The Tony Blair House Journal (editor Alan Rusbridger) reports on Kanye West’s disgusting private performance for the Kazakh dictator and his family, and takes a sideswipe at David Cameron for visiting that country.
But peculiarly they fail to mention that Tony Blair receives US $4 million a year as a consultant to the worker murdering Kazakh dictator, and that Alistair Campbell and Jonathon Powell as well as Blair visit to give this support – which has included a behind the scenes campaign to help Nazarbaev win the Nobel Peace Prize, fortunately with no result to date.
Israel Lobby Goes All-In for Syrian Intervention, While New York Times Self-Censors
Before I go to bed …
I’ve been reading and watching about Pipelines!
Is The United States Going To Go To War With Syria Over A Natural Gas Pipeline?
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/is-the-united-states-going-to-go-to-war-with-syria-over-a-natural-gas-pipeline
and here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdaExnIpGs&feature=youtu.be
g’night
I tell you this Greasemonkey ‘Block’ script is just ginger peachy. I can cut the crap and follow the discussion without interruption.
Result!
Nevermind, hope you get over the illness Soon Ingo.
Dreoilin @ 11;08 am
Re Gen Wesley Clark…Was watching videos of him making those statements only last night
“This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.”
Un FKIN believable…it’s taking more than five years BUT Here’s the man Saying it – All true as it’s So Sickeningly Turning out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAWzvtVJA5A
Shana Tovah!
Shalom.
Being AIPAC’s Bitch: NYT Reconsiders, Removes Mention of the 800-Pound Gorilla That Wants A War
The crime and disgrace of aggression will be one lasting consequence for the US and Israel when they go to war with Syria, but that’s not going to be the only consequence and it may not ultimately be the decisive one. Susan Rice is also going to get her tit caught in the Internationally Wrongful Acts wringer.
Just as Nuremberg was a prototype to be refined and codified, so was the Treaty of Versailles. Future peace talks will be increasingly influenced by the responsibility of states for Internationally Wrongful Acts. In particular, a serious breach of peremptory norms – such as US aggression against Syria – may entail reparations, restitution, compensation, satisfaction, and interest. Such a US breach also makes unlawful any Pax Americana thus imposed and explicitly pits the world against the aggressor.
Isolation, non-recognition, liability of ruinous scale: USA! USA! USA! Swirling down the toilet. And your little dog Bibi, too.
Fedup Cheers for the Putin interview Link, the sound of sanity, as opposed the Taste of Blood
Human Rights watch Shitheads.
Have a Photo up – of 30 or so spent cluster bomb Canisters – the caption – Syria continues to use cluster bombs
One has to repeat that in one’s head – Human Rights WATCH FFS
I think not
At least someone is finally Taking them on
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Monday issued a notice upon international rights body-Human Rights Watch (HRW)- and two of its officials, asking them why proceedings would not be drawn against them for contempt of court, reports BSS.
The tribunal passed the order upon the international human rights watchdog’s board of directors, its executive director of Asia Division Brad Adams, and associate for the Asia Division Storm Tiv.
The ICT- 1 asked them to reply in 3 weeks and set September 30 for passing further order in this regard.
Earlier on August 20, the prosecution filed a petition against the HRW for making ‘biased, baseless, utterly false, fabricated and ill- motivated’ allegations in its report regarding the trial of former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam.
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/index.php?ref=MjBfMDlfMDNfMTNfMV8zXzE4MjA4MA==
Gs..@ 1;41
great stuff…Cheers
Gs said, with reference to the USA :
“Isolation, non-recognition, liability of ruinous scale: USA! USA! USA! Swirling down the toilet.”
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An intriguing post, about which I would like to ask the following two questions :
1/. In which way do you see the USA as “swirling down the toilet” – in which form(s) do you see this happening?
2/. And, in the light of the answer you give to the above, in which way(s) do you see the world as becoming a better place were this to happen?
EMERGING SCENARIO
No need for UNSC okay any more, Russia to Iskander rebel positions (on humanitarian grounds as agreed by British AG) that are ALREADY KNOWN to have used gas weapons supplied by Chemical Bandar. Putin will release the proof first and civilians warned to leave the areas, massive pin point infra red/satellite guided strikes. Bwahahahahaha, war over like the USraeli Georgia adventure in six days, and all thanks to AIPAC assisted Congress vote!
