Tom Ridge, U.S. terrorist threat, in London.
Mick2 | 08.11.2002 14:13
To celebrate the visit of Homeland Security boss Tom Ridge to London, the Home Office attempted to terrorise the British population with dire warnings of dirty bombs and poison gas, then retracted after an hour.
Tom Ridge's U.K. visit, aimed at provoking fear and loathing to justify the New World War, was given a boost by
the slavish grovelling and scare mongering of Jack Straw's
Home Office. As Ridge, one of the key players in American domestic warmongering, addressed the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College, London, the Home Office distributed a draft document raising the spectre of nuclear and gas attacks on U.K. soil. This text, whilst full of caveats such as "we cannot be sure" and "maybe" mentions dirty bombs, gas and "conventional" terrorists attacks as being possible things that "we can be sure ("fanatical extremists") will try". It was withdrawn an hour after it's release, presumably because it consisted of little more than speculation. Ridge's speech promised "casualties in the thousands or tens of thousands" as the result of such attacks. Is this a realistic assessment or psyops/psychological warefare aimed at terrorising us into being led blindly into an unjust, terrorist war?
the slavish grovelling and scare mongering of Jack Straw's
Home Office. As Ridge, one of the key players in American domestic warmongering, addressed the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College, London, the Home Office distributed a draft document raising the spectre of nuclear and gas attacks on U.K. soil. This text, whilst full of caveats such as "we cannot be sure" and "maybe" mentions dirty bombs, gas and "conventional" terrorists attacks as being possible things that "we can be sure ("fanatical extremists") will try". It was withdrawn an hour after it's release, presumably because it consisted of little more than speculation. Ridge's speech promised "casualties in the thousands or tens of thousands" as the result of such attacks. Is this a realistic assessment or psyops/psychological warefare aimed at terrorising us into being led blindly into an unjust, terrorist war?
Mick2
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Illusions
08.11.2002 15:15
The statement was then withdrawn and replaced with;
Al-Qaeda would, if they could, attack our institutions.
Can you blame them, so would half the starving, oil-rich developing world, if they could, shall we preempt them too with Predators, just incase?
So, these vague and alarmist warnings by Blunkett serve no purpose other than to instill fear and more stringent security measures.
Like armed military police on the streets could prevent someone releasing Sarin? How? By searching, scanning, monitoring, surveying and watching everyone?
The worst terrorist attacks on British and Irish soil were carried out by M15 infiltrators of the Real IRA and that is a documented fact.
Muslims have never invaded or attacked our country, in it's entire history. On the contrary, we have bombed Iraq for 12 years.
Rumsfeld's P20G strategy makes it quite clear, the US are going to incite, foment and goad extremists to act, as a pretext for the eternal 'war on terror.'
Delusions
The Bombing Stock Market.
08.11.2002 19:54
There should have been three or four years deflation around 1987 to produce a helthy economy. Those American fools flooded the market with liquidity and brought us to now. The developing crash now calls for War to prevent Depression. But except for a full scale attack on China there is no real war of sufficient size to avoid Depression. The stupid monetarists who won a "Nobel" with their fake resurrection of the unused part of Keynes are going to have to print money to avoid a really deep depression.
That is why house prices are rising. People know. The cowardice of politicians who could not face economic reality when they had the chance to make money a secure store of wealth and medium of exchange, means the only way out is through inflation. And they have depended on that for so long they now have to accelerate it. For if the stock market drops any more, insurance companies will have to cut down on underwriting. Businesses will stop trading. Is this a negative or a positive feedback developing?
The Republican wins in America could have set the stage for the final collapse of Capitalism. Will Bush copy the Communist Chinese and take as astounding steps as they did when they stopped the Crash in the Stock markets a couple of years ago? Whatever can the Capitalists do that would astound us that much?
8 November 2002
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