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Monthly Archives: December 2021
On This Day — Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrates over Lockerbie (December 21 1988)
“Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986) turned out to be a more decisive blow against Libyan-sponsored terrorism than I could ever have imagined. There were revenge killings of British hostages organized by Libya, which I bitterly regretted. But the much-vaunted Libyan … Continue reading
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The August 4 2020 Beirut Explosion — Debunking the FBI Conspiracy Theory [UPDATE : Malice or Stupidity?]
“The amount of ammonium nitrate that blew up at Beirut port last year was one fifth of the shipment unloaded there in 2013, the FBI concluded after the blast, adding to suspicions that much of the cargo had gone missing.” … Continue reading
On This Day — Did the CIA Kill Father Louis Thomas Merton? (December 10 1968) [New Book: Thomas Merton’s Betrayers]
“The very thoughts of a person like me are crimes against the state. All I have to do is think, and immediately I become guilty.” Father Louis Merton — A Signed Confession of Crimes against the State December 10 2021 — … Continue reading
Two Years Ago — GCHQ boss reveals real reason behind his resignation (February 25 2019) [UPDATE : Watchdog misled over reason for resignation]
“After Father Edmund Higgins pleaded guilty to child sexual imagery offences in 2013, we submitted a character reference on our knowledge of him to the court in good faith. His subsequent criminal actions appalled us and have shown that our … Continue reading
Introducing ‘Random Thoughts’ [December 2021]
“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) December 17 2021 — Dear Friends, Today (as a result of what is going … Continue reading
Four Years Ago — US Spies & the Havana Syndrome : Are health effects caused by pulsed microwaves?
“This happened during the Cold War to personnel stationed in the US embassy in Moscow when the Soviets were bombarding the embassy with microwaves to monitor oral communications in the ambassador’s office.” Dr Joel Moskowitz — Community health professor at … Continue reading
60 Years Ago — Adolf Eichmann Sentenced to Death by Hanging (December 15 1961)
“Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel under the terms of the law for the trial of Nazis and their collaborators.” Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion (May 23, 1960) December … Continue reading
Havana Syndrome — Conspiracy Theorists, Truth Deniers, Scientists and Spies
“It is the role of intelligence to identify and characterize threats to the nation and to sift what is likely true from what is probably false. But the public has gotten very little useful or meaningful information from our intelligence … Continue reading
One Year Ago — John Le Carré Dies Aged 89 — [“And how would I like to be remembered?”]
“Reading and thinking about Palme makes you wonder who you are. And who you might have been, but weren’t. And where your moral courage went when it was needed. You ask yourself what power drove him – golden boy, aristocratic … Continue reading
On This Day — Remembering Arrow Air Flight 1285 (December 12 1985) [UPDATE : What does the CVR say?]
“Hours after the crash the Islamic Jihad – a Shiite Muslim extremist group – claimed it destroyed the plane to prove [its] ability to strike at the Americans anywhere.” UPI — Anonymous caller to a French news agency in Beirut … Continue reading