Guradian exposes secret document about secret unit doing secret work to secretly infiltrate web forums and taint Al Quaida "brand"

Stef points to a very odd story in Tuesday's Guradian Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida - BBC and website forums targeted by Home Office unit .

If this story about a ," Whitehall counter-terrorism unit .. targeting the BBC and other media organisations ..."taint the al-Qaida brand", it is an outrageous scandal and waste of money.

In time honoured fashion ," secret Home Office paper" has been seen , preusmably in secret by the Guradian.

This crack elite counter-terrorism experts group is/will/are already "channel(ling) messages through volunteers in internet forums" as part of their campaign.

John Reid before he really set about the whisky bottle set up a Research, Information and Communication unit, [RICU] to counter al-Qaida propaganda at home and overseas. It is staffed by officials from several(?) government departments.

This secret report read in secret by the Guradian crack expert team of journalistic anti terrorism RICU observers got to see the title of this secret document ... "Challenging violent extremist ideology through communications" - the use of "Challenging" dates the document as post June 12th 2007, says our crack team of expert, elite mathematical crytpographic gifted team of archair generalists ..

Oh Christ the will to live has gone ... read the fucking article. or even listen to the author Guradian Home Affairs Editor whisper about it on their exclusive audio newsclip.

But then of course if you go here you can find out about a secret Foreign Office unit staffed by civil servants led by Norman Reddaway , closely linked to MI6 , approved by PM Ted Heath to conspire against those concerned public (especially the ‘Keep Britain Out’ campaign) opposed to Britain joining the EEC in the early 1970s. Also read ‘Britain’s Secret Propaganda War’ (a title curiously stolen by the Guradian piece) by Paul Lashmar and James Oliver published in 1998 - Amazon

This secret unit was said to be given the name : Information Research Department, or IRD for short. Allegedly Heath's secret tool for getting an unwilling public and Parliament to accept entry and General de Gaulle to say "Non!"

When William (later Lord) Armstrong, who was head of the Civil Service, found out about the unit and it’s ‘dubious activities’, which he considered ‘scandalous’, he went to Heath and demanded funds were withdrawn. Dr David Owen had it closed down after Labour got in after the 1974 general Election.

Sleepless night for this guy then ....

The No 10 YouTube propaganda service - In the Kingdom of the Blind the one eyed man is King.

No 10 Downing Street joined You Tube on April 17th (probably Clarence Mitchell's last bright idea) this year and they have to date uploaded 77 videos which so far have been seen in total 213,481times ... "Welcome to the 10 Downing Street YouTube channel" they say, " This is where you'll find exclusive films and features from No10 and the British Prime Minister. "



5,384 folks have watched this one, entitled ..."The PM and Jacqui Smith attend a Citizens' Jury on crime". Watch ,Listen , learn ... and remember that Gordy is not a PR spin type of guy .... well I guess he's a "straight kinda guy" .What's the budget for this raw party propaganda , where does it come from, who authorises it ?

Democracy at work .. now tell me Mr Prime Minister how do I get put on Jury Service .. perhaps they need some alternative voices ?

BBC fix the vote to Online Quiz question ,""Are people right to take their money out from Northern Rock?"

How very curious. If you go to the BBC Online site for the story "New saver queues at Northern Rock " and vote "Are people right to take their money out from Northern Rock?" you will see the above results - this was 11.42 am BST.

Repeat the exercise and you will see the total of votes jump up but the % for each result stay the same - Another fixed vote by the BBC.

"Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion" Too fucking right my son!

Also a result that is outside our experience talking to people this weekend.

As Stef says - it's not subliminal if you notice it.

UPDATE 12.56 BST The BBC have just reset the above counter ! Caught with their trousers down ?

Where are they Now ? No. 431. The Muslim Mercedes Jihadist Suicidalist Bombers of early Summer ?

"LONDON’S worst ever bomb carnage was foiled yesterday — thanks to a drunken reveller, a hero cop and a car clamper." Sun 29/6/07

Friday June 29th (2 days after Gordy took over at No 10) a pale metallic green Mercedes (model type and Registration Number never released) was clumsily parked outside the large, busy, three-story Tiger Tiger nightclub in Central London. An ambulance crew responding to an unrelated call at 1:30 a.m. noticed smoke in the vehicle and alerted Police.

It was reported later that , a brave , heroic, selfless, hero / police officer leaned inside to switch a cellphone off that was the bomb's trigger and turned it off.

A second pale blue Mercedes 280, ( Registration Number never released) was illegally parked in nearby Cockspur Street about the same time. Traffic officers hauled it away to an underground garage at Hyde Park. Many hours later , after news of the first "bomb" blanketed the airwaves, that dopey car parkalistas told Plod that the towed car reeked of gasoline.

