Is MI6 reading this post?

I just saw an interview with the head of LEAP in the UK - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). This could cover cannabis for recreational use, which is not so much an industrial hemp issue. It struck a chord as I used to know Annie Machon, a former MI5 agent - and her partner David Shayler. They took to the hemp issue but David only seemed to understand the cannabis part, and used to pester Tony Taylor of Tony's Hemp Corner for cannabis tincture. Ultimately I fell out with both of them - somewhat before David said he was the Messiah and was here to save us from 2012 - and before I rather bluntly told Annie Machon to get a job. In the UK, she is looked to by the press for any opinion on intel related matters, though she no 007...however, this article does touch upon an issue that hits home - intel agencies looking at the internet - as recently, I have had a number of them do just that here. And ironically, I am a law abiding citizen! But some of the political issues drew Homeland Security here, in 2008, and also a company called Cyveillance, which Bush owns via Quinetec - a company he got through underhanded means - taking it out of the hands of the UK taxpayer - stripping it, firing 400 employees - and using it as a shield for Cyveillance (which is based in the Virginia/DC area where so many intel agencies are).

Other viewers have included Lockheed Martin. Cyveillance, by the way, was not interested in hemp, but rather in a possible third party candidate for New York's 12th Congressional District (the one of most interest to spooks - it has embassies, the UN, Missions, CFR, etc.) named Wade Emory Johnson. Third party candidates scare both parties here, when the elections came there were tricks played at the polls to keep people from voting third party. Hence that agency taking a look. On other occasions viewers have looked here and then at seemingly unrelated blogs where I do leak to the editors more info about intrigue, especially about GOP complicity in the Jacob Ostreicher case in Bolivia; which would really get a lot of people here arrested if the truth were outed, it already has occasioned mass arrests in Bolivia.

Anyway, this post is not about hemp, which is an issue that generates some snooping on the part of the powers that wanna-continue-to be, but it is an interesting post nonetheless. So enjoy and know Big Brother is watching!

