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.
Secretary of State John Kerry caught out in more lies.
When Obama was at the G20 meeting in St. Petersburg, he had a privatemeeting with Putin where they discussed the plan that Moscow has developed with the Assad government for resolving the Syrian crisis, and afterwards he told Kerry to run it down.
Kerry, though, did no such thing, preferring to issue his ultimatum in the hope of having an armed conflict over the master.
When the Russian-Syrian plan still went ahead, Kerry attempted to hide what he was up to, stating that the ultimatum was just a rhetorical flourish.
In short, the struggle between Washington’s hawks and doves is still continuing, and how it will end up is anyone’s guess.
Blair is something of a travel expert.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2416681/Tony-Blair-hails-benefits-tourism-conference-speech.html
Ancient Cliches Revisited, Elaborated and Uttered for Vast Sums of Money at Random Locations: #1:Travel Broadens the Mind
…strange that Tone, though constantly in transit, shows so little evidence of this.
(sick bag needed)
@ Macky re: Blair, Copyright Term Extension Act, Cliff Richard
Every 17 years, I think, Disney goes to Congress, hat in hand and suitable gifts behind back, begging for extensions of copyright so Mickey, Donald and poor, sweet Snow White aren’t cast out into the cold public domain. Congress always takes pity on the toons and insures they remain safe and warm in Disney’s bosom.
@ Komodo re: Blair, taxes
It’s why we need a flat tax or a transaction tax. I favour a transaction tax, as it could be set very small, so there’d be no incentive to evade it, and at the same time it’s somewhat progressive since the wealthy engage in many more high value transactions — every stock or real estate trade, bank transfer, — than the poor.
Good luck on anything happening, since politicians dispense tax loop holes to favorites and we have an entire industrial sector of accountants, lawyers and lobbyists living off the complexity.
Komodo said;
too late was the cry. Komodo you should put a warning on the photos of this war criminal, for those who are confronted by the countenance of evil incarnate and war criminal. I throw up straight away and now I have to change my keyboard, and clean up my desk too.
What a free loading sick swine this war criminal turned out to be?
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Phil said;
Agreed, the constant moderator bashing of the tag team is so prevalent that Jon seems to have been influenced by it all.
Sorry, Passerby.
This one’s even worse, so please don’t click on it, or just struggle on with the vomit-covered keyboard before you really do have to bin it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10066124/Tony-Blair-to-advise-next-government-of-Albania.html
No, honestly. I mean, really. This is one sick fuck we’re looking at here.
“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!” — Mary
How did you know what anyone was producing – or that it would disturb your sleep – if you didn’t read it??
And Mary, I wouldn’t be clasping Macky, or Fedup, or Passerby, to my bosom too quickly, if I were you. They are nitwits.
The word “wily” is racist now?
Here, Macky & Co., have a read of this if you’re able. Read it slowly, now, and pay attention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
The origins of the term “wog” are unknown. Various suggestions are made, but none of them are definitive.
And Fedup, if he had half or even 1/4 a brain, would know that
1) I am not an Orangeman – in fact far from it. Even my blood is green. (When it’s not blue.)
and 2) I have never defended zionism, here or anywhere. I’m active in the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
and 3) if someone used a racist term in relation to Suhayl, I would be among the first to denounce it. As I’m sure Suhayl knows.
So get a grip and stop posting nonsense, the three of you.
‘“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!” — Mary
How did you know what anyone was producing – or that it would disturb your sleep – if you didn’t read it??’
Based on previous experience dear Dreoilin. Please stay out of it. Are you aware you are casting aspersions now by calling people ‘nitwits’. Macky is not a nitwit.
“Based on previous experience dear Dreoilin.”
LOL!
“Please stay out of it.”
No, Mary. I’m well aware that you believe that you have more of a right to post here than I do. But to quote yourself, I’ll post here as long as Jon and Craig allow me to. Certainly dimwits like Fedup will not drive me away. Nor will you for that matter.
And now that Mary has finally shown that she’s perfectly capable of using italics when she wants to, I’ll take a break. I have some very interesting stuff to read – elsewhere.
Dreoilin said;
Evidently the long cut and paste are indicative of a generic racist term used, that is apparently not the issue. However we are then “ordered to get a grip”. Kindly stop overstepping your boundaries as another poster on this blog, and stop telling people what to do. There seems to be somewhat of a didactic approach that is becoming ever so prevalent, a most unwelcome development.
