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 owned one in the 90s and it WAS reliable without recall. What has happened to the company?
@Mary: What has happened to the company?
They seem to be very much alive:
http://www.toyota.co.uk/cgi-bin/toyota/bv/frame_start.jsp?id=homepage
Suhayl, thanks for the further clarification, and apologies for not being able to spell opthalmologist. I did not know he had been a GP. I find it hard to believe that someone who has taken the Hippocratic oath would use chemical weapons. I accept that he is a dictator who has suppressed opposition but do not think he would have resorted to crimes reserved more for the western axis of evil.
Good morning to all those who read without commenting, you must be still shell shocked from last nights puerilities.
Do not think that when Villager says “Anyway, established that Mary is a patently unreliable ungraceful twisted liar”, s/he has an argument, its just a way to show deepest affection, an expression of conscious love for human kind and a foible of speech.
Don’t be deterred join in, this is not a ‘club’ but an open discussion forum, so don’t be deterred by what you think represents regular comments, chip in, we’d love to hear from a Saudi prince with ambitions to be ruthless at present.
Oiyeh Bandar boy, were are you?
Great gaffe from kerry has turned into an acceptable plan, whatdoyoaknow, international diplomacy at its best, from the scrapbook of George F. Kennan.
Saudi reactions to this cobbled idea/deal would have been important for us to know, but I can’t see any of our news agencies eager to find out, asking acidic question from prince Bandar boy.
Saudi itself does not say much unless I have missed it so here is their next big news, big ball goats. Tomorrow its bot racing camels, followed by a day of falcon news and how tragic it is that they can’t find anymore food on Bahrain’s streets, for all the pigeons have being gassed with CSgas.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/09/Goat-goes-on-sale-for-3Million-in-Saudi-.html
Abe Rene. My question really is ‘why have Toyota’s standards slipped?’.
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Ian Katz, ex Guardian journalist, new in the job of Newsnight editor, sends this insult publicly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10297942/BBC-Newsnight-editor-Ian-Katz-apologises-after-Tweeting-that-Labour-guest-was-boring.html
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I watched the Hodge PAC committee hearing yesterday. Appalling stuff. All seven tried to pass the buck. Hodge was forensic. Nothing will happen just as nothing happened after the Savile revelations except that the BBC spent a lot of OUR money on ‘inquiries’.
Very critical stuff in the Mail about the hearing, esp of Adams who has become the fall gut instead of Thompson. She earns £332,900 pa and is leaving soon but without any severance pay! The glasses worn on top of her head were aggravating and so was her high handed attitude. She previously worked for Serco for nearly nine years and before that at Eversheds, solicitors. Enough said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/ian-burrell-bbc-journalists-cheered-the-news-that-the-wicked-witch-lucy-adams-is-to-go-but-the-dg-wont-8793784.html
There needs to be a total clear out, closing the ‘Trust’ and starting from new. The Trust was Jowell’s creation of course.
Lett’s piece is funny.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2416497/Cheers-BBC-newsroom-staff-MPs-Corporation-personnel-chief-Lucy-Adams-liar.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2416432/BBC-QUENTIN-LETTS-Thompson-firing-away-like-Spanish-man-owar-entering-Gibraltar-harbour.html
Hunt who was Secretary of State at the DCMS at the time of these redundancies and payouts has just been on Sky. He knew nothing of course. Everything was at arm’s length. Quite so Jeremy.
…fall guy…!
@John.8 50am
I find it hard to believe that someone who has taken the Hippocratic oath would use chemical weapons."
I don’t wish to wreck your faith in the medical profession, but,
http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testimonials-project/testimonies/testimony-of-military-physicians/doctors-blast-guantanamo-treatment-as-unethical
http://www.bahrainrights.org/en/node/4372
Aside from all that though, you need to be pretty smart to be an opthalmoli…opthamilog…opthologolomist, or whatever.
So, is it remotely credible that someone with that kind of brain and training would think, “Well, let’s see, the UN inspectors arrive today and the US/Saudi Despot/Zionist Axis is desperate to bomb us asap. I know! I’ll give the military a day off from defeating the heart-eaters and let them have some fun gassing their own people within sight of the Inspector’s hotel.”?
