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.
There have been references above to this thrilling contest between George Galloway and two defenders of the West’s creation myth.
There should be only one defender of said narrative, but this is the BBC, so the supposed moderator joins in.
Anyway. These two fine ladies, in attempting to defend the indefensible, make total arseholes of themselves.
Only a matter of time, eh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24065846
Max Keiser was interviewed on some Irish prog where he pointed out that the BBC was the most censorious of those major outlets with whom he’s worked.
As I’ve said for some time now, the Propaganda Model no longer works at the BBC. It’s all command and control propaganda now at the BBC.
Probably important to look at Mark Thompson’s time at the BBC from 2004, and what measures he introduced whilst there. Are the big payoffs to senior BBC executives related to this in any way. We know he visited Israel for a tete-a-tete. And don’t forget that Channel 4 news was widely acclaimed to be the best on British TV and there was quite a startling change in its direction whilst he was head of Channel 4.
Further to Kempe’s earlier smearing youtube link, GG updates his theory;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24065846
Apologies, I didn’t see you posting the same link Herbie !
Macky
No worries.
It’s worth seeing at least twice. It really ought to be on a media studies course.
These people are now so poor at defending the fairytale that it can’t last much longer.
Let’s hope they realise the game is up, that they’re incapable of challenging the emergent truth, and they should move to reform, before it all descends into absolute chaos.
Imagine. We pay for this crap. We’re forced by law to pay for this crap they feed us.
Good summary of late capitalism though.
“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.”
Oh dear, I guess hiding behind “Anon” gives you license to be even more demented than the Habbu-Clown; last time you were asked to provide reasoning for smearing everybody here as “anti-Western”, you eventually came up with a bizarre quote from the looney manifesto of the deranged Unibomber as your “evidence”, so do you want to try again ?
To paraphrase Phil,”you are hilarious. Have you heard of psychological projection?”
“We pay for this crap. We’re forced by law to pay for this crap they feed us. Good summary of late capitalism though”
Nothing capitalist about it, Herbie.
Note: independent, for-profit media have been some of the most critical of military intervention in Syria. State-sponsored public broadcasters have been all for it.
“This puzzling event points to a foreign keyboard that is used. This due to the fact that the keyboard that carries “$” and “*” on the same “Key” is not an English keyboard of any sorts (check your keyboards and see the distance of five keys from each other). Thus we can safely assume that the keyboard of a foreign language would indicate the origin of the comments to be from without the UK shores.”
Correct me if I’m missing something but since when was being foreign something to be ashamed of?
Supposing he is, the evidence is somewhat flimsy.
This “expert” was quite influential in the good ol’ US of A, seemingly acting as a shill for the secular, freedom and democracy-loving insurgents.
The Inside Story Of How A Fake PhD Hijacked The Syria Debate
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/09/11/2601151/exclusive-mccain-and-kerry-cited-syria-analyst-with-false-credentials/?preview=true
Krishnamacky,
Despite what he did, I thought Kaczynski made a few interesting observations about the modern left. I can’t see any problem with referencing him on those. All the concerns you raise were covered in my original posts.
Anon
“Note: independent, for-profit media have been some of the most critical of military intervention in Syria. State-sponsored public broadcasters have been all for it.”
Is there anything beyond FOX are agin it because it’s Obama’s gig?
It would be interesting if there were evidence that corporate media was against it because they deemed it against corporate interests at the moment, and state media like the BBC, now just blindly follow govt policy.
‘V..GER’ reaches a milestone. Really? Just now, it’s leaving our solar system?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking-first-nasa-craft-exits-the-solar-system.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Greenmachine: “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.”
On the contrary it was the foregone conclusion by others who assumed that the war in Syria was not only *inevitable”, but that we were on the brink of WWIII. There was some measure of applause re the vote in Parliament and even less appreciation of how Obama is very ably steering the ship towards diplomacy.
As for your claim, “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.”, where is the uproar? Abe Rene made a compassionate observation, inspired by that i followed on one re AQ and Saudi Arabia and then Habby compared it with what if this had been a Palestinian village. If you think there are genuine foreign policy experts hanging around here, think again; else there wouldn’t be the levels of vacuity you observe when Craig is missing. Further, there are few serious posters around here with a truly global perspective, lots of myopic one-trick Palestinian ponies and then those, well, i should leave it there, but Fred’s pointed observation above of an earlier chat will give you a good feel of how partisan they can be.
@ Technicolour
“Hababkuk, Mike did not use the word ‘Western’, as you know, since you yourself supplied it outside the quotes.”
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Getting a little desperate, aren’t you?
When people use the word ‘neocons’ we know precisely to whom they’re referring.
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And yes, I have read the Shock Doctrine. Long-winded and not very convincing, which is , I suppose, why it appears to be quite a favorite with the Eminences.
@ Anon (20h14)
That, if I may say so, is a brilliant exposition of where the Eminences are coming from. Faultless and unanswerable!
