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  • Peacewisher

    No, RD. But suppressing the will of the people is totalitarianism as well. Remember the CND revival? Allegedly caused by Capital Radio advertising the October 1980 demonstration in advance. No wonder Reagan had the CIA over here and checking out number plates double-quick. That nearly “radicalised” me enough to get me to join CND, but I’m sure many would have indeed become Soviet agents by joining CND. Where was the democracy at that time?

  • Peacewisher

    Anyone else notice how much Pope Francis has changed since he got his legs properly under the table? Someone must have put the fear of God into him! (joke….)

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    A fractured Iraq. Cui bono?

    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

    “This is the plan. The United States does not benefit from this plan. The United States does not benefit from a fragmented, Balkanized, broken Iraq. The oil giants are already extracting as much oil as they want. Iraqi oil is, once again, denominated in dollars not euros. Iraq poses no national security threat to the US. US war planners already got what they want. There’s no reason to go back and cause more trouble, to restart the war, to tear the country apart, and to split it into pieces. The only reason to dissolve Iraq, is Israel. Israel does not want a unified Iraq. Israel does not want an Iraq that can stand on its own two feet. Israel wants to make sure that Iraq never remerges as a regional power. And there’s only one way to achieve that goal, that is, to follow Yinon’s prescription of “breaking up Iraq …along ethnic/religious lines …so, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul.”

    This is the blueprint the Obama administration is following. The US gains nothing from this plan. It’s all for Israel.”

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    ‘Ends justify means’

    http://www.voltairenet.org/article183864.html

    “Collaboration between Nazis and jihadists is not new. It finds its origin in three Muslim divisions of the Waffen SS. The 13th division “Handschar” was formed of Bosnians, the 21st ” Skanderbeg ” Kosovars and the 23rd ” Kama ” Croats. All were therefore Muslims practicing Islam influenced by Turkey. Indeed, the majority of these fighters defected during the war against the Red Army.

    More recently, Takfirists and Nazis fought together again against the Russians during the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Ichkeria (Second Chechen War, 1999-2000).

    On May 8, 2007, in Ternopol (western Ukraine), Baltic, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian Nazis and Ukrainian and Russian jihadists created a so-called “anti- imperialist front” with the support of the CIA. This organization is headed by Dmytro Yarosh, who, during the Kiev coup in February 2014, became Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, then Pravy Sektor candidate in the presidential election of May 25th.

    In July 2013, the Emir of Caucasus and local leader of Al Qaeda, Doku Umarov, called on members of the “anti-imperialist front” to go and fight in Syria. However, there is no clear documentation of the Nazi participation in current operations to destabilize the Levant.

    Finally, a few dozen Crimean Tatar jihadists came to fight in Syria, and were transported by the Turkish MIT to Kiev to participate in EuroMaidan events and the coup of February 22nd alongside Dmytro Yarosh [3].

    The measures taken in Europe, at the request of the U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, to prevent the return of jihadists at home shows that the CIA intends to use them on a new front. [4] The forced April 15th resignation of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, at the request of Secretary of State John Kerry [5] and that of his brother, Prince Sultan bin Salman, May 14 on pressure from Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel [6], attests to the US will to recast the jihadist machine.

  • Resident Dissident

    Anode

    Have you noticed how all those BBC demo headlines are written after the event – perhaps some should judge the BBC on what it reports after the event – it is the organisers job not the BBC’s to encourage people to attend. If the organisers are prevented in exercising their right to encourage peaceful protest then I do have a problem but that isn’t the case here.

  • Peacewisher

    Anode may be clearer than I on this, RD, but has this always been the case?

    I don’t know, because I was on the march, but I suspect that the BBC reported the 15th February 2003 demonstration against the Invasion of Iraq as it happened. The argument about not reporting until afterwards is an interesting one, and maybe (Craig?) the subject of a future thread…

  • A Node

    Resident Dissident: “it is the organisers job not the BBC’s to encourage people to attend.”

    From a the BBC published document : “How do I organise a protest?”

    “Let the media know
    Let the local newspapers, radio and television know about your plans and create an effective press release giving all the details of the march. Email them any digital photos you have in advance of the protest, and immediately following. Make it media friendly by having plenty of colourful displays and costumes to photograph, if that is appropriate. See the Action Network guide on.”
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/A4288999

  • Peacewisher

    LOL! Guess where the demonstration started… Yes, the BBC Headquarters in Portland Place!

  • nevermind, we're coming home, we're coming home, Englands coming home.

