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  • nevermind

    @KibohNo’s special quantum powers.

    @Clarke. 4 41pm
    @Nevermind. 5 59pm

    WOW! 1hr 18mins!

    You’re doing a great job Craig, even when you are (likely) doped to the gills on a hospital bed.

    From CNN:

    “Wrong on so many levels.” Take a look at how the MSM distort the Craig Murray Cat Adoption Service’s ground-breaking delivery system. Don’t feel obliged to watch the whole 2min 33secs.

    CAT ADOPTION SERVICE IS….OPEN….

    Spoke too early, the family who said that they wanted her, decided that the trauma of their lost previous cat was still too large as to get another cat, so here we go again.

    Anybody wants purr purr, she’s house/garden trained, comes with travel box and litter tray. She does do mice and eats little, loves a chat and cuddles.

  • Phil

    “Anybody wants purr purr”

    How old and what colour is this cat? Does it have any road sense and can it explain quantam physics to me?

  • Dreoilin

    “Re Alan Shatter Irland’s Justice Minister. During Operation Cast Lead this man was all over the media as self-appointed cheerleader for the IDF’s slaughter.”

    Yes, Kibo, but you find plenty of people in Ireland – who are not Jewish, and not politicians – who will defend Israel against all-comers. They think Israel=Holocaust=do-not-blaspheme-by-criticism. Probably because they rely on the MSM and haven’t read much about the plight of the Palestinian people. And RTE, for example, does little to inform them.

    I said a while ago here that I don’t like the site http://www.thejournal.ie/ . I have reasons. They re-write/regurgitate MSM stories and then present them as news. They have a comment policy which means you can be deleted and blocked without explanation. On several occasions in relation to stories about Israel, I have tried to leave pro-Palestinian comments. Eventually, they deleted my comments and blocked me.

    Meanwhile, they have a lot of followers on Facebook, and they (the Journal) force you to log in, for commenting purposes, via Facebook or Twitter. Your profile is then hot linked at the top of your comment. When I clicked on some of the pro-Israel commenters, I found that their profiles said they were Americans who cited the American Jewish University as their alma mater. These people were not blocked.

    Anyway, yes, Shatter is an arrogant little shit, as his recent contretemps over information about Mick Wallace (and his own, Shatter’s, stoppage by the Gardaí) showed so clearly.

    In general, though, with certain exceptions such as the Briscoes, sometimes Mayors of Dublin, the (Southern) Irish population are not very aware of the religious affiliations of their politicians. In their local parish, yes, but not nationally.

  • Clark

    Nevermind, they may be encouraged to know that she seems to have good road-sense, too. Her previous keeper, Malcolm, lived on Highwood Road, which is the fairly busy road through the village. And according to the company that maintain the database for the ID chip in her ear, she somehow got from Hertford to Malcolm’s place, where she turned up as a stray. Malcolm often left her locked out of the house, so she must know how to stay safe in the Big Wide World. I’ve checked with the ID chip company (that’s how I know her age and history) and no one wants her back. Original name Sam, renamed to Kaylee by Malcolm’s daughter, but Cat doesn’t seem to recognise either. I call her Prrt!, she seems to like that.

    Phil, further details here:

    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/07/blog-down/#comment-417125

  • Clark

    And if a home can be found, I’ll deliver her to anywhere in the UK, though if it’s well up North maybe not until August when I hope to be going to Scotland for the festival.

  • Dreoilin

    Anyone know anything about this?

    “Posted by Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org 09 Jul 2013

    “Edward Snowden could fly under a United Nations passport. I thought of this idea when I recalled the history of South Africa’s Daily Dispatch editor and anti-apartheid activist, Donald Woods. Woods, who befriended Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko, was banned for five years by the South African government.

    “An elaborate plan was concocted to smuggle Woods to freedom; the plan to escape commenced on New Year’s Eve, 1977. While under house arrest, Woods evaded his guards. “Woods hitchhiked 300 miles (480 km) before attempting to cross the Tele River between South Africa and Lesotho…With the help of the British High Commission (in Maseru) and from the Government of Lesotho, [Woods and his family] flew under United Nations passports and with one Lesotho official over South African territory, via Botswana to London, where they were granted political asylum.”
    [Note: CLG News tweeted this Tuesday evening and WikiLeaks retweeted it – so hopefully, the idea will spread.]”

