Rusbridger The Worst Editor in the World Part 97 200

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One war criminal writing about another. Nice chums you have, Rusbridger*.

For once there was something worth reading in the Guardian, an article by my friend Coleen Rowley. But the Guardian cut out the most important paragraph in the article. As Coleen put it in an email:

Unfortunately, the paper edited out the politically incorrect paragraph pointing out that the British Parliament committee inquiry totally ignored why Islamic terrorist recruitment is rising exponentially. So an even more important opinion piece needs to be written as to the factor swelling the numbers joining and affiliating with “terrorist” groups. Although the two issues are related as people’s naïve belief in the national security complex’s magical data-mining serves as cover to keep the more important debate from happening. Similar to Helen Thomas’ politically incorrect question: “why do they hate us?” or put more gently: “why can’t our bombs and exceptionalism win hearts and minds?” No longer will anyone in mainstream even ask if the US-NATO-Israel’s reliance on perpetual war, drone assassination and regime changes is working to reduce terrorism. I fear the Guardian would be unlikely to publish such an op-ed but it needs to be attempted nonetheless.

*By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, smasher of hard drives

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200 thoughts on “Rusbridger The Worst Editor in the World Part 97”

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  • Ishmael

    “His job is to mix the nightmare terror into your waking routine so the banks and government can carry on raiding the tills again and again and again while you’re watching terror porn.”

    lol, I’m sure he does not see it, but it does seem that’s what’s really happening.

  • Andrew

    In his official report to MI5 at the end of WWII (published in 1972 as “The Double-Cross System”), Sir John Masterman said Churchill approved a plan to send false information to the Germans via their network of secret agents in Britain, all of whom had been arrested. Posing as these agents, British officials reported misleading coordinates back to Germany which led the Luftwaffe to aim their bombs a few miles south of the real targets.

    Churchill’s plan worked and much of central London was spared during the blitz, while working-class areas of south London (where my mother then lived) were bombed.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Leon Friederichs

    “I suppose he is referring to Arthur Harris’ “Moral Bombing” programme whose effects can still be seen today, very clearly, in almost every German city.”
    _______________

    Thank you for stepping in and attempting to rescue Herbie. I would have preferred Herbie to answer since it was he who started this mini-discussion and it was therefore up to him to justify his assertions.

    But no matter.

    On the substance, I don’t think he was referring to Air Marshall Harris type bombing, which I believe only started around 1943. I say this because Herbie said “Churchill bombed civilian targets in Germany first”; I take that (“first”) to mean that Churchill bombed German targets before the Germans retaliated with the Blitz. So the question is : did Churchill order the bombing or German cities before the Blitz – and my answer to that is contained in my post at 17h00.

    Do we agree?

  • guano

    file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user1/My%20Documents/Downloads/Ali%20Merdan-%20Giyane%20Beseti.mp3

  • Ishmael

    The abused often don’t see they are. I’v not watched any substantive tv since the invasion. Don’t own one and never will again.

    How people can just sit back and go on I don’t know. Cognitive dissonance?

  • Ishmael

    “Churchill’s plan worked and much of central London was spared during the blitz, while working-class areas of south London (where my mother then lived) were bombed.”

    If only our banks never funded them maybe they’d have had less bombs. Churchills plans seem rather narrow of vision in this regard also.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Ishmael

    “If only our banks never funded them maybe they’d have had less bombs.”

    _________________________________

    I take it that your “our banks” refers to Brutish, French, Belgian , etc banks and your “they” refer to the Germans (Nazis)?

    If so, could you give some detail about the alleged funding, whether in terms of private bank loans, loans from the Bank of England, the Banque de France and the Banque Nationale de Belgique and debt moratoriums after 1933 (the year the Nazis assumed power)?

    Thank you.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Herbie

    You’ve reproached me for not wishing a discussion of the issues, so I’ll ask you, for the third time, to answer the following two questions:

    “So is it your opinion that Britain should have accepted his “numerous peace offers”?

    What would have been the advantages and disadvantages to Britain and continental European countries of accepting them, in your opinion?”

    Once you’ve given reasoned answers, we can have the discussion you’ve called for.

