US-Anglo Capitalist Theft & Human Rights Abuse

Chagos Archipelago US-Anglo Capitalist Theft & Human Rights Abuse for Illegal Capitalist US Military Base RT News https://www.rt.com/uk/349042-chagos-islanders-supreme-court/ Chagos islanders forcibly evicted by UK told they STILL can’t go home Published time: 30 Jun, 2016 16:24 Chagos islanders forcibly removed from their homes by the British government to make way for a US military base have been told they are still barred from returning in a UK Supreme Court ruling. Britain’s highest court said the islanders could not go back to their homeland because life on the archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean is too precarious, despite the fact over 4,000 US and UK military personnel live on the island Diego Garcia. Since their forced eviction in the 1960s and 1970s, the islanders have campaigned for the right to return to their homes, supported by politicians such as Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The Supreme Court ruling is the latest in a protracted legal battle against the UK government. In 2000, the High Court ruled the Chagos islanders could return to all islands except Diego Garcia, the site of a large US military base. This was overturned in 2008 by a 3/2 majority. Thursday’s ruling by the same majority is the latest setback in the islanders’ struggle for justice, however they have not been deterred by the decision. It is impossible to accept that other people can live and work on our birthplace while we are not able to,” said Chagos Refugee Group leader Louis Olivier Bancoult. “We will not give up. Chagossians will be on Chagos very soon. “It’s time for the UK government to put an end to all our suffering. We have not lost all the battle. It’s not the end of the road. Our case is a just case. We are asking for our dignity as people and fundamental rights as human beings.” https://www.rt.com/uk/349042-chagos-islanders-supreme-court/ SUMMARY [info from wikipedia unless otherwise marked] -------/\/\/ Chagos Archipelago aka Chagos Islands, Oil Islands over 60 tropical islands Indian Ocean, 500 km south of Maldives British Indian Ocean Territory home to Chagossians over 150 years UK evicted them 1967 - 1973 to let USA build MILITARY BASE on Diego Garcia Diego Garcia only inhabited by only military & civilian US personnel - since 1971 Sovereignty of Chagos Archipelago disputed b/w  Mauritius & UK UK excised Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory 1965 before Mauritius gained 'independence' in 1968 ARABS Arabs first to visit Mauritius  Mauritius named:  Dina Arobi in Middle Ages by Arab sailors PORTUGUESE 1507, Portuguese sailors visit DUTCH Dutch established colony in Mauritius 1638 Mauritius home of the dodo & other bird species dodo terrestrial, flightless, likely ground nesting no natural mammalian predators live specimens sent to Europe & east earliest European depiction in royal menagerie of Emperor Rudolph II, Prague c. 1610 paintings dodo fearless of humans fearlessness & inability to fly = easy prey to sailors some mass killings for ships' provisions in 1600s human population in Mauritius never exceeded 50 persons but introduced:  dogs, pigs, cats, rats & macaques which plundered dodo nests & competed for food resources meanwhile, humans destroyed forest habitat of dodos impact of pigs & macaques particularly severe last dodo sighting 1662, shipwrecked Dutch mariner dodo extinction reported 1600s but not recognised to 1800s partly due to religious reasons:  did not believe extinction possible partly b/c scientists doubted dodo existence (believed it was myth) first human-induced extinction reference in 1833 mag. Mauritius was named after Dutch prince prince Maurice van Nassau Dutch East India Company administration 1638 Dutch East India Company INTRODUCED SLAVERY Mauritius source of slave labour under DEIC = Batavia Batavia = modern Jakarta, Indonesia Batavia became Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia post WWII Batavia, source of:  nutmeg, black pepper, cloves, cinnamon + non indigenous:  coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco, rubber, sugar & opium Dutch East Indies colonial city of Batavia held 320 years fell to Japanese occupation WWII renamed:  Jakarta under Japanese occupation Dutch renamed:  Batavia / to Indonesia independence 1949 Dutch had made attempts to develop slave trade in Indian Ocean Dutch East India Company maintained control to 1710 DEIC left due to PIRACY & wars with FRANCE & BRITAIN Dutch navigator Abel Tasman set out from Mauritius to discover western part of Australia 1710 - Mauritius, Dutch abandoned colony FRENCH 1715 - Mauritius became French colony (Isle de France) important base on Europe to East trade routes Mauritius under French East India Company admin. French continue slave labour under French admin, slaves imported from:  Africa & Madagascar involved in power struggle b/w French & British BRITISH 1810 - French surrender / terms with British name reverted to Mauritius on British rule British continued slavery & held political prisoners in Mauritius 1835, slavery abolished 1834 - 1921:  over 500,000 