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'''John Goss''' is a writer, journalist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, paper-maker, song-writer and home-maker. He writes extensively for the ''News Junkie Post''.<ref>[http://newsjunkiepost.com/author/johngoss/ "''News Junkie Post'' archive by John Goss"]</ref>
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'''John Goss''' is a writer, journalist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, paper-maker, song-writer and home-maker. He has written extensively for the ''News Junkie Post''.<ref>''[http://newsjunkiepost.com/author/johngoss/ "''News Junkie Post'' archive by John Goss"]''</ref>
  
 
In reply to the question "Why does the SNP fear [[Craig Murray]]?" posed by 'Anonymous' on the ''SCOTgoesPOP!'' website, John Goss wrote:
 
In reply to the question "Why does the SNP fear [[Craig Murray]]?" posed by 'Anonymous' on the ''SCOTgoesPOP!'' website, John Goss wrote:
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:[[Craig Murray]] is also a whistle-blowing diplomat. [[Patrick Haseldine]] is a whistle-blowing diplomat.
 
:[[Craig Murray]] is also a whistle-blowing diplomat. [[Patrick Haseldine]] is a whistle-blowing diplomat.
 
:Now whether [[Morag Kerr|Morag]] has been recruited by any of [[MI5|our secret services]], who incidentally do not have a reputation for telling the truth, I have no way of knowing. Certainly her behaviour towards whistle-blowers is uncannily like what would be expected of a spook.
 
:Now whether [[Morag Kerr|Morag]] has been recruited by any of [[MI5|our secret services]], who incidentally do not have a reputation for telling the truth, I have no way of knowing. Certainly her behaviour towards whistle-blowers is uncannily like what would be expected of a spook.
:We are so indebted to whistle-blowers like [[Julian Assange]], [[Edward Snowden]], [[Craig Murray]] and [[Patrick Haseldine]] for having the courage to, as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox George Fox] put it, "Speak truth to Power."<ref>[http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/craig-murray.html?showComment=1420284572106#c1833371975412777289 "We are so indebted to whistle-blowers who 'Speak truth to Power'"]</ref>
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:We are so indebted to whistle-blowers like [[Julian Assange]], [[Edward Snowden]], [[Craig Murray]] and [[Patrick Haseldine]] for having the courage to, as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox George Fox] put it, "Speak truth to Power."<ref>''[http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/craig-murray.html?showComment=1420284572106#c1833371975412777289 "We are so indebted to whistle-blowers who 'Speak truth to Power'"]''</ref>
  
 
==Libyan oil and blood==
 
==Libyan oil and blood==
 
[[File:Tony_Buckingham.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Buccaneering businessman [[Tony Buckingham]] ]]
 
[[File:Tony_Buckingham.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Buccaneering businessman [[Tony Buckingham]] ]]
 
On 29 January 2013, John Goss published an article entitled "Libya: Lubricating the Oil Magnates With Blood" which was focused on buccaneering businessman [[Tony Buckingham]]:
 
On 29 January 2013, John Goss published an article entitled "Libya: Lubricating the Oil Magnates With Blood" which was focused on buccaneering businessman [[Tony Buckingham]]:
:"Tony Buckingham’s history is as shady as Benghazi’s is colourful. Buckingham has added to his multi-millions using mercenary deals in Africa through a company called [[Executive Outcomes]] and an associated company called [[Sandline|Sandline Holdings]]. Sandline’s activities were concentrated in areas of Angola and Sierra Leone; Buckingham added to his wealth from the diamond mines of these two countries via his Canadian companies Diamond Works and Branch Energy. [[Executive Outcomes]] was set up by [[Eeben Barlow]], the man [[Patrick Haseldine]] believes was behind the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]]. Before Buckingham moved primarily into oil through his company, [[Heritage Oil]], he was implicated in mercenary activities throughout Africa, and other countries, with a close-knit private military cabal including Captain [[Tim Spicer]] and his former business partner in oil and security companies [[Simon Mann]]. Mann was imprisoned for trying to engineer a [[coup d’état]] in [[Equatorial Guinea]], an adventure that was funded by [[Mark Thatcher]], son of former Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]]."<ref>[http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/01/29/libya-lubricating-the-oil-magnates-with-blood/ "Libya: Lubricating the Oil Magnates With Blood"]</ref>
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:"Tony Buckingham’s history is as shady as Benghazi’s is colourful. Buckingham has added to his multi-millions using mercenary deals in Africa through a company called [[Executive Outcomes]] and an associated company called [[Sandline|Sandline Holdings]]. Sandline’s activities were concentrated in areas of Angola and Sierra Leone; Buckingham added to his wealth from the diamond mines of these two countries via his Canadian companies Diamond Works and Branch Energy. [[Executive Outcomes]] was set up by [[Eeben Barlow]], the man [[Patrick Haseldine]] believes was behind the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]]. Before Buckingham moved primarily into oil through his company, [[Heritage Oil]], he was implicated in mercenary activities throughout Africa, and other countries, with a close-knit private military cabal including Captain [[Tim Spicer]] and his former business partner in oil and security companies [[Simon Mann]]. Mann was imprisoned for trying to engineer a [[coup d’état]] in [[Equatorial Guinea]], an adventure that was funded by [[Mark Thatcher]], son of former Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]]."<ref>''[http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/01/29/libya-lubricating-the-oil-magnates-with-blood/ "Libya: Lubricating the Oil Magnates With Blood"]''</ref>
  
