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.
Hello again Thatcrab, interesting that the Einstein quote i referred to above sounds VERY similar to the one you cite at your 7.03pm post.
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Interesting article here on Einstein on Palestine and Zionism
A couple of extracts:
“Judge Hutcheson: I have asked these various persons if it is essential to the right or the privilege of the Jews to go to Palestine, if it is essential to real Zionism that a setup be fixed so that the Jews have a Jewish state and a Jewish majority without regard to the Arab view. Do you share that point of view, or do you think the matter can be handled on any other basis?
Dr. Einstein: Yes, absolutely. The state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with many difficulties and narrow-mindedness. I believe it is bad.”
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Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel shortly after the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre and referred to the Irgun, led by Menachem Begin later a Prime Minister of Israel, and the Stern Gang, where Yitzhak Shamir also a future Prime Minister of Israel was a member, as terrorist organizations and refused to support these “misled and criminal people.”2
Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, Hannah Arendt and twenty-five other prominent Jews, in a letter to the New York Times (December 4, 1948), condemned Menachem Begin’s and Yitzhak Shamir’s Likud party as “fascist” and espousing “an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism and racial superiority.”3
In 1950 Einstein published the following statement on the question of Zionism. This speech was originally given to the National Labor Committee for Palestine, in New York, on April 17, 1938 but republished by Einstein after Israel’s creation.
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from the practical considerations, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain – especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight without a Jewish state.4
Einstein also turned down the presidency of the state of Israel.5 In Albert Einstein: A Biography (Viking, 1997), Albrecht Folsing shares the following revelation about the offer to Einstein to become Israel’s second president: “While Ben-Gurion was awaiting Einstein’s decision, he asked his assistant, the future president Yitzak Navon, over a cup of coffee: ‘Tell me what to do if he says yes! I have had to offer the post to him because it’s impossible not to. But if he accepts we’re in for trouble.
Source: http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/01/einstein-on-palestine-and-zionism/
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Also very interesting was Einstein’s attempt to persuade Nehru for India’s support at the UN.
Article at the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/feb/16/israel.india
Where Nehru questioned:
” “I confess that while I have a very great deal of sympathy for the Jews I feel sympathy for the Arabs also… I know that the Jews have done a wonderful piece of work in Palestine and have raised the standards of the people there, but one question troubles me. After all these remarkable achievements, why have they failed to gain the goodwill of the Arabs? Why do they want to compel the Arabs to submit against their will to certain demands [ie, partition and Jewish statehood]?”
Not so clever now as he was made out to be.
The Chairman of 2e2.
Graham Love, Chairman
Graham was formerly Chief Executive of QinetiQ, a position he held from 2005 to 2009, having joined the company in 2001. He is on the Board of STEMNET (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network), the Advisory Board of SEMTA (Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies) and is a Principal at the Chertoff Group (a strategic advisory group focused on security, intelligence and government services). Graham is also chairman of Racing Green Cars, Eversholt Rail Group and LGC Science.
Graham will help 2e2 as it develops new services for its growing customer-base and continues to provide innovative end-to-end IT solutions to the both public and private sectors.
Relating to this:
Newbury-based firm 2e2 Group makes 319 staff redundant
More than 300 people have been made redundant after a Berkshire-based IT services firm went into administration.
Administrators said the Newbury-based 2e2 Group, which employs 1,442 people across the UK, is up for sale after a “deterioration in trading”.
They added 2e2 was still operating and they were “committed” to protecting the business and the rest of its workforce.
The 319 axed jobs are in Reading, Newbury, Edinburgh, Gateshead; and Heathrow and Hayes in London.
The firm’s operations in Jersey, Guernsey, Ireland, Spain and The Netherlands are unaffected.
Joint administrator Simon Granger of FTI Consulting said “significant interest has been expressed by third parties in acquiring the business”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-21241708
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As you can see Love is involved with Chertoff, of US Homeland Security fame. LGC Science provide forensic pathology services to the state. Both based at Culham.
More on LGC. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/forensic-scientist-who-investigated-death-241932
and more on Love. See how he coined it when DERA morphed into QinetiQ which was then flogged to Major’s Carlyle Group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Love
KingOfWelshNoir, my first thought was the same regarding Habbakuk, but then I thought double-bluff, double agent, until I learnt that he sees himself as a watchman.
Habbakuk, no,I’m glad I missed it.
Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (Unleaded Version)
29 Jan, 2013 – 10:01 pm
Cryptonym; The garlic question was a serious one. Shall I post as Habbakuk ?
Ben not just yet please. One day he’ll be gone and then we’ll miss him…..then you can!
