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Serco Group

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Serco Group plc
Serco logo.svg
Type
Public limited company
Traded as
LSE: SRP
Industry
Government Services
Founded
1929
Headquarters
Hook, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Key people
Alastair Lyons (Chairman)
Rupert Soames (CEO)
Revenue
£4,288.1 million (2013)[1]
Operating income
£234.3 million (2013)[1]
Net income
£95.4 million (2013)[1]
Employees
100,000 (2013)[2]
Website
www.serco.com
Serco Group plc is a British[3] Outsourcing company based in Hook, Hampshire. Among its operations are public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military and nuclear weapons contracts, detention centres and prisons and schools. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Serco operates in Continental Europe, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and North America, but the majority of its turnover still comes from the UK.

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History[edit]

Serco was founded in 1929 as a United Kingdom division of the Radio Corporation of America and initially provided services to the cinema industry.[4] It changed its name to Serco in 1987[4] and has been a London Stock Exchange listed company since 1988.[4]
On 29 December 2008, Serco completed its acquisition of SI International.[5]
Serco publishes a magazine, Ethos Journal, to stimulate thought and provoke reaction to the big issues shaping the world of public services. Ethos is aimed at public sector leaders, politicians, academics and policy specialists debating the future of public services today.[6]

Tagging[edit]

Serco, as well as its rival G4S, was accused of having overcharged the Ministry of Justice on its contract to tag offenders. It is now under criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over the contract, where the Ministry was allegedly invoiced for tagging work that was never carried out. In some cases this was because the offender was apparently dead. The firm issued a profit warning for 2014 as a result of the costs of becoming embroiled in the electronic tagging scandal. Serco repaid £68.5m to the government for its overcharging on the contract.[7] In May 2014 a Survation poll for campaign group We Own It, found that 63% of respondents thought Serco should be banned from bidding for any new public contracts after the firm was investigated for overcharging on government contracts.[8] We Own It held a protest outside the company's Annual General Meeting on 8 May called 'Sick of Serco'. The group brought sick bags and proposed a Public Service Users Bill that would provide better, more transparently run services.

Home Affairs[edit]

Serco operates the National Border Targeting Centre for the UK Border Agency and provides the Carrier Gateway – the interface between carriers and the Agency.[9]

Transport[edit]

Serco operates London's Docklands Light Railway,[10] Woolwich Ferry[11] and the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme[12] (all for Transport for London), the NorthLink Ferries Northern Isles lifeline ferry service[13] in Scotland. Serco also has a joint venture with Abellio, the international arm of Dutch national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen, to operate passenger trains in the UK: Serco-Abellio has a 25-year concession for Merseyrail in Liverpool and operates Northern Rail services in the north of England.[14] Serco's Home Affairs division, run by Tom Riall, also operates speed camera systems throughout the UK and designs, writes and tests the software that controls the matrix message signs, signals, emergency roadside telephones (SOS) and traffic monitoring on England's motorway network including the National Traffic Control Centre.[15]
It runs Great Southern Railways in Australia.[16][17] Serco also operates the Dubai Metro.[18] Serco formerly operated the Copenhagen Metro with Ansaldo STS, until selling its share with effect from 1 January 2008.[19]
It secured an eight-year contract in 2013 with its Swedish joint venture partner Strömma Tourism & Maritime to operate four Djurgården ferries on behalf of Stockholm County Council and public ferry company Waxholms Ångfartygs.[20]

Science[edit]

Serco manages the UK's National Physical Laboratory.[21][22] and also provides IT Services, Industrial Support and Cryogenic Operations Support and Maintenance at CERN.[23] Serco also was part of a consortium running the National Nuclear Laboratory under contract, until October 2013.[24]

Criminal justice[edit]

