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.
What’s with all these military titles!
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Richard Did you mean this one?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/08/article-2415273-1BAED76E000005DC-589_634x604.jpg
Quel imbécile!
@ Dreoilin
““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”
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But cunning enough to leave out the preceding one 🙂
“A chemical attack may be launched on Israel by Syrian rebels from government-controlled territories as a “major provocation”, a number of sources have told RT.”
It may rain tomorrow a number of sources have told the Met Office.
The Government may abolish income tax and fuel duty at the next Budget a number of sources have told the AA.
Or then again they may not…
“It may rain tomorrow a number of sources have told the Met Office.”
I think the Met Office have their own system for divining these things. But do carry on.
I think Richard may have been talking about this one
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/31/article-0-1B88EED0000005DC-735_306x534.jpg
Mike, agreed. And how cunningly Saudi Arabia will sit by the sidelines and watch. And with what’s happening with the oil prices, well you and i as consumers are actually funding this dangerous peacock dance.
I’d like to believe that back-channel talks between the US and Russia/China, the UN report, a negative House vote and the possibility of the CW being sequestered will avert a single shot.
Interesting perspective from a military blogger, though i’m not convinced of his bottom-line conclusion:
” · Syria We wish we knew why the US feels compelled to leak details of its proposed military strike on Syria. Is it because US cannot control its employees and stop them for leaking for their own purposes, whatever they might be? Is it to mislead the Syrians? Is it show the world that the US is going to do more than a flea bite to Syria? We have no idea.
· The latest is that the US has expanded the target list beyond the initial 50 targets, and now will require bomber attacks in addition to 200 ship-launched cruise missiles. The attacks will cover 72-hours, and include pauses for bomb damage assessment. Six Syrian Air Force main bases are part of the target set, as well as short-to-sea missile batteries, ammunition storage areas, and some Syrian Army formations. The military has also leaked that 75,000 US troops will be required to secure Syria’s chemical weapons, a polite way of saying that no effective action is possible.
· Meanwhile, back at home the Administration is trying to gain wriggle room with Congress. It seems unlikely the House will authorize strikes, but the Senate may well do so. So the Administration’s latest theory is that Senate approval by itself suffices. So good luck with that, Administration. Five days ago, Pew Research found only 29% of Americans support military action http://www.people-press.org/2013/09/03/public-opinion-runs-against-syrian-airstrikes/ In the UK, only 19% support military action against Syria if undertaken with the US. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10293825/No-attack-on-Syria-no-matter-what-say-voters.html The House is more vulnerable to what voters think because elections are held every two years, and the next election is only 14-months away.
· US for some reason is now backtracking on the chain of the command of the chemical weapon attack on a Damascus suburb. US says there is no evidence Assad, or Baby Assad who commands the 4th Armored Division – which is said to have launched the attack – had any hand in the strike. So is the US saying a brigade commander or even lower officer did the strike without orders? Please, US Government, most of us are not Red Queens. We can believe six impossible things before breakfast, but not this. If the US is suddenly unsure, after insisting it had precise details including signal intercept, it can only mean US was earlier fibbing.
· Nonetheless, in our opinion the president has boxed himself in so badly he has to make an attack even if it has zero effect on the outcome of the war.”
http://orbat.com
“But cunning enough to leave out the preceding one”
You thought that was “cunning”? I got his lumphammer message and it’s still idiotic.
@v’ger 4:57 Lest we forget, Saddam complied with the terms of his inspection ultimatum, and the US attacked him anyway. Kerry making Assad jump through hoops only weakens the legal case for war, because it highlights US treachery in breach of Rome Statute Article 8.2.b.xi and corresponding universal-jurisdiction law.
The real deterrent is Russia’s back-channel threat to drag the Saudi princelings into this war. Now that’s deterrence we can live with. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of fatass demand-suckled pederasts.
Barra Barra, well said. I have a feeling we have corresponded before and i welcome your lateral view. And particularly if Iran is dragged into a war, i see absolutely no reason to leave Saudi Arabia out of it. Btw there have been pre-existing speculations that some of Pakistan’s nuclear war heads are housed in Saudi Arabia…any thoughts?
Barra Barra (as opposed to Tora! Tora! or Tiree Tiree! or possibly, 20:20!), tell us more about some of Pakistan’s nukes being in Saudi Arabia. That’s really intersting, actually. Any links? I’d like to read more on it. You’re right about the Saudi princelings and Russia’s threat. Btw, you do sound awfully like Fedup, can’t think why. Must be that Atlantic sea breeze and possibly, the powerful undertow.
Russia Lavrov Backs Call for Syria to Hand Over Chemical Weapons
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324549004579064943395965808.html
Aren’t they the Grandmasters of Chess?
Mais non, that’s not where they are. Snowden’s haul has poop on that but it won’t see the light of day, as it doesn’t bear on inexcusable US government crimes.
Suhayl, i don’t think Barra has anything to do with Fedup or F***edup or FedeX.
