I DON'T BELIEVE IT

Well, actually I do, because very little surprises me these days. After reports that the GT200 is still in use in Mexico, now we travel back to Iraq.

See below for a report in The Independent highlighting the fact that the ADE651 is still in use there.

Of course, the continued use of fake detectors results in the loss of more lives and the suffering of others who are torn to bits by the bombs. Oh how the terrorists must be laughing at how easy it all is. 

The report includes the suggestion from some Iraqi security force personnel the fake detectors might act as a deterrent. This was always a super stupid idea. It may have held true for about ten seconds, a few years back, but now? Even it were true it would be no excuse for wasting money on junk.

The report also suggests that the ongoing use of the ADE651 in Iraq is due to vested interests. A point we have been making for some time i.e. the corrupt and/or stupid officials responsible for buying into the fraud simply cannot be seen to agree that they are useless because that would be an admission of guilt. The fact that even the Prime Minister, al Maliki, was quoted earlier this year defending the ADE651 would suggest that his pal the Interior Minister at the time of the purchases bunged him some of the proceeds of the kickbacks.

Anyway, here is the piece from The Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/exclusive-iraq-still-using-bogus-bomb-detectors--and-thousands-pay-the-price-8854567.html

FOR THE RECORD _ We Don't Talk Anymore

IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, LOST LIMBS, LOST FAMILY, LOST HOPE, AND BEEN DEVASTATED BY FAKE EXPLOSIVES DETECTORS,

AND TO ALL THOSE WHO DAILY STRIVE AN DIE TRYING TO DETECT AN DEFUSE EXPLOSIVES FOR REAL, 

I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO THE FOLLOWING IDIOTS WHO HAVE SOLD FRAUDULENT DETECTORS, OR HAVE DONE LITTLE OR NOTHING TO STOP THE SALE OR USE OF THESE USELESS DEVICES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!

I have to say I would not normally go for the popular music artist known as Cliff Richard, but as so often it is possible to have a laugh at the coincidence of songs and real life. Here is the song dedicated to the following:

The Government of the United Kingdom and Great (sometimes, but no thanks to the lying politicians) Britain.

Also dedicated to:

The Crown Prosecution Service,
The Avon and Somerset Police,
Colin Port, Chief Constable of the Avon and Somerset Police
City of London Police,
The Ministry of Defence,
The Foreign Office,
The Royal Engineers (only those directly involved with MOLE and GT200 and who said nothing or were fooled by a dowsing rod!)
James McCormick , ATSC (MOLE and ADE651),
Gary Bolton, GLOBAL TECHNICAL (MOLE and GT200),

By the way, we've never heard from any lawyers!!!!

David Vollmar (SNIFFEX/HEDD1), Frank Trier (See David Vollmar) of Unival in Germany
General Pierre hadji Goergiou, PROSEC in Lebanon.
Stelian Ilie and his Romanian gangsters at MiraTelecom
Yuri Markov, So called inventor of SNIFFEX and HEDD1
Sam Tree, Quadro Tracker, and Importer of the MOLE from the U.S to the U.K. See Gary Bolton
Malcolm Roe, See Quadro Tarcker, Sam Tree, Gary Bolton. Importer of MOLE from U.S to U.K.
Sinon Sherrard, see Sam Tree. COMSTRAC and the ALPHA6 and PSD-2
Major General al Jabiri, corrupt ex-head of the Iraqi Bomb Squad (Where are they now?!)
Major General Alan Sharman, ex R.E.M.E, ex- Head U.K. Defence Procurement, ex-head Defence Manufacturers Association. See Gary Bolton and the MOLE and GT200
Brinley Salzman, Head of Exports at the ADS (previously Defence Manufacturers Association). See Major General Alan Sharman, Gary Bolton and the MOLE and GT200
Horizon Group, India. See GT200, SNIFFEX and HEDD1
The DKL LIfeguard people
The AL-6D people at Diodebell
Chuck Christensen and the magically useless H3-TEC or ALIEN as he now calls his garbage
The United States Military, State Department, Department of Defence, F.B.I. U.S. Navy, etc
with reference to Quadro Tracker, MOLE, SNIFFEX, ADE651 in Iraq, GT200 in Mexico et al
Bob Stewart, M.P.
Patrick Mercer, M.P.
David Heath M.P.
David Laws M.P.
and other Members of the Great (sometimes but no thanks to them) British Parliament
The Mexican Government and Military and Police
The Thai Government and Military and Police
Colonel John Wyatt, retd. SDS Ltd. See SNIFFEX and HEDD1

SHALL I GO ON? There's lots more I promise you!

