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.
I just waded through the day’s posts. Thanks all for so much food for thought.
Team Hasbara seem to be a bit hypreactive. What an embarassment! Assad’s medical qualifications are the issue of the day? WTF?
Back to Syria, here’s one smart and articulate young Syrian’s take on why her country is a target.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3mXVRd89Y&list=TLSeQrab5BAes
If you’d rather read her main points you’ll find them here,
http://www.rt.com/op-edge/syria-world-hate-message-604/
“Frankly, Habby that’s unfair, it was not focussed on Suhayl at all. It was focussed on me with attacks by Suhayl (resolved) and Fuckedup where he went on fabricating and accused me of racism. Bully for the objective Dreo for putting him on the mat, but Suhayl could also have sent a signal to the retard that he was crossing Red Lines, and still can.
Anyway, established that Mary is a patently unreliable ungraceful twisted liar.”
Wow.
There’s a whole 80s Valley Girl series in that.
Pitch, bitch!
Ben
All we want to know is if something’s gonna hit us in Europe.
California’s gone man…
Herbie; I console myself with Clarke’s novel Childhoods End. I would rather think any event as Archetypal, than apocalyptic.
Me too, Ben
It just kinda seeps in.
@ Phil,
Q: Before this thread I had no idea a journalist was tried at nuremberg.
R: What was tried @ Nuremberg was ‘How the F can we get away with what we did, and how on Earth can our war crimes not be crimes against humanity?’
and they succeeded.
This is how ‘you’ do it:
“While the Syria situation may not fit under a traditionally recognized legal basis under international law, it would nevertheless be justified and legitimate.” – White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler.
I get it now!
Assad did’nt stick with opthalmologoglogy or whatever ‘cos he really wanted to go home and be a dictator like his dad and gas Syrian’s so the US would bomb them and that would mean that the survivors would live democratically ever after. Yes. That seems logical enough to me.
Daniel seems like the White House, since they’re being outwitted by the Russkies at chess, would rather wipe all the pieces off the board and play dominoes instead.
Time to call it a day. Good night.
Ah. I didn’t think I had corrupted the original intent and purpose. Even a blind, elderly porc finds a truffle in it’s perfect state, every once in a while.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=archetype
@ Fedup,
Always try to understand whom and/or what you may be dealing with.
Is Richard Gere too busy protecting the Dalai Lama to give a F about Palestinians, Syrians and all those others who’re suffering around the globe [as long as the topic’s about his ‘holiness,’ I’m fine with that]?
Fedup
Cheers i appreciate every wee Gem of info, Re what the evil Shits Have been / are up to
Leaving the video till tomorrow, as otherwise my tender Poets heart will keep me awake…it might be Graphic, here’s a snippit from that link For others too
When the Wikileaks documents came out in November 2010, there was one leak in particular that caught my attention. It referenced something called “Frago 242,” which was short for “Fragmentary Order 242” – a US military order instructing US soldiers to ignore Iraqi-on-Iraqi torture.
Along with the team I work with, I found that the term “Frago 242” appeared more than a thousand times in the documents we examined. Having spent a lot of time covering the war in Iraq, we naturally wondered why this order was issued and what the story behind it was
Our investigation uncovered how a retired US Colonel, James Steele, was overseeing Pentagon-backed death squads that tortured detainees for information on the insurgency.
For me, the most surprising aspect was the scale of the torture and just how well organised it was.
I feel a bit hopeful about Syria for a change.
Seems that Putin is forcing the war mongering States – which apparently caused the poison gas attack in the hope of eliminating this most independently-minded regime – into going along with a UN mission to secure and dispose of its unwanted chemical weapons – what will require some kind of ceasefire by the rebels to achieve.
In just two weeks, Washington has been forced from not talking to Moscow about almost anything at all, even the fate of poor Raoul Wallenberg, into likely following Russia’s requests for stopping the war there.
@ Trowbridge H. Ford,
Germany = WWII = Nazis = Adolf Hitler = Very, Very Bad.
This sums up my historical knowledge about that country, after I rolled off of the educational presses.
Now, with all the dis/info being hurled at me from all sides, I feel I’m back in school again. Guestimating my way around in the hope that I’ll get it right this time around.
