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  • crab

    Phew id not seen the Bad Seeds do that yet.. That is raw and true music, worth getting into. A big shake Brian!

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)

    @ Crab ;

    “I didn’t find Neverminds little threat of a kick in the tenders, nearly as dark as Habbabkuk’s previous suggestion during a discussion of state crimes that we should be “thrown to the lions””

    You’re inventing again. Reference, please. Thank you.

  • Mary

    There is another one of Aldred here. She is sitting next to a woman from Thales.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rusi_org/6543191077/in/photostream/

    I went through the set this morning and was shocked at how many women are involved in the defence supply industries – Thales, BAE, Northrop Grumman, DSTL etc – and in the military ie in the killing professions. How they love to be photographed. They even preen. Pauline Neville-Jones seemed to be ubiquitous that evening – the very life and soul of the party.

    ~~~

    Brendan. As it turns out, it is the same police force now investigating Boris Berezovsky’s death that ‘investigated’ Dr Kelly’s unnatural death.

    eg https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/information_regarding_thames_val

    and many other similar links if you google ‘freedom of information dr kelly thames valley police’

    ~~~
    There is a PS ref RUSI. Norton Taylor who writes on defence for the Guardian is on the council of RUSI, as is Nik Gowing of the BBC. Just look at the list of names and a shudder down your spine will be felt.
    http://www.rusi.org/about/council/

    The Lord Hutton is not the judge who conducted Bliar’s Hutton Inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death. He is the NuLabour John Hutton who colluded with Agent Cameron in the changes to public service pensions.
    http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/indepreviw_johnhutton_finalpress.htm

    I see he also spun for the nuclear dump in Cumbria.
    http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/baron-hutton-of-furness-says-majority-of-cumbrians-support-nuke-dump/

    Nik Gowing from the BBC profile.

    ‘As a principal programme presenter for the channel’s extended, continuous 24-hour/7-day week coverage of major crises, Nik’s invaluable experience was called on throughout the Kosovo crisis from March to June 1999. He was also on air for six hours shortly after the twin towers were hit in New York City on September 11, 2001. The coverage won the ‘2002 Hotbird Award’. He also fronted the unfolding drama of Princess Diana’s accident in Paris in August 1997 and announced her death to a global audience estimated at half a billion.’

    Enough said. A useful pair of hands when the situation demanded.
    http://web.archive.org/web/20050223022710/http://bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=162

  • Jemand - Evolutionary Religion 101

    I wonder what the US would do if it had already developed a practically inexhaustible method of energy generation such as predicted by hot or cold fusion. Would it share it with the rest of the world? Would it start using it immediately? Or would it sit on the technology and conduct a series of wars – not to secure its own energy needs as we often accuse it of doing, but to accelerate the collapse of industrial-economic-military rivals? After which, it could introduce the new technology and become the exclusive world supplier of energy products.

    If they already have the technology, would we know it? Could this explain anything of what we are currently witnessing on the world stage?

  • Mary

    So a bank that is 112 years old and is present in 9 countries is to be wiped out (or ‘wound down; in EUspeak). I would think that the repercussions will be large.

    ‘Laiki Bank was founded in 1901 as a small savings bank and today has grown into a strong international financial organisation.

    Today the Group has a presence in 9 countries: Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Malta and China.

    It operates 439 branches and employs 8.464 staff, servicing a total of 1.350.000 customers.

    It offers services to private individuals, corporate and commercial banking, Private Banking, Treasury, Electronic Banking, Factoring, Financing and Leasing, International Banking Services, Shipping Services, Insurance Services, Stock broking and Capital Management.

    With awards for technical innovation, and a focus on its customers and on its people, Laiki Bank is more than just a bank.

    Laiki Bank is headquartered in Cyprus and operates under the control and supervision of the Central Bank of Cyprus.’

    http://www.laiki.com/EN/TheBank/Pages/Home.aspx

    I see the suditors are Price Waterhouse and Grant Thornton.

  • English Knight

    BTW-whats happened to # 3 in the crypto evil axis, Kempe? Is he lying low knowing we can see the bald pate through his transparent yarmulke?! At least unlike haballocks he doesnt regale us with tales of his ilk, Michael Winner, Bernard Kouchner, Esther Rantzen.

  • Fred

    “Fred, the fundamental engineering reality of it is impossible to scam, its working i know this from my own hobbies and research, but i wasnt up to date on how significantly UK power supply has implemented it and confirmed it already. 12% is a massive thumbs up, the wind will not stop blowing and the roll out of windpower should be impossible to stop now.”

    12%? That was two days ago, it’s 9% this morning.

    High pressure drifting in from Scandinavia, going to be clear skies, cold nights, no wind.

  • nevermind

    With that many woman involved in national procurement and defence policy making, Mary, I wonder whether any of them took notice of our run away man Adam Werritty? the not very much mentioned six foot four Foxy sidekick who must have walked past them once or twice.

    Was it his smile that allowed him such high access or was it the information he had from his Israeli handlers?

    Was Adam Werritty an agent? and who was he really working to?

