Ray McGovern and the Sam Adams party have presented the Sam Adams award to Edward Snowden. I am delighted. This from Ray’s account of the event:
In brief remarks from his visitors, Snowden was reassured — first and foremost — that he need no longer be worried that nothing significant would happen as a result of his decision to risk his future by revealing documentary proof that the U.S. government was playing fast and loose with the Constitutional rights of Americans.
Even amid the government shutdown, Establishment Washington and the normally docile “mainstream media” have not been able to deflect attention from the intrusive eavesdropping that makes a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. Even Congress is showing signs of awaking from its torpor.
In the somnolent Senate, a few hardy souls have gone so far as to express displeasure at having been lied to by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA Director Keith Alexander — Clapper having formally apologized for telling the Senate Intelligence Committee eavesdropping-related things that were, in his words, “clearly erroneous” and Alexander having told now-discredited whoppers about the effectiveness of NSA’s intrusive and unconstitutional methods in combating terrorism.
Coleen Rowley, the first winner of the Sam Adams Award (2002), cited some little-known history to remind Snowden that he is in good company as a whistleblower — and not only because of previous Sam Adams honorees. She noted that in 1773, Benjamin Franklin leaked confidential information by releasing letters written by then-Lt. Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson to Thomas Whatley, an assistant to the British Prime Minister.
The letters suggested that it was impossible for the colonists to enjoy the same rights as subjects living in England and that “an abridgement of what are called English liberties” might be necessary. The content of the letters was so damaging to the British government that Benjamin Franklin was dismissed as colonial Postmaster General and had to endure an hour-long censure from British Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn.
There has been a determined attempt by government to justify the need to intercept everybody’s communications, all the time. We have, yet again, had MI5 claim there are many thousand violent Islamic terrorists running around the UK, (yet somehow not managing to kill anybody). The cry of “paedophiles” is raised, as always. I can imagine them suggesting the entire population be shot dead, and justifying it as making sure they get the paedophiles. The tabloids would go with that.
There still had not been a single credible claim by the mainstream media that any named individual has died, despite that contingency being trotted out all the time as the reason Snowden and Manning should not have revealed state crimes and abuse of power. I am hopeful that, with the internet still largely free to the dissemination of information, out next massive whistleblower is only weeks away.
1 day I’ll learn…
TY Bill Hicks.
Calling Kempe and Resident Dissident …… HELP!
That pesky George Galloway is making detailed claims and accusations regarding Israel’s treatment of Palestine again. Since you are both self-declared experts in the art of spotting Galloway falsehoods, I’d be grateful if you would study this passionate unscripted speech he just made in Vancouver, and point out anything he says which isn’t true.
In the event of you being unable to contradict any of his claims, let me thank you on George’s behalf for endorsing his speech.
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2013/11/01/george-galloway-free-palestine/
Jemand, 1 Nov, 1:55 pm, that BBC article about nuclear power is terrible; very confused and confusing. It mixes up references to conventional, solid fuel reactors, reactors driven with a beam of high energy particles, and mixed oxide fuels. I’m pretty sure it makes some outrageous, maybe even impossible claims. The extremetech.com article that it was apparently recycled from is just as bad. You’d have thought the BBC could have found someone who knows something about nuclear reactors; Roger Harrabin should have had more sense than to display his ignorance to such a large audience. The article is an utter embarrassment.
I’m not particularly interested in thorium as a fuel. I’m interested in the possibilities offered by reactors that run in the molten, liquid phase, called MSRs or Molten Salt Reactors. These may be able to use and break down nuclear waste.
AlcAnon, 1 Nov, 11:42 pm; the degree of bot-attack your little forum is attracting seems surreal. Has the world gone completely mad?
My e-mail addresses have gone so quiet that I’m wondering if they’re working properly…
Clark,
Lat night I installed and aggressively configured “fail2ban” (anti-breakin) and it seems to be winning
Here’s just one line from last nights log
That particular IP is already in public spam/blocklists – so I don’t need to blank their IP in this post in case anyone wonders about me posting someone’s IP address.
Btw, fail2ban monitors failures (on any/all port/service you define) and blocks them for a specified time interval at the firewall. It doesn’t fail to ban 🙂
“Anon” has gone on the record now, failing to provide a single word of condemnation about the Holocaust of the Jews under Nazi rule.
