Those suddenly concerned about the European Arrest Warrant in Westminster last night were notably silent when it was used against Julian Assange, with a case that had more holes in it than a condom torn by Anna Ardin, the noted CIA agent.
Not only was the evidence against Assange not tested, the Supreme Court accepted that a Swedish prosecutor with a screaming political agenda was a “judicial authority”, despite her being neither a judge nor a court. That extraordinary ruling was itself dependent on two even more extraordinary false premises, directly stated in Lord Phillip’s judgement.
1) That the French term “autorites judiciaires” has a “wider meaning” than the English term “judicial authorities”. That is simply untrue.
2) That the French language version of the treaty is “authentic and original” and to be preferred to the English version. That is absolutely untrue – the different language versions are explicitly equal. That is a fundamental rule of EU (and UN)treaties, both of which I have personal experience of negotiating.
The bottom line being, if the Establishment wants to get you, it will, irrespective of the letter of the law.
“I think it is important to continue to behave as if we were living in a democracy, and continue to take those who commit undemocratic actions to task. This is important for maintenance of moral standards and for public morale…”
Peacewisher- hows it going in Alpha Centauri these days? Must have been a few light years ago when u left mother earth for there?
OT but good article on why the BBC is bad for Scotland
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/11/10/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/
@Ba’al: could Tony Blair be regarded as an “agent”, if he’s accepting money in this way?
‘Mercenary’ would be about as far as you could go, I think. An agent, perhaps, of global market capitalism, ultimately of disenfranchisement, homogenisation of cultures, rapacious depredation of resources, unequalled inequality and despair.
But agents proper, as I think Craig might confirm, are usually very inconspicuous people.
No of course Mr Wanless could not throw any light on the whereabouts of the Dickens dossier. Of course the Home Office files are in a terrible mess. Of course the police were given the files and nobody knows where they are.
‘No cover-up found’ in abuse review by Peter Wanless
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30002908
The abused children have been betrayed.
‘It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest’ as that good man Harold Pinter said.
Worth a reread. There are many truths within.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html
Ba’al from that Sarawak article:
‘It is the PetroSaudi connections with Saudi Arabia that will nevertheless cause most embarrassment to the former PM,’ – obviously the journalist does not realise that Mr Bliar is completely and utterly unembarassable …
From the memory hole…
http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2003/12/200849132945641445.html
Cherie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has said (to Prince Turki al-Faisal* – BZ) that Saudi Arabia has an “appalling” world image that needs to be corrected.
* That’s not the Prince Turki who set up PetroSaudi, above. Or the Prince Turki who allegedly made most from the BAE slush fund, investigation of which Tony Blair suppressed- different one again. It’s a common royal name in Saudi…
Falloch – you are so right. This is because Tony BELIEVES, praise the Lord.
Ba’al BLiar has just been on the line to Sky News from Sierra Leone. Boasting about the work of his foundation ref. Ebola and malaria. He refers to his ‘teams’. Has he got GPI by any chance.
He was bigging up Bono and Geldof in passing.
He would not be drawn on the Labour leadership. Ha!
Sure he was in Sierra Leone? The poor sods on the ground don’t get to see a lot of him except when there is PR capital to be made out of a visit. He’s referring to AGI, which serves the dual purpose of channeling international aid (which is on offer whether he’s in the middle or not), and getting introductions to dodgy leaders with anti-Muslim credentials.
…anti-Muslim credentials…
And oil/mineral resources, of course.
Britain’s security state:
Inquiry ordered into recording of prisoners’ calls to MPs
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan asked if there was any evidence the information had been passed on to senior officials.
Mr Grayling said there was NO EVIDENCE to suggest that was the case and most of the recordings had been DESTROYED.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30009306
“‘No cover-up found’ in abuse review by Peter Wanless”
Records have disappeared but:
“…NO EVIDENCE that records were deliberately removed or destroyed.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30002908
“Britain’s first “secret” terror trial has to be rerun after the jury in the case of alleged terrorist Erol Incedal was discharged.”
“But the public CANNOT even be told the reason why the jury was stood down and are still in the dark over what evidence it was considering because more than two thirds of the “extraordinary” trial was heard in secret.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11222799/Erol-Incedal-secret-terror-trial-jury-discharged-and-retrial-ordered.html
Sierra Leone – 70% of the population have malaria…
http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2013/12/27/maleria-sierra-leone/
The divine Tony doesn’t seem to be having a lot of effect – his last initiative that I heard of was mosquito nets, but the article suggests that’s not the root of the problem, but sanitation.
Government of Sierra Leone (Freetown)
11 November 2014
Sierra Leone: Tony Blair Joins Ebola Fight in Sierra Leone
http://allafrica.com/stories/201411111566.html
Sky News are repeating the interview at 16.30
I’m sure the Ukrainian nationalists, god beware Julian will have to be under self incarceration until they be ‘fast tracked into the EUSA’ , will be very valuable in future, helping to stomp out such pesky interference to Ms Nuland and Mister Obama’s Nato expansion plans.
