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  • nevermind

    macky, it is irrelevant, it was years back, and georgeous george is not going to bite, not on the boxing or on giving straight answers.
    That said I hereby claim that all of us are liars when it suits us or when we are put on the spot/surprised with a question we don’t want to answer, its called evasive lying.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-spector-md/lying_b_2095068.html

    “The first maps the broad spectrum of lies, from the socially sanctioned and the self-deceiving to the conscious intent to mislead. The second area pertains to the lying animal, homo mendax, us humans.”

    Those who make out that figureheads and politicians are honest should examine their own personal life’s before asking others.
    Anyway this is about a film on another liar, a bigger and better one than George, who raises his children into his dynastic lying clan and wants them to turn out just like him….

  • nevermind

    OT, sorry.

    Can one remotely take over a plane? and who has an interest in doing away with 20 of China’s top cryptographers?
    rhetorical questions after two weeks of ‘projected’ failure to find this plane.
    Who has the ability to shut off 200 cellphones on board that plane? asnd how many Awacs plane’s were in the air at the time after the plane disappeared? Questions only well connected diplomats can find out.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-chinese-government-and-networking-firm-huawei-a-960199.html

    and a more obscure site asking similar questions.
    http://theunhivedmind.com/wordpress3/2014/03/18/flight-mh370-is-either-hidden-at-diego-garcia-or-tucson-arizona/

  • doug scorgie

    Anon
    23 Mar, 2014 – 9:45 am

    “The Rt Hon Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty and Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead are delighted to announce that their son, the Hon Stephen Kinnock, Husband of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark, has been appointed Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Aberavon.”

    “Who says socialism doesn’t pay?”

    If you think the Kinnocks are or ever were socialist you don’t understand politics.

  • Peacewisher

    The last post raises an interesting point… the giving away of the Chagos Islands to the US for developing a massive air base was surely contrary to International Law. The historical record suggests that the pragmatic Harold Wilson may have done this very quietly as a sop to the US for UK not getting involved in Vietnam. But I’m sure that if the Chagos Islanders had held a referendum in 1970 (or whenever it was…) they would have voted for the status quo.

  • Cuthulan

    A nice idea you could make a 3 part movie to rival Lord of the Rings
    “Lord of the Ka-chings”(sound of a cash register)
    http://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/burger-eating-war-monkeys-and-thier-track-record/
    Tweedle Dem roars!!
    unfortunately it is just the pressure value on the boiler of representative democracy,its just letting off steam so the boiler does not explode!
    Tweedle Dem the third Tweedle that never gets a REAL say!
    Its people like Craig Murray or George Galloway
    If only Tweedle Dem could run the show ,everything would turn out roses!!!
    LOL…yeah right!! These Buddha like leaders will lead us into a New political age…?!?!?!
    A fantasy held by many representative democracy supportters because no-one ever told them about Direct Democracy!
    That is because centralised authorities make people scared and ignorant!
    Because an informed and confident people would never tolerate a centralised authority telling them what to do!
    In a true Direct Democracy we would NOT NEED this movie! The event would never of happened or he would already be in jail!!!
    IF Craig and George do NOT support Direct Democracy then the best they can offer is THIER version of a “benign dictatorship”, which would be quickly removed from any real power by a political Mainstream media advertising campaign and the systematic retaking of the tools of centralised authority!
    …just like after WWII!
    Sorry guys BUT you both are flogging dead horses here!!
    In political reality YOU are either “useful idiots” for the status quo or “gatekeepers” for the status quo.
    Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic will not stop it sinking!
    ..,.does George Galloway agree with your “puttin’ the boot in to Putin”?!
    and Craig ,has it sunk in yet ,that PUTIN AND BLAIR are in power due to the system of “representative democracy”
    A system YOU support!!
    …you complain about Putin and Blair BUT not about the system that gives him massive power? Hypocray?
    With this political system in power…WHO DO YOU THINK WILL REPLACE THEM?
    …a Gandhi like leader or another political dictatorial thug!?
    Would YOU like to put some money on this result?
    It is the very same political system in the East or West!!!
    Direct Democracy is the only PROVEN SOLUTION!!!
    …..that was my last post on this subject! As I cannot afford to waste my time flogging dead horses!
    Have a nice life guys and try not to destroy the planet with your delusional beliefs in “representative democracy” and “centralised authorities”!
    http://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/direct-democracy-vs-representative-democracy-or-pure-democracy-vs-elected-dictatorship-the-real-root-of-todays-global-destruction/
    http://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/how-do-we-achieve-freedom-liberty-and-democracy-without-fuss-or-bloodshed/
    http://cuthulan.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/a-direct-democracy-independant-scotland/

  • fred

    “Who has the ability to shut off 200 cellphones on board that plane?”

    Can we put this one to bed please?

    Cell phones are low power devices, they rely on there being a receiver nearby, that’s why they call them cell phones. They have an absolute maximum range of around 50 miles in absolutely perfect conditions. Inside the body of an aircraft it would most probably be considerably less.

