A Public Execution on London Bridge

Shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon of Friday 29th November, the London police executed an unarmed man in full view of the public. 

Usman Khan's dead body left uncovered with no cordon around him. And no sign of blood!

The Mainstream Media (MSM), controlled by billionaire backers of the Tory Party, have spun the following story:

The dead man, Usman Khan, was a "terrorist" - what else? - who had been released from prison a year ago, in December 2018. On 29/11/2019 he had been attending a seminar organised by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, which was designed to help offenders - convicted murderers and hardened ex-convicts among them - reintegrate into society following their release from prison. The seminar was held in Fishmongers' Hall, near London Bridge. Usman, it is claimed, was electronically tagged and was under surveillance since his release from prison. So far so good.

Hereabouts the tale doing the rounds in MSM becomes more interesting. Usman seems to have flipped at the seminar and threatened to blow up the hall. What is more, he was wearing a fake suicide jacket and he had two kitchen knives taped to his wrists! Now, we live in a society which is hyper conscious about security. Id cards for employees are ubiquitous and visitors to another commercial set-up have to pass through strict security. And here was a feared "terrorist" sauntering around wearing a suicide jacket and two knives! Where were the security staff? Surely, hardened ex-criminals and murderers needed to be watched closely? So far no pictures have emerged showing our "terrorist" resplendent in a suicide jacket - a fake one, mind - and matching kit of two kitchen knives.

However, pictures of a man with bushy eyebrows are plastered all over the MSM. We are told this is how Usman looked. I came across a video on YouTube which took the mickey out of this claim. At 20, Usman had beautifully shaped eyebrows which seem to have turned into hideous bushy ones 8 years later! Enjoy the video:

The Eyebrows have it

The suicide jacket being fake, did not work, of course. So our intrepid "terrorist" whipped out his knives and began stabbing people right and left. Alas, he had miscalculated! He met his match in a convicted murderer, a fellow attendee on the Learning Together seminar, and a Polish chef. Faced with such determined resistance our "terrorist" turned tail and fled, presumably with two kitchen knives dripping with blood held in his hands. Where does he go? To London Bridge, of course, the well known place for stabbings just before a General Election called by a Tory Prime Minister. The General Election of 2017 was held on 8 June 2017 when Theresa May was Prime Minister, and the London Bridge stabbings occurred on 3 June, 2017. The General Election of 2019 is being held on 12 December and the stabbings took place on 29 November. As a matter of fact, the 2017 General Election was far bloodier. On 22 May 2017, two weeks before election day, a massacre took place in the Manchester Arena when 23 people died. Will Boris Johnson's General Election be content with one atrocity or is a second barbarity waiting to burst on the scene?

Let us continue with the story. Usman Khan is now on London Bridge, presumably spattered with blood all over, wielding two bloodied knives in hands which must also be drenched in blood. Altogether, he is said to have injured several people, two of whom died. Usman is now confronted by a brave "off-duty plain-clothes Transport police officer" who, with equally brave members of the public, disarms Usman and runs off with a single spotless knife with not a drop of blood on it (it is not clear where the second knife disappeared). This  cop/secret agent, or perhaps a magician, has somehow ensured that no traces of blood will soil his hands or clothes! After his departure, Usman is held down by fearless members of the public, apparently his suicide jacket holds no terror for them. At that point the City of London police arrive who pull the man sitting atop Usman away, point their guns at Usman and execute him! He did have a suicide jacket on, didn't he? How were the police to know it was fake? See? Dead men tell no tales!

This is the man alleged to be "Transport Police officer, off-duty, in plain clothes", who ran off with a spotless knife. Not one drop of blood on it. Was he an undercover cop or MI5 agent? Who knows?

The video below shows him running away from the crime scene with the "murder weapon". It was put up on the Daily Mirror website with his face covered up.









Click on the link below to see the "plain-clothes, off-duty police officer" running away with the "murder weapon". 

Let us remove the murder weapon from the scene of crime

Political implications

The London Bridge Execution provided an immediate spur to the Tories' campaign against Labour. Within two hours of the Execution the political spin had begun. A totally fake tweet surfaced on the Twitter platform, attributed to the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, complete with his picture:

The idea, apparently, is to deliver a knock-out blow to Labour Party in the General Election on 12 December. Conservatives, of course, wax eloquent on all things criminal and seek to toughen the punishments meted out by courts. The scourge of the capitalist class, Jeremy Corbyn, takes a more humane approach to the subject of Crime and Punishment.






Jeremy Corbyn is being demonised relentlessly by MSM, led by the state broadcaster, BBC (aka The Bull**** Broadcasting Corporation). The Chief Rabbi in the country has been roped in to do his bit in this demonisation process. The most potent weapon that Corbyn's opponents wield against him is the utterly false charge of anti-Semitism - against him personally, and against the Labour Party.

Anti-Semitism is minuscule in the Labour Party, far less than in other political parties. Corbyn himself is totally free of any racial or religious prejudices. Here is a link to an excellent article on this subject:

The Reality of anti-semitism in the Labour Party

The Tories have the backing of oligarchs who control the dishonest MSM. The billionaires have poured millions into the election campaign hoping to secure victory for their party. All kinds of funny things are going on, one of which is the subject of this blog. When a religious leader tells his followers to vote for a particular party - as Rabbi Mirvis has done - then we have the repellent spectacle of religion being dragged into politics. Imagine a Muslim religious leader telling his followers to vote Labour! All hell would break loose and the MSM would go berserk. 

