do the hokey pokey

I found this on Jane's Intelligence Review. I don't subscribe so no access to the other 4000 words. Damn.

In recent weeks, Thailand has again been forced to imagine a future without its long-standing monarch. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who will be 82 years old in December, appeared in public for the first time on 23 October, having been admitted to hospital on 19 September for fever, fatigue and lack of appetite, providing Thais with an intimation of his mortality.

No official diagnosis has been given for his illness, making it more difficult to gauge the true state of his health. However, what is not in doubt is the importance of his continued reign. Seen by many of his subjects as their main protector against the rapacity of politicians and the ambition of generals, the end of Bhumibol's reign is viewed with widespread trepidation and dread. This is particularly the case given that his chosen successor, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, is held in lower esteem than his father.

As convention and the law preclude any serious public debate on monarchical succession, discussion within Thailand about the future barely touches on such concerns or the reasons for such unease. The absence of open debate on the role and shape of the monarchy in the post-Bhumibol era also obscures the motives and dynamics behind much of the political manoeuvring, posturing and crises that have distracted the country and eroded international interest in Thailand's economic potential.

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Well, there are some clues.

The diplomatic row between Cambodia and Thailand involves an ancient temple, Preah Vihear.

The Preah Vihear Temple was built at the beginning of the 9^th century, and construction continued through the reign of King Suriya Woraman the first, 1002-1050, to be finished in the reign of King Suriya Woraman the Second, 1113-1150, when the prosperous and strong Khmer empire ruled the region 300 hundred years before the emergence of the Sukhothai Kingdom (see The Preah Vihear Temple: Politico-historical Case Study and Nationalism by Charnvit Kasetsiri, p.2)

Cambodia and Thailand have an ongoing border dispute over the area. See maps here.

To Western eyes, we see some trees and villages, an old temple, middle of nowhere. We wonder what is all this fighting about. It doesn't make too much sense to our modern minds. There must be some reason this is so important, some reason we're not tuning into.

Yes, I deduce it is location location location.

Wikipedia notes:

Preah Vihear is unusual among Khmer temples in being constructed along a long north-south axis, rather than having the conventional rectangular plan with orientation toward the east.

Hmm. So I looked up the longitude and latitude. Yeah. Jackpot.

Great circles are straight lines that go all the way around the center of the earth. The equator is a great circle. Meridians of longitude that cross over the north and south poles are also great circles. For every location on a great circle, it's antipodal location is also on the circle. Other than the equator itself, any great circle crosses the equator at two antipodal locations, 180° apart. Other than the equator and meridians of longitude that run due north and south, any great circle reaches it's maximum latitudes at two locations that are 90° of longitude east and west of the two locations where the great circle crosses the equator.

Easter Island, Nazca, Ollantaytambo, Paratoari, Tassili n'Ajjer and Giza are all aligned on a single great circle. Additional ancient sites that are located within one tenth of one degree of this great circle include Petra; Perseopolis; Khajuraho; Pyay, Sukothai and Anatom Island.

Near Ollantaytambo, Machupicchu and Cuzco are within one quarter of a degree. The Oracle at Siwa in the western Egyptian desert is within one quarter of a degree. In the Indus Valley, Mohenjo Daro and Ganweriwala are within one quarter of a degree. The ancient Sumerian city of Ur and Angkor temples in Cambodia and Thailand are within one degree of the great circle. The Angkor temple at Preah Vihear is within one quarter of a degree.

This circle crosses over the source and the mouth of the Amazon, the dividing line between upper and lower Egypt, the mouth of the Tigris-Euphrates, the Indus River and the Bay of Bengal near the mouth of the Ganges. The circle also crosses over a number of areas of the world that are largely unexplored, including the Sahara Desert, the Brazilian Rainforest, the highlands of New Guinea, and underwater areas of the North Atlantic Ocean, the South Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea.

The alignment of these sites is easily observable on a globe of the earth with a horizon ring. Aligning any two of these sites on the horizon ring will align all of these sites on the ring. 3-D world atlas software programs will also draw this great circle around the earth. The four images below are centered on the two locations where the great circle crosses the equator and the two locations where the great circle reaches it's maximum latitudes. The circle crosses over the equator at 48° 36' west longitude and 131° 24' east longitude. The maximum latitude of the circle is 30° 22' north latitude at 41° 24' east longitude and 30° 22' south latitude at 138° 36' west longitude.

Hmm, who likes circles and rituals and pyramids and antiquities and Brazil and Egypt and the South China Sea and magic numbers?

Page 2 of the Great Circle site: Golden Section:

Ninety miles northeast of Angkor Wat are the Angkor temples at Prassat Preah Vihear. Preah Vihear is 4754 miles from the Great Pyramid. The line of ancient sites crosses over the Great Pyramid and Angkor Vihear....Twenty five miles northwest of the city of Nazca is a figure known as the Hummingbird. The Hummingbird is 7,692 miles from the Great Pyramid. The line of ancient sites also crosses over the Hummingbird.

You have to go through, it's all there. Control over these various locations around the globe, which form a giant pentagram inside a giant circle. Think of where the conflicts are and have been. Look at these maps.

That's what it's all about.

