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Hoare’s murder let police, Coulson, Cameron, Murdoch off hook

 

Who killed Sean Hoare?

Not me, said the drink, though his liver I did shrink

Not I..said the press, though we made him a mess

Not us said the coppers, though he wanted to shop us

Not me said Murdoch, though he mired me in muck

Not  us said Cameron and Coolson  though that would be fun

It was I, said MI5.. Would I tell a lie!

Who killed Sean Hoare?

               ……………………. apologies for the doggerell

Chief suspect so far  is not Murdoch’s mafia, but MI5, the huge secretive control apparatus dedicated to protecting the criminal British State and ruling class.

from..death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

By Chris Marsden 20 July 2011   The morning after Hoare’s body was found, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and his former deputy, John Yates, were to give evidence before a home affairs select committee. Stephenson had tendered his resignation Sunday and Yates Monday. They were to be quizzed by MPs on their failure to pursue any serious investigation into phone hacking or on the bribing of police officers. This was to be followed by the quizzing of News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch, his son James, chairman of News International, and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks.

The death of Hoare means that his testimony will never be heard by any such inquiry or, more importantly, by any criminal investigation that may arise.

His public statements to date—coming from within News International, News Corp’s UK arm—are highly damaging. Last year, Hoare gave interviews to the New York Times and the BBC in which he said Coulson knew about hacking that was “endemic” and part of the “culture at News International.”

A week ago, Hoare told the New York Times about journalists making payments to the police, and about the use of “pinging”—locating people via their mobile phone signals, a technology supposedly to be used only for anti-terror purposes. He alleged that News of the World executive Greg Miskiw had used such techniques. He said journalists were able to purchase the mobile phone tracking data from police for £300.

A Guardian report also notes that Hoare’s body was found at 10:40 am, but “It was not until after 9 pm, two hours after news broke that the phone hacking whistleblower had been found dead, that more uniformed and plainclothes police arrived at the scene. At about 9:15 pm, a police van marked Scientific Services Unit pulled up at the address, where a police car was already parked.”

The immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.” The statement is at the very least extraordinary, and at worst sinister in its implications.

read more here  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jul2011/hoar-j20.shtml

The British establishment have been quick to close ranks in attacking Sean.. a mere ‘Arsenal and Labour supporter’ and ‘drunken hack’. The police persecuted him from the start, treating him as a criminal suspect. The newspaper NOWS paid him to mix with celebrity coke addicts then fired him for complaining .

 

 

15M.”La calle es nuestra. No pagaremos su crisis”.

El miércoles, un cordón policial establecido por los Mossos d’Esquadra en la calle Marqués de la Argentera impidió que  la manifestación que habían convocado en protesta por los recortes  llegara al Parlament de Catalunya, en el parque de la Ciutadella.

Ante la imposibilidad de acceder al parque, los organizadores improvisaron una asamblea  ante  el edificio de la Estació de França de las más de 30.000 personas que según ellos participaron  en la marcha —7.500 según los  Mossos y la Guardia Urbana–.

La manifestación se inició en la plaza Catalunya de Barcelona tras una pancarta que rezaba “La calle es nuestra. No pagaremos su crisis”.    En primer lugar, la marcha  se dirigió al edificio de la Bolsa, que estaba custodiada por cuatro furgonetas de los antidisturbios de los Mossos d’Esquadra y con su perímetro vallado. Los indignados  lanzaron consignas contra la Bolsa como “¡Manos arriba esto es un atraco!” y “¡No hay pan para tanto chorizo!”.  No se produjeron incidentes.

Pintadas y carteles

Los manifestantes siguieron después su camino hacia el Parlament, pasando por delante de la sede de la patronal Fomento del Trabajo, en un marcha en la que se tardaba 20 minutos en recorrer la distancia entre la cabecera y la cola.

