People Are Waking Up
Commentary – October 31, 2010
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Normally we wouldn’t post “readers comments” but this is different.
Sent in by a reader, it indicates the extent to which people are no longer buying the official version of the “War on Terror”.
Below are readers comments to the article “Al Qaeda ink cartridge bomb found on jet was linked to mobile phone SIM card”.
In fact the readers comments are more interesting than the article itself, which repeats the official line that "Fears have been growing rapidly over the terror threat posed to the West by Islamic fundamentalists based in Yemen" etc, etc.
Also sent in by another readers is a list (PDF) of airports served by United Parcel Service (UPS).
Note that UPS isn’t on the list.
A few of the readers comments, and we haven’t been selective, reveal mounting public scepticism:
the same week as the BA head honcho says that US security is over the top this happens....what a coincidence!
- Robb Flynn, Jersey City, NJ, 29/10/2010 17:19
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Here we go again.
More lies to keep the masses in check.
It's now getting silly.
- Tony, Essex, 29/10/2010 17:16
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Call me cynical if you will, but as soon as someone makes an intelligent comment about the over the top restrictions in place at UK airports - because we have been told to take them by the Yanks - a suspicious package is found.
These same restrictions do not apply to (US Flag) planes flying in US airspace.
Tis about time the 'mighty' USA stopped telling everyone else in the world what to do. Since 2000 we have had to put up with the utterances of a President that went to war, a PM that followed because he was told to and now a lame duck in the White House who hates the British and who needs to look big in the world to cover up his complete mis-read of the Drill Rig disaster in the Gulf. (Yes it was BP's rig, but a US company screwed up - Halliburton).
Time will come in the not to distant future when the whole world will give the US the bird.
- John, Luton, ENGLAND, 29/10/2010 17:14
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Bit of a coincedence that this event occurs only a few days after Martin Broughton's comments about 'kowtowing' to US demands for increased security at UK airports.
You couldn't make this stuff up. What a joke!
- Mohammed, London, 29/10/2010 17:14
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It don't work anymore Dave, we are wise to these 'false flag' stories.
Stories such as this no longer distract us from the fact that you have lied to us yet again and you will be kow towing to the EU with their demand for an increase in the budget.
You are a fool to think that we, the electorate, are foolish enough to believe anything you say anymore.
- anthony, Ipswich, 29/10/2010 17:17
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You don`t here of the israelis having bomb scares do you they have a system called profileing it works,So if you want ot know how to stop terrorists planting bombs on planes ask the israelis they are old hands at it.
- W.H., dudley, 29/10/2010 20:19
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HOW VERY CONVENIENT! DAYS AFTER BAA WANTED TO REDUCE THE EXCESSIVE SAFTY CHECKS AT OUR AIRPORTS AND NO SURPRISE A SMALL "BOMB" IS FOUND IN AMERICA! DONT SUPPOSE THIS WILL BE PRINTED EITHER
- j, brightonown, 30/10/2010 10:33
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Take Yemen out of the loop. No flights in or out. Simple.
- Lawrence, Devon, UK, 30/10/2010 10:28
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Ba's chief complains about security check and blow me down a day later on American controled aircraft two bombs are found!!!!
- ray, southend on sea, 30/10/2010 10:31
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Hmm, just as the US goes to the polls.
Stay scared, people.
- Steve, London, UK, 29/10/2010 17:04
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It's not just airports. I went to a meeting at the Gherkin in London today and had to show my passport, put my belongings on a scanner belt, walk through one of those security archways AND be 'wanded' before I could go to the meeting. Surreal.
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Beth, London, UK, 29/10/2010 20:28
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do you believe this ?, is there any connection between a proposed scaling down in security checks, and this highly publicised so called indecent. This hue and cry is all US instigated, to ensure passenger still have to remove shoes belts etc. Don't believe a word of it - do you ?.
- Rich, Midsomer Norton Somerset, 29/10/2010 19:05
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A toner cartridge with wires poking out of it.
AND it contained powder.
Mmm that IS suspicious isn't it?
No explosives though (just exactly what one would expect to find in a broken toner cartridge).
