkey joining Schengen have been suspended indefinitely.
The big British political story in the run-up to the Brexit vote was the lawful killing of British Member of Parliament (MP) Jo Cox on June 16th (16/6/16).
Unfortunately British politicians are apparently as utterly self-absorbed as West Yorkshire Police are utterly incompetent so this became part of the referendum campaign. However it was intended to serve as a semi-public issuing of a Burn Notice against the "Friends of Syria" Parliamentary group that Jo Cox Chaired and all groups associated with that group. Particularly the Turkish based "Syria Civil Defence/White Helmets" group.
A Burn Notice is a formal notice sent by one intelligence agency to its allies. It informs them that a source of information previously considered reliable is now to be considered utterly unreliable. Therefore they should take any information provided by that source either in the past or in the future and destroy it. Ideally by burning it on a bonfire.
One of the most famous Burn Notices was issued on a source codenamed "Curveball" who provided the dodgy intelligence dossier that was used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
With Britain's politicians and West Yorkshire Police screwing up the UK was forced to emphasise that a Burn Notice was being issued. So on June 21st (21/6/16) a man was burnt alive at the high profile Glastonbury music festival.
That same day Victor Castigador killed a fellow inmate at Long Lartin prisoner where he is serving a whole life sentence. Castigador is considered one of Britain's more notorious killers because sometimes dubbed; "The Human Torch Killer" he's been known to kill his victims by burning them alive.
Even prior to the issuing of the Burn Notice Erdogan and his henchmen have been suffering a series of setbacks within Syria.
Erdogan's key area of concern is this 100km (60 mile) stretch of border between Azaz in the west and the Euphrates River in the east. Sometimes referred to as; "Erdogan's Pocket" or "Garvaghy Road" this area is used by Turkey to supply the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups - primarily Al Qaeda - within Syria.
On or around June 1st (1/6/16) the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF/QSD) crossed the Euphrates River to launch an operation to liberate the town of Manbij from ISIL. This is the first step in sealing the Garvaghy Road.
I obviously need to cover that in detail separately. However under the orders of the US progress is being painfully slow. Rather than giving them permission to use overwhelming force to rapidly secure their objectives the QSD are only being allowed to creep forward a few 100 metres/yards at a time. Following every advance the US is waiting for a response from Turkey. If there is no response the QSD are allowed to creep a little further forward.
One group that remains remarkably unconcerned with what Erdogan thinks is the Syrian government and the Russians who are supporting them. Over the course of the last week or so they have launched a fresh operation to liberate the roads running between Azaz in the north and Aleppo City in the south. Although this won't completely close Garvaghy Road it will stop weapons travelling from Azaz to Aleppo City.
It is the weapons moving down Garvaghy Road from Azaz to Aleppo City that produce the horrific photographs I shared during the #LoveLikeJo memorial to Jo Cox. I get to see photographs like that every day. I'm really not happy about it.
Syria is not the only area where Erdogan's perceived authority has been severely undermined recently.
On Sunday (26/6/16) Erdogan was forced to re-establish diplomatic relations with Israel that were severed following the May 31st 2010 (31/5/10) Israeli raid on the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" - particularly the MV Mavi Marmara ship. At the risk of going off on a bit of a tangent many of the Turkish 'Peace Activists' to took part in the flotilla have since joined ISIL.
Erdogan's decision to break off diplomatic relations with Israel have been part of a wider, extreme foreign policy.
Thinking that he had installed a radical Islamist puppet regime in Israel's neighbour Egypt and would soon install a radical Islamist puppet regime in Israel's other neighbour Syria Erdogan's been excitedly telling his supporters how he's going to be the radical Islamist who finally wipes Israel from the map. This aggression caused the 2014 Gaza war delaying Israel's loosening of import/export restrictions on Gaza for two years.