This is why they have a woody over controlling antiquities:

Cuno argues that nationalistic retention and reclamation policies impede common access to this common heritage and encourage a dubious and dangerous politicization of antiquities--and of culture itself. Antiquities need to be protected from looting but also from nationalistic identity politics. [which are bad, see?] To do this, Cuno calls for measures to broaden rather than restrict international access to antiquities. He advocates restoration of the system under which source countries would share newly discovered artifacts in exchange for archaeological help, and he argues that museums should again be allowed reasonable ways to acquire undocumented antiquities. The first extended defense of the side of museums in the struggle over antiquities, Who Owns Antiquity? is sure to be as important as it is controversial.

I could speculate much more about this, how it connects to the stolen Saudi jewelry and why the Thai people are freaking out given that their country suffers from deep corruption....

....thus perhaps explaining the dread of losing their king. But you can speculate yourself what control over this lynch-pin site might mean for people who like conducting large-scale satanic ritual sacrifices.

yes he was 'born in Russia.' we got that part.

[Note: The use of the term "Russian Organized Crime" is misleading since over 70 of the top Russian crime oligarchs also carry Israeli passports].

What has got me off on the Russians? I don't know. I have hope for the Russians, they are tough people. The Russian must be admired. They have endured so much and I admire them, I really do. There is something to be said for persevering, for raw survival, and they possess that trait in the same way Americans collectively possess the ability to persist in denial, apparently against all truthful assaults. Equally impressive in a disturbing sort of way. Maybe we're looking at two sides of the same coin. Maybe we need more vodka. Anyway, I like to think that Vladimir Putin is the one who escaped the mind-control matrix and plays along still because in this game of sudden death one has little choice, but we shall see. I've made mistakes about pinning my not-insubstantial hopes on mere mortals before, but I've read he broke free and that stuck in that place in my psyche where I preserve miniscule and even microscopic shreds of hope.

It bothers me that Alex W., who killed Marwa El-Sherbini, has received so much protection of his identity. Why should he? He's a vicious Russian who moved to Germany, that's about all we're supposed to know. For Some Reason.

Alex W's real name is Aleksandr Igorevich Nelsin.

There had been fears that a decision in the case could have been delayed by last-minute evidence that Wiens had a history of schizophrenia before he moved to Germany in 2003.

The suggestion of schizophrenia came in a faxed statement to the Dresden court earlier this week from the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office.

The statement said that Wiens, at the time known as Aleksandr Igorevich Nelsin, had been exempted from compulsory military service in Russia and was diagnosed in 2000 with "undifferentiated schizophrenia" occurring in worsening episodes.

Up until then, Wiens had been adjudged by German psychiatrists as sane and competent to stand trial.

Here you can read just about everything, including these details about his background:

...W stared impassively at the ground, with a hood pulled over his head, as the state prosecutor called for the maximum murder penalty. 'His guilt is especially great,' the prosecutor told the Dresden court, a different panel from that which tried the insult case. 'In the sight on her 3-year-old son, he butchered this mother as if he were a hired assassin,' said Heinrich, who said that the attempt to kill her husband, who tried to rescue her, was also intentional.^[23] Heinrich said W had continued to speak insultingly about al-Shirbini to the psychologist long after the killing. "That leaves me almost speechless," said Heinrich. W, who admitted last week that he hated non-Germans and Muslims in general, was born and raised in Russia.

...Prosecutor Heinrich said a statement from W, read aloud last week in court, had not even been an admission of guilt, but aired anew W's belief that he had been treated unfairly by the court in the criminal-insult case and had been in a "funny mood." In the statement, W had only said he was sorry because he faced consequences. "There was not one word about the tragedy he caused," said the prosecutor, adding that W had never even apologized to al-Shirbini's family which shows "he still does not grasp the harm he did." The prosecutor rejected the view of the defence that W had acted in the heat of the moment, saying, "He knew what he was doing and acted with the coldness of ice."^[4]

...Judge Wiegand said Alex W., who was unemployed, had regarded life in Germany as "multicultural shit" and believed foreigners were depriving him of work. She said he despised Muslims in particular and ignored the fact that he himself was not of German origin, she said.^[3] Werner Wendel, from the Dresden-based Foreigner's Council of Saxony, said that Alex W.' s sentiments were well known in the area. He was jobless and didn't think he could lead a prosperous life in Germany. "He didn't get a chance to become integrated in Germany. He didn't get a chance to be a member of this society. It's bad, but in the end one might say he became a loser under the German system of integration," Wendel said.

...Wiegand, the presiding judge, had abandoned her appeals to the defendant to behave properly out of respect for al-Sherbini and the court. Despite his insistence that Germany is his home, the defendant appeared to be unfamiliar with the laws and values of his adopted country. W. was born in 1980 in Perm, a city of a million people near the Ural Mountains, and spent his childhood in Russia. His parents were divorced when he was two years old. His mother, who worked as an architect and later as a goldsmith, spent many years living in Kazakhstan with the boy, who was already inclined to be unruly and defiant. He only stayed with his father in Perm for isolated periods. As a result of constantly being shuttled back and forth between his parents, the boy never experienced the kind of relationship that would help him develop his own identity.^[7]

...When asked about Russia today, W. frequently uses words like "hate" and "shit." A Russian of German descent, [sic?] W. has been living in Germany with his mother and other relatives since 2003. He obtained a German passport and changed his first name from Aleksandr to the more German-sounding Alex. He has considered himself a German, which apparently fills him with a strong sense of pride. His outlandish ideas, steeped in Nazi racial fanaticism, seen to stem from a time when people were granted or denied the right to live on the basis of their race.^[7]

...The document from a Russian prosecutor confirmed reports that W had been exempted from Russian military service in 2000 on the grounds of schizophrenia, though there was no record between 1998 and 2001 of him being in treatment for this mental illness. Presiding judge Birgit Wiegand urged W to reveal fast if he had had a schizophrenic episode when he stabbed al-Shirbini.^[23]

And this detail:

A self-avowed racist who stabbed to death a pregnant Egyptian pharmacist was diagnosed with schizophrenia and exempted from Russian military service in the year 2000, according to a statement read out in his trial on Tuesday. Alexander Igorevich Nelsin, born November 12, 1980, was treated for "undifferentiated schizophrenia," occurring in worsening episodes, according to the statement, faxed to Dresden by the Russian Attorney General.

