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Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
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March 23, 2017

Capitalist Intelligence Services: MI6 & CIA ... Rivers of Blood





ministry of tokyo









MI6 & CIA

ASSASSINATION OF AIREY NEAVE




Come Out Ye
Black and Tans








 Airey Neave & Margaret Thatcher


Airey Neave - first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle, WWII




Airey Neave,
wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard


Enoch Powell of "Rivers of Blood" fame




Following extracts are from assorted Wikipedia entries:



Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann








Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)


1974 – present (on ceasefire since 1998, formally ended armed campaign in 2009

paramilitary wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)

Ideology

  • Irish republicanism
  • Left-wing nationalism
  • Marxism–Leninism


seeks to remove Northern Ireland from UK rule
& to establish a socialist republic
encompassing all of Ireland

founded by former members of the 'Official' IRA who opposed that group's ceasefire


BRITISH designate Irish National Liberation Army (INLA):

PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION under the Terrorism Act 2000

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), designated illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland

--

first action to bring the INLA to international notice
assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave
British Conservative Party's spokesman on Northern Ireland
one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters

1982 bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork
/ which the INLA believed was providing assistance to NATO
/ in violation of Irish neutrality

6 December 1982 – the Ballykelly disco bombing
Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry
catered to British military personnel
11 soldiers & 6 civilians killed

INLA members participated in the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes
for the recognition of the political status of paramilitary prisoners

x3 INLA members died during the latter hunger strike – Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine
plus: x7 Provisional IRA members

1983, x3 members of the congregation in Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley
/ shot dead during Sunday service

IRA: weapon had been given to the INLA member to assassinate a known loyalist
/ attack on the church was not sanctioned

1987 the INLA came under attack from the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO),
/ group made up of expelled or disaffected members of the INLA
/ feud resulted in the death of x16 INLA and IPLO members
/ mainly took place in cities, most notably in Belfast, Derry, and Dublin

feud ended in 1992 with the INLA surviving just barely,
/ Provisional IRA stepping in and wiping out the main Belfast leadership of the IPLO
/  as IPLO were openly involved in drug dealing
/ letting the rest of IPLO dissolve outside of Belfast

1992, the INLA carried out its first killing in England, post Airey Neave death
/ shot dead a recruiting army sergeant in Derby

1997, NLA gunmen opened fire on British soldiers in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast
Drumcree conflict triggered x6 days of fierce riots / widespread violence in several nationalist areas of Northern Ireland

mid-1980s, the INLA was greatly weakened by
1. splits among ranks
2. criminality within its own ranks
3. conviction of many of its members under the British supergrass scheme

Harry Kirkpatrick, an INLA volunteer
/ arrest - x5 murders charges, 1983
/ agrees to give evidence against other INLA members


Supergrass (informer)
British slang
originated London
informers referred to as 'grasses' since late 1930s
'super' coined by journalists in early 197022 / describing underworld informers testifying against former associates
in series of high-profile mass trials of 1970s





grass / for SNAKE IN THE GRASS
known in English to mean 'traitor' since late 17th Century

phrase derives from the writings of Virgil (in Latin, latet anguis in herba)

latet anguis in herba = snake in the grass

latet = hidden
anguis = snake
herba = grass, plant

Northern Ireland the term "tout" is a popular alternative to "grass"

Northern Ireland police used term 'Assisting Offender' in lieu of 'tout' / 'grass'
legislation enables use of evidence from such offenders

Northern Ireland 'supergrass' = arrested paramilitaries
/ divulged identities of compatriots to ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY
/ probably in exchange from IMMUNITY from prosecution + monetary inducements (which were not denied)

1981, use of term in Northern Ireland began with arrest of Christopher Black
in exchange for protection from prosecution:
Black gave statements which led to 38 arrests

Black testimonies alone:
1983, 22 members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to a total of more than 4,000 cumulative years in prison
> x18 of those convictions overturned on appeal 1986

by end 1982, x25 more 'supergrasses' had surfaced contributing to the arrests of over 600 members paramilitary orgs

last supergrass trial finished on 18 December 1985
x25 members of the INLA were jailed on the evidence of Harry Kirkpatrick
x24 convictions later overturned 1986

many convictions based on supergrass testimony were later overturned, and the supergrass system was discontinued in 1985
UNTIL 2011


