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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 10:00 AM
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Blair to avoid book protests with US trip
Source: UK telegraph

Tony Blair is to embark on a carefully stage-managed trip to America and Ireland this week to coincide with the publication of his memoirs after being warned he faces protests in this country.

The former prime minister is to attend a dinner at the White House on Wednesday evening and will take part in Middle East peace talks.

He is expected to be accompanied by his wife and children, providing the first family photo opportunity since he left Number 10 more than three years ago.

He will be in America as President Barack Obama makes a major speech to mark the end of US combat operations in Iraq before beginning a renewed attempt to bring peace to the Middle East.

Mr Blair had been due to hold a launch party for his memoirs in London this week, which has now been delayed.

Anti-war protesters had threatened to picket the event and publishing sources were concerned that this may sour the simultaneous release of the book in America, where it is expected to become a best-seller.

Mr Blair will now appear as a world statesman who is once again grappling with major international problems alongside the US president and Middle Eastern leaders. He will then go to Ireland to sign books where he is expected to talk of his role in the Northern Irish peace process.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/tony-blair/7971212/Blair-to-avoid-book-protests-with-US-trip.html
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 10:05 AM
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1. Mr. Blair may rot in hell
for all I care.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 10:15 AM
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2. And he won't get protests here??
Good luck with that
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bherrera Donating Member (600 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 10:25 AM
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3. Ghost writer says either he or his wife are CIA agents
Recruited while in university. This is why the man became a war criminal supporting the USA when it bombed Kosovo and invaded Iraq. He is a secret US agent.
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Bragi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 10:26 AM
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4. I'll buy a copy of his book!
I want to send it as evidence to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

- B
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mainer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 11:44 AM
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5. It's expected to be a huge flop in the UK.
Which explains why Blair promises to donate his royalties to returning UK solders from Iraq. It's a desperate move to encourage book sales, and it's probably not going to work.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 12:31 PM
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6. Blair - Bilderberger Group
Edited on Mon Aug-30-10 12:33 PM by peacetalksforall
From the book The True Story of The Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin:

My wording -
Blair was signed, sealed, and delivered by the Bilderberg Group if the author is correcting alluding the mo of the group.

Attended the 1993 meeting
became party leader in 1994
elected Prime Minister in 1997

(To contrast -----
Clinton attended the 1991 meeting
won the nomination and office in 1992)

NOW here is an interesting quote from the book:

"On December 9, 2001, Professor John McMurty of the University of the Guelph in Canada said this in his opening address at a forum entitled "How Should Canada Respond To Terrorism and War?":

"As such a structure of world rule, it is accomplished by the same financial and media deciders who put Tony Blair into office in Britain and George W. Bush into the White House against a majority vote. Trans-National corporations have marketed and financed these political leaders to ensure that captive states serve them rather than the peoples governments are elected by, guaranteeing through state plenipotentiaries and trans-nationsl trade edicts that governments can no longer govern them in common interest without infringing the new trade and investment laws in which trans-national corporations alone are granted rights."

The way I intepret parts of this are as follows:

+ at a forum: the Bilderberg Group annual weekend meetings are structured around Forums.

+ same financial and media deciders: by financial and media deciders they (must) mean members of the Bilderberg Group - deciders are the attendees who are representing many different organizations - legal, financial, transportation, media, financial, foundation - thik tanks, products, etc, Even AARP and the American Red Cross are represented - so deciders are within the Bilderberg Group.

+ captive states - quick definition from Merriam_Webster - "held under control of another but having the appearance of independence". Who knows if the Bilderberg members and guests use it differently.

+ rather than the peoples governments are elected by - appears to be missing a word - this might have been inteded: rather than the peoples governments THEY are elected by.

+ plenipotentiaries - plenipotentiairy - Merriam Webster: a person and especially a diplomatic agent invested with full power to transact business

+ trans-national trade edicts - assumed to be the Bilderberg Groups edicts
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 01:49 AM
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7. Hey Blair, we hate you here, too.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-31-10 02:16 AM
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8. Somebody needs to arrest this war criminal. n/t
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