My RT interview today giving eyewitness evidence that Jack Straw is lying about his personal complicity in torture. Straw has been allowed to lie repeatedly about his on UK media for the past 24 hours, as have other British establishment figures. Despite the fact that it is infamous that I was sacked by Straw for blowing the whistle on CIA torture, and the undeniable documentary evidence of this, not one UK media outlet has allowed me to contradict Straw. I have contacted every major British news outlet and been blanked by every one.
‘CIA will continue torture with help of mediators’ – UK’s former envoy to Uzbekistan
doug scorgie : “Since making his maiden speech on 3 December 1997, Levy has not spoken in a debate at the House of Lords.” (Wikipedia). However in the year April 2013 to March 2014 Lord Levy has collected an average of £1,158 per month tax-free just for turning up! I’d love to find out how much he has claimed since his maiden speech 17 years ago!”
If 2013 was an average year, £236,232.
Tax free.
For just turning up.
Mark.
Re the Great Bliar. Yes the Lizard shows the walls of evidence continue to push into his protecetd space and that of his accomplices. All this is inspite of the fairy tales of the mandated corporate MSM narratives.
It was great to see Bliar’s Memoires in the Crime section of a small Irish town back along. The clock ticks.
Where TF are you ICC?
Nevermind
As it happens I have been reading a lot around mythology (including fairytales) this past year so took interest in your comment. So I just read the Grimm’s version but I struggle to see how on earth it relates to me or anything I say.
Of course your words are not intended to be actually considered. You use “transparent Rumpelstilzken” in the same way as you have repeatedly used “Stalinist” against me. It is a meaningless perjorative intended to appeal to those who might blindly align with you. I mean what the fuck do you mean by “sharing pillow time again”?
You seem to be saying that I should direct my ire at the Liberals, Labour and Conservative parties rather than dare to criticise Craig. You say my criticisms of Craig are an “obsession”. Unsurprisingly, the clapping seal you are, you are parroting Craig from a few days ago when he suggested I should better expend my efforts on Murdoch and IDS. He also called me obsessive. In reality my time and effort here is tiny compared to many others and “obsessive” is just more dismissive name calling from those refusing to engage on the issues.
The cries of the unthinking, intolerent left are little different to the right they claim to be oh so superior to: “Stalinist! Extremist! Obsessive! Troll!”
Anyway. Murdoch and IDS? I am involved in a group who pursue IDS and have caused him to change his schedule. I was involved in the struggle against Murdoch when Murray was starting his disgusting climb up the FO career ladder. I need no suggestions from the likes of Murray about what I do against these bastards.
There are enough people here copying and pasting, repeating outrage, jumping up and down at these most obvious of targets. Is there any use me joining this unanimous chorus? No. Such an appeal is merely another effort to divert dissenting opinion.
So, why do I rail against Murray? How about this:
This balony about changing a party from the inside has failed for yonks. At least a century even using the most narrow definition. It does not work. At the very best it offers a short period with slightly less manical bastards at the top. In the long term it only sustains the horrors we endure by diverting opposition into supporting more of the same. This is exactly what is happening right now with the SNP co opting the grass roots yes campaign.
The neo liberals (or whatever you want to call them) only rule because well meaning but confused liberals support the rigged game. These liberals all too easily become the people thay claim to oppose. For chrissakes, Murray has even been one before.
Above instaed of
“The neo liberals (or whatever you want to call them) only rule…”
I should have written:
“The establishment only rule…”
seem not to find favour amongst the bigger picture thinkers, in the Brookings Institute and elsewhere.
Worth noting that Saban’s Center for Middle East Policy, funding the Forum, is part of the Brookings Institute.
http://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/middle-east-policy
Saban founded it and funded it, trading on Brookings’ reputation for impartiality. Cuckoo in the nest.
BTW Nevermind, all you do is throw insults at me so I shall not be responding to your comments. Consider yourself Habbabroken!
Private Prosecution? Anyone with legal insight able to comment on the viability of prosecuting Straw privately.
