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.
Oddie 7 Sep, 2013 – 8:51 am. With the PressTV interview it was claimed that the missile fired early this week was not a test but a real attack on Damascus and that the Israeli missile was shot down. If true, and I have heard no other reports but that of the editor of Veterans Today, who shot it down. Russians? It does make sense because as I recall the order of events was that the Russians said two missiles had been fired in the Mediterranean, the Israelis then said that it was a joint-exercise between the US and Israel. The US then said it had no knowledge of this. The Israelis then said that only one missile had been fired.
Thank God somebody can down Israeli weapons. There’s hope for the world yet.
H you must have been sleeping again the week this was reported.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-first-jewish-archbishop-of-canterbury-heads-to-israel/
“Today’s “Organization for Free Kuwait” is called the “Syrian Emergency Task Force” and its representative Elizabeth O’Bagy is another Nayirah-type liar. Kerry is filling in for the role of Lantos, urging all of us to read a recent Wall Street Journal article by the 26 year old “expert” O’Bagy claiming that the Syrian opposition is not at all the al-Qaeda allied extremists we have been warned about and in fact the vast majority are those moderates about whom we should feel proud to support.
“The young Ms. O’Bagy wears several hats, it seems. Her “analysis” is published under the guise of her position as an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War (the neo-con outfit funded by every defense contractor known to man and headed by neocon royalty Kimberly Kagen).But O’Bagy gets another paycheck from the “Syrian Emergency Task Force,” which is a well-funded front for those pushing hardest for US war on Syria.
“O’Bagy’s lies are critical because they give cover to Kerry’s lies about the Christian-murdering insurgents in Syria who Kerry’s boss seeks to bomb into power in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin laughs at Kerry’s claim that al-Qaeda is barely present among those insurgent forces in Syria, calling it blatant lies.
“The administration’s claims against Syria are falling apart, sloppy propagandistic lies that they are. Paid liars like Nayirah and O’Bagy have been around forever to fool the American people into supporting war. But perhaps somehow a groundswell is gathering strength. Perhaps Americans are waking up. Members of Congress have been terrified by 500-to-1 calls against war on Syria. Where once a vote in favor of an Obama attack was all but guaranteed, millions of irritated Americans might be turning the tide against war.”
Full text http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2013/september/07/syrias-nayirah-moment-the-lies-that-build-the-case-for-war.aspx
The Dick Cheney-Syria Oil Connection
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.nl/2013/09/the-dick-cheney-syria-oil-connection.html
@ Daniel Rich 7 Sep, 2013 – 12:33 am
“Sun Tzu, in the ‘Art of War,‘ explains the importance of understanding your enemy. But what if your enemy is a ‘psychotic, neurotic and perpetual warmonger himself?’”
Reminds me of Captain Queeg and his missing quart of strawberries. Are some missing at the White House or Pentagon?
Further reminds me that strawberries were topic here in relation to Wimbledon or Ascot and somebody said they came in punnets and somebody else said you could get them in punnets from Israel or Palestine and I said look out the NSA computer won’t know aught about punnets.
OMG! What if MI6 picked Operation Punnet as code for Armageddon at Damascus? They always pick fanciful, clever words. We’ve inadvertently set the clockworks ticking to WWIII (The one to end all Ws, fer reals this time.)
Later
Thanks Arbed. The DD-B creature must have got away with my donation which went through that Dutch outfit. What a type. Where is he hanging out?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Domscheit-Berg
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Sky are showing a film clip of Obama arriving home, leaving his helicopter and walking a long staged walk – tired, lonely, nobody understands me, nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, etc etc. Pathetic.
Cue Louis Armstrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVKKRzemX_w
McClatchy
To some, US case for Syrian gas attack, strike has too many holes
More here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/02/201027/to-some-us-case-for-syrian-gas.html
Playing fast and loose with our taxes again. WTF?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23984386
Police chiefs pay £660,000 to listen to music at work
William Polk: ‘I believe a court would conclude that the case against the Syrian government was ‘not proven’.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/your-labor-day-syria-reader-part-2-william-polk/279255/
and Gareth Porter says
“We are on the verge of epic failure of liberal militarists to get their war. Popular opposition is overwhelming.”
abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/military-action-in-syria-where-the-house-stands/
The question is, what is Obama going to do?
Blair is more of a life-size blow-up plastic doll than a prostitute, in my opinion.
While America is trotting out countries like Australia, Canada, Japan, Turkey and S Korea as allies, one has to wonder what domestic opinion polls in those countries (would) reflect?
Also, when you think of it, how irresponsible it was of Obama to cancel his additional day with Putin. Wouldn’t global villagers have preferred him to knock his head with Putin’s and have explored Peace through discussing the furtherance of Geneva2? Surely, eventually, that is what it has to return to. The price in the meantime is more Syrian refugees.
Thankfully Ms. Merkel, in the midst of an election, refrained from the war dog alliance.