BTW-the the madofs wives at this blog have very pointedly kept away from Syria “intercept” proof and like hasbaracist support. They know their ilk ,Comical Shlomo of Herzliya Head Office might just have cooked up another ludicrous “auschwitz” type IDF/Mavi Marmar crew conversation, between the Syrian soldiers. They have kept their yarmulkes well below the parapet for fear of being laughed out of this blog. Now, about Comical rifkind on the House floor, bwahahahahaa – who wanted us to believe the israel “intercepts” were proof enough to support the YouTube videos edited in record time in the middle of night WHILST the gas was still on the ground!! Its incredible this high level command of the yiddish !
its just trolling, probably down to dyssocial traits + the disinhibition associated with anonymity. Or as Lisa Davis put it “… the Internet’s anonymity makes it impossible for them to resist spewing vitriol from the protective cave of cyberspace”
There’s also the sense of empowerment, similar to that provided by winning a video game, and this is therapeutic for the excrescences, who after a hard morning being bollocked by their line manager for failing to stack the tinned peas correctly, need to displace their all-too prominent rage. But I digress.
I wonder if it has occurred to anyone intending regime change in Syria that one likely scenario is this:
1. US remote control forces successfully degrade the regime’s fighting capability.
2. However, CW stores are left intact, as the potential for, er, collateral damage with that lot spread around the landscape is unacceptable (This appears to be current policy)
3. The regime, anxious to stay in power, and knowing it is irredeemably in the shit whatever it does, breaks out the Sarin shells and really goes to town on the opposition.
4. And maybe the opposition can liberate some as well.
5. Flood of refugees exiting Syria diminishes sharply as population is mostly dead.
Unlikely? Tell me.
The latest from St Petersburg is that Agent Cameron gets the cold shoulder from Obama. He will not be having a one to one with Cameron. Couldn’t make it up.
‘British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will push for a tough international response at the G20 summit, but risks being sidelined after losing a Commons’ vote over UK military involvement.
He is not expected to have a formal meeting with Mr Obama, whose efforts to win domestic approval for US military involvement edged closer on Wednesday after a key Senate committee voted to support a draft resolution.’
Ditto Obama and Putin.
http://news.sky.com/story/1137300/g20-summit-syria-tensions-set-to-dominate
They should stop wasting the fossil fuel and expense getting to these meets and abandon them. Nothing comes of them. Think of the G7 nonsense in NI recently.
That nice kind hearted man, Iain Duncan Smith, in charge of the DWP has wasted £34m of our taxes on IT failures for his Universal Credit plan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10287672/Iain-Duncan-Smiths-welfare-reforms-given-mauling-by-audit.html
Now where have we heard that before? £12bn lost on NHS electronic records IT by NuLabour yet Hunt is doling out £millions for the same thing again.
@ Daniel Rich (to me, presumably)
“Hasbara 101
Have you condemned:
1) Peasant spitting in the Himalayas
2) Ant tweaking in the Amazons
3) KaPo atrocities in Auschwitz
4) Gay bashing in USSR
5) Cat roasting in China
????
No?!”
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I think the point was to give a small illustrative list of what the Eminences gloss over while painting over their ant-Western rhetoric, not to indicate what I condemn or don’t.
Having said that, I would certainly condemn gay-bashing in Russia. I also disapprove strongly of the Chinese habit of killing and eating everything that moves or flies (cats, bear paws, small songbirds, baby owls…etc) in the name of ‘delicacies’; it is an ecological catastrophe (but will, I hope, probably diminish as prosperity spreads and changes cultural habits)
@ Komodo
“But I digress.”
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You certainly do – not unusually.
Please avoid ‘excessive focussing on one poster’ (cf Mod/Jon’s reprimand) and give us some substantial substance. Thank you in advance.
Mary at 7.04 pm last night. Thanks for that link about Boris Berezovsky which one of the shower of shills tried to dismiss as being too long. Unfortunately the voice of Russia link does not work.
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_07_10/Coroners-inquest-into-Berezovsky-s-death-not-to-start-until-2014-police-6292/
You can read the short report by typing in this string. “There is no news connected with the death of Berezovsky, yet.”
The importance of you mentioning TVP may have been missed by those not informed, and others may wish it to be overlooked, but Thames Valley Police is the force involved in the investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly, for whom there has not been an inquest in more than ten years.
Please avoid ‘excessive focussing on one poster’ (cf Mod/Jon’s reprimand)
You flatter yourself. Please stop whining.
