Feile An Phobail Belfast 4110

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The Respectability of Torture

St Mary’s University College, Thurs 1st August, 7.30pm

 

Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, was a whistleblower who was removed from his ambassadorial post by Tony Blair for exposing the Tashkent regime‟s use of rape and systematic torture, including the boiling to death of political opponents. He has also spoken out against Central Asia‟s appalling dictatorships, regimes which are allies of the West, involved in torture and rendition, and was accused of threatening MI6‟s relationship with the CIA. Now a human rights activist, author and broadcaster, he outlines the dynamics of torture and the hypocrisy of incriminated Western governments.

 

My first public appearance for a while will be in Belfast on 1 August where I shall be giving a talk.  Long term readers of this blog will recall that, while my focus is largely on international affairs, the domestic political achievements I most hope to see are a united Ireland and an independent Scotland.

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  • Villager

    “Why do you not heed your own wise counsel ”

    Check this out — you’ve exhausted it and yes Suhayl i’m against ziospermwit all over the screen.

    Can’t we Fedex you to another blog — i mean just for a sabbatical.

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)
    12 Aug, 2013 – 9:43 pm

    “Much indignation expressed on here from time to time about certain Israeli politician defining Israel as Jewish state or asking for it to be so defined.”

    “Official name of Iran: The Islamic Republic of Iran.”

    Jewishness is not a religion as you know Habbabkuk Islam is.

    I am a secularist by the way.

    A Jewish state implies a state run by Jews for the benefit of Jews; that seems a bit racist to me.

    From the Jerusalem Post recently:

    “Israel will demand recognition as Jewish state”

    “Israel’s ambassador to the US Michael Oren told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that Israel is “PREDICATED ON HAVING A JEWISH MAJORITY,” and that any final-status agreement with the Palestinians will require their recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.”

    http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Oren-Israel-will-demand-recognition-as-Jewish-state-321459

    In other words Habbabkuk non-Jews will be second class citizens that will have to be ethnically cleansed every so often if there rising numbers threaten Jewish majority status.

    How can you justify supporting that?

  • fedup

    lovely language — got any kids FedUp?

    What is it with you ziofuckwits? What kind of a perverted question is this?

  • Dreoilin

    Villager,
    Fedup comes back from the pub and comes on here to share his idea of wisdom with us. He’s not worth your time. Yours or anyone else’s.

    G’night all

  • Villager

    fine display of your ignorance Fedup — this is what i mean about Page 8’s — the longer the thread the more rope to hang yourself. So far you’re doing an outstanding job>

    got any kids?

  • Clark

    AlcAnon, for ISS timings:

    http://www.heavens-above.com/

    The site asks you to register with a location so it can calculate the times for Iridium flares. They’ve never spammed me.

    Congrats on sighting a Perseid. I saw a few two nights ago, and a couple of others.

  • Villager

    “What kind of a perverted question is this?”

    ROFLMAO

    Time to sleep/you’re right Dreo — G’nite

  • fedup

    got any kids?

    The fucking pervert is now trying to back peddle, what kind of a perverted question is this?

    “For all to see”, the poor bastards have little choice but to be subject to your constant fucking moaning and groaning, not a thread goes by without your complaining and moaning about Mary said this, then google ziofuckwit and paste the search string in a bizarre ritual that seems to never fucking end. Everyone can see, but not what you fucking see, now hop it to some transcendental fucking blog.

    Probably there you will moan about the bell was jingled properly and the hopping was not earnest enough.

    ====

    Fedup comes back from the pub and comes on here to share his idea of wisdom with us. He’s not worth your time. Yours or anyone else’s.

    Will you make your mind up?

    Not only I am a legion of many many characters posting on this blog.

    Also I am an Islamist, too.

    How can I go to pub? Does not compute!

  • fedup

    CLark

    Where you have been guy?

    Are you OK?

    I went out to see the meteor shower too, and found a long tailed slow moving meteor moving in a zigzag fashion. The fucking police helicopter!

  • doug scorgie

    Suhayl Saadi
    12 Aug, 2013 – 11:09 pm

    “…in retrospect it might’ve been better if in 1967, Israel had annexed the West Bank and Gaza Strip and given all the Palestinians living there Israeli citizenship rights…”

    I’m having doubts about you Suhayl, are you for real?

    Not another crypto-Zionist are you?

  • AlcAnon

    Clark,

    I used http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/ to double check but thanks for additional links.

    Popped back out again but there’s much more cloud now. Did meet a few other people up a hill also watching. They had seen a few really bright ones every so often streaking through clear areas of the sky. I’m hopeful to get some clearer sky later if I’m still up.

    Some near live camera feeds http://www.ukmeteorwatch.co.uk/meteors/combined/left/lockyer-1/right/lockyer-2

  • AlcAnon

    Fedup,

    If the light in the sky was about 11pm and was initially very bright and moving (it can appear to zigzag to the eye at first) and appeared to be fading into the distance, dimming and then turning reddish before you couldn’t see it that may have been the ISS.

