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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Mahatma coat


    as far as deal renegin goes goes in WW2 it was the JApanese who left hitler in the lurch, War was declared on America as a sign of Solidarity with Japan in the hopes that Japan would attack Russia, howeer most comentators at the time would have been aware of their disasterous engagements with Russia inthe early thirties campaigns into china and Manchuria.

    it was yet another example of Hitler not listening to his advisors and hoping that his theory was right, much like the evenin he took a blue crayon and devised the miltipronged unmitigated failure that was 'Barbarosa'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    No. As of yet, no-one else has provided a source. Try adding a link to information.

    America may have publicly declared war on Germany on Dec 11 1941 but they were actively involved in it long before and (if you read you would know) funded Hitlers rise to power.

    No they weren't
    Don't be so naive in thinking they didn't want to go to war, it was planned
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/11/newsid_3532000/3532401.stm
    We also now know that the U.S knew about the pending attack from Japan on pearl harbor but let it happen so as to get involved in the war, it would also give them a perfect opportunity to test their new bomb too.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_debate


    The US knew war with Japan was inevitable, they just didn't expect the audacious strike at Pearl Habor but rather in the Phillipines, which the Japanese attacked on the 8th of December.

    This is is the conspiracy theorist problem fixating on one singular event, and presuming one single motivation, by one side, as the only possible reason for something to happen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭TalkieWalkie


    whatever diogenes, im not bothering with you. you have no argument.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32 Antrim Hotels


    The world needs to get back on track otherwise there will be no future and people will be out of homes and jobs etc


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    whatever diogenes, im not bothering with you. you have no argument.

    You claim that the among other things the Pearl Habour attack was a false flag attack. When it's been pointed out to you the pearl habour attack was an isolated incident you ignore it, you then, you claim that any source that disagrees with your claims is biased and part of the conspiracy, and yet you quote the BBC website. And now you get petulant and strop off.

    Wow you're breaking the mold of reality here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭TalkieWalkie


    Di0genes wrote: »
    No they weren't




    The US knew war with Japan was inevitable, they just didn't expect the audacious strike at Pearl Habor but rather in the Phillipines, which the Japanese attacked on the 8th of December.

    This is is the conspiracy theorist problem fixating on one singular event, and presuming one single motivation, by one side, as the only possible reason for something to happen.

    They didn't expect it ? How come the local newspaper knew about it ?
    Hilo Hawaii tribune November 30 1941
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    http://www.google.ie/images?hl=en&q=hilo%20hawaii%20tribune%20november%2030%201941&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
    Did the local newspaper have better intelligence thn the president ?? No, the president knew about it also. How much proof you need ? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL The truth always come to the surface, but can you handle it ? Nope LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭uncleoswald


    They didn't expect it ? How come the local newspaper knew about it ?

    Did the local newspaper have better intelligence thn the president ?? No, the president knew about it also. How much proof you need ? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL The truth always come to the surface, but can you handle it ? Nope LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL



    Fail:
    http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/articles/2009/12/07/local_news/local01.prt
    Unfortunately, Epperson's Pearl Harbor theory falls apart when you read the article:

    "WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UP) -- Cancellation of leaves in Singapore tonight coincided with a widespread belief that Japan will strike somewhere over the weekend. Unofficial sources said Tokyo was apparently desperate because she feels the Cordell Hull-Saburo Kurusu talks are near collapse and may strike in an effort to 'break encirclement.'"

    Yes, the article referred to a possible Japanese invasion -- of Singapore, Britain's biggest military base in Southeast Asia and an Allied stronghold. Japan did attack, and when Singapore fell 15 months later, it was the largest surrender of British-led soldiers in history.

    What the article did not refer to was an attack on Hawaii -- not even close.

    And the moral of the story is: Research everything, because you can be damned sure the conspiracy sites don't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I think the truth of that is somewhere in the middle. The US knew Japan was going to attack, but didn't know where. It was widely believed that the Philipines would be the target so the commander in Hawaii felt there was no reason to worry (I think he was later court martialed).

    There had been some info that Pearl Harbour would be attacked, but since there were so many possible targets, it wasn't seen as being particularly likely. I read somewhere that the guy who James Bond was based on was the one who gave that info to the US. It said that because he was such a womaniser and seemed unsavoury to the US officials that they assumed he couldn't be trusted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭TalkieWalkie


    Fail:
    http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/articles/2009/12/07/local_news/local01.prt



    And the moral of the story is: Research everything, because you can be damned sure the conspiracy sites don't.

