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Former KGB Agent Claims Dr. David Kelly Was 'Exterminated'

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 06:47 PM PDT

dailymail - A former Russian spy's dossier which suggests that Government scientist David Kelly was 'exterminated' in a planned assassination is being studied by the Attorney General.

Boris Karpichkov, who fled to Britain after 15 years as a KGB agent, claims a London intelligence contractor linked to MI5 told him Dr Kelly's death was not suicide.

Mr Karpichkov has emailed his evidence to Attorney General Dominic Grieve - who has already said he is 'concerned' by questions raised by doctors who dispute the official suicide ruling over the Iraq expert's death.

Last night a spokesman for Mr Grieve confirmed that the dossier had been received, and that it was being 'considered'.

Dr Kelly's body was discovered in woods close to his Oxfordshire home in July 2003.

Tony Blair's Labour Government had controversially unmasked him as the source of a hotly-disputed BBC news story that claimed a dossier used to justify the war on Iraq had been 'sexed up'.

Lord Hutton's public inquiry ruled that Dr Kelly killed himself, but since the ousting of Labour in May there has been growing pressure from within the coalition Government for a new independent inquiry.

A group of doctors have claimed Dr Kelly could not have died as a result of cutting his left wrist with a blunt garden pruning knife, and it has emerged that his death certificate was left incomplete.

There is also outrage at the fact that full details of his postmortem examination are to be kept secret for 70 years, and that no inquest took place.

Campaigners also note that on the morning of his death Dr Kelly sent an email warning of 'many dark actors playing games'.

The new allegations from Mr Karpichkov suggest directly that the 'dark actors' could have been British secret agents determined to silence Dr Kelly before he could embarrass the Government.

Agent: According to Boris Karpichkov Peter Everett told him that David Kelly was 'exterminated' for his 'restless behaviour'

The former Russian spy, who defected from Latvia to Britain in 1998, says the source of his dossier is 'agent' Peter Everett, who lives in Dulwich, South-East London, and until 2006 ran a shadowy firm, Group Global Intelligence Services.

The firm is understood to have employed former MI5 operatives to carry out detective work for corporations.

Mr Karpichkov, who now holds a British passport, claims in his dossier that he worked for Mr Everett too, and that one of their dozens of meetings took place two days after Dr Kelly's body was found.

Mr Everett told him, the former KGB man claims, that Dr Kelly had been ' exterminated' for his ' reckless behaviour'.

Mr Karpichkov says Mr Everett suggested he was himself an 'active field operative' for MI5, and continues: 'He told me that it was extremely uncomfortable, inconsistent and unusual for Dr Kelly to slash his arm in the way he did. He would have lost some blood, but it would not have been fatal.

'He also claimed that it was not a coincidence that Special Branch officers were the ones who first appeared on the scene. They moved Dr Kelly's body to another location, changed the original position of his corpse and took away incriminating evidence.

'He added that the scene where Dr Kelly's body was found was carefully arranged and completely "washed out", including the destruction of all fingerprints.

'When I asked who was behind his death, he [ Mr Everett] answered indirectly, saying the "competing firm", which I took to mean MI6.'
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At the weekend, Mr Everett confirmed that he had met Mr Karpichkov, and that he had discussed Dr Kelly's death. But he denied being party to any secret s about the incident.

He refused to comment on whether he had ever worked for MI5, but agreed he had 'spent a number of years working in the world of intelligence'.

Mr Karpichkov's dossier comes on top of a claim by Dr Kelly's colleague Mai Pedersen that the chemical warfare expert had been too weak to slash his own wrist.

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Originally posted 1/24/2010

Dr. David Kelly Post-Mortem Ordered Buried For 70 Years

dailymail - Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years.

In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and unpublished evidence.

The move, which will stoke fresh speculation about the true circumstances of Dr Kelly's death, comes just days before Tony Blair appears before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.

It is also bound to revive claims of an establishment cover-up and fresh questions about the verdict that Dr Kelly killed himself.

Tonight, Dr Michael Powers QC, a doctor campaigning to overturn the Hutton findings, said: 'What is it about David Kelly's death which is so secret as to justify these reports being kept out of the public domain for 70 years?'