Now that, I just can’t believe.
Wow ! What shenanigans unfolded last night !
Firstly we have Villager on his constant prowl to find anything to use for having a dig at Mary; his claims that his motivation is for general factual accuracy, is blatantly absurd given that the attention he exclusively devotes just to Mary, and of course is betrayed by the venom & abuse he uses towards her; so his true motivation last night, was to deliver “Mary is a patently unreliable ungraceful twisted liar”, but in the meantime he has caused a major distraction & derailment of the thread, much to the delight of a certain mentor Clown, who kept encouraging from the sidelines “Everyone should note that this was started off by someone calling itself Mary”.
Villager also delivered this double insulting post;
“I’ve seen wily guys like you Suhayl and i spot the ones who consider themselves too-clever-by-half. What do you think you’re playing with NHS secretaries ? “
Now it’s common knowledge to the regulars here that Suhayl’s origins are from the Indian Sub-Contingent, so Fedup was correct to object to racist meme of “wily” in view of its concoctions in the racist expression “WOG” (Wily Oriental Gentlemen); I’m sure if somebody addressed a known Jewish poster with the prefix of “hook nosed” etc, Jon would have sprung into immediate action.
(The second insult in Villager’s post is of course yet another sexist one, with the reference to NHS secretaries).
He did however provide this little unintentional little laugh, “objective Dreo » !
The same “objective Dreo”, & sometimes “Sweet Dreo”, who seeks to chastise Fedup with;
“You still have nothing to back up your claim that Villager was promoting an attack on Assad”
Conveniently forgetting that Villager has been so successfully groomed by the Pro-War Assad demonizing Habbu-Clown, (K must be turning in his grave out of jealousy!), that I half expect that if it meant a chance to abuse Mary, he would sign-up immediately for a Syrian attack.
Fedup’s lament of “Impartial moderation at work “ is very understandable, and he should be aware in case he missed it, that Jon has more or less stated that this Blog would be better off with less of the Posters who use the expression “Ziofuckwits”; not that they would be banned, rather unfair moderation would be used against them so they would leave in disgust, as recently happened to Cryptomn .(Trolls never leave in disgust, and even banned they come back of course).
Is Jon really merely being clueless with his “I suggest that the infighting that seems to have flared up recently here is partly an expression of frustration against the war machine”, in not being able to realize the ongoing campaign by the tag-teams operating against Mary ?
@Habbabkuk 10 Sep, 2013 – 7:46 am
“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.”
You have plenty of company in the US left-center and far-left.
They’re in paroxysms of hyperbole, no adjective too grand to apply to Obama. A veritable mile-high meringue of frothy delight. “Played 12th dimensional chess against Grand Master Putin and won”; “Bluffed Putin like a pro”; “Told you he was the smartest president ever”; “Stared down Russia like JFK”; “Deserving of a 2nd Nobel Peace Prize”.
They disconnected themselves from the smelly, libertarian parts of the Tea Party in half-a-microsecond and politics is restored to normal name calling on both sides. As they say, who can prove our theory wrong, even if Faux News credits Putin? (Which they will.)
You may be right, but to me it looks as if Putin saved Obama from political disaster. More likely this was a mutually agreed upon, pre-planned piece of Kabuki theater. The grand solution came in unseemly haste, a few hours, after Kerry’s supposed accidental suggestion.
Anyway, cheers to you and your crystal ball. Hope it all sticks together.
On Snowden/NSA:
“In three consecutive transparencies, the authors of the presentation draw a comparison with “1984,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a surveillance state, revealing the agency’s current view of smartphones and their users. “Who knew in 1984 that this would be Big Brother …” the authors ask, in reference to a photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. And commenting on photos of enthusiastic Apple customers and iPhone users, the NSA writes: “… and the zombies would be paying customers?”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-on-smartphones-including-the-blackberry-a-921161.html
@Mackey. 10 23am
Maybe we need to start a petition to Hiafa University so that they can put and end to all the embarassment.
Don’t we deserve a better class of troll here? The endless cycle of grooming/preaching/abusing would bore a rock to death.
