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UK Spends $80 Million On Massive "Ring Of Steel" to 'Protect' Politicians At NATO Summit
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last week, many woke up to news that the UK had raised its terror threat level from “substantial” to “severe.” Considering the competence and trustworthiness of the nation’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, there must be some specific threat they’re concerned about to justify instilling fear in a population of 65 million. Nope.
Although the new threat level rates the risk of an attack on the UK to “highly likely,” Home Secretary Theresa May stated that “there was no evidence to suggest one was imminent.” Well then.
It makes you wonder if the the change in threat level is being used in part to justify the extraordinary $80 million sum spent on building a fortress around the Newport and Cardiff city centers in Wales, which many are describing as “similar to the Berlin Wall,” or a “zoo,” in an unprecedented display of protection for many of the world’s most corrupt politicians.
The BBC reports that:
A security “ring of steel” is already in place at keys sites in Cardiff and in Newport – some 12 miles (20km) of fencing with pedestrian access points.
More than 150 heads of state and ministers including US President Barack Obama will attend the two-day summit.
Their entourage will include around 10,000 support staff, while 2,000 journalists are also expected to attend.
The man heading the security operation, which includes 1,500 officers from south Wales, has described it as “completely uncharted territory” for British policing and said “discreet” armed protection would also be used.
To mark the summit, the Royal Mint has struck a limited edition bronze commemorative “coin”.
Although not legal tender, the 150 coins feature the Nato logo and the words Nato Summit Wales 2014 in English and Welsh.
I’m sure glad they found time to create a commemorative coin amid all the imminent terror attacks.
Now here’s a quick cheat sheet. Recall that this is all for a 2-day summit:
- 9,500 police will be present.
- 7 NATO warships will be stationed off the Welsh coast.
- 12 miles of steel fencing has been erected.
- The fencing will be 9 feet tall around Cardiff and Newport.
Now here are a few photos to give you a sense of what it looks like in the area:
Care to take a walk in the park perhaps? Lovely view this time of year:
So how do the bureaucrats justify such ridiculous spending? Terrorism, of course!
For example, we know that MP Kim Howells, an ex-chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee chairman, made what appears to be an entirely unsubstantiated claim that “he believed terrorists could be planning something for the largest gathering of international leaders ever held in the UK.”
The much more likely reason is to keep the politicians away from the rabble. For example, 20,000 protesters are expected to be in the area, and heaven forbid these “leaders,” which large percentages of their citizenry view as corrupt and thieving criminals, have to face any of the plebs.
More significantly, you have to wonder whether world “leaders” are using this as conditioning to get the masses used to what life is going to be like in the decades ahead if they have their way. After all, this security spectacle seems particularly interesting in that it’s happening 13 years AFTER 9/11.
This is what neo-feudalism looks like.
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All 18 holes and the cluhouse too?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-03/why-obama-rushing-weeks-nato-su...
can we lock them in there forever?
Typical... all those resources used and someone can just fly a drone over...
Nice picture here of John McCain meeting with ISIS leader 'Abu Bakr' and some Al Qaeda folks in Syria back in 2013
http://socioecohistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/cnn_screenshot_johnmc...
Thats interesting considering the US placed a $10 million bounty on his head back in 2011. I guess John doesn't need the money.
The must-read article is this one...
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html
$80 million spent to secure a golf resort.
Money well spent for the .01% to feel secure playing golf after the meeting!
/s
Shit only $80 mil for 12 miles. That's $105 per inch. About the same as a hooker charges in vegas!
A complete waste of money. The ones who create the terror threats are found within the fence, why would they attack themselves?
I remember something about fish in a barrel. Now what was that?
Ring of steel, iron dome, sheesh. All to protect a farcical world based on paper.
john39 and redpill have it right
the leet are being set up for a big slaughter
each year they will become more and more enclosed .. snipers on towers surrounding them .. razor wire fences .. retinal scans to ensure their identity
when it goes down, everyone will act totally surprised
When what goes down?
Can illegal invaders pass right on through as if the wall and all security are non-existent just like they do on America's southern border?
To mark the summit, the Royal Mint has struck a limited edition bronze commemorative “coin”.
Who gives a shit? Self-important twats. Glad this circus didn't come to my town.
UK spending some cash to look like they are still relevant.
Shit food, shit weather, shit faces, shit culture.