Onwards, forwards all around the world, we must have Russia’s resources for our expansionary nationalism, well only our kind.
There is no point anymore in a European arrest warrant, once the TTIP is signed.
I think that with so much dithering going on by our party politicians, Julian will be sad to hear that Sweden’s lefties are going for the easy populist pro Palestinian PR after the massacre, now they are in the doghouse with Sweden’s one family establishment, and could not possibly send Ms Nye over here.
And there are not many principled politicians left to rattle the cages for Julian, self preservation has taken hold and election fever is clouding minds.
big time.
Lol, Nigel. I’m an optimist, that’s all 🙂
“The bottom line being, if the Establishment wants to get you, it will, irrespective of the letter of the law.”
Hmm, so if the establishment had really wanted Craig, then they would have succeeded, so why I wonder, did they not try again?
Was it something in the water? something he said that supports their wretchedness?
Has he something to give they like?, for example, his acceptance of their kind of rabid Ukrainian nationalists into the EU, further destabilising it, I ask myself now?
@Doug: Sadiq Khan would be concerned about that… very concerned. One of his constituents who was imprisoned on behest of the US, and who he was giving a sympathetic ear to, was recently extradicted to the US. I believe his name was Babar Ahmed.
Eepublicofscotland (re the 7/7 bombings and Charles de Menezes):
“As far fetch as it may seem I read an article, can’t recall where now…”
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Memory loss, RoS? How very convenient!
Do you have a better explanation for putting seven bullets in an innocent civilian’s head, Habby? Presumably. you would say it was an accident? Well, to misquote Oscar Wilde, once is forgivable, twice is carelessness… but this was 7 times (!) Looks like gross incompetence is the contemporary norm… unless of course, you are of the lower orders.
O/T but more state lies and dissembling as OUR NHS goes down the pan.
From KeepOurNHSPublic
NHS facing £700m black hole over failing Better Care Fund.
A pioneering plan to save the health service £1 billion a year by keeping patients out of hospital has been branded a “shambles” after the Government’s spending watchdog found at best it would save less than a third of the amount projected at best.
In a highly critical report, the National Audit Office said proposals to transfer nearly £2 billion of NHS funding to social care in a bid to reduce hospital admissions had been inadequately thought through and could have left the health service with a massive budget black hole.
It added the plans had been based on “optimism rather than evidence”. Even after the scheme was redesigned to reduce the financial risk to the NHS, the NAO said it was still far from convinced that the Better Care Fund would result in its primary aim of reducing emergency admissions to hospital.
The report is embarrassing for ministers as the Better Care Fund is seen as critical to the Government’s attempt to control rising healthcare costs, reduce waiting times for operations and plug the gaps in social care resulting from cuts to council budgets. But the NAO found early local plans for the fund, which will pool £5.3 billion of existing NHS and local authority funding from next year, would only deliver £55 million of deliverable financial savings compared to the £1 billion factored in by the Treasury.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-facing-700m-black-hole-over-failing-better-care-fund-9852400.html
Margaret Hodge, chair of the committee, said the project appeared to have been beset by “unacceptable incompetence”.
Mary’s little cit-and-paste:
“The abused children have been betrayed.
‘It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest’ as that good man Harold Pinter said.”
reminds me that it’s been a while since I recommended a splendid book by David Satter called:
“It was a long time ago, and it never happened: Russia and the Communist past”
(Yale University Press, 2012).
To quote from the cover blurb:
“Russia today is haunted by deeds that that have not been examined and by words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. David Satter presents a striking new interpretation of Russia’s great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia’s failure to appreciate fully the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state”.
David Satter, a Sovietologist and Russia expert, had also written “Darkness at dawn: The rise of the Russian criminal state”.
Both works could be read with profit by the Putinistas on this blog! 🙂
Peacewisher
“Do you have a better explanation for putting seven bullets in an innocent civilian’s head, Habby? Presumably. you would say it was an accident? …”
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Don’t be a fool, Peacewisher.
You have neither served, nor ever fired a weapon, nor do you have any knowledge of modern ordinance.
Seven shots are not an accident; they are a precaution made possible by modern weapons and knowledge of physiology.(and even not so modern ones).
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Republicofscotland – who will of course not answer, nor make an effort of memory
– conveniently forgets his source, ensuring thereby that no one can evaluate its seriousness and credentials. As I said – very convenient!
And fools like you fall for it.
Yes, I guess my moniker gives me away in that respect, Habby, but what have I fallen for?
So you are saying it wasn’t an accident… therefore it was murder.
Lol, Nigel. I’m an optimist, that’s all 🙂
I WAS, too, Peacewisher-now i’m deeply cynical………..
The 7/7 Met shooters had been to Israel for training.
