I have a guilty political secret. I do not detest Gordon Brown. That is such an unfashionable opinion that I don’t really expect any comments at all to agree with it. And yes, I do realise that he went along with the Iraq War and all the other horrors of the Blair era. Interestingly, I don’t remember the question of what Gordon Brown really thought about Iraq ever being discussed; he deserves condemnation for having not tried to stop it, and perhaps he was indeed an enthusiast. And I am well aware that the Private Finance Initiative is a terrible disaster, and that he oversaw creeping privatisation in the health services, and – worst of all – the introduction of tuition fees.
And yet I cannot dislike him. Probably because I just know too many people who have known him through decades, who are themselves good people, and who like him. Around Edinburgh and Fife you will find it hard to find people who actually know him who share the hatred and contempt he seems to arouse among the political and media classes of London.
As a general rule I do not like or dislike people according to their politics, but rather according to the sincerity of their political beliefs and the goodwill with which they hold them. I am sure Anders Breivik is sincere in his political beliefs, but those are lacking in goodwill. Sincerity is not enough – humanity and inclusiveness are also important.
There are one nation Tories who seem to me perfectly decent people, genuinely trying to do good. I don’t hate them because their political conclusions on the best way to do good are different to mine. Gordon Brown I put rather in the same category – I feel he was trying to do good for ordinary people, he just got it wrong.
Blair is in a whole different category again – insincere, absolutely focused on attaining personal power, and with a Messianic belief that what is good for him must be good for the World. The Guardian is publishing some emails around the Blair Brown rivalry this week. I don’t care and won’t read them. But while I see Blair as quite properly damned for eternity to the seventh pit of hell, I don’t think Brown deserves anything worse than North Queensferry.
I have been in Ghana the last 20 days living in a house with no internet connection and working (extremely hard) in an office with virtually no internet connection – not enough to load WordPress. I hope to get more chance to blog shortly.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/israel-iran-nuclear-rouhani-netanyahu
“Jerusalem says Hassan Rouhani’s conciliatory remarks are not enough: Iran must remove all enriched uranium from the country”
Yes we are the only ones allowed nuclear weapons in the region because….. we say so.
What about the Samson option? any of our the resident hasbara got any thoughts on that?
What about the irony of IS dolphin class subs being german made???
Oh, it was a joke. Haha. Difficult to tell sometimes with these characters.
From Rehmat’s link
“Both US and Israel have been drone-attacking Somalia since July 2011 – killing hundreds of civilians. US backed Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi and AU troops while the Zionist entity backed Kenya. The CIA, Mossad, MI6 are all operating within Somalia.”
and yet that stupid woman who was doing “the papers” on Sky last night sat there and told everyone that “there was no reason” for such attacks as Nairobi. But that it definitely wasn’t political. She finally announced that the only reason for terrorism was that “some young men badly want to engage in violence”.
Wish I knew her name. She was on with some twit called James Max. https://twitter.com/thejamesmax
Rehmat writes:
The Zionist Mafia including Barack Obama and David Cameron have blamed Somalian Muslim resistance group Al-Shabaab for the seige of Israeli-owned and run Nairobi Shopping Mall, which began on Saturday. Many stores in the mall are run by Israeli companies and individuals. The mall is one of the lagest ‘hang-out’ for the Israeli tourists.
[…]
It’s not the first time Israelis have attacked their own interests in Kenya, Argentina, Thailand, India, Turkey, etc. to demonize Muslims fighting the Zionist World Order.
Do you have any evidence that Israel carried out this attack, Rehmat?
“ONE of the ringleaders of the terror attack on a Kenyan shopping centre which left 68 people dead is believed to be a British mother of three, it has been revealed.
Fanatical Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the White Widow, is a key member of al-Shabaab, the militant group which has claimed responsibility for the slaughter.
The British soldier’s daughter, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, is an Islam convert whose husband was one of the suicide bombers in the 7/7 attacks on London.
