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

    Going by the site, Mary, wouldn’t put a lot of credence in it. VT is vastly more liberal than the vast majority of US (or UK) veterans, and it is not in any sense authentic. Meyssan (and his “Voltaire Network” are likely to be Russotropic hacks, but make your own mind up…

    From the other side of the fence:

    “Thierry Meyssan is a French national residing in Lebanon. He is registered at the French consulate in Beirut. A journalist for more than twenty-five years, he is a frequent contributor to Arab, Latin American and Russian publications, such as Odnako in Russia and La Jornada in Mexico. He has written several books on international policy issues and has regularly cooperated with television media, such as RT, Telesur or PressTV. He is the president of Voltaire Network, a network of independent press agencies, grouping a dozen publications from around the world.
    Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya is a Canadian national. He lives in Ottawa and is currently a Global Research correspondent in Tripoli. An independent journalist, he has published widely in several languages and given interviews to various media, including Russia Today, Press TV, Al Jazeera, Pacifica KPFA, Global Research, China Life Magazine*. Several of his works have also been featured by Voltaire Network.”
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    http://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/the-rebels-to-arrest-thierry-meyssan/
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    *The Russo-Chinese line here:
    {http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-732841-1-1.html}
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    And please note that the Russians and Chinese are (putting it politely) no nicer and no more honest than our lot.

  • Komodo

    I’m proud of this one, which links two topics discussed here a little more closely.
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    Gulnara Karimova’s blog: picture of Mikhail Leont’ev admiring Gulnara ( and who, honestly, wouldn’t at least glance in her direction? Sorry.) Leont’ev is the owner and editor of the journal Odnako ( also the TV programme of the same name) for which Thierry Meyssan is proud of having written. He ( Leont’ev) is a supporter of Karimov, and has been the object of protest by dissenters from Karimov in Uzbekistan.
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    Here it is (she’s lovely, dammit)
    http://gulnarakarimova.com/en/gulnara-karimova-foto/1/40/
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  • Komodo

    There is in existence a photo of Gulnara stooping in such a way as to look slightly shorter than Bill Clinton*…but hey, I’m no shortass myself, and I appreciate altitude. I think you’re jealous.
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    * I prefer this one, though –
    http://sottoosservazione.wordpress.com/2010/05/page/2/.
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    If my dad had been anything more than a domestic tyrant I coulda been a contender….

  • Komodo

    Don’t worry about going there, btw. It’s a balanced article:
    L’ex ambasciatore britannico Craig Murray che ha scritto il libro Assassinio a Samarcanda fece sottoporre ad autopsia i corpi di due oppositori morti. Si è scoperto che erano stati bolliti vivi.
    Boiling alive and leopard print go together like….like….no, you do it.

  • jives

    Fankly she’s ugly,in every sense.
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    An ugly person part of an ugly family and ugly regime.

  • Scouse Billy

    Re. Flame Stuxnet see the following – esp. following comment:
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    “Tom Krohmer
    In 1982 a Cyberweapon (malware) from the USA took out a Soviet pipeline.
    *Stuxnet was NOT the first the first cyber-weapon used to target industrial facilities*.
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    The first cyberweapons were deployed in the summer of 1982 by the U.S.A. on a Soviet pipeline.
    “The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space”. The malware caused the valves to malfunction. (As did a valve at the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Though malware has never been proven to have been a factor of that valve malfunction that started a cascading set of events resulting in the disaster).
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    Anyway, the newspaper article about the pipeline is “CIA slipped bugs to Soviets Memoir recounts. Cold War technological sabotage”, By David E. Hoffman The Washington Post Feb. 27, 2004
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    The article is about a book titled : “At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War,” published in 2004 by Ballantine Books. The author was Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time. He had died under mysterious circumstances. The newspaper
    article is posted at my blog with other reference material:
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    “CyberWeapons” (Computer Worms) Deployed on Nuclear Power Plants March 22, 2011.
    http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2011/03/cyber-worms-in-nukes-and-military.html
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    Regard,
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    The Toxic Reverend E.T. aka Tom Krohmer, Environmental Technologist.
    Please note that E.T. stands for Environmental Technologist.
    and DOES NOT stand for Extra Terrestrial.
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    http://www.naturalnews.com/036147_Flame_virus_malicious_code_cyber_terrorism.html

  • Komodo

    If you click on Mary’s link to veteranstoday.net, you may get redirected to 66.90.78.10, which Malwarebytes lists as potentially harmful. The target may produce a 404 Not Found error message, although it appears to exist. The server is in the US. Proceed with caution.

  • Mary

    It is quite embarrassing to watch Hunt in action. Ch 81. He is so hesitant and nervous, his breathing has gone haywire. Almost gasping. Bryant has called him a liar. Gove and Osborne arrived to sit next to Hunt. ‘Moral support’ don’t you know!

