For all those nutters who cry “Conspiracy theory” whenever it is stated that the CIA have ever done anything wrong, here is a story from that impeccably conservative source, the Daily Telegraph:
A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
America and the Military-Industrial Complex
Why have the American people allowed this complex to engage in another essentially unwinnable war in Afghanistan?
Can it be the likes of Larry, the American people are too frightened to speak out against the atrocities of pointless war, a war being waged for God alone knows what purpose except hegemony. Does this war make Britian or America safer – Nope!
Hey Larry, wasn’t it enough that king George and king Dick conned Congress into war with lies of WMD and bankrupted the nation of America too boot? Jeez you have nearly taken down Britain with you in the deficit.
I hear now from Afghanistan that ill-trained, unsupervised and accountable to no one contractors are being used to cross into Pakistan and report back by encrypted satellite phone the positions of suspected insurgents (that turn out to be weddings or tribal gatherings after everyone has been murdered by myopic, heuristic multi-threading drones).
Oh yeh this is ‘new war’ tactics that saves soldiers lives, no embarrassing dead body returns and no finger pointing for crossing the border of a sovereign country. But murder by contract is wrong just like torture is wrong and your school-yard comments here Larry just proves how gutless you and others really are at condemning these violations.
Now Glenn, that’s a silly false dichotomy. One can believe everything I’ve written and not be a Fox News viewer. It’s quite easy, as I’m not a Fox News viewer. I think you tried the same thing in another thread – if I don’t believe in your stupid 911 conspiracy theory, then I have to watch Fox News. Tell that to the Stop the War Coalition, who want nothing to do with your 911 silliness.
You’re just not that intelligent, are you?
Mark Golding, well at least that’s your own writing!
btw, as a regular and welcomed commenter at this blog, what do you think of gay people?
@anno
I note the use in Islam of pbuh, and wondered if there was a pejorative equivalent, perhaps something along the lines of the Glasgwegian ‘mair brains in a gasmask’. It could be useful, as in: ‘Larry (mbgm)’
Off topic – or no – maybe not.
Have a look at this. “Obama veto for anthrax investigation”.
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2010/03/obama-veto-for-anthrax-investigation.html
It is argued that the best British commander during WW2 was William Slim, not Montgomery. Slim didn’t hog the limelight and succeeded with fewer resources in more difficult terrain. Slim rose through the ranks, from private during WW1 to (eventually) Field Marshall after WW2.
Vronsky
Yes there is, but if you make the curse incorrectly, the effect comes back on yourself. So it’s best to stay away from that one. Anyway Larry is kinda cute and I don’t have a gas mask to talk with. So for the moment, he’ll do.
Check out Brian Cox – not the Scottish Actor – who has got Craig Murray’s old job in Dundee, but the Brian Cox who I will vote for as my favourite physicist from from Oldham.
His new series the “Wonders of the Solar System” has just started on BBC2. The first one “Empire of the Sun” was quite Brilliant, and is available on BBC iplayer
The second in the series is repeated tonight on BBC2 at 19:00 and on BBC HD at 00:10
I’ve recorded but not yet seen Dispatches: Children of Gaza on Channel 4 last night.
That is available on the internet 4Od and is repeated on Sunday on Channel 4 at 4:15 am
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-56/episode-1
Tony
Incidentally, Brian Cox, as did my Brother-in-Law, went to Hulme Grammar which was within 10 minutes walking distance of where I lived in Oldham.
I was not allowed to even take the entrance exam, because I was the wrong religion.
I had been programmed since birth to go, first to Upholland Priest’s Training College which I declined on arrival at the age of 10, and then St Bedes College in Manchester, which I declined as I saw the effect being trained by Catholic Priests had on my older brothers.
Brian Cox seems to have turned out O.K. though.
Five Minutes With: Professor Brian Cox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiPsU13M6ek
Tony
Larry 04.30 AM
Thanks for the warning. I’ll try to remember to keep my back covered as well, with you, from now on.
On topic, I’d like to know how it is that the whole universe did not cave in for the French people, after they rebuked the UKUS all-lie-ance about the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. If Craig is correct, there is covert collaboration between the CIA and France. There are many stories about the hardness of the Foreign Legion. Also, my mother’s family fled the horrendous persecutions of the Huguenots by the French through many generations.
No-one should underestimate the potency of the process of fermentation. It was used for many purposes in a more vegetable age, including ‘retting’ linen fibres for papermaking. Not to be confused with the processes of tanning and abbattoirs whose stench is from ‘rotting’.
I am with Larry on this one. Maybe these intoxicating effects in France came from natural toxins. No conspiracy.
