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.
Yeah, Phil, I think I see what you’re saying. I’m not trying to prove a case, is what it comes down to. I’m trying to link to sound* information without jumping to conclusions. The underlying question is: who did it? I don’t actually think it matters who made the weapon, in fact, since in the Syrian chaos anyone could have got their hands on anything: the regime on US kit, or the rebels on Iranian kit.Or either side could have liberated some weaponry intended for legal purposes and modified it. Jury’s still out. Personally I think it would have been an act of staggering insanity for Assad, and makes sense only in the context of a regime commander using his own (terrible) initiative, or in the context of a rebel false-flag designed to provoke exactly the US reaction it at first provoked.
*As opposed to Press TV or MEMRI…
The blog would moderate itself better if there were like/dislike features – like youtube where they have the ‘received too many negative votes’ but still allow you to see what was said if you choose to, likewise with the ‘marked as spam’ gizmo.
Thread swamping could easily be defeated with hierarchical threads, then people could have their bickering/debating/arguing without disrupting everyone else; who rarely have the slightest interest in who said what, when, what they actually meant, how it can be interpreted etc, which is tedious, repetitive and totally unedifying.
In fact I think these developments came about around 15 years ago as a direct response to the problems being seen here today. Maybe it’s time to move into the 21st century and handover the comment features to the NSA, oops, didn’t mean that – I meant DISQUS. Jon can then make a few quid on the side by controlling which comments get the most/least votes and informing relevant agencies when they need to counter some particularly strident voice that has the goods.
“Personally I think it would have been an act of staggering insanity for Assad, and makes sense only in the context of a regime commander using his own (terrible) initiative”
This is a possibility considering the number of senior Syrian officers (British trained) who have defected (but comforted by a numbered a/c in Zurich) over the past three years, and still do even now. They usually bolt once they come under suspicion, either through Syrian intelligence or from over-playing their hand and exposing themseleves.
German intelligence has reported that signals it has obtained show Syrian field commanders repeatedly asking Damascus for permission to use CW, and they were always declined. These commanders could have deliberately tried to lay a trap for Assad .
If a commander did use them without higher authority then that would make *him* the war criminal and not Assad. Assad has never given an order to use those weapons because if he had it would have been frontpage news and not hidden away in classified ‘intelligence briefings’ provided by Israel, therefore. Besides all that, when listening to Assad speak he appears to be a perfectly sane and rational individual who can only make sense because his position is based on fact, logic and intelligent argument, none of which is possessed by those that are daily calling for his destruction.
“The next Cyprus will be American”
http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-77-is-available-Finance-the-economy-politics-and-the-world-situation-at-the-end-of-2013-3-sparks-and-a-powder_a14656.html
“Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals — Paul Craig Roberts”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/09/16/police-are-more-dangerous-to-the-public-than-are-criminals-paul-craig-roberts/
Little as I usually agreed with Rubbaduck (pbuh), I’m beginning to think that either from the start, or after two years’ inconclusive bloodiness, the decision has been made that a stable Syria, whatever we think of its leader, is preferable to a rolling war washing across the ME, or evil jihadis harvesting sarin from captured stockpiles. I don’t see why not. We were very happy to let Assad imprison and probably torture various AQ members we picked up in Afghanistan – they were rendered to Damascus among other destinations – and prior to the Arab Spring there were even BBC programmes describing how nice and relaxed it was there, albeit you did have to watch that your neighbour wasn’t a secret policeman. However, it does seem that Russia is holding out for a bit more than the US would like at the moment – this may simply be hardball negotiating.
NYPD Officers shoot Two Women While Trying To Apprehend Suspect
The home of the really, really , really brave, and hot shots, top pistol shots, go on scoring three targets/people, trying to stop a deranged, and mentally ill person trying to commit suicide by standing in the way of moving traffic. Only in amerika.
Dangerous is the operative word. US police should set up a curfew when they hit the streets so that innocent citizenry are safe from the hail of their bullets.
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Komodo, I understand memri ( a mossad shop front that recruits comedians, and its remit is to find any anti Arab material and get it published in the corporate media). However to equate PressTV with such an organisation, is puzzling.
Let’s just say PTV is sometimes a little slanted, and note that it wholeheartedly supports Assad. Objective it isn’t, and sometimes it lies. I regard the Israeli Ha’aretz as a much more reliable source,for instance, but if you don’t I can agree to differ.