Neave pro-Ulsterisation

ULSTERISATION

three-part strategy

1. "primacy of the police"
2. "normalisation"
3. "criminalisation"

of the British government during the conflict known as the Troubles


ie. disengage the non-Ulster regiments of the British Army from duties Northern Ireland
/ replace them with LOCALLY recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary & other

objective = confine the effects of conflict to Northern Ireland

strategy outlined in:

unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled The Way Ahead produced by a committee of senior British Army, RUC and MI5 officers

produced the often controversial strategies of "criminalisation" and Ulsterisation

'Criminalisation' / avoid acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict

*motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war ... to that of a campaign against "criminal gangs"

Ulsterisation = move to locally based policing

policy comes from a similar US strategy towards the end of the Vietnam War called "Vietnamisation"

COMMENT:  "LOCALISATION" - EFFECTIVE & PURSUED AS POLICY BY CAPITALIST COLONIALISTS IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATIONS

Ulsterisation led to important changes in the casualty patterns
/ military/police casualties from Northern Ireland EXCEEDING British casualties for the rest of conflict
/ reversing the previous pattern

*political impact in Britain of killings of British soldiers by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
= greater than the deaths of local security forces
= DROP in British Army casualties helped prevent any build-up in Britain of sentiment for withdrawal from Northern Ireland


Airey Neave
qualified lawyer
spoke fluent German
British army officer
politician

assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb
at House of Commons

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility

WWII
Neave -  first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle
subsequently promoted to war substantive captain / permanent rank of captain 1945
later recruited as an intelligence agent for MI9

MI9
MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945
tasked with facilitating escapes & return of British prisoners of war
communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment
understaffed due to power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 & other
/ WWII prison-camp escapees were debriefed and questioned about their journey home
/ MI9 - WWII presence in Middle East, military deception role / secret mission
'A' Force deception department set up, representing MI9 in ME during war (later separate)
manufactured various escape aid sent to POW camps

* officer prisoners inside Colditz Castle requested and received a complete floor plan of the castle

used the services of former magician Jasper Maskelyne to design hiding places for escape aids
forged German identity cards, ration coupons and travel warrants were also smuggled into POW camps

MI9 sent the tools in parcels in the name of various, usually non-existent, charity orgs
/ did not use Red Cross parcels lest they violate the Geneva Convention and to avoid the guards restricting access
MI9 relied upon their parcels either not being searched by the Germans OR message warning to prisoners to remove contraband
/ German guards learned to expect and find the escape aids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9

Escape equipment - more:


Airey Neave
  • role of reading indictments to the German leaders on trial
  • served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, investigating Krupp
  • wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the capitalist victor trials
  • was awarded the Bronze Star by the US government 1948

promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1950 (retroactive from 1948)

1950 & 1951, stood for the Conservative Party

career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959

Neave - campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's leadership of Conseratives bid
1975, Thatcher elected leader
Neave rewarded with post as head of Thatcher private office
/ then appointed Shadow Sec. of State, Northern Ireland
/ & poised to take equivalent cabinet position at time of assassination, in the event of 1979 Conservatives win

Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation

Neave - author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution in Northern Ireland
+ concentrating on local government reform instead
this * integrationist policy *  abandoned hastily by successor

information from an intelligence agent 'Lee Tracey', claiming Neave had met Tracey, to recruit Tracey to team of intel & security specialists who would ensure politician Tony Benn "was stopped" - ie. alleged assassination of Tony Benn if Labour elected
/ second meeting planned but Neave was killed before meeting took place

MAGNETIC CAR BOMB, fitted with ball-bearing tilt switch, exploded under his new vehicle
at 2:58 pm, as he drove out of PALACE OF WESTMINSTER carpark
/ serious leg injuries - died in hospital without regaining consciousness


INCALCULABLE LOSS TO THE BRITISH RULING CLASS

INLA issued a statement:

In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class.

