Ian Tomlinson - Did he fall or was he pushed ?

There will be few readers who haven't seen the video the Guradian obtained from an American citizen of the violent assault ith a baton and shoving to the ground of Ian Tomlinson about 7.20 pm on April 1st and the subsequent catalogue for 5 days of lies, untruths, distortions and obfuscations of how minutes after a a few yards away he died.

As a veteran of many marches, one sequence sticks out to us - above.

A slim young, mobile, black suited, young fit male, with a top spec (but not flashy) single lens reflex camera crouches down for some pics of the fallen and injured Tomlinson. This mystery snapper must have witnessed the assault by the burly truncheon weilding PC - who has subsequently (along with other colleagues) come forward.

Suddenly whilst everyone is focussed on the stricken newspaper vendor he does a runner.

He is not a well equipped protestor.... such a person would stay and continue clicking.

He is not a pro or semi pro photographer ... who would have at least 2 cameras, bags, flash etc.,... and probably stay for more and better pics.

He is an undercover SIS / MI5/6 operator.

They appear everywhere on marches , forever on the move, very aware of their location , they move purposefully and have a penchant for wideangle rearward shots of marches face on- ideally from upper vantage points, Post Boxes, street furniture, hanging from lamp posts. Lord Patel has a library of mugshots. One turns up regular as clockwork at Stop the War meetings in the Friends Meeting House in Manchester.

A pound to a pinch of snuff these pics will never appear part of the record or be submited to the IPCC or the City of London Plods .. more than likley he was incontact with someone to outline the incident,which led to the sunsequent charge of the police to gurad Tomlinson's (then) dead body.

The first response was to rush the story aside, then to lie, but the the flood of evidence has overwhelmed the framed story .....expect ;

1. Tomlinson had 3 times the drivers limit of alcohol.
2. There were probably traces of ilegal drugs.
3. He had a knife in his pocket.
4. He had access to a computer where he worked which the Police are "looking at".
5. Even better fairy stories than we can concoct.

Slowly the "crumple zone " of the "libertarian right will get their act together, Sami Chakrabarti, David Davis, Andew McKinley, Dame Baroness Lady Dame Jane Neville Jones to impress on the public the looming threats the Police face....

All this of course has absoltely nothing to do with aresting wannabe terrists in the North West and the sad departure to a well funded retirement by the fat Plod who arrested Try MP Damian Green in a "moment of madness".

Moral - There is no such thing as an accident. Nothing occurs haphazardly.

Quite where this videocomes within the recently enacted Terrorism Act Sect 58A ish is supposed stop people snapping pics of Police officers is unclear.

“58A Eliciting, publishing or communicating information about members of armed forces etc

(1) A person commits an offence who—

(a) elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is or has been—

(i) a member of Her Majesty’s forces,

(ii) a member of any of the intelligence services, or

(iii) a constable,

which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or

(b) publishes or communicates any such information.

PS : BBC4 PM programme Nnews at 5.30 pm announce that a 2nd post mortem was undertaken this afternoon on Ian Tomlinson

Deutsche Bank's role in questionable tax shelters - fire destroys bank and records - LMDC and it's interesting people

Subsequent to the recent interesting activities exposed of UBS bank this interesting article about interesting things is published in its entirity for those interested people interested in such interesting matters. Some emphasis has been (mis?) placed.

U.S. widens Deutsche Bank inquiry By Lynnley BrowningPublished: Thursday May 18th, 2006 International Herald Tribune

NEW YORK: A U.S. investigation of Deutsche Bank's role in questionable tax shelters has widened to include a broader array of shelters than previously known, according to people briefed on the inquiry.

The largest German bank has been under investigation as an outgrowth of the criminal inquiry into the accounting firm KPMG, but the investigation has recently widened to include the bank's links with other firms, and to include shelters not covered in the KPMG case, specifically shelters known as digital options. Digital options involve complex offsetting trades in foreign currency options to produce losses.

Deutsche Bank has been in talks with U.S. prosecutors in New York over its tax shelter work. In August, KPMG reached a $456 million deferred-prosecution agreement with prosecutors and admitted criminal wrongdoing over four types of shelters, some of them ones that Deutsche Bank worked on. A smaller German bank, HVB, has also settled with prosecutors. But Deutsche Bank's extensive role in the creation and sale of questionable tax shelters may complicate its negotiations.

