I am delighted that a new canpaign has started today against the state enforced child slavery in the uzbek cotton industry, especially as this campaign originates in Germany, where a significant portion of society appears to have finally woken up to the reality of the German government’s appalling complicity in the Nazi style regime and atrocities of Karimov.
However in the UK it remains the case that since the coalition government came to power, there has not been one single government statement on the human rights atrocities in Uzbekistan or – even more damning of our sham democracy – one single statement or question from New Labour.
A Node
Why do you keep reminding everyone and making things worse when you could be suggesting interesting things for us to think about and making things better?
I see Google think they are above the law again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/27/google-legal-action-secret-iphone-tracking
It’s frightening what they have been up to. While they were making streetview they were illegally logging the Mac addresses of everyone’s wireless networks. Anyone with a smart phone they log onto the internet through their wireless network that phone will be broadcasting that Mac address constantly looking for it. You can be walking down the street and someone can tell where you live, where you work, complete with pictures.
Frightening.
If Cuadrilla resources finds a way of bruning the ample Radon it will release with its fracking, they will try and sell us that as well.
Why has nobody mentioned Radon? Is it because its a natural nuclear gas. Why does Greenpeace not make anything of it? I suppose they have no time to worry about the releases of massive amounts of radioactive Radon, through coal mining and burning mainly,because they chosen the plutonium seekers for their ire.
Anybody who can’t help their urges and buy’s an i-clone, is getting exactly what they been asking for, no good moaning, don’t buy the frigging phone, you do not need it.
“Anne Frank’s diary does contain writing in ballpoint pen.”
No it doesn’t.
I went to the web site and checked it out.
http://www.annefrank.org/ImageVaultFiles/id_14671/cf_21/tenquestions_en.PDF
It’s an easily disproved lie being spread by Neo Nazis.
In tiny print at the bottom of the Lough Erne Golf Resort website pages!!
“John Hansen and Stuart Irwin were appointed Joint Administrators of Castle Hume Leisure Limited on 12 May 2011. The Joint Administrators contract as agents of the company without personal liability. PLEASE NOTE THAT BOTH THE LOUGH ERNE RESORT AND CASTLE HUME GOLF CLUB ARE CONTINUING TO TRADE AS NORMAL AND THERE IS NO INTERUPTION TO ANY SERVICES”
You should see the 5* luxury the gangsters-in-charge and their entourages will be enjoying. Easy to secure too as it has limited access – http://goo.gl/maps/gMAQv
http://www.lougherneresort.com/index.html
LOL This says it all. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/lough-erne-on-course-to-sell-for-knockdown-10m-16212931.html
Hi everybody,
Remember how I said that the diary of the on-duty prosecutor, Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand, who first issued an arrest warrant for Julian Assange on the night of 20 August 2010 had disappeared? She ordered Assange’s arrest for ‘rape’ before either woman had formally given statements and then – illegally – leaked his name to the press.
“Sorry, it’s disappeared” was what was first claimed by the Swedish Prosecution Authority when a Freedom of Information request was filed for MHK’s official diary. (In Sweden, it is a legal duty for all prosecutors to keep a diary of their official activities. Well, apparently it’s now been ‘found’ again, but look at the state of it:
http://rixstep.com/2/1/20130127,01.shtml
It’s for the wrong date – 21 August and not 20 August – and it’s completely blank (ie. whited-out, censored) except for the date/time at the top and the phrase “New contact in the afternoon”.
Here is Marianne Ny’s personal response to the FOI citing the Secrecy Act as a reason to not release the information, also translated by Rixstep:
http://rixstep.com/1/20130127,00.shtml
Rixstep does a wonderful job of explaining the full significance of placing this material under the Secrecy Act, but there’s one detail he leaves out here. It is known that Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand made her decision on the basis of “several phone calls”. The details would, of course, be in MHK’s diary but she may have spoken to Linda Wassgren, the policewoman on reception duty at Klara police station, and to Mats Gehlin at the Family Violence Unit, who became the lead police investigator reporting directly to Marianne Ny, who is officially Chief Investigator on this case (I’ll never understand how the Supreme Court managed to convince themselves Ny was an ‘impartial judicial authority’ with a title like that…).
