Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein Again Disappears From View, but What About Mossad?

Oct 17 2019 / 12:55 pm
 
I have long argued that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was clearly an intelligence agent and that he was most likely working for the Israeli external service Mossad. My belief was based on the nature of his activity, which suggested that he was able to blackmail important Americans using the sex tapes that he had been able to make at his Manhattan mansion. Put that together with the existence of his fake Austrian passport, as well as former Miami federal attorney Alexander Acosta’s comments  and it would seem that an intelligence connection is a sine qua non.

Acosta was particularly damning. When asked “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” he replied “…that I had just one meeting on the Epstein case.” He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told to back off,” that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”
The answers to those remaining questions about Epstein are still lacking even though he is gone, but one fears that the authorities will be disinclined to further investigate a dead man. It appears that no one in the various investigative agencies or the mainstream media has been interested in what Acosta meant, even though it would be simple enough to ask him. Who told him to back off? And how did they explain it? And then there is Epstein’s Austrian passport. Was the document fake or real, with a real name and photo substitution or alternation of both picture and name? How did he get it? Austrian passports are highly desirable in intelligence circles because the country is neutral and its holders can travel just about everywhere without a visa.

What Epstein did and how he did it was an intelligence operation in support of Mossad. There is no other viable explanation for his filming of prominent politicians and celebrities having sex with young girls. Recruiting and running American movers and shakers like Bill Clinton, with his 26 trips on the Lolita Express, former Governor Bill Richardson, or former Senator George Mitchell are precisely the types of “agents of influence” that the Mossad would seek to coerce or even blackmail into cooperation.

Other compelling evidence for a Mossad connection came from Epstein’s relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, who reportedly served as his key procurer of young girls. Ghislaine is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who died or possibly was assassinated in mysterious circumstances in 1991. Maxwell was an Anglo-Jewish businessman, very cosmopolitan in profile, like Epstein, a multi-millionaire who was very controversial with what were regarded as ongoing ties to Mossad. After his death, he was given a state funeral by Israel in which six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence listened while Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized: “He has done more for Israel than can today be said.”

Israel and high-profile Jewish players also have continued to turn up like bad pennies in the Epstein case, but no one seems to be interested in pursuing that angle. Epstein clearly had contact with former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak and Epstein patrol Les Wexner also had close ties to the Jewish state and its government.

And now, finally more evidence of the relationship has surfaced even though the mainstream media appears to have lost all interest in the subject. A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has inter alia made the claim that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was from the beginning an Israel intelligence operation involving the entrapment of powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and also abroad.

In an interview with Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer, the retired senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have first met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged procuress, Ghislaine Maxwell, in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence prior to that time.
Ben-Menashe, was himself involved in the notorious Iran-Contra arms deals. He claimed that he had been introduced to Jeffrey Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and Ben-Menashe’s were themselves working on Iran-Contra “…he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the Maxwell-Owned Daily Mirror], it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing what we were doing.” Ben-Menashe’s account has been corroborated independently by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, describing how Maxwell, Davies and Ben-Menashe arranged the transfer and sale of military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of Mossad and the CIA during that time period.

Ben-Menashe, who would have absolutely nothing to gain by lying, described how Maxwell stated during the introduction that “your Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Maxwell was involved in an major intelligence network in Israel “which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon…” and was well placed to know that of which he spoke.

Will the three simultaneous investigations currently taking place even seek to ask the right questions now that the target of the investigation is gone and the new Ben-Menashe information has surfaced? Given the high stakes in the game, quite likely there will be a cover-up both of how Epstein lived and how he died and, most importantly, whom he worked for. Unfortunately, but predictably, the media and the inside the Beltway chattering class have lost interest in the story and we the public will most likely never learn what Epstein was all about. Just another instance of Israel spying on the United States…ho hum.
https://councilforthenationalinterest.org/?p=5070

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Friday, October 25, 2019

  • The tomb of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Spanish Phalanx, October 1963.

    The tomb of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Spanish Phalanx, October 1963. | Photo: EFE



The remains of fascist Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera will remain in the Valley of the Fallen because he is considered "a victim of the Spanish Civil War."

