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.
Habby
“You are now, it seems, deleting ALL trace of the post. This, in my opinion, is airbrushing and falsifying ‘history’.”
It’s worth asking to what extent history is undermined in the deletion of petty, personal, childish bickering.
Perhaps you think history is some sort of soap opera…
“More generally : I hope you won’t take this badly (because it’s not meant as such), but I believe you are being played for a sucker by the likes of Fedup and Macky. Their ploy – for want of any ability to fight their corner by argument or solid facts – is to accuse you of bias in favour of me and other ‘dissidents’, adducing as ‘evidence’ complaints about your deletions and non-deletions; the objective being to goad you into proving you’re not biased by coming down heavily on me and certain others. They do not, of course, for a minute really believe that you’re biased in our favour or unduly lenient towards us. Their complaints are merely the equivalent of ‘social nudges’, and you appear to have fallen for it (or, at least, give them the impression that you have).
End of analysis”
Very good, habby.
That was precisely the approach used by Zionists when they used to criticise the BBC and other liberal mainstream media outlets for bias against Israeli govt policies.
You seem to be a bit of an expert.
What’s all this nonsense about Obama wants this or that? That’s like saying the metal lady on your Rolls Royce wants to go the gas station.
The prime movers of this geopolitical contretemps are the states party of the Rome statute. When they defined the crime of aggression they materially augmented UN authority. The whole Syria-strike Charlie Foxtrot was a cascading failure of US government attempts to escape UNSC authority in the shadow of aggression’s emergent status as customary international law. Faced with legal exposure in universal jurisdiction, the NATO satellites naturally balked.
Knowing he didn’t have to take any shit with his 2K operational warheads and his Spetsnaz, Putin used the A-word like a big knobby caveman club, driving the US to increasingly hilarious perversity in flustered reaction. The punchline of this big long aristocrats joke was, “While the Syria situation may not fit under a traditionally recognized legal basis under international law, it would nevertheless be justified and legitimate,” delivered deadpan by White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. A global laughingstock.
This is the usual pattern, I distinctly remember Sky News had an expert on “Bin Laden”, and “al Kaidy”, sitting there and analysing one of the very first packages of the infamous “la Kaidy Leader”, the package in which he is sitting with his pal Aymon with the mandatory Ak-47s and hung in the back ground there was a storm light.
The fucking expert did not know the “storm light” from his fucking arse and was pontificating that was a sign for the followers world wide who were taking note of the signals being “freely transmitted”!
The asshat could not understand in deep Afghanistan electricity is only a dream of a luxury and if anyone wants to take piss after dusk, needs to have a storm light to find his way to the toilet. The Storm light was a luxury for the “bum/anus/bottom warriors” aka Al Qaeda Leader!!!!!!
That is nothing new about the talking heads drafted in to “explain” the situation to the great unwashed. Nice job i you can get, bullshitting and getting paid for it too!
Habby
“There you go, Dreoilin – you’re only a friend as long as you toe the party line.”
This is total bollocks!
In terms of what we discuss on this board, I haven’t seen any political disagreement between Dre and Mary, other than over an Irish incident a few years ago, in which I also disagreed with Mary myself.
There are clearly other reasons for whatever dispute there is.
No surprise though to see you try to make political capital of it, even though it does expose you to further allegations of pure trolling.
Re Assad gassing his people when the UN inspectors came to town.
“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims of a big lie than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.” Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
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@A Node. 12 41pm
Thanks, even if your kind words lumber me with a little brother. I’ll do my best to live up to your endorsement. Mostly, as with tonight’s claim by Dad that his posts are “history” I don’t feel I can improve on the real thing.
UN rights council says Syria gas attack videos, photos fake
Saudi Arabia’s “Chemical Bandar” behind the Chemical Attacks in Syria
So where did the energy to melt those hundreds of tons of molten steel seen at the bases of the three WTCs come from? Definitely not the office furniture in WTC7, the command and control centre. Mebbe there was some magic in the packet of stale matzos Silverstein left behind at his desk
“They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading? By barbecuing heads? By eating the hearts of your victim? Is that opposition? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September? Opposition?”
President Bashar al-Assad (interview to American CBS news)
http://sana.sy/eng/21/2013/09/10/501729.htm
MSM still pining for Morsi, yet totally ignoring the PROCESS:
10 Sept: Egypt Independent: Constitutional committee elects sub-committees heads
The 50-member constitutional committee elected the heads of their sub-committees during the Tuesday session.
