A “Lib Dem” minister just told Sky News he was approving new nuclear power stations to promote green jobs. If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.
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These will be his disloyal subjects (or foreign nationals) who smash up pubs, restaurants and clubs that previously sold alcohol as soon as they gain control of an area? If lucky the owners are exiled. If unlucky, killed.
Alcohol is legal in Syria.
Strangely the UK government doesn’t allow me to do that here either.
Mary informs us as follows :
“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.”
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I suppose that in more normal times Mary would be complaining about the high (she would probably write ‘obscene’ ) profits Marks and Spencer make.
Should she therefore not welcome the fact that its prices have been reduced, thus enabling hard-pressed families to buy its goods more cheaply in these difficult times?
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La vita è bella, life is good!
The Scourge, under close questioning from myself, admits that :
“The full facts of Mr Berezovsky’s death are not yet known.”
Exactly my point. Why not wait until the full facts are known before taking your latest conspiracy theory for a walk?
Remember how certain commenters on this blog made utter fools of themselves by suggesting how President Chavez was somehow “given” a specially-developed cancer virus to polish him off? Funnily enough, all quiet on that one now all of a sudden. 🙂
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La vita è bella, life is good!
Time for your medical checkup Habbabkuk. Something is very wrong with you. Whether previously diagnosed or not.
“Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.”
William Haigh.
Always the hypocrite though:
It appears that the SAS and MI6 are in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to help prevent a popular up-rising and stymie democratic change in these dictatorships.
“As the British campaign in Afghanistan draws to a close, the SAS is seeking to embed soldiers into the armies of Middle Eastern states in order to provide tactical training and gather vital information.”
“A regimental source said: ‘The focus is on small teams of troops spending weeks and months with local forces, developing their skills and, while they’re there, getting to know the ground and seeing what the Iranians are up to.”
“Middle Eastern states such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have recently accused Iran of aiding uprisings in their countries.”
“The invitations from states in the region to the SAS and British intelligence to offer training and advice is intended to thwart these attempts.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298161/SAS-commanders-cover-blown-security-breach-Fears-safety-officer-picture-posted-online.html
The protests and demonstrations that began in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain were very much sustained campaigns of civil resistance or disobedience in which deaths were recorded in much the same as Mark Duggan (29yrs) was killed by heavily armed police here in Britain.
Unlike the UK the Syrian uprising presented an opportunity for UKUSIs to escalate the Syrian revolt into civil war. In fact a proxy war was already in place after I reported UK SAS trained mercenaries were in Syria early 2012. Yet the opportunity for ‘hit and run’ terrorist operations came as early as April 2011 after protesters and FSA recruits sat in the central Square of Homs calling for the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad.
CIA operations and calls to arm the Syrian opposition had already escalated by end 2011 and the planned US diplomatic offensive in the Middle East to isolate Assad, and the collapse of a pro-Syrian government in Lebanon was unfolding in camera.
The CIA expanded its activities to support secular-leaning anti-Assad militias while the UK ensured ‘SAS manual’ training in rural areas including weapons use, urban combat and countering spying by the regime.
Opposition forces carried out terrorist bombings thus stoking a sectarian civil war with the support of the US and its European and Middle East allies.
Those that had witnessed the slaughter in Libya were determined to prevent another grave injustice and such pressure from a number of humanitarian groups forced the US State Department to designated the Al Nusra Front as a terrorist group, it admitted that Al Nusra had carried out nearly 1600 terror bombings in Syria over the previous year. How many were killed? Who knows.
The anti-Assad opposition has received hundreds of millions of dollars from the Western-backed Saudi and Qatari monarchies to pay for weapons and salaries for opposition fighters, many of whom are mercenaries of the ultra-conservative Persian Gulf petro-monarchies.
The backing given by the US government at the UN to terrorist acts of mass murder highlights the fraudulent nature of the “war on terror.” citing the threat of Al Qaeda to justify fundamental assaults on democratic rights, the virtual elimination of restrictions on electronic surveillance, the use of torture, and, ultimately, the US president’s right to order extra-judicial murders by drone strikes.
Get real please Resident Dissident.
It’s always best to have confirmation….heads rolling is good, depending on whose head.
“As it evolved, the airlift correlated with shifts in the war within Syria, as rebels drove Syria’s army from territory by the middle of last year. And even as the Obama administration has publicly refused to give more than “nonlethal” aid to the rebels, the involvement of the C.I.A. in the arms shipments — albeit mostly in a consultative role, American officials say — has shown that the United States is more willing to help its Arab allies support the lethal side of the civil war.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/world/middleeast/arms-airlift-to-syrian-rebels-expands-with-cia-aid.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Boy Billy has gone off to the DRC with Angelina Jolie. There’s a pairing. Will Ffion trust him? No danger.
Press Releases
Monday 25th March 2013 | 00:03
FCO: William Hague and Angelina Jolie visit Eastern DRC
The UK Foreign Secretary and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie call on the world to act to eradicate sexual violence in conflict
The British Foreign Secretary William Hague and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie are joining forces again this week to highlight the terrible human cost of warzone rape, and to call for Governments worldwide to address this neglected and growing problem.
