Honoured to give the keynote speech at Amnesty’s conference on torture in London yesterday. Then dashed back to Edinburgh for a very romantic evening with Nadira – and Cameron!
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Thanks everyone, with the exception of the terrible twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum the haters of the Palestinian people, for this morning’s contributions. All good info.
‘Je ne regrette rien’. So says Smoothface our very own Edith Piaf. Absolutely lacking in conscience and compassion for the mayhem that he and Sar-Kozee created on behalf of the USUKIsNATO evil axis.
Destroying Libya to ‘save it’: David Cameron has no regrets http://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/17693-destroying-libya-to-save-it-david-cameron-has-no-regrets
I’m really looking forward to a proper war, with pictures of big explosions on the front page of The Sun.
Resident Dissident seems to have gone. He must have had a pang of conscience and gone to join the RAF. Good show!
Wow, Phil, you really are on form today!
And you’ve hit a nerve…
I guess we can’t all be Che Guevaras and we have to fight evil in our own way, but we mustn’t get suckered in. I think that was what Jesus was trying to explain in “The Sermon on the Mount”. Some would say just sitting there and looking after your own karma are being very selfish, but at least one isn’t adding to the pool of evil.
Is killing evil people the answer anyway? Doesn’t that make you evil as well? Doesn’t it only encourage others to become evil to fight against you?
“Resident Dissident, what do you think should happen in East Ukraine? Should NATO countries send in a load of weapons?”
No I think there should be really tough economic sanctions – all the Bank accounts and investments of Russians in the West should be frozen pending investigations as whether they are the proceeds of crime (especially wrt Russian law), which is of course what should have happened in existing money laundering regulations any way – together with implementing a universal Magnitsky Law (we are still awaiting Mr Goss’s view on the subject of Sergei Magnitsky’s treatment by his gentleman friend). And no I don’t believe Putin would invade the West – the oligarchs wouldn’t want an attack on their children and whores.
Clark
You are even more ludicrous when attempting to be funny (cf above, 14h14) than when baring your agonized soul in search of sympathy on this blog.
You’re a nutter!
This is the new US defence secretary who replaces Hagel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter
A physicist. Previous dealings with Russia.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter#Early_Department_of_Defense_career
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Kerry meanwhile –
US and its allies considering additional sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, US Secretary of State John Kerry says
Clark
And how would you suggest dealing with Putin – appeasement? Germany is the country with the greatest economic leverage over Putin – and now he has taken Merkel for a mug over the ceasefire, I suspect that she and other German’s might be prepared to bear the economic pain that real sanctions would entail.
Never mind about the “nuclear terrorism” on London, because sad though it might be for one family, it is not as tragic as the nuclear terrorism on New York. Was it Cameron’s missing nuclear weapons that were used to demolish the twin towers? Anybody investigating this possibility?
Peacewisher
“I guess we can’t all be Che Guevaras”
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Come come, don’t be so modest, Peacewisher!
You and your fellow team members are the Che Guevaras of the internet, engaged in a life and death revolutionary struggle with the forces of capitalism, reaction and Nazism.
Your struggle will – as his was – be crowned with success.
As he might have said: Venceremos!
Resident Dissident
Certainly freeze Eussia out of the SWFT system. That’ll give Vlad and his friends something to think about and all woithout firing a
Resident Dissident, you could be right. If our lot hit the rich Russian bastards, will that help the Ukrainian forces win? Will they be able to stop those bastards speaking in Russian?
We perhaps should remember that they way they got that other mafia boss was over tax evasion – I’m sure that there must be someone somewhere in the West who has a little knowledge about the current capo di capo’s and his close friends’ financial affairs which should be made available to the Russian population as a whole.
Resident Dissident
Certainly freeze Russia out of the SWIFT system. That’ll give Vlad and his friends something to think about and all without firing a shot!
Time to get tough with the Rooskies and teach them that it’s no longer a good idea to try to distract from domestic problems by practising adventurism abroad.
Habbabkuk, you really need to turn off “tap to click” on your touchpad, or hotkeys or something; you post more than half of your comments before you’ve finished! Don’t want to keep going off half-cocked, as it were, eh?
“Was it Cameron’s missing nuclear weapons that were used to demolish the twin towers? Anybody investigating this possibility?”
No because it is patently nonsensical.
Mr Goss
“Never mind about the “nuclear terrorism” on London, because sad though it might be for one family, it is not as tragic as the nuclear terrorism on New York. Was it Cameron’s missing nuclear weapons that were used to demolish the twin towers? Anybody investigating this possibility?”
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Yes, I believe the police constable of Toytown has joined forces with the Tin Man to look into the possibility you mention.
“Never mind about the “nuclear terrorism” on London”
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No, of course not, never mind. For that matter I wouldn’t mind if someone stuck a grain or two of polonium up your arse because that too would be as nothing compared to “the nuclear terrorism on New York”.
Chump!
John Goss, I hadn’t thought of that. People said the passenger jets could have been holograms. Well they were on the right lines, but actually they replaced the rest of lower Manhattan with a hologram after they nuked the WTC complex; there’s been nothing real there for nearly a decade and a half!
Resident Dissident, will the locals in East Ukraine cheer the tanks from Kiev when they come rolling in? I love it when they do that; can’t wait to see it on telly!
Habbabkuk, why should you be having all the fun? Surely there’s someone I could poison slowly too? It must be my go by now!
Clark
I suspect mots people in Eastern Ukraine would like to see all the heavy weaponry – Ukrainian and Russian – removed, juts at was meant to happen in the ceasefire agreement which Putin has just ignored. The rebels are now attacking Mariupol with Russian jet fighters (or are they just privately owned volunteer jet fighters) doing reconnaissance flights
In a shock revelation King Prancer of Terry And June Land has denied that nuclear terror is the same as cricket.
“It’s not cricket” he said. “It’s nuclear terror. On the streets of Terrysville. June is fuming.”
“Tee hee” giggled June.
King Prancer is livid that Chief Inspector Knob has been listening to his phone calls to the Latvian brothel on Tinker Avenue.
“You should only listen in on people who hide their faces” said the King Prancer passive aggressively, forgetting his own name is never known. “Chump!”
“He said chump” cooed June.
But Resident Dissident, don’t we want our side to win in East Ukraine? I mean, we are the Good Guys, aren’t we? That’s why we wanted to send in the weapons wasn’t it? To stop those bastards speaking Russian. And all that money will have been wasted if we don’t, so what about return on investment?
And what about Pussy Riot? If our sponsored forces don’t start pushing in through Ukraine right now, we’ll never be able to keep them out of the Russian Dungeons, and then people with unusual gender preferences won’t be able to have sex in the biggest cathedral in Moscow, and that would be an absolute disaster.
Who Are The Mots?
More questions than answers. Again.
Keynesian extremist Rank Diss has revealed that Ukraine is now over run by Mots people. What’s more, Rank Dis knows what these Mots people want.
We can not trust them. They have knicked Russian planes and removed juts.
“No because it is patently nonsensical.”
Whose nuclear weapons do you think brought them down then?
That was MY nuke and they STILL haven’t paid me!
“It must be love. It’s definitely not dementia.”
Actually, it was the small glass of dry sherry I had before dinner. Tips me right over, you know.