The neo-con Blair and Cameron regimes are very comfortable with each other. War criminal Alistair Campbell’s “evidence” to the Leveson inquiry is risible.
“Only a few people in number 10 knew Cherie was pregnant, so it must have been phone hacking that led the Mirror to it” is a statement that would not stand ten seconds thought, if it were not ramped by being given the status of a leak.
Campbell’s statement ignores the range of explanations as to how the Mirror could have learned from the “small number of people in No. 10” that Cherie was pregnant. These include:
a) gossip
b) No 10’s motive to get the news out to boost Tony’s popularity
c) the hospital
d) phone hacking
Phone hacking is the least possible explanation. My money is on b)
No, this is a rather pathetic attempt by the Blair camp to divert attention from Murdoch onto Piers Morgan, who the war criminals have never forgiven for his opposition to the War in Iraq. It is so blatant a ploy that it needs an extra boost to the story as a daring “leak” by the Tory neo-con PR man Paul Staines, to be a succesful diversionary tactic.
Blairites and Tories get together to manufacture an incident to take the heat off Murdoch at Leveson Inquiry. That is the real story.
Jives – are you, or is someone in your household, Forces or ex-Forces? There’s some current concern about cold-selling payday loans to Servicemen and their families…that kind of approach could be used.
Murdoch’s alleged offer to Charlotte Church was/is grotesque.I’ve no doubt implicit in the offer was a Mafiosi-type threat to what sort of press she’d get if she didn’t play along.It’s blackmail of a child,in effect.
Sickening.
@ Komodo
No,no forces connections in my family or household.
As mentioned before,it felt spooky-in the institutional sense.
Mary, re. the logic of spambots – yeah, now you’re in the groove! I’ve had some very interesting ‘spamversations’ with the botties, usally at the fag-ends of long threads. It is the cyber equivalent of the 3:30 am conversation in the kitchen at the tail-end of a party. However, they often are more entertaining and incpiently cosmic than the ‘Screaming Lord Sutch’ one-line trolls who cacophonise repeatedly that ‘Craig Murray is insane!!’ – that type of recyclable organic waste is very boring and quasi-Stalinist and fools absolutely no-one.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/28/isfahan-explosion-report-iran-nuclear-facilities
Seems to be alot of explosions involving sensitive sites in Iran of late.
Disgusting Mary, I remind myself Richard is Chair of the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group which seeks to foster good relations and understanding between Britain and Palestine and to promote a just and durable peace in the Middle East.
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Worthy of note this honourable man voted against invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the 2005 anti-terror bill, which included provision to hold terrorist suspects for 90 days without trial.
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On another tack Richard was excluded from meeting Chinese premier Wen Jiabao while agent Cameron on the one hand sealed British deals with China worth nearly £2 billion and on the other, lumped China as a threat comparable to Iran – fucking hypocrite!
Its building up. The latest: [Last week President Medvedev address to the Nation)
Russia instructs defence ministry to place early warning missile radar on combat alert in Kaliningrad.
Russia increases protection of its nuke arsenal (hardened)
Currently fitting navy and army latest missiles Topol, Topol M, Buluva. with extremely advanced warheads to defeat U.S. missile defence.
Instructs defense ministry to find ways to deal with missile defence data and jam its ability to work effectively
Medvedev said they will condionally place Iskander tactical weapons in Kaliningrad to take out the missile defence.
Latest, latest news.
George HW Bush in Syrian waters from last wed. Just joined by three heavy missile cruisers & 5 guided missile destroyers
Russia currently has three heavy warships located near Tartus. They have thrown an extremely advanced air defence and warning system around a large sector of Syrian territory.
The Russian Federation aircraft carrier Kuznetzov and its as yet unidentified strike team are on the way. Arrival unconfirmed.
They will park in the same Syrian waters as the HW Bush, and its strike group.
What more can I say.
This will not be Cuba. Both the Russian Leadership and the military have not been asked to stand down. The leadership have requested the military to defend Iran and Syria against outside interference. There will be no climbdown this time.