In Britain Serco supplies electronic tagging devices for offenders and asylum seekers.[25] It runs four prisons, a Young Offenders Institution and a Secure Training Centre.[26] It also operates two Immigration Removal Centres.[27][28] Serco is also responsible for the contracted-out court escort services in the south-east area (formerly a role undertaken by HM Prison Service).[29]
In September 2013, Serco was accused of extensive sexual abuse cover-ups of immigrants at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre prison in Bedfordshire, England [30]
Serco runs partly privatised Hünfeld Prison in Hesse, Germany.[31]
In Australia Serco runs Acacia Prison in Western Australia[32] and Borallon Correctional Facility in Queensland[33] as well as the national contract for immigration detention centres, including Christmas Island and the Villawood detention centre in Sydney.[34][35]
The Union of Christmas Island Workers highlighted the systemic failure by Serco to manage the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. The centre detains a large number of refugees including 1,000 children.[36] Under Serco, there has been an increase of deaths in custody, self-harm, and of Serco staff beating prisoners. As well, there has been a deterioration of facilities leading to the decline of the physical and the mental health of detainees and of staff. Ombudsman Allan Asher on the Australian radio show AM said, "In the first week of June when I visited Christmas Island, more than 30 incidents of self-harm by detainees held there were reported."[36] Serco, in a staged memo leaked to The Australian, blamed the detainees for "creating a culture of self-harm," in order to use it as a "bargaining tool."[36] The former manager of the Serco run detention centre stated the centre was grossly understaffed whereby it was "typically 15 staff members short every day."[36]
In Auckland, New Zealand Serco runs the Mt Eden remand prison[37] and in March 2012 was awarded the contract to build and operate a 960 bed prison at Wiri.[38]
Serco has a contract with the City of Chicago, Illinois to enforce parking meter regulations.[39]

Defence[edit]

Serco holds defence contracts worldwide including the UK Government's first modern outsourced contract for the maintenance of the UK Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at RAF Fylingdales;[40] contracts are also held for the operation and maintenance of RAF Brize Norton,[41] RAF Halton[42] and RAF Northolt[42] in the UK and RAF Ascension Island in the mid-Atlantic.[42] Serco also provides support services to garrisons in Australia.[43] Serco also manages many aspects of operations at the Defence College of Management and Technology in Shrivenham.[44] Serco is one of three partners in the consortium which manages the Atomic Weapons Establishment.[45] Serco also has a 15-year contract worth £400 million to provide facilities management services to Dstl.[46]
Serco Denholm, a joint venture with the Denholm Group, is responsible for fleet support at the three main UK naval bases, HMNB Portsmouth, HMNB Devonport and HMNB Clyde.[47]

Aviation[edit]

Serco provides air traffic control services at international airports in the United Arab Emirates[48] and at some smaller airports in the USA and Canada.[49][50] Since 2004 Serco have also had £5m a year from the US government to manage airports in Iraq.[51] Serco also operate Scatsta Airport on Shetland.[52] In June 2010 Serco signed a £4million contract to operate all air traffic control services for Coventry Airport.[53]

Health in the UK[edit]

Serco provide facilities management services at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital,[54] Leicester Royal Infirmary,[55] Wishaw General Hospital[56] and at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.[57]
Serco is involved in a joint venture called Viapath, formerly GSTS Pathology, providing pathology services to Guy's and St. Thomas' and King's College NHS trusts.
The company had contract for out-of-hours GP services in Cornwall from which it withdrew in December 2013 after the company left the county short of doctors. The company also said it would stop running Braintree hospital in Essex as it pulled out of managing GP services and large hospitals.[58]
In health services, Serco's difficulties include the poor handling of pathology labs and fatal errors in patient records. At St Thomas' Hospital, the increase in the number of clinical incidents arising from Serco non-clinical management has resulted in patients receiving incorrect and infected blood, as well as patients suffering kidney damage due to Serco providing incorrect data used for medical calculations.[59] A Serco employee later revealed that the company had falsified 252 reports to the National Health Service regarding Serco health services in Cornwall.[60]
It emerged in November 2013, Serco, which won a contract for Suffolk Community Healthcare in 2012, had 72 vacancies after earlier cutting 137 posts. Problems identified by Ipswich and East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group include “staff capacity, skill mix, workload, succession planning and morale, training, communication, mobile working, care co-ordination centre processes, incidents and near miss incidents”.[61]
In April 2014 Serco revealed that it would lose almost £18 million on three of its NHS contracts. The firm has made provisions for losses in its Braintree and Cornwall contracts, which were cancelled early. It has also made provisions for losses in its contract for services in Suffolk. The company claims it will take longer to deliver the operational efficiencies it hoped for, despite saying in May 2013 that it expected to make a profit on the three-year, £140 million contract for community services.[62]