Sameh Ashour, head of the Lawyers Syndicate, was elected head of the Dialogue and Community Outreach Committee, while head of the Workers Union Ahmed Khairy became his deputy.
In the election of the Freedoms and Political Rights Committee, Huda al-Sada was elected the head of the committee, while the representative of the Coalition of the Revolution Youth, Amr Salah, became her deputy, and the representative of the National Union of Egyptian Workers Ahmed Khairy was elected in charge of communication.
Amr al-Shobaky claimed the role as head of the Governance System Committee, with Mohamed Abdelaziz as his deputy.
Other members of the Governance System Committee are Ahmed Eid, Wafd Party President Al-Sayed Al-Badawy, Ali Abdel Mawla, Gabber Nassar, Mona Zulfikar, Mohamad Samy, Ahmad al-Wakil and Maher Manna…
The committee includes 14 other members, including Film Director Khaled Youssef, Priest Safwat Bayadi, Bishop Antonius, Egypt’s Mufti Shawky Allam and prominent surgeon Magdy Yacoub.
Abdel Gelil Mostafa was also chosen to head the Drafting Committee.
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/constitutional-committee-elects-sub-committees-heads
war-mongering Israel Hayom, owned by Sheldon Adelson, loves Saudis, Jordanians & other warmongers, but notes:
Israel Hayom: Middle East tense as moment of truth on Syria draws near
Another regional nation that opposes a Western strike against Syria is Egypt. Egyptian President Adly Mansour met with American members of Congress in Cairo and beseeched them to oppose the strike. In a statement issued by the president’s office in Cairo, it was reported that Mansour had told the Congress members that an American attack would have extremely negative implications on the entire Middle East and that Egypt was vehemently opposed to any military intervention in the Syrian conflict…
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11831
David Swanson: Egyptians Head to Syria as Human Shields Against U.S. Attack
http://warisacrime.org/content/egyptians-head-syria-human-shields-against-us-attack
we couldn’t have Iraelis & their supporters being depicted as “frustrated warmongers”, could we?
10 Sept – USA Today: Russian plan on Syria adds to uncertainty in Israel
As the Obama administration suddenly pursues the diplomatic solution being
pressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Israel and its supporters and
lobbyists are in danger of being stranded and depicted as frustrated
warmongers,” said Chemi Shalev, Haaretz’s U.S.-based correspondent…
Worse, a deal to avoid military action against Syria will give Assad cover
to continue his slaughter of Syrians with conventional weapons, and endanger
Israel, said Israel Hayom columnist Dan Margalit…
Like many Israelis, Fefferman said she is worried that Iran will interpret
any diplomatic solution with Syria as a sign of weakness…
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/10/syria-military-strike-israel-iran/2791861/
911 truther
check out the real experts take, NIST are Lies
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp7aSpz14GYLXCCGUDFt4IQ
FEDUP.
Watched The Jim Steel Vid earlier. Thank you for the link
That is One forensic piece of investigating Well done the makers of that video.
It certainly shows who the real Evil minded Bastards are
I Wouldn’t be surprised if Steel was part of the same evils in Libya, saying as how he’s regarded as the best ( evil do’er, for evil politicians )
Great work right there Proving how it all Came From the very top in washington.
Looks like i’m Still Banned from Human Rights Watch
I would like to Know why they want to rain bombs on civilians in Syria….By offering Propaganda Support to that end
https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/10/syria-government-likely-culprit-chemical-attack
This the fookin understatement of the decade.
http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au/
straight-out warmongering. shame on MSM:
10 Sept – Sky News: Syria: Rebels Give US Targets To Defeat Regime
Rebels hand the US specific targets which would weaken the regime and say they will join jihadi groups in a push to Damascus.
By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent, on the Syria-Turkey border
It is widely acknowledged in northern Syria that this type of information is being passed to US “handlers” across the battlefield that is now Syria.
It means that rebel groups are passing on a picture of Bashar al Assad’s force position throughout the country to the CIA.,,
British advisers are assisting rebel groups on a variety of levels, but the Government continues to insist that it is “non-military”.
FSA sources tell Sky News that is true, but only in the “broadest sense” of non-military assistance…
In an Aleppo Christian church they have taken over a 3D model of the entire city. It is now covered in marker pins identifying rebel and government positions.
