TOKYO MASTER BANNER

MINISTRY OF TOKYO
US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  

January 05, 2016

Documentary Video | MIR PORYADOK | МИР ПОРЯДОК | World Order


MIR PORYADOK  |  МИР ПОРЯДОК

'WORLD ORDER'
[English Subtitles]
[Английские субтитры]





Full Documentary 1:49:40

[ Putin sounds nice   :)  ] 

Assange (WikiLeaks) is in this, too.



Components of Documentary*


  1. Downfall of the Yalta System
  2. Democracy First Blood
  3. Colour Revolution Tech-Forced Democratisation
  4. Refugee Crisis As a Result of Democratisation
  5. Unity in Diversity
  6. Geopolitical Struggle Must Be Civilised
  7. Interests of the Country Must Be Above All


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Think I need a sleep.  Might watch this when I get up.



Hallelujah





 

German Propaganda | Die Welt


German Propaganda
Die Welt

"Hamburg: refugee crisis is the task of our generation"
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The 'crisis' they're selling is the RESULT of a series of neocon-serving Western interventions & proxy interventions, and therefore a manufactured & anticipated result ... and cost predominantly borne by the Western working classes.
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COMMENT


A preposterous piece of propaganda ... that's not fooling anyone.

Corporate media and those appointed to run countries are lying, disgusting scum.


Politicians are destroying Europe.


Not all of Europe is taking it quietly ...

DRESDEN, GERMANY

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FULL ARTICLE
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/04/revealed-1000-migrants-brawl-rape-sexually-assault-steal-one-german-train-station-new-years-eve/''

REVEALED: 1,000+ Migrants Brawl, Rape, Sexually Assault, And Steal At ONE German Train Station On New Year’s Eve

by Oliver Lane4 Jan 2016


Just five arrests have been made by German police after central Cologne was transformed into a war-zone on New Year’s Eve, as an estimated 1,000 migrants celebrated by launching fireworks into crowds and sexually assaulting German women caught up in the chaos.

The sordid details of the horrifying sexual assaults and attacks made against ordinary Germans by large gangs of migrants in Cologne in the early hours of Friday morning are just now emerging.

Far from a small number of sex assaults reported to have been made by German speaking men in initial reports on New Year’s Day, dozens of women are now reported to have been molested and “raped”, while dozens more men have been assaulted and robbed.

[ ... ]

So far, police have identified 80 victims of the gangs, 35 of which were subjected to sex attacks. Others were assaulted or robbed. Officers suspect there are many more as of yet unreported cases from the night, and are appealing for victims to come forward after their ordeals.

A press conference hosted by Cologne’s chief of police Wolfgang Albers this afternoon confirmed the attacks had been perpetrated by migrants, all of whom were found to be carrying official immigration paperwork by police officers at the time. Mr. Albers said “the crimes have been committed by a group of people who mostly come from her in appearance from the North African and Arab countries”, and that he found the situation “intolerable”.

In addition to the sex attacks, there were several brawls between migrant gangs at the railway station, and large numbers of fireworks were fired into the crowds and at the hapless police. A witness said: “There were thousands of men. Simply firing into the crowd, and as my girlfriend and I wanted to get us to safety, but they blocked our way. We were so scared! We fled from the station”.

[...]

Before the New Year some German towns cancelled fireworks displays for fear of upsetting migrants who would associate the loud noises with the sounds of a war zone.


FULL ARTICLE
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/04/revealed-1000-migrants-brawl-rape-sexually-assault-steal-one-german-train-station-new-years-eve/





January 04, 2016

David Hicks - Howard Government Acknowledged Hicks Wasn't Guilty of Any Crime / Proof of US-Australian Collusion

Info/Reference
SOURCE

http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-national/hicks-claims-proof-howard-govt-interfered-20110302-1bdy0.html



David Hicks

Source

http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-national/hicks-claims-proof-howard-govt-interfered-20110302-1bdy0.html

Hicks claims proof Howard govt interfered

March 2, 2011 

AAP

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks says US documents have been released that prove the Howard government interfered in his terrorism case.