 OR DO YOU SEE HOW BIG THIS STORY IS AND HOW LITTLE HAS BEEN DONE!

Right, here's that Cliff Richard song (thanks Cliff. We're all going on a summer holiday!)

Hope you all like the sarcasm and satire, a Great British Tradition!! Perhaps a touch or irony.

Used to think that life was sweet.
Used to think we were complete.
I can't believe you'd throw it away.

Used to feel we had it made.
Used to feel we'd sail away.
Just Imagine how I feel today.
Well it seems a long time ago you were the lonely one.
Now it comes to letting go you are the only one.
Do you know what you've done.

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.
It's so funny why we don't talk anymore.
But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
it's so funny how we don't talk anymore.

Well it really doesn't matter to me.
I guess you're leaving was meant to be.
It's down to you now you wanna be free.
Well I hope you know which way to go you're on your own again.
And don't come crying to me when you're the lonely one.
Remember what you've done.

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.
It's so funny why we don't talk anymore
But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.

But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
It's so funny how we don't talk.

But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep.
It's so funny how we don't talk.

Thanks as always too:
The James Randi Educational Foundation at randi.org
Techowiz at http://explosivedetectorfrauds.blogspot.co.uk/
Lumpy Low at http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.co.uk/
Bob Couttie at Maritime Accident Casebook

And many others who have diligently spread the word on this disgusting killer fraud.

Estimates: Over $250 Million Dollars worth sold worldwide
                  Many hundreds if not thousands of lives lost
                  Many hundreds if not thousands injured
                  Millions in bribery and corruption in the selling and buying

ANYONE TALKING ANYMORE? 
                  

A DETECTOR THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

NEWSFLASH!

Breaking news (although it should not be because this detector has been around for a while now!).

JREF announces launch of the RANDI (Remote And Near Detection Indicator).

Compared with other detectors such as the ADE651, GT200, ALPHA 6, H3TEC, HEDD1, SNIFFEX etc, which claim they can detect almost anything, but actually work no better than random chance because they are a pile of poo, and the people who sell them are immoral bastards, the RANDI has an incredibly high identification/exposure rate.

The RANDI can detect almost any of the following foul substances, through application of grey matter alone:

Charlatans of many a hue and cry.
So called, self appointed psychics.
Purveyors of nonsense products.
Pedlars of pharmacological piffle.
Psychopath psychic surgeons.
Sellers of scam religions (all of them?)
Completely crappy conspiracy theories and theorists.
Mythical monsters and mammals.

ET Al (no, not Green! That's one of my random musical references).

All you have to do is point the RANDI at a dodgy looking target, and it locks on within moments usually. Sometimes you may have to be patient while it computes the methodology of the con, fraud or trickery, but rest assured, it very rarely fails.

If the target appears to be spewing out large and potentially dangerous spurts of bullshit, the RANDI automatically attempts to shut off the flow, using logic and rational bombs (completely un-detectable by the targets, especially those named above, which could not detect anything except the corruptible and gullible, Sadly we are unable to control the almost inexhasutible supply of these marks or consumers of the scams. They say there's one born every minute. I reckon it's more like one every second, but that does mean the market is still vast for the RANDI).

Regrettably the RANDI does not carry enough armament to stem the flow of BS from every quarter, but  it is highly reliable, and sticks to its tasks like a limpet mine (also un-detectable by those other devices!).

The RANDI is a proven performer in many theatres of operation e.g. John of God.

It has been tested in extreme environments where blizzards of BS can be present.