The 28-year-old had ended his treatment by 2004, when his medical records were destroyed. In 2003, Alex W moved from Russia to Germany, where he took on his German mother's surname.

You still have to read between the lines to understand.

these guys get around

This is what a double agent spy looks like (it's the short one).

credit & caption:

Mindaugas Kulbis / The Associated Press

Kalmanovich watching his Spartak team play in a 2006 Euroleauge match.

MOSCOW — Shabtai Kalmanovich, a patron of the arts and sports, a wealthy businessman and a double agent who worked for the KGB and Israel’s Shin Bet, was laid to rest at a cemetery in Petakh Tikva, near Tel Aviv, on Thursday.

Kalmanovich, 60, was gunned down in central Moscow last Monday in an apparent contract hit that authorities said might be connected to a debt deal gone bad or an ongoing gangster turf war.

Laid to rest in Israel. I guess that puts to rest any confusion about his true loyalties.

A sports promoter, a show business producer and a spy for Soviet intelligence, [???] Kalmanovich had the reputation of a smooth operator and was a friend to many people, from comedians to politicians.

...Unknown gunmen opened fire on Kalmanovich’s Mercedes from a passing silver Lada on Monday on Krasnopresnenskaya Naberezhnaya. Kalmanovich, who was heading to a business meeting, was hit 10 times and died on the spot.

...Law enforcement officials said the death might be linked to a gangland war that broke out after notorious gangster Vyacheslav Ivankov died last month of injuries sustained in a July shooting. Kalmanovich was a friend of Ivankov and supported his attempts to dominate rival gangs, national media reported this week.

“I want you to know that I am proud and always will be proud of being your daughter,” his daughter, Liat, said in her eulogy, Israel’s Ynetnews agency reported. “You did not put me to shame. You were a spirited Jew and an ardent Zionist.”

...In 1988, he was arrested in Israel on charges of spying for the Soviet Union and spent five years in prison. Kalmanovich repeatedly said in interviews that he was not ashamed of working for Soviet intelligence but that he had been “brainwashed” by Soviet propaganda into offering his services.

...Kalmanovich returned to Russia in 1993 after receiving a pardon from Israeli President Chaim Herzog on medical reasons. [brainwashing fixed and reversed?! time to atone?? - ed.]

...Together with Kobzon and show producer Alexander Dostman, Kalmanovich founded the now-defunct Liat-Natali entertainment group, which organized concerts featuring foreign stars. Kalmanovich brought to Moscow top performers like Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Liza Minnelli and the Gipsy Kings.

Kalmanovich said he made most of his money in South Africa, where he had befriended Kgosi Lucas Manyane Mangope, the ruler of Bophuthatswana, a black homeland that apartheid-era South Africa recognized as a sovereign nation but the rest of the world viewed as a puppet state.

...The Russian Basketball Federation — whose board includes Russian Technologies head Sergei Chemezov and Federal Customs Service chief Andrei Belyaninov, both former KGB officers — praised Kalmanovich on its web site as the person “connected with the recent successes of female basketball.”

Now about his friend Ivankov:

Vyacheslav Ivankov -- aka "Little Japanese" -- was leaving the Thai Elephant in Moscow in July when a sniper shot him three times in the stomach. The 69-year-old Russian Mafia boss spent months in the hospital before succumbing to his wounds last week. ...Police believe he was murdered for trying to settle a beef between two warring Moscow crime factions.

During his career, Ivankov specialized in gun-running, racketeering, drug trafficking and extortion, both in Russia and the U.S. He spent 11 years in a Russian prison on a robbery conviction in 1980. A year after he was released in 1991, he moved to America -- but didn't end his criminal ways...Police say he preyed upon fellow Russian immigrants in the Brighton Beach section of New York, and helped divvy up the U.S. into autonomous turfs to avoid conflict.

...Police believe he died after trying to settle a dispute between rival factions run by Tariel Oniani and Aslan Usoyan. Ivankov supposedly backed Usoyan, which left Oniani inclined to shoot someone.

Preying upon his fellow Russian immigrants? I guess his loyalties rested elsewhere (cough).

OK, moving on. This is the guy left standing so far in this gangter war: Tariel Oniani. (links removed, click through for links and full details)

By "Hollander" (Hollander is the nickname of a poster to the Mobbed Up forum)
Posted on March 6, 2009 Copyright © www.gangstersinc.nl

In July last year Russian police used a dramatic helicopter raid to detain dozens of reputed crime bosses known as “thieves-in-law,” gathered on a yacht at a reservoir outside Moscow. ..Most of the more than three dozen suspected gang leaders detained in the raid were later released because of a lack of evidence. Among those detained, according to media reports, was Tariel Oniani, an ethnic Georgian with a reputation as one of the most powerful crime bosses in the Soviet Union.