Mr Hicks, who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge in the US in 2007, says newly released US State Department documents show that members of the Howard government acknowledged he was not guilty of any crime and tried to think of ways to "pin him with something".

He says the 50 to 60 pages of documents record "private conversations" between Howard government MPs and US State Department officials.

The documents were provided this week to American journalist Jason Leopold by State Department employees.

"They're private conversations ... between Australian politicians, the Liberal Party and the US State Department officials, people in the Pentagon and whoever was involved in that process in Guantanamo Bay, and it discusses my treatment and it discusses about the need to pressure me to say `guilty'," Mr Hicks told ABC Radio.

Mr Hicks, an Australian citizen, was detained in Afghanistan in 2001, handed over to US authorities and detained for five years at Guantanamo Bay.

In March 2007, he pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism and was sent to Adelaide's Yatala Prison to serve the remainder of a seven-year sentence, before being released in December of that year.

On Wednesday, Mr Hicks said he "folded" to pressure to plead guilty and that the new US State Department documents showed Howard government officials acknowledged he had not committed a crime.

"There's also acknowledgments from our government, the Australian government, I should be more specific and say the Howard government, acknowledgments from them and even from the US, that I'd never breached any law, I hadn't committed a crime," he said.

"And there's conversations between Australian politicians and US politicians of how they can handle that: `What can we do, how can we pin him with something?'."

Mr Hicks said that was when "they invented the charge `material support for terrorism'," which, he said, was not a valid crime under any legal system.

Mr Hicks says he wants the Australian government to investigate his case, but adds he does not want compensation.

"No, what I would really like is for the government to acknowledge that what was done to me was wrong, that my conviction in an illegal military commission is null and void and the plea agreement goes along with that. That's all I'm asking for," he said.

Mr Hicks said the content of the US State Department documents would be released by Leopold in about a month's time.

© 2016 AAP

http://www.smh.com.au//breaking-news-national/hicks-claims-proof-howard-govt-interfered-20110302-1bdy0.html



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COMMENT


I'm confused.  I thought the plea bargain was a positive event, as it got Hicks released ... and cleared the path to no election problems for the Howard government.  As in, a:  win/win.

But it doesn't look like it is the positive I thought it was, when Hicks maintains he is innocent, he was pressured to plead guilty, he has documents that show the Liberal government of Australia knew he wasn't guilty of any crime, and that the Liberal government and the US colluded to find something to 'pin' on him, while US appears to have made up laws as it went along ... and Hicks spent 5 years in a US prison without charge.

That means the Liberal government colluded with the Americans, to deprive an Australian of liberty -- and is party to depriving an Australian of liberty -- even though the Liberal government knew and stated in conversations with the Americans, that Hicks was not guilty of anything?

Wow, this is sounding a lot like the Julian Assange (WikiLeaks publisher-journalist) scenario, where the Labor government in Australia was making false public statements about Assange's 'guilt,'  where the Australian authorities have subsequently had to acknowledge that Assange has broken no laws, where Assange (political persecution target) has been detained in Britain without charge for over 5 years now (without Australian government support), and where the US is desperate to make up some twist in the law (in this case, revising laws to redefine elements of journalism as 'espionage', I think it was) to pin something on Assange, while the US government is working towards extradition of Assange to the US ... as Britain, Sweden & Australia aid and abet the Americans.

Challenge:  say above in 140 characters ...


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Therefore, the governments and judiciary of Sweden and Britain collude with one another to commit undemocratic & unlawful political persecution on behalf of their American 'co war criminal' ally, along with both the Labor and Liberal the governments of Australia -- his homeland.

How can this be repeating itself?

If I were the Hicks guy, I'd want compensation -- and plenty of it.


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On Day Assange Arrested

2010-12-07
Statement by Civil Liberties Australia


Hey, look who's Australia's High Commissioner to UK, London ... 