Crowdfund to finance or even an old fashioned whip round? First £50 from me. Once the prosecution is established it’s existence will self generate publicity, surely? Thus more will get to hear about it and more funds will be generated.
Or a civil action for wrongful dismissal? Get some ambulance chasing law firm to do it on a no win no fee basis.
Be great fun, tormenting the weasly little cu**
Here’s quote from the ibtimes
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Some human rights advocates have called for former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and others in Bush’s administration to be tried for the abuses. Bush, Cheney, Rice and others were referred to the ICC in 2010 by a team of prosecutors that later successfully levied war crimes charges against them in the independent and semi-symbolic Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission.
Francis Boyle, a prosecutor in the Kuala Lumpur case and a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, filed that complaint, but it remains pending. He said it’s a good sign it wasn’t immediately dismissed and that the Senate Intelligence Committee report could be what convinces an ICC prosecutor to open an investigation.
“This is important because now we have an official branch of the U.S. government adopting and making these findings fact,” he said. “In addition to ICC prosecution, this now will help us pursue these individuals around the world [through the UN Convention Against Torture]. All states signed to that convention, of which the U.S. is one of them, is required to have domestic legislature in place to prosecute torture. It does seem that if any of these individuals go outside of the U.S., we can go after them.”
Boyle helped lobby the Swiss government to arrest Bush during a visit in 2011, which he, Human Rights Watch, and other rights groups said prompted Bush to cancel that trip. Bush’s spokesman said the group Bush was scheduled to speak to canceled because of security concerns.
Donald Rumsfeld, former defense secretary under Bush, nearly cancelled a trip to Germany in 2005 after prosecutors there initially threatened him with war crimes case, but later backed down. In addition, the U.S. has pursued over 100 “Bilateral Immunity Agreements” with foreign states that essentially bar that state from referring U.S. officials –current or former- to the ICC.
Boyle believes that bringing a case against Bush and his officials is crucial to rebuilding the ICC as a legitimate international court that doesn’t just go after “tin pot dictators” in Africa. He said he will submit follow-up appeals to the ICC after reading through the entirety of the Senate report.
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Juan Cole fantasizes. Cheney before the Hague….
Cheney’s attorneys object. “Your honors, there is no evidence that Cheney ordered torture.”
One of the judges leans over the bench. “Is it not true that Mr. Cheney told NBC News on September 16, 2001, “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will.”?
Attorney: “That is not proof that he ordered torture.”
Judge: “He used the third person plural, “we,” and he used the imperative, “have to.” The very grammar indicts him. Moreover, he said in 2011 that he continued strongly to urge the use of waterboarding on prisoners. He is committed to the dark side.”
Attorney: “Waterboarding is ambiguous.”
Judge: “The US tried and hanged Japanese war criminals for waterboarding.”
Attorney: “Those individuals actually carried out waterboarding. They did not simply advocate their use.”
Judge: “Julius Streicher was quite rightly hanged after the Nuremberg Trials for having done no more than write newspaper articles urging crimes against humanity.”
Attorney: “Surely you are not calling Dick Cheney a fascist and war criminal?”
Judge: “Let us move on to the next charge. Mr. Cheney launched a war of aggression on Iraq, under false pretense, that was illegal in international law and has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.”
Attorney: “The vice president feared Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.”
Judge: “Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and UN inspectors continually said so. In any case, there are only two grounds for war in the United Nations charter: 1) self-defense and 2) UN Security Council authorization of the use of force against a danger to world order. Iraq did not attack Mr. Cheney’s country, and the UNSC did not authorize the use of force.”
Attorney: “The US Congress authorized the war.”
Judge: “Unfortunately for your client, we consider that to be just another war crime by a different branch of government, not exculpatory.”
Attorney: “Mr. Cheney was not the commander in chief and could not order that war. George W. Bush was on top of the issues and in complete control.
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Judge: “Now you are just saying silly things.”
Attorney: “It was worth a try.”
