Only Sweat the Small Stuff 922

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I was called by a journalist yesterday who told me that in Dewsbury six years ago I shared a platform with Baroness Warsi’s now husband at a meeting against the persecution of Muslims. Sadly I couldn’t really help him as at the time I was doing hundreds such events and have only the dimmest of recollections of that one.

It is not merely amusing that Cameron refers Warsi for investigation for allegedly pocketing a couple of thousand quid while protecting Hunt who tried so hard to shepherd the Murdoch BSkyB bid past the winning post, while pretending to referee the event.

Nor is the lesson just that a Muslim woman will always be expendable while a fully paid up member of the ruling class will be less so.

The truth is that to trip up an MP over a little cash does not threaten the system. To tackle the massive institutional corruption by which corporate interests control the British state is a different question altogether.

Hunt is of course not the only case not to be referred. Nor was the Adam Werritty debacle, where rather than the proper investigative procedures Cameron organised a tidy little stitch-up by Gus O’Donnell which omitted almost all the key facts and particularly did not say what the entire scheme was about – the promotion of the interests of Israel. The Murdoch Empite, the Israeli lobby, these are amongst the interests that actually run the exploited citizenry of this poor wracked old country. Every now and then glimpses of truth emerge.

But must not be pursued.

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  • guano

    Going back to Warsi, I am working for a man who has aspirations to travel that same road to Muslim fame and power.
    The recipe: Always support your own nationality in any disagreement. They are your power-base. As much as you can, belittle and betray the enemies of those who and not the English people you want to get promotion from, for they will reward you for silencing the truth-speakers they themselves are unable to suppress by fair means or foul. Lastly, wave the slogan of Islam from your luxury Jaguar. the prophets of Islam rode on donkeys may Allah’s peace be on every one of them. There is nothing that engratiates the hearts of the enemies of Islam more than Muslim extravagance and pride.

  • guano

    Sorry bits of that don’t make sense. The Pistakanis have been getting up my nose big-time this week. However I don’t expect any better from them than smouldering resentment of present and past UK colonialism. They will not be happy until they have raised the flag of Pistakan over Parliament. That is how they are programmed.
    So its good to see Warsi being caught fiddling her expenses and it exposes them for the type of Muslims these slippery pole climbers really are.

  • Rose

    Yeah Mary – but y’know we are all worth it.

    Guano – yes – I think I know what you’re saying; coming from a different angle, I too despair. But as Craig says, don’t sweat the small stuff – it will all work out. There are too many of us for it not to. Cheer up chuck.

  • guano

    Rose
    Thanks, I have cheered up now that I’ve realised why I was so angry. My boss told me he had to do what was good for the company and let off a cowboy who tried to con us for fear of upsetting his community. The community is quite capable of making up its own mind about one of its own. He didn’t want to lose votes when he later puts himself forward as an electoral candidate.
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    A lot of Pakistanis always vote for the rich, no matter how corrupt, how untruthful. I have an allergy to lying, just as others have an allergy to different foods. As soon as I can pin down the lie, the allergy goes away. I don’t mind him playing politics. I just cease to function when people start lying. Muslims included, but not particularly from them.

  • guest

    “Only Sweat the Small Stuff”
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    “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
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    Aesop
    Greek slave and fable author (620 BC – 560 BC)

  • Clark

    Guano: “As soon as I can pin down the lie, the allergy goes away.” I know just what you mean.
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    So that’s where Louis Vuitton went. I haven’t had to delete any of his for days.