Health in the USA[edit]

In July 2013 Serco was awarded a $1.25 billion contract to manage the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[63]
Serco is one of the 55 contractors hired by United States Department of Health and Human Services to work on the HealthCare.gov web site.[64]

Education[edit]

Serco held a 10-year contract with Bradford City Council between 2001 and 2011 to manage and operate the local education authority,[65] providing education support services to the City's schools. This period was marked with "real problems" according to senior council officials and was taken back in house by the local authority after this period.[66] Serco similarly manages and operates Walsall[67] and Stoke-on-Trent local education authorities.[68] Serco is one of Ofsted's three Regional Inspection Service Providers, responsible for school inspections in the English Midlands.[69] Serco is also the provider of a Student information system, Facility, used in schools and colleges in several countries.[70]

Drivers' licensing[edit]

Serco, through a purpose-made division Serco DES, holds a 10-year, $114 million contract with the Province of Ontario to operate the province's DriveTest driver examination centres. These tests include vision, road, and knowledge tests for all persons seeking to become a licensed automobile driver in the province.[49]

Leisure[edit]

Serco operates a number of leisure centres across the UK including Wet N Wild and the Manchester Aquatics Centre, the aquatic venue for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[71]

Information Technology[edit]

Serco also administers a number of publicly funded websites in the UK, including the Business Link website.[72] It presently runs the IT Infrastructure for the London Borough of Southwark winning the 5-year tender in 2007.[73]

Waste[edit]

Serco operates waste collection services for local councils.[74]

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!!!!! FALSE FLAG? ? ? – AbelDanger: #2036: Marine Links Serco Offender SIMAS Tags to Malaysia’s Triple 7 Deaths by Plane – HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!!

!!!!! FALSE FLAG? ? ? – AbelDanger: #2036: Marine Links Serco Offender SIMAS Tags to Malaysia’s Triple 7 Deaths by Plane – HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!!

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Jean
#2036: Marine Links Serco Offender SIMAS Tags to Malaysia’s Triple 7 Deaths by Plane
Thanks to J.
Plum City – (AbelDanger.net): United States Marine Field McConnell has linked Serco’s use of agents in the Offender’s Tag Association to input data into the State Department’s Security Incident Management Analysis System (SIMAS), to the Malaysian government’s failure to respond to his warnings of a Serco death by plane service out of Chicago and the allegedly-related crash of the Triple 7 Boeing (777-200ER) of MH Flight 17 in east Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
McConnell claims Serco director Baginski – a former NSA / FBI intelligence director – is giving out edited SIMAS timelines to BBC script kiddies to generate the perception of MH 17 being shot down by a missile and so divert attention from the State Department’s sponsorship of a Serco death by plane service out of the Boeing headquarters in Chicago.
Prequel 1: #2034: Marine Links Baginski Matrix Clock to Serco OOOI-Parking, Boeing SIMAS Murder
Malaysian AirPlane Crashed In Ukraine Boeing777 MH 17 
Crashed in Ukraine 17 July 2014
  
“What Happened at the State Dep’t Briefing After the Plane Crash in Ukraine Had Shepard Smith Disgustedly Calling It ‘Highly Inappropriate’
Jul. 17, 2014 1:56pm Jonathon M. Seidl 

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith could not hide his disgust regarding how State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki began the agency’s daily press briefing on the heels of a Malaysian Airlines plane going down over Ukraine. 