MI5, The War on Drugs, and the Internet
By Bea Xu

Annie Machon is a former intelligence officer for the MI5 who resigned in 1996 with then-partner David Shayler to whistle-blow on the crimes and incompetence of the UK Security Service. Now the director of LEAP Europe (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) and an avid political campaigner, Annie speaks to Beatrice Xu about her experiences, and how they provide an insider’s commentary on the ‘three wars’ that threaten our civil liberties today.
What was it like working for the MI5 and why did you finally decide to resign and blow the whistle?
The most incendiary [department of MI5] in literal terms was working for G branch: International Terrorism. Right from the start, it was a disappointment and a surprise, because during the recruitment process they said that they wanted a new generation of intelligence officers to work against counter-terrorism threats. They could see the writing was on the wall about their usual areas of work: subversion, the political stuff, and espionage, because the Cold War was ending. Shamefully, they knew they were going to get some new work coming in: the investigation of the IRA on the UK mainland had been announced in parliament but the implementation was delayed until October 1992. This meant that they had recruited all these new people but had no jobs to put them in. So we were farmed out to these old sects. That’s partly why the counter-subversion section was kept artificially going long after it was realised there was no threat there: to make sure there were jobs to put the officers in, in order to have the right number of officers when they took on this new stream of work. What we’re talking about here is illegal investigations into UK political activists, extended even when they were deemed not to be a threat to national security, purely to give jobs to the boys! So that was quite an early shock.
What was it like to be ‘on the run’ in Europe immediately after the whistle-blowing?
Intensely stressful. It was very frightening because we had no other options, as we saw it at the time. The only people we could legally take our evidence to about crimes are the heads of agencies we wanted to report for committing the crimes. You can’t go to your MP; you can’t even go to the police under the draconian terms of the Official Secrets Act 1989. David [Shayler] had some experience because he started working life as a journalist, so he had some notion of the concept of what it would mean to blow the whistle. He decided it would be better to go straight to the press and create a bit of a stink. Then, because of the pressure from the media, there would have to be an inquiry into the crimes he was reporting.
How did your MI5 work get you interested in the drug trade?
One of my jobs with MI5 was working in T-branch on the Irish issue, looking at terrorist logistics – which is the import and export, infiltration and exfiltration of weapons and personnel. I was working very closely with customs across the UK and hearing all sorts of horror stories from them. This was the Investigations division of customs, the hardcore undercover section, and they were saying: “Well we can stop one or two shipments [of narcotics], but actually it’s a drop in the ocean”. I was living and working in central London in my twenties in the 1990s; anyone could get whatever they wanted on the streets of London. Then of course, roll on a few years and Shayler gets convicted with the breach of Official Secrets Act and is sent to Belmarsh High Security Prison – even there the prisoners could get whatever drugs they wanted. He said on his first night he was sharing a cell with some man who was chasing the dragon. The whole idea of a drug-free world might be a nice utopia but realistically, it’s not happening. So really it’s a case of how to manage the issue.
You are very much against the “war on drugs”. As the director of LEAP (Europe), you are calling for a repeal of drug prohibition. What is the “tight system of legalised regulation” that you propose in its place?
We’re looking at a system where drug flow and drug consumption has drastically increased over the same time and the price of drugs has usually drastically decreased. The war on drugs is an abject failure. And it’s funding organised crime: Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UNODC at the time of the financial crisis in 2008, went on record and said that the only thing keeping the banks from liquidity was drug money – so that’s how big this trade is. It’s about $500bn a year- and it could be regulated by governments.
How we would go on to regulate it is the interesting question. There are various proposals: Uruguay is considering is legalising cannabis and making sure that the government has control over the growth, production and sale of it – that it is regulated in the same way as tobacco and alcohol, and taxing it as well. This financial argument is becoming stronger now as countries are becoming more broke. Then you have slightly wider models like Portugal or the Czech Republic, who have decriminalised all drugs. Decriminalisation is different from legalisation. Decriminalisation is where the users are not penalised for their use, but the drug trade is still illegal and the organised criminals still have control of the trade – a bit like with the Dutch coffee shop system.
Until we get proper, controlled legalised regulation we won’t know quite how effective the system could be. But prohibition has failed so publicly that any other policy would have been abolished years ago – yet everyone has an emotional investment in [the belief] that drugs are bad. [Drugs] are inanimate things.
But your work on drugs is merely one piece of a triptych: what you call the ‘three wars’ of drugs, terror and the internet. Could you explain where you see these three issues overlap?
It evolved from a belief in the original intentions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 – that has always informed my critique of how the intelligence industries work, how police forces within democracy should work. That took me into looking at digital civil liberties where you get the copyright lobby trying to stamp out what they call ‘piracy on the internet’, even though it’s legal in many European countries and beyond, to protect their profits. And they use the same arguments: “We’ve got to clamp down on the internet, we’ve got to data mine everybody and store every message and look at deep-packet stuff in order to protect against organised crime, terrorists and paedophiles”. They are trying to strip away hard-won basic rights of freedom of expression and privacy from the internet in order to protect us from these greater crimes. This very much overlaps with the war on drugs because in the last 40 years we’ve seen the pressure from the state to take away our basic freedoms in order to investigate organised crime in the drug trade and terrorism. It’s estimated by the Drug Enforcement Administration that at least half of the recognised terrorist groups are funded by the drug-trade, so the overlap between organised crime and terrorism is very strong. In Afghanistan, since our intervention, the west has blown about $6bn on that war. One of the things they said was to eradicate the poppy growth industry, and in fact the acreage has doubled in that time. I think it comes down to basic freedoms, basic human rights and basic dignity.
Since your days on the run, are you continuing to take online security measures?
I don’t think I’m of interest to [the MI5]; they have far more pressing things to investigate, but it’s not just about the state spies. I think any concerned citizen now needs to be aware of all the data-mining that’s done by the Americans (and reports of the Government Communications Headquarters about to start in the UK – if it hasn’t already) and where we don’t have any privacy on the internet. Things like the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) have been used and abused, not just by intelligence agencies but even local councils to snoop on citizens living in their boroughs. Just taking basic precautions on the internet like using PGP to encrypt your emails is a way of ensuring your privacy. You now can’t guarantee that you will have privacy in your communications from your government.
From your research on surveillance and the internet, is there anything you think avid users of social media should be aware of?
I would say that big companies like Facebook and Google are a spy’s wet dream. When I was in the intelligence agencies, if you had a target you thought was of interest or threat to national security, one of the jobs was to profile or investigate them. ‘Investigating’ meant bugging their phones, bugging their flats, following them around, perhaps even sending in an agent to report on them. And by that you found out who they were talking to, who their contacts were and potentially what they were trying to organise – be it political activism […], terrorism or radicalism. Now of course we all do it to ourselves by saying what we’re up to, who we’re talking to and who our friends are on Facebook.
There’s a wonderful talk I saw recently by a man called Professor Eben Moglen at an event called Re:publica (Berlin, 2012).By using all these cunning arguments about copyright, piracy, paedophilia, terrorism, organised crime … big companies and governments are trying to strip away those freedoms to put in place ways that everything can be monitored and information can be removed. So it could be our generation that gives away freedom of thought, because freedom of thought depends on free information and free media.
But the ethos of something like Wikileaks, for example, is that all information should be available and stored. It’s a sort of modern Alexandria library, through which people can realise the levers put on national governments by big corporations, so they can be informed citizens and make the right choice.