G29 LEADERS MEETING SCENARIO and AFTERMATH
Glum faces reversed after Putin shows them Russian intelligence home video of Syria CW false flag proof. Watch their glum faces, Putin will have had the last laugh, with Obomber,Cameron and Hollande dying to get the first flight out for fear of being in the spotlight when the Russians release the REAL evidence to the public. Comical Shlomo Rifkind then resigns as JIC Chairman saying he was misled by YouTube vidoes made by a Comical Ali wannabee of Damascus. With House baying for his blood, also resigns as MP and takes the next flight out to Pardesiya instead of Pentlands, following in Lady Porters tradition.
Re. glossing over one issue while being really proactive on another:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-palestinians-israel-idUSBRE9830AV20130904
You’d think Kerry would be anxious to defend the US’s reputation here too, wouldn’t you?
Wouldn’t you?
NR, 4 Sept, 9.07
One of the best articles on the latest Wikileaks release, Spy Files 3, from PrivacySOS. This one actually explains in simple terms what some of the products these security contractors sell to governments and corporations actually do:
http://privacysos.org/node/1172
What I find most interesting in this Wikileaks release is the new(?) WLCIU – the Wikileaks CounterIntelligence Unit, busy tracking which countries these private security contractors’ salesmen visit – repressive regimes and (supposed) democracies alike. Aside from the delicious irony of the spooky types who are selling out entire populations getting a taste of their own medicine, it’s interesting stuff to see who visited where and when, and how that correlates with forthcoming elections, sudden and massive interference with net access in particular countries, and such like. The WLCIU data released in the Spy Files 3 seems to have been acquired via cell phone tracking done by Bugged Planet. That’s Andy Muller-Muguhn’s (co-founder of the CCC) outfit, IIRC.
No boots on the ground? Makes you wonder, dunnit?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411885/Syrias-chemical-weapons-Pentagon-knew-2012-75-000-ground-troops-secure-facilities.html
Mary –
u have to laugh at the tantrums, while Syrians await bombardment:
forget freedom fries this time!
Tele: G20 snub for Cameron as Barack Obama meets François Hollande
David Cameron and Barack Obama will not hold a formal meeting at a summit in
Russia this week, in what some people suggested was a snub because of the
Prime Minister’s handling of the Syrian crisis.
By contrast, the US president will use the G20 summit in St Petersburg to
hold formal bilateral meetings with leaders including President François
Hollande of France, who is still considering backing the US in attacking
Syria over the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10287685/G20-snub-for-Cameron-as-Barack-Obama-meets-Francois-Hollande.html
Tele: ‘Unreliable’ British officers left out of US meetings on Syria
British military chiefs are being ejected from US meetings about Syria as
they are seen as “unreliable” following David Cameron’s refusal to join
military action
Military sources have claimed that the role of senior British officers at
the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, has been downgraded because their
American counterparts believe that they cannot be trusted with high-level
intelligence about a conflict with which they are not involved.
Roughly 30 British personnel have been working alongside the Americans and
French and have been involved war planning for a number of weeks, including
fine-tuning a list of targets and orchestrating military assets.
But after Mr Cameron ruled out an attack following a Commons defeat on
Syrian action last Thursday the officers have been told that they can no
longer participate in classified plans, the Times reported…
???A YouGov poll for the Times has found that half of voters would approve of a second Commons debate on Syria if the UN confirms that chemical weapons were used by the Assad regime against his own people…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10282460/Unreliable-British-officers-left-out-of-US-meetings-on-Syria.html
Zut alors! Over at the DM, Obama’s super-spies uncovered the truth, and are inserting readers’ comments accusing all other commenters who object to intervention in Syria of being paid trolls of The Syrian Electronic Army.
If true at the DM, it’s surely true here too. Fess up. Who’s on the SEA payroll?
Meanwhile the DM trashes Mrs. Assad for staging phony photo-ops (a la Michelle O. or Duchess Kate?), a crime equal to gassing innocent babies, seriousness indicated by the DM omitting the soft-porn sidebar from that page.
Other DM item: “In a telephone call which was tapped by German spy chiefs, a senior Hezbollah commander told the Iranian embassy in Lebanon that Syria’s president intended [the gas attack] to tilt the balance of power towards the regime…”
Comment: “How convenient, a couple of days after politicians demand proof then suddenly some intel pops in out of the blue!”
That’s another message that Troodos missed. Even if Assad’s regime did the gas attack, the fractured fairy tale is now so screwed up as to be unbelievable. Defectors also paraded to support the US allegations. Curveballs or not?
