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  • pabelmont

    The war criminals are a small club whose members doubtless feel (as they should) that if they don’t hang together they’ll likely hang separately. So they hang together and disgust the discerning. And after all, having put themselves beyond the pale of decent folk, they can only socialize comfortably with other WCs.

  • craig Post author

    Merkin on Paris

    And delighted to see you back too. Someone told me you had shuffled off this mortal coil. Delighted it’s not true!

    Thanks to everyone for their good wishes.

  • Christine

    Welcome back I do hope you will keep posting. Please could your moderators be given the authority to exclude the boring trolls, they add nothing but just get in the way, only the really boring ones, the less boring ones may help to stimulate debate.

  • Mary

    A question to HMG, as a member of and contributor to the EU.

    What does HM Government say to explain why our tax money is going to fund such a vile and sickening research programme?

    PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 674, January 10th, 2014

    The European Union and Israel Plan to Manufacture Drones for the Purpose of Repression

    The EU and a large Israeli military contractor are co-funding research to build drones that can stop moving boats and cars. The three-year-long Aeroceptor project, according to its own literature, aims to help law enforcement authorities to stop “non-cooperative vehicles in both land and sea scenarios by means of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.”

    Israel’s ministry of public security, global weapons manufacturer Israel Aerospace Industries and Israeli-based Rotem Technological Solutions are among the list of 12 participants, most of which are based in the EU.

    German Green MEP Ska Keller told this website that the Aeroceptor projector is a first in the EU because previously EU drones were developed only for surveillance and not for interception.

    “Are we going to play Battleships now with drones? With the help of the Israeli defence industry?” said Keller, referring to a popular children’s game; Keller is also the Green group’s migration and civil liberties spokesperson.

    The Aeroceptor project received just over €4.8 million in total funding, with the European Commission pitching in €3.5 million. The remainder comes from the consortium’s participants.

    Available project information also does not specify if such drones would eventually fly over EU member states, in Israeli airspace, or in both.

    For its part, the commission said Israel is legally entitled to take part in EU funded projects.

    But it did not respond to queries on why Israel is participating or why the project is receiving EU funding in the first place.

    Adapted from ‘ L’Union européenne et Israël veulent fabriquer des drones de repression,’ written by Nicolaj Nielsen, from an article translated by Info-Palestine and published at:

    http://cjpp5.over-blog.com/article-euobserver-com-l-union-europeenne-et-israel-veulent-fabriquer-des-drones-de-repression-par-nicolaj-n-115361369.html

    Distributed by PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity
    http://WWW.PAJUMONTREAL.ORG

  • Paul Barbara

    Ed, Sharon was a monster; I believe he only removed the settlers from Gaza to make it easier to lay siege and bombard the area, and to mute International protests re settlement expansion elsewhere; as for overseeing a general de-escalation of tensions with the likes of Lebanon, remember Sabra & Shatilla.
    Here is a very good blog post by an Israeli, linked to in ‘The Other Israel’ (TOI): ‘Sharon and me’ http://adam-keller2.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/sharon-and-me.html

    It does show that there has been disgust and brave campaigns against Israeli atrocities by Israelis, including young school children.
    Pity about the ending; as a professed Christian, I certainly would not be so forgiving!

  • guano

    WELCOME BACK CRAIG

    I’ve been looking for excuses to visit East Kent, with bids on a couple of electrical items on ebay 180 + miles away.
    As for Sharon:- It’s an ill wind, as they say.

  • guano

    While you’ve been away, your prediction that Western nations would try to back-track and maintain Assad in power have proved accurate. By the same token the distrust of the Syrian Opposition by Political Islam has also been justified. Without pressure from Political Islam, the Syrian Opposition might have gone to Geneva and Assad might have gained a toe-hold to power in Geneva with another of his pathetic promises of change.
    Not going to happen. No way.

    And meantime, the inventors of the quenelle, (sounds a bit like Chanel but more fragrant) have been ramming the anti-Zionist-“side” message home. (If home is the backside of Western politicians) The lewd, anti-Zio-fascist salute graphically illustrates the way the Zio-banksters have shafted Western Democracy into pouring resources into the War against Islam.

    Vive La France- La France moi. they have succeeded in sending up our political elites, which here in the UK always manage to take our V signs as a sign of approval. Thanks to Craig for returning to explain it to them in the context of Share and Blaron.

    Am I ashamed as a Muslim of the vulgarity and political incorrectness of the gesture? Yes, a little, but I am absolutely thrilled to the core that a popular and patriotic message has been given to the Zio-elite austerity- mongers by our lovely French neighbours.

    It makes Tory anti-Europe politicians look CO2 mad. It’s too dangerous to use foam on these kinds of fires.

  • Mary

    Ariel Sharon Was a ‘Brutal Killer’ : Noam Chomsky
    14 January 2014

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37370.htm

    “He was a brutal killer; he had one fixed idea in mind which drove him all his life: a greater Israel, as powerful as possible, as few Palestinians as possible. …” Noam Chomsky

    We discuss Sharon’s legacy with three guests: Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University; and Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Israeli-Arab conflict.

