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  • fool

    Who is who is supposed to have leaked the cables in the Guardian today? The story doesn’t seem to say.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    MODS

    “Latest from the geopolitical grapevine, melikowski to wear special lead underwear at the podium for the address to the joint session of Congress, his israeli handlers fear he may be on the receiving end of the same CIA underfloor “beam” that gave Chavez prostrate cancer, whilst at his famous “sulpher” address at the UN podium. Spielberg to shy away from providing the Hollywood nuclear bomb hologram prop for the speech too, after Obola public warning.”
    ______________

    This post of Simple’s omits the standard references to Nudelman, goyim, Rofkind, cattle,etc but is obviously from the sockpuppet you’ve identified already.

    Are you really unable to do anything to stop this character posting his shit ubder a variety of handles???????

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Looks as if it came from S. Africa, Fool…but I share your puzzlement. Maybe the public needs a plausible reason for a rapprochement with Iran? I hope so. We’ve been The Voice of Israel for quite long enough.

  • Republicofscotland

    The London Labour branch in Scotland have been rocked today, as a senior figure Robert McNeill, has urged Labour voters in Scotland (A rare and unethical creature) to vote tactically.

    This involves voting Tory or Li/Dem when the Labour candidates margin, of victory, looks to great to surmount.

    Now if memory serves me, and on this occasion I think it does, mad Jim Murphy, the manager of the Labour branch in Scotland, declared loudly and widely, that a vote for the SNP is a vote for the Tories.

    Now feel free to stop if I’m wrong, but Labour voting Tory in Scotland for tactical reasons, is still a vote for the Tories, which may cause the SNP to lose a few seats, but it would damage Labour immensely.

    http://wingsoverscotland.com/scottish-labours-new-policy-vote-tory/#more-67308

  • Republicofscotland

    And I thought our poncing parasites were bad, the Royals, of course they are.

    In Thailand,though there is a law “Lese Majeste” that says you cannot under any circumstances criticise the King or Queen, the heir apparent, or the regent, sentencing, for such crimes, could lead up to 15 years in prison.

    Similar laws apply in other countries around the world, it is illegal to criticise the monarchy in Denmark, Spain, Norway and the Netherlands,though prosecutions are extremely rare.

    And I thought the leeching state benefit scrounging royals, in the UK are bad, of course they are.

  • cm-org.uk

    Things can be tried Habbabkuk but none are airtight and most rely on constant monitoring. America asked experts to make an uncensorable communication system, so it was made and they called it the internet. The strongest blocking works on registration with a verified real-world identity, but then you want your anonymity too.

  • John Goss

    I would like to know who conducted the Katyn Massacre alongside the Germans. Everybody knows that Bandera’s men massacred Poles in Western Ukraine. They were close to the Nazis who were definitely involved in the Katyn massacre. So yes, let’s find out. It might even surprise you: Resident Dissident!

  • John Goss

    2. Don’t you remember RD we went trhough the AMnesty shit before. It turned out they were Combined harvesters.

    3. As to the Interpreter article for “Russian backed forces” read “Russian Separatists”. Also, I’m not sure, but I think I saw that photograph on Russia Today from the Belingcat site. If so, the date is wrong, and it is not where it says it is.

    4. “It is the term that is being used by the Kremlin propaganda machine – the Fourth World War being waged now by Russia against the rest of the world.” What an idiotic statement. Russia might have said the US is waging the Fourth World War against Russia (what happened to the third? I guess we’re in that.”
    “Some people are saying that for the first time the Russian troops have moved into another country. According to them, “just a few months ago everything was OK, we had wonderful relations with Russia. And all of a sudden everything has changed.” ”

    Come on Resident Dissident. Stop wasting my time. If you cannot find any evidence, shut the fuck up.

  • Republicofscotland

    Rifkind has stood down as Chair of the Intelligence Committee, he’s also stood down as an MP, according to radio news.