Posters can make their own minds up without any nanny entity guiding them along, and telling them what they ought to be doing?
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Komodo said;
First of all thanks for the warning this time Komodo. I did venture to take a look at the war criminal, and I would agree with you on the above statement. The crooked snarl on his face, and the expressionless eyes, are telling of an evil within, strange that most deviant torturers and mass murderers tend to exhibit the same none linguistic feature, through displayed facial expressions.
The crooked snarl on his face, and the expressionless eyes, are telling of an evil within…
Though the contracted pupils suggest that he has been snorting Sarin, too…
Komodo observed;
Indeed sir! Thanks for the chuckle Komodo.
I do wish you buggers would shut up.
Breaking –
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-crisis-assad-agrees-to-russian-proposal-to-place-chemical-weapons-under-international-control-8806595.html
Will the US make impossible conditions? Will Assad stall and stall?
Hurry, hurry prace bets now!
@ Mike
“I get the feeling, though, that a deal has been done through those oft-quoted back-channels. Everyone can save face now —”
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Certainly. It was fairly clear from the start that there would be no military action and no war, much less WW3. Clear to everyone, that is, except some of the more turbocharged Eminences, ever eager to damn the US and the West more generally.
“I do wish you buggers would shut up” was not directed at Passerby, but at an ongoing squabble. Which seems to have spontaneously evaporated.
@ NR (10h32) :
Thank you for that post (the part on Obama and the “war”).
Surely you would agree though that nothing in my predictive posts could be described as “paroxsyms of hyperbole”?
Deleted a couple from Habbabkuk now, both exclusively posted for the purposes of provocation.
Gosh, poor old mod seems to need a stronger fireproof jacket these days – as it happens, I am putting one on now. It’s a special asbestos-free one; cost me a bomb, but tax-deductible as a business expense!
As usual there are calls for Asbestos-Free Mod to delete more of one faction or another, or to delete nothing at all, and the various requests are, of course, quite incompatible. I suggest anyone who has a strong view on it contact Craig using the contact form and request clarification. I have explained rather a lot here that more scissors would require a moderation policy, which we still do not have.
In the interim, not responding in kind is still excellent advice, but still, it seems, rather difficult for a lot of posters. “Not responding” means not responding at all. Try it 🙂
Thanks for clarification, and also for the heads up on the current and ongoing crisis Komodo.
It appears there is a face saving exercise devised by the Russians that has allowed Obama to back out. However as you have already mentioned and I believe others have also alluded to. There remains the implementation of the proposals, which are as yet unclear.
Will there be an ever greater encroaching regimen of interference in Syria, with a view to Iraq redux, through a string of impossible demands?
Will there be a new false flag planned to further the cause of war?
I recollect reading around here about the fact that the missiles fired in the Med. were shot down by the Russians, as these approached the Syrian air space.
With the above in mind, we can discern the vacillations of the warmongers, in their half hearted dash to ignite the fuse for yet another round of mass killings and waves of destruction to be unleashed upon yet another Arab land.
Let us hop that there will be no new war, however “impossibly small” it may prove to be. In that scenario Assad has won the battle and soon thereafter he can sweep Syria clean from the foreign mercenaries who have been injected into Syria to “rebel” against the Syrian government.
Right on topic, actually, Daniel. I suspect that German’s look was a baleful glare punctuating a warning. National law cannot override jus cogens. The Germans found that out the hard way, and they have not forgotten. The warning is particularly pointed because the US is now committing aggression in customary international law and federal common law, (as codified by Article 8 bis clause 2(g)) in sending on behalf of a State armed bands, groups, irregulars or mercenaries, which carry out acts of armed force against another State, or substantial involvement therein, in which the element of control, though joint, is not in doubt. Remember Brennan’s Bandar’s asshole buddy.
And here we have another one who abused the trust of the public in ‘celebrities’ and those that make/present TV.
“We say Mr Souter is a deviant sexual abuser of young boys, particularly boys in uniform and those wearing shorts.”
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/child_sex_offence_trial_of_former_bbc_radio_norfolk_presenter_michael_souter_gets_underway_1_2374418
Re Komodo and Passerby’s comments on the features of Mr bLiar :
I would once again recommend a reading of the late Leo Abse’s work “Blair – the man behind the smile”.
“Deleted a couple from Habbabkuk now, both exclusively posted for the purposes of provocation.”
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Ah ha, a new criterion : “provocation”.
