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Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden

Anthony Faiola
Washington Post
December 1, 2013

Living in self-imposed exile in Russia, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden may be safely beyond the reach of Western powers. But dismayed by the continued airing of trans­atlantic intelligence, British authorities are taking full aim at a messenger shedding light on his secret files here — the small but mighty Guardian newspaper.

The pressures coming to bear on the Guardian, observers say, are testing the limits of press freedoms in one of the world’s most open societies. Although Britain is famously home to a fierce pack of news media outlets — including the tabloid hounds of old Fleet Street — it also has no enshrined constitutional right to free speech.

The Guardian, in fact, has slipped into the single largest crack in the free speech laws that are on the books here — the dissemination of state secrets protecting queen and country in the British homeland.

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A right royal rip-off - What the Royal Mail privatisation tells us about modern Britain

Neil Clark is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. His award winning blog can be found at www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. Follow him on Twitter

Published time: October 12, 2013 14:52

It’s the wilful destruction of another much-loved British institution. The privatisation of the Royal Mail, the British postal service, brings to an end nearly five hundred years of history- stretching back the days of King Henry VIII. 

By privatising the Royal Mail, our coalition government has shown that it does not care a jot for our national heritage, or the devastating impact the sell-off will have on remote rural communities, or how the elderly and the poor will be disproportionately affected. They have shown us that all they care about is rewarding their wealthy backers in the City of London and keeping in with the giants of global capitalism.

Even Mrs Thatcher, the Prime Minister who started the privatisation process in Britain in 1979 thought that selling the Royal Mail was a step too far. However the current UK government with its fanatical commitment to neo-liberalism is determined to take us to dark, scary places that even the Iron Lady shied away from.

The British public, who know only too well from first-hand experience that privatisation invariably means higher prices and worse services, was overwhelmingly opposed to the sale. An opinion poll in July revealed that 67% were against the privatisation, with 36% ‘strongly’ opposed. Just 4% were ’strongly’ in favour. 96% of Royal Mail employees were against the sale too. Yet despite this overwhelming public opposition, the government arrogantly pushed ahead with its plans, showing once again the contempt with which it regards the views of the majority. Ludicrously the sell-off has been hailed by Prime Minister David Cameron as ‘a piece of popular capitalism’. In fact, it’s a piece of highly unpopular capitalism, in which the public have lost out in a massive way. 

Once again, an asset that we- the British people- owned has been flogged off way below its real value. The fact that shares leapt by as much as 38% on the first day of conditional trading, shows us how much the government undervalued the company. 

For instance, the Royal Mail’s real estate was valued at just £787m-a laughable figure considering that it owns some prime sites in our major cities, including a depot in London estimated to be worth £1bn. The Royal Mail plans to reduce its number of sites from 45 to 37 by 2016, with the profits from property sales going to the new private owners. Meanwhile, as the private investors gorge on the profits, we – the taxpayers – have been left holding Royal Mail pension fund liabilities of around £37.5bn – a clear case of nationalising the losses and privatising the gains.  

The pledge by the Business Secretary Vince Cable that  only ‘responsible, long-term institutional investors’ would be permitted to buy Royal Mail shares is at variance with the news that hedge funds, the vilest manifestation of modern vulture capitalism, have been allowed to invest. It’s been reported that Lansdowne Partners, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, had taken ‘a massive stake’ in Royal Mail.  Lansdowne are not the only giant of global capitalism to benefit, for the lead adviser to the government on the sale was none other than the ’great vampire squid’ itself, Goldman Sachs.  Overall, the government paid £21.7m in fees to ‘advisers’ for advice on selling a company which the owners – the British public – didn’t want sold.

 Whichever way you look at it the sell-off represents a right royal rip-off for the British taxpayer. There’ll be further costs down the line too. On Wednesday, the Royal Mail admitted that more postal workers will lose their jobs following the sell-off. And although the universal service obligation remains, it’s likely that the privatised Royal Mail, whose sole aim will be profit maximisation, will lobby hard for it to be dropped. What are the odds that in a few years time, the taxpayer will be subsiding a privatised Royal Mail to enable it to continue delivering the mail to remote rural areas six days a week? Let’s not forget that Britain’s privatised rail companies have received around four times in taxpayer subsidy than the publicly-owned British Rail did. It’s a neo-liberal myth that privatisation saves the taxpayer money – on the contrary; it invariably costs us far more than keeping the service ‘in house’.

 If Britain was a genuine democracy- as it used to be in the period 1945-79, before the neo-liberals and neo-cons took over, the issue of Royal Mail privatisation would not even have been on the agenda.

 But the very fact it was sold – with such a blatant disregard for public opinion – tells us everything we need to know about the country we have become. Our government doesn’t act in our interests, in the interests of the majority, but in the interests of powerful financial and business elites. It’s these elites who wanted the Royal Mail sold, not the British people. 

The sell-off of this much-loved historic institution is proof that even after the successful democratic people’s uprising which stopped our government taking us into a war against Syria – a war which no one outside elite circles wanted – there is still an awful lot of work to do.

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PARIS/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United States, France and Britain on Monday stepped up pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to stick to a deal under which Syria must give up its chemical weapons, and warned he would suffer consequences if Damascus did not comply.

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The MoD says Britain has deployed six Typhoon jets to Cyprus base near Syria.

