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.
@ oddie 14 Sep, 2013 – 11:53 am
“NYT: Obama Demands ‘Concrete’ Acts by Syria on Chemical Weapons: The president would not agree to Syria’s demand to renounce any use of force, said the officials, who argued that it was the threat of force that had brought Moscow and Damascus to the negotiating table…”
The old mediums, up to table levitation tricks, were pushing this mightily, all day yesterday and today: “The credible threat of US force forced Putin and Assad to the bargaining table”.
Truth is it was the incredible/uncredible/noncredible/lessthancredible threat of force, because of an impending no vote by Congress, that threatened to make Kerry/Obama laughingstocks.
Your statement, which I quoted, pricked my conscience Jemand as some years ago I stated that Russia could be bought.
Vladimir Putin proved me wrong by rejecting the Saudi blessing and MI6 carrot and refusing to move on threat of a CIA/Saudi terrorist stick.
Russia has indeed opened a window of hope, a light at the end of a tunnel that such methods of ‘negotiation’ are senescent and abhorrent.
Clearly Vladirmir has ‘no strings attached’ unlike Oboma and agent Cameron, both having sold their soul to their wherewithal god of exchange.
The refulgent statement by Putin is worthy of reiteration:
“We know that you have supported the Chechen terrorist groups for a decade. And that support, which you have frankly talked about just now, is completely incompatible with the common objectives of fighting global terrorism that you mentioned. We are interested in developing friendly relations according to clear and strong principles.”
http://assafir.com/MulhakArticle.aspx?EditionId=2565&MulhakArticleId=1920016&MulhakId=6571#.UjSOZ9JwrsY
Jon 14 Sep, 2013 – 3:08 pm
Also, it is very tedious for non-participents in the ongoing slanging match.
Funniest page I’ve read here in a long time!
Fedup was all
“Now fuck off and shut up”
But when he started with
“How do you intend to harm me?” etc,
it struck me that he seriously thought Habbabkuk + Villager (+ others) have a hotline to Mossad, and he was expecting figures in black to rappel down+in through his bedroom window, or stave in his back door.
But on second thoughts, I think he was just looking for an excuse to demand IP addresses.
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Now we have
Peace prize for Putin?
http://www.americanfreepress.net/Issue_fronts/2013_AFP_Issue_37_38_1.pdf
and
Turkey indicts 11 linked with Syria militants caught with sarin gas
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/14/323820/turkey-indicts-11-over-syria-sarin-gas/
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Jon sez
“But the point where one becomes dependent on the little community here is the time when the computer needs to be turned off for a day. Don’t worry about it, is the motto! It is only a blog.”
Absolutely. Which is why I have two films to watch tonight. I don’t have much interest in people jostling for position here much as the USA, Russia, Syria, Israel, Saudi et al, are jostling for position on the world chessboard. Don’t we see enough of it from the big cheeses?
Have a good weekend, everyone
same to you Dreolin, shall ride out tomorrows rainstorm with a good read.
Looks like no single public health watchdog has any concerns with regards to the ongoing increasing risks that emanate from the rubble of Daiichi Fukushima.
As for PM Abe, he’s already under fire for being vague with the truth.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/japan-pms-fukushima-remark-backfires-home
“Mr. Kerry plans to meet on Monday in Paris with the foreign ministers of America’s two principal allies on Syria, Laurent Fabius of France and William Hague of Britain…”
Awwww. That’s sweet. Last week’s little spat smoothed over. Have the US & UK updated their FaceBook status?
English muffins, crumpets, scones are back on the menu. Yeah! No more complicated, patriotic French Toast* made with Texas bread.
*AKA pain grillé français; pain d’or; pain perdu; eggy bread; Roma toast or whatchamacallit where u r.