Very handy though, coming a couple of days after someone was stupid enough to suggest that we should all fly naked and de-hydrated was perhaps a bit silly.
We are sick and tired of such "false flag" scares - designed to keep us all scared and "bury" bad news.
In the 1970s, almost every other aircraft (or so it seemed) was hijacked by some group or other - how come we din't have all these restrictions then?
Most people I know are awaiting anther "false flag" attack somewhere - so they can take away more of the few freedoms we have left.
- Paul Kearns, HMP, Ilfracombe, North West Europe, 29/10/2010 19:26
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Just in time for christmas , obama will be hoping ratings for his persona rises and surely blair will come out
beaming saying ' we were right all along to act as we did in the war on terror '; PS wasn't the plane a little too
close to people when it Landed at J.F.K. considering they ' knew ' a device was on board ?
- Observer, here & there, 30/10/2010 10:28
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Hmmm.. this could explain why I saw a fighter escorting a jet earlier this afternoon
- dros, romford, 29/10/2010 17:10
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Susan, Chicago USA, 29/10/2010 10:43 - you fly regularly now, did you do so before 9/11. I remember prior to that date there was no security at US airports, passengers and their family could all walk up to the gate with no bag check, no shoe check, no check whatsoever. All the reasons 9/11 could happen.
Since then I have seen the most stupid security policies in the world, where they check flip flops on a little old lady, and let me wearing big combat boots which could hide much more through without a check.
Taking your shoes off to look for explosives is stupid, we have dogs and machines that can detect explosives, so why the need to remove shoes apart from making you afraid and controllable by the experience?
- Lee, Pasadena, USA, 29/10/2010 20:18
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I just returned from the UK and I felt tempted to speak to the security people who were asking for shoes to be removed and who were stopping umbrellas from being taken aboard.
After one has passed through security, one can then proceed to the duty-free store and buy a couple of bottles of wine or spirits. Anyone who has watched a bottle fight knows that a bottle can be used both as a club and as a cutting device.
If the so-called war on terror were real there would be no bottles allowed on planes. The fact that I can buy a bottle, especially of ice wine, tells me that it is all crap to scare us into one world government.
- paddy, vancouver canada, 30/10/2010 2:50
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Forgive me for thinking all this somewhat strange. A day or so ago, UK airports were planning to NOT kowtow to the US and their security demands by relaxing some security measures in the UK - funny how a day later, the US states "explosives found on plane". Who can we believe? certainly not Obama and the Americans.
- Max, Vancouver, Canada, 29/10/2010 22:50
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How could explosives get on a plaine when your not even allowed to take on a bottle of water these days ? Why would terrorists make things so much harder for themselves by targeting planes when there must be millions of easier ways to cause trouble .
- MJS, Sheffield, 29/10/2010 18:01
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Whats going on with the yob who kicked the old man in the head????????
- john yates, essex, 29/10/2010 18:01
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Why does a UK citizen have to attack the "average American"? Why would you make a comment about American intelligence when we are your only real friends in the world? I know it has not always been a bed or roses between our countries; but who can each of us depend upon if not each other? It's that kind of mindless in-fighting that would thrill the wretches that want to kill us both. Save your vitriol for the French, at least they deserve it.
- Benton, Atlanta, USA, 29/10/2010 19:50
You have to make allowances for the fact we had a bunch of socialist traitors in government for the last 13 years.
- Keith, Llanelli, 30/10/2010 2:47
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In the same week as the BA head honcho says that US security is over the top this happens....what a coincidence!
- Robb Flynn, Jersey City, NJ, 29/10/2010
These were my thoughts too. Something doesn't smell quite right.
- shirley, Horsham, 29/10/2010 18:50
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dont believe a word of it..something fishy about these scaremongering reports...somebody is hyping things up to justify something...
- dezi, cambs, 29/10/2010 18:54
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So you'd be happy to get on a plane with no security checks I assume as there are no such thing as terrosirsts in your world are there Jay?
- FedUpUK, England, 29/10/2010 19:49
Dear FedUpUk, I think you will find that Jay is quite certain terrorists exist in his world, but is equally sure that these "terrorists" are the secret services of western countries, either infiltratien would be terrorists groups, paying them or just planting this kind of "evidence" to scare all of us into submission. Get onto the internet and start getting more information for yourself.
