DNA Database - Fascism by any other name.
by lwtc247 @ 31. Oct 2007 - 06:19:42

Very respected Ian at Little Nicky Machiavelli has blogged about the DNA database canning his article "Who Do We Trust To Run The DNA Database?". Please read it.

I believe a DNA database/ID cards/RFID ad other tracking devices must be fiercely opposed. Here's why:

I utterly refuse to allow my DNA profile on any such database. I have absolutely zero trust the vast majority of these corrupt, arrogant, non-listening unrepresentative fascists squatting in Westminster who fail to represent my views on the Iraq war, poverty and exploitation etc. They may listen to you on trivial issue, like uneven paving in the town square or whatever, but not on some issue in which a lot of money is at stake (which in the end, will see them personally benefit from).

I have no doubt whatsoever that they WILL abuse it. As sensible people here have said, the govt's track record on similar matters is a disgraceful farce. AND more importantly it will not be able to stop millions of more people around the world from abusing it.

NO digital information is safe. How many times have we heard the stories of laptops belonging to military personnel going missing, of kids, Chinese or Russian hackers breaking into western computer systems? Of critical flaws in software allowing any Tom Dick and Harry "in" and how these hacks are posted on the internet just days after it becomes known some system is vulnerable. Too bloody many!

Encryption is NOT the answer. Encryption only stops the general amateur public from accessing data. ANY one of these members of the public can pay a professional to steal data. Do you think there are not private data surveillance people out there? In addition, all it takes is that ONE person with access to the database to the kidnapped, threatened, bribed or blackmailed to reveal his password and then the WHOLE database is at risk. Elements of it, if not the whole thing could be downloaded or records changed.

People go on about identity theft. ID theft is a deliberate and massively overplayed fear tactic in conjunction with the "War OF Terror", to get you to become part of the system by giving up your privacy and other liberties. There is only identity theft in the first place because it is the system that has forced you to take on an identity in the first place! "Terrorists" will not be carrying their ID, they'll be carrying YOURS!

A key element of all this is about CONTROL. You see, Money Control and Power (MCP) are what these authoritarian people crave, and of course people with authoritarian tendencies will naturally gravitate towards politics and the police etc. To the (modern) police force, big businessmen, politicians and the royals, MCP is their drug, an aphrodisiac if you will. They wield the MCP cudgel in expectation that we pay them respect and offer forms of subservience onto them - bowing, idolizing them, following their lives etc or being written kindly of in the history books of man.

The mentality of many of these authoritarian people can speed off into insanity. I think we can all picture someone who fits into that profile.

This is why virtually ALL governments head towards totalitarianism. Often its revolutions by the common folk who manage to cut back that cut back the tidal wave of fascism that emerges, but it will manifest again.

Does anyone think the Government/establishment and intelligence services will NOT manipulate it for political means? Of course they will! The government ALWAYS does what ever it can to gain political advantage which it believes it can get away with. There is a pitiful track record of political killings and jailing. The Birmingham 6 etc... Nowadays, It’s Muslims that are being framed. Ricin "plots", forestgate and liquid bomb plots, Indian tupperware containers containing chapatti flour etc. But it's increasingly those who are standing in solidarity with Muslims to resist the oppression fear and suspicion they now face from evil spiteful liars.

Remember this?

At the very minimum, you should support any innocent group against tyranny indirectly by maintaining, to the very best of your ability, the preservation of freedoms from this neocon/NOW authoritarianism that we all should enjoy. What else stands between us and total tyranny now? Isn't the DNA database a priceless tool for fascism?

Resist it good people – RESIST!

All it takes is one spy ware or keystroke logger and an IP spoofer to get access to the WHOLE database.
People go on about the DNA database will solve more crime. Perhaps it will solve crime, but is it going to be used to stop crime by oligarchs, so called "Royals", powerful politicians? International bankers, major stakeholders on oil companies or armaments companies?

We have already heard of Scottish police stitching up a woman accused of murder by using fingerprint information. Thankfully, that information could be challenged be experts in fingerprinting and could be analyzed by experts. But DNA faces an utterly serious flaw in that it can be synthesized. ANYONE could be e framed for any crime. If you are outspoken against the governments serious crimes the chance of being framed or worse is more likely.

