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.
Jemand: “Mary, do you think Macky is innocent of posting the SF comment?”
Asks the Liar, with the ever increasing Pinocchio nose !
Poor Fedup. “Now it is the deep, deep, deep undercover shit unfolding. The same fucker used to have loads of Jewish neighbours, now the Jews have left and Muslims have moved in”. It is called “a move from North London to East London”.
Really sad.
“Toying with him like mocking the afflicted, but I think that I’m being a bit selfish & greedy in clogging up this thread with having fun swatting gnats”
Macky has developed a ginormously inflated opinion of himself. It’s beyond funny.
“I been longing for years for an excuse to don my dusty loincloath once again, and go pulling on some ratmonkeys tails once more like in the glory days of my youth.”
Yes, sure … Can see him trying to swing out of the rafters in the pub, and jumping on tables. When he’s not attacking other drinkers with a cue and threatening to “sort them out”.
I’m going to call him the wrecking ball.
Otherwise, am taking another break. And for those who don’t seem to be able to read – I said another ‘BREAK’. You know, a short time away, length unspecified.
No doubt the mess will carry on, and Mary will carry on through it, posting her items for Craig’s attention.
Well on a hunch I had a little look for “Jemand”, (interesting enough itself seemingly of German origin), on the SF Site, and yes there is a “Jemand” who posted there back in 2008;
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t499260/
“Well on a hunch I had a little look for “Jemand”, (interesting enough itself seemingly of German origin), on the SF Site, and yes there is a “Jemand” who posted there back in 2008;”
That still doesn’t explain how the word “Mary” got into your Name box.
“Jemand” is German for “Somebody”; so the Angry Aussie has a Germanic interest.
““Jemand” is German for “Somebody”; so the Angry Aussie has a Germanic interest.”
That still doesn’t explain how the word “Mary” got into your Name box.
One here John Goss to make you laugh concerning a Tory nitwit and Menwith Hill which you know a lot about.
Did Conservative MP Julian Smith endanger national security?
Politician who claims Guardian endangered lives with NSA spying leaks shows photo of staff at high-security base in UK
Friday 25 October 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/25/conservative-mp-julian-smith-national-security-nsa-leaks
The piece is in today’s printed version.
Four letters to the Guardian on B.Liar’s ‘I feel your pain’ stuff.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/25/blair-pain-passion-howls-derision
The initial author of the Wikipedia page on ‘The Ambassadors’ is anonymous under the name Tentinator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tentinator
The para within the page about Craig (numbered 7) refers to this Independent article.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/can-new-mitchell–webb-comedy-help-the-foreign-office-improve-its-image-8866984.html
where Craig is quoted:
‘However the writers say their story was in no way inspired by Murray, who began an affair with an Uzbek lap-dancer, was accused of “hiring dolly birds” to work in the visa department and was removed from his post by the Foreign Office in 2004, after exposing cases of torture and murder sanctioned by the US-funded regime of Uzbek President, Islam Karimov.
“We were not interested in telling that story,” said co-writer Rupert Walters. They did not need to speak to Murray because David Moran, who succeeded Murray as Uzbekistan’s Ambassador and then took the Kazakhstan posting, became their chief consultant. That Webb’s Deputy Head of Mission has a relationship with a local barmaid was a coincidence.
However Murray said: “The producers, Big Talk, contacted me four years ago trying to buy the rights to my book Murder in Samarkand for a film so I disbelieve then when they say Ambassadors isn’t based on me and my book.”
Murray, who hasn’t seen the series, believes that the Foreign Office has given its backing to the comedy to “defuse the horror of our alliance with Uzbekistan and make it banal, accepted and safe.”
Murray said: “It’s pro-government propaganda, a state-sponsored satire. It is disgraceful and not based on anything the Foreign Office would do in real life. Human rights always have a very low priority compared to military considerations.”’
Well said Craig.
The last person to pull the rule about Muslims always being polite on me was my boss at Brunei Wafirah UK Ltd, a project of the Sultan of Brunei in Birmingham to keep Queen Liz 2 happy and stave off the day somebody else tries to grab the trillions from his little atol.
The guy pulls just under a quarter of a million pounds a year for managing 15 staff in a small office and empty warehouse. But when one of his team was double-crossed and lied to by a sub-contractor, he supported his own apke race over myself.