LEAP (http://www.leap.cc/) asks for support from students and is currently seeking a student platform from which to speak, represented by two former UK chief constables amongst other spokespersons.

SHINING A LIGHT ON 9/11 TRUTH ON 9/11

Last night was 9/11, and I spent the day with the truthers downtown. We all stayed away from the crazies who want to burn Korans or hate other groups. We got attacked a couple times, the police restrained a young man with a flag who turned on us and also a Fire Department crazy who actually jumped the metal barricades to scuffle with us and the police.

One crazy took a more intellectual approach and had a flier typed up saying that William Rodriguez was in Harlem smoking crack rather than saving lives in the North Tower. Revisionist history appears all the time. People believe what they want to believe...

Met up with DJ Greenarrow and his mate Jazz and from there it went rather well. It was hot, but cool breezes set in and the evening was perfect weather with clear skies; which was perfect for the plan to illuminate the sky with a third beam of light, in recognition of WTC7, which fell at 5:20pm EST on the day....funny, but at 5:00pm on the day, Jane Standley of the BBC stood outside it and read the script too early, telling the world that it had fallen due to weak supports! Foolish woman - it actually had very strong supports as it was built to be changed to accamodate clients who wanted tall ceiling or atriums.

Architect Richard Gage, who heads up a group of over 1,000 architects and engineers, held a press conference at 2pm outside the new Building 7...as usual, the press in NY wants to hear the lies, and certainly does not want to be reminded that the press had inside information about what was going on that day.

The city shines two beams of light into the sky to commemorate the attacks on this day, but conveniently omits the third...maybe because the general public would start asking questions about why the press knew that this building, which was not hit by a plane, fell, and at freefall speed (7 seconds for 47 stories) at that...

Barbara Honegger and Gage decided to set the record straight and rigged up a truck with light at the corner of Worth and W B'way. It went on at 9:11 pm EST, just at the others did...passersby stopped and questioned, and were surprised to even hear there had been a third building to fall...except for one astute child, who answered the gaping adults with the facts about Building 7.

A few blocks north on Walker Street there was a conference with the likes of Wayne Madsen in attendance; Cynthia McKinney was to speak, and I had a nice chat with her before she went on...also saw, walking just outside MI5 bar of all places, Annie Machon, the former desk clerk at MI5 who joined forces with David Shayler and Belinda McKenzie...Shayler is going around now wearing a diaper, calling himself Dolores and claiming to be the Messiah. Nice stunt, quite likely an idea proposed by the intel agencies bent on destroying the movement; it is now on record that White House propaganda minister Cass Sunstein had them infiltrated with Obama's permission...

But the truth shines on...whether as a beam in the sky in NY, or just as the truth. Government agencies, lazy journalists and crazies like Shayler and his crew will not make it go away. 9/11 was an inside job, as was the anthrax, 3/11, and 7/7.

BELOW IS THE PRESS RELEASE ABOUT THE THIRD LIGHT:

1,280 Architects and Engineers Launch

Third Light Beam into NYC Night Skyline

on 9th Anniversary of September 11th

Represents WTC Bldg 7’s still-officially-unexplained

free fall collapse and explosive implications

NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 11 – At 9:11 p.m. on the 9th anniversary of the September attacks, the members of the 1,280-strong Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) lit up the skies over Manhattan with a towering 2-billion-candlepower beam of light to raise public awareness that three, not just two, World Trade Center high-rise buildings collapsed symmetrically at near free-fall acceleration on 9/11, though only two were hit by planes. Three Beams image at www.ae911truth.org, main page upper left.

‘Why is there a Third Beam in my skyline?” New Yorkers are asking themselves tonight.

AE911Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA, answered that question earlier in the day at a 2:00 press conference in front of the entrance to the now-rebuilt WTC 7 where he was joined by 9/11 victims’ family members, members of NYC CAN (New York City Coalition for Accountability Now) and an audience of hundreds of concerned citizens from NYC and across the country.

