>DOUGH
Maxwell informed the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu revealed information about Israel's nuclear capability to The Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror. Vanunu was subsequently kidnapped by Mossad and smuggled to Israel, convicted of treason, and imprisoned for 18 years.
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BBC reveals secret Maxwell tapes
The BBC has uncovered secret tape recordings made by the late media tycoon Robert Maxwell.
The 79 cassettes include discussions with employees the businessman suspected of disloyalty.
Maxwell drowned in 1991 in mysterious circumstances, shortly before it was revealed he had stolen £100m from the Mirror Group's pension fund.
The tapes were discovered during research for a BBC Two drama about Maxwell's life.
Wire-tap system
They include a conversation with his finance director Basil Brookes while Maxwell was on board his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, just hours before his death on 4 November 1991.
On one cassette the publishing baron, who associates have said had grown increasingly paranoid before his death, can be heard telling Mr Brookes to be careful to whom he showed a document because "there are too many eyes walk[ing] around in that office".
Maxwell had ordered John Pole, his then-director of security, to wire the telephone extensions of underlings he feared were challenging him.
These included board members of his two public companies, Maxwell Communications Corporation and Mirror Group Newspapers, and trustees of the Mirror Group pension fund.
The tapes, which date from the summer to November of 1991, had been kept by Mr Pole in a suitcase for 15 years.
A wire-tap system had been discovered in the Mirror's Holborn building after Maxwell's death but the actual recordings had not been heard until now.
A total of 30,000 pensioners were affected by Maxwell's fraud.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/pc-pirates-who-sail-the-software-seas-rogue-programs-are-bad-news-for-supplier-and-user-alike-warns-martin-whybrow-1556890.html
Being raided by Fast is a fate that has so far befallen Marconi Instruments, York and County Press (part of the Financial Times Group), Mirror Group Newspapers, the London Borough of Greenwich Housing Authority and, most recently, the UK operations of the Taiwanese computer manufacturer Tatung.
'In the majority of cases, we are satisfied that there is no deliberate intent,' Bob Hay, chief executive of Fast, says. 'But that is not to say that there is no knowledge.' At the Mirror Group, for instance, 700 out of the 800 software programs in use were found to be illegal. At another company, a set of disks was found with 'rip-off copy of Lotus 1-2-3' written on them. And on some raids, as Fast has been going in the front door, users have been trying to smuggle evidence out the back.
https://www.accountancyage.com/2001/03/29/timeline-the-maxwell-scandal/
Timeline: The Maxwell scandal
>Karine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby gaggle
>Smoke and Mirrors
https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/mother-teresas-former-assistant-killed-in-bar-brawl/
mark-bloomfield
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/10/27/thats-zsa-zsa-daaaahhling/fd33f0dc-1836-403d-91f4-babfdb340b30/
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
The Israeli hostages signaled for help to an IDF dog with a mounted camera.
https://t.me/myLordBebo/16875
“Help, 3 Israeli hostages"
The hostages wrote in Hebrew on a banner, took of their shirts and waved white flags.
Still got shot by the IDF.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-dog-recorded-escaped-hostage-yelling-for-help-before-erroneous-slayings-probe/
IDF dog recorded escaped hostage yelling for help five days before erroneous slayings
A dog from the military’s Oketz canine unit recorded one of three escaped hostages yelling for help, according to new details from the military’s investigation, the latest indication of how far the trio went to signal their identities to the Israel Defense Forces before they were mistakenly shot to death by troops.
According to the probe, on December 10, troops of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit encountered a group of Hamas operatives who opened fire at them from a building.
During the gun battle, an Oketz dog was sent into the building, which the army later determined was where the hostages were being held. The dog was killed by the Hamas gunmen, who were in turn killed by the Golani soldiers, allowing Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim and Samar Talalka to escape captivity, according to the investigation.
During the battle, a camera mounted on the dog recorded the voice of a hostage, apparently Alon Shamriz, shouting “Help” and that there were hostages there. They are not seen on the footage. The feed from the dog’s body camera was not being monitored live and was only discovered on December 18 after the body of the canine was recovered.
Five days later, Shamriz, Haim, and Talalka attempted to approach troops, but were instead shot and killed.
The response "Slava Ukraini!" first appeared during the Ukrainian War of Independence or later in the 1920s among members of the League of Ukrainian Nationalists. In the 1930s, it became widespread as a slogan of the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), as well as Ukrainian diaspora groups and refugee communities in the West during the Cold War. In the Soviet Union, the phrase was forbidden and discredited by Soviet and later Russian authorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beauty_That_Still_Remains
>Part of Malaysia Airlines plane found in South Australian waters, fisherman claims
https://nypost.com/2023/12/20/news/part-of-malaysia-airlines-plane-found-in-south-australian-waters-fisherman-claims/
Malaysia Airlines shocker as fisherman comes forward with surprising revelation about missing plane
A veteran fisherman claims he found a large piece of missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 off the coast of South Australia before being ignored by authorities.
The plane disappeared on March 8 2014 with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board, with no sign of the missing wreckage despite the most expensive ocean search in history.
