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.
Yes, thanks for those pointing out that Villager’s comment thanking the Habbu-Clown for his advise is still there; I shake with dread at the anticipation that my error will be shortly causing Village to explode into drawn-out insulting & absuive mockery, as he does whenever Mary makes an error or leaves out puntuation symbol !
Kempe’s attempt to smear GG by linking to a YouTube vid under which the Uploader is taken to pieces in the comments for dishonestly edited the video clip, is a classic own goal !
Komodo said;
I hope whilst anaesthetised, encryption can be really painful and now with the NSA beans spilled even its efficacy is in doubt. What harm is there for the mares to be seen and not touched, sort of a distance admirer status?
Rush-hour’s dying down in Tel Aviv, I guess…
http://www.scribd.com/doc/166817108/1NIE-on-Israeli-Chemical-Weapons
Here’s my theory:
1. Syria has never produced chemical weapons (aside, perhaps from redistilling its nerve gas precursors as they age). Czechoslovakia and the USSR/Russia have provided its military CW capability from the start. (Para 40)
2. Israel, on the other hand, has rolled its own, with the help and collaboration of the US, (ibid, para 42)
Just a theory.
Of course Galloway’s supporters, who have to believe he can do no wrong, will split hairs and point to the fact that he said it was only a theory but if it is his theory he must believe it. It would be too much to expect that he actually has any evidence of course. That Israel may have done so before is not evidence and doesn’t change the fact that that he lied.
Well, I am not all that entranced by Mr Galloway, but the fact is that there is a difference between theorising and stating. He did not say ‘Israel supplied the weapons’. He said it was his theory. Of course he should still supply reasons why this is his theory but perhaps he, like Habbakuk, is reluctant to explain himself. In both cases one wonders why, of course.
“That Israel may have done so before is not evidence”
– well, actually it would be a valid part of the logic leading up to a theory (has it, by the way?)
“and doesn’t change the fact that that he lied” _ except that he didn’t.
but if it is his theory he must believe it
No, if it’s his theory, he should test it against other theories. Just as if it’s your theory that Assad did the Damascus attack, then that must be tested against the theory that the rebels did it. If the evidence is equivocal or nonexistent either way, then no-one has any obligation to believe either theory.
That said, I wouldn’t trust Galloway further than I’d trust you, as a primary source of information.
@Komodo.
Now look what you’ve made me do!
“You may have to encrypt him” …indeed.
All he wanted was what any healthy stallion wants. How is he going to chat up the fillys now? And the rest of him is flying round the TOR network somewhere. The up-side is it’ll take the NSA weeks to work out WTFs’s going on.
http://media.photobucket.com/user/mummiblondu/media/funny/HORSE.gif.html?filters%5Bterm%5D=funny%20horse&filters%5Bprimary%5D=images&filters%5Bsecondary%5D=videos&sort=1&o=21
@ Technicolour,
I like the sincerity in your reasoning. It’s inviting and pleasant. Appreciated, Sir/Madam [not endorsed :o].
I said “may”, Sofia. Put that private key down. I would much rather he had his way with any e-filly he fancies, personally.
I once rode the spitting image of that beast, btw. Called Big Brother – the watchfulness must go with the breed.
Britain is accused of uprooting families in Ascension Island
Chagossians redux.
“who have to believe he can do no wrong, will split hairs”
Hark at the chutzpah !
Socrates hated the Sophists, for their practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay, which leads directly to the truth being twisted, & honesty subverted, in order to appeal to those doing the paying; a dark art relying on Sophism, now the forte of spin doctors, shameless lawyers, smear slingers, internet trolls & all other defenders of the indefensible.
militants and Israel get to keep WMDs
Ambushed, Branded “War Criminal”
I love it when I see the war criminals are made to feel not so invincible.
Latest HOAX from Israel: “Russia delivering S-300 to Iran”!!
http://rehmat1.com/2013/09/12/israel-lets-replay-the-s-300-hoax-against-iran/
Rehmat,
Iran is manufacturing its own indigenous version of the S300. further, it is now capable of tracking, targeting and warning the U2 ghost spy apparatus.
