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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  • Mary

    There’s no money in the piggy bank yet the pigs-in-charge find a spare £1billion for this.
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    £1bn contract for UK nuclear submarines to be announced
    The plans are about “sustaining a sovereign capability in the UK” for years to come, said Mr Hammond
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    Trident £350m contracts unveiled
    Hammond on future subs investment
    Replacing Trident ‘nonsensical’
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    A £1bn contract for reactors for the next generation of the UK’s nuclear-armed submarines is to be announced.
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    The deal is part of plans to replace the Vanguard fleet, which carries the Trident nuclear deterrent.
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    The work will be carried out at the Rolls-Royce factory at Raynesway, Derby, creating 300 jobs
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18475108

  • Mary

    Cowardly decision of Salmondm not to meet the dalai Lama, dontcha think?
    No. Not at all.
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    A brilliant satire here. The Dalai Lama is a stooge and is always visiting those in the west in the seats of power. The satire was written when he visited the US to be glad-handed by Bush and Pelosi et al.
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    Hello, Dalai
    http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/hello-dalai/
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    eg {http://www.socialistunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dalailama-usa-2007-1.jpg} Same with Obama and Brown even went to India to visit the DL.

  • Mary

    Ref the militarization of the Olympics. Surely if the ‘terrrrists’ wanted to have a go, they could have attacked the Jubilee part of the Jubilympics. I am not aware of anything untoward that happened. So the question is why has there been such a build up of propaganda and military input?
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    The supermarkets have not missed a trick. The jubilee bunting has stayed up and we have segued neatly into supporting England at the European football.

  • Ishmael

    For the Russians Syria must be a line in the sand. Sergei Lavrov has become more critical of western intentions recently, a more hostile approach perhaps. I don’t believe the Russians are afraid to engage western military forces over Syria. If the Russian military are told to engage, they won’t think about it, or the consequences, they will do it. Evacuating Russian service families from the base in Gyumri, Armenia, shifting equipment and men to the base, re-supplying brand new planes, helicopters and advanced military equipment is preparation for conflict, plus a whole load of other actions throughout the region. Maybe they are ready.

  • Tom

    On 17 Jun, 2012 – 2:04 pm Alan campbell wrote ”
    Cowardly decision of Salmondm not to meet the dalai Lama, dontcha think?”

    Have you an opinion on anything other than these regular drab one-liner pitiful attempted smears of Alex Salmond. Tibetan ‘living gods’ are so last year. Strange though that your unionist (the indivisible Labour, Tory and Liberal Demotwat parties) activism and fervour doesn’t stretch to even attempt analysis enough to grasp the nettle of your illogicality: China’s iron grip on Tibet = Bad, London’s colonialist control over Scotland or others of their bloodsoaked conquests = Good.

  • Clark

    Guest, I’ve just got back and checked out the blog, and found a whole stack of your comments in the moderation queue. I there are some of yours approved, and everything after that is queued in “Pending”. I don’t know why. I’ll leave the duplicates in the queue and send out an e-mail on the Mods/Admins list.

  • Mary

    Ha!
    LATEST:No party has won enough seats for a majority in Greece’s new parliament, exit polls show, raising the prospect of new political deadlock

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    What do the banksters do next? Have they got a Plan B?

  • Mary

    That government online site is strange. Bits of news mixed in with tenders and the like.
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    I did spot this info which seemed to have been hidden in the releases earlier.
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    Home Office reveals pricetag for tracking emails, phone use and Facebook and Twitter accounts as Theresa May attacks critics as ‘conspiracy theorists’
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    The government’s “online snooping” scheme to track email, Facebook, Twitter and other web use comes with an official pricetag of at least £1.8bn and an official warning that the figure may well prove to be an underestimate, the Home Office has revealed.
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    Ministers have already agreed to pay all the costs of the scheme, which will require phone and internet companies to collect and store for 12 months the records of internet and mobile phone use in Britain for access by police and intelligence services.
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    The draft communications data bill published on Thursday says the move will cost £1.8bn over 10 years but that an official impact assessment says the pricetag is in line with the Treasury’s “optimism bias” that understates the cost of major projects. It adds that the technical complexity of the scheme may well increase the costs and that the estimate does not allow for inflation or VAT.
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    http://www.government-online.net/online-snooping-scheme-to-cost-1-8bn/
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    The sainted Theresa is a silly woman.

