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.
“Links and endorsement is a contentious subject where my views differ from many others here – but fred, did you know that is a scientology site you linked to?”
I didn’t and I read the small print at the bottom and the “About Us” page where no mention was made of their connections with Scientology. That in itself, in my opinion excludes them as a reliable source of information. I will withdraw the link.
I will stand by what I said about them inventing drugs first then inventing an illness for it to cure second though.
A fleabite for the likes of JP Morgan, one of Bliar’s employers.
A £572m fine for their involvement (serious failings) in the London Whale scam.
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Another laugh. ZBC have just had the Man of Straw on for his opinion of Dr Rouhani, who replaced Ahmadinejad. Passed AI OK by Straw.
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The presenter went on to ask him what he thought of the wearing of the veil by hospital staff. He referred to the Asian population in his Blackburn constituency (which we know all about) and said he had never seen the veil worn in his local hospital. Good piece of fence sitting.
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Saw this in the Guardian. Good for a laugh. Always thought he was a bit of a plank. Remember his breathless commentary outside the Lindo Wing recently?
BBC presenter does live broadcast clutching stack of paper instead of iPad
Simon McCoy baffles viewers by presenting news item after accidentally picking up refill pack of A4
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/18/bbc-presenter-broadcast-paper-ipad
Thanks a million, Nevermind. I’ll go and investigate straight away.
Chunky Mark with John McDonnell MP, a very decent man and the PM we never had. We were given Brown instead!
The War Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppEixLyaR40
“Dutch King Willem-Alexander declares the end of the welfare state”
“Youngest monarch in Europe says people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-king-willemalexander-declares-the-end-of-the-welfare-state-8822421.html
“I have posted the Medialens article on FB, with a special note to share, something I do sparingly for better impact.”
And I’m very glad of that too. That whole story makes me sick to my stomach. (The fact that a first grandchild is due here shortly probably makes it even harder to read.)
From what Medialens have posted, it sounds like there was quite a bit of political interference before the report got out at all. I’m sure they would have blocked it entirely if they could.
Re: recent comments about the New World Order:
David Rockefeller, Sr (the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family)
James Warburg, son of CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] founder Paul Warburg
….and while I’m at it,
Re: recent comments about the Federal Reserve:
– Congressman Louis T. McFadden, from a speech delivered to the House of Representatives on June 10, 1932
@A Node
An interesting recent Vatican document: “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the context of global public authority.” Googling the title will give access to the text. It should be noted that the Vatican’s documents invoke the principle of *subsidiarity* to prevent tyranny, namely a respect for the legitimate autonomy of authorities below a universal one.
John “insane” McCain living up to his moniker like a good ‘un. Pravda is surely giving this man space for his thinly veiled trashing of Russia so that the Russians can see for themselves what a basket-case US ‘foreign diplomacy’ is and have a good laugh. The US should ask this man to shut up – he’s beyond embarrassing.
“Putin doesn’t beleive in you. I beleive in you. I admire the Russian people”…if he was an honest man he could have added…. “I also beleive that it was right for me to tell my interrogators the flight rotas, time-tables and targets of 50% of all US Navy aircraft operations being conducted by my collegues off the coast of Vietnam at the time I was captured, which accounted for a massive upswing in US casualties immediately after my capture and which led directly to the deaths of dozens of my commrades. Everyone in the US Navy hates my guts for doing that but I still beleive in them, even the ones that I got killed because I was chicken-shit-scared of what the Vietnamese would do to me after dropping Napalm on civilians day in day out for months on end – like a war hero does.”
Can’t find corroboration for this. Help?
“While Obama’s Department of Justice seeks to shield the Bush Administration by declaring their
war crimes “business as usual,” his Department of Defense prepares to eliminate hard evidence of those crimes by destroying Syria’s stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Those WMDs came from us. I saw canisters, “bombs,” of VX/GF in storage in Iraq. They were tagged showing they were shipped there from Ft. Rucker, Alabama by the Carlyle Group, the giant blue-ribbon finance-and-weapons conglomerate, home to former-President George H.W. Bush and other prominent war profiteers. The nerve agent VX is the deadliest chemical weapon ever made. It is useful only for the indiscriminate destruction of human and animal life. It has been outlawed internationally, most recently by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993, by the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention of 1972 and the Geneva Protocol of 1925. –
See more at: http://www.t-room.us/2013/08/evidence-of-american-war-crimes-likely-target-in-syria/#sthash.Jbjim6H4.dpuf
This piece prompted the search. Usual suspects.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-sellstrom-report-the-united-nations-syria-inspector-shills-for-nato-and-israel/5350287
Sellstrom—-Iraq and Syria
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/profile-professor-ake-sellstrom-un-team-leader-8780975.html
“Atos, KPMG and the NHS. Be afraid. Be very afraid”
http://dpac.uk.net/2013/09/atos-kpmg-and-the-nhs-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comment-20363
@Abe Rene 19 Sep, 2013 – 3:59 pm
Thank you. An ‘interesting document’ indeed, and surprisingly
readable. Hard to fault the words,
though who knows the intention or authority of a document released by
the Vatican for public consumption. It reads very much like the
idealistic notions I held myself before I came to suspect the motives
of those pushing for a World Government.
“The establishment of a world political
Authority should be preceded by a preliminary phase of consultation
from which a legitimated institution will emerge that is in a position
to be an effective guide and, at the same time, can allow each country
to express and pursue its own particular good. The exercise of this
Authority at the service of the good of each and every one will
necessarily be super partes or impartial: that is, above any partial
vision or particular good, with a view to achieving the common good.