 
==Dark forces at work==
 
==Dark forces at work==
 
[[File:Dr Rola.png|200px|right|thumb|[[Dr Rola]] and the dark forces]]
 
[[File:Dr Rola.png|200px|right|thumb|[[Dr Rola]] and the dark forces]]
On 8 October 2013, in a comment on [[Craig Murray]]'s blog about a "Fake BBC Video" of [[Dr Rola]],<ref>[http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/10/fake-bbc-video/ "Fake BBC Video"]</ref> John Goss wrote that "Distortion of the news, and suppression of non-government opinion, in [[Corporate media|mainstream media]], is nothing new. There are those who comment here who think the mainstream media presents balanced reporting, but they are here, largely, for a purpose. I’ve just been reading the Wikispooks blog on [[Sanya Popovic#Sanya's diplomatic gaffe|Sanya Popovic]], betrothed girlfriend to UN diplomat, [[Bernt Carlsson]], who died aboard the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie plane]]. An interesting aspect of those who do not want a public inquiry into Lockerbie is the way they restrict the opinions of [[Patrick Haseldine]], a former British diplomat, without giving him a voice ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PatrickHaseldine3K.jpg since 1993]). Judging by who the media do give a voice to, Dr Rola Hallam for example, it has to be suspected that there are dark forces at work in keeping [[De Beers]], and Ms Popovic’s early opinions, quiet, while publishing her apparently changed opinions since she became a US professor."<ref>[http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/10/fake-bbc-video/#comment-432531 "Restricting the opinions of Patrick Haseldine"]</ref>
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On 8 October 2013, in a comment on [[Craig Murray]]'s blog about a "Fake BBC Video" of [[Dr Rola]],<ref>''[http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/10/fake-bbc-video/ "Fake BBC Video"]''</ref> John Goss wrote that "Distortion of the news, and suppression of non-government opinion, in [[Corporate media|mainstream media]], is nothing new. There are those who comment here who think the mainstream media presents balanced reporting, but they are here, largely, for a purpose. I’ve just been reading the Wikispooks blog on [[Sanya Popovic#Sanya's diplomatic gaffe|Sanya Popovic]], betrothed girlfriend to UN diplomat, [[Bernt Carlsson]], who died aboard the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie plane]]. An interesting aspect of those who do not want a public inquiry into Lockerbie is the way they restrict the opinions of [[Patrick Haseldine]], a former British diplomat, without giving him a voice ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PatrickHaseldine3K.jpg since 1993]). Judging by who the media do give a voice to, Dr Rola Hallam for example, it has to be suspected that there are dark forces at work in keeping [[De Beers]], and Ms Popovic’s early opinions, quiet, while publishing her apparently changed opinions since she became a US professor."<ref>''[http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/10/fake-bbc-video/#comment-432531 "Restricting the opinions of Patrick Haseldine"]''</ref>
  
 
==Murder of a good man==
 
==Murder of a good man==
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After al-Megrahi’s death Prime Minister [[David Cameron]], to whom I would recommend the above cited book, was asked if there could now be a full public inquiry into the sabotage of Pan Am flight 103. Not only did Cameron refuse to consider an inquiry he got the endorsement of [[Ed Miliband]], leader of the opposition − if the Labour Party can be called an opposition any more. He also said that in his opinion al-Megrahi should have remained in prison and not been released on compassionate grounds. Although Conservatives are not noted for compassion, Cameron might have very sound other reasons not to want an inquiry. UK prime ministers who have refused requests from bereaved families for a full public inquiry into the [[Lockerbie disaster]] are [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[John Major]] and [[Tony Blair]]. That is all of the UK prime ministers from the time of the Lockerbie disaster. Why?  
 
