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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:44 AM
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Cherie to hold 50th bash on September 11
Snip from ITV.com

Cherie Blair has justified her decision to hold her 50th birthday party on September 11 - the third anniversary of the US terror attacks.

Mrs Blair, whose actual birthday is on September 23, is holding a "low-key" private party for her family and old friends at Chequers on Saturday.

In an interview she said: "The trouble was the only weekend we could get all the family together was the 11th of September so I didn't really want to have the party before my birthday but it was either that or no party at all."

On the actual birthday, Mrs Blair is presenting an award for grandparent of the year and holding a reception for her main charities, the newspaper reports.

http://www.itv.com/news/index_1398225.html

Good taste straight down the toilet pan or flaming impudence for UK 9/11 intelligence whitewash supremo????
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:48 AM
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1. Well, since the September 11 attacks didn't happen in England
I don't see this as particularly "impudent" or a breach of "good taste." After all, I'm sure that a lot of celebrating goes on in the United States on days that hold particularly bad memories for other populations around the world. July 4 comes to mind.
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pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 11:06 AM
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25. you forget that many killed in the twin towers
were citizens of U.K. with British companies. There were memorial services all over England post 9/11 and the British regarded the day as much as thier tragedy as it was ours. As usual, Cherie and the over priviliged types on both sides of the Atlantic think of nothing else except their own selfish interests.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:50 AM
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2. Big deal.
Life is for the alive.

It is possible to memorialize, respect, and honor victims of the terrorist attacks without turning the DATE into some sacred cow.

It is also possible to remember the victims on the other 364 days of the year, as many of us do.
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KitSileya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 10:08 AM
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3. Well, it's not as if people weren't having parties on 9/11
before 2001 without worrying about offending Chile.

Even if it's a day that will live in infamy in American history, like Dec. 7th and many others, we can't cottonwrap specific dates - we'll end up being unable to do anything on any date. I doubt those who perished on Sept 11th will be offended, and as was pointed out, we do remember them on all the days of the year, as we should.

KitSileya
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 10:14 AM
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4. The Spoof lays it on the line....
Blair throws lavish bash for 9/11cover-up mastermind


Downing Street, Friday - (Rioters) The gold-leaf embossed, guilt-edged party invitations stand proud on the mantlepieces of some of the UK's worst fraudsters, money launderers, terrorists, perjurers, blackmailers and George W Bush sycophants tonight as the Prime Minister prepares to throw a lavish champagne reception for his wife's 50th birthday at the official countryside residence of Chequers on the third anniversary of the 9/11 massacre in Lower Manhattan.

Lord Sainsbury, Lord Levy, Sir Richard Branson, Gordon Brown, Andrew Parker Bowles, Lord Irvine, Alastair Campbell and Sir John Scarlett head the A List of smug got-away-with-it felons, confident of their criminal histories being forever whitewashed under Peter Mandelson's Good Friday Agreement and underpinned by the UK's notorious paedophile charter, the Data Protection Act (Soham Amendment, Ian Huntley clause).

The Cristal Brut is already on ice as Cherie and her best friend Carole Caplin spend the day having their blackheads sandblasted, their cellulite pummelled and recent botox implants topped up in preparation for what is already being billed as THE gala reception of the year.
More:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i6555
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antigop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 11:11 AM
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8. emad -- couple of questions
>> being forever whitewashed under Peter Mandelson's Good Friday Agreement and underpinned by the UK's notorious paedophile charter, the Data Protection Act (Soham Amendment, Ian Huntley clause).
>>

1) Can you explain the Data Protection Act and the Good Friday Agreement?

2) You seem to think (from my reading of other threads)that somehow all of the evil may come out some day. Do you really think so, if it's been kept quiet for so long?
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 09:46 AM
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21. The Good Friday Agreement continued the Reagan/Bush 1
inspired Thatcher policy of cover-up by UK security/intelligence services of convicted fraudsters/money launderers/thieves who financed or helped organise terrorist bombings on UK mainland during the Cold War that were attributed to "IRA", "Provisional IRA", "Real IRA" etc.

Many of these bombing atrocities - viz The Regents Park Bandstand bomb which killed seven military bandsmen, civilian on-lookers and was targeting UK-domiciled members of Harry S Truman's family - were branded as works of Irish extremists but are known to be the work of mercenaries drawn from convicted felons with axes to grind, in particular members of the UK armed forces who had been court-marshalled for paedophile sex crimes and had served proson sentences in the UK.

One such notable felon was Robert Maxwell who was given that new identity by MI6, complete with supposed original Czech passport papers in the name of Jan Koch, winner of the prestigeous Military Cross in WWII, in return for signing gagging orders implicating the role of the Pentagon in silencing sex crimes by GIs in the UK during WWII and later in the cold war era.

Others were also given new IDs and scaled the greasy pole in public life while acting as mercenaries for MI6's dirty tricks operations which, after Thatcher's second term of office began in 1983, focused on assasinations of all those who knew that she had been hired by Reagan and Bush 1 to attempt a coup d'etat in the UK, p
Data Protection Act: last year a 29 year old school janitor who was sex offender Ian Huntley was sentenced to two life terms for the brutal murder of ten year olds Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells. A post-trial police enquiry estabished that social workers, teachers, local and regional police and faily aid groups had all previously given evidence to his lengthy run of sex attacks on young girls. it also established that the reason he was able to get a job in a girls school was because Humberside police had erased all this evidence from his criminal file under the excuse that it might contravene his human rights "under the UK Data Protection Act". This caused a furore and resulted in the Chief Constable David Westwood being sacked from his job.

