ThoughtCrime News - Cutting through the propaganda

Friday 5th September - A quiet day on the surface
"British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon looks like he's on the way out. No surprises there. As the Times reports today: "Geoff Hoon was dealt a devastating blow yesterday when his closest adviser disclosed that the Defence Secretary had failed to tell the Hutton inquiry about his role in the strategy that led to the public exposure of David Kelly. Mr Hoon held a key meeting in his office at which the media strategy was agreed, the inquiry into the Government scientist’s death heard yesterday." Hasn't he got strong control over his aides, or as I speculate is he nothing more than a front-man for the policies of the cabal running the world? As a barrister, Hoon knows that he can't fight this, the evidence has been put out there and then spun to ensure his demise. Just as long as enough scalps are had in the Kelly affair, Blair knows that he can keep his reputation intact. It makes it look like he's making people accountable whilst shifting the blame from himself. The whole Inquiry is stage-managed though. Nothing is an accident. This is just a show-trial for public consumption. Blair didn't really need to have an inquiry, so the fact that it is going on with Hutton leading it is indicative of the fact that they are managing everything behind the scenes. Hutton himself has form. He ruled that David Shayler could not argue that he was acting in the public interest by revealing the British plan to bump off Colonel Gadaffi. So he's hardly independent. The Guardian today reports: "Tony Blair's repeated assertion to Lord Hutton that intelligence chiefs fully controlled the content of the September 2002 dossier was questioned yesterday by a government document which said No 10 had "ownership"." So the facts are beginning to emerge in black and white for those who couldn't see the forest for the trees. Watch and see - they'll point to Campbell's departure as closure of this particular nugget. "It wasn't us, it was Campbell. He's gone, so what's the fuss?". Never mind the fact that he's helping to craft the new spin setup for Blair. I'm becoming more convinced that Howard Dean will be tipped as the likely Democratic presidential candidate in the US. A few weeks ago, the BBC and other UK news organisations started doing stories on `who is Howard Dean?' They didn't have to do this, and they certainly did not do pieces on `who is Lyndon LaRouche?' or `who is Dennis Kucinich?'. So they're setting the stage for it being no surprise that this guy Howard Dean wins the nomination. As for California and the Arnie maneuverings, well I really don't know. The fact that he met recently with Warren Buffett and the Rothschilds would indicate that he is the anointed one for Governorship of California. Little mention of his pro-Nazi leanings in the US press - maybe this has something to do with the millions of dollars he gave to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Meanwhile Mel Gibson suffers flak from all sides and especially the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for making a film based on the bible. Oh dear. For those of you who are interested, I have been told by the company I work for that they'll pay for last week's cab fare. I'm still waiting for the claim form though. I was told by everyone else in the firm that `they'll never pay'. I'm hoping that they'll keep to their word. Blair is shaking up the Downing Street press operation, and apparently there will be daily televised briefings whereas they had previously been held to some extent off the record. I don't know if this is good or bad. It gives a lovely opportunity to Downing Street to have face-time on camera and say what THEY want to say, without it being interfered with by the journalists. On the other hand, it does mean that everything they say will be well and truly on the record. I have a feeling though that they'll get as slick with these televised briefings as Ari Fleischer was for the White House briefings. Anyone who asks awkward questions will no doubt have their press pass revoked. Freedom of the press? Pah! Our own Prince of Darkness, Peter Mandelson has been advising on the new set-up, along with the recently resigned Campbell. You can be sure it will be a slick operation. There will no departure from the use of spin to further the cabal's objectives. On the subject of Mandelson, remember that when they fingered Pete Townshend from `The Who' for downloading child porn, they also had two senior Labour figures on the list. Could Mandelson be one of them? Of course this is pure speculation, but he is openly gay, strange and very close to Blair. Who might the other figure be? Some say that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown only married for convenience. One thing is for sure though, what you hear from the press is purely for public consumption. After all, do you really think that everything that happens in the world is printed in the newspapers? As if... I am hearing more from level-headed people who don't go in for so-called `conspiracy theories' who don't believe for a second that Dr David Kelly committed suicide. Even these down-to-earth folks say that the government murdered him. It's nice to know that people can see through the nonsense perpetuated by Blair, Hutton, civil servants and especially the media. If the Kelly affair does actually blow things wide open, there may be a chance to capitalise on it by disseminating the real information on 9/11. There are others however who pay no attention to the day-to-day headlines emanating from the probe into Kelly's death. I have heard people say `what difference does it make?' This indicates that there are some who would let whatever goes on in the world just wash over them unless they are personally affected in a major way. These people can be dangerous, because they will say that there is nothing wrong with draconian legislation so long as you have nothing to hide. Whatever happened to freedom? It was this attitude that helped usher in Hitler's police state. I've added a couple of syndicated headline services in the right-hand bar of this site. I can only update the site once a day while I am working, so the news from BuzzFlash and the News Insider will at least provide some up-to-date news, even if it is US-centric. Anyone know of a similar service that covers UK headlines? I guess that's it for today. Roll on the weekend" - Editor
Blair moves towards daily, televised lobby briefings
High Noon for embattled Hoon
Mandelson to direct Labour spin
Newly released document raises questions over 'ownership' of dossier