  • Clark

    MODERATION ADVICE!
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    Guest’s problem is in the link. The blog software apparently doesn’t like “online” with a hyphen immediately in front of it! It seems to regard that as spam. I had to approve Mary’s comment as well, because it contains the same link, but “hyphen online” in the comment text will also get your comment queued.

  • Clark

    I have to go out, so if you want to reference that site you’ll have to improvise, or you can leave them sat in the queue.

  • Mary

    Why is the BBC giving this war criminal airtime? I see he still has ambitions for the EU presidency. Over ny dead body.
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    Tony Blair says UK must help shape post-crisis Europe
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18477161#
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    His spinner is flogging the second part of his diaries as hard as he can using Twitter and the media.
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    Bliar’s book A Journey is on offer at Amazon for £13 new or 1p used!

  • DonnyDarko

    Alot of mischief makers out there trying to score cheap points against Salmond.
    If the Dalai Lama had wanted to meet Salmond, I’m sure he would’ve asked.Tibet and Scotland do have much in common.It’s not the inner peace !!As you say Mary, he’s been used as an irritation and a pawn against China for yunks, unfortunately.
    The attempts to discredit the 1st minister are because the scare tactics of leaving the Union are having the opposite effect in Scotland.Nobody buys that we could be worse off than in a corrupt country where your voice is never heard and even if it was ,it’s automatically out voted.

  • Clark

    Tom, the answer is yes, Alan Campbell also does regular drab one-liner pitiful attempted smears of Craig Murray.

  • Jives

    Yes,Alan Campbell has tedious form here.
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    Interesting how his thin one-liners always deride Craig-a man who has stood,against many odds,against torture,hypocrisy and the gross lies of our political “elites”.
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    Alan Campbell,and other small men,are defined by their hatreds.
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    You’re a sham little man Alan Campbell;go away and don’t darken this site again.

  • oddie

    bizarre!

    17 June: Haaretz: Faced with boycott campaigns, Israel organizes legal seminar in London
    Over a hundred European lawyers set to discuss various legal aspects of pro-Israel advocacy and universal jurisdiction law amid attempts by Israel’s critics to engage in so-called ‘lawfare.’
    One hundred and fifty lawyers from around Europe have gathered in London on Sunday for a two-day seminar, organized by the Israeli embassy in Britain, to discuss the various legal aspects of pro-Israel advocacy…
    The seminar is the initiative of Ambassador Daniel Taub, who before his appointment to the Court of St. James a year ago served as the deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem…
    The seminar, taking place in a London hotel, was closed to the media by the embassy…
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/faced-with-boycott-campaigns-israel-organizes-legal-seminar-in-london-1.436960

  • oddie

    we are the boss:

    18 June: Jerusalem Post: Israel calls for making Iran military threats more real
    On the eve of the third round of talks between Iran and the world powers expected to begin Monday in Moscow, Israeli officials urged the international community to better impress upon Tehran that they will face military action if their nuclear march is not stopped…
    http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=274216

  • Komodo

    “Faced with boycott campaigns, Israel organizes legal seminar in London…”
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    @ Oddie: That’s actually encouraging. Shows that boycotts are seriously worrying the bastards. Now if someone would bulldoze a 1-km wide no-go-zone round the entire country, fill it with razor wire apart from ,ohhhh, three checkpoints, and only permit Israel to import goods randomly selected with a pin by Ahmedinejad from an Argos catalogue, I feel some progress could be made.

  • Mary

    We learnt on Radio 4 Today that there are 287 million tons of adult flesh on the planet (the subject was the increase in human obesity, mostly in America) that children in care in the UK are not being looked after properly and that mental illness including depression and anxiety is not being treated in the UK due to failure by those responsible for commissioning the NHS mental health services.
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    All of this in addition to the political and financial instability in in Europe.
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    A rather depressing start to the week.
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    Leave it to the cows who apparently like listening to Radio 4 Today and the music on Radio 2.
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/default.stm

  • alan campbell

    Fair enough re Dalai Lama. Salmond’s probably too busy to squeeze him in between meetings with the Dirty Digger and the Trump.

  • Komodo

    In fact, the Dalai Lama felt he was insufficiently advanced along the perimeter of the karmic wheel to be able to benefit from Alec’s superior wisdom…. 😛

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