The FCO claim that records of extraordinary rendition flights to Diego Garcia were destroyed by water damage is an insult to all our intelligence. The FCO is refusing to say where the records were at the time, or what else was damaged in the (presumed) flood. This is of a piece with, but much more serious than, the “accidental” shredding of all Tony Blair’s parliamentary expenses claims. It is not that they expect us to believe them – they just don’t care. They have the power, and we don’t.
Just as much an insult to our intelligence is the new scheme of security measures at airports. These are all to do with maintaining the fear levels that keep the population compliant, and nothing to do with aviation security. If you have some kind of bomb inside an electronic device, you need a power source to trigger it. The last thing a bomber wants is a flat battery.
It is over twenty years now since I went on a MI6/SAS hosted course at “the Fort” near Gosport. One of the things we were shown and had explained to us, was a laptop which had been converted into a very effective bomb incorporating a slim sheet of semtex. That laptop could switch on and work absolutely normally. The laptop battery was the power source for the detonator.
Explosives detectors at airports would today pick up the semtex. That a mobile phone with no power source could be a bomb, in a way not immediately spotted by x-ray or explosives detector, is a nonsense. If you want to cause real damage on a plane, buy two one litre bottles of 50% strength premium vodka in duty free and set fire to them. You would be surprised at the extreme heat that can produce in a confined space.
Isn’t that the normal means of alerting the authorities to the presence of a dead body on the hill? Who else is likely to see it?
The dog ate my homework, Miss.
Mary
It is called, fuck off ’cause you have no written constitution peasant and we are supreme.
Bi shock acoming.
I have not been fixated on making out that Todd was murdered, as you will see if you link my article at the time, considering it a possible suicide, mishap or murder. Have only concluded it was murder as the scandal has festered.
Speculation is what any real journalist and historian should start out with, as I learned during my careers as a reporter and historian.
You are just an official hack.
“if a journalist reporting on anything other than a lost cat will generally and unintentionally get something crucial wrong.”
This is one reason we can’t have nice things. Most of them are ‘readers’ and overly paid, so they feel the compunction to breathlessly repeat the dangers from ‘terrrror’ and how proficient airport security prevents loss of revenue to various vendors who profit, and their portfolio don’t suffer. “keep shopping, keep flying” maintains the status quo.
Right, Doug, and are you implying that they were the ones who started the killing process in both cases, not to forget Kelly’s too.
Robin Cook seems to have been poisoned – what the hill walkers hurried by giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
World Bank + IMF version 2.0 being launched.
a BRICS “New Development Bank” will be inaugurated in Fortaleza, Brazil next week; to be based in Shanghai or New Delhi; the new bank’s maximum capital set at €73 billion – compared to the current World Bank’s €163 billion.
a new BRICS “mini-IMF” (liquidity in hard currency joint contingency pool) also around €73 billion is being established by 2015.
According to the Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Baodong this will help the five nations, and others,
to “become less dependent on the US dollar and fend off exchange-rate turbulence,” [news from the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee, Virginia] – a fairly weird USian who the FBI claimed in 1975 was running “a violence-oriented organization of ‘revolutionary socialists’ “
Will anyone other than ‘revolutionary socialists’ cover the post world-cup events in Brazil?
You are just an official hack.
Transference. You’re overdoing the woo factor to the extent that it is impossible that you are anything else. And I have a notion why.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/07/water-damage/#comment-465733
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/07/water-damage/#comment-465753
Same email? Two LaRouche references is a mighty coincidence.
Well Spotted, I was as surprised as you that I’d already opened a LaRouche tab earlier, the (growing) wikipedia article on the new world bank was actually the pointer to one of the only 2014 updates on this financial stuff that was planned in 2013 at the previous summit, this nonagenarian does seem to be working hard!
to complicate matters further, here’s another excellent XKCD link, the second today https://xkcd.com/1385/
ESLO wrote
““77-0. And counting”
Be sure to make every one count, Ba’al, but do try to hide your obvious excitement. People might get the idea you don’t really care for the Palestinian people and are more interested in seeing a high death toll so as to reinforce your hatred of jews/Israelis/zionists.”
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I’m fairly sure that he is right about the way Baal (and other Eminences) thinks. I think I made more or less the same point in connection with the conflict in Eastern Ukraine and perhaps even other matters thrown up on this blog.