Its decisions should not be the result of the more developed countries’
superior power over weaker countries. Instead, they should be made in
the interest of all, not only to the advantage of some groups, whether
they are formed by private lobbies or national governments.”
Interesting ideas on reforming the International financial and monetary
systems too, but I have to ask the questions “When did the the Roman
Catholic church become so egalitarian? And will the Vatican bank be
subjected to the scrutiny of honest men?
Sorry above, I was trying out a new way of formatting …. didn’t work
Thanks Someone for the links to Dutch healthcare and welfare. The British are obviously on the same pathway.
See donors to Tories from ATOS connections.
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2012/11/01/the-tory-party-has-received-1-3-million-in-donations-from-donors-linked-to-atos/
AWWW..Wee Sofia away on travels, i shall miss her Sweet way with words…Brilliant wit…Stay Safe
Regards Insane McCain – The Russian’s aint impressed Surprise, surprise –
“McCain’s response is obvious, commonplace; I would even say it’s not intelligent”, – that’s how the senator’s article was commented by Leonid Polyakov, the head of the politic science department at the Higher School of Economics.
“I would even say it’s not intelligent” Wow, now there’s an understatement
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/19-09-2013/125714-reaction_mccain-0/
Mary,
Its only a matter of time!.
The ever brilliant John Pilger on the awful anniversary of Pinochet’s coup.
In an age of ‘realists’ and vigilantes, there is cause for optimism
19 September 2013
The most important anniversary of the year was the 40th anniversary of 11 September 1973 – the crushing of the democratic government of Chile by General Augusto Pinochet and Henry Kissinger, then US secretary of state. The National Security Archive in Washington has posted new documents that reveal much about Kissinger’s role in an atrocity that cost thousands of lives.
http://johnpilger.com/articles/in-an-age-of-realists-and-vigilantes-there-is-cause-for-optimism
Hear also Vincent Jara’s widow on finding her husband’s body in a pile of corpses. His hands had been broken. He was a guitarist.
Military Coup in Chile
Duration: 11 minutes
First broadcast:Wednesday 11 September 2013
On September 11th 1973, Gen Augusto Pinochet ousted the socialist government in Chile. Hundreds of people were tortured and killed in the coup, among them the folk-singer Victor Jara. Hear his British widow Joan’s first-hand account of those historical events.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01g3nyt
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s/be VICTOR Jara.
Powerful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBghyk-rItc
Mary
http://www.whywaitforever.com/dwpatosveterans.html
Two Telegraph pieces with two important dates: Saudi Arabia to become net IMPORTER of oil by 2030, and the US to become net EXPORTER of gas by 2020. It’s clear which way the tide is flowing. The question for the Saudis is do they manage the transition, partly with outside help, or do they continue to spread their vile brand of shocktroop-Islam while threatening to attack civilians at Olympic events.
Ambrose Evans Pritchard also wrote last month’s Prince Bandar/Putin piece that covered the threats to Sochi. The guy obviously knows the energy markets, and the geopolitical configurations they entail.
When Saudi flow rates start to plummet (along the lines of the North Sea since its 1999 peak) then they’ll be in the crosshairs. And there will be quite a queue to give them a kicking!
McCain’s been oven-baked in Russia.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100021244/us-to-overtake-saudi-arabia-in-oil-as-chinas-water-runs-dry/
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100019812/
“The Syrians could not conduct this war without Russian financing. We can freeze their assets. We can stop them from doing business in the United States, prevent their employees from traveling here and, in effect, impose very heavy financial pain on the Russians,” – Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who represents the state of Connecticut, said at a US policy meeting on Iran and Syria at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington DC.
Blumenthal was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jane M. (née Rosenstock) and Martin A. Blumenthal, who was the president of a commodities trading firm.[4][10][11] His mother was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Jewish family that originated in Prussia and Baden, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Frankfurt, Germany.[12]
No conflict of interest as far as I can see…
Am alive and well and have popped up in Ghana – just started a new post/thread.
@ Someone,
Q: “Dutch King Willem-Alexander declares the end of the welfare state” “Youngest monarch in Europe says people must take responsibility for their own future and create their own social and financial safety nets”
R: A ff-ing ‘King? Who the F pays 4 u, u fat F?!
Re the Coventry N Warwickshire political aspirations for Master Blair – where are the present-day Dave Nellists and Les Huckfields when you need them?
“Derivatives, The Gift That Keeps On Taking”
http://theautomaticearth.com/Finance/derivatives-the-gift-that-keeps-on-taking.html
“The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives”
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Armageddon-Looting-Mac-by-Ellen-Brown-Armageddon_Banking_Bankruptcy_Banks-130918-497.html
Rose
http://www.totalpolitics.com/history/5903/where-are-they-now-dave-nellist.thtml
Thanks for the info Someone.
I see he’s on Twitter. https://twitter.com/davenellist I am glad he is still going strong.
Compare his good and decent life where he has made a contribution to that of the vain war criminal Blair now touring the world picking up shekels by the million.
Rose asked about Les Huckfield. Same website. http://www.totalpolitics.com/history/162907/where-are-they-now-les-huckfield.thtml
Strange that both he and Dave Nellist had a connection to B.Liar. Dave shared a HoC office in their early days and Les stood in Sedgefield against B.Liar.