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The great deception, is that We inhabit vehicles.
Our bodies are self repairing…IF they have the correct levels of charges.
Sending You such charges to self repair, most respected one.
Kevin
Monday, July 08, 2013
What Correa really said about Assange and the safe-conduct to Snowden
I have carefully listened to the interview – conducted in Spanish – of President Rafael Correa with the Guardian on the “Snowden saga”, also focused in the role of Mr Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Frankly, I became astonished realizing the extent to which the answers of Rafael Correa were misrepresented by the Guardian, and subsequently by other MSM. Instead of what it has been reported, Ecuador has never retracted of their positive statements on whistle-blower Edward Snowden, or on their openness to study his asylum. Correa affirms clearly that Ecuador has not “negated” the safe-conduct issued to Mr Snowden. He also says emphatically “Mr Assange continues to enjoy our respect”.
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http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/what-correa-really-said-about-assange.html
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How The Guardian Twisted President Correa’s Comments on Snowden
The following text shows how the Guardian updated their story about an interview with Ecuador’s President Correa after it was already widely published.
Original story: http://archive.is/h10ae
Updated version: http://archive.is/UoHmY
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http://jaraparilla.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/how-guardian-twists-president-correas.html
From the Medialens editors.
Where is the media coverage of the trial of Bradley Manning?
Posted by The Editors on July 15, 2013, 8:15 am
…asks Paul O’Hanlon.
He has been kept in solitary confinement for 3 years much like Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over a year. Their crime? To tell the truth and help to blow the whistle on the Pentagon’s elaborate web of lies.
The press gallery at Bradley Manning’s trial is barely half full, apparently. Justice should be seen to be done?
The BBC had this – Bradley Manning case – in 80 seconds:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22684769
Only Reader Supported News (RSN) seems to have regular coverage of his trial:
http://readersupportednews.org/trial-of-bradley-manning
Paul (via email)
DC
Looking at all the above, I find it somehow comforting to reflect that the human species will be extinct in, oooh, four million years tops, assuming it hasn’t destroyed the planet in the next couple of hundred. I shall shuffle off this mortal coil with no regrets. On the grand scale of things, none of this shit matters at all.
The law in Florida. Note Zimmerman’s apparent wealth and the provenance of some of the female members of the jury. Clashes are breaking out in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/07/the-florida-law-sir-is-an-ass/
G4S tagging – alleged fraud, Straw (on whose watch G4S were contracted) denies all knowledge here.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-07-11a.573.0&s=speaker%3A10574#g579.4
Also here, and maybe not in MSM, is reference to GPS tagging system’s imminent introduction. Logical, defensible, yes, but still further down the road to Brave New World.
@Jon
What would Ginger Rogers be without Fred Astaire?
“an archaic neo-liberal tosspot”, Fed Up. [wrt Ibn Rushd, or Averroes]
And that comment exemplifies the deficit in, and fear of, analytical thought which is one of the central problems.
Oh dear!
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/400xY/2013/7/21582185.JPG
He keeps getting in on the act. First Murray at Wimbledon and now Mickelson at the Scottish Open.
@Komodo
The below link describes the competing theories of how the holocaust was either constructed intentionally from above or incidentally from below. In the context of your comment regarding GPS tagging, “functionalism” serves to argue that things can happen without an overarching intention.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism_versus_intentionalism
I think there are elements of both functionalism and intentionalism in the formation of what I call the Machine State (think ‘terminator’). As technology moves forward, as it always does, and invades every conceivable human experience where it can, the result is always one of increased surveillance and control, primarily intended for the benefit of an end user but increasingly to a growing network-connected, transnational apparatus that is becoming more and more automated.
Machine intelligence is being actively pursued and I expect that many tasks, including decision-making, that are currently being performed by technicians and managers will one day be performed by virtual managers and bureaucrats (think ‘Hal’).
It doesn’t matter if this is by design or accident. The result will be the same. However, we can prevent it, by design, if people are willing to confront their naive incredulity towards the functional realisation of dystopian scenarios.
In passing –
“We dwell in a present-tense culture that somehow, significantly, decided to employ the telling expression “You’re history” as a choice reprobation or insult, and thus elected to speak forgotten volumes about itself. By that standard, the forbidding dystopia of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four already belongs, both as a text and as a date, with Ur and Mycenae, while the hedonist nihilism of Huxley still beckons toward a painless, amusement-sodden, and stress-free consensus. Orwell’s was a house of horrors. He seemed to strain credulity because he posited a regime that would go to any lengths to own and possess history, to rewrite and construct it, and to inculcate it by means of coercion. Whereas Huxley … rightly foresaw that any such regime could break but could not bend. In 1988, four years after 1984, the Soviet Union scrapped its official history curriculum and announced that a newly authorized version was somewhere in the works. This was the precise moment when the regime conceded its own extinction. For true blissed-out and vacant servitude, though, you need an otherwise sophisticated society where no serious history is taught.”