  • Komodo

    “Gulnara has Lewinsky tones Komodo so indeed wash your mouth out with iodine.”
    Without in the least wishing to go there, Mark, wasn’t it Lewinsky who needed a mouthwash? Iodine is in any case bad for the bacteria which make my saliva so attractively lethal, but thank you for the kind thought.

  • Komodo

    The redirect is from the home page, not from the one you linked to, Mary. Wouldn’t worry too much. Or get Malwarebytes and don’t worry at all. (I’m not a shareholder, btw)

  • Komodo

    84 Iraq deaths? In one day? Mainly civilians? Shouldn’t NATO be liberating the place? No…wait. We already did.

  • Clark

    Mary, thanks for the news about Linus Torvalds. Maybe Linus should get the prize; I can’t tell because the BBC article doesn’t find the other contenders worthy of mention.
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    Komodo is right, the Linux kernel is a “clone” of the UNIX kernel; Torvalds wrote, from scratch, his own software that duplicated the UNIX kernel’s functions. Similarly, GNU (which stands for Gnu’s Not UNIX) is a clone of the rest of the UNIX system; again, entirely original work by the programmers of the GNU project that duplicated the wider functionality of UNIX. GNU and Linux are everywhere now. Just this weekend I discovered that my broadband router has a GNU/Linux system within it. A lot of web servers, smartphones, television recorders, etc. use a Linux kernel and varying amounts of GNU.
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    The thing that has made Linux and GNU so widespread is freedom. Proprietary software is released under licenses that legally prevent programmers from modifying or re-using the software. By law, you are not permitted to improve, say, Microsoft Windows; only Microsoft may do that. Even studying the software to determine its various functions is usually prohibited (though they’d have to catch you first).
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    In 1983, when Richard Stallman started the GNU project, he wrote the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is a license that uses copyright to enforce copyleft. When a programmer writes code it is automatically covered by copyright in the same way as any written work. The author has the right to specify the terms of the copyright.
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    The terms of the GPL specify that the program may be copied, studied, modified, improved etc., provided that these same rights and responsibilities pass to the derived work and/or to the recipients of the copies. This is copyleft. It legally protects the freedom of users and programmers to distribute and make use of GPL software. If a company call it theirs and impose their restrictions, they can end up in court. Similar copyleft provisions ensure that Wikipedia etc. remain free.
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    Linus Torvalds licensed his Linux kernel under the GPL in 1991. Combining Linux with GNU enabled the first complete operating system that everyone was free to use, by law. GNU/Linux was completely free from, and legally protected against, restrictions on use, study, modification and distribution. You can charge money for it as you see fit. This is why it has spread like wildfire.
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    Sorry for the long explanation, but I think you can see why the establishment always draws attention to “Linux” and Torvalds, and so little is heard of GNU and the General Public License.

  • Mary

    Letwin is now sitting on Hunt’s RH side. So Letwin, Hunt, Gove and Osborne.
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    Wet, Wet, Wet … and Wet.
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    PS Clegg without a script writer at Leveson was fairly inarticulate.

  • Mary

    Thanks Clark for that elucidation. I am living and learning. Hope all is well with you.

  • Mary

    As Messrs Soames and Baldry and co roll off to vote on the motion to refer Hunt to the adviser on ministers’ interests, I could not help noticing that throughout the debate Hunt was extremely nervous. When seated, he displays a strange habit of opening and closing his mouth in the manner of a goldfish but I don’t think he knows he is doing it. His phone was in constant use. You would think he would have thrown it out of the window by now knowing the trouble it’s caused him.

  • Mary

    The game’s up for Sorrell.
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    Majority of WPP shareholders oppose executive pay deal Sir Martin founded WPP in 1985; it is now the world’s biggest advertising group .
    WPP shareholders have voted against the company’s executive pay report, which includes a £6.8m deal for chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell, by a majority of 59.5%.
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    The vote was announced at the advertising agency’s annual general meeting in Dublin, but is not binding.
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    It comes after a number of shareholder advisory bodies urged members to vote against the deal.

    WPP is the latest firm to suffer investor discontent over executive pay.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18414152

  • Herbie

    Clegg is the exception that proves the rule. The difference that doesn’t exist.

  • Komodo

    “Mr Clegg said: “I remember asking questions of [civil service chief] Gus O’Donnell about whether I could be sure that the bid would be dealt with objectively and appropriately by Mr Hunt by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and he assured me it would be.”

    He later added: “I was very ready to accept assurances that the process would have to be conducted in a quasi-judicial manner and in that sense his views were irrelevant.”
    Translated: I am always ready to accept anything, sight unseen.
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    Spot the eminence grise….useful man, is Gus. Transparency is what he wanted, in his witness statement, but hey, you know, sorta opaque too.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/may/14/lord-odonnell-witness-statement-leveson-inquiry

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