One of my oldest and dearest friends has gone public on his support for Scottish Independence. I am greatly cheered by this. More thoughts later.
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Thanks AA.
No sense of irony:
“Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday that Washington has no doubt that Russians were behind the takeovers of government buildings in eastern Ukraine this week.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/09/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-buildings-idUSBREA381AA20140409
“As described by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA):
The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of “bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people”. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the fate of our people, the US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/from-afghanistan-to-syria-womens-rights-war-propaganda-and-the-cia/5329665
As an aside, I’ve heard allegations GR is a LaRouche operation, but I don’t see substance so far.
“The book presents a bleak picture of British and American involvement, claiming that troops failed to grasp that it was primarily a tribal civil war. “This meant that we often made the conflict worse, rather than better,” Martin wrote, according to the Times.
The book is scheduled for launch in London on Wednesday.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/09/territorial-soldier-resigns-book-afghanistan
John Goss
Since you are not taking the matter seriously and refusing to apologise to Lord Robertson, who to my mind at least is a decent public servant, I am minded to forward details of what you have said to his office so that he can consider whether you are worth taking action against – you should be aware that he has already had successful libel cases in this area.
Of course if Doppler allows them to see…http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7435324.stm
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Early warning
One study looked at over 100 earthquakes with magnitudes of 5.0 or larger in Taiwan over several decades. The researchers found that almost all of the earthquakes down to a depth of about 35km were preceded by distinct electrical disturbances in the ionosphere.
The analysis was carried out by Jann-Yeng Liu, from the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research in Chung-Li, Taiwan.
A satellite warning system could monitor for quake “precursors”
Though full details have yet to be released, the BBC understands that scientists also observed a “huge” signal in the ionosphere before the Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in China on 12 May.
The team at Nasa has also been working with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in the UK, to investigate the feasibility of a satellite-based early warning system.
Stuart Eves, head of business development at the company, told BBC News: “The evidence suggests we’re now crossing the boundary in terms of technology readiness.”
He added: “What we don’t know is how big the effect is and how long-lasting it is before the earthquake.”
Minoru Freund believes other earthquake “precursors” could feed into this system. These include enhanced emission of infrared (IR) radiation from the earthquake epicentre, as well as anomalies in low-frequency electric and magnetic field data.
ESLO 9 Apr, 2014 – 6:49 pm
<blockquote"John Goss
Since you are not taking the matter seriously and refusing to apologise to Lord Robertson, who to my mind at least is a decent public servant, I am minded to forward details of what you have said to his office so that he can consider whether you are worth taking action against – you should be aware that he has already had successful libel cases in this area."
I also think that the Guardian report is the tamest I’ve read about George Robinson and his association with the alleged paedophile ring run by Hamilton – having his child removed from a club!
Please report me to Lord Robertson too.
ESLO, you can be minded to do what you want.
” Can you explain why my suggestion that we gather data on Russian interference in Ukraine and consider how it would feel to be on the receiving end of different varieties of foreign interference makes you wriggle so much? ”
It doesn’t make me wriggle at all it’s just that the refusal to condemn one party, in this case Putin, on the grounds that another party, usually the US, UK or Israel, has done something worse is vacuous, hypocritical and wearing a bit thin.
” The you can explain why, in your opinion, it is acceptable for the West to bring democracy by means of industrial scale violence and fascist thugs, but it seems it is unacceptable for Russia to respond to the US backed coup in Kiev by supporting Ukrainians who wish to vote their governments into power. ”
Ignoring the fact that there is no sound evidence that events in Kiev were instigated by the US where have I ever backed the use of violence in such circumstances? I condemn interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state by any other nation and if you really think Putin is acting for the benefit of Ukrainians, Russian speaking or not, I think you might be in for a bit of a shock.
