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  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    ” Don’t you think that the smear against Yatsenyuk should be corrected ”

    I find it entertaining that your paternal instincts explode in his defense. Many of us have repeatedly expressed our disdain for Putin, but Yats is enveloped in a heavenly nimbus of sainthood like a holy relic from your perspective.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    California Ben

    “Many of us have repeatedly expressed our disdain for Putin,..”

    ________________________-

    I bet you couldn’t keep a straight face when you scribbled that, Ben. 🙂

  • Peacewisher

    As this thread IS about football, and England have sadly exited early from the world cup, it seems that the country is now directing its interest elsewhere:

    http://rt.com/news/167532-uk-anti-austerity-march/

    Yes, it is very sad that tens of thousands are marching in London today and only RT seems to be reporting it properly.

  • Anon

    “Many of us have repeatedly expressed our disdain for Putin,..”

    No you haven’t.

    Habbabkuk – I bet you he did. That Californian sensimilla just isn’t what it was.

  • Peacewisher

    Yes, Habby, I agree with you that the #SackBlair petition needs many (many, many…) more signatures. Thank you for helping to bring it to Craig’s readers’ attention!

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    “No you haven’t.”

    Further demonstrating the research skills of our trolls.

  • Anon

    Peacewisher – of course RT is reporting it because it reports everything negative about Britain and nothing negative about Russia. To the rest of us it’s just a non-event organised and attended by the usual feckless left-wing career protesters (Clare Solomon, Stop the War etc.). I see multi-millionaire revoloutionary and blog favourite Russell Brand is tagging along this time.

    “Anti-austerity” by definition means more givernment spending and more debt, the very last things this country needs.

  • Peacewisher

    Why isn’t BBC reporting it, Anon? You know and I know why. But what surprises me is that you seem to condone this lack of democracy.

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    ““Anti-austerity” by definition means more givernment spending and more debt, the very last things this country needs”

    What? An opinion expressed which actually resembles an argument? What’s becoming of our trolls?

    I suppose austerity is a good thing. It’s worked so well in Japan and Greece for the oligarchs who barely feel a pinch, but the masses must endure skull-crushing negatives without complaint. Not a good point. But it is a point of view.

  • Resident Dissident

    Why isn’t BBC reporting it, Anon?

    Because it doesn’t tend to give live coverage to demos unless they erupt in violence or – if it was of any size and the speakers at the rally say something of interest then I’m sure it will be reported. It was in the Evening Standard last night.

  • Anon

    Afrend – get a life mate, nobody bothers with your “Habbabreak” cop out and even the handful who have downloaded it usually leave it off because they can’t help themselves. People tend to want to read what’s said about them and for that reason it’s a non-starter.

    Apart from that you’re also beginning to come across as a little obsessive.

  • Peacewisher

    @Anon: Just because someone has a bit a money, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a social conscience. And thank goodness for RT for showing it as it is (backed up by numerous tweets). BBC reporting of the last demonstration just focussed on a few troublemakers; this time perhaps a negative message couldn’t be found so it was disregarded. How disgraceful!!

    And RT also reporting on neo-Nazi hooligans in Russian football so can’t be accused of feathering its own nest, as you suggest.

  • Mary

    Peacewisher. You are spot on. It is not being reported on Sky or ZBC. That would be a directive coming from Whitehall to the state propaganda machine.

    Don’t waste your energy with the trolls. It’s too hot. I feel sorry for those of our fellow citizens marching in Central London. It is 25C and the humidity is 50%.

    But some can soar away above the clouds.

    A nice 32nd birthday present from his Granny.
    http://news.sky.com/story/1286651/queen-gets-new-helicopter-for-william-and-kate

    PS Why did four Apache helicopter gun ships go overhead eastwards yesterday? I am used to seeing Chinooks from Middle Wallop but never Apaches.

  • Mary

    The heat is getting to the trolls I see. Funny how they come one by one to form a small pack.

  • Anon

    “Why isn’t BBC reporting it, Anon?”

    Because more people are interested in the cricket than the latest protest by a bunch of ageing students marching around London for the 100th time.