Shall we now prepare for the first contracted war? were Saudi’s pays their US mercenaries, for all the hardware being lobbed and for the atrocities to come.
They will be sitting on divans in their Hareems, watching a direct link to the planned scenario, whilst sipping the best Scottish whiski.
The two Med missile launch saga is still smelling of provocation and however much the US is underscoring the affair, it will come out eventually, thanks for the link John Goss.
Three sceptical faces and one finger pointer.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/no-progress-from-g20-on-economy-or-foreign-policy-a-920864.html
John Goss – like u, i would question gordon duff’s version of the missiles incident.
TonyF – your New Yorker piece “G20 Ends Abruptly as Obama Calls Putin a Jackass” is written by Andy Borowitz, who is a comedian.
good time to re-read the following:
June: Francis A. Boyle: Obama Prepares to Wage Offensive, First-strike Strategic Nuclear Warfare against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Syria
http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-prepares-to-wage-offensive-first-strike-strategic-nuclear-warfare-against-russia-china-iran-north-korea-and-syria/5340299
Thanks for the inspirational link, BrianFujisan 7 Sep, 2013 – 2:30 am.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LCOqF8gZeh8
At the risk of infuriating Villager with a long paste, here is the full transcript. Dr Wasfi (Jewish mother, Iraqi father) is referring to Iraq, but you wouldn’t have to alter a word to make it just as appropriate to Lybia or Syria.
From Dr. Dahlia Wasfi’s April 27, 2006 address to the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
A Node, you’re forgiven, having linked that Russell Brand interview earlier. I have to say he is deep. Provided he’s over his drugs and alcohol stuff, which wiki says he is, he’s ripe for Krishnamurti. Absolutely!
A Node, i omitted to say thank you. 😉
The photo of the two criminals that Craig used came from the DT.
Tony Blair, Kazakh police and human rights questions
Tony Blair is helping Kazakhstan reform its brutal police force after widespread concern that it is at the forefront of human rights abuses in the country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/9935000/Tony-Blair-Kazakh-police-and-human-rights-questions.html
Risible headline. Blair the image corrector.
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Kanye West and his $3m loot. Here he is with some Kazakh ‘princesses’. Ghastly.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408910/Kanye-West-paid-3million-performing-wedding-Kazakh-dictators-grandsons.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15263826
Country profile.
Good informational piece:
Who are the Syrian rebels?
By Barak Barfi, Special to CNN
September 6, 2013 — Updated 2224 GMT (0624 HKT)
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/06/opinion/barfi-syria-opposition-guide/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Ann Wright, Ray McGovern and others write to Obama to say he has been led up the garden path. Of course Obama knows that.
Obama Warned on Intel about Syrian…
by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) / September 6th, 2013
Exclusive: Despite the Obama administration’s supposedly “high confidence” regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/09/obama-warned-on-intel-about-syrian/
McCain Guarantees Russia, China and Iran Will Not Act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo9Nmeyz5lo
(horrific little man)
Landslide win in Australia for Conservative Abbott
US deployed nuke force before Syria crisis
“Few are aware, but the United States and Russia are on “high nuclear alert” since the “missile training” incident in the Mediterranean.
“With the imminent threat of nuclear war and a preliminary decision by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support, not just a missile campaign, but act directly in support of al-Qaeda forces inside Syria, a significant number of military leaders have lost all faith in their command structure …
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/06/322306/us-deployed-nuke-force-before-syria-crisis/
McCain is being taken to task by a Syrian woman with a very long family history. She is to the point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_vusWz33c&feature=youtu.be
A Node
Thank you for the Full transcript from Dr Dahlia Wasfi’s incredible, evocative speech
i had a quick search for that, but was getting weary and tired.
” Dr Wasfi (Jewish mother, Iraqi father) is referring to Iraq, but you wouldn’t have to alter a word to make it just as appropriate to Lybia or Syria “. 100% True…. Cheers
Should be interesting on Monday when Thompson et al appear before the Public Affairs Committee/Mrs Hodge.
09 September 2013
3:15 pm
Subject: BBC severance payments recall
Witness(es): Mark Thompson, former Director-General, BBC, Marcus Agius, former Chairman of the BBC Executive Board Remuneration Committee, Lord Patten, Chairman, BBC Trust, Anthony Fry, BBC Trustee, Sir Michael Lyons, former Trust Chairman, Lucy Adams, HR Director, BBC and Nicholas Kroll, Director, BBC Trust
Location: The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Here he is on Channel 4 last night.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/060913/clipid/060913_4oN_TOMMO_06
Thompson on Savile: ‘I have told the truth’ – video
Exclusive: in his first television interview about the Jimmy Savile affair, former BBC director general Mark Thompson tells Channel 4 News he has “told the truth throughout”.
As controversy rages over BBC executive payouts, Channel 4 News tonight broadcasts an exclusive report in which Mark Thompson is challenged to explain in his own words his role in the Savile affair.
