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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I can report that Waitrose’s “Taste of Israel” magazine is a sensation. Who knew this thin slither of a country could produce so many culinary delights? The Sticky date and toffee pudding, for instance, giving a fresh Mid-Eastern turn to the old favourite – I purchased three straight away (hat-tip Mary). And there’s a handy guide covering what to expect in the restaurants of Tel Aviv: an explosion…. of taste, that is! Yes, there’s more Israel than the headlines. Boycott the British weather and book your Spring break right away.
Further to RD, above, as the glorious shock-troops of the Independent Republic of Azovia have now removed their heavy weapons from Mariupol, counter to the evil Kievians’s claim that 78 more tanks came the other way across the border yesterday (believe what you will), Yanukovich announces his intention to return:
http://wirtschaftsblatt.at/home/nachrichten/europa_cee/4668642/Ukraine-befurchtet-SeparatistenAngriff-auf-Mariupol
Talk about petrol on the flames.
Google Translate manages the terminal verbs better than I can.
The Guardian is facing questions over its relationship with advertisers after allegations that it changed a news article amid concerns about offending Apple.
The media organisation has criticised The Telegraph for failing to observe the Chinese wall between advertising and editorial coverage, a claim The Telegraph strongly denies.
However, The Telegraph can disclose that in July last year Apple bought wraparound advertising on The Guardian’s website and stipulated that the advertising should not be placed next to negative news.
A Guardian insider said that the headline of an article about Iraq on The Guardian’s website was changed amid concerns about offending Apple, and the article was later removed from the home page entirely.
It would appear not content, with printing dubious stories of terrorism, the UK’s national press are now falling over themselves, to placate advertisers, instead of producing journalism with integrity.
First the Telegraph, now the Guardian, somethings rotten, in the UK press.
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Actually, what I described as “the guy with the chubby face wearing the black jacket with red lining” may well be a woman. Not even bum fluff visible on that smooth, baby’s bottom face.
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Harold’s on the Telegraph case –
http://eveningharold.com/2015/02/20/were-not-influenced-by-advertisers-insists-daily-potnoodlegraph/
…observant crossword fans are even beginning to suspect subliminal messages, and the answers to the across clues in today’s cryptic do in fact spell out the phrase “WE’RE A BUNCH OF CORRUPT MERCENARY BASTARDS AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT BUY THE GUARDIAN SUCKERS”, although this may be pure coincidence.
Interesting, isn’t it, that whereas the Americans say fuck the Geneva Convention and drag their POWs to Guantanamo – those they don’t drag to Diego Garcia – and they get in the world’s faces as wizards of the art of waterboarding, the Russians release their POWs in civilised fashion.
The fash in Kiev are the ones throwing the word “terrorist” at the other side. They don’t half sound like plonkers!
It’s not just cyberwarfare in which the Russians have a superiority; it’s also propaganda.
Sorry…noises off…what’s that, Posh Boy? Oh you think the Russians are going back to Soviet times? And NATO’s got to do something? Thanks Posh Boy – you sound sooooo convincing!
Sense Of Humour Deficit Glares
Queenie Junes attempts at hitting back backfire in a storm of indifference.
“To be honest it’s just not funny” said one well known critic who wishes to remain anonymous. “None of it is. Not this, not her. It’s all so tired. None of it matches the hilarity of ROS or Peacwisher.”
“She’s trying to progress but quoting ad slogans is so 20th century” said the one blog reader aged under forty five years.
Queenie’s latest outburst seems another misjudged attempt to obfuscate the failure of her boyfriend’s script writer to come up with anything beyond a sneer followed by “Chump”.
“He said chump” cooed June.
@Republicofscotland. Well yeah, but look on the bright side, mate: NATO is dead.
I hit a nerve, obviously.
@Habb 12.46pm – Someone must have corrupted those files in your hasbarah room, mate, because unless I’ve been sleeptyping I’ve never commented on Obama’s cunningness or lack of it. He’s an irrelevant non-player. Sure, he’s formally an executive president and his mum was in the CIA or whatever, but he patently obviously isn’t in the same position – the same real position – relative to the US as Putin is relative to Russia. He hasn’t even crossed my radar, is the truth.
June
“I hit a nerve, obviously.”
Is that it really? All this effort I’m lobbing at you and that lame snipe is your response? Jesus. I’ll set em up you knock em down.
Knock knock, who’s there?
“@Republicofscotland. Well yeah, but look on the bright side, mate: NATO is dead.”
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NATO may well, be ready to go belly up, but the EU are far from free themselves, from the clutches of US foreign policy.
@Phil 12.24pm NATO – “Anyone not in a cult is suspected.
A dig at Jens Stoltenberg’s Steiner-cult membership?
@Clark 3.50pm “uranium machete” – ROFL!
Come on June. You and your sneering boyfriend fancy yourself as so friggin clever, always laughing at others, let’s see some fucking wit from you.
A new toy called “Hello Barbie” will have conversations with children, record those conversations and send it to servers where it will get analyzed!
The new Hello Barbie is actually specifically designed to store the conversations that it has with the children, so it can then be analyzed by a team of researchers who will make the toy’s responses more complex.
http://www.trueactivist.com/new-barbie-will-talk-with-children-record-their-conversations-and-send-it-to-researchers/
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F*ck me, they’re monitoring kids earlier and earlier, even Freud would be shocked at these sick b*stards.
