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  • nevermind

    Mark G. this is a terrible development that will skew justice, inquiries and investigations into Government measures something rotten, so much so, that the judiciary, already blindfolded on one eye, becomes unwieldy, too nebulous for the normal person to follow.

    Now will they prefer to keep encrypted or unscrambled emails? do we know their preferences and what they are planning to make available to ‘commercial’ organisations?

    Do we all have to talk to each other in future, rather than using servers or search engines such as google? will this mean the return of the honourable carrier pigeon?

  • Yonatan

    LfromStl:

    One further point. Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jewish. So your attempt to conflate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism doesn’t work.

    The wheels fell off that barrow ages ago.

  • nevermind

    Looks like the NRA is not contempt with running the US national gun owners like puppets, now they start to dictate and twist arms with UN states.
    Its about time those 50 senators who continually sign every nuts and bolts yobs job at the NRA are opposed electorally on thios specific issue.

    Are US politicians trying to make out that the widespread proliferation of guns can only be answered by issuing more guns?

    Guns shops, fearing a ban on these automatic weapons, had their shelf’s emptied over the last four days, not your usual Christmas run, but the speculation of gun nuts that they better get one of those weapons that are out there, just in case, to be sure to be sure.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/28/nra-block-un-treaty-gun-control

  • Mary

    Humans of the Year

    by Kim Petersen / December 29th, 2012

    The JTA staff has published “In the spirit of the holiday season, … its annual ode to the non-Jews who helped write the Jewish story this past year.”1

    I’m quite uncertain about the practice of 0.65 percent of the world’s population2 determining who outside of them is to be singled out as a “Gentile” of the year.

    I never call myself a Gentile, and I’d prefer if other people not refer to me in a way I do not wish to be identified. Human is sufficient for me. I am a human just like every other member of Homo sapiens. I see no need to separate myself out. Admittedly, this poses a bit of a logical conundrum because my inclusive preference has already, in essence, separated me from those who wish to separate themselves from others. Other physical and behavioral traits will also allow others to categorize me relative to other humans. This is true. Despite all this, I remain human and so does every other person: Muslim, Jew, Hindi, Arab, European, Chinese, White, Black, Green, Blue, gay, old, young, female, male, etc.
    /..

    http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/12/humans-of-the-year/

  • MJ

    “there is absolutely no evidence for any of the silly 911 truth claims made above”

    Larry: as I recall, your grasp of 9/11 evidence is precisely zero. Whenever you are challenged to cite evidence you are unable to do so. Your only contribution to the subject is this gormless-aggressive nonsense.

  • Kempe

    “Salehi: We insist on our right to enrich uranium for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. There is no proof that we are pursuing nuclear research for military purposes. ”

    Hmm. He refuses to deny that Iran is developing nuclear weapons; just that there is “no proof”. I seem to recall that for many years there was “no proof” that Israel had nuclear weapons either.

  • Kempe

    Well Hillsborough wasn’t much of a conspiracy theory. It was pretty obvious who was to blame from day one but this and the Jack Straw comment represent typical “Troofer” logic, that if one or two minor conspiracy theories are true then all other conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish, must also be true.

  • Fred

    Kempe

    I have made no mention of 9/11.

    I was just pointing out that labelling something a “conspiracy theory” does not mean it isn’t true.

  • Mary

    This one is now a peer of the realm, having been around Thatcher and now back with Cameron.

    http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240104986/Systems-integrators-could-take-stake-in-police-agency-says-IT-chief-Gordon-Wasserman

    We have him to thank for police commissioners Bill Bratton NY style, and ultimately for a national police force I reckon.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Wasserman,_Baron_Wasserman
    http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/gordon-wasserman/90426

  • Jon

    LfromStl/Larry from St. Louis is banned here, by Craig, for longstanding and persistent derailing and disruption. Newer visitors may be interested to know that this is extremely rare here: there’s about five people on this list, over the many years this blog has operated.

    With this in mind, I’ve deleted a number of items from Larry just now. It would be best if genuine contributors didn’t respond to him, since there’ll only be conversational gaps when I get around to deleting his disruptive material.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    I just emailed Bowser, this a.m..

    “I just wanted to say thanks to Barbara Boxer for her principled stand on the overwhelming Democratic vote in favor of expanding and extending the Warrantless Wiretapping of American Citizens.

    Her ‘not voting’ during Roll Call was a masterpiece of political expediency

    I also wish to thank Diane Feinstein for leading the charge against all amendments which would provide some transparency, for the unconstitutional bill.

    When Rand Paul is to the Left of Democrats, it’s time to Primary their asses”

    Heh. I’m even thinking of running against her…….Pyrrhic Victory===

  • mark golding

    Thanks Mary you have a long reach indeed. I have interfaced with Gordon Wasserman a strong advocate of aliyah while working on the UK paf raw data files. Wasserman wanted a postcode interface to a police database. A number of Israeli software consultants were involved in the project to tag postcodes with `other`data useful to marketing and more.