I am voting Labour. I would be delighted if the obnoxious Trump poodle Johnson lost the election and Jeremy Corbyn formed a new government after 12 December. As the Labour slogan says: FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW.

فسادی مارچ اور فتنہ دھرنا

پاکستان میں آج کل ایک مذہبی سیاستدان بنام فضل الرحمان آئینی حکومت گرانے کے لئے سر توڑ کوشش کر رہا ہے- اس کا فسادی مارچ (جسے وہ "آزادی مارچ" کہتا ہے) 27 اکتوبر کو کراچی سے شروع ہوا اور سندھ و پنجاب سے گزرتا ہوا 31 اکتوبر کو اسلام آباد پہنچا- تب سے وہاں ایک "فتنہ دھرنا" قائم ہے جہاں کئی ہزار مرد (جن میں اکثر بلوچستان اور پختونخواہ کے مدارس کے طلبا ہیں)  براجمان ہیں- خیال ہے کہ ان کی تعداد لگ بھگ 30 ہزار ہے جس میں ڈنڈا برداروں کے دستے بھی شامل ہیں- یہ بھی کہا جاتا ہے کہ ان کے پاس بارودی اسلحہ اور مہلک ہتھیار بھی ہیں - اس فوج ظفر موج کی خوراک اور دیکھ بھال پہ روزانہ کروڑوں روپے اٹھ جاتے ہیں- ایک اہم سوال یہ ہے کہ     

پانی کی طرح جو پیسہ بہایا جا رہا ہے اس کا منبع کہاں ہے؟

فضل کی اصلیت عظیم صحافی جولین اسانج کے سائبر خانے "وکی لیکس" میں بے نقاب ہو چکی ہے- بقول وکی لیکس جب فضل امریکی سفیر این پٹرسن کے سامنے گڑ گڑا چکا تو این نے اپنے صدر کو واشنگٹن میں پیغام بھیجا: "فضل نے یہ واضح کر دیا ہے کہ پاکستانی پارلیمان میں اس کے ووٹ فروخت کے لئے    

حاضر ہیں"! وکی لیکس کے انکشافات کا ذکر میں اپنے ایک گزشتہ بلاگ میں کر       چکا ہوں جو آپ نیچے دیا ہوا رابطہ دبا کر  پڑھ سکتے ہیں

      وکی لیکس کے انکشافات

آئینی حکومت کو گرانے کی کوششوں میں حزب اختلاف کی علاقائی جماعتوں کے علاوہ دونوں بڑی ملک گیر جماعتیں بھی شامل ہیں- سزا یافتہ مجرم نواز شریف، جس کے پاس اپنی پارٹی کا کوئی عہدہ نہیں، اپنے بستر علالت سے احکامات جاری کرتا ہے اور پارٹی کے عہدے دار بلا چوں و چرا سر تسلیم خم کر کے فضل کے ساتھ آئینی حکومت گرانے کی سازشوں میں مصروف ہو جاتے ہیں- اسی طرح "عوام کی پارٹی" کا کرتا دھرتا بلاول بھٹو بھی حکومت گرانے میں فضل کے ساتھ کھڑا ہے-- اس وقت پاکستان کی "جمہوریت" کے متعفن جوہڑ میں بے ضمیر اور بے حس لوگ کس امید پر ڈبکیاں لگا رہے ہیں؟

پاکستانی صحافت میں ایسے لوگ جن کو حالات کی نزاکت کا صحیح اندازہ ہو شائد ایک ہاتھ کی انگلیوں پہ گنے جا سکتے ہیں- بہت سے صحافی پاکستان کے دشمنوں سے اپنے قلم کا سودا کر چکے ہیں- ایسے کم علم صحافیوں کی بھی کمی نہیں جو اتنی بڑی سازش کو پاکستان کی اندرونی سیاست کہہ کر اپنے بے معنی  "تجزیوں" سے صفحے سیاہ کرتے ہیں 

عالمی حالات 

پاکستان کے متعلق بات کرنے سے پہلے کچھ دوسرے اسلامی ملکوں پہ ایک نگاہ ڈال کے ہم بہت کچھ سمجھ سکتے ہیں- عراق، لیبیا اور شام پہ تباہی نازل ہونے کی بنیادی وجہ ان ممالک کی خود مختار حکمت عملی تھی جس سے امریکی  (یاصیہونی) مالی نظام اور اقتصادی قوت پہ ضرب پڑتی تھی- صدام حسین، قذافی اور بشار الاسد، تینوں ڈالری نظام کے    قید خانے سے نکل کے سونے پہ مبنی سکہ رائج کرنے کے خواہشمند تھے- اس گستاخی کی سزا بہت عبرت ناک تھی- عراق اور لیبیا تباہ ہو چکے ہیں اور صدام و قذافی موت کی آغوش میں جا سوۓ ہیں- صرف بشار زندہ بچا ہے جو اپنے    وطن کو امریکیوں/اسرئیلیوں اور ان کے خونخوار داعش دہشتگردوں کی گرفت سے آزاد کرانے کے لئے روس اور ایران کی مدد سے لڑ رہا ہے- ان  تین ممالک سے قبل امریکی "سوپر پاور" نے تونس اور مصر میں "عرب بہار" کی ہوائیں بھیج کر ابن علی اور حسنی مبارک سے چھٹکارا حاصل کر لیا تھا- اب وہاں امریکہ کی فرمانبردار حکومتیں ہیں اور امریکہ/اسرائیل مطمئن ہیں- جن اسلامی ممالک نے امریکہ/اسرائیل کے    سامنے گھٹنے ٹیک کے تابعداری کی زنجیر گلے میں ڈال لی وہ بچ گئے:سعودی عرب، متحدہ امارات، قطر وغیرہ 