The net outcome seems to be that Mary is in better form than ever and the rest of the thread provides a consistent antidote to the increasingly deranged narratives spewing from the corporate media.
Meanwhile, in occupied Palestine, http://electronicintifada.net/diaries
“So, everyone’s a little stressed! It’s understandable, I think. I suggest that the infighting that seems to have flared up recently here is partly an expression of frustration against the war machine – it feels somehow inevitable that something dreadful is going to happen, and people who wish for more people not to be killed feel powerless.”
No, it’s because the people stopped discussing the issues in order to discus the people.
That’s why I don’t play those games.
You’ll learn.
Ban the bloody lot, I say.
Tony Blair. Prostitution. On topic.
The spokesman for Mr Blair, who reportedly received a £4.6 million advance for his memoirs, entitled The Journey, said the former prime minister was a “UK resident taxpayer” and that his companies paid corporation tax in Britain.
True?
Let x= Windrush (charity stuff) or Firerush(heavy money stuff)
Let yy= two digits
Let zz=two more digits
UK companies:
x Ventures Ltd
x Ventures No. 1 Ltd
Both are directors of
x Ventures No.2 LLP
Which is a director of
x Ventures No 3 LP
Along with a nominee company, BDBCO No.8yy Ltd
There is another nominee, BDBCO No.8zz Ltd in the chain.
The setup looks like it has an offshore outlet – the BDBCO’s set up by the company formation specialists and nominee providers Bircham Dyson Bell are dormant and wholly opaque as far as finance goes. So where might Tony Blair Associates and The Office of Tony Blair – the trading names of Windrush and Firerush Ventures No.3 LP – be looking to have an offshore presence?
Gibraltar? 10% flat tax rate?
Where Windrush Ltd and Firerush Ltd were simultaneously incorporated in September 2010?
Note, NOT Windrush Ventures Ltd; just Windrush Ltd. And not under UK jurisdiction.
Nobody else I know has spotted this.
Pass it on.
Read all about it!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blairs-company-paid-just-315000-tax-on-income-of-more-than-12m-6287001.html
If he really is spending £8 million out of a £12 million turnover on “administration” he’s either not being entirely honest or is grossly incompetent.
Difficult one…
The same Tony Blair who introduced the Copyright Term Extension Act so that his fellow tax exile friend, Cliff Richard could still reap royalties on music that otherwise would have now been Public Domain.
Morning Pic time;
http://31.media.tumblr.com/031b36f9fc2bbfb26797288830dcc7a6/tumblr_msqxr18QdL1scikfho1_500.jpg
France, Washington’s lap dog, is already trying to scuttle any peaceful solution of the Syrian crisis by going to the Security Council with a draft resolution which Russia et al. will never accept as it is intended to make Assad’s regime not only responsible for the gas attack but also subject its leaders to prosecution in the ICC which the USA, the real culprit of the attack, doesn’t even recognize.
It’s just intended to so muddy the waters that the Russian-Syrian plan will not be adopted.
Macky Well said. And LOL about ‘NHS secretaries’. I did not read back last night as I did not want my sleep disturbed by the filthy stuff they were producing! Which ever of the trolls said that has not been channelling me very well. I was a secretary in the 60s but moved onwards and upwards. I did work in the NHS though and, as I said, am very proud of that.
They have both revealed their true inner selves. They are absurd individuals, which is plural if there are two of them. I have my doubts.
Kempe: Read all about it!
A good example of a journalist not digging deeply enough.
Windrush is, or was, the ‘legitimate’ arm of the business, and it deals with donations to Tony’s cuddly charities (the TB Sports Foundation, the TB Faith Foundation, The Africa Governance Initiative) which are, according to the Sacred Office of the Holy Tony Blair, unconnected with Tony Blair Associates (Firerush) – to which the article does not definitely allude. Blair can legitimately claim tax relief on charitable donations. The TBFF and TBSF are registered charities.
Though the existence of an offshore Windrush company suggests that the non-charities, and indeed non-companies under the Windrush banner (Office of the Quartet Representative -self-aggrandising arse- and Breaking the Climate Deadlock) have other means of easing the pain.