Ben,
Yes I think I posted earlier about Deep Impact out of control. Apparently it successfully imaged Ison but then went spinning out of control before NASA (or is it NASA that is spinning out of control?) instructed it to transmit the images to earth. That’s very unfortunate.
One of the NASA orbiters around MARS was also supposed to take a picture of Ison recently. So far no release of that by NASA either.
Don’t believe the flying “V” thing in these videos by the way. There is a real explanation for that (earth rotating around sun while also Hubble in earth orbit causing the weird parallax effect from images taking from different positions in 3d space at different times.
So the flying V is a diversion. Why Hubble took such crappy photos (which were then badly combined) in the first place is something I’m not totally buying though.
Ison perihelion has been 28th November since it was first announced. The time has not got later as some sources claim (other than by a few minutes as more precise observations were made but that’s all.
Ison isn’t brightening very fast. On the current curve it will not ever be visible to the naked eye – but it could be a late starter.
Amateur observations of Ison are being done and there is a suggestion it might be a bit bigger than earlier estimates. Too early to say though.
Btw on the mysterious other thing there is still no updated tracking.
Alcanon
What got me banned in the final week? An oblique reference to a possible asteroid hit.
OK You Idiots. Thanks to that I will now assume 2007 FT3 or a related object is going to hit soon.
Made me Giggle, Love the Humor… BUT…They’re up to Something BIG.Esp FEMA region III
Anyway re Ison Space ship
Richard White, principal investigator for the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, explained that the image was a composite, created by averaging the data from three separate camera exposures. The three objects are just different views of Comet ISON’s nucleus.
“The comet itself does not have three pieces,” White wrote. “They are an artifact from adding up the separate exposures. The comet does not look the same in each exposure because both the comet and the Hubble telescope are moving during the exposure. The comet is blurred, just as a picture taken out the window of a moving car will be blurred.”
First part of October is the critical {blackout} period. ISON still in range of Mars, so even debris reacting to it’s small magnetic influence has no import. It’s just fun to discuss.
Brian,
To be fair they unbanned me after an email conversation. Apparently they don’t want too many jokes or “gibberish” in the final threads. Their forum and their rules. Which is fair enough.
Ben,
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/blogs/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowBlogs&BlogsID=281
They really will have no excuse for not getting good images from Mars with multiple cameras on multiple vehicles pointing at it, come late September/early October. Well unless they all break as well. Then I’d start to worry 🙂
Reports of a large meteor/fireball over the USA just on twitter now. Alabama and other States reporting.
I had actually notice meteorscan radar seemed unusually busy tonight.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/09/post_996.html#incart_river_default
More at link http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/09/post_996.html#incart_river_default
white house may be backing off, but these self-deluded maniacs don’t give up easily:
10 Sept – Jerusalem Post: Pro-Israel groups in United States scramble to save Syria strike resolution
AIPAC, AJC, WJC lobby as over 150 House members signal they will oppose measure; ZOA and other Jewish groups take less active role, believe that the question to bomb Syria is not clear cut…
The effort, though, may be too little, too late, with over 150 House members already signaling that they will oppose the measure…
AIPAC in sending nearly 300 activists and lobbyists to meet personally with House members on the Hill throughout the week.
“We believe there’s an overwhelming moral and strategic case,” the AIPAC official added. “If we cannot act on Iran’s proxy, Syria, employing unconventional weapons, it’s going to be very difficult to deter Iran from acquiring such weapons.”…
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Pro-Israel-groups-in-United-States-scramble-to-save-Syria-strike-resolution-325681
@D Rich,
“While the Syria situation may not fit under a traditionally recognized legal basis under international law, it would nevertheless be justified and legitimate.” – White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler.
The White House dragooned Ruemmler to burn her Enron cred to fend off the Nuremberg Principles as codified in accordance with UNGA Res 95(1) of 1946. She loyally stuck her homely face into this buzz saw:
Article 8 bis, Elements para 4: “The perpetrator was aware of the factual circumstances that established that such a use of armed force was inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations.”
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“There is no requirement to prove that the perpetrator has made a legal evaluation as to whether the use of armed force was inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations.”
Got it? The cognizant tribunal for your Syrian aggression will not give a rat’s ass what loony legal theories your hack lawyers pulled out their ass. Just the facts. Nothing matters but the facts. Justified? Legitimate? Tell it to the pre-Trial chamber, you Nazi sow.
