When I watch the news I flick from channel to channel. At the moment, if you asked me which channel comes closest to an ideal of good quality and unbiased journalism, I would probably say none, but the best is France24. It is always fascinating to compare and contrast all the different viewpoints and techniques of news management.
I normally hover very briefly on Fox. But just now Fox were running an item on a New York bar that has banned weapons – which the Fox commentators thought outrageous. First they opined gleefully that the bar would get shot up in consequence. Then one of them said “Most mass shootings actually occur in weapons free zones like schools.” They all happily concurred that schools would be safer if firearms were allowed in.
Yes. It is well known that most rape happens outside brothels.
Fox Media is insane.
Terrifyingly insane.
Good yin Craig
Jives is correct of course…Terrifying what they get away with…and the consequences of LYING Bstds…. this vid is a good example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1cOnNrY5s
Yeah, the world needs more guns. And more people to own those guns.
Last man/women standing wins. maybe
the important thing in life is to find your heart of gold, and then if you are incredibly lucky you may find your soul. i do not have an instruction manual, and i can’t describe it.
anthony
Here’s a makeshift manual, Tony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE&feature=kp
Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO,
Sweet.
So I was sat outside the pub about an hour ago, just waiting for her, as she says goodbye to everyone, and well Sharon was you know- she was with Tracey..
The band were completely effin brilliant…
I just wanted to walk home with my wife…and I was determined not to talk to them, but I was getting bored waiting for her…so we got talking like you do…and after probing I told them the truth…
She says – you ain’t – I don’t believe that…I said yes I am and gave her the year of my birth…
She says you look 31 years old…I said if I was 31 years old..I would be sat next to you and chatting you up…
Craig Murray eat your heart out…
Its my own original hair too…
I am somewhat older than you…
My wife said to me whilst walking home – No They are just winding you up…I replied maybe – but she made me feel Really Good.
the light shines through
Tony
we have known him a few years now, and he has always insisted he is a musician – a drummer actually…i thought he said he came from preston – a few years ago..but no he insisted…salford…i asked you must know him – then..the most famous musician from salford – about the same age as you…i asked its not you is it…???
he replied…nah mate…never heard of him ..and i’ve never heard of the band…
You Really Are Not Going To Like This…
No one Actually Likes Mark. E. Smith..Of The FALL…well except me.
“blindness the fall”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_mND4HpTg
Tony
Which enemy has the Ukraine army more to fear from?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3r0UJXUw8WI
Will the corporate media have to start preparing minds for chaos among the disparate players in Kiev’s Anti Terrorist Operation ?
What if enough people work out that this isn’t a tidy battle between Kiev’s democracy-loving warriors and revolting ethnic Russian terrorists?
Have I got all the players here?
There’s the ultra-right gangs who form the Neanderthal Guard.
There’s several armed oligarch goon-squads.
There’s the US mercenaries who aren’t quite sure where they are on the planet and the people sure sound weird, until you shoot them.
Finally, pushed by a junta which even the slowest knows, seized power in a violent and illegal coup, there’s the Ukrainian army. Generally unwilling and demoralised, the rank and file are being set against people just like their own families. Every day, people just like their fathers and mothers are asking them “What are you doing here with all those weapons and who are you fighting?”
If they didn’t know this morning they know now.
How long can US / Kiev hold it together?
…
Imagine… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs
There was nothing else I could do. My mate – who no one likes apart from me too…had turned up in our house – and my wife welcomed him in…He had all these CD’s with him…that he had got at the charity shop – paid 50p for the lot…so I went through them…and there was just this one I borrowed – and put it on my Zen…
I took my Senheiersers with me…and sometime later…it was really late – and everyone had gone to bed…
I think it was Naxos, though it might have been India…
I just had to run for miles – and jump and dance like a complete and utter loonie..running along the beach
The Fall are just so good – They Break All The Rules…With Attitude.
So I just had to listen to them again…
No one likes them
CLASS from up north
you wanna curl it?