  • Clark

    Guano, it’s pointless to link to a file on your own computer unless it has a security hole larger than Al Qaida’s reputation. The easiest way to make that publicly available is to disguise its filename as child pornography and infiltrate it into the secret web server running as a virus on a convenient PC.

  • lysias

    From the Wikipedia article Air Warfare of World War II:

    At first the Germans focused on RAF airfields and radar stations. However when the RAF bomber forces (quite separate from the fighter forces) attacked Berlin, Hitler swore revenge and diverted the Luftwaffe to attacks on London. Using limited resources to attack civilians instead of airfields and radar proved a major mistake as the civilians being hit were far less critical than the airfields and radar stations that were now ignored. London was not a factory city and British aircraft production was not impeded; indeed it went up. The last German daylight raid came on September 30; the Luftwaffe realized it was taking unacceptable losses and broke off the attack; occasional blitz raids hit London and other cities from time. In all some 43,000 civilians were killed. The Luftwaffe lost 1,887 planes, the British, 1,547. The British victory resulted from more concentration, better radar, and better ground control.

    (Emphasis added.)

  • Ishmael

    “occasional blitz raids hit London and other cities from time. In all some 43,000 civilians were killed …..The British victory”

    43,000 civilians were killed, The British victory.

    Sorry I just can’t see it.

  • guano

    Clarke

    Yes, but check out the track anyway if you want some temporary antidote to Col. Blinkerbunk reliving WWII on your screen.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    “At first the Germans focused on RAF airfields and radar stations. However when the RAF bomber forces (quite separate from the fighter forces) attacked Berlin, Hitler swore revenge and diverted the Luftwaffe to attacks on London.”
    _______________

    Thank you, Lysias, the above bears out what I said in my own post (first para)at 17h00.

    BTW, at which college did you read Literae Humaniores (aka “Greats”)?

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    I find Cressida Dick’s efforts to increase female representation in specialist fields like such as firearms and public order very far from praiseworthy.

    What’s she supposed to be doing at the FCO – instructing ambassadors in firearms use and repelling demonstrators?

  • Ben the Inquisitor

    Heh. I thought Cressida Dick was your ad hom, Mary.

    What an unfortunate name, but it does fit.

  • John Goss

    “These people are psychotic. And we are not safe from them. The Government.”

    Thanks Ishmael. Most people are awake on this blog. Good to know.

    Not been able to answer much tonight, writing another bird fantasy, for those who acquainted themselves with my photoshoot encounter with Helen in the flesh. Catch up soon.

  • Ben the Inquisitor

    Just watched ‘Lone Survivor’ again, the true story of 5 Navy Seals who on a mission in the mountains of Afghanistan released three goat-herders who could jeopardize their mission. Four lost their lives as a result. The only survivor was taken by Afghani villagers who subscribed to Pashtunwali. a 2000 year-old tradition of honor which requires a guest being protected at all costs from any enemy.

    The Taliban killed many villagers protecting the Seal until rescue for the survivor was accomplished. I am not a militarist or a pacifist, but this human story touched me. Honor is a much under-valued concept these days.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtunwali

  • Peacewisher

    @Fred: Churchill may not have appreciated it, but quite some time later… either Thatcher or Blair (memory not good should google) brought about a massive plinth and statue of Bomber Harris somewhere near Parliament Square. That must have infuriated the Germans.

  • Dreoilin

    Apparently Iran is bombing ISIS targets in Iraq.

    “Iran is using American-made F-4 Phantom jets purchased during the time of the Shah to bomb positions held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in eastern Iraq, CBS News correspondent David Martin reports.

    “The United States is aware of the strikes in Diyala province, which are flown in support of Iraqi ground troops, but there’s no coordination going on and none is needed, Martin reports.

    “The air space is controlled by Iraq, so Iraqi authorities are in charge of traffic control. Diyala is northeast of Baghdad in a part of the country where the U.S. is not operating.”

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-using-u-s-made-jets-to-bomb-isis-targets-in-iraq/

  • fred

    Yes, our old friends the Iranians and that nice Mr Assad are both helping us and our allies the Iraqis fight ISIS.

    So?

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