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Posted on the Savile thread about this, but some have alleged that it is Gordon Brown. That would be immense if true.

 

To be fair Pap, nothing is immense in this whole situation.

 

And if it turns out it is him, it will have been covered up by others high up in the Labour party. This could be the end of the Labour party as we know it IF allegations are true.

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To be fair Pap, nothing is immense in this whole situation.

 

And if it turns out it is him, it will have been covered up by others high up in the Labour party. This could be the end of the Labour party as we know it IF allegations are true.

 

A further allegation is that the UK was blackmailed into the Iraq War after details of Operation Ore found their way into the hands of the US intelligence service, so it's potentially much bigger than a cover-up.

 

You are right about the Labour Party though. If it is true.

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That whole theory is laughable.

 

This. Especially since the info Ore was based on came from the FBI anyway. I wonder how they blackmailed us into the first Gulf war and Afghanistan - threatening to reveal X Factor is fixed and what happened next in Emmerdale?

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Why? Which bits particularly amused you? What needs to go to the Fringe as a one man show?

 

The whole theory is just obviously nonsense. A country going to war to cover up some nonce politician, you need a really vivid imagination to believe that would happen.

 

Just people with an agenda putting 2 and 2 together to make 27.

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This. Especially since the info Ore was based on came from the FBI anyway. I wonder how they blackmailed us into the first Gulf war and Afghanistan - threatening to reveal X Factor is fixed and what happened next in Emmerdale?

 

As I said in the other thread, this really depends on the existence of a D-Notice.

 

The US had UN resolutions behind them in Kuwait and Afghanistan, so blackmail wasn't required.

 

They did not secure a security resolution for the most recent conflict in Iraq, needed us to back them up so they didn't look like isolated corporate imperialists. I find it amazing that we helped them. What was seriously in the Iraq War for us?

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as i said in the other thread, this really depends on the existence of a d-notice.

 

The us had un resolutions behind them in kuwait and afghanistan, so blackmail wasn't required.

 

They did not secure a security resolution for the most recent conflict in iraq, needed us to back them up so they didn't look like isolated corporate imperialists. I find it amazing that we helped them. What was seriously in the iraq war for us?

 

 

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As I said in the other thread, this really depends on the existence of a D-Notice.

 

The US had UN resolutions behind them in Kuwait and Afghanistan, so blackmail wasn't required.

 

They did not secure a security resolution for the most recent conflict in Iraq, needed us to back them up so they didn't look like isolated corporate imperialists. I find it amazing that we helped them. What was seriously in the Iraq War for us?

 

What was in it for us? Ask the multi-million pound earning business consultant Tony Blair... It wasn't a conspiracy, just a greedy, deluded c.nt who believed his own hype, enabling him to justify anything to himself.

 

Anyway, remind me who was the other person to resign over the Westland affair?

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The whole theory is just obviously nonsense. A country going to war to cover up some nonce politician, you need a really vivid imagination to believe that would happen.

 

Just people with an agenda putting 2 and 2 together to make 27.

 

Depends. Without naming names again, that is one serious politician, especially at the time. Might not just have been him, or confined to the sphere of elected politicians.

 

As for a vivid imagination? Possibly, but blackmail has been a tool in trade of the intelligence services and elsewhere for centuries. DPS made the point earlier about how a political party might be destroyed by these allegations.

 

I'm actually inclined to agree with you that one bloke is not enough.

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I'm actually inclined to agree with you that one bloke is not enough.

 

Are you now suggesting that the whole cabinet of the time where nonces? You love a conspiracy theory! I'm surprised you aren't aware of this sort of thing, which might explain why we went to Iraq

 

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2005-11-22/oil-multinationals-making-out-bandits-iraq

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What was in it for us? Ask the multi-million pound earning business consultant Tony Blair... It wasn't a conspiracy, just a greedy, deluded c.nt who believed his own hype, enabling him to justify anything to himself.Anyway, remind me who was the other person to resign over the Westland affair?

 

This explanation is much much simpler and much much more likely to be the truth. I love a good conspiracy theory but such massive cover-ups would rely on loads and loads of people keeping completely stum and for this reason alone they are nearly always unbelievable.

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This explanation is much much simpler and much much more likely to be the truth. I love a good conspiracy theory but such massive cover-ups would rely on loads and loads of people keeping completely stum and for this reason alone they are nearly always unbelievable.

 

but they do happen... right?

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This explanation is much much simpler and much much more likely to be the truth. I love a good conspiracy theory but such massive cover-ups would rely on loads and loads of people keeping completely stum and for this reason alone they are nearly always unbelievable.

 

Er, no. They just rely on a hierarchy, murder, disinformation and scapegoating or when none of the above work, kept under wraps for 100 years under a D-Notice under the guise of national security.