Tony
Craig, join me and others like me in removing yourself from the world of television. My (old) TV sits behind me, and has no signal. I hardly watch TV now at all, and this is good. I do go to the pub and watch some footer sometimes, and I download TV shows, but that’s it. And when you do this, the rare occasions you watch the news, at someone’s house, or a train station bar, are enlightening. For example. I was in the UK for a few weeks, and ‘Libya’ was all over the news (bbc, where else), and it was so manifestly pro-intervention that I just had to laugh.
Kill Your Television people. It’s just wasted hours.
We all scoff at the Americans and their attitude to guns, but I’m not sure that it is not a good thing in stopping those who are working hard to get the weapons away from the law abiding citizen.
In the UK our Bobbies were very integrated into society until the legally held guns were removed. Now we see, and fear, paramilitary police walking around armed to the teeth. The only people they interact with seem to be the well armed criminal gangsters.
Police Scotland now have armed police on the street, it started out with airports, then train stations. now there are a minimum of about 300 armed officers on patrol at any given time. Like rats, there is always one close to you.
Rob Royston, ordinary police aren’t especially intelligent people. Arming them changes their mentality and therefore their personality in dealings with the public. You know about that concept whereby you give a badge or uniform to an idiot and suddenly he’s turned into an annoyingly arrogant control freak. Just add the gun and he gets worse and so do public relations.
The US is mired in a gridlock of civil insecurity in which ordinary people must arm themselves in order to protect their interests against criminals who steal their guns and use them against other ordinary people thus driving a domestic arms race that has probably nearly reached saturation point.
A casual day at the flea market
http://www.silverspurtradeshows.com/images/slideshow/02.jpg
Very sad about the fire at the Rennie Macintosh Glasgow School of Art which like many, I have visited. A most beautiful and unique building. Glad that the Scottish firemen were able to save so much of it. The minister for culture Fiona Hyslop has just been on BBC News and she was impressive both for her response and her obvious knowledge and command of her portfolio. I could not imagine Miller or her ambitious replacement Javid being so capable in a similar situation in this country.
This link for the amazing photos. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637430/Firefighters-tackle-major-blaze-listed-building-leading-European-art-school-started-projector-exploded.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Hyslop
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Je ne peux pas voir la France 24. Je ne vais pas payer un sou Monsewer Murdoch!
Have you noticed how many TV screens there are on walls in public buildings and spaces usually running Sky News with subtitles?
Damn, I got up especially early to read Craig’s post on Knox, Pistorius and the McCanns, and so far nada!
Is it true that UKIP wants to allow people to carry guns?
Craig
re France24 – how do you pick that up? Ordinary digital aerial or free-to-air with a satellite dish? Or do you subscribe to the French bouquet with the special decoder (TRT)?
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PS I liked the Monsewer Murdoch; old, very old, but still funny. Monsewer Merd’och better.
Did the 40+ million humans slaughtered by Bolsheviks have guns?
Did the millions in Ukraine who were slaughtered have guns?
when you have mass slaughter is is usually carried out by the government like in Cambodia.
The gun is a guarantee against government slaughter.
ps. which channel on sky is France24?
found it on web
http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed/
As we all know ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun’ as Chairman Mao once said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Maoist_China_rhetoric_and_political_slogans
Vatican defends Palestinian sovereignty ahead of papal visit
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s Secretary of State on Thursday defended the Palestinians’ right to a “sovereign and independent” homeland and said he hoped Pope Francis’ upcoming visit would lead to “courageous decisions” for peace.
“We know that the Pope is going to a particularly suffering land,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, whose role is equivalent to that of a prime minister, told Vatican television ahead of the Pope’s three-day visit starting on Saturday.
“I really hope that the fruit will be to help politicians and all people of goodwill take courageous decisions on the path to peace,” Parolin said in the interview, which was posted on the website of Vatican Radio.