    And now to the fanfares. Will Cameron welcome back the english team? back from their short term Brazilian holiday training with the Brazilian ballet stars.

    http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/culture/2013/03/1244675-brazilian-ballet-dancers-conquer-foreign-scene.shtml

    Well prepared by Rooney tears on his shoulder he then can steel himself for what is to follow next week.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/cameron-and-juncker-fight-over-role-in-european-commission-a-975528.html

    Such fun tonight, I shall enjoy the game between Ghana’s muscle men and another well prepared German team. Ghana has to play well to overcome/cope with teutonic fervour and precision.

  • Resident Dissident

    Anode

    Any good news organisation/journalist will usually have fairly firm lines between making and reporting the news. The document you refer is something produced by Actionworks not the BBC. If the BBC were to promote one demo then it would have little choice but to promote them all.

  • A Node

    Resident Dissident: “The document you refer is something produced by Actionworks not the BBC”

    It has been made a permalink by BBC employees on the BBC message-boards, therefore it is endorsed by the BBC.

  • A Node

    Resident Dissident: “Any good news organisation/journalist will usually have fairly firm lines between making and reporting the news.”

    Agreed, but we’re talking about the BBC here.

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    “How did the check-up go?”

    Involuntary reflexes in tip-top shape for our resident Lads, sofia. 🙂

  • Sofia (Otiose and Proud)

    Here’s Avraham Burg talking sense in Haaretz…

    The Palestinians: A Kidnapped Society

    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.599318

    Any thoughts?​​

    Ben. 4 33pm

    Always good to have an expert second opinion. Yours above all!

    Do you think we should recommend an increase in the Pims and adjust the G+T levels to prevent or keep it simple and prescribe more Glen Poshbastard Malt?

    Tea-break over I must check for Anaphylaxis then get back out under the sky.

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    We’ve got the Tools to augment the Talent.

    http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/

    ” Captured Iraqi Army equipment is moving steadily to the west and south to Aleppo in some cases but most certainly down the gravel roads to Rawah and then on into Anbar Province to reinforce rebel forces. There are now photographs on the internet of Heavy Equipment Transporters (HET) loaded down with captured upgraded humvees, tanks and artillery. “

  • Mary

    All together now — march against the cuts
    ——————————————————————————–
    21 June 2014
    Luke James
    Thousands to take to the streets in support of the People’s Assembly and a better way

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    PEOPLE who the Con-Dems thought would suffer cuts in silence will rise up in their thousands today as part of the People’s Assembly’s unprecedented protest against austerity.

    Homeless mums, low-paid carers, stretched teachers, penniless pensioners and disabled people demanding dignity will be among a multitude taking to the streets for the grass-roots movement’s first national demonstration.

    Starting at BBC headquarters, they will swamp the streets of central London before descending on Parliament Square — reclaiming the heart of Britain’s democracy in a carnival of hope.
    /..
    http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-085a-All-together-now-march-against-the-cuts

    ~~~

    Teachers lead mass London march
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    21st June 2014
    Joana Ramiro in Britain

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    TEACHERS will lead today’s People’s Assembly march against austerity through London.

    Britain’s teachers are fighting back against government plans to “destroy the education system” and marching en masse today.

    “This demonstration is about fighting against a government which is attacking public-sector workers, it’s about protecting our public services,” National Union of Teachers executive member Gawain Little told the Morning Star.

    Con-Dem cuts have devastated Britain’s education system, with teachers’ union NUT having to fend off a wave of privatisation and attacks on teachers’ pensions.

    “This government is waging a war on teachers and the education system, trying to return us to Victorian values and nationalist ideals,” said south London teacher Simon Hardy.

    Newly qualified Mr Hardy said he knew how precarious conditions were not just for young teachers but also for poorer students, who find themselves marginalised by Education Secretary Michael Gove’s curriculum changes.

    /..
    http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b9e9-Teachers-lead-mass-London-march

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    Imagine if they discovered absinthe, sofia. Oh wait. That could only help.

  • Mary

    Anon (another Anon) thinks that he is so funny. He is not at all funny.

    ‘“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.;)’

    He probably does not know and cares even less that a man was blinded by a German water cannon (like the ones Blustering Boris has preordered without getting permission from his mummy Mrs May) and is warning against them.

    Blinded German man urges Boris Johnson not to bring water cannon to London
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26226926

    ‘A German man who was blinded by a water cannon in Germany has come to the UK to warn against their possible use in London.

    Dietrich Wagner – a 69-year-old retired engineer – was hit in the face at a protest in Stuttgart four years ago. His eyelids were torn and some of the bones around his eyes fractured, causing his eyeballs to fall out of their sockets.

    Mr Wagner’s injuries are very rare but he has travelled to the capital to lobby the mayor, Boris Johnson, who is asking Londoners whether the Metropolitan Police should have water cannon available in future.

    Mr Wagner was attending a demonstration over the redevelopment of Stuttgart’s main railway station on 30 September 2010. He remembers the jets on the water cannon suddenly becoming more intense: “I felt something like a punch in my face and then I fell backwards,” he recalls.’

