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.
“Exercises”?
I expect America didn’t know if the Syrian radar was capable of detecting their missiles or not.
They know now.
BREAKING UPDATE: US denies reports of Mediterranean missile launch as rockets fall into sea
DEVELOPING: French Ministry of Defense says they don’t have data on missile rockets launch in Mediterranean
MORE: UK Ministry of Defense say they are aware of rocket launches in Mediterranean but took no part in the incident
Good question, Nevermind. Was it the Israelis?
Peacock dance and trial balloons.
Al Qaeda’s conspiracy theory is that Obama is getting ready to bomb them/Al Nusrah. I wouldn’t say thats beyond him.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-missiles-israel-idUSBRE9820BF20130903
Israelis: no knowledge of ballistic launch. Denials all round. If it was fired from the central Med, and if it was ballistic, and not a cruise missile (which isn’t ballistic), that would have to be quite a large missile. ‘Trial balloons’ sounds likely.
Might just be the Russians telling the world that Armavir’s radar is watching…
“Regardless of the trigger, there’s enough evidence to suggest that some kind of disaster is approaching.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/03/pers-s03.html
“Amid tensions in the region, Israel and the U.S. carried out a missile test in the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday, Israel’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The confirmation came after reports that Russia had detected two ballistic “objects” launched toward the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday morning.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.545100
Syria crisis: Israel and US test missiles – live updates
http://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/2013/sep/03/syria-crisis-2-million-refugees-live
Wonder if they thought they wouldn’t be noticed? Getting both the target and the AM looks like pretty good going for a radar at the north end of the Black Sea.
Currently off the MSM radar, obviously –
http://www.lobelog.com/israeli-palestinian-talks-are-quietly-foundering/
The lust and the drive for war. They just cannot wait.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/03/russia-missiles-mediterranean-syria/2756767/ 12.11pm our time.
The more missiles they lob in the Med, the more it’ll be off the MSM radar
Komodo –
au contraire – i’m sure israel wanted to be noticed. since the arab countries stood up against the gulf states & their western masters, israel’s media on the matter would suggest they are panic-ing they won’t get their war on.
of all the MSM, only aljaz (surprisingly) & cbc even listed the countries that blocked the planned resolution which would have otherwise called for immediate military intervention, & even they spun the headlines:
Aljazeera: Arab League urges UN-backed action in Syria
However, some influential members of the League, including Egypt, Iraq,
Lebanon, Tunisia and Algeria, have expressed opposition to foreign military
intervention.
Egypt’s foreign minister on Sunday said that his nation objected to “any
aggression in Syria”.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/20139118235327617.html
CBC: Arab League calls for international measures against Syria
Despite a strong call to action by the League, some Arab countries such as
Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia and Algeria remained opposed to the final
decision to call for foreign military action…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/09/01/world-hollande-france-obama-us-syria.html
Hmmm, I wonder what would have happened had the Russians not detected the missile launches. Probably somewhere on the continuum of (1) nothing – it was a genuine test which wouldn’t have been reported and (2) Israel’s Arrow system shot down a missile lobbed at them by the dastardly Assad, said missile no doubt armed with a chemical warhead.
Oh, and another defector with the goods …
Hasan Sari @HasanSari7
SkyNews: Head of forensic team in Aleppo Abdul Tawab Shahrour defected, has documents&evidence on Assad striking Khan Al Asal with CW.
11:09 AM – 3 Sep 2013
Washington Post
“Obama’s outreach to Congress on Syria stirs call for Hollande to consult French Parliament
…
Hollande does not need to call a vote until four months after any intervention has started, and he has, thus far, rejected one prior to any strike.”
70% plus of The French People are against an attack…
How your MP voted last Thursday on the Syria votes.
http://thebackbencher.co.uk/how-did-your-mp-vote-on-syria-find-out-here/
Abdul Tawab Sharour (seePykrete, 12.42 and Sky News) – did he jump or was he pushed?
Ans. He was pushed. He’s been in rebel hands since 19th Aug, and has perhaps experienced
electrodes to the genitalsa change of heart:http://www.syriadirect.org/sas/12-news-roundup/714-syria-direct-news-update-8-19-2013
The BBC are downplaying the Israeli missile launch(es). They have this breaking news link but that takes you to their article on the refugee crisis.
LATEST:Israel has conducted a missile test over the Mediterranean, a senior Ministry of Defence source tells BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23937972 which contains;
‘Tensions remain high in Syria and the surrounding region.
Russia said on Tuesday that it had detected two ballistic missiles being launched towards the eastern Mediterranean coastline, sparking speculation of a connection to the Syria crisis. But Israel later confirmed that it was a joint US-Israel missile test.’
President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Le Figaro
http://sana.sy/eng/21/2013/09/03/500561.htm
in sase the SANA link no longer has the Assad interview (it just disappeared on me), here is another link:
http://www.syriaonline.sy/?f=Details&catid=12&pageid=7073
how perfectly timed for SKY to have the “perfect” defector!
