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.
So diplomatic plates can be intercepted if its about a person.
He’d have been safer if he’d stayed in the car. Must have known the risk he was taking – and it’s not inconceivable that the embassy staff wanted to end the deadlock, sorry to say.
“So diplomatic plates can be intercepted if its about a person.”
The international protocols & indeed sovereignty of Latin Amarican countries are treated with colonial/racist contempt by certain Western countries; perhaps in hindsight he should have done like Snowden, and go to the Russian embassy, or even the Chinese, countries too important to treated with contempt by the West.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/06/julian-assange-out-of-wikileaks-arrested-in-london-hoax/
Assange arrested I think not – look at the wording
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/30/julian-assange-embassy
Correa may have been finally pissed off by the performance…
“If it’s true, looks like Assange has been grabbed by the polis.”
Komodo, haven’t we heard this story before?
Fair enough, Anon, but note that the spoof journalist is not the same as the (?spoof) journalist in this Indymedia link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/104061
I which I note that “believed” is wrongly spelled, now you mention it.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/11/bedroom-tax-should-be-axed-says-un-investigator
UN Investigator: Bedroom Tax “shocking”.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/11/un-housing-bedroom-tax-absolute-disgrace
Tory chairman: criticism “a disgrace”.
If it’s true, we haven’t heard this story before, Villager. And I am happy to agree that it isn’t if it isn’t.
If this is a hoax, Indymedia, then it is going to get the rap for it, again, that does not look good.
Back to Campaigning for a healthy 2020 Olympics without ABC suits.
Komodo its 9/11 not April Fools Day. Now look you’ve got our prize dummies all excited, Nevermind and Macky.
Its an insult to Assange’s intelligence that he would go down to a local clinic. They would catch him at the steps of the main entrance to the building itself *before* he stepped into any car!
Very insightful report. Recommend read whole, but herewith some extracts:
“Al Qaeda and the threat in Syria
By THOMAS JOSCELYNSeptember 10, 2013
Al Qaeda and its extremist allies have grown much stronger since late 2011. Al Qaeda does not control the entire rebellion, which is made up of a complex set of actors and alliances. However, al Qaeda and its allies dominate a large portion of northern Syria and play a key role in the fighting throughout the rest of the country. These same al Qaeda-affiliated forces have fought alongside Free Syrian Army brigades. There is no clear geographic dividing line between the most extreme fighters and other rebels. For example, al Qaeda’s affiliates played a key role in the fighting in Latakia, an Assad stronghold on the coast, in early August. And within the past week we saw al Qaeda-affiliated fighters lead an attack in Malula, a Christian village not far from Damascus. These are just two examples chosen from many.
Al Qaeda has made the fight for Syria a strategic priority. Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s emir, has repeatedly called on jihadists to concentrate their efforts on the fight against the Assad regime. But al Qaeda desires much more than Assad’s defeat. Al Qaeda wants to control territory and rule over others. This is consistent with al Qaeda’s desire to establish an Islamic Emirate in the heart of the Levant. In his book, Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner, Zawahiri discussed at length the importance of creating such a state. Al Qaeda and associated groups have consistently pursued this goal in jihadist hotspots around the globe and this is especially true in Syria today.
Two known al Qaeda affiliates operate inside Syria: Jabhat al Nusrah [Al Nusrah Front] and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (or Levant). The leaders of both groups have sworn an oath of loyalty (bayat) to Ayman al Zawahiri and al Qaeda’s senior leadership. The heads of these two affiliates openly bickered over the chain-of-command in early April 2013. This forced Zawahiri to intervene, but the head of the ISIS initially rejected Zawahiri’s decision to have the two remain independently-operated franchises. It appears that some sort of compromise has been brokered, however, as the two al Qaeda affiliates fight alongside one another against their common enemies, including Kurdish forces in the north.
Al Qaeda is not just a terrorist organization. Al Qaeda’s leaders are political revolutionaries seeking to acquire power for themselves and their ideology in several countries. They have a plan for Syria. Al Qaeda’s affiliates inside Syria are not just fighting Assad’s forces, or committing various other acts of terror. They are seeking to inculcate their ideology within the Syrian population. Many Syrians have no love for al Qaeda’s ideology, or its harsh brand of sharia law. But al Qaeda knows this and has adjusted its tactics accordingly. Jabhat al Nusrah and the ISIS are providing local governance in the areas they control, and are seeking to win hearts and minds by making various social services available to the population. This is a continuation of a trend that we’ve seen elsewhere, beginning in Yemen, where al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula launched Ansar al Sharia as its political face. Ansar al Sharia does more than fight al Qaeda’s enemies. It has provided food, electricity, medical care, and various other necessities to Yemenis. Al Qaeda’s affiliates in Syria have copied this strategy in Syria, and are increasing their popular support in some areas (especially in the north and east) in this manner. This model is being implemented in Raqqah, Aleppo, Deir al Zor.”
