Reading through today’s newspapers and blogs, the attention appears to be centring
on the impending attack by
Israel
using low yield nuclear weapons, and the almost imminent war that would follow,
with the
US and UK going to the aid of Israel as
Iran retaliates. 

We see reports in the press that the US is
building up its forces again in the region, both in
Iraq and
on the Afghan side of the Iranian border, and giving overall command in the
region to a Naval Officer, who no doubt would wage a first war on
Iran from
carrier bound aircraft. 

It wouldn’t be the first time that we have
used
Israel as the surrogate aggressor.  Suez is the prime example.

This entire scenario reminds me of a joke
that I heard several years ago, in which an Arab Leader asks the
US
president why there were no Arabs in StarTrek. Because it is set in the future
replied the president. 

How much truth is there in Jest.  Something years ago that I thought both
harmless and impossible, now seems disgusting, frightening and possibly real.  

 


Reading through today’s newspapers and blogs, the attention appears to be centring
on the impending attack by
Israel
using low yield nuclear weapons, and the almost imminent war that would follow,
with the
US and UK going to the aid of Israel as
Iran retaliates. 

We see reports in the press that the US is
building up its forces again in the region, both in
Iraq and
on the Afghan side of the Iranian border, and giving overall command in the
region to a Naval Officer, who no doubt would wage a first war on
Iran from
carrier bound aircraft. 

It wouldn’t be the first time that we have
used
Israel as the surrogate aggressor.  Suez is the prime example.

This entire scenario reminds me of a joke
that I heard several years ago, in which an Arab Leader asks the
US
president why there were no Arabs in StarTrek. Because it is set in the future
replied the president. 

How much truth is there in Jest.  Something years ago that I thought both
harmless and impossible, now seems disgusting, frightening and possibly real.  

 


As announced on
the
BBC News at 7am this morning, and again published in the online
version of The Sunday Times, the Home Office is to deploy
UK troops to power stations around the UK. 
The deployment is in response to terror concerns, but is not in response
to any specific threat. 
 

‘Ministers are
considering using soldiers to guard power plants against terrorist attack, it
has emerged. But the Home Office said the review of protection arrangements did
not come in response to any specific terrorist threat against facilities such
as electricity power stations or gas pipelines. The News of the World has named
the gas pipeline facility at Bacton in Norfolk, oil and gas terminals in
Humberside and Grampian, Scotland, and oil refineries at Coryton, Essex, and
Fawley, near Southampton, as locations where troops will be deployed to beef up
security.’

 

Again, we see the
government keeping up the threat fear, the propaganda is pumped into our homes
on a daily basis.

For a government
to make such a deployment during a time of peace at home is virtually
unprecedented, and if I am not mistaken illegal. 

My understanding
of the law is that troops may only be deployed to civilian sites during an
emergency, and using the Emergency Powers Act.

For a government
that is all too ready to outsource everything they do, using private
contractors to run our prisons to buying pens, this military deployment sounds
very fishy. 

Let me remind you
if you have not had an opportunity to read my earlier blog.

The modus
operandi of any fledgling authoritarian state is;

  • Create a fear, real or contrived.
  • Engineer events to give credence to
    that fear.
  • Find a portion of the population to
    blame for that fear.
  • Enact laws to ‘protect’ the majority.
  • Neuter the press.
  • Further engineered events, keep up
    the scare propaganda.
  • Save the majority by containing, then
    detaining the target group.
  • Introduction of emergency powers and
    the suspension of political and judicial process.
  • Look for other groups to blame.
  • Total control

What will be
next, troops at telephone exchanges, airports and government buildings?.

 

 

 

 

As announced on
the
BBC News at 7am this morning, and again published in the online
version of The Sunday Times, the Home Office is to deploy
UK troops to power stations around the UK. 
The deployment is in response to terror concerns, but is not in response
to any specific threat. 
 

‘Ministers are
considering using soldiers to guard power plants against terrorist attack, it
has emerged. But the Home Office said the review of protection arrangements did
not come in response to any specific terrorist threat against facilities such
as electricity power stations or gas pipelines. The News of the World has named
the gas pipeline facility at Bacton in Norfolk, oil and gas terminals in
Humberside and Grampian, Scotland, and oil refineries at Coryton, Essex, and
Fawley, near Southampton, as locations where troops will be deployed to beef up
security.’

 

Again, we see the
government keeping up the threat fear, the propaganda is pumped into our homes
on a daily basis.

For a government
to make such a deployment during a time of peace at home is virtually
unprecedented, and if I am not mistaken illegal. 

My understanding
of the law is that troops may only be deployed to civilian sites during an
emergency, and using the Emergency Powers Act.

For a government
that is all too ready to outsource everything they do, using private
contractors to run our prisons to buying pens, this military deployment sounds
very fishy. 

Let me remind you
if you have not had an opportunity to read my earlier blog.

The modus
operandi of any fledgling authoritarian state is;

  • Create a fear, real or contrived.
  • Engineer events to give credence to
    that fear.
  • Find a portion of the population to
    blame for that fear.
  • Enact laws to ‘protect’ the majority.
  • Neuter the press.
  • Further engineered events, keep up
    the scare propaganda.
  • Save the majority by containing, then
    detaining the target group.
  • Introduction of emergency powers and
    the suspension of political and judicial process.
  • Look for other groups to blame.
  • Total control

What will be
next, troops at telephone exchanges, airports and government buildings?.

 

 

 

 

Another alarming and disturbing report of
the government steamroller which is flattening our rights comes in an article this morning
from Spyblog,
picking
up from a report in the Sunday
Times
. 

TAX inspectors are to be given new powers
allowing them to tap taxpayers’ telephones and plant bugs inside their homes
and offices. 

Mark Fairhurst, head of forensics at
accountants PKF, said: “HMRC claims it will use the new powers proportionately,
but our experience suggests its officers often take an unnecessarily
heavy-handed approach with some taxpayers who are eventually proven innocent.”

That basically means you and me, and like
every other order slipped into legislation, these powers were granted to HMRC
using a Statutory Instrument.   Backdoor
government.