    I used to see Clare at London University meetings. Nice enough person but I think it was 14 years at that time she had managed to remain a student. She even blagged herself a penthouse flat in the old Oxo building. I don’t think she’s ever worked for a living.

  • Anon

    “I feel sorry for those of our fellow citizens marching in Central London. It is 25C and the humidity is 50%.”

    That’s what we got the water cannon for. 😀

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    What exactly does ‘no boots on the ground’ mean to this administration? And that word ‘interference’ must also have a very ‘special’ interpretation.

    http://www.moonofalabama.org/

    This lack of self-awareness of U.S. functionaries is embarressing:

    Iran has sent “small numbers” of operatives into Iraq to bolster the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, but there is no sign of a large deployment of army units, the Pentagon said Friday.

    “There are some Iranian revolutionary operatives in Iraq but I’ve seen no indication of ground forces or major units,” [Pentagon spokesman Admiral John] Kirby told a news conference, apparently referring to Tehran’s Quds force, the covert arm of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.

    “Their interference in Iraq is nothing new,” Kirby said.

    President Barack Obama announced Thursday plans to send up to 300 US military advisers to Iraq but stopped short of ordering air strikes against ISIL forces, though he left the door open to that possibility.

  • Peacewisher

    The main reason the mass media doesn’t cover demonstrations (under protest… pardon the pun) until afterwards, is that it might encourage more to join them. God forbid that the people may be encouraged to exercise their democratic right!

  • Resident Dissident

    “Why did four Apache helicopter gun ships go overhead eastwards yesterday? I am used to seeing Chinooks from Middle Wallop but never Apaches.”

    To crush an uprising by the Peoples Front of Reigate – why else?

  • Resident Dissident

    Believe it or not Peacewisher – I do not believe that it is the role of the supposedly neutral BBC to give advance publicity to demonstrations however good the cause – lets leave that sort of thing to totalitarian states.

  • Resident Dissident

    The heat is getting to the trolls I see.

    Unlikely I would say given the climate in Tel Aviv!

  • Anon

    “To crush an uprising by the Peoples Front of Reigate – why else?”

    Lol. Are you sure the mission isn’t against the Godalming Friends of Palestine, by order of Agent Cameron himself? The ZBC isn’t reporting it.

  • Anon

    “The main reason the mass media doesn’t cover demonstrations (under protest… pardon the pun) until afterwards, is that it might encourage more to join them. God forbid that the people may be encouraged to exercise their democratic right!”

    I think people are more interested in going to the beach.

  • A Node

    Anon 21 Jun, 2014 – 3:04 pm

    “of course RT is reporting it because it reports everything negative about Britain and nothing negative about Russia. To the rest of us [the anti-austerity march attended by thousands] is just a non-event organised and attended by the usual feckless left-wing career protesters”

    The British media choose to treat it as a non-event, and they choose to treat the events below as though they are important.

    Here’s the first few results from putting “protest march london” into the BBC News website search box:

    Hundreds of veterans marched in London in a bid to save the second battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24534767

    Hundreds of residents in south east London have held a march in protest over plans to turn their local pub into a supermarket.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24090573

    EDL leader Tommy Robinson held on east London march
    English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson has been arrested as about 500 supporters of the far-right group held a march in east London.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24002252
    Protest march against London fire cuts held

    Organisers say up to 500 people took part in the march which started at Highbury Fields and ended at the fire station on Saturday.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22825882
    Police Federation vote over ‘right to strike’ fails

    Off-duty police officers marched through London in protest at cuts in 2012
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21652384

    The BBC deem it more important that we hear of a few hundred people protesting about the closure of their local pub than a march by thousands, protesting about a major social issue, attended by politicians and celebrities, which started literally on their own doorstep.

    Do you agree with their decision, Anon? If so, please justify it.

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    dem Presbyerians! Lookin’ more like Unitarians. Popey Francis, not so much as Argentina knows.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/presbyterians-debating-israeli-occupation-vote-to-divest-holdings.html

    “DETROIT — After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies that it says supply Israel with equipment used in the occupation of Palestinian territory.”

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