    Any idea why they wouldn't show the actual article ? I have a good idea, it's because they predicted America was the target.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭Pixel8


    I must say, its a waste of time trying to get through to Di0genes, i've tried in the past but he's just so negative towards anything controversial or unorthodox that im not sure why he even bothers reading this stuff at all, wouldn't you prefer to do something with your life that is more positive and actually makes you happy instead of arguing on the CT forum every day of your life for the past few years? I can only come to the conclusion that he must be getting paid to write his drivel.

    If you honestly believe that America did nothing to provoke the Japanese into retaliation than you haven't got a clue. Everything that happens in politics and war is PLANNED! America wanted to join the war coz the loans taken out for the war by America were all owed to the international bankers who financed them so the backers of america stood to make billions of of the war. Almost every american president was corrupt except Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and JFK. The rest of them have all been controlled throughout history by the international bankers, and how do bankers make most money? By financing both sides of every war so no matter who wins, the bankers win. Or through intentional contracting of the money supply to cause recessions and mass buy up of land at cheap prices, foreclosures etc. This is pure and utter fact, and if you can't see the stranglehold that the bankers have on all governments around the world, then you have NOT done enough research...

    If there is 1 documentary you should watch that will make all of this make sense, its The Secret Of Oz, amazing documentary which really opens your eyes to the lies our history books have perpetuated for the last few hundred years at least.

    The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    On 7 December 1941 the greatest disaster in United States history occurred. Truly this was and is, “’A date which will live in infamy.’”(Costello 1), but not for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, rather for the deception and the mis-guidance used by the Government and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a purely artificial chess game Roosevelt sacrificed over 2400 American Seamen’s lives, thanks to his power as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. By over-looking the obvious facts of an attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt was able to control both the political and economic systems of the United States. Most of American society before the Pearl Harbor bombing believed in the idea of isolationism.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt knew this, and knew the only way in which United States countrymen would take arms and fight in Europe’s War was to be an overt action against the United States by a member of the Axis Power. Roosevelt also believed Hitler would not declare war on the United States unless he knew they were beatable. There are numerous accounts of actions by Roosevelt and his top armed forces advisors, which reveal they were not only aware of an attack by Japan, but also they were planning on it, and instigating that attack. On 7 October 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum, head of the Far East desk of the Office of Naval Intelligence, wrote the eight-action memo.

    This memo outlined eight different steps the United States could do that he predicted would lead to an attack by Japan on the United States. The day after this memo was giving to Franklin D. Roosevelt, he began to implement these steps. By the time that Japan finally attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, all eight steps had occurred (Willy 1). The eight steps consisted of two main subject areas; the first being a sign of United States military preparedness and threat of attack, the second being a forceful control on Japans trade and economy. The main subject area of the eight-action memo was the sign of United States military preparedness and threat of attack. McCollum called for the United States to make arrangements with both Britain (Action A) and Holland (Action B), for the use of military facilities and acquisition of supplies in both Singapore and Indonesia.

    He also suggested for the deployment of a division of long-range heavy cruisers (Action D) and two divisions of submarines (Action E) to the Orient. The last key factor McCollum called for was to keep the United States Fleet in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands (Action F). Roosevelt personally took charge of Action’s D and E; these actions were called “pop up” cruises. Roosevelt had this to say about the cruises, “’I just want them to keep popping up here and there and keep the Japs guessing (Stinnett 9).’” With the fleet located around Hawaii and particularly in Pearl Harbor a double-sided sword was created; it allowed for quicker deployment times into South Pacific Water, but more importantly it lacked many fundamental military needs, and was vulnerable due to its geographic location. To understand the true vulnerability of Pearl Harbor one must look at Oahu, the Hawaiian Island that the military base is located. The North part of the island is all mountains, these mountains hinder the vision of military look out points, making an attack from the North virtually a surprise until the sound of fighter planes are over head.

    There were many key military needs that were missing from Pearl Harbor, and they were; a lack of training facilities, lack of large-scale ammunition and fuel supplies, lack of support craft such as tugs and repair ships, and a lack of overhaul facilities such as dry-docking and machine shops. Commander in Chief, United States Fleet - Admiral James O. Richardson, was outraged when he was told by President Roosevelt of his plans on keeping the fleet in Hawaiian Waters. Richardson knew of the problems and vulnerability of Pearl Harbor, the safety of his men and warships was paramount. In a luncheon with Roosevelt, Richardson confronted the President, and by doing so ended his military career. Four months later Richardson was removed as commander-in-chief, and replaced by Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel (Stinnett 11).

