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.
Nuid – According to a Greek/Cypriot source British forces (SBS) are arriving in Syria from Episkophy Garrison in Cyprus by inflatable dinghy.
UK government to answer for hiring human rights abuser – G4S
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The British government is up for questioning from Parliament over why it has handed over the Olympic Games’ security to a company accused of human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. The UK-based G4S, which describes itself as the “world’s leading international security solutions group,” was selected as the “official provider of security and cash services for the Olympics.” Moreover, it has already taken on 10,400 new employees for the 2012.
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Olympiad.http://www.rt.com/news/london-olympics-security-g4s-human-rights-506/
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G4S have also won contracts to effectuate medical examinations in the Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to
Personal Independence PaymentPeople in Poverty (PIP) migration..
http://www.emfs-ltd.co.uk/index.php?page=news
Thanks, Mark. Yes, I have read from so many sources that so many different actors are involved in Syria now, it makes my tummy slightly sick. Those who will suffer most, as usual, are the ordinary people of Syria. Butchered and used as anti-Assad propaganda by the West (along with those killed by Syrian forces’ shelling, of course).
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I have read that UK/US special forces are in there, that Blackwater/Xe are in there, along with Saudi and Qatari “intelligence”. Plus ex-Iraq and ex-Libya fighters (‘Al Quaeda’-types). And as somebody said last night on Twitter: “Terrorists bombing in Syria 101, 1st fix the camera on the intended target then detonate, & blame the army.”
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The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Before Alex Thompson was led by rebels into a “killing zone” where he and his colleagues were likely to be shot by the Syrian army, he had reported that the killers in the Houla massacre had Shia slogans on their foreheads. I asked him on Twitter, “why would they need to write Shia slogans on their foreheads unless they were pretending to be something they were not?”
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I think he has had a taste of the duplicity now. Meanwhile, I “lashed out” (kinda sorta) at Krishnan Guru Murthy about showing footage of John McCain last night and interviewing Americans. He replied that they (C4 News) would have a Russian interiew next week. I replied that a week was a long time in Syria, not to mention at the UNSC. And meanwhile, one of the C4 News presenters described China as the “leader of the awkward squad”. Jesus. “Awkward” because they won’t allow another UNSC resolution that will have the same results as Libya? Or in this case, far worse?
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Meanwhile, if I have to look at Hillary Clinton’s face one more time, I think I’ll throw up.
Excuse me, y’all, I get very angry with this shit. Too angry for my own good!
(I should check and re-draft the above, but I don’t have time)
PS Yes, I made a mistake. The reference to China as the ‘leader of the awkward squad’, was made on Newsnight, not C4 News.
“UK government to answer for hiring human rights abuser – G4S”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/09/work-programme-welfare-jobs-private-sector?INTCMP=SRCH
“Criminal past and rich tastes of boss at centre of jubilee security row”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/09/molly-prince-jubilee-security-row
Mark and Guest I saw this programme and thought how and why did Buckles get the job? G4S was founded in Denmark and is now multi national as I expect you knew.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jhjs9#synopsis
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The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and BBC News Channel TV.
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Evan Davis and his executive panel discuss different types of employment contracts and how far should employers go in checking on their employees’ behaviour?
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Joining Evan in the studio are Eric Born, Swiss CEO of logistics and transport company, Wincanton, Nick Buckles, CEO of security giant G4S and Jason Iftakhar, co-founder of Salford based company, Swifty Scooters.
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The multinationals now dictate to governments.
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{http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/laurie-penny-dont-listen-to-what-g4s-say-look-at-what-they-do-7831790.html}
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The board includes Lord Condon and Claire Spottiswoode. £7.5 billion turnover.
{http://www.g4s.com/en/Who%20we%20are/Our%20people/Group%20board%20profiles/}
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Buckles is not so smart after all but he still took £5.3 million.
{http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/13/g4s-chief-executive-nick-buckles-waives-bonus}
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Mark Golding, I found your key on the keyserver, the fingerprint matched, and I’ve sent a little anecdote in reply to your test.
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Passerby, your comment wasn’t flushed away, it was merely queued by the software. Sorry for the delay.
“32 die a week after failing test for new incapacity benefit”
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/04/32-die-a-week-after-failing-in.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Q. What are we going to do about this problem government?
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‘It’s not my fault’ culture has to stop: Government launches crackdown on 120,000 problem families who blame everyone but themselves
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Communities Secretary Eric Pickles says no blame culture has contributed to the ongoing problem
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Councils to get cash bonuses for cutting unemployment and crime among problem families
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Troubleshooters to be sent into communities and tackle those causing the most issues
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By Lawrence Conway
PUBLISHED: 12:16, 10 June 2012
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157141/Its-fault—Pickles-launch-crackdown-120-000-problem-families-blame-themselves.html
One of the Tory fascists in Surrey County Council. Thanks be for the comments.
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http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2114992_help_yourself_patients_with_selfinflicted_problems_told#
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The well named Cllr Butcher was obviously taking a lead from Cameron and Anne Milton MP Con Guildford and Minister Dept of Health, as below.