The report also explores the significant unanswered questions still remaining from his time as director general at the BBC.
Days before his appearance in front of the Commons public accounts committee, we assess the management culture at the BBC under Mr Thompson’s leadership, the failed digital strategy which cost the taxpayer over £100m and how these issues are affecting his new role as chief executive of the New York Times.
Tonight’s report also scrutinises the man who presided over the BBC during the abandoned Newsnight investigation into Savile and sets out to establish what exactly he knew about the story.
The BBC’s former boss was cleared by the Pollard inquiry, which concluded that he had never been told about allegations of abuse by Savile.
Channel 4 News put to Mr Thompson the evidence from the former head of news at the BBC which contradicts his account of events and was never included in the final Pollard report.
‘Brief conversation’
Speaking in New York on camera for the first time, Mr Thompson admits that he did have a conversation with Helen Boaden about the investigation into Jimmy Savile.
He tells reporter Miles Goslett: “Let’s be clear, there was a very brief conversation between Helen Boaden and myself… we had slightly different recollections about this conversation.
“Nick Pollard knows he considered this fact and decided at the end of his investigation that he had no reason to doubt my version of events… that is what happened.”
Mr Thompson continues: “The key thing is this was a conversation about an investigation that she thought had failed.”
Tonight’s report on Channel 4 at 7.00 comes a day after Mr Thompson launched a scathing attack on BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten, accusing him of “fundamentally misleading” parliament about excessive pay-offs to senior executives.
PS Miles Goslett’s work again John. Good on him for persisting with this and standing up against the lying.
A good clear out is needed at the BBC.
Shame they had to have La Mensch on at the end of the video.
Thanks for the heads up on humo(u)r in the New Yorker, Oddie.
If the whole Syria story were not so dangerous, tragic and humo(u)rless we should all be splitting our sides. It is all such nonsense that the “jackass” story seemed the most believable report I had read coming out of the USA. In fact it is still the most believable.
Spending so much time in Washington really has taken its toll on Obama. He looks such a demented, defeated, sad mess of a man. The arrogance of Washington politics seems to know no bounds when it comes to poopooing any other countries’ interests let alone rights to having a point of view. They may not call Putin a jackass to his face, but I am sure they call him much worse in private. Insulting others’ intelligence is the first step to failure, and this rereun of Iraq and dodgy dossiers is nothing but a gross insult to everyone’s intelligence.
Can all US lawmakers be hoodwinked and/or bought? I suppose Syria just seems a very long way away – just under 6000 miles. Far enough not to worry about direct blowback.
Thank-you A Node – Dahlia is a good friend.
On Shock & Awe –Fear and sadness came over me because my relatives were among the millions of Iraqis who had no say in their government’s actions but would pay dearly at the hands of the most powerful military force in the world. Once the initial shock of the news passed, I found myself nervously humming. I soon realized the song was R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.” And it was. –
http://www.liberatethis.com/furtherreading.html
@ John Goss
“H you must have been sleeping again the week this was reported.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-first-jewish-archbishop-of-canterbury-heads-to-israel/”
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Not good enough, John.
The information may well have appeared first in the Times of Israel, but the question really is : why did YOU think it was of interest to draw attention and to link to it? What was the relevance?
As a good anti-Nazi, I trust you’ll remember that the Nazis had a bit of an obsession about whether people had any Jewish blood in their ancestry?
Be ashamed!
Dedicated to Dahlia S. Wasfi, M.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK12wgs2mvA
“Shame they had to have La Mensch on at the end of the video.”
Hmm, yes and no Mary, because the fact that she is commenting on it, that Ms. Unmensch Chick(en) lit(ter), as far as I’m concerned, can only mean that she has known and played a part somehow.
That she is living in Leviathan land, but is still being used as a news conduit, makes me wonder whether this woman always has had a second calling.
Now to Thompson. I hope Richard Bacon will question his dubious financial/remunerative regime tomorrow, so we can see how little concern over wasteful practises have ruled the roost.
What did the board of Governors know then? This BBC has become a self perpetuating monolith that cowtow’s to the establishment and intelligence services.
It is partial to political shenanigans as the whole story over banning Press TV and prom ting a ban underhand has clearly shown.
It has used its position in the international media to bully a Persian news provider.
It is dependent on its franchise but as long as it plays along, this will not be in question, it will carry on to milk the public. If an organisation can waste 100 million on some arse over tit idea and not blink, then something is seriously wrong with this public broadcasting system.
Miniplenty and Oceania are well,
both trembling, gushing to embark,
and trans mutate grand larceny with a little war war lark,
into sweet liberty, a highly fragrant MSM Freedom smell,
to wipe our eyes,
de-realise, hoodwink and leave us in the dark
what all now know, not to be the truth.
So, what has come of the supposed discussion over tax evaders and offshore rogue banks and illustrious leaders, peppered with crooks and bloodthirsty burglars of their own countries wealth?
anybody Know?