Thursday morning - the world is going mad
"I'll start today by telling you all that I had a conversation with an assistant at my Member of Parliament (MP), Barry Gardiner's office. I had supplied a full lever-arch folder containing a whole stack of documents pointing to the 9/11 attacks being an inside job. My MP won't read it though, because I apparently promised to supply a summary of the evidence. So they're telling me I broke my promise. In response I pointed out that Labour has broken numerous promises to the British electorate, but rather than argue, I suggested that Barry Gardiner skim-read it by following the material that I had highlighted. They're not interested. No-one is interested. At least, not in the Palace of Westminster it seems. Would a 2-page summary have sufficed for the war in Iraq? For the notion that Dr Kelly killed himself? For the Scott Inquiry into arms to Iraq? I think not. For such a major issue, they want it all boiled down to sound-bites, so that they can then argue back with the same. This is in part as a result of spin reducing the attention span, but it is also indicative of the fact that democracy is dead here. Don't kid yourselves that British politicians can make a difference, unless it's in the favour of big business or the banks. I had an interesting conversation with a Mason I know. He said that he had heard the rumblings in the lodge that Dr Kelly was bumped off and therefore he obviously doesn't buy the crap in the news. He also knew from the outset that Roberto Calvi was murdered 21 years ago, but he suggested that it was MI5 or MI6 acting as proxy for the Italians. I had suspected as much myself. We have the Scotsman reminding the world that the Bin Laden family were flown out of the US immediately after the 9/11 attacks while all other flights were grounded. Those who have followed the news keenly will already know this, but the fact that it's back in the news would suggest that someone is playing a hand at pulling Bush down. Joseph Farah of World Net Daily has pointed out in his G2 briefing that the cause of both the London and US power cuts has not been determined yet and thus the instant statements that they were not the result of terrorism were premature. "International intelligence sources are skeptical that the major unexplained power outages in the United Kingdom and United States occurred within weeks of each other by mere coincidence." These experts are not saying it WAS terrorism but they aren't ruling it out either. They suggest it could have been sabotage. But this shows that the officials make statements when they can't possibly be based on any knowledge of fact. I'll have to watch what I carry on this website. If my timing is right, Sherman Austin has already turned himself in to spend a year behind bars for carrying information on his website about building a bomb. The whole thing was trumped up, and as he said, it is to set an example to the rest of us. Link to the full article below. Jonathan Pollard appeared before a judge in the US to try and get the early release deal he says he was promised. There is far more to this than the mainstream would let you know. Israel did a deal with the US government to secure an early release for Pollard. In exchange for some information, the US would let him go. Israel kept its end of the bargain, but the US reneged. The information supplied? The codes for the Libyan air defense system. The US used these in 1986 to bomb Tripoli. The complete subordination of the Libyan system by the Americans meant that missiles fired in the air at US fighter jets fell back to earth on the Libyans. In the end, the system was turned off allowing a clear run for the Yanks. This is the real story behind the Pollard affair and again you won't read about it in the newspapers. The first phase of the Hutton Inquiry into Dr Kelly's death draws to an end today. The BBC reports "Another of Dr Kelly's friends, journalist Tom Mangold, told the inquiry the scientist had thought the claim Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes was "risible". As I have previously stated, the evidence is there to have Blair and his whole team up for lying, getting us into an illegal war and blatant obfuscation. And possibly the murder of a government scientist who was becoming a distraction from their message. Not that Kelly alone is a distraction. They keep trying to tell us how wonderful they are for the Iraqi people, despite all the shootings, nervousness and bombings going on in the middle east. If the US and the British did not plan in advance to restore the services they bombed to smithereens (electricity, water, sewage etc) then one must conclude that their policy was to sew discord in the area. London is apparently on high terror alert. I think this is just for the news, because I haven't seen any evidence of this whatsoever on my daily travels into the City of London. I suppose they'll roll out the tanks for television like they did at Heathrow airport to try and convince us that we need a police state to protect us from the terrorists. Orwell was a prophet. The similarities between 1930's Germany and the UK as well as the US are simply uncanny. There's so much I want to talk about today, but as usual I don't have the time. The need to go out and earn a few pennies outweighs the desire to make this website what I would really like it to be. For those of you who are interested in obtaining a copy of Paul Joseph Watson's book `Order Out Of Chaos', I will be selling it on this site shortly. I'm just waiting for the delivery. So if you want to pre-order your copy, send me an email and you'll be first on the reserved list. If there are other books you'd like to see stocked here, please send me an email and let me know." -Editor
The U.S. Government Wanted ‘To Make An Example Out of Me’: Young Webmaster Heads to Prison for Political Website
Bin Laden family's US exit 'approved'
Pollard's Lawyers Seek His Early Release
Kelly 'taken aback' by Gilligan grilling