@ Action Jackson,
Off topic: When a German lawyer mentioned that the Nazis had done nothing unlawful during their reign, I thought it was a tongue-on-cheek remark [at first]. I’m not that familiar with the German sense of humor, but as the man kept that deadpan stare, I realized again [see somewhere above] that whatever they’d told me during history lessons had indeed very little connection to what really seemed to have happened [where ever the wind took me]. Law [national as well as international] has been turned into a Braille version of Mahjong, in which the winner is the one who has flipped the most times [whether in words/morally/tiles or otherwise].
tongue-on-cheek remarktongue-in-cheek remark…@ Villager (00h23)
Apologies if I was unfair to you. You’re right, but if truth be told, I read through the exchanges and then simply couldn’t bear to re-read them before commenting myself (perhaps I couldn’t bring myself to re-read Fedup in post-pub-throwing-up (in both senses)-mode 🙂 ). “Focussing on Suhayl” was just (erroneous) shorthand, and the point I really wanted to make was that the whole spat was started off by the Frequent Poster chucking in what it probably thought was an exculpatory qualification re Assad the Son.
Carry on the good work, and best!
I recall that some time ago I said that President Obama had no intention of taking military action and that there would be no war, whether limited or WW3; and that this whole affair was merely words and (indispensable) sabre-rattling. I believe I mentioned in passing that this second-term President had no interest, whether on a personal or national level, in following the various factions pressing for such.
It is with some satisfaction that I now note that,, for whatever reason, events seem to bear out what I said and that various Eminences – plus some highly-excited ‘first-time’ posters – were merely indulging in their usual hyperbole and venting their usual obsessions about the evil USA and West.
Time to calm down, everyone!
YTes Sofia. It’s the usual. I have read many times about Assad’s work in this country, his qualifications, and marrying his wife who lived here as her father worked at the Cromwell Hosppital.
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Villager reveals him/herself as the other side of the Habbabkuk coin. Are they actually one and the same? Villager obviously did not like my link to Charles Leadbeater and K’s early life!
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Jon I don’t care if Villager disbelieves what I write but could you please remove the ad hominem @ 12.23am
‘Anyway, established that Mary is a patently unreliable ungraceful twisted liar.’
It is a highly derogatory and offensive ad hominem.
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Habbabkuk Don’t speak too soon about the lack of war. Your friends in Amerika and Israel lust for it.
Also your words ‘someone calling itself Mary’ is offensive. You know very well that I am female. Why the slur that I do not have a gender?
You and your pal really take the biscuit for schoolyard nastiness and ability to issue personal insults.
btw you sound like Michael Winner in the ESure ad. Try using your own script.
Is this PPT [Putin’s Payback Time]? Did he kick Obambi in the nuts whilst ‘saving his face?’. The Russia-Syria deal. Brilliant, I’d say.
“Habbabkuk Don’t speak too soon about the lack of war. Your friends in Amerika and Israel lust for it.”
I have a feeling some here do, too!
Syria: Rebels Give US Targets To Defeat Regime
Rebels hand the US specific targets which would weaken the Syrian army and say they will join jihadi groups in a push to Damascus.
http://news.sky.com/story/1139496/syria-rebels-give-us-targets-to-defeat-regime
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If there is any weakening in the US resolve, it is due to millions of us standing up and speaking out. I wrote twice to my MP and signed petitions.
In any case, our lives have been blighted with anxiety and worry in what should have been a peaceful end to a beautiful summer. The psychopaths in charge do not care about us or about the innocents in the Middle East who must have been absolutely terrified of what was likely to happen.
Syria: Obama May Halt Strike Over Weapons Deal
The US president says he remains sceptical that Assad will hand over chemical weapons, but Iran welcomes the move.
http://news.sky.com/story/1139477/syria-obama-may-halt-strike-over-weapons-deal
All those words. All that spin. Think.
Who would buy a Toyota car?
Toyota repeats US vehicle recall on suspension worries
Toyota has been looking to rebuild its image after a spate of recalls in recent years
Toyota is recalling 780,584 vehicles in the US for a second time to address a suspension defect that may not have been fixed after a recall last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24027738
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle_recalls
I owned one in the 90s and it reliable without recall. What has happened to the company.