The RANDI has performed under fire from the various targets it is programmed to detect. Vast amounts of insult, innuendo, diversionary, ad hominem, strawmen, fake evidence, and other forms of non-argument ammunition has been aimed at the RANDI. It still looks remarkably good for its age.

While the original RANDI has been around a while now, we have failed to find a more reliable design.

If the target remains operational, the RANDI deploys its MDC Inter Galactic Ballistic Missile, which carries a deliverable payload of 1 Million Megaton Dollars. Otherwise known as the JREF Million Dollar Challenge. The MDC hangs above the heads of targets and repeatedly drops charges on the targets. Every time they refuse to give in, and accept the MDC is more powerful than they are, they look more and more battered and bruised.

We are working on a new version of the RANDI. The upgrade will include flashing lights, and a nuclear quadrupole resonance missile. This upgraded arms capability will enable even more kills of the targets.

So, the RANDI not only detects, but is programmed to destroy the sources of baloney and BS, wherever it tries to hide.

Some prime examples of where the RANDI has locked on and not let go:

Peter Popoff
Sylvia Browne
John Edward
Quadro Tracker and all the subsequent variant of the detector fraud as above.
Scientology
Homeopathy
Alien abductions (have you seen how many Americans claim they have been abducted! Maybe that explains a lot!! Ho Ho. Just kidding!)
Big Foot/Yeti/Sasquatch
9/11 'truthers' (yeah folks! Actually didn't you know that Muffin the Mule was behind that one you idiots!)

ETC ETC ETC

We appreciate that many of these Weapons of Mass Delusion (W.M.D.) have still not been destroyed, but many have been badly wounded, and restricted in operational range by the deployment of the RANDI.

We regret that some technologies enable some of the targets to repair themselves following deployment of the RANDI e.g. The Popoff With Your Money (PWYM). However, yet again we can promise that once deployed, the RANDI never gives up. It is the most tenacious technology we have yet seen.

So, to test the RANDI yourself, under double blind conditions, and at any reputable academic institution, please contact the JREF at

RANDI.ORG

(No you silly people, RANDI, not RANDY! It's not a naughty site!!, but it can be very offensive to fraudsters thankfully!)

THE AMAZING RANDI

Anyone who has followed the Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign (FEDC) will know that I was inspired by James Randi of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)

Back in 2008 Randi issued his Million Dollar Challenge (MDC) to the ADE651. It was the fact that the ADE651 was being sold by a British company that got my goat (Damn, I loved that goat! Not carnally I hasten to add! Just joking. Got my goat means it made me mightily angry),

Anyway, it was the Randi MDC that motivated me to start to investigate further, and subsequently to encounter my great friend and great man Techowiz. Anyone who wants to know more can go back to the beginning of this blog and follow the story, or see the book of the blog at the link below (the book is easier to follow because it starts at the very beginning).

Here we link to a recent interview with The Amazing Randi at the Magic Castle. The interviewer is the marvellous mentalist, Max Maven.

It's well worth listening to the whole interview because Randi is truly a great skeptic. Despite his advancing age and recent illness, he is a deep well of great stories and wisdom.

However, for those of you with not much time, fast forward to 40 minutes in when Randi discusses the MDC with Max, and explains a little of how it works. He also mentions the Quadro Tracker and the ADE651 (actually he calls it the ADE561 but I think we'll forgive him for getting two digits the wrong way around!).

Well, we are now over three years into the campaign, and of course, none of the main criminals involved in the trade in fancy dress dowsing rods have been charged with any crime. Since Randi has been publicising this scam since 1995, isn't it AMAZING that little or nothing has been done to end this disgusting fraud? If you agree, please spread the word.

N.B. Randi can be very generous to deluded people who believe in all sorts of BS, despite the fact that he endeavours to expose frauds, scams, psychics (e.g. Sylvia Browne and John Edward) etc etc. We just want to make it clear that none of the Fake Explosives Detectors have ever been put forward for the MDC despite numerous challenges from Randi down the years, and despite some of our 'favourite'  fraudsters saying they would or might take the challenge, or indeed get proper testing carried out. WHY NOT? Because of course they know they are selling a fraud!


