25 DECEMBER

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BRITISH HAWK JETS USED AGAINST FREE ACEH MOVEMENT 19th May 2003 – Indonesia used Hawk jets, supplied and made by the U.K., to front its assault on the Free Aceh Movement.  The Guardian’s John Aglionby observed that “The Hawks were used primarily to scare and intimidate people on the ground by flying low over targets…

MACMILLAN PRAISES DICTATOR DIEM 7 May 1962 – Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a personal letter to President Ngô Dình Diệm, the dictator of South Vietnam, lauding his murderous regime. “We have viewed with admiration the way in which your government and people have resisted” attempts to “overthrow the freely established regime in South Vietnam,”…

BRITAIN BLOCKS SFO INVESTIGATION INTO HUGE BRIBES PAID TO SAUDI PRINCE 14 December 2006 – The Attorney General Lord Goldsmith announced that it was not in the public interest for the Serious Fraud Office to be allowed to continue its investigation into allegations of enormous bribes paid to Saudi officials and royals to secure an…

CHANCELLOR ECSTATIC AS ‘INDIA’S HORDES’ FORCED TO SELL GOLD [ 20 February 1932 ] Today in 1932, Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a letter to his sister, happily acknowledged that ‘the astonishing gold mine we have discovered in India’s hordes has put us in clover.’ Please feel welcome to post comments below. …