Even Shakespeare was a copycat propaganda puppet. Ever wonder why all of his writings are based in ITALY of all the places? Because he copied from an Italian author.
Move to Australia or Canada...
Lackey #1: "Don Corleone, all the Dons have been assembled. What now?"
Don: "Close the gate. Keep it closed."
they need a ring to produce the golf clap for the prez
It's and excellent idea. Now don't let anything in. And don't let anyone out. Ever.
And chuck a great big Faraday Cage around it too. I don't want to risk any ideas escaping either.
This would be a great place to drop a daisy cutter.
I don't know about harvesting flowers when a neutron bomb is clearly called for...
Send in Snake Plissken.
Snake Plissken: Got a smoke?
Malloy: The United States is a no-smoking nation. No smoking, no drinking, no drugs. No women - unless of course you're married. No guns, no foul language... no red meat.
Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free.
To keep their ponzi fiat chucking along. That's why.
I'll bet all the out of bounds markers on the golf course are outside that fence.
Barry: Damnit, I sliced it again!
Josh Ernest: You da man! Fantastic ricochet off the iron fence to 3 feet.
Yeah, he was involved in creating both Al Qaida and ISIS. Too bad someone let that triotor out of his POW camp
I thought Tony Blair was bad but Cameron is also 100% poodle
We are doomed
The irony is that if something happened and all these parasites got terminated in one swoop, the vast majority of the people would either be dancing in the streets or just shrug it off!
That is the reality! There is no love lost on these parasites! We are living in 18th century France and the sooner someone rolls the motherfucking guillotines, the better!
And if any leader stands against the global empire, his life must either be destroyed or face a CIA-orchestrated assassination - Mossadegh in Iran put under house arrest for life, Omar Torrijos in Panama assassinated, Jaime Roldos in Equador assassinated, democratically elected Mohamed Morsi deposed and on trial for his life in Egypt, Saddam Hussein hanged, Libya’s Gaddafi dead in a government overthrow, democratically-elected Viktor Yanukovych deposed in a US-led coup d’etat, and on and on…
And, now, it’s Putin’s turn. And the global empire wants everyone to know it
Putin is smarter than all the other puppet leaders combined. They're all just monkeys with hand grenades. Putin is a trained killer with his finger on a nuke switch. Should we be concerned? These numb nuts have no idea the fire they are playing with and just how serious the Russians are. They think it's all some little game like Risk or something. Risk is right! God help us all.
>>a drone
or the 11 planes allegedly captured by "militants" in Libya last month... 911, 2.0.
meanwhile the clowns are all in a bunker somewhere else...
Yup, fly a drone over, or shoot down Airforce One with a shoulder fired missile or two after it takes off.
Amazed someone hasn't done that yet.
That would be akin to firing a pellet gun at an Abrams tank. The countermeasures AFO has aboard would astound you.
Caesar built ditches, a moat and fortifications around Alesia. Add some anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down helicopter escapes and it sounds like a plan.
This place will look real funny from outer space once we've finished shitting all over the planet and get radiatively cooked to death.
Cage fighting?
MMA = megalomaniacal munchkin assn.
Lock them in and make it a zoo attraction where we can watch them fight over cheeseburgers thrown over the fence at feeding time! Do it!
Of course they could have all just flown to the Azores and took advantage of the 1000 mile-in-all-directions moat called the Atlantic Ocean....but NOOOOOOOO!
There are Russian subs out there don't you know?
fock:
Obviously, the Azores lack golf courses of sufficient quality for the POTUS - Psycho of the United States.
-30-
Yet the English could not assign one cop to stop the Paki asylum seekers from raping English children. Evil scum.
Lords of the Ring
More like lords of the flies.
Cowards...All of them!
To mark the summit, the Royal Mint has struck a limited edition bronze commemorative “coin”.
All that money spent on security and the fascists won't even spring for coins made from the good stuff.
The lingering problem with this type of event is that when the circus leaves town, the fences go, but the laws giving police extra powers remain.
our fearless leaders...
if ever there was a time to get the "leaders" of this world together and protect them all at once so that hell can be unleashed on the public, this may be it. obama will be golfing while "something" attacks the population.
Does anybody still think we can vote ourselves out of this mess.
No?
Neither do I!
Protect the Wales!