Remember Gerard Bull {supergun}? Remember Dr. David Kelly{Iraq}? Even Wat Tyler (& Richard II)! Come on people. It is utterly dangerous to cede any liberty to any government. We have already allowed these liberties to be snatched from us in full view. We have become complacent. Perhaps we do not deserve them for that reason, but let's try and wake up to stop and then reverse the process. The centralization of power (or deceptive devolution, which answers to a central core) is dangerously open to abuse and this DNA database will be a jewel in the crown.

And what about when genetic technology progresses ever stronger?. What do you think the chance that Multinational conglomerates will somehow have been able to get access to this DNA database? What about weapons companies? We could even see specific genetic weapons being produced. In fact Professor of Law at Berkley University in California, PNAC buddies of John Yoo, (himself a neocon and advocate of torture "crushing of child’s testicles in order to make a parent divulge information") are reported to have advocated race specific biological weapons[1]. P.S. John Yoo is a lawyer in the office of legal counsel at the US Justice [sic] Department. Do you sit comfortably with all of that? What’s to prevent ‘the other side’ from developing them against you and your loved ones? These men are insane.
We already know that weapons companies will use ANY information to create advanced weaponry. Their whole ethos is making money out of being able to kill and control people.

Corrupt political slaves will say such a possibility is potty, but screw those lying idiots, what do YOU think? Are you so confident that it will NOT happen? Remember all it takes is one blackmailed/threatened/tortured/bribed person to open up genetic database and that’s it. Security will FOREVER be compromised.

The "database" and what it will be used for, has INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS implications. Think about all these issues. Think about the future. Is it worth it?

Aren’t there far better ways in which crime can be PREVENTED, not just prosecuted after the fact? Thinks like building a more harmonious society, where respect, freedom and altruism are abundant, where the youth are not left bored and thrown onto scrap heap and drift into drugs, gangs and vandalism but are helped to become great members of a caring society. A society where ruthless greedy and genocidal foreign policy isn't practiced by evil self enriching politicians? A society were people in other countries admire us and speak highly of us? and would like to follow our example. The authoritarian route that pretends will produce this is a lie. History proves so. Goodness isn't produced from badness.

RESIST people. For heavens sake, please resist!

[1] http://noworldsystem.com/category/race-specific-bio-weapons/
[2] http://www.peace.ca/racetargetablebioweapons.htm

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DNA Database - Fascism by any other name.

Anbar's Ghost - The Iraqi Fake Sheikh

Bush happy with his fake tan.

So Al Jazeera was plummeting towards the dirt. Perhaps this is what Pilger had in mind when of Al Jazeera he said "they are hiring a lot of westerners, it will be interesting to see what happens".[see Ref 1]. The gap was closing between themselves and state funded propaganda machine, the BBC, with its predictable line of establishment-line talking heads and interviews/news presenters who softball those wielding executive power and who only (sometimes) get animated against those who challenge the establishment (See Galloway/Paxman 6th May 2005) or those who attack so called Israel.

In amongst these troubling times, I chanced upon a gem of a program ion the People & Power series, called Anbar’s Ghost.

The context of the program was laid out by the program was by the lovely Ms. Sama Al-Shahad revealing that the USUK 'Coalition of the Killing', lead by the Americans were being whipped by the Nobel Iraqi Resistance.

With excuses to justify the rape, destruction and killings rapidly running out, in conjunction (which the lovely Ms. Al-Shahad forgot to report) with a failing coalition propaganda campaign carried by a vulnerable and increasingly discredited main stream media, PhD killer, General David Betrayus needed some good news fast in order to deliver a politicised (and therefore lobbox) report on the "progress" made in Iraq,

Cue the Fake Sheikh! Sheikh Sattar Abu Reesha.

Smile, so I can show the folks at home that we are all one big happy family
(and if you stop playing the game, your history)

Betrayus' "report" was to be delivered to the Democrat controlled Congress (who interpreted their election as bestowing upon them the right to defy the very people who voted them in! A 4 year licence to defy the will of the majority of the people.) the excuse to sit on their Zionist sponsored bottoms, to allow the genocide to continue, instilling hopelessness into those highly admirable USans who oppose the massacre. Abu Reesha provided an excellent opportunity to deceive.

Getting back, the programs host, Ms. Sama Al-Shahad (who is very lovely), informed us that the US govt accountability office report said that the US failed to achieve many of its benchmarks. However surge supporters countered this pointing to what they claim as having success in Anbar province {thanks to the actions of the Sheikh you see}, where peculiarly enough, the US had faced earlier some of the fiercest resistance. But now all was rosey, as if by magic, Sunni tribes thanks to Abu Reesha were now fighting side by side WITH the Americans!