“The people of New York need to see the light that a third WTC skyscraper not hit by any plane was destroyed on Sept. 11th and that they have been deceived about what happened on that

terrible day,” he said. “Tonight we are shining the spotlight, literally, on the fact that the official story of what happened at Ground Zero simply cannot be true and that a new, truly independent investigation is needed. This new investigation is needed both as a matter of national security and as the key to real justice for the victims of the Twin Towers.”

“So look into the NYC evening skyline tonight at 9:11 and ask yourself this question: “What can I do to shine a light of truth and justice for the family members and first responders?”

Gage is in NYC Sept. 11 and 12 to speak at a live-streamed symposium on “How the World Changed After 9/11.” This event at INN World Report, 56 Walker Street, Lower Manhattan, features national and international leaders of the 9/11 Truth and accountability movement.

“Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth are here to give any and all press and media all the technical support you need in order to break this story of the crime of the century,” Gage said. “The real story is not about the Islamic Cultural Center, which is a red herring fed to the media to keep New Yorkers emotionally occupied while the crime of the century -- the explosive demolition of three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 -- goes almost completely unquestioned.”

“Building 7 is a smoking gun of the WTC crime scene. We hope that after tonight, New Yorkers will realize this and see what happened here on September 11th in a whole new light.”

Contact Richard Gage, AIA, AE 410 499-5403 rgage@ae911truth.org Formatted: Font: (Default)Georgia, 18 pt, Complex ScriptFont: ArialFormatted: Font: (Default)Georgia, 18 pt, Complex ScriptFont: ArialManny Badillo, NYCCAN 917 805-8080 mrbadillo@yahoo.com INN Symposium (206) 338-0319 www.liveonlocation.tv/

SPIES, LIES AND CANNABIS

Image left is of two who do not seem to know when to take an exit. They demand much more than their 15 minutes of fame; former MI5 desk clerks Annie Machon and David Shayler. These two came along to the 9/11 Truth Movement and, with the help of Belinda Mackenzie, pushed their way to the front. Many regretted their involvement, as they seemed to go out of their way to make it all look like a circus. At one point, Shayler even pushed an eyewitness aside and started to promote his own absurd views during a viewing of "9/11 Eyewitness" in East London.

The press loved it, they could use them to bash the 9/11 movement. There was nay a word about the real evidence or the likes of William Rodriguez, who spoke time and time again around the world, but was shunned by journalists as they spent their time feting Shayler and giving him abundant space.

Now much the same is happening with hemp. Shayler, sitting on a squat in a dress and calling himself both the Messiah and Dolores Kane, a transvestite persona he has taken on lately, had decided to mention hemp quite often. Much as we talked about hemp, he never took the trouble to wear it or even read much about it. His transvestite garb is most likely cotton. His whole act is a scam, and he is not only squatting houses, but squatting the hemp movement. If only we could get a court order to evict him, or he would just shut up...

But sadly the press, which cannot be bothered to get the story on hemp, will use him as a reference and cast discredit on a very real issue.

MI5 AND THE HEMP MOVEMENT

Years ago former MI5 officers Annie Machon and David Shayler poked their nose in the hemp movement, after poking their noses in the peace movement and, after becoming persone non grate there, poking their noses into the 9/11 Truth Movement. Sad to say they still haunt the latter on occasion; the anarchists in London have been writing lengthy articles to the effect that both are still active MI5 employess pretending to be whistleblowers so they can get inside lefty groups. Whatever the sordid truth, they were unwelcome in many quarters for very good reasons. In the hemp world, they went around to Tony's Hemp Corner, aka Tony's Holistic Centre at King's Cross and pestered the staff into giving David some cannabis tincture - £40 a bottle. One wondered where they got they dosh as neither of them seemed to do any work. Soon after I got sick of them too and told David off in the middle of his rant at the Indian YMCA in Fitzrovia; and soon after that, he decided that he was the Messiah. £40 worth of cannabis tincture may have played some part in that decision, but some, and perhaps the likes of Larry O'Hara in the anarchist camp, thought his delusional behaviour might have been only a ruse to discredit the 9/11 Truth Movement, which was foolish enough to put him forward at just about every meeting. Good job I distanced him from hemp, or he might be wearing some hemp as he parades pretending to be the Messiah or whatever - he has made multiple claims about his reincarnation and divinity. We really do not need such nutters. They seem to be a dime-a-dozen here now, what with the posh protesters led by Tamsin Omond, running around grabbing attention. Journalists love it, they do not have to spend time doing real research if they have a village full of idiots to report on. Useful idiots that is, as they deflect attention from real causes or infiltrate worthwhile movements to make them look stupid; send in the clowns is a mantra in some intel agencies when they need to take an organisation out by 'peaceful' means.