indentured labourers under British brought in for work on:     - sugar plantations     - factories     - transport     - construction plus:  8,740 Indian soldiers brought to Mauritius Aapravasi Ghat, Port Louis, major reception centre for slaves & semi-slaves / more ie indentured servants / labourers indentured servitude = form of people trafficking & labour exploitation mass immigration to 'New World', working for master for fixed term of years to pay off debt of migration, at which point servants freed to work for self INDENTURED SERVITUDE widely used in BRITISH COLONIES, NORTH AMERICA & ELSEWHERE 1600 - 1700  HALF THE WHITE IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA COLONIES INDENTURED SERVANTS late 1600s to early 1700s, children from England and France = kidnapped and sold into indentured labour in Caribbean * term of '5 years' meant nothing:  contracts bought & sold * some never obtained freedom 1939 - WWII - Mauritians volunteer to serve British, Africa & Near East versus Germans & Italians German subs sunk British ships 1943 in Port Louis but Mauritius itself was never threatened 1948 - first general elections (Labour win) 1953 - Labour, demand for universal suffrage (bettering Labour position) 1955 to 1957, constitutional conferences held London 1959 - first universal adult suffrage 1959 - Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change Speech     best option for UK:  'independence' of colonies     since late 1950s, 'independence' of UK colonies paved 1961 - Constitutional Review Conference, London 1963 - elections     candidates chosen on ETHNIC & CASTE considerations     social probs, overpopulation & monoculture of sugar cane (ie single crop cult.) = intense campaign to HALT POPULATION EXPLOSION / decade decline pop. growth = *does not explain HOW decline pop. (ie emigration?) 1965 - Lancaster Conference - UK wants to relieve itself of Mauritius colony 1965 - UK excised Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius     to form BRITISH INDIAN OCIAN TERRITORY (BIOT) 1968 - Mauritius became 'independent' state 1968 - new constitution + Mauritius 'independence' proclaimed     republic within:  Commonwealth of Nations Queen Elizabeth II - head of state UN tribunal ruled:  UK acted illegally     on creating marine protected area around Chagos     without consent of Mauritius     depriving Mauritius of fishing rights 2009-2011, Truth & Justice Commission (Mauritius)     explores impact of slavery & indentured servitude in Mauritius     the 'official apology' inquiry     involves museum + 'crimes against humanity' ideology     intro of Creole in schools     land grants     critics accuse govt. commission of being:  'eyewash' Mauritius penal system:   French civil law + British common law judiciary alleged to be independent The Heritage Foundation vouches for the legal system ...lol Maldives must be a puppet state, then The Heritage Foundation THF think tank set up 1973 by US right-wing/conservatives shilling for free trade, limiting govt services & strong military for capitalist wars considerable influence in Washington DC, esp. Ronald Reagan era set-up funding from Coors Beer empire +  Richard Mellon Scaife, Mellon industrial & banking wealth funding from orgs. w/ connections to Koch brothers NOTE:  The Heritage Foundation strong ties with 1.  London Institute of Economic Affairs 2.  Mont Pelerin Society Mont Pelerin Society international org comprised of: economists philosophers historians intellectuals business leaders & others portrayed as committed to personal & political freedom ADVOCATES OF FREE MARKET & 'OPEN SOCIETY' advocates classical liberal ideas / ie neoliberal ideas 'Open Society'  coined by Henri Bergson 1932 Henri Bergson, French citizen father Polish Jew (original name:  Berekson) great-grandmother patroness of Polish Jewry, Hasidic movement mother, of English-Irish Jewish background famous Jewish entrepreneurial family in Poland great-great-grandfather, prominent banker married cousin of Marcel Proust Marcel Proust best man @ wedding sister = Mina Berson aka Moina Mathers sister married British occultist:  Samuel Liddel MacGregor Mathers founder of HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN Henri Bergson = French professor & author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson The Heritage Foundation Founders: American religious cuck German-American Catholic described cuck brewing heir (Coors Brewing Co):         Coors Brewing Co         anti trade union         required new employees to take lie detector tests Heritage Foundation d*ckheads: formulated many of Reagan's campaign ideas pro US (capitalist) military & other to support anti-communist resistance movements worldwide pushed for this strategy, known as REAGAN DOCTRINE in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua and other The Heritage Foundation, worked closely with anti-communist movements eg.  Nicaraguan contras eg.  