    Will Rifkind, be missed, by the public as a whole, I very much doubt it.

    Rifkind, has been bleeding the taxpayer dry for 40 years, and long after he’s gone, he’ll be remembered for trying to sell his soul for cash.

  • Resident Dissident

    “It made Russia Today this morning for supplying false information.”

    The definitive test for dismissing evidence prejudicial to the Putin regime.

  • Mary

    Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank Clashes
    By ISABEL KERSHNER FEB. 24, 2015

    JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man when clashes broke out during a military raid on a refugee camp in the Bethlehem area of the West Bank early on Tuesday, the military and local Palestinians said.

    Palestinian officials identified the dead man as Jihad Jaafari, a resident of the Deheishe refugee camp.

    /..
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/world/middleeast/israelis-palestinians-west-bank.html?_r=0

  • Mary

    ISC Members

    The Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP (Chairman)

    The Rt. Hon. Hazel Blears MP

    The Rt. Hon. The Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO

    The Rt. Hon. Sir Menzies Campbell CBE QC MP

    Mr Mark Field MP

    The Rt. Hon. George Howarth MP

    Dr Julian Lewis MP

    Lord Lothian QC PC

    Ms Fiona Mactaggart MP

    http://isc.independent.gov.uk/committee-members

    ’24 February 2015
    The Chairman of the ISC, the Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, has this morning issued the following statement:

    None of the current controversy with which I am associated is relevant to my work as Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament.

    However, I have today informed my colleagues that while I will remain a member of the Committee, I will step down from the Chairmanship.

    The Committee is due to be dissolved in little over a month with the prorogation of Parliament for the forthcoming General Election. The main substantive work which needs to be completed will be the publication of our Privacy and Security Report during March.

    I do not want the work of the Committee and the publication of the Report to be, in any way, distracted or affected by controversy as to my personal position. I have concluded, therefore, that it is better that this important work should be presided over by a new Chairman.’

    Posted 6 hours ago by ISC Admin

    From a very arty farty website with feint images of MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the HoP in the background. Who are they trying to impress?
    http://isc.independent.gov.uk/home

  • Mary

    They resemble fortresses.
    http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/39/5b/f0/00/settlement.si.jpg

    Settlement rush: Record Israel construction tenders in occupied territories
    February 24, 2015

    Israel was accelerating construction of the new settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories throughout 2014, setting a 10-year record for the number of construction tenders issued. The overall increase in construction starts reached 40 percent.

    With the US-brokered talks with the Palestinian Authority breaking down last April, the Netanyahu government has been putting out an unprecedented number of construction tenders, maintains the group Peace Now in a report published on Monday.

    /..
    http://rt.com/news/234943-israeli-settlement-record-tenders/

  • RobG

    Mary, I dont know if you have seen Dana Durnfords latest video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVcv-vSXEow

    But PLEASE NOTE: I do not endorse any of the cancer treatments that Dana talks about, because I have not resarched them thoroughly enough; All I will say is that Dana talks about natural remedies that are not expensive to obtain, and they wont cause you any harm

    And for those unfamiliar with Dana Durnford, he is a Newfie (from Newfoundland, Canada), hence his accent; Dana has had a YouTube channel for years and has always been against authority; He was never antinuke and in the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima disaster he posted a few videos about it, but other than that was largely silent; It is only in the last 2 years or so, after doing extensive research, and coming to the realisation of how the public is conned about all things nuclear, that he has become full on antinuke

    You could make a movie about what Dana has been doing these last months; and one day they probably will

  • Mary

    So much is being written and spoken about Ukraine. Cameron was holding forth to the Liaison Committee today. Does any of it change anything on the ground?