Some speculated that Tariel Oniani, had organized the meeting to discuss a conflict with a rival crime boss, Aslan Usoyan. ... Usoyan gathered his supporters, including Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as Yaponchik, for a May 2 meeting in Krasnodar, newspaper Kommersant reported. ...Authorities have accused them [the 'thieves-in-law'] of ordering contract killings and carrying out kidnappings and innumerable financial crimes.

...An influential “thief-in-law” in the Moscow of the 1980s, he moved to Paris in the 1990s and later to Spain, when criminal charges were brought against him in France. He ran a construction business on the Mediterranean coast, apparently employing an illegal Georgian work force and investing in real estate for money-laundering purposes. After the police failed to arrest Oniani in Spain in the summer of 2005, an international warrant was issued against him. The Spanish police undertook a large-scale operation but he managed to escape. They conducted some 50 searches in Barcelona, Alicante, and at the resorts of Marbella and Torremolinos where offices of Tariel Oniani’s companies were situated. In September of 2005, hardly three months after the operation, intelligence services were alerted that Oriani had issued an order to assassinate the ones in charge of the investigation, the judge and the public prosecutor. (Some background information on the Spanish angle here. - ed.)

Months later, in May, Oniani’s business partner Zakhar Knyazevich Kalashov, the man considered to be the leader of the Russian mafia in Spain, was arrested in Dubai. Knyazevich well known as Shakro Junior arrived on the Costa Blanca at the end of the 1990s, then later spent time on the Costa del Sol and in Cataluña. The criminals had established a network of bars and restaurant chains on Spain's Mediterranean coast, and also trafficked luxury cars to launder money from criminal activities in the former Soviet Union. Knyazevich who was brought back onto Spanish soil on board a military aircraft, fled Spain, when 28 members of his organisation were arrested, and 800 bank accounts were frozen. Several international arrest warrants have been issued for the man linked to killings and drug trafficking. In november 2006 Spanish police arrested nine other gang members including Ukrainian national Oleg Vorontsov, a former advisor to ex-president Boris Yeltsin, who led the crime ring after the arrest of Knyazevich.

...In the last 15 years the thieves-in-law have spread around the world, from Moscow to Madrid to Berlin and Brooklyn. They are involved in everything from petty theft to billion-dollar money laundering schemes, while also acting as unofficial jurists among conflicting Russian criminal factions. When the Soviet Union fell, they emerged from the broken country’s peripheries to exploit the legal chaos. By all accounts, they infiltrated the top political and economic circles.

NoooooH!

the situation needs to be put into context

caption: Philip Laing could face jail for urinating on a city centre war memorial while taking part in a Carnage UK event

Varsity Leisure Group, which owns Carnage UK, denied it encourages irresponsible drinking.

Several universities have banned the company that promotes student pub crawls after 19-year-old Philip Laing was pictured urinating on a war memorial during one of their events.

...Laing was last week told that he could face jail by a judge after he pleaded guilty to outraging public decency.

District Judge Anthony Browne condemned Laing's 'disgusting and reprehensible' act.

But he also held the organisation itself to account.

Judge Browne said Carnage should be up in the dock alongside the sports technology student.

'Carnage is the name of the organisation I believe promotes this activity, and some might say somebody [from the company] should be standing alongside you this morning,' he said.

^^^^

Another case of amazing success, kind of like these precocious guys.

Carnage UK is owned by Varsity Leisure Group (VLG), whose founder is entrepreneur Paul Bahia, 29, a Birmingham University languages graduate.

His father is an insurance executive and his mother is a midwife. Mr Bahia, whose real name is Inderpaul Sandeep Singh Bahia, began with an event in Liverpool six years ago, [when he was just 23 - ed.] and launched Carnage UK just over two years ago.

His firm now runs events in every university town and city in Britain, involving around 350,000 students a year.

To participate, students pay a nominal fee – around £8 – for a branded T-shirt which guarantees them entry to a succession of bars and pubs. The shirt features a checklist of ‘challenges’ to be completed, generally involving sexual behaviour. Mr Bahia has refuted previous suggestions that the organisation promotes “binge” drinking saying: “Our events are heavily focused on group identity, social and ethical cohesion and fancy dress themes.”

"Group identity, social and ethical cohesion and fancy dress themes" being, evidently, a euphemistic way of saying, "Dress and act like a whore. Here you might need a drink."

Since the start of the term in September there have been 34 different events in university towns and cities, attracting as many as 2,500 students each. Students are required to wear fancy dress, and the theme of the current series of events is 'Dirty Porn Star'.

...During a recent Carnage UK event in Guildford, Surrey, groups of students descended on bars and clubs, wearing little else other than t-shirts and underwear. There were similar scenes at the event in Norwich....Critics have said the events are a "cynical commercialisation" of the youth binge-drinking problem.

^^^^

But before you click through to the Carnage site, remember this?

The controversial 2012 Olympics logo ran into more trouble today as it emerged that a video promoting it had triggered migraines and epileptic fits. The IOC is also now set to investigate the logo and politicians say it's childish and looks 'like Boris Johnson's hair'. Epilepsy Action said it had received reports of 22 people having fits while watching the video, with reports of others vomiting and having migraines.