اب پاکستان کی باری ہے ؟

عمران خان ملک میں غربت کا خاتمہ کر کے ایک با عزت اور خوشحال معاشرہ قائم کرنا چاہتا ہے- اس کے لئے چین/پاکستان اقتصادی راہداری کی کلیدی اہمیت ہے- یہ راہداری چین کے عالمگیر منصوبے کی اہم ترین کڑی ہے جس کی تکمیل سے چین  اقتصادی لحاظ سے امریکہ سے بہت آگے جا سکتا ہے- پاکستان کے لئے بھی اقتصادی ترقی کے امکانات بہت روشن ہیں-

گزشتہ ستمبر عمران خان نے اقوام متحدہ میں کھڑے ہو کر جو تقریر کی تھی اس نے امریکہ/اسرئیل اور انکے حلیف بھارت میں خطرے کی گھنٹیاں بجا دی تھیں- اس تقریر میں عمران نے جرات و بیباکی سے "غریب" ممالک کی دولت خود غرض حکمرانوں کے توسط سے امیر ممالک میں منتقل ہونے کی روداد بیان کی تھی- اس دولت کا باہر جانے کے بعد واپس آنا محال ہو جاتا ہے جب کہ پاکستان کے مالی جرائم کے مرتکب لوگوں کو مغرب میں پناہ دے دی جاتی ہے- ان ممالک کی اخلاقی اقدار کا پول عمران نے ان کی اسلام کو بدنام کرنے کی سازش کا ذکر کر کے کھول دیا تھا- آخر میں مقبوضہ کشمیر میں بھارت کے مظالم کا تفصیل سے تذکرہ کر کے عمران نے بھارت کی مکاری اور درندگی سے ساری دنیا کو آگاہ کر دیا-

عین اس وقت جب امریکہ و اسرائیل سعودی عرب کو اسلامی ملک ایران کے خلاف جنگ پہ ابھار رہے تھے عمران نے ایران اور سعودی کے دورے کر کے ان میں صلح کرانے کی کوشش کی اور جنگ کا خطرہ ٹل گیا-

 مندرجہ بالا وجوہ کی بنا پہ ان تین ممالک (اور ان کے حلیفوں) کے لئے عمران ایک ناپسندیدہ شخصیت  بن چکا ہے جسے راہ سے ہٹانا ضروری ہے- اس کے لئے انہوں نے ایک ماہر شاطر کی طرح پاکستان کی بساط پہ اپنے مہروں کو حرکت دینی شروع کر دی ہے- ایک اہم مہرہ وہ خود غرض، بے ضمیر اور لالچی شخص ہے جو دارالحکومت میں دھرنا  دیئے ہوۓ ہے- دوسرا اتنا ہی اہم مہرہ سزا یافتہ مجرم نواز کا ہے جس کی "علالت" کے جال میں عمران کو پھنسانے کی کوشش کی جا رہی ہے- ایک اور مہرہ سابق صدر زرداری کا ہے جس پر ملک کی دولت لوٹ کر امیر ملکوں میں منتقل کرنے کے الزامات ہیں- وہ بھی سخت بیمار ہے اور "ظالم" عمران کی دہائی دے رہا ہے- 

ان تین بڑےمہروں کے علاوہ چھوٹے مہروں کی شکل میں پاکستانی غدار سیاست، صحافت، تجارت، نوکر شاہی نظام اور حکومت میں پھیلے ہوۓ ہیں- ان میں سے اکثر کے پاس امریکی یا برطانوی شہریت ہے! افسوس سے کہنا پڑتا ہے کہ ایک محدود حد تک ایسے گندے انڈے عدلیہ اور افواج پاکستان میں بھی موجود ہیں (بعض کو سزائیں ہو چکی ہیں)- ان سب ضمیر فروشوں کی ہمت افزائی اور مالی مدد کے لئے پاکستان کے دشمنوں کے ڈھیروں "غیر ریاستی ادارے" اور "انسانی حقوق" کی انجمنیں سر زمین پاکستان میں پھیلے ہوۓ ہیں- ان اداروں کی  سرپرست "امدادی" اور "فلاحی" تنظیمیں ہیں جن کی کڑیاں غیر ملکی سفارت خانوں، "تھنک ٹینکوں" اور براہ راست غیر ملکی حکومتوں اور ان کے خفیہ اداروں سے جا ملتی ہیں:  "امریکی ایڈ"، "قومی انڈاؤمنٹ براہ جمہوریت"، "فریڈم ہاؤس" اوراسی قماش کے اور ادارے جو کھرب پتی جارج سوروس کی "اوپن سوسائٹی" کے تحت چلتے ہیں-