Al paso por la calle Consell de Cent,  algunas personas  pintaron los escaparates de  tiendas de productos de lujo, como la de Ferrari –que cerró su puerta principal–, con leyendas como “Vuestro lujo es nuevas miseria” y “Miles de personas durmiendo en la calle. Esto es violencia”.

También colocaron carteles en las sucursales bancarias con la palabra “Culpable” y han exhibido otra pancarta con el lema “La usura es la justificación de la estafa”. Entre los manifestantes también se encontraban colectivos de emigrantes.

Madrid 24J #marchaindignada. ¡Tod@s con la marcha!

[Madrid – movimiento 15m] Difusión Manifestación del #24J y la Bienvenida a la #marchaindignada. ¡Tod@s con la marcha!

Textos en otros idiomas  IN ENGLISH HERE

 

Imprime y pega por tu barrio, públicalo en tu blog y tus redes sociales, envíalo a tus contactos… ¡que no quede nadie sin enterarse de lo que va a pasar este fin de semana!

Kaos. Madrid | madrid.tomalaplaza.net | #marchaindignada | Hoy a las 19:40 | 224 lecturas | 1 comentario
www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/madrid-movimiento-15m-difusion-manifestacion-24j-bienvenida-marchaindi

  Mani #24j

Imprime y pega por tu barrio, públicalo en tu blog y tus redes sociales, envíalo a tus contactos… ¡que no quede nadie sin enterarse de lo que va a pasar este fin de semana!

Programación: en barrios y pueblos de Madrid / en la Puerta del Sol y alrededores.

15MNews: Edición especial con el programa listo para imprimir (PDF)

Redes sociales

  • Twitter: usa el hashtag #marchaindignada (a lo largo del fin de semana propondremos más hashtags para hacer seguimiento colectivo)
  • Facebook: apúntate e invita a este evento.
  • Youtube: Audiovisol sube sus vídeos aquí. Hay muchos más, búscalos.
  • Flickr: Si tienes fotos, súbelas con la etiqueta “marchaindignada” y ponles licencia Creative Commons para que las puedan difundir otras personas.

Para la comunidad sorda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoAQe0889t4&feature=player_embedded

Consulta el programa de actividades que contarán con intérpretes en lengua de signos

Riot! austerity budget for people on $1 a day

Malawi riots erupt

Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an estimated 75% of the population living on less than $1 (60p) a day.

The government recently passed an austerity budget, raising taxes to reduce dependence on aid.

The demonstrations were called to protest against rising fuel prices, a shortage of foreign exchange reserves, alleged bad governance and poor international relations.

LANTYRE (Reuters) – Riots broke out in several cities in Malawi Wednesday after police and the army tried to disperse protesters demanding the resignation of President Bingu wa Mutharika, whom they accuse of ignoring civil liberties and damaging the economy.

Last week, the UK cut direct aid to Malawi after a diplomatic spat with Mr Mutharika’s government.

The UK accused Malawi of mishandling the economy and failing to uphold human rights.

In the southern African nation’s capital, Lilongwe, witnesses said smoke was billowing into the sky as protesters burned cars, offices and shops belonging to ministers and politicians from Mutharika’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Troops were deployed on the streets of the normally sleepy commercial capital, Blantyre, and police fired teargas at marchers who had gathered outside the stock exchange in defiance of a court order.

“The earlier injunction has been withdrawn and we’re proceeding on the planned route of the demonstration but sadly we’re being smoked by teargas,” Gift Makhwawa, president of the Malawi Law Society, told Reuters.

Hoare accused Coulson, Cameron’s aide, before death

 A former News of the World journalist who blew the whistle on the extent of phone hacking was found dead Monday.

A week ago David Cameron described Andy Coulson as “a friend” and insisted he would be a “pretty unpleasant sort of person” if he turned on his former aide.

Sean Hoare, 47, who accused his former editor, Andy Coulson, of complicity in the illegal activity, was discovered dead at his home days after he made a series of fresh allegations against the paper

When the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks go before the culture, media and sport committee, some members will be intent on asking questions about Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s former communications director, in an attempt to bring the crisis closer to the door of number 10.