THE AMAZING RANDI INTERVIEW

THE BOOK OF THIS BLOG

James Randi Educational Foundation    

DOES THE COMPANY A MAN KEEPS

Say anything about him? OR, 2 Degrees of separation......If you do not know who these gentlemen are please feel free to ask, and if you can answer why they are joined at the pic, you win a prize!!

'With absolutely no sense of irony, Major General Alan Sharman, the head of the Defence Manufacturers' Association, said: "This was a complete bombshell. I am amazed."
25 July – Arms Trade'

'Talking of jobs that we’d be better off without, the government announced the decision to close the Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO), a department employing over 400 people and headed by an arms trade businessman.  The decision proved very popular with campaigners against the arms trade who think that DESO promotes the sale of military equipment by British companies to repressive regimes and approves corrupt payments to foreign politicians and officials to secure these sales.  They also believe that DESO was too close to central government to allow independent decision-making.  Unsurprisingly the great whites and hammerheads of the arms industry were up in, well, um, arms.  They launched an undoubtedly well-funded lobbying campaign to oppose the closure.  With absolutely no sense of irony, Major General Alan Sharman, the head of the Defence Manufacturers' Association, said: "This was a complete bombshell. I am amazed."  You plonker, Rodney!  Derek Marshall, of the Society of British Aerospace Companies, said that DESO had helped to make British arms companies second in the world's arms trade. He said he was worried that the government was now downgrading the promotion of arms sales and that without a dedicated department, Britain would lose contracts to foreign competitors.  So that’s a bad thing is it, Mr Marshall?  To help in the fight against the pin-striped dealers in death, you can support the Campaign Against The Arms Trade.'

FROM:: http://www.ttrp.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=28

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-11419154.html


'MAJOR-GENERAL ALAN SHARMAN, director general of the Defence Manufacturers' Association, expresses his dismay at the effect of Pinochet's arrest - while here as a guest of the Ministry of Defence - on arms deals to Chile. Merely 'following orders', no doubt, a consideration of human rights does not appear to be among his duties:
Pinochet was accompanied by a full military mission who were accompanied by a DESO [Defence Export Services Organisation] officer. The Chileans came at the invitation of the Ministry of Defence. Staff within DESO are deeply concerned at what they see as the British Government's breach of faith... [The arrest of General Pinochet] was extraordinary and inconceivable... Business with Chile is on hold. There was potential for significant orders and that effort has been damaged... One company had completed delivery of 100 units of a weapon and was due to act on an option for a further 400. Within hours of the arrest, Chile's agent had contacted the company and said they could forget it.'

http://www.remember-chile.org.uk/comment/apolbrit.htm

AN OPEN INVITATION TO MAJOR GENERAL ALAN SHARMAN (retd.)

You may remember this chap from a previous post, or if you have read the blog of the venerable Techowiz lately. If not, why not! Though I hope this is self-explanatory.

We sent this email yesterday to the various companies that Major General Sharman (retd.) holds Directorships with, in the hope that they will be good enough to pass it on. Just in case it does not reach him that way, here is that email, so that he cannot say he did not know about our cordial invitation. R.S.V.P. Let us see if he does.....

Dear Mr. Sharman,

You will no doubt be aware that we have an interest in Gary Bolton of Global Technical, for having corruptly sold the MOLE and GT200 fake detectors in places like Thailand and Mexico.

You may recall you took Gary Bolton with you on Tuesday the 9th of November 1999 before the Trade and Industry Committee at the Houses of Parliament to give evidence on, ECGD:

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmtrdind/52/91109a08.htm

It would be most informative to know how much you knew about Mr Bolton and his 'miraculous' device, prior to that meeting?

Did you or anyone else at the DMA ever question how a radio aerial could detect explosives, or ask for concrete proof? If not, why not? If so, when?

We hope that now you are fully aware of the issues, you will publicly support a call for a Worldwide ban on Exports, and further efforts by the British Government to prevent the ongoing use of these dangerous and deadly devices?