Unconfirmed sources claimed that 29-year-old Lewthwaite may even be among the masked gun gang still under siege in the Westgate mall last night”
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/kenya-terror-attack-white-widow-2294491
The redoutable aangirfan has done a little digging into the background of Ms Lewthwaite:
http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/
Dreoilin, were Craig to post again, we would have about a page of informative contributions from mostly unfamiliar names before the regulars divert the thread back to their favourite subject of Israel and the Jews. I estimate that Craig would have to post a new article every hour in order to prevent this happening.
“The redoubtable Aangirfan”
No surprise to see the crackpot described as “redoubtable” here!
My personal favourite from Aangirfan:
“Hitler and Castro – Gay Jews?”
Credit where credit’s due. Aangirfan’s dissection of paedophile networks in the wake of the Savile revelations was unrelenting and pretty formidable. Agreed however that s/he doesn’t always hit the spot.
But we digress. Any views on Ms Lewthwaite?
mummy mummy mummy, those boys always go off topic, buaaaeeehhhh.
there is only so much front of the fence Gordon Brown before you hit the back of him.
Also aargirfan, but there are various other sources, incl. Tom watson MP.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/queer-goings-on-alleged-scandals.html
Jon, here I stand. Will you not engage with me so we might embrace my preposterously bold intellect against your jack booted soul. You bend over my rights. If only Craig knew what I endure. For I am the real Anon. Ask anyone on the internet.
Answer my genius immediately you scurrilous fools. Thank you very kindly.
[Mod/Jon: renamed to ‘Another Anon’ to avoid appearing as ‘Anon’]
So how did she get to be Irish then? (oh I see. She was born in Co Down?)
http://rehmat1.com/2013/09/23/israeli-terror-at-nairobis-jewish-mall/
“s/he doesn’t always hit the spot.”
You mean that, for example, the idea that Breivik was innocent and it was his fake body double we saw on trial is not quite hitting the spot?!
The disclaimer on Aangirfan’s site might give the game away:
“The posting of stories, commentaries, reports, documents and links (embedded or otherwise) on this site does not in any way, shape or form, implied or otherwise, necessarily express or suggest endorsement or support of any of such posted material or parts therein.
I.e., “I’m free to make up any old crock I like!”
“[Mod/Jon: renamed to ‘Another Anon’ to avoid appearing as ‘Anon’. Would the real Anon please stand up?]”
But the “Another” is not showing, Jon.
I think the real “Anon” has added ™ for clarification.
[Got to go out and walk. Prescribed.]
“Do you have any evidence that Israel carried out this attack, Rehmat?”
You sound more like a cocky criminal being interviewed by the police rather than someone asking a question, nn extremely purile question at that.
We could all use Israeli techniques, e.g. “Assad did it” repeated ad infinitum, where evidence, probabilty or motive are not a matter up for discussion, but that is entirely unneccessary.
Israel does have clear *motives* and, based on previous documented goings on in Africa over decades, is *probably* behind this, and of course the *evidence* of their involvment is provided by themselves who are now openly conducting military operations there. These are the same forces that absailed on to an unarmed ship on the high seas and despatched unarmed and surrended aid-workers with a bullet in the back of the head.
– See more at: http://www.globalresearch.ca/humankinds-most-dangerous-moment-fukushima-fuel-pool-at-unit-4/5350779#sthash.JEKPTF8C.dpuf
Each uncovered rod emits enough radiation to kill someone standing nearby in a matter of minutes. A conflagration could force all personnel to flee the site and render electronic machinery unworkable.
According to Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer with forty years in an industry for which he once manufactured fuel rods, the ones in the Unit 4 core are bent, damaged and embrittled to the point of crumbling. Cameras have shown troubling quantities of debris in the fuel pool, which itself is damaged.
The engineering and scientific barriers to emptying the Unit Four fuel pool are unique and daunting, says Gundersen. But it must be done to 100% perfection.
