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.
Come the revolution, Blair gets vigorous exfoliation with a wire brush accompanied by slow digestion in a bath of dilute* hydrochloric acid. I shall be selling the tickets to watch.
* Takes longer.
“which is why ye olde internet addage “do not feed the Troll” is just as valid now as it was way way way back in the late 90s”
A bit difficult for others to do when even the Moderator feeds it !
See that Secretary of State John Kerry is resorting to an ultimatum that the Assad regime turn over all its chemical weapons within a week or face the consequences.
Reminds me of how Vienna, in consultation with Berlin, kicked off WWI.
Is our ‘diplomat’, along with bully Hague, hoping to start WWIII before it can be stopped?
Link for THF’s post (a pleasure, no thanks required.)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/us-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-john-kerry
In which Kerry suffers a collective memory lapse: claiming to favour a political solution, he says –
But he insisted such a solution was currently impossible if “one party believes that he can rub out countless numbers of his own citizens with impunity using chemicals that have been banned for 100 years”.
1913? Would that they had. And the US only signed the Geneva Protocol in 1975.
PS Sarin was discovered in 1938. So it’s been banned (except by the US, see above) for 75 years
For those in the uk, this weekend your right to protest, in the real world, just diminished a little more:
http://bristlingbadger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/controlling-dissent-with-mass-arrests.html
Komodo quoted Kerry (Mr. Heinz),
I have told you once I have told a million times, do not exaggerate!
Ps. Will Kerry (Mr. Heinz) and the gaggle of AIPAC stamp on the floor, and roll on the floor and scream and cry; we want to bomb Syria, why no one understands us?
Eight little BBC types lined up in a row at the Public Accounts Committee, all sticking up for each other, defending the payoffs and the obscene waste in £millions.
I long to run along the row and whack them all round the chops with a wet haddock with a special double whack for the strident, loquacious and revolting Mark Thompson.
Ch 81 at the moment.
Beg their pardon. Seem to be seven of them, not eight.
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
Thanks anyway Komodo, as its absence might revive a dispute I neither started nor wanted to continue.
And Passerby is most apt in calling Kerry, Mr. Heinz. He’s always wanted to be a rich Republican, and his wife has gotten him at least half way there.
Trowbridge H Ford @2.15-
It looks as if Putin has called Kerry’s bluff re turning over Syria’s chemical weapons to international inspection-
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/russia-launches-new-surprising-strategy-appeasement#comments
Fancy footwork from Putin, if report is confirmed.
“CNN POLL: Support: 27%; Oppose: 71%”
End-Times are near indeed when CNN can’t even produce a fudged poll to support their president.
A further portent of End-Times is the inability of Kerry to put together a coalition of the willing-to-be-bought. Caused perhaps by the ban on plastic shopping bags; none at hand to stuff with $100s for delivery to world leaders (al la Karzai)? Or is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve suffering carpal tunnel syndrome from tapping out 84 billion of fresh $1 casino chips every month on his keyboard?
Let’s see, we have President Peace Prize, former highly decorated warrior turned hippy, anti-war activist Kerry, all retired Generals, every former Bush administration (both of them) official advocating war — or something slightly war-like — and now Ms. Hillary herself, Chieftain of the Global Village smearing on Maori war paint. Who are we to object? I only await W. appearing alongside O. tomorrow night to seal the deal.
A failure of Congress to vote for war, or action, or at a minimum something slightly unpleasant, means the end of lobbying as we know it. Be warned, an unemployed lobbyist could end up sleeping on your futon, and they are high-maintenance, what with their entourage of now destitute hos, rent boys and drug suppliers.
Clever play by Russia. If Assad agrees to hand over CW, and quickly, it would put the ball right back in the US court. If the US then continues its build up to war regardless it’ll become even harder for them to deny that they are bent on war whatever the other side does.
I bet Kerry regrets making that “offer”, but it’s on public record now and if the point is hammered he’ll look even more foolish than he already does.
Downside? Regime didn’t carry out the Ghouta attack (I think). So is agreeing to hand over CW an admission of guilt?
Komodo 9 Sep, 2013 – 3:19 pm
“1913? Would that they had.”
They sort of did. The ban on chemical weapons (“poison weapons”) dates back to 1899.