Kelly Inquiry Wednesday morning
"Where to start today? How about Propaganda Matrix's scoop: "I'm a reader from Glasgow, Scotland in the United Kingdom. I'm a journalist and stand-up comedian and heard some bits and pieces from a BBC reporter who was on Tony Blair's far-east tour plane following Kelly's death. A conversation was overheard by this BBC reporter between Tony Blair and his press secretary Alistair Campbell. The conversation was heard folowing the press conference when Blair was asked if he had Dr Kelly's blood on his hands and Blair froze and didn't answer. Campbell, a notorious ranter was heard to say: "What the fuck was that, you know the line on this, what were you doing, why didn't you answer." Blair's response was inaudible and Campbell was then heard to say: "This is what you wanted, you asked for this so play the game Tony." Since then Blair continually trotted out the line about waiting for the Inquiry before commenting. Normally in the UK Public Inquiries take months and months before they start but this one was pushed through quickly because Tony Blair is apparantly on the verge of cracking. Campbell needs to get this over and done with ASAP and then have Chancellor Gordon Brown installed as Prime Minister before the end of the Year and give him plenty of time to get the people on his side before the 2005 elections. Secondly a contact of mine, a former MI6 spook, was speaking about the circumstances of Kelly's death. He said he's been taught how to "make anything look like anything" and said that there must have been some kind of struggle at the scene of Kelly's death. He said it was sloppy work that Kelly's body was found with enough pills for an overdose but hadn't ingested them, he said that should have been removed from the scene under normal procedure. He added "You can slit someone's wrists and make it look like suicide easily but it's a lot harder to make someone swallow tablets." He also said the heart monitor pads found on Kelly's chest were "simply there to make sure he was dead." He also said those should have been removed and suspects the agents involved were disturbed by someone in the process of the killing. I just thought some of this shit might have been interesting to yourselves. I'm happy to contribute occasional pieces of information every now and then but I'd rather you didn't publish my name along with anything I send you.." Golly gosh gee whizz. The whole affair is making more sense. The email also ties in with my prediction that they'll let Blair gracefully step down from No. 10 after the Hutton Inquiry with his reputation intact. Then he'll be free to tag team with Clinton; Blair as President of the EU and Clinton as Secretary General of the UN. What a combination. Yesterday also saw testimony from one of the paramedics who attended to Dr Kelly's body and who tells us that there was not enough blood present for the wrist cut to have been an arterial wound. To ram home the idea that Kelly committed suicide, they had an `expert on suicide' testify to explain why Kelly would have done himself in. This morning's revelations include the fact that Kelly had apparently ingested 30 co-proxamol tablets, as well as the release of his last emails where he talks about wanting to go back to Iraq and waiting until the end of the week to make a decision. Thursday is not the end of the week, but he disappeared on a Thursday. This story is full of holes, but not quite as clear-cut as the garbage pushed as the explanation for the success of the 9/11 attacks. Just pay no attention to the fact that Kelly's own doctor testified that he had not prescribed co-proxamol. Today, Assistant Chief Constable Michael Page told the inquiry "I remain confident that he met his death at his own hand." How many of you guys are thinking about all of this? Probably all of you, which would be why you are here. Feel sorry for the people who believe the crap in the newspapers." - Editor
'Kelly took his own life'
Kelly's final e-mails revealed
Summary of Monday's evidence
PropagandaMatrix: Former MI6 Agent: Kelly Murder Was 'Sloppy Work'