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http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/75149/fco_william_hague_and_angelina_jolie_visit_eastern_drc.html
Fred wrote:
“12%? That was two days ago, it’s 9% this morning.”
10.3% for the last 24hrs actually.
But sure wind generation is variable, as variable as fuel prices even.
Habbabkuk – when you cant remember your own dirt, just do your own googling — “site:craigmurray.org.uk habbabkuk lions”
If this is true, I will boycott M&S and Sainsburys, on account of the Qatari involvement in supporting the rabble rebels in Syria. Harrods, Fortnum and Mason and Louis Vuitton do not concern me. They will do well enough from their royal customers.
‘Marks & Spencer shares hit a 28-month high on rumours of an £8bn takeover by the Qatar Investment Authority, reaching prices last seen in November 2010. Despite attempts by sources close to Qatar Holdings to play down the speculation, shares in the high-street business closed up nearly 7%.
However, neither M&S nor the Qataris issued a statement denying the rumours, and both could come under pressure from the stock market authorities to clarify their positions if the share price continues to rise.
The Qatar Investment Authority, of which Qatar Holdings is a subsidiary, already has significant interests in retailing. It has a 26% stake in Sainsbury’s, owns the department store Harrods, and has small shareholdings in the luxury brands Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co.
It is the latest takeover rumour for M&S, which is recovering from a difficult year that has included several boardroom shakeups.’
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/18/marks-and-spencers-shares-qatar
Bliar has a financial connection with Louis Vuitton and Mr Arnault of course and the Bliar daughter did an intern stint with him.
http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/17389/blair-under-fire-louis-vuitton-luxury-lifestyle
Yes mark, that scenario is possible in an age when you do not have to be seen with someone to deal with them.
But ben is gone and can’t talk no more.
For all we know A.Werritty could have gone the same way, just without anybody noticing, not that the media ever tried.
Clark, I hear what you say, its just that it has broken all the common rules of public conversation and needs to realise that life can be a right bitch.
Diss Res. winding us up with such statements does nothing to further your case. Assad the Lion has been killing his disloyal subject for decades, where were your lamentations then? It was convenient for us to promote him, indeed he was not even mentioned as a target in the Ghilan plan of 2002.
Syria then, in foreign policy terms, was in safe hands.
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/pubs/20020418ftr.html
This is not the best link but it gives a flavour of the plan.
“The protests and demonstrations that began in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain were very much sustained campaigns of civil resistance or disobedience in which deaths were recorded in much the same as Mark Duggan (29yrs) was killed by heavily armed police here in Britain.”
Possibly the most fatuous statement that I have ver seen on this blog.
Might i suggest Mark gets real at works out whose airplanes and tanks were shelling Homs and the largely innocent civilians therein – and ask himself why the 1.1m refugees (per UNHCR) are fleeing Assad the Lion or the Slobbering Dauphin as I would prefer to call him.
Nevermind – Amnesty who I have supported for many years have been lamenting the behavious of this disgusting family for many years – unlike yourself and Mark I am quite capable of thinking for myself without taking a lead from someone else.
Mary
I would have thought that you would have boycotted M&S many years ago because of its selling of Israeli produce – but even if you have to boycott them again I’m sure that they will manage. Love how the Quatari’s investment in a company with which the Blairs have had an involvement means that they are doubly cursed – we really should have a prize for the most tenuous guilt by association claim.
Mary has clearly been a very very naughty girl in breaking the now 12 year boycott of M&S – I trust she will be able to plead leniency from the normal rquirements of revolutionary justice.
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/palestine/1926-10-years-of-boycotting-mas-frfi-217-octnov-2010
‘Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and he should receive it.
‘No individual has done more to push back against what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism” than Bradley Manning. And right now, remaining in prison and facing relentless prosecution by the U.S. government, no one is more in need of the Nobel Peace Prize.
‘Alfred Nobel’s will left funding for a prize to be awarded to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
‘The intent of the prize was to fund this work. As a result of enormous legal expenses, Bradley Manning is in need of that funding.’
Please sign this petition to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=7612
anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again…
only those in complete denial and utterly stupid would ever touch this party again with a bargepole. Nasty, ugly, mercenaries.
@ Clark :
“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.”
There was no sly dig at your mental state, not did I “declare” you insane. If you’d bother to read my post carefully you’d notice that I said that, to judge by our comments, I was saner than you. Not quite the same thing as Jives and Never-a-mind were getting their knickers in the twist about.
@Anon
Not true dosimeters and Geiger counters can be triggered by electric fields,we have used them as electric field detectors.Bring a Geiger counter near a very high voltage source it will really buzz.
@ Mary : who writes
“Boy Billy has gone off to the DRC with Angelina Jolie. There’s a pairing. Will Ffion trust him? No danger.”
What a cheap and vulgar dig, Mary – whichever way round one you meant it.
Once again, you demean yourself and this blog.
Shame on you.
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La vita è bella, life is good! (keep smut off this blog)
@ Crab :
“Habbabkuk – when you cant remember your own dirt, just do your own googling — “site:craigmurray.org.uk habbabkuk lions””
I challenge you to give a proper link (other people on this blog, including some of your fellow Eminences, seem to be able to do so).