Money well spent in my opinon. Can't go to far when it comes to protecting our political representatives. The will of the people has never been more behind NATO and our democratic ambassadors.
Good one, Zirp.
I laughed so hard, I puked.
MDB has a new sidekick? Happy hunting for downvotes dude!
Methinks people missed the sarc.
methinks that the people are sick and tired of such over the top trolling. this guy isn't even funny.
Your opinon does not compute.
I seriously considered opening several new account so that I could downvote you as much as possible, however with the four day waitin period... meh.
SLASH SARC, BRUV!
Only complete fuckheads make extra accounts just to perform vote-stuffing ops.
Purposely and relentlessly playing the /sarcer everyone loves to hate.
"protecting our political representatives" - Good one.
The will of the people has never been more behind- as in where the feces congregate until they fall.
Exactly, Zirpedge. They’ve always been there for us. Now it’s time for us to be there for them. (Sarc/On)
Nobody in england and Wales takes any notice of "security Levels". There is a massive political revolt underway against the government and opposition parties. Vote for independence -- vote UKIP.
Attention protestors and shit disturbers. Do not show up. That would be a louder message.
Stick your fence up your asses...nobody cares.
Guess they haven't heard of GoTo meeting.
Does it have a golf app?
We should be so lucky.
It's funny how fences are the answer to keeping out the riffraff when it concerns politicians and banksters, but they dont work for american borders.
The Mexicans could breach that flimsy fence in 20 seconds.
Not funny
" 'I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National city Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested."
Smedley Butler NATO is the New Thug for Wall StreetYes, those ISIS thugs are scared shitless of chainlink fences.
Thats way cheaper than building Elysium.
Don't give them any ideas. I guess they could take over the new Apple HQ.
Why do these clowns all need to 'get together' like this, can't they just have a conference call? Or maybe meet at their Antarctic seed vault or some shit? WHY meet in a city and then require all this security against 'the bad guys' (all of 'us')...big phony game is all it is.
the same reason that the U.S. president gets a big ugly car and fancy plane etc... to give the sheeple the impression that they matter and have power (when in reality, they are puppets)....
Perhaps the after-hours orgies and child sacrifice rituals are a draw. Could be just rumors though.
Damn it. Edited for thinking too much like poster above me.....
Well Vlad, fire that missile on top of those bastards. That will teach them.
Our "fearless leaders" are only fearless about not going to jail...
Hey! I see they did put up lamp posts to swing from.
Perhaps one of those "missing" Libyan airliners will be vaulted over the wall...
They don't have a "dome" though.
The UK where the Queen will have you check all your guns knives and nads at the door unless of course you are a Muslim. In that case you can live in one of our special Muslim "codle zones" where we will toss anyone in jail who says one bad thing about your religion. Once you have sucessfully been hatched you are free to terrorize the planet. (Just don't cross our chainlink fences!)
Sad to be that scared...
What's next, sharks with frikin laser beams attached to their heads?
Just FACETIME each other and compare each countries assets on Icloud to settle disputes. PEACE
Putin should send a crop duster full of napalm to kill all those rats.
Long after we're all dead and buried/burned the history books will indocrinate the lambs on how these "leaders" fearlessly stood up to the barbarian terrorists.
Can't they just do a Skype confernence call like anyone else?
Listen MAN!
You don't get it. The Sensex is poised. You will never see this type of growth in the states man.
"Indian shares have swept past the 27,000-point mark, a record high buoyed by investor hopes that the country will see stronger economic growth under new Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index of 30 leading shares ended Tuesday up 0.57 per cent or 151.84 points at 27,019.39 points."
I say why not?!! Go man! Go.
Growth has nothing to do with it. The Rupee is shittier than the banks of the Ganges.
No matter. There is an open exchange of RP to BTC or gold my German friend. Buy, profit, exchange for your favorite.
A fellow bangalore based ZHer....Namaskaara Saaami!
Perhaps a Bangalore Meeting of Two ZHers is now a distinct possibility.
Nice.....I don't feel so alone now.
Shubharaathri, meeru ela unnaaru?
I hope we can meet and create friendship dialogs.
Conspiracy theory... ORI is CIA and BET is NSA. You could just walk across the hall and shake hands...
When the government fears the people there is peace.... right?
RIGHT???
funny
Headline: "
UK Spends $80 Million On Massive "Ring Of Steel" to 'Protect' Politicians At NATO Summit"
Now, my only question is:
Why would ANYONE in the security industry beleive that politicians are worth protecting...?