Deutsche Bank declined to comment. The bank has said in the past that the transactions it arranged for tax shelters were regular and ordinary.

Prosecutors are examining how Deutsche Bank helped to make and sell a digital option shelter called Cobra to more than 1,100 wealthy investors around 1999 and 2000, according to the people who have been briefed on the inquiry. The prosecutors are also looking at the bank's similar role in making and selling a shelter similar to Cobra known as Homer, which was sold through Bank One, and at a related shelter called MLD, for market-linked deposit.

J.P. Morgan Chase, ( who snaffled up Bear Stearns) which acquired Bank One in 2004, declined to comment.

Many aggressive tax shelters look alike, and from the late 1990s through recent years different promoters had various names for their own shelters, although they were typically updated versions of existing shelters.

Cobra (currency options bring reward alternatives Ho.Ho.Ho.), Homer (hedge option monetization of economic remainder Ditto ) and MLD are all regarded by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as variations of a widely used abusive tax-avoidance strategy known as Son of Boss. The IRS has never considered any Son of Boss shelter valid for deductions and had banned them by September 2000. Deutsche Bank has been accused in lawsuits of continuing to promote shelters that were variations of Son of Boss after that date.

Details about these shelters are outlined in internal documents that have emerged in civil litigation against Deutsche Bank brought by wealthy investors who bought the tax shelters.

David Deary, a lawyer in Dallas who has filed lawsuits against Deutsche Bank in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and in a Texas State court, among others, on behalf of wealthy investors who bought digital options shelters, said: "Deutsche Bank was the driving force behind every tax strategy that involved digital options. And without Deutsche Bank, none of these tax shelters could have been sold and implemented."

One internal document that has emerged is a PowerPoint presentation of Homer from October 2001 that outlines the steps Deutsche Bank and the law firms White & Case and Jenkens & Gilchrist took to put the shelter together for individual clients. The document, eight pages long, breaks down the shelter into nine stages, each containing multiple steps like "pretrade" document creation, "options to trust" and "partnership liquidation."

The document indicates that the core workings of Homer revolved around Deutsche Bank's arranging trades and loans that were intended to lose money. The tax agency considers such transactions to be a hallmark of an abusive tax shelter. The document also describes how Deutsche Bank transferred the losses between trusts and partnerships, to generate artificial losses. Over all, the document depicts, through a maze of boxes and arrows, how Deutsche Bank worked side by side with the law firms to carry out the shelter.

Amazing fire hits Deutsche Bank and their office records : No Amazing pictures

Reading this alongside another intersting news story is helpful to those intersted inthese interestingmatters go to link for rest ...

Just short of the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center, a seven-alarm fire raged through the half-demolished Deutsche Bank building at ground zero, killing two firefighters on August 18.

The building at 130 Liberty Street had been irreparably damaged when the south tower of the Trade Center collapsed into it on September 11, 2001. (but strangely enough for airplane resistant Manhattan Towers did not fall down like WTC 7) However, the building had stood shrouded in black netting for the past six years, oddly untouched by the cleanup and demolition efforts that had immediately gotten under way on the rest of ground zero.

Demolition of the contaminated building did not begin until February 2007, when in tandem with environmental regulators, workers finally began disassembling the 41-story building from the top down, using acetylene torches to slice though the steel beams and disassemble the structure. They had reached the 26th floor when the fire broke out. More see also appointing Bovis " Consultants to the corporation have confirmed that the tower has excessive levels of asbestos, dioxin, lead, silica, quartz, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, chromium and manganese."

On June 14th 2007 Mayor Bloomberg and then Governor Eliot Spitzer announced that JPMorgan Chase had won the bid to buy and build the new tower at 130 Liberty Street to replace the Deutsche Bank Building

Readers are also directed to learning more about the LMDC (Lower Manhattan development Corporation) set up to revive the city centre after 9/11 and their Directors. Intersting people such as John C Whitehead former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Director of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard Board of Overseers, Haverford College, . He is presently Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation .

Michael Balboni is Deputy Secretary for Public Safety and has day-to-day responsibility for managing homeland security affairs, emergency preparedness and response, and law enforcement. Prior to this appointment he was the Chair of the Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs. He was the author of the state's Anti-Terrorism Law of 2001 that mandates severe penalties for those who commit terror acts, make terror threats, or render assistance to terrorists. He also authored a 2002 law that helps protect the state's water supply from terror attacks. In 2005, he authored the Chemical Plant Security Act, the first of its kind in the nation. In 2004, Mr. Balboni was appointed to serve on a national task force reviewing allocation of federal money for homeland security measures. In 2005, he was named Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University.