Your prompt response would be appreciated!

Yours faithfully,
The Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign

For some context, this is the same Major General Alan Sharman who said:

"The fundamental weakness in global export controls is the sheer diversity of national policies, systems and procedures which exist, and which create a fertile environment for proliferators and illicit arms dealers. 

'Until this is addressed, and greater harmonisation and consistency, at least at the policy level, is achieved, then we will not be able to prevent the unscrupulous from plying their trade - and that is why we warmly welcome the proposed international Arms Trade Treaty, which could go some way towards achieving this."

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=16995

We can think of few more worthy of being called 'unscrupulous' than Gary Bolton, or indeed James McCormick. Can you? And if not then don't you think that a man with the influence of Sharman should make a public statement denouncing his old friend Bolton at the very least?

HERGES ADVENTURES OF McTAVISH a.k.a James McCormick

Referring, or should I say deferring as so often to my great pal and wit (No! Not Twit!), Techo a.k.a. Supersleuth, I note his recent addition to his fine blog, and I commend it to you! In other words, for those of you of simpler dispositions (YES! YOU CP and the A&P, i.e. READ TECHO). He has discovered a 'fictional character' bearing a remarkable likeness to our own fave fatty Jim McCormick (lost any pounds with stress Jim? We've certainly limited the pounds you were making, and we'll get what's left - i.e. our pound of flesh for all those you helped blow up, you f'ing SH1T!)

WANTED

MAD JOCK McTAVISH of ATCC/ASD-200
a.k.a. James McCormick of ATSC/ADE651 infamy.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

OR:

WHO ARE THE GUARDIANS OF LAW AND DECENCY?

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB

CONFESSION NUMBER 2

Ve haf our sources...No not tomato!!!

We have learned a most interesting thing. I confess we have sources in a number of places who are equally upset about the trade in fake explosives detectors that has cost many lives, many limbs, much grief and heartache, much damage and loss to property, and much gain to the corrupt feckers who sold them (see below ad nauseam!)

BACKHANDERS AND BACKSLIDERS AND THEIR CATACLYSM

YES, SNIVELLING SWIVELLER SELLERS AND BUYERS, YOU!

GET THAT SINKING FEELING JIM?

Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho!

Well, Jim, looks like you're going down. What a shame. NOT!!!!

GOTCHA!

Looks like it's all blown up in your face. Funny your ADE 651 didn't detect this explosion.

You won't be missed. Unlike those poor people who got blown up because your fraudulent device didn't do what it said on the tin.

As we have said all along, you are a piece of SH1T. Now you'll be getting your just desserts. No Ice Cream with these ones though.

Now it's the turn of Gary "I'll Sue You" Bolton at Global Technical, and his equally useless gadget, the GT200. Oh, yes, and the pedlars of the PSD 2 and the Alpha 6. And our friends in Germany will be feeling your collar too Mr. Vollmar. The latter for pulling off a miracle and resurrecting the SNIFFEX.

Whaddya reckon now boys? F****d you good and proper. YEEHA!

EDIT 11 February 2012

Never realised that I had failed to include the inspiration for this piece i.e. the original BBC Newsnight report link! DOH!!

So, to correct that little error. Here is that link. RESPECT TO MEIRION JONES, CAROLINE HAWLEY, AND THE BBC NEWSNIGHT TEAM, AS WELL AS CLINTON ROGERS OF BBC SOMERSET, WHO GOT THAT FIRST INTERVIEW WITH PIGGIE JIM McCORMICK. Ho Ho Jim! DOWSING. FOR DEATH! THAT'S ALL YOUR STUPID ROD CAN ACHIEVE!!!

BBC NEWSNIGHT REPORT ON THE ADE651    22 JANUARY 2010

Of course, we would never have guessed when I originally wrote this piece just after the Newsnight report, that we would still be campaigning for action against McCormick and others over 2 years later. But, as we know we are in the right here, we fight on till the ends are achieved. At minimumm, these are the long term incarcerations of McCormick, Bolton and all the others responsible for peddling deathtrap fake detectors!!!