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 Church’s lone voice speaks
“From the moment when some families of abducted children contacted us to inform us that they recognized the children among those who are presented in the videos as victims of the Chemical Attacks of East Ghouta, we decided to examine the videos thoroughly. …
Our first concern was the fate of the children we see in the footages. Those angels are always alone in the hands of adult males that seem to be elements of armed gangs. The children that trespassed remain without their families and unidentified all the way until they are wrapped in the white shrouds of the burial. Moreover our study highlights without any doubt that their little bodies were manipulated and disposed with theatrical arrangements to figure in the screening.
If the studied footages were edited and published to exhibit pieces of evidence to accuse the Syrian State of perpetrating the chemical attacks on East Ghouta, our discoveries incriminate the editors and actors of forged facts through a lethal manipulation of unidentified children. …
Thus we want to raise awareness toward the humanitarian case of this criminal use of children in the political propaganda of the East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack
We present this work to distinguished Spiritual Leaders, Heads of State, Members of Parliament Humanitarian actors and to any person who has heart for truth and justice and seeks to due accountability for evil deeds.“
Mother Agnes Mariam de La Croix,
The Church’s LONE VOICE, ( the statement from the pope doesn’t count, as By then the Tomahawks, should have already been raining down on innocent Syrians ) But the Global community got in the way of that, But for how long
Mother Agnes
Ze Link
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-chemical-attacks-in-east-ghouta-used-to-justify-a-military-intervention-in-syria/5349928
just another set-up with room for every interested party to make assertions with no evidence to back anything up.
RT: ‘Not bulletproof’: Russia says UN chemical attack report does not show who was responsible
FROM COMMENTS: No one replied to my question. What was Obama doing in those 3 days in Sweden as soon as the alleged chemical weapons samples were taken there for examination by the so called chemical weapons experts? My guess is he was there to influence the inspector’s report to make sure it matched his pre-determined accusations that the Syrian army did it. The report leaves much to be desired and Syria would do well to insist the team of experts includes Russian and Chinese experts in the examination of Khan al-Assal case, which overwhelmingly points towards a Zio foreign mercenary terror squad matrix..
COMMENT: Not sure about this.. but i also heard.. from 4 laboratories who tested the chemicals only 2 ,released their reports. perhaps they are slower but is strange UN will rush the report…
http://rt.com/news/churkin-un-chemical-report-938/
4 Sept – AP: Obama Opens 3-Day Foreign Trip in Sweden
The northern European country was added to Obama’s itinerary after he canceled plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow ahead of the Group of 20 summit…
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/obama-opens-day-foreign-trip-sweden-20150484
3 Sept – PressTV: Swedish military lab to analyze Syria chemical samples collected by UN team
Citing “confirmation of the report” by the inspection team’s Swedish chief, Ake Sellstrom, Sweden-based newspaper Vasterbottens-Kuriren reported Monday the chemical samples will be examined at the Swedish Defense Research Agency’s laboratory in the northern city of Umea… She further pointed out that the research facility has two weeks to examine the collected samples but the work may be completed sooner…
***According to the report, the military institution is the country’s only laboratory accredited by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for carrying out such research…
The Swedish media, however, also reported that some of the samples collected by the UN inspectors may be sent to Finland for analysis, without elaborating on the reasons.
According to the reports, the head of the UN inspection team in Syria arrived in Sweden on Monday to oversee the analysis of the collected samples…
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/03/321845/swedish-lab-to-examine-syria-chemicals/
2 Sept – Guardian: UN chemical weapons inspectors asked to speed up Syria investigation
Ban spoke by phone with the head of the team, Ake Sellström, the Swedish scientist who returned from Syria to The Hague on Saturday…
The samples are scheduled to be sent to laboratories in Finland and Sweden on Monday.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/un-chemical-weapons-inspectors-investigation
12 Sept – ABC: AP: UN Inspectors Could Point to Perpetrator of Attack
Haq said the U.N. has made some efforts to speed up the analysis, noting that instead of two laboratories, the samples are being tested at four laboratories in Europe…
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/inspectors-point-perpetrator-attack-20241248
17 Sept – Guardian: UN inspectors in Syria: under fire, in record time, sarin is confirmed
UN inspectors had been in Syria only three days when reports came in of a huge chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus. The team was ordered to shelve plans to visit the sites of other alleged incidents and make straight for Ghouta, where scores of people lay dead or injured….
