MOORE AND BLAIR Thursday, Oct 25 2007

Michael Moore was interviewed on British TV on Wednesday night (ITN – 10.30pm), and advised that Tony Blair was more responsible for the Iraq War than Bush Jr - and I must admit, I tend to agree.
First off, we must remember that Bush is simply a dummy; albeit with very sinister hands stuck up his back. And second, he wouldn’t have dared go to war in complete isolation. Blair broke that isolation, thus allowing war to happen.
Moore went on to say slightly encouraging words about Gordon Brown, and it is here that he lost the plot. Brown was No 2 in Blair’s government from day one. Every decision made was agreed by Brown.
We tend to not realize this because Brown made an art form of the disappearing trick. Just like McCavity, when awkward questions were asked, he was never there. Brown has as much blood on his hands as Blair – and we must always remember that.

© Anthony North, October 2007

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THE MYTHICAL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Wednesday, Jul 25 2007

The building of two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers is about to be announced – perhaps. These super-duper ships were first authorized ten years ago, and should have been in service by 2015.
Sorry, that’s not true. THREE carriers were authorised, so that the UK would still have a fleet even with one in for refit. It was cut to two by saying they should be as simple as possible so that refit would be quick.
The carriers were supposed to be British, fly British planes, and be simple. Then the wrangling began … and the stalling. As I now understand it, they will be a French design with American aircraft … and very, very hi-tech.
It might be American aircraft, for the last I heard is that the planes being designed are too heavy for the carrier. The carriers may even be built … but don’t expect them for a couple of decades.
What is the moral of this story? What the military want, they never get – and they get what they don’t want far later than they wanted what they didn’t want. And why? Because it’s all about the defence INDUSTRY and profit. Military needs come a second best.

© Anthony North, July 2007

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LITTLE MINDS WILL PLAY Tuesday, Jun 5 2007

The usual round of G8 brinkmanship is going hay-wire this time. As the Summit approaches, first Bush tries to deflect the Eco-debate, and now Putin is threatening to target nukes at Europe once more.
This is in response to America’s plans to place anti-missile defences in Europe. And it was obvious that Putin would not like that. But is there any bite behind the bark, or is it just the normal silliness?
Yes and no. Of course it is bark. The possibility of renewed cold hostilities at present is unlikely. But there was a previous time when this kind of move and counter-move called the bluff once too often. That was the cause of the First World War.
Apart from a period of missionary zeal, I don’t really believe Russia ever did intent to export Communism to the west by violence. And I don’t believe Russia has any intentions in this direction today.
But Russia DOES have an intense, and historical, paranoia when it comes to defence. For there are no natural barriers to invasion of Russia. Time after time, it is only the Russian winter that has saved them.
Yes, we must always be prepared to face a possible foe – it is a disgrace that our forces have been reduced to the point that they can no longer deter. But it would help a great deal if both the presidents of the US and Russia kept their actions and their words within reason.

© Anthony North, June 2007

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PARANORMAL SPIES Saturday, Feb 24 2007

It has been revealed that the UK MoD tried to find Osama bin Laden in 2002 using psychics. It will no doubt produce much ridicule but this is, infact, quite normal. Churchill used astrologers during World War Two, though this was to try to second guess Hitler, who also had astrologer advisors.

Dubbed ESPionage, the US military has a large program. Born out of the Remote Viewing experiments at Stanford in the 1970s, the idea was to try to focus the mind on the target and try to psychically gain information. Obviously, successes would not be publicized – I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether this was for secrecy’s sake or a total lack of success. Although the initial Stanford tests did have some successes.

An ex-cop, Pat Price, would sit a room while a team visited a location picked from a number of closed envelopes. Price had to guess where they were. He had some successes, but this could be because he knew the area and it was obvious the selected locations would be memorable.

© Anthony North, Feb 2007

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MEMORIES OF A COLD WAR Friday, Feb 9 2007

Seeing pictures of the National Cold War Exhibition on the news the other day brought a flood of memories to my mind. During the late 1970s and early 80s I was in the RAF, stationed at a number of air defence bases in the UK.

This was the front line of the Cold War. If it had gone ‘hot’ the UK’s air defences were a priority target for the Soviet Union. The British Isles were known as the ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ to the Americans, and were the staging post for reinforcing Europe. Knock out the UK air defence, and this reinforcement would become impossible.

We trained constantly for this possible battle, which would have included air strikes and ground attacks by Soviet sleepers and special forces. Often, whilst people slept in the sleepy villages, we would be on exercise, playing cat and mouse throughout the night, with the occasional mock firefight.

These battles could be very realistic, and the whole thing could become surreal. Sometimes I’d be on the airfield when a scramble would come. The ground would shake as the Phantom fighters took off, their hot flame of reheat scorching the ground. The noise, the vibrations, the speed – you could feel the power of those machines.

Sometimes, in one of the headquarters, cut off from the outside world, mock reports of nuclear attack would come, and you’d think, I’ve been to that city, and you’d get carried away with the possibility that one day it might not be there.

Towards the end of an exercise, we were always affected by mock fallout. So we’d don the NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) suits and do buddy buddy on each other, checking for the slightest opening, that, in the real thing, would kill. We’d sit and work in these things, sweating, becoming claustrophobic, for hours on end whilst we checked our ability to survive the nuclear phase.

And then after hours, sometimes days, of this mock war, we’d actually start to believe it was real. And then we’d go home, back to real life, and the birds would sing much sweeter. We were at peace.

Thankfully we remained so.

© Anthony North, Feb 2007

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