The supreb host, Al-Shahad, told us the Sheihk, Sattar Abu Reesha, was so celebrated, that Bush met with him on a quick visit to Iraq (around 6th - 14th Sept). Ms. Samah Al-Shahat, a lovely woman who is probably very kind, unselfish and good comapny to boot, then handed over to the film made by  investigative journalists Richard (Rick) Rowley and David Enders to check out the story.

Sadly, but necessarily so I guess, move away from the captivating eloquent introduction given to us by the lovely and more-ish Ms. Al-Shahat, to Amman, Jordan where Rowley and Enders were waiting to get a visa to meet the Sheikh in Ramadi….

Aaah, a good initial sign; the "I'll name that tune in one" twangs the electric guitar from the Doors’ "The End" soundtrack start us off, instantly setting the mood. At least one member of the film crew has excellent taste, so I was predicating good things to come and I wasn't to be disappointed either!

We are informed "the papers are full of stories about a Sheikh from Anbar who has changed the course of the war in favour of the Americans" Which would provide food for those very starved supporters of the war, that the Coalition of the Killing could still win; a victory was to be had, snatching victory from the lower intestines of defeat. Call me a old prune, but does anyone know if a "Karen Miller" had recently emigrated to Jordan? Or, perhaps if Jordan has it own home-grown Millers, Al-Millaries  perhaps? That wouldn't happen in Israeli-British province called Jordan would it? Naaaaaah.

Insurgency Analyst, Moyad Abu Subiah for the Al-Ghad newspaper, who had written about the war from day one, especially about the war in Anbar said "I've never heard of anyone named Sattar Abu Reesha. Maybe there is a Sattar Abu Reesha, maybe there are many Sattar Abu Reeshas". With an cheeky yet intelligent grin on his face.

Moyad said that “Abu Reesha was a ghost, a name the Americans had attached to a public relations campaign.” Aaaaah. Music to my conspiracy infected heart.

I wonder if Moyad now finds himself rendered to writing articles in the internal annual publication: "Guantanamo Workers Gazzette”? Well, either that or dead, - I wouldn't be surprised.

It turned out that Abu Reesha wasn't in Ramadi afterall (I wonder why?) but in the Marriott Hotel in Aaman! LOL. Well I never. Not in Ramadi(!) but on the top penthouse floor of the Marriott, furnished with fancy furniture and paintings beyond the financial reach of most.

Here's what he, Head of the "Iraq Awakening Council" said in his first few lines...

"I want you to introduce me. I am head of the Iraq Awakening council. Leader of all the Iraqi Arab Tribes. I am real. I am not a ghost. In 5 days time, I will return to Iraq, and I will be in my house in Ramadi. And to the terrorists, I say that I will be in Anbar in 5 days, and if they want to see me, I am ready for them."

Oh dear! Did he forget he's not supposed to be acting and that he's SHOULD to look into the camera? Or perhaps there was a fly buzzing overhead and that was the reason why his eyes looked upward as if he was trying to remember his lines, but maybe not. "Head of ALL Arab Tribes" Wow. That's a big claim, and just how does he figure that one out I wonder? And announcing where he will be, slapping a glove across the face of his opponents - oh dear. That's wither immensely brave or incredibly stupid. Given Abu Reesha’s challenge, and that his top floor of the Marriott hotel had what was described as "elaborate" security, and the fact that in number of days time having returned back to Iraq he was to end up dead, you might be able to would out the correct answer to that one.

The very first time I saw the dude, quick as lightening, I got the impression that he was some 2-bit actor playing his first big part - possibly feeling that he had bitten off more than he could chew, but nonetheless, he endeavoured, as just maybe, someone had previously whispered in his little thespian ears what the salary would be; Who knows, a high position within an upcoming episode of the Iraqi mupp puppet show was in the offing, or a major stakeholder in some future 'Irachtel' petrochemicals company?

What happens next is superb as Rowley and Enders describe the record of American combat dispensed across Anbar, not forgetting, if you ever could, those women, kids and husbands who the Americans in all USan lavishness, chemically burnt alive from inside their lungs, their eyes, nostrils, mouths, ears and skin when the deliberately genocide, an American Halabja, as the helpless people of Fallujah were doused with white phosphorous. But that the glorious Iraqi Resistance still came out on top, in spite of the hell unleashed by the US.

