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.
maybe a little too much war lark…..I shall tell the occasional poet.:)
Agree with what you say Nevermind.
Unmensch Chick(en) lit(ter), LOL
Committee is on Monday btw.
No longer a Board of Governors. It is a Trust costing just under £12m pa to run.
See all the outside interests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/2013/bbc_trust/inside-the-trust/bbc-trustees.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/2013/bbc_trust/inside-the-trust/trust-finances.html#section-4
The trust has a director, Nicholas Kroll http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/who_we_are/trust_unit/nicholas_kroll.html
and has a large secretariat. Same old. Same old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/2013/bbc_trust/inside-the-trust/trust-finances.html
The conclusion of this article written by an Australian academic should be of particular interest to Craig.
The Unnatural Death of Dr. David Kelly: Template for “Legalised Cover-up” of Political Assassinations
By Dr. Miriam Stevenson
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Conclusion
The Joint Committee on Human Rights have stated that “the independence of an inquiry is put at risk by ministerial power to issue these restrictions, and …this lack of independence may fail to satisfy the Article 2 obligation to investigate…” It also was concerned that the ministerial power to withhold publication of all or part of an inquiry report is “wide enough to compromise the independence of an inquiry.” (14).
The current legislative ‘tapestry’ has effectively tightened up control by the executive and slackened off due process expectations exposed by the campaign around Dr Kelly’s case. Suppression of evidence or reports on grounds of “public concern”, “public interest” and “national security” (i.e. maintenance of the status quo) will ensure secrecy and important truths will never be brought into the light. In the words of Rights Watch UK:
“When a human rights violation is engaged, either individual or systemic, then a statutory inquiry is required in order to discharge the procedural obligation attaching to duties under Article 2 of the Convention…” (15)
In sum, the Inquiries Act 2005 and the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 each constitute a catastrophic paradigm shift in the law. Amongst other issues, the Acts can be used in tandem as an establishment mechanism to ensure the cover up of political assassinations. The unnatural and/or suspicious deaths of whistle blowers, activists, dissidents, politicians and so-forth have never been so susceptible to whitewash. These “Dangerous Acts” must be urgently reviewed and/or repealed in the public interest.
Yes Mary, Miles Goslett is a very good investigative journalist.
H read the original comment. Your answer is there. And stop trying to make me out to be a Nazi.
John Goss’ link above:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-first-jewish-archbishop-of-canterbury-heads-to-israel/”
These things happen. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright also ‘discovered’ late in life that her parents were Jewish. She was being touted as the first woman president until the ‘discovery.’ She’s now a Director on the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Interestingly, one of her mysterious father’s other proteges, Condoleezza Rice, also went on to become US Secretary of State.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice
@ TonyF: “They may not call Putin a jackass to his face, but I am sure they call him much worse in private… 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.”
New Yorker should have put smiley-faces in margin. With today’s quick reads it’s too easy to miss humo(u)r. What if Putin retaliated by calling Obama a poopy-pants and things escalated to ICBMs?
There was a planted story claiming Putin’s spokesperson called the UK a small, inconsequential island, supposedly to inflame UK opinion against Russia. In spite of vehement denials from Russia, the story sticks as fact and has partially worked (judging by DM comments).
Kerry originally claimed Syrian chem weapons were direct, imminent threat to US. Reporters said Syria didn’t have missiles to reach US. Story changed to Syrian cyberwar and the Syrian Electronic Army.
Mary: “The Unnatural Death of Dr. David Kelly: Template for “Legalised Cover-up” of Political Assassinations. By Dr. Miriam Stevenson.”
What happened to the ongoing investigation into the strange death of Gareth Williams? At the end of the second inquest, Met police promised to drag MI6 in for proper questioning (beat the spies with rubber hoses?) and take their DNA samples.
With what we know now by way of Snowden, it’s possible Williams was a potential whistleblower #1. He’d returned from a visit to NSA (and possibly DefCon, BlackHat and ComicCon too) and was disillusioned with his secondment to MI6 as a spy in training, about to return to GCHQ. Did MI6 or NSA/CIA suspect he might spill beans and kittens from the bag?