Havantaclu – couldn’t find your comment. Giveusaclu, please…
Mine went up, and was deleted without even the standard excuse:
This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn’t abide by our community standards. Replies may also be deleted. For more detail see our FAQs.
I conclude that it abided by their community standards, and was just pulled.
I also noted on another Grauniad blog that you can be as Islamophobic as you like. Double standards, given the recent homily from the readers’ editor on antisemitism.
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Suhayl – what I like about spambots is that when you have been creatively rude to one, another one will happen by and say ” I am very much to like yr excellent comments and told bunch of mine friends at Oxford University about you”. I prefer them to people.
Vronsky,
That guido fuckwit was sending pizza to the baby killing, grani bashing,land stealing, mass murdering ziobots?
Forgive Paul, for he knows not what he did. Quite a lot of acid and MDMA, as it happens.
Ishmael’s right:
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http://rt.com/news/russian-aircraft-carrier-syria-363/
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“Of course, the Russian naval forces in the Mediterranean will be incommensurate with those of the US 6th Fleet, which includes one or two aircraft carriers and several escort ships,” Admiral Kravchenko explained. “But today, no one talks about possible military clashes, since an attack on any Russian ship would be regarded as a declaration of war with all the consequences.”
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Operation Enduring Arms Sales may have run into a slight problem, then.
Jives
A lot of hot air, more like, evidently a house heater/boiler malfunctioning is now getting classified as an “explosions”, and the types of guardian run with it, along with Ynet, etc. Shows a kind of desperation.
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Have you had a look at the comments in the Ynet etc? Mostly composed of the calls for Nuking Tehran and killing the Muslim “verm..”! It is disgusting to see the levels of racism, which somehow does not cause any kind of reaction, imagine if someone somewhere calls for Jew “verm..” to be nuked in the shitty little strip of land?
Well, Komodo, it’s not the Bay of Pigs, not yet, and it was planned but there are strong words. Perhaps Hague and his war-mongering Zionist cohorts will take note. The only trouble is they are mad enough to think “Bring it on!”
Jives – re explosion
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Former CIA officer Robert Baer has confirmed the catastrophe of losing an entire CIA/MI6 intelligence station in Tehran. I believe this was the result of Iran using double agents who infiltrated a complicated espionage and sabotage network affiliated to MI6. A number of Iranian students and youths had been targeted by British intelligence (Werritty?) by offering different incentives such as acquiring a visa, residence permits, employment and education in the UK.
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This was somehow achieved by collective collaboration and nearly all students had payed little attention to the type of activities they were involved in.
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Over 75% of these post-graduates held masters and even higher education certificates which shows the scope of the investment of British intelligence and their care for educated Iranians as well as their abuse of naivity in that none of the students knew of the complexity of MI6 methodology.
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Interestingly those active in the spying network had complete fluency in the Farsi language, even to the extent of full familiarity with old Persian proverbs, as well as making contacts on the basis of Iranian culture and customs up to the point that those affiliated to this network were not informed whether their senior officials were Iranian or non-Iranian.
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The information required by intelligence was diverse but included measures taken by Iran to circumvent sanctions, energy transmission networks, urban transportation, financial institutions and communications into Iran from the UK.
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An Iranian student sent to Malaysia became suspicious after being offered a free scholarship in return for confidential information from a government science institution.
Re. the Russian deployment: there are conflicting views on this. The Bush was reportedly in Marseilles for an extended visit on the 25th. The jolly tars were to be bussed inland to get some French culcha (badly needed), while the Russian fleet, according to Tass, is still in the Barents Sea – eight days away. And DEBKA, the Zionist disinformation agency, goes with the RT version…so if anyone’s playing silly buggers we know who it is, as usual. Relax, for the moment.