Anbar is the stronghold of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq. More US soldiers have been killed there than in any other province. Much of Anbar has been under the direct control of insurgents since  2004 and in Anbar's most famous town, Fallujah, 2 allied invasions, dozens of air strikes tens of thousands of arrests and  three years of curfews and continuous American raids have not ended resistance."

YEAH. This confirmation of what reports from the Iraqi resistance did me a world of good. is excellent news.

But I have to laugh at those US bullying pigs, who on camera commit offences against International law by threatening to blow down someone’s house should they not get their way. And then we see the murdering US filth putting into practice their ‘intercultural awareness training’ elements of which they were no doubt expert in even before their training as they exchanged male kissed to try and cement their agreement with what we are told was a number of tribal leaders...

who of course are genuine and not simply bought off...



At this point I’m going to stop commenting on the rest of the program, as regular readers of this and other related blogs should by now, be able to spot the illution the US try to foist upon us. 

Happy viewing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C223AE63-CE85-4887-9275-D2278C2A844C.htm

Postscript: Now I guess, Sheihk Sattar Abu Reesha really is Anbar's "ghost". Even though Abu Reesha's working with the Americans was a HUGE betrayl, it is doubtful that he would ever have done such a thing if the Yanks had never invaded in the first place. That highlights a tragic element present is the loss of the many thousands of other Iraqi lives. May the Coalition of the Killings defeat speed up.

Other notes:

[1] See the John Pilger speech at the world socialists forum 2007 for a scathing critique of neo-journalism

Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz, A woman of immense courage, reminds murdering filth Condosleeza Rice of the blood her and her neocon scum get off on.

VIDEO here:

Thick (as Rhino) skinned Condi ignores it. After all she so used to seeing her death-porn that really it's not significant. And look at the sagaveness at with which that gorilla exercises his sudden male strength as he lurches towards Desiree. And see the bastard police aggressively try and rip some of the other peaceful protestors there. It's nothing short of a disgrace.

The courage Code Pink have been showing is awe inspiring. I hope the rest of the US start to join them.

Published on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 by Reuters
(reprinted on http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/24/4789/)

Protester Waves Blood-Colored Hands in Rice’s Face
WASHINGTON — An anti-war protester waved blood-colored hands in U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s face at a congressional hearing on Wednesday and shouted “war criminal!”, but was pushed away and detained by police.“The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands!” yelled the protester, Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz of the Code Pink organization which often disrupts hearings on Capitol Hill with protests against the Iraq war.

Rice, an architect of President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy, appeared unfazed by the incident, which occurred when she entered a House of Representatives meeting room to testify at a hearing on U.S. Middle East policy.

“Out!,” shouted the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, Rep. Tom Lantos, as plain-clothes security men and police hustled the woman away. The California Democrat also ordered the removal of several other Code Pink activists.

Capitol Police said later five people were arrested, including Ali-Fairooz, who was charged with disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer.

She was also charged with defacing government property for smearing the red paint from her hands on the hallway wall outside the hearing room. The other four protesters faced disorderly conduct charges.

© 2007 Reuters

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Once again the BBC pumps out utter crapola without the slightest suggestion of journalistic profesionalism.

This story is complete tosh for a number of reasons, but even though it pretends to be aracial, the whole thing screams racism as well as utter utter utter bollocks.

Human species 'may split in two'
Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 08:47 GMT 09:47 UK

Humanity may split into two
sub-species in 100,000 years'
time as predicted by HG Wells,
an expert has said.

Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge.

The human race would peak in the year 3000, he said - before a decline due to dependence on technology.

People would become choosier about their sexual partners, causing humanity to divide into sub-species, he added.

Humanity may split into an elite and an underclass, says Dr Curry

The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative and a far cry from the "underclass" humans who would have evolved into dim-witted, ugly, squat goblin-like creatures.

Race 'ironed out'

But in the nearer future, humans will evolve in 1,000 years into giants between 6ft and 7ft tall, he predicts, while life-spans will have extended to 120 years, Dr Curry claims.

Physical appearance, driven by indicators of health, youth and fertility, will improve, he says, while men will exhibit symmetrical facial features, look athletic, and have squarer jaws, deeper voices and bigger penises.