(you realise this response at getting the counts too high!)
i meant at RISK of getting…
Afghanistan is unwinnable and was all about opium anyway. Iraqi prime minister Maliki is a tryant. Libya is no longer a governable state. We gave up trying to destory Syria because of Russia. And now we have the ever-reliable Al Qaida popping up in Mali.
Go to places like globalresearch.ca to understand all this. Forget about the mainstream media.
@BenF: I don’t have any special tips, nothing could be easier to grow. But OK.
Keep the biggest for next years planting; leave a long tail on them, 3 inches or so on the ones you’re storing, as twisting this makes them split into individual clove segments easily for planting next time. Remember you’re initially growing enough both for cooking with and for the succeeding year’s crop. Along with onions they’re a good crop for a resting potato plot. Plant early, in this climate end of March as a light spring frost won’t stunt them as much as planting later and getting a rotten summer (see 2012).
That is all. Ridiculously OT and I’m not going there. Mods could delete this once you’ve mastered a search engine. I don’t actually recommend them for speculative purposes.
Mike thanks for that source. Afghanistan was also about a macho belief of it being a pushover after the Soviet’s failure. Further loads of mineral deposits. And proximity to Pakistan, which holds the Muslim nuke arsenal, although they say a good number are housed in Saudi Arabia. Pakistan has the fastest growing nuke arsenal in the world, and is a fast failing state.
And Uncle Sam has been forced to beat a retreat by a rag-tag bunch of tribal (largely) Afghan fighters. They are incapable of holding anything on the ground.
“Afghanistan is unwinnable and was all about opium anyway. Iraqi prime minister Maliki is a tryant. Libya is no longer a governable state. We gave up trying to destory Syria because of Russia. And now we have the ever-reliable Al Qaida popping up in Mali.
Go to places like globalresearch.ca to understand all this. Forget about the mainstream media.”
I already go to globalresearch.ca, which is how I know the invasion of Afghanistan wasn’t all about opium.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
I see Craig has been busy writing letters:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/29/assange-allies-oxford-union?INTCMP=SRCH
Splendid! I do hope they used green ink.
Fair point, Villager. And let’s not forget Unocal’s discussions with the Taliban re a pipeline to Karachi for all that lovely Caspian oil. Zalmay Khalilzad was the firm’s pointman there before 9/11. In 2005 he became the US Ambassador to Iraq.
“I already go to globalresearch.ca, which is how I know the invasion of Afghanistan wasn’t all about opium.”
OK Mr Sniffy.
I know about Zalmay Khalilzad and Unocal too (he became US Ambassador to Iraq in 2005). But after guns and oil, the most profitable commodity on Earth is drugs (some $700 bn) and Afghanstan (ain’t it strange!) produces 90-plus per cent of the world’s opium.
Night night all.
True to form Newsnight had a studio piece on that cartoon. Hugo Rifkind Times journalist was laid back about it, another cartoonist Tom Benson wasn’t and Mr Taub Israeli Ambassador to the UK was very exercised about it.
Link to the iPlayer later.
OT? How could one notice, cryptonym. When you say ‘resting’ potato crop, do you mean rotate for the benefit of soil? This may seem elementary, but I kill plants.
I hate it when I repeat myself (especially about Zalmay Khalilzad and Unocal – it happens all the time) !!
Too much red wine methinks.
Definitely bedtime.
Bugger, just posted this and the next minute we’re on to a new page…
Don’t think you’d want to miss this, though, so I’ll post it again. Craig’s been busy writing to the papers…
A letter to the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/29/assange-allies-oxford-union?INTCMP=SRCH
“If the Guardian could “find no allies” of Julian Assange (Report, 24 January), it did not look very hard. They could be found among the appreciative audience at the Oxford Union, and in our group seated at the front…”
Signed by:
Ann Wright, Retired US army colonel and foreign service officer of US state department
Ray McGovern, Retired CIA analyst
Elizabeth Murray, Retired CIA analyst
Coleen Rowley, Retired FBI agent
Annie Machon, Former MI5 intelligence officer
Thomas Drake, Former National Security Agency official
Craig Murray, Former British ambassador
David MacMichael, Retired CIA analyst
Brady Kiesling, Former foreign service officer, US department of state Todd Pierce, Retired US army major, judge advocate, Guantánamo defence counsel
Now, that’s what I call a slap-down.
Thanks for that Arbed. interesting line-up of signatories. Should we treat that letter as Craig’s latest blog entry. its been getting very stifling in here. Imagine what poor Julian is going through.