Absolute silence, not even a tsk of disapproval.
What a disgusting anti-Semite, a pro-Nazi apologist this “Anon” is. Little wonder he chooses to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.
He has also failed to condemn Stalin’s purges, and the rampages of Pol-Pot’s Khmer Rouge too, so clearly “Anon” supports totalitarian regimes. Nothing is too low and despicable for “Anon”.
Japan’s cut-price cleanup of Fuckushima disaster.
@Daniel Rich
It’s a pity you didn’t include the objective fact that I only throw punches in reply or to ongoing antagonists. If I were to post a benign comment that anybody else might post, it will be interpreted as having the worst possible motives and attract abuse from others. Is it any wonder then, that I have a stab at those who engage in pre-emptive hostility?
A few people here might recall many moons ago that Jon and I were discussing positive discrimination (affirmative action etc) for IP (indigenous people). No reasonable person would have assumed that we were referring to people other than colonised indigenous people who have become a minority in their own land including Oz aboriginals, South American natives etc.
Well what do you think happened?
Technicolour swooped on me with snide questions that strongly implied that I was actually referring to European natives (ie bad old whitey). The obnoxious inference that I was plugging positive discrimination for first world majority natives was sufficiently offensive for me to refuse to answer her hostile interrogation. She imagined the worst possible motives because of an inherently mean spirit. I’m sure she will post some post hoc justification that washes away the guilt, but the badwill endures.
So, if you want to go down this route of pissing on me, Daniel, for no better reason than you imagine me to be a villain and you a champion of all things good, then go ahead. You will learn a hard lesson in humility.
@ Jemand,
I was told that a wise man once said, “He, who is without sin, etc., etc…” In my book, judges are impartial and they side only with the truth. I think it would be advisable if people dropped the name calling, the mudslinging and whatnot, but that remains a personal take on life.
Q: “You will learn a hard lesson in humility.”
R: I learned that lessons when I met a blind man, a victim of the tsetse fly, along the Gambia river. When I looked through his eyes, I saw everything there is to see…
‘hima’= Osaka yakuza slang for ‘idiot’ [for those not very well versed in Asian languages, like myself]
‘All you need is love’, and a massive windfall for the likes of Lansdowne Partners and other City friends of Gideon following the flotation.
Royal Mail readies first TV ad in six years
Fri, 1 Nov 2013
The Royal Mail is to launch its first major TV campaign in six years just weeks after the postal service was privatised by the Government as it gears up for the busy festive parcel delivery season.
video
The “We Love Parcels” ad will feature 25 Royal Mail delivery workers and aims to encapsulate the joy people feel when they receive packages through the post. It is soundtracked by a version of The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love”, sung by the Royal Mail choir.
Moves to place a greater focus – and an increase in price – on parcel delivery helped The Royal mail post revenue of £9bn and more than double profit in the year to 31 March.
Ben Rhodes, Royal Mail head of marketing and commercial strategy, says: “Our people are responsible for delivering millions of precious parcels a year, and they go the extra mile to make sure that our customers’ needs are met – never more so than at Christmas time. We wanted to capture this spirit, as well as celebrate our postmen and women, and the job they do, from start to finish.”
The campaign, created by (Beta) London, will launch on Saturday (2 November), with a 60-second version airing during The X Factor. A 30-second Christmas version of the launch ad will then appear two weeks later, with six 10-second festive themed adverts running simultaneously in the run up to 25 December.
In September the Government ran a low-key campaign across press and digital to drum up interest among potential investors in the Royal Mail ahead of its stock market flotation.
The newly privatised company will be thankful that earlier this week its workers called off a planned 4 November strike, given the timing of the new campaign.
The Royal Mail’s share price was 573p at the time of writing, driven up 2.3 per cent on the news that the Communication Workers’ Union had cancelled the strike.
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/royal-mail-readies-first-tv-ad-in-six-years/4008428.article
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Share price at issue £3.30
Price yesterday £5.73
Enough said and no irony.
