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.
“The US abandoned the project in 1978”
That far back? So who on earth would be likely to be using them?
Dearie me, i’m shiteing myself.
As i said earlier Fred, grow up and stop making yourself sound like a 12 year old.
I’ll look in now and again when there are Scottish themed threads.
“As i said earlier Fred, grow up and stop making yourself sound like a 12 year old.”
Go fuck yourself shit for brains.
Agree Komodo, anybody using this launcher to lob CW’s would inevitably endanger their own peeps.
My mate is just building up a 750Norton on a wideline frame. He has two tatty Borani alu rims and a fred Tickle dual action front brake on it. He needs to restore the lot, one of the rims (front) has a a slight kink and I’m advising him to get another better one instead.
Sofia be rest assured, Komodo’s tail is never going to get into the wheels because he’s going like stink and he has his shopping bag full of offal hanging off it.
Typical diversionary post there. Mod, where are you?
You can’t squirm out of it that easily Mr Komodo.
And Mrs Purvis saw you dragging Dad in under the Morpurgo’s ornamental cypress and that’s where all the half chewed bit’s, and the leg, are.
And anyway , you pretty much confessed earlier.
”…I go away for the weekend and come back to find Rubbaduck’s bleeding corpse in the drive…Sofia is distraught and Villager, blinded by tears, rode his trike into a lamp post.
Have you never heard of taking responsibility?
Sometimes I just feel like giving up!
Flicked on Sky and flicked it off again. They’re showing J Kerry live. Naturally.
In blog comments somewhere recently someone said John Kerry’s face was like a deflated football* with eyes.
*american
Hah!
[Mod/Jon: escalation of insult war, please be more mellow]
And Mrs Purvis saw you dragging Dad in under the Morpurgo’s ornamental cypress and that’s where all the half chewed bit’s, and the leg, are.
Mrs Purvis is as blind as a bat. The first time she saw me, she said “What a lovely rottweiler.” And patted me on the head. Anyway, your dad’s just discovered proxy servers, so it can’t have been him
I ate.Re;
Chinese vessels apparently ankered off Libya and elsewhere. Libya is the preferred sweet crude supplier, indeed their crude can be used by tanks and ships without much cracking, so its a vital logistic line for anybody wanting to have a crack at Syria or Iran, although Iraq has stepped in to replace the Libyan crude, but it ain’t as sweet and if push comes to shove, they will go and get it.
But they first have to fight the factions that control the oilfields and it might be inevitable to secure the supply lines from outside Libya, i.e. a partial occupation of its main oil exporting ports currently in the hands of ‘rebels’.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f13cad2a-1163-11e3-a14c-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ff13cad2a-1163-11e3-a14c-00144feabdc0.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&siteedition=uk&_i_referer=
My mate is just building up a 750Norton on a wideline frame. He has two tatty Borani alu rims and a fred Tickle dual action front brake on it. He needs to restore the lot, one of the rims (front) has a a slight kink and I’m advising him to get another better one instead.
Agree about the rim. Straightening it will only weaken it further, but if it’s only a small kink on the edge, no biggy. He’ll be using tubed tyres. Good project – I gather the wideline frame is a vast improvement on the Commando’s original chassis.
That far back? So who on earth would be likely to be using them?
As surplus stock, almost anyone I can think of. On the one hand, I imagine they’d be easy to modify for CW delivery – both fuel-air and CW payloads are liquid, and are dispersed as aerosols by a bursting charge – on the other the short range, even if it were doubled or tripled by reducing the payload, would make them suicidal for the CW user. I’ve seen other suggestions as to what the rocket cases found in Damascus belonged to. I may even have linked to that at some point. Maybe the UN report will clarify things.
And look at the shape of this one. You can just make it out:
http://defense-update.com/news/6702carpet.htm
Well, guess who.
“On my REGULAR Sunday adventure into the highlands with my two lady Friend’s…One of them informed me that Assad has admitted to using CW… i kid you not, i’m supposed to listen to this, and DRIVE SAFELY”
Och aye! That’s Jo Coburn for you. Was the other passenger Baroness Neville Jones? Did they start making funny faces and resort to playground ‘na naa na na naa’ing when you hit them with the facts? You’re George Galloway aren’t you?