Kempe 14 Sep, 2013 – 4:01 pm
I pick “theorised”, and you lumping it together with”asserted” doesn’t make the words synonymous.
theorise : to formulate theories or a theory; speculate.
assert: to state or express positively; affirm
(thefreedictionary.com)
You saw the clip, presumably. He asked the question “Who gave Al Qaeda the chemical weapons?” and he answered himself “Here’s my theory : Israel gave them the chemical weapons”. Sloppy use of language is not one of his failings. He chose those words. He speculated that Israel had supplied the chemical weapons. Even the Tory in parliament was careful not to say that Galloway had accused Israel of anything. He cautiously phrased it: ” [my constituent] claims that the honourable gentleman said that Israel supplied the chemical …”
It seems like everybody involved in this attempted smear can see the difference between a theory and an assertion except you, Kempe.
And it’s not just a matter of my opinion versus yours. Lying in Parliament is a very serious matter. Galloway has very few friends there and many enemies. The evidence is there to be judged by everybody, including the Speaker to whom the matter was referred. If Galloway had been lying, he’d be punished. He hasn’t been, ergo he wasn’t.
There are a multitude of carefully edited videos doing the rounds, attempting to make the same smear as you. You are part of an orchestrated campaign to discredit an opponent of Western military action against Syria. In your last reply, I note you quoted my entire previous posting except for the final line. An oversight, I’m sure. Here it is again:
I BELIEVE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS BLOG ARE DELIBERATELY DISHONEST, KEMPE.
@ A Node re Liar Galloway :
Stop being a chump trying to be subtle.
The point Liar Galloway was trying to get across in the interview was that Israel had supplied the chemical weapons. Whether you try and get that point across by saying “it supplied” or “I believe it supplied” or “my theory is that it supplied” is irrelevant to any normal person with a normal command of the English language.
And then when in the House of Commons he denied that he had made that point.
George is very good with words – liars usually are.
[Mod: crosses the line from ordinary abuse to something extraordinarily unpleasant, deleted]
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”
Madame Pinochet was a subtle chump. Did the General sodomize her? Just a theory.
The Decepticons are pleading humanitarianism again. I guess it’s proved a popular way in to various closed states over the past few years.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2013/09/israel-and-syria?fsrc=nlw|newe|9-9-2013|6586264|37959365|
Note the point of entry into Syria – Deraa. This is where the heart-eating crazies went in last month, freshly tooled up by the US in Jordan, only to be repulsed by the Syrian army.
They’ll open a Pizza Hut in Deraa soon.
“Regular FSA take the line on the left, heart-eating crazies the line on the right…”
Yup. They don’t give up so easily, Mike. ‘More robust..’ indeed. I smell something on the stove.
One in an occasional series. This quote is dedicated to those who make provocative remarks in an attempt to divert Craig’s blog.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Yeah, Ben. They were virtually caught red-handed in Ghouta (not that the MSM will follow the various threads) so they’ll wait until the dust settles before having another sniff. I think Russia keeping 10 vessels permanently in the Eastern Med tells you all you need to know!
“When he finally caught up with RRP, his staggering pencil only produced
ink, link, ilk, lol, lil, hill-billyirrefutable facts.” – Running Riot Pussy, Мockba Suburbs. KGB/FSB-free quirk.@AlcAnon,
We [humans] do have a past and a present. According to universal laws, we therefore also do have a [time based/limited] future. Will a few billion years suffice?
May all the innocents whose lives perished while I wrote this, sleep forever in
piecespeace…@ Jemad,
The fact that Syria’s government is still standing [after two grueling years of bloody horror] means there must be other players giving a backbone to what most regard as a ‘dictatorship.’ Assad did change a few things, but we’ve forgot what exactly. Must have been cosmetic, superficial BS, no?
@ Passerby,
Have you missed the Megaphone era?
As of June 2011, the Megaphone Desktop Tool became unavailable for download from the creators website. Currently, alerts are displayed only through the GIYUS website RSS feed.
Oh, and my daughter asks, “Where did all the adults go?”
Before I’m thought an ignoramus, as uniformed as Sen. McCain, by your Excellencies and Eminences (not referring to any poster or faction in particular — still haven’t sorted out who is whom, or whom is who), a correction, via RT:
“In an interview with CNN on Thursday, [McCain] joked that he would “love to have a commentary in Pravda.””