Komodo that is the difference between grown-ups and not so grown ups;
I find the best source of news for our neck of the woods to be RT, and PTV because these sources are not shy to report on the warts and all, and they have no advertisers to appease, and or pressure groups to take account of, hence they say it as it is.
I understand that Assad has been supported by PTV but as you would agree the counter Assad (“free Syrian army”) has been supported by the unsavoury and mendacious little dictators in Saudi, and Qatar.
BTW have you heard about the Turkish air force shooting down a Syrian helicopter?
Ben Franklin you said
To which I replied
Then you added
It is evident that you may have missed my reply. Perhaps a reread would prove helpful.
Yeah, fedup. Been doing my facepalm over it. Sorry dude.
The ‘rogue adventurer’ and Brown Moses blog summaries are of course totally biased against the Syrian government, so it seems the authors have an agenda. There is compelling evidence that the Saudi terrorists operating in Syria, some having had training from an SAS mercenary working out of Dubai who is reporting back to me, are responsible for the chemical attack in the Ghouta area of Damascus.
The AIPAC derived ‘red line’ little game and frame-up was orchestrated at the highest levels of the American administration and liquid sarin binary precursors mainly DMMP were supplied by Israeli handled Saudi terrorists to a Jabhat al-Nusra Front chemist and fabricator. The converted rockets used a simple g-force acceleration tensile rupture and spin mix.
Israel received supplies of the controlled substance DMMP from Solkatronic Chemicals of Morrisville, Pa.
My question is, who granted the export license of a controlled substance from America?
Mark, that news makes sense. Who granted the licence? Don’t know. But have the Israelis had it since 1998?
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/nerve-gas-element-was-in-el-al-plane-lost-in-1992-crash.html
US Navy Yard shooting – 6 killed?
Shooter was a former Navy official in his 50’s whose work status recently changed.
http://rt.com/usa/dc-navy-shooting-updates-931/
“DMMP were supplied by Israeli handled Saudi terrorists to a Jabhat al-Nusra Front chemist and fabricator”
Maybe Galloway’s two theories were both right after all !
“Craig told me that GG has lied on many occasions, one of his lies is that he once was a boxer, GG never boxed, not even for a photo·”
I find it hard that he would lie that he was an amateur boxer in Dundee, bearing in mind that people are always trying to catch him out over anything; he also says that he signed-up for the Army, and did a few weeks training, again surely if this was false, somebody would have checked & presented a “scoop”.
Anyhow here’s a (doctored) pic of George the Boxer !;)
http://couchtripper.com/forum2/files/faceless_galloway_boxer_951.jpg
@Mark 6:04
Some background on Brown Moses from Wikipedia …
Higgins has no background or training in weapons and is entirely self-taught, saying that “Before the Arab spring I knew no more about weapons that the average Xbox owner. I had no knowledge beyond what I’d learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo.” He has never been to Syria and has no friends or family there.
How the media latch on to these Walter Mitty-types and proclaim them as experts is beyond me. A bit similar to that fake Ph.D. Syria expert Elizabeth something or other.
Someone asking about a helicopter?
Turkey downs Syrian helicopter amid peace drive
http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-downs-syrian-helicopter-deputy-pm-161536477.html
Thanks Pykrete – Higgins did some credible work on arms smuggling to the FSA before a ‘fat’ offer skewed his thinkin…
‘They’ will try – honey-trap first then the good life – stay strong!
“… arms smuggling to the FSA…” Mark
Arms smuggling to the Financial Services Authority? Is this so they can shoot bankers, or so bankers can shoot us? 🙂
Sorry, obviously, ‘Free Syrian Army’.
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” ― Voltaire
Hmmmmmm
Hey Sofia, I think you may be interested in this;
http://couchtripper.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=11738
which I came across wilst looking through that Couchtripper/Galloway site, as I remembered your kid brother’s problem with you using the word “narrative”, on the grounds “its not a word Craig uses much, if at all, and yet packs a punch in his statements” (!!);
It seems that he was unwittingly in the good company of two famous “self hating Jews”, but contrast the proffered grown up explanation (from mayor.tom) to the objection of that word, to that of your litle sibling’s offering, namely that your use of it just doesn’t “packs a punch” !! 🙂
Why was Have a Duck banned? Which is worse / better deleting offensive posts or deleting the poster?