“Well this is just highly inappropriate I would say,” Smith said. He was reacting to Psaki starting the press briefing going over normal business and talking bout elections in Afghanistan instead of starting with reaction to the breaking crash news. 

“Each day the State Department has a briefing. Each day there are State Department reporters who are there, that is their beat, they are assigned to be there. And you get a long list of things that are going on over the world and then you get to ask questions. Today, a Malaysian Airlines jet has fallen from the sky over a war zone and the State Department is beginning with routing matters. You figure it out. I can’t figure that out.” 

“Jennifer Griffen,” he said, throwing it to one of the network’s reporters, “I can’t believe what just happened.” 

“That’s the State Department, Shep. I’m not surprised,” she responded with slight disgust. 

A few minutes later Psaki did address the crash and take questions about it.”

“[BBC] Malaysia jet crashes in east Ukraine conflict zone
Amateur footage purportedly shows smoke rising from the scene of the crash.
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A Malaysian airliner carrying 295 people has crashed in east Ukraine on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, amid allegations it was shot down. 

Bodies are scattered around what is believed to be the wreckage of the jet near the village of Grabovo, which is under the control of separatist rebels. 

Flight MH17 had been due to enter Russian airspace when contact was lost. 

Ukraine’s president called the loss of the plane an “act of terrorism” as the rebels denied shooting it down. 

The separatists are believed to have shot down two Ukrainian military planes over the region in recent days. 

There is no official closure of Ukraine airspace but Germany’s Lufthansa, Air France and Turkish Airlines are all now avoiding eastern Ukraine. 

The crash site in Ukraine
Emergency workers at the scene
Flight MH17 leaving Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, on Thursday afternoon 
The upper floor of Schiphol Airport is closed for media and reserved for family and relatives of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 

A staff member sits behind a closed Malaysia Airlines desk at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 

Analysis: Jonathan Beale, BBC News A defence expert has told the BBC that shooting down a plane at 10,000m (32,000ft) would have required a long-range surface-to-air missile — possibly guided by radar. That suggests it is unlikely it could have been downed by a portable air defense missile, or Manpad, which has a much shorter range. 

The only other possibility is for an aircraft at that height to be downed by a fighter carrying air-to-air missiles. 

The US will have access to satellite imagery that should be able to identify ultra-violet plumes if a long-range surface-to-air missile was fired. Russia’s emergency services have reportedly asked the Ukrainian government for permission to work at the crash site. 

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak spoke of his shock and said he was launching an immediate inquiry into the crash. 

US President Barack Obama has said the crash of the airliner was a “terrible tragedy” and that US officials were trying to establish if any Americans had been on board. 

Mr Obama spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the crash earlier, the Kremlin said in a statement (in Russian). 

‘Then a bang’ 

The plane fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighboring region of Donetsk. 

Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the plane had been hit by a missile at an altitude of 10,000m (32,000ft). The claim could not be verified independently. 

At least 100 bodies have been found so far at the scene, an emergencies worker told Reuters news agency at the scene, with wreckage spread across an area of up to about 15km (nine miles) in diameter. 

Broken pieces of the wings were marked with blue and red paint – the same colors as the emblem of the Malaysian airline, the agency said. 

The BBC’s David Stern in Kiev: “Everybody at this point is denying any type of involvement in the crash.” 

“I was working in the field on my tractor when I heard the sound of a plane and then a bang and shots,” a witness called Vladimir told Reuters. “Then I saw the plane hit the ground and break in two. There was thick black smoke.” A separatist rebel from nearby Krasnyi Luch who gave his name as Sergei said: “From my balcony I saw a plane begin to descend from a great height and then heard two explosions.” 