After al-Megrahi’s death Prime Minister [[David Cameron]], to whom I would recommend the above cited book, was asked if there could now be a full public inquiry into the sabotage of Pan Am flight 103. Not only did Cameron refuse to consider an inquiry he got the endorsement of [[Ed Miliband]], leader of the opposition − if the Labour Party can be called an opposition any more. He also said that in his opinion al-Megrahi should have remained in prison and not been released on compassionate grounds. Although Conservatives are not noted for compassion, Cameron might have very sound other reasons not to want an inquiry. UK prime ministers who have refused requests from bereaved families for a full public inquiry into the [[Lockerbie disaster]] are [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[John Major]] and [[Tony Blair]]. That is all of the UK prime ministers from the time of the Lockerbie disaster. Why?  
 
 
On board Pan Am flight 103 was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and [[UN Commissioner for Namibia]], [[Bernt Carlsson]]. He was by far the most likely assassination target and if he was that target unfortunately all the other passengers became victims of the phrase so glibly used today in untargeted deaths: ‘collateral damage’. There was extremely big money at stake and Carlsson, a fearless man, hinted in Granada TV’s ‘World In Action’ documentary ‘[[The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds]]’ he was about to expose those corporations exploiting minerals, and miners, in [[Namibia]] as Namibia was due to be granted its independence. These companies included [[De Beers]], the company which relieved Namibia of perhaps as much of its precious gemstones as the British Empire extracted from India. Another of the UN commission’s target companies was the [[Rössing Uranium Mine]], also in Namibia.  Mention of the Rössing Uranium Mine might jog David Cameron’s memory, since it could ultimately prove to be his undoing. Three months after the Lockerbie bombing the current PM escorted the Prime Minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to this Namibian mine, a visit which filled Mrs Thatcher with immense pride that she had been born British. Cameron was a Conservative Party researcher at the time but it is quite clear that he was being groomed as a potential future prime minister when Margaret Thatcher’s time at the helm came to an end. [[URENCO]], a joint British/Dutch/West German-owned uranium-enrichment company, was exporting uranium ore from the Rössing mine, but shady manifests made it difficult to trace where the uranium they purchased was coming from, and URENCO claimed it did not know from where it got its uranium, so when court proceedings were started by the [[United Nations Council for Namibia]] (UNCN) in 1985 it took 15 months to get to court and in July 1987 the [[United Nations]] finally began action against URENCO. There is no logical reason but the UN case against URENCO was dropped after Carlsson was murdered on Pan Am flight 103 and has never been restarted.
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On board [[Pan Am Flight 103]] was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and [[UN Commissioner for Namibia]], [[Bernt Carlsson]]. He was by far the most likely assassination target and if he was that target unfortunately all the other passengers became victims of the phrase so glibly used today in untargeted deaths: ‘collateral damage’. There was extremely big money at stake and Carlsson, a fearless man, hinted in Granada TV’s ‘World In Action’ documentary ‘[[The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds]]’ he was about to expose those corporations exploiting minerals, and miners, in [[Namibia]] as Namibia was due to be granted its independence. These companies included [[De Beers]], the company which relieved Namibia of perhaps as much of its precious gemstones as the British Empire extracted from India. Another of the UN commission’s target companies was the [[Rössing Uranium Mine]], also in Namibia.  Mention of the Rössing Uranium Mine might jog David Cameron’s memory, since it could ultimately prove to be his undoing. Three months after the Lockerbie bombing the current PM escorted the Prime Minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to this Namibian mine, a visit which filled Mrs Thatcher with immense pride that she had been born British. Cameron was a Conservative Party researcher at the time but it is quite clear that he was being groomed as a potential future prime minister when Margaret Thatcher’s time at the helm came to an end. [[URENCO]], a joint British/Dutch/West German-owned uranium-enrichment company, was exporting uranium ore from the Rössing mine, but shady manifests made it difficult to trace where the uranium they purchased was coming from, and URENCO claimed it did not know from where it got its uranium, so when court proceedings were started by the [[United Nations Council for Namibia]] (UNCN) in 1985 it took 15 months to get to court and in July 1987 the [[United Nations]] finally began action against URENCO. There is no logical reason but the UN case against URENCO was dropped after Carlsson was murdered on Pan Am flight 103 and has never been restarted.
 
