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Day: 22 February 2010
Taiwan computer animates British PM’s alleged punch-ups
From Apple Daily
New York City Terrorism Suspect to Plead Guilty
FOXNEWS… The key suspect in an alleged plot to attack New York City with homemade bombs has begun cooperating with investigators and is preparing to enter a guilty plea, Fox News has confirmed.
Najibullah Zazi, 24, has begun talking to authorities and plans a guilty plea that could come as early as Monday, according to law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity.
As important as a plea would be, Zazi may be far more valuable to investigators as a source for information about co-conspirators in the United States and Pakistan.
Three people with inside knowledge of the investigation confirmed that the jailed Zazi recently volunteered information about the alleged bomb plot during a meeting with his attorney and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. The sit-down, known as a proffer session, typically signals that a defendant has begun cooperating in a bid for a plea deal.
Zazi — accused of receiving explosives training in an Al Qaeda terrorism camp in Pakistan — told prosecutors that he was armed with bomb-making components while en route to New York City last year, but flushed them down the toilet in a New York City apartment after getting spooked by a traffic stop on the George Washington Bridge while entering the city, the people said.
Zazi had driven a rented car from Denver to New York, arriving Sept. 10, 2009, the day before the eighth anniversary of the 2001 attacks.
He was allowed to go free after what was described as a routine traffic stop on the bridge, which connects New Jersey and New York. Authorities days later raided several Queens apartments, including a friend’s home where Zazi had stayed.
The government alleges that the airport driver and others bought beauty supplies in Colorado to make peroxide-based bombs before he tried to mix the explosives in a hotel room there, then set out cross-country by car in September. Searches of his car after he arrived turned up bomb-making plans on a laptop computer, but no actual devices or materials.
The cooperation by Zazi suggests prosecutors hope to expand the case and bring charges against other suspects in his case and possibly other terrorism probes. At the time of Zazi’s arrest, Attorney General Eric Holder called the case the most serious terrorism threat since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Continue Reading →
Secret Labour plan to increase immigration said public’s opposition was ‘racist’
‘They concealed their real intentions in the hope that they would benefit from the immigrant vote without losing their working class supporters.
Numbers from 2007
MAILONLINE… Ministers were accused today of drawing up secret plans to increase immigration – and branding opponents of the controversial scheme ‘racist’.
A previously unseen joint Cabinet Office and Home Office report called for increases in foreign workers to meet the Government’s ‘economic and social objectives’.
But it also stated that the public would be opposed to the shift because of ‘racism’ and urged ministers to try to alter public attitudes towards immigrants.
The document, which was written in July 2000 and released under the Freedom of Information Act, outlined plans for a step change in the number of both high and low skilled migrants.
A draft version of the report emerged last week, but the full copy was finally released today.
In it, the authors warned: ‘Policy development is constrained by public opinion and the current tone of public debate.’
‘It is correct that public opinion favours relatively restrictive policies on immigration.’
Sections advising ministers to adopt a ‘clear strategy for public opinion and public debate’ to change views were removed from the published version.
Critics said the document showed ministers ‘deliberately rode roughshod’ over the public.
There was outrage last year after Andrew Neather, a former Labour speechwriter, revealed in a newspaper column that the loosening of controls in the early 2000s was part of a deliberate political agenda.
The ‘immigration boom’ of the last decade was engineered in part to change society by making it more multicultural, he said.
Mr Neather, who worked for Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett and saw the early versions of the report, said senior politicians were nervous about publicising the policy because they feared public reaction.
The report states baldly that public opposition to immigration was ‘closely correlated with racism’. Continue Reading →
Former MI5 head explains how the UK is becoming a police state.
Frankly, based on the standards of the 1960s it crossed that line decades ago and is well within any rational definition of a police state right now.
From The Guardian:
Spy chief: We risk a police state
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.
By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor
Published: 10:11PM GMT 16 Feb 2009
Dame Stella became the first woman director general of MI5 in 1992 Photo: MARTIN POPE
Dame Stella accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists.
“Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people’s privacy,” Dame Stella said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.
“It would be better that the Government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state,” she said. Continue Reading →
More global anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2009 than any year since WWII
From Haaretz:
Anti-Semitism in Europe.
(AP)
More global anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2009 than any year since WWII By Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondent Annual Jewish Agency report cites poll finding 42% of West Europeans believe Jews exploit past to extort money.