Jonas Savimbi's Unita movement (Angola) purpose:  military, economic + political pressure on Soviet-aligned nations Heritage Foundation extremely influential USG, incl CIA, Defence Intel Agency & National Security Council & other govt agencies Thanks to these c*ckheads, US-Anglo capitalism has: won both covert and overt 'wars of liberation' against Soviet-aligned states COMMENT:  THEREFORE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WORLDWIDE ASCENDENCY OF JIHADISTS critics also note:  undue bloodshed third world & damaged US-Soviet relations Heritage instrumental role in portraying Russia as 'evil empire' .. LMAO while Heritage were physically present providing military & political support to power-grabbers & oppressors that would serve US capitalist interests Think Tanks Abound With Former Spies ex-CIA analyst officials at think tanks http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2012/11/think-tanks-abound-with-former-spies.html   -------/\/\/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Justice_Commission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia,_Dutch_East_Indies http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation COMMENT Think I might be like the British government ... I selectively take 'human rights' into consideration, depending who is involved and what is at stake. I'm all for human rights in this instance:  you can't remove people from a territory, claim it as yours and put a military base on it, like the US-Anglo capitalist empire has done.  Well, you can if you're the British Empire and, later, the US-Anglo Capitalist Empire, and your courts let you get away with it. I don't buy any of the 'human rights' ideology (because might is right & one's own interests are paramount, and that is all that there ideally is).  But as the 'human rights' ideology is so fondly used by the post-WWII capitalist Empire to attain its own agenda (particularly, in implementing the invasion of European societies program they have maintained for decades, to the detriment of the people that comprise their nations), if this false god can also be used to challenge the US-Anglo Evil Hypocritical Empire, why not?  LOL ... I don't care if anyone thinks I'm horrible. That's what I see. These are the hypocrites who claimed the Third Reich Germans and the Soviet Russians were 'evil' threats to the world, and look at just some of what they have done historically and what they now do, for the sake of the aims and profits of their wealthy classes, while they DESTROY the ancestral homelands of their own people:  the helpless, betrayed by unions and leftist political parties, enslaved, without organisation & politically policed, working classes. Look how clever the US-Anglo Evil Empire is and how they plan well in advance: they stripped Maldives of the territory they had already decided to steal in 1965 (at which point, I'd bet their US military base was already planned for Diego Garcia), while Maldives was still under official British rule, before it gained what is supposed to be 'independence' in 1968.  But I'd bet the independence is a lie and that all these colonies that gained 'independence' were by then economically bound to the Evil US-Anglo Empire. What we have in the summary re the Chagos Archipelago is a portrait, in miniature, of how capitalism operates, past and present. The essence of capitalism is always the same:  destruction, rape, exploitation and greed, for the vast enrichment of the few. Capitalists murdered the dodo, enslaved people, created all the problems that there is between people who have been transported to locations they don't belong in etc. The COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS, is the evil headquarters, in my opinion.  This is the Anglo heart of the still-beating imperialist empire that has destroyed European nations (I think this is the nerve centre ... not sure yet, but it feels that way).   By the time Harold Macmillan give his 'Winds of Bullsh*t' speech in 1959, the US-Anglo empire had already plotted the destruction of European societies. I've yet to look at the Macmillan speech, but that's my initial feeling, and I'd wager that these are the creeps responsible for destroying British and colonial European nations. *I can't understand the military worship of some of the nationalist types, because the Western military is just a capitalists' attack-dog, that does the bidding on behalf of capitalism (at the expense of the working classes - both in numbers of dead and in destructive consequences to nations:  eg. damaged former soldiers; blowback terrorism potential, blowback third world invasion, in the overall program of invasion).  The military is the tool of wealthy capitalist elites, and nothing more.  The military is rarely used to defend capitalist nations from actual threat, and it mostly exploits the gullible. Although, I suppose there are people who just want the lifestyle and the ability to commit aggression on others, for the thrill factor, from the safety of high-tech planes and ships (mostly), like when they bombed the children of Serbia. And then there's the mercenaries.  Think they might like to get closer.  They're sort of like modern-day Samurai, maybe?  Not exactly.  Think they're from poor South American nations and therefore probably exploited, rather than living by some Samurai and clan code.