Neave assassination x2 days after the vote of no confidence
brought down Callaghan's government (few weeks before the 1979 general election)
saw Conservative victory / Margaret Thatcher to power as PM

Neave's wife: subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon

following Neave assassination, INLA was declared illegal across UK


KEVIN CAHILL

Kevin Cahill
Kevin James Cahill
author and investigative journalist
1965 and served as a platoon commander
in: Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland
1968, leaves army
University Ulster, BA Eng Lit.
worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK
+ Singer & Friedlander merchant bank
/ finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited
1979 he became a full-time journalist
part-time Research Assistant to Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown in the House of Commons
+ various other
/ advised many politicians

investigative journalist, Kevin Cahill
claimed Neave assassination was an inside job
Neave killed by MI6 agents working with CIA
/ Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in intel establishment for corruption

Cahill wrote:
prior to Neave assassination in 1979, Conservative MP Airey Neave
on verge of a massive overhaul of the security services
possibly merger of MI5 & MI6
due to belief in corruption in security services

Cahill suggested link between assassination of Neave
  • & Sir Richard Sykes murder
  • + attempted murder of: Christopher Tugendhat, 1980

Cahill claims Neave would have been head of the combined security services
+ Sykes (foreign ops) and Tugendhat (home ops) as his deputies

HOUSE OF COMMONS - nobody would talk, says Cahill
"everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous
Cahill claims security staff did not believe INLA murdered Neave but that it was an "inside job"



FORCED
FEDERALISATION


Kevin Cahill book: Trade Wars (1987)

most important historical fact in the book - note in 1954 by a British Civil Servant

(T. W. Garvey, later Sir T. W. Garvey)

INDICATING UK had,
because of the 'special relationship' with USA:

1. "the Loan, the lion's share of MARSHALL AID"

2.  "comparative immunity from FORCIBLE FEDERALISATION ..."

Wikipedia: "No historian has been able to explain what 'forcible federalisation' was"

COMMENT: likely the NATO & EUROPEAN UNION capitalist federalisation & the capitalist promotion of dispossession of European peoples, promoted as 'humanitarian' benevolence of capitalism, in what is a push for 'globalisation' of ruling capitalist power - a capitalist-ruled world slave state





Interesting Capitalist History



Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 It was a business world defined by globalization and growing interdependency. But it's not international trade circa 2000. As HBS professor Geoffrey Jones points out, the "global economy" first emerged in the 1870s.

 London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about investment opportunities worldwide.  — Geoffrey Jones


http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merchants-to-multinationals-british-trading-companies-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries





Kevin Cahill book: Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership (2006)

Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface
/ more than any other individual or nation
/ 6,600 million acres in 32 countries
/ Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it

all territories owned by the Crown,
including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom,
the governments (on behalf of the people) of those countries DO NOT own the land of the country
but may administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II
/ all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership

Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure
/ freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership

USA = only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it

USA federal govt owns one-third of the land of nation
as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the US federal govt

'eminent domain' - gives right of govt federal authorities & bodies to acquire privately owned land for public purposes




ENOCH POWELL




Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist
claimed in an interview with The Guardian, 1984
that Americans had killed:
1. Airey Neave
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Robert Bradford MP

said: evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
said (1986): Neave assassinated by "MI6 and their friends"

Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK
Americans feared that this process, if implemented, would be irreversible

Enoch Powell claimed;
Neave assassination
intended to make the British govt adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO


wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave



RIVERS OF BLOOD

Enoch Powell












Come Out Ye
Black and Tans




MY OLD MAN'S A PROVO



Tiocfaidh ár lá



January 04, 2016

History - Charles I of England - Stormed Parliament Today (373 Years Ago)

History
Charles I

Charles I - On Trial  | Wikipedia

1883 painting /  Photo: BRIDGEMAN ART LIBRARY
Charles I  - Execution
via Telegraph

Charles I

4 January 1642
King Charles I
attacks the English parliament
with 400 soldiers
[TDH]

monarch x3 kingdoms
English, Irish and Scottish thrones
on death of his elder brother
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1612

issues:
  • religion
  • tyrannical rule
  • taxes etc
  • unpopular

Civil War - 1642

Charles 1 fights:
  • English parliament army
  • Scottish parliaments army

Charles I was defeated:  1645

/ Charles 1 captured
Surrendered to English parliament

/ refuses to accept demands for a constitutional monarchy

Charles 1
Parliament sought to curb Charles I royal prerogative
[comment:  ie  aristocracy wanted more power to themselves]

Charles 1
forged an alliance with Scotland,
/ but by end 1648
Oliver Cromwell 'New Model Army'
= consolidated control England