ESLO; “refusing to apologise to Lord Robertson, who to my mind at least is a decent public servant, I am minded to forward details of what you have said to his office so that he can consider whether you are worth taking action against”
What a nasty threatening comment. No surprise this is so similar to the threat issued to report this Blog to the Police because of anti-Semitic posts; never did believe RD’s excuse for trawling through that race hate site where he just happened to have stumbled upon a Post under Mary’s name, as a sock-puppet specialist it must have been quite tempting to visit such sites & pick-up some anti-Semitic comments to use here.
Crawford insists you understand how humanitarian he is or he’ll sue your arse. 🙂
Macky
I daresay you would disbelieve any excuse or explanation that I might give on anything but at least get the “excuse” I gave at the time correct. One could ask why you are so keen to rewrite history on this matter? Luckily for you I am not as keen as ESLO in involving libel lawyers.
Resident Dissident; “One could ask why you are so keen to rewrite history on this matter?”
No “rewriting history” at all, instead recent events indicating likely explanations for many suspect going-ons iro this blog;
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/03/andy-myles/comment-page-5/#comments
Javid is a traitor to his country. to his Muslim heritage and to his Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Muslim Tory MP: After Britain, Israel is best
By Martin Bright, December 13, 2012
It is not often that the Prime Minister is upstaged when he is guest of honour at an official function. It is even more unusual when it is one of his own MPs who is responsible. But this is just what happened when Sajid Javid, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Bromsgrove, spoke at the Conservative Friends of Israel “business lunch” on Tuesday.
This annual jamboree has grown from humble beginnings to become one of the key events of the year for supporters of Israel. And each year one of the MPs who has been on a CFI delegation reports back to the gathering of funders and fellow parliamentarians. Usually this is a rather bland “what I did on my holidays” routine, but this year it was different.
Mr Javid, who described himself as a “proud British-born Muslim”, announced that if he had to leave Britain to live in the Middle East, then he would choose Israel as home. Only there, he said, would his children feel the “warm embrace of freedom and liberty”. For him, only Israel shared the democratic values of the UK.
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http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/94117/muslim-tory-mp-after-britain-israel-best
“Javid is a traitor to his country. to his Muslim heritage and to his Palestinian brothers and sisters.”
Because he holds a contrary view on Israel? Dear me..
“Mr Javid, who described himself as a “proud British-born Muslim”, announced that if he had to leave Britain to live in the Middle East, then he would choose Israel as home.”
Well it would be the obvious choice. I’m quite happy in Haifa.
Come to think of it, there is something slightly revolting about a white middle-class Surreyite, thousands of miles away from the action, pontificating about what a Muslim should or should not support. Almost a kind of inverted racism, wouldn’t you think?
Macky
Whatever
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!”
Kempe
9 Apr, 2014 – 7:45 pm
“…the fact that there is no sound evidence that events in Kiev were instigated by the US…
Which planet have you been visiting these last few months? If only you’d hung around on Earth you would have heard the recording of Victoria Nuland plotting the coup.
http://nsnbc.me/2014/02/10/us-ukraine-nuland-comes-clean-dirty-language/
You would also have read about her boasting to US journalists about the US having spent $5 billion “bringing democracy” to Ukraine.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm
So even when it comes from the horse’s mouth you refuse to accept it as evidence because it doesn’t fit your fantasy. No wonder you think it is pathetic to compare the human cost of Russian compared to US interference.
Sweet dreams.
10.23 and 10.26 not worthy of a response. The author obviously wishes to remain oblivious to the crimes committed daily by the Israelis against a people whose land they stole by force and then occupied.
‘Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker’
my limerick for the day.
Re the new Habbabkuk-blocking tool – what a sad bunch of cowards you are. Of course, you already have such a tool at your disposal – it’s called not reading his posts. But the fact that you do read them, and can’t help yourselves – and furthermore can’t answer them – just shows that you are merely looking for a way to block dissent that highlights the inadequacies of your arguments. A real loser tool for the inadequate!
“10.23 and 10.26 not worthy of a response.”
Why did you bother with one, then?
” and furthermore can’t answer them ”
Oh, I thought they were rhetorical. If he wants answers, he should answer. He provides little info except snark-based. Maybe it’s his style; see Strunk and White’s elements.