The fact that Erdogan has now been forced to re-establish relations with Israel is a massive climb down for him showing that his plan has been defeated. Although the Israelis are far too diplomatic to say so publicly the much hated Grand Zionist Conspiracy has effectively just made Erdogan's its bitch.
Things got worse for Erdogan on Monday (27/6/16) when he was forced to apologise for the shooting down of a Russian Su-24 over Syria on November 24th 2015 (24/11/16).
As part of the apology Turkey has resumed criminal proceedings against Alparslan Celik who was the leader of Turkish groundforces within Syria at the time. Erdogan has since denied that an apology has been issued. However knowing Russian President Vladimir Putin it's clear he wouldn't be accepting Erdogan's phonecalls unless an apology had been issued.
Then of course there is the ongoing saga of Egypt Air flight MS804 which crashed over the Mediterranian Sea on May 19th (19/5/16). After taking a suspiciously long time to locate the aircraft's flight recorders French authorities have now succeeded in recovering them and repairing them. We are now waiting with baited breath for them to be downloaded and analysed.
Until the flight data is recovered we can't be sure what caused MS804. However one possibility that is definitely on the table is that Turkish intelligence breached security at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport to place a bomb on board. Primarily this would have been done to further undermine the Egyptian economy to speed the day that Erdogan could re-install a radical Islamist puppet regime in Egypt.
Obviously though the exposure of a massive security gap at France's main airport would have an extremely chilling effect in the run-up to the French hosted Euro 2016 football tournament. As that tournament reaches the quarter final stage due to events in Istanbul we are now talking urgently about gaps in airport security.
The immediate message of condolence that Brussels Zaventam Airport sent to Turkey last night should dispel any myth that Belgians don't do sarcasm once and for all.
At 12:00 on 29/6/16 (UK date) I have more to add. However I also have an urgent need to go put some trousers on.
Edited at around 14:40 on 29/6/16 (UK date) to add above and below;
Although it pains me to say I think what tipped the balance on this occasion was Rihanna. She is currently in London, UK as part of her "ANTI" US & Europe tour. On Monday (27/6/16) she released the Sia penned song "Sledgehammer" from the upcoming movie "Star Trek Beyond."
Back in January 2010 Erdogan and his Justice & Development Party (AKP) announced that they had uncovered a 2003 plot called "Sledgehammer."
This supposedly saw members of the Turkey's so-called "Deep State" or "Parallel State" who are sworn to uphold the secular values of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk planning to overthrow the Islamist AKP government of Erdogan.
The claim was that they would do this by carrying out a series of bomb attacks across Istanbul while bombing a Turkish aircraft out of the skies over the Aegean Sea which they would then be blamed on Greece. This would create the chaos that would force the Deep State to step in and take control of the country.
However the 'evidence' that Erdogan produced to support this claim was significantly flawed. For example many of the documents relating to this 2003 conspiracy were produced using Microsoft Office 2007. As such the Sledgehammer case is widely viewed as a fraudulent attempt by the AKP to purge the Turkish military and civil service of non-Islamists.
Although it is quite hard to do so the thing you need to understand about Erdogan and the AKP is they operate in a state that is extremely close to full blown delusional psychosis.
In Erdogan and the AKP's mindset even groups that are violently opposed to each other such as ISIL, the Syrian government and the QSD are all secret allies in a vast Zionist conspiracy against Erdogan, the AKP and all of Islam. As such it doesn't really matter which group Erdogan blames the Ataturk bombing on the subtext will always be that it was the work of the "Parallel State."
As such it was extremely unwise for Rihanna to release a song called "Sledgehammer" at this time. Not least because during her 2013 Diamonds World Tour the radical Islamist puppet regime in Egypt was overthrow due to the popular will of the people. However to this day Erdogan and the AKP still claim that this was an example of a Parallel state coup against Islam.
The only possible thing that can be said in the US' defence is that in the fall out of the Jo Cox neutralisation they killed the actor Anton Yelchin who plays the "Pavel Chekov" character in the Star Trek Beyond movie. A Russian born Jew Yelchin invokes memories of the infamous "Refusenik" generation who were refused permission to leave the Soviet Union.