Charles I
tried, convicted, & executed for high treason
30 January, 1649 (age 48)
/ monarchy abolished
/ Commonwealth of England established

Charles 1
executed in front Banqueting House, Palace of Whitehall
surrounded by soldiers
/  beheaded with one clean stroke

Charles I - last words:

"A subject and a sovereign are clean different things"

Said going to:   "incorruptible Crown"

public beheading:
crowd dipped their handkerchiefs in the king's blood as a memento.

confirmed clean strike:   execution carried out by an experienced 'headsman'
/ head exhibited
/ 'traitor' not used.


day after execution
king's head sewn back onto his body
/ corpse of king embalmed & placed in lead coffin


burial at Westminster Abbey REFUSED
/ rests at Windsor Castle
Henry VIII vault
next to Henry VIII & Jane Seymour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
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Other
Tyburn
(close to Marble Arch LDN)
600 years executions
first in:  1196

Tyburn Tree 
3-sided gallows marked by stone

Oliver Cromwell
-->  body exhumed
-->  symbolically, hanged at Tyburn in 1661

Tyburn Gallows
over 1,000 hanged
x3 connecting 9ft beam
suspended 18ft high
x24 condemned single hanging capacity

Source | here
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German Example
3-Sided Gallows

Beerfelden, Germany, 3-Sided Gallows
1550 (refurbished 1597)
condemned would stand at stone cross under linden tree to receive last rites
last execution 1804 (gypsy stealing food)
source of image & info
Link | here
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Other:
Charles I
http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/kingsandqueensoftheunitedkingdom/thestuarts/charlesi.aspx



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COMMENT

Looked at Charles I of England because he attacked Parliament today (373 years ago).

I've only very quickly skimmed on Charles I.

Sounds to me like the aristocracy just wanted more power to themselves.



January 03, 2016

Various Intel & Surveillance

Article
SOURCE
as marked


Intelligence / Surveillance


Kashmir Islamist Attack India Airbase
Terrorists
who attacked #India Air Force (IAF) base
at #Pathankot
were detected by aerial #surveillance platforms
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/terrorists-at-pathankot-were-detected-immidiately-iaf-116010200408_1.html

[read elsewhere that terrorists entered base & fired indiscriminately, so aerial detection means jack.]


Spy Arrest - India

last week: ex-IAF official Ranjith KK
arrested re passing secrets to #Pakistan
subsequent attack on base
Ranjith, 30, honey-trapped
Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) operative
posed as a journalist on Facebook & befriended.

#India
Crime Branch
arrested x5
incl. Border Security Force + Rashtriya Rifles
re alleged espionage
http://www.thestatesman.com/news/india/pathankot-attack-linked-to-arrest-of-iaf-spy/114122.html

#India
Pathankot air base
terror attack by x7 -  Jaish-e-Mohammad
13 hours encounter
x4 each, killed (not final figure)

#India JeM stormed airbase & fired indiscriminately
Garuda commandos, Army troops + police deployed. Airfields on high alert.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/pathankot-terror-strike-how-the-attack-unfolded-1184452.html


Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
(ie  Army of Muhammad)
Islamist militant, based Kashmir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaish-e-Mohammed

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L-3
USA intel contractor
revenue of $2.80 billion - Oct quarter
/ quarterly revenue down -  4.2%

L-3
VP Curtis Brunson sold 55,465 shares
@ total:  $6,861,020.50
--> still has 75,201 shares in company.
http://www.wkrb13.com/markets/990171/fy2015-eps-estimates-for-l-3-communications-holdings-inc-lll-raised-by-analyst/

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Vodafone
lawful interception / #Surveillance #Ireland
@ 7,973 in 2015
--> no push-back possible / mandated

#Ireland
Garda (police) Síochána Ombudsman Commission
Feb. 2014 - was bugged / surveillance (suspected)
--> security sweep done (& was leaked to press).

UK govt published draft text of new Investigatory Powers bill Dec 2015
/ if passed:  12 months phone & internet data storage

#UK investigatory powers bill:
lets intel & police to hack into PCs & phones
/ legal obligation on carriers to help them

“The UK government is seeking the power to compel companies, many of them based in Ireland, to hack users on their behalf."