(Christopher Hitchens: Why Americans are Not Taught History , 1999)
“I note too that the ziofuckwits or yourself, the distinction has become blurred,” Cryptonym, wrt Jon.
That crosses the line. I agree with Dreoilin. The attacks on Jon must stop.
Jemand – thanks for your considered observation. The nub of which, for me, is if people are willing to confront their naive incredulity…
And that is where intention seems to be predominant: in reinforcing and feeding that incredulity. Further to the above, Gove’s plan to redraft the UK school history curriculum to include nothing requiring actual thought seems relevant…
Can we please have a moratorium on ziof**ckwits, btw? And all the other epithets which clearly identify the user as a f**ckwit?
“.. assuming it hasn’t destroyed the planet in the next couple of hundred.” – Komodo hisses in despair.
FRACKtured Future How To Wipe Out Civilization, Ian R Crane 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVwEcQCL_g
Turkey rejects collaboration reports as attempt to undermine Syria policy.
Our source is telling us that Israeli planes left a military base inside Turkey and approached Latakia from the sea to make sure that they stayed out of Syrian airspace so that they cannot become a legitimate target for the Syrian air force,” RT’s Paula Slier reports.
http://rt.com/news/israel-strike-syria-turkey-089/
I’d have thought that Latakia would be well within range* from an Israeli base, Mark. To use a Turkish airfield (nearest is Incirlik, near Adana) would risk the security of the mission and create international complications if detected. On the whole, I believe the Turkish denial. RT’s stirring it…
*F-16: 2000 nm, for instance
Israel would fight for survival regardless of International law.
This small terrorist enclave has prepared to launch 6kg Plutonium nuclear tipped cruise missiles from German built Dolphin subs against Iran’s nuclear facilities. A missile tested in the Indian ocean near Sri-Lanka hit a target at 1500Km.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine
Clearly Iran needs help to design effective transducer arrays, active and passive, that might be effective in finding Israel’s submarines as they proceed around Africa. (Range 740Km submerged)
Israel may also have modified the cruise missile’s guidance system to dual use with Europe’s Galileo Global Positioning System (GPS) that will provide accuracy down to 1m.
Such an attack on Iran would ensure that Israel is annihilated by a single hit from multiple nuclear tipped long range missiles; a fall-back situation where Iran is given the control codes that unlock the nuclear firing systems.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haberArchive&ArticleID=44342
Candidates for the Israeli submarine service are required to concede dual citizenship. However it is still possible to obtain deployment details from a number of different sources.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4187233,00.html
I believe the RT story. Looking at the map it makes life much easier for Israel, not least because it would not have been a strategy the Syrian government would have anticipated. However it is a trump card NATO can only use once unless it wants to extend its proxy war significantly.
It simply confirms NATO’s active but so far mainly indirect participation in the regime change operation removing Assad. It never was a civil war until the West wilfully made it so. To all intents and purposes Israel is in NATO. Turkey is earning Brownie points with Washington by complying. The Turkey/Israel collaboration story leaked out of Turkey, nowhere else. These are compelling pieces of evidence.
Sooner or later Washington will make a misjudgement fighting on so many fronts, especially using so many sub-contractors. Libya did not go so well, Egypt looks out of control, Syria is not going so well. As for Iraq and Afghanistan …..
Craig,
If you’re reading this blog, here’s a recommended watch for you. It’s a very inspiring programme broadcast on Channel 5 last week showing what a juice machine can do for your health and life. It’s available online until the 19th July –
http://www.channel5.com/shows/fat-sick-and-nearly-dead/episodes/episode-1-full-120-slot
Hi Jon. I leave a comment that the knives have been out overnight. It was deleted. Yet the backbiting from Villager and Resident Dissident about me and the little jibe at me between Villager and Dreoilin remain for all to see. Hardly fair is it?
The Syrians will be watching Turkish airspace as closely as Israeli, Tony. Remember when a Turkish plane fell foul of a Shilka AA truck earlier this year? In fact as Israel has asserted its “right” to overfly Lebanon, it could probably be in and out of Syria more safely and quickly by that route. If an Israeli flight had prepositioned itself at Incirlik, that too could be assumed to have been spotted by the Syrians. The RT version makes little sense.
