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  • thatcrab

    Dont let it all get you down planetarians. It is the season of pleasant surprises and toasts. Spring wont be long after. The challenge is to magnify.

  • Mary

    Clark and John I meant to say well done for going to support Julian. In a TV report the microphone he was using sounded very distorted. Was that the case or was the recording adulterated?

    This is the BBC version.

    Julian Assange: Wikileaks to release ‘million more files in 2013

    ‘Julian Assange: ”My work will not be cowed”

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    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said his work “will not be cowed,” as he promised the whistle-blowing site would release a million more documents.

    In a speech from a balcony at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, he said the files to be published in 2013 would affect “every country in this world”.

    It is six months since he sought asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he denies.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20806355

    The linked video does not work. There is a message – This content doesn’t seem to be working. Try later. Yeah. Right! Ms Boaden is back.

  • Mary

    I see that Agent Cameron is moving on to Oman where BAE have just signed a £2.5bn deal for Typhoons and Hawk trainers. How disgusting that he prostitutes himself as an arms salesman. Oman has a dictatorial Sheikh, a population of just over 2.5 million. Political dissenters are imprisoned.

    http://news.sky.com/story/1028513/bae-strikes-2-5bn-deal-with-oman

    Oh I see. ‘Thousands of British jobs are safeguarded’. That’s OK then.

  • John Goss

    Clark at 11.38 p.m. last night. I looked for you but to no avail. I’ve only seen your photo on here. But glad you enjoyed yourself. As well as the messages to supporters and reporters I think the most encouraging item from his address was ‘Next year I will be an Australian Senator’ or words to that effect. Herald the day! I got a message from an Australian FB friend saying she would be voting for him.

    Arbed, so good to meet you. Sorry we had to leave when we did but we would have missed our coach otherwise. As it happened the coach was ten minutes late. Such lovely people there don’t you think?

  • John Goss

    Mary, thanks for the encouragement. Where I was stood we could hear every word. I wonder if the distortion came after the video was uploaded. There are people who would rather JA’s message did not get out.

    And the millions more of files to be released next year covered countries all over the world. Wonderful!

  • Clark

    Happy Solstice, everyone!

    That’s it, the 2012 “apocalypse” has been and gone, at 11:11 GMT. If it happened, I somehow missed it.

    “Carlton McGee”, 21 Dec, 8:05 am, want to bet? I bet he doesn’t. How much would you like to stake?

  • Mary

    Loving it Clark! The hangman’s rope is missing though.

    btw the video on the BBC link about Julian is still down. Bastards.

  • Clark

    Mary, thanks for your support. There were at least five news crews covering Assange’s address, yet the BBC still haven’t fixed their video of the event. Biased paragraph here:

    “A crowd of some 80 supporters gathered outside the building, in Knightsbridge, to listen to the 41-year-old Australian – whose website published a mass of leaked cables embarrassing a number of countries.”

    Merely “embarrassing”, eh? That’ll be why some of the more extreme politicians have accused him of “aiding the enemy” and have called for his murder, a drone strike, or threatened his family. They always do that when they’re “embarrassed”.

    I don’t know how many people were there, but I couldn’t get through and had to go around the block. The police were moving people on and ushering people off of the road and onto the pavements. I was a few minutes late, and found it impossible to get close enough to see or hear; there were loads of people wandering around.

  • angrysoba

    Hi folks!

    I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas!

    Try to have a little bit of fun and a few mince pies.

    I am going to spend my time reading a few books, studying about language and getting boozed up if I can. I’ll try not to get into the kinds of trouble I have in the past, honest.

    I’m thinking about reading a Flashman book or two, maybe a bit of Evelyn Waugh or Kazuo Ishiguro, and perhaps a bit of Mr. Saadi. Speaking of which, I haven’t seen him around here. Where is he?

    Anyway, try to cheer up a little. I sometimes found the atmosphere around here a little bit insufferably gloomy. Just saying.

    AS

  • John Goss

    I estimate about 400 to 500 people at the Assange Christmas message. Perhaps the BBC got there late.

    Some more disturbing news. A Pakistani man, Mr Khan, has been stopped by Lord Justice Moses from finding out if GCHQ is providing the US with intelligence for their drone attacks, like the one which killed his father.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20807934

    Although the military might claim that this information is sensitive if GCHQ were not providing that intelligence why would they not deny any involvement? So they are.

    Drones are repulsive. They kill innocent children. They should all be called Herod’s swordsmen. So who is Herod?

  • Clark

    Hello Angrysoba, I’m glad you survived the End of the World! Do go and have a look at the Al Hilli threads; I expect you’ll find some wonderful conspiracy theorising to make fun of. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t some nuggets of truth in there as well, though.

  • angrysoba

    Clark: “Do go and have a look at the Al Hilli threads; I expect you’ll find some wonderful conspiracy theorising to make fun of.”
    .
    Hi Clark, unfortunately I don’t know what the Al Hilli threads are. As for conspiracy theories to make fun of, it really is a glutton’s paradise, sometimes. I think the one just north of here, the one about the Israelis being behind Sandy Hook is not much fun at all, but rather boring and depressing. I see that your responses to that suggestion were very good.