Should the attempt fail, the rods could be exposed to air and catch fire, releasing horrific quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. The pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and possibly explode. The resulting radioactive cloud would threaten the health and safety of all us.
Chernobyl’s first 1986 fallout reached California within ten days. Fukushima’s in 2011 arrived in less than a week. A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries.
Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says full-scale releases from Fukushima “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”
Neither Tokyo Electric nor the government of Japan can go this alone. There is no excuse for deploying anything less than a coordinated team of the planet’s best scientists and engineers.
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Uh. Is anybody listening?
How to spot a crock of steaming hot shit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429644/Terror-Kenya-led-white-widow-shocking-picture-shows-terrified-little-girl-fleeing-mall-massacre.html
Another Israeli false flag pinned on Hizbullah and Iran.
On June 30, 2013, Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA), reported that the Jewish former Argentina interior minister Carlos Vladimir Corach (under former president Carlos Menem) is being investigated for bribing Carlos Telleldin, the car bomber, with $400,000 for blaming Hizbullah and Iran for the crime.
http://rehmat1.com/2013/07/09/ex-argentina-jewish-minister-involved-in-amia-bombing/
Has someone got a link to an archived file of Samantha Lewthwaite’s blog, which seems to have been at www (dot) mycnjiawaukweli (dot) blogspot (dot) com?
According to this article (July 2012) (emphasis added):
“Seven officers from the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command flew into the country on Monday to join the hunt for Samantha Lewthwaite, a Muslim convert whose husband killed 26 people in a terror attack in London in 2005. They join officers from the Kenya Anti-Terror Police unit and the United States Central Intelligence Agency who have been hunting her down.”
I wonder if, like, they have been trying to find her all this time, and failing, or whether they have found something else to do with their time, either involving or not involving her?
“Dubbed the White Widow by the UK media, she is described as a major financier of terrorism activities in Kenya. Lewthwaite, 28, has been on the run for close to six months after police foiled a plot to kill hundreds of British tourists in Mombasa. She was arrested and charged in court in December after police found weapons and explosives in one of her safe houses in Mombasa. However, she was later released in unclear circumstances.”
Were charges dropped? Did she get bail? Isn’t there a record?
Ben Franklin, it may be too late. I’ve signed the petition but think that petitioning Obama to put money into saving unit 4, even though it is likely to destroy life on earth, is futile. He would want to know what minerals there were in the area. These people are just hell-bent on world domination not whether there is a world left to dominate.
You really have to raise your hat to them for their uncannily accurate and consistent reporting on the White Widow in Kenya (and terrorists in general) while they remain totally dumb, blind and ignorant to the shit all around us.
“Security services from Britain, the US and Kenya know her as the White Widow, one of the most feared female terrorists in history.” I’m vewwy vewwy fwightened and you should be too. But what has made her so fearsome? Apart from wearing ‘Islamic dress’ and speaking Arabic? Why don’t they mention her British Army connection?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/white-widow-samantha-lewthwaite-profile-1175021
“We only have to look to Holland – which privatised its health care system in 2006 – to see how it’s possible for the NHS to be privatised by stealth”
http://tompride.co.uk/how-atos-is-taking-over-the-nhs-by-stealth-under-a-different-name
http://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-said-to-join-probe-of-kenya-airport-fire/#.Uj-hEritgEc.email
How the spies and military from a foriegn country thousands of miles away are getting unfettered access to Kenya is the real question. Why on Earth should Mossad be looking at an airport fire that Kenyan official immediately said was not a terrorist incident, and even if it was what the hell has it got to do with them? There are far better placed international organisations to conduct such an investigation than the organised crime syndicate of Israel.
“In May of this year, two Iranians were jailed for life for planning massive bombing attacks on Jewish, Israeli and Western targets in the country. Defense lawyers claimed that Israeli security official interrogated the two while in Kenyan custody.”
Will this Iranian link resurface? Just what they need to head of Rouhani’s overtures to the West.