#UKpolitics ... stand by for #Facebook & #Apple UK government malware.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/future-of-mobile-the-intelligence-behind-tracking-digital-evidence-374065.html

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GCHQ spy boss Sir Brian Tovey has died aged 89
Director -  1978 to 1983
army intel
U. London, deg Mod. Chinese

** there's a ban on union membership for GCHQ staff.

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Spy-boss-eye-fine-Renaissance-art/story-28450497-detail/story.html

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Count Alexandre de Marenches
1921-1995
French intel Director / Reagan adviser
{Norman knights origin}
quit army in protest Algerian policy

Factions in French intel.
circulating defamatory reports re de Gaulle
/alleged affair Alain Delon + dead Delon bodyguard.

Medhi Ben Barka

French intel kidnapping of Ben Barka (Morocco left-wing)
died interrogation #Paris / CIA involved
/ won't release documents.

Ben Barka (Morocco)
son says French withholding docs implicating  French secret services (SDECE) + potentially CIA & Mossad.

Jan 1969
French actor Alain Delon held for questioning
/ murder bodyguard Yugoslav, Stefan Markovic
x3 interrogations prior

Mavkovic's body
--> inside a sack on garbage dump
--> shot in head & beaten skull to cover wound

Alain Delon
Navy in Indo-China
Marseilles waterfront
criminal connections

Bodyguard Stefan Markovic
alleged drug ring involvement
alleged politician drug parties
(spread by French intel?)

Theory of photos of politicians in compromising positions
& attempted blackmail by bodyguard.

Bodyguard Stefan Markovic:
Letter -
"If I get killed, it's 100% the fault of Alain Delon" + "godfather François Marcantoni"

François Marcantoni
charged as accessory to murder.
Released after 11 months.
Guilt could not be established.

François Marcantoni
Corsican gangster.
French resistance.
Bank robber + writer.
Died Paris 2010
Link | Wikipedia


Mehdi Ben Barka
major figure in Third World movement
supported revolutionary anti-colonial action
--> angered USA & France.

OSPAAAL
Asia, Africa + #LatAm solidarity
fm. Havana Tricontinental Conference
pro socialism 3rd World

anti:  globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism & pro defending human rights

Medhi Ben Barka involved re:  OSPAAAL

Link | Wikipedia




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COMMENT

Some of what I looked at.

The attack on the Indian air base sounded exciting.

But it got even better when I got onto the French intelligence stuff ... they sound like total rogues.



January 25, 2015

HYPOCRISY - WESTERN ELITES, OIL & CONTROL OF MIDDLE EAST

HYPOCRISY - WESTERN ELITES, OIL
& CONTROL OF MIDDLE EAST

Britain

British Heir to Throne, Prince Charles
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Whitehall’s King Abdullah half-mast flag tribute criticised by MPs

Decision to mark Saudi royal’s death at parliament and Westminster Abbey called ‘extraordinary misjudgment’
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/king-abdullah-half-mast-flag-tribute-mps

Most fawning quotes about King Abdullah 
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-most-fawning-quotes-about-king-abdullah--ekPWXs_Hoe
 

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https://twitter.com/HansdeBoer18/status/559013408939704320/photo/1

 

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Australia


Tweet containing photo of a lashed female back (as per topmost of the UK trio directly above, reportedly of a lashed rape victim in Saudi Arabia).  

Tweet expressed disapproval that the Australian flag had been lowered:


That tweet appears to have been blocked: 

Tweet https://twitter.com/Ms_Mosman/status/558837274050183168/photo/1pic.twitter.com/QHuqfW2zxQ 
re #SaudiArabia flogging & Aussie flag half mast 
appears BLOCKED by @twitter 
#TonyAbbott complain? #auspol
 ..............................
Australian rationale for flag lowering:


Liberals following British protocol 
http://www.smh.com.au/national/flags-at-halfmast-to-mark-death-of-saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-20150124-12xg8o.html
 ..............................
Checked internet to find out more about that flogged woman photo:

Saudi Arabia: Moroccan Woman Flagellated Over Prostitution Charges

Rabat -A Moroccan woman has been sentenced to flogging and imprisonment after she has allegedly been caught by Saudi Arabian police while offering sex services for money.

http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2014/08/137434/saudi-arabia-moroccan-woman-flagellated-over-prostitution-charges/
From the Moroccan newspaper article, that photo on Twitter  isn't what it purports to be, which is very annoying (and which probably explains why the tweet/post may have been blocked or deleted).

