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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  • Komodo

    Damage limitation? I think they’re just going to brazen it out. Here’s the nasty little shit Gove earning brownie points from his toff chums:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/17/lord-leveson-threatens-to_n_1603287.html
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    Stringing up is too good for him. Public humiliation in a pool of excrement accompanied by savage beatings with a rhino-hide whip, culminating in hanging, drawing and quartering is too good for him. I can’t think of any other member of God’s creation as disgusting as Gove, with the possible exception of Blair.

  • Mary

    According to the Herald on Sunday, “It wasn’t much fun being an Israeli footballer at Tynecastle yesterday. Lashed by the rain, barracked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators – and seven goals down at half-time…against a noisy backdrop of protests about the imprisonment of Palestinian footballers. The Israeli national anthem was jeered, and the players booed…the demonstrators’ chants for Scotland to score 10”
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    “Free Mahmoud Sarsak” was interspersed throughout ninety minutes of non-stop chanting with “Without guns, you’re rubbish” and multiple versions of “Boycott apartheid Israel”. The protestors warned the Scottish players of Israel’s habit of calling in an air strike when losing in a fair fight.
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    Despite incessant heavy rain, an important demonstration in defence of asylum seekers on the same day, and Lothian and Borders Police reneging on a widely-reported agreement with the protest organisers earlier in the week to allow banners into the stadium, over 150 Scots protested without cease for ninety minutes against Israeli internment of Palestinian football players, and the imprisonment and violation of Palestine. A 2-minute video clip here.
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    Scotland on Sunday reported that “the Israel side…endured a seriously uncomfortable afternoon. A crowd of about 100 protesters had joined the Tynecastle crowd, protesting against the alleged illegal detention of Palestine footballers. It’s a campaign backed by Eric Cantona and was highlighted recently by FIFA president Sepp Blatter and by the world players’ union FIFPro. Not only did the protesters boo the Israeli national anthem, they jeered virtually every time one of the visiting players touched the ball and chanted throughout the match.”
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    Report at http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk
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    Good on these people.

  • Komodo

    …“Without guns, you’re rubbish” and multiple versions of “Boycott apartheid Israel”. The protestors warned the Scottish players of Israel’s habit of calling in an air strike when losing in a fair fight.”
    LOL. Fair made my Monday morning, that.

  • Komodo

    All in it together dept:
    http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1314
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    “In 1999, at the height of the Times’ investigation into the way the Tories had insisted that the tax exile Ashcroft should be given a peerage, Gove had thundered: “Political parties should not become millionaires’ pets. Yet that is the position the Tory party finds itself in – recumbent on the chaise-longue, a glass of Krug in one hand while it tickles the plutocrats’ fancy with the other. The role of kept woman is never dignified but the Tory party is playing particularly fast and loose in its choice of sugar daddy.”

    Gove dropped all such radical talk as soon as he became a Tory MP, of course.”

  • DonnyDarko

    Thanks Mary ! Made my Scottish pride bristle that bit harder this morning.
    To carry on the same theme, this was in Al jazeera a couple of days ago. needless to say I’m a Celtic supporter.
    After hearing what the rangers fans are up to, it’S difficult to show sympathy for their plight.

  • angrysoba

    Mary: The Dalai Lama is a stooge and is always visiting those in the west in the seats of power.
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    Oh, leave the old bloke alone! Okay, I must admit I am not a big fan of him but where’s your sympathy, nay, solidarity with the Tibetan people!? Is there some Comintern directive that forbids you to pity the plight of the Tibetans? Where do you stand on Rebiya Kadeer? (Figuratively, obviously.) Do the East Turkestanis get a look-in with the Palestinian sypmathy, nay, solidarity groups?

  • Komodo

    Fair points, Angrysoba, but regarding the parasitic monks of Tibet as a mediaeval theocracy would seem equally in order. NB, I think the Dalai Lama is one of the good guys, but as far as “the people” of Tibet go, the hierarchy he sprang from is less estimable IMO.

  • Komodo

    The long-haired uncouth one seems to be everywhere these days. I see it’s described as a comedian. That in itself is hilarious.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    Oddie,
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    Well spotted!
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    The truth in plain sight is Syria has become a tough nut to crack! The Zio attempt to lead by the nose and force NATO allies to intervene in the civil war has been repelled by a continuing failure to demonise government forces in the obvious presence of UK and CIA trained ‘al-Qaeda’ terrorists murdering civilians, including women, teenagers and babies. The contrivance is stumbling, an impasse apparent, thanks due to whistleblowers, good Internet communication, Russian susceptibility and the power of intention.
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    They say:
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    “We would like the international community to say that these are our demands, these are our sanctions, comply…or else…” coming from Israel is a clear indication of Zio frustration and mulishness.
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    Why should the International community bow down to Israeli Zionist demands when they have themselves invoked terrorism in Syria in an era of war against terrorism and the ‘terrrorrr’ that hit mainland America in 2001.
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    http://www.rt.com/news/isarel-threatens-iran-talks-075/

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    Clearly the P5+1 meeting in Moscow will amount to nothing. The representatives are just messengers, not high level diplomats or ambassadors that have the power to make decisions.
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    The P5+1 have a framework woven around war not peace, not understanding, not amenable, not even willing; instead of attempts to bury the hatchet, the P1+5 yields a sword contaminated by the blood of dominion.
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    The talks will fail.