The other person who Maria Häljebo Kjellstrand may have spoken to on that fateful day, of course, was her husband, an official working for Beatrice Ask, Minister of Justice. Rixstep shows just how close this could make Carl Bildt, Swedish Foreign Minister, to this initial, otherwise nonsensical, decision to arrest Assange with the information available at 5pm exactly on 20 August. The detail Rixstep leaves out is that MHK’s husband was actually with Carl Bildt in person at that exact time. Both were attending the annual Harpsund party at the Prime Minister’s summer residence. Someone from Flashback kindly supplied photographs of the event, which are somewhere further back – page 5 or page 6, I think – in the Why I’m Convinced Anna Ardin is a Liar thread:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/why-i-am-convinced-that-anna-ardin-is-a-liar/comment-page-6/#comments
Some news from the US. The US JSF aircraft will be stationed at Lakenheath, with Marham in Norfolk being in the very close running for the UK’s JSF. Ms I’d like to be in the papers because my Constituency is against incineration, Ms. Truss, who has the full Truss of DC behind her….
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/mp_pushes_to_be_told_location_of_us_jets_which_could_ensure_raf_marham_s_future_1_1829758
Yes, Mary – I made a mistake.
I did not notice the first quotation mark following ‘Clark:’ as most people use the ‘@’ to show they are quoting a comment and a colon to address others. I simply assumed “Macky” was addressing Clark. And, yes, I called him/her/it “Mackey”, another innocent and minor mistake.
The fact is he quoted him to support his following statement about sock-puppeting, and I presume he/she/it supports the rest of the comment. So, my response is not ‘wrong’, it’s just addressed to the wrong person. no real need for your shrill shrieking is there?
As to the other points about ballpoint pen, you are simply showing you are ignorant of the facts and issues.
There are four volumes that comprise the diary, the first three are bound books written in a distinctive hand using mostly pen and ink and some pencil. The fourth volume is a collection of separate sheets, which DOES contain writing in ballpoint pen and IS clearly showing a different writing style. It is these that are the subject of the contention. Showing pages from the first three volumes does not prove anything about the fourth volume.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98280312/Joel-S-A-Hayward-THE-FATE-OF-JEWS-IN-GERMAN-HANDS-An-Historical-Enquiry-into-the-Development-and-Significance-of-Holocaust-Revisionism
“The fourth volume is a collection of separate sheets, which DOES contain writing in ballpoint pen and IS clearly showing a different writing style. ”
Which are notes written by someone else after the war and are not claimed to have been written by Anne Frank.
It explains it all on the web site I posted the link to.
@ Clark (27 Jan at 23h39) : sorry for not getting back to you sooner regarding your question of whether my post should be seen as supporting Lemon Puffs’s.
The answer is no, I don’t think so. I’m aware of course of the arguments surrounding Anne Franks’s diary, but I have no particular knowledge of the matter and therefore no opinion on it.
I suppose I did confirm what Lemon Puffs called the ‘non-fiction novel’ although I could also be called ‘the non-factual autobiography’. My comment on that merely reflected what Elie Wiesel himself is on record as having said.
The second part of my post was really a reprise of something I’d posted some time earlier, except that a generation now seems to have been added (“grandson of a holocaust survivor”). I’m not 100% sure (you can look it up yourself if you want) but I think I saw it in the Wikipedia entry for Sacha Baron Cohen.
Hope that clarifies.
Arbed, thanks for that update.
Very frustrating to see the flimsy official secrets excuse being used. It looks like a massive cover-up from top-to-bottom. I’m curious what is the state of public opinion in Sweden. In this day and age, one would’ve expected at a minimum the younger more progressive population coalescing and demanding transparency. Doesn’t look like that is happening. Why?
As for “Marianne Ny, who is officially Chief Investigator on this case (I’ll never understand how the Supreme Court managed to convince themselves Ny was an ‘impartial judicial authority’ with a title like that…)”, the thought that the case was badly handled by JA’s legal team comes to mind, although i am no legal expert. Let’s hope that if the political asylum comes to the European Courts, it will be better represented.
Lets also hope that a more impartial internal review in Sweden can open this can of worms. Any likelihood of that?