I’d better not say anything out loud, in case the telly or XboX is listening, no matter my GPS phone tracking signal, combined with my IP address, lets them know exactly where to send the Ricin laden fan mail.
Phil
21 Feb, 2015 – 6:42 pm:
Knock knock, who’s there?
In Terry and June Land its normally the vicar who turns up at an awkward (cue British repressed sexuality) moment
John Kerry?
And what about all the trillians that have been stolen?
(cue the Sid James chuckle)
Nah, its bleedin austerity, innit
A school near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus has been repeatedly attacked by Israel.
On 4 February, Israeli forces fired sound bombs into a secondary school serving the Palestinian villages of al-Lubban and al-Sawiya. A flimsy excuse was given to justify this assault on the right to education: Israeli settlers had alleged that pupils from the school had thrown stones at them.
Data published by the UN monitoring group OCHA indicates that the attack was by no means isolated. Eight incidents that affected pupils or disrupted classes were recorded at the school, which is located south of Nablus, during 2014.
In one such incident that took place around this time last year, five fully-armed Israeli soldiers entered the school yard. The officer who led that raid — on 24 February 2014 — also claimed that pupils had thrown stones at settlers.
That claim was disputed by the school’s vice-principal, Abdelrahim Muhammad Suleiman, who insisted that all pupils had been attending classes.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/school-near-nablus-repeatedly-attacked-israel?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=cb9271d6ad-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-cb9271d6ad-290660781
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And we worry when our children, get detention or lines or a stern word from the head teacher, this kind of put it into perspective.
Dreiolin
OK i have taken it too far and unfairly focused too much of my contempt at you. Sorry I will stop now. Let’s all try to be a little less sneering eh?
Who did Channel 4 News get on to speak in defence of Theresa’s PREVENT laws? A twerp from the Henry Jackson Society of course.
It was humiliating and embarrassing to hear students at the University of Essex, especially those from abroad, speak of freedom of speech and expression being shut down now in this country. The country is fascistic.
I will put up a link to the segment later.
PS Even Manningham Buller is against the change in the law.
Shot 16 times,by cops, for reaching for your wallet.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/charges-cops-broke-innocent-mans-home-slept-shot-16-times/
Phil,
My eldest just flew from Sydney to San Francisco and I’m anxious to find out if he (and the rest of the planeload, obviously) arrived safely.
Some of the “old timers” here may remember the time he was flying from S. Australia to Bali, and I was tracking the damn plane on one of those skyscanner sites, and the plane ‘disappeared’ in the middle of the ocean north-west of Oz. (In reality it had arrived safely. I got a hell of a fright, though.)
He should be texting me shortly.
“Let’s all try to be a little less sneering eh?”
I wasn’t sneering at Lysias. Many years ago we used to “have a cup of tea” around bedtime here. Suhayl was the one most likely to offer to make it. I suppose I’m a bit nostalgic for those days. The atmosphere was totally different then. (Admittedly, there wasn’t a whole lot of dissent here either.)
I suppose I just wanted to show how easy it is to be negative about other people.
People like Habbakuk do nothing but judge others with a sneer. It’s a friggin doddle doing that. He doesn’t even have a sense of humour or any imagination. It’s been the same old routine for how long now, years? Witless unimaginative sneering. He has kept stum today. No doubt he will bravely reappera later mistaking his lame old same old last word for a victory. It is pathetic that he views all exchanges as the type of challenge that requires winners and loosers. Victory my arse. He’s a typical bully.
OK Dreoilin
Again I am sorry for going over the top.
Anon
“I can report that Waitrose’s “Taste of Israel” magazine is a sensation.”
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Thanks for that heads-up, Anon, I’ll get someone to fetch me a copy.
Happy to report that I’ve already emailed Waitrose – as announced – to suggest that it ignores any emails received in protest about its promotion of Israel and Israeli cuisine on the grounds that they would be from a small fringe in no way representative of the greater British public.
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Gefillte Karp for Mary and a mouldy bagel for N_
It’s up already.
Saturday 21 February 2015 UK
New law puts onus on universities to tackle extremism
The new counter-terrorism and security act forces academics to prevent students being radicalised, but many think that the powers go too far.
http://www.channel4.com/news/prevent-counter-terrorism-extremism-universities
And I don’t mean to hold Habbakuk exclusively as the only person who fucks this place up. He’s far from the only person. This place would be a lot better if we all paused before posting. And posted a little less.
“People like Habbakuk do nothing but judge others with a sneer.”
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The Holocaust deniers amoung you will know the meaning of the following, offered in response to Phil’s comment above:
Jedem das Seine.
What I do even more of, however, is to judge others’ ideas, followed if necessary and appropriate by the administration of a good kick.
Time for one of these entries esp for the Israel shills. Note the destruction of yet more olive trees.
‘Newsletter Headlines
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property
http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2407&Itemid&=44
IOP newsletter headlines – 18 February 2015
Israeli Army opens fire on Gaza refugee camp
Israeli settler mob uproots 550 freshly-planted Palestinian olive trees
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 5 towns and villages
1 attack (1 Israeli ceasefire violation)
17 raids including home invasions
3 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
15 taken prisoner – 7 detained
114 restrictions of movement
“I suppose I just wanted to show how easy it is to be negative about other people.”
It is. Much easier than debating serious issues.
On the other hand, I agree with what you said on Squonk – there is a lack of a sense of humour here, most days.