I just saw the British Prime Minister do something, so appallingly tasteless I could not believe it was happening. BBC News just showed a dawn raid by immigration officers on a well-kept home. So far, so tasteless.
Astonishingly, once the evil foreigners had been herded up and taken off to detention camps, where they risk being beaten up or raped, Teresa May and David Cameron arrived, and posed in the victims’ kitchen for trophy pictures.
I thought that what Blair has done since leaving Downing Street had debased the office of Prime Minister to an astonishing degree. But, posing for a stunt in the neat and clean kitchen of some poor immigrant, David Cameron had plumbed levels of tastelessness that again make me realise that the UK has become a country whose values I no longer recognise. The disgusting complicity of the BBC in filming this stunt is equally astonishing.
Are there really so few people left who have the slightest idea of what constitutes decent human behaviour?
“Now the BGS report has put some numbers on the potential threat to Scotland from the third fracking method threating the UK, shale oil and gas. As with previous such reports these numbers are just oil or gas-in-place, rather what can be actually extracted. The report suggests there is 80.3 trillion cubic feet (tcf), or which 3.2 tcf might be extracted for a typical 4 percent recovery factor (but could be a lot less). This would require drilling 3200 wells in the Midland Valley to extract about 14 months of UK gas consumption. The threatened areas are some of the most populous in Scotland, including parts of Glasgow and Edinburgh”
http://frack-off.org.uk/fracking-scotland-a-third-threat/
Guano; Is the general public in UK as aware?
Fight for your hospitals. Once the NHS has gone, that’s it. Finished.
The ‘Biggest Hospital Closure In NHS History’
LBC 97.3-10 hours ago
… of action to protest against what they call “the biggest hospital closure … of two hospitals in West London is to be confirmed on Wednesday.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/biggest-hospital-closure-in-nhs-history-to-be-confirmed-94553
Charing Cross Hospital: Should It Be Closed?
LBC 97.3-5 hours ago
A board meeting has recommended the closure of Accident and … Protesters were gathered outside the board meeting to fight the closure of the units. … in healthcare in London to be clear about the arguments both ways.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/biggest-hospital-closure-in-nhs-history-to-be-confirmed-94553
Bedroom Tax and NHS campaigners lobby tonight’s Tower Hamlets …East London Advertiser-6 hours ago
Protesters are lobbying tonight’s meeting of Tower Hamlets council over the … to save 22 east London surgeries at risk of closing from government ... Patients would be “forced to turn to busy hospital A&E departments” instead.
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/politics/bedroom_tax_and_nhs_campaigners_lobby_tonight_s_tower_hamlets_council_1_3706223
” There are no more schools in Gaza-we’ve killed all the children!” .Israeli singers on TV.
nevermind, it will happen anyway
A Tet type of attack?
Here’s another from Mondoweiss: what language do we use to describe what’s going on?
A….language cynical and corrupt enough in its euphemistic abusiveness and in its twisted doublespeak to convey the moral abomination of this slaughter in the name of a civilization that defends itself by placing its victims beyond the pale of civility….?
I imagine that if I posted some extracts from the WW2 Nazi Der_Stürmer magazine they would be removed before too many people had seen them.
But it’s the identical language.
Link for that –
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/slaughter-corruption-language.html
Ben
Most of our water comes from boreholes and rivers in the UK and it is swiveleye lunacy to pollute our beautiful water supply with fracking.
In Scotland only from rainfall, used piped directly from fresh water lochs outside the Central Belt, piped dirtectly and not recycled as drinking water.
If Scotland votes Yes in September I guarantee that Westminster will pass some sort of Bill in the House of Lards to repatriate the control of Scotland’s unprivatised water resources which will then be privatised just like the PO.
Then it will be piped down to London and the fracking sites in England.
Remember fracking uses enormous volumes of water to extract a small quantity of gas. Water the England, even with Welsh resources just does not have.
Bugger;
“If Scotland votes Yes in September I guarantee that Westminster will pass some sort of Bill in the House of Lards to repatriate the control of Scotland’s unprivatised water resources which will then be privatised just like the PO”
Do you mean they will try to preempt the Referendum before it takes effect?