The Sun are saying that the BBC only announced Gambaccini’s arrest after they had reported it online. I don’t know what significance that fact is supposed to have. I have not read the article as it is behind a paywall and I have vowed never to give Murdoch a penny piece.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5237467/Gambaccini-arrested-by-Savile-cops.html paywall
Last year Gambaccini was making allegations that Savile was a necrophiliac and was abusing children with mental illness.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221922/Jimmy-Savile-necrophiliac-says-colleague-Paul-Gambaccini.html
Clifford, now facing other charges, is quoted in that Mail piece. Agent Cameron is also on a video speaking at the Centre for Social Justice. Again, no irony there.
All very depressing with the knowledge that children have been harmed.
No child shall be harmed.
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Came across this weird Australian website in my searches.
The Martial Arts Council for the Protection of Children website has been created to inform All Martial Artists and All Warriors of Truth and Justice of the Clandestine Networks of Government Child Abuse in Australia, U.K. and Worldwide.
http://macpc.org.au/site/
The Masonic backed Leverhulme Trust funds Cambridge research to show how disreputable are people who challenge establishment news, labelled derogatorily as conspiracy theorists. So my ‘dignified’ trolls, I guess you will be jumping to the defence of this august body of funding.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/10/29/conspiracy-theorists-are-the-greatest-challenge-to-democracy-according-to-heres-who/
Demanding Answers in Unsolved Murder of Palestinian-American Activist Alex Odeh
Jewish Extremists Suspected in 1985 Calif. Bomb Slay
http://forward.com/articles/185693/demanding-answers-in-unsolved-murder-of-palestinia/?p=all
Still no arrests after 28 years
Tell us something new Lord Howell, ex Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office LOL and Gideon’s father-in-law.
Foreign Office ‘kowtows’ to US, says Lord Howell
Former minister says FCO “cringes” within EU while ignoring Commonwealth allies
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/william-hague/10416088/Foreign-Office-kowtows-to-US-says-Lord-Howell.html
And who does the US ‘kowtow’ to?
“I hoped you would have addressed the issue of homosexuality within Islam and inform us what the prevailing sentiments of Muslims are as to what sanctions/penalties are expected to be applied to practising homosexuals. Can you bring us up to date on this, Guano?”
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May I take this opportunity of reminding Guano that he still owes me an answer to the question I put to him about why Muslims apparently abhor dogs (sources for this abhorrence, its rationale, etc, etc) and whether that abhorrence extends to other animals (and if so, which)?
I’m puzzled that Guano should not take up this opportunity to enlighten us.
Hello everyone,
I’ve been away and just found out that Jon is no longer moderating Craig’s blog. Does anyone have any idea how the spambots can now be removed from old but still open threads? There’s a nasty rash of them shown up on the Why I’m Convinced Anna Ardin is a Liar one.
(The latest on that thread, if anyone’s interested, is that UK MPs are calling for an emergency vote to ditch the EAW, or to at least ensure much firmer safeguards and proper repatriation of UK judicial discretion before the UK opts back into it. Also, a formal complaint to the Swedish Bar Association about the conduct of one of the complainants’ lawyer in the Assange case has been launched. Details of both here: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/why-i-am-convinced-that-anna-ardin-is-a-liar/comment-page-9/#comment-436510 )
If my question about the spambots has already been asked and answered further up the thread, can someone kindly point me to where? Many thanks.
Arbed. 11 35am
Thanks for flagging the Assange thread. All the best with the formal complaaint.
2 Nov, 2013 – 11:12 am
Some good souls have launched a formal complaint to the Swedish Bar Association about the conduct of Sofia Wilen’s lawyer Elizabeth Massi Fritz…. There’s lots more.
Maddoggob
My view on lying trolls is that they have no plan B other than lying. Therefore no need to respond to them until they find one. Everyone knows they are lying and their plan A is therefore completely neutralised.
Of far more concern to me is the lying trollery of the Muslims, whereby they destroy lives and wait for non-Muslims to intervene in order to claim credit for the benefits of reform. Like they were contractors for digging up the road in advance of repairs.
Their plan A lies are now neutralised. They don’t have a plan B other than more killing. You can’t just carry on killing everybody who sees through your lying. Else you become like the Cambridge spook/dons mentioned above. Totalitarian, same as the Zionist appointed dictators you want to remove.
Muslims who plan to utilise the same techniques of people control as the dictators, like spying, threatening livelihoods, torturing and intimidating, have brought dictatorship into the inside of Islam, where it does not belong. Allah knows how to preserve his religion from self-deception.