If you want to see the Carnage site, it's at www.carnageuk.com. But I wouldn't recommend clicking through if you have epilepsy or are prone to headaches. Nobody has complained, of course, but I felt a headache come on almost immediately. Colors, flashing, chaos, body parts...oh and the photo gallery is "undergoing maintenance." (wink wink wink)

^^^^

Carnage vehemently denies promoting irresponsible drinking.

A BLONDE girl wearing knickers and high heels totters across a litter-strewn street. She and her mates - some of them sporting devil horns and smeared make-up - have been knocking back vodka-based "shooters" in a string of pubs and bars.

...At the Leicester event, which also attracts students from nearby Loughborough, we see youngsters falling down drunk, hunched in the gutter and sprawled on the pavement. Others struggle to stay upright as they barrel from bar to bar. Girls snog strangers in the street. Men and women grope each other in full public view.

Carnage UK is a commercial company which makes a profit from these organised bar crawls. The Sun paid £8 for a T-shirt which granted our reporter entry to seven bars where revellers then pay for their drinks. Among the students there is a contest to write the crudest slogans on each other's bodies and T-shirts. One girl has the word "Enter" scrawled just above her knicker line with an arrow pointing downwards. Another proudly has the words: "I'll **** you any way you want" emblazoned on her back.

Meanwhile, printed on the back of the T-shirts is a list of sleazy challenges which the students egg each other on to carry out. Each one has a box next to it which is ticked when the task is completed. Every Carnage night has different tasks, but at the Leicester bash - to celebrate Halloween - revellers are challenged to "Same-sex snog time", "Meet with a bad devil", "Get spanked by a naughty angel" and "Get a devil's love bite".

The list of bars on the route is also on the shirt, complete with more tick boxes. And on the front is a warning that NUS and student cards will be needed at every bar to get in. In fact our reporter is asked to show an NUS card only once, at the Zanzibar.

It's just an organized pub crawl so the kids can have fun, see? The t-shirts simply tell the young people where to go and what to do, and gives them free entry to the bars listed.

"Our events are heavily focused on group identity and social and ethnic cohesion. We are not irresponsible or promoting binge-drinking."

...In each bar, marshals dressed in orange bibs provided by Carnage oversee the mayhem. One tells us: "Our job is to hold their hair out of their sick and make sure they don't fall under a car." The onslaught of 2,000 students overruns the city centre, and most regular drinkers retreat as soon as the Carnage T-shirts appear.

...One student, 19-year-old Jenny, brags: "We basically own the city on Carnage nights. This is what university is all about - getting smashed and having a good time. "What is the point in working when you can have fun and not have to worry about paying back the loan for years?"

Another, called Carl and speaking in a Midlands accent, says: "I couldn't give a **** what I end up going home with tonight.

...The violence is fuelled by cheap drinks such as double vodka Red Bulls for £3, and vodka shooters for £1.50. Bar staff walk around offering test tube shots which the students guzzle down. At 2am the final club closes, churning hundreds of drunken students into the street. They swell into the pedestrianised centre and cram into kebab shops. It is 3.30am before they completely disperse. All that is left hanging over the centre of Leicester is the smell of urine and vomit.

Last night a spokesman for Varsity Leisure Group said: "Carnage UK events are carefully planned, organized and managed. We communicate from an early stage with police to ensure events run smoothly. We do not promote binge- drinking and request participating venues supply free soft drinks. None of the tasks necessitate the consumption of alcohol whatsoever."

No no of course not. He's not being disingenuous at all.

Anyway, it's all Philip Laing's fault for peeing on the poppies.

Carnage has been under fire in the media after a student taking part in one of its organised events was caught urinating on a wreath of poppies at a war memorial. Philip Laing appeared in front of Sheffield Magistrates' Court this week where District Judge Anthony Browne warned him a prison term remained under consideration.

Speaking to PRWeek, Varsity press officer Steven Hughes said: ‘A lot of the media coverage has been unfair. The situation needs to be put into context. TWo thousand students were taking part in the event that night, and this was just one individual.'

He added: ‘We are very frustrated. While Philip committed a despicable act, he did it off his own back and is personally accountable. We have in place secure measures to ensure the safety of the students taking part. Philip bought and consumed a bottle of whisky prior to joining the event. We cannot chaperone everyone before they take part in our events.'

Aha! Personal responsibility, fairness, putting things into perspective, people doing things on their own time, blah blah blah. This was ONE student at ONE event, and we shouldn't be making judgments based on this ONE INCIDENT, unfortunate as it was to have been caught in a photograph. Well even that's not such a big deal except that the photograph got into the newspapers.

Damn you Philip Laing.

the destruction of UK society: part of the agenda

A UK woman was murdered in her own home by thugs. But will anyone do anything about it?

Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in a house fire apparently started when a firework was pushed through her door on Thursday evening, police said today. An 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old youths will be interviewed in connection with the death of Mary Fox.

...The remnants of a firework were found behind the front door of the house in Carpenter Court.

The arrested men are being detained at Launceston police station, but officers stressed that the investigation was still at an early stage and appealed for more information. Police have investigated claims that Raum was being bullied at school and that his family had been targeted by youths who were throwing fireworks in the street. It is believed Raum moved from Bodmin College to St Austell College because of bullying, but Devon and Cornwall police said there was no obvious evidence that Fox or her son had been victims after speaking to schools and social services. Fox had not made any complaints to police about harassment or intimidation.

