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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  • Guest

    “Guest Yes Marr, like Rentoul, is Bliar’s stooge. I still think it is shameful that the state broadcaster gives Bliar airtime.”
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    The BBC does as its masters tell it to do, has done (100%) since the Gilligan affair, which was a God send for the far right, a complete takeover, not a shred of independence left at the BBC.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    What am amazing story! You can see from the faces of the children that something has changed for them, that their faces are no longer the faces of defeat and hopelessness. It shows what CAN be done if there is the will to work at grassroots level and when people strive together for excellence instead of fulfilling the expectation of dumbing down. Raploch is the most deprived part of the city of Stirling; it has the reputation of being a ‘sink’ estate. Well done, the kids of Raploch!!! Thank you, Venezuela!
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    dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2012/06/23/conductor-congratulates-kids-from-the-raploch-after-they-star-at-concert-86908-23899755/
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    http://makeabignoise.org.uk/history-of-big-noise-raploch/

  • Mary

    Bliar was at pains to imply that it would be good if the Arab Revolution in Egypt produced an Islamist PM. As an Israeli shill, he must be rather disappointed at this afternoon’s result.
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    10.34am: A battle between secularist and Islamist forces will dictate what happens next in the Middle East according to according to Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair.
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    Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show he said the Arab Spring was not analogous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. “People from Eastern Europe looked over the wall. There was a united view of what they wanted. They wanted what we had in western Europe and by and large they got it,” he claimed.
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    Blair added: “In the this region there are two very different views as to what comes next after you lift the lid on these dictatorships. One that is very much secular and modernising, liberal-minded. The other is very much based on a religious view of society.”
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    Blair, Middle East envoy to the US, EU, Russia and the UN, said such views were irreconcilable.
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    “We have got to remain engaged with this process. We should be supporting a programme of evolution across this region. We should understand that revolution will throw up, these very dangerous and toxic forces – you can see this from Iraq indeed. Short term this is going to be really really difficult. Long term this is good. The good news from the Middle East is that people want freedom. The bad news is that they are going to have a struggle getting to a form of democracy that is genuinely open minded and pluralistic.”
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/24/egypt-election-results-live

  • Mary

    This article details more horrific British war crimes in Iraq in 2003 and the effect that Cameron’s Justice and Security Bill will have.
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    UK soldiers ‘beat innocent Iraqi men in black ops jails but new secret justice law means their torture will be hidden forever’
    By David Rose
    PUBLISHED: 00:52, 24 June 2012
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    The Mail on Sunday can today reveal devastating new claims of abuse by British soldiers carried out at a secret network of illegal prisons in the Iraqi desert.
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    One innocent civilian victim is said to have died after being assaulted aboard an RAF helicopter, while others were hooded, stripped and beaten at a camp set up at a remote phosphate mine deep in the desert.
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    The whereabouts of a separate group of 64 Iraqi men who were spirited away on two RAF Chinooks to a ‘black site’ prison, located at an oil pipeline pumping station, remain unknown.
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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163799/UK-soldiers-beat-innocent-Iraqi-men-black-ops-jails-new-secret-justice-law-means-torture-hidden-forever.html

  • Herbie

    Interesting that Karl Rove is an advisor to the Swedish govt and long time friend of the very right ring Swedish PM.
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    Rove, if you remember, was Bush’s dirty tricks man, and manufactured many dubious prosecutions of political opponents across the US. He’s one of the scummiest political operators in the US in many a long year. And that’s saying something!
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    http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/is-karl-rove-driving-effort-to.html
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    Why too do so many UK hacks have such a visceral hatred of Assange? Any integrity we may have accorded them or their outlets in the past they seem wilfully to be destroying before our very eyes.
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    It’s hard to see a way back from the stances they’ve adopted, towards civilized behaviour. I’d suggest it can only be explained in terms of their awareness of an endgame and descent into barbarism. They don’t even make an effort at intellectual debate anymore.
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    Dark days indeed.

