UK Deceit: British anti-arms campaign lists Iran in receiving £792 million pounds worth of arms but on closer look are actually civilian industrial parts

Deceit: UK issued £792m arms permits to Iran
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT)  listed industrial parts as weapons components.

Press TV
Apr 22, 2012

A British anti-arms trade campaign group has launched a deception campaign claiming Iran imported £792 million worth of weapons or related parts from Britain in the past four years.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade included Iran in the list of countries, which have secured arms trade licenses from Britain since 2008.

However, the CAAT listed items such as chemicals, industrial gas turbines (used in power plants) and components of civil aircraft as the so-called arms Iran has sought to buy from Britain.

This is while other countries on the list, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, have secured licenses for a host of military items including military aircraft and missile components as well as rifles and firearm silencers.

Western countries including Britain, regularly deny Iran access to material with industrial and medical use to Iran under the pretext that they could be used for military purposes.

This is while, the same list by the CAAT shows Britain has been selling real-life weapons to repressive regimes including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen over the past few years.

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UK Queen, French cook’s granddaughter? (Press TV)

Press TV
Sat Apr 7, 2012 1:36PM GMT

The British Queen has received a rapturous welcome in York marking her Diamond Jubilee while a British biographer has claimed that her mother was the daughter of her aristocratic family’s French cook.

Celebrating her 60 years of reign, the British Queen distributed silver coins known as the Royal Maundy money to people from all of the UK’s 44 Christian dioceses as it is suggested that her grandmother has been the British royal family’s French cook.

Aristocratic biographer Lady Colin Campbell has claimed that the royal family’s cook, an “attractive and pleasant Frenchwoman” called Marguerite Rodiere, has been Queen Mother’s real mother.

The claims are made in Campbell’s recent book “The Queen Mother, The untold story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother” due to be on sale next month.

The excerpts of the book were revealed as the British Queen held a service of remembrance for her mother on Friday 30 March to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.

Campbell said the claim explains why the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had been given the nickname ‘Cookie’ to the Queen Mother and why the Queen Mother, born the Honourable Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, was given a French middle name.

In her book, Campbell said the French Cook giving birth to the Queen Mother may have been “an early version of surrogacy” because her own mother Cecilia has not been able to have any more children.

“For the fact is, royal and aristocratic circles had been alight for decades with the story that Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, while undoubtedly the daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was not the child of his wife Cecilia, nor was her younger brother David, born nearly two years after her on 2nd May, 1902,” wrote Campbell.

Campbell has been known for her revealing biographies since she raised the ire of Britain’s royal family with her biography of Princess of Wales Diana in 1992.

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Britain upping the cash to Syrian rebels...so isn`t this 'foreign intervention' and violation of international law? But who follows the the law these days huh?

Flashpoint Funding: UK doubles Syria rebel cashflow

Russia Today
Friday, March 30, 2012

The UK has announced it will allocate some £500,000 ($795,000) to supply non-military aid to the Syrian opposition. The Foreign Secretary says it will help the 'hard-pressed' opposition groups to register violations by the Assad government. RT's Laura Smith says exactly what type of support and equipment the opposition will receive is yet to be determined. What is already known is that the aid package is likely to include secure telephones that the British Foreign Secretary hopes will be used to document the regime's violence.

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Wondered why Somalia`s name has come up so much recently in the news? Because of OIL!

Hmmm...after the global powers massively over-fished Somalia`s fish population and dumped metric tons of toxic pollutants into their coastal waters to ultimately forcing them to piracy - the globalists now seek to suck dry and exploit their last natural resource of black gold.


Britain eyeing share in Somalia's future energy industry
Press TV
Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:48PM GMT

British Prime Minister David Cameron (center) opens the Somalia 

Conference at Lancaster House in London on 02/23/12. Credit: PressTV

British media say the government’s move to offer humanitarian aid and security assistance to Somalia is aimed at winning a stake in country's future energy industry.

In a report published Saturday, The Guardian revealed Britain’s involvement in a secret high-stakes dash for oil in Somalia.

Somalia, a former British colony, has been suffering decades of conflict and is known as a hotbed of piracy plaguing international shipping in the Indian Ocean.

In early February, British Foreign Secretary William Hague paid an unannounced visit to Somalia to become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Mogadishu in almost two decades.

He also appointed Matt Baugh as Britain's first ambassador to war-torn Somalia, which he described the country as "the world's most failed state."

Last week, UK Prime Minister David Cameron hosted an international conference on Somalia where he pledged more aid, financial help and measures to fight terrorism in the African nation.

The Guardian report, however, described the summit as talks between British officials and Somali counterparts over exploiting intact oil reserves in the arid northeastern part of Somalia.

"We have spoken to a number of UK officials, some have offered to help us with the future management of oil revenues. They will help us build our capacity to maximize future earnings from the oil industry," the report cited Abdulkadir Abdi Hashi, the minister for international cooperation in the autonomous Puntland region, as saying.

Puntland is an region in northeastern Somalia, where the first oil is expected to be extracted next month.

Experts say London’s involvement in the future Somali oil industry could prop up the UK’s weakened economy, at a time it has resorted to austerity measures to avoid a budget deficit.

Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said his government had almost no other choice but to persuade Western companies to invest and operate in Somalia by offering a portion of the country's plentiful resources of oil and gas and large reserves of uranium.

Britain's efforts to develop Somalia's natural resources continue while the Canadian company Africa Oil started oil exploration in Puntland in January, the first drilling in Somalia for 21 years.

Chinese and US firms have reportedly also voiced interest about the potential for oil as the country sounds safe enough to drill after two decades of unrelenting war.

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