Following the news that Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's remains will be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, Vice-President Carmen Calvo has said the remains of Spanish Phalanx party founder Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera will remain in situ next to Franco's former plot.
Calvo said Jose Antonio, son of dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), will remain in the Valley of the Fallen because he was a victim of the Spanish Civil War, killed early during the armed conflict in 1936.
"Primo de Rivera is a victim of the dispute, for which the permanence of his remains in the Valley of the Fallen is justified on the same grounds as the rest of the victims," Calvo said on Friday.
Primo de Rivera was executed by the Second Republic for conspiracy and military rebellion on November 20, 1936. He was the founder of the Spanish Phalanx, a military fascist political organization aiming to topple the democratic republic and replace it with a totalitarian government in his father's fashion.
Primo de Rivera was enshrined by the Franco regime and became a martyr, earning a special place in the honorary cemetery, at the 'Basilica de Cuelgamuros,' in 1959.
During the administration of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the government created a commission of experts wno decided the Valley of the Fallen would be a commemoration place to honor those who died during the civil war, regardless of their allegiance.
It also proposed removing Franco – who died peacefully, much later, and in very different circumstances – while giving Primo de Rivera "a non- prominent place," because all victims should be treated with equal respect.
The government is preparing to transform the Valley of the Fallen into a memorial center. Calvo said the remains of Primo de Rivera will ultimately be exhumed, along with those of the other 33,000 victims, and placed in a more humble grave.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Franco-Exhumated-But-Phalanx-Founder-Left-Where-20180825-0018.html

Thursday, October 24, 2019

 General Franco's body exhumed in secret - Spain's 'socialists' have an history of exhuming people they do not like !

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Fascist salute for a former dictator: General Franco supporters chant as his exhumed remains are carried by his family from grandiose state mausoleum before heading to a 'discreet' tomb so he is no longer 'glorified'

  • Francisco Franco's body was exhumed this morning from the Valley of the Fallen which he built near Madrid
  • The former dictator's coffin was reburied in the family vault in Mingorrubio where his late wife is buried 
  • Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hailed it as an 'act of reconciliation' for years of fascism
  • Many of Franco's relatives - who have bitterly objected to the exhumation - helped to carry his coffin out
  • 500 pro-Franco protesters chanted his name and gave fascist salutes as his body arrived at its new burial site 