As such it could be viewed as the US refusing Rihanna's record company Roc Nation and Paramount who own the rights to the movie permission to release "Sledgehammer." However it could be a bluff intended to draw our attention as we wait to see what action will be taken against Roc Nation and Paramount for reckless defying that instruction.
Erdogan's ultimate objective behind last night's attack is to rally the country and the World behind his as he leads the fight against 'terrorism.' He then plans to go marching down Garvaghy Road to secure ISIL's supply lines and slaughter anyone who opposes them.
In this context the reactions of current US President Barack Obama and presumptive progressive Democrat 2016 Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were extremely alarming.
As part of the election campaign both Obama and Hillary have come in for stiff criticism for refusing to invoke the NATO's mutual defence Article 5 in response to the November 2015 Paris Massacres and the March 2016 Brussels attacks. As a result they last night fell over themselves to announce that as a NATO ally Turkey has their full support.
This is likely to be interpreted by Erdogan as both Obama and Hillary reaching for their sashes, flutes and bowler hats as they throw their full weight of NATO behind his plan to support ISIL by invading Syria.
I assume that both Obama and Hillary Clinton will now be going straight to prison.
15:35 on 29/6/16 (UK date).
If you've been even vaguely following politics in the region you would immediately understand why Turkish President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan desperately needed a distraction such as this.
Certainly since the summer of 2015 Erdogan has systematically weaponised refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq against the European Union (EU). This means that Turkey has literally been picking refugees up from camps on the border and busing them to the Aegean coast where they are put aboard boats bound for the Greek islands.
For Erdogan and his goons this is simply a old fashioned protection racket. If the EU wants to conduct its business as usual it must pay Erdogan to stop using refugees as weapons.
Apart from handing over roughly 15% of its entire budget the big price Erdogan wants the EU to pay is to allow Turkey visa-free access to the EU's Schengen migration zone. This is of course will make it much easier for Erdogan to flood the EU with both refugees and terrorists.
The big EU Council (EUCO) Summit at which Turkey's access to Schengen is confirmed was supposed to start yesterday and continue into today. However on Friday (24/6/16) the UK voted to leave the EU - the Brexit - with Turkey's joining of Schengen being a major issue for voters. As a result talks on Turkey joining Schengen have been suspended indefinitely.
The big British political story in the run-up to the Brexit vote was the lawful killing of British Member of Parliament (MP) Jo Cox on June 16th (16/6/16).
Unfortunately British politicians are apparently as utterly self-absorbed as West Yorkshire Police are utterly incompetent so this became part of the referendum campaign. However it was intended to serve as a semi-public issuing of a Burn Notice against the "Friends of Syria" Parliamentary group that Jo Cox Chaired and all groups associated with that group. Particularly the Turkish based "Syria Civil Defence/White Helmets" group.
A Burn Notice is a formal notice sent by one intelligence agency to its allies. It informs them that a source of information previously considered reliable is now to be considered utterly unreliable. Therefore they should take any information provided by that source either in the past or in the future and destroy it. Ideally by burning it on a bonfire.
One of the most famous Burn Notices was issued on a source codenamed "Curveball" who provided the dodgy intelligence dossier that was used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
With Britain's politicians and West Yorkshire Police screwing up the UK was forced to emphasise that a Burn Notice was being issued. So on June 21st (21/6/16) a man was burnt alive at the high profile Glastonbury music festival.
That same day Victor Castigador killed a fellow inmate at Long Lartin prisoner where he is serving a whole life sentence. Castigador is considered one of Britain's more notorious killers because sometimes dubbed; "The Human Torch Killer" he's been known to kill his victims by burning them alive.
Even prior to the issuing of the Burn Notice Erdogan and his henchmen have been suffering a series of setbacks within Syria.