No one claimed responsibility (then or since) for the bombs ( a collection of petrol in cans, propane gas cylinders and a quantity of brand new nails) , and police arrested no arrests. A senior government official said the two explosives appeared to be "al Quaida inspired." "International elements" were believed to have been involved with the bombs, Whitehall sources told the BBC.

"Simultaneous, co-ordinated bombs have historically been a distinguishing feature of [al-Qaeda's] anti-Western attacks "Frank Gardner,BBC security correspondent.

CBS News has reported that a message appeared on the widely used jihadist Al-Hesbah site, at 8:09 a.m. June 28, saying: "Today I say: Rejoice, by Allah, London shall be bombed." (ie before the cars were parked)

Later that day Peter Clarke the Sphincter of the Yard , said the similarity of the bombs indicated that they were probably the work of the same people. "The threat from terrorism is real," Clarke said. "It is here, enduring. Life must go on, but we must stay alert." ***

Botched London plot leaves 'gold mine' of clues D. Tel

"Last night, scores of specialists were taking the vehicles apart at secret locations, confident they will find crucial clues to the identity of the terrorists. Police expect to find DNA from the bombers and to secure evidence about where the bomb material came from."

Police have crystal clear video image of car bomber

"Police have a 'crystal clear' video image of a man who tried to kill hundreds of people by blowing up two cars in central London, according to reports." Daily Mail

Curiously enough, however extensively you might search for further information after June 29th /30th on the web, it is impossible to find anything about the wannabe jihadist suicidalists, police activities, the cars, leads ..... anything.

Plod has a history of the cars, (even after failing to ask for public help - have you seen this car etc., ) a "crystal clear pic of the driver" in Cockspur Street (curiously unpublished) and a gold mine of evidence, and details on mobile phones.

Maybe it was just members of the Lady Dame Jane Pauline Neville Jones Fan Club having a good larf.

*** "It is here, enduring. Life must go on, but we must stay alert." ... readers please note this will be one of the many wise and witty saying of Peter Clarke PC in Lord Patel's forthcoming slim anthology, "The Plod's Plod. The Wit and Wisdom of Peter Clarke PC " Lunchbucket Press - which should hit the shops in time for Christmas.

RENEWED REPORTS OF IMMINENT U.S. ATTACKS ON IRAN

Read it all here in lengthy well sourced and rational article at Danny Schecter / News Dissector

"True? I don’t know. Plausible? Absolutely. It follows the pattern of the P.R. campaign that started around this time in 2002 and led to the Iraq war. The President’s rhetoric on Iran has been nothing short of bellicose lately, warning of “the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.” And the Iranian government’s behavior—detaining British servicemen and arresting American passport holders, pushing ahead with uranium enrichment, and, by many reliable accounts, increasing its funding and training for anti-American militias in Iraq—seems intentionally provocative. "

This is for our special friends in the North East. Let's put the ArmageddinIranometer up to 75%.

Extreme Right Wrong

The Wide Awakes certainly give you value for money. Just pop over to Google News and let Google find you the daily dose of their fascist nonsense - all for free.

Whatever you might say about the American redneck right wing, as promoted by CIA you get major helpings. Like good civil servants their spelling and syntax are impeccable, the steaming rage of these keyboard warriors is carefully articulated and smells of prodigious effort and endless drafts and re-drafts. A sort of simulate simmering rage that, somehow, well ... just doesn't smell right....except of bullshit.

Today they have erected, as an Aunt Sally, poor old confused academic Juan Cole, under the eyecatching headline "The Pope Must Die" which if waved around on a street in Westminster would certainly attract the attention of PC Plod, however satirical (Ho. Ho.) the standard bearer might be.

"Shooting old women in the back, burning churches, and threatening the life of the leader of a billion Catholics is an excellent demonstration of Muslim “sensibilities” I must say." is how loudmouth and empty head Rick Moran kicks off.

This is followed by comments too many to mention or analyse ... excepting a well informed but hate filled Muslim scholar (GM ?) who points out ...."The emperor [Manuel II Paleologus] must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: “There is no compulsion in religion“. etc., etc., " the guys at NASCAR read nothing else but the surahs and engine manuals.

Someone offers an entertaining spoof quiz which starts ..

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman b. Jay Leno c. Harry Potter d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred
by
a. Olga Corbett b. Sitting Bull c. Arnold Schwarzenegger d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
.... you get the picture.

It doesn't appear that World War 1, or 2 was started by "Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40", the sinking of the Titanic, going off the Gold Standard and the murders of Lord Moyne and Count Bernadotte (September 17th 1946) either.

Feeling low in the mornings ? ... well pop over to the The Wide Awakes and marvel how people get paid to write this sort of drivel by your Government, day after day after day. Call by Wuzzadem suppliers of our hilarious rage - ometer, and don't miss the wisdom of Six meat Buffet ,then ask yourself why Google include this crap in their "news" section.