Anyway, this from al-Jazeera, detailing payments made by the US to the anti-Morsi faction in Egypt. Reckon this ploy was planned well in advance: let the ignorant fellaheen have their democratic will (with the army’s help, hooray), then give things a nudge in the other direction (with the army’s help, boo), and resecure Israel and the Suez Canal. Some political and commercial interests are just too important to let the Egyptians decide their future. Nudge. Wink.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013710113522489801.html
Hi Mary
The minor inference between Villager and Dreoilin was trivial, I’d advise ignoring it. Resident Dissident did put forward views to you about the use of the word ‘fascist’ and the republican cause with civility, so no reason to strike it out that I can see.
I disagree with Villager’s suggestion that you are motivated by hate, and the ‘bigot’ stuff was unpleasant, but it was edge-case enough to survive. You are welcome to challenge it head-on if you wish, but otherwise just ignore it. I’ll keep an eye on things.
In general, mods should only delete stuff that focuses on one poster to the degree that bullying is suspected, or if posts contain excessive snark or unpleasantness. I’ll continue to delete those, but otherwise, just pop on a stylish Kevlar coat – I think it is an essential accessory when frequenting political fora on the internet!
Flaming Mary
Jon deleted mine too in reference to your incantation of Habbabkuk’s spirit. I suppose that could be called balanced, if not fair.
I have just read the Times when out. This is carried as their headline and there is a page devoted to it inside.
Cameron’s wife turns up pressure over Syria
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3816594.ece
They quote the Camerons’ friend, Lord Feldman of Elstree who comments on her level headedness and knowledge of what people are thinking. Their experience of using the NHS for their eldest child reinforced Agent Cameron’s promise to look after the NHS as much as it had cared for their child. What hypocrisy as the NHS is slowly being dismantled.
She is very afraid of Cherie Blair’s ghost and has no wish to follow in her footsteps. She encouraged Agent Cameron to go for the leadership but only for him and not for herself as she is in no way grasping. She is a good friend of Gove and approves of his reforming zeal!
She has also become an ambassador for Save the Children.
Tony, at one level what we are perhaps seeing is a somewhat exhausted US Army, with the relative restraint in Syria. Also i don’t think Obama has the appetite to confront Syria, leave alone Iran. Doesn’t mean the end of The Long War by any chance.
OK Jon. Thanks but too hot for a Kevlar coat!
To crown it all, the drive on my self propelled lawn mower has just given up the ghost so off with it and the drive pulley wheel which I found lying on the ground to the nice repairman.
The chickens look strange. They are going around the garden with open beaks and with wings lifted up and out so that they resemble De Lorean cars.
Res Des, yesterday 5.24pm
Didn’t Assange, in fact, invite Alexei Navalny to be one of his guest interviewees on The World Tomorrow? I’m sure he was one of the prospective guests they announced when the series was first advertised. Navalny evidently either didn’t know that Assange’s show was independently produced and only licenced to RT – or didn’t believe he was genuinely being invited to give a contrarian view – and turned it down.
New Reports Of Israeli Attack On Syria Make turning a Blind Eye Difficult for Assad
It remains to be seen if Assad will chose to ignore this latest attack, believing that slight humiliation in the media is still preferable to a direct confrontation with Israel.
By Amos Harel
July 14, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “Haaretz” — The American cable news network CNN reported Friday that it was Israel that was behind the series of explosions in the Syrian port of Latakia on the night of July 5. According to the report, which corroborates an earlier report from an Arabic news website, the attack was aimed at destroying Russian Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles. Israel has yet to respond to the report.
The Arabic and international press reported on a series of explosions early on July 6th in the port located on the shores of the Mediterranean in northern Syria, but made no mention of who might be responsible for the blasts. The press coverage of this incident was rather minor, mostly because of the drama that was taking place at the time in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood was confronting the Egyptian military that had forcibly ejected Mohammed Morsi’s government from power. Two days later the Syrian website Al-Hakika, associated with the Syrian opposition, reported that the attack was orchestrated by Israel in order to destroy warehouses in which Yakhont missiles were held.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon evaded the subject when asked about it last Tuesday while visiting Tze’elim, an Israeli Defense Forces’ base in southern Israel. “We have set red lines in regards to our own interests, and we keep them. There is an attack here, an explosion there, various versions – in any event, in the Middle East it is usually we who are blamed for most.”
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35535.htm