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
McDonnell Douglas
I doubt if Iran is bombing ISIS on behalf of anyone only themselves.
Good piece by Thierry Meysan on the incoherence of Obama’s Middle East policies. Does Obama still have a military policy?
So the US sold them to UK. As a kid I sat in the cockpit of a Phantom. Never seen so many dials! From the era when we were supposed to be developing The Blue Streak. Well I suppose it was also the era of the brain drain so they could still have been British designed but built in The States.
Bombing for pride… don’t think so. Are the plates moving again?
The F-4 Phantom was the principal fighter flown by the U.S. Air Force and Navy in the Vietnam War.
dearest Leo Friedrichsn
Thanks for your first outing here. I’m from Hamburg and my granddad was in charge of an 8.8.within the harbour
he said that they had tears in their eyes when the British came over, all in one neat bunch of bombers to shoot at. He said that it was like shooting rabbits.
bomber Harris lost 57.000 good men with his mad policy, but we have been over this issue more than once here.
Alles gute…
@Lysias: Yes. I must have been confusing it with the Vulcan.
And now for something completely different… The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/02/george-osborne-on-offensive-over-tax-abuse-but-admits-deficit-target-missed
Annual Deficit still at £90 billion. Pretty serious!
“@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.”
No, not really, we knew he was mad when it happened. But I made sure that I understood and on passing I felt like relieving myself, it was 8pm and dark, so there you are granddad….
I also felt the same desire on passing Nostradamus house in 1981 after a good night drinking wine with an Irish builder who lived a few houses away, but for totally unrelated reasons, he talked a lot of bollox.
Fred
2 Dec, 2014 – 9:17 pm
“No campaign medal was struck for Bomber Command after the war, no credit given.”
“Even Churchill thought Harris went far too far.”
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Bomber Harris was elevated to the Lords. He was awarded a GCB, OBE & AFC. And I believe there is even a statue of him somewhere.
Fred, I can find no reference to Churchill saying he [Harris] “went too far.”
Can you provide that reference please?
“Rusbridger The Worst Editor in the World Part 97”
Great title btw. ++ Made me smile.
Gen Curtis LeMay leads the pack on incendiary bombing to maximize fatalities and property destruction for punishment, for both Germany and Japan. Sub-human would be a compliment.
I also believe he was part and parcel to JFK’s assassination
“Thanks Ishmael. Most people are awake on this blog. Good to know.”
Thanks john, unless somthing really takes you (and if so parhaps not) then don’t worry for reply, it’s mostly retoric.
@ Habbabkuk: We do agree. I actually misunderstood you quite grossly, frankly, for various reasons this is not my day. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKR5glfzDO8
Queen unveils memorial to Bomber Command
Veterans remember those who died in the bombing raids, both their fellow airmen and the civilians in the cities below
James Meikle
The Guardian, Thursday 28 June 2012
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/28/queen-memorial-bomber-command
‘At last they have a permanent memorial, though the £6m needed for it came from public donations and private sponsors Lord Ashcroft, John Caudwell and Richard Desmond rather than the state. ‘ Enough said.
And from memory one of the freaky BeeGeea, Robin Gibb Deceased. There’s another one for Habbabkuk to use.
Yea!
Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb’s War Memorial Campaign
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18149345
Great piece Here by George Monbiot Well said dude –
” Bring out the violins. The land reform programme announced by the Scottish government is the end of civilised life on earth, if you believe the corporate press. In a country where 432 people own half the private rural land(1), all change is Stalinism. The Telegraph has published a string of dire warnings, insisting, for example, that deer stalking and grouse shooting could come to an end if business rates are introduced for sporting estates(2). Moved to tears yet?….
” The Scottish programme for government(15) is the first serious attempt to address the nature of landholding in Britain since David Lloyd George’s budget of 1909. Some of its aims hardly sound radical until you understand the context. For example it will seek to discover who owns the land. Big deal. Yes, in fact, it is. At the moment the owners of only 26% of the land in Scotland have been identified(16)…
Scotland is rudely interrupting the constructed silences that stifle political thought in the United Kingdom. This is why the oligarchs who own the media hate everything that is happening there: their interests are being exposed in a way that is currently impossible south of the border.
For centuries, Britain has been a welfare state for patrimonial capital. It’s time we broke it open, and broke the culture of deference that keeps us in our place. Let’s bring the Highland Spring south, and start discussing some dangerous subjects.
http://www.monbiot.com/2014/12/02/breaking-the-silence/
” I fear the Guardian would be unlikely to publish such an op-ed but it needs to be attempted nonetheless. ”
An op-ed for nobody in-particular. I think not. They have been at it for so long now, seems it’s become it’s own distraction from the reality of events. It’s stopping that’s more dangerous for some. After all, they are not getting hurt. And maybe quite a part of it.
The class system, don’t you just love it?
I don’t know if some are not deliberately trying to escalate things tbh. And if that relationship is not quite critical to the considered normalisation of relationships within the uk ‘system’.
There will probably be some law against it.
Written by the Queen (:
What is the uk? It’s clear there are diverging visions of what it is, some less clear than others. Maybe the only issue is most don’t really see that one set of people, clearly, do have one. It ain’t democracy.
And the government work for them.
Habby
I’m simply asking why Britain chose to decline Germany’s many offers of peace?
Why did they choose war with Germany over peace?
What national interest was served in the many privations of war, the indebtedness and relative decline in influence?
It’s an important question because we’re facing similar problems again, not altogether unrelated to these previous adventures of course.