Denials 

Ukraine has accused Russia’s military of supplying advanced missiles to the rebels. Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian officials blamed the Russian air force for shooting down one of its ground attack jets on Wednesday, and a transport plane on Monday. 

Confirming the crash, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said: “The Ukrainian armed forces did not attempt to shoot down targets in the air.” 

Separatist leader Alexander Borodai accused the government of downing the airliner itself. 

“Apparently, it’s a passenger airliner indeed, truly shot down by the Ukrainian air force,” he told Russia’s state-run Rossiya 24 TV broadcaster. 

The UK Foreign Office said it was aware of the reports of the crash and was “urgently working to establish what has happened”. 

Russia implicated? 

Aviation expert: “If this was a shoot down… it would have to have been quite a sophisticated air defence system”.

Sir Tony Brenton, a former UK ambassador to Russia, told BBC News it would not be a huge surprise if suspicion initially fell on the rebels. 

“That would be very damaging both for them and for their Russian supporters,” he said. “The Russians have undoubtedly been supplying them with weapons, almost certainly with anti-aircraft weapons, so Russia would very likely be implicated and that would raise the volume of international criticism of Russia.” 

This is also the second plane crash involving a Malaysian airliner this year, following the disappearance of Flight MH370 to Beijing in March. 

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 – Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
Aircraft: Boeing 777-200ER
Crew: 15
Passengers: 280
Left Amsterdam: 10:15 GMT
Lost contact: 14:15 GMT at 10,000m (33,000ft)” 

“U.S. Embassies: World Wide Spy Platform

By Wayne Madsen -Via: Online Journal

With revelations that U.S. embassies in Oslo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm have carried out spying operations against the host citizens of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden from the respective embassies, comes news to WMR that the system carrying out the secret surveillance — the Security Incident Management Analysis System or SIMAS – not only also spies on citizens of the two Nordic partners of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, namely Iceland and Finland, from U.S. embassies in Reykjavik and Helsinki, respectively, but spies on individuals from all U.S. embassies and consulates around the world — from Santiago, Chile, and Canberra, Australia, to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to Maputo, Mozambique. The Finnish paper, Helsingin Sanomat, is reporting that the Finnish Security Police (SUPO) has asked U.S. authorities about the activities of SIMAS in Helsinki. One nation that has adopted a sanguine reaction to the U.S. embassy spy program is Denmark, described by one intelligence insider as a “zone of control” for U.S. surveillance activities in Scandinavia. The cooperation between the U.S. and Denmark in surveillance operations began under Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and it was one of the reasons he was rewarded by Washington with the job of Secretary General of NATO. The Norwegian and Swedish governments have demanded answers to questions from U.S. authorities about SIMAS spying but State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley, a retired Air Force colonel who has historically been assigned by the CIA to oversee the Clintons, whether at the White House or, now, at the State Department, claimed that the government of Norway had been informed by the United States of SIMAS surveillance from a Surveillance Detection Unit (SDU) located in a building near the U.S. embassy in Oslo. On November 4, Crowley was asked at a State Department press conference about his earlier statement that Norway had been informed about SIMAS. The question and answer session: 

“Q . . . on Monday when I asked you, you said that the Norwegian Government was aware of these activities. They say they are not. So who’s lying here?” 

A. “I’m, we, the security of our Embassy involves cooperation between our security officials and Norwegian security officials. Ill just stand by those words.” 

Q. “But why have you hired a building outside Norwegian your Embassy in Norway, in Oslo, and filled it with Norwegian police officers and also Norwegian military officers?” 

A. “That’s a better question to ask our Embassy. I haven’t been there in a while, so I can’t provide you any insight.” 

Q. “But just to follow up. But both the State Department in Norway and also the Justice Department in Norway said they’re not aware that you have some activities outside your Embassy building. Why haven’t you informed the Norwegian Government?” 