You see, there was NO OBVIOUS EVIDENCE that they had been victims UNTIL THUGS BURNED DOWN THEIR HOUSE AND MURDERED MARY FOX. Until Mrs. Fox was murdered, they had never filed complaints to the police about harassment or intimidation. In any case, the officers STRESS that the investigation is still at an early stage, so don't get your hopes up that anyone will be held accountable because chances are these people will be released as soon as they admit their guilt.

Here's more information on the arrests. See if you can wrap your mind around the SHEER DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE:

The boys, a 17-year-old and two 18-year-olds, were being questioned after neighbours named suspects on Facebook....Neighbours and friends of the family united in a bid to help police catch a group of teenagers they claim strike 'fear into the whole neighbourhood'. Some told officers that youths placed the firework through the door, while others claim to have named the alleged culprits on social networking websites, including Facebook. A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said yesterday said neighbours' efforts had been helpful.

...Since Mrs Fox's death on Thursday, it has emerged that three children were seen laughing and shouting outside her home as it was engulfed in flames. The group were heard openly mocking the tragedy in Bodmin, Cornwall, and sarcastically describing it as a 'shame'. One resident, Gary Breslin, 41, said: 'The three youngsters were seen outside the house as it was burning, shouting "Shame, shame, shame".

...Another resident, James Dean, 33, said: 'There are a few kids around here that are the ones always causing the trouble. I've heard that police have been speaking to them. They would have been the first people they'd have talked to. 'They put fear into the whole neighbourhood because they don't respect anyone or anything. Everyone around here knows who is to blame when something happens.' And a neighbour added: 'We know who did this, the police know who did it, it is just a matter of time before they either walk into the police station or they are arrested.

'The same names keep coming up and someone has put those names on social networking sites. 'There are also people who saw what happened because it was only just after 7pm on Bonfire Night - it wasn't like it was in the middle of the night and there was no one around.' Another resident said: 'There were kids throwing fireworks in the streets for days last week. Why did the police not talk to them? Where were the council? We know the answer to those questions. We are low-priority.'

Not exactly a mystery. The real mystery being: why do the police allow thugs like this to terrorize their neighbors?

Funny you ask. Here's a Special Investigation.

...It illustrates how readily those who commit a crime that would once have been considered serious get off virtually scot-free. What makes it even worse is that violent crimes are going virtually unpunished at a time when, as the Mail revealed last week, the number of violent attacks on strangers is soaring. There were more than a million assaults last year and experts believe the true figure could be even worse, as fewer than half such crimes are thought to be reported to the police.

...A BBC1 Panorama investigation by reporter Shelley Jofre tonight asks whether government initiatives meant to help police deal with crime more efficiently actually mean that those who commit serious crimes are increasingly being let off the hook. Its findings offer a devastating critique of the British justice system.

...So what is going on? The rules are that everywhere except Scotland, if a person admits their guilt, the police can use discretion to issue a caution for a minor offence. But there are concerns that the term 'minor offence' is being stretched to cover crimes many of us would not consider minor. Through Freedom of Information requests to police forces, Panorama learned that last year nearly 39,000 people received a caution for actual bodily harm. More astonishingly, 739 cautions were issued for grievous bodily harm.

According to Crown Prosecution Service guidelines, GBH is defined as 'serious bodily harm'. Examples of serious harm include: injury resulting in permanent disability or permanent loss of sensory function; injury which results in more than minor, permanent disfigurement, broken or displaced limbs or bones, including fractured skull; compound fractures, broken cheek bone, jaw, ribs, etc.' All these injuries, in any normal person's eyes, should merit more than just a ticking off. Yet police chiefs argue that cautions are not a soft option because they go on your criminal record and will be taken into account by a court in the event of a second offence.

Somebody always has a good explanation, don't they. So let's cut through the bullshit. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES, that means the politicians, gave the POLICE greater power to help them deal with crime "more efficiently." But what that actually means is those who commit serious crimes are let off the hook. So to boil it down a little more: the POLITICIANS told the POLICE to OVERLOOK the VIOLENT CRIME.

The decision to issue a caution is made AT THE DISCRETION OF THE POLICE. Clear? The police decide to issue a caution for cases of grievous bodily harm. The police were given this discretion. They use their discretion, and if you see a bunch of people getting off scot-free it's because THE POLICE USED THEIR DISCRETION TO LET THEM GO. The politicians gave them this power, and they use it.

The claim that these cautions go on your record and "will be taken into account by a court in the event of a second offence" is nothing but a PITIFUL EXCUSE WHICH DOES NOT COVER UP THE EXPOSED AGENDA. What is going on? This is what's going on:

The UK is currently being run by a Masonic group who consider themselves untouchable. These people are often high end criminals who use their Freemasonry links to hide their illegal activities.

More on this here.

the inauthentic voice

Remember the Harley shirt guy after 9/11?

"...come out of nowhere and just ream right into the side of the twin tower, exploding through the other side...and then I witnessed both towers collapse, one first then the second. Mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too intense."

I thought of him as I read this account: http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/012609.html

I was notified by dispatch that there were several shots fired and potentially several victims. The scene was not safe so we were instructed to "stage" close to the scene. While staging I was approached by a police officer that their was an "officer down!"...I told him I had not gotten a "code 4", our code that the scene was safe for emergency responders to enter the scene. The officer left and came back again to me to tell me again there was an officer down and needed EMS NOW!