NYT still beating the war drums as bad as the Beeb – damn the MSM – with a retired admiral,who was the supreme allied commander, Europe, for NATO from 2009 to 2013:
NATO Must Help Obama on Syria
By JAMES G. STAVRIDIS
Perhaps the closest analog is not Libya in 2011 (cited by many) but rather the Balkans in the mid- to late 1990s. In Kosovo and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the situation on the ground was chaotic, more than a 100,000 people were killed, and millions were pushed across borders — all in the context of the permanent partition of the former Yugoslavia into (at least initially) warring parts. It looked a lot like Syria, albeit without weapons of mass destruction
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/opinion/nato-must-help-obama-on-syria.html?_r=0
reminder –
Hurriyet: Turkish PM says limited action against Syria won’t be enough, calls for Kosovo-like intervention
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the U.S. statement on a “limited” military action against Syria will not be enough to satisfy Ankara, pleading for an intervention similar to the one in Kosovo in 1999.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-pm-says-limited-action-against-syria-wont-be-enough-calls-for-kosovo-like-intervention.aspx?pageID=238&nID=53586&NewsCatID=338
Thanks, Oddie. Noticed his frequent references to Qatar, there. Here’s some background to that:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/world/middleeast/sending-missiles-to-syrian-rebels-qatar-muscles-in.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Though it’s likely that US-Qatari relations aren’t quite as distant as the article suggests.
From la bouche du cheval…
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2013/09/02/01003-20130902ARTFIG00532-la-mise-en-garde-d-el-assad-a-la-france.php
En grenouille…
It’s not April 1st is it?
Bahrain to host pan-Arab human rights court
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/09/20139219939454621.html
Some 19 hrs. ago, Iran issued this propaganda piece, they could not have foreseen how close we are to a third world flagration.
It will deny it and see no risk here, move on there is nothing to see here.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/iran-thousands-of-missiles-to-rain-on-israel/
And this news, from April this year, might have, in parts,led to and encouraged Israel to take the first step and test fire a missile in times of heightened tension, a euphemism for we are ready to go to war.
If it was fired from a US vessel to test the Israeli air defences, why does it say ‘Israel has fired a test missile?’ Was it fired from one of its subs and the US just added to make it acceptable?
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-test-fires-three-new-missile-types/
But lets wait and see, this is not it yet. That said infiltration and marking of targets is most likely already on the way. The USS Nimitz, a heavy hitter is on its way to the eastern Med., an assurance for the already assembled.
Can’t see that this can be reversed any longer and we can call the so called peace talks with Palestinians ‘eaten by war’, like so many times before.
Soon we will hear that 7 million refugees, half of them children, will make it inevitable to turn back from the brink.
It is to be seen what China and Russia will do next, China has yet to respond to this kind of premature ejaculation ‘exercise’.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-09/03/content_16939722.htm
obama-loving MSNBC hysterically discussing Syria. MSNBC host & MSNBC exec director on the panel manage to mention Kosovo 3 times; only one panellist, Hillary Mann Leverett, makes any sense. also the obligatory we have to deal with Syria for our allies, Israel & Turkey. LOL:
Youtube: I LOVE Watching MIC Presstitutes Get SMACKED DOWN By A Real Journalist 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4k80kqM3X4
Another of Humanities cradles about to be ground into the sand, the ancient historic places finished off after the rebels and opposition helped themselves to artefacts or destroyed what they could not possibly understand in their hate filled brains.
Wrath on you prince Bandar, son of sheep herders, for supplying arms and money to this rabble, may your soul burn slowly in hell.
To the sound of aircraft above here and now,
eager and thirsty for more blood
the grand plan is being followed through,
wake up there’s more to it than Syria and Iran, some dreamers think of world control, chaos and division over what is not theirs,
what value life when there are so many of us?
Komodo –
Mark Landler was the main writer of your NYT piece – the other writer is just out of uni basically. here’s Landler again – alongside heavyweight Michael Gordon – suggesting Kosovo. mind u, the Kosovo stuff is all ANONYMOUS, so the idea is more likely coming from the puppet masters who are spreading the Kosovo meme:
23 August – Air War in Kosovo Seen as Precedent in Possible Response to Syria Chemical Attack
By MARK LANDLER and MICHAEL R. GORDON
Kosovo is an obvious precedent for Mr. Obama because, as in Syria, civilians were killed and Russia had longstanding ties to the government authorities accused of the abuses. In 1999, President Bill Clinton used the endorsement of NATO and the rationale of protecting a vulnerable population to justify 78 days of airstrikes.
A senior administration official said the Kosovo precedent was one of many subjects discussed in continuing White House meetings on the crisis in Syria…
“It’s a step too far to say we’re drawing up legal justifications for an action, given that the president hasn’t made a decision,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations. “But Kosovo, of course, is a precedent of something that is perhaps similar.”…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/world/air-war-in-kosovo-seen-as-precedent-in-possible-response-to-syria-chemical-attack.html?ref=marklandler
Reporting was contributed by Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker from Washington, Steven Lee Myers from Moscow and David Jolly from Paris.
all heavy-hitters! down with the military industrial complex before it destroys the entire world.
VIDEO: PressTV: Israel, US give conflicting accounts of ballistic missile
On Tuesday, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Tel-Aviv, together with the US Defense Department, have conducted a “successful [missile] test” in the Mediterranean Sea.
However, the US Navy announced that it did not fire any missiles from its ships in the region.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/03/321886/us-israel-missile-accounts-conflicting/
Wonder whether this will split NATO?, so gallantly commandeered to take part in this dubious scenario.
Will the Germans fight on the side of their long standing ally Turkey and defy sense? Or will this be the final straw?