Mary
9 Sep, 2013 – 12:35 pm
“President Assad (FRCS remember) is not cowed or intimidated by Obama, Kerry or the US threats. Produce the evidence he says. ‘Conviction’ is not evidence.”
Are you sure about Bashar and the FRCS? Can you produce the evidence? Your comments and research are getting less and less reliable, i’m afraid.
As for Krishnamurti, i would’ve been nothing short of astonished if you had said anything other than ‘pure tripe’ or whatever. You can’t decipher your own emails, you couldn’t decipher that i was agreeing with Jon for deleting your long duplicated post and you’re going to assimilate Krishnamurti? You easily have a 100 lives ahead of you to catch up and learn what Truth and Justice really mean. Meantime don’t obsess with K.
Russia moves another chess-piece:
“U.S., Russia clash over Syria reactor at U.N. nuclear meeting
By Fredrik Dahl
VIENNA | Mon Sep 9, 2013 11:01am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/09/us-syria-crisis-russia-nuclear-idUSBRE9880J520130909
There was a very moving segment on BBC London News about surgeons from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital making their annual visit to Vietnam to rectify the terrible facial defects still being caused by dioxin in Agent Orange used by the Americans all those years ago.
The full programme is on Inside Out London BBC 1 tonight at 7.30pm.
This is an article about the work. There are said to be 150,000 such victims.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/london-surgeons-carry-out-lifechanging-surgery-on-children-of-vietnam-victims-8804672.html
A true chemical weapon.
Vietnam’s ‘children of Agent Orange’
The Vietnam War ended nearly 40 years ago, but the casualties continue as birth defects plague the country. There are claims that thousands of children continue to be born with horrific facial deformities due to the 20 million gallons of Agent Orange chemical sprayed by the United States.
The Vietnamese call the disfigured youngsters ‘the children of Agent Orange’.
Inside Out’s Mark Jordan joins a team of top London plastic surgeons on their unpaid mission to help these deformed children to ‘Face the World’.
Watch the video feature on the BBC News website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039vhdn
@SS I am not fedup and I am not familiar with his oeuvre. I mostly lurk here. The suggestion of nukes in Saudi comes not from me, but from v’ger’s deft HUMINT. What we have in Saudi is not deterrent weapons but cringing kleptocrats that an iskander can turn to pink mist.
Villager becomes more and more ridiculous in challenging facts.
‘Al-Assad graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988, and started to work as a physician in the army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital, in London, specializing in ophthalmology.’ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophthalmology
I have it on good authority that at one time he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
His father in law is also an eminent cardiologist and worked at the Cromwell Hospital. It is believed he left the UK to join his daughter and family.
http://www.fawazakhras.com/about.asp
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I do not obsess about Krisnamurthy. Villager does however.
Get lost why don’t you.
“Are you sure about Bashar and the FRCS? Can you produce the evidence?”
“I have it on good authority that at one time he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.”
That’s not evidence, Mary.
And his father in law is irrelevant, I’m afraid. And you do rather overload on attacking “Krisnamurthy” (which I believe is spelled Krishnamurti.)
You write stuff like, “I will not be responding to Villager’s babyish comments/insults/whatever” and then launch into an attack on Krishnamurti by way of a proxy for Villager – which is all very transparent and rather hypocritical.
If you’re “not responding”, don’t respond. Simples.com
“postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital, in London, specializing in ophthalmology.’ earns you an FRCS!!!!!????? Lets not worry that Wiki does not state that he is/was an FRCS.
LOL and “I have it on good authority that at one time he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.” And then what happened? Did Queenie strip him of it? LOL X 2
And you worked with the NHS?! Its all getting too much for even me to handle.
“why hasn’t WW3 started yet?”
US military don’t want it. Russians don’t want it. Chinese don’t want it. No one wants it.
No one, except big fat Sunnis and swivel-eyed Zionist loons, that is.
Anyway. It’s not all bad. These loons have probably just ushered in a return to a bi-polar and perhaps multi-polar world, wherein balances of power make it much more difficult for the neocon agenda to proceed.
I wouldn’t want to be holding too much US paper…
You say “for some reason” US is backtracking, Villager. I’d say (it’s just a guess of course) that they simply can’t sell this war like they’ve done with all the others. I guess the successful false flags of the past made the various actors complacent, this time around. But the Ghouta “attack” (suggestions that victims were kidnapped from near Latakia earlier in August) is so sloppy – and the prospects of unmanageable escalation very real – that they are, as you say, now looking for a way out. It also doesn’t help that the “good guys” are so obviously very bad indeed.
By the end of the month the MSM will have gone back to sleep without having bothered to expose YET ANOTHER ROUND of murderous deceit. The false flag, Bandar’s threat to Sochi et al will then be the preserve of forums like this.
Thank you Dreoilin for that “proxy” observation.
As for Mary reviling K, it’s kind of a litmus test for me. Indifference or setting him aside is perfectly understandable. But going on pounding my chest as a proxy for him, i call obsession.