The Bush will leave Marseilles tomorrow en route to Norfolk VA. I submit this as an instance of the need to check the facts where RT is concerned. Local source, agrees with USN press release from the ship.
http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=117910
Mark Golding, that’s interesting, but a former CIA intelligence officer is just as likely to be giving misinformation to let the “enemy” believe they’ve got the lot. Though I suspect Iranian intelligence will remain vigilant. In a way I feel sorry for these students recruited by western intelligence services to be sent to their deaths for a few dollars more than they could earn from their degrees, and a lot less than they would earn over their lifetimes. Also with despotic regimes like Iran their families are likely to suffer too. This is what intelligence services do, they target people with little money, as in your earlier comment in which you had information that MI6 plan a ‘sting’ on Iranian asylum-seekers to create the UK’s 9/11 as an excuse to attack Iran. But it looks like Russia has had enough from the tone of that article posted by Komodo on the Russian aircraft carrier. And I suspect China has too.
definitely Craig !! Tony the Stud and PM , God’s instrument,defender of the faith,,all fits in with the vanity of the man. If only she hadn’t been such a boot… or was it Booth ? Or was it in a booth ?
Komodo. Both articles are dated today. Is this an emergency departure for the ‘Bush’ to avoid being accused of going home with its tail between its legs due to some of the strongest Russian talking I have heard in a long while? Russia was not happy with what NATO did in Libya.
Komodo,
ROFLMAO, You old Lizard, you made my day! Acid, ayyye?
Mark,
Robert Baer, is a tosser of first degree, and most of what he says is pure fiction. In the story the masters and PhD level students do not speak fluent English and are fooled by the “perfect Farsi speaking” agents, such as Werrity who is an Iran expert with the vocabulary of; salam, merci, halet chetoreh (how are you)! (this is a standard ziotactic, bigging up/puffing up everything about themselves, and their agents. Before D. Miliband was getting the job of the foreign secretary, the rags were filled with his linguistic abilities, only for him to later admit he did not have any language skills)
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The story is designed to portray these “lambkins” as dumb as the Red Indians falling for beads, and fire water tricks (visas, and work permits). Further, what goes unnoticed is the capture of the CIA asset; Abudl Malik Riggi, a vicious terrorist, who had 198 decapitations on his CV, and was tailed from the Bargam airbase, and caught in mid air, on a Qatar Airways jet. Incidentally, the first transmission of the Pilot was not addressed to the tower in Dubai, when it was intercepted (he was talking to some officials and getting orders as what he ought to do?).
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The eye witness account of the capture of Riggi and his entourage, included his body guards, entail the utter disbelief, at the time of his capture. Despite Riggi’s three differing Passports he had been captured.
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The fact is these daily snippets of “explosions” ad nauseum, are designed to keep the matter on the b oil sort of.
“Interestingly those active in the spying network had complete fluency in the Farsi language, even to the extent of full familiarity with old Persian proverbs, as well as making contacts on the basis of Iranian culture and customs up to the point that those affiliated to this network were not informed whether their senior officials were Iranian or non-Iranian.” Mark Golding.
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I once – in the late 1980s – met an affable (British) gentleman who told me he’d worked in the UK Embassy in Teheran during the Shah’s time. He told me: “I’m not surprised they hate us. We had spies right through that society.”
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In the UK (and in France), Persian ‘hands’ are legion.
Erica Blair’s extract from the Oborne and Walters book (2004) on Alastair Campbell made me dig out an even fuller extract: see http://tinyurl.com/d3r687g . It’s worth reading to be reminded of New Labour’s manipulation of everyone, including the media. And also to be reminded that Campbell’s CV includes his time as a Mediterranean gigolo, good training for falsely sexing things up for a rich and influential paymistresses, or masters.
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I hope the team taking evidence from Campbell at the Leveson Inquiry will have read it (I will send it to them – “Please send any representations to generalenquiries @levesoninquiry.org.uk)”. Leo Blair will have no problem securing a job, with an impressive public CV starting in utero.
Suhayl Saadi,
You do realise that Farsi is not exactly Arabic? And fecking hard to learn, and even worst to speak! How these legion came to be, in UK and France, lest we forget the ex pats whom mostly speak the ancient Farsi dialects?
John Goss:
“Mark Golding, that’s interesting, but a former CIA intelligence officer is just as likely to be giving misinformation to let the “enemy” believe they’ve got the lot.”