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‘Jewish game developer to market Holocaust game for smartphones’
Who was it who coined the term “holocaust industry”?
Evidently the anti-Semitic Nintendo
Rejected the game as it deemed the game unfit for children.
However Gilad goes further and explores the issue by offering some ideas in his article.
You can’t keep good obsesssives and West haters down for long.
No sooner has the awful realisation sunk in that there will be no military action against Syria, no Israeli attack on Iran, no regional war and no WW3 than they’re off preparing their next bouts of hysterics :
“..the neocon rats have scurried away. But they’ll be back. In the meantime, what other mischief can they get up to? Gaza, Chechnya, Taiwan, the Kuril Islands…what will do as a snack now that the main course is off the menu?” (from Mike, 11/09, 23h07)
It’s all very sad. And not, I suspect, doing the reputation of this blog (and by association – unjustly – that of Craig Murray himself any favours.
Quite right Habby. Instead, they should be welcoming another positive development like this:
“U.S. and Iran are edging toward direct talks
The Syrian crisis has put the two nations back on speaking terms, though behind the scenes for now.
By Paul Richter
September 11, 2013, 6:15 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Signaling a possible thaw in long-frozen relations, the Obama administration and the new leadership in Iran are communicating about Syria and are moving behind the scenes toward direct talks that both governments hope can ease the escalating confrontation over Tehran’s nuclear program.
President Obama reportedly reached out to Iran’s relatively moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, through an exchange of letters in recent weeks. The pragmatist cleric is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, and after years of the United States cold-shouldering his ultraconservative predecessor, U.S. officials say it’s possible they will meet with Rouhani on the sidelines.
Beyond that, U.S. and Iranian officials are tentatively laying the groundwork for potential face-to-face talks between the two governments, the first in the rancorous 34 years since radical students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and founded the Islamic theocracy. Diplomatic relations have been broken ever since.
Both governments have issued conciliatory public statements in recent days that suggest a new willingness to scale back the tension.”
Full article: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-us-iran-20130912,0,1520818.story
More profoundly we are witnessing the emergence of New Obama still in his early days of his second-term:
‘I was elected to end wars, not start them’ This statement will go down in history, as will Margaret Brennan’s question and, by association, name.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-cbs-reporter-margaret-brennan-responsible-for-current-proposal-on-syria/
Also good to see Putin talking directly to the American people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html?ref=world&_r=1&
Habbakuk, this is so sadly hollow that one really might be forgiven for thinking you have to meet a post quotient. Mike’s list – he’s a relatively infrequent poster I think – contained the word ‘Chechnya’. You, to fit your narrative that this board is ‘anti West’, have often pretended to be horrified at the lack of criticism of Russia, among others. Now you still attempt to fit a list which includes Russia into another meaningless insult, which includes the insinuation that people who are anti-war are actually pro war. Why?
What an honour to be following the 2 great sceptics. My problem with your scepticism chaps is that you assume so much. My reading of many of the posters on this board is that they like me are disgusted at the invasion of Maalula and the killing of the Aramaic Chrisitans. They like me are distraught by the 1000s killed over the last 2 years including the gas attacks in Aleppo in March and Ghouta in August. The signs that the US and Iran are speaking is to be applauded and is, as Villager says, very welcome news. Diplomacy and negotiation is the ONLY way to solve these issues as we all know. That must mean all parties talking..eventually. What many of us are suspicious of from the Western governments are the FOREIGN POLICIES in the same way we are cautious about Foreign Policy emanating from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tel Aviv, Tehran and Bejing. This scepticism does not make anyone ‘anti-western’ as you claim.
@Komodo, yes the buggers are noisy and I can’t for the hell of it thin what their aims and objectives are apart from keeping you awake, I’m that bit too far away.
Is it ground defence, keeping the locals at bay?
So Gen Salim Idris is standing up against a UN proposal that has been agreed by the US, who pays for his arse being wiped! He wants to stop the UN taking control over the chemical weapons he used against the children of Goula, well only the children and supporters of Assad.
