“We want to know every step he [US physicist John Archibald Wheeler] had taken, persons with whom he had talked, whether he had gone home after receiving the document, how he had gone to the train, whether he had called anyone, how long he had been at each place, what he did with the document […]
On This Day — Can you solve this 1953 Nuclear Mystery? [TOP SECRET H-Bomb Doc Lost]
This article was updated at 18.13, 7 January. Over 9,000 children have been killed as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza. On 6 January Muslim News reported that since 7 October: The Gaza Ministry of Health estimates that 22,722 Palestinians have been killed, including 9,600 children, 6,750 women and 58,166 injured and 7,000 missing. […]
Top Israelis’ evidence confirms Netanyahu’s genocidal intent. Plan to force Gazans to relocate to Sinai desert explained.
I was recently sent the following story by Peter Davidson about his relative by marriage, James Webster Berry. He tells me that the widow of James Berry later married Claude Albo de Bernales. James Webster Berry (Reg 4207) was the son of George Berry who was born in 1838 in Fife Scotland and Mary Berry […]
James Webster Berry – Anzac Hero
A Brutally Frank Jimmy Carter Calls Out Israel on Permanent Apartheid – NationofChange
In an interview with the U.K.‘s Prospect magazine, former President Jimmy Carter is brutally frank in saying that all hope for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict has ended. “At this moment, there is zero chance of the two-state solution,” he said, according to journalist Bronwen Maddox.
That judgment is widely shared and not so controversial. It is what he said next that ruffled feathers in Israel: “The Netanyahu government decided early on to adopt a one-state solution … but without giving them [the Palestinians] equal rights.” In this sentence, he accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of having pursued, upon his election in 2009, a deliberate policy of relentlessly annexing and colonizing the Palestinian West Bank, ensuring that it will end up as part of Israel. At the same time, he said, Netanyahu conspired to ensure that the 4.2 million Palestinians under Israeli occupation remain stateless and without rights.
It seems fairly clear to any dispassionate observer of Netanyahu’s government that these steps are precisely the ones it has taken, and Carter is simply stating the obvious. But in the world of international diplomacy, it is customary to put some of the blame for this state of affairs on the Palestinians. Pro-Israeli critics run interference for Tel Aviv, insisting that the PLO, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, has declined perfectly reasonable negotiating offers and that Israel would be very happy to have someone take Palestine off its hands, if only it could receive security in return. Carter violated these conventions of “on the one hand” political discourse by baldly and correctly blaming the occupying authority for its illegal actions, rather than the helpless, occupied population.
Carter wasn’t done with Netanyahu. Not only is the two-state solution dead, the Palestinian West Bank being entirely stolen, the Palestinians doomed to be ruled by the Israelis in perpetuity—but Israeli society and politics are such that in the single state now forming under Netanyahu’s iron fist, Palestinians “will never get equal rights.” In short, he implicitly called Israel an apartheid state in which the only hope for the Palestinians is to achieve at least “more equal rights.”
Narcissism and a sense of entitlement seems to be a commonality.
The writer opines it is fed by media.
I would add also popular films such as Rambo (2008), and media campaigns by the protagonists themselves, but does this explain everything?
IMO, no, there needs to be an enabler, like the ability to have dual nationality as I discussed in this blog on 31/7/14, money and other material support.
IE Those who are Aiding and Abetting these people to pursue their nefarious activities.
On Wednesday morning, I woke up to an email from an ABC producer asking me to write an article about Reece Harding, a 23-year-old Australian killed in Syria on Tuesday. Reece, who I’d never met before, died after stepping on a landmine while fighting with the Kurds. The basic news was this – last week Reece Harding was alive. Now he is dead. And now, a newscaster was asking me to write about it and get a piece out there while his death was still topical.
It wasn’t a random coincidence that I was being asked to chime in on Reece’s death. In February, an obituary I’d written for a friend of mine killed in similar circumstances in Syria had been met with an overwhelming audience response and now the newscaster was coming back for more. This time I was being asked to focus on the role which…
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Does characterising the British in this way to auger revulsion and ferment rebellion sound familiar? Oh yeah it’s the way all terrorists and insurgents work. Al Qaeda has obviously read their history books too.