Nearly half of Western European believe that Jews exploit the persecution of their past as a method of extorting money, according to an annual Jewish Agency report released on Sunday.
A joint report on anti-Semitism conducted by the Agency and the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that “Jews exploit the past to extort money.”
The countries in which the highest percentage of the population agreed with that statement were Poland and Spain.
According to the Jewish Agency, there were more anti-Semitic incidents in 2009 than in any year since the Second World War. In the first three months of 2009 – immediately following Israel’s three-week offensive on the Gaza Strip – there were as many anti-Semitic incidents recorded as in the entire year of 2008.
In France, for example, there were 631 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in the first half of 2009, compared to 474 in all of 2008.
Worldwide, eight people were killed in attacks last year.
The report indicates that there were two murders linked with anti-Semitism in the United States in 2009 – one of a female university student in Connecticut and the other of a non-Jewish guard at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C.
This rise in anti-Semitism is stemming from both the political Left and Right, according to the Jewish Agency.
At the press conference at which the report was released, officials referred to a film that has been making the rounds in recent days that charges Israel with stealing organs at the IDF hospital in Haiti
Al Queda threatens Philipine Capital
February 22, 2010 STRATFOR:
An army spokesman said Philippine security forces went on high alert in the capital, bracing for potential bomb attacks from an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group to avenge the death of a senior rebel leader, Reuters reported Feb. 22. Lieutenant Colonel Romeo Brawner stated that the army and police were monitoring the movements of militants in Manila, closely coordinating with police in the national capital region to thwart any potential Abu Sayyaf attacks. He added that there is a small militant cell operating in Manila.
BBC: Generation jihad. A boring whitewash of Islam
BBC of course still insists on referring to some radical, aberrant form of Islam that is responsible for these behaviours, deliberately refusing to deal with what even they have to know is true, that the problem is Islam. Frankly, I think this documentary is really just plausable deniability. The BBC showing it is not oblivious to the relationship between Islam and violent anti social behaviours, but it is quite a whitewash of that same connection frankly, blaming Muslim violence and terrorism on white working class racism against Pakistani racism. In part III, BBC refers to the Mohamed Al Dura event saying that Muslims do not look at alternative examinations of the events, without bothering to say that it has been most clearly established that the killing of Al Dura was faked altogether by ‘Palywood’. As I said, a boring whitewash. Continue Reading →
Israel launches fleet of drones capable of reaching Iran
More at Tundra Tabloids and at My way
Pim Fortuyn attacked with excrement and vomit by leftists. 2002
More on this later as V.H.’s translations of articles on this incident become available. For now, this video says a great deal about the left now and always. Here is a link to a Dutch article on the incident as well.
gates of Vienna has added a great deal of information on this issue which I will paste below.
Then and Now: Part Six
by Baron Bodissey
Rehearsal With Pies
The sixth video in our series about Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders concerns a pie attack on Mr. Fortuyn which served as a dress rehearsal for his assassination, which occurred a few short weeks after the incident. The official and semi-official campaign against Pim Fortuyn strikingly resembles the current campaign against Geert Wilders, right down to the stock descriptive phrases and the iconography on the left-wing posters. Like Mr. Fortuyn, Mr. Wilders, despite the campaign against him, is immensely popular with the voters and threatens the time-hallowed oligarchy that runs political affairs in the Netherlands.
Our Flemish correspondent VH has compiled a report about the 2002 pie attack on Pim Fortuyn. Along with the video, he has translated an abridged version of an article by Peter Siebelt that contains extensive background about the pie incident. He also includes two photos of anti-Fortuyn posters, one made by the International Socialists, and the other a random smear-poster from those days (at the top of this post).
Note: the Dutch word for “pie” can also be translated as “cake”. Some of the “pie”-derivative words would not make sense in English — “pier”, for example, which is not only confusing to read, but also not commonly spoken. So “caker” and “caking” are used instead in the text below.
We’ll begin with the two videos, which have been spliced together on Youtube. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.
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Attack on Pim Fortuyn (The Rehearsal)
During the press conference on March 13, 2002 for his new book “The Ruins of Eight Years of Purple” [coalition government VVD (blue), PvdA, D66 (red)], Pim Fortuyn was attacked by left-wing activists.
