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  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    I don’t know why y’all talk to it. If it’s to debunk, it leaves nothing to chance by refusing to provide assailable links. No traction can be gained, except by it.

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !
    2 Apr, 2014 – 8:24 pm

    “The day you demolish what I say will be long in the coming, mon cher ami!”
    “…I don’t have to provide any links because those are the facts. If you don’t believe me, then google up something like “medical provision in…” and you can check for yourself.”

    Habbabkuk I have demolished many of your statements in the past.

    And I don’t have to provide references because those are the facts.

    (masturbater la classe moyenne)

  • Mary

    A most interesting photo essay on a recent visit to Ukraine.

    Ukraine, a Fascist Coup?
    by ANDRE VLTCHEK
    Weekend Edition April 4-6, 2014

    Ukraine is burning, it is going to the dogs; it has been taken over by an illegitimate government engorged with fascists, neo-Nazis and simple pro-Western opportunists, as well as countless EU and US-sponsored members of various NGO’s.

    The West has destabilized an entire nation, supporting right-wingers and fascists. Then it began spreading anti-Russian propaganda, even before Crimea had voted to join its historic homeland.

    Everything was well planned, with Machiavellian precision. The EU was hoping to get its hands on the abundant natural resources, heavy industry and a well-educated and cheap labor force. In exchange, it was willing to give… nothing. No sane government would be willing to accept such a deal. Therefore, the only way to push through its agenda, the West began supporting violence and terror, as well as the fascist, neo-Nazi groups. A similar approach is being used by the US and EU in Venezuela, Syria and even Thailand.

    Just a few days ago, I concluded my 2,000-kilometer drive, from Kiev to Odessa, and then to the border with Transnistria and Kharkov. I visited destroyed and abandoned villages – a result of the ‘collapse of the Soviet Union’ and Ukrainian flirtation with the market economy, its obedience to the IMF and World Bank. I spoke to workers at an enormous steel plant in Krivoi Rog, located in the country’s industrial heartland. I met several leading intellectuals at the university city of Kharkiv, and I stood on the Ukrainian-Russian border, observing and photographing several Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles.

    All that I witnessed will be included in my in-depth report, which will be published, next week, in CounterPunch.

    /..
    http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/04/ukraine-a-fascist-coup/

    The author’s biography http://andrevltchek.weebly.com/about-me.html

  • Resident Dissident

    More important with the new avatars is Resident Dissident or is it ESLO? What’s going to be your defence this time?

    I suspect that we both used the same very common email address. Otherwise I haven’t a clue.

  • Mary

    Note to Channel 4 News on the Afghanistan ‘elections’. Posted on Medialens by Ed Murray.

    Snowmail…Afghanistan go to the polls…short email to Cathy Newman
    Posted by Ed on April 5, 2014, 7:55 pm

    Ms Newman,
    In tonight’s “Snowmail”(1) concerning the “election” in Afghanistan, you state enthusiastically that:

    “Seven million Afghans have braved the wrath of the Taliban to go to the polls, playing their part in a moment of history. It will be the first time that power has passed democratically from one president to another.”

    In his blog however, your colleague Alex Thomson unenthusiastically states:

    “Western taxpayers are forking out $100m for this battle between corruption, vote buying and intimidating voters to go to the pools by the various candidates on the one hand – and the mujahedeen fundamentalists on the other intimidating, detonating, shooting and sabotaging the entire process to stop it happening.”(2)

    So, which is it?

    Well, you have a bit of form on these things so I think we can safely say which version is nearer the truth as only a few weeks ago you were happy to report as a fact David Cameron’s lie that the referendum in the Crimea was a “sham” which had taken place “at the barrel of a Kalashnikov”.

    This flatly false statement went totally unchallenged by you and yet, here you are again, spinning like a top to portray another election, this time in Afghanistan, as something that it isn’t.

    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

    Ed Murray.

    (1)The men – and women – of Afghanistan go to the polls
    Seven million Afghans have braved the wrath of the Taliban to go to the polls, playing their part in a moment of history. It will be the first time that power has passed democratically from one president to another. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson is in Kabul to witness the event. There’s been a Herculean effort to outwit the Taliban, who have been threatening to wreak havoc. In the end, voters – including many women – have defied the security risks to pick one of eight candidates to succeed Hamid Karzai. Alex will be live in Kabul.