    How absolutely horrendous.

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    Also rubber bullets and bean-bags, Mary. When the cops are armored head-to-toe and protesters in t-shirts and flip-flops meet the Juggernaut, safety is a minor concern.

  • guano

    Ben

    “This is the blueprint the Obama administration is following. The US gains nothing from this plan. It’s all for Israel.”

    You seem to be forgetting that Bush was away with the fairies with the idea that he and the Zionists would be floating on clouds looking down on Armaggeddon and the destruction of Islam and Muslims for ever.

    That’s why the blueprint is still a blueprint, because of the lingering doubts in the minds of worldly men and women that siding with Israel would deliver the place in the clouds and the demise of Islam.

    Where’s Fedup when you need him. He explains it so much more elocuently than me, in spite of kicking me in the shins at the same time:

    “However this evidently unstoppable march of hatred of Muslims is an attempt in extirpating any and all Muslims across the planet; in zionistan, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Colchester, …… all in the aid of manufacturing the necessary consent for the expansion of the ongoing wars on all those inhabiting the mid east in the way of creating a safe haven for poor, poor zionists to live safely out of the harms way of the ill wishers and the “antisemi…..”. Muslims do the dying and the zionists are reeling from the indignity of hate targeted at them!!!!!”

    i.e. if the USUK won’t wreck the Middle East for Israel’s fairy stories, will they at least do it for their hatred of Islam?

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    Guano;

    “That’s why the blueprint is still a blueprint, because of the lingering doubts in the minds of worldly men and women that siding with Israel would deliver the place in the clouds and the demise of Islam.”

    That’s the narrative running the show. Conservative Christians believe that Israel will, en masse, accept Christ and a new Temple will arise in the New Jerusalem. Of course the flip-side is the return of the Caliphate; another pipe-dream. Neocons are mostly Jews, but secular and/or Zionist, but they see no reason not to pretend at believing that tripe. There is no scriptural basis for nonsense like the Rapture, nor is the Quran being interpreted correctly for Jihad, which Takfiris embrace with a blood-lust out of pure ignorance.

    Religious extremism is directly or indirectly the cause of most human wars.

  • Phil

    Well I trotted along to the demo. Apart from the anti austerity theme, The prevailing messages, on banner after banner, were:

    Gove Out!
    Tories Out!
    Save Our NHS!

    I didn’t watch many speakers but did see the hypocrite Labour MP Dianne Abbott talk some shit I’m sure she doesn’t believe. Labour MP Jeremy Corbynne also spoke. Len McClusky. And some celebrities. Everyone seemed dead chuffed we had some celebrities on board.

    All in all the pervasive message was clear: VOTE LABOUR!

    Which is of course a fucking joke. The labour party is openly committed to austerity and if elected will definitely continue to impose austerity. Today was an anti-austerity march saying vote for a pro-austerity party! Really? What were all the people holding anti-Tory banners thinking?

    So people catch their coaches home feeling they have done their bit. Mark Steele said he hopes the Labour leadership are listening. The treasurer of the PA shouted “they can’t ignore us now”. Francesca Martinez did quickly say “Fuck profit” but who cares when everyone is agreeing what’s needed is “Tories out”.

    This is anger lost to applause for the establishment. This is the professional left taming the left.

  • Ben-LA PACQUTE LO ES TODO

    Exodus 32:9

    “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.””

    Guano; The promise was to Abraham that the ‘seed’ would come through his bloodline. There was nothing special about the ‘chosen people’ other than that irrevocable promise. But everyone insists there is something innately precious about Israel, in spite of God saying he could raise up stones in the desert, if he had to.

    The pedestal Israel occupies is of human manufacture.

  • Mary

    What an inspirational man Julian Assange is.

    Julian Assange gives life advice on Reddit: How not to ‘feel helpless, overwhelmed and small’
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-gives-life-advice-on-reddit-how-not-to-feel-helpless-overwhelmed-and-small-9549773.html

    ‘”What advice would you give to ordinary citizens in regards to how they can have an impact? Many of us feel helpless, overwhelmed and small. We are screaming for change, but what steps can we take?”

    To which Assange replied: “When we are aware of the world and the scale of its inhumanity and stupidity we feel small. It very hard to ‘think globally’ and ‘act locally’, because by thinking globally we become overwhelmed with the scale of the problems to be solved.

    “However the internet permits many people to act globally in a way they couldn’t before. WikiLeaks is a realisation of this tension. By releasing materials on many parts of the world, we empower others to think and act.

    “What can ordinary people do? Support and promote projects that are acting at scale. WikiLeaks is my realisation of this tension, but there are a flood of others starting. The clash between diversity and global uniformity which has been created by wiring the world to itself is now in play. You are the troops.”’

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