 
In April 2013, David Cameron announced that the UK would be selling off its interest in URENCO. The UK share amounts to a third. Though the price of uranium is falling on world markets it is thought this privatisation might also serve the dual purpose of covering up the misappropriations and illegal activities that Bernt Carlsson had discovered and was presenting to court on behalf of the UN at the time of his murder. No wonder David Cameron wanted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to take the blame for this act of sabotage. Cameron must be concerned in case some doughty investigative journalist has the courage of Bernt Carlsson to reveal just what the Lockerbie bombing was all about. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi had nothing to do with the Lockerbie bombing except it took away the last years of his life.
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In April 2013, [[David Cameron]] announced that the UK would be selling off its interest in [[URENCO]]. The UK share amounts to a third. Though the price of uranium is falling on world markets it is thought this privatisation might also serve the dual purpose of covering up the misappropriations and illegal activities that [[Bernt Carlsson]] had discovered and was presenting to court on behalf of the UN at the time of his murder. No wonder David Cameron wanted [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]] to take the blame for this act of sabotage. Cameron must be concerned in case some doughty investigative journalist has the courage of [[Bernt Carlsson]] to reveal just what the Lockerbie bombing was all about. [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]] had nothing to do with the [[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie bombing]] except it took away the last years of his life.
 
 
Prof. Francis Boyle says it was clear that the United States and United Kingdom did not want the trial that convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquitted his co-accused, [[Lamin Khalifah Fhimah]], to take place in a neutral country “because they had no evidence that would stand up in a neutral court of law”. Instead it was investigated by Scottish Police, the [[CIA]] and [[FBI]], who hardly looked into the possibility that Bernt Carlsson might have been the target, and the excuse for a trial took place in Holland overseen by Scottish Judges while the prosecution case was presented by Scottish prosecutors on the advice of Scottish Police, the FBI and CIA.   
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Prof. [[Francis Boyle]] says it was clear that the [[United States]] and [[United Kingdom]] did not want the trial that convicted [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]] and acquitted his co-accused, [[Lamin Khalifah Fhimah]], to take place in a neutral country “because they had no evidence that would stand up in a neutral court of law”. Instead it was investigated by Scottish Police, the [[CIA]] and [[FBI]], who hardly looked into the possibility that [[Bernt Carlsson]] might have been the target, and the excuse for a trial took place in Holland overseen by Scottish Judges while the prosecution case was presented by Scottish prosecutors on the advice of Scottish Police, the [[FBI]] and [[CIA]].   
 