So far 20 million at least have been poured into the company but not one halal sausage made so far. I work on building sites normally but apparently you are not allowed to use the word fuck in offices. Technicolour will soon be banning the word here.
The guy had an annoying habit of appointing himself as the leader of the prayer and manager of our personal religious lives, telling us where to pray our friday prayers. This is a prerogative he took from his higher pay packet which in his mind meant that Allah had placed him over us.
FUCK OFF SUFI CUNTS. I will say what I like about religion or politics on this blog. This man already had access to the Pakistani MI5 intelligence pooled resources but then used his CEO power to write me bad references in my spheres of employment. He also contacted the mafia of the Muslim Brotherhood praise be to God now dismantled in Egypt, to further cause me grief.
I’m so glad to know that Technicolour is a hasbara troll, and that the long argument about the war on terror being about resources is now over. There are no resources in Syria, only land for the Ziostanis to appropriate under Cameron’s Aid for Piece-keeping package. Thank God for this blog and free speech and Oliver Cromwell, and for Craig having the balls to keep the thing on the road.
Medialens editors – Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1382775938.html
I found one of your comments Guano on Craig’s piece entitled Jack Straw’s big lie http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/01/jack_straws_big/
when I was looking for links to Valerie Amos, now Baroness Amos.
She had been sent to Africa to get support for the second resolution to go to war in Iraq. She failed.
‘All the evidence suggests that the non-permanent members had no intention of supporting the second resolution. Valerie Amos went twice to Angola in three weeks and got a very dusty answer. The Angolan national assembly supported unanimously the government position of not supporting the second resolution. The envoys got nowhere with all of the countries they visited because they all considered that the inspections were still in progress.’
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She seems to have landed herself a sinecure at the UN now.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-syria-crisis-aid-un-idUSBRE99O0XB20131025
The noble Baroness is now entering the Syrian propaganda war by referring to the number of refugees without aid.
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A B.Liar Baroness with a lot of history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Amos,_Baroness_Amos
Craig recounts some of it here! http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/05/nulab_freeloade/
Is that the best you can do Macky? Your desperate efforts to fit me up as the villain makes you increasingly look guilty.
We’ve been down this road before about my handle corresponding to the word “someone” in German – as if no one else has used it, let alone on a neo-nazi website. Hah! I’m just surprised that you couldn’t find a better example to attach to me.
I wonder how many comments ‘out there’ we could find on kooky websites written in the name of Macky and then boldly assert that they MUST have been written by you. Should we look Macky? You obviously haven’t learnt your lesson yet, which is not surprising because you obviously never finished school.
Anno is now brainwashed into the Blairite west v muslims paradigm; Fedup is stuck in some crazed and paranoid repetitive loop; Macky thinks he’s having great fun shouting and slurring and wrecking across the board and Mary, having condoned, encouraged and finally put her own knife in, is now trying, unsuccessfully, to pretend she is above all this. I hope it makes her happy. Everyone else – well, good luck, people. My memories of a free-wheeling, fairly respectful, intelligence based, ideas and resource swapping board are fading. It was pretty good while it lasted.
Jemand,
You’re being ridiculous,again.
But at least you’re consistently ridiculous,i suppose.
You better up your game before your line manager fires you-such is your woeful methodology.
Still no one prepared to advocate Macky’s innocence? Mary, surely you will put in a good word for your mate. Anything at all?
Tech
Blair is a completely empty shell only just capable of remembering the repeated lyrics for a teenage boys band.
When he entered the labour party he could just about remember the mantra that New Labour was not opposed to capitalism. When he entered religion he could just about remember that God used jesus to wash away sins. When he became an envoy for Israel he could just about remember that the war between Zionism and Islam is Muslim aggression. Keep it simple or he’ll get it wrong in front of the camera. The war on terror is a righteous war of self-defence against Islamic aggression.
He has no brain he is a zfwit extraordinaire. You as well do not seem to be able to distinguish between my point that the UK is constantly being blackmailed financially by the ziobanksters into aggression against Muslim countries and Blair’s mantra that Islam is the aggressor. If you are not able to grasp that simple point, you are the same as Blair. Why is the mantra you remembered so painstakingly being challenged so vigourously here?
