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.
“Keep my money, Iceland, you’ve earned it.”
Interestingly Iceland defaulted on their debts and their economy has now recovered, 2.7% growth last year.
Britain bailed out the bankers and are entering the third dip of a triple dip recession.
Looks to me like the bailout was more to benefit rich bankers than the country’s economy.
Habby
You now, and rather late in the day if I may say so, claim to be a “don’t know”. What precisely is it you don’t know?
Do you mean like a known unknown or an unknown unknown or don’t you know?
Re Iceland: speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson told Al Jazeera that his country was a model of economic recovery after its near-collapse four years ago.
“We didn’t follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies. And the end result four years later is that Iceland is enjoying progress and recovery”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51-Jfh6ADH0
Glasgow to become UK’s first ‘smart city,’ will include facial recognition-enabled surveillance cameras
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/01/glasgow-to-become-uks-first-smart-city.html
As usual the ‘geeks’ have already been busy on a workaround, but it looks quite cumbersome so far:
http://ahprojects.com/projects/cv-dazzle
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Thanks, Mark 😉
Israel admits state sponsored eugenics program.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519
In the Independent too. Netanyahu seems to be worried about the racial purity aspect.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gave-birth-control-to-ethiopian-jews-without-their-consent-8468800.html
“In the Independent too. Netanyahu seems to be worried about the racial purity aspect.”
Don’t suppose he’s worried about Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
What they have been doing is classed as genocide.
Here’s the ADLs take on earlier “not racism” incidents involving Ethiopian Jews
http://archive.adl.org/presrele/IslME_62/2659_62.asp
Wonder what excuse they’ll offer this time, and how long it takes everyone else to wake up from this Orwellian nightmare of lies.
William ‘dodgy’ Hague speech at the 2012 Conservative conference was heavily inspired by Benjamin Disraeli.
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2012/10/William_Hague_Conference_2012.aspx
Disraeli was a great believer in the empire. In 1872 in a speech at Crystal Palace, my birth-place, Disraeli said, “Gentlemen, there is another and second great object of the Tory party. If the first is to maintain the institutions of the country, the second is, in my opinion, to uphold the empire of England.”
Hague’s insipid grins seemed to coalesce with the beaming faces and eulogizing hand-claps of an active Conservative audience encapsulated in a contracting time warp of regal power and dominion. A monarchical remnant of expansionist doctrine that is still surviving while other totalitarian reigns are being put on trial and/or their people determined to end oppression by revolt.
A million British people marched against a war and their actions were ignored. Our youths, our children, abused and violated demonstrating for equality outside St Paul’s cathedral. I call this barbarism democracy by deceit.
And by deception the British crown has maintained its grip on power, and so avoided being called to account for its numerous crimes against humanity.
Having spent the better half of the millennium turning the world into their personal litter box, we get off by blaming everything on America when the embryonic regal orders originate from England.
After all, whose imperialistic land grabbing ways put the Palestinians and Israelis at each others throats?
Odious bunch of racists.
LOL When I googled Henry Wall, the author of the ADL piece on the Ethiopian Jews, the first link up was to this wall – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier !!
@ Mark Golding – Children of Conflict 28 Jan, 2013 – 4:02 pm
Yes, Mark, I totally agree. And the definition of ‘crown’ is quite deceptive too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown
The ‘Crown’ is actually the City of London, i.e. the financial sector which is based there but has no allegiance to this country.
Interesting review of Richard Seymour’s incisive critique of C Hitchen’s faux intellectualism:
“Accuracy, Seymour demonstrates, was not a major hang-up for Hitchens.”
“What emerges is a picture of Hitchens as an intellectually lazy poseur and a huffy racist—a man who, despite the remarkable breadth of his reading, “often lacked depth” and was “either unable or unwilling to cope with the sorts of complex ideas that he occasionally attempted to criticize.” ”
“If Hitchens was a serial plagiarist who failed to get even the simplest of facts right, was allergic to nuance, and made no scholarly contributions, one might reasonably conclude that he ought to be ignored, and that a reader’s time and Seymour’s considerable talents be put to better use. But Hitchens matters precisely because of the inverse relationship that the quality of his work has to his status. His career reveals much about the function of the public intellectual.”
Wow!!
http://inthesetimes.com/article/14415/christopher_hitchens_stands_trial
Two reports from the BBC about the French military action in Mali and not a mention of any death or destruction that may have been carried out by the troops.
This sanitation of war reports is something the BBC excels in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21233394
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21227053
A great link, an excellent read David. Seymour’s incredible bodhi recognised Hitchins embraced American power and its corresponding ideologies after 9/11. Of course by cradling that power meme we are not only protecting the sources, we are also guarding the apparatus that defends that power. Such embrace of a decaying meme ensures we become insular, bigoted and prejudiced, unable to take that leap in consciousness essential for our survival.
Mary (11h51) “Also this about the young psychopath’s ex”
I believe you’re referring to Prince Harry? If so, are you claiming that he’s a psychopath in the medical sense of the word or was this just another of your throw-away lines?
A great link, an excellent read David. Seymour’s incredible bodhi recognised Hitchins embraced American power and its corresponding ideologies after 9/11.
Of course by cradling that power meme we are not only protecting the sources, we are also guarding the apparatus that defends that power.
Such embrace of a decaying meme ensures we become insular, bigoted and prejudiced, unable to take that leap in consciousness essential for our survival.
