WATCH: The death of David Kelly: an open verdict
If David Kelly had died on March 4 this year, and had he been a Russian exile, we can be sure the media would be screaming that Putin murdered him, and the numerous inconsistencies in his alleged “suicide” would be front page news. But when Kelly actually died in 2005, the only country potentially implicated in his death was Britain. And so the UK media were silent .
Theresa May has, on the basis of no published evidence whatsoever, and without any adherence to the bare minimum of due process, declared Russia “culpable” for the alleged Skripal poisoning. The message in the media is that any other potential perpetrator is not even to be considered, even though the alleged toxin used – Novichok – would have been obtainable by other state actors and individuals, and even though other states would appear to have far more motive in creating this international incident at this time. Russian “guilt” is being established a priori by the implicit suggestion that only Russia indulges in political murder.
The Kelly case reminds us that it isn’t only Russians who die mysteriously on British soil. Here is a film by PressTV (banned from the UK as RT may well soon be) looking at some of the anomalies
See also Requiem for the suicided: David Kelly
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Off course all reviews of Wormwood claim it is very boring, so boring, they would wouldn’t they? It really gets to the bottom of a government murder and cover up – it is not boring. From this film you see why they were so keen to make sure Kelly was not exhumed – Olsen was exhumed which is how the malfeasant was proven by one of the US’s top pathologists.
The mystery of Mrs Kelly’s silence and failure to be outraged had been said to be a result of the Blair gang telling her that David Kelly would be made a traitor in the public eye and his/her pension would be revoked, leaving her with no support. Nice.
Wormwood the true story of Frank Olson germ warfare scientist — Killed 1953 by the US government. It parallels the Kelly case but Olson’s son Eric spent his whole life getting to the bottom of the case, lie on lie is peeled away. Olsen got an apology from President Ford and the head of the CIA, William Colby (also mysterious death). What we never find out in the Kelly case Eric Olsen reveals in his father’s case. What is first revealed turns out to be another level of cover up that even Seymour Hersh was duped by. The main reason for the murder appears to be to hide the use of germ warfare in Korea, Frank Olson like Kelly was unhappy with government lies and policy which he seemed ready to reveal. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/wormwood-errol-morris-review-netflix-cia-mkultra/548486/?utm_source=feed “Errol Morris’s Wormwood, which arrived on Netflix and in some movie theaters Friday, is a mind-boggling story… Read more »
A great piece. Classic case of join up the dots, starting with Up Pompeo….
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/analysis-the-factors-that-make-pompeo-russiaphobia-oil-pipelines-water-supply-and-brexit-inseparable/
This post may be more apposite than Admin thought. Kelly had close ties with the top two scientists of the Soviet Biopreparat program: Vladimir Pasechnik and Kamovtjan Alibekov. No mention of Novichok: but the Soviet program was apparently developing bubonic plague to be sprayed at the West from low flying cruise missiles: if you can believe that? I can’t! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pasechnik Vladimir Pasechnik: was not only debriefed by Kelly, he was a close colleague at Porton Down – where Kelly helped him co-found Regma Biotechnologies, which had three year contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax”. Kamovtjan Alibekov: set up Hadron Advanced Biosystems in America. Before his death, Kelly had been discreetly headhunted by two companies. One was Hadron Advanced Biosystems, which also had close ties to the Pentagon. [As claimed by Gordon Thomas: who was interviewing Kelly when he died – see Corbett’s “Requiem”.]… Read more »
Probably go straight to DVD – can’t wait.
Straight to DVD at bargain basement prices.
I don’t think the no-fingerprints-on-the-knife story is true. The ultimate source seems to be a Mirror story from 2007, from where the Guardian, the Mail, and AP picked it up verbatim. It’s not in Baker’s book that I can see. I can’t find any FoIs at all from Goslett. I’ve searched for any successful FoI on the subject three times since I first heard the claim, without success. I can’t see any reference of Baker mentioning it since, and it wasn’t in Hutton – and, get real, it would have been. Now, I’d be delighted to be proven wrong, so if someone could find the actual FoI, post the link here and I’ll eat my words. But the Mirror doesn’t count.
