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Agent Fescado
12/31/2004 4:45 PM
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[BRKNG] About Diego Garcia
I just saw Colin Powell answer this question about Diego Garcia on Cnn. He was asked what happened there. His answer was, "I have no information about Diego Garcia"..........his eyes rolled somewhat, and he had a painful expression.
The camera panned off his face immediately, and onto the head of the U.N.
Could it be possible that he has no info about D.G. That is unbelievable in my view.
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mejonz
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Perhaps it got scoured, after all. Perhaps Powell is giving us the old "plausable deniability" routine. He has no report because he is purposely ´out of the loop´ or he told DoD offices responsible to recuse himself from reporting on the matter by keeping him uninformed. Curiouser and curiouser.
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RedDawn
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Intersting Info about Diego Garcia:
[link to www.lewrockwell.com]
Paradise Cleansed
by John Pilger
by John Pilger
There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments lie. To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history´s trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.
The story of Diego Garcia is shocking, almost incredible. A British colony lying midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean, the island is one of 64 unique coral islands that form the Chagos Archipelago, a phenomenon of natural beauty, and once of peace. Newsreaders refer to it in passing: "American B-52 and Stealth bombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to bomb Iraq (or Afghanistan)." It is the word "uninhabited" that turns the key on the horror of what was done there. In the 1970s, the Ministry of Defence in London produced this epic lie: "There is nothing in our files about a population and an evacuation."
Diego Garcia was first settled in the late 18th century. At least 2,000 people lived there: a gentle creole nation with thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a prison, a railway, docks, a copra plantation. Watching a film shot by missionaries in the 1960s, I can understand why every Chagos islander I have met calls it paradise; there is a grainy sequence where the islanders´ beloved dogs are swimming in the sheltered, palm-fringed lagoon, catching fish.
All this began to end when an American rear-admiral stepped ashore in 1961 and Diego Garcia was marked as the site of what is today one of the biggest American bases in the world. There are now more than 2,000 troops, anchorage for 30 warships, a nuclear dump, a satellite spy station, shopping malls, bars and a golf course. "Camp Justice" the Americans call it.
During the 1960s, in high secrecy, the Labour government of Harold Wilson conspired with two American administrations to "sweep" and "sanitise" the islands: the words used in American documents. Files found in the National Archives in Washington and the Public Record Office in London provide an astonishing narrative of official lying all too familiar to those who have chronicled the lies over Iraq.
To get rid of the population, the Foreign Office invented the fiction that the islanders were merely transient contract workers who could be "returned" to Mauritius, 1,000 miles away. In fact, many islanders traced their ancestry back five generations, as their cemeteries bore witness. The aim, wrote a Foreign Office official in January 1966, "is to convert all the existing residents ... into short-term, temporary residents."
What the files also reveal is an imperious attitude of brutality. In August 1966, Sir Paul Gore-Booth, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, wrote: "We must surely be very tough about this. The object of the exercise was to get some rocks that will remain ours. There will be no indigenous population except seagulls." At the end of this is a handwritten note by DH Greenhill, later Baron Greenhill: "Along with the Birds go some Tarzans or Men Fridays ..." Under the heading, "Maintaining the fiction", another official urges his colleagues to reclassify the islanders as "a floating population" and to "make up the rules as we go along".
There is not a word of concern for their victims. Only one official appeared to worry about being caught, writing that it was "fairly unsatisfactory" that "we propose to certify the people, more or less fraudulently, as belonging somewhere else". The documents leave no doubt that the cover-up was approved by the prime minister and at least three cabinet ministers.
At first, the islanders were tricked and intimidated into leaving; those who had gone to Mauritius for urgent medical treatment were prevented from returning. As the Americans began to arrive and build the base, Sir Bruce Greatbatch, the governor of the Seychelles, who had been put in charge of the "sanitising", ordered all the pet dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. Almost 1,000 pets were rounded up and gassed, using the exhaust fumes from American military vehicles. "They put the dogs in a furnace where the people worked," says Lizette Tallatte, now in her 60s," ... and when their dogs were taken away in front of them, our children screamed and cried."
The islanders took this as a warning; and the remaining population were loaded on to ships, allowed to take only one suitcase. They left behind their homes and furniture, and their lives. On one journey in rough seas, the copra company´s horses occupied the deck, while women and children were forced to sleep on a cargo of bird fertiliser. Arriving in the Seychelles, they were marched up the hill to a prison where they were held until they were transported to Mauritius. There, they were dumped on the docks.
In the first months of their exile, as they fought to survive, suicides and child deaths were common. Lizette lost two children. "The doctor said he cannot treat sadness," she recalls. Rita Bancoult, now 79, lost two daughters and a son; she told me that when her husband was told the family could never return home, he suffered a stroke and died. Unemployment, drugs and prostitution, all of which had been alien to their society, ravaged them. Only after more than a decade did they receive any compensation from the British government: less than £3,000 each, which did not cover their debts.