پاکستانی حکومت نے بھارتی سفارت خانے کا عملہ کم کر دیا ہے جو ایک مثبت قدم ہے- اسی طرح امریکی سفارت خانے پہ بندشیں لگانے کی ضرورت ہے اور "غیر ریاستی اداروں" کو اگر قابو میں نہیں رکھا جا سکتا تو انہیں بند کرنا بہتر ہے- رہے عمران کے ارد گرد اغیار کے ایجنٹ تو ان کی نشان دہی "آئی ایس آئی" (یہ ہماری ذہنی غلامی ہے کہ ہم اپنی زبان میں اپنے اداروں کے نام نہیں رکھ سکتے!) کا کام ہے- عمران کے پاس پارلیمان میں اکثریت نہیں اور وہ بیساکھیوں کے سہارے اپنی حکومت چلا رہا ہے، جسے ناکام ثابت کرنے میں حکومت میں شامل غدار بھی اپنا کردار ادا کر رہے ہیں-

آگے کیا ہو گا ؟

وقت گزرنے کے ساتھ ساتھ عمران کو قوت کے مراکز اور قوت کے استعمال کا ادراک ہوتا جا رہا ہے- کرتارپور راہداری کے کھلنے سے ممکن ہے کشمیر پہ بھارت کے ظلم و ستم کے خلاف پاکستان کو سکھوں کی اخلاقی امداد مل جائے- اگر افواج پاکستان عمران کی پشت پہ کھڑی رہیں اور حکومت کے ساتھ مل کے پاکستان کے دشمنوں کی چالوں کو ناکام بنا دیا تو پاکستان کا مستقبل بہت روشن ہے- عمران کو اسی جرات اور بیباکی کا مظاہرہ کرنے کی ضرورت ہے جو اس نے اقوام متحدہ میں دکھائی تھیں- پاکستانی غداروں کا قلع قمع کرنے کے لئے ضروری ہے کہ ان کو ملنے والی مالی امداد کا خاتمہ کر دیا جاۓ اور دشمن ممالک کے سفارت خانوں پہ پابندیاں لگائی جائیں-

The slow death of Julian Assange by state torture

Last April I wrote about the persecution of Julian Assange, an outstanding journalist and, through his fearless reporting, no less than a benefactor of mankind. During the six months since his arrest he has been kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours each day and subjected to psychological and drug-induced torture. He is now a living wreck, unrecognisable from the man with a razor-sharp intellect. Craig Murray, a former British ambassador and a personal friend of Assange, was present when Assange was taken to Westminster Magistrates Court to lay the groundwork for a kangaroo trial. Craig Murray's account of the court proceedings is a damning indictment of the "British justice" flaunted by the British ruling classes. People who are earmarked by the government for wilful victimisation can expect no justice. Murray has published a lengthy blog at his website today. Most of it is copied below. 

with razor-sharp intellect

 struggles to recall name

ASSANGE IN COURT by Craig Murray

I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. 

Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.

But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought. 

Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – even of Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness. 

I had been even more sceptical of those who claimed, as a senior member of his legal team did to me on Sunday night, that they were worried that Julian might not live to the end of the extradition process. I now find myself not only believing it, but haunted by the thought. Everybody in that court yesterday saw that one of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable. Yet the agents of the state, particularly the callous magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, were not just prepared but eager to be a part of this bloodsport. She actually told him that if he were incapable of following proceedings, then his lawyers could explain what had happened to him later. The question of why a man who, by the very charges against him, was acknowledged to be highly intelligent and competent, had been reduced by the state to somebody incapable of following court proceedings, gave her not a millisecond of concern.

The charge against Julian is very specific; conspiring with Chelsea Manning to publish the Iraq War logs, the Afghanistan war logs and the State Department cables. The charges are nothing to do with Sweden, nothing to do with sex, and nothing to do with the 2016 US election; a simple clarification the mainstream media appears incapable of understanding.

The purpose of yesterday’s hearing was case management; to determine the timetable for the extradition proceedings. The key points at issue were that Julian’s defence was requesting more time to prepare their evidence; and arguing that political offences were specifically excluded from the extradition treaty. There should, they argued, therefore be a preliminary hearing to determine whether the extradition treaty applied at all.

The reasons given by Assange’s defence team for more time to prepare were both compelling and startling. They had very limited access to their client in jail and had not been permitted to hand him any documents about the case until one week ago. He had also only just been given limited computer access, and all his relevant records and materials had been seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy by the US Government; he had no access to his own materials for the purpose of preparing his defence.

Furthermore, the defence argued, they were in touch with the Spanish courts about a very important and relevant legal case in Madrid which would provide vital evidence. It showed that the CIA had been directly ordering spying on Julian in the Embassy through a Spanish company, UC Global, contracted to provide security there. Crucially this included spying on privileged conversations between Assange and his lawyers discussing his defence against these extradition proceedings, which had been in train in the USA since 2010. In any normal process, that fact would in itself be sufficient to have the extradition proceedings dismissed. Incidentally I learnt on Sunday that the Spanish material produced in court, which had been commissioned by the CIA, specifically includes high resolution video coverage of Julian and I discussing various matters.

The evidence to the Spanish court also included a CIA plot to kidnap Assange, which went to the US authorities’ attitude to lawfulness in his case and the treatment he might expect in the United States. Julian’s team explained that the Spanish legal process was happening now and the evidence from it would be extremely important, but it might not be finished and thus the evidence not fully validated and available in time for the current proposed timetable for the Assange extradition hearings.