Salim Idris should be stripped of his rank and be put before the ICC, he must not lay his hands on chemical weapons, nobody should.
Maybe a sustained pay freeze for these ruthless useless mercenaries might be in order, but it won’t happen. Gen Idris only opened his big mouth because he is guaranteed the support of the terror paymasters of the GCC.
http://www.arabnews.com/news/464176
So when is this marriage between it and the villager?
@Greenmachine, you don’t seem to follow the “great sceptics”, twisted reasoning, which is if everybody is termed a self-hating Western, then they & their concerns are de-legitimised from being of any relevance, and they are also to be classed as some sort of deviant to be excluded from decent society; exactly like the Zionists do with the term “self-hating Jew”.
@ Technicolour (18h50)
In your unseemly haste to throw a little punch at me you have overlooked something.
Mike includes Chechniya and the Kurils as ‘examples’ of where the Western ‘neocons might attempt to strike next.
Chechniya and the Kurils are in the Russian Federation.
So he’s suggesting that the Western ‘neocons’ might attempt to stir up trouble for the Russian Federation (not very difficult to imagine how).
To take your question : why is he suggesting that?
Answer : because he’s weaving the usual anti-Western narrative.
Hope you understand now, always glad to help.
@ Villager
“So when is this marriage between it and the villager?” (from Nevermind)
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I recall that’s he’s cracked this silly ‘joke’* before (and got bollocked for the vague whiff of homophobia it contains). I don’t know whether he is homophobic or not, but he certainly seems to have a bit of an obsession with posters marrying. Very strange.
* Remember what Mark Twain apparently said : “A German joke is no laughing matter”
@ Greenmachine
“What many of us are suspicious of from the Western governments are the FOREIGN POLICIES in the same way we are cautious about Foreign Policy emanating from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tel Aviv, Tehran and Bejing. This scepticism does not make anyone ‘anti-western’ as you claim.”
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That’s all very well, Greenmachine, but explain then why the Eminences appear to reserve their caution, suspicion and scepticism – as expressed in their posts on this blog – to the foreign policies of the West.
Hababkuk, Mike did not use the word ‘Western’, as you know, since you yourself supplied it outside the quotes. If you had read the Shock Doctrine you would know that the current incarnation of Russia has been dictated by neoconservative, or neoliberal – the terms are interestingly interchangeable – policies since Yeltsin. Sorry, have no pleasure in pointing this out, but to suit your tone of gravitas it might be a good idea to do some basic research.
Given recent developments and the obvious sense of anger and disappointment around here, I think we need to get one thing straight:
Many of you were secretly hoping for an attack on Syria.
That’s right. You were actually looking forward to reporting civilian casualties to your little echo-chamber here. You couldn’t wait for “Obomber” to rain down cruise missiles on Syrian civilians so that you could congratulate each other on how your anti-Western narrative had come true.
You hate Britain, America, and the West in general so much that you were positively looking forward to as much bloodshed as possible, so that your worst prejudices would be confirmed. Much as with Palestine, Syria was nothing more than a tool for you to use to beat the West. Now that it looks highly unlikely that there will be any intervention, you will drop the Syrians and find some new ground on which to plant your warped views.
How else does one explain your feverish attempts to make the very worst of the de-esculation? They are lamentable. Log out, clear your heads for a few hours, come back and witness how pissed off you all are about it.
Never, once, has any of you shown any consideration for the ordinary Syrian people in all this. Their suffering is only of interest to you as long as you can use it to lambast the West. As has been pointed out to you on numerous occasions, you are not interested in suffering if it cannot be attributed, however falsely, to the West. Whether it be in Africa, Asia, South America, or elsewhere, you simply do not care. Which is a pretty pisspoor record for those who claim to be interested in human rights.
It’s akin to Chinese slave labor required by the cost-conscious West, this piecework posting. A Penny for your thoughts is a high price.
Apparently quantity always trumps quality.