    Here’s the visible time as seen from London. Pretty much the same time anywhere in the UK.

    Date: Mon Aug 12, 11:01 PM
    Visible: 4 min
    Max Height: 79°
    Appears: 10 above W
    Disappears: 68 above SE

    Otherwise it was probably the police helicopter as you say 🙂

  • Flaming June

    Dreoilin Yesterday at 2.46pm

    ‘Whether Mary is or is not “the more useful contributer” (sic) is a matter of opinion.’

    I can do without your little digs behind my back. I do not discuss your ‘usefulness’ or otherwise so I would be grateful if you would leave me out of your comments in future.

  • Flaming June

    An-nakba – a most moving essay about Jaffa.

    Remembering Jaffa
    Amal Salem on August 12, 2013
    http://mondoweiss.net/2013/08/remembering-jaffa.html

    Amal Salem is a member of the Palestine solidarity committee in St. Louis.

    ‘During the 1948 Palestine War, an estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled, and hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated and destroyed.

    These refugees and their descendants number several million people today, divided between Jordan (2 million), Lebanon (427,057), Syria (477,700), the West Bank (788,108) and the Gaza Strip (1.1 million), with at least another quarter of a million internally displaced Palestinians in Israel. The displacement, dispossession and dispersal of the Palestinian people is known to them as an-Nakba, meaning “catastrophe” or “disaster”.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day

  • Komodo

    Anon (hey – a cogent comment! Well done you.)
    I believe the term “beacon of democracy” refers not to Israel being a beacon to democracies, but rather to its status as a “beacon of democracy” when compared to surrounding Arab states and regimes throughout the Middle East and beyond, which, I am sure, even the most ardent anti-Zionists (and, indeed, many Palestinians) will agree is the case.

    At every possible opportunity, Mark Regev and his chorus insist on Israel’s being a beacon of democracy. In relative terms, almost anything is a beacon of democracy compared with the feudal monarchy we support in Saudi Arabia (and with which even Israel is prepared to be associated in its efforts to destabilise Iran by proxy). In absolute terms, a country in which the expropriation of assets and resources of a minority by the majority is enshrined in its statutes is not a democracy.

    Henry Siegman, a former national director of the American Jewish Congress, has stated that the network of settlements in the West Bank has created an “irreversible colonial project” aimed to foreclose the possibility of a viable Palestinian state. According to Siegman, in accomplishing this Israel has “crossed the threshold from “the only democracy in the Middle East” to the only apartheid regime in the Western world”. Siegman argues that denial of both self-determination and Israeli citizenship to Palestinians amounts to a “double disenfranchisement”, which when based on ethnicity amounts to racism. Siegman continues to state that reserving democracy for privileged citizens and keeping others “behind checkpoints and barbed wire fences” is the opposite of democracy.[80]

    http://www.thenation.com/article/imposing-middle-east-peace#axzz2bped3Sdd

    Anon continues: “Komodo refers to former UN ambassador Jeremy Greenstock as a “slippery” individual. I wonder, whilst genuinely knowing very little about the man and his career, other than what I can glean from a quick Google search, what evidence Komodo has to back this assertion? I thought Sir Jeremy spilt the beans with regard to Iraq?

    Synopsis of his activities here. It took him six years to “realise” that he was on the wrong side of the Iraq debate.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blairs-former-iraq-envoy-lobbied-for-bp-oil-contracts-2286178.html

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella!)

    @ Mr Scorgie

    “Habbabkuk, why do you persistently reply to posts that are not addressed to you?”
    ________________

    Merely following the excellent example set by yourself and others, dear boy.

  • Komodo

    AlcAnon –
    If the light in the sky was about 11pm and was initially very bright and moving (it can appear to zigzag to the eye at first) and appeared to be fading into the distance, dimming and then turning reddish before you couldn’t see it that may have been the ISS.

    Thanks. That saved me looking it up. This blog has its uses! I’ve seen it a couple of times lately- it was extremely bright, and moving roughly W-E

  • Komodo

    Rubbaduck:

    “What do you see as the best chance for peace between the state of Israel and a proposed state of Palestine?”

    Cite your sources, please.

  • Dreoilin

    Dreoilin Yesterday at 2.46pm
    ‘Whether Mary is or is not “the more useful contributer” (sic) is a matter of opinion.’

    The (sic) belongs to Herbie 12 Aug, 2013 at 1:54 pm, whom I was quoting, Mary. That’s why there are quotation marks around “the more useful contributer”.

    “I can do without your little digs behind my back.”

    So we’re not entitled to personal opinions now? And ‘behind your back’ is a downright silly thing to say. I can’t dictate when you’re here and when you’re not. When you’re on or offline. If I write something here I’m expecting that you’ll read it, whenever you ARE here. Comments written here are not “behind your back” just because you’re offline. Grow up FFS.

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