“It is still not clear which of the two Pravda news outlets McCain actually kept in mind when making his comment to CNN. However, according to The Cable, he will now write his column for Pravda.ru and the piece is expected to be submitted by Wednesday next week.”
The original Pravda still exists, as a print version in Russian, and is still the official organ of the Communist Party.
They were surprised McCain, an anti-Communist, planned to favour them with his wisdom.
The Pravda I referred to previously, is an online Russian/English offshoot of Commie party Pravda, now disassociated from same. They welcome McCain’s contribution.
Our entire foreign policy is based on off-hand remarks and jokes.
Kempe: “Claim, theory or assertion; either can be put forward without any supporting evidence which was the case here. The fact remains it doesn’t matter. He said it and later denied it.”
Habbu-Clown: “Whether you try and get that point across by saying “it supplied” or “I believe it supplied” or “my theory is that it supplied” is irrelevant to any normal person with a normal command of the English language.”
If this is the quality of those always out to smear Galloway, it explains why he’s still standing after all these years, and why he has made a quite fortune is taking such desperate & none too bright mud-slingers to court & always winning.
Jemand: “you are simply interested in the vulgar sport of pissing on people who you dislike to attract cheers from a crowd whose approval you secretly pine for.”
Two assumptions, both wrong.
Jemand: “you stand watch over what people say and do, and what they do not say and not do – and then pass judgement on imaginary sentiments.”
“Imaginary sentiments” ? only in your dog eat dog compassionate-less view of the world; yes, if I notice hypocrisy, trolling, smearing, bullying, irrationality, lies, etc, etc, time & motivation permiting, I tend to point it out.
Jon: “resident contrarians”
Yes, there are two or three, but there is also the resident Troll-Clown, who delibrately sets out to instigate or encourage arguments; until you address that problem, yes this Blog will be “unmoderatable”, prompting comments like the one from Emmpey; “it is very tedious for non-participents in the ongoing slanging match”.
By the way, there’s nothing wrong with having “resident contrarians” here, but if they are unwilling to argue their points of view, they are in effect also Trolls.
Habbu-Clown: ““MY THEORY IS THAT A NODE WAS SODOMISED WHEN HE WAS LITTLE AND HAS NEVER GOT OVER IT.”
That comment speaks volumes about your mind-set & personality; any other Blog would have banned you months ago.
“That comment speaks volumes about your mind-set & personality; any other Blog would have banned you months ago.”
I must agree, this is a political blog and no place for his personal fantasies.
Nevermind i believe this STUFF is up your’re street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogc-LRWByhY
“[Mod: crosses the line from ordinary abuse to something extraordinarily unpleasant, deleted]”
Looks like you’ve fallen right into the trap, Jon. It was A THEORY – he didn’t actually mean it.
Macky
well said
FFS Jon / Craig
“By the way, there’s nothing wrong with having “resident contrarians” here, but if they are unwilling to argue their points of view, they are in effect also Trolls.”
The simple truth of this cannot be overstated. I think this is the subtle red-line which is confusing to Obama/Kerry and to some of our commentators. Having to chase down a poster, wheedling them into an answer, only to come up dry is the crypto-key to understanding the difference.
“England belongs to the English”
Please delete that vile racist comment, Jon.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.
Coming to a sea near you soon.
http://intellihub.com/2013/09/14/darpa-plans-let-sea-drones-loose-international-waters/
Brian at 10:59 pm,
“That comment speaks volumes about your mind-set & personality; any other Blog would have banned you months ago.”
It was his THEORY, Brian, not fact.
Thanks to those who are protesting on my behalf, but I’d rather you ignore him on my behalf.
“Thanks to those who are protesting on my behalf, but I’d rather you ignore him on my behalf”
Yes, does get a little embarrassing when they treat his theory as something he actually meant, doesn’t it Node.
sirs, we salute your indomitable spirit …
http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-youth-assert-right-return-direct-action/12760
“sirs, we salute your indomitable spirit”
Don’t you mean indefatigable?