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  • fred

    “Been smoking to much Fred.h”

    Look fucking retard I know what a harvester looks like and I know hat a fucking tank looks like and those satellite photos are tanks not harvesters.

    Now fuck off and die cunt.

  • Dave

    As I pointed out China has bought up most of Ukraine at a knock-down price and
    China is Bessie mates with Russia so I expect the Ukrainians will be working for
    the Chinese or emigrating to Gods own country the USA.

  • Resident Dissident

    “Not if the cost of allowing our own masters to pretend to try to liberate Russians is only to allow those masters to tighten our own shackles.”

    Good to have the pecking order confirmed when it comes to liberation struggles. Apologies to ordinary Russians you just have to wait your turn and keep quiet.

  • Resident Dissident

    Macky

    I think it is fair to treat your arguments with hatred, contempt and ridicule – but I like Hitchens would stop short of treating you like the Stalinists treated their opponents. Perhaps those who use the dreadful Voltairenet website might occasionally pay some reference to Voltaire’s most famous saying.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    “Who knew?” dept: Brain Wilson, revolutionary red firebrand, scourge of the Nats, energy shapeshifter, tweed boss and all round nasty piece of work, is now a global capitalist. Official. Appointed by the Scottish Secretary, no less.

    http://www.nineoclock.ro/great-mega-mission-2015-more-than-50-british-companies-visited-bucharest-romania-great-britain-compatible-in-development-of-some-important-economic-projects/#

    Wasn’t Tony Blair in Romania recently? I hear no-one ask. Yes. Frantic activity to prop up Balkan economies and prevent spread of Russian influence, I suspect.

  • YouKnowMyName

    Leaving Airstrip One for a moment, today’s news is that in New Zealand the new head of GCHQ will not confirm what the spooky phrase “full-take” means, when she was questioned by MPs.

    Ms Jagose will not say publicly what full-take means, “because that is not safe to do so”.

    Back to Airstrip One, is there a difference between these news stories? Is it safe to ask these questions?

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/11/cia-reportedly-helped-justice-department-develop-technology-to-spy-on-cell/
    http://www.jetthrustimages.com/blog/2014/12/nsw-police-air-wing-assets-active-during-sydney-cafe-siege
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html

    Airstrip One, listening to you all since 2008

  • Mark Golding

    Breedlove’s PR man Tusk has few rewards; acknowledging one has to learn to stop worrying and love the bomb while recommending during the final hour one could gather several thousand people, with a high female-to-male ratio (10:1), to live in deep mineshafts where the radiation will not penetrate and then institute a breeding program to repopulate the Earth when the radiation has subsided.

    Being farcical of course evaporates into insignificance when one considers the double-dealing ‘Eurochair’ Mr Tusk, whose resentment of Angela Merkel’s dominating roles in eurozone negotiations is well known.

    Tusk recently called the Minsk process “meaningless” at a meeting on Monday with Obama in which he yammered that Russia was trying to divide EU member countries, and also divide the EU from the USA.

    Prick!

    http://www.euractiv.com/sections/global-europe/tusk-obama-russia-trying-divide-us-312758

  • Mary

    Here is Robert Parry again. RobG linked to videos earlier.

    US Foreign Policy: Playing Chicken with Nuclear War

    No one on the American side seems to worry about the possibility that the tough-guy rhetoric and proxy war in Ukraine might risk a nuclear conflagration

    http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/10/4302

    …A swaggering goofiness has come to dominate how the United States reacts to Russia, with American politicians and journalists dashing off tweets and op-eds, rushing to judgment about the perfidy of Moscow’s leaders, blaming them for almost anything and everything.

    These days, playing with nuclear fire is seen as a sign of seriousness and courage….

    Fretting about nuclear annihilation is so 1960s.

    /..
    http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/10/4302

  • Mary

    The Guardian are upping the war fever by publicizing this Tory donor’s call to arm Ukraine.

    ‘Alexander Temerko is a Ukrainian-born British businessman and a major donor to the Conservative party. Previously vice-president of Russian oil giant Yukos, he is now deputy chairman of Newcastle firm OGN Group, which manufactures platforms for oil rigs in the North Sea.’

    Britain should arm Ukraine, says Tory donor
    Former Ukrainian businessman argues that Cameron and Obama should send weapons and ammunition to support the government in Kiev
    Europe has failed to slay the demons of war – Richard Sakwa
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/britain-should-arm-ukraine

  • Evgueni

    Novaya Gazeta continue their investigation of Russia’s state-sponsored organised mass trolling. Kremlin-bots get fined 500 rubles for turning up late for their shift. Article is in Russian only but a detailed list of bot handles is included (though only relevant to Russian-language blogs).

    http://www.novayagazeta.ru/inquests/67574.html

  • lysias

    Of course the usual suspects would condemn a Christian church. Of course they deny that the Cold War had anything to do with religion. Of course they see nothing wrong with the way that the West has been secularizing itself, and see no connection between that phenomenon and the increasing failure of its political institutions. What does one expect? Interesting, however, that they won’t come out and say that, if they have got it right, Solzhenitsyn got it badly wrong.

  • Jumpin' Jack Flash, He's a Gas

    It seems that the God Squad is getting seriously hot under the collar.