Judge: “They kept Cheney informed of the torture program but not George W. Bush or Colin Powell. This was Cheney’s baby. Not only did Mr. Cheney launch an illegal war of aggression, he set off a chain of further crimes. The Nuremberg judgement observed, “To initiate a war of aggression . . . is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Mr. Cheney is also responsible for the torture at Abu Ghraib, for massacres of non-combatant populations, and for the displacement of 4 million Iraqis. He made a fifth of the country homeless and created millions of orphans and widows.
Attorney: “There is no evidence that Cheney ordered any of those things.”
Judge: “Did he advocate them?”
Attorney: “Hmm.”
Judge: “Well?”
Attorney: “I’m thinking, I’m thinking.”
Judge: “You are stalling. What about the outing of Valerie Plame, the CIA undercover field officer whose cover Mr. Cheney blew? Did not President George H. W. Bush say, “Even though I am a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are in my view the most insidious of traitors.”? ”
Attorney: “That was Richard Armitage and Bob Novak.”
Judge: “Cheney was the one who ordered Scooter Libby and other staffers to attempt to out Ms. Plame. They assiduously called journalists with this story. It was materials they left lying around that came to Mr. Armitage’s attention. It was only an accident that Novak ran with the story before one of Mr. Libby’s journalistic contacts could be convinced.”
Attorney: “Outing a CIA officer is not a crime in international law, only in US law.”
Judge: “We’ll be sure to forward the dossier to the US authorities.”
Attorney: “The US authorities already dismissed Ms. Plame’s suit on the grounds that Cheney was just doing his job.”
Judge: “That is why we are holding these proceedings at the Hague.”
@ Nathan
I look forward to seeing Prof. Boyle submit the follow-up appeals to the ICC.
I also pray, almost on a daily basis, that the truth about the 9/11 tragedy would finally come out!
I have never called you a troll, Phil, and good on you for opposing Murdoch and the other Wapping pirates of the past.
sharing the pillow means going to bed with once missis, in Japan, nicer than good night.
By all means keep your believe that you can’t change things from inside a party, what do you think Blair did when he took clause 4 out with a broadside?
He changed the party forever, there are more examples. As long as they do not disturb the establishment too much these parties are pretty free to do as they like, as long as they can keep us in check.
put on your habbabreak, by all means.
The US is not participatory to the ICC and rejects its courts. Just saying.
Jack Straw has always reminded me of a rat.
Craig, could you please enable https:// by DEFAULT for this blog? Readers could then read in privacy and safety.
It’s a fantasy. Never gonna happen. Why would we expect any justice from the current system? Niggling around the edges of democracy with reputed ‘reforms’s does nothing except delude the population into muted acceptance.
@Nevermind The USSA does participate in workings of ICC – in setting it on others (via its seat on Security Council). Remember Libya?
USSA slso claims universal juristdiction over world (but not vice versa). So fuck ’em.
“Bennett held talks with delegations from some unspecified countries over the possibility of future free trade agreements. He also closed Israeli trade missions in Finland and Sweden and opened new ones in China, India, and Brazil.”
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So the BRICs are cosying up to Israel, eh?
For God’s sake don’t tell Mr John Goss because he’s a GREAT FAN of the BRICs and would be MOST DISAPPOINTED!
“Sofia – Is it true what Phil said ?
Are you actually a mature man, who likes to post in the guise of a young woman for some reason ?”
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Question seconded!
“Sofia – Is it true what Phil said ?
Are you actually a mature man, who likes to post in the guise of a young woman for some reason ?”
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Question seconded!
And if true, what’s the reason?
“Just get real for a moment and ask yourself how you can make a difference so that real torture is exposed and eradicated and the perpetrators held to account.”
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And what are YOU doing to “make a difference”?
(Pretending to be a young girl doesn’t count).
@nevermind
Watching you … It’s amazing how quickly you got that information about ‘Japan.’
Sofia – Over-reaction much? A simple Yes/No will be fine, please. If you would rather not say, you can simply state that too. Thank you.
Republicofscotland
“one has to expect, disharmony when you’re in the process of of taxing the Crown Estate”
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Except that Nicola isn’t going to tax the Crown Estates.