Two survivors refused to give blood, but samples from 34 who did were sent to laboratories approved by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). At one lab 91% of the blood tested positive for sarin. At another the figure was 85%. One lab returned results from urine samples. Of the samples from Moadamiyah, the rate was 100% positive for sarin. From Zamalka, the figure was 91%. None of the hair samples tested positive…
In record time, under battlefield conditions, the team of scientists, doctors, interpreters and technicians, led by the Swedish chemical weapons expert åke Sellström, confirmed unequivocally that chemical weapons had been used…
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/un-inspectors-syria-sarin-gas
***am presuming if only 2 labs have reported, they are the Swedish labs.
@ Oddie,
In a case like this one would expect the utmost thoroughness of an/y investigation, all the more because a few eager warmongers are ready and waiting in the wings to pull triggers…
Ahh Nice One Oddie
it certainly would be hard to disagree with you’re final sentence ….
am presuming if only 2 labs have reported, they are the Swedish labs.
how i despise this paper & EVERY SINGLE WARMONGER WHO WRITES FOR THEM:
17 Sept – NYT – Forensic Details in U.N. Report Point to Assad’s Use of Gas
By RICK GLADSTONE and C. J. CHIVERS
Reporting was contributed by Michael R. Gordon from Paris, Nick Cumming-Bruce from Geneva, Anne Barnard from Beirut, Lebanon, and David E. Sanger from New York.
The repercussions have elevated the 30-month-old Syrian conflict into a global political crisis that is testing the limits of impunity over the use of chemical weapons. It could also lead to the first concerted action on the war at the United Nations Security Council, which up to now has been paralyzed over Syria policy…
Using standard field techniques for ordnance identification and crater analysis, they established that at least two types of rockets had been used, including an M14 artillery rocket bearing Cyrillic markings and a 330-millimeter rocket of unidentified provenance.
These findings, though not presented as evidence of responsibility, were likely to strengthen the argument of those who claim that the Syrian government bears the blame, because the weapons in question had not been previously documented or reported to be in possession of the insurgency…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/world/europe/syria-united-nations.html?_r=0
from the comments RE THE M14 (140mm) rocket mentioned: The 140 mm rocket system is one of the oldest in common use. It is made in many countries. It was used by the rebels in Libya, in the 12 round Chinese launcher version mounted on the backs of pickup trucks. It was used against US forces in Iraq, and against US forces in Vietnam.
Syria bought its first 200 12-rocket BM-14 launcher systems from Russia in 1967. They are everywhere in the Syrian inventory, much of which has been captured.
It is beyond belief that the rebels who came from so many places that use these, to a country which uses them, to capture whole bases, don’t have access to 140 mm rockets.
Oddie the bbc are at it too, and the whole fkn lot of the machine
they want us to forget earlier U.N statements….such as –
Shaun Waterman, “Syrian rebels used Sarin nerve gas, not Assad’s regime: U.N. official,” Washington Times, May 6, 2013 (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/6/syrian-rebels-used-sarin-nerve-gas-not-assads-regi/)
But the chilling stuff come’s from the evil shits in the Know, the warmongers at the top of the Putrid pile – McCain Knows what the elite agenda is, and he is Going to see it through….WE NEED THE RUSSIAN’S – To talk a little tougher, hopefully save another catastrophe.
McCain –
“I think Russian deal on Syria is a ‘loser”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8m7kKorF28
Brian, Daniel. Oldie.
Thanks.
Justin case all those warmongers dragged you down. If you didn’t click it, the first 30 seconds ofPykrete’s clip, (9 10pm yesterday), contains the guaranteed antidote.
What a tonic!
Thanks.
and the lying
I Often find it really quite soul destroying, and heartbreaking – What their Lies are intended to result in – Take this Multi – millionaire, for example –
“There remain differences over sequencing and the shape of how the transition takes place but it is welcome that President Putin has been explicit that he does not want Assad remaining in charge in Syria,” Cameron told reporters.
“What we need next is an agreement on a transitional leadership which can move Syria to a democratic future that protects the rights of all its communities,” Cameron added.
But Putin denied these claims, saying at his own news conference that, “I feel like I have to repeat our position. We believe that nobody has the right to decide for other nations who should be brought to power, who should be removed from power.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Labrov as well said Cameron’s statement that Putin does not want Assad to remain in power “does not correspond to reality.”
On a removed O.T
As a Martial arts expert, Two things ( 1 ) i admire anyone whom, Like Putin Gain’s 8th Dan Judo ( or any Dan Grade for that matter )…
( 2 ) ..Nevermind’s admission of a wee bit of guilt at rising to Potential physical anger…as an ex martial arts Player / Practitioner…
I could Perhaps take the Opportunity to Echo that sentiment, after having got into a fight with it myself.
P.s It was a peacable evening Here Last night
@ Dreoilin,
Per your link: “The downing of the helicopter comes at a time of heightened diplomatic activity to resolve the Syrian crisis, which has spillover effects across the region.”
Who doesn’t want this situation to be resolved?