For the prosecution, James Lewis QC stated that the government strongly opposed any delay being given for the defence to prepare, and strongly opposed any separate consideration of the question of whether the charge was a political offence excluded by the extradition treaty. Baraitser took her cue from Lewis and stated categorically that the date for the extradition hearing, 25 February, could not be changed. She was open to changes in dates for submission of evidence and responses before this, and called a ten minute recess for the prosecution and defence to agree these steps. 

What happened next was very instructive. There were five representatives of the US government present (initially three, and two more arrived in the course of the hearing), seated at desks behind the lawyers in court. The prosecution lawyers immediately went into huddle with the US representatives, then went outside the courtroom with them, to decide how to respond on the dates. 

After the recess the defence team stated they could not, in their professional opinion, adequately prepare if the hearing date were kept to February, but within Baraitser’s instruction to do so they nevertheless outlined a proposed timetable on delivery of evidence. In responding to this, Lewis’ junior counsel scurried to the back of the court to consult the Americans again while Lewis actually told the judge he was “taking instructions from those behind”. It is important to note that as he said this, it was not the UK Attorney-General’s office who were being consulted but the US Embassy. Lewis received his American instructions and agreed that the defence might have two months to prepare their evidence (they had said they needed an absolute minimum of three) but the February hearing date may not be moved. Baraitser gave a ruling agreeing everything Lewis had said.

At this stage it was unclear why we were sitting through this farce. The US government was dictating its instructions to Lewis, who was relaying those instructions to Baraitser, who was ruling them as her legal decision. The charade might as well have been cut and the US government simply sat on the bench to control the whole process. Nobody could sit there and believe they were in any part of a genuine legal process or that Baraitser was giving a moment’s consideration to the arguments of the defence. Her facial expressions on the few occasions she looked at the defence ranged from contempt through boredom to sarcasm. When she looked at Lewis she was attentive, open and warm.

The extradition is plainly being rushed through in accordance with a Washington dictated timetable. Apart from a desire to pre-empt the Spanish court providing evidence on CIA activity in sabotaging the defence, what makes the February date so important to the USA? I would welcome any thoughts.

Finally, Baraitser turned to Julian and ordered him to stand, and asked him if he had understood the proceedings. He replied in the negative, said that he could not think, and gave every appearance of disorientation. Then he seemed to find an inner strength, drew himself up a little, and said:

I do not understand how this process is equitable. This superpower had 10 years to prepare for this case and I can’t even access my writings. It is very difficult, where I am, to do anything. These people have unlimited resources.

The effort then seemed to become too much, his voice dropped and he became increasingly confused and incoherent. He spoke of whistleblowers and publishers being labeled enemies of the people, then spoke about his children’s DNA being stolen and of being spied on in his meetings with his psychologist. I am not suggesting at all that Julian was wrong about these points, but he could not properly frame nor articulate them. He was plainly not himself, very ill and it was just horribly painful to watch. Baraitser showed neither sympathy nor the least concern. She tartly observed that if he could not understand what had happened, his lawyers could explain it to him, and she swept out of court.

The whole experience was profoundly upsetting. It was very plain that there was no genuine process of legal consideration happening here. What we had was a naked demonstration of the power of the state, and a naked dictation of proceedings by the Americans. Julian was in a box behind bulletproof glass, and I and the thirty odd other members of the public who had squeezed in were in a different box behind more bulletproof glass. I do not know if he could see me or his other friends in the court, or if he was capable of recognising anybody. He gave no indication that he did. 

In Belmarsh he is kept in complete isolation for 23 hours a day. He is permitted 45 minutes exercise. If he has to be moved, they clear the corridors before he walks down them and they lock all cell doors to ensure he has no contact with any other prisoner outside the short and strictly supervised exercise period. There is no possible justification for this inhuman regime, used on major terrorists, being imposed on a publisher who is a remand prisoner.

I have been both cataloguing and protesting for years the increasingly authoritarian powers of the UK state, but that the most gross abuse could be so open and undisguised is still a shock. The campaign of demonisation and dehumanisation against Julian, based on government and media lie after government and media lie, has led to a situation where he can be slowly killed in public sight, and arraigned on a charge of publishing the truth about government wrongdoing, while receiving no assistance from “liberal” society. 

Unless Julian is released shortly he will be destroyed. If the state can do this, then who is next?

You can read Craig Murray's full blog here: Assange in Court

The Mumbai False Flag Re-visited

The False Flag of Mumbai, on 26 November 2008, has already been extensively exposed in books and articles. Perhaps the most famous book on the Mumbai False Flag is Elias Davidsson’s “The Betrayal of India : Re-visiting the 26/11 Evidence”. A review of that book can be read here:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-betrayal-of-india-a-close-look-at-the-2008-mumbai-terror-attacks-2/5593721

Although Pakistanis have written numerous articles about the Mumbai False Flag, what was missing was a book giving full details of how the operation was planned and executed. This shortcoming has now been addressed by Munir Ahmad Baloch in his Urdu book “Mumbai 26/11: Hemant Karkare aur Ajmal Kasaab” :              

ممبئی   26/11 : ہیمنت کرکرے اور اجمل قصاب 

Using primarily Indian sources, Munir Baloch shows how flimsy and laughable the charge of terrorism against Pakistan was. While Davidsson thinks that the heinous event of 26/11 was probably a joint effort by India, US and Israel, Munir Baloch implicates only India and the US in this plot. 