Btw, those Oxford geeks have still not fixed the sound on the video–can you believe it?
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TEXT OF LTR
If the Guardian could “find no allies” of Julian Assange (Report, 24 January), it did not look very hard. They could be found among the appreciative audience at the Oxford Union, and in our group seated at the front: the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. Many in our group, which co-sponsored the event, had travelled considerable distances to confer the 10th annual Sam Adams award on Dr Thomas Fingar for his work overseeing the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that revealed the absence of an Iranian nuclear weaponisation programme since 2003. Many of us spoke about the need for integrity in intelligence, describing the ethical dilemma that confronts government employees who witness illegal activity, including serious threats to public safety. However, none of this, nor any aspect of Dr Fingar’s acceptance speech, made it into your article.
Ann Wright Retired US army colonel and foreign service officer of US state department, Ray McGovern Retired CIA analyst, Elizabeth Murray Retired CIA analyst, Coleen Rowley Retired FBI agent, Annie Machon Former MI5 intelligence officer, Thomas Drake Former National Security Agency official, Craig Murray Former British ambassador, David MacMichael Retired CIA analyst, Brady Kiesling Former foreign service officer, US department of state, Todd Pierce Retired US army major, judge advocate, Guantánamo defence counsel
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btw i spotted your article re assange treatment in msm/guardian. let me know if ok to link here. very detailed obviously thorough research.
I think that I may owe Fred an apology. But only small one, because my error was technical.
Looking back over this long thread, I see that it was in fact Cryptonym (28 Jan at 11h24) and not Fred who explicitly said that what the Israelis did to the Palestinians was worse than what the Nazis did to the Jews.
Fred merely gave a link to a website which showed a whole series of photographs purporting to equate the Israelis with the Nazis (it was his response to a comment of mine addressed to Cryptonym)
REPEAT:
Albert Einstein > Quote
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
― Albert Einstein
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AND THEY ARE DOING IT AS WE SPEAK….
Arbed/ All
Assanges clips on the Q&A at the Oxford Union now youtube in a clumsy series of short clips. These OU geeks are not very tech-savvy are they? Start here..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_980598&feature=iv&src_vid=1bWlHv8NfcY&v=kVXtDoDGhTw
Mary, are you signed up for the Media Lens message board? I’m not, but I have something I think is deserving of one of their ‘we suggest you email xxx’ posts and I don’t know how to approach it. Any help or advice you can offer?
Heather Brooke, who loathes Julian Assange with a passion because she was snubbed, recently tweeted some outrageous libels concerning Assange’s book deal with Canongate for his (published as an unauthorised first draft) autobiography. She claimed Mark Stephens, his ex-lawyer, told her Assange got $6 million for the deal but only passed £450,000 to his legal firm for costs. Here are her libellous tweets:
https://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/293022738141032449
https://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/293023284763693057
https://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/293023839221338112
https://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/293024624181125122
https://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/293025128214822914
And here’s the facts (a lengthy read, but includes phone transcripts and copy emails):
http://wikileaks.org/Julian-Assange-Statement-on-the.html
Well, Heather Brooke’s lies have already been refuted. Check this twitter conversation between Jamie Byng of Canongate and Mark Stephens:
Check this twitter conversation:
Susanne Maier @gerge42
@baddabyng Tell us: did Canongate pay JA 6 million USD for his bio as his ex lawyer @MarksLarks claims? Or is this a libelous claim?
Mark Stephens @MarksLarks
@gerge42 without wishing to be unkind – pls check ur facts first
Jamie Byng @baddabyng
@gerge42 @markslarks complete nonsense. I’m pretty certain Mark would never have claimed this as he knows the numbers & received the money
Susanne Maier @gerge42
@baddabyng @MarksLarks Do u call @newsbrooke a liar? Afterall she is the 1 who uncovered biggest corruption scandal ever in UK parliament.
Susanne Maier @gerge42
@baddabyng @MarksLarks The news of the alleged 6 million dollar deal with JA has already spread to D.Domscheit-Berg who cited JA`s lawyer.
Susanne Maier @gerge42
@baddabyng @MarksLarks So the damage is done….
The problem is her lies have already been picked up by other liars and scoundrels (Daniel Domscheit-Berg, soon-to-be hero of Hollywood propaganda movies) and repeated in print:
http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fboard.gulli.com%2Fthread%2F1723885-hollywood-verfilmt-die-geschichte-von-wikileaks%2F%3Fp%3D14710924%23post14710924
Needs a bit of the kind of pressure Media Lens is so good at to force a retraction, I think. Do you think I should just email the above to the Editors, or do you think posting it in their message board would be enough? Thanks for any help you can offer.