 
As [[Paul Foot]] pointed out in 2004, the year Foot died, to have released Lamin Khalifah Fhimah and to have convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi when the prosecution case rested on the joint activities of the two men to blow up Pan Am flight 103, was ludicrous. [[Gareth Peirce]], who [[John Pilger]] has described as the best human rights’ lawyer in England, totally dismantled the Scottish prosecution case in 2010 in the London Review of Books. The only way the families of victims of Pan Am 103 will get justice is through an independent public inquiry. Every time a public inquiry is mentioned, as Gareth Peirce pointed out three years ago, some high-ranking politician blows his top. Huge amounts of money were paid to a prosecution witness (Tony Gauci) at the trial of al-Megrahi. Paul Foot mentioned three prime ministers who refused the families’ requests for public inquiries. David Cameron, after the death of al-Megrahi, when asked if there could now be a public inquiry into the Lockerbie sabotage, was content for an innocent man to have his life wasted in prison. He was supported by Ed Miliband. [[Dr Hans Koechler]], an international observer at the Lockerbie trial wrote to Miliband’s brother [[David Miliband|David]] in 2008 about the delaying tactics. There is no public inquiry because the governments of the United Kingdom and United States know more about the murder of a good man, Bernt Carlsson, than they are prepared to admit.<ref>[http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/who-killed-bernt-carlsson-and-269-other.html "Who killed Bernt Carlsson and 269 other people from the Lockerbie mid-air explosion aboard Pan Am flight 103?"]</ref>
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As [[Paul Foot]] pointed out in 2004, the year Foot died, to have released [[Lamin Khalifah Fhimah]] and to have convicted [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]] when the prosecution case rested on the joint activities of the two men to blow up [[Pan Am Flight 103]], was ludicrous. [[Gareth Peirce]], who [[John Pilger]] has described as the best human rights’ lawyer in England, totally dismantled the Scottish prosecution case in 2010 in the [[London Review of Books]]. The only way the families of victims of [[Pan Am 103]] will get justice is through an independent public inquiry. Every time a public inquiry is mentioned, as [[Gareth Peirce]] pointed out three years ago, some high-ranking politician blows his top. Huge amounts of money were paid to a prosecution witness ([[Tony Gauci]]) at the trial of [[al-Megrahi]]. [[Paul Foot]] mentioned three prime ministers who refused the families’ requests for public inquiries. [[David Cameron]], after the death of [[al-Megrahi]], when asked if there could now be a public inquiry into the Lockerbie sabotage, was content for an innocent man to have his life wasted in prison. He was supported by [[Ed Miliband]]. [[Dr Hans Koechler]], an international observer at the [[Pan Am Flight 103/The Trial|Lockerbie trial]] wrote to Miliband’s brother [[David Miliband|David]] in 2008 about the delaying tactics. There is no public inquiry because the governments of the United Kingdom and United States know more about the murder of a good man, [[Bernt Carlsson]], than they are prepared to admit.<ref>''[http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/who-killed-bernt-carlsson-and-269-other.html "Who killed Bernt Carlsson and 269 other people from the Lockerbie mid-air explosion aboard Pan Am flight 103?"]''</ref>
  
 
==Alexander Litvinenko: death of justice==
 
==Alexander Litvinenko: death of justice==
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On his deathbed, [[Alexander Litvinenko]] accused the Italian academic, [[Mario Scaramella]], of poisoning him. Scaramella is a self-acclaimed expert in nuclear waste and worldwide locations of nuclear waste, and another man with a dark past. Yet his name has been left out of the equation by the press for long years while the ''blame-Putin'' diatribe has been milked till the cows come home. The inquiry mentions that Litvinenko accused Scaramella of his murder in the first statement he made regarding his illness, but Sir [[Robert Owen]] concludes that Litvinenko’s confidence in being trained as an agent to recognise who his killer was let him down at his death. The inquiry makes it clear that Litvinenko had long been critical of [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]], citing an open letter from 1998 but does not conclude that his judgement in allegedly accusing Putin was impaired. It was only impaired with the very clear and repeated accusation against Mario Scaramella. Mr Scaramella was hospitalised in London after testing positive for Polonium-210. He met Litvinenko on the same day as Lugovoi and Kovtun. That is not to say that Scaramella was involved in Litvinenko’s death. That is why there should be an inquest.
 
On his deathbed, [[Alexander Litvinenko]] accused the Italian academic, [[Mario Scaramella]], of poisoning him. Scaramella is a self-acclaimed expert in nuclear waste and worldwide locations of nuclear waste, and another man with a dark past. Yet his name has been left out of the equation by the press for long years while the ''blame-Putin'' diatribe has been milked till the cows come home. The inquiry mentions that Litvinenko accused Scaramella of his murder in the first statement he made regarding his illness, but Sir [[Robert Owen]] concludes that Litvinenko’s confidence in being trained as an agent to recognise who his killer was let him down at his death. The inquiry makes it clear that Litvinenko had long been critical of [[Vladimir Putin|Putin]], citing an open letter from 1998 but does not conclude that his judgement in allegedly accusing Putin was impaired. It was only impaired with the very clear and repeated accusation against Mario Scaramella. Mr Scaramella was hospitalised in London after testing positive for Polonium-210. He met Litvinenko on the same day as Lugovoi and Kovtun. That is not to say that Scaramella was involved in Litvinenko’s death. That is why there should be an inquest.
  