The mysterious disappearance of Jim Thompson has been the subject of many books, films and documentaries such as
Jim Thompson: Silk King
so I won’t bore you with the myriad of entertaining stories about Jim Thompson’s life or theories about his disappearance in Malaysia in March of 1967, and if do just google him up and read away
Jim who was born in 1906, would be well and truly long dead by now, even if he staged it and lived on.
However, for those that want some overlooked leads on what might prove to be the dullest of all endings have a squizzy at a couple of minor articles that apparently have some dots left to connect.
In early 2010 a Malaysian local newspaper called the Ipoh Echo and the Malaysian national newspaper called The Star ran stories about a talk given by Captain P.J. Rivers, a Research Fellow of Perak Academy in a local hotel who had come across a box of bones from the old hospital in Tanah Rata found in the Jungle of the Cameron Highlands (or a shallow grave on the Golf Course depending on which story you come across)
Bones May Cast Some Light to Jim Thompson’s Mystery
According to Capt. Rivers that when he was in Cameron Highlands about ten years ago, all the items from the old hospital in Tanah Rata were transferred to a new hospital and one of the items was a box containing the bones brought by Orang Asli who had found them in the jungle.
Capt. Rivers feels that those bones could solve the problem of the missing Thompson.
Firstly, it must be confirmed whether the bones belong to a Caucasian or not; if affirmative, find out whether male or female. If the bones belong to a male, further investigation should be done to confirm whether it is the remains of Jim Thompson.
Capt. Rivers ended his talk by saying that though this is a solution to the mystery, it is a costly exercise and doubts if anyone is willing to do it.
Researcher: DNA may help unravel the mysterious disappearance of ‘Thai Silk King’
A RESEARCHER believes that the clue to the mysterious disappearance of ‘Thai Silk King’ Jim Thompson may be found in bones from a grave in Cameron Highlands.
Captain Philip J. Rivers (pictured), a long-time resident in the highlands, said the bone fragments, without the skull, were discovered at the edge of a vegetable plot off the main road in Brinchang by orang asli settlers in 1985.
Police collected the fragments but no connection was made to Thompson’s disappearance in Tanah Rata, as they were found in Brinchang and almost 30 years after his ‘death’, Rivers said at a talk on ‘He Never Left The Hills — The Real Search For Jim Thompson’ organised by the Perak Academy in Ipoh on Friday.
Among the audience were retired Asst Supt Tan Ai Bee (pictured), who was involved in the investigations on Thompson’s case, and Edward Roy De Souza, author of the bookSolved!.
“The probability is that his body lay undiscovered in the thick underbush, hidden in an unmarked grave after a hit-and-run accident. A DNA on the bones might possibly provide a fuller answer,”
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In March of 2012 a story by MICHAEL CHEANG appeared in The Star that mentions an interesting fellow named Ng Kiew Chay who apparently has been given the nickname “Jim Thompson” by the Cameron Highlands locals.
Re-living the day Jim Thompson went missing
A story on Jim Thompson would not be complete without a visit to the legendary Moonlight Bungalow, the last place Thompson was seen alive.
Located high above the town of Brinchang atop a hilltop overlooking vast spans of jungle, the Moonlight Bungalow is only accessible via a small, steep road that is only wide enough to accommodate one vehicle at a time.
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What intrigued us the most about Ng’s story is how everyone in Tanah Rata seemed to know of his involvement, and some of these stories were almost as varied and far-fetched as the ones told about the actual Jim Thompson.
After paying a visit to a couple of spots he usually frequents, we eventually caught up with Ng, taking a nap inside his taxi on the main street of Tanah Rata. However, when we approached him to ask about Jim Thompson, Ng refused point blank to comment on the subject. “I don’t want to talk about it anymore,” he said, waving his hands dismissively. “So many people come and disturb me about that Jim Thompson… and I don’t even know where he went!”