  • Mary

    Did you see the nasty side of Obomber yesterday when he was interrupted by a reporter?
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    http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16247851
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    His true self as the orderer of drone attacks revealed?
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    Initially the BBC did not report it although they reported the speech. Their version of the interruption has been edited. The part where he gets v stroppy is missing. {http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18466984}

  • Mary

    John Hilley here is as spot on as ever.
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    Re: Murdoch Asked Blair to Speed Up Iraq War
    Posted by John Hilley on June 16, 2012, 8:59 am
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    What a circus of hypocrisy!
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    Spincriminal Campbell, of all people, spilling the beans on Murdoch, implying that he rushed a ‘hesitant’ Blair to war.
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    Isn’t it all so coy to read this type of liberal-righteous output now, so safe after the event, the mass slaughter?
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    Blair, Brown, Campbell and Murdoch – the whole depraved lot are guilty of the highest war crimes, and the Guardian has nothing, not a singular, solitary word, to say about this elementary truth, most likely because this whited sepulchre of a newspaper is itself deeply complicit in supporting Blair and his mad evangelical project.
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    John

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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/15/rupert-murdoch-tony-blair-iraq-alastair-campbell

  • guest

    “and the Guardian has nothing, not a singular, solitary word, to say about this elementary truth, most likely because this whited sepulchre of a newspaper is itself deeply complicit in supporting Blair”
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    http://www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0573.htm#Top
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    “More to the point, the Guardian’s senior managers – the board directors of the Guardian Media Group – are themselves intimately part of the establishment.”
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    {http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=406:cheerleading-the-climate-criminals-part-1&catid=19:alerts-2005&Itemid=40}

  • Mary

    Just some of the adjectives that could be used to describe Huw Edwards’ commentary on the trooping of the colour this morning. Applicable to the whole production too who I assume wrote the script for him. Perhaps the crawler does it naturally.
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    oleaginous  [oh-lee-aj-uh-nuhs]
    Part of Speech: adjective
    Definition: unctuous
    Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, insincere, oily, sleek, smarmy, smooth*, smug, suave
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    Imagine what it is going to be like when the next royal funeral takes place.

  • Clark

    Diplomacy for cyberspace?
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    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/cyberwar_treati.html

    There’s a common belief within the U.S. military that cyberweapons treaties are not in our best interest: that we currently have a military advantage in cyberspace that we should not squander. That’s not true. We might have an offensive advantage, ­although that’s debatable, ­but we certainly don’t have a defensive advantage. More importantly, as a heavily networked country, we are inherently vulnerable in cyberspace.

    Yes, the prevalence and poor security of Microsoft Windows is both an offensive advantage and a defensive disadvantage for everyone. Possibly the US military see their close connections with Microsoft as increasing the offensive advantage of the US. Real-world incidents suggest that defence is more important.

  • Clark

    Israel’s Shin Bet security service has been demanding access to personal email accounts of visiting tourists with Arab names, according to the testimony of three U.S. citizens who were interrogated at Ben Gurion Airport and subsequently refused entry into Israel in May.

    I’ve linked to the article below, but that’s all you get due to the Haaretz paywall:
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    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-airport-security-demands-access-to-tourists-private-email-accounts.premium-1.434509

  • CheebaCow

    Clark:
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    It’s an interesting issue. I would accept that in some ways the US does have an advantage, in that it has very close relationships with virtually all the current giants in tech (but even that is changing, some Chinese tech companies are rapidly growing). In terms of number of black hatters under their control/influence, I would assume the Chinese and Russians have far more, training everyday in the malware/botnet scene. The Chinese obviously have some talent, they made Google look the fool. However I think the key point, is that the US and the west in general are racing to network anything and everything. So not only are there more holes, but the holes cause far greater damage. The current wet dream of the electricity companies are the smart meters with real time monitoring (sold as energy efficiency, but really just a rate hike on the population). I think governments will someday regret exposing something as fundamental as their power supply to external networks. What about the water supply? Hacking a dam could have terrible consequences.
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    It’s also very short sighted of the US, because cyber attacks offer plausible deniability, enabling someone to attack the US without the fear of the usual military reprisals.

  • Clark

    KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid! An old UNIX maxim, I believe. Networks are complex, so if a thing doesn’t need the network, don’t connect it. But can I live without a WiFi doorbell or central heating controller?