Guardian stories:
“John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack.”
US says it was rhetorical remark. He never expected Syria to comply.
But, “Russia calls on Syria to give up chemical weapons”
US now portrays this as Russia/Syria caving in the face of threats by [Big Bad] John [Wayne].
#2 face of the Guardian: “We must end this UN ‘paralysis’ on Syria: Calls for security council backing on Syria make little sense while Russia can so easily block action.
Only morally superior West should have veto power.
There was an anti-war demo in Hollywood yesterday. 100 attended. Not a single celebrity, not even a D lister. I checked TMZ; they would know — not one pic. However Biebs has a new haircut and Gwyneth Paltrow rode her Vespa most dangerously with, gasp!, her child aboard. She’s a fiend just like Assad.
@ Kempe
Thanks for additional info on Streicher
Mary @ 6;55
Some more on U.S war crimes, in Vietnam
Breathtaking U.S. Hypocrisy on Chemical Weapons
The U.S. sprayed nearly 20,000,000 gallons of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.
The United States has used chemical weapons in the last 10 years.
The U.S. agreed pursuant to the international Chemical Weapons Convention to destroy its chemical weapons stockpiles by April 2007. It received several extensions. The final extension expired in April 2012. The U.S. failed to comply with the deadline. (Syria was never a signatory to the treaty.)
Given the above, does the U.S. have the moral or legal standing to accuse Syria of violating a “red line” on chemical weapons?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/breathtaking-u-s-hypocrisy-on-chemical-weapons/5348147
“There was an anti-war demo in Hollywood yesterday. 100 attended. Not a single celebrity, not even a D lister. I checked TMZ; they would know — not one pic. However Biebs has a new haircut and Gwyneth Paltrow rode her Vespa most dangerously with, gasp!, her child aboard. She’s a fiend just like Assad.”
Just shows how effective protests are.
It’s always better when the fuckers fall out amongst themselves.
Their chaos is the peeps protection.
Yes, Bashar Al Assad was an ophthalmologist, so a surgeon (and would be FRCS or equivalent) and he worked in London till he assumed the presidency of Syria on his father’s death. I thought that was common knowledge. It was all over the news at the time. I think originally, his brother, Basil, had been slated to succeed Hafez al Assad (it’s a dynasty, of course), but he’d died in a road traffic crash some time before.
Thanks someone, you had us guessing, that is big enough to sink a ship, never mind a major bank and its major partners, the Concordia EU might heavily list to one side, roll on its proverbial belly and make a lot of noise whilst dying.
So the DB is up to its eyeballs in debt, what a surprise, bailing out god and the world and take countries risks must leave a mark somewhere.
I agree, no time better than now to create a new world currency, the BRICS have a point. What good is it to the world economy, if meagre figures, high energy prices, low interest rates and high unemployment, in a dollar led world economy, full of non working QE money stashed away in tax havens on top what had already bypassed the exchequer for decades, when all these factors make ongoing war inevitable.
The German public will be gasping when this story breaks big time, but I’m not convinced whether voters, about to re elect Merkel, will change their votes over it. A left leaning SPD, going into coalition with other splinter groups is another possibility.
Thanks for the links Phil, Mary and Komodo.
And to those who might only read and are frightened off by the persistent and utter nonchalance, without cream and devoid of taste, sprinkled with velvet pomposity from the Village, don’t be, because they are not real, just a mere figment of the imagination.
Just because they write here does not mean they exist in reality, this is cyber world and any six former could do better than that, they have a plethora of electronics to create their ‘make up’ with twitter feed, FB, radio comments, the whole gambit, not just one political blog.
So don’t be scared by their lack of factuality, ignore them and talk to us all about what make you tick/sick. I think that there are hundreds if not thousands more, just reading, being deterred by personal denunciations from sick puppy jokers.
Mike: “and the prospects of unmanageable escalation very real – that they are, as you say, now looking for a way out. It also doesn’t help that the “good guys” are so obviously very bad indeed.”
Obama and Kerry may have the firepower but after Iraq and Afghanistan they have a very war weary public. And, indeed a war-weary Army (the goblins don’t want to touch the earth with their boots). Besides they are obviously not as good chess players as the Ruskies, otherwise Obama would never have made that idiotic, unnecessary red-line comment (possibly at the behest of Israel).
Has the US been in Afghanistan too long? Like they’ve learnt from Pakistan the good Taliban/bad Taliban routine and are now falling into that trap themselves with Good rebels/Bad rebels which in the end or for the time being at least are fungible and united.
Also very significant is that we are witnessing the end of the Unipolar World that America has got used to. I see the risks you highlight re the MSM, but now, if they carry on, they shall fall asleep at the risk of their own demise. In other words, it is also the end of the Unipolar Media world, which is already a fact.
Just to clarify, Bashar al Assad was studying to be an optician but was called back to Syria when his brother, Bassel, was killed in a car crash. This is a useful history of Syria in twenty-one photographs.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/62007/the-complete-history-of-syria-in-21-photos