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/09/al_qaeda_and_the_thr.php#ixzz2eZpf4Ww5
@ Villager:
Only fair to point out that the author of that piece, Thomas Joscelyn, is a fellow of the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Of which you may not have heard, but Sourcewatch, and Jeffrey Blankfort, know it well:
For those of you who haven’t heard of this “foundation,” it is one of the most influential and powerful of the Zionist lobbies which changed its name and sprung into action immediately after 9-11. If you check its board, its advisors, you’ll find a lot of familiar names, the neocons, of course, and some surprises, like the Democrat’s ranking African-American spokesperson, Donna Brazile. It claims to have seven articles from FDD sources appear in the mainstream media every day and if you check its site, that appears to be the truth. That President Bush chose this group for the first of a series of speeches defending his Iraq policy is not an accident but a genuflection to the FDD’s power. Another reflection of its power is the apparent unwillingness of the major media, such as the NY Times, to identify it for what it is.
Joscelyn himself has spent most of his career exaggerating the threat AQ allegedly poses to US interests/hegemony. Like “seeking to win hearts and minds by making various social services available to the population”
DISCLAIMER:
No, I don’t think AQ are a good idea. Nor do I think chickenhawks flapping their wings and screeching abuse at AQ to drum up yet another war are a good idea either.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies
Gaffney, Kirkpatrick (RIP), Krauthammer, Kristol, Perle, Woolsey, Liebermann, Gingrich.
All the old familiar faces.
Doesn’t mention Joscelyn, but here he is:
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/about-fdd/team-overview/senior-fellow-and-executive-director-center-for-law-and-counterterrorism/
Some commentators on Obama’s speech are making a Goldilocks analogy in regard to the pin-prick vs. minuscule vs. massive, in trying to find the missile strike that’s just right.
The US political planets plopped back into their customary, cozy orbits. The left argues whether Obama/Kerry are merely brilliant or the most brilliant ever in outwitting Putin, while Fox News declares Putin outfoxed Obama.
Pre-speech, a Fox opinion programme had a segment featuring who else but Hitler, complete with B&W footage of thousands of goose-steppers holding Nazi banners high.
They reminded us that it was gas that Assad used on babies, and it was also gas that Adolph used to kill millions, while the world stood by. As if Assad is rolling massive armies on his neighbours. He barely holds Damascus.
A more salable comparison would be the Joker filling the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade balloons with poison gas.
Samuel Johnson updated: “Invoking dead children and Hitler is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Now that the war-train is stopped on a siding, awaiting bridge repairs, I see Cameron and Hague are banging on the caboose, begging reboarding. Have UK vital interests been adversely affect by the NSA switching off a feed, perhaps interfering with industrial espinionage or insider trading. With some 800,000 people in the US alone having Snowden/Manning style access we can be sure there was a bit of that going on. It’s irresistible.
@ nevermind: “Back to Campaigning for a healthy 2020 Olympics without ABC suits.”
There’s an upside. I always wanted to be a Mutant Post-Teenage Ninja Turtle. Weren’t most superheros born from such disasters?
A giant beanstalk could grow, where a single bean feeds 10,000 people, ending world hunger.
Later
“Now look you’ve got our prize dummies all excited, Nevermind and Macky.”
My comments stand whetever the report is true & not, if fact I repeat it again as you didn’t seem to have followed the first time;
“The international protocols & indeed sovereignty of Latin Amarican countries are treated with colonial/racist contempt by certain Western countries; perhaps in hindsight he should have done like Snowden, and go to the Russian embassy, or even the Chinese, countries too important to treated with contempt by the West.”
Now go back to that careless village that keeps losing you.
“No, I don’t think AQ are a good idea. Nor do I think chickenhawks flapping their wings and screeching abuse at AQ to drum up yet another war are a good idea either.”
Komodo i understand the risks of possible slant, however, their reporting on AQ is solid and they are not for starting another war in Syria.