Supporters of former dictator Francisco Franco threw fascist salutes on Thursday as his body was exhumed from the grand mausoleum he had built as his final resting place so it could be moved to a discreet family crypt.
Descendants of the late strongman leader - who had bitterly opposed the exhumation - gathered at the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen in in San Lorenzo del Escorial, near Madrid, around 11am as his remains were exhumed.
They then helped to carry his coffin - covered in brown silk and draped with a flag bearing the standard of Francisco Franco - to a waiting hearse.
From there it was transported to a helicopter, which then flew the body to Mingorrubio where it was be reburied in a family plot alongside his wife.
Around 500 Franco supporters gathered in Mingorrubio, throwing one-armed fascist salutes, chanting 'Viva Franco', and waving Francoist national flags while some wore military regalia. 
Exhumed: Relatives of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco carry his coffin out of the basilica at the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid today as a long-awaited mission to relocate his remains finally got underway today
Exhumed: Relatives of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco carry his coffin out of the basilica at the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid today as a long-awaited mission to relocate his remains finally got underway today
The coffin was covered in brown silk and draped with a flag bearing the Standard of Francisco Franco as it was carried to a waiting hearse, and then on to a helicopter
The coffin was covered in brown silk and draped with a flag bearing the Standard of Francisco Franco as it was carried to a waiting hearse, and then on to a helicopter 
Protest: Franco supporters make a far-right salute outside the Mingorrubio cemetery, where the former dictator is being reburied at a family vault 32 miles from the Valley of the Fallen
Protest: Franco supporters make a far-right salute outside the Mingorrubio cemetery, where the former dictator is being reburied at a family vault 32 miles from the Valley of the Fallen 
A mean wearing aviator sunglasses in echoes of Franco gives a fascist salute at the entrance to the Mingorrubio cemetery where the former dictator's remains will be reburied
A mean wearing aviator sunglasses in echoes of Franco gives a fascist salute at the entrance to the Mingorrubio cemetery where the former dictator's remains will be reburied
Some 500 people gathered to protest in support of Franco, chanting his name, waving Francoist national flags and giving one-armed fascist salutes
Some 500 people gathered to protest in support of Franco, chanting his name, waving Francoist national flags and giving one-armed fascist salutes
A supporter of Francisco Franco gestures as people gather near Mingorrubio cemetery before his exhumation on Thursday
A supporter of Francisco Franco gestures as people gather near Mingorrubio cemetery before his exhumation on Thursday
A man holding a flag that reads 'thank you Franco' appears to give a fascist salute in Mingorrubio, where the dictator's remains are due to be reburied
A man holding a flag that reads 'thank you Franco' appears to give a fascist salute in Mingorrubio, where the dictator's remains are due to be reburied
A man waving a flag bearing the symbol of the FET-JONS party, the only legal party under Franco's regime. The symbol of yoked arrows dates back to the Catholic monarchy of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, and was adopted by the fascists
A man waving a flag bearing the symbol of the FET-JONS party, the only legal party under Franco's regime. The symbol of yoked arrows dates back to the Catholic monarchy of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, and was adopted by the fascists
Supporters carry memorabilia of the late General Franco as people gather at the location his exhumed body will be moved to
Supporters carry memorabilia of the late General Franco as people gather at the location his exhumed body will be moved to
Supporters carry memorabilia of the late General Franco in Mingorrubio as they wait for his body to arrive at the site 
Pro-Franco supporters wrapped in Spanish pre-constitutional flags gather at the entrance of the Mingorrubio cemetery at El Pardo, north of Madrid
Pro-Franco supporters wrapped in Spanish pre-constitutional flags gather at the entrance of the Mingorrubio cemetery at El Pardo, north of Madrid 
Prince Juan Carlos of Spain (left) with dictator General Francisco Franco (right)  in 1975, shortly before the dictator's death
Prince Juan Carlos of Spain (left) with dictator General Francisco Franco (right)  in 1975, shortly before the dictator's death
They shouted insults against interim Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who made relocating the remains a priority when he took government, as the helicopter carrying Franco arrived.
Macarena Martinez Bordiu, a distant relative of the dictator, said she felt 'outraged' with what was happening and accused the government of 'desecrating a tomb.'
Franco, who died in 1975, ruled Spain with an iron fist after his Nationalists won the bloody civil war of 1936-39 which he started. 
His authoritarian rule left Spain largely isolated from Europe and many saw the monument as an affront to the hundreds of thousands of people who died during the war. 
Current Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez has made the exhumation a priority since coming to power in June 2018, saying Spain should not continue to 'glorify' the former dictator.  
'It is a great victory for dignity, memory, justice and reparation - and thus for Spanish democracy,' Sanchez said of the historic moment. 
He said in a televised address that the exhumation was a step towards reconciliation, adding: 'Modern Spain is the product of forgiveness, but it can't be the product of forgetfulness.'
Around 500,000 people were killed in the 1936-1939 Civil War between Franco's nationalist rebels and left-wing Republicans. Many more were killed in the ensuing four decades of dictatorship resulting from Franco's victory. 
Some Franco supporters wore military regalia including a side cap bearing the insignia of Franco's regime, along with badges and epaulettes featuring fascist insignia
Some Franco supporters wore military regalia including a side cap bearing the insignia of Franco's regime, along with badges and epaulettes featuring fascist insignia
A man holding a pre-constitutional Spanish flag gather outside Mingorrubio's cemetery, on the outskirts of Madrid
A man holding a pre-constitutional Spanish flag gather outside Mingorrubio's cemetery, on the outskirts of Madrid
Supporters of late dictator Francisco Franco gather at the entrance to Mingorrubio cemetery before he was reburied here
Supporters of late dictator Francisco Franco gather at the entrance to Mingorrubio cemetery before he was reburied here
Relocation: Franco's family carry the coffin towards a hearse outside the mausoleum on the outskirts of the Spanish capital today, in a closed-door operation which has divided Spain
Relocation: Franco's family carry the coffin towards a hearse outside the mausoleum on the outskirts of the Spanish capital today, in a closed-door operation which has divided Spain 
Franco's coffin bearing his own personal standard - with the Royal Band of Castile across the centre, separating the Pillars of Hercules, one topped with the imperial crown and the other with the old royal crown, with banners reading 'plus ultra'
Franco's coffin bearing his own personal standard - with the Royal Band of Castile across the centre, separating the Pillars of Hercules, one topped with the imperial crown and the other with the old royal crown, with banners reading 'plus ultra'
Franco's coffin as it appeared on the day of his burial in 1975, draped with the national flag of Francoist Spain
Franco's coffin as it appeared on the day of his burial in 1975, draped with the national flag of Francoist Spain
Franco's body is paraded through the streets of Madrid on the way to the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen, which he had built for himself using prison labour
Franco's body is paraded through the streets of Madrid on the way to the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen, which he had built for himself using prison labour
Historic moment: Franco's grandson (far right, also called Francisco Franco), who has accused the Socialist government of exhuming the late dictator's body as an election ploy, arrives with other relatives this morning
Historic moment: Franco's grandson (far right, also called Francisco Franco), who has accused the Socialist government of exhuming the late dictator's body as an election ploy, arrives with other relatives this morning  
The antagonism between the two sides remained during the transition to democracy in the 1970s, resulting in deep divisions between right and left.
'A public tribute to a dictator was more than an anachronism it was an affront to our democracy,' Sanchez said. 
'Ending it was an obligation for the generations that did not grow up with the trauma of the Civil War and dictatorship.'