He assured me the scene was safe so we proceeded into the scene. Several bystanders were around and Ft Hood fire dept was already on scene. My partner went to a pt lying on the ground on her side of the ambulance and I approached the officer who had been shot; her gun shot wound was exposed which appeared to be potentially fatal due to the location, a tourniquet was applied prior to my arrival which probably saved her life; she was conscious but appeared very pale and probably in compensated shock at this point due to the massive amount of blood loss I witnessed around her.

I was then summoned to other patients calling for EMS; the next pt I approached was shot in the neck with a arterial bleed...I instructed bystanders to continue to hold pressure to the wound and gave them bandaging material. I triaged several pt's with potentially life threatening wounds, each worse than the next.

A young man walked up to me and asked if I could help him, I asked him, "where are you shot?", he told me in the chest...I directed him to go sit in my ambulance and an army medic sat with him and started oxygen and bandaging on him; in the mist of the madness I was trying to determine who would be the first to be transported still waiting on the helicopters to land so I could fly out the worst.

While getting more bandaging material off my ambulance several bystanders carried a soldier to my truck that had been shot in the head, he was conscious and breathing, he kept asking me "am I gonna die?", I told him I was doing the best I could, [o_O] knowing from experience his situation appeared bleak.

Behind my ambulance several bystanders were doing CPR on a lady [Do most women routinely refer to other women as ladies? - ed.] that had obviously been fatally shot, in a mas-cal situation you do "the most good for the most people"...that means save the ones you can and black tag the un-salvageable...it's a harsh truth but effective in this type of situation.

Since the helicopter was still not there I made the decision to take off and transport these two critical patients to Darnell Army Hosp which was about 4 mi away. I quickly dropped off those patients and headed back to the scene with an ER nurse as well to help. In the meantime, several other ambulances had showed up and others had been transported leaving me with one soldier shot in the shoulder, and deservedly last, the shooter was the last to leave the scene and was flown to a hosp approx 30 mil away since the local hosp's were overwhelmed at this point.

I consider myself and seasoned and experienced medic but no one can prepare you for a war zone, which is exactly what this was...I felt so helpless trying to help so many with such limited resources. Thank God for all the bystanders, fire dept and community EMS services that came to our aide. [???? ...said a paramedic called to the scene presumably from the surrounding community????] Thank you officer Kimberly Munley for being so brave and fearlessly doing your job....

That's the voice of a female paramedic. In her own words.

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It's funny but she talks just like a highly trained military officer. Cold and calculating, able to triage, and then in the last paragraph gushing about feeling so helpless and thanking God and all the heroes.

Who am I to doubt it? Who am I to say that this story sounds totally inauthentic to my ear, drawn up in a military PR office somewhere?

sacrifices

It can't be too much fun to live in the UK, the English-speaking canary in the coalmine.

The UK is currently being run by a Masonic group who consider themselves untouchable. These people are often high end criminals who use their Freemasonry links to hide their illegal activities.

These untouchables include drug dealers, pimps, murderers, and gangsters. They have Masonic links to UK police and security services. For example, if a dirty job is required,the criminal gangs will happily carry it out allowing it to be completely deniable to security service and the police. In the event that the criminal gangs require a blind eye or even assistance, security services and the police are very happy to become involved.

In fact, I have specific evidence of the activities of these people and the line between untouchable criminals, MI5 and the police is often blurred: Police and MI5 acting as criminals for the criminals, criminals doing "Favours" for the police. This level of corruption runs through the justice system, lawyers, politicians and much of local government.

The links these untouchables have enabled them to commit murder, drug trafficking, and any other heinous crime you can think of with the collusion of masonic police officers, judges, politicians and lawyers.

...The willingness or obligation from officials at all levels to assist these people comes from two directions. The Freemasonry oath to help "Brothers" before anything else; and the fact that once you cross the line and help these people, you then become their property. These "Untouchables" with the right connections can call on assistance from the very top. When orders come through, those carrying out the dirty work will often believe they are just doing their job. This means these untouchable criminals can do anything and will tell you if you happen to become their target. This network of senior freemasons is unknown to the lower ranks who willingly comply to orders.

Much more there. Go ahead and read it.

Here's a review of some stories in today's Daily Mail. They can all be found at this link.

Wanted: the teen girl muggers who punched a two-year-old toddler in the head

excerpt: A two-year-old girl was punched in the head by muggers who demanded money from her mother. The 23-year-old victim was shopping with her daughter in Wembley, north-west London, when a pair of girls tried to rob her. The attackers, who Scotland Yard said were thought to be in their teens, hit the mother on the arm before punching the toddler in the head. None of the victim's belongings were taken. Detective Inspector Rebecca Reeves, from the Metropolitan Police, said: 'Although the victim and her daughter do not have any visible injuries, this was a frightening experience for them.'

Police have released a CCTV image of the two alleged attackers taken after the attempted robbery at around 5pm on Tuesday, November 3. [NOTE: The image is very grainy. Look for their purses. - ed.] Both women were of Mediterranean appearance, with long dark brown curly hair [MEDITERRANEAN?? They just look like brunettes to me. - ed.] and aged between 14 and 18. One was 5ft and wore a white jacket, black mini-skirt, tiger stripe leggings, black flat shoes and carried a large black fake leather bag. The second wore a black jacket, blue denim skinny jeans, black Ugg-style boots and had a large brown fake leather bag with gold details.

Hokay, so, um how do they know the leather bags are fake? Can you tell from the grainy picture? Did the woman being assaulted stop to ascertain whether those girls were carrying real or fake leather bags as they punched her baby girl in the head? That sure does seem like an awful lot of detail about the fashion of these girls, almost like they were standing right there in front of the person preparing the police report. And yet all the police have to go on is a grainy CCTV image. Weird huh?