Erdogan's key area of concern is this 100km (60 mile) stretch of border between Azaz in the west and the Euphrates River in the east. Sometimes referred to as; "Erdogan's Pocket" or "Garvaghy Road" this area is used by Turkey to supply the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups - primarily Al Qaeda - within Syria.
On or around June 1st (1/6/16) the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF/QSD) crossed the Euphrates River to launch an operation to liberate the town of Manbij from ISIL. This is the first step in sealing the Garvaghy Road.
I obviously need to cover that in detail separately. However under the orders of the US progress is being painfully slow. Rather than giving them permission to use overwhelming force to rapidly secure their objectives the QSD are only being allowed to creep forward a few 100 metres/yards at a time. Following every advance the US is waiting for a response from Turkey. If there is no response the QSD are allowed to creep a little further forward.
One group that remains remarkably unconcerned with what Erdogan thinks is the Syrian government and the Russians who are supporting them. Over the course of the last week or so they have launched a fresh operation to liberate the roads running between Azaz in the north and Aleppo City in the south. Although this won't completely close Garvaghy Road it will stop weapons travelling from Azaz to Aleppo City.
It is the weapons moving down Garvaghy Road from Azaz to Aleppo City that produce the horrific photographs I shared during the #LoveLikeJo memorial to Jo Cox. I get to see photographs like that every day. I'm really not happy about it.
Syria is not the only area where Erdogan's perceived authority has been severely undermined recently.
On Sunday (26/6/16) Erdogan was forced to re-establish diplomatic relations with Israel that were severed following the May 31st 2010 (31/5/10) Israeli raid on the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" - particularly the MV Mavi Marmara ship. At the risk of going off on a bit of a tangent many of the Turkish 'Peace Activists' to took part in the flotilla have since joined ISIL.
Erdogan's decision to break off diplomatic relations with Israel have been part of a wider, extreme foreign policy.
Thinking that he had installed a radical Islamist puppet regime in Israel's neighbour Egypt and would soon install a radical Islamist puppet regime in Israel's other neighbour Syria Erdogan's been excitedly telling his supporters how he's going to be the radical Islamist who finally wipes Israel from the map. This aggression caused the 2014 Gaza war delaying Israel's loosening of import/export restrictions on Gaza for two years.
The fact that Erdogan has now been forced to re-establish relations with Israel is a massive climb down for him showing that his plan has been defeated. Although the Israelis are far too diplomatic to say so publicly the much hated Grand Zionist Conspiracy has effectively just made Erdogan's its bitch.
Things got worse for Erdogan on Monday (27/6/16) when he was forced to apologise for the shooting down of a Russian Su-24 over Syria on November 24th 2015 (24/11/16).
As part of the apology Turkey has resumed criminal proceedings against Alparslan Celik who was the leader of Turkish groundforces within Syria at the time. Erdogan has since denied that an apology has been issued. However knowing Russian President Vladimir Putin it's clear he wouldn't be accepting Erdogan's phonecalls unless an apology had been issued.
Then of course there is the ongoing saga of Egypt Air flight MS804 which crashed over the Mediterranian Sea on May 19th (19/5/16). After taking a suspiciously long time to locate the aircraft's flight recorders French authorities have now succeeded in recovering them and repairing them. We are now waiting with baited breath for them to be downloaded and analysed.
Until the flight data is recovered we can't be sure what caused MS804. However one possibility that is definitely on the table is that Turkish intelligence breached security at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport to place a bomb on board. Primarily this would have been done to further undermine the Egyptian economy to speed the day that Erdogan could re-install a radical Islamist puppet regime in Egypt.
Obviously though the exposure of a massive security gap at France's main airport would have an extremely chilling effect in the run-up to the French hosted Euro 2016 football tournament. As that tournament reaches the quarter final stage due to events in Istanbul we are now talking urgently about gaps in airport security.
