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.
Sad to hear that Ray Dolby has died. I’m sure he’ll be sadly missssssssssssssssssssssss…
“Did anyone heard Syrian rebels blackmailing the western powers by threatening to gas+gas Israeli Jews??”
Isn’t that the false flag that’s been widely reported on RT? I’d call it ‘enabling’ rather than blackmailing. Best thing to do is keep checking youtube, they have a habit of putting the videos up a day before things actually happen. Kind of like a story I read in a ‘twilight zone’ type comic years ago about this man who works at a newspaper, one firday night he runs the press and it prints of Monday’s newspaper… but I digress.
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/false-flag-alert-do-syrian-rebels-plan-to-hit-israel-with-chemical-weapons-and-blame-assad
Kempe smears:
The difference between a theory and an assertion has been explained to you yet you continue to claim Galloway lied to parliament. I have two competing theories to explain this.
(1) you are deliberately ignoring this distinction because it doesn’t suit your agenda.
(2) you are too stupid to understand the distinction.
Please spell out to this blog exactly what lie you are accusing George Galloway of … and if you can’t will you do the decent thing and apologise to him?
only murdoch media carrying this allegation which came from the dodgy Syrian Observatory for Human Rights but, as with previous accounts of 200 australians fighting in syria, there’s no outrage, none of the usual murdoch “homicide bomber” terminology, no suggestion anyone will be charged with terrorism on their return, no call for syrians not to go to syria, blah blah. in fact, the headline uses the affectionate “Aussie” & is ambiguous enough for the guy to have maybe been a victim of the attack!
Aussie in Syrian suicide attack as fears mount over terror training
AN Australian jihadist has reportedly blown himself up in a truck bombing in eastern Syria, amid reports about 70 per cent of Australians fighting with the rebels are known to counter-terrorism authorities. In what would be the first known suicide attack by an Australian, counter-terrorism officials in Canberra were yesterday investigating reports a man by the name of “Abu Asma” died following a car-bomb attack in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor. ..
Security sources contacted by The Australian confirmed an Abu Asma was known to counter-terrorism authorities…
At least four Australians are known to have been killed in the conflict…
A senior counter-terrorism official said about 80 Australian nationals were believed to be fighting or involved in on-the-ground organisational roles. About 20 per cent of those were believed to be fighting with the al-Nusra Front, the al-Qa’ida-linked wing of the Syrian opposition.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/aussie-in-syrian-suicide-attack-as-fears-mount-over-terror-training/story-fn59nm2j-1226718080864
“So, you’re going to hand over all your stinking water balloons?”
“Yes.”
“And then?”
“Replace them with heat-seeking missiles…”
CW do kill, that’s a cold-blooded fact, as an actual weapon they’re rather useless in most ToO [although asymmetrical warfare is very fluid concept]. But, with SBIRS in LEO what are the options that Syria’s DD need Russian CAPs?
@ Marc Grossman’s talking shmuck,
Agreed. Nothing works without a sound strategy and a system to ensure that the pillars of [whatever named] hierarchical structure isn’t knocked off its feet. I have voted, demonstrated, voted again, demonstrated some more, but the powers that be [no matter where I went, lived or worked] seem to have their own agenda/s.
Personally I’ve given up the belief that I can change the world. I can try and my do best where I currently live [Japan], however, as I’m not allowed to vote, I guess the only option left is to go right into the anarchistic cookbook?
options = chances
What the hell, it’s fun to watch, especially when the NATO bloc is paralyzed with indecision, shitting bricks. Because disarmament of the Syrian pariah state will set the precedent for disarmament of the Israeli pariah state – when that state inevitably ceases to be of use, like the Marcos regime before it, and the Pahlavi regime, and the Baathists of Iraq, and the Afrikaaners. All they ever have to protect them is blackmail, Fershtay?
Das habe Ich doch alles ja ganz gut verstanden, Herr Oberst. Sie sind wie immer, wieder so unmenschlich brilliant…
three named writers for a piece full of ANONYMOUS sources; and it’s israel, israel, israel, from start to finish…
Wall St Journal – Elite Syrian Unit Scatters Chemical Arms Stockpile
Assad Regime Has Moved Weapons to as Many as 50 Sites
By Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes & Nour Malas
U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies still believe they know where most of the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons are located, but with less confidence than six months ago, U.S. officials said…
U.S. military officials have looked into the possibility of gaining influence over members of Unit 450 through inducements or threats. “In a perfect world, you would actually like to co-opt that unit. Who cares who pays them as long as they sit on the chemical weapons,” said a senior U.S. military official…
The U.S. wants any military strikes in Syria to send a message to the heads of Unit 450 that there is a steep price for following orders to use chemical weapons, U.S. officials said…
Even high-ranking defectors from the Syrian military that form the core of the rebel insurgency-including those who served in units trained to handle chemical attacks-said they hadn’t heard of Unit 450…
In addition to satellites, the U.S. also relies on Israeli spies for on-the-ground intelligence about the unit, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.