Kelly Inquiry Tuesday morning
"Now the story is changing. The lady who found Dr Kelly's body said she found him slumped against a tree with his legs stretched out in front of him and his left arm bloody and bent back "in a funny position". What happened to him being found face down? We also have the story of Kelly's anonymous analysis backing the case for war, revealed in the Observer on Sunday. An extract from the Observer article about the piece attributed to Kelly: "'The threat of credible military force has forced Saddam Hussein to admit, but not co-operate with, the UN inspectorate,' [Kelly] wrote. 'So-called concessions - U2 overflights, the right to interview - were all routine between 1991 and 1998. After 12 unsuccessful years of UN supervision of disarmament, military force regrettably appears to be the only way of finally and conclusively disarming Iraq.' 'War may now be inevitable,' he wrote. 'The proportionality and intensity of the conflict will depend on whether regime change or disarmament is the true objective. The US, and whoever willingly assists it, should ensure that the force, strength and strategy used is appropriate to the modest threat that Iraq now poses.' 'The long-term threat, however, remains Iraq's development to military maturity of weapons of mass destruction - something that only regime change will avert.'" Could this simply be a man writing in the heat of the military buildup in the Gulf, with Bush and Blair rattling Saddam's cage and sidelining Blix? Was he writing in light of the Anglo-American desire to deal with the Saddam issue, rather than the actual facts of Iraq's WMD's?" -Editor
Kelly 'considered for a knighthood'
Kelly 'seemed normal self' on last walk
Observer: Revealed: How Kelly article set out case for war in Iraq

THOUGHTCRIMENEWS.COM EXCLUSIVE PICTURES
Portuguese man visiting son in UK stabbed in chest
by Simon Aronowitz	31st August 2003
A man was stabbed in the chest this morning in Wembley, north-west London. The Portuguese gentleman was visiting his son while on a trip to the UK, but ThoughtCrimeNews.com understands that he was not staying at the address where the incident took place. Police at the crime scene, keeping one keen journalist at bay According to a neighbour, Meena Bhatt, who administered first aid to the victim, (whose identity will not be revealed by this website to keep the the newshounds from their door for a while) the suspect was a local woman reportedly suffering from schizophrenia whom police now have in custody. The son who was being visited knocked on Mrs Bhatt's door shortly after 11.30 am asking for help with his injured father. Finding her neigbour's father lying wounded on the driveway, Mrs Bhatt checked that his airway was clear and applied a dressing and pressure to the stab wound. She said that the victim had been stabbed in the rib area. Paramedics arrived within minutes to provide oxygen. Mrs Bhatt, with the crime scene over her left shoulder To the surprise of local residents who were unaware that anything had happened nearby, an air-ambulance helicopter landed on the nearby playing fields. He was then flown to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London where he is recovering after the attack. Mrs Bhatt further told ThoughtCrimeNews.com that he was first pushed to the ground before being stabbed. His finger was also injured as he tried to defend himself. The reader may note that the police have not divulged any information whatsoever about the events and all information has been gained from interviews with surrounding neighbours. ThoughCrimeNews.com is still awaiting a return call from the police press officer and thanks these members of the public and specifically Rushil Patel for helping a jobbing freelance journalist.