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.
There is no more evidence for that assertion than for any other, Mark. Unless you care to supply some. I don’t think the 330mm rocket is capable of spinning, btw. Its fins appear to be straight, not offset:
http://www.janes.com/article/26414/syrian-military-allegedly-used-makeshift-rockets-in-chemical-attack
The IRAM idea fits – that’s more like a mortar tail assembly than something designed originally for a rocket. Its wind resistance is ridiculously high. The photos indicate that the warhead consists of a central, thin steel pressure vessel and an outer, fillable case. I think this would be consistent, as I said above, with something originally intended as a fuel-air round. It is similar to, but not identical with, an Iranian munition. I can’t identify it as anything else on the web. Whether Brown Moses is biased or working for Mossad or none of the above, he has at least taken the trouble to record enough detail to form our own conclusions. This is my own conclusion, for what it’s worth.
None of which alters the fact that, given that army bases have been captured it is just as likely that al-Nusrah used it as the Syrian army. If there is no evidence that these weapons are in rebel hands….absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and our major intelligence source on the ground is apparently an Israeli asset.
DR-
@ Komodo,
Bush Sr. wanted to keep Saddam Hussein in power for a reason and given what happened/happens in Iraq/Libya, the outcome of the removal of Assad isn’t a guessing game any longer…
No. Total, uncontrollable chaos in the region is my guess*. Not a good outcome for anyone. Not even Israel.
* Must recalibrate my crystal ball, though. It’s tending to multimode.
“There are stories and then there is the truth. It depends which you wish to accept, that is a choice you have to make, and no one can deny you that.”
I believe what makes sense and saying Al Qaeda means “bottom” in the sense of human anatomy makes as much sense as America saying they killed Bin Laden then buried him at sea before anyone could see the body.
I don’t see this as a game, mainstream vs alternative and support one side no matter what. I just look at the evidence and believe what makes most sense.
I am surprised nobody really picked up on the downing by Turkey of a Syrian helicopter close to the border with Turkey (5k I think the link posted by Dreolin said). To me this appears to be an attempt by NATO through one its members to get involved in the war in Syria, as Daniel Rich pointed out at a time when peace negotiations were in progress. It reeks of a lesson learnt from the sinking of the General Belgrano which fortunately this time failed. Come Hell or high water the Zionist-backed NATO forces are determined to have this war. Turkey probably wants to get involved to detract from continued domestic problems not reported in MSM, which, as Ruben Rosenberg Colorni reports, have been ongoing since May.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/09/16/in-turkey-the-protests-continue/
Further to the “330” mm rocket.
I think Brown Moses mentions that this round would not fit a standard 330 mm Iranian launcher – it’s just a bit too wide.
But it does look very like a US 345mm SLUFAE XM130 rocket, even if it wasn’t manufactured in the US. And how about the idea that it was, and was sold as surplus to the Saudis after production was discontinued?
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/slufae.html
There’s a closeup of an XM130 here:
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/misinformation-claiming-professional-rocketry-forces-would-deploy-macgyvered-homemade-rockets/
Makes a couple of good points, too.
No, John. Turkey just shoots down anything looking military which enters, or might plausible be said to have entered, its airspace. Just possibly because it doesn’t want the Syrian war migrating across its borders? Reason enough.
“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”.”
I think I would agree with you there, the silver spoon brigade have always had it in for George. I am sure he has been economical with the truth on occasions but I doubt this was one of them.
I know someone who was on the fringes of the political scene in Dundee when GG was there, one night he was the topic of conversation and I said “he’s a crook isn’t he?”. He paused a while and replied “there were rumours”. So I reckon he’s not too different to most politicians.
Aha.
I said earlier that the SLUFAE system project had been shut down in 1978, and that is the commonly-held view as far as I can see. However, the US military were examining safety aspects of the production of the XN-130 rocket the system fired (pics above) as late as 1984:
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA139610
So were these produced in quantity? And who, since the US was apparently not using them, were they sold to?
Sorry to be obsessive, but this is getting interesting….
Komodo, what you say may be true, and it is one interpretation. However if that is the case by shooting down the helicopter it could have triggered the very thing it was meant to avoid, a war “migrating across its borders” which the sinking of the Belgrano triggered (or escalated if you believe war was considered to have already declared by the Argentinian “invasion”) in the Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
Morning all and thanks for the excellent links of last night, two hours of solid reading worth of links.
Mark G.s scenario adds another equation to be considered Komodo, the fact that multiple uses of CW by the rebels have been totally blanked by the world in favour of their preferred ‘Feind bild’, enemy picture, is so obvious.
Why do we need three armadas in the Mediterranean when we are eager to make peace?
