- In a little noticed report last Sunday, The Observer
(London) has exposed more mafia links at the heart of New Labour. The devastating
information was uncovered by the respected investigative journalist Anthony
Barnett, but the pro-Blair newspaper downplayed the damning story, relegating
it to page 14.
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- Today Blair visits Italian PM Berlusconi, his key ally
in Europe and head of a coalition which includes neofascists and the racist
devolutionists of the Northern League. Berlusconi was the first premier
in Europe to back the Perle/Sharon War against Islam project in the wake
of 911, at a time when Blair was claiming to carry a copy of the Koran
on every foreign trip.
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- Blair will be hoping that the media ignores Berlusconi
and concentrates instead on his audience with the Pope, designed to underline
Blair's sincerity.
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- David Mills, husband of `Blair Babe` and key political
ally Tessa Jowell and brother of Barbara Mills ex-head of the Serious Fraud
Office, is now under criminal investigation by Italian magistrates for
money laundering on behalf of Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi.
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- Mills has been co-operating as a witness in the Berlusconi
investigation for several years. The Observer describes Mills as the accountant
who helped set up Berlusconi's financial empire over many years. Recent
supergrass evidence in Italy has pointed the finger at Berlusconi as the
mafia's man there. Berlusconi enjoyed a meteoric rise to power after magistrates
exposed the ruling coalition of Christian Democrats and Blair type `socialists`
as virtually a front for the mafia.
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- This is not an isolated case of Blair/Jowell sleaze.
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was famously given privileged access
to the new Prime Minister in 1997 and achieved a change in government policy
on tobacco advertising in return for a massive secret donation to Blair's
New Labour. Jowell was the health minister who tore up Labour Party Policy
for Ecclestone's benefit and Jowell's husband David Mills was a director
of one of Ecclestone's key companies.
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- Jowell is currently pushing the Communications Bill through
Parliament, which will allow foreign media owners to buy up tv channels
in the UK.
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- As the saying goes, once is happenstance twice is co-incidence,
three times is downright sinster. In Blair's case the mafia sleaze links
get worse. Step in Enron and their bent accountants Arthur Anderson.
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- Enron was one of the key backers of the New Labour takeover
of the Labour Party, sponsoring them openly and providing more funds in
secret. Enron accountants Arthur Anderson (now liquidated) were New Labour's
favorites when it came to stitching up the lucrative PFI (quasi-privatisation)
deals which made a packet for New Labour henchmen in their less publicised
role as predatory company directors.
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- Anderson were so suspect that even the Conservative government
had banned them from government contracts. Anderson recruits were told
it was company policy to write notes in pencil (so that they could be falsified).
Anderson executives are facing criminal charges for destroying evidence
in the Enron affair.
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- The Enron affair has been misprepresented in the pro-Blair
pro-US corporate media in the UK. It was not an accounting scandal like
Worldcom where expenditures were booked as investment and investors misled.
It was an outright mafia style theft. Enron was used as a shell company
to suck cash out of the US financial system. The cash was deposited in
bogus companies in tax havens where it would be untraceable and then stolen
by persons unknown.
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- When Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown proposed a tightening
up of money laundering havens in the wake of the 911 attacks he was ignored
by the Bush regime who preferred to attack Afghanistan and now Iraq.
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- The Enron accountant who might have spilt the beans died
in an unexpected and highly suspicious `suicide` shortly before he was
to give evidence. The UK media has been remarkably silent on the fate of
another Enron accountant, leading Conservative politician John Wakeham
who sat on the committee supervising Enron's accounting and now faces a
criminal investigation.
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- Blair has never explained why he appointed Wakeham, a
political enemy, to oversee the reform of the House of Lords. At Blair's
prompting Wakeham proposed a mostly +unelected+ second chamber. Blair's
original manifesto as a candidate for Labour leader emphasised that he
would fight for an elected House of Lords.
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- Enron had even closer links with the third member of
the Blair/Berlusconi friends of the mafia: George Bush Jr. Enron helped
bankroll Bush's campaign for President and paid for thugs to be flown into
Florida from Washington to disrupt the recounts. This made it possible
for the Jeb Bush administration to declare that brother George Bush had
carried Florida.
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- George Bush's third brother Neil Bush disappeared from
public view after being implicated in the theft of hundreds of millions
of dollars from a Savings and Loan corporation in the early nineties.
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- Another Bush brother Marvin has been identified as the
man who held the keys to the World Trade Centre. His company installed
access systems, knowledge of which would have made it possible to plant
the bombs which reporters and firemen believe they heard shortly before
the WTC towers collapsed. Seismographs show sharp spikes an instant before
each tower fell
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- Enron's links to Bush are so close that Bush saw necessary
to lie about them in public. He stated that Enron boss Ken `Kenny Boy`
Lay had only been an acquaintance and only since the mid nineties. In fact
Lay and Bush were buddies at least in the late eighties.
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- Andrew Rawnsley, one of the many Blair accolytes on the
Observer, quotes Blair as saying during the Ecclestone affair: `they'll
have us for this`.
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- Blair has made clear he will use the Royal Prerogative
to order British troops to commit war crimes by invading Iraq in defiance
of the UN. The British public are currently mystified as to why Blair should
back George Bush to such an extent in flagrant defiance of (acording to
opinion polls) up to 90 percent of UK opinion.
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- Perhaps the aswer is that Blair does not have any choice.
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- Ian Henshall
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- Ian Henshall is the chair of INK, the umbrella organistion
for the alternative media in the UK. Opinion is in a personal capacity
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