 

It's also not the case that everyone keeps schtum either. That's precisely why you need the murder component.

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Er, no. They just rely on a hierarchy, murder, disinformation and scapegoating or when none of the above work, kept under wraps for 100 years under a D-Notice under the guise of national security.

 

It's also not the case that everyone keeps schtum either. That's precisely why you need the murder component.

 

time to put on the tin-foil hat.

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The whole theory is just obviously nonsense. A country going to war to cover up some nonce politician, you need a really vivid imagination to believe that would happen.

 

Just people with an agenda putting 2 and 2 together to make 27.

 

it's when 1 into 1 equals less than 16 it becomes a problem :scared:

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Are you now suggesting that the whole cabinet of the time where nonces? You love a conspiracy theory! I'm surprised you aren't aware of this sort of thing, which might explain why we went to Iraq

 

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2005-11-22/oil-multinationals-making-out-bandits-iraq

 

I am guilty of loving a conspiracy theory. I'd believe all of them if I could.

 

It's a good link which demonstrates a little of your point and a little of mine. I appreciate that Iraq has vast oil reserves. I can see that there are some British companies doing very well out of it. That doesn't really answer the question of what we, the British public got out of it. The economic activity generated by the oil coming out of Iraq, be that transportation, tax take, shareholder dividends, etc? I'd say that's about the size of it.

 

Our position in parts of the world has been massively eroded as a result of this specific conflict; I thought Afghanistan was a sledge-hammer to crack a walnut, was proven right on that too. Iraq was totally unjustifiable and was nothing more than part of the neo-conservative's New American Century, the one where they'd consolidate their power as the world's sole superpower.

 

Well, top job there, lads. Iran is now the big boy in the region and rather than show its strength, the US has actually shown the limits of its power and lost a whole chunk of its moral authority. If the cause was so just, why didn't France and Germany weigh in? If the evidence was so strong, why didn't the US secure a resolution from the UN, when it did with Kuwait and Afghanistan? It was a war of aggression; the whole world, including us, knew that from the outset. Our own Prime Minister invented a case for war, knowing that it would be shown to be a lie, knowing that it would forever tarnish his reputation. We just happened to go along with it.

 

Now I'm happy to accommodate the fact that Blair might have been a narcissistic pr!ck who saw being a War Prime Minister as a statesman badge he had to have. Perhaps that's true. But equally, I'm not happy to accept anything as "set" either. New evidence can often provide context to old events. You need look no further than the Louis Theroux Jimmy Savile program for that. What might have been mistaken for quirky old-skool eccentricity looks crystal clear now. I believe they call it the benefit of hindsight.

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Yawn. All conspiracy theories are equally unbelievable claim shocker.

 

Do me a favour. Go find out how every war in the last 100 years got going. Then we'll talk.

 

Why? Aren't the causes of WW1 and WW2 for example not well understood? Or are you going to tell me that Hitler only kicked things off in the late thirties because Ming the Merciless knew that Goering was a wrong 'un?

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Why? Aren't the causes of WW1 and WW2 for example pretty not well understood? Or are you going to tell me that Hitler only kicked things off in the late thirties because Ming the Merciless knew that Goering was a wrong 'un?

 

No, I mean that in 1939, shortly before the invasion of Poland, Hitler staged an attack in which Polish aggressors attacked a German customs post and post office near the border town of Gleiwitz, black propaganda that Hitler sold to his own people.

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No, I mean that in 1939, shortly before the invasion of Poland, Hitler staged an attack in which Polish aggressors attacked a German customs post and post office near the border town of Gleiwitz, black propaganda that Hitler sold to his own people.

 

I don't doubt that politician etc don't get up to some seriously deviant ****, I just doubt the ability to keep it quiet. The example you cite was totally transparent and in reality probably fooled very few.

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No, I mean that in 1939, shortly before the invasion of Poland, Hitler staged an attack in which Polish aggressors attacked a German customs post and post office near the border town of Gleiwitz, black propaganda that Hitler sold to his own people.

 

Makes you wonder what's going down in Whitstable.

http://www.whitstablepeople.co.uk/MP-reveals-town-s-post-office-faces-threat/story-17210149-detail/story.html

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Found another paedo, married a 13 year old...

 

FARRINGDON TUBE STATION

The station is in Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington. It serves the Metropolitan, the Hammersmith & City and the Circle Lines and is said to be haunted by the ghost of a 13 year old girl named Ann or Annie Naylor, an apprentice hat maker. This unfortunate girl was brutally murdered in 1758 by the man to whom she was indentured and his wife. The murder took place in a building that was demolished to make way for the station which opened in September 1863. Many people, over the years, have heard her tormented screams and cries in the bowels of the station earning her the nick-name of “the Screaming Spectre”.

 

As you can tell, after looking at a conspiracy theories website I am now reading about ghosts on the tube...

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