    Meanwhile the Israeli Government is contemplating refusing the next two heavily subsidised Dolphin class submarines from Germany, as a reprisal to Germany’s refusal at shedding pennies for Concentration camp labourers, many of them forced and coerced into surviving by helping the camps administration with their cruel task.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-votes-to-not-amend-pension-law-for-jewish-ghetto-laborers-a-890485.html

    Obama seems to have taken on Netanyahu’s agenda by adhering to the status quo with regards to peace talks and Israel’s refusal to accept pre conditions,i.e. the stop to housebuilding.

    There will be no stop to the expansions of settlements, or a release of the grip on Gaza, imho., because the energy/water and land politics are determined by Hawks who could not care less about what’s outside their agenda.

  • nevermind

    Trust the airline company bosses slobbering to jump on to the bandwagon of this cuts and efficiency specialist’s suggestion, academic Bharat P Bhatta, a Norwegian academic proffering the idea to ‘pay your weight’ on a plane.

    This will mean that only the slim and richer obese can afford to pollute the skies and the rest of us, with subsidised kerosene flying in subsidised planes.

    http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/sorry_sir_but_the_scales_say_you_must_pay_more_study_ponders_pay_as_you_weigh_airline_ticket_pricing_1_1990420

  • John Goss

    Guano, Thames Valley Police, the police force that investigated the murder or suicide of Dr David Kelly are investigating the death of Berezovsky. Does that answer your question?

  • Brendan

    Mary: “As it turns out, it is the same police force now investigating Boris Berezovsky’s death that ‘investigated’ Dr Kelly’s unnatural death.”

    I actually chuckled at that one. Not that I disbelieve you, quite the opposite. I begin to wonder if they have a crack team of decidedly incurious forensics ‘experts’ wandering around the UK, ready at a moments notice to be totally un-suspicious about anything at all. Often found in Scottish mountain ranges, close to slightly chubby Labour MP’s …

    And yes, I first heard he died in his bath, not on the floor. Door was locked, apparently, though I presume it has now been discovered to be ‘unlocked’. Who knows? Maybe he was up to something kinky in a sports bag, as so often happens.

    I love these threads when Craig Murray takes a few days off from blogging. The comments do get a bit free-ranging (a good thing).

  • Clark

    Nevermind, 24 Mar, 8:44 pm:

    Congrats to the Happy Couple!!!

    I know that weddings can get the emotions running pretty high, but please don’t go thumping Habbabkuk on my account; there is simply no point. No damage you could inflict could possibly be any worse than being what Habbabkuk already is, and has to live with 24/7.

    Sanity is relative to one’s society, so with human-kind as a whole apparently seeking to bring about the fall of its own civilisations, I consider it a compliment to be declared insane by such a staunch supporter of the status-quo as Habbabkuk. If it said I was sane I’d have to start worrying.

    “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)
    24 Mar, 2013 – 11:07 pm

    @ various (Mary, The Scourge et al) re. Prince Charles/the UK govt./Saudi Arabia:

    Bernard Kouchner started off in the Communist Party and was expelled. Then he joined the Socialist Party and was…expelled for accepting the French Foreign Affairs job under the right-wing Sarkozy. He is a vocal supporter of “humanitarian intervention” i.e. regime change. He is now a vocal right-wing supporter.

    So not a person I would take too much notice of.

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)
    24 Mar, 2013 – 10:27 pm

    “What was the exact nature of Berezovsky’s connection with Litvinenko…”

    Google and enlighten oneself.

    “…and in which way could that connection justify your suspicion that Berezovsky’s apparent suicide was not in fact a suicide?”

    The full facts of Mr Berezovsky’s death are not yet known. Given the information that you can find on Google and, until all the facts are established, only a moron would not have some suspicion.

  • Mary

    Thanks Mark, Brendan, Nevermind and Crab.

    Did anyone ever see this? If you want a laugh.

    Rudin the maker of Conspiracy Files on WTC7 and Jane Stanley on the ‘time going backwards’ piece to camera ie when she announced WTC7 had gone down before it did. TIMBER!! 🙂

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/conspiracy_files/7485111.stm 5 mins.

    ~~~

    I have just been down to the local High Street. Hardly anyone about. M&S are giving 20% off clothing and 30% off homeware and furniture. ‘Times are hard’. No green shoots popping out of the ground for Gideon. There are no buds breaking either.

    ~~~

    Surprised Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and caldron bubble has not been on rubbishing my posts in my absence.

    Hope Craig is OK. Probably writing his book following his visit to the Scottish archives.

  • doug scorgie

    I suggest that the chemical attack in Syria was a false flag incident that went wrong. It was carried out in such a way that all the evidence points to the perpetrators being the rebels and not Assad’s troops.

    Now that the UN is investigating the truth might come out so now MI6 and the MOD are saying that the gas was only a very strong tear-gas.

    The MSM are helping to spread the word.

    “THE substance used in an alleged chemical attack in Syria last week was a “super-strength tear gas” of the type employed for riot control rather than a nerve agent, according to preliminary inquiries by British scientists.”