I just happened to hear the Chief Rabbi on Radio 4 this morning. There was nothing startling one way or another in what he said (one would not expect there to be on that particular morning slot, irrespective of who the speaker was), but I did note with some surprise – and pleasure – that right at the beginning he referred also to other massacres and groups of people who had suffered.
I also remember thinking to myself : “I wonder how long it will take for Mary to post something sour (and probably misleading)about his little talk?”.
Well, I didn’t have too long to wait because, voilà, at 12h46, you’re writing
“A fine mixture of humbug and hypocrisy from the Chief Rabbi on today’s Thought
for the Day on Radio 4 this morning”
And now I’ll confess to failure : I’ve read the verbatim of his talk several times but am still unable to identify any fine examples of humbug and/or hypocrisy. As your anti-Jewish antennae are probably in far better shape than mine, could you possibly point to a couple of fine examples of humbug and hypocrisy in his talk?
Thank you in advance, Mary.
And while I’m at it, Mary (well, you’ve posted a lot today – 14 and counting – so there’s a lot to comment on):
I note that you are prone to taking a close look at people’s aspect. Thus, today at 12h41, you say about Chris Huhne “This is Huhne. He looks very aged in the photo”.
A few days ago you remarked that Hilary Clinton was looking a bit green and opined that she did not look a “well woman”.
Are comments like these
1/. an expression of motherly concern, or
2/. the expression of a belief that the outer aspect is a reflection of the inner being, or
3/. simply spiteful little comments which you think somehow reinforce your argument(s)?
The Chief Rabbi says of the holocaust:
“These events were nothing like the normal course of war where armies fight on a field of battle.”
Now, whether that’s humbug or hypocrisy is for each to decide. It’s obviously bollocks though, as anyone who has been watching recent events will readily attest. The slaughter of civilians is the predominant mode in war today and has been for quite some time.
He doesn’t appear to have mentioned the plight of the Palestinians either, though perhaps he included those in “others”, but given his support for Israel he can reasonably be accused of hypocrisy here.
Then he goes on to ask a series of questions lamenting the state of humanity today without once mentioning the state of Israel, a place where his words might have some impact. That’s humbug, and not unlike the recent occasion where he was caught out when thinking he was off air.
“I believe you’re referring to Prince Harry? If so, are you claiming that he’s a psychopath in the medical sense of the word or was this just another of your throw-away lines?”
She is referring to the machiavellian personality traits which are hereditary in the royal families of Europe.
HTH.
“INTERESTING review of Richard Seymour’s INCISIVE critique of C. Hitchens’ FAUX intellectualism” writes David at 16h33 (emphasis added).
Strong, muscular language indeed! It’s wicked of me, I know, but I couldn’t help but wonder whether David’s admiration for this review written by one Gregory Shupak (who he?) in a publication entitled “In these times” (what this?) is due to the fact that the review contains the words…”intellectual honesty” ? 🙂
David, you’re talking nonsense and you know it.
The “events” he was refering to were those mentioned in the two preceding paras, ie, the Jewish holocaust, Armenia, Rwanda, Bosnia. So according to you, these events were normal warfare?
I wonder what it’d take to get you to call something a holocaust or a massacre.
That’s one fewer than your ‘output’ yesterday if you are engaged in some stupid post count.
Did you think that Craig giving you the green light to post here also gave you the right to hector and cross question others. If so, you were wrong.
I have said before that it is Craig’s blog and I am accountable to him and the moderator only.
In answer to your questions, yes, no, yes and no ad infinitum in whatever order you choose.
Habby
When the Chief Rabbi says:
“These events were nothing like the normal course of war where armies fight on a field of battle.”
he is saying that the normal course of war is where armies fight on a field of battle, and this is clearly nonsense. Wars lately involve the slaughter of large numbers of civilians and civilians predominately and that has been the case for quite some time.
He’s quite simply talking nonsense.
His failure to mention the plight of the Palestinians is hypocrisy and his platitudes and laments for the state of humanity are not directed where they may do some good; at the leadership in Israel. On the contrary he supports that regime despite its daily degradation of humanity. This is humbug.
There are many genuine examples of those whose words and actions are in harmony in this area. The Chief Rabbi is not one of them.
Yet another fine example of intellectual honesty, for habby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b1bysG0VEA&feature=player_embedded
The rabbi did not mean Armenia, Rwanda, Bosnia when he said ‘other’ events/ massacres, other wise he would have said so.
he must have meant the massacre in Sabra and Shatila, or Deir Yassin and the one carried out in Gaza, surely, one reflects on what is nearest and dearest.
Or was it his intention to be vague, to leave space for our minds to wander and fill ambiguity with we care to remember, Dresden, Dien Bien Phu, Hiroshima?
Thought for the Day
The greater the fool, the greater his insolence. Publilius Syrus c900
@ Mary – your latest post would seem to imply that you think I don’t have the right to cross-question you. Is there anything about your intellect, the quality of your comments or the relevance of your (infrequent) theses which makes your posts immune from scrutiny?
Oh dear, more intellectual honesty. Habby’ll be wondering and don’t knowing all over the place…
“we treat the Palestinians as the Germans treated Jews”
Avraham Shalom. Shalom, now 84, was the director of Shin Bet from 1980 to 1986
http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/occupation-interview-gatekeepers.html