Campaigning Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker, who has also questioned the verdict that Dr Kelly committed suicide, said: 'It is astonishing this is the first we've known about this decision by Lord Hutton and even more astonishing he should have seen fit to hide this material away.'

The body of former United Nations weapons inspector Dr Kelly was found in July 2003 in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the Government's claims that

Saddam Hussein had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, which could be deployed within 45 minutes.

Lord Hutton's 2004 report, commissioned by Mr Blair, concluded that Dr Kelly killed himself by cutting his wrist with a blunt gardening knife.

It was dismissed by many experts as a whitewash for clearing the Government of any culpability, despite evidence that it had leaked Dr Kelly's name in an attempt to smear him.

Only now has it emerged that a year after his inquiry was completed, Lord Hutton took unprecedented action to ensure that the vital evidence remains a state secret for so long.

A letter, leaked to The Mail on Sunday, revealed that a 30-year ban was placed on 'records provided [which were] not produced in evidence'. This is thought to refer to witness statements given to the inquiry which were not disclosed at the time.

In addition, it has now been established that Lord Hutton ordered all medical reports – including the post-mortem findings by pathologist Dr Nicholas Hunt and photographs of Dr Kelly's body – to remain classified information for 70 years.

The normal rules on post-mortems allow close relatives and 'properly interested persons' to apply to see a copy of the report and to 'inspect' other documents.

Lord Hutton's measure has overridden these rules, so the files will not be opened until all such people are likely to be dead.

Last night, the Ministry of Justice was unable to explain the legal basis for Lord Hutton's order.

The restrictions came to light in a letter from the legal team of Oxfordshire County Council to a group of doctors who are challenging the Hutton verdict.

Last year, a group of doctors, including Dr Powers, compiled a medical dossier as part of their legal challenge to the Hutton verdict.

They argue that Hutton's conclusion that Dr Kelly killed himself by severing the ulnar artery in his left wrist after taking an overdose of prescription painkillers is untenable because the artery is small and difficult to access, and severing it could not have caused death.

In their 12-page opinion, they concluded: 'The bleeding from Dr Kelly's ulnar artery is highly unlikely to have been so voluminous and rapid that it was the cause of death. We advise the instructing solicitors to obtain the autopsy reports so that the concerns of a group of properly interested medical specialists can be answered.'

Tonight, Dr Powers, a former assistant coroner, added: 'Supposedly all evidence relevant to the cause of death has been heard in public at the time of Lord Hutton's inquiry. If these secret reports support the suicide finding, what could they contain that could be so sensitive?'

The letter disclosing the 70-year restriction was written by Nick Graham, assistant head of legal and democratic services at Oxfordshire Council.

It states: 'Lord Hutton made a request for the records provided to the inquiry, not produced in evidence, to be closed for 30 years, and that medical (including post-mortem) reports and photographs be closed for 70 years.'

Nicholas Gardiner, the Chief Coroner for Oxfordshire, confirmed that he had seen the letter.

Speaking to The Mail on Sunday today, he said: 'I know that Lord Hutton made that recommendation. Someone told me at the time. Anybody concerned will be dead by then, and that is quite clearly Lord Hutton's intention.'

Asked what was in the records that made it necessary for them to be embargoed, Mr Gardiner said: 'They're Lord Hutton's records not mine. You'd have to ask him.'

He added that in his opinion Lord Hutton had embargoed the records to protect Dr Kelly's children.

The inquest into Dr Kelly's death was suspended before it could begin by the then Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer. He used the Coroners Act to designate the Hutton Inquiry as 'fulfilling the function of an inquest'.

News that the records will be kept secret comes just days before Mr Blair gives evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry on Friday.

To date, Dr Kelly's name has scarcely been mentioned at the inquiry. One source who held a private meeting with Sir John Chilcot before the proceedings began said that Sir John had admitted he 'did not want to touch the Kelly issue' .

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: 'Any decision made by Lord Hutton at the time of his inquiry was entirely a matter for him.'

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said yesterday that it would not be possible to search their records during the weekend.