Though small in size, Unit 450 controls a vast infrastructure that makes it easier for the U.S. and Israel to track its movements…
Whenever chemical munitions are deployed in the field, Unit 450 has to pre-deploy heavy equipment to chemical mixing areas, which the U.S. and Israel can track…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324755104579071330713553794.html
Will Iraqi Kurds help Syrian brethren?
@ Oddie,
It’s rumored that Israeli intelligence intercepted communications between Syrian HQ and FC. That became the raison d’être for the ‘Assad did it’ meme, turned mantra [and it turned out the SHQ actually said, “WTF just happened? Did anyone use CW?”]
Makes you wonder why they didn’t let the world listen in the way USHQ let us eavesdrop on 2 Iraqi general back in the day and how they constantly ‘outmaneuvered’ the UN inspectors by going East, West , North and South of Baghdad…
As per usual”Cui bono?”
Oddie
I never heard of 450 unit. i Don’t think it exists, another western made up word / number whatever, and like other made up words it may well have a secret meaning, – number of syrian, / iranian – targets, most likely, but who knows. because if they / we go to war in Syria, we also go to war with Iran
So We have these Bought twisted Shits, at it every day now –
(London) – Syrian government and pro-government forces executed at least 248 people in the towns of al-Bayda and Baniyas on May 2 and 3, 2013, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SAID in a report released today. It was one of the deadliest instances of mass summary executions since the start of the conflict in Syria.
Human Rights Watch also documented the execution of at least 23 women and 14 children, including infants.
How the Fuck are HRW suddenly in all these Syrian Locations….
Anyway –
The Syrian government acknowledged its military operations in al-Bayda and Baniyas but said that its forces had killed only “terrorists.” Ali Haidar, minister of state for national reconciliation affairs, told the Wall Street Journal that “mistakes” may have been committed in the operations and that a government committee was investigating. But he also said that the government was forced to act to deny rebels a foothold in a part of Syria that many considered the heartland of the Alawites.
Over the next three hours, the forces entered homes, separated men from women, rounded up the men of each neighborhood in one spot, and executed them by shooting them at close range….. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH…. also documented the execution of at least 23 women and 14 children, including infants.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/13/syria-mass-executions-government-forces
Well, at least many in the Global community are on to them now –
Putin’s article in the September 11 New York Times has the stuck pigs squealing.
The squealing stuck pigs are just who you thought they would be–all those whose agendas and profits would be furthered by an attack on Syria by the obama Stasi regime.
Included among the squealing stuck pigs are HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH bloggers who seem to be financed out of the CIA’s back pocket.
Does any institution remain that has not been corrupted by Washington’s money?
The destabilization of other countries is precisely the main aim of Washington’s wars in the Middle East. Washington intends for radicalization of Muslims to spread strife into the Muslim populations of Russia and China. Washington’s propaganda machine will then turn these terrorists into “freedom fighters against oppressive Russian and Chinese governments,” and use – HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH – and other organizations that Washington has penetrated and corrupted to denounce Russia and China for committing war crimes against freedom fighters. No doubt, chemical weapons attacks will be orchestrated, just as they have been in Syria.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/vladimir-putin-steps-into-world-leadership-role/5349584
Thank you Dreoilin for your encouragement.
And thank you Villager for reposting my comment to Fedup. He’s a ‘people-person’, you know, so I thought a career in a more social work environment might be where his employment prospects lie. Maybe dressed up as Donald Duck to welcome visitors to a Disney theme park?
. . . .
On the off-topic Syrian topic, I thought it interesting that John Kerry cited such elaborately detailed conditions and high standards of evidence of compliance for acceptance of the Russian plan for containing Syria’s CWs. Curiously, the US was not prepared to observe the same rigourous standards of evidence when they accused the Assad regime of deploying CWs.
I’m increasingly inclined to believe that Syria’s real value is its 193km coast on the Mediterranean Sea. Access to the coast is one stepping stone in the Mediterranean-Syria-Iraq pathway to the energy resources of Iran and Saudi Arabia. This pathway is more direct (shorter route to US) and more easily defendable than the less secure, divided alternatives of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
It becomes clearer now why the US is so interested in defending Israel. With their powerful US funded military, Israel will be useful in protecting the Syria-Iraq energy transport corridor. In return for its support, Israel’s energy security is guaranteed.
As for the urgency of all this US military activity, I believe it is the imminence of peak-oil and gas that necessitates the securing of energy resources and trade routes well before the big fight begins for the world’s declining fossil fuel deposits.