    I’ve never heard of a United Nations passport.

  • Phil

    I have a friend who not so long ago lost her last adopted cat but unfortunately she said no. Good luck Clark.

  • Flaming June

    I have just been listening to this on Radio 4.

    I billion Indian citizens are being given digital identities, using fingerprints and iris recognition, and a unique identity number. The technology is available to banks and state bodies on the so-called need, as perceived by the World Bank and others, to lift people from poverty. State control of citizens more like. Incidentally there was no public debate about its introduction.

    Listen to the American researcher who has expert knowledge of such systems.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036kscl

    India is rolling out the largest and most technologically ambitious digital identity scheme in the world. Already 400 million of its 1.2 billion population have signed up, submitting to fingerprint and iris scans at 30,000 enrolment centres around the country.

    “India has become the ultimate lab for digital identification technology. No country has ever tried to collect this much information in this short a period of time, with this new a technology,” says American researcher Tarun Wadhwa, author of a forthcoming book on national ID schemes. “That’s why the world is watching so closely. If you can make it work in India, you can make it work almost anywhere in the world.”

    National ID cards have been firmly rejected in the UK and elsewhere because of concerns about data security. But the Indian Unique Identity Scheme, known as UID or Aadhaar, has forged ahead without legislation to regulate such a massive data collection exercise.

    The scheme is voluntary yet millions of people are queuing up to enrol. Mukti Jain Campion discovers why as she visits urban and rural enrolment centres around the country and meets the chairman of the project, Nandan Nilekani, former CEO of the outsourcing giant Infosys, who believes the scheme will transform India and help to lift millions out of poverty.

  • Komodo

    Edward Snowden could fly under a United Nations passport.

    I was thinking that shortly before you posted, oddly enough. The main purpose of these seems to be to provide passage for UN employees, but I once came across a Kurd* in Turkey who showed me his UN passport, and claimed he’d got it because his Turkish passport had been cancelled. Maybe that’s possible.

    * He said. He had a bloodcurdling back story, but he was just as likely to have been a Turkish policeman.

  • Komodo

    Falk on Snowden:

    Reciprocity is the indispensable foundation of effective international law, and it is here that the Snowden affair seems particularly disturbing. If a Chinese Snowden was to make comparable revelations that violated Chinese criminal law there would not be a chance in a million that the United States would return such an individual to China, and wouldn’t Washington be outraged if China used its leverage to persuade governments to divert a plane suspected of carrying the person they were seeking to prosecute, especially if it were a plane known to be carrying the president of a sovereign state?

    http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/201371011618650821.html

  • Fred

    “I’ve never heard of a United Nations passport.”

    If a country gives assurances they will accept him I don’t think he will need a passport.

  • Passerby

    Nandan Nilekani, former CEO of the outsourcing giant Infosys, who believes the scheme will transform India and help to lift millions out of poverty.

    Standard issue sugar coating of any unpalatable decision. How can a DigId help economic well being of the millions, who are trapped within the cast system constraints is not the issue? But hey DigId can help men to sport longer manhoods, women get bigger boobs, make beer cheaper, and least of all help ease up the infernal traffic jams!? There you have it folks toxic sludge/Aspartame is good for you.

  • M Dutroux

    Just between us girls, get ready for your new puppet ruler. The old one’s used up. Work is underway to jettison CIA spokesmodel Obama. A key Clandestine Service client put a easy-blackmail pedobear in surveillance-free kiddy sex paradise Belgium, ratted the hapless perv out, and now has staged an inept burglary, Watergate-style (Note the broad “Obama supporter” aspersions.)

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    Kierkegaard tried to answer the Nihilists by infusing some Christian philosophy into the mix, Komo.

    But if creating reality through thought and activity didn’t strike some chord with you, yeah, it’s best we agree to disagree.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/snowden-denies-information-russia-china#start-of-comments

    ” vehemently denied media claims that he gave classified information to the governments of China or Russia. He also denied assertions that one or both governments had succeeded in “draining the contents of his laptops”. “I never gave any information to either government, and they never took anything from my laptops,” he said.’

    I have made several comments encouraging Guardian to keep the story alive in the News cycle.

    Guardian has been perched over NYT on traffic in recent weeks but they are losing momentum.

    More disclosures (bombshell GG promised) are needed to keep Snowden from being consigned to the archives.

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