See above, Komodo 10.58, for further insight. Any media getting this far, please copy.
The TBFF and TBSF are registered charities
As is the AGI.
For the sake of parity in this volatile region, I think the Russians should shut the Zionist warmongers up, with a demand that Israel also be required to hand over it CWs;
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Report-CIA-believes-Israel-acquired-chemical-weapons-decades-ago-325706
Fred 10 Sep, 2013 – 10:54 am
Agreed.
I vote we nominate Sophia as the blog’s official troll-ridiculer, and everyone else ignores them. It’s appropriate. I have a suspicion that Villager is her little brother, desperately seeking paternal attention.
Only a breather? I’m sure the US, if it is so minded, will find lots wrong with the Syrian CW handover as it unfolds. In the meantime, all that hardware in the Eastern Med, Gulf and Jordan (remember those “military exercises”?) will not be going anywhere. If it is a game of chess, Putin will know the game has got a ways to run yet. His fleet won’t be going anywhere either.
I get the feeling, though, that a deal has been done through those oft-quoted back-channels. Everyone can save face now — except the dead civilians that were kidnapped by al Nusra from the Latakia area early last month. I’m tempted to use the chess analogy again to describe these poor folk, but you’re best to listen to the Bob Dylan original.
Should the British government stand aside from the United States if it had planned to destabilise Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran?
10 September 2013
Dr Nafeez Ahmed writes about the geopolitics of interconnected environmental, energy and economic crises in the Guardian. In 2001 he founded and directs the Institute for Policy Research & Development, based in London, which includes on its advisory board Dr.Johan Galtung. His special report on Syria, summarised in the Guardian, opens with the subject of chemical weapons and moves on to ask:
So what is this unfolding strategy to undermine Syria, Iran and so on, all about?
First scroll down and listen to the video of the (admittedly volatile) retired NATO Secretary General Wesley Clark, speaking in 2007 about plans for the ‘former Soviet client states’ :
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http://politicalcleanup.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/should-the-british-government-stand-aside-from-the-united-states-if-it-had-planned-to-destabilise-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-and-iran/
Some of the content has already been dealt with here.
As we knew.
CIA believes Israel acquired chemical weapons decades ago
Foreign Policy quotes CIA document that US satellites found a probable “nerve agent production facility and a storage facility” in the Negev, article says development is conducted at Israel Institute for Biological Research near Tel Aviv.
Israel is believed to have secretly developed a range of chemical weapons in the 1960s and 70s as further defense against an attack by the surrounding enemy states, according to a report in Foreign Policy, which quotes a “secret 1983 CIA intelligence estimate.”
The CIA document, Foreign Policy says, states that US satellites in 1982 found “a probable CW [chemical weapon] nerve agent production facility and a storage facility… at the Dimona Sensitive Storage Area in the Negev Desert.” Furthermore, the document is claimed to have said, “Other CW production is believed to exist within a well-developed Israeli chemical industry.”
The CIA document purportedly goes on to say that, “While we cannot confirm whether the Israelis possess lethal chemical agents, several indicators lead us to believe that they have available to them at least persistent and nonpersistent nerve agents, a mustard agent, and several riot-control agents… with suitable delivery systems.”
The article claims that the research and development of these weapons is being carried out at what it brands the “secretive” Israel Institute for Biological Research, located in Nes Ziona, a short distance south of Tel Aviv.
According to Foreign Policy, Work on the project was stepped up following the near disaster of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, when attacking Arab armies caught the state by surprise on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
The report also claims that in January 1976, US intelligence was led to believe that Israel conducted a “possible test” of chemical weapons in the Negev desert. The report quotes a US air force intelligence officer, who says that the US National Security Agency intercepted communications which proved that Israel Air Force bombers conducted simulated chemical weapons delivery missions at a bombing range in the Negev.
The author of the report also claims to have identified a possible site for the storage of chemical weapons in the Negev. After intensive research on Google Maps, the writer surmised that “imagery search found what I believe is the location of the Israeli nerve agent production facility and its associated chemical weapons storage area in a desolate and virtually uninhabited area of the Negev Desert just east of the village of al-Kilab, which is only 10 miles west of the outskirts of the city of Dimona.”