Who was Francisco Franco? Spain's former dictator known as 'El Caudillo' who ruled with an iron fist

Former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco (L) speaks from the balcony of Madrid's Royal Palace next to the then Prince Juan Carlos of Spain
Former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco (L) speaks from the balcony of Madrid's Royal Palace next to the then Prince Juan Carlos of Spain
  • Franco ruled Spain between 1939 and 1975, after he and other officers led a military insurrection against the Spanish democratic government in 1936, a move that started a three-year civil war. 
  • A staunch Catholic, he viewed the war and ensuing dictatorship as something of a religious crusade against anarchist, leftist and secular tendencies in Spain. 
  • His authoritarian rule, along with a profoundly conservative Catholic Church, ensured that Spain remained virtually isolated from political, industrial and cultural developments in Europe for nearly four decades.
  • The country returned to democracy three years after his death but his legacy and his place in Spanish political history still sparks rancor and passion.
  • For many years, thousands of people commemorated the anniversary of his Nov. 20, 1975 death in Madrid's central Plaza de Oriente esplanade and at the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum.
  • Although the dictator's popularity has waned immensely, the exhumation has been criticized by Franco's relatives, Spain's three main right-wing parties and some members of the Catholic Church for opening old political wounds.
Franco, who died in 1975, ruled Spain with an iron fist after his Nationalists won the bloody civil war of 1936-39
Franco, who died in 1975, ruled Spain with an iron fist after his Nationalists won the bloody civil war of 1936-39
His critics have accused him of electioneering, with the closed-door operation beginning today just over a fortnight before Spain goes to the polls.   
'I feel a great deal of rage because they have used something as cowardly as digging up a corpse, using a body as propaganda and political publicity to win a handful of votes before an election,' said Franco's eldest grandson last night.
Macarena Martinez Bordiu, a distant relative of the dictator, said she felt 'outraged' with what was happening and accused the government of 'desecrating a tomb.' 
With media banned from the event, only a select few people - Justice Minister Dolores Delgado, a forensics expert, a priest and the 22 relatives - were there to witness the exhumation get under way.
Cameras and mobile phones were banned from the ceremony to stop the exhumation itself being filmed.
A brief prayer was said after the coffin was exhumed, in line with a request from Franco's family. 
The coffin was then carried out of the basilica by eight of the family members and placed into a hearse. 
Fearing disturbances, the government banned a demonstration against the exhumation by Franco supporters at the Mingorrubio cemetery. 
However, some 400 people some waving Franco-era flags and symbols and chanting 'Viva Franco' nonetheless gathered near the cemetery while police looked on. 
'It's intensely symbolic for Spain,' said political scientist Pablo Simon, 'because the (Franco) monument has always been connected to those who miss the old regime.' 
'Exhuming the dictator's body suggests that the Valley of the Fallen's significance could be reclaimed, a normal process within democracies like ours,' Simon said. 
The exhumation has been in the pipeline since 2007 when the then-Socialist government passed a 'historical memory law' which ordered Franco's remains not to be 'exalted' in a public place.  
The law sought to make amends for the estimated 100,000 victims of the war and the Franco era who are buried in unmarked graves, including thousands at the Valley of the Fallen. 
Spain's parliament approved the exhumation in 2017, although the motion was initially ignored by the then-conservative government. 
But Sanchez's Socialists have made it a priority since coming to power in June 2018 and Spain's supreme court approved it last month after dismissing a challenge from Franco's family. 
Initially scheduled for June 2018, the operation was delayed by more than a year due to the string of legal challenges filed by the former leader's descendants. 
The government estimates the move will cost up to 63,000 euros ($70,000). 
An El Mundo poll this month showed 43 per cent of Spaniards favoured the exhumation, while 32.5 per cent opposed it. 
On Monday, government sources said some of the companies involved in the exhumation had received threats.
Ordered by Franco in 1940 to celebrate his 'glorious crusade' against the 'godless' Republicans, construction of the Valley of the Fallen lasted for almost 20 years. 
Thousands of dead Republicans were moved to the monument without their families' consent, while the complex itself was partially built using the forced labour of political prisoners.  