@ David re. Michael Parenti’s article
You’ve been claiming for a couple of days now that Michael Parenti’s article is “more intellectually honest” than other articles on the same subject.
I’m in the “don’t know” category of reader you mention, which is why I’ve been inviting you to provide some elements to back up your claim.
The only element you’re provided so far (and that, belatedly) is that one would not find an article like Parenti’s in the mainstream media.
(Where an article appears is of course not an indicator of its intellectual honesty; you are in effect saying that the more obscure the publication in which the article appears, the more intellectually honest it’s likely to be. This is weak.)
My conclusion is, therefore, that you are either unwilling or unable to back up your claim. It is therefore likely that the reason you find Mr Parenti’s piece so intellectually honest is that his views reflect yours.
So that’s it, I think we’ve arrived at our destination as my GPS would say.
To the moderator, whoever it might be
I am amazed how, through few steps of metamorphosis and transposition, the busybodies of this blog flopped from cotton to diaries (wrapped in cotton, I hope) and moved from Uzbekistan to the spice warehouses of Amsterdam. After few hundred more contributions down the line any newcommer could easily get the impression that the nafarious nazis made Anne Frank to pick cotton in Uzbekistan and she wrote about the finger technique in depth with a biro in her attic.
Cannot we write about something more palatable, like the famous Cotton club of Harlem?
Habbabkuk, can’t you chill a bit? Please see that your superintendence is not in demand here. Insight is preferable to oversight, so that we can all learn from each other in an atmosphere of goodwill, regardless of opposing viewpoints. Its simply a matter of approach, form rather than substance. You might even find your comments better appreciated. This is a perception–analysis won’t help you ‘see’ it.
Eg in your last comment we came to the conclusions:
–that you’re in the ‘don’t know’ category, which is fine,
–that David believes that the views reflected are close to his own, which is also fine.
So why do we have to arrive at such an innocuous result with the FEELING we’re either sitting in a Court or in an exam room. Thank you for your consideration.
My “You might even find your comments better appreciated.”
I’ll change that to surely.
There is a HMD reference on this link. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/diary/the-feral-beast-have-at-thee-my-noble-foe-8468412.html
Also this about the young psychopath’s ex. She would be well advised to steer clear of the Mills/Jowell posse. She makes bad choices obviously.
Skirting Chelsy
Tessa Jowell was made a dame last week, and celebrated the occasion by giving a high-octane cupcake party at the Houses of Parliament. Tony Blair led the speeches, followed by Ed Miliband and Lord Coe, who said “Tessa gives women politicians a good name”. But there was one notable absence – Chelsy Davy, who four months ago started stepping out with Jowell’s son, Matthew Mills. The 29-year-old finance worker was pictured canoodling with Prince Harry’s ex-squeeze at Cape Town airport last weekend, and a friend claimed they’re “very happy and in love”, after a “whirlwind romance”. Still, clearly a bit too whirlwind for Dame Tessa, as young Matthew attended alone.
Also
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2265280/Chelsy-Davy-She-truly-Prince-Harry.html
@ Fred 28 Jan, 2013 – 9:24 am
Well, since you ask, it’s to remind people like yourself of the effect of your postings. I’m aware that I am indeed ‘making things worse’ but I thought I’d give it a go, end justifies the means, sorta thing. I’m not telling you or anyone else here how they should conduct themselves, but I thought a reminder of the bigger picture was worthwhile, i.e. over a third of recent posts are by or about this person.
I understand why people get into arguments with Habbabkuk, I’ve been there, he’s very good at drawing you in, but what’s his motivation? As I see it, he’s here either to deliberately disrupt the blog, or he’s so selfishly full of his own importance that he doesn’t care if he does. He acknowledges the effect he’s having but won’t change his behaviour. Furthermore, his provocative style practically guarantees that all his ‘discussions’ turn into arguments, and long ones at that because he insists everyone has to answer his questions while he rarely answers theirs.
For whatever reason, he wants to be the centre of attention, and it’s plainly disruptive. Do we want to help him?
But you’re right, what I’m doing is kind of self-defeating, so point made, I’ll stop now.