“Do you mean they will try to preempt the Referendum before it takes effect?”
Don’t worry Ben, Westminster has no control whatsoever over Scotland’s water, it was devolved. All Scotland’s water is controlled by a corporation which is controlled by the Scottish government. It can’t happen.
US policy co-ordinated with Israeli, on Gaza. Despite Kerry’s earnest appearance.
http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/43928-israels-attack-on-gaza.html
(Don’t forget to ‘find, on this page’ the words “Tony Blair”)
Another petition, organised by David Ward MP.
Can’t do any harm. Sign here:
http://davidward.org.uk/en/petition/we-demand-the-british-government-stands-up-for-the-palestinians-now
Guano
“Only Tories could even dream of polluting our beautiful water in this way.”
Only the tories? Labour, the LibDems and UKIP all seem keen too.
Regarding “the man on the street” who happens to fall into the blog… Well, excuse us, Habby, for daring to attempt to tell the truth.
Why is it that you prefer lies based on image and perception to real people in real communities, who have the capacity to be amazingly nice and cooperative to each other, and not just compete for some hypothetical pot of gold?
The post-war society our forebears built may not have been rich but in terms of personal and community values it was the envy of the world.
Lol, Phil. So true!
Thanks for the petition link, Ba’al.
I won’t sign any petition on behalf of the Liberal Democrats until all their MPs stand up to their coalition partners on this matter. If that means removal of Nick Clegg as leader, then that’s what must happen.
Peacewisher: I think you might look at what Jenny Tonge (LibDem), Lord Dykes (LibDem, ex-Tory MOD), Baronness Blackstone (Lab) and Lord Deben (Con) had to say about Gaza on the 17th July.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldhansrd/text/140717-0001.htm#14071753000635
Some members of all parties disapprove of what’s going on in Gaza (including, obviously, David Ward.) I don’t think this admits of the luxury of trying to persuade the likes of Clegg. In any case, he’s a busted flush. I don’t care who stands up to BICOM’s Israeli moneybagses and the corporate Atlanticists. Enough that they are encouraged to do so. The object of these petitions is to demonstrate that there is some shit a substantial slice of public opinion (=voters) will not eat.
If anyone wants to donate to Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
http://www.unrwa.org/donate
Palestine Red Crescent
http://www.palestinercs.org/en/donate.php
Nevermind it will Happen Anyway @ 10.59pm “Now to the issue of one way traffic tunnels/ Why has nobody in Hamas thought of moving their missiles through these tunnels and launch them from Israel?” I thought that, 2,000 missiles just to blow the desert up, not good military tactics. Israels worst fears are the closure of Ben Gurion Airport and the resultant collapse of the economy, including the tourist industry. Speigal online had an article on the manufacturing of these simple rockets, a small team could produce 100 in one shift. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/graveyard-shift-for-islamic-jihad-a-visit-to-a-gaza-rocket-factory-a-531578.html Ben Gurion would be so vulnerable to these rockets and with a flight time of only several seconds would be unstoppable. Many International court lawyers would regard the targeting of Ben Gurion[with sufficient warning] as a legal belligerent reprisal, since that would be in response to an earlier war crime [which it refuses to stop] committed by Israel, the deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure http://normanfinkelstein.com/2014/are-hamas-rocket-attacks-
illegal/ HRW’s Deputy Middle East and North Africa director stated in the first press release. “All attacks, including reprisal attacks, that target or indiscriminately harm civilians are prohibited under the laws of war, period.” Not so. International law does not—at any rate, not yet—prohibit belligerent reprisals.[4]The United States and Britain, among others, have staunchly defended the right of a state to use nuclearweapons by way of belligerent reprisal.[5] By this standard, the people of Gaza surely have the right to use makeshift projectiles to end an illegal, merciless seven-year-long Israeli blockade or to end Israel’s criminal bombardment of Gaza’s civilian population. Indeed, in its landmark 1996 advisory opinion on the legality of nuclear weapons, the ICJ ruled that international law is not settled on the right of a state to use nuclear weapons when its “survival” is at stake. But, if a state might have the right to use nuclear weapons when its survival is at stake, then surely a people struggling for self-determination has the right to use makeshift projectiles when it has been subjected to slow death by a protracted blockade and recurrent massacres by a state determined to maintain its occupation.