General Secretary of the Prime Minister's office Felix Bolanos (left), Caretaker Justice Minister Dolores Delgado (centre) and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Presidency Antonio Hidalgo Lopez (right) watch the exhumation
General Secretary of the Prime Minister's office Felix Bolanos (left), Caretaker Justice Minister Dolores Delgado (centre) and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Presidency Antonio Hidalgo Lopez (right) watch the exhumation
The coffin of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is carried into a Super Puma helicopter for its transportation to the Mingorrubio El Pardo cemetery
The coffin of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is carried into a Super Puma helicopter for its transportation to the Mingorrubio El Pardo cemetery
A helicopter carrying Franco's body flies over a stone cross which tops the mausoleum where Franco's body was laid to rest, as he is moved to a smaller burial plot
A helicopter carrying Franco's body flies over a stone cross which tops the mausoleum where Franco's body was laid to rest, as he is moved to a smaller burial plot
The latter include 93-year-old retired historian Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz. 'It was time. It was overdue,' he said in an interview on Wednesday.
Franco's grandson, also named Francisco Franco, arrives at the memorial near Madrid today
Franco's grandson, also named Francisco Franco, arrives at the memorial near Madrid today
'We've waited many decades for [Franco] to disappear from this monument, which was the shame of Spain. All the dictators of Franco's ilk have vanished from Europe - Hitler, Mussolini - and were not honoured with such tombs.'  
Since Franco's death in 1975, many have objected to the former dictator being buried alongside the victims of the war he started with an insurrection against the Spanish government in 1936. 
A staunch Catholic, he viewed the war and ensuing dictatorship as something of a religious crusade against anarchist, leftist and secular tendencies in Spain.
Known as 'El Caudillo' (The Leader), his regime left virtually isolated from political, industrial and cultural developments in Europe for nearly four decades. 
However, Franco's admirers saw him as a firm hand who fostered Spain's longest period of peace after centuries of turmoil.  
Far-right party Vox has capitalised on the frustrations of those supporting Franco's legacy, performing better than many expected in national elections in April.  
But, as the next election looms on 10 November, Simon said he believed the left could exploit divisions over the exhumation within the moderate right-wing parties, which abstained from the parliamentary vote on the issue.
'The (conservative) Partido Popular prefers not to discuss (the exhumation) because it could hurt their electoral interests,' he said.
'It could spark a sort of cultural war between the PP and Vox, one of the most disputed and porous frontiers in this election.'     
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Lawyer of the Franco family Luis Felipe Utrera Molina and the Prior of the Valle de los Caidos Basilica Santiago Cantera (left), arrive for the exhumation of Franco's body. Right, Jaime Felipe Martínez-Bordiú, Franco's grandson, carries a wreath with the message 'Your Family'
Overview: People gather on a hillside overlooking the grand mausoleum where Franco was buried until this morning
Overview: People gather on a hillside overlooking the grand mausoleum where Franco was buried until this morning
Preparing for the final journey: Franco's coffin is lifted into the back of a hearse outside the Valley of the Fallen memorial, where many of Franco's Republican opponents are buried in unmarked graves
Preparing for the final journey: Franco's coffin is lifted into the back of a hearse outside the Valley of the Fallen memorial, where many of Franco's Republican opponents are buried in unmarked graves
Jaime Martinez Bordiu (R), grandson of late dictator Francisco Franco, and his partner Marta Fernandez (L) enter the basilica
The coffin is carried outside today
Pictured left: Franco's grandson Jaime Martinez Bordiu and his partner Marta Fernandez enter the basilica; right: the coffin is carried outside today 
Tight security: A police van at the site where only a select few people were allowed in to witness the exhumation and mobile phones and cameras were banned to stop the operation being filmed
Tight security: A police van at the site where only a select few people were allowed in to witness the exhumation and mobile phones and cameras were banned to stop the operation being filmed
Supporters: Some of Franco's admirers hold Spanish flags as they gather near the Minogrrubio cemetery where the former dictator will be reburied in a discreet family vault
Supporters: Some of Franco's admirers hold Spanish flags as they gather near the Minogrrubio cemetery where the former dictator will be reburied in a discreet family vault 