To demonise Pakistan, the plotters massacred 166 people over three days, commencing 26 November. The official conspiracy theory is that there were 10 "terrorists" who had defied India's army and security services for several days. The resulting lies and mendacious reporting in the US-controlled western Mainstream media (MSM), and in Indian media, established Pakistan as a “terrorist” state. The puppet rulers of Pakistan, installed by the USR (US Regime), either kept quiet or made traitorous statements fed to them by their USR/Indian handlers. It is only with the arrival of Prime Minister Imran Khan that the country has plucked up courage to speak the truth to the world, above all in Imran’s seminal speech to the UN General Assembly on 27 September, 2019. Of particular relevance in this context is the way Imran Khan pulled the mask away from the face of the Terrorist Prime Minister of India, the Butcher of Gujerat, Modi. The world is now slowly waking up to the fact that all terrorist events attributed to Pakistan in the past were either the handiwork of India or USR or a collaboration between the two (with, possibly, Israeli participation).

The tragic hero of Munir Baloch's book is Inspector Hemant Karkare, the Anti-Terrorism squad chief, a Hindu who had exposed the web of extremist Hindu terrorism in Indian army and security forces. He had named high ranking serving officers, such as Colonel Purohit, who were neck-deep in numerous massacres, which they blamed on “Muslim terrorism”. Hindu terrorist organisations such as RSS (of which the current Terrorist PM of India is a lifetime member) considered Karkare an enemy of Hindus and of “Mother India”. Modi had openly declared him to be a traitor, who was to be dealt with mercilessly. Hemant Karkare, and two of his colleagues closely involved in the uncovering of Hindu Terrorism, were callously murdered by sharpshooters amid the mayhem and confusion of Mumbai False Flag. Following his murder, a former Inspector General of police in the sate of Maharashtra, S M Mushrif, wrote a book titled “Who killed Karkare? – the real face of terrorism in India”.

Munir Baloch tells us that the fall guy, Ajmal Kassab from Pakistan, had in fact been kidnapped from Nepal by Indian Secret Service in 2006 and had been held in captivity. According to the official conspiracy theory he was the only "terrorist" who survived, his nine companions having been killed in the encounter. No photographs were ever produced of the nine dead "terrorists". Ajmal Kassab, however, was allegedly snapped up at a railway station by a fearless photographer of "The Times of India" who put his life at risk to take Ajmal's photo while people were being gunned down all around him! What a hero! He performed an invaluable service because, as the Indian public learnt later, the numerous CCTV cameras at the station had conveniently broken down at noon that very day. What's more, the CCTV cameras, at Taj Mahal and Oberoi-Trident hotels, at Leopold Cafe or at Cama Hospital had apparently all failed to record the proceedings of the day as no recordings were ever produced in the kangaroo trial that condemned the kid to death.

Kassab's photograph purported to show a “terrorist” on a Mumbai railway station shooting passengers and railway employees. What we see in the picture is a freshly shaved youth with carefully combed hair, laden with rucksack and bags, wearing clean and pressed multi-pocketed trousers, his Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle pointing downwards! This was the young man who, according to Indian authorities, had spent four days in boats (first his own, then an Indian fisherman’s) sailing from Karachi to Mumbai, eventually stepping down on the shores of Mumbai at night on Wednesday, 26 November, 2008. He had then proceeded to set fire to a petrol filling station and to embark on a callous murder spree. When he eventually arrived at a railway station, where his photograph was allegedly taken, you would expect him to look haggard, with several days’ growth of beard, his face covered with dirt and blood and his clothes looking filthy. Not a bit. He might have been a typical wooden Bollywood hero who had arrived at the station for the shooting of a film. This fact alone speaks volumes about the ridiculous story that the MSM had hammered into the consciousness of the public through sheer repetition and ceaseless propaganda.

The film “A Wednesday”

An astonishing fact that I learned from Munir Baloch’s book is that the drama played out on 26 November could indeed be likened to the shooting of a film. A few months earlier, the Bollywood movie “A Wednesday” was produced by UTV Motion Pictures, directed by Neeraj Panday. The story had an uncanny resemblance to the Mumbai False Flag. It more or less foretold what was going to happen later the same year: 

On a wintry Wednesday night the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and the Oberoi-Trident Hotel are attacked by a group of terrorists, who massacre people and occupy the hotels, taking the hotel guests as hostages for bargaining with security forces. They ring up Mumbai Police Commissioner, demanding the release of four accomplices who are held in India. This film was on general release for just one week and then it mysteriously disappeared. Someone high up in the security forces must have realized that it was a foolish act to place their cards openly on the table. A few months later, the Mumbai False Flag turned out to be the real shooting of the rehearsal leading to “A Wednesday”!

Munir Ahmad Baloch’s book is published by Qalam Foundation International, Lahore. Its email address is: qalamfoundation3@gmail.com.