  • nevermind

    thanks Fred, so you think that nobody on that plane had any contact whatsoever after take off, not on their way over the malakan peninsula, not when crossing over Malaysia after doing a 180 deg.

    You think that is likely?
    Another point. Did any of these 20 cryptographers resist opeing their laptops after take off? I somehow don’t buy the story of non comms after take off, there were too many people on that plane.

    Why so much attention to this flight, but not to IR655 when it was shot down over the gulf of Hormuz, with 60 children on board?

  • fred

    “You think that is likely?
    Another point. Did any of these 20 cryptographers resist opeing their laptops after take off? I somehow don’t buy the story of non comms after take off, there were too many people on that plane.”

    Look I don’t know if the plane was equipped with on board wi-fi or on board phone system or not. I think it would be unlikely in that part of the world. If it was both could be easily disabled by the pilot at the flick of a switch.

    Cell phones would definitely not work.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) a!

    “If you think the Kinnocks are or ever were socialist you don’t understand politics.”
    ______________________

    On the basis of the evidence so far, I should say that Anon has nothing to learn from Mr Scorgie when it comes to understanding politics.

    Be that as it may, the Excellent Scorgie’s comment reminded me of something the Lefties always come up with.

    It is this. Whenever one reminds a Leftie that a socialist govt has thoroughly messed up something, or left a dangerous legacy, the cry always goes up “Oh, but that government only called itself socialist, it wasn’t socialist at all!” And the same applies to the leaders of socialist parties or govts: they all disappointed, or fucked up, because they weren’t really socialists at all!

    Socialism, therefore, can do no wrong, and never be wrong, for the simple reason that is had never been practised in government.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) a!

    Fred

    “Look I don’t know if the plane was equipped with on board wi-fi or on board phone system or not..”
    __________________________

    And you wisely shut up soon after. If only other Eminences, whose knowledge of the details relevant to the plane’s disappearance is certainly as limited as yours, had refrained from dribbbling and drooling their theories and accusations all over one of the preceding threads! LOL

  • Anon

    Habbabkuk at 5:19 pm

    Absolutely spot on.

    True socialists are as pure as the driven snow, but alas they don’t actually exist.

    So we are left with a bunch of socialists who spend their lives espousing socialist ideals, but as soon as they become grotesque hypocrites – as they invariably do – then they are conveniently brushed aside as non-socialists by the new generation of socialists and their acolytes who carry on with the whole charade.

    What a wonderful state of affairs. I think our correspondent ought to provide an example or two of a socialist who has managed to escape this cycle of hypocrisy.

  • Anon

    I have a book idea for Nevermind: “Whose Junk is it Anyway? The struggle for North Norfolk waste efficiency 2007-11”

    Author Nevermind details in this important new collaboration his efforts to apply a Soviet-style system to East Anglian waste refuse. Devastating in its critique of Western modes of recycling, Nevermind challenges the very notion of waste as a ‘Western illness’ and suggests radical new reforms which include the provision of nothing to everyone. “Nothing, when given to everyone”, notes the author, “produces nothing”. Available in hardback for the special price of £35.99.

  • nevermind

    http://advancedplasmapower.com/

    made in Britain this company has eluded Norfolks Tory mafia for some time, instead they plnoked for the most expensive, most polluiting and oldest method, lets burn it all at the ned of the garden approach by chosing Cory Wheelabrator, a serial polluter.

    read up about it before you open your sore mouth, anon.

  • AlcAnon/Squonk

    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.581466

    Foreign Ministry employees declare general strike, paralyzing Israel’s diplomatic system
    All Israeli foreign missions closed; Lieberman censures ‘miserable decision that lacks sense.’

    Foreign Ministry employees declared a general strike on Sunday, following two weeks of renewed sanctions. The strike is expected to close down the country’s foreign missions and totally paralyze the Israeli diplomatic system.

    For the first time in the history of the State of Israel, 103 Israeli missions abroad will be completely closed for an indefinite period of time, as will the Foreign Ministry’s headquarters in Jerusalem.

    The strike was called in protest of the employment conditions of Israeli diplomats and the Finance Ministry’s decision to cut their salaries over the renewed sanctions.

    …”The Treasury has declared a war-to-the-death against the Foreign Ministry of the State of Israel and the dedicated diplomats who fight for the rights of Israelis daily,” said Ya’akov Frumer, chairman of the Foreign Ministry workers committee.

    …The diplomats also refused to handle British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit last week (though he came anyway), and are now refusing to cooperate on preparations for the pope’s visit to Israel in May.

  • Jay

    Habba. anon.

    Give us a break your talking of political socialism we adopt civilisational socialism.
    Growing up in the 70’s we had a term called the greater good and you will find it still common place amongst people. Socialism in society is helping, sharing, caring and that human quality is the basis of socialism and there are so many qualities that we aspire too that political socialism cannot offer.