Hi Villager, thanks. I’ve posted four of those OU video clips on the next page back. I thought they were better suited on that page, as it’s about the Sam Adams awards.
“btw i spotted your article re assange treatment in msm/guardian. let me know if ok to link here. very detailed obviously thorough research.”
Not actually my article. The people on that site just seem to like my comments 🙂 They previously created an entire article by patching together lots of comments of mine that I’d posted to the Guardian under various articles. I didn’t mind, of course, because so many of my comments get censored there, so I was rather grateful that someone had swooped in and rescued a few of them before they got the chop.
Nice of them to credit me, though. I emailed to thank them, so I’m in touch with them now and busy feeding them lots of juicy bits of research. Stay tuned to that website – further updates will be coming!
Yes of course it’s ok for you to link the article of theirs you’re referring to in here. I’m sure they’d be happy for that to happen.
Fracking and its effect on the water reserves and supplies in the US. Coming to the UK soon.
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In our new Saudi America, one million fracked wells already exist. About 60 percent of the new oil and gas wells are being drilled horizontally, the most environmentally unfriendly form of drilling. Almost nine out of every ten future wells drilled in the United States will need to undergo some form of fracking.
Fracking represents a monumental water treatment challenge – one whose magnitude and complex indeterminate composition has never before been addressed. More than 600 compounds of hydrocarbons, heavy metals, microbes and salts in trillions of gallons of water from shale gas wells present a water treatment problem for which there is no experience, and no historical precedent.
Water and energy are mutually dependent resources. There will always be trade-offs for various energy technologies. With the increasing threats to available water, we need to develop policies that minimize water-intensive energy production.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14113-the-myth-of-purifying-fracking-water-in-saudi-america-the-competition-between-food-drink-and-energy
I found these images showing the ongoing drought in the US as seen from NASA’s Modis Earth Observatory taken three weeks ago, ie in the grain basket of the world.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80221
Np Arbed sorry I’m not. Used to be a long time back. I have heard that getting registered there can be tricky with some bugs on passwords etc. but that might be apocryphal.
“Fred merely gave a link to a website which showed a whole series of photographs purporting to equate the Israelis with the Nazis”
Apology accepted but you still haven’t got it right. I posted a link to a website which compared the atrocities committed by the Germans against the Jews to the atrocities committed by the Israelis against the Palestinians thus demonstrating that the two were comparable.
Obviously the two are not equal, for a start the atrocities committed by the Germans against the Jews were committed by the indigenous population against an immigrant population where as with Palestine it’s the other way round.
Arbed – the editors
davidcromwell ;
davidedwards ;
@Mary Fracking and its effect on the water reserves and supplies in the US. Coming to the UK soon.
A better way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpTEld9AVpc
Mary, thanks. I’ll email the two Davids in the morning. 🙂
Habbabkuk
29 Jan, 2013 – 11:21 pm
“I think that I may owe Fred an apology. But only small one, because my error was technical.”
Gosh, what did we eat for dinner tonight?
You should eat more humble pie. Part of your 5-a-day diet–strongly recommended!
“US embassy cables: Foreign Office does not regret evicting Chagos islanders”
1. (C/NF) Summary. HMG would like to establish a “marine park” or “reserve” providing comprehensive environmental protection to the reefs and waters of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) official informed Polcouns on May 12. The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park — the world’s largest — would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes. He agreed that the UK and U.S. should carefully negotiate the details of the marine reserve to assure that U.S. interests were safeguarded and the strategic value of BIOT was upheld. He said that the BIOT’s former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve. End Summary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/207149
Britain faces UN tribunal over Chagos Islands marine reserve
Ruling by permanent court of arbitration in The Hague may challenge UK’s unilateral declaration of marine protected area
Britain’s colonial-era decision to sever an Indian Ocean archipelago from Mauritius and turn it into a US military base will have to be justified before an international tribunal – a process that could lead to the return of the islands’ exiled inhabitants.
The unexpected ruling this month by the permanent court of arbitration in The Hague that it can hear the case is a challenge to the UK’s unilateral declaration in 2009 of a marine protected area around the Chagos Islands.
Decisions by the tribunal, which arbitrates in disputes over the United Nations law of the sea, are binding on the UK. At the preliminary hearing the UK’s attempt to challenge the court’s jurisdiction was defeated. Britain is now obliged to explain highly sensitive political decisions dating back to 1965.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/28/britain-tribunal-chagos-islands-marine-area
JOLLY GOOD NEWS AND WELL DONE WIKILEAKS!