Obama would exercise all his legal skills and resources to prevent BUSHCO indictments at the Hague or anywhere else, much less extradition. Such precedence would be inherently dangerous for many.
It’s survival instinct.
Washington’s Blog notes how the CIA’s torture techniques resemble those used by the Nazis.
The Nazis called it “Verschärfte Vernehmung,” German for “enhanced interrogation.”
“It’s a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court.
The methods, as you can see above, are indistinguishable from those described as ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ by the president,” The Atlantic wrote in 2007.
Considering the early history of the CIA and its post-war collaboration with Nazi party members, including Gestapo butchers, this similarity should not be surprising.
According to author and researcher Annie Jacobsen, former Nazis were at the forefront of developing torture techniques for the United States government.
“The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King. The facility’s chief medical doctor was Operation Paperclip’s Dr. Walter Schreiber.
The former Surgeon General of the Third Reich… The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/nazi-designed-torture-instrumental-for-maintenance-of-cias-terror-war-charade.html
Phil (responding to Ingo)
“..the clapping seal you are, you are parroting Craig..”
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I liked the image of a clapping seal very much, but do seals – can seals – parrot?
O’Bumma
https is already enabled by default. Check your URL address bar.
Israel and the Palestinians were on the brink again today after a Fatah cabinet minister died shortly after an altercation with the Israeli military during a West Bank protest.
Ziad Abu Ain was hit in the chest with a rifle butt and grabbed by soldiers, who also fired tear gas at the demonstrators, witnesses said.
Shortly after the attack, the 55-year-old minister without portfolio began to look faint and fell to the ground clasping his chest, according to people at the scene. He died on the way to hospital.
His death was condemned by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who described the attack as ‘a barbaric act which we cannot be silent about or accept.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2868301/Palestinian-official-dies-amid-Israeli-troop-clash.html
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I must agree with Mr Mahmoud, this was a cowardly and barbaric act, by the oppressors of Palestinian people.
“So the BRICs are cosying up to Israel, eh?”
Not quite.
Israel is cosying up to the BRICS.
One of the things Indyk, Ross and chums will have been concerned about is Israel’s pivot from western Europe eastwards.
You’ll perhaps have noticed they questionned him about this a number of times.
He didn’t really answer.
They asked how he’d deal with loss of trade to Europe when he implemented his Palestinian land grab.
I think they wanted him to come clean that he was already preparing other markets in that eventuality.
He didn’t say that, but we know he’s doing it.
Like Putie.
The Home Office was embroiled in a fresh row over Press freedom last night after sneaking out proposals that would still allow police to sign off their own snooping into journalists’ phone records.
Ministers had promised safeguards to prevent police misusing anti-terror powers to unmask potentially embarrassing confidential sources who blow the whistle to reporters.
Campaigners, including MPs and barristers, wanted laws forcing the police to apply to judges before using the snooping legislation against journalists, rather than merely an officer of superintendent rank or above.
But proposals unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May made clear forces could continue to authorise their own applications for journalists’ telecoms data under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa).
The new Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Data Code of Practice also stated that the phone records of journalists, lawyers and even MPs are not privileged.
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So the proposed “Snooper Charter” will give the police free reign, to delve into journalistic acquired info, and decide whether, it is appropriate to be published.
The press can and are frequently biased, crude and can easily destroy anyone’s career, but stifling them, would in my opinion do more harm than good.
“…the independent and semi-symbolic Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission”
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Two corrections needed here.
1/. It is independent only in the sense that it was not set up by a govt or international organisation. However, it self-selecting (and self-selected) members are certainly not independent of the scholl of thought that holds the USA and the West responsible for every single one of the world’s evils.
2/. It is not semi-symbolic. it is entirely symbolic (and has about as much credibility as the late Bertrand Russell’s War Crimes Tribunal).
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It was supported by that nice man Dr Mathir, the then PM of Malaysia, who banged up the leader of the opposition in Malaysia on ludicrous – and false – charges of sodomy.
It’s all very sad.