  • Mary

    The nitwits on Surrey councils are blowing £260k on the ‘torch’ ie for the aggrandisement of Coe and the other LOCOC troughers, a piece of metal with a gas flame is being taken around the county to be looked at by a different lot of nitwits. Yet libraries are closed, cuts are made in social services and education, o;d people’s day centres shut, the roads (apart from those to be used for the olympic cycle races) are potholed and worn, the police force is being privatised, the towns are mostly grubby and shabby, gridlock occurs continually, etc etc. I could go on.
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    London 2012: Surrey councils to spend £260,500 on Olympic Torch relay Huge crowds have greeted the Olympic torch as it makes its way around the UK
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    Councils across Surrey are preparing to spend up to £260,500 in total to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic torch in south-east England next month.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-18456335

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    Mike,
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    The presence of ‘al-Qaeda’ in Syria renders a familiar picture, a grotesque image of a connection between terror and the West.
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    American intervention in Syria will not only and obviously escalate the violence, but it will prove beyond doubt that America and Britain, and I do not excuse or exclude their citizens, is content, is willing to accept, another cataclysm, another unholy mess of small broken bodies that we recently witnessed in Houla or the rows of mass graves as recorded in Houla Iraq and published by the BBC.
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    “NOT IF but WHEN”
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    http://www.debka.com/article/22088/US-military-intervention-in-Syria-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9CNot-if-but-when%E2%80%9D
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    My own message to President Obama and his military planners is this; when black returns to white again you will plead for a return to black in order to stop the suffering; and I believe that will be granted.
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    Russia will be drawn into a Syria war as she covets a need to nurture her ‘oasis’ at Tartus, cherished for 41 years.
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    Our world will eventually become flames and humanity deformed…

  • Mary

    Peter Hitchens: ‘Lawless Libya: The story you didn’t read’
    Posted by The Editors on June 17, 2012, 9:21 am
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    ‘Here’s the problem. We ‘liberated’ Libya, and this lawless, failed state is now our responsibility. But, as we are preparing to ‘liberate’ Syria in the same way, we hide from ourselves that our interventions have made things worse than they were.’
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    http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/06/lawless-libya-the-story-you-didnt-read.html
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    Responses:
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    Must be the third (more?) decent article in the Mail – puts Guard /Indie to shame nm – MikeD Today, 9:31 am

  • Mary

    but wait, he did go on to say –
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    War… it’s this year’s must-have accessory

    Out of fashion: Asma Assad the wife of Syria’s president
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    I am still getting messages from ordinary people inside Syria, appalled at the inaccurate picture of events there being peddled by Western media. But the heedless rush to war continues.
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    The truth obviously doesn’t matter much once war becomes fashionable.
    Hillary Clinton, the American Secretary of State, has been caught out using her respected office to make alarmist claims that Russia is supplying Syria with new helicopter gunships. She gets away with it because it is modish to believe in interfering in Syria. It’s so modish that the feared Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue, has spotted the trend. Now that Syria is officially the world’s worst tyranny, she has swung the world of hemlines, heels and lip gloss behind the cause of war.
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    Ms Wintour has icily disowned an embarrassing pro-Syrian article that her magazine ran last year, in which the attractive Asma Assad, wife of the Syrian president, was billed as a ‘rose in the desert’ and described as ‘the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies’.
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    She isn’t a magnetic rose any more. She is the wife of a brutal dictator. How fickle fashion is.
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    This sort of drivel almost makes me yearn for the good old days when all we got were hysterical lies about non-existent weapons of mass destruction.
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    !!

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    We are being told that there isn’t enough money for public services while the government throws £350million from taxpayers at designs for nuclear-armed submarines.
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    “With a majority (64%) of public opinion in favour of scrapping Trident, being forced to pay for it while local libraries and hospitals are axed: that’s a tough pill to swallow.”
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    “Nuclear weapons have no intrinsic merit,” the LibDems party’s former leader said recently, adding that “it is unthinkable today that Britain would contemplate the destruction of the heavily populated capital of Russia – or any other city.”
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    Destruction of a city? We have destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran? – we can demolish more and pollute more with radiation, 30,000 Roentgens per hour deforms most living things.
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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9336252/1-billion-deal-paves-the-way-for-Trident-nuclear-deterrent-replacement.html

  • Alan campbell

    Cowardly decision of Salmondm not to meet the dalai Lama, dontcha think?

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