A. “Well, look, embassy diplomatic posts all over the world are ripe targets for a terrorist attack, whether they’re U.S. embassies, whether they are the embassies of other governments. It is right and proper that we would take appropriate steps to protect our diplomatic posts anywhere around the world, and we would expect any government to do the same, whether it’s somewhere over out overseas or here in the United States. So we have a program [SIMAS] where we look carefully to make to evaluate if we believe our Embassy is under observation and potentially under threat. We share that information across the United States Government. But as appropriate, we share that information with our host government partners. The essence of addressing this challenge which confronts the United States and other countries in the West is the very kind of intelligence cooperation and law enforcement cooperation that has been a hallmark of our alliances for a number of years. So how much the host nation government knows about specific activities, I can’t say. But everything that we do is fully consistent with our security arrangements that we have with any host nation government anywhere in the world, including Norway.” 

Q. “Can I just follow up? Is there written agreements about this –” 

A. “I can’t say. At this point, I would just defer further questions back to our Embassy in Norway.” 

Media reports that U.S. embassy spying on civilians has been going on for the past 10 years, since 2000. A State Department Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) submitted on January 5, 2010, states “The Security Incident Management and Analysis System (SIMAS) is a worldwide Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) web-based application, which serves as a repository for all suspicious activity and crime reporting from U.S. Diplomatic Missions abroad (all U.S. embassies and consulates). Department of State personnel, including Diplomatic Security personnel, regional security officers, and cleared foreign nationals, enter Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) into SIMAS as a central repository for all physical security incidents overseas. SIMAS Reports typically contain a detailed narrative description of the suspicious activity prompting the report, available suspicious person(s) and vehicle descriptors, and other identification data as may be available (e.g. photographs). Reports also indicate date, time and location of suspicious activity, and may include amplifying comments from relevant Bureau offices.” 

In other words, SIMAS is global and, in some cases, cleared nationals of foreign nations have access to the SIMAS system. The State Department was recruiting local foreign nationals to work with SIMAS in Accra, Ghana; Bujumbura, Burundi; and Sydney, Australia. Even U.S. citizens abroad are subjected to being subjected to spying by SIMAS. The PIA also states: “SIMAS collects and maintains the following types of PII [personally-identifiable information]on members of the public, foreign nationals, U.S. government employees, and contractors who are identified as being directly or indirectly involved in or associated with suspicious activities and/or criminal allegations near USG property. All types of information may not be collected on each specific group of individuals. However, it may be possible for all forms of PII to be collected on an individual.” 

Translating the government gobbledygook language, while SIMAS is not authorized to collect certain types of data on groups or individuals, when it comes to each individual, anything is fair game. 

At the very least, SIMAS contains data on: gender, race, height, weight, eye color, skin tone, hair color, hair style, images, age or estimated age, body type (build), scars, marks, tattoos, name, address, date of birth, telephone number, father’s name, and mother’s name, citizenship status and Information. 

SIMAS data is also shared with the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Department of Agriculture, Department of Treasury, Department of Defense (including the National Security Agency), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Health and Human Services, the Capitol Police, and all other US embassies and consulates around the world. 

Although the PIA states that SIMAS data is retained by the Diplomatic Security Bureau according to a set retention schedule and is not shared for purposes other than crime and terrorism prevention, the same cannot be said for the other agencies that access and retain SIMAS data, including the CIA, FBI, and NSA. 

The State Department PIA concludes that “SIMAS has been designed to minimize risk to privacy data.” That is hard to believe considering the global access permitted to the system, as well as the fact that not only do a dozen or more U.S. agencies have access to the data but so also do foreign nationals. 

So, if you are in Winnipeg or Warsaw, Lusaka or Lisbon, or Malabo or Paramaribo, and you stroll past the U.S. embassy or consulate, “smile, you’re on clandestine camera and now in the SIMAS database.” 