Now it could be me stretching the bow a little far, but it is worth considering the value of the GFC in restraining energy demand while this Syria-Iraq project is unrolled. In the circumstances of a booming world economy with high energy demands, US moves on the Middle East might have been less tolerable to energy hungry economies.
Villager pontificates: 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.
I love “I believe…” when politicians and trolls use it. This phrase, much beloved of Tony Blair, ought to be rendered in red flashing lights. It means ” I think, because I haven’t bothered to check…”
Checking back to yesterday, Villager, you will find my helpful link to a Wiki entry on the subject of keyboard layouts. In which I pointed out thet the Belgian AZERTY layout contains the exact combination you *believe* does not exist.
Here’s the link to the illustration, in case you only do pictures:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Belgian_Linux_keyboard.svg/500px-Belgian_Linux_keyboard.svg.png
(It’s not just the Linux keyboard, btw – they’re all like that in Belgium)
Get one here. Not difficult or exotic…
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clavier-Azerty-Belge-HP-ENVY-17-9Z-N4DBQ-11A-Backlit-HP-KEYBOARD-BELGIAN-/330937911911?pt=UK_Computing_Laptop_Keyboards&hash=item4d0d6fca67
Sofia, I’m glad Kilduffahoo II is settling in well, and I am sure his aroma is preferable to any of the horseshit being vented round here. Which reminds me – your little bro -he really needs to know the value of research in today’s fast-moving information age. About all he’ll be good for
ifwhen he grows up will be politics, on his current showing. Or maybe tabloid journalism. I am sure an elder sister’s friendly advice would not be wasted should you take him aside and ask him to concentrate more on an essential skill.http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/grumpy-troll-belgian-ipa/77748/
No comment.
@ Daniel Rich. Sorry, I’m aware of the timeline and would not like to take away from your pillow time.
What do you think of the Olympics 2020 being held in Japan with much attention already being given to the eight prefectures along the eastern seaboard that are contaminated? incl. Tokyo?
Should a campaign to move the Olympics not be started now when expenditures have yet to be allocated?
Would South Korea and Japan have sufficient guile to make it work together?
What precautionary issues for Olympic athletes and visitors alike are being discussed there?
No rush, you are a busy man, I assume.
@Komodo. 8 32am
Thanks.
”I believe.” Isn’t this another of those key words.
When people are afflicted by the condition of belief doesn’t it open the gates for all sorts of mischief?
Confusion of insight with reality for one. Belief in any number of ridiculous notions has enabled us humans to inflict unspeakable cruelties generation after generation, secure in the knowledge of our own moral and cultural superiority.
Is it time maybe for some sober consideration of evidence as the first step and inner reflection as a later aid to understanding?
I bet not even my little brother would ride his tricycle with his eyes closed, whatever “insights” and beliefs he had as to what lay ahead.
On reflection I have just had the insight that that’s probably exactly what Dad did. Wouldn’t that explain a lot? When you’ve left your brains on a lamp post it must be easy to write gibberish, whether with a Belgian or any other keyboard.
@Komodo. 8 52am
Thanks again.
My little epony has sure settled in now he has been decrypted and shown how to access my fillyfolder.
I took him for an etrot round Dimona this morning. Should have done it yesterday after all that trouble with the encryption. He’d have had no trouble blending in with the ponies round that place.
Must get moving. Have a great day on the thread.
And watch out for that trike!
Nevermind – The Osprey’s combat radius is given as 390 nautical miles So I guess it’s to deploy Americans to trouble spots like Bonn? Further if you’re not worried about getting them back. The aircraft has already killed thirty people – sadly they did not survive prototype crashes during its long and incredibly costly development.
Israel and Saudi have expressed an interest in them. A proposal by the Royal Navy to use them as AWACS units, replacing Sea Kings, seems to have died a natural death.
@Fedup
Sorry to hear about your job mate. I know what it’s like.
What Phil said @ Fedup. Mass-mailing CV’s is no
fucking* joke.*hope that’s ok with the excrescences…
@ BrainFujisan,
Q: How the Fuck are HRW suddenly in all these Syrian Locations….
R: Perhaps the head of HRW, Kenneth Roth and vice-chairman Sid Sheinberg have friends in the IDF, not CIA?
@ Nevermind,
I could not believe my ears when I heard the news of the games coming to Japan in 2020. Are they ff-ing nuts? Both the Japanese government and TEPCO have been lying through their respective teeth about ‘containment'[sic] and every other single element that has/had something to do with Fukushima.
Also don’t forget about those hundreds of gallons of seawater that are [and have been for over 2 years now!!!] pumped into the plant to cool it. Japan not amused by French humor.
I have no evidence, but all this comes across as pure kabuki [aka politics].
My wife lost 10% of her salary to help pay for the costs of this disaster [no vote, no referendum, just grab it]. As usual, all the costs are socialized where as all the profit is being privatized [Post Office]. Legal, ff-ing robbery.