This is a cut and paste, not a cit and paste. Must learn which keys are which!
‘Pinned down on the floor, Jean Charles de Menezes could not move. There was a rumour that he had seemed to recognize his assailants. But, after seven bullets in the back of his head the world would never learn why or how he came to be chosen. They were dum-dum bullets, which explode upon impact. The bullets were pumped in slowly, with several second intervals between each. He was on the floor of a Northern Line tube at Stockwell Underground station at 10 am on 22nd July 2005, and this was Operation Kratos. The Special Branch or FRR – whoever they were, they were certainly not the Met – were showing off to all the world the special training they had received from the Israeli army.
But, the just-shoot-them-in-the-head Kratos policy was supposedly for ‘suicide bombers’ and nothing about this young electrician matched this description. The gang who shot him wore no police uniform, and after the killing they went about terrorizing other tube users and even pinned the train driver on the platform at gunpoint (1). The officer who murdered de Mendezes in cold blood remains unnamed and was supposedly sent off on a holiday, to de-stress (2).
The Israeli training for “Operation Kratos” – of specialist London Police units such as SO19, who might have done this – included the shoot-to-kill policy of at least five shots to the head. Armed ‘police officers’ fired eleven shots at Jean Charles de Menezes – evenly spaced over 30 seconds. ‘At the time the eyewitness reports which were made public stated that five or six shots had been fired, but that went up to eight a few days later, then finally eleven.’ To quote Alex Jones. Wiki has 11 shots fired, 6 of which entered his head – not that it matters.’
http://terroronthetube.co.uk/related-articles/operation-kratos-and-the-de-menezes-assassination/
Thanks, Mary. Sounds like murder to me, Habby. If I remember correctly, Tariq Ali called it “Execution” on BBC AQ later that day. One might ask why Tariq Ali happened to be on AQ that evening, because few others would have been so bold as to call it that.
Maybe one day we’ll know WHY he was murdered.
He was murdered because the uniformed thugs that make up the Met lost control. Nothing more. The only conspiracy was the attempted cover up.
“He was murdered because the uniformed thugs that make up the Met lost control. Nothing more. The only conspiracy was the attempted cover up.”
This film, most of which is factual, and which Mark Golding linked previously, gives two possible reasons why Jean Charles de Menenez was murdered. But is is worth watching the whole film to see the full extent of corruption of police, judiciary, politicians, media and factual in legal terms. The only place he and I part company regards Mosaic law. There is no forgiveness for all the perverters of justice. You and Habbabkuk will just love it. Tell me when you’ve seen it and we can discuss it in depth – I don’t want an isolated sentence. Many thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwyzpzEgUWE
“Republicofscotland – who will of course not answer, nor make an effort of memory
– conveniently forgets his source, ensuring thereby that no one can evaluate its seriousness and credentials. As I said – very convenient!”
“And fools like you fall for it.”
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Habb=itual Liar
Hmm! interesting indeed.
Re 7/7 and the bus explosion
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Daniel Obachike is the most famous of the survivors of the bus blast in Tavistock Square, the ‘4th bomb’ as it has come to be known. Daniel’s experiences, terrible as they were on the day were also matched subsequently by the sheer terror he experienced by being subjected to several years of overt threats and surveillance by MI5. All he is guilty of is telling the truth as he saw it that day.
“I’m just a regular guy, I was born and bred and work in London and that day I was on my way to work in Old Street and there was some kind of disruption going on. We were told that it was a power surge on the underground and that’s how I came to be on the bus.” Daniel Obachike
He described in detail how he boarded the bus at Euston along with several dozen others who had all been denied access to the tube station as he thought that the bus was going in the direction he required.
Shortly after the bus had started its journey, Daniel looked out of the window and saw two cars, a black Mercedes and a blue BMW blocking the road and their drivers directing the bus away from its normal route, towards Tavistock Square. It was in Tavistock Square where the bus exploded and this is where events took a distinctly sinister turn.
After the explosion, instinct took over and he just ran as fast as possible off the bus and away down the street in the direction the bus had just travelled in order to escape the scene. A few yards down the street, Daniel noticed that a man was actually filming him running away at which point he became confused and stopped.
He looked around him and back in the direction of the bus which he could now see had the entire top-deck blown away by the blast.
At this point his demeanour abruptly changed from fear to curiosity as he became aware that something strange was going on.
“I was looking at the people moving into the actual space on the square. There were guys who were hanging around. There was a row of policemen who were just standing there in yellow fluorescent jackets, they weren’t doing anything, they were just watching. There was this guy filming and I’m saying ‘what is going on here’. It didn’t feel right.”
Contrary to other witness’ statements, Daniel says he did not see any Asian-looking man on the lower deck of the bus, nor did he see an Asian man get on the bus at any time. The Metropolitan Police later changed their initial reports that the bomber was on the lower deck and instead placed him on the upper deck of the bus.