My father’s home-made grapefruit juice hooch was 90% pure poison.
Next time a UK Prime Minister climbs into bed with a US obnocrat – I’m not accusing Obama – why don’t we make an excuse and go and do another thing, instead of arguing as these pathetic diplomats and politicians keep doing, that the entire Western civilisation will go into melt down if we don’t do what the US President is saying?
I am 100% certain that 100% of British diplomacy and politics is lying. Reverse all of the published statements of the UK establishment and you will be be in reasonable proximity of the truth. Some people say, if two fish are fighting under the sea, the cause of the dispute is British lying.
Talking of which, how do you crash into an obstacle in a nuclear submarine in the Red Sea? Doesn’t your radar start going bananas, unless it actually bumped into another French one! Again! They both had the same idea at the same time. Let’s go and have a skive under that shelf just off Saudi Arabia. Bollocos. They just thought it would be a good idea to let the Arabs know about their presence. In the nicest possible way. Sorry, we’ll pay for the damage, like we did in Iraq and Palestine and Afghanistan.
“mbgm”
(c-pbuh)
Custard-pies be upon him.
Since we already know Larry’s position on “The Jews” (i.e. ‘mention as often as possible’) I’d like to know his position on torture, and “extraordinary rendition”. I’d like to know his position on waterboarding, hooding, sensory deprivation, and detention without charge. I’d also like to know why alleged terrorists accused of crimes can not be tried in ordinary American criminal courts.
If Larry is as proud of his country as he pretends, he will surely have all the answers to these questions down pat.
pork be upon him
And don’t be drinking green beer tomorrow, Lar, you’re not worthy.
Yes, everything is always a “conspiracy theory” at the time – and when the fact that it actually was a conspiracy is revealed 50 years later the media smugly assume that “it wouldn’t happen now of course”, without even questioning why files on David Kelly’s death have been banned from being released for 70 years.
Exactly!
“he will surely have all the answers to these questions down pat”
Larry doesn’t answer questions.
dreoilin, why change the subject? Anno right here on this page let you know that he finds you inferior. He wants a system in place in which you’re inferior to men. Are you going to let Muslims roll over you for the rest of your life?
What a bizarre piece of imagery! Scimitars and steam-rollers.
“Are you going to let Muslims roll over you for the rest of your life?”
Yea dreoilin, you are clearly oppressed by Muslims. Suggest you wise up and wake up before it’s too late.
Brum-brum!! Choo-choo!! Watch out, people, there’s a roller a’comin’! A Bay City Roller! More deadly even than a planeful of snakes! Cover your ears, people!
“A Bay City Roller”
AAAAARRGGHH.
Sprinkle a little literary LSD into a thread and it is like real to some.
LfSt.L you can come down now, it is only imaginary.
So what about it mon patriot, how about answering dreolins questions on extraordinary rendition, it would make a change from your usual drivel.
Come to think of it, what’ya think of Carl Rove’s self promotion, hawking his book with a few outragously stupid statements, would you say he’ll need a little session of what he is so proud of,himself?
I suppose he be OK with getting comfortable for a couple of days, listening to others being tortured, so, he’ll then knows whats coming to him, I’m dead sure that he got loads to tell us, stuff he has not written in his big fat book he’s hawking.
Come on larry, whats in a few questions about human rights and wrongs? It should come easy to you, a man with such great experience. As you are apparently emancipated, so you tell us, it would be easy for you to please dreolin, a late salute to womens week, sort of.
How about it Larry?
I’ve tried to explain the following to people, but you silly gooses can’t seem to listen. Not only are you ignorant, but you continually decide to be ignorant.
Just because I don’t believe in your silly conspiracy theories does not believe that I condone anything the Bush administration ever did.
I know you folks lack the mental capacity to understand that, but it’s still worth stating.
I just find it hilarious that you people fully accept Anno’s misogyny.
Actually, I imagine that Anno’s hatred of women stems from women not treating him well when he was younger. He can’t control them otherwise, so he’s chosen his silly religion as a tool for accomplishing a feeling of superiority to women. Unfortunately, that still doesn’t mean he gets laid, but I guess that’s what the afterlife virgins are for.
Tell me, please, Larry, exactly which aspects of Bush Admin. (and Obama Admin., if applicable) foreign policy do you disagree?
I speak, of course, as someone to whom Virgin is simply an airline a company which, though our smiley-smile lad, Richard B would like it to, does not yet offer package tours to Paradise.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/12/c_13208219.htm
Waiting for the same for the UK. Yanks? Dirty bastards.