Women, on the other hand, will develop lighter, smooth, hairless skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, and even features, he adds. Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people.

However, Dr Curry warns, in 10,000 years time humans may have paid a genetic price for relying on technology.

Spoiled by gadgets designed to meet their every need, they could come to resemble domesticated animals.

Receding chins

Social skills, such as communicating and interacting with others, could be lost, along with emotions such as love, sympathy, trust and respect. People would become less able to care for others, or perform in teams.

Physically, they would start to appear more juvenile. Chins would recede, as a result of having to chew less on processed food.

There could also be health problems caused by reliance on medicine, resulting in weak immune systems. Preventing deaths would also help to preserve the genetic defects that cause cancer.

Further into the future, sexual selection - being choosy about one's partner - was likely to create more and more genetic inequality, said Dr Curry.

The logical outcome would be two sub-species, "gracile" and "robust" humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine.

"While science and technology have the potential to create an ideal habitat for humanity over the next millennium, there is a possibility of a monumental genetic hangover over the subsequent millennia due to an over-reliance on technology reducing our natural capacity to resist disease, or our evolved ability to get along with each other, said Dr Curry.

He carried out the report for men's satellite TV channel Bravo.

Over 6 weeks ago, I posted an article entitled:

Was this to be the 'dirty bomb'
06. Sep 2007 - 20:24:28

Since then, we reports have emerged that one of those NUKES is missing and that strangely some of the airmen that might have been involved in this 'mistake' have ended up dead.

Is this just the 6-weeks-on 'anti-Bush' spin factory or is there substance behind it? Please read the blog entry I made on that issue including the two articles I pasted at the end.

This possibility is too significant to just ignore. Answers are needed, and fast!

I call myself lwtc247 because over the years, the global conspiracies I have gained knowledge of, does effect my life and thoughts almost second of every day. I didn't ask for it, and at times I find it annoying. It may even cause me problems sometimes. However, being compelled to reject the global rot, and trying to encourage others to reject it also, I accept my 'condition' as something positive than negative. I must embrace it. I shiver at the thought of going back to a state of ignorance, or if not ignorance, then at least acceptance and tacit complicity.

But it has a cost.

I am lucky with my job, in that it affords me great opportunity to conduct research, long and large amounts of research, I have come to satisfactory levels of understanding about life, science the way people operate etc. This has allowed me to let go of the mental prison most people cage themselves in. I do not, for example, try and cover up any mistakes I may make from time to time. I hold my hand up and deal with it. I believe it is a virtue to do so. But of course if you do this, you will be seen as 'error prone' or whatever, as relatively speaking, everyone else is busy hiding all their mistakes defects and frailties and so forth. I see people almost every day lie to themselves, and try to cover themselves in a teflon coat. They really are at war against themselves and it's a worthless war. A war of self-beguilement.

Since my life was hijacked, I have come to question almost everything. I have virtually zero inhibitions in asking relevant questions. Sometimes when posing questions a third party perhaps unaccustomed to such straightforward questions will react very adversely taking the question as being offensive, even when clearly it is not - it is just that their mind goes into 'shock'. The clever ones amongst other tricks, impose a fake sense of offence onto the question to avoid answering it. The not so clever ones try and divert the question.

And so at work today, up came "cost time".

I sent a 'public' e-mail asking very relevant and serious questions about some procedural matters. I wasn't able to clearly resolve the issues at hand myself and listed a few suggestions as to possible answers based on my understanding at the time. I also gave a stinging critique of a new aspect of work relating to Global Warming. The context of this Global Warming was very much skewed towards the anthropogenic side of the 'debate' something which I slammed in the e-mail as spurious 'opinion science'.

I later got a e-mail back from my boss, again public, and it seemed rather patronising, literally and stylistically. The reply said at least twice the procedure was clear, but strangely, no clarification was offered. Hummm. I was also asked not to send such public e-mails as I was confusing people. In addition, the reply suggested I had called into question peoples competency, which certainly wasn't my intention.

I analysed the reply as one of mild hostility against unfamiliar probing questions. questions which weren't furnished with answers. Questions that had significant consequences depending on the actual answer. It is a shame that the questions were made to carry personalised baggage which my boss took offence to. My boss displayed a familiar frailty which I have seen in many other people. It disappointed me, as I do actually hold my boss in quite high regard.