    “The Porton Down military research centre in Wiltshire is analysing soil samples recovered from the scene by MI6.”

    http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1234718.ece

  • Mary

    Wikileaks Was Just a Preview: We’re Headed for an Even Bigger Showdown Over Secrets

    POSTED: March 22,

    ‘I went yesterday to a screening of We Steal Secrets, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s brilliant new documentary about Wikileaks. The movie is beautiful and profound, an incredible story that’s about many things all at once, including the incredible Shakespearean narrative that is the life of Julian Assange, a free-information radical who has become an uncompromising guarder of secrets.

    I’ll do a full review in a few months, when We Steal Secrets comes out, but I bring it up now because the whole issue of secrets and how we keep them is increasingly in the news, to the point where I think we’re headed for a major confrontation between the government and the public over the issue, one bigger in scale than even the Wikileaks episode.

    We’ve seen the battle lines forming for years now. It’s increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.

    This is true not only in the case of Wikileaks – and especially the real subject of Gibney’s film, Private Bradley Manning, who in an incredible act of institutional vengeance is being charged with aiding the enemy (among other crimes) and could, theoretically, receive a death sentence.’

    /..

    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/wikileaks-was-just-a-preview-were-headed-for-an-even-bigger-showdown-over-secrets-20130322#ixzz2OYdopMkh

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    What is MI6 doing in Syria?

    This British agency has no mandate to operate a communication station in the field accepting orders from a NATO base situated on the Syrian/Turkish border. Even more obnoxious to me is the supply of British self destructing encryption equipment to terrorists hell bent on wrecking Syrian communities while executing false-flag attempts to undermine the Syrian government; all the time refusing to engage in peaceful negotiations to stop subversion and mass murder of innocent civilians loyal to Assad.

  • BrianFujisan

    Crab @ 3 ; 21
    Amazing stuff you never know which direction Bjork is gonna take off in…class act, beautiful fusion of vocals..love the lightning effect ( and the Big Hair Lol ) Thanks for that Crab.

    On another note, Here’s a wee report dealing with newsnight propaganda, with regards Isreal

    The report starts off –

    ‘Why is this lying bastard lying to me?’ is a remark about interviewing politicians commonly attributed to Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman (actually originally made by Louis Heren of The Times). For those of us who watch Newsnight and its like the question we need to ask is not only ‘why’, but also ‘how’ these lying bastards are lying to us. You may well get the feeling that what you are watching is skewed, but given the speed of TV reports it can be difficult to recognise exactly just how we are being manipulated.

    A wee bit further down –

    Urban also discusses what will happen if Israel invades Gaza. However, this is done in a very matter-of-fact way, as if discussing military exercises. We are shown maps of Gaza with arrows and tanks, and mention of `2009’s ground push’, `severing communications’, and only additionally `producing hundreds of civilian deaths’ (l.98-101). Would the tone be the same if the US/UK security services’ lunatic fantasy of Iran attacking Israel ever happened? Would Urban calmly be discussing severing communications in Tel Aviv while we looked at graphics of tanks on maps? It hardly seems likely. The screen would be filled with voices denouncing this monstrous attack. Why aren’t we seeing this about the war crime of killing civilians in Gaza? Instead, the only external voice brought in to comment on this is Tony Blair. Newsnight chooses Britain’s major war criminal to sanitise Israel’s assault on Gaza, for that is effectively what Blair tries to do in the final stage of the programme.

    Thank Goodness i didn’t watch this.

    http://www.newsunspun.org/article/a-case-study-of-bbc-newsnight-reporting-of-israelpalestine

  • Anon

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/9951385/Berezovsky-did-not-kill-himself-Litvinenkos-wife-says.html

    Members of Mr Berezovsky’s family started to arrive at the manor house near Ascot, in Berkshire, as the paramedic attended to Mr Berezovsky.

    On leaving the premises the paramedic’s personal electronic dosimeter, which measures the air for potentially dangerous levels of radiation, was triggered.

    Dosimeters don’t have a tendency to false positives. But now we are told the house has been given the “all clear”. Something not right there.

    Btw, on subject of citizenship earlier in thread, Berezovsky was granted Israeli citizenship in the early 90s. He had to renounce that (if you really can renounce Israeli citizenship) in order to be active in Russian politics. Strangely the word Israel doesn’t occur in his Wikipedia entry at all even though it was widely reported in the Russian media at the time and caused a bit of a scandal when his Israeli citizenship emerged.

  • resident dissident

    @Mark Golding

    And of course Assad has no responsibility for the mass murder of his disloyal subjects – long life the Monarchy!

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)

    @ The Scourge :

    “Bernard Kouchner started off in the Communist Party and was expelled. Then he joined the Socialist Party and was…expelled for accepting the French Foreign Affairs job under the right-wing Sarkozy. He is a vocal supporter of “humanitarian intervention” i.e. regime change. He is now a vocal right-wing supporter.

    So not a person I would take too much notice of.”

    *******

    Perhaps not, Scourge, and that’s your right of course. But I’d suggest that he has a somewhat better knowledge and experience than you of the difficulties posed by the foreign policy-human rights interface.

    That could be because he’s actually worked where choices have to be made and decisions taken, as opposed to just being an internet pundit and blowhard?

    Think about it.

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