“Has someone got a link to an archived file of Samantha Lewthwaite’s blog, which seems to have been at www (dot) mycnjiawaukweli (dot) blogspot (dot) com?”
Wayback machine claims to have it from 12 December 2012, but the page is blank (at least on my screen)
http://web.archive.org/web/20121212163127/http://mycnjiawaukweli.blogspot.com/
“Uh. Is anybody listening?”
Yes, Ben. I tweet about it almost every day.
This petition
http://www.nukefree.org/crisis-fukushima-4-petition-un-us-global-response
seems to be from Moveon.org, and says
“For now, we are petitioning the United Nations and President Obama to mobilize the global scientific and engineering community to take charge at Fukushima and the job of moving these fuel rods to safety.”
I see no need to petition the UN AND Obama, since the U.S. is part of the UN.
Sorry, the above quote is from here
http://www.globalresearch.ca/humankinds-most-dangerous-moment-fukushima-fuel-pool-at-unit-4/5350779
“OSLO, NORWAY—A new analysis of seven Viking-era skeletons by Elise Naumann of the University of Oslo suggests that elite individuals may have been buried with their sacrificed slaves. The skeletons, which were recovered by a farmer in the 1980s, came from three separate graves, and at least three of the bodies had been buried without their heads.
“The individuals who had been buried with their heads ate a diet rich in land-based proteins such as milk and beef. Those who had been decapitated, however, ate seafood-based diets, as did a dog who had been buried at the site. And DNA analysis indicates that the people who had been buried together were not closely related.
“There were probably a very few people who were the most privileged, and many people who suffered,” Nafumann said.”
http://archaeology.org/news/1314-130920-norway-vikings-graves-slavery
Plus ça change, eh?
From Dr Helen Caldicot – Nuclear Physist
Einstein –“The splitting of the atom changed everything save mans’ mode of thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe”.
This subject has perplexed me ever since I was a young girl and read “On The Beach” when I lived in Melbourne. It became obvious to me that unless men could restrain themselves and not fight and kill each other that sooner or later these hideous weapons which were pioneered by Einstein and Oppenheimer would be used.
In fact it amazes me that to this day we are still living and breathing on this beautiful planet of ours. In 2002 I wrote a book called The New Nuclear Danger and as a physician I analysed the history of near misses and close encounters with the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers – Russia and the US and it became difficult to understand why we had not yet experienced a nuclear holocaust.
What most people fail to comprehend is the fact that both the US and Russia each still maintain almost 1000 hydrogen bombs on missiles that would take 10 to 30 minutes to hit their assigned targets in either country plus other major cities in China, Europe, Canada, Australia and the UK. These deadly arsenals are basically under computer control although if an early-warning satellite detects a missile launch from either country, radios back to the command post , thence to the Kremlin or the White House, Putin or Obama would have only three minutes to decide whether to launch their nuclear arsenals before they lose them in the impending attack. Over 1000 people hack into the Pentagon computers every day.
If you have ever closely observed Obama he is always followed by an officer carrying a suit case called the “football” which carries the codes to launch a nuclear holocaust.
In 1995 Yeltsin, at the time a hardened alcoholic was notified that the US had launched a first strike nuclear attack. He was seated in front of his computer with military officers standing over his shoulder telling him to press the button, but just seconds before the three minute elapsed the missile veered off course and the computer was closed. The US had in fact launched a weather satellite from Norway, the Pentagon had notified the Kremlin that this was to take place but the Kremlin misplaced the warning. We were literally seconds from annihilation.
Such situations occur not infrequently but they usually slide under the radar with little international reporting or notice.
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/international-peace-l-helen-caldicott.html#.UkBmY9azz4k.facebook
Dre; “There is no excuse for deploying anything less than a coordinated team of the planet’s best scientists and engineers.”
I know y’all don’t have to be collared to pay attention, but the WW community is asleep. I fear it may too late as John says.