The Zio-trolls and Islamo-trolls and Marxo-trolls and whatever else lifts your skirt up and gives you an imaginary thrill of power are all one, all lying. Leave them to it and get on with what Allah intends.
I see that my Tory MP, Stephen Hammond, has been found avoiding tax.
“Stephen Hammond used a company based in Gibraltar, before it moved to Delaware, to buy his families £500,000 villa in Portugal.”
“Experts estimate this decision could have saved him £20,000 in British tax…”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10422189/Stephen-Hammond-Conservative-ministers-offshore-deal-cuts-tax-bill.html
This is an interview with Dan Burt, lawyer, poet and businessman.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03fb9k6/Midweek_Rita_Moreno_Dan_Burt_John_Wilson_Holly_MumbyCroft/
14.50 minutes from the start
He dislikes America, has renounced his American citizenship and has British citizenship. He is very honest about his Jewish roots in Philadelphia and his beginnings in his father’s butcher shop. There is something rather sad about him especially hearing his views on the Jewish diaspora to the US.
He founded a successful international law firm which he has apparently sold although it bears his name and includes him in the list of biographies.
His photo here. http://www.danburtpoetry.com/biography
http://sbr.soc.srcf.net/events/alumni-talks/dan-burt-alumni-talk/
http://www.bsmlegal.com/ourpeople-dburt.asp
Obama; stop treating me like a traitor…http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/world/europe/snowden-appeals-to-us-for-clemency.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“Mr. Snowden made his appeal in a letter that was carried to Berlin by Hans-Christian Ströbele, a veteran member of the Green Party in the German Parliament. Mr. Ströbele said he and two journalists for German news outlets met with Mr. Snowden and a person described as his assistant — probably his British aide, Sarah Harrison — at an undisclosed location in or near Moscow on Thursday for almost three hours.”
There are 53 mentions of the word Israel on his Register of Interests Doug including trips to Israel courtesy of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11927
On the page
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11927/stephen_hammond/wimbledon#register
he declares a consultancy with the Professional Contractors Group from which he has now resigned. It was formed as a protest group against the IR35 tax statute.
Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Contractors_Group
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IR35
Peal Gas Ltd own his house in Portugal. Gibraltar registered of course.
An old entry discloses a link to our old friend Liam:
6. Overseas visits
29 August-2 September 2005, to India. Hotel accommodation provided by the Government of India. Flights paid for by Dr Liam Fox’s office from a donation by Mr Stanley Fink, a businessman from Middlesex. My outgoing flight was upgraded by Virgin. (Registered 12 October 2005)
YCNMIU
And his wife gets £45k pa from us too as his office manager.
Another small crumb of hope.
I often think that our world is too far gone, too deep under the power of the puppet-masters for any meaningful resistance. This may indeed be the case. But now and again something happens to make me wonder if maybe, just maybe, there’s a chance of throwing off the shackles.
Venezuela under Chavez, Ecuador under Correa, Iceland snubbing the bankers, Syria proving a hard nut to crack …. and now Hungary throws out the Rothschild banks.
Maybe …. just maybe ….
http://vaticproject.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/hungary-kills-rothschild-banks-ordered.html
@ A Node
“Venezuela under Chavez, Ecuador under Correa, Iceland snubbing the bankers, Syria proving a hard nut to crack …. and now Hungary throws out the Rothschild banks.
Maybe …. just maybe”
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You’re rather clutching at straws there, aren’t you?
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Always look on the bright side of life!
“Maybe …. just maybe ….”
Hope springs eternal and thank you for posting the link in your comment A Node. Wouldn’t it be lovely if the people who have dominated the world banking system for so long could be removed peacefully? However the Rothschilds do not like people who are not on song and I fear for Viktor Orbán’s future. I notice he has nationalised a private health insurance scheme. Not only do I his initiative of kicking out the bankers succeeds I hope other countries follow the lead. The Rothschilds are so tied up in the US Federal Reserve when the printing money bubble bursts countries not tied to the dollar are going to be the overall winners.
I wish the UK would follow the lead. One day at a time . . .
A Node.
Thanks for the crumbs.
More crumbs.
‘Honest discourse died when society decided that if you disagree with me it means I hate you’. ~Jon Acuff
https://twitter.com/mikeroweworks/status/394557054368485376