Mary
On the link you mentioned I see that Steelback and Writerman were still around telling us that there was no malice against Islam and that everything was down to neo-colonial land-grabbing against Russia and China.
If so, it seems as though China has achieved its ambitions for world recognition through hard work while we have achieved nothing, have no industry or respect, except a reputation for continuing the dirty tricks we used in empire into the 21st century and earning the dismissal by Russia as being a small nation that no-one much listened to any more.
How long will the UK public stand for us being used by Ziostan to do its Apartheid aggression for it. Surely there is enough racism in the English blood-stream to direct a little hate towards the wreckers of our economy and leaders into war?
Jemand
Stop pissing in the wind and do something useful. Indonesians frequented the shores of northern Australia centuries before westerners arrived there. The cover-up about Islam in Australia is almost as complete as the cover-up about aborigines.
Why is it ok for Ziostan to use Australia as a kafir base from which to colonise and control East Asia, but not ok for her nearest Muslim neighbours to drop by as they have always done and bring some noor/light into that vast country?
Is Australia only big enough for Jews and Kafirs?
PS on that Serco stuff, Mary. They also run the out of hours service in Cornwall and were hammered by the Public Accounts Committee this summer for basically making shit up about their response times, staffing levels etc.
Big six price fixing. Libor rate rigging.
Yes, the corporate sector is far more efficient – at ripping people off.
To the trolls. I plough my own furrow. I do not have supporters or mates which is a preposterous suggestion when we are ALL virtual here, nor will I respond to provocation.
Perhaps if we met up, we would all get on like a house on fire but don’t make the date November 1st and 4th. The FBU are on strike as their jobs and pension entitlements are under attack and the fire stations are being closed willy nilly. I sent them a message of support saying to fight like tigers.
Guano, I’m not in the business of progressing the Islamist agenda of Muslims, why would I?
And do you go around calling black people niggers? Don’t use that word “Kafir” in the same paragraph that you address me or I will start on you and I will not let up. Wise people let sleeping dogs lie – are you wise?
Well, Macky, it looks like you’ve been abandoned. Even Mary can’t bring herself to defend you against the charge that YOU are the real author of the SF post. But don’t let that discourage you.
Suppression of the truth has never been intensified this degree. The following video cannot be accessed from UK, or on the youtube, so watch it quick, the ziofcukwit shill is busy doing exactly what these trolls around here do.
Former US Marine gives verbal tongue lashing to Israeli Shill
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/wow-must-see-former-us-marine-gives-verbal-tongue-lashing-to-israeli-shill/#l8Rpowb4d4e2Z4Px.99
Jemand
The people who like giving it out – don’t like it up ’em.
It is not obvious to me that Australia is the land chosen only for non-Muslims and Jews. You have not provided any reason for agreeing with the status quo that foreigners will be exteradited on entry to Australia. You have admitted yourself you rejected Islam. That makes you a kafir. Full stop.
Take no notice of the shit stirrer Macky and others. Shouldn’t he be in bed as it’s nearly 1am in Oz?
Well Jack Straw is to retire at the next election…
I wonder if he’ll spend his retirement contemplating all the tortured souls he sold for his NeoCon ma$ter$?
Extraordinary rendition,torture,Abu Ghraib ad nauseam…
Remember to stretch your legs real good in bed Jackand get a nice comfy temperature in your quiet bedroom.
Try not to think of the tortured souls who,between bouts with the electrodes,pliers and blowtorches would be kicked back to freezing 4 by 4 cells to be savaged by dogs and goon squads and prevented from sleeping by noise torture,force feeding and brutal beatings-less than 2% of whom have yet to have a trial or see any evidence whatsoever.
Well…the ones still alive that is.
Sleep well in your ermine dreamland and don’t forget to regularly count your ca$h Jack eh?
And you Guano, are just another lost soul, subscribing to an ancient superstition that is stuck forever in the past and dependent on a minority of thugs to maintain its hold over its people. Your presence here is therefore a mystery as you have absolutely no respect for non-Muslims whatsoever. Why don’t you go visit one of those nice websites that advocate beheadings?
Mary, you finally offered a defence of your mate and supporter, Macky! So what say you regarding my charge against him that he is probably the SF prankster?