The issue of confusing people was a bit of a sore point, as virtually all my colleagues are recognised for their professional abilities and also their accredited academic intellectualism, which is why I e-mailed them in the first place, to get their learned responses, This showed that the reply sent to me hadn't been given a moments thought but also because: If they were confused, then it would have meant that they too had a issue with this procedure and so would have benefited from my question to clarify and the following discourse upon it.

The Global Warming part of it wasn't specifically addressed, but I'm sure the nature of my annoyance at being asked to impose a very disputable side of it (the Al-Gore side), added to, unnecessarily, the irked reply I got.

So I ask myself this:
Should I try and garnish up my questions to prevent this kind of thing in the future? Will it achieve more? Will it be worse for failing to make people realise some ideas they have are daft and they are actually living in a multi-layered prison cell?

Help me out here.

Why should it be me that changes my approach - why cant people raise to my level of questioning and how I am; a bitter old man who is living with the conspiracy 24-7?

Previous articles on Turkey:

1) Cold Turkey. by lwtc247 @ 12. Oct 2007 - 05:05:48
2) Headless Turkey by lwtc247 @ 23. Jul 2007 - 00:30:50

The Kurds do NOT want Turkey to invade north Iraq and the people do not want the PKK to precipitate a Turkish invasion, yet very very stupidly the PKK aparently attack Turkey AFTER parliament authorised military action. How very convenient. The Kurdish people although terribly opressed by the Turks (see Al Jazeera's (English) Inside story: Turkish/Iraqi tensions as well as Kurdish Students Continue to Face Oppression do NOT want war. They have suffered so long already and interestingly enough, they have many connections to Israel and the US via what is reported of the Peshmurga paramilitaries.

Lets look at the areas with significant populations of Kurds. Let me call it Kurdistan. It spreads out between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.

"Kurdistan"

Turkey is a very close ally of occupied Palestine, a.k.a. Israel and also the the US. Syria has offered support to the Turkish Invasion. Why? syria is enjoying a love-in right now with anti-Bushites. I think the answer is quite clear from the map below.

It wants a piece of the action!

Juan Cole gives and interesting interview on the situation on Democracy Now.

Juan Cole. Professor of History
at Michigan University .
www.truthdig.com

So, the Turks are hurt and confused. In Bill Clinton's last year, 56% of the Turkish public thought well of the United States. That number is down to 9%. So it’s not entirely clear what motive the United States has in so alienating a country that has been a valued and close ally.

I don't endorse all of Cole's analysis, but it is quite powerful.

UPDATE:
Came across this just now. A very interconnected piece with possible disinformation:

Turkey Requests ‘Urgent’ Iran Military Aid As Syria Warns To Prepare For War
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1042.htm

Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has requested neighboring Iran to provide ‘urgent’ military aid in its planned invasion of Iraq. Likewise, Iran has confirmed that its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ‘cut short’ his state visit to Armenia and is returning to Tehran.

Note:

There are a number ways you can realise you are getting old. One of them is that you begin to say things like “When I was young…”.

Anyway, when I was young, I was quite a big fan of music. My range wasn’t so great, but I was often listening to it. One night in my drinking days, coming home with my Dad, the issue of music popped up. My father said music made no difference to the world, and that surprised me a lot. He had quite a large music collection himself and helped influence some of my tastes. For example, when I hear the Rolling Stones’s “Ruby Tuesday” I think about going swimming because on Sunday, my father would take us to the swimming pool, give us a packet of polo’s and play songs from the compilation “Get Stoned” by the Rolling stones. Somehow “Ruby Tuesday” seemed the most prominent.

I've always looked at this album cover
with interest and curiousity.

And when I hear The Buggles “Video killed the Radio Star” and Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” (which now, I kinda like – lol!) I am immediately pulled back to my youth.

“How can you say that?” I impatiently asked - of course, I took the implications of what my father said, inclusinve as an ‘attack’ on what I liked. I know, stupid right? “People like John Lennon inspiring people to voice out demands for peace and so on.”

Sadly I can’t quite remember what my father said, but I remember being dissatisfied afterwards. But you know what, there was much truth in what my father said because music will never offer a solution to anything (in western culture), it merely captures/reflects and advertises a mood, at any one particular period. But while it’s wider role probably irrelevant, I do think it does have a short-term personal influence.