- See more at: http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/u-s-embassies-world-wide-spy-platform/#sthash.5xWJOG17.dpuf” 

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Malaysia Flight MH17 May Never Have Taken Off.-(Images)

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Malaysia Flight MH17 May Never Have Taken Off.-(Images)
Posted By: RobertS
Date: Thursday, 17-Jul-2014 17:07:01

Malaysia Flight MH17 May Never Have Taken Off.
I have read Gaian's thread of BREAKING: Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash? Flight Reportedly Crashes In Ukraine
The ways of finding things, and to looking carefully at all the images. I still be amazed at the amplifying for the control of our minds, and emotions.
From Jim Stone ---July 17, 2014.

July 17 2014

Now confirmed and therefore top posted


Heads up: Flightradar24.com which is the defining site for flight history says MH17 was canceled and never departed, with no departure time listed. Hmmm . . . . . Good cover for flight 370? Not enough substance to make a call on that one, but this is something to make note of at least. The site is down now, possibly overwhelmed? That is OK, I got a photograph of this.



Malaysia airlines MH17 777 flight 370 clone from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpoor shot down at border between Ukraine and Russia


A malaysian jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by either Russia or Ukraine. The plane has now been declared shot down, and the media is doing its best to blame Russia. What a GREAT WAY to dispose of flight 370 if Flightradar24.com is actually right about this!
UPDATE: Flight "MH17" was being escorted by two fighter jets up until shoot down, which would be PERFECT if it was in fact a zombie 370 under remote control to its final death. This is covered more farther down the page.


And speaking about false flags, remember that Flight 370 clone in Tel Aviv? and do not forget about the 777 that was stopped by the Dutch from crashing the nuclear summit right after flight 370 vanished, as this web site predicted was likely to happen.


Missile system identified

The jet was shot down by a BUK missile. The American press is being quick to blame Russia, but is failing to mention that Ukraine had a large supply of these. And that says a lot - it pretty much proves that 1. The Ukraine uprising had American/Israeli roots and that 2. the real goal is war with Russia, after all if it was not, why struggle to blame them?

Video of smoke from crash


Interesting tidbit - Planes first flight was on July 17 1997 and was shot down on the anniversary of TWA flight 800 . . .


McCain: "HELL TO PAY" if plane shot down


Sure a lot of debris from this Malaysian airlines flight. Why so little for flight 93 in Pennsylvania?



Usually the media will scrub body pics from crash photos, not true with this photo and I beg to question why? These types of photos in crashes never make it out, and I have now confirmed multiple news sources are posting these. WHY NOW? The media is quick to blame Russia for this, but I doubt it was Russia when this plane was shot 50 miles inside of Ukraine. But then again what about those three Israeli teens? This could be "useful" . . . . .


Unconfirmed but interesting: Air traffic controller claims plane was being escorted bytwo Ukrainian fighter jets right before shoot down. This is unconfirmed, but worth adding to the mix.


When so much is "known" about what went on so soon after any event, a false flag is virtually guranteed. With Russia already being blamed in the MSM, I suggest people consider a different culprit.


Here is a quote from a forum that says it all:

"The debris is still smoking, and the liar MSM has ALL the answers already? (including the type missile "used"?). How? Again: HOW? Fox News was there??
The truly stupid dupe here is YOU swallowing the MSM bullshit hook, line and sinker.
Obviously, you are utterly unable to THINK; you stick your stupid face on the TV screen and swallow all the garbage coming through, without an ounce of critical thinking."

I agree exactly. The reporting has all the hallmarks of 911 reporting, where the "target" was named and convicted on DAY ONE. THAT is the biggest indicator that this was indeed a false flag.


Additional info as it comes in (copy paste links)


Jordan sent:

I found something else interesting about this. Flight 777 was being escorted by 2 Ukrainian fighter jets until just before the "disappearance." The air traffic control tower was then taken over by foreign personnel.

https://twitter.com/spainbuca/status/489813837013848065

https://twitter.com/spainbuca/status/489815416701984769

https://twitter.com/spainbuca/status/489816898545012736

https://twitter.com/spainbuca/status/489817106259927041

My comment: What about an escort for flight 370? Would that not be ideal for remote control to its death? 