The Mail on Sunday was unable to contact Lord Hutton.
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David Christopher Kelly, CMG (14 May 1944–17 July 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Kelly's discussion with BBC Radio4 Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal. He was found dead days after appearing before the Parliamentary committee charged with investigating the scandal.

The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death, ruled that he had committed suicide, and that Kelly had not in fact said some of the things attributed to him by Gilligan. The following day, 28 January 2004, the Independent ran a special issue, the front cover being largely blank and containing in the centre, "WHITEWASH? THE HUTTON REPORT. A SPECIAL ISSUE." - Wikipedia
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Former KGB Agent Claims Dr. David Kelly Was 'Exterminated'

UFO Images From Recent Airliner Flights

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 03:18 PM PDT

The following information is from UFO Casebook:

Taken from plane over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

One of our readers, Mr. Henrique Costa, has forwarded two images of interest.

Henrique did not take the photographs, but a colleague of his forwarded them to him.

The man who took the photographs, three in total, was a passenger on a plane. He was taking a vacation trip, and flying near Brazil's capital city of Rio de Janeiro.

Not a great deal of information was sent. This is what we know at this time.

Several passengers saw the object in question, which was first described as a ball of light, shaped similar to a football. Several passengers shouted in fear as they felt the plane was too close to the unknown object, and there was a possibility of a collision.

According to passenger statements, the unknown, flying object maneuvered into the clouds, but continued to follow the aircraft for about two minutes.

According to the camera information, the photographs were taken at 3:40 PM, July 14, 2010. The camera used was a Nokia, 3120 Classic.

Information and photographs submitted by Henrique Costa.

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neetstheweird - The following image was taken from a RyanAir fight from Portugal to the UK this May:

UFO Images From Recent Airliner Flights

Fortean / Oddball News - 7/26/2010

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 08:24 AM PDT

Ailing Man Loses Hotel Business to Voodoo Practitioner

SHNewsService - A sick Lee County, Fla. hotelier worried about his finances and stomach problems looked in the Yellow Pages under herbs, found the Botanica 7 Potensias Africanas shop in Fort Myers, then sought treatment and help.

On that day in October 2007, Enzo Vincenzi, 43, paid the owner, Miriam Pacheco, $50. A self-styled "Santeria Africana" spiritual adviser and healer, Pacheco warned he was in grave danger and said only she could help.

Over weeks and months, there were ritualistic ceremonies involving a dead bird, a sacrificed rooster, liquid potions, prayers and chants by Pacheco, who calls herself Madrina Miriam (godmother Miriam). Joining in was Pacheco's "god-daughter," Maria Teresa Torres, and another god-daughter.

In the end, Pacheco took Vincenzi to a Fort Myers lawyer, and Vincenzi signed documents that Pacheco prepared, signing away his motel in order to free himself from the curse.

Those are the allegations in a lawsuit Vincenzi and the Sabal Oasis Inn filed in Lee County Circuit Court against Pacheco, 57, and Torres, 43.

"It was a very bizarre case," Naples attorney Michael D. Randolph, who filed a related lawsuit against Pacheco and Torres, said of Vincenzi's allegations.

But attorney Joseph Hoffman, who represented Pacheco and Torres, just considers it a case involving a language barrier: Vincenzi speaks English, while Pacheco and Torres only speak Spanish.

"I've had weirder cases," Hoffman said. "I'm not saying this was plain vanilla. But it's a property dispute. That's all it was."

His clients have denied allegations of ritualistic ceremonies, fraud or coercing Vincenzi into turning over his motel.

According to court documents, Pacheco cautioned Vincenzi he was in danger of demonic spirits and the devil, and said the hotel's prior owners had buried the devil. She told him he was in grave danger, faced IRS problems and had prostitutes working at his motel.

She said she could help by becoming his Santeria Africana godmother. At a card reading and St. Lazarus ritualistic ceremony, she warned he was a "walking dead man" and his housekeeper was poisoning his food.

"During the course of the ceremony, Pacheco killed a bird and passed it over Vincenzi's stomach while praying and chanting, which she claimed would heal his stomach ailments," Vincenzi's lawsuit says. "Pacheco also covered Vincenzi's eyes, made him drink an unidentified liquid and laid her hands on him ― all of which she claimed would help heal him."