The report comes as the United States government is currently seeking domestic and international consensus for truncated military action against the Syrian regime over its alleged recent use of chemical weapons on its own population.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Report-CIA-believes-Israel-acquired-chemical-weapons-decades-ago-325706
Komodo,
UK newspapers are shy about reporting offshore tax avoidance because they’re all it themselves (allegedly). Private Eye is the best source and they’ve given a lot of attention to Tony Blair’s complex arrangements.
First you occupy their land, steal their land and homes, persecute them and then provoke them, ‘them’ being the Palestinian people. A place, holy to Muslims, has been bespoiled.
Israeli rightists enter Aqsa compound under guard
10/09/2013 11:45
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israeli rightists entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Tuesday under heavy police guard, locals said.
Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, the director of Jerusalem endowments and al-Aqsa affairs, told Ma’an that 150 Jewish extremists entered the mosque compound via the Mughrabi gate.
The group walked along the eastern wall and exited through the al-Salsala gate. The rightists formed groups and performed religious rituals, including songs, al-Khatib said.
Witnesses said that 80 members of Israeli intelligence entered the mosque compound.
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http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=628550
UN rights council says Syria gas attack videos fake: Russia
Well what do you know?
Interesting, to see the liars are so emboldened, now they are making movies and passing it on as accurate records of history, there again that has been going on for years. No change then.
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Macky said;
You have outlined the tenets of mismoderation of the this board, pretty good. However to give into the forces of reaction, repression and suppression is the the cardinal sin that has resulted in the current state of the “Sacred Cows” becoming so sacred that even the mention of the fact itself is an unpardonable act.
Fact is I and others on this board will not give up pushing the current envelope of restrictions (arbitrary and self-imposed) for the benefit of being liked and gaining friendships! In fact I have bought a dog and care not one jot for any “love” from any other quarters.
Therefore as the adage goes; use it or lose it. In the spirit of which ziofcukwits ought to be assured that it will be a cold day in hell if they ever succeed in constituting their supremacist and vile political doctrine, and expect to be a respectable member of the world nations.
The fact that the moderator is leaving markers is a disturbing trend, that evidently is becoming more prevalent. Further even more disturbing is the fact that Suhayl Saadi has left the fighting for others when he should have been pushing back at the blatantly racist epithet; “wily guys like you Suhayl” which has not been addressed so far.
Fact is there is a certain click around this blog that mistakenly believes this blog to be their own blog and behave thus. It is up to the rest of us to push back and restore our rights to freedom of expression, and say no to racism albeit indulged in by the sacred cows toadies.
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Fred said;
Precisely Fred, and there seems to be an active nurture regimen for such a conduct too.
Funeral held for man killed in regime forces’ crackdown in S Arabia
This is why Press TV was banned from the UK, US, and Europe!
The pederasts in al Saud ruling elite are all too busy killing Muslims in their own country, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and now they are trying to start world war III, and perhaps razing the whole of the mid east. With Muslims like them, there is no need for any ziofuckwits.
NR 10 Sep, 2013 – 12:36 am
“Same for, “It looked just like a war zone.””
I used to work with someone who always said “it’s not rocket science”. One xmas I bought him a kit rocket.
Kempe –
Agree.
In order to verify that Windrush Ltd and Firerush Ltd are in fact part of Blair Inc, I’ll need to go through the tedious process of registering with Gibraltar Companies House at some point. If anyone can save me the trouble (and twenty quid plus – a lot plus for anything useful) I’d be grateful.
Not that I think there’s much doubt. They registered on the same day, and the only companies called Firerush I can find are Blair’s. (Windrush is obviously more popular, with inhabitants of Oxfordshire as well as those of Trinidad)
I think Jon’s decision making processes have been influenced by the trolls. Endless repetition, nomatter how hollow the whine, is convincing. That jon characterizes the attack on this blog as “infighting” shows how far he is from dealing with it.
Sorry Jon I know your task can be thankless but I think you have lost perspective. Why not get some help to relieve the pressure on you. Surely you and craig can find someone between you.