    Ukrainian Junta Defeated
    While the people face social and economic collapse

    by Ophelia Murphy and Dylan Murphy / February 24th, 2015

    “This is a city of the dead! For six days we haven’t eaten or drunk, we’ve been going crazy.” “This is genocide against the people, it’s just killing. Six days they’ve been killing us. My hands are shaking. The Ukrainians don’t let us through their side, you can’t escape there. We’re like prisoners to them, as if we’re to blame for something.” Exodus from the city of Uglegorsk.

    The EU attempt to try and stave off military defeat for the Ukrainian Junta has failed ignominiously. The battle for the Debalcevo cauldron has reached its climax with the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) at the hands of the Novorossian Armed Forces (NAF). According to information coming from militias of Novorossia the AFU losses are huge. As of 19 February the Junta has lost 1,200-1,500 men killed and over 500 have been taken as prisoners. To compound matters the Ukrainian army has abandoned most of its artillery and armour and large amounts of ammunition dealing a huge blow to the war mongers in Kiev and their masters in Washington. This latest military catastrophe for the Kiev Junta is explained away by the capitalist media as the consequence of Russia’s continuing military incursion into Ukraine.

    /..
    http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/02/ukrainian-junta-defeated/

  • Resident Dissident

    Goss

    You haven’t looked at my links at all – and your dismissal was just as I predicted an attack on the source.

    Yarosh will not be the next leader of Ukraine – in the May 25, 2014 presidential election he received 127,772 votes (0.7% of the total).

    I do not support attacks on civilians – I do support the Ukrainian govt claiming back its own legal territory and the police stations and govt offices ceased by the rebels before the Govt fired a shot in anger. Perhaps you should also note that placing military establishments in civilian areas as the rebels have done is often considered a war crime. BTW I never supported the attacks on civilians in the trade union building in Odessa, even though some of the individuals concerned were armed and had fled to the building after trying to provoke the local Ukrainian population – you’re repeated misstatement of my position on Odessa is a typical slur on your part.

    I am not a spook. Unlike you Mr Goss I am not scared of answering questions honestly.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Glenn

    “Habbabkuk:

    “Re “poisoning the well” : let’s say you came across a well and saw that the water was covered with a deep, malodiferous, green scum. Should I really have to sample the content of that well (source) and prive scientifically that it would be better to avoid the water in it or would a quick visual check not be sufficient to discredit said well and water?”

    This is not a direct analogy, sorry. In the original story, Macky said (figuratively, follow me please), “Here is a good drink that I had from that ICH well yonder.”

    Your response was to say, “No, everyone – stay away from that well! It’s poisoned. Don’t even try it.””
    _______________

    Not sure that that was my response. I merely point to the fact that the water in that well is highly suspect and best avoided. But if someone reading Macky also wants to try it, as Macky did, then that’s up to him. But the evidence of what that water’s done to Macky should serve as a terrible warning, shouldn’t it… 🙂

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Resident Dissident

    “Of course the Russian Govt have still not met their obligations to investigate their Katyn – and I bet it isn’t in Putin’s new history book

    http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alan-johnson/russia-still-burying-truth-about-katyn-massacre”
    _________________–

    See indeed. It looked as if the Russians were starting to cooperate with the Polish investigators during the perios of the “traitor” Gorbachev and tge “drunkard” Eltsin but since the advent of the Holy Vlad the trail appears to gave gone cold again.

    David Satter has a chapter on this in his excellent work “It was a long time ago, and it never happened – Russia and the Communist past” (Yale University Press, 2012).

    An essential read for anyone genuinely interested in the essential nature of post Communist Russia and the threat it still poses to its neigbours.

  • Macky

    Clark quoting Criag;

    “…Yanukovich’s government had actually, quite independently and voluntarily, negotiated the EU co-operation agreement and were on the point of signing it, when Yanukovich was summoned to Moscow by Putin and informed that if they signed the agreement, the energy supplies to Ukraine would immediately be cut off in mid-winter and debt called in”

    However the reality is that it was the EU indulged in blackmail, demanding that the inferior EU offer be accepted rather than the much better Russian alternative;

    “In November 2013, Yanukovych learned from experts at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine that the total cost to the country’s economy from severing its business connections to Russia would be around $160 billion, 50 times the $3 billion figure that the EU had estimated, Der Spiegel reported.