The nation’s supermarkets can be grateful for the existence of the internet and blogs like this one – mutterers in the aisles, absence of. 🙂
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I bow to your seniority, but I find gems in comments; rough-cut and rarely.
Mai non, Ben-LA, this commenter went looking for Boyle’s latest hijinks and it showed up in Larouche links.
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !
10 Jul, 2014 – 3:42 pm
ESLO wrote…
“People might get the idea you don’t really care for the Palestinian people and are more interested in seeing a high death toll…”
Habbabkuk wrote…
“I’m fairly sure that he is right about the way Baal (and other Eminences) thinks.”
I don’t remember ESLO or you Habbabkuk expressing any outrage on the killing of innocent Palestinians, perhaps you were among this crowd?
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/chanting-jerusalem-ethnicity.html
You may, of course, be of the opinion that there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian.
BRICS is an interesting subject, Bukovsky. Perhaps we can discuss it on another thread.
Mr Scorgie
“You may, of course, be of the opinion that there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian.”
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Are you setting up straw men again?
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“Habbabkuk wrote…
“I’m fairly sure that he is right about the way Baal (and other Eminences) thinks.””
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BTW, I’d put you in the “other Eminences” category.
Mr Scorgie
BTW – which supermarkets are deprived of your mutterings? 🙂
The BBC interviewed a random passenger, who – by chance! – trotted out a couple of times the old nostrum that “If it keeps us safe, I’m happy about it”. He added that it was most reassuring to see these people keeping us so safe.
Other governments must not care about their citizens.
Again, as with the potential liquid bombs, why are these potential bombs not being analysed? Just send them on their way! Don’t match up the liquids with the suspected terrorist, just abandon it! Didn’t make it through with your bomb? We’ll just post it on for you, so you can have another go. Sent by air-mail, naturally!
Since we’re all so concerned about bombs in hand luggage, presumably nobody had considered one going off by timer. Or remote control. Or an altitude trigger. Because had such consideration been made, we should not distinguish between hand and stored luggage. At present, should one have a flat battery, just throw it in your suitcase – problem solved.
As with the “accidentally destroyed documents”, we’re being played for fools, and the authorities are laughing in our faces. They know it’s security theatre, a farce, and they know we know it too. The real point is “what are you going to do about it?” And we have to accept the answer is nothing. This is a show of control.
1 Pilger
Extract from his film The War you Don’t See
(Senior BBC News producer quoted anonymously: ‘We wait in fear for the telephone call from the Israelis.’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDutkYQF9d8#t=3872
” If you want to cause real damage on a plane, buy two one litre bottles of 50% strength premium vodka in duty free and set fire to them.”
I think the more literal-minded muslims disapprove of alcohol too much to do buy it for any purpose.
Well. would you believe it and we keep being told how wonderful everything is under the ConDems!
Recovery Fears Return To World Stock Markets
News from the eurozone and US combines with woes at a major Portuguese bank to prompt a sell-off.
http://news.sky.com/story/1298559/recovery-fears-return-to-world-stock-markets
there seems to be a general denial of reality syndrome that seems to have afflicted almost everyone around here.
Those “stenographers” lucky enough to be tapped to become “the faces” of a state run broadcaster, that gets its funding from the FOC budgetary allocation (some of it) and is an institution that has a tax specifically designed for it, is an out fit for “news” dissemination. The said stenographers will not dare to rock the boat in any shape or form. The same applies to their editors, producers, managers etc. All of these groups are earning a tidy living with a good enough expenses scheme and a reasonable pension, with the added bonus of making the leap at any one point and end up as millionaires celebrities as many of the current medjia celebrities have managed.
Why should anyone reasonably sane expect that any of the above groups to be crazy enough to kiss goodbye the cushy number start looking for truth? How far have we gone down the rabbit hole not to see/understand/sense that the “news” brought by this organ is based on it’s (information’s) relevant complaisance coordination index?
The vox pops always return what the recipe of the day is tobe; Mad cow disease calls for a little girl eating and munching on a hamburger, and her mam singing the praises of the nutritious bounty that her daughter is munching on. Xray machines that show the details of genitals in case there is a bomb secreted in anyone’s pants calls for another nice looking beauty telling the camera it’s the best way of getting frisked because the other way was not fast enough! (what about cancer? Who cares smart alec?) Vox pops contrary to the orders of the day are never to be aired, hence the permanent state of agreement and compliance that seems to be the case in the telly land.