The last sentence of that JC piece about Javid by Martin Bright ends:
‘But, in terms of support, it is Mr Javid’s that will lodge in the memory. One MP on my table whispered that the Bromsgrove MP was being touted as a future prime minister. “Of Britain or Israel?” someone quipped.’
Oh yes. So funny. We all fell about.
Another YCNMIU.
So what’s changed in the interim then? It is most likely that there are no other outfits the ConDems can outsource to.
‘Security firm G4S cleared for government contract bids
The government has not considered any G4S bids since the tagging row
Security firm G4S will be considered for government business again after it was barred from bidding for new contracts in a row about overcharging.;
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26958650
I call this fraud.
‘After an audit by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, it emerged that G4S – which insisted it had asked for the review itself – and Serco had overcharged the government by “tens of millions of pounds”.’
“A real loser tool for the inadequate!”
No. It’s a tool for avoiding constant abuse.
Has anybody come across Craig’s post “The Feminist Defence of Blowing Out the Brains of Small Children”?
I never saw this, and it was not available on my computer until tonight. It seems to have take about 36 comments. But now it heads the Andy Myles comment page. Anybody else got this problem?
Anon
“Come to think of it, there is something slightly revolting about a white middle-class Surreyite, thousands of miles away from the action, pontificating about what a Muslim should or should not support. Almost a kind of inverted racism, wouldn’t you think?”
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Entirely agree.
And I too, for that matter , would rather live in Israel than in Syria (even when under the incontested stewardship of Assad the Son), Lebanon, Jordan or Egypt. Not to mention Iran or Iraq (as is and as was).
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Buy dollars, pounds and shekels, ditch rubles!
““A real loser tool for the inadequate!”
No. It’s a tool for avoiding constant abuse.”
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No, it’s not. It is a device for the weak-willed, who, although they could simply scroll past my posts, are in practice unable to do so unaided; they return to my posts like unwilling moths to the flame, in guilty but delicious anticipation of getting their wings singed.
I guess poor old John and a couple of others have just got tired of getting their delicate little wings singed…and crashing to the ground…
LOL
Screwed again
G4S has been told it can bid for Government contracts again having paid back back £109 million to our government.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/g4s-allowed-to-bid-for-new-government-contracts-after-tagging-scandal-9249215.html
Let’s do a back of a beer mat calculation and see if it “represents a good deal for the taxpayer”as Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.
In 2013, a whistleblower within the G4S company which had the contract for electronic monitoring revealed G4S has been systematically defrauding the government. Faced with overwhelming evidence, G4S admitted that they had been doing it “since at least 2005”. In those 8 years, G4S were paid £400 million. They paid back £109 million which had been overcharged.
So they earned £291 million but charged £400 million. This equates to a 37% overcharge.
Here’s a F.O.I. document from 2012 supposedly detailing all the governments contracts with G4S.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justice.gov.uk%2Fdownloads%2Finformation-access-rights%2Ffoi-disclosure-log%2Fcorporate-services%2Ffoi-77849.doc&ei=2MVFU-vHJInD7AbI0YDIDA&usg=AFQjCNE51pW8bIAQBa6BZ_Hd5V-3khqGZw&sig2=gtgLhFSjtxZT2lv8RVcGKw&bvm=bv.64507335,d.ZGU
I don’t see any mention of the Olympics or their asylum escorting services, but never mind. Just totalling the the taxpayers money paid to G4S up to 2013 for it’s other contacts comes to: £1929.8 million.
Bearing in mind that the only reason we found out about the fraud on the electronic monitoring contract was because of a whistleblower, it is not unreasonable to assume that it was going on in the other contracts too. If G4S have been overcharging their other contracts by 37%, they’ve stolen another £526 million from us.
So they’ve paid back a small amount of what they stole to get their noses back in the trough. And although they were temporarily barred from bidding for new contracts, they still continued all the other existing ones which will add up to billions by the time their 25 year deals run out.
A good deal for the taxpayer, Mr Grayling? I’ll be watching out for which company boards you end up on when you leave office.