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That may be true, but in his book “See No Evil” Robert Baer makes some pretty strong claims, and even stronger insinuations, about the real agenda of the CIA in the “war on terror”. I realise that we are living in a hall of mirrors, but I struggle to imagine what the CIA would have to gain by having one of its ex-members support widespread suspicions about the Neocons were up to.
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Who knows?
Dear Craig
I can proper understand how this must look to a rational person who cares about politics and strategic power plays and stuff; that my enemy’s enemy is my friend and other FCO basic training but for us mad loon right wing motherfuckers – Campbell’s just a bog standard prick who could never have got passed middle management in the Tory Party. The left hate him a hell of a lot more than the right, same goes for Blair – if he were a Tory he could probably have got education or health maybe. I can understand your frustration that the left got bought but it ain’t us who made him but it is damn funny bringing them down.
Now if the left had done their job in the 1st place…but that’s another ice cream sundae. Keep your pecker up lad.
DtP
Fedup, how could you imagine that I don’t know that Persian and Arabic are two different langauges?? The UK was the imperial power of note in relation to Persia/Iran, so it had a large bank of ‘hands’ for many decades. That kind fo resource doesn’t just vanish, nor can it be constructed overnight. France has had a lot of interaction with Persians, many ex-pats/exiles are in France (as well as the USA).
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On another note, a few days ago I referred to the Speedo trunks photos of the Chief of the Security Service, when of course it should have been the Chief of the SIS, Sawyers. Sawyers, it was, in the Speedos – PR for MI6, according to Corinne Souza, who has a certain expertise in the aras of both PR and MI6.
Franz, it is a Hall of Mirrors, and not just flat-faced mirrors. Nobody really knows. Sometimes our speculations are right, sometimes they’re not.
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Anyway bonfire night is long gones, and so is Guido Fawkes.
As far as I can work out, John, the Bush passed S. through the Suez Canal on 18th June to join the 5th. Fleet (covering the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and coast off East Africa as far south as Kenya) , and returned, with the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) and the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2) on or about the 20th Nov, its tour having finished. It has as a result been assigned to the 6th Fleet (Mediterranean) until it gets back into the Atlantic. It could have been spotted recently off Syria – I have no knowledge of its course, but I don’t think that its plans will change from the publicised schedule absent a major conflict in the next 24 hours.
Suhayl Saadi,
Somehow for the last thirty two years, the bank of hands would have had sweet fa to do, how can this bank still exist? Further, Farsi a heck of lot more difficult than Arabic; its extended alphabet, and the irregular verbs that make German/Russian look positively easy languages to master.
Heather Stroud will not conceal the fact that she has resided with Palestinians in the “West Bank” when she departs at Ben Gurion airport tomorrow at c. 15 hrs. Her cell phone number then is 0549758019 (Israel 00972)
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A friend Heather Stroud from Yorkshire will speak the truth which might cause her to be arrested. I do not know. This is her statement:
“Israel has created a fiction around its existence, a fiction that even under minimal scrutiny lacks credibility. It is full of such extreme contradictions that only by adopting bully tactics can Israel claim a supportive audience at all. That our western leaders and media collude in this fiction should be of serious concern to all of us.
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On the public stage they smile and shake hands for the good photo opportunities with Israel’s leaders. It is only if we are willing to look closer that we notice that their eyes are closed.
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But it is not just our compromised leaders who collude in this way. All of us who want to visit Palestine are forced to join in the fiction to some degree. Israel holds the gaoler’s keys. From the airport to the checkpoints they determine who goes in and who goes out.
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My decision to stop participating in their fiction came slowly. It was more a creeping distaste at having to deny my support of Palestinian rights, and a disgust at my feigned respect for a colonial God-ordained project.
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Not colluding in their fiction will almost certainly gain me a place on their notorious ‘black list’ of those banned from re-entry into ‘Israel’.
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My individual act of defiance is insignificant but the message is not. If our world leaders and media acknowledged the truth that Israel is not the victim but the oppressor, and if they summoned the courage to challenge Israel to obey international law, Palestine might one day become free.”
One fraction of the barbarity that moves Heather can be read here –
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/stone-cold-justice/story-e6frg8h6-1226202202928