Herbie
There are lots of clues to the answer to your question in here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnu5uW9No8g
It is a flawed film. But it clearly demonstrates the German WW2 genocide. Which seems to have been a long time in the planning.
These “Internationalists” often have no allegiance to any particular country
Christopher Chope Con and Phillip Davies Con Filibusters Extraordinaire.
Hold your MPs to account for filibusting a bill which would affect their private interests.
To: David Cameron, Grant Shapps, Lord Feldman of Elstree
Provide an explanation, other than the fact that they were serving their own interests as private landlords, as to why Christopher Chope and Philip Davies felt it necessary to filibuster (talk to death) the bill that would have prevented revenge evictions by private landlords.
Take steps to discourage this practice in the future that could be shared across all parties.
Why is this important?
According to the housing and homelessness charity Shelter, 2% of all renters in the private sector have been evicted after they complained to their landlord or letting agent about a problem.
Revenge evictions has particularly been a problem in London, where 14% of all families renting privately have been a victim to the practice in the last year.
Time to debate issues in Parliament is a precious commodity. It appears that these MPs put their private interests above those of their constituents, democracy and the British tradition of fair play. Rather than allow a debate, they deliberately monopolised the allotted time, using rule-play to subvert democratic decision making.
This seems to be further evidence how many modern politicians serve themselves over the common good of the electorate, thus bringing politics into disrepute again.
In order to restore some confidence, those political parties who value the opinion of the electorate should condemn the practice and take measures to reassure voters that a conflict of interest will not occur.
New reports:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/sirajdatoo/these-two-tory-mp-landlords-just-blocked-a-bill-banning-reve
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tory-mps-who-blocked-bill-banning-revenge-evictions-are-private-landlords-1477218
How it will be delivered
I intend to serve the petition on the 15th of December of this year. Although on this occasion the filibustering was perpetrated by Conservatives, it is unfortunately not the sole practice of the Tories.
As such, I also intend to present a copy of the petition to all of the major political parties as an indicator of public opinion and call upon them to also condemn the practice.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/hold-your-mp-s-to-account-for-filibusting-a-bill-which-would-affect-their-private-interests
How the 1% entertain themselves.
‘The crowd, packed tight, celebrated the beginning of the week with some of the rarest tequilas in existence, including a £1,500 bottle of Gran Patrón Burdeos served in a crystal decanter.
There is a minimum spend of £1,500 for a table, and revellers can purchase a Methuselah of champagne — the size of eight standard bottles — for £29,900. Partygoers can order a “Mayan pyramid” filled with a cocktail, or tequila shots delivered by electric train along a track suspended from the ceiling.
Tonteria has a secret entrance through which Princes Harry and William and their friends can be ushered into the VIP room. William reportedly hosted Mr Pelly’s stag party there in May before he married American heiress Lizzy Wilson. Fans of the club include Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Scherzinger, Jessie J, Ed Sheeran and Will.I.Am.
A Royal Parks spokesman confirmed no permission had been sought for filming, adding: “A break of Royal Parks regulations is a criminal offence”.’
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/seminaked-dance-video-shot-near-buckingham-palace-a-mistake-says-prince-harrys-pal-9899471.html
Herbie
You are asking the right question to the right person in the context of 20 years of multi-layered UK war.
The doers of ‘greats ‘, £1500.00 bottles of plonk and revenge eviciton know all the answers but are never going to give you a direct reply.
A. War makes people more competitive and more aggressive which is good for the national economy.
“BrianFujisan
The Telegraph has published a string of dire warnings, insisting, for example, that deer stalking and grouse shooting could come to an end if business rates are introduced for sporting estates(2). Moved to tears yet?….”
We are in phase 3 of Neo-conservatism with posh Cameron. The new elite want prestige to add to their new wealth, titles, priviledges and exclusivity. They ought to be banned from being chauffeured in their Rollses to Scotland shoots in these times of austerity. Lock them into a virtual reality room in their mansions and hit them with 50% mansion tax.
Like the new name for Guano, thanks for flagging up this claptrap.
“A. War makes people more competitive and more aggressive which is good for the national economy.”
At a time of diminishing CO2, displacing the oxygen gained in millions of years, war is the most unsustainable activity one could embark on, however much we like new gimmicks and things that go boom. Secondly, there is nothing clever or inventive about knocking things down with huge amounts of energy expended, only to then build it up again with the same or more energy to do it. Not clever and not sustainable, that ugly word again.
But hey your welcome to join up, swear some petty oath to the City of London corporation and its crowned hangers on, and then be blown to smithereens.
rule No1
Do not argue for war when you are not prepared to go and fight it.
George Osbornes has the same problem, he’s trying to bamboozle us making out that we can pay back 1.5 trillion, no problems at all.
A system that has not got a sustainable financial systems based on actual assets at its core, can not have a sustainable society, ever.
Mary, the 1% is so strongly Zionist it does not bear thinking about. Talking about it will ruin your career. Hollywood is totally controlled by Israelis. The. media too. And governmentAnybody questioning this is labelled anti-Semitic (career ended) unless he or she is Jewish. We have reached a very sad state of affairs when the country responsible for the worst war-crimes in living memory owns everything in the west, lock, stock and barrel.
http://newobserveronline.com/jews-boast-of-owning-hollywood-but-slam-gentiles-who-say-the-same/
Nevermind
Yes, I thought someone might think I was expressing my own opinion.
Too early for satire? Giyane means ‘ darling ‘.