Tories Warn of British Backlash to Blair ‘Presidency’

William Hague warns European leaders today to expect a backlash if they make Tony Blair the first president of Europe.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary told The Times: “There could be no worse way to sell the EU to the people of Britain.”

He dangled the prospect of a referendum in Britain to take back powers from Brussels, even if a “yes” vote in the Irish Republic leads to the rapid ratification of the Lisbon treaty. He also indicated that the Conservatives would use a Blair presidency to mobilise opposition in such a vote on Britain’s relationship with Europe.

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Tony Bliar to be Called Before Iraq War Inquiry

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called to an inquiry about Britain's role in the Iraq war, chair man of the inquiry has said.

Former civil servant John Chilcot said the inquiry, set up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, would look at British involvement in the war, covering the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July this year.

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No Matter what this will be a massive cover up and whitewash, Sir Joh Chlilcot, GCB, privy counselor was on the panel of the Butler report which was held in secret and discredited.

Tony Blair 'Knew of Secret Policy That Allowed Torture of Britons'

Tony Blair knew of a secret interrogation policy which effectively led to British citizens being tortured in counter-terrorism investigations, it was claimed yesterday.
The policy was devised after 9/11 and offered guidance to MI5 and MI6 agents questioning detainees in Afghanistan that they knew were being mistreated by the U.S. military.
The British intelligence officers were given written instructions that they could not 'be seen to condone' torture and must not 'engage in any activity yourself that involves inhumane or degrading treatment of prisoners'.

But they were also told they had no obligation to prevent any detainees from being mistreated.
'Given that they are not within our custody or control, the law does not require you to intervene to prevent this,' said the policy.

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Tony Blair (Middle East Peace Envoy!) Calls on World to Wage War on Militant Islam

Tony Blair has said he does not regret leading Britain to war in Iraq when he was Prime Minister and has called on the world to take on and defeat Islamic extremists. He believes that, without intervention, the problem will continue to grow in countries such as Afghanistan.

He called for a battle to be waged against militant Islam similar to that fought against revolutionary communism.

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War Criminal!

Blair Describes Jerusalem as 'Home'

Tony Blair has always tried to present himself as a visionary leader when he talks about his twin passions: politics and religion.
But judging from his entry in the VIP visitors’ guest book at the British Embassy in Washington during a recent trip to the US, his role as a Middle East peace envoy may have led to a mid-life identity crisis.
His signature is there but where guests are invited to state their ‘home’ Mr Blair wrote ‘Jerusalem’.

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The Politics Of Bollocks by John Pilger

Growing up in an Antipodean society proud of its rich variety of expletives, I never heard the word bollocks. It was only on arrival in England that I understood its majesterial power.

All classes used it. Judges grunted it; an editor of the Daily Mirror used it as noun, adjective and verb. Certainly, the resonance of a double vowel saw off its closest American contender. It had authority.

A high official with the Gilbertian title of Lord West of Spithead used it to great effect on 27 January. The former admiral, who is security adviser to Gordon Brown, was referring to Tony Blair's famous assertion that invading countries and killing innocent people did not increase the threat of terrorism at home.

"That was clearly bollocks," said his lordship, who warned of the perceived "linkage between the US, Israel and the UK" in the horrors inflicted on Gaza and the effect on the recruitment of terrorists in Britain. In other words, he was stating the obvious: that state terrorism begets individual or group terrorism at source.

Just as Blair was the prime mover of the London bombings of 7 July 2005, so Brown, having pursued the same cynical crusades in Muslim countries and having armed and disported himself before the criminal regime in Tel Aviv, will share responsibility for related atrocities at home.

There is a lot of bollocks about at the moment.

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Obama: This Emperor Has No Clothes, It Will All End In Tears

This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.

We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered Downing Street, cheered by children bussed in for the occasion waving plastic Union Jacks. A very few of us at that time incurred searing reproaches for denouncing the Great Charlatan (as I have always denominated Tony Blair) and dissenting from the public hysteria. Three times a deluded Britain elected that transparent fraud. Yesterday, when national bankruptcy became a formal reality, we reaped the bitter harvest of the Blair/Brown imposture.