    (2)Why we could all pay the price for Afghan election
    http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/paying-price-afghan-election/7657

    http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1396724130.html

  • A Node

    Resident Dissident 5 Apr, 2014 – 8:09 pm

    “I suspect that we both used the same very common email address. Otherwise I haven’t a clue.”

    “It wasn’t me, officer, I must have a long lost twin brother with the same DNA”
    Give it up, you’ve been caught red-handed. It’s like D.N.A evidence from old crimes being used to catch out sex offenders who thought they’d got away with it.

    Any credibility you had is gone. Slink off, create a few new email addresses (if you haven’t already) and come back pretending to be several new posters. We’ll be watching out for you.

  • Mary

    RD there is not ‘the sharpest blade in the drawer’, A Node, as someone else is wont to say.

    I think the expression is ‘bang to rights’. 🙂

  • John Goss

    Have they gone? Has ESLO/Resident Dissident’s familiar gone after stealing last and first place as Mary predicted. I hope Craig is going to discourage this sock-puppetry and trolling.

    Can anybody point me to the place where I was asked by a mod to provide links to my discovery that ESLO had answered on behalf of Resident Dissident. That mod then wrote a comment about it not being proven, as though he/she had checked and the case was “not proven”.

  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    John.

    Thanks for your hard forensic work trying to identify some of the blog fauna.

    I understand you used the concept of a dynamic adjacency matrix, modeling a complex interconnected system of fundamental semantic topology structures, which, acting in tandem with the multi-overlapping information structure constraints enabled you to arrive at the inevitable conclusion.

    Too bad you got it wrong.*

    Let me explain.

    RD and ELSO registered with this blog and both, by pure chance, thought up the same email address. So far so good.

    But, when they pressed the submit button they discovered, too late, that it was a magic email address and they both became it’s slaves, destined forever to sit immobilised while their fingers tapped out the same style of mind-numbing stuff here, for months, insisting throughout on the duty of all subjects to believe the mandated narratives of the day.

    It must be very difficult for them both. Maybe Afriend has some medicine that might help.

    …

    *How many times do I have to tell you:

    The system RD is merely a connective stability under-coordinator and to the system ELSO can be decomposed into pair-wise subsystems in the framework of the inclusion principle itself. You didn’t think of that did you?

  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    Oops!

    Error in third last line. Remove “to” otherwise any future data will be false.

  • Clark

    Resident Dissident, 8:09 pm: There is no such thing as a “very common e-mail address”. E-mail addresses have to be unique, obviously.

  • technicolour

    I think it’s sad that someone who often writes sensible stuff like this:

    “I have in the past given many links in the past to the views of those Russians who dissent to the extreme nationalism and corruption of the Putin regime and also do so in English (there are a lot more in Russian) but here is a good enough starting point if you are genuinely interested and wish to understand that there is a viewpoint that exists outside the Kremlin and Russia Today.”

    would turn out to be posting under two different identities. *Why*, Resident Dissident?

  • John Goss

    Just back from walking the dogs.

    Thanks A Node. That is exactly what I was after.

    I wondered this morning why the conversation was not continued on the thread recommended by Clark for the Ukraine stuff and why I was there alone. Now it is obvious. It was too dangerous to go back in case somebody discovered the subterfuge.

    Sofia, you’re wasted. You are the Hans Christian Anderson of the blog. Thank you.

    Hopefully it will end with “And they all lived happily ever after”. It’s been a good night.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Technicolour

    ““A health service which is not free at the point of use – the model used in every western European country, as far as I know”

    and which has been demonstrated to be *not as good* as our NHS model. Very happy to keep posting this authoritative link:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8877412/NHS-among-best-health-care-systems-in-the-world.html”
    __________________

    I should be very careful, Technicolour, before nailing your colours too firmly to that link – for several reasons. I would advise you to read carefully the numerous comments on that article, which you can access through that same link. That aside, I’d be even more careful before trying to claim – in an albeit roundabout manner, and perhaps inadvertently, that the NHS is “better” because it is “free at the point of delivery”.

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    Incompetence is the cover story. Cui bono? Mil contractors and their handlers. Misappropriation of funds can be prosecuted, but helping our friends?

    http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/04/us-state-department-dangerous-lack-of.html

    “There is no indication that representatives within the Bureau of Administration’s Office of the Procurement Executive (A/OPE) fraudulently filed any of the missing contracts, only that State Department brass misplaced the necessary paperwork. The omissions are especially notable, though, because of similar memos that have noted budgetary oversights in the past.