- Lin, Velsen, 30/10/2010 10:29
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Just watch the story fade away. This is instigated by the Americans ( they have the same scare there ) their ' intelligence ( laugh out loud ) has told the UK. All false flags to get the US public and us scared. This is meant to distract us all from the impending depression and dollar collapse. Well it wont work Obama , because we are a little brighter than the average American.
New world order, coming to you soon.
- jay, berks, 29/10/2010 17:37
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Andy, Lincs. You are a classic example of a human being, who in a previous life, would have been a Turkey looking forward to Christmas. Doesn't the coincidence of these "Bombs" being found after the calls for security relaxation, not ring any warning bells in your head? Fortunately there are a lot of commenters on here who can see through the smoke and mirrors.
- Witchfinder General, South Benfleet, Essex, 30/10/2010 9:42
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Amazing how this happens immediately after calls to relax check in restrictions
- honeybunny, Cheshire, 29/10/2010 18:37
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How timely when the aviation authority wants a relaxation of security checks. America is a target of more bombs - coincidental or what!!!!!!
- cb, uk, 30/10/2010 9:38
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oh yes, obviously it's been to quiet by far and now Obama wants to push through some new legislation, detract from his own falling popularity ratings.....
Anyone else detect that this is just too much of a coincidence?
- Steve, Dortmund, Germany, 29/10/2010 22:55
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Anything to keep the sheeple living in fear, lest they forget about the non-existent enemy they must always live in fear of and risk destabilising the global police state which the New World Order want us to live in.
This is MIND CONTROL.
- Andy, Leeds, 29/10/2010 18:20
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John from Luton if you want to ignore the USA goverments warnings on possible terrorist plots in the UK by all means do so. It's always a conspiracy with people like you. Blame everyone except the terrorists. We have people over here who think the same way. They are called liberals.
- sapphire_407, venice florida, 29/10/2010 17:57
The point I would make is that paying so much attention to the terrorists (or as I would prefer they were called 'criminals') is actually providing them with more ammunition. It keeps them in the public eye, makes people scared of them and provides them with a means to reach their goal.
If instead everyone ignores them entirely, and deals with these incidents with emotional detachment then they will eventually realise that they are failing entirely with what they wish to do.
The other point is, it is not possible for any government, police agency or anyone else to protect everyone from everything all of the time. To think that is simply foolish.
- Tony, Minehead, UK, 29/10/2010 20:25
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it must be the man in the cave again with the chronic illness....MY GOD PEOPLE...ITS ALL A BLUFF TO KEEP YOU SCARED....WAKE UP FOOLS.....FOR ALL YOU 9 11 BELIEVERS....2 WORDS........BUILDING SEVEN
- joseph prescott, liverpool, 29/10/2010 22:38
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This has Osama bin Laden written all over it.
Until we get a One World Government and a fully micro-chipped population we will always be at risk.
Thank Heaven for the brave, honest , ever-alert US and UK authorities.
N.B. ( for the 95% )
This is sarcasm.
- Pat Rattigan, Chesterfield England, 30/10/2010 9:24
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More false flag shenanigans. I for one don't believe any of this nonsense anymore. It's good to see that more and more people are seeing through these staged events.
- Ricky, London, 29/10/2010 19:54
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Interesting that when, at the beginning of the week the BA Chairman says that there are too many screening systems, most demanded by the US, and the US begins to bleat that suddenly suspect packages are found on an American UPS parcel service flight from Yemen, via Europe and UK, to the US. Sounds just a little too co-incidental so, who planted these devices that are suspect?
- Ken, East Anglia, England, 30/10/2010 9:10
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@ Benton Atlanta, who posted "Save your vitriol for the French, at least they deserve it".
Quite how the French deserve criticism, I don't know.
They refused to be bamboozled into an illegal war, banned the burka and regularly stand up to their Govt.......... If anything, both the Brits and the Americans could do with a bit more of the same attitude!