Thank you A Node for the extra information. Before Justin Welby became A of C I tried to find out which of the “no-women bishops” bishops were freemasons. I had a strong suspicion that Welby was one but they’ve closed the shop and I cannot say for certain, though the suspicion is still very strong. The research was embarked upon due to the grilling his predecessor, Rowan Williams, got from freemasons for criticising them as being anti-Christian – which they are of course. He had to apologise when they pointed out that his father had been a freemason, probably adding that that was how he got elected. The masons, who follow the mystical side of Judaism, love to have their own non-Christian people at the top of the Christian church (see Darkness Visible by Walton Hannah, an Anglican priest).
Neither Rowan Williams nor Justin Welby have said anything about the immoral and wrongful imprisonment of Muslims as part of the War on Terror, despite my emails to them.
‘appointed’ not ‘elected’
Chris Boyce speaks…..book coming out soon……says he supports Snowden but he shouldn’t have gone to ‘boogieman central’ for US.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/world/asia/hong-kong-boyce-snowden
Some fed up Australians on Medialens.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1378563126.html
Strange that they have now a ‘Liberal/Right’ coalition like us. I spotted that creep Howard (another Bush poodle like Bliar) in the adoring audience for Abbott’s acceptance speech.
Murdoch tweets:
Murdoch celebrates conservative victory in Australia with Twitter tirade
News Corp chief rejects claims his newspapers swung election against Labor instead saying it was due to ‘public [who were] sick of public sector workers and phony welfare scroungers’
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/sep/07/murdoch-cheers-tony-abbott-victory
“White House aides now view a possible attack against Syria without the backing of lawmakers as “unthinkable,” according to a New York Times report.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/admin-official-says-obama-has-no-intention-to-strike-syria-without-hill-approval/article/2535285
I wonder how reliable that is …
Have just been reading Murdoch’s Twitter. He is opposed to Syria intervention!
https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch
I thought you thought Twitter was rubbish, Mary – especially “retweets” if I remember
Dre; My opinion is this may squeak by Senate, but will fail in the House. If Obama was going to attack Syria regardless of the vote, he wouldn’t have handed the bomb off in the first place. The War Powers Act alone gives him 90 days before going to Congress.
If something happens it will in response to precipitous action on the ground. There’s been some foolish taunting by the regime , and what I fear is a deliberately provocative act, staged by one side or the other, to draw the US in.
“and what I fear is a deliberately provocative act, staged by one side or the other, to draw the US in.”
Those missiles?
What missiles?
Missile “test” – although I don’t see how this would draw the U.S. in, necessarily
What did you mean by, “and what I fear is a deliberately provocative act, staged by one side or the other, to draw the US in.”?
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/rocket-launch-lights-east-coast-sends-nasa-probe-moon-trip-8C11099234
Is LADEE on a benign mission? Study moon dust? Beating swords into plowshares, or just more swords?
Just that, Dre; There are so many players/agendas it’s difficult to calculate the triangulations.
AIPAC, neocons, takfiiris, salafists. Someone wants conflagration in Syria. Fielder’s choice.
@ Jives
“It costs at least $ 2800 per day to troll this site 24/7.
Eejits.”
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Is that a confession?
If I were your paymaster I’d pay you about a hunderth of that and still consider myself generous.
@ John Goss
Thank you for telling me that the explanation for the reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Jewish ancestry was “in the original post” (which I understand to be a reference to your original post).
Here it is again, for ease of reference :
“Pope Francis’ statement is a lot more forceful than anything the A of C has said. Perhaps Justin Welby is just being loyal to his Jewish ancestry. Blair is so determined to become president of a new world order he forgets his crimes in Fallujah. What he is really worried about is if the Middle East Israeli takeover fails he might have to face trial for his war-crimes. Note in the report below that when Blair uses the word ‘frankly’ a downright lie is about to follow.”
So I gather that you explain your assertion that the CoE’s statement
was less “forceful” than Pope Francis’ through the fact of the Archbishop’s Jewish ancestry – is that correct?