    The figure stunned Yanukovych, who pleaded for financial help that the EU couldn’t provide, the magazine said. Western loans would have to come from the International Monetary Fund, which was demanding painful “reforms” of Ukraine’s economy, structural changes that would make the hard lives of average Ukrainians even harder, including raising the price of natural gas by 40 percent and devaluing Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, by 25 percent.

    With Putin offering a more generous aid package of $15 billion, Yanukovych backed out of the EU agreement but told the EU’s Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Nov. 28, 2013, that he was willing to continue negotiating. German Chancellor Angela Merkel responded with “a sentence dripping with disapproval and cool sarcasm aimed directly at the Ukrainian president. ‘I feel like I’m at a wedding where the groom has suddenly issued new, last minute stipulations,” according to Der Spiegel’s chronology of the crisis.”

    https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/24/nyt-is-lost-in-its-ukraine-propaganda/

  • lysias

    The barracks in which I was housed when I was stationed with the U.S. military in Berlin was on the grounds of Tempelhof Airport, which served as both a civilian and military airport. The window of my room opened onto a hangar, which only housed military aircraft, it is true, but right outside that hangar was a runway that civilian aircraft regularly used.

    Stationing us there was a war crime? You could have fooled me.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Macky

    “Putin’s hands may indeed not be spotlessly clean…”

    _______________________

    I’d never have thought you’d be capable of such delicacy of expression, Macky.

    Have you acquired a new supervisor?

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Mr Goss

    “Come on Resident Dissident. Stop wasting my time. If you cannot find any evidence, shut the fuck up.”
    ________________

    You’ve got a fine cheek, Mr Goss. “Stop wasting MY time”??? WTF – is this YOUR blog that you should talk about people wasting YOUR time??

    Since you’re unable to answer Resident Dissident’s points with fact and reasoned argument you respond with lies, innuendo and claimed ownership rights to this blog.

    Stop squatting on here with your noxious pro-Putin shit and fuck off back to your own blog – you know, the one that never attracts any comments.

  • Clark

    John Goss, 4:35 pm: I’ve looked carefully at those photographs. I consider it unlikely that they show combine harvesters and likely that they show tanks. Reasons:

    1) Combines would be spaced in a line in a field like that only if they were harvesting. In that case however, the ground in front would consist of crops, whereas behind would be stubble with lines of stalk forming a trail behind the combine, like the harvested field on the right. Working combines would also be producing big trails of dust drifting away on the wind.

    2) The protrusions from the vehicles look too long and slender to be grain chutes, which in any case are only extended just before tender wagons arrive to accept the grain. No tender vehicles are visible, but they are required frequently; with eight combines working it would be extremely unlikely not to see even one. Grain chutes extend at a right-angle to the combine so they can be as short as possible, but these protrusions make a sixty degree angle. The protrusions are also aligned quite accurately in parallel, just like guns aligned upon a common but distant target.

    3) Tracks running diagonally across the field can be seen leading directly to the lower vehicle of the top group of four. This is inconsistent with either the vehicle being a combine, or with the tracks of a tender vehicle which would have turned to a track alongside the combine.

    These photos seem to show tanks (“self propelled artillery”) rather than combine harvesters. I notice that the 02varvara.wordpress.com blog article references RT, which is known to project Russian propaganda.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    RepublicOfScotland

    “Rifkind, has been bleeding the taxpayer dry for 40 years..”
    ______________

    He is certainly an unpleasant bit of work and few will shed any tears at his departure, but just for the sake of accuracy, RoS, I’m pretty sure you’ve had more in various benefits from the state (and therefore the taxpayer) over the last 40 years than Rifkind has.

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