Retired Australian fisherman Kit Olver has come forward with claims that he discovered what he believes is a wing of the commercial liner when his deep-sea trawler pulled it up in September or October of 2014, just months after the flight disappeared.
He described it as a “bloody great wing of a big jet airliner” that was bigger than a private plane.
“I’ve questioned myself; I’ve looked for a way out of this,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing.”
George Currie, the only other surviving member of the trawler crew present on the day of the discovery, said that they went to great trouble to pull up the wing.
“It was incredibly heavy and awkward. It stretched out the net and ripped it. It was too big to get up on the deck,” he said.
“As soon as I saw it I knew what it was. It was obviously a wing, or a big part of it, from a commercial plane. It was white, and obviously not from a military jet or a little plane.”
The crew was forced to cut the $20,000 net after they were unable to get the plane piece onto their vessel, making the day all the more memorable.
Olver says he can give authorities the coordinates of where he discovered the wing more than nine years after he found it.
The discovery was made about 55km west of the town of Robe in South Australia, with Olver describing the area as his secret trawling area for fish.
The 77-year-old says he contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) as soon as he returned to port, but that authorities were less than interested in his discovery.
He says that an official said he had likely found part of a shipping container that had fallen from a Russian ship in the area.
Now retired and getting older, Olver says he was motivated to come forward with his story by a desire to help the families of those who were on board MH370.
Searches for the missing plane in the Southern Indian Ocean, where it’s believed to have gone down, have come up fruitless.
A joint underwater search by Australia, Malaysia, and China worth $200 million over two years ended in January 2017 after they found no sign for the plane.
>He described it as a “bloody great wing of a big jet airliner” that was bigger than a private plane.
>“I’ve questioned myself; I’ve looked for a way out of this,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
>“I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing.”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-trawler-skipper-s-memory-from-the-deep-dredges-up-intriguing-questions-20231214-p5erln.html
Trawler skipper’s memory from the deep dredges up intriguing questions
Kit Olver felt his trawling net had snagged something large and unwelcome way in the depths long before he had any physical evidence of it.
The note of his deep-sea trawler’s diesel engine deepened, and its exhaust gas temperature rose as it sought the torque to haul against the sudden load. What Olver’s net eventually brought to the surface off South Australia’s south-east coast that day, nine years ago, has bothered him ever since.
He hasn’t spoken about it for years. Now, aged 77, with his seagoing years behind him and a couple of heart attacks reminding him that everything, even the chance to unload old secrets, has an expiry date, he wants to air his story.
“It was a bloody great wing of a big jet airliner,” he says. He takes a breath, as if confronted by the memory.
“I’ve questioned myself; I’ve looked for a way out of this,” he says. “I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing.”
Olver dismisses any suggestion the object was the wing of a small plane. He held a pilot’s licence when he was a young man and flew several small planes such as Cessnas.
“This thing was much bigger than anything in the private plane category,” he says.
I contact George Currie, the only person still living among the three crew members who were on Olver’s 24-metre trawler, the Vivienne Jane, on that day in September or October of 2014.
Currie has spent 42 of his 69 years at sea and was the engineer and first mate on several of Olver’s boats over two decades. The two men haven’t been in contact for several years. But when I phone Currie, he knows exactly what I’m asking about.
“You’ve got no idea what trouble we had when we dragged up that wing,” he says.
“It was incredibly heavy and awkward. It stretched out the net and ripped it. It was too big to get up on the deck.
“As soon as I saw it I knew what it was. It was obviously a wing, or a big part of it, from a commercial plane. It was white, and obviously not from a military jet or a little plane.
“It took us all day to get rid of it.”
And there is one of the reasons the story has remained beyond knowing ever since. Having spent a day struggling to free the object from the trawler’s net, Olver ordered his crew to cut the net free.
With evening well advanced, the $20,000 net and whatever it held was cast off and sank into the dark of the Southern Ocean.
It came to rest at a relatively shallow depth on the floor of a sea bank some hundreds of metres beyond the northern lip of a deep underwater volcanic crater.
The area is about 55 kilometres west of the South Australian town of Robe, and about the same distance from shore.
Olver has good reason to remember the spot.
It was his secret trawling area for a fish species called alfonsino – an attractive red fish as prized for its aesthetic value in a fishmonger’s display as for its firm white flesh. He had discovered the fish, among other species, were plentiful in the depths of the volcanic bowl.
The first question that came to the minds of both Olver and Currie – and they say, the other two crew members – was whether the wing could have come from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members aboard.
The disappearance was among the world’s greatest mysteries when Olver and his crew were fishing off south-east South Australia.
All these years later, the fate of the MH370 and those aboard remains a ghastly conundrum.
>who on the naughty list?
>https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1634285791022141444
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/shanteari-weems-daycare-owner-shot-husband-child-abuse-allegations-says-she-snapped-jail-interview/65-40188efe-5cd5-4e47-bf2b-afdb9d541c92
'I snapped' | Day care owner says she shot her husband accused of child molestation in a moment of rage
Shanteari Weems says she shot her husband in the neck and thigh after a parent she trusted said he abused her kid.