Thanks, K
It’s only got a range of 165m in production form though, D, and the tail’s different.
Damascus rocket:
http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/diy-weapon-linked-to-alleged-chemical.html
Israeli rocket:
http://www.rafael.co.il/marketing/SIP_STORAGE/FILES/3/953.pdf
What the Damascus pic shows is designed either for CW or fuel-air. It’s not binary – someone would have had to mix the precursors and fill the missile preferably not too long before use, the effects would reduce with storage time. As, possibly, they did.
Wings of scotland has an article which highlights how absurdly fucked up this country is becoming. Pictures of beaming politicians opening food banks.
Here’s a, somewhat party partial, article discussing the problems with the trussell trust.
Here is a working grass roots foodbank in london. We provide food and hot drinks to the homeless, without question, no vouchers required, day in day out. Everything goes to those who need it. We have no paid staff, no bureaucratic costs nor corporate sponsorship. As winter sets in the demand will rise further and to be frank we some support. Sorry to tap you up but, if you can, right now we need cash for hot drink supplies.
http://www.londonfoodbank.co.uk/
unbelievable docu (tho subtitles r a bit rushed in first 20 mins or so). explains so much about Syria that the Beeb would never dare to tell us:
Al-Qaeda: The Lebanon Chapter – PressTV Documentary (Full Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rlFRL1gOE0
the following was headlined “IS THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT UNWITTINGLY FUNDING TERRORISM?” which still shows above the address bar:
16 Sept: Ottawa Citizen BLOG: John Baird and the Muslim Brotherhood
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/09/16/john-baird-and-the-muslim-brotherhood/
should have said the PressTV AQ docu was made before the saad hariri ended, but that gives it a perfect distance from which to look at the current situation.
ouch…meant to say before the saad hariri GOVERNMENT ended IN 2011…
Genius Russel tells it like it is!!!
We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.
Now I’m aware that this was really no big deal; I’m not saying I’m an estuary Che Guevara. It was a daft joke by a daft comic at a daft event. It makes me wonder, though, how the relationships and power dynamics I witnessed on this relatively inconsequential context are replicated on a more significant scale.
@Jon
Do not feel that banning h was a failure. There was simply no reasoning with him. He was clearly here to disrupt. You gave him more chances than most would and his banishment protects the rights of others to speak without being lost in a sea of disruptive abuse. Anyone who cries censorship is being disingenuous.
FWIW it would be terrible for craig and this blog if you resigned. Although we haven’t always seen eye to eye I cannot imagine a better mod for a place as open as this.
Dreoilin:”In blog comments somewhere recently someone said John Kerry’s face was like a deflated football* with eyes”
Can’t think why;
http://25.media.tumblr.com/fc99596253e9da25c2949c37348c2389/tumblr_msty0lFegv1sxpyoro1_500.jpg
Quite a good likeness I think;
http://25.media.tumblr.com/3dc8776d4e75b07ff7f2e3182ce4718d/tumblr_msrk634KFu1qj2fx7o1_500.jpg
(You do realise if you had made that comment & your name was Mary, a certain Clown Troll & his disciple from the village, would have jumped on you with all the fury of their fake indignation, and you probably would have added in your measure of sourness to)
Meanwhile reference all this talk of missiles;
http://www.vice.com/read/how-much-will-the-defense-industry-make-off-of-a-missile-strike-against-syria
& for good measure;
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/09/15/janes-report-about-half-of-syria-rebels-are-jihadists/
FWIW, I think Jon is doing a good mod job. And Habbawhatsits, sorry but he\she was evidently trying to derail the thread. The odd dig, or the odd wind-up post after having a few – not a banning offence. Derailing the thread, constantly – banning offence.