The helicopter could have been shot down by a German patriot missile base in Turkey, so NATO’s standoffness is totally false, its already deeply involved and by that admission, if NATO would call on the UK to take part, the pin up puppets would only be too eager to comply.
This build up of capabilities continues and none of our MP’s are asking why, this escalation stinks.
Komodo,have a look at this thread in which people mention the various “Rebel” rockets shown in youtube vids;
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/09/three-current-news-items-on-syria.html#comments
Also in the same thread somebody mentions the possibilty that the downing of the helicopter was a consequence of the shooting down of the Turkish warplane in June, because the Turks now have a “shoots down anything looking military” policy as you say, but that doesn’t in itself rule out that this could have been a delibrate provocation to try to escalate things back to a war footing.
by shooting down the helicopter it could have triggered the very thing it was meant to avoid, a war “migrating across its borders”
See here who is most likely to migrate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22798391
And Assad has his hands full already without opening another front. Against an extremely large and well-armed army. No, the main hazard there is that Turkey,always interested in reducing the Kurdish nuisance, migrates the other way. Be glad they’re just shooting down intruders.
“Turkey just shoots down anything looking military which enters, or might plausible be said to have entered, its airspace.”
Or was even approaching its air space?? Turkey said it couldn’t comment on the condition of the crew, since the chopper came down on Syrian soil. Funny dat.
@ Phil 16 Sep, 2013 – 12:33 pm
Re: Trussell Trust. Founded in 1997 to help street children in Romania. Now works in Bulgaria and the UK. According to the link below operated by Evangelicals. Slightly conspiratorial article.
Did not realize the phrase “hard-working middle-class” is focus group tested. Also used repeatedly in the US. Emphasizes divide between taxpayers and slackers. The lower-middle class may be hard working, but the upper-middle class are big-time scamsters. Not on the order of banksters but they try.
“It was very easy to look up the Trussell Trust on the Internet, but what first caught our attention was a very sinister high level commissioner of this agenda, the Dulverton Trust, big in all things charitable, especially around children, but the most revealing aspect was the ties to British Intelligence through a very sinister company called; Hakluyt & Company Limited.”
http://www.lifeinthemix.info/2011/12/profile-trussell-trust/
Hakluyt, the bespoke spy company staffed by ex UK SIS folk.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-23/hakluyt-firm-that-hired-heywood-in-china-works-in-stealth.html
Not too worried about the helicopter, actually, D. File under “shit happens”, with “Rumsfeld”.
But the provenance of those 330mm rockets intrigues me.
345mm, sorry.
Fred, that’s right. I did some boxing when I was young, when I was serving my apprenticeship. I have long arms, which are useful. But there is no record of it anywhere. At an earlier age I also did some cross-country running when Arthur Charlton, of the same club, was the Northern Counties Cross Country champion. When I represented my school in the Lancashire Schoolboys Cross Country I came 153rd or something like that. Unsurprisingly nobody has heard of me. More surprisingly I can find no record of Arthur Charlton.
I have never known George Galloway to lie. In fact I think he has won quite a few contests against newspapers who have made such allegations.
SLUFAE quoted as “released for unlimited procurement” in 1981:
http://www.chinalakealumni.org/Downloads/Rocketeer/1981/Rktr05.22.1981.pdf
Worth $300 a year to one of the designers, too. Doesn’t look like something that was quickly abandoned, at all.
You have noted the HRW input into the analysis of the trajectories and the rockets used. ‘Impeccable analysis’. You can imagine how impeccable with the two rockets probably landing in built up areas – mostly concrete houses.
You will remember the impeccable contributions by Kenneth Roth, president of HRW, in Libya. Not too much analysis there of NATO bombs and Cruise missiles because they had the support of HRW. I suppose the reported 50,000 deaths were not a war crime for Ban Ki Moon and HRW?
Has the UN ever brought the evil empire to the bar for the use of dioxin in Vietnam and Cambodia? Death might be preferable to the gene damage causing deformity in thousands upon thousands of children.
(Incidentally, the Rand corporation that advised the grand Margaret Thatcher on the ‘Internal Market’ in OUR NHS also advised the empire to up the tonnage of Agent Orange –
“The RAND Corporation’s Memorandum 5446-ISA/ARPA states: “the fact that the VC obtain most of their food from the neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops … if they (the VC) are to be hampered by the crop destruction program, it will be necessary to destroy large portions of the rural economy – probably 50% or more”.[69]”
If we want a just and peaceful world we should have had the lot of them tried and then imprisoned for life. Hundreds of them.
“If we want a just and peaceful world we should have had the lot of them tried and then imprisoned for life. Hundreds of them.”
Ditto iro Iraq, & those responsible, either still outrageously in Public Office or not, and including of course the media propagandists.