The Valley of the Fallen - Franco's 'Glorious Crusade'

The Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen), the state mausoleum where late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is buried
The Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen), the state mausoleum where late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco is buried
Ordered by Franco in 1940 to celebrate his 'glorious (Catholic) crusade' against the 'godless' Republicans, construction of the Valley of the Fallen lasted for almost 20 years.
Partly built by the forced labour of political prisoners, the site is one of Europe's largest mass graves, housing the remains of over 30,000 dead from both sides of a civil war that was triggered by Franco's rebellion against an elected Republican government.
Most had fought for Franco but the monument also contains the bones of many Republican opponents who were moved there from cemeteries and mass graves across the country without their families being informed.
A 500-feet cross towers over the site which Franco dedicated to 'all the fallen' of the conflict in what he called a gesture of reconciliation.
Since Franco was buried there after his death in 1975, flowers have been placed daily on his tomb.
Franco's descendants have battled to stop the exhumation, or failing that, to have his remains moved to a crypt at the Almudena cathedral in central Madrid where his daughter is buried.
The Francisco Franco Foundation, which defends the dictator's memory, had called for supporters to protest outside the El Pardo cemetery on Thursday, but the demonstration was banned by the local authorities.

NWN: The Spanish 'reds' have been screaming for this for decades. But of course they have a tradition of digging dead bodies up (and murdering people 'en masse' ) but todays controlled mass media will neglect to publish these facts. Dead nuns were dug up and displayed for ridicule right from the earliest part of the 20th Century, up till Franco won the Spanish Civil war in 1939 and brought peace and normality to Spain.



 A number of priests were made Saints by the catholic church by the vatican in recent years, who had been murdered by the socialists/communists that ruled Spain during the 1930's in particular.

Well the 'reds' have moved Franco......................but a real 'fascist' still 'resides' at the Valle De Los Caidos . This man was murdered by those self same 'socialists' on 20th November 1936 in Alicante. He is/was, buried next to General Franco in the Valle De Los Caidos right up near the main altar.

His name ? Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera .
The Spanish Civil War still splits Spain...........and the 'left' are causing tensions in Spain by exhuming Franco. Hopefully in death, these two great patriots of Spain, might cause people to reject international socialism.And their spirit will arise.  Arriba Espana !

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Why no Brexit deal will be sustainable unless it passes Loyalism’s one key test

No Brexit deal can pass Parliament without the support of the DUP, whose votes are turbo charged due to their influence on the ERG. And the DUP know that a Brexit deal would be unsustainable in the absence of loyalist support.
Why no Brexit deal will be sustainable unless it passes Loyalism’s one key test@JamieBrysonCPNI
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The red line that has always been the one unifying core issue within loyalism, and across the wider unionist family, is- as you would expect- the union.
The Combined Loyalist Military Command statement in 1994 was predicated upon one core premise- the union is safe. And those loyalists who supported the Belfast Agreement (I am personally anti-agreement) did so on the basis that it was a settlement. Therefore, all those perceived certainties are unsettled by the potential that Northern Ireland could be annexed off from the rest of the United Kingdom and subsumed into an economic United Ireland.
Post-98 the grassroots unionist/loyalist community became de-politicised because the agreement was sold as a settlement, therefore the core constitutional issue- so far as unionism/loyalism were led to believed- was settled.

Meanwhile nationalism became energised and politicised because the agreement was sold as the start of a process that would allow them to drive towards achieving their one core objective, Irish Unity.
The explosion of the constitutional issue has come at a time when the loyalist community is de-politicised primarily for aforementioned reasons whilst the nationalist community is politicised. This naturally leads to loyalists feeling excluded and dehumanised.

Let us remember that if not for loyalists, there never would have been a Belfast Agreement. I personally wish loyalists had opposed the agreement, but that is largely irrelevant. The point is that loyalism was good enough to be used when it suited, but now the same cheerleaders for the agreement demand that loyalism is excluded and criminalised. Ironically some of these demands for the DUP to ignore loyalists come from Sinn Fein; the same party who are the political wing of the IRA.

It is in this context that pan-nationalism- including the Irish Government- almost without challenge has been allowed to use republican threats to peace as a means of extracting political concessions. Loyalism meanwhile held the line and consistently reaffirmed a commitment to peace. However, there has been a growing restlessness within loyalism for quite some time, largely based upon a gnawing resentment over a one-sided process, a cultural war and a feeling of dehumanisation and exclusion. All of the anger and resentment of the past 20 years is starting to bubble and could easily explode into a perfect storm.

When some of the bubbling resentment came out in comments in the Sunday Times last week there was outraged expressed by the same nationalist politicians who have spent three years using the threat of republican violence to extract concessions on Brexit. It is astonishing that it appears the threat of republican violence to prevent a legitimate land border is fine, but it is an outrage if the threat of loyalist violence is used to try and prevent a sea border? What is the difference?

How about, as a starting point, we all agree that political leverage should never be gained via the threat of violence? That means that loyalism needs to hear from the Irish Government and wider nationalism that they agree that no political concessions should be granted on the basis of any republican threat to border infrastructure and such concerns should not, in any shape or form, factor in the discussions. Failing such a declaration then it is logical that some people may conclude that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. I do not advocate this line of thought, but it is hard to argue against as a logical position judging by the evidence currently before us.

The current proposals, which amount to NI having a hybrid EU-UK customs status at best, and an economic United Ireland at worst, will never be acceptable to the grassroots unionist and loyalist community. There are no technical solutions to square the circle, either we leave as one union, or we do not. And if we do not, then that inevitably leaves us staring into the abyss of another generation of instability within Northern Ireland.