Interesting people.

Also interesting is a news release from LMDC 30th April 2008 MILESTONE REACHED ON 130 LIBERTY STREET

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) announced today that another milestone has been reached at 130 Liberty Street (see above) and that the final stages of work on the abatement and decontamination have commenced. Since the tragic fire of August 18, 2007, the LMDC has worked closely with federal, state and city agencies to enhance safety conditions for first responders, workers and residents and to make modifications to the plan for abating the building.

Facsinating and must read blog post from the time of the fire here Samskara-Mandala’s Weblog
"The recent fire of the Detusche Bank at the former site of The World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York, might be cause for some re-examination of a myth that just won’t die. That is of the real reason for the destruction of the twin towers at what is now called Ground Zero. " etc ... etc ...

Lights go out all over Florida - Turkey Point PWR shut down

Two Florida Power & Light nuclear reactors at its Turkey Point power plant automatically shut down at 1 pm EST today. The plant is 2 miles east of Homestead, Florida, United States, next to Biscayne National Park located about 35 miles (56 kilometers) near the southernmost edge of Miami-Dade County.....

.... On the day the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announce that NRC staff will conduct two public meetings in the vicinity of the Three Mile Island 1 nuclear power plant on Tuesday, March 4, to discuss the agency’s review process for a proposed 20-year extension of the facility’s current 40-year operating license. AmerGen Energy Co., LLC, owns and operates the plant, which is located in Middletown (Dauphin County), Pa.

''We don't know whether the grid disturbance caused the units to shut down or that their shut down caused the grid disturbance,'' said Kenneth Clark, a spokesman at the NRC regional office in Atlanta. He said the two reactors were automatically shut down.

''There are no safety concerns. The reactors shut down as designed,'' Clark told the New York Times.

There were sporadic shutdowns of traffic lights, Miami airport went on to generator backup and slowly full grid connections were restored.

In 2006, FPL informed the NRC that they planned to apply for new units to be built at Turkey Point. FPL filed an initial proposal for increased capacity with the Florida Public Service Commission in October, 2007

No doubt it will be clearer later in the day what happened - the company report on their website (may be difficult to reach ) "The system is being restored in a systematic process to ensure its safe operation at all times. The company does not have a cause for the outage, which is affecting several hundred thousand customers but the system responded as designed to ensure the outage was contained. We ask you to please call us only in an emergency situation so we can keep our lines open for emergency calls". ....Meanwhile the important news today is ...

Miss Lohan as Marilyn in a pastiche of her “The Last Sitting” with Bert Stern.Kennedy moll and family lover she died six weeks later of an overdose (?).

The whole Bert Stern (ish) Oeuvre is here

PS: Curious story about suspected sabotage at Turkey Point April 2006 here with links.

JFK Jetfuel Bombers secret pipeline surveillance exposed

This is the sign that marks the Brooklyn landfall of the Buckeye pipeline which the DOJ have got so worried about. Lord Patel's Jihadist surveillance team took this some time ago.

See the official report from the DOJFour Individuals Charged in Plot to Bomb John F. Kennedy International Airport Plot Targets Airport’s Jet Fuel Supply Tanks and Pipeline Defendants Include Extremists in United States, Guyana, and Trinidad

"The fuel supply for these operations (1,000 flights daily, approximately half of which are international flights) are linked primarily to the Buckeye Pipeline, which distributes fuel and other petroleum products to various sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens, New York, among others."

The pipeline owners have a website that explains their security / maintenance effort

They helpfully explain "No work should be conducted along a Buckeye pipeline without prior approval. This is to ensure the safety of the people working around the pipeline as well as the safety of everyone else in the area."

They also have a helpful "Call before you dig" page that explains how contractors should contact them

"If you or someone you know is going to conduct any type of excavation work, including demolition, blasting, mining, digging with power equipment, hand digging, or any other type of work that will disturb the ground, you need to contact the One Call System that covers that area. "

You see they got those bombers well covered - soon as they wanted to bomb those lines they needed to "Call before they Dig".

Also a look at Information for excavators, real estate, and land developers...