The immediate message of condolence that Brussels Zaventam Airport sent to Turkey last night should dispel any myth that Belgians don't do sarcasm once and for all.
At 12:00 on 29/6/16 (UK date) I have more to add. However I also have an urgent need to go put some trousers on.
Edited at around 14:40 on 29/6/16 (UK date) to add above and below;
Although it pains me to say I think what tipped the balance on this occasion was Rihanna. She is currently in London, UK as part of her "ANTI" US & Europe tour. On Monday (27/6/16) she released the Sia penned song "Sledgehammer" from the upcoming movie "Star Trek Beyond."
Back in January 2010 Erdogan and his Justice & Development Party (AKP) announced that they had uncovered a 2003 plot called "Sledgehammer."
This supposedly saw members of the Turkey's so-called "Deep State" or "Parallel State" who are sworn to uphold the secular values of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk planning to overthrow the Islamist AKP government of Erdogan.
The claim was that they would do this by carrying out a series of bomb attacks across Istanbul while bombing a Turkish aircraft out of the skies over the Aegean Sea which they would then be blamed on Greece. This would create the chaos that would force the Deep State to step in and take control of the country.
However the 'evidence' that Erdogan produced to support this claim was significantly flawed. For example many of the documents relating to this 2003 conspiracy were produced using Microsoft Office 2007. As such the Sledgehammer case is widely viewed as a fraudulent attempt by the AKP to purge the Turkish military and civil service of non-Islamists.
Although it is quite hard to do so the thing you need to understand about Erdogan and the AKP is they operate in a state that is extremely close to full blown delusional psychosis.
In Erdogan and the AKP's mindset even groups that are violently opposed to each other such as ISIL, the Syrian government and the QSD are all secret allies in a vast Zionist conspiracy against Erdogan, the AKP and all of Islam. As such it doesn't really matter which group Erdogan blames the Ataturk bombing on the subtext will always be that it was the work of the "Parallel State."
As such it was extremely unwise for Rihanna to release a song called "Sledgehammer" at this time. Not least because during her 2013 Diamonds World Tour the radical Islamist puppet regime in Egypt was overthrow due to the popular will of the people. However to this day Erdogan and the AKP still claim that this was an example of a Parallel state coup against Islam.
The only possible thing that can be said in the US' defence is that in the fall out of the Jo Cox neutralisation they killed the actor Anton Yelchin who plays the "Pavel Chekov" character in the Star Trek Beyond movie. A Russian born Jew Yelchin invokes memories of the infamous "Refusenik" generation who were refused permission to leave the Soviet Union.
As such it could be viewed as the US refusing Rihanna's record company Roc Nation and Paramount who own the rights to the movie permission to release "Sledgehammer." However it could be a bluff intended to draw our attention as we wait to see what action will be taken against Roc Nation and Paramount for reckless defying that instruction.
Erdogan's ultimate objective behind last night's attack is to rally the country and the World behind his as he leads the fight against 'terrorism.' He then plans to go marching down Garvaghy Road to secure ISIL's supply lines and slaughter anyone who opposes them.
In this context the reactions of current US President Barack Obama and presumptive progressive Democrat 2016 Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton were extremely alarming.
As part of the election campaign both Obama and Hillary have come in for stiff criticism for refusing to invoke the NATO's mutual defence Article 5 in response to the November 2015 Paris Massacres and the March 2016 Brussels attacks. As a result they last night fell over themselves to announce that as a NATO ally Turkey has their full support.
This is likely to be interpreted by Erdogan as both Obama and Hillary reaching for their sashes, flutes and bowler hats as they throw their full weight of NATO behind his plan to support ISIL by invading Syria.
I assume that both Obama and Hillary Clinton will now be going straight to prison.
15:35 on 29/6/16 (UK date).
Saturday, 25 June 2016
"Don't Cry for Us Nicola Sturgeon
The truth is we never liked you//
All through the bad times//
There were no good times//
Now take your mad existence//
And please stay away."