Scaramella was a witness at the inquiry, but he appears to have some ties with [[Scotland Yard]] and may well have been offered immunity from prosecution to testify. He came willingly to London. Lugovoi was prepared to give evidence up until the point when the inquest was converted into an inquiry. Perhaps someone had whispered the words [[Hutton Inquiry|Hutton]] and whitewash in his ear. Whatever the conclusions of an inquiry, the truth is not going to get out easily. Its purpose is to obfuscate the truth, and if [[Robert Owen|Owen]] gets away with it, he will have done a good job.<ref>[http://newsjunkiepost.com/2016/01/22/litvinenko-inquiry-death-of-justice-in-the-united-kingdom/ "Litvinenko Inquiry: Death of Justice in the United Kingdom"]</ref>  
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Scaramella was a witness at the inquiry, but he appears to have some ties with [[Scotland Yard]] and may well have been offered immunity from prosecution to testify. He came willingly to London. Lugovoi was prepared to give evidence up until the point when the inquest was converted into an inquiry. Perhaps someone had whispered the words [[Hutton Inquiry|Hutton]] and whitewash in his ear. Whatever the conclusions of an inquiry, the truth is not going to get out easily. Its purpose is to obfuscate the truth, and if [[Robert Owen|Owen]] gets away with it, he will have done a good job.<ref>''[http://newsjunkiepost.com/2016/01/22/litvinenko-inquiry-death-of-justice-in-the-united-kingdom/ "Litvinenko Inquiry: Death of Justice in the United Kingdom"]''</ref>  
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Former toolmaker and technical author with a degree in international relations and a Master of Letters (MLitt), John Goss has written extensively for the News Junkie Post

John Goss is a writer, journalist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, paper-maker, song-writer and home-maker. He has written extensively for the News Junkie Post.[1]

In reply to the question "Why does the SNP fear Craig Murray?" posed by 'Anonymous' on the SCOTgoesPOP! website, John Goss wrote:

Could the answer be because he is not afraid to speak the truth when he sees injustice? I would consider that to be a real asset considering the reputation of politicians of all colours for disguising facts.
I agree with Rolfe that there should be an inquiry into Lockerbie. Patrick Haseldine also believes this, I'm pretty sure. I see common ground there. Attacks though on others are not helpful. In reading the comments it would appear that Rolfe has an antipathy towards diplomats.
My understanding, though I have not read her book, is that Morag Kerr does not believe that Bernt Carlsson may have been the target of the Lockerbie bombing which took so many lives. But then he was a whistle-blowing diplomat.
Craig Murray is also a whistle-blowing diplomat. Patrick Haseldine is a whistle-blowing diplomat.
Now whether Morag has been recruited by any of our secret services, who incidentally do not have a reputation for telling the truth, I have no way of knowing. Certainly her behaviour towards whistle-blowers is uncannily like what would be expected of a spook.
We are so indebted to whistle-blowers like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Craig Murray and Patrick Haseldine for having the courage to, as George Fox put it, "Speak truth to Power."[2]

Libyan oil and blood

Buccaneering businessman Tony Buckingham

On 29 January 2013, John Goss published an article entitled "Libya: Lubricating the Oil Magnates With Blood" which was focused on buccaneering businessman Tony Buckingham:

"Tony Buckingham’s history is as shady as Benghazi’s is colourful. Buckingham has added to his multi-millions using mercenary deals in Africa through a company called Executive Outcomes and an associated company called Sandline Holdings. Sandline’s activities were concentrated in areas of Angola and Sierra Leone; Buckingham added to his wealth from the diamond mines of these two countries via his Canadian companies Diamond Works and Branch Energy. Executive Outcomes was set up by Eeben Barlow, the man Patrick Haseldine believes was behind the Lockerbie bombing. Before Buckingham moved primarily into oil through his company, Heritage Oil, he was implicated in mercenary activities throughout Africa, and other countries, with a close-knit private military cabal including Captain Tim Spicer and his former business partner in oil and security companies Simon Mann. Mann was imprisoned for trying to engineer a coup d’état in Equatorial Guinea, an adventure that was funded by Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher."[3]

Dark forces at work

Dr Rola and the dark forces

On 8 October 2013, in a comment on Craig Murray's blog about a "Fake BBC Video" of Dr Rola,[4] John Goss wrote that "Distortion of the news, and suppression of non-government opinion, in mainstream media, is nothing new. There are those who comment here who think the mainstream media presents balanced reporting, but they are here, largely, for a purpose. I’ve just been reading the Wikispooks blog on Sanya Popovic, betrothed girlfriend to UN diplomat, Bernt Carlsson, who died aboard the Lockerbie plane. An interesting aspect of those who do not want a public inquiry into Lockerbie is the way they restrict the opinions of Patrick Haseldine, a former British diplomat, without giving him a voice (since 1993). Judging by who the media do give a voice to, Dr Rola Hallam for example, it has to be suspected that there are dark forces at work in keeping De Beers, and Ms Popovic’s early opinions, quiet, while publishing her apparently changed opinions since she became a US professor."[5]