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Obama's New Intelligence Chief Ran Interference for Indonesia's Butchers

The presumptive appointment by President-elect Barack Obama of retired Admiral Dennis C. Blair as his new Director of National Intelligence is being greeted with cheers by the national media, which hail his experience, bureaucratic infighting skills and comparatively moderate views on national security issues.

But human rights supporters are right to be worried that Dennis Blair will hardly lead the charge for reform in the nation’s intelligence community after the Bush Administration’s embrace of torture, rendition and other crimes. For in the period leading up to and following East Timor’s August 1999 referendum on independence from Indonesia Blair, from his perch as US Commander in Chief of the Pacific (CINCPAC) from February 1999 to May 2000, ran interference for the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) as they and their militia proxies committed crimes against humanity on an awesome scale.

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Hague Prosecutor Says Bush-Blair Could Face War Crimes Charges: 1 Million Iraqis Killed

International Criminal Court prosecutor announced on Sunday that US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair could face war crimes charges at the Hague, after it emerged that up to one million Iraqis have been killed since the illegal invasion.
Chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that he could envision a situation in which Mr Bush and Mr Blair found themselves in the dock.

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Memo Shows How Blair Aided Murdoch

A newly disclosed Downing Street memo has revealed how Tony Blair helped Rupert Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments. It shows that Blair, while prime minister, immediately ordered his top officials to help the tycoon who was frustrated that a potentially lucrative scheme was being blocked by a long-running European commission investigation.

Blair told the media magnate that "he was instinctively sympathetic to what Murdoch was aiming to achieve". The tycoon eventually won approval for the plan. BSkyB had teamed up with other big companies to develop an interactive scheme in which people could shop and manage their finances through their televisions.

The memo is the first to be disclosed under freedom of information legislation documenting the contents of meetings between Murdoch and Blair. Blair has been accused of granting political favours to Murdoch in return for support from his newspapers; Lance Price, a former Downing Street spin doctor, said Murdoch seemed to be one of the four most influential people in the administration.

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Blair Lied Over His Knowledge of Abu Ghraib Atrocities

'But for the collapse of the financial markets, last week's devastating revelation that Tony Blair lied to Parliament at the height of the Ecclestone affair would have had a far more deadly impact.
While prime minister, Mr Blair shamefully misled MPs by claiming the decision to exempt Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One motor sport from the Government ban on tobacco advertising was made through normal Whitehall processes - when the truth was that the decision was made by Blair personally within hours of a meeting with the millionaire tycoon in Downing Street.
Now I can provide compelling evidence that the former prime minister lied to Parliament over an infinitely more serious matter - the extent of British government knowledge of what was happening in the Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib.

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Tony Blair Should Face Humiliating Grilling Over F1 'Cover-Up', Say MPs

Tony Blair could face a humiliating recall to Parliament to explain devastating secret documents suggesting he did not tell the truth over New Labour's first sleaze scandal.Tory MPs want the former Prime Minister to face a grilling over evidence showing he personally ordered Formula 1 be exempted from a tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting the motorsport's billionaire boss.The Government has always maintained that the meeting with Bernie Ecclestone - who had donated £1 million to Labour - had nothing do to with the decision.

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Ooooohhhhh a humiliating grilling, I bet he's quaking in his jackboots, but i bet he is heartened by the massive amount of money that Bernie Ecclestone syphoned into one of his private accounts ( Alledgedly)

Which Side Are You On?

Gaza Doesn't Need Aid- It Has a £2 Billion Gas Field

International donors will - again - gather next month to pledge money for the Palestinians.

This time France hosts the Palestinian panhandling circus, but the same chorus that for years has argued aid will help solve Palestinian grievances will be heard once more.
Tony Blair, in his job as international envoy to the Palestinians, will look earnest and speak publicly about the importance of the world providing financial support.
But instead of checking into their smart Parisian hotels, donors would do better to come to Gaza to help free a Palestinian economic asset so large that it would do away with the need to bleed the international community of millions in aid every year.
Twenty miles from the beaches of Gaza, too far for the eye to see but still very much in Palestinian waters, lies a fortune in untapped, off-shore gas. Prospecting vessels sent down two probes seven years ago and what they found got the juices of executives from multinational fuel companies flowing. In one field alone, experts estimated a reserve of £2 billion worth of natural gas. And there is plenty of potential for other fields.

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