It's the former Liberal Party Foreign Minister (1996-2007), Alexander Downer:
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Yemen re Iran - False Accusations, False Testimony, False Reports, Fake News & Iran Vilification

Article
SOURCE
Gareth Porter
Independent Investigative Journalist
/ Historian US National Security Policy
Link | Source


"How False Stories of Iran Arming the Houthis Were Used to Justify War in Yemen"

Thursday, 31 December 2015 10:42
By Gareth Porter, Truthout | News Analysis
Independent Investigative Journalist
/ Historian US National Security Policy
Link | Source

Summary

March 2015
Bombing campaign initiated by Saudi Arabia
  • + Gulf allies
  • + US support

Rationale for Saudi-led war on Yemen:
  • Houthis portrayed as merely proxies of Iran
  • Houthis allegedly armed by Iran (for years)
  • allegations repeatedly echoed in press
  • allegation not proven
  • yet allegation REINFORCED by UN experts report

UNSC PANEL OF EXPERTS - REPORT


REPORT
UN Security Council
from:  Panel of Experts

established  pursuant to Security Council
resolution 1929 (2010)
Link | UNSC Panel of Experts Report
Report dated:  1 June 2015
Salomé  Zourabichvili
(Coordinator Panel Experts)
Mowaffaq al-Refai (Expert)
Jonathan Brewer (Expert)
Christian Kessler (Expert)
Chunjie Li (Expert)
Thomas Mazet (Expert)
Kazuto Suzuki (Expert)
Elena Vodopolavoa (Expert)


RESULTS REPORT
-- concluded Iran shipping arms to Houthi rebels in Yemen
-- allegedly by sea, since at least 2009

HOWEVER
-- investigation of x2 main allegations re arms by Yemen govt
-- & cited by expert panel
-- shows both allegations "CRUDELY CONSTRUCTED RUSES"

-- President Saleh govt of Yemen
-- claimed vessel (Mahan 1) seized Yemen waters Oct 2009
-- & that weapons found on-board (& Iran crew x5 convicted)

WIKILEAKS CABLES 2010
-- (from US Embassy in Yemen)

REVEALS
-- 'arms onboard' was concocted by Yemen government
-- US cable of 11 Nov. 2009 reported to WA that:
-- Yemen govt failed to substantiate public claims
-- cable stated:  'sensitive reporting'
-- (ie US intelligence reports)
-- convey that SHIP WAS CARRYING NO WEAPONS AT ALL
-- given US knowledge, Yemen govt began changing story
-- (subsequent US cable notes)
--  Yemen changed story to:
--  ship empty, so arms must have been delivered

-- Article says, Pres. Saleh, Yemen
-- hoped to use Iran arms story to get political support of US
-- for war against Houthis (planned 'Op Scorched Earth')

YEMEN ARMS - MASSIVE MARKET
-- local arms market massive
-- directly from Yemen military itself
-- would explain where Houthis get arms from

2013 - JIHAN 1 (SHIP)
-- seized Jan 23, 2013
-- arms on-board (true)
-- but story of arms shipment from Iran is false
-- joint patrol: Yemen Coast Guard & US Navy
-- intercepted Jihan 1 ship
-- cargo:  portable SAM (& misc. multiple other)
-- weeks later, UN expert panel inspects arms seized
-- 'Ministry of Sepah' labels found on arms boxes
-- ie of former Iranian military logistics ministry
-- but no evidence connecting this to Iran
-- all crew & businessmen who arranged shipment from Yemen
-- no evidence for manufacture in Iran
-- allegations centred on testimony of Yemen crew
-- but GPS evidence not cited by panel
-- (as match for crew story)
-- panel claimed it had no info re location of loading of arms

WEAPONS UNDER DIESEL FUEL TANKS
-- weapons hidden under diesel fuel tanks
-- weapons could only be accessed after tanks emptied
-- report fails to discuss the significance of this fact
-- ie points to Yemen origin of arms