But, anyone [who’s interested], please keep an eye on where the produce that you’re eating originates from, as Korea recently dumped fish from Japan, citing contamination.
Don’t forget, the nuclear pollution does not discriminate amongst its victims.
I’ve seen Habbabkuk’s “****************$” on multiple occasions, meaning rather than it being a slip on a Belgian keyboard, he deliberately makes the 5-key stretch across his QWERTY keyboard to place the dollar sign at the end of the asterisks. It’s not hard.
Clearly Komodo has nothing better to do with his time than type the words “grumpy belgian troll” into his search bar and publish the hilarious results for us all to laugh at here. rofl
Komodo,? beer at breakfast time? and how do you brew trolls?
Thanks for the death toll report on the Osprey development, what a load of calamities that flying coffin has caused.
I suppose with operating an AWACS radar it would have all sorts of problems with taking off and once in the air, with its range, you would have to refuel the coffin every 20 or so minutes.
Thanks for that link Daniel Rich, looks like Japan will have to accept a crash course in ‘cabaret’.
from your link “Unlike many European countries, Japan does not have a vigorous tradition of satire.”
Oh boy, so they are not opening their problems up to all international expertise and they are not contemplating that those who ban/throw away their fish, might actually be the solution to their problems.
日本は、オリンピックの成功で光る
amazing what you do on google translate….
Anon, I am happy to accept that you have in fact watched your officemate typing his nasty little offerings, and that you have nothing better to do than to bang on about his typing.
Grumpy troll.
Nevermind, yes, the AWACS role smacks of the RN putting up a case for a budget increase which, once awarded, could have been diverted to something useful. Though not, obviously, upgrading the RAF Nimrod…
So fedup with the lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mscMShD_la8
“Fucking tossers the likes of you take joy in others misfortune don’t they?”
You shouldn’t have expected anything different Fedup, as Jemand is rather emotionally impaired, so much so, that he believes that expressions of compassion, empathy, sympathy, are simply “the pretensions of people (in particular, lefties) who purport to feel it more than others and the superiority they think that it confers upon them”
Funny that he seeks to mocks you for your language in your posts, as he must rival only the Habbu-Clown is having the greatest number of abusive posts deleted, and then to to make that remark about “social work environment employment”, well, I think that his fixation with sexual comments would make himself unsuitable for many employment positions; yes, even Jon the Mod to move to remark;
“Jemand, holy cow – that post of yours attacking Doug and, well, everyone, is pretty low even by the standards of your usual aggression. What happened? I let your unpleasant sexually-themed abuse of Fedup stand on the other thread because you didn’t throw the first punch, but honestly, you would be best going elsewhere if you’re going to drag things into the gutter.”
Putin’s NYT piece had the effect of bringing together, against their will, strongly repelling political poles, if only for a few hours, to sternly denounce him. Hope it’s only briefly or fission sets in and they’ll start steaming, generating 10,000 new laws per second to vex the peasants.
CNN did an interview with Assad’s first cousin. Obviously, I thought, to smear Assad as a tyrant. First part portrayed both Assad and his father as exactly that — they’d tried to assassinate cousin himself and his father. But when asked if cousin believed Assad was responsible for gas attack he said that while Assad is a cruel dictator he’s not crazy. He had nothing to gain.
@ Sofia Kibo Noh 13 Sep, 2013 – 9:01 am
“”I believe.” Isn’t this another of those key words… Is it time maybe for some sober consideration of evidence as the first step…?”
As Carlos Santana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Problem is, we don’t know really know what the evidence is and we pick whatever fits our existing beliefs. Half of history is faked. They’re still arguing over whether Richard III murdered his nephews, or is accepted history a smear job by master propagandist Shakespeare. (The CNN/Fox/BBC of his time.)
Will we learn in the future that it was Marilyn Monroe, in a fit of jealousy, who plotted the murder of JFK. The Kennedys, learning of this struck the first blow. But too late, she’d already set her fiendish plot in motion, via the Chicago mob and Fidel Castro.
Take the evidence of who gassed the Syrians; it’s down to who shouts the most, the loudest and longest. Currently, in the US, the only socially acceptable quickie history is that it was Assad, agreed to now even by those against war or mini-war. The alternate theory of rebel gassing is relegated to the 9/11 (or 8/21) Truther bin of history.
Incidentally, some in the US say the Egyptian Army was right to overthrow Morsi in the not-a-coup, because Morsi was a 9/11 Truther. That’s a reason to get rid of a government?
Incidentally #2: Majority leader of the US Senate, Harry Reid, states all who do not “believe” in government are anarchists, directed at the Tea Partiers. His definition of “believing in government” is more and better taxes and much, much more if not better government.