    ~~~

    Instead of ‘few Palestinians as possible’ I would say that Sharon’s real aim was to eliminate and/or evict them.

  • Mary

    O/T I believe that Craig and Daniel Ellsberg are friends and thought this of interest.

    Edward Snowden will join Freedom of the Press Foundation board
    •NSA whistleblower will join the group’s board in February 2014

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/14/edward-snowden-freedom-press-foundation-board

    ‘Snowden has been indicted by the federal government and lives in Russia where he was granted temporary asylum. The Freedom of the Press Foundation told the New York Times it consulted lawyers to make sure Snowden’s role would not create legal problems for the group, which has non profit status.

    Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who released the Pentagon Papers, co-founded the organization in 2012. Ellsberg said in a release that Snowden “is the quintessential American whistleblower, and a personal hero of mine.”

    “Accountability journalism can’t be done without the courageous acts exemplified by Snowden, and we need more like him,” Ellsberg said.

    The San Francisco-based group’s founding board also includes John Cusack, journalist Xeni Jardin and two recipients of the NSA documents, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.’

  • fred

    “Please could your moderators be given the authority to exclude the boring trolls, they add nothing but just get in the way, only the really boring ones, the less boring ones may help to stimulate debate.”

    I think if we avoid creating an “us and them” atmosphere with the hostility it brings, be tolerant, even of those we find boring and respect their right to an opinion, start with a new slate not where we left off, things will be fine.

    Otherwise the place will go to hell in a hand basket again and there aint a blind thing any moderator can do about it.

  • glenn_uk

    … or maybe we could have a thread specially dedicated for boring trolls, and they would be allowed to hang out there, with the blessing of the mods. In the meantime, the rest of us could have a rip-roaring conversation on the other threads.

  • fred

    “… or maybe we could have a thread specially dedicated for boring trolls, and they would be allowed to hang out there, with the blessing of the mods. In the meantime, the rest of us could have a rip-roaring conversation on the other threads.”

    When will you ever learn.

  • ESLO

    Would it be debating to ask whether Guano’s support for the “quenelle” crossed the acceptable boundary between anti-zionism and anti Semitism? Or would such a view just run counter to the prevailing ethos of many here, who do not recognise such a distinction and feel that pointing it out when it occurs just amounts to trolling?

  • John Goss

    Thanks for posting my article link Arbed. Without your previous links I could not have written it. So double thanks. You’re really on the button. Keep up the good work.

  • Phil

    Re: UK war criminals

    It seems to me unimaginable that the likes of Hoon will ever be in the dock. His prosecution would endanger the bloody compact between warmongering politicians and those who make money from war. I suspect the ICC will collapse before this happens. My best guess is the ICC survives (even more discredited) and Hoon moves to the US.

    But very interesting and I hope it keeps the war criminals awake at night. Anyone found the actual report which I thought was public but can’t find.

  • Mary

    Jan 13 2014

    How the Big Papers Remember Ariel Sharon
    By Peter Hart

    Reading the pieces in the Sunday editions of the New York Times and the Washington Post (3/12/14) about the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, one gets the sense that reporters were aware of some of Sharon’s bloodiest history – but mostly kept that out of their accounts of his life.

    /..
    http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/01/13/how-the-big-papers-remember-ariel-sharon/

    Well they would wouldn’t they!

  • nevermind

    thanks for pointing out ESLO, that Nicolas Anelka’s ‘quenelle’ has not brought him into disrepute with the British FA and or his club West Brom, nor have the many friends of Israel, MP’s who supping on our taxes to divert British foreing policy, made much fuss about it. It is an indication of how much is possible in this countr.The FA is unreconstructed homophobic and uncontrolled financially, a sop to betting syndicates it should be scrapped and reformed.

    If he would had made such a guesture playing in Germany, he would have acted unlawful. I despise public expressions such as this, regardless of whether they come from Anelka or from anybody else, as they are giving voice to fascists who argue with each other, but are essentially out to commit the same attrocities and justify them to the world with some inane crap, are essentially supressing views that are contrare to their regime.

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    That said, without engaging the children, brought up under these blinkered, religiously embedded and futile philosophies, in debate, we will never bring peace to either of them or the world.

  • haemoglobin

    Great to see you back again Craig. I am one of many who would love to see you blogging regularly again. Don’t let some of the idiotic comments on here or elsewhere put you off!

  • guano

    ESLO
    So it’s politically correct for Cameron and his Zio-fascist-bankster cronies to start a war in Syria by UK army snipers and politically incorrect to criticise these madmen?

  • guano

    No Nevermind they are not giving voice to fascists, they are objecting to governments who spy on every single utterance of their citizens, and who co-embezzle the entire wealth of the Western financial system and replace it with printed money, and who deviate the defense resources into a Zionist war against the true faith of Islam.

    You know, the Fascists are the ones who force others into colonial wars caused by bankruptcy. They don’t all have black moustaches and high leather boots on. Oh dear. It’s so confusing for these pre-senile adults to understand.

  • Daniel Rich

    The word ‘antisemitism’ [in its current form] is an Apartheid word, because it embraces only a select few and excludes all others. Those who use it [in its current form] indirectly or willingly support Apartheid.

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