That's right Euros are back. Unless you're Scottish.
I promise there is a point to this post. However before I get onto it I have to mention something from today's Euro 2016 football matches.
Today's second match in the second round was between Wales and Northern Ireland. About 80 minutes in Ashley Williams and Jonny Williams - they're Welsh by the way - collided knocking each other out.The medical staff obviously rushed onto the pitch and after they'd both been checked for spinal fractures and regained consciousness it became clear that the captain Ashley Williams could not move his left shoulder suggesting a fracture or dislocation. The medical staff wanted to take him off but he insisted in playing on until the end of the game.
Tonight's match is between Croatia and Portugal. In this game whenever another player or even the ball has come anywhere near Portugal's Nani he immediately falls to the ground clutching his left shoulder. So he's not just diving and feigning injury he's diving and feigning Ashley Williams' injury. I think the referees need to have a word.
That match is still going on as I write. After all it seems the only way players can score these days is when they're awarded a penalty.
Anyway. As for the point.
Between the UK's local elections in May and last Thursday's (23/6/16) EU referendum I feel like I've been slagging off Muslims constantly for the past two months. As such I think I should probably qualify my comments a bit.
In a democracy people vote for people and political parties who best represent them. The UK Labour Party seems to have decided that Muslims are an exciting and exotic novelty and become a bit obsessed with them. At the same time Labour seem to have decided that white working class people are dirty, smelly and only there to be laughed at. Funnily enough white working class voters are not voting for a Labour Party that has made quite clear that it doesn't want to represent them.
This is far from the first time that the Labour Party have got themselves all sweaty and excited over a minority ethnic group. In the 1980's when Labour were equally unelectable they became so obsessed with the black vote that they made ending apartheid in South Africa their main priority. As a result you had lots of scrawny white men like Jeremy Corbyn doing Zulu war dances in Trafalgar Square as if they were leading the Soweto uprising.
I find Labour's fetishism of ethnic groups to be in itself quite racist. If this was a post about the Oscars and we were talking about the 1970's I would describe it as; "Blackploitation."
Basically the Labour Party don't see Muslims as people. Instead they view them as ATM machines that they can use to dispense votes after pressing a few of the right buttons.
A prime example of this was the Rotherham and both the Rochdale child abuse scandals. Here the Labour Party let British Muslim men kidnap, torture and sexually abuse thousands of children. The reaction I got to these scandals from even conservative Muslim nations such as Qatar was along the lines of; "What the F*ck!"
However the British Labour Party's reaction was; "All Muslims are child abusing rapists. If we try and stop them they won't vote for us."
I would have liked to have made this point earlier today. However I was forced to delay lest I send out the wrong sort of message.
This morning I was having the first cigarette of the day while chatting to my father in the garden.
Suddenly a man wearing clearly Islamic dress decided to just let himself onto our property. When my father verbally challenged him he claimed the Fox cubs (we've got 4. They're too cute for me to make them a priority) had stolen his shoes and he demanded to search the entire property for them.
My father politely informed him that we'd checked the property and there were no shoes before asking him to leave. He refused so I politely but firmly explained that we were insisting that he left. I then turned away to finish my cigarette over by the tool shed where we keep the sledgehammers. He continued to argue with my father but when I turned around he decided to leave.
So I'm sure you can appreciate why when Labour MP's burst into tears on TV because someone's sent them a nasty email with some swear words in it I don't think that should be a policing priority.
Fortunately I've worked as both a traffic warden and football steward for 10 years so I can almost literally sh*t that sort of thing out before breakfast.
Today's little performance has it's roots in the June 12th (12/6/16) Pulse nightclub terror attack in Orlando, Florida.
Basically whomever was running Omar Mateen as an agent is really not happy about me standing up to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). They want my G4S/SIA 'Security Clearence' revoked. In short they want to go back to 2013 when I was applying force several times a week, breaking bones and spending night's in jail.