“When people use the word ‘neocons’ we know precisely to whom they’re referring” – well, if you have actually read the Shock Doctrine, and its impeccable footnoted research, you would know that the term also applies to Russia. And who, apart from Russia is responsible for poor, bloody, tortured, devastated Chechnya? Honestly, Habbakuk, I do wish your critiques had some substance – it’s always interesting to see debates through prisms. Instead, it’s like wading through mud.
Anon, do you not think that your accusations apply rather more precisely to, say, Michael Gove, the man who screamed ‘you’re a disgrace’ repeatedly at people who voted against the cruise missiles? Have you actually met people – face to face – who hated ‘the West’? If so, why did they, and what kind of people were they? I’m interested.
Well said Fred and thank you for pointing out the tribalism that passes here for a concern of human rights.
At any rate i have reason to believe that no keyboard would combine a $ sign with a *, and that both would be alternative combinations with numeral digits. But look at the level that conspiracy theories here fall to, combined with an attempt to hound ‘foreigners’. Pathetic.
All this suburbia feels so alien here.
Said told me it was all olive groves once.
Across the low hills and dales of Palestine.
A patchwork of olive groves, fields and villages.
As far as the eye could see.
People lived here, people who’s families had roots as old and interwoven as the gnarled olive roots.
Palestinians, Jews and others from across the world tried to stop the destruction,
United by bonds of common humanity.
Some paid the ultimate price. http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
Gone, but never to be forgotten.
These lands will live again.
Young people here will fall in love, across the divides of culture and history.
New olives will grow.
New children too.
And this suburban wasteland?
Never, never, never again.
The humilation of Jo Coburn by George Galloway on Daily Politics today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LD956agi5U
Of course, the people who voted against the cruise missiles may have done so because they secretly hated the west and wanted the cruise missiles to bomb the east but despite that voted against them because – oh, good grief. Do people’s brains really work like this?
So Galloway has now changed his “theory”. So what? He still has zero evidence and it doesn’t alter the fact that he lied in parliament. He’s just full of bluster and bombast, diverting attention at every opportunity and guilty of the most transparent hypocrisy. Yes he’s critical of the “head chopping and hand chopping Saudi Arabia” but is quite willing to work for the even worse head chopping and hand chopping Iran.
@ Macky
“Oh dear, I guess hiding behind “Anon” gives you license to be even more demented than the Habbu-Clown;”
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And your own real name, Macky, is…….?
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Dreoilin was really spot on about you. 🙂
Villager, no-one is stopping you from posting about Tibet, say. Or West Papua. Or Somalia. Do please feel free to expand the knowledge of this board with some factual, detailed and pertinent research.
@ Technicolour
Here’s the full quotation from Mike’s original post (11/09 at 23h07):
“Yes, Daniel R: There is a big dog standing guard over Syria right now, and 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?”
Do you still maintain that Mike had Russian neocons in mind when he referred to Chechniya?
And now stop being so foolish.
Would it be fair in thinking that the resources of most countries are controlled by the monopolies that own the majority of shares and debts in the bond market including assetwealth and promisary notes.
This vast wealth are the market forces that seek total control through manipulation.
The current system must not fail, only a concerted effort by mankind can put ideas and construed further to safe guard a future.
The current situation as William Hauge stated today are cautionary but I add to hopeful.
Our market is vast and we have throughout enough knowledge have we got the purchasing power to make real change?
If so like Claire short can be heard saying real change!
Yeah, but George Galloway is not trying to start WW3 on the sly unlike the entire corporate media/political nexus, plus he gives many people a voice that would otherwise be totally unheard in the rarefied world of professional journalism.
Kempe; “He still has zero evidence and it doesn’t alter the fact that he lied in parliament”
Err, that why he deliberately said it was a theory ! He did not lie in Parliament as he was asked if he had declared, ie as a fact, that it was Israel; that you can’t realise the difference is part of the reason why you view the World differently to the others here who are somewhat more astute than you.
@Habbu-Clown, using “Anon” is doubly anonymous as there are more than one Anon has been posting here, & it also implies wanting to hide your id, online or real; perhaps he’s your alto-ego ?
Habbakuk: you honestly don’t know, do you? You can only infer. The ‘guard dog’ could be Putin, of course; the ‘neocons’ the oil gazillionaires around him. The fact is that you tried to twist this into ‘proof’ that this board is ‘anti Western’; proof which you do not have for an assertion which has been consistently rebutted.
Bored now.
MacDuffer FRCPsych, please do educate us on what an ‘alto-ego’ is? You sure you’re playing in the right league. Btw, how is Assange?
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OnanAnon,Q: Many of you were secretly hoping for an attack on Syria.
R: As the Oracle of Delphi is down tonight due to technical problems, would your holiness be so kind and provide me with this week’s upcoming Powerball numbers so I can cash in?
Also, when I put that sign ‘Wanted. Clairvoyant. You know where to reach me.’ You never called…