A week later, she sacrificed a rooster, saying it would protect him from the motel's former owners, who were trying to kill him. She told him to pay her $500 so he could move into the home she shared with Torres, the lawsuit alleges. He remained there, confined to a bed, for about two months as she and Torres served as spiritual advisers.

At one point, Pacheco took Vincenzi to a beach and performed a "Queen of the Seas" ceremony, chanting and praying over him as he lay in the sand. She urged him to see her attorney, who could help with legal problems she was predicting.

She coerced him into transferring the property, promising to save him from demonic spirits and attempts on his life.

She took him to her attorney and Vincenzi signed deeds Pacheco prepared, transferring the motel to her and Torres without cost, the suit alleged. He lost his Jaguar, pickup truck, motorboat and possessions after she evicted him; they deny taking his vehicles.

In April, a Lee County Circuit Court jury awarded Vincenzi $37,000 for intentional infliction of emotional stress. Months after the rituals, Vincenzi had gone off the emotional deep end because of the loss of his motel and his fears that the "seer's" predictions of doom and death would come true, and wound up involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital

The jury also awarded Vincenzi $99,500 for the loss of his 13-room motel and attached home, finding fraudulent misrepresentation by Pacheco and Torres.

Collecting the cash is another thing. Pacheco says she doesn't have it. Vincenzi's attorney, Bradley Lang of Naples, is working on a rescission of deed so Vincenzi can get his motel back.

Vincenzi is hopeful.

"They made me homeless," Vincenzi said after the hearing, adding that he's unemployed and faces nearly $20,000 in medical bills. "They traumatized me, I ended up in the hospital, I'm drowning in debt ― and they're still in my house."

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Michael Jackson's Secret Nazi Film Collection

metrolyrics - Michael Jackson had a secret collection of Nazi documentaries, it emerged yesterday.

The late King of Pop hunted out specialist video sellers who were able to discreetly sell him hard-to-find films and documentaries.

Alarmingly, given the child sex allegations against him, these included TV specials and dramas depicting troubled boys in dysfunctional families.

But most shockingly they also included a thirst for information depicting the horrific Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.

Seller Norman Scherer says he helped Jacko form "a really good collection" and adds he provided him with titles like, 'Nazis: Of Pure Blood', 'Oasis of the Zombies' and 'Hitler's Children'.

He says Jackson then displayed the tapes along the walls of his video vault at the Neverland ranch.

"Michael Jackson was a very special client to me," insisted Scherer, who owned a videotape distribution company in the 1990s.

He says in 1995 that he was approached by a New Yorker looking to place big orders for a "famous" client. He was told the deal could only work if he vowed to be discreet.

Jackson's former personal assistant, Scott Schaffer, had hunted him down and acted as the go-between.

"I knew what [Jackson] wanted," Schaffer said.

Asked about the Hitler videos, Scherer says he assumed that the singer just loved the military uniforms, and the lockstep marching.

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Great Britain's 'Witch Children'

channel4 - Dispatches goes undercover in some African churches in the UK, where evangelical pastors perpetuate a strong belief in witchcraft. They preach that some people are possessed by evil spirits, and that these spirits bring bad luck into the lives of others.

The only way to rid the possessed from the witchcraft spell and lift their curse is to 'deliver' them: a kind of exorcism that can be very traumatic. Some pastors charge significant sums of money to perform these deliverances.

Often it is children who are denounced as witches by these pastors, and this labelling can lead to the physical and emotional abuse of those children at the hands of their families. In extreme cases it has led to the deaths of some children.

In parts of Africa, branding a child a witch is now outlawed, but in Britain this practise is perfectly legal, despite the fact it can have horrific consequences.

Dispatches reveals just what goes on behind closed doors in these African churches, exposing the pastors who exploit the religious beliefs of the most vulnerable.

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'Minority Report': Prediction Software Being Used By Police

techradar - Police forces are now trialing prediction software to work out who is likely to commit a crime and stop it happening, in what is inevitably being compared to Philip K Dick's Minority Report.