Aside from any organic explosion of loyalist anger and protest, political unionism would be committed to consistently doing everything possible to undermine, frustrate and ultimately demolish the all-Ireland arrangements. The basis for devolved partnership government in Northern Ireland will be gone, and gone for a long time.

The DUP are confident they have the numbers to block any potential deal. Alongside their 10 MPs, the DUP believe they can, as a bare minimum, bring at least 25 members of the ERG along with them. In reality however that number may be much higher.

It is clear therefore that a deal, for all of the reasons outlined, will be neither deliverable or sustainable without unionist support. And the largest unionist party know any deal they did try to deliver would be unsustainable unless it had the support of the loyalist community.

That brings us back to the one key test; do the proposals put forward weaken the union? If the answer is yes, then the message is clear- Ulster says No!
https://unionistvoice.com/news/why-no-brexit-deal-will-be-sustainable-unless-it-passes-loyalisms-one-key-test/

Friday, October 18, 2019

The road rage row that turned a Rochdale street into a battleground as mob set upon teenage tree surgeon... he had his hand severed by axe

The victim, then aged just 18, was one of four workmates set upon on Church Road, Newbold, by a gang of up to 20 men
The victim, then aged just 18, was one of four workmates set upon on Church Road, Newbold, on the afternoon of October 17, 2017 by a gang of up to 20 men
A teenage tree surgeon had his hand chopped off with an axe in an 'appalling' attack carried out by an armed mob sparked by a road rage row in Rochdale, a court heard.
The victim, then aged just 18, was one of four workmates set upon on Church Road, Newbold, on the afternoon of October 17, 2017 by a gang of up to 20 men.
They had been summoned by Habibur Rahman, 27, who called the victims 'white b******s' who were in his 'country', Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
One of the mob, Mohammed Awais Sajid, known as 'Skinny', came armed with an axe.
Others were carrying knives, machetes, a clawhammer and a knuckleduster.
Sajid wielded the axe twice in quick succession, the court heard, first slashing the victim in the chest, shattering ribs and causing a collapsed lung.
Describing the second blow, Tim Storrie, prosecuting, said: "He followed up with a 360 degree spin of his arm, an act which was doubtless employed to enhance the speed and devastation of the attack.
"The blow itself was aimed at the victim’s head.
Habibur Rahman of Milnrow Road, Rochdale was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit violent disorder, section 47 assault and occasioning actual bodily harm
"He was dimly aware at this stage of the weeping of blood down into his waistband.
"He was turning his body, attempting to leave the scene.
"Through good fortune, he said he realised the axe was above him aiming for his head.
Zillur Rahman of Milnrow Road, Rochdale was sentenced to 3 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit violent disorder
"He put his arm up to defend himself and the blade essentially severed his arm at the wrist."
The victim, whom the Manchester Evening News is choosing not to name, staggered away and was airlifted to hospital where he underwent life-saving emergency surgery.
His hand was partially reattached although the victim has required a further five surgeries in the two years since the attack.
He will only ever recover 60 per cent use of his arm and remains physically and mentally scarred by the events, the court heard.
Sajid, of Kings Road, Rochdale, was jailed for 18 years after being found guilty of section 18 wounding.
He was acquitted of attempted murder in an earlier trial.
There were shouts of 'f***ing injustice! and 'police set up' from a man in the public gallery as he was led down to the cells, while a woman fled the court in sobs of tears.
Rahman, the instigator of the shocking street violence of Milnrow Road, Rochdale, was also found guilty of an assault charge after the court heard he used a knuckleduster to punch one of the other tree surgeons in the face, breaking his nose.
He was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
His brother Zillur Rahman, 29, was jailed for three years for conspiracy to commit violent disorder after he admitted making phone calls to summon the gang.
Arsan Ali, 23, was among those he called and who attended the scene.
He was jailed for four years after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit violent disorder.
The air ambulance was called to the scene in Rochdale on October 17, 2017
Judge John Potter said the horrific events began at around 4pm when Habibur Rahman manager of his family's restaurant the Baytree in Blackley, 'took offence' at the driving of an elderly woman on Church Road.
"You shouted abuse at her and two tree surgeons passing by intervened.
"A scuffle took place between Habibur Rahman and one of the tree surgeons."
Rahman then made it clear that he had been 'disrespected' on his 'territory' and decided to enact 'swift retribution', the judge said.
The tree surgeons were tracked to the property they were working on nearby and were quickly confronted by Rahman and a mob that rapidly grew in number.
"Habibur Rahman's first action was to prevent the men from leaving," said prosecutor Mr Storrie.
"As the workforce attempted to pack up their tools to leave the scene, he drove his car, a Vauxhall Zafira across the entry.
"The workmen found they were trapped and could not leave.
"The street where they had been working had become a battleground.
The victim's injury
"And Habibur Rahman and his crew of supporters were beyond any kind of rational discussion."
Speaking from his car, Rahman made chilling threats, saying: “I am not going to let them leave.
"They’re going to get what they deserve. They’re going to get stabbed."
In interview, Rahman claimed he was subjected to racist threats from the four tree surgeons.
But sentencing, Judge Potter said this was a 'pack of lies'.
He said: "The fact that a mob could be mobilised so quickly and so heavily-armed is clear evidence in my judgement that you are each associated with gang activity."
Judge Potter described the violence as Rahman's gang as 'asserting control' over the neighbourhood of Newbold.
Sajid arrived at the scene just as the violence began.
Mr Storrie said he launched a 'devastating attack' on the youngest of the tree surgeon crew that was 'to shape irreversibly the events of the afternoon.'
"Sajid arrived by car, halting to get out and stride towards the confrontation; he had secreted his weapon down the waistband of his trousers; he removed it and, without the slightest hesitation or inquiry, in his first blow, he struck out at the chest wall of [the victim]," said Mr Storrie.
He followed up with the '360 degree swing' which virtually severed the victim's hand off.
Judge Potter said the young man had been acting as 'peacemaker' and was 'completely defenceless' when he was subjected to the 'savage and brutal act'.