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http://jordantimes.com/vatican-defends-palestinian-sovereignty-ahead-of-papal-visit
Re:GSA If the students had simply put the small fire out with a wetted bandanna or something instead of fiddling with their mobiles, texting each other, photographing themselves and then fleeing to save their designer donkey-jackets and chic ripped and rip-off cult clothing from Flip in Queen St., from the smoke, and if the whole ghastly crew hadn’t rushed outside and set up their easels in the street to sketch the scene in still-hot locally sourced scorched charcoal, then, but for such heroic devotion to their art, the fire wouldn’t have been able to take hold at all; but in the days and months ahead, for their credibility, many will seek to fake that woodsmoke odour on their entire wardrobe.
Spineless prevaricating arty-farty, airy-fairy, totally impractical and lacking even a shred of commonsense, much less talent: a definition of art students the world over but of GSA’s sallow spawn of Glasgow’s west end boutique owners and southside entrepreneurial and professional classes especially fitting.
The problem for the school of art is the students, these people could not be inspired whatever their surroundings, it and they have produced nothing of even ephemeral worth for the latter part of its existence, the GSA fodder nothing but the precious pretentious scions of the middle-middle classes: Coltrane, had an edgy feel only through appearing in some politically-charged works of John “Chuck blocking ma light, Shorty” Byrne, otherwise a very expensively privately edumacated pillar of the grey establishment, who’s sorry fate was to become an indifferent children’s entertainer. Franz Fredinand, what a name for a band, like some 12 year-old 2nd year plook-ravaged school pupil flicked through a copy of ‘Hugely Simplified History for Morons and Small Children’ – way out of their league – and plucked the name out of a bullet point framed in a cartoon television’s oblong belly, with no understanding of its utter insignificance and irrelevance, but with a veneer of
bogus sophistication enough to appeal to enough other shallow precious pretentious scions of the middle classes, the din they create a merit-less by-product of the underlying money-making endeavour. From the current batch of students. and the past alumni who are never far away from there, if not hanging out at the BBC – as like Hotel California, no-one ever leaves – we can now look forward in horror to at least the next fifty years being filled with smoke-laden “I was there” introspection in their narcissistic ‘work’.
It was in the year of two-thousand and fourteen when, far off I heard a wailing siren
Though the timourous flame licked the ornate banister, Imperative Now, I must text Alistair: ‘shld I buy, that new app, or is it crap?’
This morning, we received the sad news that the 10th victim of Israel’ brutal attack on Freedom Flotilla I has died.His death is covered in an article from IMEMC http://www.imemc.org/article/67911 May he rest in peace.
Below is the short announcement from IHH:
Dear Freedom Flotilla Passenger and Friend,
It is with deep regret and sorrow that we inform you of the martyrdom of our dear Brother Uğur Süleyman Söylemez, who died this evening (Friday 23rd of May 2014) after four years spent in a coma because of his injuries during the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara. His family has not communicated yet any information regarding when and where his funeral will be. We shall update you later.
May his soul rest in peace. We pray that Allah grants him Mercy and Heaven. Ameen.
~~
Greta Berlin, Co-Founder, the Free Gaza movement
Editor, Freedom Sailors
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Mary
24 May, 2014 – 11:08 am
“Vatican defends Palestinian sovereignty ahead of papal visit”
Yes Mary but that means the Vatican recognising Israel as a Jewish state run by Jews for the benefit of Jews; not for the benefit of all its people; an apartheid state.
Israel to annex most of West Bank
“Hanan Ashrawi said unilateral moves by the Tel Aviv regime to set permanent borders for the occupied West Bank and bypass further negotiations will only “form the basis for a new conflict.”
“[Netanyahu] said Israel was considering various proposals to disengage from sections of the West Bank that are heavily populated by Palestinians.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/24/363945/israel-must-drop-borders-plan-plo/
If this goes ahead will we see US/UK/EU sanctions on Israel?
Meanwhile business as usual at the US Department for Regime Change in Latin America
“Opposition University Strike Coincides with Fresh Violence in Venezuela”
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10698
“Venezuela plans to convene a summit of South American leaders to condemn the United States for interfering in its internal affairs, says Foreign Minister Elias Jaua.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/24/363959/caracas-summit-to-slam-us-meddling/
Sad about the fate of the sailors crossing the Atlantic. We are as nothing against the force of nature.