    Kimmel by many top Naval personal was looked down upon on, for taking orders from Roosevelt and not considering the immediate dangers he was putting the fleet in. The second part of McCollum’s eight-action memo was a forceful control on Japans trade and economy. He insisted that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for oil (Action G), and a complete embargo of all trade with Japan (Action H), by the United States. This embargo closely represented a similar embargo that was being imposed by the British Empire. McCollum also knew that if Japan controlled the Pacific, it would put a strain on America’s resources for copper, rubber, tin, and other valuable goods. These imports from the Pacific were all essential to America’s Economy, and to protect these trading routes McCollum insisted for all possible aid to be given to the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek (Action C).

    Japan had some control over China due to a military operation, which took over part of the country. Thanks to the control, Japan took and used many raw goods from China that were not in abundance in their own homeland. The government of Chiang Kai-shek was completely against Japan, and with economic support from the United States, they were able to deny certain possessions from Japan. The United States Government and United States Navy by withholding important information about the bombing of Pearl Harbor have done everything they can do to protect the integrity of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the government. True nationalist believe this information is withheld from the general public in order to protect national security, and not to hide a conspiracy that was created by the United States Government some fifty years ago.

    This school of thought asks people and wants them to think, “How in the world could the President of the United States sacrifice over 2400 American seamen’s life’s, horrific amounts of damages to the Fleet, and tremendous amounts of destruction to Army fighter planes?” This group also asks, “In the past fifty years why has there not be one single piece of hard evidence which links Roosevelt to Pearl Harbor, or why has there not been one person who had top security clearance to come out and say something about Roosevelt and his involvement with the bombing?”

    On 5 December 1941 at a Cabinet meeting, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said, “Well, you know Mr. President, we know where the Japanese fleet is?” “Yes, I know, …Well, you tell them what it is Frank,” said Roosevelt (Toland 294). Knox became extremely excited with the ok from Roosevelt, and he went to tell the group of where the Japanese were and where they were headed. Just as Knox was about to speak Roosevelt interrupted saying, “ We haven’t got anything like perfect information as to their apparent destination (Toland 294).” All Navy reports showed the Japanese were in Pacific Water, and were in a direction towards Hawaii and Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt knew this information, but one must wonder why in the world would he not want to tell his cabinet this information, unless he wanted to hide something? On 6 December 1941 at a White House dinner Roosevelt was given the first thirteen parts of a fifteen part decoded Japanese diplomatic declaration of war and said, “This means War (Toland 318).”

    Later that night, Roosevelt along with top advisor Harry Hopkins, Henry Stimson, George Marshall, Secretary of the Navy Knox, with aides John McCrea and Frank Beatty deliberately sat through the night waiting for the Japanese to strike Pear Harbor (Toland 320). Not until the morning of 7 December 1941 at 7:55 Hawaii Time did Japan deliberately and forcefully attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, finally ending disillusioned isolationist ideas of an only European War. United States countrymen immediately ran to recruiting offices after the news of the attack, to join the armed forces and fight against the Japanese and Hitler.

    Beyond a doubt Pearl Harbor was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s back door into the European War. Roosevelt’s decisions and actions were very much so, deliberate and calculated, in order to lead a victorious Allied Powers in World War II. By provoking the Japanese and the foreknowledge of an attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt along with his top advisors and the Federal Government are truly to blame for the lost of American life’s and American property. 7 December 1941 shall be a day in American history, which will be remembered as “a day of deceit.”

    Works Cited

    Costello, John. Days of Infamy. New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Stinnett, Robert B. Day of Deceit. New York: The Free Press, 2000. Toland, John. Infamy. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1982. Willey, Mark. “Pearl Harbor Mother of all Conspiracies.” 13 Mar. 2001. www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html. Works Consulted Larrabee, Eric. Commander in Chief. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Prange, Gordon W. December 7, 1941 The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988. The Roosevelt Years to United States Enters World War II. Videocassette. By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Flimic Achieves, 1995. 75 mins. Thompson, Robert S. A Time For War. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991.
    http://tinyurl.com/5whg3e