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{http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/tory-butchers-promise-2-tier-health.html}
These Tories ought to be told in no uncertain terms that they were the creators of sickness benefit and “shameless” chav culture when they last tried their austerity tricks in the early 1980s.
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Destructive buggers.
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The Thatch even claimed that it was “a price worth paying”.
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Their sheer greed, bigotry and total incompetence consigned a generation to the scrapheap, last time these zombies had power.
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Thankfully, this time there’s an across the board recognition of their economic incompetence, not just in this country but abroad, with the Japanese, Obama, Legard, Merkel and Hollande critical of their austerity approach and instead pushing for growth solutions. That and a few Nobel prize winning economists too, of course; quite simply because that’s what you do in these circumstances. Even Friedman must be turning in his grave at the antics of these useless disgusting spiteful goons.
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That’s the tragedy of it. It’s not economics. It’s simply pure spite!!
Mary – ‘Fat Cat’ Nick Buckles (G4S) signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ from agent Cameron’s mob. The Cabinet Office refuses to disclose the details of this contract information on the grounds of commercial confidentiality.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365695/Revealed-The-new-public-service-Fat-Cats-theyre-immune-cuts.html
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{http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2056740/THE-CITY-INTERVIEW-G4S-Buckles-strain-bid-ISS-hit-shareholder-revolt.html}
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Spivs, wide boys and chancers rule Mark. Bit of course the Prime Minister is one of them.
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Pedersen the G4S chairman lost his job. Buckles did not although the losses on the aborted deal to take over ISS cost G4S £50million. Why did he stay?
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In the window alongside your second link see what some of the others are up to. Some of them are not so clever as they think they are.
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Founder of bed chain Dreams is asked to invest more into the business
Newspaper group Johnston Press set to warn shareholders on troubled advertisement sales
Vodafone in fresh tax row after it’s revealed to not have paid corporation tax in Britain last year
Lotus’s Formula One team is still in the red despite revenue increase
Tesco to lose £1.8m after scrapping its failed used cars venture
WPP rebels set to force cut in Sorrell’s £29m pay award
Bolland’s M&S bank is just another desperate idea
M&S boss Marc Bolland boosts £2.5m pay packet by £500,000 – simply by staying put
This is well worth a watch, of a Sunday evening.
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The rational in contest with the emotional. NB. I prioritise neither, nor could I. Each will see as they see and feel as they feel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-AKruzmkk&feature=topics
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Anyway, I think the Newsnight team should get a special artistic award for this piece of genius. Perhaps it could even be entered for the Turner Prize.
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It surpasses even Goya’s famous treatment of the same theme, “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos”
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I’m not kiddin. Those Roundheads and Cavaliers just never go away.
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Thanks to Newsnight for reminding us what it’s always all about.
Hello and good wishes to all. Just saw this on the BBC, should be of interest to Craig: “Kenyan minister George Saitoti killed in helicopter crash”. Since he was going for the presidency, this is highly suspicious: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18386672
I caught that too Herbie, Krugman was quite brilliant.
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“I think the Newsnight team should get a special artistic award for this piece of genius.”
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It was Krugman who spoke, Newsnight just set him up against two rightists, and Paxman is always as erratic and fallacious as posh man pleases.
They only ever serve up quality at newsnight accidentally to their remit for ‘balance’, or incidentally in their requirement for drama.
Somewhat back on topic (no disrespect to my favorite contributors) Warsi is under the spot light because she is Muslim,and as we all know all Muslims are anti Semi…… and basically there is no room at the inn for another tribe other than the chosen ones. As the case was with the troublesome infant who had to be born along the cows and donkeys because there was no room at the inn either.
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Baroness Warsi
and the ‘extremist’is a Muslim,
Sort of spiking the other minorities’/guy’s drink and getting them/him kicked out of the club tactic/story. Although surely no goy will ever twig on to this angle, those goyim cattle are too dumb you know.
WOBBLY WORLD…
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Britain and the United States haste to war in Iraq without strong international support has, without doubt, irreversibly damaged their credibility and financially crippled both countries despite desperate attempts at painful austerity in public services just to retain military capability!
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I believe with some insight and a certain amount of wide-ranging analysis that the US, Israel and NATO (Britain) are pushing hard for a broad offensive in the Middle East that may escalate further with, through clandestine help from Russia to a confrontation with both Russia and Russia with Chinese assistance.
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Nothing secret there, the plans are on the NATO and American logistic/strategy boards.
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The strategy places some reliance, some say more assurance is needed, on the European missile defense shield that deploys rocket interceptors over the fence from Russia’s back-yard.
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The plan reveals that these missiles are targeting Russia, without any doubt, in fact, regular exercises at a number of military establishments in Britain test data integration from satellite, radar and radar tracking inputs with emphasis on Russian ballistic missile trajectories. Calculations are made to determine the probability of neutralising a missile or multiple missile launch(s) from within Russia and known Russian launch sites. Some small input is also provided by nuclear submarine intelligence.