  • Vronsky

    @Fred

    “I was just pointing out that labelling something a “conspiracy theory” does not mean it isn’t true.”

    It’s coming to mean that it is the truth or very close to it, else the labelling is redundant.

    Good, Jon, for deleting Larry. That contrivance has been here before and is triggered by mention of 911, which is why older posters who remember him/it use locutions like ‘ix/xi’ or ‘–/–‘ whenever that suspicious interlude needs mention. Mind you, I’d ban anyone who starts a post with ‘heh’.

  • Mary

    Thanks Mark. A version of ‘we know who you are’ and ‘we know where you live’ coupled with ‘we know what you think’ and ‘we know what you say on the web’. Orwell had nothing on these people.

  • Mary

    James Corbett has wound up his radio reports but his website continues.

    http://www.corbettreport.com/about/

    This is the last podcast.

    It is one thing to be motivated by our outrage at the lies and manipulation we are subjected to each and every day. It is another thing entirely to be driven by blind hatred of this system. Tonight on the final episode of Corbett Report Radio James warns against the temptation to define ourselves by hatred of the way things are and offers an alternative: to define ourselves by love for our friends and family, the world around us, and the world we can help to bring into being. Join us tonight for the final voyage of Corbett Report Radio.

    http://www.corbettreport.com/corbett-report-radio-277-hatred-is-the-heart-of-the-nwo/

    Any thoughts on what he says?

  • Mary

    Terrrrrist alert

    The Dept of Homeland Security Krazies ….

    Double Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah quizzed by customs officials in ‘terror bungle’ at U.S. airport
    Olympic star accuses border guards of hauling him in for questioning
    London 2012 star blames their suspicions on his ‘Somali origin’
    Said he received letter saying he was ‘under investigation as terrorist threat’
    Revealed he was allowed to re-enter when his American coach intervened

    Farah previously moved to the U.S. to train before his Olympic glory

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2254756/Double-Olympic-gold-medalist-Mo-Farah-quizzed-customs-officials-terror-bungle-U-S-airport.html#ixzz2GWQknA7w

  • Mary

    Whilst their colleagues in the other branch at Creech, Nevada pressed their buttons three months ago.

    US Kills 12 Civilians and Destroys a Community
    Anatomy of an Air Attack Gone Wrong (sic)

    By Letta Tayler
    December 29, 2012 “FP”

    SANAA, Yemen — The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder — flour and sugar, the witnesses said — that the victims were bringing home from market when the aircraft attacked. A torched woman clutched her daughter in a lifeless embrace. Four severed heads littered the pavement. “The bodies were charred like coal. I could not recognize the faces,” said Ahmed al-Sabooli, 22, a farmer whose parents and 10-year-old sister were among the dead. “Then I recognized my mother because she was still holding my sister in her lap. That is when I cried.”

    /..

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33462.htm

  • Fred

    I think the killing of civilians is something which must always be deplored.

    However a country killing someone else’s civilians to further their expansionism has to be deplored a great deal more.

    So to save you the trouble of keep posting I think I can speak for everyone here and say we all deplore the killing of innocent people as who they are and will argue against the root cause of much of it best we can. However we can’t mention every single death so we will concentrate on the most important ones.

    Let’s face it, Abraham Lincoln killed one hell of a lot of innocent civilians but they were American civilians and there was a civil war going on so nobody blames him for it too much.

  • nevermind

    Which reminds us of the other disappearing character, his fanciful, the king of access to all offices, Adam Werritty. Were is this gilded cage, surely someone should entice some crowd funding to look for these characters.

    If people can fund businesses and ventures, they can also fund a few private detectives to look for Wilen and Werritty. Once they are successfully photographed and detected, we’ll make the info available, cause the newspapers will all want to keep on message.

    Would this not be a way of finding them. How many PD will it take, there will be sightings and some tell tales somewhere.

    Looking forward to the next tranche of wikileaks releases, without the newspapers who so clearly could not handle the heat first time round.

  • macky

    “Any thoughts on what he says?”

    I think trying to separate outrage from hatred, is a bit like having your cake & eating it too; the powerful feeling of outrage is a product of, or is derived from, a strong feeling of something being objectionable; things that we find strongly objectionable are things that we strongly dislike, and surely it is just a matter of degrees between strongly disliking and hating. Can somebody really say that they have a strong dislike for Cruelty/Injustice/Evil, but not have an absolute hatred for it ?

    Although hatred has a very bad connotation for being associated with bigoted narrow-mindedness, it is a natural human emotion that is not exclusively confined to “bad” people ; it is a passionate emotion, that expresses itself not in outrage, but more accurately, in angry outrage, and I agree with this chap: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/28/benjamin-zephaniah-anger-politics-interview?INTCMP=SRCH that ‘There isn’t enough anger in politics’

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