  • Mary

    If it’s Monday, it must be Mexico. Cameron’s latest destination.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18493670
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    More jaw jaw and war war probably.
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    Meanwhile I received a envelope from NatWest this morning made of bubble wrap and labelled Handle With Care. Oh good! I thought. They’ve sent me a present. Perhaps a wad of £20 notes. No. It was an A5 leaflet on Helpful Banking. What a waste of time and of resources.
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    @ Angry Tell me what the grinning DL has ever done for the people of Tibet?

  • Mary

    Libya – Injustice Facts (@InjusticeFacts)
    17/06/2012 17:55
    The U.S. has spent $2 billion bombing Libya for 90 days, enough to provide clean water and education for half the world’s needy children.
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    WWII graves are being desecrated in Benghazi and attacks on US and UK diplomats are sowing fears of Islamist extremists.
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    TRIPOLI, Libya — A recent string of attacks on Western diplomats and international organizations has sparked fears that extremists are trying to destabilize Libya’s first post-revolution national elections.
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    The attacks included a bombing last week outside the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi and a rocket-propelled grenade attack there on a convoy carrying the British ambassador, which injured two bodyguards.
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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/attacks-on-western-targets-in-libya-sow-fears-islamist-extremists-want-to-disrupt-vote/2012/06/15/gJQAx8kWeV_story.html?hpid=z3
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    and
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    {http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/16/us-libya-graves-idUSBRE85F0MZ20120616?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=286409}

  • Mary

    At last.

    Jury to be chosen in G20 Ian Tomlinson death trial
    PC Harwood is accused of manslaughter
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    The jury is due to be selected in the trial of a Met Police officer accused of killing newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson, who collapsed and died at the G20 protest in London in 2009.
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    PC Simon Harwood, 44, of Carshalton, south London, is to go on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of manslaughter.
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    BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw tweeted that the trial was expected to take four to five weeks.
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    Jurors are to be chosen at 1400 BST.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18482967

  • Mary

    The NuLabour throw outs are hoping to find a new trough to feed from.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18491390
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    Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott has been announced as one of Labour’s candidates to be a police commissioner later this year.
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    Former Liverpool Wavertree MP Jane Kennedy was chosen as candidate for Merseyside’s commissioner.
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    Ex-Solicitor General Vera Baird won the nomination for the Northumbria force.
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    Tony Lloyd, the former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, was elected unopposed as candidate for Greater Manchester.
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    And former work and pensions minister James Plaskitt – who lost the marginal seat of Warwick and Leamington at the last election – will run in Warwickshire.
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    Meanwhile, the former First Minister of Wales, Alun Michael, was nominated to run in South Wales, with his son, Tal Michael, representing North Wales.

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    I suspect that the same applies to the Conservative crowd who didn’t make it at the last election or who stood down following the expenses scandal.

  • Komodo

    It IS, by damn! Robert Gordon’s, similar d.o.b, Oxford. Govey’s old chum, who has apparently never dabbled in politics, is now a high heid yin in BSkyB. What an astonishing coincidence. Leaving Gove to get done over by a casuals crew has not affected their common interests a bit.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    The US and Britain will attempt to pressure on Russia at the G20 summit in Mexico. Agent Cameron has, I believe, extraterritorial legislation in his briefcase that compliments measures by the US to restrict US/Russian trade by creating a ‘blacklist’ banning a number of high level executives from entering America and Britain.
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    This pressure is calculated to squeeze Putin towards a number of US foreign policy goals, chief among them being the effort to ‘deny’ Iran a ‘nuclear weapon’ – abandon his support for the Assad government forcing an election and a smooth shutdown to the Afghanistan war, an essential move to appease the American public.
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    Putin will of course want major concessions for the European missile shield planned and designed to intercept Russian ICBM’s shortly after liftoff. Obama will, in my view attempt to exploit the ‘special relationship’ by asking for Britain’s support in protecting his political flank after his Republican foe Mitt Romney branded Russia ‘a geopolitical threat’.
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    Britain will strongly support the missile defense system while Obama may hint behind the scenes at concessions in exchange for a ‘return to grey’ from Russia and attempt another push of the ‘reset’ button.
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    http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_06_18/78482246/
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    The outcome of these sideline talks will effect decisions at the P5+1 conference. I have already written to Putin ahead of this meeting outlining my thoughts above.

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