Alastair Campbell resigns Early Saturday morning
"One scalp down, several more to go. I suppose they'll try and have Blair stay while they hang out Campbell as the fall guy. Hoon will probably go next, once the inquiry is over. But Hoon couldn't make the decision to tie his own laces on his own. He doesn't do anything without being told what to do. Geoff Hoon is, like Blair, a barrister ie a professional liar. He knows nothing about the military (why is he Defence Secretary?) but he knows how to conduct a cover-up by working round the law and due process. We need to put pressure on Blair but also on the press to tell the story honestly. If the media were frank about what they know, Blair would already have been forced out of office. As long as the voting public allow themselves to be manipulated instead of thinking for themselves and taking a stand, this charade will continue. For the moment, democracy is very much dead." - Editor
The end of Labour's spin cycle?
Campbell quits

Power cut in London Friday morning
"As mentioned below, London suffered a power cut yesterday evening that also knocked out the London Underground and rendered parts of Central London pitch black. The news have this morning covered the fact that one power system failure was inexplicably followed by another which gave us the situation that we eventually had - power cut and blackout. All sounds very believable to some. But to have two separate unconnected systems go down at the same time, not due to a knock-on effect and we're expected to believe that it just `happened'? I don't think so. Sherman Skolnick appeared on Canadian radio show `Cloak and Dagger' and stated that the Saudis were moving currency out of the UK on Thursday evening. To counter the loss of funds, he alleges that a British gamble on the financial markets was to be tried to regain some of the lost money. Having discovered the plan, the French then assisted in knocking out the power in London, he claimed. Well why not? It would explain more than the official explanation - two systems going down at the same time in amazing synchronicity. Tim Green of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London told me that the two failures were a strange coincidence. Cloak and Dagger also discussed the movement of $100 billion from the joint HM the Queen/ George Bush Sr account at Coutts Bank to George's account in the USA, allegedly using Alan Greenspan's own Federal Reserve codes. The documents backing these assertions, and other interesting paperwork are available at C&D's associated site." - Editor
Demand for power cut answers

The inside track - conversations with the media
"In case you are wondering how it is that I have conversations with members of the media, I can explain it by saying that I get around a lot, and I'm not shy about talking to people. At the moment, I am working very close by to the Royal Courts of Justice where the Hutton Inquiry into Dr Kelly's death is being held. I hence have somewhat privileged access to members of the press. Here is Thursday's encounter. I saw Robin Oakley outside the Court. Oakley is now the European political editor for CNN. He used to be the BBC's political editor but I suppose CNN made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Ed: Mr Oakley, you may might like to let CNN's viewers know that for weeks we've had beautiful weather, but the day Mr Blair appears at the Hutton Inquiry, it rains. RO: You can't blame the government for the weather. [OAKLEY CROSSES THE ROAD TO THE TRAFFIC ISLAND WITH ALL THE PRESS] Ed (shouting across the road): Why not? Blair acts like he's God! [OAKLEY TURNS AROUND AND SMILES WRYLY] RO: True. Well, what can I say? CNN's European political editor agreed with me that Blair acts like he's God. So is it any wonder that he thinks he can survive a political storm? The evidence to nail him is there if anyone wants to face the facts. Will the media keep playing this game? Keep checking back. By the way, the power cut in south London has wreaked havoc on the transport system. Traffic lights were out of order in central London and most Underground lines are completely stuffed up. I had to get a taxi home, and it cost me £47. I'm hoping I can get my company to reimburse me. Otherwise it's more late shifts to pay for that too. Hopefully the Underground will be back to normal by Friday morning. I find it extraordinary though that we invented undergound trains and yet we can't seem to run them any more. This country is really going downhill. It's not just trains though. Didn't we invent soccer, cricket, tennis, industrial engineering and a host of other things? What are we even passably competent at these days in the UK? Spin. That's all I can think of. But it's 1am and my brain has dried up. If any readers can tell me what the UK is good at these days, please drop me an email." - Editor