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Obama Warns Fellow Democrat to Pipe Down

2014-07-17

Obama Warns Fellow Democrat to Pipe Down

Vatic Note:  I am sure that Obama does not want any criticism, since that would ruin their whole plan on why they created the crisis.  We did an earlier blog proving that this is and was and continues to be a false flag event that Homeland Security was involved with.

It was their "white" busses that carried these children into America.   In fact the article we posted made it clear these kids were kidnapped and were not seeking to even come to the US, much less stay here.  I bet they want to be home with their families.

Oh, thats right, "Families" is a dirty word to Obama's handlers since most are khazars and worship the phallic symbol as we showed in another blog several years back.  That is why they do some of the perverted things they do, that we have discussed in detail.   Those perverted things they do, ruin families, so the state can take over as primary caretaker. 

This was a brave man to stand up to Obama's "Handlers" rather than just shut his mouth and be quiet.  Those who speak out are found at times to lose their lives for doing so, especially in criticizing White House Policy, defense dept or even congress.  It makes re-election for the dual Israeli citizens difficult and they do not like that.

Obama Warns Fellow Democrat to Pipe Down
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Obama Warns Fellow Democrat to Pipe Down


In an interview with Fox & Friends Wednesday, Representative Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) told the hosts that the White House isn’t happy about his outspoken criticism of the President. Cuellar has had little choice but to criticize the administration over its lackadaisical approach to border control, but it appears the White House wants him to keep his mouth shut. The hosts asked him if he’d received a tongue-lashing from the Obama camp.

“Yes, I have,” Cuellar said. “But let me just say that I’m more concerned not about who gets angry at me at the White House; I’m more concerned about my constituents who want to find a practical solution to this question that we’re facing down there at the border.”

Cuellar declined to tell the program who it was that had called and didn’t elaborate on the message he received, but the point was made. It didn’t have an effect on the Democratic House member’s criticism of the situation, however – a crisis that is threatening to have an indelible impact on Obama’s second-term legacy.

Speaking to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, Cuellar maintained his message that Obama was shirking his duties in not paying a visit to the Texas/Mexico border.  

“Let me say this: when I saw, and I hate to use the word bizarre, but under the circumstances, when he is shown playing pool in Colorado, drinking a beer, and he can’t even go 242 miles to the Texas border, and plus, if he doesn’t want to go down to the border, there’s the Air Force Base where HHS is holding some of the young kids from the border. He could at least make that trip to San Antonio, but again, border community leaders want to see him down there on the border, and I think the optics and the substance of it is that he should show up at the border.”

Obama’s trip to Colorado got plenty of mainstream coverage yesterday with several news outlets reporting that he was offered a hit of marijuana at one of the local bars he visited. Of course, this story is a lightweight one, aimed at painting the picture of the fun man-of-the-people that Obama has had a more difficult time living up to then many predicted. Meanwhile, though, it can’t be ignored that there is a serious problem with the administration’s take on illegal immigration and border control, and all of the pot in Denver isn’t going to make people forget Obama’s failures.

Henry Cuellar may be reprimanded for speaking out against the president, but a small tide of growing concern is going to develop into a full-blown controversy if he doesn’t get a handle on the problem in the next couple of weeks. Immigration isn’t something that can be solved overnight, but the President’s plan of action seems to be headed in the wrong direction.

Hispanic communities have already reached out to the administration, encouraging him to grant temporary legal status to more than 10 million undocumented aliens. If he should take their advice, we can expect to see the situation at the border worsen in the coming months.  (VN:  yes, and a dramatic DROP in your wages and salary due to competing for jobs with those who worked as slave labor in Mexico for generations.  Nice future they have planned for us.)
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