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

The ugly truth about the USA: a "must read" article

By John W. Whitehead

Url of this article: https://www.globalresearch.ca/d-dictatorship-disguised-democracy/5676839

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better. Week after week, the script changes (Donald Trump’s Tweets, Congress’ hearings on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, the military’s endless war drums, the ever-widening field of candidates for the 2020 presidential race, etc.) with each new script following on the heels of the last, never any let-up, never any relief from the constant melodrama. The players come and go, the protagonists and antagonists trade places, and the audience members are quick to forget past mistakes and move on to the next spectacle. All the while, a different kind of drama is unfolding in the dark backstage, hidden from view by the heavy curtain, the elaborate stage sets, colored lights and parading actors. Such that it is, the realm of political theater with all of its drama, vitriol and scripted theatrics is what passes for “transparent” government today, with elected officials, entrusted to act in the best interests of their constituents, routinely performing for their audiences and playing up to the cameras, while doing very little to move the country forward. Yet behind the footlights, those who really run the show are putting into place policies which erode our freedoms and undermine our attempts at contributing to the workings of our government, leaving us none the wiser and bereft of any opportunity to voice our discontent or engage in any kind of discourse until it’s too late. It’s the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst. Indeed, while mainstream America has been fixated on the drama-filled reality show being televised from the White House, the American Police State has moved steadily forward. Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, eminent domain, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, roving VIPR raids and the like—all of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courts—our constitutional freedoms have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded. Our losses are mounting with every passing day. Free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government: all of these and more have become casualties in the government’s war on the American people. The American people have been treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process. None of these dangers have dissipated. They have merely disappeared from our televised news streams. The new boss has proven to be the same as the old boss, and the American people, the permanent underclass in America, has allowed itself to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State. Frankly, it really doesn’t matter what you call the old/new boss—the Deep State, the Controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complex—so long as you understand that no matter who occupies the White House, it is a profit-driven, an unelected bureaucracy that is actually calling the shots. In the interest of liberty and truth, here’s an A-to-Z primer to spell out the grim realities of life in the American Police State that no one is talking about anymore. A is for the AMERICAN POLICE STATE. A police state “is characterized by bureaucracy, secrecy, perpetual wars, a nation of suspects, militarization, surveillance, widespread police presence, and a citizenry with little recourse against police actions.” B is for our battered BILL OF RIGHTS. In the cop culture that is America today, where you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is rarely held accountable for violating your rights, the Bill of Rights doesn’t amount to much. C is for CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE. This governmental scheme to deprive Americans of their liberties—namely, the right to property—is being carried out under the guise of civil asset forfeiture, a government practice wherein government agents (usually the police) seize private property they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity. Then, whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizen’s property. D is for DRONES. It is estimated that at least 30,000 drones will be airborne in American airspace by 2020, part of an $80 billion industry. Although some drones will be used for benevolent purposes, many will also be equipped with lasers, tasers and scanning devices, among other weapons—all aimed at “we the people.” E is for ELECTRONIC CONCENTRATION CAMP. In the electronic concentration camp, as I have dubbed the surveillance state, all aspects of a person’s life are policed by government agents and all citizens are suspects, their activities monitored and regulated, their movements tracked, their communications spied upon, and their lives, liberties and pursuit of happiness dependent on the government’s say-so. F is for FASCISM. A study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that the U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called “economic elite.” Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups. In other words, we are being ruled by an oligarchy disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism—a form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere economic units. G is for GRENADE LAUNCHERS and GLOBAL POLICE. The federal government has distributed more than $18 billion worth of battlefield-appropriate military weapons, vehicles and equipment such as drones, tanks, and grenade launchers to domestic police departments across the country. As a result, most small-town police forces now have enough firepower to render any citizen resistance futile. Now take those small-town police forces, train them to look and act like the military, and then enlist them to be part of the United Nations’ Strong Cities Network program, and you not only have a standing army that operates beyond the reach of the Constitution but one that is part of a global police force. H is for HOLLOW-POINT BULLETS. The government’s efforts to militarize and weaponize its agencies and employees is reaching epic proportions, with federal agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration stockpiling millions of lethal hollow-point bullets, which violate international law. Ironically, while the government continues to push for stricter gun laws for the general populace, the U.S. military’s arsenal of weapons makes the average American’s handgun look like a Tinker Toy. I is for the INTERNET OF THINGS, in which internet-connected “things” will monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free. The key word here, however, is control. This “connected” industry propels us closer to a future where police agencies apprehend virtually anyone if the government “thinks” they may commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance. J is for JAILING FOR PROFIT. Having outsourced their inmate population to private prisons run by private corporations, this profit-driven form of mass punishment has given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry that relies on the complicity of state governments to keep their privately run prisons full by jailing large numbers of Americans for inane crimes. K is for KENTUCKY V. KING. In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that police officers can break into homes, without a warrant, even if it’s the wrong home as long as they think they have a reason to do so. Despite the fact that the police in question ended up pursuing the wrong suspect, invaded the wrong apartment and violated just about every tenet that stands between us and a police state, the Court sanctioned the warrantless raid, leaving Americans with little real protection in the face of all manner of abuses by law enforcement officials. L is for LICENSE PLATE READERS, which enable law enforcement and private agencies to track the whereabouts of vehicles, and their occupants, all across the country. This data collected on tens of thousands of innocent people is also being shared between police agencies, as well as with fusion centers and private companies. This puts Big Brother in the driver’s seat. M is for MAIN CORE. Since the 1980s, the U.S. government has acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation. As Salon reports, this database, reportedly dubbed “Main Core,” is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. As of 2008, there were some 8 million Americans in the Main Core database. N is for NO-KNOCK RAIDS. Owing to the militarization of the nation’s police forces, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for routine police matters. In fact, more than 80,000 of these paramilitary raids are carried out every year. That translates to more than 200 SWAT team raids every day in which police crash through doors, damage private property, terrorize adults and children alike, kill family pets, assault or shoot anyone that is perceived as threatening—and all in the pursuit of someone merely suspected of a crime, usually possession of some small amount of drugs. O is for OVERCRIMINALIZATION and OVERREGULATION. Thanks to an overabundance of 4500-plus federal crimes and 400,000 plus rules and regulations, it’s estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a day without knowing it. As a result of this overcriminalization, we’re seeing an uptick in Americans being arrested and jailed for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room. P is for PATHOCRACY and PRECRIME. When our own government treats us as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, mistreated, and then jailed in profit-driven private prisons if we dare step out of line, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” Couple that with the government’s burgeoning precrime programs, which will use fusion centers, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics in order to identify and deter so-called potential “extremists,” dissidents or rabble-rousers. Bear in mind that anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—is now viewed as an extremist. Q is for QUALIFIED IMMUNITY. Qualified immunity allows officers to walk away without paying a dime for their wrongdoing. Conveniently, those deciding whether a police officer should be immune from having to personally pay for misbehavior on the job all belong to the same system, all cronies with a vested interest in protecting the police and their infamous code of silence: city and county attorneys, police commissioners, city councils and judges. R is for ROADSIDE STRIP SEARCHES and BLOOD DRAWS. The courts have increasingly erred on the side of giving government officials—especially the police—vast discretion in carrying out strip searches, blood draws and even anal probes for a broad range of violations, no matter how minor the offense. In the past, strip searches were resorted to only in exceptional circumstances where police were confident that a serious crime was in progress. In recent years, however, strip searches have become routine operating procedures in which everyone is rendered a suspect and, as such, is subjected to treatment once reserved for only the most serious of criminals. S is for the SURVEILLANCE STATE. On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere. T is for TASERS. Nonlethal weapons such as tasers, stun guns, rubber pellets and the like have been used by police as weapons of compliance more often and with less restraint—even against women and children—and in some instances, even causing death. These “nonlethal” weapons also enable police to aggress with the push of a button, making the potential for overblown confrontations over minor incidents that much more likely. A Taser Shockwave, for instance, can electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button. U is for UNARMED CITIZENS SHOT BY POLICE. No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later, often attributed to a fear for their safety. Yet the fatality rate of on-duty patrol officers is reportedly far lower than many other professions, including construction, logging, fishing, truck driving, and even trash collection. V is for VIPR SQUADS. So-called “soft target” security inspections, carried out by roving VIPR task forces, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive detection canine teams, are taking place whenever and wherever the government deems appropriate, at random times and places, and without needing the justification of a particular threat. W is for WHOLE-BODY SCANNERS. Using either x-ray radiation or radio waves, scanning devices and government mobile units are being used not only to “see” through your clothes but to spy on you within the privacy of your home. While these mobile scanners are being sold to the American public as necessary security and safety measures, we can ill afford to forget that such systems are rife with the potential for abuse, not only by government bureaucrats but by the technicians employed to operate them. X is for X-KEYSCORE, one of the many spying programs carried out by the National Security Agency that targets every person in the United States who uses a computer or phone. This top-secret program “allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.” Y is for YOU-NESS. Using your face, mannerisms, social media and “you-ness” against you, you can now be tracked based on what you buy, where you go, what you do in public, and how you do what you do. Facial recognition software promises to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. The goal is for government agents to be able to scan a crowd of people and instantaneously identify all of the individuals present. Facial recognition programs are being rolled out in states all across the country. Z is for ZERO TOLERANCE. We have moved into a new paradigm in which young people are increasingly viewed as suspects and treated as criminals by school officials and law enforcement alike, often for engaging in little more than childish behavior. In some jurisdictions, students have also been penalized under school zero tolerance policies for such inane “crimes” as carrying cough drops, wearing black lipstick, bringing nail clippers to school, using Listerine or Scope, and carrying fold-out combs that resemble switchblades. The lesson being taught to our youngest—and most impressionable—citizens is this: in the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (politician, police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.). As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the post-9/11 America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned. We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age. You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state. Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny. * This article was originally published on The Rutherford Institute. Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People  is available at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. He is frequent contributor to Global Research. Featured image is from peterpilt.org