    Anyway, I am not sure if I will be posting again here this year so I wish you the best for the new year.

  • Clark

    “This is a planetary passenger announcement. Due to a signalling failure at Alpha Centauri, the arrival of Planet Nibiru has been delayed. We apologise for the inconvenience. Those wishing to simulate a pole-shift may stand on their heads on the platform without being suspected of terrorism. Please keep all your belongings with you at all times, or they may be removed or destroyed by security. Thank you.”

  • Clark

    Angrysoba, I finally discovered the “Jews are responsible for all evil” crowd you were on about. They don’t state it outright, but the subtext becomes clear after a while; the Illuminati, “The Protocols…”. You have to look earlier in this thread if you want more context, but this is where it started for me:

    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/leave-of-absence/comment-page-6/#comment-364284

    Thanks for causing me to question my assumptions about nuclear power. I discovered the story of Alvin Weinberg, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, and the reason we have so much nuclear “waste”. I remain opposed to water-cooled solid-fuelled reactors, as did their primary developer:

    “When Weinberg became convinced that reactor safety was an issue of the greatest importance, that loss-of-coolant accidents were not unthinkable, he was punished by the nuclear advocates. In the book Weinberg quotes what, to me, is the most bizarre statement of the whole story. In a conversation about reactor safety, Chet Holifield, then chairman of the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, told him, “Alvin, if you are concerned about the safety of reactors, then I think it might be time for you to leave nuclear energy.” Soon after, Weinberg was fired from his job as director of ORNL. That was in 1972. In 1979 Three Mile Island fully justified Weinberg’s concern, setting in motion events that led to much enhanced safety of U.S. reactors but also leading to cancellation of many reactor sales. No new reactor orders have been placed by U.S. utilities since then.”

    More info and links from this site:

    http://energyfromthorium.com/

    Oops, that site has all changed since I last visited, so I can’t direct you to the article I intended. Anyway, these liquid fuelled reactors run without pressurisation, cease reaction if they spring a leak, and can be designed to burn nuclear “waste”, which is actually fuel that is less than 2% used, the other 98% being our radioactive disposal problem. It looks like there could be thousands of years of electricity generation available, just cleaning up the existing mess. And they can “burn” weapon cores, too:

    http://www.killick1.plus.com/Paper17.pdf
    http://www.killick1.plus.com/267.pdf

  • Neil

    O/T – some praise for Craig from an unusual source (a partner of Deloitte’s, one of the big accountancy firms):

    Q: Who/what inspires you?

    A: I’m not really into sport, but even the most
    cynical spectator cannot fail to have been
    inspired by the Olympic Games. I cycle to
    work most days, a round trip of 50km, so it
    was especially inspiring to watch some of the
    road cycle races that passed close to my home.

    One of life’s most challenging experiences is
    feeling pressured to make statements you
    think are not wholly true. It is inspirational to
    see people who blow the whistle on bad
    practice, even in the face of commercial
    pressure or active persecution and sometimes
    at the expense of their career.

    Joe Darby, the US sergeant who revealed
    the prisoner tortures at Abu Ghraib, Iraq, in
    2004 is one example. Another is Craig Murray,
    the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan,
    who revealed appalling human rights abuses
    and the inconsistency between our apparent
    support for the Karimov regime while
    attacking Saddam Hussein. Many Russian
    journalists have lost their lives reporting
    abuses that the Kremlin would have preferred
    to keep quiet, with Anna Politkovskaya
    perhaps the leading example. In the financial
    sphere, Jim Demopoulos exposed the Madoff
    pyramid scam to US regulators who didn’t
    want to hear it.

    http://www.theactuary.com/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=318840

  • Mary

    LOL. Did this inspire you Clark? ….Passsengers’ getaway hit by signal failure….

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20808182

    What is this annual getaway all about? So like the annual migration of the wildebeest to new grazing grounds except here it is a huge waste of fossil fuel so that families can get together to overeat food they don’t really need, drink too much booze and then end up quarrelling with each other.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Clark;

    I guess if we had wanted to take the fun out of the Mayan Apocalypse, we could have shared that link to the new Mayan Calendar found earlier this year, but that wouldn’t be as much fun.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    So, I guess we can just equate Newtown with all the other aberrant nut-case lone shooters throughout the history of the most violent society on earth. Hmm. That sounds like a conspiracy too.

  • Fred

    Why would someone kill 20 children?

    Either as a threat, “do as we say or we kill your children”.

    Or for revenge, “I’m killing your children because of what you did to me”.

    After the massacre in Norway people are tending to assume the former and a list of groups that would do such a thing is not very long and unfortunately the Israeli government is on it.

    However I think this one will eventually be proved to be the latter. In America everyone has to be best at something, doesn’t matter what but whatever it is second best isn’t good enough. The poor kids that aren’t actually best at anything tend to get depressed about it so they give them pills to take that screw with their brains. Then they decide they’re going into the history books.

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