Changing blogs, check this one out, where his conclusion is :
“How was Gulf One a failure? Because we backed the wrong side. We should have JOINED Saddam in destroying the corrupt and degenerate Arab oil monarchies. The people of these countries will inevitably rise up, and the consequences for the US will be messy in the extreme. Instead we destroyed a republican dictator, and left the way open for the rise of the mullahs in Iran. Great job, folks. Great job. Go to war, shaft the US. No need to worry about our enemies destroying us. We’re doing just fine on our own, thank you very much. Another cup of tea?”
http://orbat.com
@ Villager. 11 05am
“Very insightful report. Recommend read whole, but herewith some extracts:
“Al Qaeda and the threat in Syria
By THOMAS JOSCELYN”
Thanks for a rare copy and paste feast. A great insight there into how the Syria narrative is being spun in the inner dreamland of the usual pack of Noecon/Zionist fantasists.
…
@Komodo. 11 19am 11 26am
”…one of the most influential and powerful of the Zionist lobbies which changed its name and sprung into action immediately after 9-11.”
WoW! It must be sunny on your rock this morning to have given you that pure burst of speed.
Fourteen minutes! For a reptile with awful breath you sure know how to impress a girl.
Little Big Macky ruminates: “My comments stand whetever the report is true & not,….”
LOL! 🙂 He’s still waiting for confirmation!
Dreoilin was right to classify him as a ‘Nitwit’. More like MacDummy i’d say. Please do keep hanging on to your idiotic comment re diplomatic number plates.
Who is going to send armies for a regime change in London now?
Finally the UN is actually doing something other than for the benefit of facilitating bombing a third world country.
Of course we all know that it is not human rights abuses or political repression that is taking place here in UK. No, not at all, not at all (said in a thick set heavy accent of Comical Ali), and UN is just sore that we did not bomb somewhere we wanted anyway!!
FAO Mod,
you recommend to ignore is the best policy, and you certainly stick to your guns too. Looking at the infantile name calling taking place this morning, that is indulged by a certain usual suspect, yet none of these attacks on other posters are moderated.
Is there a spacial permit that certain posters have acquired to abuse the rest of the contributors to this blog and get away with it?
If so where can the rest of us apply for it?
Who is this clown that has the temerity to call posters in this third party blog “nitwits”,”dummies”,etc. Pray,where does this hubris come from and how may it be remedied, mod?
1000 plus scientists and engineers do not believe the official version of 911.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tTMMNTisBM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4tTMMNTisBM&nomobile=1
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.”
Habby, especially after watching Obama’s speech of last night, let it be acknowledged that you were absolutely the only person to have called it right.
This fact should be especially noted by all those Honourable’s who have, due to their own vacuity, called you a troll. I shall now give way to them to come forward.
it was gas that Assad used on babies…
Thanks for reminding me, NR. It was gas that Saddam used on Iranians and Kurds. And Reagan, the neocons’ hero, helped him:
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/05/odonnell-reagan-let-saddam-buy-and-use-chemical-weapons/
Bastard. But our bastard.
Instead we destroyed a republican dictator….
But he joined the Tea Party, so he had to go….
peace is the last thing on NYT’s warmongering mind:
11 Sept: NYT: Chemical Disarmament Hard Even in Peacetime
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and C. J. CHIVERS
David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington, and Karam Shoumali from Antakya, Turkey.
“What I’m saying is, ‘Beware of this deal,’ ” Dr. Smithson (Amy E. Smithson, an expert on chemical weapons at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California) added. “It’s deceptively attractive.”…
Then, experts said, large numbers of foreign troops would almost certainly be needed to safeguard inspectors working in the midst of the civil war…
Destruction and deactivation of those weapons could then take years.
The Obama administration is skeptical about whether this approach might work. A senior administration official called securing chemical arms in a war zone “just the first nightmare of making this work.” …
“I suspect some casualties would be unavoidable,” said Stephen Johnson, a former British Army chemical warfare expert who served two tours of duty in the Iraqi desert. “The question you have to ask is whether the benefits would be worth that kind of pain.”…
The rebel forces include two powerful groups that are openly aligned with Al Qaeda: the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The forces also include several other strongly Islamist formations that collaborate with the attackers, including Ahrar al-Sham, Ahrar al-Sharq, Liwaa al-Islam and Liwaa al-Tawheed…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/world/middleeast/Syria-Chemical-Disarmament.html?_r=0
UNHRC report just out –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24045680
Summary: everyone’s at it. Conclusion: military action won’t help at all.
Oddie – that looks like a fair assessment from the NYT. The only way of not adding more violence to the mix while decommissioning the CW’s is for all sides to agree to, and keep, an armistice while the work is being carried out. How likely do you think that might be? Be realistic.
Draft Security Council resolution:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10301732/The-full-text-of-the-French-UN-resolution-on-Syria.html