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Wishful thinking for 2009
The good news for the new year is as follows
By John Pilger Published 18 December 2008
January: Tony Blair is arrested at Heathrow Airport as he returns from yet another foreign speaking engagement (receipts since leaving office: £12m). He is flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes for his part in the illegal, unprovoked attack on a defenceless country, Iraq, justified by proven lies, and for the subsequent physical, social and cultural destruction of that country, causing the death of up to a million people. According to the Nuremberg Tribunal, this is the "paramount war crime". The prosecution tells Blair's defence team it will not accept a plea of "sincerely believing". Cherie Blair, a close collaborator who has compared her husband with Winston Churchill, is cautioned.
February: Following the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States, his predecessor, George W Bush, is arrested leaving the Church of the Holy Crusader in his home town of Crawford, Texas. He is flown to The Hague in War Criminal One. (See above for prosecution details.) Laura Bush, after a plea bargain, agrees to give evidence against the former president, "for God's sake".
March: Former vice-president Dick Cheney shoots himself in the foot hunting squirrels following a prayer breakfast in Hope, Florida.
April: Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest and assumes her rightful place as the democratic head of the government of Burma.
May: All American and British troops leave Iraq, including the "300-400" British troops who are to stay behind to "train Iraqis" and do the kind of special forces dirty work almost never reported by embedded journalists.
June: All Nato troops leave Afghanistan.
July: The British government calls a halt to selling arms and military equipment to ten out of 14 conflict-hit countries in Africa. The chairman of the arms company BAE Systems is arrested by the Serious Fraud Office.
August: The British Department for International Development ends its support for privatisation as a condition of aid to the poorest countries.
September: Sir Bob Geldof and Bono visit Tony Blair in prison, suggesting a worldwide Crime Aid gig to raise money for their hero's defence.
October: The Booker prizewinner Anne Enright apologises to Gerry and Kate McCann, parents of the missing child Madeleine McCann, for speculating in the London Review of Books about the possible involvement of the McCanns in the disappearance of their daughter.
November: Gordon Brown is kidnapped, hooded and forced to listen repeatedly to his 2007 speech to bankers at a Mansion House banquet: "What you as the City of London have achieved for financial services, we as a government now aspire to achieve for the whole economy."
December: Tony Blair is sentenced to life imprisonment and beatified by the Pope.
If you think none of this will happen, you are probably right. But beware 2010 . . .
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him."
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271 comments
"More NWO propaganda/brainwashing.LOL"
Lol indeed. But when it comes to "brainwashing", youre not very good at spreading the truth, are you Carl? My question yet again: David Icke (who you seem to respect) believes that the NWO are a group of shape-shifting lizard men. Is this the truth? Im sure we'd all like to hear about it Carl.
"Yesterday, I heard some numbers from the BBC, which I`ve not been able to find in print. Of course, this WAS VERY EARLY yesterday, just before I left for work, but I swear I heard the BBC say the UK was heading for a GDP slump of nearly 25%!! This tactic isn`t often used by BBC TV, as too many are recording"
And yet... Youve never caught them, have you Carl?? I wonder why? Perhaps because its all a big fantasy? Or do you simply not have enough money to buy a video recorder? What a terrible shame that would be- your cutting edge journalism and exposure of the truth would, ahem, be tragically lost to history.
The NWO make so many obvious, simple mistakes, dont they? And yet, you can never quite show us anything which would suggest youre right.
Now tell us about those lizards, fatso.
"Obama's first two crucial appointments represent a denial of the wishes of his supporters on the principal issues on which they voted."
Where on earth does the NS get these posters?! Obama's supporters- or at least the ones that count (the ones that vote for him)- are very pro- israel. It isnt just American jews or republicans who are pro-israel. It's the majority of the country. Just because YOU dont agree with his support for israel doesnt mean that american voters dont.
Yes yes and of course before you say it- I wish hed be more even handed and less pro-israel too, but dont try and back that argument with false statistics.
I think some of these posters are in the doughnut, the basement in the US Embassy and Langley.LOL I won`t even get into the jewish lobby, as I will get censored.LOL
Carl Jones: "...I thought we had established this in earlier comments.... its worth repeating....the future is more of the past..."
The point IS what IS happening today in JANUARY 2009, Carl..... and I'd rather quote Pilger on a Pilger topic than have my own words deleted on an Israel/Palestine topic.
But the future is the tomorrow we made for ourselves yesterday. Of course, others had a hand in it too but, at least spiritually, we are individually the masters of our own destiny, if we but so choose.
freedomLand; there is a mach in London today, THEY say about 20,000 are going to turn up....this is their chosen DESTINY...now, if I thought this 20,000 were going to attack the Isreali/US embassies and the CITY of London, then I`d join them, its time for people to take seroius action. I`ve talked to bank owners who are supprised the people aren`t throwing bicks through bank windows.
Democracy has failed the West, voting and peaceful protest isn`t enough. Must go, visitors have arrived.LOL
Here we go.
Is this the begining of the end?
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4B70ME20081224
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you one and all.
Carl Jones, but unlike Hamas, there is little to be achieved in attacking embassies or the City authorities. Hamas is actually at war against an enemy occupation of 60+ years, not making reactionary demonstrations, but you might find that the Maciavellian manipulations of the British authorities actually means that they have been effectively at war with the British people for ages.
That IS what the art of war is all about and winning at any cost is always on the agenda as well as live and let die. And thus it is not the banksters who are the real enemy so much as the people in power at the top who (a) knew what was happening and what was going to happen over the past 30+ years, and (b) are the ones who are totally inept, incompetent and irresponsible in their failures as regulators and legisaltors.
FreedomLand, you are too kind to the elite. You can`t have watched the last BBC Panorama....smug criminals.
I really don`t see any light between Britain, Israeli and the US. I think really big ---- is going to happen, another NWO sacrifice.
"Is this the begining of the end?"
Its this kind of thing thats idiotic.
Brown (and many others) during a boom (as people say during every bubble): "It's the end of boom and bust! Now its boom all the way!! Let the party begin!! Wahoo!!!"
Other idiots during the inevitable bust "its the end of boom! Now its bust all the way!!! I guess that means its the END OF THE WORLD!!!"
Sure. This is why capitalism overshoots- because millions of idiots think the boom/bust will last forever and act accordingly. Well its good news really- people who know its a load of bull can make good money from both booms and busts. Merry christmas, idiots!
Todays Times has a headline, that Israeli is allowing foreigners to leave, before attacking.....THIS IS A WAR CRIME and its preemptive GENOCIDE!! A bit like General Kimmits warning women and children to leave Fallujah, before strafing the city with gunships....even Blair said in the house, that this was worrying!