I went through a stage where I didn’t listen to music at all, partly because I thought there may be some religious based cautions against it; the kind of arguments I was hearing w was that music (especially involving ‘strings’) altered your emotional states and made you behave differently. Whatever the wrongs or rights or legitimacy of all this, I have in recent years begun listening to it again. And it does affect/affect or set your mood, as does clothing, the smart suit, the tight jeans, the big baggy jumper, the Doc Martens booth, not to mention hairstyle. However this ‘altered state’ is fleeting and I could argue, in the absence of pleasure from other expressions of ‘escapism’, it is therapeutic. I spent many a summers day, just lying down watching the clouds breeze by, listening to Jimi Hendrix’s and especially his Electric Ladyland album, thinking of life elsewhere.

The Jesus and Mary Chain (JAMC). Two great albums with unique style.
I was also and big fan of the Jesus and Mary Chain. You may have heard their music style. It makes me feel kind of reflective {in fact, humming some of their songs has lead to me writing this article), kind of hopeless(despair) and yet kind of like being in love (I was madly in love then and played this music a lot at the time). I also went through a black clothes period then. I could on occasions get quite ‘down’ when listening to this music, even though I liked a lot and thought it was quite clever music. It was a two way association. If I was down I would often play this music. Or If I played the music I would feel down. I could well imagine some suicidal kids feeding off this vibe, to whatever degree, and then making an attempt at taking their own lives.

I find it amazing that even though I am getting old, and have come and to be honest with myself and get to know myself very well, that an external force such as music can still affect me in such ways.

lw

www.wamy.co.uk/bd_ask.htm

Akum.
I was talking with a Directors of the Islamic Society of Britain (Dr Abdul Aziz) in his house last year and he game me a book: European Council for Fatwa Research {like many Islamic books, it carries no ISBN, printed in Egypt}. It tries to give guidance to Muslims on how to live a successful Muslim life in a non-Muslim country where Sharia law is not practiced (indeed it is demonized in some instances). Members must among other things, be qualified in Sharia at the University level and have a sound knowledge of Arabic.

In it on page 27 is very strange fatwa whereby in the summer, it is permissible to combine magrib and Ish'a prayers.

I am incredibly reluctant to embrace it because I believe that it is still possible to have a n Ish'a time, it just means sleep patters are broken slightly, and of course prayers are one of the 5 main pillars of Islam. Mess with them and expect the house to fall down.

It seems there are a million and one opinions given when a million and one sources are asked, many which are different.

Are these variations acceptable? And what role do out own insights and opinions play in the decision making process i.e. Shouldn't we not take more responsibility for the conduct of out own religious practice rather than asking theologians etc?

From my experience of asking Christian scholars many are embarrassed to call a spade a spade and try and avoid serious discussion which usually would have significant meaning should the debate be pursued to a conclusion. Muslims tend to be either very ridged (admirable to a point but bad when they have espouse a very questionable point) or they tend to be secularists - abandoning the practicalities of God being the ultimate source and reference of knowledge (relying on man-made fallible thoughts/laws etc). I've not asked Jews about this yet, but I have a precognition that they would clam up, although one Muslim researcher I know seems to had been very engaged with Jewish theological discourse with Jews in the Prestwich area of Manchester.

I think all this indicates the need for a unified Islamic council to discuss and conclude global decisions – a responsibility once chaired by the Caliph.

I'm going to contact them and put these questions to them, but what's your opinion?

P.S. If your interested...
European Council for Fatwa and Research
19 Robuck Road
Clonskeagh
D14
Ireland
00353 1 2080000
Shiekh Hussein Muhammad Halawa

www.wamy.co.uk/bd_ask.htm

Having gone through a dodgy patch, Al Jazeera (English) has once again come up trumps with yet another if its ever interesting human stories featured on its "Witness" program.

The latest one featured a short retrospective personal film called "Child of the Commune." Made by a young Dutch woman whose mother joined the Bhagwan Shee Rashneesh commune in the 60/70's. Bhagwan Shee Rashneesh later become known as Osho.

Bhagwan Shee Rashneesh otherwise known as Osho.

The mother rejected living in 'normal society', rejected regulation and embraced what she thought was freedom, including of course free sex; the kind of thing that the image of the "hippy" was built around. She took her daughter with her. In the film, the young woman (then about 13) expressed a sorrowful childhood because of the commune.