With Rihanna back in London and his constant urging for people to 'Find Their Park' US President Barack Obama seems to be more than willing to oblige. Or at least he was last week.
Anyway back to Brexit.
One of the nastier scare stories Labour put about during the referendum campaign - particularly in London - was that Brexit would lead to the mass deportations of EU migrants. This is what is know in political circles as an utter f*cking lie.
Under the law as it stands any EU migrant has been resident - working is the best way to prove residency - in the UK for 5 years can apply for UK citizenship and provided for example that they haven't been convicted of any serious criminal offences will be granted citzenship. Whether they then give up their original citizenship is really their business. At the earliest the UK won't be leaving the EU until 2018. Therefore even if you only arrived in 2013 there is nothing to worry about.
However you know those European Health Insurance Cards (EHICS). You know the ones you've handed out to all your friends and family back home so they can bill all their medical treatment to Britain's NHS? Yeah, that's not going to work anymore.
As for Nigel Farage's announcement that he can't guarantee that the GBP3bn that Britain saves by leaving the EU will be spent on the NHS he's quite right. What that money is spent on is decided by the elected government of the day.
As Farage is not currently part of that government he can no more guarantee what they're going to spend that money on then I can. It might be an idea for the Labour Party to take off the Burqa and pull their socks up though.
This mass deportation lie is now being circulated aggressively by the Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon.
As is the party's default position Sturgeon wants to exploit Brexit to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence. The promise being that an independent Scotland will be allowed to disregard every relevant EU and United Nation's (UN) treaty in existence and automatically become an EU member.
The problem is that no-one in the EU wants to talk to Nicola Sturgeon.
As a result she is deliberately spreading this scare story amongst EU migrants living in Scotland in the hope they will contact their national governments. The thinking being that this will put pressure on those EU governments to return Nicola Sturgeon's phonecalls.
22:20 on 25/6/16 (UK date).
All through the bad times//
There were no good times//
Now take your mad existence//
And please stay away."
That's right Euros are back. Unless you're Scottish.
I promise there is a point to this post. However before I get onto it I have to mention something from today's Euro 2016 football matches.
Today's second match in the second round was between Wales and Northern Ireland. About 80 minutes in Ashley Williams and Jonny Williams - they're Welsh by the way - collided knocking each other out.The medical staff obviously rushed onto the pitch and after they'd both been checked for spinal fractures and regained consciousness it became clear that the captain Ashley Williams could not move his left shoulder suggesting a fracture or dislocation. The medical staff wanted to take him off but he insisted in playing on until the end of the game.
Tonight's match is between Croatia and Portugal. In this game whenever another player or even the ball has come anywhere near Portugal's Nani he immediately falls to the ground clutching his left shoulder. So he's not just diving and feigning injury he's diving and feigning Ashley Williams' injury. I think the referees need to have a word.
That match is still going on as I write. After all it seems the only way players can score these days is when they're awarded a penalty.
Anyway. As for the point.
Between the UK's local elections in May and last Thursday's (23/6/16) EU referendum I feel like I've been slagging off Muslims constantly for the past two months. As such I think I should probably qualify my comments a bit.
In a democracy people vote for people and political parties who best represent them. The UK Labour Party seems to have decided that Muslims are an exciting and exotic novelty and become a bit obsessed with them. At the same time Labour seem to have decided that white working class people are dirty, smelly and only there to be laughed at. Funnily enough white working class voters are not voting for a Labour Party that has made quite clear that it doesn't want to represent them.
This is far from the first time that the Labour Party have got themselves all sweaty and excited over a minority ethnic group. In the 1980's when Labour were equally unelectable they became so obsessed with the black vote that they made ending apartheid in South Africa their main priority. As a result you had lots of scrawny white men like Jeremy Corbyn doing Zulu war dances in Trafalgar Square as if they were leading the Soweto uprising.