Macky does new boxing rules stop the use of contact lenses and mandates the use of the glasses?
Although it could be argued that the fighter wearing glasses could have an advantage as he would mutter to his opponent; “you won’t hit a man wearing glasses, will you?”
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Pykrete, the same way they are constantly broadcasting utter bullshit. Don’t you remember the Kuwaiti “nurses”, who testified to congress about Iraqi soldiers bayoneting the infants out of their incubators, and throwing these on the floor/into the steets, so that the incubators could be sent back to Iraq. (Nayirah the daughter of the Kuwaiti diplomat, who had never been to Kuwait for years, picked up by the Hill & Knowlton and coached to lie to the congress).
The medjia claiming Iraqi soldiers were dismantling and stealing the red lights at the junctions of Kuwait city streets to send back to Iraq?
The Jessica Lynch Rescue story
Madeleine Albright grabbing the first Kosovoar in a rebel uniform, and making him to be sitting next to her and claiming him to be the Kosovoar rebel leader, in negotiations with US for US help?
Curve Ball the Iraqi defector who was reportedly briefed by the German secret services and passed on to CIA, that with certainty released the tally of Iraqi WMD programs?
Bin Laden the chief of al Qaeda (Qaeda means the bottom, and also could infer to anus, as well as semantics denoting female mensuration) so instead of choosing Lions of the two rivers, Or tigers of the river bend, Or Roaring Lions of the Desert/Najd what did the chaps chose to call themselves? Arsholes r us, Sanitary towel regiment!
The same Dead Bin Laden who was later murdered by the Seals, but not before making umpteen movies for the benefit of scaring the fucking dickens out of the Jo Pleb and making his life even more of misery. (If you cannot be arsed to watch the whole clip skip to 6:00 and or before and watch intently, also note how Frost does not follow up the revelation in any form or shape).
These warmongering bastards have forever taken the simple Jo Pleb for fucking chump and spent his tax funds and send him to die for their own benefits. Trouble is these shagnasty fucking Plutocrats have got away with it time and again too.
LMAO – a humdinger Suhayl – Interestingly General Selim Idriss is a bankster taking possession of both dollars and arms.
For fedup:
Study finds that anger spreads further than joy on social networks
Anger spreads faster and more broadly than joy, say computer scientists who have analysed sentiment on the Chinese Twitter-like service Weibo.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/519306/most-influential-emotions-on-social-networks-revealed/
Cryptonym used to rage too. I miss his posts.
“shagnasty fucking Plutocrats…” Fedup.
Brilliant title; conceptually coherent, effective utilisation of expletive cadence, scans well. Powerful dactyls. Very ‘John Lennonono, circa 1970’.
But who am I to say? For I am merely the Nowhere Man.
So does all this mean we are finally rolling back the infestation? That this is a microcosm of the bigger world outside. But to guffaw at a Rifkind (or a satanyahu at the UN Podium) in REAL TIME, for example in the Commons thundering shamelessly for war based on YouTube videos supported by juvenile “intercepts” by his ilk, is still a spiritual outpost yet to be reached. Satan still rules.
Re media experts … anyone remember the taxi driver mistaken for an IT expert on BBC breakfast tv. His expression at the start of the clip when he realises something’s amiss is priceless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfNL0_KAcs
“Bin Laden the chief of al Qaeda (Qaeda means the bottom,…”
No it doesn’t mean the bottom it means the base or foundations.
There are two theories how it originated, the Robin Cook theory that it referred to a computer database or the theory it was a mujahedeen training camp in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation known locally as “the base”, as in military base.
Personally I believe the latter to be true, largely because I think Bin Laden knew more about it than Robin Cook did and that was his explanation.
I’ve just had a quick squint at the U.N. report about the recent use of chemical weapons in Syria which is published on The Info Clearing House. As far as I can see they conclude that chemical weapons were used (surprise!) but don’t reach any conclusion as to who used them. I may be wrong, since I didn’t spend long on it, but what’s the use of that?
Richard, at 9:36pm: It may be that the UN were not allowed to say whodunnit, as the terms of their inquiry were circumscribed thus – the Syrian Govt claims – at the demand of the USA some months ago (in relation to the previous possible chemical weapons episodes). There’s a link to this info. somewhere.