Punters whom have no recourse to facts and are left at the mercy of the official compliance coordination organisations (“news organisation”). These punters find all the answers are given to them and they are told what to think? What to believe? In fact the degrees of drill down to their minds is so deep that anyone reading even this blog will come across those whom are reflecting the official narrative on matters current, verbatim! Further the convictions of the narrative regurgitators would have these verily believe; they thought it all by themselves, by researching and finding out the facts. Their informed channel surfing between the various news channels, and a few articles they have found in “news papers” are good enough basis for their “well researched and skilfully thought out thoughts”!
In fact the pitiful regurgitations of the official narrative are the curse of this blog. That is compounded by the paid for shills who are stalking the various contributors and the blog to drown any kind of “dangerous” and “prohibited” thinking errors proscribed by the recipe of the day in an effort to reinforce the official narrative that could be coming a cropper.
Fact is there are many of us; the poor, and destitute who are only a week away from hunger and homelessness. This is in contrast to the few numbers of the elites, that is included their relevant coterie. In any confrontation these handful could not survive despite the immense arsenals of weapons at their disposal. Hence the option of keeping each individual one of us in a state of compliance falls on keeping us satiated with stories.
This is akin to a little boy in charge of herd of cattle, the cows could easily kill and free themselves from the tyranny of their little shepherd. Yet the cattle go on to comply with every wish of their little emperor. Cattle know no better and are bred to be compliant, with human beings it is a bit more tricky, to begin with they need to be believe in a narrative, and to be happy that they are in charge of their own actions.
That is where the bbc et al come in , they all let you know what is happening around the world? This information which forms the basis of your thinking that has already been thought out for you.
The fly in the ointment is blogs like this and the Internet that is rapidly being snooped on and curtailed, in fact in UK one in four sites are already filtered out, but there again you would not know that, how can you?
Now back to watching the “news” and reading the same brain farts as prescribed by the elite and reflected in the medjia, after all free press means you have the freedom to own one
The state broadcaster’s mouthpiece explains all.
Nick Robinson: Why new data laws are being rushed in
BBC political editor Nick Robinson explains why the government appears to be rushing though emergency powers to ensure police can continue to access phone and internet records.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28248682
The term “Combating terrorism” confers on the government the status of a victim.” Jean-Claude Paye, Tülay Umay
http://www.voltairenet.org/article171831.html
False-victim-role-play is at the heart of all Israeli propaganda because it blurs the lines between the real victims of violence, people, and the false victims, the governments who create violence through injustice or individuals who create injustice. In both cases it is injustice that is the source of violence.
“False-victim-role-play is at the heart of all Israeli propaganda because it blurs the lines between the real victims of violence, people, and the false victims, the governments who create violence through injustice or individuals who create injustice. In both cases it is injustice that is the source of violence.”
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Yup, it’s all the old lady’s fault, she shouldn’t have been carrying a handbag with money in it when the mugger was around. She MADE him mug her!
Idiot.
Самизда́т
Thank you for drawing our attention to Obama’s military intentions. I have been wondering what use 300 or 800 servicemen could be to Mr Maliki. You say they are special forces to guide a Libya style aerial attack on Assad and where else..?
H
Are you saying it’s too much temptation for Israel to have all those defenceless Muslims sitting in Gaza? Maybe you are right.
Ah. The Dear Leader speaks. Fillet of platitude, spiced with the bleeding obvious, liquidised and gently spooned into the tender mouths of the Israeli public. You have to stop the poor benighted heathen thinking they are being shafted by Israel. Your peace will follow. So true. Any likelihood of Israel doing anything to that end, Tony? How about allowing exports from Gaza? You don’t have to let Israel know that it’s in multiple breach of international law and illegally occupying the West Bank while conducting massive reprisals every two years on civilians. Just pray to the gods of global commerce, eh? You know….you must….(says who, shabbat goy?)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4541145,00.html
C**t.
82-0, and counting. Including the occupants of a surgically targeted beach cafe.
And note that the first utterance on the topic by this self-inflated mercenary windbag is for the ears of his adoring Israeli public, not the Quartet whose representative he is. It took him three days to get that out – no doubt his flying visit to Zurich on the 7th necessitated prioritising important business with his accountant.
Useful Uberidiots abound. This wasn’t a gaffe. It was the entire script for the story. Dianne Sawyer (whom Nixon called ‘that smart girl in Ziegler’s office)’ laments the deaths of Palestinians by calling them Israelis.
http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/stricken-palestinians-israelis.html