The behaviour of the Blair government is, in many respects, the worst. In 2000, the islanders won a historic victory in the high court, which ruled their expulsion illegal. Within hours of the judgment, the Foreign Office announced that it would not be possible for them to return to Diego Garcia because of a "treaty" with Washington – in truth, a deal concealed from parliament and the US Congress. As for the other islands in the group, a "feasibility study" would determine whether these could be resettled. This has been described by Professor David Stoddart, a world authority on the Chagos, as "worthless" and "an elaborate charade". The "study" consulted not a single islander; it found that the islands were "sinking", which was news to the Americans who are building more and more base facilities; the US navy describes the living conditions as so outstanding that they are "unbelievable".
In 2003, in a now notorious follow-up high court case, the islanders were denied compensation, with government counsel allowed by the judge to attack and humiliate them in the witness box, and with Justice Ousley referring to "we" as if the court and the Foreign Office were on the same side. Last June, the government invoked the archaic royal prerogative in order to crush the 2000 judgment. A decree was issued that the islanders were banned forever from returning home. These were the same totalitarian powers used to expel them in secret 40 years ago; Blair used them to authorise his illegal attack on Iraq.
Led by a remarkable man, Olivier Bancoult, an electrician, and supported by a tenacious and valiant London lawyer, Richard Gifford, the islanders are going to the European court of human rights, and perhaps beyond. Article 7 of the statute of the international criminal court describes the "deportation or forcible transfer of population ... by expulsion or other coercive acts" as a crime against humanity. As Bush´s bombers take off from their paradise, the Chagos islanders, says Bancoult, "will not let this great crime stand. The world is changing; we will win."
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
So now greedy little nazi fucktard Bush wants the rest of Paradise. |
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QuantumHost
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Dr. Paul Proteous
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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The heavily vegetated island has an area of 6,720 acres. The average elevation is four feet above sea level. The maximum elevation is 22 feet. This island is horseshoe shaped with a perimeter of approximately 40 miles.
[link to www.dg.navy.mil]
The result of the earthquake was seen as a tidal surge estimated at six feet.
[link to www.dg.navy.mil]
Lets see average elevation four feet, tidal surge six feet...and no effect?
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
Thanks Red. This article makes it more curiouser still. When the question was asked at the news conference I bet a State Department or DoD lawyer cringed and aged 1 month in those few seconds.
I have never trusted Powell, his whole career in the US Army and in the US government has been characterized as one who is a ´containment´ specialist. Something we do not need in the 21st Century. |
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QuantumHost
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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They prepared.
They knew.
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RedDawn
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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QH you are right, they prepared, they knew and they did nothing to help anyone.
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QuantumHost
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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If Powell stated what he knew, his career would be over...
We like Colin.
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
ISN´T IT WONDERFUL THAT THE DARKNESS IS GONNA HIT BOTTOM REAL QUICK? |
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AC666
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Powell´s lack of knowledge might be real. He may now be out of the loop as Cony (Bitch-liar) Rice is taking over his job very soon.
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
He´s CFR. So that is doubtful. |
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Agent Fescado
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Thx for the info Red... archiving it... reminds me of the bikinni (sp) islands for our nuclear development. we seem to have a tradition of this kind of behaviour.
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WIO
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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If as my friend said.. it sometimes goes to 0 magetically.. and they lift off shit to the moon.. that means alot comes down from the moon.. and it must be highly ET INHABITED .. by the usual snakes and lizards... so POWELL probably knows that too..
ah ho WIOLAWA
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QuantumHost
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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There is a clarity of reality in the eyes of Colin, consider he has announced his departure...
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
Thanks for posting that, Red Dawn. I saw the John Pilger documentary on TV recently, and it made my blood boil! |
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donaldach
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Peace unto those that seek it,
how about calling the iskand for info:
Telephone:
Comm: 011-246-370-2100
DSN: 315-370-2100
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
. |
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Jeff
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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""I have no information about Diego Garcia"..........his eyes rolled somewhat, and he had a painful expression." That is unusual for the usually glib Powell. I didn´t see the press conference. Could he have been annoyed by the ?; tired? If it was a truthful answer, maybe his short-timers attitude was showing?
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
no news? Not positive and not negative? |
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anonomous coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Doesn´t the thought that nothing happened to that particular place is the reason the sec. of state had no info on even enter your thoughts?
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MP
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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It was protected by cassified force fields that most bases now have in opperation all over US bases around the world. Most people know nothing about it. It can stop anything there is as far as I know. Thats all i can say now.
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
This site has been takin over, watch what you say. I was deleted as a member without my knowledge, and my replys were deleted that were not mean spirited in any wat but could be construed as politically controversial/
My advise is eveyone drop membership. post as anonymous if you want and see for yourself.
Pass it on. |
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Interesting
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Fast5 (not longed in)
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Got a link to the transcript it self?
As I don´t but much stock into that TotalBullShit2K site anymore.
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An nonymous
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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Get on board the ships folks, tide´s comin´ in.
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
12/8/2005 10:10 AM | | Re: Diego Garcia response by Colin Powel reported on TB2K | Quote |
if you watch the animation DG takes a direct hit....you know who not to believe so work it out for yourselves |
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WIO
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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MP i know u r correct however shouldnt cities be protected also... homes etc.. and island nations.. near the oceans.. etc.. ? HAARPE is not for the people but those who kill.. and maim and create genocide.. is the problem..
well there are alot others who know how to do this.. and set up shields.. not that hard..
ah ho WIOLAWA
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Fast5 (not longed in)
12/8/2005 10:10 AM
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What, still no direct transcript?
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