"It is vitally important that you know the specifications of Right-of-Way restrictions before planning any projects or selling any property along pipelines owned and/or operated by Buckeye. It is also important that our line markers not be removed from our Right-of-Way, since they mark the approximate location of our pipelines and let people know that a pipeline is in the vicinity. Removal of these line markers is a violation of Federal law."

Pretty certain those guys would send you plans for the lines if you are looking to buy a house in the neighbourhood, no problems.


This is a publicly available map of the Linden pipeline and it was, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph ..."The counter-terrorism official said that although the plan "was not technically possible" it was one of many cases being investigated by the US government". Jetfuel is not easy to ignite , and of course such pipelines have many shut off valves (presumably electrically powered and remotely controlled ) which would limit any damage.

Buckeye who started in 1886, operates one of the largest independent common-carrier pipelines, providing refiners, wholesalers, marketers and commercial end-users a dependable, all-weather method of transportation for refined petroleum products in the US. Buckeye owns and operates approximately 5,350 miles of underground pipelines serving over 100 delivery locations within a eighteen states.

Buckeye Partners is a publicly traded master limited partnership and Buckeye partnership units are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BPL.

UPDATE

Kurt Nimmo at Another Day in the Empire has a detailed breakdown ," JFK 4 : Connecting Propaganda Dots from Jamaat al Mulimeen to Hugo Chavez " and reminds us of the BBC report on (amongst many others)17th Februaru 2003 of Hasil Mohammed Rahaham-Alan, 37, from Venezuela, appearing at Bow Street Magistrates' Court after Customs officials stopped him after he flew in to the UK from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on a British Airways jetcarrying a live grenade in his baggage.

Well the odd thing is that any amount of Googling and searching fails to turn up any further reference to the grenade carrying Venezuelan passport holding passenger....Except this
from Airline News weeks later ..." The 39-year-old, a devout Muslim, reportedly had no links to militant groups and his grenade had been disarmed. At first he was charged under anti-terrorist laws but the prosecution said it now accepted that he had acted as a result of depression caused by personal problems. Sentencing has been adjourned until 20 May, reported Reuters."

Offshoring warrantless surveillance - more bollocks from the conspiracy freaks

Dag Wilhelmsen is General Manager of the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency and is on a 4 day visit to Bulgaria to meet the Minister of Defence Vesselin Bliznakov and the State Commission on Information Security. Dag says of the NC3A "we provide, as a host nation as it's called, the capability to acquire a lot of NATO equipment and systems such as satellite communications, automated information systems, communication networks and deployable capabilities for NATO's operations."

In the light of the entry of Bulgaria to the EU in January announced last week it is important there is clarity of understanding between all NATO members.

His visit coincides with a curious e-mail Lord Patel has received regarding previous posts on US warrantless surveillance of domestic telephony / IP traffic in the US. The unkown but knowledgeable informant claims that the US outsource surveillance just as they do, imprisonment, torture and interrogation.

Data split off AT & T and other networks is ( the writer claims) squirted anywhere in the world for further analysis and this is undertaken by friendly folks who accept US military establishments, suitably equipped who take on staff on short term, highly deniable contracts who can be found strolling the streets on 4 week breaks on an island to the Eastern end of the Mediterranean well known for it's highly visible and well known mountain top communications gear.

They then disappear for 6 week stints - it is claimed - to the home of Ovid and a little further south and north of Greece .. where they might this week bump into Dag Wilhelmsen.

The writer was impelled to write (they say) after reading a post about CACI (suppliers of torturers to Abu Graigh and beyond) and their software skills in providing EU telcos to meet the forthcoming Data Directive.

So. get this crazy idea, data is split off domestic US telcos (well we know that), squirted to (say) Bulgaria and Romania, (i.e outside US legal jurisdiction) to be worked over by staff familiar with analytical software (but anonymised) used to handling massive data volumes (with security clearances of the highest order) , supplied by firms such as CACI (and many others ?) which might be tied in with NATO Command and Control agencies ? Preposterous nonsense, curiously this lunatic didn't involve a pitch for Viagra. Who on Earth would believe such crap ?

That's the trouble with the Internet, this sort of bollocks can circulate without the slightest shred of evidence. That Dag Wilhelmsen, the General Manager of the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency was evidently wasting his precious time in Bulgaria meeting the Minister of Defence Vesselin Bliznako. Let's trust he didn't waste any time (and NATO taxpayers money) going to the US installation at the Ravnets base outside the port / airport of Burgas on the Black Sea.