"You committed an appalling act of violence," Judge Potter told Sajid, " and took concerted efforts to conceal what you had done."
The court heard the terrifying attack only came to an end when one of the tree surgeons picked up a chainsaw and revved it in an effort to scare them away.
Another victim fled to a nearby care home and managed to call emergency services.
Police in Rochdale launched a major investigation into the disorder under the codename Operation Beehive.
Habibur Rahman and Sajid were among twelve arrested in dawn raids in January last year. Nine others were later released without charge.
Judge Potter said none of the group had showed 'a shred of remorse' throughout proceedings, refusing to give evidence during two trials.
He said the events of October 17, 2017, have had a 'profound effect' on the four tree surgeons, adding: "Each struggles with the memory of the scenes of violence they were subjected to."
Police have not release a picture of  Mohammed Awais Sajid.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/road-rage-row-turned-rochdale-17107382

Monday, October 07, 2019

Jews and Jazz

Jazz history includes numerous contributions from Jewish artists, from Benny Goodman to John Zorn, who have played a major role in the development of the music from its birth in New Orleans to the present day. However, there has been little examination of why so many Jewish musicians gravitated to jazz or how they used the music to explore Jewish identity and experience.
Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity , a new book by Charles Hersch, chair of the Department of Political Science at Cleveland State University, seeks to answer these question and shed light on how jazz music reflected and influenced “Jewishness” in 20 th  Century America.
“I have long had an interest in music and politics as well as a love for jazz music and was struck by the fact that there had been little analysis of why so many Jewish musicians chose to focus on jazz,” Hersch says. “Through this book I hope to provide a better understanding of how Jewish musicians expressed their identities through the music and how that expression transformed as Jewish identity changed through the years.”
Hersch argues that in the 1920s and 1930s, when Jews were seen as foreigners, Jewish jazz musicians fought for a more inclusive America, for themselves and for African Americans. They did this both by creating music that would represent ethnic diversity and by forming interracial bands. As Jews became more accepted in society, during the 1940s, musicians wary of assimilation gravitated to jazz’s outsider status, using the music to identify with African Americans and “re-minoritize.” Finally, beginning in the 1960s and continuing today, some Jewish musicians have combined jazz and Jewish music into a hybrid form that explores and advances their identities as Jews in a multicultural society.
“Jazz music has provided an avenue for an ongoing conversation about race and ethnicity that Jewish musicians have contributed to and gained inspiration from,” Hersch adds. “By better understanding how Jews have used jazz we can gain more knowledge about the evolution of the Jewish experience in America and the ways music can serve as a vehicle for ethnic dialogue.”
About the Author(s)/Editor(s)/Translator(s): 
Charles Hersch is Professor of Political Science at Cleveland State University. He is also the author of Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan and Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans.
 http://readingreligion.org/books/jews-and-jazz

NWN: 'They' openly brag about their actions above. NWN were tempted to do some research after the recent death of lunatic drummer - Ginger Baker. Baker's life existed in a closed group of fellow degenerates   who were either degenerate jazz fans, fellow heroin users and or jewish. Baker was also a lover of Africa and their women apparently.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1284129/Witch-doctors-poison-plots-young-internet-bride--downfall-Britains-greatest-drummer.html 

Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Mass media still have 'blackout' on Armed Forces veterans protests - veterans protesting against prosecutions of elderly Northern Ireland veterans