    In one instance, the State Department could not locate files regarding payments to contractors assisting US military forces in Iraq. That incident, one of the “repeated examples of poor contract file administration,” according to the inspector general, included contracts worth $2.1 billion.

    An unrelated audit of the Bureau of African Affairs indicated the department could not supply the “complete contract administration files” for even one of the eight contracts, worth a total of nearly $35 million, under examination.

    “The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” the report noted.

    While no proof of fraudulent payments was mentioned, the Office of Inspector General did warn that lax record-keeping standards does create the potential for abuse.

    “OIG recommends that the Under Secretary for Management ensure that contracting officers and their supporting personnel, and A/OPE specialists conducting oversight visits, have resources sufficient to maintain adequate contract files in accordance with relevant regulations and policies,” the officials recommended.”

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Mr Goss

    How are your own two blogs going? Any comments yet from your readers?

    Do you think that you might squat less here if you were to get more readers of your own two blogs?

    Don’t you think you’re piggy-backing on Craig’s very popular, widely-read blog in order to get your views across because, judging by the absence of comments, very few if any people read your own two blogs?

    ****************

    “Life has become better, life has become merrier!” (J. Stalin, ca. 1934)

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    RD…..”I have no idea whatsoever why ESLO appeared to be replying in my name – perhaps he just typed “I” rather than “he” or something else – but rest assured we are not the same person – I am sure Craig can at least confirm that I don’t share an IP address – not sure how else I can prove I am not ESLO. As for Mary’s Love Child – guilty as charged, and if I hadn’t outed myself, I would have hapilly confessed if challenged. Just a poor attempt to parody Sofia who I’m afraid is beyond parody.”

    ================

    Shorter RD; “I cannot remember. I do not recall.” Ronald Wilson Reagan.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Mr Goss

    I feel it ill becomes an Impudent Squatter and Determined Colonialist to accuse honest posters of sock-puppeting just because they have the temerity to expose the shallowness and muddle-headedness of your views.

    Be grateful this blog offers you the platform your own two blogs don’t!

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    “Has ESLO/Resident Dissident’s familiar gone after stealing last and first place as Mary predicted. I hope Craig is going to discourage this sock-puppetry and trolling.”
    ______________________

    And now the Impudent Squatter and Determined Colonialist has the cheek to tell Craig how to run his blog!

    Mr Goss — you are not primus inter pares here. In fact, decently, you shouldn’t really be here at all but on your own two blogs. So give it a rest!

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    “you are not primus inter pares..”

    No, but he is a bene placito, so he has that going for him.

  • A Node

    John Goss 5 Apr, 2014 – 11:23 pm

    “This is my favourite:

    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/03/six-more-years-of-tory-rule/#comment-447686

    I guess you’ve all got your own.

    Well, since you ask, his denial to an accusation of mine is retrospectively sweet. This was on a day when he posted using 3 different handles (Mary’s Love Child, ESLO, and Resident Dissident) in the same thread.

    A Node 16 Feb, 2014 – 7:58 pm

    Yes Mary, you noticed Resident Dissident’s slip-up. He forgot to change his sock-puppet handle when he replied to a question I had addressed to Res Diss.
    He pretends to be the respectable face of the opposition, occupying the moral high ground, regretfully obliged in the interests of truth and rationality to point out to us our woeful errors of judgement. But it turns out that’s just one of his personae. In his alter ego of ‘Marys Love Child’, he mocks, taunts and bullys. He’s a good cop/bad cop all on his own. I wonder how many other sock puppets he uses. It seems clear he is here to disrupt using a variety of tactics.
    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/01/syria-and-diplomacy/comment-page-13/#comment-440967

    Resident Dissident 16 Feb, 2014 – 8:56 pm

    “Quite how the eminences believe I am able to maintain a myriad of identities as the universal evil one – is quite beyond me and my typing and IT skills as demonstrated earlier today. Although, who knows I may resurrect my official alter -ego – who I’m told has been sent to bed for refusing to singalong to Shoananas on the grounds that his new best friend at school Nicky Cohen wouldn’t find it very funny.”
    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/01/syria-and-diplomacy/comment-page-13/#comment-440983

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