Murder of a good man

Bernt Carlsson, a good man murdered at Lockerbie

On 21 December 2013, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing, John Goss published a perceptive article entitled "Who killed Bernt Carlsson and 269 other people from the Lockerbie mid-air explosion aboard Pan Am Flight 103?", neatly and effectively undermining the Lockerbie official narrative. It reads as follows:

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died from prostate cancer on 20 May 2012. He had wrongly been convicted of being responsible for planting the bomb that caused the mid-air destruction of Pan Am Flight 103, the wreckage of which plunged into the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Including flight staff, and residents of Lockerbie, 270 people died from this act of sabotage on 21 December 1988. Al-Megrahi was convicted alone of having committed this crime. The only witness against al-Megrahi was a Maltese shopkeeper, Tony Gauci, who failed to identify al-Megrahi as a suspected customer, and was later, it is said, paid 2 million dollars by the US to keep his mouth shut. Gauci’s first statement was allegedly changed and Megrahi’s defence team were not allowed to see it together with other key evidence which would undoubtedly have exonerated their client. Instead he spent years in prison. Anybody doubting al-Megrahi’s innocence only needs to read chapter 4 of Francis A. Boyle’s “Destroying Libya and World Order (2013). Boyle is an international law lecturer at the University of Illinois.

After al-Megrahi’s death Prime Minister David Cameron, to whom I would recommend the above cited book, was asked if there could now be a full public inquiry into the sabotage of Pan Am flight 103. Not only did Cameron refuse to consider an inquiry he got the endorsement of Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition − if the Labour Party can be called an opposition any more. He also said that in his opinion al-Megrahi should have remained in prison and not been released on compassionate grounds. Although Conservatives are not noted for compassion, Cameron might have very sound other reasons not to want an inquiry. UK prime ministers who have refused requests from bereaved families for a full public inquiry into the Lockerbie disaster are Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. That is all of the UK prime ministers from the time of the Lockerbie disaster. Why?

On board Pan Am Flight 103 was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson. He was by far the most likely assassination target and if he was that target unfortunately all the other passengers became victims of the phrase so glibly used today in untargeted deaths: ‘collateral damage’. There was extremely big money at stake and Carlsson, a fearless man, hinted in Granada TV’s ‘World In Action’ documentary ‘The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds’ he was about to expose those corporations exploiting minerals, and miners, in Namibia as Namibia was due to be granted its independence. These companies included De Beers, the company which relieved Namibia of perhaps as much of its precious gemstones as the British Empire extracted from India. Another of the UN commission’s target companies was the Rössing Uranium Mine, also in Namibia. Mention of the Rössing Uranium Mine might jog David Cameron’s memory, since it could ultimately prove to be his undoing. Three months after the Lockerbie bombing the current PM escorted the Prime Minister of the day, Margaret Thatcher, on a visit to this Namibian mine, a visit which filled Mrs Thatcher with immense pride that she had been born British. Cameron was a Conservative Party researcher at the time but it is quite clear that he was being groomed as a potential future prime minister when Margaret Thatcher’s time at the helm came to an end. URENCO, a joint British/Dutch/West German-owned uranium-enrichment company, was exporting uranium ore from the Rössing mine, but shady manifests made it difficult to trace where the uranium they purchased was coming from, and URENCO claimed it did not know from where it got its uranium, so when court proceedings were started by the United Nations Council for Namibia (UNCN) in 1985 it took 15 months to get to court and in July 1987 the United Nations finally began action against URENCO. There is no logical reason but the UN case against URENCO was dropped after Carlsson was murdered on Pan Am flight 103 and has never been restarted.