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Uncle Sam’s tremendous obsession with installing a missile defense system in Europe post haste is clearly a confirmation that the desperate, reckless and foolhardy strategy I have confirmed above is real and imminent.
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Meanwhile, the Russia-US reset wobbles out of control just like a gyroscope coming out of a spin. God help us.
Well…yes,agreed.I,also,have had the stripe of their incompetent cruel jib.
Strange really-yet curious to observe the foolish madness.
Donald Trump/Rupert Murdoch lackey Alex Salmond has his day in court on Wednesday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/10/leveson-elite-shames-new-politics
That Torygraph piece on Warsi seems to be a repetition of what has gone before.
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But no show without Quilliam. I wondered how long it would be before they piped up.
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‘A former Hizb ut-Tahrir member, Ghaffar Hussain, who now works for the Quilliam Foundation, the anti-radicalisation organisation, said: “He [Mr Hussain ]acted as a key recruiter and propagandist for the groups in the late 90s.
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“Hizb ut-Tahrir have a very idiosyncratic definition of the term ‘member’. Only the very senior and public activists call themselves ‘member’.
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“This gives the junior activists and those who don’t want to be public about their involvement plausible deniability by claiming that they are not officially ‘members’.”’.
Tut tut. Something must be done about these ‘problem families’ who don’t look after their children and leave them in the pub. Mr Pickles should be told about this Oxfordshire family in particular.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18391663
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Troubled families scheme expands – Every eligible council in England is to take part in a scheme aimed at reducing the problems presented by “troubled families”, ministers are to say.
More aggravation to come from the royals as part of the ‘Jubilee celebrations’. P William’s stay in the Falklands upset the Argentinians. Now the grasping Wessex couple are off to Gibraltar to upset the Spanish people. Unlike their earlier visit to Bahrain, I don’t think they will pick up any jewellery, silk rugs or pens from the Gibraltarians.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18390660
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Another wheeze of Hague’s doomed to failure?
People of the West are controlled by a large family that has been living like parasites of Europeans and Americans since the 18th Century. They consolidated their wealth during the Napoleonic wars and have doubled their personal wealth approximately every two generations since.
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They are now worth many tens of trillions of dollars and manipulate global banking through complete control of the Bank of International settlements, ownership of 80% of the worlds bank stock, including the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve and the IMF.
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The current head of the UK branch has more Bank of England shares than the Queen of England. His grandfather was instrumental in bringing the US into World War 1 after agreeing a dirty little deal with Lord Balfour. Forget about Cameron, Miliband and the Queen – you would not recognise your lord, master and owner if you passed him on the street, because that’s how they like doing it.
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‘And yet, when 1917 came, the same man enlisted enthusiastically. Every soldier whom we happened to interview and questioned as to his personal motives for fighting, invariably replied: ‘we are fighting for democracy’. They were one step ahead of their fellow soldiers from other nations, who went for their own country’s sake.
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‘It is only when we realize that France was invaded by hundreds of thousands of inhabitants from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, Wyoming, California, Louisiana, and subsequently from Ontario, Manitoba, Rhodesia and New South Wales, whose only possible motive was to hasten the triumph of democracy, that we begin to understand something of the power of Israel. The power to stir up a whole nation of solid, egotistical and utilitarian individuals, and to persuade them that their greatest privilege is to set out and get themselves killed at the uttermost ends of the earth, with no hope of gain for themselves or their children and almost without their understanding against or for whom they are fighting, or why, is a simply incredible phenomenon which makes one afraid when one comes to think about it.’
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E. Malynski: La Démocratie victorieuse (1929)
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Even in 1929 Israel was recognised as a malevolent entity towards humanity a full 20 years before some insane arsehole gave them a country.
“before some insane arsehole gave them a country”
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Why do western leaders continuously help a group of private, trans-national individuals who’s publicly stated aim is controlling the nations through finance?
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Are they looking for some reward when one of the tribe is crowned King of Israel in the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem (let the reader understand)?
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Do you know that the book you read called the Bible is not remotely similar to a book with the same name that was doing the rounds in the 16th Century? In the 16th Century the Bible used the word ‘Jew’ about 50 times and only in it’s proper context of being a ‘Judean’, i.e. from the land of ‘Judea’. Today’s translation contain the word ‘Jew’ over 3,000 times and it is applied at the expense of the original words, and therefore meaning. So instead of the rich mix of diversity we see with the original Hebrews we have a false narrative about a race of people that have NEVER EVER EXISTED IN HISTORY AT ANY TIME.
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/plandman.html
Mark, re. “Wobbly World” –
The only tried and tested way out of a depression is a world war. Surely you know that?
As you say, God help us.
Brown has just started off at Leveson, speaking at twenty to the dozen, and displaying that strange frequent spasm of his jaw.
Having denied that he or his wife gave permission to Brooks to publish the story about his son’s illness, ie that Brooks lied in her evidence, Brown failed to explain why his wife gave a party at Chequers for the birthdays of Brooks and Murdoch’s wife or why he met Brooks and co 13 times or why there was a friendly correspondence between his wife and Brooks thereafter.