- Johnny Johnson, Middle of nowhere., 30/10/2010 9:02
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............@..........- Andy, Lincs,
Sadly, many in Britain lack the intelligence to understand who our real allies are in the world and get their perverted kicks from bashing all things American. I would much rather count the USA as our ally
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And with friends like that who needs enemies eh Andy...........................
- Art, Bińan City, Philippines, 30/10/2010 10:30
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So there is talk of removing the pointles searches at airports, and now there is an alert, smells of A merican scam to me..
- undo Alt, Edinburgh, Scotland, 29/10/2010 18:37
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How very convenient following so soon after a call to reduce insulting security checks at our airports.
- AverageMan, ConDemNation, 29/10/2010 19:54
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erm that top picture is not a toner pcb but a mobile phone pcb, the main logic board and it wouldn't set of a bomb like that, its a joke,
- paul, essex, 30/10/2010 9:43
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You have to wonder who the airports are employing airside????? Have seen many of them both here and in the UK just waltz right on through with their bags!!!
- Karen, ex pat USA, 29/10/2010 19:18
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Coincidently this was discovered just days before Obamas midterm election fate is delivered.Also just after airline boss of BA critisises security at airports .
- pejayb54, Oslo Norway, 30/10/2010 10:19
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Bravo no one is believing the bull anymore. The war on terror is a hoax and a bad joke. We all know who really did 911 and we are sick of the lies.
- Matt Compton, Phornix Arizona USA, 30/10/2010 8:10
Dont read into the red arrows thing too much.
A lot of the UK rely on the press and the BBC for their news, and believe everything that is shovelled down their throats. But not all, I am with you my friend.
- Les, Thailand, 30/10/2010 8:53
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Do they truly think we're all daft? We DO know Obama has mid-term elections coming up, and there's nothing like keeping the populace scared (an easy thing to do in the US) to divert their attention from the pig's ear you're making of your term. After all, it worked for Dubya.
- N.Cockburn, Falkirk, UK, 30/10/2010 8:53
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Why does a UK citizen have to attack the "average American"? Why would you make a comment about American intelligence when we are your only real friends in the world? I know it has not always been a bed or roses between our countries; but who can each of us depend upon if not each other? It's that kind of mindless in-fighting that would thrill the wretches that want to kill us both. Save your vitriol for the French, at least they deserve it.
- Benton, Atlanta, USA, 29/10/2010 19:50
Sadly, many in Britain lack the intelligence to understand who our real allies are in the world and get their perverted kicks from bashing all things American. I would much rather count the USA as our ally, than any tin-pot regime. Plus, you are, after all, related to us!
- Andy, Lincs, 30/10/2010 9:10
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These people here are so scared of everything, total emotional wrecks, need drugs to get them through life. An easy target for a take over.
- Karen, ex pat USA, 29/10/2010 19:17
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This is a none story aimed at keeping the sheep afraid. Stinks of propaganda.
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- Richard, Manchester, 29/10/2010 20:05
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More propaganda to keep the sheeple in "terror" mode!
Bottom line = lies, lies and more lies!
- eddie, somewhere, 30/10/2010 9:14
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The second picture down is the circuit board from a mobile phone. You can see where the screen and even the camera lens are..
- M.R, Up North, 30/10/2010 9:40
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But, is it a credable threat? Not trying to be cynical here, but isn't it the mid term elections in the USA next week?
Whenever Bush was in trouble, he upped the Terror Threat. Nothing like every newspaper headline and News bulletin saying "America Under Attack" to take the voting publics mind off just how Badly you are doing....
This isn't the first time we've seen this and it's always at a stage where someone needs your votes!
- James, Glasgow, 29/10/2010 22:37
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whenever someone suggests lowering a security level this seems to happen. The presidents ratings are falling lets make a distraction. Same in politics all over, anyone notice the very large hike in travel tax? No you cant see it for the mirrors
- susan, uk, 30/10/2010 03
It certainly does seem to be an incredible coincidence that this should suddenly happen at the same time as airlines are complaining about excessive security checks, travellers tax hikes and around the same time as Obama needs a poll boost. I am not normally a conspiracy theorist, but the timing couldn't be better for certain people.
- Iain Macdonald, Glasgow, Scotland, 30/10/2010 8:48
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