The so-called intelligence dossiers on Iraq Friday morning
"A reader drew my attention this morning to a webpage that they had put together, assembling a good deal of emails in chronological order. Those emails were between all the monkeys working on the dossier of intelligence on Iraqi weapons programmes. This reader has obviously had the benefit of time to go through the emails and pluck the pertinent ones out, placing them in a timeline that shows the extent of manipulation behind the scenes. I have to admit that I didn't even know that this information was out there, it had been kept off the radar by the media. I couldn't believe some of the things which were in the emails. As I previously mentioned, if the press wanted to, they could get Blair any time they wanted with the information and evidence that is already out there. These emails were released as evidence to the Hutton Inquiry. Take a good long look through these emails, take your time over it and digest just how much they knew and what they were willing to omit to make their specious argument for war." - Editor
Click here to see the emails

Blair at the Hutton Inquiry
"Is he going? The press could hang him with his own words if they wanted to. As usual, they are letting him get away with a technicality. Blair: "This was an absolutely fundamental charge... this extraordinarily serious allegation which if it were true would mean we had behaved in the most disgraceful way, and I would have to resign as prime minister." The government have tried to convince us, aided and abetted by a willing press, that the information presented by Andrew Gilligan was a complete fabrication. In fact Gilligan was guilty only of rushing to go to air with the bombshell that Dr Kelly had provided him with. In his haste, he failed to script his report and thus used a few words which were not accurate reflections of what he was told. He revised this in subsequent broadcasts but it has allowed the government to imply that his whole report was baseless. As such, Blair can then say that he would have resigned but didn't because Gilligan was proved wrong. Blair's government is banking on the public not thinking. They're hoping that we'll just soak up the spin and the headlines, rather than the nitty gritty, namely that they presented a one-sided argument for war and played on the public's fear in the wake of the September 11th attacks. Of course Blair couldn't help but have Dr Kelly appear before the Foreign Affairs Select Committe (FASC) - they wanted him to deny that he was the BBC's source. Then they could successfully kill Gilligan's story. It was only when the BBC confirmed that he was the source after he'd been found dead that the war was on again. Kelly's death would have put the allegation of Downing Street manipulation to bed; the BBC messed up the government's plan by owning up to the contact with Kelly. Blair revealed that he had a telephone conversation with Gavyn Davies, Chairman of the BBC to see how the situation could be `calmed down'. One question you can guarantee will not be asked at the inquiry is why did Dr Kelly lie before the FASC and deny that he was the BBC's source? The reason that it will not be asked is that it would shed light on the intimidation and pressure on the late Dr Kelly to kill the story. Blair was Bush's diplomatic figleaf. It was only the UK's stated enthusiasm to deal with Saddam illegally that assuaged the concerns of the American people. Many there had doubts that Bush was not being 100% honest but they were pursuaded by their belief in Tony Blair's conviction that he was an honest guy and that Saddam presented a credible threat. If Blair goes, the move to dump Bush will get a big boost since the mainstream US press could not ignore what would be the biggest scandal since the arms-to Iraq affair, but a chapter in this long caper. All we are waiting for is the mainstream press to stop playing the spin game and allowing Blair, Campbell and all the other back-room boys to set the news agenda. The Times is using Hoon's evidence today to show the trail to 10 Downing Street. Some think that the press in the UK is more independent than what passes for news coverage in the USA. How wrong they can be sometimes. If our press were free they would have called Blair on his lying years ago. Blair should resign. Bush should never have been in office in the first place. The problem would then be that we'd end up with the same old crap, just with a new name." - Editor
The Times sticks it to the BBC
Blair's 'shameful' treatment of Kelly
Downing Street et al emails
Kelly's final phone calls revealed
Blair: 'I would have resigned over Iraq dossier' Key Blair quotes
You believe this? Hoon: 'No conspiracy' to name Kelly
No Sh*t! Claims about WMD 'may have been excuse rather than reason for war'
Spin War - Hoon attacks Gilligan story
Spy chief undermines key plank of case for war
The Times: Spy chief tells of new threat over weapons
Campbell did redraft Iraq dossier
Kelly revelation shocks press bench
BBC let slip that Kelly was `killed'
Gordon Thomas: WMD Authority Turns Up Dead
Gordon Thomas: Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead

University lecturer branded `racist' for weblink by Simon Aronowitz
simon at thoughtcrimenews dot com	26th August 2003

The two leading Jewish newspapers in the UK last weekend kicked off a potential firestorm over the views held by university academics. Dr Nat Queen, lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham, has been lambasted for a link on his homepage to a website which accuses the US government of being satanic, criticises Israeli policy and questions what involvement Israel may have had in the September 11th attacks in the US.
Read the full story and Dr Queen's response

Kelly Inquiry
Wednesday 27th August 2003 "Yesterday I didn't think that the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr Kelly would be anything more than a literally made-for-television script. (To the American readers, TV cameras are not allowed into the courtroom, so the various news programmes and channels have been dramatically recreating the day's events from the transcripts). Today - early I might add, I need to go to bed - I'm not so sure. According to Murdoch's Times, John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee ramped up the threat that Iraq posed in his testimony on Tuesday. Scarlett " disclosed secret raw intelligence claiming that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in an average of 20 minutes — less than half the time finally published by the Government before the war." The Independent however points this out in its story headlined `Spy chief undermines key plank of case for war' "John Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which was in charge of compiling the Iraq weapons dossier, revealed that the alleged threat related not to long-range missiles, which could hit the West, but "battlefield mortar shells or small-calibre weaponry" that did not threaten Britain or even Iraq's neighbours." This, ladies and gentlemen, is the smoking gun, if we pay attention to it and don't get distracted by the other stuff they wave in your face. Such a damning admission would not normally be made unless they wanted to open a way for our Dear Leader Tony Blair to depart with his saving his reputation in some way. There have been rumours that the descision to dump Blair and Bush was made at the Bilderberg meeting in Versailles in July of this year. Sometimes rumours turn out to be true. The inside track from the BBC I bumped into Mark Mardell from BBC Newsnight yesterday, and he told me that he was covering the Hutton Inquiry. Let me relate the conversation to you as best as I remember it: Ed: It's all bogus, isn't it? MM: What? Ed: The official story. I mean, last Tuesday Andrew Marr let slip on the Ten O'Clock News that `Dr Kelly was killed,' the BBC keep referring to the `apparent' suicide and surely with all the contact the BBC had with Kelly, you guys have the inside track on the story. MM: That's a conspiracy theory. Are you seriously suggesting that if the BBC had knowledge that the British government murdered Dr Kelly we'd just sit on it? Ed: Yes. Mardell also informed me that Newsnight's Susan Watts will probably be going to Channel 4 News. To me it didn't look like she'd be working for the BBC after her testimony to the inquiry. So Mardell calls it a `conspiracy theory'. You may recall that the same term was used for speculation of what happened to Roberto Calvi, also known as `God's Banker', when he was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London in what appeared to many to clearly be a masonic murder. I'm sure that when Calvi's body was found there were elements of the UK mainstream press who knew what really happened, but in just the same way that the FBI manages to drown out any alternative information on 9/11 as the only `credible' source, this happens in the UK too. It took 21 years for the truth about Calvi to come out. Hopefully we won't have to wait this long for the real story about the strange and unexpected death of Dr Kelly." - Editor