As to censorship. Nobody is perfect, but this place is like anarchist heaven compared to the strange lawyer-fear that seems to now pervade the internet. Lawyer-fear is not unreasonable, of course, because they can be bastards, but I’m sure it’s getting worse, and promotes self-censorship, as though even when you are on the internet you are somehow ‘at work’ and have to play by ‘the corporate rules’. I find it kinda insidious actually, given how much time we all spend on the internet, but I suppose that’s slightly off topic.
So, carry on Jon, say I.
More rocketry here: conclusions seem fair enough. Nonstandard, but not DIY, and he includes the possibility that it is a reworked thermobaric munition.
http://rogueadventurer.com/2013/08/25/preliminary-analysis-of-alleged-cw-munitions-used-in-syria/
Check his update links at the end for more details.
Banning Habbabkuk was indeed a failure. It was a deliberate failure to understand the point Habbabkuk was making, a failure to apply the rules consistently, a failure to allow Habbabkuk a second chance or to answer for himself. But what turns that failure into an outright disgrace is that the repulsive “Krishnamurky” is still allowed to comment here, a contributor who frequently referred to Habbabkuk as a “kyke”, calls for rib-cage anorexia of Jews and seat-advances to the front of cattle cars, and who openly regrets that Hitler didn’t finish the job. Instead, our good mod tells us he’s been trying to get Krishnamurky back on the straight and narrow. Multiple chances for him, it seems, but none for Habbabkuk, whose contributions, by the testimony of many here who profoundly disagree with his views, have been both refreshing and challenging for the consensus here. Habbabkuk deserves to be reinstated immediately.
Brendan
“And Habbawhatsits, sorry but he\she was evidently trying to derail the thread”
Derail it from what, Brendan?
It seems post the hasty departure/banishment of a certain troll, the harmony is restored, and the contributors are no longer bombarded with total nonsense, and as an added bonus the billions of innocent electrons are no longer accosted, disturbed, solicited to bear messages which were devoid of any content, and high on pretensions and bile. This can be classed as a success without any qualifications. Electrons thank you Jon.
To find that this blog is targeted by the propagandist who are shouting the loudest in a systematic approach to suppress any kind of opinions other than the officially sanctioned version, as per orders from hasbara hq was nauseating to say the least, apart from being disruptive and unproductive.
Fact that time and again, given any views that were in opposition to the officially sanctioned “truth” were challenged and the corporate media narrative injected into the affray, clearly can be rectified by anyone who cares to take note of the corporate media sites offering the same “pearls of wisdom”. Thus no need for any kind of readmissions of the troll, for anyone missing it, they can pop into any other number of sites and read nonsense to their hearts content.
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Prezident Obama now seems to have started to talk about attacking Iran.
Despite diplomacy on Syria, Obama says US prepared to attack Iran
Of course US intentions are so stealthy that no one knows about it;
Syria crisis part of broader Western plot for entire region
However as always the 800 pounds gorilla/four ton elephant in the room is ignored and no one is talking about it, other than perhaps a little report here and there.
US report confirms Israel has at least 80 nuclear warheads
Clearly in case of zionistan the A bombs, and H bombs are filled with sweets, candy, and toys and in fact are Piñata so no worry about these WMD at all, which are in the possession of a bunch of emotionally unstable and expansionist supremacists, who have a track record in attacking all of their neighbours, and engaging in extra judicial murders across the globe, whilst getting on with land theft and genocide of Palestinians.
What will history recall about the crazy times we have lived through, and how will it explain away the lunacy of our dear leaders?
Topic:
Sorry I didn’t spot this earler –
http://theorangepartyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/blair-charities-illegally-fund-election.html
Now unverifiable since the website in question has been shut down, unfortunately. But Blair funding New Labour propaganda through Windrush Ventures No.3 LP – which accepts charitable donations for other purposes entirely and is completely opaque to any kind of investigation – would be about par for the course.
Komodo 16 Sep, 2013 – 1:38 pm
“More rocketry here”
Knowing fanny adams about rockets and guns it is difficult to assess the articles and comments you link to. I sort of understood their analysis adds no information but comments say otherwise. Komodo (or anyone with military experience), I’ld appreciate your take on what they are saying.
Supplementary to the foregoing:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article371017.ece