In discussions with her mother, the issue of freedom came up and it was apparent that the mothers persuit of freedom, it was at the cost of imposing a regulation (unfree) life for the child, but at the same time the elements of guidance throughout childhood that she needed were not provided. At one point, the partly regulated partly free social circle, resulting in the bedding of the girl when she was 13, becasue the commune had impressed upon her that it was the way things were supposed to be. She felt she couldn't speak out.

The mother in persuit of freedom actually revealed a very interesting point. She said she obeyd some rules becasue it was her choice to obey them. Her freedom became encapsulated with others seeing the same 'freedom'. This reveals the essence of freedom, that freedom still contains regulation. And as the young lady shows, freedom has a price which is often not apparent.

I will blog more on the intersting story of Bhagwan later.

Analysis 4:

This post concerns the callous murder of Jean Charles deMenezes, a man not guilty of any crime. It uses the BBC's reporting of the story. The coverage of JC's murder is a travesty of journalism so I'm going to try and redress the imbalance somewhat and put my own 2 pence forward too.

Met sought suicide bomber advice 

Jean Charles de Menezes: Followed to station 
Last Updated: Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:29 GMT 13:29 UK 

British police worried about suicide bombers were advised by Israeli security forces, a court has heard. 
A 'kill-first,-get-criminal-govt-to-whitewash-after" force was advising the British police about suicide bombers? I wonder what the advice was? Can we have it published please? In its current absence, let me use my psychic powers to guess. *puts index finger and thumb on forehead*, aaaah. Something's coming though. page 1: If he's Palestinian, kill him. If she's a Palestinian, kill her. If they look like Palestinians, kill them. If they help Palestinians, kill them. *rubs forehead and pincers more strongly *... page 666 last line very short line. It simply says "Kill."

They warned suicide bombers had developed devices that could be more easily concealed about the person.
Why is this statement so vague? What exactly were these devices? Where exactly were they to be contained? Did the Brits have to told suicide bombers would try and hide their bombs? Were reports of concealed devices (e.g. suicide belts) unknown before the Israelis issued this 'advice'. Clearly, this point and its deliberate vagueness is yet another lie popped from the very large stack. "No sir, its a matter of national security. We cannot divulge details in case ummm...errrr... ...the terrorists get ideas. *cough*

Let's consider they are talking about suicide belts. Let's also recall the official Swiss cheese lobbox of the 7-7 and 21-7 "events". In it, rucksacks and large tupperware containers were used for bombs and non-bombs respectively, NOT suicide belts or any other device "easily concealed about the person". So again this advice was trash. Absolutely NO devices of the sort advised about were used. How much did this advice cost? Who authorised this course. Why was it authorised? Since when have the British been strangers to terrorism? The Brits are experts in it - from both directions! Just ask that two man SAS death quad that was captured in Basra recently.



SAS terrorists

I see no reason why the godless Khazars illegally administering and ethnically cleansing Palestine were advising British police, unless of course it was to advise them on how to kill with impunity and ignore basic ethics and scribes law. One could, with greater validity say that a potential bomber could have the explosives in their shoes, Richard Reid style - date: 22-12-01, JC's killing date: 22-7-05. Yet the British death squad never even considered shoe bombs, showing YET AGAIN, that the 'advice' on concelaed devices is an utter lie.

This lie is synchronous with the defence strategy. To try to make another pin-prick of doubt in the hope that all the pricks will summise to a twinge of doubt and hopefully escape prosecution as they have managed to over the murder of JC. And people still parrot that British justice is the best in the world. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so damn tragic.

The Met denies breaking health and safety laws in relation to the Brazilian's death on 22 July 2005. 
The Met has something in common with the worst of criminals, they both commit serious crimes and afterwards lie come hell or high water afterwards in order to get away with their crime. Only the greatest of criminals are the hypocrites wearing uniform.

The prosecution allege the Metropolitan Police put the public at risk by allowing their suspect to travel from his home to the station before they intervened.
It's a pity that's all anyone can manage to throw at them. Given the absence of having to answer murder charges, at least something is better than nothing, but please remember, there should be no weakening in the resolve to make people in the Met (and wider establishment) be in the dock for murder, including those 52 murdered on a Tuesday morning in July 2005. And have you noticed the word “alleged” is only ever used then in discussion of the prosecution, but never about the responses of the defendant?

The Metropolitan Police say that officers did their best in extraordinary circumstances - and that while the shooting was a mistake, it was not a crime.