    Jumpin’ Jack Flash says: start the day with a prayer and go to church on Sunday and watch your political institutions improve.

  • RobG

    I know I bang on about the BBC tv news too often, but the Six O’clock this evening really was total tosh; mostly celebrity gossip. I didn’t watch the bulletin until the end, but they don’t seem to have mentioned the PMQs today; which were also the usual excruciating tosh.

    But it still leaves the question: why is Dave, perhaps bizaarely, as many commentators are saying, still refusing to go head to head with Millipede?

    It should be noted that Cameron has not refused a tv debate, with all the main party leaders taking part, just a direct debate with Milliband.

    Last week ‘call me Dave’ came out with this:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2977488/UKs-Cameron-says-child-sex-abuse-classified-national-threat.html

    And to be fair to the MSM, many of them did note that Cameron came out with his ‘child sex abuse campaign’ piece just a day after this story broke:

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/councillor-linked-david-camerons-election-5260110

    The Mirror got their story from this blog…

    http://politicalscrapbook.net/2015/03/witney-councillor-louise-chapman-in-frame-over-child-abuse-failings-daughter-of-cameron-election-agent/

    … which as far as I’m aware is accurate, although it loses some of its bite because it seems to be a bit slanted (some of the reader comments are interesting).

    And getting onto a Scottish perspective, in the PMQs today did anyone else notice that Cameron referred to Alex Salmond as the leader of the SNP? Whereas, in fact, Nicola Sturgeon now has that role.

    Although political life in the UK is now on a par with sewar rats, I think the election in May is going to be rather interesting.

  • Iain Orr

    Mary – Thanks for your comment at 10.30 am on US politicians “playing with nuclear fire”. The BFI Southbank had a screening on 9 March of three Peter Watkins documentaries, including “The War Game” and the impact was almost as great as when I first saw it in Glasgow in 1965. That was after the BBC, which commissioned Watkins to make it, had banned it: pusillanimity is not an entirely new character characteristic of Auntie. The impact is best in a cinema, so it merits further showings to put the folly and immorality of Trident in context. But it can also be seen here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kwz5u_the-war-game-peter-watkins-1965_tv

  • Republicofscotland

    BBC TV presenter Dan Snow, who currently heads, the anti-independence Scotland movement,gathered 200 celebrity signatures, urging Scots to stay in the union.

    Snow is married to the daughter of the, 6th Duke of Westminster, a man £13 billion quid richer that the Queen. Snow’s father-in-law, also happens to own 96 thousand acres of land in Scotland.

  • Mark Golding

    While Nuland lies through her teeth on Russian military aid, Joe Biden cleverly tries to appease the hawks and nudge belligerence from Russia by supplying clapped out recon’d Humvees (ex Iraq war) and the Raven UAV, an unmanned, hand launched electric driven reconnaissance drone described as invisible in flight (it plunges to the ground on take-off).

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-to-send-more-aid-small-drones-to-ukraine/2015/03/11/c28be642-c7f8-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html

    Maybe I can supply my CarbonCore Cortex to the separatists?

    http://www.military.com/video/aircraft/pilotless-aircraft/why-soldiers-hate-the-raven-uav/1661802396001/

  • Republicofscotland

    “The Tories, have modernised, and are no longer, the party of privilege.”

    David Cameron made the above statement at, the, £400 a head Winter Tory ball. Shortly before, he auctioned off a portrait of himself, for £100.000.

  • lysias

    The Daily Mail article makes no mention of Cameron saying anything about the big shots that have been accused of child abuse and — far worse — related murder. I assume that means he did not mention them. If so, shocking.

  • Republicofscotland

    If you commit a crime, no court in the UK can make you go hungry,as a punishment.

    But if you’re late or miss an appointment, at the JobCentre, they can remove all your income, minimum 4 weeks, maximum 3 years, and leave you unable to feed your family.

    A cruel and inhumane policy from Westminster, that has no place in a modern society.

    Is it any wonder,that most Scots, don’t, recognise Westminster as their government, and never will.

  • Republicofscotland

    ATV made a documentary,revealing Westminster paedophiles. At Carlton TV, I was the executive, who bought ATV,and buried that documentary.

    David Cameron.

  • lysias

    At the time of Irish independence, Lord Lansdowne (5th Marquess of Landsdowne and 6th Earl of Kerry) was the largest landowner in Ireland.

  • Mark Golding

    A Home Office Guide

    Domestic Nuclear Shelters

    This booklet is a brief guide to three basic kinds of nuclear shelter:

    http://www.atomica.co.uk/shelters/main.htm

    Prepared for the Home Office by the Central Office of Information 1981.
    Printed in England for Her Majestys’ Stationary Office by
    Sackville Press (Billericay) Ltd.
    ISBN 0 11 340737 8 K400 Dd716560

    HMSO 50 pence (net)

    First Published 1981

  • Republicofscotland

    “At the time of Irish independence, Lord Lansdowne (5th Marquess of Landsdowne and 6th Earl of Kerry) was the largest landowner in Ireland.2
    _________________________________

    At least Lysias, the Irish had the good sense to cut loose, that ball and chain, known as Westminster, even though blood was spilt in the process.

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