Conspiracy theorists watch out.
The draconian Coalition proposals for dealing with ‘non-violent extremists’ can no longer be described as the Writing on the Wall. This is nascent dictatorship written in Dayglo on a barrage balloon above the Palace of Westminster. The Slog makes a final appeal for concerted and tenacious opposition.
A few days back, the Daily Telegraph obtained a leaked letter written by George Osborne, as a follow-up to the unwise and unacceptable non-violent extremist (NVE) definition put forward by the joint ignorance of David Cameron and Theresa May. This is a brief extract from the quite astonishing letter: (my emphases)
‘the ultimate objective would be to eliminate extremism in all its forms….[including] those who spread hate but do not break laws…the new orders will extend to any activities that justify hatred on the grounds of religion, sexual orientation, gender or disability..”
These orders are to be called Extremism Disruption Orders or…
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Another poor soul. Pay the ransom Britain.
JOHN CANTILE IS WELL-CONNECTED BY FAMILY, & USES SYNTAX CONSONANT WITH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
The mainstream media keep on telling us new candidate for decapitation John Cantlie is nothing more than “a very talented gung-ho news photographer”.
But once again, it doesn’t entirely add up.
As you can see from the above, he is clearly rather well-connected. This is hardly surprising: his family forebears include Dr James Cantlie – instrumental in the protection of the famous Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat Sen from the Chinese authorities.
By describing him as “a photographer specialising in hotspots around the world”, the media are being disingenuous: he has spent more than a decade based entirely in the Middle East, and always in countries where geopolitics are of prime importance: Iraq, Libya, Egypt, and Syria.
This is a mirror-image of the career of James Foley. In fact, he and Foley were kidnapped together in November 2012…something…
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Background to the hostages in Syria.
David Cawthorne Haines
BRITISH ISIS CAPTIVE BILLED AS AID WORKER IS FORMER MILITARY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
The Slog has established a clear commonality of Western religious fundamentalism between all three alleged and intended victims of ISIS ‘revenge’ for the Obama foreign policy. It casts further doubt on the people who “directed” the videos, and their motives. Above all, it suggests ISIS might be little more than a branding invention.
Out of deference to relatives of British ISIS captive David Cawthorn Haines, The Slog decided yesterday to observe the media silence as to his identity. However, given the global exposure of his name and background yesterday – and to counter several inaccurate statements made about his background – it now seems fitting to reveal who and what he really is. Apart from anything else, anyone close to the man not aware of his abduction, and then appearance on the Sotloff ‘execution’ video…
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Global Post founders’ history of unexplained funding
Links to Ford Foundation & CIA
Shortly after I’d posted about the Foley ‘beheading’, several people suggested by email that I should ‘look into’ James Foley’s (right) professional background. I had sort of vaguely heard of his employers – The Global Post – but couldn’t have told you the first thing about them. It is a Boston-based site, with 65 foreign correspondents throughout the world. These days in journalism, that’s a big number.
Focusing primarily on International news, the website TGB was founded in 2009 by Charles M. Sennott and Philip S. Balboni. So says the site. But Phil Balboni’s news organisation was founded much earlier – in 1994. This is the Bloomberg entry on TGB:
Not very forthcoming, then. The Google page for Balboni asserts that some links have been removed under the European ‘data protection’ legislation. By Winston Smith, perhaps?
Type…
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Sotloff’s close links to Israeli counter-intelligence, emergence from same stable as Foley, and equally amazing ability to be ‘on the spot’ to cover Black Arts events in Middle East
That Steven Sotloff is Jewish isn’t exactly a secret. But what many media titles this morning have glossed over is that he studied at Tel Aviv’s Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) before beginning his career. Located on the same campus at the core of of IDCs philosophy is the International Institute for Counter Terrorism. Its links to Mossad are well known. The Slog tries to join up some dots.
Having watched the second ‘beheading’ video and looked into Mr Sotloff’s background, my aim – as with James Foley’s apparent execution – is to offer key observations that I find significant:
There is no blood at all in this video. This time the ‘assailant’ isn’t even seen attacking his victim. There is no…
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