Revealed: how one war memorial is desecrated in Britian every week

War memorials are being desecrated by thieves and vandals at the rate of more than one a week. Figures released on the eve of Remembrance Sunday reveal how thugs are casually vandalising plaques, statues and stone crosses. Since the country paused to commemorate the war dead in November last year, yobs have damaged at least 56 war memorials.

In the most recent outrage, thieves stole an 'Eternal Light' flame from a memorial which honoured one of the 14 servicemen who died in the 2006 Nimrod crash in Afghanistan, Britain's worst military disaster since the Falklands War. Elsewhere, stone crosses have been smashed, memorial slabs stolen or sprayed with graffiti, and wreaths destroyed. Metal plaques have been peeled off with blow torches, commemorative benches wrecked and stained glass windows smashed.

Obscenities and Nazi swastikas have even been daubed on places of remembrance, many of which cost thousands of pounds to erect after local fund-raising drives. The contempt for Britain's heroes has been highlighted by the case of a Sheffield student who faces jail after he was photographed urinating on the city's cenotaph. Sheffield Hallam University student Philip Laing, 19, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, was charged after the picture appeared in the Daily Mail.

Most of the vandals are never caught, and those who are face little deterrent. Offenders found guilty of criminal damage under £5,000 can only be dealt with in a magistrates' court, where the maximum sentence is six months' jail. MPs and military campaigners yesterday voiced disgust at the trend and expressed concern that the incidence of desecration is growing when British soldiers are fighting and dying on the front line in Afghanistan. The figures have been compiled by the Tories. Defence spokesman Dr Liam Fox said: 'At a time when we are honouring those who have sacrificed themselves for our security, this sick and despicable trend is a miserable commentary on contemporary Britain.

Hey, I'm not a cop but with all those CCTV cameras all over Britian and this being such a big problem, don't you think they could figure this out? Like how about you put some cameras and coppers around the war memorials? Just a thought. Unless of course they don't want to catch these vandals.

Pictured: mother who died trying to save son from blaze after firework was pushed through letterbox

A murder inquiry has been launched into a fatal house fire which is thought to have been started when a firework was put through the letterbox. Mary Fox, 59, became trapped in her bedroom in the house in Bodmin after pushing her teenage son to safety from an upstairs window on Thursday. Her 17-year-old son, Raum, was taken to Treliske Hospital where he was treated for smoke inhalation and later released. Devon and Cornwall Police warned the culprits today that they would be caught adding that a firework was found behind the front door and it had been pushed through the letterbox. Officers are investigating claims Raum, who has learning difficulties, was being bullied at school and the family had been targeted by youths who had been throwing fireworks in the street.

...A team of police officers conducted house to house enquiries today and collected the remains of fireworks found in the street for potential evidence. Speaking at a press conference at Bodmin police station Superintendent Martin Orpe warned the people responsible for the firework attack that he was confident police would find them. 'As a result of a firework that was found late yesterday behind the door within the premises, and as a result of information from the public, this is being treated as a murder investigation,' he said.

...Police said there were many people around at the time the fire broke out attending a nearby organised bonfire and fireworks display. Reports that a gang of youths were seen around the area using fireworks were being investigated by a team of officers who would today be carrying out house to house inquiries.

...He appealed to those responsible to come forward sooner rather than later. "I would say to them that if it was a harmless prank please come forward," he said. "A lot of people will give us information and we will find those individuals responsible, so it would be in their interests to come forward at the earliest opportunity.

Hmm, so if it's a "harmless prank" and you come forward quickly to express your "regret," then we can give you a slap on the wrist and send you on your way.

British tourist gunned down in bar after stopping off in Amarillo, Texas 'because he liked the Tony Christie song'

A British tourist was shot dead during a bar robbery after travelling to the American city of Amarillo because he liked the cult song, it emerged today. Tom Reeve, a teetotaler, had been in the Texan town just a few hours when a gunman walked into the Spotted Pony pub and opened fire. The killer, who wounded several other customers and allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, fled five minutes later. Mr Reeve, 28, who had a baby daughter, was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital where he later died from a gunshot wound to his torso. He had been out on with two friends on Thursday evening when the tragic incident happened.

...Distraught relatives said he had only stopped in Amarillo ‘because he liked the song’ by Tony Christie....He was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

...Sergeant Kevin Dockery, of Amarillo special crimes unit, said a suspect - according to US reports, Ray Carlos Cisneros, 25, - had been charged with capital murder. He told BBC News 24 the incident was ‘shocking’, adding: ‘The bar itself is a small pub. It’s in a nice area of town - we really have not had that much trouble there in the past so this was kind of shocking that this occurred.

‘We do not have a lot of information on him (Cisneros) right now as he is not from Amarillo.‘At this time he has been charged with capital murder and we are looking at some additiod.’

The suspect, who allegedly attacked other customers in the bar, hitting them either with his fist or handgun, is said to have taken purses, wallets and money from the bar’s cash register and forced one woman to remove some of her clothing, said officers.

What's the word...random? A British guy who likes a 'cult' song goes to some town in Texas and some thug not from that town just happens to come in out of nowhere and shoot the guy dead.

It's all so random and hard to understand. Or is it? I mean, you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet right? If you want to make a police state, you need a lot of crime.