And with new insights : ” excusively (posted for the purposes of provocation)”
May I remind you of Craig’s criteria (cited a couple of times) and his observation that no-one is entitled to speculate on the motivation of posters, as this cannot be known?
Nevermind – I’m disinclined to count my chickens re. Syria. The chickenhawks are still hovering. Containing and neutralising multiple CW caches, some in rebel-held territory, during a civil war, even with Assad’s agreement, looks like a near-impossibility. I think there is some chance of engaging the truly Syrian opposition, and even some of the Saudi/Qatari-backed militants, in an accord to permit this. But an estimated 20% of the opposition is jihadist, and may well be interested in grabbing some CW’s for itself.
Someone’s boots on the ground will be needed, and the US isn’t going to feel its interests served if those boots are Russian or Iranian. Nor is it guaranteed to support Security Council resolutions unless they call for the (preferably humiliating) trial and execution of Assad. The French ditto. Hollande is the new Blair…
We’re not out of the woods yet, Habbalina. The Gulf Co-operation Council, I’ve just read, are furious there’s no war. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the regime “carries out another gassing” over the next week or so, although al Nusra and their little helpers have fucked this one up so badly that the focus of AIPAC/PNAC’s eternal war may shift elsewhere, for a while.
Pointless speculation?
Guilt as charged m’lud !! Take him down…
Back to the formatting now! I do not wish to engage with you either Dreoilin. I do not appreciate inconstancy nor I do not wish to drive you away as if I am able. Don’t be so silly but just stay out of the troll stuff wrt me when it appears and that will be fine by me.
I am away for three daya from tomorrow so will appreciate a change of scenery.
@ Mary
“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?”
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Is it not the case that you yourself have often referred to me as “It”?
Mod/Jon (or anyone else) to confirm, please.
@ Mod / Jon
“Deleted a couple from Habbabkuk now, both exclusively posted for the purposes of provocation.”
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On a further question of good practice, Jon : in the past you have left the author of the post and the time, and deleted the text of the post. You now appear to be deleting everything. This has the effect of altering historical record. Soviet-style air-brushing?
[Mod: answered at least twice before, here it is again]
9/11 anniversary tomorrow.
There was another 40 years ago.
40 Years On
Remembering the First 9/11
by PETER MAYO
Wednesday 11th September 2013 marks the fortieth anniversary of what in Latin America is referred to as ‘El primer 11 de septiembre’(the first 11th September). It is the fortieth anniversary of the bloody coup which paved the way, and is said to have been deliberately staged to pave the way, for the introduction of the very same neoliberal reforms that, later at a global level, are shown to have benefited from the measures adopted post 9/11/2001. 9/11/2001 marks the third 11th September following the one in Chile and later the coup in Turkey, for similar reasons (paving the way for a neoliberal market economy), which was staged a day later, that is on the 12th September, this time in 1980.
That attack on the presidential palace (La Moneda) in Santiago, Chile, of Tuesday September 11th 1973 brought an end to one of the longest parliamentary democracies in the region and paved the way for the policies and blueprints developed by the Chicago Boys, Chilean economists , who were sold on Milton Friedman’s principles, to start being implemented against the backdrop of a reign of fascist terror. This reign led to the execution of thousands of declared or suspected leftists. Among the victims were intellectuals such as the major nueva canción composer, Victor Jara,i who was killed by death squads in a sports stadium that is now named after him. A belated trial regarding his execution started this year. In fact, on 28 December 2012, Judge Miguel Vazquez accused Pedro Barrientos Nunez(who resides in the USA), a former lieutenant, and Hugo Sanchez Marmonti, an ex-colonel, of involvement in Jara’s murder. There have been calls to the US government, notably by Jara’s widow, Joan Turner, to extradite Barientos.ii
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/10/remember-the-first-911/
Agree Komodo, how are they going to collect those CW from around the countries caves, without running the gauntlet of desperate jihadi’s, out to make a name for themselves, martyrs and B&Q mercenaries, the logistics of Hades.
No doubt, if the Gulf council is seething for being deprived of Christian/Shia blood, they will already given instructions to obstruct the latest effort, no need for a Saudi position.
Bring on the Camel bot racing.
Image of the Year 2013 – CHEMICAL WEAPONS?!
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7t89yG3NCBNZVA5ME5BQ1RLa1E/edit
12 U.S. Intelligence Officials Tell Obama It Wasn’t Assad
washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/12-u-s-intelligence-officials-tell-obama-it-wasnt-assad.html