I heard one american talking head saying that napalm is not illegal so it is ok to use. He also argued a government using chemical weapons on it’s own people was worse than on foreign people. It was radio so I do not know if he kept a straight face. Certainly the ‘interviewer’ didn’t mention a look of mirth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention_of_1907#Hague_Convention_of_1899
Mike
9 Sep, 2013 – 4:32 pm
Good thinking Mike. I would think Assad placing his chemical weapons under UN inspection would be a huge diplomatic coup and also earn him brownie points amongst his own people.
I wonder though if its his tactical trump-card in the case of coordinated war involving Israel. I question whether the Russians would support Syria in that event with real firepower.
So the CW might just be serving as some sort of deterrent?
@ Mary
“Reminds me of the German habit of bagging the deckchairs in holiday resorts by rushing out early to put an item of clothing or a towel on their chosen place. Do they still do that?”
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I’m afraid they still do, Mary – or at least they did so a couple of years ago. Old habits die hard, wouldn’t you agree? But there are amusing counter-moves available, of course.
Can’t say what the posish is these days, I’m somewhere where Germans are not 🙂
Reuters Top News [Verified account] @Reuters
Syria welcomes Russia’s proposal for Damascus to put its chemical weapons under international control: Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem
So what now?
@ Macky
“Habbu-Clown: “Jon is clear that English Knight was banned”
Jon: “who was I think banned as English Knight previously”
Is English not your first language ?”
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I’m sure it’s yours, but you are rather deficient in it.
The “I think” can be read as either speculative or rhetorically affirmative. In this case, I believe it’s the latter.
You’ll be reduced to private if you carry on like this, Corporal!
Now …
http://rt.com/news/syria-rebels-chemical-attack-israel-618/
Kerry gives Syria one week to relinquish chemical weapons
http://rt.com/usa/kerry-assad-weapons-week-617/
“I’m somewhere where Germans are not” Habbabkuk, 5:12pm, today.
‘And I have thirty feathers, each one fashioned from a precious jewel, and I speak only in riddles, for I dwelleth at the summit and stare into the face of th’Everafter: A dazzling mirror.’
Are you the Simurgh? Then who is the hud-hud?
Yes, clever move by Russia. Let’s see what comes of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPQ3cpn-Unc
“Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week – turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting, but he isn’t about to do it and it can’t be done,” Kerry said at the press conference.
According to Reuters, the US State Department said Kerry was making a rhetorical argument.
@ Donald
“His one aim is to get people talking off topic when a ‘delicate’ matter is raised, usually by ruffling a few feathers.”
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If that was my main aim, then I think most people would say I’ve singularly failed.
I should say, on the contrary, that my wise and perspicacous comments and rebukes (and those of a few others)have the opposite effect, ie, of stimulating the Eminences into posting even greater amounts of drivel on their pet themes and obsessions.
And now – please stop focusing on other posters and get down to some substance. Eg, why hasn’t WW3 started yet?
“Our government supports the objective of ensuring that there can be no impunity for the first use of chemical warfare in the 21st century,” Mr. Hague said
what a blithering idiot
Hey there folks. This is somewhat off topic, I’m sure, but then my nature is superficial in the extreme; schoolboy, perhaps. But if any of you fancy checking out Peter Hitchens’s Sunday column, there’s a photo of the Oldest Ally in there. He looks for all the world as if he’s just sat on his bollocks.
“The “I think” can be read as either speculative or rhetorically affirmative. In this case, I believe it’s the latter”
Sophistry is of course the ploy of shameless Lawyers & Trolls.
Corporal or Private, I’ll still have you shoot as dawn for being the fifth columnist that you are.
Villager: If the “proper” war does involve Israel (which of course is covertly involved already) then that probably means it’ll involve Iran. If that happens…all bets are off!
re Macky, Passerby, etc, moaning on about the Moderator :
I have heard of coups by Colonels and I’ve heard of coups by lieutenants, but coups (against the Moderator) by corporals…..?
(Although It’s true that Adolph was a corporal)
“And Passerby is most apt in calling Kerry, Mr. Heinz. He’s always wanted to be a rich Republican, and his wife has gotten him at least half way there.”
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Ah, so that was what it was all about! I was wondering, because the original reference to Kerry (Heinz) was posted by an Eminence whose posts in matter Jewish are sometimes of a slightly dubious nature and I do recall that someone here (perhaps the same Eminence, I can’t be bothered to scroll back)quite recently made reference to the Heinz family being Jewish or having Jewish ancestry…
Let’s face it, certain people have form.
From our amigo KrishnaMacky :
“Corporal or Private, I’ll still have you shoot as dawn for being the fifth columnist that you are.”
The true nature of the beast emerges……:)