However, the flogging and imprisonment of individuals who offer sexual services isn't exactly a humane act and religious (or moral) police isn't really a democratic ideal.
 ..............................
Here's an example of a Saudi Arabia flogging, from DailyMail:

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Source:  Daily Mail

Blogger sentenced to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes set to be publicly flogged in Saudi Arabia for 'insulting 'Islam'

A Saudi blogger will be publicly flogged tomorrow as part of his 10-year jail term for 'ridiculing Islamic religious figures'.

Raif Badawi, who co-founded the Free Saudi Liberals website, was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to 1,000 lashes and a decade in prison for insulting Islam on his online forum. 

His corporal punishment will be carried out after Friday prayers, outside the Al-Juffali mosque in Jiddah, which has earned the grisly nickname 'Chop Chop Square' as the site of executions.

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There's also a photo of a recent public beheading of a woman in Saudi Arabia currently doing the rounds. 

The leaked video was removed from YouTube, which I think is wrong. 

Removing that type of content is taking part in whitewashing what is really taking place, and I think that's wrong & what becomes public should remain public and should be available to those that wish to witness it (however appalling the content).  

Below is an article on the subject published in Daily Mail:


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Step-mother screams her innocence before being beheaded for murdering and sexually abusing six-year-old daughter in leaked footage that has outraged Saudi Arabia

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2916583/Step-mother-screams-innocence-beheaded-murdering-sexually-abusing-six-year-old-daughter-leaked-footage-outraged-Saudi-Arabia.html

To an outsider who has encountered some of these beheading photos online, it looks as if the authorities just take people out to car parks or beaches or other public places and lop their heads off with swords.

Find this really disturbing, so I haven't looked closely at the beheadings (which are quite a common occurrence).

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More on beheadings in Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia steps up beheadings; some see political message

Saudi Arabia beheaded 26 people in August, more than in the first seven months of the year combined. The total for the year now stands at 59, compared to 69 for all of last year, according to Human Rights Watch.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/20/us-saudi-execution-idUSKCN0I91G220141020

The figures referred to in the Reuters article (above) are figures for 2014, to publishing date:  20 October 2014.  Think the grand total for 2014 is in the high 80s. 
Yep.  Saudi Arabia "executed 87 people in 2014" (Breitbart News-17 Jan 2015)



OTHER

[via @beyndfunds]

All the garbage about #KingAbddullah being a reformer should read about what he did to his own daughters

[via @lhbroch]
The ‘jailed’ princesses of #SaudiArabia: The late King Abdullah allegedly kept four of his daughters in captivity.  
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'They are hanging to life' - Saudi king's ex-wife speaks out
Exclusive: in her first television interview, the former wife of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia claims her four daughters have suffered years trapped in the royal compound in Jeddah.
http://www.channel4.com/news/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-alanoud-al-fayez-daughters-jeddah
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#FreeThe4 Protest for Imprisoned Saudi Princesses

to be Staged at Saudi Embassy in London
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/freethe4-protest-imprisoned-saudi-princesses-be-staged-saudi-embassy-london-1461520
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King Abdullah, a feminist? Don’t make me laugh
Christine Lagarde has praised the Saudi despot’s contribution to women’s rights. But his record was dismal and the more we shout about it, the better 



Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the IMF, has paid tribute to the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was a strong advocate of women, she said.
This is almost certainly not what she thinks. She even hedged her remarks about with qualifiers like “discreet” and “appropriate”.  [ . . . ]  Abdullah led a country that abuses women’s rights, and indeed all human rights, in a way that places it beyond normal diplomacy.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/23/king-abdullah-feminist-christine-lagarde-saudi-arabia-women
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State Department reveals Hillary Clinton received $500K worth of jewelry from Saudi king
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was given a half-million bucks worth of diamond and ruby jewelry by Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and received $58,000 worth of bling from Brunei.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/state-department-reveals-political-swag-article-1.1441301
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Hillary Clinton
Photo:  Associated Press, Source:  DailyMail
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Foreign leaders gave lavish gifts to a number of U.S. officials last year, including the Saudi Arabian king, who gave Hillary Clinton diamond-and-ruby-encrusted jewels worth half a million dollars.
Clinton's gifts from King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz - which included a necklace, bracelet, earrings and a ring - were by far the most expensive items among the hundreds of gifts given to U.S. officials in 2012.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406099/The-lavish-gifts-given-President-Obama-Hillary-Clinton-foreign-dignitaries.html

COMMENT

The West has some disturbing social issues of its own:

Death Penalty - USA

 According to a Sputnik article on the cruelty of lethal injections and US Supreme Court case on whether execution by lethal injection violates the US Constitution:
The death penalty is authorized in a total of 38 US States.
The death penalty is barbaric, whether carried out in America or in Saudi Arabia.