UK & US - UK DIEGO GARCIA BASE - US-UK COLLUSION - RENDITION, TORTURE - UK COVER-UP

UK government attempts to conceal its involvement in rendition and torture By Robert Stevens 9 August 2014 The British government is seeking to cover up its role in the illegal “extraordinary rendition”—kidnappings and torture—programme run by the United States. Ahead of the delayed release of a US Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) torture system, in place under the previous George W. Bush administration, the Observer revealed that the UK government has approached its US counterparts to censor information regarding Britain’s involvement in rendition and torture through the use of the Indian Ocean air base of Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia, a tiny atoll, is a British Overseas Territory that has been leased to the US for decades. It became a strategic base for the US military during the Cold War and was used to supply its forces in the Red Sea and Vietnam. It was also the only base used for air strikes against Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991. It was used again by the US military for the “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq in 2003 as well as the heavy bombardment of Afghanistan in 2001. The Observer cites a letter from former UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to the human rights organisation Reprieve. Hague was Foreign Secretary for four years in the government of Prime Minister David Cameron until last month’s cabinet reshuffle. Hague informed Reprieve that, “We have made representations to seek assurances that ordinary procedures for clearance of UK material will be followed in the event that UK material provide[d] to the Senate committee were to be disclosed.” The meaning is clear: the UK government is insistent that details of its active participation in an illegal global kidnapping and torture network, in close collaboration with the US, remain under lock and key. The censoring being demanded by the British is just part of an overall mass of redactions being put in place by the US military-intelligence apparatus prior to the report’s release. Last Friday, Senator Dianne Feinstein said the Senate Intelligence Committee would delay the release of the declassified summary of its voluminous report on the CIA torture system, due to the scale of redactions being made. Successive UK governments have denied accusations that Diego Garcia was used as a “black site” prison and that rendition flights landed there. As far back as 2002, the Washington Post reported that Diego Garcia was “one of a number of secret detention centers overseas.” In 2008 then British Home Secretary David Miliband told parliament that two US flights each containing a prisoner did refuel on the island in 2002, but claimed those detained remained on board and that the “US Government has assured us that no US detainees have ever been held on Diego Garcia.” Andrew Tyrie, a Conservative MP, is the founder and chairman of Parliaments all-party group on rendition. [...] Tyrie has called for an inquiry in Britain’s involvement in rendition and torture on the basis that without this happening, the UK’s ability to portray itself as an upholder of democracy on the international stage is vastly undermined. “With the truth established, Britain can draw a line under these allegations and demonstrate that we abide by the values that we expect of others.” The lies that Diego Garcia has played no role in rendition and torture continue to unravel. An account by freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington, published on Al-Jazeera last month noted, “In October 2003, Time reported that ‘a regional intelligence official’ had stated that Hambali, a ‘high-value detainee’ seized in Thailand two months earlier, was being held and interrogated on Diego Garcia, and in the years that followed, other claims were made, both by journalists and by retired US general Barry McCaffrey, who, in May 2004 and December 2006, referred to prisoners being held on Diego Garcia.” [...] continued @ source link http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/09/rend-a09.html

Feinstein's report's been delayed because they're whiting out the British, huh?

Wasn't democracy supposed to be transparent?

Kidnapping and torture ... lawlessness ... even terrorism  ... isn't that what the powers that be supposedly stand 'against'.  LOL

Hypocrisy, inscrutability and lawlessness is how you maintain an empire.