The book saw a troika of precogs making predictions as to who would offend and where it would happen, but IBM's Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History (Crush) software is very much computer based.

According to The Observer, the software looks at the police databases – including briefings, criminal records and weather reports – and makes its predictions.

Big investment

Apparently the software is a result of $11 billion worth of investment in analytics by computer giant IBM.

John Williams, of the Memphis Crime Analysis Unit, told The Observer: "This is more of a proactive tool than reacting after crimes have occurred.

"This pretty much puts officers in the area at the time that the crimes are being committed."

Of course, the computer is essentially looking for patterns – a technique used by the police for years in the fight against crime.

But as long as they are developing sicksticks to slow down the 'pre-offenders' when they get to them we're all for it.

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Let me tell you something....

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NOTE: I wouldn't want to be within 20 feet of this woman if CBS decides to cancel 'Criminal Minds'. Have pity on the CBS operator that gets that call...Lon

Fortean / Oddball News - 7/26/2010

The Wonderous 'Blue Holes' of the Bahamas

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 07:50 AM PDT

usatoday - What lies below the Bahamas in the Caribbean? A veiled world of fossils, blind creatures and scientific riddles.

In next month's issue of National Geographic magazine, an international team of cave divers led by anthropologist Kenny Broad of the University of Miami reveals the mysteries hidden from vacationers' view.

The two-month expedition, paid for by the National Geographic Society, was merely a small slice of time in a years-long effort to uncover the secrets of this realm, which has been plumbed by researchers for at least three decades.

Only a few miles inland from the Bahamas' sparkling coral reefs, the islands' limestone boasts dozens of submerged caves, "blue holes," some of them hidden in what look like island swimming holes linked to the ocean.

But swimming holes they are not. The inland caves on five islands sport freshwater caps covering heavier saltwater layers, sometimes filled with clouds of poisonous hydrogen sulfide released by salt-eating microbes, acting to preserve whatever falls within. Others contain whirlpools powered by the tides.

"Cave diving is really about knowing your limits," Broad says. "But it provides one of the most amazing experiences in life, and the scientific opportunities are tremendous."

Says cave diver and geologist Patricia Beddows of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., who was not part of the expedition: "Each one of these cave diving expeditions, without fail, provides an enormous amount of information. Cave diving is an extraordinarily powerful tool to allow us to get into the heart of karst (cave) systems worldwide."

In submerged caves such as Stargate on Andros island in the Bahamas, the expedition team reports:

• Specialized "chemosynthetic" bacteria that live without oxygen and feast on chemical reactions possible only in the caves.

• Stalactite curtains, or "speleothems," that contain a record of past sea level and climate conditions locked in their structures.

• Fossils of Lucayan tribe members who lived on the islands until the 1500s.

"We've brought scientists from many disciplines together so our results inform each other's work," Broad says. "The initial exploration is just a proof of concept. We still have lots of work ahead."

Coastal regions of the Caribbean, such as Florida, Cuba and the Yucatán, and other regions worldwide contain limestone permeated with caves, Beddows notes, leading to such blue holes. In addition to their scientific value, they often serve as freshwater resources for increasing numbers of people in those regions, which makes investigation of them essential for public health.

Sea level about 20,000 years ago, during the height of an Ice Age, was hundreds of feet lower in the Bahamas. The transition has left its mark on the speleothems and geology of the caves, Broad says, making each one a laboratory for measuring the effects of past changes in climate.

Each cave diving expedition requires years of preparation, and the results will affect scientific conclusions for years afterward.

"It's possible to make a direct comparison between what we do and exploring outer space," Beddows says. Years of training for short investigations in a hostile environment are the hallmarks of cave diving science, which she describes as a "select" discipline, slowly growing in numbers but now increasingly established.

Alongside the danger, the blue holes of the Bahamas have offered little allure for divers who in some cases could instead walk to beaches with access to some of the world's most beautiful coral reefs.

"Why dive into a muddy-looking hole when you can head for the beach?" Broad says. "But (the holes) are really fascinating places once you start looking."

The Wonderous 'Blue Holes' of the Bahamas

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