This is part of their planning meetings and indicates a new level of sophistication in their thought processes. They have been hopeless at times…
http://news.sky.com/story/1139496/syria-rebels-give-us-targets-to-defeat-regime
fingers crossed. love the Bahrain “tired” quote which ends the piece:
11 Sept – NYT: Obama to Weigh Russia Plan to Control Syria Arms
By MARK LANDLER and JONATHAN WEISMAN
President Obama, facing an almost certain defeat in obtaining Congressional support for a military strike against Syria, prepared to tell the nation on Tuesday night that he would give serious consideration to a proposal by Russia that international monitors take over and destroy Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons…
But at the end of two days of fast-moving developments, Congressional leaders said any vote on a strike had been pushed off as the focus shifted to diplomacy…
On Capitol Hill, at the United Nations and in foreign capitals, officials flocked to endorse Russia’s proposal as an alternative to involving the United States in the two-and-a-half-year-old civil war in Syria. The proposal also won the backing of the Syrian government…
On Capitol Hill, where opposition to a strike was hardening, senators emerged from lunchtime meetings with Mr. Obama optimistic that Congress could shift from a resolution authorizing force to one that would give diplomacy more time…
The diplomatic maneuvering brought criticism from some Arab countries, which have been impatient to put an end to a destabilizing civil war in the heart of the Middle East.
***”This does not stop the bloodshed in Syria,” said Bahrain’s foreign minister, Sheik Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, after a meeting of Persian Gulf states. “We are tired of procrastination and delay.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/world/middleeast/syrian-chemical-arsenal.html?pagewanted=all
Mary 10 Sep, 2013 – 10:04 pm
“John Pilger – The silent military coup that took over Washington.”
Although I share your cynicism about the guardians marketing motives it is great to see pilger more widely circulated. I was particularly struck by his closing sentence, another nuremberg fact, highly relevant to today, that I did not previously know:
@ Herbie
Thank you for ‘replying’ on behalf of Mod/Jon, Suhayl and Dreoilin. I’m sure they’re very obliged.
Although your three posts would merit correction and rebuke, I think I’ll wait for a response from the three addressees themselves (if they feel like doing so, of course) if it’s all the same with you.
It would perhaps be better if, in future, you occasionally replied to questions which I might address to you rather than acting ‘in loco parentis’ for others? Just a suggestion!
it seems the govt & MSM in the US have kept this letter from the American public.
DOCS: 9 Sept – Liveleak: Leaked documents letter from Syrian Parliament To The US House Of Representatives
Syrian Parliament Letter To The US House Of Representatives—An important document being censored by the US press…. “The main factor of 9/11 attacks was the hatred Wahhabi Jihadist Ideology adopted and financed by Saudis”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c7b_1378747496
at least BBC briefly discussed the Syrian letter to the UK before your parliamentary vote:
Syria’s Open Letter to the UK [29.08.2013]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqY_W29Eo2M
Ayman al Zawahiri (Al Qaeda leader) was a paediatrician in Egypt, Hastings Banda (Malawi’s dictator) was an Edinburgh and Glasgow-qualified medical practitioner, Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti’s bloody dictator was a medical doctor and finally, Josef Mengele was a medical doctor (as well as a PhD).
And let’s not forget Che Guevara.
Add to the hall of MD fame, Liam Fox. Promoting medicine by selling arms.
with the help of France, BBC is straight back to warmongering:
BBC: Syria conflict: France to float tough UN resolution
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius: “We have decided to take the initiative”
France will put a resolution to the UN Security Council to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international control so they can be destroyed, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says.
He said the resolution would threaten “extremely serious” consequences if Syria breached its conditions…
Earlier, Mr Fabius, who was speaking at a news conference in Paris, said the resolution, based around five points, would demand that Syria “bring fully to light” its chemical weapons programme.
The measure would also set up international inspections and controls of the dismantling process.
The resolution would be tabled under Chapter 7 of the UN charter covering possible military and non-military action to restore peace, Mr Fabius added…
The Russians have blocked all previous French-led efforts at the Security Council, says the BBC’s Christian Fraser in Paris…
On Tuesday, the Arab League signalled its support for the Russian initiative.
Its head, Nabil al-Arabi, said the League had always backed a political solution…
Mr Lavrov said the Russian initiative was “not a purely Russian initiative… It grew out of contacts we’ve had with the Americans”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama discussed the idea on the sidelines of a G20 summit last week, Mr Putin’s spokesman said on Tuesday…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24031203
“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.” Mark Twain
Thanks for your thoughts on encryption and the impending Orwellian noose around science’s neck. But will universities stand their ground? I somehow doubt it, most are dependent on Government in one way or other.