In April 2013, David Cameron announced that the UK would be selling off its interest in URENCO. The UK share amounts to a third. Though the price of uranium is falling on world markets it is thought this privatisation might also serve the dual purpose of covering up the misappropriations and illegal activities that Bernt Carlsson had discovered and was presenting to court on behalf of the UN at the time of his murder. No wonder David Cameron wanted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to take the blame for this act of sabotage. Cameron must be concerned in case some doughty investigative journalist has the courage of Bernt Carlsson to reveal just what the Lockerbie bombing was all about. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi had nothing to do with the Lockerbie bombing except it took away the last years of his life.

Prof. Francis Boyle says it was clear that the United States and United Kingdom did not want the trial that convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquitted his co-accused, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, to take place in a neutral country “because they had no evidence that would stand up in a neutral court of law”. Instead it was investigated by Scottish Police, the CIA and FBI, who hardly looked into the possibility that Bernt Carlsson might have been the target, and the excuse for a trial took place in Holland overseen by Scottish Judges while the prosecution case was presented by Scottish prosecutors on the advice of Scottish Police, the FBI and CIA.

As Paul Foot pointed out in 2004, the year Foot died, to have released Lamin Khalifah Fhimah and to have convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrahi when the prosecution case rested on the joint activities of the two men to blow up Pan Am Flight 103, was ludicrous. Gareth Peirce, who John Pilger has described as the best human rights’ lawyer in England, totally dismantled the Scottish prosecution case in 2010 in the London Review of Books. The only way the families of victims of Pan Am 103 will get justice is through an independent public inquiry. Every time a public inquiry is mentioned, as Gareth Peirce pointed out three years ago, some high-ranking politician blows his top. Huge amounts of money were paid to a prosecution witness (Tony Gauci) at the trial of al-Megrahi. Paul Foot mentioned three prime ministers who refused the families’ requests for public inquiries. David Cameron, after the death of al-Megrahi, when asked if there could now be a public inquiry into the Lockerbie sabotage, was content for an innocent man to have his life wasted in prison. He was supported by Ed Miliband. Dr Hans Koechler, an international observer at the Lockerbie trial wrote to Miliband’s brother David in 2008 about the delaying tactics. There is no public inquiry because the governments of the United Kingdom and United States know more about the murder of a good man, Bernt Carlsson, than they are prepared to admit.[6]

Alexander Litvinenko: death of justice

On his deathbed, Alexander Litvinenko accused Mario Scaramella of poisoning him

In a January 2016 article, John Goss wrote:

On his deathbed, Alexander Litvinenko accused the Italian academic, Mario Scaramella, of poisoning him. Scaramella is a self-acclaimed expert in nuclear waste and worldwide locations of nuclear waste, and another man with a dark past. Yet his name has been left out of the equation by the press for long years while the blame-Putin diatribe has been milked till the cows come home. The inquiry mentions that Litvinenko accused Scaramella of his murder in the first statement he made regarding his illness, but Sir Robert Owen concludes that Litvinenko’s confidence in being trained as an agent to recognise who his killer was let him down at his death. The inquiry makes it clear that Litvinenko had long been critical of Putin, citing an open letter from 1998 but does not conclude that his judgement in allegedly accusing Putin was impaired. It was only impaired with the very clear and repeated accusation against Mario Scaramella. Mr Scaramella was hospitalised in London after testing positive for Polonium-210. He met Litvinenko on the same day as Lugovoi and Kovtun. That is not to say that Scaramella was involved in Litvinenko’s death. That is why there should be an inquest.

Scaramella was a witness at the inquiry, but he appears to have some ties with Scotland Yard and may well have been offered immunity from prosecution to testify. He came willingly to London. Lugovoi was prepared to give evidence up until the point when the inquest was converted into an inquiry. Perhaps someone had whispered the words Hutton and whitewash in his ear. Whatever the conclusions of an inquiry, the truth is not going to get out easily. Its purpose is to obfuscate the truth, and if Owen gets away with it, he will have done a good job.[7]


 

Documents by John Goss

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:COVID-19 – true or hoax?blog post5 April 2020Bilderberg
Bill Gates
COVID-19
COVID-19/Panic
COVID-19/Lockdown
Ask yourself this simple question. How many people do you know who have COVID-19? For me the answer is none. My advice would be for everyone to ignore the fake news put out by mainstream media.
Document:Never Againblog post22 June 2020Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Nicholas Rockefeller
COVID-19
The virus SARS-COV-2 has been used to create public panic and distrust in the world...The most important lesson we can all learn from this is to realise we have been had, and next time to say: “Never Again”.
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