    Why did Roosevelt want to enter into World War II? Was it to defeat the tyranny of Hitler? Stalin, who was our partner during the war, was even more vicious and tyrannical than Hitler. Was it to stop the aggression of the Japanese? Before the war, this country did everything it could to give Japan no choice and goad them into waging war.
    Roosevelt was a 33rd degree mason. That is the highest level one can attain in the satanic Masonic order. One of objectives of the lucifer worshipping Masonic order is to establish a one world government. After World War I these people tried, and failed, to start a one world government organization, The League of Nations. Realizing they would need another world war to finally create such an organization, they manipulated world events, started and won World War II, and created the United Nations, the tool for the final phase of one world government.

    http://www.apfn.org/apfn/pearl_harbor.htm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 255 ✭✭Pixel8


    European Central Bank Calls For One World Government To Prevent Another Crisis
    May 03, 2010

    The Jewish President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis. In his prepared printed and spoken remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods to create an international set of standards. It is his belief that through global governance, the resiliency of the global financial system can be assured, noting that ultimately it was governments’ use of taxpayer’s money, equivalent to around 25% of GDP on both sides of the Atlantic, that prevented another catastrophic great depression from occurring. With the backdrop of a U.S. financial regulation bill being stuck in the Senate, he argued three main points in support of creating internationally agreed rules.

    1) First, the principle of subsidiary is essential. No rule should be imposed at a global level or supranational level that cannot be more or equally effectively set at the national or local level.

    2) Second, it’s not easy to create a complex set of rules in a complicated and often obscure field like finance, but that it is absolutely critical if we want to create stable financial markets.

    3) Finally, global rules can be limiting from country-to-country, but that it is imperative now more than ever, because financial innovation has spiraled out of control in a negative way.

    Additionally, he stressed that the financial emergencies created by investment banks and governments creates some contradictory issues.

    “On the one hand it has unleashed a tendency to reengage in financial nationalism if not mercantilism; on the other hand it had contributed to the recognition that a very high degree of interdependencies between economies called for a much higher level of cooperation.”

    In the end, Trichet believes it’s the financial sector’s responsibility to respond to economic challenges.

    “While financial liberalization, deregulation, and innovation all have the potential to make our economies more productive and more resilient, the financial sector must not forget that its purpose is to serve the real economy, not the other way around.”


    http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/european-central-bank-calls-for-one-world-government-to-prevent-another-crisis/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭TalkieWalkie


    There is no more denying it, people need to pull their heads out and take responsibility for their lives now. The cat is out of the bag.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    Pixel8 wrote: »
    European Central Bank Calls For One World Government To Prevent Another Crisis




    http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/european-central-bank-calls-for-one-world-government-to-prevent-another-crisis/
    Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods to create an international set of standards. It is his belief that through global governance, the resiliency of the global financial system can be assured, noting that ultimately it was governments’ use of taxpayer’s money, equivalent to around 25% of GDP on both sides of the Atlantic, that prevented another catastrophic great depression from occurring. With the backdrop of a U.S. financial regulation bill being stuck in the Senate, he argued three main points in support of creating internationally agreed rules.
    1) First, the principle of subsidiary is essential. No rule should be imposed at a global level or supranational level that cannot be more or equally effectively set at the national or local level.
    2) Second, it’s not easy to create a complex set of rules in a complicated and often obscure field like finance, but that it is absolutely critical if we want to create stable financial markets.
    3) Finally, global rules can be limiting from country-to-country, but that it is imperative now more than ever, because financial innovation has spiraled out of control in a negative way.

    He's talking about global financial regulations not a monolithic one world government.


  • Site Banned Posts: 8,331 ✭✭✭Brown Bomber


    Di0genes wrote: »
    He's talking about global financial regulations not a monolithic one world government.

    And wouldn't global financial regulations be an absolute requirement of a monolithic one world government?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭Di0genes


    And wouldn't global financial regulations be an absolute requirement of a monolithic one world government?

    And you can have one without the other. Guess which one?


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  • Site Banned Posts: 8,331 ✭✭✭Brown Bomber


    Here is a conspiracy to fact
    Israel has nuclear weapons

    The-secret-military-agree-006.jpgThe secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, and P W Botha of South Africa. Photograph: Guardian
    Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.
    The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret.


    The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.


    The Israeli authorities tried to stop South Africa's post-apartheid government declassifying the documents at Polakow-Suransky's request and the revelations will be an embarrassment, particularly as this week's nuclear non-proliferation talks in New York focus on the Middle East.


    They will also undermine Israel's attempts to suggest that, if it has nuclear weapons, it is a "responsible" power that would not misuse them, whereas countries such as Iran cannot be trusted.
    A spokeswoman for Peres today said the report was baseless and there were "never any negotiations" between the two countries. She did not comment on the authenticity of the documents.