  • Peacewisher

    Scary stuff, AlcAnon. Next to be confiscated on planes… Android phones? I’m now seriously wondering whether flying is worth the risk, as well as whether to switch my allegiance to UKIP to help get us out of Europe. Perhaps time I stopped reading this forum…

  • technicolour

    “Devastating in its critique of Western modes of recycling, Nevermind challenges the very notion of waste as a ‘Western illness’ and suggests radical new reforms”

    Well, he could, and it would be far too easy to do it. Good grief, whose planet are you living on? Just as one could criticise the ‘East’ for its nuclear waste dumps. One does not cancel out the other.

  • Macky

    Anon; “St Jon the Mod, in a final act of magnanimity, issued a pardon to all sinners”

    If so, he finished his shambolic moderating with yet another blunder, one that is now damning this Blog to continued troll infestation; maybe it was a deliberate goodbye poisoned present.

    However I don’t remember seeing a pardon for you, but I distinctly recall you being banned not so long ago.

  • Peacewisher

    One more post. Ukraine appears to have cut electricity supply to Crimea… not sure if this means half the homes don’t have power. Not on BBC yet so could be one or other group spreading pro- or anti- propaganda. Like the Squonk logo, by the way, Anon. Reminds me of my youth… much more enlightened times.

  • AlcAnon/Squonk

    Peacemaker,

    Both “sides” are reporting rolling blackouts in Crimea

    http://rt.com/news/ukraine-reduce-energy-crimea-721/

    Electricity supply to Crimea has been reduced by half and the region is experiencing rotating blackouts following two accidents on power lines coming from Ukraine, Crimea’s energy company says.

    Earlier, Crimean Vice-PM Rustam Temirgaliev said that Ukrainian national energy company Ukrenergo reduced the electricity supply to Crimea by 50 percent. “Ukrenegro reduced the power in its power lines cutting the amount of supplied energy by half,” the top official told Kryminfo news agency.

    Temirgaliev also earlier described the power shortages as “blackmail” on behalf of Kiev.

    https://www.facebook.com/emaidanua/posts/605825482840464

    Euromaidan
    5 minutes ago ·
    21:36 In the Crimea, electricity is being switched off all over. This is stated by Crimean Facebook users.

    “Crimea. Simferopol. No electricity in Maryino. Nothin in Beloe, nothing on Dmitriya Ulyanova. What next?” Wrote journalist Osman Pashayev on his page.
    Other users confirmed that there is no electricity not only in Simferopol, but also in Kerch, half of Feodosiya, Belogorsk, Alushta, Dzhankoi, Yevpatoriya and the district centre Nizhnegorskoe.

    We remind you that the Crimea gets two thirds of its electricity from Ukraine. Russia, having occupied the Crimea, promised to renew the construction of the Crimean Nuclear Power Plant on Kazantip. – Ukr-Online.com

  • Peacewisher

    Thanks, AlcAnon. You’d think that Russia would have anticipated this, but I suppose the referendum timetable would have made that impossible. Still, as long as no-one in the west reports on it, the world won’t know. I suppose it suits both sides in their own ways to keep it quiet. Pity for the poor Crimeans though.

  • Tim

    A story is making the rounds, first reported by the NY Times, that Iran is building a fake Nimitz carrier for unknown reasons.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/world/middleeast/a-ship-being-built-in-iran-looks-awfully-familiar-to-the-us.html

    Before this gets totally blown out of proportion, this is nothing more than a movie prop, for a film on Iran Air
    655 (shot down by the US Navy on July 3, 1988). Apparently the movie will be directed by Nader Talebzadeh and Paxton Winters.

    Source:
    http://www.mashreghnews.ir/fa/news/295806

    See also:
    http://isna.ir/en/news/92041207490/Iran-US-to-coproduce-film-on-1988-US-attack
    and
    http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1055.html

  • Jay

    Anon,

    Please define pure socialist, as I presume to be a pure socialist you would be regarded as an un carved block,

    “True socialists are as pure as the driven snow, but alas they don’t actually exist.”

  • Tony M

    Is that you Earnest?

    http://williambowles.info/2014/03/23/white-house-information-warfare-by-vladimir-platov/

    Using the developed SMISC, a network of fictive online persons is created; they are registered with territorial binding to the information space in various countries. This procedure results in the impression of the existence of real people located in different regions of the planet, rather than sock puppets. An individual ‘biographical legend’ and character ‘details’ are created for each of the sock puppets. Ultimately, it is impossible even for advanced opponents to discover the fact of the manipulation of such fictive online persons, who can easily gain the trust of local bloggers.

    Traces of the implementation of the Operation Earnest Voice by the White House are obvious today on news sites and discussions in many countries, especially in Ukraine in the last few days. Website visitors are skillfully pitted against each other using this technology, interethnic hostility is implanted.

    It puzzles me why certain Earnest Voices cannot specify local times, as found next to the comments themselves, than converting them to 24h times or military conventions, and forcing others to do the opposite, many would rather and more productively skip the annoying distraction entirely. I expect you must have several more bad words to add to the banned list in the unlikely event of you one day ruling the world.

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