Yesterday’s mantra was, “If we don’t bomb Syria, the US looses all credibility and Iran and N. Korea won’t fear us.” Seems that if bombing the bejezzus out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Bosnia, etc., didn’t make them afraid, nothing done in Syria will help.
On the humanitarian crisis of 2,000,000 refugees, 1,000,000 of them children (a strange demographic mix, possible I suppose), how is anything the West does militarily help them in the near future. Weakening Assad while strengthening the rebels prolongs fighting and sends more fleeing. If Assad wins, some refugees return while others dare not, the same result if Assad is deposed.
meanwhile, this tragedy never ends:
2 Sept – Palestine Monitor: Forcing their Hand: Self-demolitions in East Jerusalem
Ziad Ameira was forced to demolish his East Jerusalem house last week in order to avoid the 73,000-shekel demolition cost leveled by the municipality. On Monday, 19 August, Ziad hired a bulldozer and truck, at a personal cost of 25,000 shekels, and destroyed his family’s home, thus ending a 15-year battle with the Jerusalem Municipal Court and adding to the increasingly common phenomenon of self-demolitions in East Jerusalem…
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/details.php?id=mliesda4960yolb1qw8qp
NATO has said it is staying out of this fight… ha ha.. The US is at least 50% of NATO.
Cameron has said that he will respect Parliaments vote of NO. Mmmmmmmm
Okay, now what happens when Syria defends itself against a US or French jet trying to bomb them ? They have some pretty nifty gear which in all likelihood could cripple a ship from where the missiles are being fired or knock a jet out.
Ooops. Syria attacked a NATO ally and then you’ll have Turkey,GB,Germany,Norway , Uncle Tom Cobbly n all sending in their air forces, and the covert forces on the ground will suddenly become overt and ask for back up.
The US really really poor excuse for action is all they’ve got and probably as good as it will ever become.
And meanwhile Egypt have blown up Gaza’s lifeline. They are surrounded, cut off , and being slowly strangled to death. How convenient while the world’s attention is focused on these poor, and over paid actors of the Merican Govt.
Sensible piece from the CSM.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2013/0903/Syrian-chemical-weapons-claims-How-strong-is-the-evidence
But since the case that’s being made is one built around chemical weapons, it seems that the first order of business is getting the facts straight, and presenting the evidence for those facts in a clear and convincing manner. The discussion around the wisdom of acting will continue, but if this is about defending US credibility, a full accounting of the cause for war will need to be made.
Refers to this:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/media-releases/2013/mena/syria-statement.aspx
whose proposals are:
In this spirit, the U.S. should present – and Syria’s allies should seriously and constructively consider – a proposal based on the following elements:
It is imperative to end this war. The escalation, regional instability and international entanglement its persistence unavoidably stimulates serve nobody’s interest.
The only exit is political. That requires far-reaching concessions and a lowering of demands from all parties. The sole viable outcome is a compromise that protects the interests of all Syrian constituencies and reflects rather than alters the regional strategic balance;
The Syrian crisis presents an important opportunity to test whether the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran can work together on regional issues to restore stability;
A viable political outcome in Syria cannot be one in which the current leadership remains indefinitely in power but, beyond that, the U.S. can be flexible with regards to timing and specific modalities;
The U.S. is keen to avoid collapse of the Syrian state and the resulting political vacuum. The goal should thus be a transition that builds on existing institutions rather than replaces them. This is true notably with respect to the army;
Priority must be given to ensuring that no component of Syrian society is targeted for retaliation, discrimination or marginalisation in the context of a negotiated settlement.
http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/in-brief/7956-minister-surprised-that-mod-trained-syrian-military
Gorbachev urges US-Russia deal on Syria
http://www.thelocal.ch/20130904/gorbachev-urges-us-russia-deal-over-syria
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SEPTEMBER 05, 2013
An Open Letter
Syria: the Case for Peace
by Former UN Officials
This appeal against precipitous military strikes against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is signed by several former high-ranking officials of the United Nations, UNESCO, UNICEF and the International Labour Organsiation. “People who accuse the Security Council of inaction should remember how Western powers abused a Security Council resolution to stage a full-fledged attack on Libya in order to perform ’regime change’ in that country – this is what motivates Russia and China’s opposition to any Security Council motion that may lead to intervention in Syria,” they argue.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/05/syria-the-case-for-peace/