I believe that the Nazis explained quite a few things by pointing to Jewish ancestry. This being so, perhaps you should protest a little less. If the cap fits……
Syria, Iraq, and Iran have signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) for a pipeline to bring Iranian gas to Europe. Plenty of people want to stop it, and feck up Syria in the process.
But Syria and Iran have a defense pact. I don’t know where McCain gets his certainty that ‘Iran will do nothing’ if Syria is hit.
Or what makes Obama think he could get away with limited fallout.
and Pepe Escobar says Qatar is paying the “rebels” (madmen) $100 a day – which must be a small fortune to many of them.
@ NR :
“We’ve inadvertently set the clockworks (sic)ticking to WWIII (The one to end all Ws, fer reals this time.)”
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Sorry for your sake to have to say this, but I fear you may have to wait a little while yet.
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@ Mary :
“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.”
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Perhaps being President of the US takes a little more out of one that sitting in a comfortable chair copying and pasting?
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@ John Goss :
“Neither Rowan Williams nor Justin Welby have said anything about the immoral and wrongful imprisonment of Muslims as part of the War on Terror, despite my emails to them.”
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What a sense of self-importance you must have. The present and former Archbishops of Canterbury haven’t replied to my emails! Unbelievable and certainly unforgivable to ignore you like that!
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@ Ben Franklin :
“If something happens it will in response to precipitous action on the ground. There’s been some foolish taunting by the regime , and what I fear is a deliberately provocative act, staged by one side or the other, to draw the US in.”
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Happy to agree with you for once.
And the President is not a stupid man.
@ Ben Franklin “Just that, Dre; There are so many players/agendas it’s difficult to calculate the triangulations. AIPAC, neocons, takfiiris, salafists. Someone wants conflagration in Syria. Fielder’s choice.”
“What do we want? Conflagration! When do we want it? Now!” chant the Obama regime and the old guard media.
I leave it to you good folk to sort out the geopolitics. The only thing I can think of that might justify such urgency and insistence is that Israel/US perceive an immediate need to take out Iran’s facilities under cover of action in Syria.
Or have the old-timers totally misjudged their power and the alleged charms of Obama to convince the peasantry, who are fed up not only with what they see as repeat Iraq WMD lies, but also by IRS corruption (targeting political enemies); the NSA revelations and blatant lies to Congress; the Justice department gun-running to Mexico and that cover-up; the Benghazi consulate attack and another cover-up of alleged gun-running to Syrian rebels.
The senior troll has no knowledge of how much physical energy I expend on useful activities each day. Much more than Obomber who sits around watching his extrajudicial killings or ordering them by drone.
He is on his way out and well past his sell by date like the trolls here.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg
We came, we saw, he died!! (Ha Ha as Shillary said)
I see some others have touched some nerves.
A great GG interview re Syria etc;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ymt_8X9_EAk#t=562
@ Jon
Q: I think it would be better if you stopped commenting here.
R: So, you were all for an open and integrated society until your daughter came back home with an Afro-American boyfriend?
I really hate people [yes, big gun word, but I do. Insert ‘despise’ if it makes you feel any better or more PC] who want others to be banned/gagged/shut out/kicked/beaten up/ or [fill in the blanks], whilst pretending to be ‘liberal/open-minded/freedom loving’ individuals.
You remind of the ‘minders’ who ‘guided’ and ‘assisted’ me in regions where brutal dictators/regimes were both our ‘enemy’ and ’friend.’
That psychotic mindset may be solid rocket fuel for scripted Reality TV shows, but the lust for virtual banning is like the knack for ‘latter day’ book burning, and, ‘yes,’ it does produce light, but in the shadows lives that dreaded and self-perpetuating phenomenon better known as ‘hate.’
Mighty midgets may mount their mini horses, stampede over moral high grounds whilst waving banners of self-righteousness, but mankind is ruled by unwritten, universal laws, not by shortsighted individuals, who prefer to highjack justice and disrupt the due course of innocent exchanges of thoughts and ideas.
Nevertheless, I don’t want you to stop contributing anything.
@ NR,
I firmly believe in trying to understand [and still, occasionally, completely f**k up in doing so] the world around me. I know I don’t have all the answers, because I don’t have all the questions…