2013 - REPORT
UNSC MONITORING GROUP

-- on Somalia & Eritrea
-- says Jihan 1 crew divulged to diplomatic source:
-- ship headed for SOMALIA
-- confirmed by unnamed Yemen official
-- not disclosed to UNSC expert panel
-- (per UN Monitoring Report)

SOMALIA
-- destination Somalia
-- Jihan 1 commercial smuggling / not politically motivated
-- smuggling diesel fuel from Yemen to Somalia - lucrative
-- long-standing combo smuggling arms / Yemen to Somalia
-- Somalia outlawed fuel import b/c of arms smuggling

-- UN Monitoring Group report
-- reveals series of arms shipments to Somalia (late 2012)
-- before Jihan 1 seized
-- similar weapons main Jihan 1 shipment
-- report from Somalia (& own UNSC Monitoring Group)
-- Yemen = source of weapons
-- key evidence:  Bulgaria govt to UN Monitoring Group
-- stating rocket propelled grenade rounds + other
-- seized in Somalia
-- Bulgaria made & delivered to Yemen armed forces 2010
Going by info in UNSC Monitoring Group Report
-- arms on Jihan 1 belong to Yemen arms smugglers
-- Yemen govt exploited the situation, after transit busted
-- Yemen govt concocted the Iran story
-- Yemen govt had Yemen crew feed UN panel concocted story

UNSC Monitoring Group Report
-- re Somalia & Eritrea
-- problematic re concocted anti-Iran story
-- Yemen govt Western backers put a new spin on the story
-- Reuters quoted 'Western diplomat'
-- claimed Iran supplying al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia
-- noted C-4 explosives
-- (used by al-shabaab terrorist bombings but not Houthi MO)
-- claim not credible b/c
-- al-Shabaab = close ties to al-Qaeda (enemy of Iran)
-- story only reported in pro-Saudi & pro-Israeli media

Yemen govt concocted 'Iran arms' on Jihan 1 story
+  recycled UNSC expert panel report
=  key, widely accepted narrative re Iran in Middle East

SOURCE
Gareth Porter
Independent Investigative Journalist
/ Historian US National Security Policy
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COMMENT

As the source states no reproduction without permission, I've tried to summarise the article rather than copy over & mark up, like I do.

Not sure how I went with summary.  I'm sure I've covered everything, but it's probably not hugely different from the original.

Anyway, there it is. 

That means the bombing of Yemen and the vilification of Iran is based on false claims, fake testimony, fake reports, fake news stories and fake anti-Iran spin.  Wow.




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

David Hicks - 'Hicks Case Pushed to Suit Howard' (The Ausralian, 2008)

Info/Reference
SOURCE
as marked


David Hicks

Source
Primarily
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/hicks-case-pushed-to-suit-howard/story-e6frg6nf-1111115636668

Hicks case 'pushed to suit Howard'
    Geoff Elliott
    The Australian
    February 25, 2008 12:00AM


ARTICLE SUMMARY


Afghan
Northern Alliance
{ ally of USA }
sold Muslim convert David Hicks
to US military for US$5,000 bounty

-- 2001 - kidnapped & transferred to Guantanamo Bay
-- tortured via anal examination
-- 2004 - charges under new military commission system
-- 2006 - ruling (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld)
-- military commission unconstitutional
-- US Act of Congress re-establishes military commission
-- 2007 - desperate to get out of Guantanamo, accepts plea bargain
-- accepts 9mths remainder of 7-year sentence
-- precluded from media contact
-- govt delayed his release until 2007 Aust. election
-- by 2006 - Hicks 5 years detention without charge
-- Col. Morris Davis
-- Chief prosecutor, Bush admin Guantanamo tribunals
-- says political interference
-- by Bush admin & Howard govt (Col. Morris Davis)
 -- William 'Jim' Haynes, seeks a 'how soon' on charges

-- Pentagon's general counsel: William 'Jim' Haynes
-- controversial figure
-- tight with US VP Dick Cheney
-- 2002 - endorsed military & CIA 
-- use of 'enhanced' enhanced interrogation (ie torture)
-- incl. water-boarding (simulated drowning)
-- waterboarding regarded as torture by many legal experts