But you won’t – because there isn’t one!
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La vita è bella, life is good! (lying is a sign of desperation)
Health review of Nuclear Plant Workers is suspiciously hard to come by. The health effect of working in a nuclear power station is a matter which has been estimated and waved away instead of simply keeping and collating adequate records.
One of the few if not the only substantial and available records of this kind are provided by the National Dose Registry of Canada:
Their data is analysed here:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/153/4/309.full
As a rough over view, out of a controlled cohort of 195 thousand nuclear workers, more or less 1/10th of them were twice as likely to get cancer due to increased radiation exposure.
About 250 extra cancer cases due to increased exposure where detected in the controlled cohort.
Outside of the controlled and well collected data, there is no information on for example, friends family members, offspring, accidental radioactive releases into nearby environments, industry and society.
The study also concerns a country with a relatively impressive safety/accident record, it does not cover the effects of any disaster responses.
Table: Study of Cancer incidence of 191,333 Canadian Nuclear Industry workers with adequate records period 1969-1988
No of people – Dose category : Cancer incidence %
163,667 – 0-5 (mSv) : 2
8,891 – 5-10 : 2
7,060 – 10-20 : 3
5,864 – 20-50 : 3
2,903 – 50-100 : 4
1,865 – 100-200 : 4
847 – 200-400 : 5
236 – 400+ : 7
Still on the topic of smut :
Mary once wrote that she attend a class where they practice water aerobics or something similar.
On the assumption that there are other ladies present, and in the general spirit of Mary’s frequent hints about Willam Hague’s sexuality, could I ask Mary if she is lesbian?
Has Mary shared, not a hotel room but a shower, with any of those other ladies?
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Not very nice, is it, Mary? If you agree, then lay off the sly allusions about others’ sexuality.
DesRes I said ‘If this is true, I will boycott M&S…..’ You wrongly assume that I am one of their customers already. I used to be in the good old days ie the 60s and 70s when they were good value and used decent fabrics. Not nowadays.
The RI goes large on defending the good name of our warmongering twerpish Foreign Secretary and laughing stock.
http://order-order.com/2010/08/31/exclusive-hague-shared-night-in-hotel-bedroom-with-spad/
‘Why?’ is a good question Resident – In the first 18 months of the conflict, 250,000 Syrians fled their native land. In the last six months, another 750,000 have fled.
To answer the ‘why’ Resident I compared the graph to one drawn and compiled from the Iraq war refugee statistics.
The escalation of internally displaced Syrians appears to follow the same form as Iraq after the initial aerial bombings and cruise missile blitzkrieg.
Iraqi and Syrian families initially fled from towns to the countryside in the same way as 3 million children and an adult* (*<5yrs old) were evacuated to the countryside when Hitler started to bomb cities within Britain.
Nonetheless unlike Britain, Syria was invaded by 'black squad' 'hit & run' terrorists and killers for money who also holed up in the countryside, using barns and outbuildings to regroup, take cover and conceal arms caches.
This has lead to thousands of families fleeing to bordering countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan in increasing numbers as protection from harm within Syria became impossible.
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)
25 Mar, 2013 – 3:25 pm
“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.”
The foreign policy-human rights interface being the realpolitik.
Realpolitik: a pragmatic no-nonsense view and a disregard for ethical considerations.
In diplomacy it is often associated with the relentless pursuit of the national interest: I.e. oil; gas; stealing other people’s resources; selling weapons to dictators; assassinations of political opponents; torture, war etcetera.
All of which comes before human rights according to Bernard Kouchner and you, it seems).
SpAd = SPecial ADvisor, (Politics).
SPAD = Signal Passed At Danger (Railways).
To be avoided in both cases.
Habbabkack ought to tell all, he must be frightfully upset that his own homosexual leanings are not reciprocated by any of the boys here, hence his fixation on Mary.
Still waiting for his first proper post on a subject, will it be the Vatican’s calculated investment into apartments above Rom’s biggest gay club?
or does his defence of the no more foreign policy we gave it all up for Israel, Hague, mean that he ‘s in with a chance of glance from Hubbubaby, in which case we will hear why his mission was necessary.
Amazingly the Mugabe mission is coming back into warm from the cold, the EU has stopped all sanctions since the two boys carved it all up neatly and wrote it into am constitution.
http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/16528-zanu-pf-dismisses-sanctions-lift.html
Barclay’s now trade in legal diamonds, the blood has disappeared as if of magic, that was easy, no more people will be beaten up or shot for living in diamond rich mining areas.
Its fine with us here, no need to be glum, Ms. Jolly is just there for the ride and to add some brain cells into the visit, she won’t touch his/your nib with a bargepole.
Well that’s that given what’s what! Clark 😀
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)
25 Mar, 2013 – 3:37 pm
Habbabkuk, if you are going to quote me (out of context in this case) please reference the time and thread so that others can check the full post if they wish.
doug scorgie
25 Mar, 2013 – 11:35 am
It is mere courtesy and not difficult.