Britain has deployed six Typhoon jets to its Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus as the Western rhetoric of war continues against Syria, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) says.

“We can confirm that as part of ongoing contingency planning, 6 RAF Typhoon interceptor fast jets are deploying this morning to Akrotiri in Cyprus,” said an Royal Air Force (RAF) spokesman.

The MoD said the RAF fighters were flying to the Mediterranean on Thursday, ahead of a potential foreign military intervention in Syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.

The MoD also claimed that the deployment of jets was not aimed at conducting a military strike on the Arab country, but served as a “purely precautionary measure.”

The Typhoons flying from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, east England, were reported to have been fitted with advanced short range air-to-air missiles, medium range air-to-air missiles, and a Mauser cannon.

On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.

However, the Syrian government categorically rejected the baseless claim, and announced later that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false flag operation.

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US threatens Britain not to leave EU

Julian Borger
The Guardian
May 27, 2013

The Obama administration has warned British officials that if the UK leaves Europe it will exclude itself from a US-EU trade and investment partnership potentially worth hundreds of billions of pounds a year, and that it was very unlikely that Washington would make a separate deal with Britain.

The warning comes in the wake of David Cameron’s visit to Washington, which was primarily intended as a joint promotion of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with Barack Obama, which the prime minister said could bring £10bn a year to the UK alone, but which was overshadowed by a cabinet rebellion back in London.

The threat by Cameron’s ministers to back a UK exit in a referendum on the EU raised doubts in Washington on whether Britain would still be part of the deal once it had been negotiated. More immediately, Obama administration officials were concerned that the uncertainty over Britain’s future would further complicate what is already a hard sell in Congress, threatening a central pledge in the president’s State of the Union address in February.

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Al-Qaeda terrorism in Britain: Give thanks for the three stooges of Sparkhill

Where Naseer never stopped bragging about his thrilling career, Ali was more subtle. “Oh yah i’m also a terrorist hahahaha,” he added as a jaunty afterthought when filling old school chums in on his activities on Friends Reunited. Doubling down on the deep cover, the group gave an eBay account used for buying bomb components the devilishly encrypted user name “terrorshop” (in Four Lions, Omar rebukes Barry for buying silver nitrate from Amazon). Hard of hearing after a cack-handed DIY attempt to syringe his own ears, Ali is also partially sighted, which may explain his failure to burn more than the edges – a poor omen, this, for the mass incinerations of his dreams – of the bomb-making diagram police found in a bin.

As for the third, “Little” Irfan Khalid has a detached retina, and may also suffer a form of narcolepsy. While he and Naseer were at their terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, they hid beneath a tree from a US drone circling overhead. Big Irfan prayed for a swift death. Little Irfan went to sleep. This was the Irfans’ second crack at camp life. They were expelled from their first when the rigours of training overcame them (one morbidly obese, the other with a serious eye problem; not quite the A-Team, is it?), and were found hiding in a room watching jihadi videos.

By now, the professional conspiracy theorist may be suspecting that this was not in fact a plot conceived by so-called “Nike” terrorists (“Just do it” being the motto such have-a-go antiheroes have borrowed from the footwear firm) but a cunning bluff hatched at al-Qaeda HQ to lull Britain into a lethal sense of misplaced security about the gravity of the domestic threat. Other elements of this bizarre tale reinforce this paranoid delusion.

Of the £14,500 the group raised on the streets of Birmingham to finance their fantasies, by posing as collectors for a Muslim charity, £9,000 was blown in speculation on the international currency markets. An associate, whose tenure as the outfit’s treasurer did not survive the transaction, managed to lose £3,000 in the two minutes it took him to leave his computer and boil the kettle for a nice cup of cha. Chris Morris may be kicking himself for not thinking up that vignette; or the scene in which Khalid yelled “We are the suicide bombers, driving around ready to take on England” at his car passengers in the hysterical tones of the venerable Murray Walker; or their deliberations about whether to renew the car tax disc, before concluding that they need not bother since they would be dead by the time it expired.

The judge described ringleader Naseer as “highly intelligent”, and it is not my place to dispute with the judiciary. Even so, the fact that the only bomb-making component police discovered was a cold pack for sports injuries that lacked the ingredient needed for bombs, ammonium nitrate no longer being used in such products, hints otherwise.

No one can doubt that these crazed buffoons hoped to cause monstrous suffering in accord with an unimaginably warped ideology, and were rightly convicted. Even the Vicky Pryce jury must see that. Yet to read about the Keystone Kops of suicide bombing is to be drawn into that weird, unsettling nexus where grandiose wickedness and comic haplessness meet. Even the “highly intelligent” Naseer’s moral justification for murdering the licentious infidels of Brum – “You think about it, if someone came in your house and started dancing and basically having orgies and smoking drugs and stuff… you would terrorise them, innit?” – sounds more like satire than blood-curdling menace, albeit perhaps less Four Lions than Ali G.

Any temptation to assume that Britain’s good fortune with this enemy within will last is easily resisted, and there are no doubt more competent cells working towards replicating and surpassing the horrors of 7/7. For now, as in 2007 with Glasgow airport bombers foiled by bollards after forgetting to measure the width of their car, you can only give thanks for the abysmal quality of the jihadi farceurs of Sparkhill.

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