The persecution of Julian Assange

Thursday, 11 April 2019, will for ever be a black day in the history of the United Kingdom. On this day, a servile British Prime Minister, Theresa May, caved in to pressure from a wild US President who treats International Law with disdain. The British police was ordered to arrest Julian Assange, a great benefactor of mankind, who had been given political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy by the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa (that asylum has just been withdrawn by Correa's successor Moreno, a US puppet who faces corruption allegations).

Below is a selection of comments from courageous individuals who speak up against injustice and oppression.

1. Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/chelsea-and-julian-are-in-jail-history-trembles/

2. Comments from Julian Assange's lawyer Carlos Poveda.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/assanges-lawyer-says-wikileaks-founders-life-danger-extradited-u-s/5674257

3. Mark Taliano, author of "Voices from Syria".

https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-lauded-protected-not-persecuted-destroyed/5674246

4. John Pilger, the fearless journalist of international fame.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-assange-arrest-is-a-warning-from-history

5. Dr Leon Tressell, a historian.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-government-arrests-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-behalf-american-empire/5674195


APPENDIX

The Freedom Articles website has set out the issues surrounding Julian Assange's arrest with great clarity:

http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/assange-arrest-ecuador-uk-us-wikileaks/?utm_source=Freedom+Articles&utm_campaign=4c7d39230d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cc6823db53-4c7d39230d-149229009&mc_cid=4c7d39230d&mc_eid=efd20e98e0