Afterwards he stated that PM Wim Kok (PvdA, Socialist) and PvdA leader Ad Melkert should stop demonizing him. “By saying that I incite hatred, they incite such reactions,” he said.
Fortuyn was taken aback and felt besmirched in his integrity. “PM Wim Kok is partly responsible for this; he is the PM of all Dutch people, thus including me.”
After having pies thrown in his face at the presentation of the book “The Ruins of Eight Years of Purple” [coalition government VVD (blue), PvdA, D66 (red)], Fortuyn appeared in the Barend & Witteman Show.
He was not asked about his policy, but his “tone”. The “tone” of the ongoing demonization campaign and pie-throwers was not quite an issue to the interviewer.
These are the final minutes of that program, in which Fortuyn states: “And for the first time in years now, a politician can raise this issue without disappearing under lock and key.”
The left-wing activists who threw the pies — which contained a revolting smelly substance — were not arrested until May 14, a month after Fortuyn had filed a complaint, and a week after his assassination on May 6, 2002.
Full transcripts of these videos are at the bottom of this post.
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An abridged version of the Peter Siebelt article:
The rehearsal: “Pied”
by Peter Siebelt
Time and again that poster of the International Socialists floating into my memory. It was a call for a demonstration on May 11, 2002 by the platform “Nederland Bekent Kleur” [Netherlands Admits Color, which is now involved in the Wilders Trial] against Pim Fortuyn. Four days before the parliamentary elections the plan was that the International Socialists, the FNV [left-wing workers union], GreenLeft, the PvdA [Socialists] and other Left-wing groups in Rotterdam, would demonstrate in front of Fortuyn’s home with the slogan, “Give racism no vote”.
Even before the murder of Fortuyn, I had received indications that the demonstration would get out of control. The poster promised nothing good. On it was the face of Pim Fortuyn, with a blood-red triangle pointing at his forehead. Underneath was the text “Stop the Dutch Haider”.
When anti-globalization pie-throwers are preparing for an action, they put a picture of the heads of the targets on a bulletin board. They also keep track of when and where their target will be present. Would the poster of the International Socialists have been used on that bulletin board? Continue Reading →
Defence chiefs fight plans to build £3m giant mosque that ‘will loom over Sandhurst’
MAILONLINE… Generals are trying to block plans to build a mosque with two 100ft minarets next to Sandhurst.
The £3million building would have a clear view over the military academy and is just 400 yards from its parade ground.
Senior officers oppose the project saying it could pose a security threat to cadets.
Yesterday an Army source said: ‘This has gone right to the top of the chain of command.
‘There is very real concern that if this thing gets built then soldiers could be put at risk.
‘It is outrageous to even think that the officers of the future would have to watch their backs while they are still in training.’
Hundreds of newly-commissioned Army officers take to the parade ground each year for the academy’s passing out ceremony.
The event attracts senior members of the Royal Family, including the Queen when her grandson Prince Harry was commissioned in 2006.
The gigantic mosque is the idea of the Bengali Welfare Association, which worships at the al-Kharafi Islamic Centre in Camberley, Surrey.
The group wants to demolish a listed Victorian school building in use as a mosque at the centre and replace it with a sprawling Saudi Arabian-style building.
Planning papers reveal that the massive structure would tower over local buildings.
As well as the two minarets, it would feature a large central dome, five smaller outlying domes, a morgue, a library and a separate worship area for women.
The first attempt at securing planning approval led to objections from 1,000 locals. Planning officers were also opposed but Conservative-dominated Surrey Heath gave the mosque the go-ahead last month.
However, a procedural error means the application now needs to go to a full council meeting for approval.
And the Ministry of Defence – which initially had no objections – has its mind to insist that the minarets are not built.
Local MEP Nigel Farage of UKIP, who is battling the plans, said: ‘I am appalled that a local council can totally ignore the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the electorate of Camberley and overturn the recommendations of planning officers.
‘This building is quite simply inappropriate and gives rise to genuine security concerns.
‘I know that senior military officers are extremely concerned about this. It simply cannot be allowed to go ahead.’
Alan Kirkland, a local campaigner, said: ‘Local people are simply flabbergasted that 100ft high minarets can be built right next to the Royal Military Academy.
‘There is obviously a security risk and there is no way that it should be built.’
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: ‘Defence Estates has objected to the plans as such a tall building would give oversight into Defence property which could prove a security risk.’