Monday I got an email from this messianic clown, in which he stated that he had used his authority as the Messiah to suspend the courts here in the UK. Rather unceremoniously, security twisted his arms behind his back and frogmarched out with an order not to return. His disciples, he told us, now have orders to disobey the law here. However many they may be, and some did not need an order from nutcase to do so. At the bottom of his email was an Amsterdam address, which confirmed information I had received about his whereabouts - it is said he is living it up at a posh pad in Amsterdam and actually has a following. Not surprising; Holland has a political party for paedophiles. In addition, a Londoner named Belinda Mackenzie, who was involved in a dodgy charity (£5m of its funds were illegally put into a personal account and the records of its revenues were burned before the police could investigate) has been known to help him out. Annie has been known to spend time in that part of the world with the 9/11 Truth Movement.

At least none of them are in the hemp movement. However, we would do well to prune out a few clowns of our own, from arrogant dope heads to know-it-all trendy types. Too often the press uses these figures as an excuse to ridicule the hemp movement, just as they use them to ridicule the 9/11 Truth Movement. I will not name names, but suffice to say we know who they are and it may be well to do unto them what the Court of Justice in London did to Shayler.

RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

These last two days have been full of action, ever since I poured out my pitcher of water and went thirsty at the brewery to make the point that cotton cultivation is a danger to Homo sapiens.

I did get a call from a female of the species who was not happy with one of my statements, and after hearing her out, I decided she did have a fair point and ammended the previous post. Lucy Siegle of the Observer was the caller, and we ended up having quite an amicable conversation after she made her initial request. It turns out she is quite on board with a number of my points, and has herself taken Katherine Hamnett and the greenwash brigade to task. She wanted to make it clear that she was not some happy clappy hippy going along with all the eco fig leaves, and I was glad to hear that. I await the publication of her next book, and of course, I expect there will be lots about hemp in it - after all Siegle hangs out with natural born hempster Woody Harrelson.

There was an irony in my being willing to listen to anyone from the Observer, as this is the paper that printed allegations about a friend of mine, Dr. Nick Kollerstrom. Their very own Nick Cohen reported that Kollerstrom was preaching Nazi doctrine and harrassing people. Whilst some of Dr. Kollerstrom's views might not be welcome in Orthodox circles, he is no Nazi, in fact, he is the quintessential peacenik, eats Challah bread in his home, and has Jewish friends - one of whom started a blog (click here to see) to defend Kollerstrom, even if the author does not agree with all of his conclusions. Whilst the Jewish Chronicle did go to the trouble to call Kollerstrom and talk to him and find out that a lot of the noise on the net was false, the Observer made no such effort. Instead, it took the word of some bloggers who do not even use their real names! What a load of nonsense. Further, it refused him right of reply. One might think that the Observer has the budget to check their stories and make a local phone call once in a while.

They do when they feel themselves misrepresented, and fair enough if there is some question about any statements I make, I am not using an assumed name like the Rachel 'Norths' and Johnny 'Voids'. I am easy to contact, just ask MI5...for which I am not working, but would like to work if they pay lots of money and let me spend all my time with beautiful women sipping martinis and saving the world every episode from over the top nutters most of whom are trust fund babies on crack.

Speaking of beautiful women, which I am in very much in search of, one poster on Sunday took such issue with my speech at the Black Eagle that she insinuated I was a misogynist; big mistake, I like women! There is a certain crowd that will label you a Nazi, a misogynist, or anything else that comes to mind when they do not have a real argument against you, or need to submit some rubbish to an editor to make deadline...it's called 'churnalism', as Nick Davies points out in Flat Earth News.

The poster, Janet from another planet, decided to tell us she worked for a hemp company that got lots of good liberal press, but then left a link to a cotton company. She also did not give a surname and could not be contacted. Funny, I've never heard of a Janet in the hemp industry. I would like to know more about this person, but I doubt we end up saving the world together at the end of a two hour adventure in which I get to wear black tie even while jumping out of aeroplanes.

So I am off to do other things now, like writing to MI5 to suggest that Bond wear hemp, and tell them the bad guys this time are some eco warriors who are in reality trustiferians gone bad. Their plan is to destroy the world by growing palm oil, soya, jatropha and cotton because they are not getting enough attention from Mummy and Daddy who are telling them to take a bath and get a real job. Bond will get no quantum of solace from this lot I assure you.