  • CheebaCow

    Ahhh Blair wringing his hands about modernism and liberalism being incompatible with religion. Isn’t this the same Blair that ‘debated’ with Hitchen’s that religion was a force for good in the world? If only those pesky Arabs were Christian and white!

  • jones

    Guest and others, I think that allowing racist Talmudic synagogues to preach in a goyim country, is one of the fundamental reasons that these crimes are allowed to be perpetuated against the world.I think there should be a movement instigated by someone with the courage do so ,to have the Talmud discussed on mainstream television.How can we allow these people?to consider us as livestock.

  • Mary

    correction…..

    Bliar was at pains to imply that it would NOT be good if the Arab Revolution in Egypt produced an Islamist PRESIDENT.
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    And of course as the military are in charge it hardly matters who won.

  • Herbie

    There was much comment from dim UK hacks on Assange’s “surprising” choice of Ecuador as place of safety given the Ecuador govt’s battles with its media outfits.
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    As I explained in an earlier post you need to see this as a struggle by wealthy media owners to subvert the democratic wishes of the people and revert to a status quo that has rewarded their class at the expense of the Ecuadorian people. Basically he’s been having his own mini Murdoch problems.
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    This article explains the issues more clearly.
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    http://www.zcommunications.org/ecuadors-support-for-media-freedom-the-real-story-by-federico-fuentes

  • Herbie

    This what a real terrorist state looks like:
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    “Historian William Blum recently documented that, since 1945, the US has attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, has grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries and has dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 others. Despite the efforts of Chomsky and others, the US carries on regardless. It is able to do so simply because it can. It has the military might. But it also does so in part because most people do not read Chomsky or have even heard of him. Be it Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal or John Pilger, people tend to obtain their information not from them, but from the mainstream media, which acts to secure the western public’s compliance for US-led foreign policies.”
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    The function of our twatting hacks is to ensure that the US can continue its terrorism, untroubled by scrutiny.
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    What does that make them?
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    http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter240612.htm

  • Mary

    Balotelli is of Ghanaian descent.
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    Poor child.
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    Mario Balotelli was born in Palermo, Sicily, to Ghanaian immigrants Thomas and Rose Barwuah. The family moved to Bagnolo Mella in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, shortly after he was born.[7] As an infant, he had life-threatening complications with his intestines which led to a series of operations, although his condition had improved by 1992. Mario’s health problems and the family’s cramped living conditions meant the Barwuahs decided to ask for the help of social services who recommended that he be fostered.[7]
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    In 1993, the Barwuah family agreed to entrust the three-year-old boy to Francesco and Silvia Balotelli,[7] with the legal move formalized by the Court of Brescia.[8] When Mario Balotelli became famous, his biological parents asked for his return. He later accused them of “glory hunting”, stating that they only wanted him back because of the prominence he had gained.[9] According to Law 91 of 5 February 1992,[10] Balotelli had to wait until his 18th birthday to request Italian citizenship, as the Balotellis had not adopted him, and he officially gained citizenship on 13 August 2008.[11]

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  • Fedup

    Express educating the nation (anyone recollect the Hitler walk episode of Desmond?)
    WHY OUR FUTURE QUEEN STILL HAS TO CURTSY FOR PRINCESSES BEATRICE AND EUGENIE
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    The new rules state that when Kate is not accompanied by William she must curtsy to the “blood princesses” – Prince Andrew’s daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, the Princess Royal and Princess Alexandra.
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    However, one person the new rules may upset is Sophie, the Countess of Wessex. Despite being married to the Queen’s son, Prince Edward, she will have to curtsy to Kate, even when William is not present.
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  • Komodo

    “Ahhh Blair wringing his hands about modernism and liberalism being incompatible with religion. Isn’t this the same Blair that ‘debated’ with Hitchen’s that religion was a force for good in the world?… ”
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    Or is that the Blair who converted to a religion which forbids birth control and is run by a secretive autocrat along mediaeval lines?
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    If the UK taxpayer weren’t paying for Blair’s protection squad for the rest of his parasitic existence, there might be a better chance of his being served with his just desserts. A bullet.