@ Villager 10.39am
Regarding the UK Supreme Court glossing over Marianne Ny’s title of Chief Investigator, you said: “the thought that the case was badly handled by JA’s legal team comes to mind”. While I can understand you speculating that might be the case, I attended all the UK hearings and the defence team definitely won on the day – they wiped the floor with the Swedish Prosecution Authority’s Clare Montgomery, I can assure you – but, as so often happens when the required court outcome is, corruptly, politically pre-determined, the judgment handed down bore only a passing resemblance to the arguments heard in court.
So much so in this particular case that Dinah Rose for the defence was able to stay proceedings for a couple of weeks longer, on the basis that the judgment was made on a matter not even discussed in court: the Vienna Convention. Craig was so outraged by this appalling sleight of hand that he even dedicated a blog post to it, IIRC.
On this same link there is a piece about David Ward MP and the holocaust from the New Zealander who compiles this daily record of horrific Israeli atrocities.
Saturday 26-01-13
Central Gaza: Israeli Army wounds 4-year-old child
16-year-old boy dies of Israeli Army-inflicted head injuries
Hebron: Israeli Army shoots and kills one person and wounds another
Israeli Army shoots its way onto Beit Hanun farmland and bulldozes crops
Israeli Navy twice opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Beit Lahiya
Israeli Army bulldozes crops in Khan Yunis
Israeli troops beat up 17-year-old youth
Israeli Army shoots its way round al-Bireh
Israeli Army shoots its way onto Khan Yunis farms and bulldozes crops
Israeli tanks shell al-Zaytoun
Israeli Army destroys 5 Palestinian homes
East Jabalya farmers under Israeli fire and tear gas attack – injury and tear gas casualties
Beit Lahiya under Israeli fire – 1 person wounded
Israeli forces raid Beit Fajjar, firing stun grenades and storming homes
Occupation settlers uproot 50 Huwara olive trees
15-year-old boy set upon by settlers and then abducted by Israeli soldiers
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 2 refugee camps and 29 towns and villages
11 attacks – 68 raids including home invasions
9 beaten – 2 dead – 25 injured
10 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
39 taken prisoner – 43 detained – 114 restrictions of movement
http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php 26-01-13
@ Villager, 10.39am
Sorry, I forgot to answer your other question about the state of public opinion in Sweden about Assange’s case, and whether the younger demographic is demanding more transparency.
Well, Assange has been well and truly screwed by the extremely negative smear campaign against him conducted by the Swedish MSM, helped along of course by political figures who really shouldn’t be making any pronouncements on a criminal investigation regularly, and repeatedly, weighing in: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister; Beatrice Ask, Justice Minister; Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister; the Swedish Ambassador to Australia; Cecilia Malmstrom, EU Interior Minister, amongst many, many others.
But… Lars Schaff, for example, reports on his blog that popular support for Assange on the ground has always been high – it just lacks a ‘voice’ and doesn’t get reflected much in media outlets, even supposedly ‘alternative’ ones. And things do now seem to be shifting, and shifting quite rapidly, over there. The levels of secrecy and obfuscation around the recent extraordinary rendition of two Swedish-Somalian citizens has made a lot of people wake up to the facts that Assange’s fears on onward extradition to the US are very well-grounded. Here’s a great example, from yesterday (use Google translate):
http://www.etc.se/ledare/swartz-slogs-var-skull
Maria-Pia Boethius is a highly regarded Swedish feminist and she agrees Assange is at clear risk if he goes to Sweden.
Oh – update: Save you the bother of translating through Google, here’s Rixstep’s translation of the above:
http://rixstep.com/2/1/20130127,00.shtml
In his latest book ‘The Face of Imperialism’ Michael Parenti juxtapositions empire and imperialism and in that way emphasises the political economic realities rather than simply denote dominion and control.
He defines imperialism as the process whereby the dominant investor interests in one country bring to bear their economic and military power upon another nation or region in order to expropriate its land, labor, natural resources, capital, and markets in such a manner as to enrich the investor interests. In a word, empires do not just pursue power for powers sake, in a world collapsing in resources and environmental damage such action is intended to create an oasis that only serves the few.
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/progressive-voices/2011/11/michael-parenti-face-imperialism
Thanks Arbed, A Node and Mark for those links and info.