Clark
Are you now the interpreter of Mary’s thoughts on reading my post? Why don’t you ask her to tell us, in her own words, how she interpreted it?
I’d be tempted to think you’re playing a silly game of character assassination, but for the moment I’ll stay with the thought that you’re just being silly.
If your apology to me is gracious enough, I might accept it.
Ba’al: These worthy individuals won’t make any difference on their own. The libdems amongst them might make a difference if they focus their energies on removing Clegg… as of course his broader party should have done from the point at which he supported the appalling policy on student fees. Just think of the neocon policies Clegg has supported on behalf of his MPs, Lords, and the millions of suckers like me who voted libdem at the last general election.
Here’s one of you Habby: “In voting with the conservatives on student fees, the liberal democrat MPs betrayed their voters as much as the labour MPs who voted for the war with Iraq.”
Mary
“What a world. I have just encountered healers and carers, each of them worth 1000x the likes of Cameron/Clegg/Hague/Hammond and the rest.”
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Glad to hear that, Mary, but……aren’t you the person who’s always telling us that the NHS is going to hell in a handbasket?
California Ben
“Wouldn’t the UNSC do something to Netanyahu for sassing them that way? Wouldn’t they devastate the Israeli economy the way they did the Iranian? Wouldn’t they authorize military action to protect civilians in Gaza from Israeli war crimes, as they did in Libya?”
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Yes, we’ll see if the UNSC does more to Israel than it did to Russia when Russia killed thousands of men, women and children in Chechniya and Dagestan.
@Ba’al: Thank you for the extract from Hansard, which only serves to demonstrate that the honourable Jenny is wasting her time seeking any change in the US “tactic” of using its veto through the House of Lords. The final comment is that, effectively, UK and US are as one on the Gaza issue.
No mention of what the British people think…
@Habby re Russian internal aggression and Israeli “internal” aggression – two wrongs don’t make anything right! The UN is there to stop a downward spiral… not turn a blind eye.
“I imagine that if I posted some extracts from the WW2 Nazi Der_Stürmer magazine”
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If you knew more about Der Stuermer than what you perhaps picked up in a potted history of the Nazis, you might have known that Der Stuermer was a (weekly) newspaper and not a magazine, and that it started up a long time before WW2.
US resupplying Israel with ammunition even after condemning shelling of Gaza school
July 30, 2014 20:23
No sooner than the White House condemned the shelling of a United Nations-operated school in Gaza on Wednesday did news break that the Pentagon will supply the Israeli military with new ammunition to further their campaign on the war-ravaged city.
That afternoon, CNN reported that the United States military will be honoring a request from Israel for assistance in the midst of their weeks-long campaign against militants from Hamas residing in Gaza City.
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http://rt.com/usa/176820-pentagon-idf-unrwa-ammunition/
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The chsnting of a right wing group in Israel was shown on the BBC 10pm news.
…… ‘There are no schools in Gaza. There are no children left.’
What sick horrible specimens of humanity.
Peacewisher
“@Habby re Russian internal aggression and Israeli “internal” aggression – two wrongs don’t make anything right!”
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Thank you for leaping to California Ben’s defence; I’m sure he’s grateful to you.
But you’re right, of course. That said, it’d be nice if, occasionally, someone on here (other than Craig) expressed their outrage at Russia killings thousands in Chechniya and Dagestan.
You know, just to show that they really are concerned about the loss of civilian life in places other than Gaza.
The rabid ConDems wish to dismantle and destroy the NHS and hand it out to their donors and the health insurance industry. The people working in it still remain to heal and care thank goodness. Let’s hope that come next May the Cameron spivs are booted out and some sense comes into play.
Did Prince Bandar not say last year that Saudi was in charge of Islamic terrorism in the Caucasus?
The US/Saudi/Israel axis has certainly refined its methods in Central Asia over the last 20 years or so.