Why protect known, proven liars? and WHY do so in the name of "security" ...?
Why is the truth so dangerous...?
Somehow I suspect tht they are going to keep that ring of steel in place for their future protection.
A wall good enough to keep the people out is a wall good enough to keep them in. I say turn their little NATO summit into a prison. Keep the bastards in and cut off the utilities.
Lob some Ebola over the fence just to make sure.
Ring of steel. Ok. Because, you know, in Ancient Rome, the praetorians would never ever turn on their emperor.
Plenty of golf available if they get bored looking at maps and charts. How they like to Lord it over us.
£8m for a business team building /ego exercise is a disgrace when so many food banks are needing donations.
When will people speak out?
My God.... it's full of politicians
/2010
Is it just me or does that third picture look like something a teenager with some wirecutters could get through?
An absolute disgrace!
Well at least we now know the banksters live in a perpetual state of paranoia.
That can't be too healthy for the old ticker.
i here the basements are nice and deep naturally chilled for all the united nations colours of child refugee meat.
tony yo blair sharpening his talmudic rabbi knives.
is the 5th date special to warrant such rendered child treats flown in from syria,ukraine and iraq.
parachute regiment marines sas and sbs mi5,g4s ho hum all protecting old kosher men while they have lots of
child rape fun.
It's OK, the Ring of Steel is recyclable. They can box it up afterward and send it to Ukraine, which wants to re-create the Iron Curtain along its border with Russia. And UK can deduct the cost from its share of donations to keep Ukraine afloat.
(I wonder how well chain link and razor wire floats. And are standard post boxes sufficient?)
Just remember, the liberals do not think you need guns to protect yourself. Some animals are more equal than others.
I was thinking the same thing...no guns for me..but 9 million worth for them....go figure
Plenty of Russian and Chinese made small portable mortars/missiles that can be directed at the target.
The ring of steel announcement is for the media and the attendees.
If a terrorist group wants to make a statement all they need to do is target from a distances with enough weapons and they overwhelm any counter measures.
Are they out of their minds? [YES] A one-armed, one-legged Mexican Midget could get past the "Ring of Steel"...
How do the caterers get in with all the good food and drinks....
Rasmussen: “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been a wake-up call. It has reminded all of us that our freedom, security and prosperity cannot be taken for granted. Some are trying to redraw dividing lines in Europe with force” … Zero Hedge news today
There was Rome; there was the British Empire: both regional empires exploiting vast areas of the globe and enslaving people.
The American empire is vastly larger but still regional because of one specific area: the Russian Federation. If the banker-controlled US and Fed-directed Europe is to make global empire and world government complete, Putin has to be defeated.
Now, the banker empire with its bag of sovereign countries exploited - coups, revolutions, assassinations, installation of puppet leaders and governments destroyed through the years…the U.S.A., Libya, Guatemala and Panama to Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine and all the rest - has to have one more or it is World War III: UKRAINE!
John Perkins, who knew the strategy for the world’s first global empire, nails its goal: “bringing every person in the world under its influence.”
To do that, one needs a "Massive 'Ring Of Steel.'"
There will be lots more rings, walls, gates etc in the future. You absolutely have to separate the haves from the have nots and the lines will be much sharper with the middle class gone forever.
The walls and gates only work for a while. As it was in the past eventually the little people get control. It may take a while. History proves this.
This reminds me of that tragic 'merican fellow in black that sings that sorrowful song of woe:
"Burn, burn, burn, ring of fire" or something to that extent.
Now if we can only make this permanent and lock them in its confines.
"The Fletcher Memorial Home" For incurable tyrants and kings.
An American, not US subject.
2000 IMBEDDED urinalists will report and anal-ize all movements
Fence contractors always cut a fat hog with Socialist governments.
It's the Walled-Off Astoria.
http://i.imgur.com/himZD0M.gif
Will that be for when TSHTF?
Van ramps bitchez...
It's shit like this that makes you realize that we need to rethink our approach to everything.
Can't they use Skype sitting scared in bunkers?
I wonder how many ring-of-steel construction companies are owned by friends and family of the UK authorities.
It's sort of comforting to know that our politicians live in fear.
If they had fear, they'd meet secretly.
This is all for show.