This is Huhne. He looks very aged in the photo. All for some traffic offence, allegedly.nI think he’s finished whatever the outcome although, having said that, Laws has made a comeback. He is now referred to as ‘the thinker’ of the coalition!
Chris Huhne speeding points trial to start next week
Former minister and his ex-wife are both charged with perverting the course of justice
guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 January 2013 12.35 GMT
Chris Huhne arrives at Southwark crown court in London. Photograph: Neil Hall/REUTERS
Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife are to stand trial next Monday over claims she took speeding points for him so he could avoid prosecution.
Huhne and his former wife, Vicky Pryce, were both charged last year with perverting the course of justice over the allegation, said to relate to a speeding offence in 2003.
Pryce previously pleaded not guilty on the grounds of marital coercion and Huhne entered a not guilty plea to the charge on Monday.
Former energy secretary Huhne, 58, stood down from the cabinet following the charge last year, but remained the Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh.
The events which led to the charges date back to March 2003, when Huhne’s car was allegedly caught by a speed camera on the motorway between Stansted Airport in Essex and London.
Accusations of impropriety emerged only in 2010 after he had admitted an affair with PR adviser Carina Trimingham and ended his 26-year marriage to Pryce.
It is alleged that between March 12 2003 and May 21 2003, Pryce, 60, falsely informed police that she was the driver of the car so Huhne could avoid prosecution.
Both defendants are on bail and their trial at Southwark crown court is due to start next Monday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/28/chris-huhne-speeding-points-trial
Thanks for all Arbed. When in the Supreme court judgment was deferred and another opportunity was given to the defence to represent further matters (Vienna convention?), quite what transpired i never understood. Do you have a link handy that is easily assimilable, to complete that understanding please?
A fine mixture of humbug and hypocrisy from the Chief Rabbi on today’s Thought for the Day on Radio 4 this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014b9gz
‘Nature’s Capital Is The Limiting Resource’
By Paul Craig Roberts
Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33723.htm
Who said “Whether it’s bushfires, whether it’s floods we are being challenged by nature, but we are a strong and smart nation and we will get through this like we always do, by pulling together”?
Ms Gillard. A western style life does not sound sustainable in 21st century Australia. They have ripped the guts out of it and have built on low lying land in Queensland. They should consult some of the native people for advice.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/pm-offers-condolences-as-brisbane-braces-20130128-2dfwa.html#ixzz2JHGRSRc1
When savers were bailed out by the UK government, it was by giving the banks some of my taxes. I grudge that immensely. Nonetheless, I wish Iceland continued success in fending off our government’s attempts to make them pay compensation. They’ve shown the world we do not need to be liable for contrived debts to parasitic banks brought about by manipulated markets.
Keep my money, Iceland, you’ve earned it.
Oooops, that doesn’t make sense, it’s the banks, not Iceland that have my money.
Ah well, you know what I mean.
Cryptonym wrote, “…my observation was that your argument seemed to be that less jobbies bobbing around in the drink was the pinnacle of EU achievement…”.
Actually that wasn’t my argument – in fact, I didn’t make any argument in favour of the EU, nor express appreciation (narrow or otherwise) for you to ridicule. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else. You’re not the only person here who erroneously assumed I was taking a pro-EU position. It seems anti-EU people see opponents everywhere, peeping from behind every lamppost.
You dismiss the capital punishment argument on the grounds that it’s frequently aired? Fascinating logic.
I note Mary in his ‘thoughts’ the Chief Rabbi expends energy regurgitating past assaults on humanity. The Rabbi’s message might have been more convincing if he had related preceding assaults to current invasions, violations and rape of possessions in Palestine, Libya and Syria. We have learned from experience in the end our leaders are immune to memorials of slaughter, except to serve their own nefarious plans. The Chief Rabbi’s thoughts? Bah Humbug!
Destroying indeed Dreoilin and welcome back- you have been missed.
Arbed, thank you for your comments including links to Rixtep and Marianne Ny’s whiteout of the diary. Those who have long followed this case will not be surprised. The only consolation is that it provides further proof that this is a one-sided plot. I am sure my cartoon about Borgstrom and Ny is not far from the truth. They’ve been bribed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8wrmtDkoLU