I find Labour's fetishism of ethnic groups to be in itself quite racist. If this was a post about the Oscars and we were talking about the 1970's I would describe it as; "Blackploitation."
Basically the Labour Party don't see Muslims as people. Instead they view them as ATM machines that they can use to dispense votes after pressing a few of the right buttons.
A prime example of this was the Rotherham and both the Rochdale child abuse scandals. Here the Labour Party let British Muslim men kidnap, torture and sexually abuse thousands of children. The reaction I got to these scandals from even conservative Muslim nations such as Qatar was along the lines of; "What the F*ck!"
However the British Labour Party's reaction was; "All Muslims are child abusing rapists. If we try and stop them they won't vote for us."
I would have liked to have made this point earlier today. However I was forced to delay lest I send out the wrong sort of message.
This morning I was having the first cigarette of the day while chatting to my father in the garden.
Suddenly a man wearing clearly Islamic dress decided to just let himself onto our property. When my father verbally challenged him he claimed the Fox cubs (we've got 4. They're too cute for me to make them a priority) had stolen his shoes and he demanded to search the entire property for them.
My father politely informed him that we'd checked the property and there were no shoes before asking him to leave. He refused so I politely but firmly explained that we were insisting that he left. I then turned away to finish my cigarette over by the tool shed where we keep the sledgehammers. He continued to argue with my father but when I turned around he decided to leave.
So I'm sure you can appreciate why when Labour MP's burst into tears on TV because someone's sent them a nasty email with some swear words in it I don't think that should be a policing priority.
Fortunately I've worked as both a traffic warden and football steward for 10 years so I can almost literally sh*t that sort of thing out before breakfast.
Today's little performance has it's roots in the June 12th (12/6/16) Pulse nightclub terror attack in Orlando, Florida.
Basically whomever was running Omar Mateen as an agent is really not happy about me standing up to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). They want my G4S/SIA 'Security Clearence' revoked. In short they want to go back to 2013 when I was applying force several times a week, breaking bones and spending night's in jail.
With Rihanna back in London and his constant urging for people to 'Find Their Park' US President Barack Obama seems to be more than willing to oblige. Or at least he was last week.
Anyway back to Brexit.
One of the nastier scare stories Labour put about during the referendum campaign - particularly in London - was that Brexit would lead to the mass deportations of EU migrants. This is what is know in political circles as an utter f*cking lie.
Under the law as it stands any EU migrant has been resident - working is the best way to prove residency - in the UK for 5 years can apply for UK citizenship and provided for example that they haven't been convicted of any serious criminal offences will be granted citzenship. Whether they then give up their original citizenship is really their business. At the earliest the UK won't be leaving the EU until 2018. Therefore even if you only arrived in 2013 there is nothing to worry about.
However you know those European Health Insurance Cards (EHICS). You know the ones you've handed out to all your friends and family back home so they can bill all their medical treatment to Britain's NHS? Yeah, that's not going to work anymore.
As for Nigel Farage's announcement that he can't guarantee that the GBP3bn that Britain saves by leaving the EU will be spent on the NHS he's quite right. What that money is spent on is decided by the elected government of the day.
As Farage is not currently part of that government he can no more guarantee what they're going to spend that money on then I can. It might be an idea for the Labour Party to take off the Burqa and pull their socks up though.
This mass deportation lie is now being circulated aggressively by the Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon.
As is the party's default position Sturgeon wants to exploit Brexit to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence. The promise being that an independent Scotland will be allowed to disregard every relevant EU and United Nation's (UN) treaty in existence and automatically become an EU member.
The problem is that no-one in the EU wants to talk to Nicola Sturgeon.
As a result she is deliberately spreading this scare story amongst EU migrants living in Scotland in the hope they will contact their national governments. The thinking being that this will put pressure on those EU governments to return Nicola Sturgeon's phonecalls.
22:20 on 25/6/16 (UK date).
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