-- At time of Hayes request:
-- prosecution only had Military Commission Act in place
-- no manual for military commissions
-- no regulations for trial by military commissions
-- no convening authority (to oversee tribunal process)
-- Supreme Court had overturned military commission trial
-- rules for military comm. trials subsequently rewritten
-- Hayes request
-- only sense in context of political environment in Australia
-- Australia PM John Howard in press
-- Howard making it clear Hicks had to be charged by Feb.
-- US prosecution was getting pressured
-- also, Dick Cheney was due to visit Australia at end February
-- thus clear to prosecutor:
-- Hicks was 'top-agenda item' with PM Howard
-- Dick Cheney goes to Australia:  Hicks was charged
-- pushing train out of station before all track was laid
-- phone calls:  Hayes in Australia to Col. Davis, prosecutor
-- PM Howard wanted Hicks settled:  difficult election

-- sore point for Col. Davis
-- Hicks Taliban terror training manual
-- Col. DavisAustralia's Taliban was no innocent abroad
-- Col. Davis pro:  10 years prison plea deal

-- Hicks case:
-- disturbing signs of political interference from Haynes
-- ignored because Hayes not in Col. Davis chain of command
-- but:  2007
-- Pentagon reigns in independence of military lawyers
-- change in tribunal oversight, 4 Oct 2007
-- Hayes put in charge of tribunal process
-- political appointment Hayes opinions = prosecution orders
-- Colonel Davis resigned & turned whistleblower
-- not just political interference
-- concern evidence obtained via torture at military court
-- Col. Davis wanted no part in that
-- Col. Davis gave up potential gains for clear conscience
-- Col. Davis expected to be 'swiftboated'

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Meanwhile, back in Australia:

-- PM Howard & his cabinet ministers deny political fix

-- PM Howard & Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
-- often misrepresented Hicks plea deal as 'agreement'
 -- ie between Col. Davis & Hicks' military lawyer
-- (Maj. Michael Mori)
-- Col. Davis had no knowledge of deal
-- Hicks deal struck behind prosecutor Col. Davis back
-- between Major Mori
-- & convening authority:  Susan Crawford
-- Crawford deputised
-- Brigadier Gen. Tom Hemingway to strike deal
-- Brigadier Gen. Hemingway rejects political fix conclusion
-- Brigadier Gen. Hemingway:  retired May 2011
-- Hemingway denies approach by Bush admin / VP office
-- Col. Davis says Hemingway negotiated:  'a terrible deal'
-- Col. Davis says:  any reasonable person:
-- looking at timeline could conclude Hicks trial was rigged
-- look at:  whole chronology
-- impetus to help out PM John Howard
-- impetus to make problem for PM Howard go away quickly
-- problem went away in March 2007

'The Australian'
-- asked Pentagon for a response (in a lengthy email)
-- charting Colonel Davis's chronology
-- General Hemingway, spox Jeffrey Gordon: merely disputes "the assertions made by Colonel Davis."


Source
Primarily
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/hicks-case-pushed-to-suit-howard/story-e6frg6nf-1111115636668

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



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COMMENT


Got curious about Hicks.  Everyone probably knows all about him.

I don't know anything about him, because I wasn't interested.

Noticed Northern Alliance (the US allies) sold him. 

Came across Northern Alliance the other day.  

From what little I know so far, Northern Alliance sound despicable.

It looks like the Hicks thing was politically exploited by the Liberal government?

Need to come back to this.  Too sleepy to read now.

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If I understand correctly, the Howard (Liberal) government in Australia was able to make things 'go away' (ie the settlement of the Hicks matter), & the incentive for the Australian politicians was political expediency:  ie need to present well in a difficult forthcoming election - and political friends in the US obliged?





Video - The Black Angels


Bloodhounds on My Trail


The Black Angels

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This is beautiful.
Wish I could listen to this in bed, but my headphones cord isn't long enough.