Mr Hoare was found dead in his Watford home on Monday after neighbours reported him missing.

In an interview with the New York Times last September, he claimed he had played taped recordings of hacked messages to Mr Coulson when they both worked at The Sun.

When Mr Hoare moved to the NOTW he said Mr Coulson “actively encouraged” him to hack into phone messages.

In September 2010, he was also interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme and alleged that Mr Coulson had lied to Parliament when he denied knowing about phone-hacking.

Mr Coulson was the former ‘spin doctor’ of Prime minister David Cameron.

75 Anniversary Spanish Revolution

A  propósito  de  la  Spanish  Revolution…

Vivimos tiempos de Spanish Revolution. Pero hoy estamos aquí por otra revolución española, la Revolución de 1936. Para algunos esta fecha resuena a la Guerra Civil. Pero, en paralelo a la guerra, en este país vivió uno de los procesos revolucionarios más importantes de la historia de la Humanidad. La Segunda República no satisfacía el hambre de justicia del pueblo.

Los poderosos, temiendo la revolución popular que acabase con sus privilegios, animaron un golpe de estado con el fin de someter, violencia mediante, el ansia de libertad del pueblo español. Pero se encontraron con una desagradable sorpresa: El pueblo no se quedó de brazos cruzados presentó batalla.

El golpe de estado fracasó en gran parte del país. Por desgracia para las mentes de bien, los golpistas se hicieron fuertes en la otra parte de España. La guerra estaba servida.

Este mismo pueblo que presentó batalla e hizo fracasar el golpe de estado en la mitad de la piel de toro, no se conformó y construyó uno de los ejemplos revolucionarios más importantes de la Historia. Fábricas y granjas fueron tomadas y gestionadas directamente por los obreros.

El  pueblo,  la  clase  trabajadora,  organizada  y  articulada  por  medio  de  las  organizaciones
revolucionarias, tomó las riendas de la gestión de la cosa pública

Pero sin dirigentes ni dirigidos:  Una  auténtica  revolución  socialista,  una  auténtica  revolución  libertaria.  Esta
revolución demostró que el pueblo organizado no necesita del Estado, de los parlamentos, de
los patronos ni de los macarras de la moral.

Es un ejemplo que aún ilumina el espíritu de
muchos de nosotros.

Sean Hoare dead. Police deny suspicions.

Why don’t the police tell the truth?

How can Sean’s death be both ‘unexplained’ and ‘have no suspicious circumstances’??

Are the police qualified to investigate his death…since they themselves are

implicated in the disgusting scandal and even their boss had to resign??

Why would Sean conveniently overdose just when he’s been proved right all along??

See Craig’s report below…

Death of Sean Hoare  by craig on July 18, 2011

The best whistleblower so far from inside News International has just been found dead. Hertfordshire Police, either incredibly stupid or incredibly corrupt, have just been quoted on Sky News as saying there are “No suspicious circumstances”.

Whaether this is a convenient heart attack or a Kelly type “suicide” remains to be seen. Maybe the Met mistook him for a suicide bomber and pumped several shots into his head. With the exception of Kelly, this is possibly the most suspicious death of my lifetime. “No suspicious circumstances”. WTF!!

Sean Hoare’s testimony that Andy Coulson knew of individual phone hacking operations is pretty well certain to be true. I have written many times for national newspapers, and wherever I have written disparagingly about anybody, I have had to give my evidence. I have even, for example, been called in actually to meet the legal advisers at the Mail and discuss my evidence. The idea that journalists were not telling Coulson where they got their stories, or for what purpose they were laying out tens of thousands of pounds, is simply not practically possible. Same goes for the period when Rebekah was editor.

Sean Hoare’s testimony was plainly, absolutely true. His death discourages other whistleblowers a bit, doesn’t it? If the inquiries into News International are going to have any credibility, they are going to need a witness protection programme – from which the Met are totally excluded.