That is one example of the kind of cover-up that the UK has witnessed during the last 40-50 years as far as the whitewashing of paedophilia is concerned. Not dount the US Catholic Church sex abuse scandals may draw a parallel story.

Evil coming out one day: the most extensive cover-up of US/UK collusion of sex offenders who became terrorist mercenaries is detailed in two current trials: in Rome, City of London police sumbitted earlier this year over 70 crates of evidence about the P2 Lodge, its paedohpile activities in the 1960s-80s, the mercenaries they hired to do their work and the politicians, bankers, judges, socialites etc etc they hired/bribed to do their dirty work. This evidence had been previously withheld under the guise of the UKUSA agreement. The Rome trial resumes this autumn after a recess that gave prosecutors a chance to finally see the full extent of the corruption that blocked all true investigation into this sex ring.

The second trial is the UK BCCI class action where the creditors are finally suing the Bank of England for £1 billion for collusion in the corruption that led to the collapse of BCCI. The evidence against UK politicians under the Thatcher era is overwhelming and merely extends what the Banco Ambrosiano factfiles assert. It also gives the historical roots of the P2 Lodge and shows how via BCCI the rganisation known as Al Qaeda is merely an Islamic branch of the P2, cultivated by the US hydrocarbons industry, covered up by the CIA, MI6, Mossad etc and bankrolled by the proceeds of cocaine and heroid trafficking.

Hope this gives a snapshot picture, antigop!

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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 10:20 AM
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5. I don't blame people in other parts of the world for going about their
business on 9/11.

That said, this is a bit of a political gaffe.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 10:39 AM
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6. As a new Yorker I find this a so ridiculous - is 911 some Holly day ?
Edited on Fri Sep-10-04 10:44 AM by robbedvoter
Just because W is running on it, is the world obligated to mourn for the rest of the eternity?
because, us, New Yorkers are partying.


http://septemberconcert.org/event.html

This BS is in the line with bashing the Wellstone memorial. Snap out of it, people!
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Demonaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 10:51 AM
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7. Cherie has been chided for being outspoken against the war
let her have it whenever she wants
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peach720 Donating Member (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 11:52 AM
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9. 9/11 is not something that requires endless memorial programmes,
In the UK. It happened, it was horrible but it is not a day of national mourning. Sports will be played, the TV schedules will show the normal Saturday rubbish.9/11 has no baring on Tony Blair's re-election campaign either. If 9/11 is to be a continual day of mourning, the UK would have to do the same thing for every aniversery of every IRA bombing.It is not the British way of doing things. There is no reason why Cherie Blair should not have her birthday party on that day, especially as it is a private party. All the best to her, for her 50th Birthday.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 12:01 PM
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10. It is not a sacred date, especially in Britain. So what?
I wish, more importantly, her law office would get on with drafting those Blair impeachment papers.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 12:43 PM
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11. Happy Birthday Cherie,


:hi:
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 09:55 AM
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22. Hope neither of you gets cross-infected....
but if you ever dump old Poodle.................
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 12:49 PM
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12. I just read in the paper
that no weddings are scheduled in local churches for September 11, which would usually be a sought after date this time of year.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 04:45 PM
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15. Same reason, people don't get married on December 7 - bad luck
Edited on Fri Sep-10-04 04:51 PM by robbedvoter
not eternal mourning for Pearl Harbour.
Cherrie is anti-war? Then it makes even more sense that she would be attacked in these freeperish ways. What stuns me is why DU-ers align themselves with UK freepers.
It's quite arrogant to expect people around the word (or anyone else except yourself) do do the things you want on 911.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHERRIE! (AND HAVE A GREAT PARTY!)
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 10:12 AM
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26. Her birthday is on 23 September.....
timing is everything when someone's desperate...
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 10:17 AM
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27. Desperate? My dear, Cherie didn't start this thread, subject
I an not interested in the reasons for your fixation with this woman. I can't believe that this stupid thread is still going! It's September 12 already - I hope she had a great time. STOP IT!
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 10:42 AM
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29. Stupid thread, stupid cherry bush, stupid anniversary stories
hope next week's a winner too
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 09:56 AM
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23. As a mark of respect from ordinary people who recognise evil
wherever it rears its ugly.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 01:19 PM
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13. Gee, I dunno, but
I don't have a BD party every year, or even one for my 50th. :shrug:
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 04:47 PM
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16. Should we ask Cherrie to send you a birthday cake? SHEESH!
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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 02:06 PM
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14. We have huge celebrations on Memorial Day
People outside the country might view that kind of decadence as in poor taste for a Holiday in commemoration of soldiers who have died.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 05:26 PM
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17. Big Deal.
I'm planning on going for a bike ride tomorrow,and maybe help my ESSO cut the grass.

Sorry for not spending the day in penitence beating my chest black and blue going "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!"

The Dead are dead. let them rest in peace, I think....
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 06:26 PM
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18. Bike? How very improper! Where is the outrage?
Yup. One of my pet peeves: the arbiters of what's proper. I always see red when faced with this!:grr:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 06:32 PM
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19. A bike ride? You unfeeling bastard!
How do you expect Chimpy to raise the victims from the dead (I think it's in Revelations somewhere -- lemme double-check my "Left Behind" books) if you're off lollygagging around on a bicycle???
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 06:38 PM
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20. Good grief. Give it a rest, why don't you?
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shadu Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-04 10:17 AM
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24. She has been an outspoken advocate for Palestine, I like that
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dansolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 10:19 AM
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28. Unless Osama bin Laden is on the guest list
I don't see what the big deal is.
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