They know no Welshman is going to do anything to derail this meeting.
Not for show, somebody gets a commission from the contractors. This is Biznuss...
"In 1933, Smedley Butler became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected (Recruited & Bribed) to lead a march of US veterans to become dictator, similar to other Fascist regimes at that time. "
"The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot and the media ridiculed the allegations. A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butler's testimony."
Same Shit Media; same Shit Wall Street
in the service, our mantra was same shit, different day ....
In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
According to the BBC, the plotters intended to impose a fascist takeover and "Adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression."
The conspirators were operating under the umbrella of a front group called the American Liberty League, which included many families that are still household names today, including Heinz, Colgate, Birds Eye and General Motors.
Butler played along with the clique to determine who was involved but later blew the whistle and identified the ringleaders in testimony given to the House Committee on un-American Activities.
However, the Committee refused to even question any of the individuals named by Butler and his testimony was omitted from the record, leading to charges that they were involved in covering the matter up, and the majority of the media blackballed the story.
In 1936, William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, wrote a letter to President Roosevelt in which he stated,
What the fuck, this can't be real...
Are those pictures from North Korea?
looks like a good place to die.
Fences are to keep things out, or to keep things in.
I, for one, am relieved that drones cannot fly at altidues over 14ft. What a relief...
80 Mil ... Chump Change
I think the Dome Of Silence would have been more cost effective.
You need a ring of steel with the hemorrhoids they're entertaining this week.
It is called a teleconference. Use one. Stop wasting every one else's money on your working vacations.
Looks to me more like a chain link fence......hardly a ring of steel.
UK, you got fucked on that deal. I wonder who is getting hookers and blow out of that contract?
Only good things can come from secret meetings in heavily fortified compounds.
So the leaders of the free world are afraid of the very same threats that they tell us we have no need to worry about.
Why might that be?
--- because the "leaders" are not leaders at all. They are useless eaters too.
Once the show is over, the house wants both the crowd and the theater troupes out. Time for the clean-up crew to do their job.
Who needs NATO? = Who needs global bankster Fascist Empire and their debt slave austerity?
NATO is the global banksters criminal army.
Make a list and scream: No more! Hang the criminals for Treason! Repudiate bankster debt!
Please People, peaceful protest with a strong message for Justice.
Looks like a new and improved FeMa camp for the wales Folks
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we know where this is going
Terrorism is the best found means to waste capital instead of using it for the betterment of humanity. Straight out of Emanuel Goldstiens book that is talked about in 1984. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Lying sacks of shit.
Now if we could only lock them in their cage!
LOL ;-)
not a ring of steel, more like a chain of dissimilar and weak links.
Who cares about security there?
Security requires BIKINIS at the NFL Opening night game of Packers vs Superbowl champ Seahawks.
Go Sea-Chickens; beat the Pack
Covert Seattle cops to wear Pack garb at game
Now if *I* were Putin....
Obama and Cameron took time out to groom schoolchildren in an Uncle Rolf Show
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-29059439
UK Overpays $80 Million On Massive "Ring Of Steel" to 'Protect' Politicians At NATO Summit
Over 150 serial killers and child molesters walk right in.
If you take the key, "Keeping evil out" can be "Keeping evil in".
Did no one tell them Cardiff already has a castle? In fact, Wales is stiff with em!
Seriously though, the number of Plod heading westwards last weekend down the M4 was unbelievable - the rest of the country must be bare of them. All to protect some ofthe worst sh1t on the planet.
To Politicians, from Utopia
When hate with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within your gates,
And your divine Satan sings
And whispers at the grates;
When You lie tangled in her lair 5
And fetter'd to her eye,
The birds that wanton outside in the air
Know so much liberty.
When flowing cups of blood run swiftly round
from your sacrificial games,
Your prison climbs with shackles bound,
Our hearts see disloyal shames;
When thirsty glee in wine we steep,
When our hearts and souls go free
Fishes that tipple in the deep
Know no such liberty.
When, accompanying committed spinnerets, We
With shriller throats shall sing
The sweetness, mercy, majesty,
And glories we shall sing;
When we will voice aloud how good
It is, how great it should be,
To see high walls and your Master's chains,
Take away your liberty.
Stone walls do a prison make,
And iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and willing do partake
That for our hermitage;
If we have freedom in our love
And our souls are free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Dream of such liberty.