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Ireland's lack of action on blasphemy law disappoints atheists and secularists

Irish atheists and secularists have accused their government of breaking a promise to call a referendum over the Republic’s controversial blasphemy laws in the lifetime of the current coalition.

For a civilised and presumably secular Western nation to retain a medieval blasphemy law is ridiculous beyond belief.

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Last ditch bid to ban creationism in Scottish classrooms

Last year, the Scottish Secularist Society (SSS) petitioned MSPs to urge the Scottish Government to bar the "presentation" of young earth doctrines as viable alternatives to the established science of evolution in the classroom.

The SSS believes schools are being subjected to what they describe as an "attack" on established scientific theories from imported US doctrines known as creation science and intelligent design.
However, School Leaders' Scotland (SLS), which represents secondary headteachers, the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country's largest teaching union, and the Scottish Government all wrote to the committee outlining their objections.

These organisations backed the long-standing principle that protection from extremist views in Scottish education relies on the professionalism of teaching staff and the regulatory role of bodies such as local authorities, the General Teaching Council for Scotland and the schools inspectorate.
However, in a new submission to the public petitions committee the SSS said sufficient safeguards were not in place and creationism was "institutionalised".
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School chaplaincy program funding revised following High Court decision 

The Federal Government has announced changes to its school chaplaincy program to get around a recent adverse High Court decision.

In June, the court upheld a challenge to the National School Chaplaincy Program, saying providing funding directly to chaplaincy organisations was constitutionally invalid.

The main question examined in the case was whether the executive government had the power to fund such programs directly through local organisations.

As a result, the Government has now decided to ask state and territory governments to administer the program using Commonwealth funds.

If they agree, the $250 million program - to run over four years - will remain open to chaplains of any faith as long as they do not attempt to convert students.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-27/chaplaincy-program-revised-after-high-court-ruling/5701390
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And religion is to be promoted in secular Australian schools, why?
Being of the view that religion and the State (including services of the State, such as education etc) should be completely separated (and, in an ideal world, religiosity of any kind would be actively discouraged by government), the swing towards forcing religion in Western schools is disturbing.
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Stop the Government paying for religion with your taxes! End the National Schools Chaplaincy Program now!

That the Liberal government in Australia has bypassed the High Court and the Australian Constitution to sneak in religious mumbo jumbo while cutting funding for secular services should be a real cause for concern.

This program should be opposed as direct government funding of religion bad public policy. Taxpayers' money spent in education should employ the best people available to help students, not just the religious.The preferencing of the religious, over the non-religious, for no reason other than their religiousness, is unacceptable in Government policy, particularly at a Commonwealth level. At the very least all schools should to given the choice employ non-religious counsellors or welfare workers under this program, not just those that cannot find a chaplain.

The NSCP breaches the spirit of the Australian Constitution. It undermines the separation of church and state.

EXTRACT ONLY - FULL @ SOURCE - http://www.stopthenscp.org/
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Going through the above articles, one comes to the conclusion that Western ruling elites exhibit hypocrisy and a disregard for national symbols, which they cynically exploit without regard for public opinion or sentiment, to further corporate-imperialist and strategic aims in the Middle East, and it's a win-win for corporations and politicians in a corporate-political alliance that sees both players profiting handsomely.

Meanwhile, if left to the devices of politicians, what freedoms we have in the West will be eroded by unscrupulous politicians, passing legislation to further the agendas of whoever has propped them up in politics.

That the Liberal party in Australia has sidestepped a High Court ruling, and that it is willing to disregard the Australian Constitution by finding a by-pass that enables them to pursue the Liberal (and backer) agenda, should be of grave concern to the Australian public.

There's probably a whole lot more that could be said, but I'm not much of a thinker or a blogger. This is just my overall opinion on current events, given my particular focus.
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PS   Canada's Blasphemy Law - post.