I very much like the David Kelly analogy. Open verdict was a euphemism for – it looks really bad, the spook-assassins screwed up. We have conned Mrs Kelly into believing this a national security crisis and she will keep mum, and we will be knighted for the coverup unless the cover is blown – Or something to that effect. It is essentially impossible to suicide by cutting your ulnar arteries, the pulse of which cannot be felt. Even more discerning is the fact that THERE WAS ALMOST NO BLOOD AT THE SITE. I learned this first hand from a paramedic, first at the scene. Medical groups have been unanimous about the impossibility of the official version. Despite this, the stitched up autopsy said he had bled to death. Open verdict ? Kim Kardashian’s backside! He was surely murdered and the sealing of the record for 75 years by Bliar is… Read more »
Gilligan’s statement that he could see no reason why the UK government would want Kelly dead, “because it would, and did, plunge them into a deep crisis”, is bizarre.
Blair got his war, got re-elected, cashed in on retirement to the tune of 200million squids.
Had to answer a few awkward questions but still gets to write in the national news as ‘veteran statesman’. Not too much of ‘a crisis’ then all things considered.
Kelly was a principled man and he was going to squeal on the fabrication of WMDs., is my guess.
It occurs to me that the entire campaign of Russophobia is a production of British Intelligence (in the institutional sense.) In this I include the long US Election interference nonsense, which, increasingly, seems to have its origins in MI6 agents such as Steele and Miller and obvious contacts such as Downer and the various bit players ‘Professors’ et al featuring in the few contacts Trump’s campaign seems to have had, notionally, with anyone connected with Russia. And then there is the Ex Ambassador who gave McCain a copy of the Steele dossier and vouched for Steele’s probity. All in all everything leads back to London. And today, in Corbyn’s refusal to ban MPs (as if he could) from talking to RT we were reminded of what the Russia/Trump connection was all about: the need to preserve the duopoly model of bi-partisan foreign policy politics. The sad reality is that had… Read more »
I should add that the basis of the Blair New Labour Project was to transform the Labour Party into a clone of the Democrats. Such projects always carry the slight risk that, in the end, the blending of the two institutions might end up with the Democrats becoming like the Bevanites… the horror of McGovernism all over again.
It’s a chilling reminder that nerve agent hysteria and invasions of sovereign countries seem to go hand in hand.
This alleged nerve agent wasn’t even much cop seeing as the victims managed a tour of Salisbury before succumbing !
The poor Syrians should get ready for this nerve agent to be sprayed over a large group of their citizens in the next few weeks by non-Russians, but of course the Assad and Putin will get the blame for it.
Western world will condemn them, boycott the World Cup. NATO will start bombing Syria including Russian positions. Something will also kick off in Ukraine and probably Crimea. Iran too, probably the Israelis.
There’s no way our leaders would go to such overt hysteria against Russia unless they’ve got something really significant in mind against Russia and it allies.
I’d better start stocking up the cellar with supplies and an air filtration system pretty damn quickly.
Not for one moment do I believe this was suicide. Never have, never will.
Reblogged this on Worldtruth and commented:
Driven to suicide or just plain eliminated for convenience?
From Prof Haywards blog, Professors Paul Mckeigue and Piers Robinson confirm the Russian position that this stuff is widely obtainable.
We know the Americans filched whatever they could find from the old Soviet facility it was being developed in. From BBC coverage:….” “A group of American defence experts have arrived in Uzbekistan to start helping the Uzbeks dismantle and decontaminate one of the former Soviet Union’s largest chemical weapons testing facilities. US officials say the chemical research institute in western Uzbekistan was a major research site for a new generation of secret, highly lethal chemical weapons, known as Novichok…..US military scientists and intelligence experts have already visited the nearby island of Vozrozohdeniye in the Aral Sea, which was the Soviet Union’s main open air biological testing site and where hundreds of tons of the deadly anthrax bacteria are believed to have been buried…..” The thing to note is that Russia did not ever use it’s CW’s unlike the US who sprayed civilians and their own military with Agent Orange. The… Read more »
“…unlike the US…”
And the UK:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-the-british-government-subjected-thousands-of-people-to-chemical-and-biological-warfare-trials-10376411.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/may/06/science.research
On December 2nd 1943, SS “John Harvey” was bombed by the Luftwaffe in Bari, Italy. The ship was laden with mustard gas munitions, thus releasing mustard toxins into the atmosphere and into the harbour. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_John_Harvey ). Britain (i.e. Churchill) denied the truth, and thousands of survivors suffered mysterious ailments for the rest of their lives. Hitler, having witnessed the effects of CW in WWI had vowed never to use them in WWII (though the gas chambers were an obvious exception).