  • DonnyDarko

    I’d like to hear your comments Craig,on the F4 downing incident which has now been snapped up by NATO and being blown into a reason to hit back.
    It was a military jet, flying low altitude over Syrian territory,before being finally shot down and sinking into Syrian sea.I take it Syria was not preinformed of that flight or the subsequent rescue mission hot on its tail which was shot at as well,over Syrian soil.
    We’ve got air defenses in place in London for the Olympics to down planes straying off course. Syria has surely acted correctly.

  • Komodo

    It may or may not be significant that during the weekend, following the shooting down of the Turkish jet, air activity in my locality (near major US and UK bases) apparently ceased completely, in stark contrast to the preceding week. Was the Turkish sortie part of a coordinated NATO air operation? Has this already involved UK forces? I am inclined to think so.

  • Komodo

    It’s difficult to believe (a) that the Turkish plane entered Syrian airspace accidentally (unless it was a Tiger Moth, and not fitted with even minimal navaids)…which was at least briefly the BBC line; or (b) that Turkey had not coordinated whatever it was doing with NATO, given the acute strategic sensitivity of the Syrian civil war. And I think it’s significant that Syrian air defences were plainly expecting air incursions from someone. The “rebels”? No planes.
    The line seems to be changing, though: Turkey now claims the plane was outside Syrian airspace when it was shot down. It was allegedly 13 miles from the Syrian coast. At 600 mph, that’s slightly over a minute’s flying time…shoot first and ask questions later would seem to be the only course of action available to an already jumpy Syrian command. And I’d guess it’s jumpy because there’s been a lot of NATO activity in its vicinity recently.

  • Komodo

    The Grauniad today quotes the Syrians as saying the Phantom was only 1Km from the coast. Nacht und nebel…

  • nevermind

    Air activity during all of last week weas intense, they are working up to something indeed. No flights here today, yet. What we need is a couple of French plane spotters, or someone who can hack into satelite pics.

    The claim as to location of the plane can easily be proofed as some sort of spy satelite coverage would have picked up the flight, not just the control center that led its flight. US, Russian and British, as well as many other agency’s are watching the ME like hawks, day and night, this flight and position of the jet, would have been spotted.

    Has there been a smelly stench of dragons at yesterday Lowestoft airshow, or the Buckenham air event?
    If this was a provocation then this could be a signal to others as to how Syria will deal; with htem.

    Expected first strike targets are military/civilian airports, barracks with ground forces tanks and nearby infrastructure, disrupting military communications, tv stations and Assdads positions outside Homs. They might fly raids specifically aimed at his Alawite tribal region and towns, to persudae him to give in.

    Mary, Balotelli might have had a hard life and a weird hairdo, but he can kick that ball hard and score, something England failed to do yesterday, they had their chances but were not able to score.
    Loved Piro’s kick, what a class act.

  • Anon

    Just watched the live Syrian Press Conference – carried live by Press TV and partially by CNN International but ignored by BBC and Sky. Latest Syrian version of events as follows.
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    Syria says the plane was flying at 100 metres only 1 km from the Syrian coast evading radar. Was visually spotted and shot down by manual anti-aircraft battery which has a range of only 2.5km. No radar guided weapons were fired. Recovered wreckage was found in Syrian waters and confirms it was not hit by a missile but by anti-aircraft artillery.
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    Aircraft was in same air-space and apparently following similar path to that used by Israel for 2007 attack (highly significant if this is correct I would think).
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    That’s the Syrian position anyway.

  • Komodo

    Thanks, Anon.
    What You Must Believe: The BBC
    What You Must Not Believe: The Syrians.
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    Good shooting, lads.

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