After a bit of prodding, however, he reluctantly let slip a few comments about his experience that day, though it took a bit of digging (in Alias’ library, to be exact) to find out more. We eventually found an article in a local Bahasa Malaysia magazine dating back seven years, where Ng had recounted how he was sitting at the Tanah Rata taxi stand minding his own business when a convoy of military and police vehicles trundled through the town. Some of the vehicles had Thai licence plates, others were carrying groups of Caucasian military officers. After asking around, he found that the mat sallehhe often ferries around in his taxi had gone missing in the jungle, and that there was a reward for anyone who could find him.
Later that afternoon, Ng decided to try for the reward and entered the jungle with a group of friends to look for Thompson. Unfortunately, Ng was separated from his friends, got hopelessly lost, and ended up wandering around the forest for two days before being found by search parties. Since that incident, he’s been saddled with the name “Thompson”, something he seemed quite perplexed about even to this day.
“I wasn’t the only one who went in looking for him that day, but I don’t know why I was the only one who got called Thompson!” he grunted.
OK, so we have the evidence, if DNA tests confirm it, leading to the conclusion that Jim Thompson died of some misadventure whilst on his walk on the winding hill road that’s barely wide enough for one car. A possible hit and run accident.
Then we have a local taxi driver who appeared to be Jim Thompson’s usual taxi driver disappearing for a few days “in the jungle”.
If the bones were Jim Thompson’s, then did someone spend some time to dig a shallow grave or move the corpse when everyone came to look for him, so that Jim’s body wouldn’t be discovered?
And now the world turns. Maybe slowly, but it turns.
“Netanyahu ‘spat in our face,’ White House officials said to say”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-spat-in-our-face-white-house-officials-say/#ixzz3Pf5pHksN
It’s a passing interest that the US Embassy and Australian smart traveller alerts were set off by a 4 minute you tube video posted by an Indonesian milk man, Salim Mubarok Attamimi.
http://khabarsoutheastasia.com/en_GB/articles/apwi/articles/features/2015/01/07/feature-02
Much ado about the mysterious US Embassy warning to Americans in Surabaya, now topped up with a similar alert from Oz.
But Vice President Jusuf Kalla says that regardless of a recent warning issued by the US embassy, Indonesia is not facing any imminent security threat….. Kalla insisted that Indonesia was safe.
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This was echoed by the street tailor and his mate last week whilst we chatted. I was having my long-sleeved batik shirt made short-sleeved ( he did a good job and charged me a dollar)’ I was, they assured me, much safer here in Jakarta than European cities. I could hardy disagree.
However, another prominent figure asserted that it was related to ISIS activity. From our own threat analysis it is clear that ISIS is still present,” said Hendropriyono, who is currently an adviser to the administration of President Joko Widodo. http://thejakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/vp-kalla-need-worry-us-security-warning/ .
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A common story?
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As head of the FBI’s Boston organized crime squad in the late 1970s and early 1980s, John Morris supervised agent John J. Connolly Jr. and oversaw the cultivation of “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen Flemmi as informants.
An FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger 40 pounds of plastic explosives most of which was sent to the IRA a key witness (Flemini) in the Whitey Bulger trial has stated.
Following the explosives hand over, the IRA worked with the Bulger gang on getting more weapons which ended when the Valhalla trawler left Gloucester, Mass in 1984 chock full of guns and explosives for the IRA. The 7 and half tons of weapons was estimated to have cost $1 million dollars
The arms were handed off to an Irish fishing trawler the Marita Ann but that boat was stopped and boarded by Irish navy officials tipped off by an IRA mole.
One of the points I consistently try to get across in my writings and talks is that international terrorism is a good deal more complicated than most portrayals of it would have you believe. In many movies — and official presentations too, since governments often leave interesting details out of what they tell the public — there’s a shadowy group of bad guys bent on blowing something up, and it’s up to the good guys (cops and/or spooks) to stop them before they kill. Sometimes the case really is as simple as the Official Narrative portrays it, but often it’s not.
A couple days ago I explained how a terrorist group in Turkey called Tawhid-Salam, which is behind several attacks and assassinations in recent years, is really a wholly owned subsidiary of Iranian intelligence. It serves as a cut-out for the notorious Pasdaran, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is…
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