INTERLUDE FROM SYRIA………………………………
Thanks also for Ben’s link to the Fukushima cover up. When I saw all that emotion on Japanese faces last weekend, I thought of Geiger counters and our reluctance to speak up about nuclear failure, in order not to dent the massive interests in the PWR/nukes continuance, but what is really needed is initiative by our public health organs.
If Bluefin Tuna on the west coast of California are highly contaminated, why should we take any heed of the recalcitrant soothing messages from our politicians. This problem needs secrecy, like ice cream needs heat, i.e NOT, but that is all we are getting.
Hallooooo, Professors and health officials, where are thou? Where is your campaign to share/hold the Olympics in South Korea? or elsewhere?
What are our civil servants doing to inform us?
How much are same civil servants engaged in a blanket exercise to cover up serious facts?
If we can have a campaign to stop Socchi for reasons of brutality and harsh treatment towards Homosexuals in Russia, i.e. the risks to their health,
How come we can’t have a campaign, and it started here on this forum, right now, to move the 2020 Olympics to a country of Japan’s choosing, NOW, before they spent money, they should be spending on the meltdown scenario?
I think that the threat to the world has now become so acute that Japan should be forced to accept global expertise and help with this inherent PWR problem.
Should this issue get its own thread? Does a contaminated world make nuclear war more likely to happen in the minds of our chicken hawks, as Komodo so aptly calls them, as there is already some background radiation?
What should be the response of Sussex public health, Norfolk public health, what is their remit on civil nuclear disasters?
END OF INTERLUDE, carry on.
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself..”
Also Mark Twain.
Not aimed at you, Nevermind.
Agree about the Olympics. What amazes me is that anyone can still be induced to bid for the colossal white Olympic elephant, let alone Japan, Turkey and Spain. Surely the cost would be better spent on lasting, purpose-built, infrastructure for the country concerned? And in the case of Turkey and Japan, earthquake-resistant infrastructure?
Breaking:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/104061
If it’s true, looks like Assange has been grabbed by the polis.
Good points about costs, Komodo, we had the chance to share with France, but we blew it, could we not possibly have missed out on the nationalistic flag waving and gun touting to save some CO2 in the building process and show the world that sharing the Olympics is OK?
‘Sharing with France?’ I hear the tabloids scream ‘Sacre bleu….Non non non.
The contaminants will make expensive sea food, I mean warehouses full of frozen Tuna, a very valuable commodity, because everything caught in Japanese, well pacific waters will be excluded from the food chain, indeed they might as well stop fishing now.
South Korea has banned fish from eight Japanese prefectures four days ago.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-06/south-korea-bans-imports-of-japanese-fish-over-radiation-concern.html
Grabbed indeed, before he could see a doctor to diagnose why he was feeling ill. No doubt the Westminster and Chelsea is only concerned with his ability to ‘travel’, otherwise they would have kept him under observation.
So diplomatic plates can be intercepted if its about a person.
But if its about secret papers, drugs or guns, you’re welcome to get away with it under diplomatic immunity.
Indymedia link above:
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange has been arrested
Sources within the Ecuadorian embassy have informed this journalist that WikiLeaks founder and international fugitive Julian Assange, has been arrested by Scotland Yard detectives at a private medical clinic, located just a five minutes drive from the Ecuadorian embassy at Hans Crescent, London.
It is understood that Julian Assange has been detained by British authorities
It is understood that Julian Assange has been detained by British authorities
It is understood that Mr Assange had been feeling unwell in recent days, and after consultation from the in-house doctor he was referred to the specialist clinic.
Prior to entering the clinic Assange was arrested by undercover Scotland Yard officers who swiftly took him into their custody.
It is beleived that Assange was then transported to the nearby Chelsea and Westminister hospital, also in central London.
The incident only occured within the last 30-35 minutes and details are rapidly unfolding.
Even at this early stage it is understood that Assange was being transferred by diplomatic officials from the embassy, and that the convoy which he was travelling in had diplomatic plates.
More information will be made available as it comes in.
Any opinions, publications, comments, information etc made herein does not necessarily represent the opinion of this journalist or any of the publications that he contributes to.
Philip Dorling
If ‘Philip Dorling’ is the Canberra Times Dorling, this is credible. He got the Australian Wikileaks cables.