    South African documents show that the apartheid-era military wanted the missiles as a deterrent and for potential strikes against neighbouring states.


    The documents show both sides met on 31 March 1975. Polakow-Suransky writes in his book published in the US this week, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's secret alliance with apartheid South Africa. At the talks Israeli officials "formally offered to sell South Africa some of the nuclear-capable Jericho missiles in its arsenal".


    Among those attending the meeting was the South African military chief of staff, Lieutenant General RF Armstrong. He immediately drew up a memo in which he laid out the benefits of South Africa obtaining the Jericho missiles but only if they were fitted with nuclear weapons.
    The memo, marked "top secret" and dated the same day as the meeting with the Israelis, has previously been revealed but its context was not fully understood because it was not known to be directly linked to the Israeli offer on the same day and that it was the basis for a direct request to Israel. In it, Armstrong writes: "In considering the merits of a weapon system such as the one being offered, certain assumptions have been made: a) That the missiles will be armed with nuclear warheads manufactured in RSA (Republic of South Africa) or acquired elsewhere."


    But South Africa was years from being able to build atomic weapons. A little more than two months later, on 4 June, Peres and Botha met in Zurich. By then the Jericho project had the codename Chalet.


    The top secret minutes of the meeting record that: "Minister Botha expressed interest in a limited number of units of Chalet subject to the correct payload being available." The document then records: "Minister Peres said the correct payload was available in three sizes. Minister Botha expressed his appreciation and said that he would ask for advice." The "three sizes" are believed to refer to the conventional, chemical and nuclear weapons.


    The use of a euphemism, the "correct payload", reflects Israeli sensitivity over the nuclear issue and would not have been used had it been referring to conventional weapons. It can also only have meant nuclear warheads as Armstrong's memorandum makes clear South Africa was interested in the Jericho missiles solely as a means of delivering nuclear weapons.


    In addition, the only payload the South Africans would have needed to obtain from Israel was nuclear. The South Africans were capable of putting together other warheads.


    Botha did not go ahead with the deal in part because of the cost. In addition, any deal would have to have had final approval by Israel's prime minister and it is uncertain it would have been forthcoming.
    South Africa eventually built its own nuclear bombs, albeit possibly with Israeli assistance. But the collaboration on military technology only grew over the following years. South Africa also provided much of the yellowcake uranium that Israel required to develop its weapons.


    The documents confirm accounts by a former South African naval commander, Dieter Gerhardt – jailed in 1983 for spying for the Soviet Union. After his release with the collapse of apartheid, Gerhardt said there was an agreement between Israel and South Africa called Chalet which involved an offer by the Jewish state to arm eight Jericho missiles with "special warheads". Gerhardt said these were atomic bombs. But until now there has been no documentary evidence of the offer.


    Some weeks before Peres made his offer of nuclear warheads to Botha, the two defence ministers signed a covert agreement governing the military alliance known as Secment. It was so secret that it included a denial of its own existence: "It is hereby expressly agreed that the very existence of this agreement... shall be secret and shall not be disclosed by either party".


    The agreement also said that neither party could unilaterally renounce it.


    The existence of Israel's nuclear weapons programme was revealed by Mordechai Vanunu to the Sunday Times in 1986. He provided photographs taken inside the Dimona nuclear site and gave detailed descriptions of the processes involved in producing part of the nuclear material but provided no written documentation.


    Documents seized by Iranian students from the US embassy in Tehran after the 1979 revolution revealed the Shah expressed an interest to Israel in developing nuclear arms. But the South African documents offer confirmation Israel was in a position to arm Jericho missiles with nuclear warheads.


    Israel pressured the present South African government not to declassify documents obtained by Polakow-Suransky. "The Israeli defence ministry tried to block my access to the Secment agreement on the grounds it was sensitive material, especially the signature and the date," he said. "The South Africans didn't seem to care; they blacked out a few lines and handed it over to me. The ANC government is not so worried about protecting the dirty laundry of the apartheid regime's old allies."
    Source http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons?CMP=AFCYAH



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭BlibBlab


    In light of the Scottish Independence referendum, the McCrone Report. In the 70s, the British Government comissioned a secret study on oil reserves and kept it hidden from the Scots before the devolution referendum. The report showed the true size of the oil reserves which were being downplayed at the time and said Scotland would become one of the richest countries in the world if it got independence, the biggest problem would be having too big a tax surplus. The report was only released a few years ago after a freedom of information request by the SNP


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