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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Clark; “Macky, that was RobG’s first comment of the day. I thought I should act quickly”
Why do you view yourself as the ultimate arbiter of acceptable opinion ?
A public service announcement: do a search on your computer for files or folders named “chrome“, and then tell me that you dont live in an American led police state
David Cameron on Tory donor, and enormous tax avoider, Philip Green.
“I’m not getting into an individuals tax affairs on air.”
David Cameron on the individual Jimmy Carr.
“He’s taking money, and putting it into some very dodgy, tax avoidance schemes.”
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More dodgy dealings from the Tories, in the Den of Iniquity, aka Westminster.
“There are currently 3,250 examining benefit fraud in the UK, while there are only 300 people examining, the fraud by those, that are wealthy tax dodgers.
Many of these wealthy tax dodgers, donate to the Tory party, why is it theirs one law for the rich, and another for the poor.”
Renowned Labour MP
Dennis Skinner.
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I think you get the picture, of the dirty doings, at the Den of Iniquity, aka Westminster.
RobG,
But my Chrome browser to work without its folder!
I’ve also got Firefox and Internet Exploder. Should I get rid of them as well?
Wonder how this site looks anyway in Lynx text browser?
Seriously why do you have greater concerns about Chrome than say IE?
OK Macky, I’ll take your word for it that the document is a forgery.
Would you be happy to see some more big lumps of Ukraine assimilated into Russia?
“JIhadi John” (Mohammed Emwazi) has been all over the news this week. Here’s a question: why did MI5 suspect that he was going to Somalia? He apparently denied it when it was put to him. At any rate, if he has really been filmed murdering people (not just holding a knife) then it’s over for him.
“won’t work without its folder”
Sigh I’m typing on a tablet – which is great, unlike my eyesight…
RobG, what’s the problem with various files and folders being called “chrome”? Why does this indicate that anywhere is a police state? Those folders carry the same names no matter which country anyone keeps a computer in.
Why have you abandoned our discussion of nuclear matters?
If ISIS even suspected him of being an MI5 agent, I wonder if they might have been keen on him proving his loyalty – or else. Well that’s what happens in the movies anyway.
The FBI and major media outlets yesterday trumpeted the agency’s latest counterterrorism triumph: the arrest of three Brooklyn men, ages 19 to 30, on charges of conspiring to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS (photo of joint FBI/NYPD press conference, above). As my colleague Murtaza Hussain ably documents, it appears that none of the three men was in any condition to travel or support the Islamic State, without help from the FBI informant.
One of the frightening terrorist villains told the FBI informant that, beyond having no money, he had encountered a significant problem in following through on the FBI’s plot: his mom had taken away his passport. Noting the bizarre and unhinged ranting of one of the suspects, Hussain noted on Twitter that this case sounds like another victory for the FBI over the mentally ill.
In this regard, this latest arrest appears to be quite similar to the overwhelming majority of terrorism arrests the FBI has proudly touted over the last decade. As my colleague Andrew Fishman and I wrote last month — after the FBI manipulated a 20-year-old loner who lived with his parents into allegedly agreeing to join an FBI-created plot to attack the Capitol — these cases follow a very clear pattern.
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The known facts from this latest case seem to fit well within a now-familiar FBI pattern whereby the agency does not disrupt planned domestic terror attacks but rather creates them, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own plots.
First, they target a Muslim: not due to any evidence of intent or capability to engage in terrorism, but rather for the “radical” political views he expresses. In most cases, the Muslim targeted by the FBI is a very young (late teens, early 20s), adrift, unemployed loner who has shown no signs of mastering basic life functions, let alone carrying out a serious terror attack, and has no known involvement with actual terrorist groups.
They then find another Muslim who is highly motivated to help disrupt a terror plot: either because they’re being paid substantial sums of money by the FBI or because (as appears to be the case here) they are charged with some unrelated crime and are desperate to please the FBI in exchange for leniency (or both).
The FBI then gives the informant a detailed attack plan, and sometimes even the money and other instruments to carry it out, and the informant then shares all of that with the target. Typically, the informant also induces, lures, cajoles, and persuades the target to agree to carry out the FBI-designed plot. In some instances where the target refuses to go along, they have their informant offer huge cash inducements to the impoverished target.
Once they finally get the target to agree, the FBI swoops in at the last minute, arrests the target, issues a press release praising themselves for disrupting a dangerous attack (which it conceived of, funded, and recruited the operatives for), and the DOJ and federal judges send their target to prison for years or even decades (where they are kept in special GITMO-like units). Subservient U.S. courts uphold the charges by applying such a broad and permissive interpretation of entrapment that it could almost never be successfully invoked.
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In my opinion the above techniques, aren’t just confined to the US, I’d say they’ve already been used in the UK, with regards to the 7/7 bombings.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-terrorism-isis-grave-threats/
Macky, there is no point arguing with you because you don’t have a shred of honesty in you.
I’m sick of seeing you encourage others to believe utter shite, and encouraging others to gang up on and insult Resident Dissident.
Resident Dissident had the courage to reveal his family connections in Russia, and John Goss abused that knowledge to insult him even more personally. If you had a scrap of decency in you, you would disown such behaviour.
Peace!
RoS, regarding 7/7, do a search on “covenant of security”.
Clark; “Would you be happy to see some more big lumps of Ukraine assimilated into Russia?”
I’ll be happy to see the ending of the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the Nazi goons of Kiev, and I’ll be happy for a federated/autonomous solution, the bottom line is that the east of Ukraine was Russian from 1783, but in reality even earlier, until 1954 when Khrushchev (a Ukrainian) gave it to Ukraine within the USSR. A large majority of the population is of Russian origin and did not have any say in the matter. Their wish to determine their own future is a paramount right, that cannot be denied, especially because of US Geo-political games to harm Russia.
John Goss you owe Resident Dissident several apologies. Insulting people through their family relations is dreadful behaviour and you should feel ashamed.
@Clark, your post @ 8.09 is nothing but a heap of demonstrable lies & ad-hominens, but I don’t expect it will bother the Mods.
Macky, so that’s a “yes” then, is it? You’re in favour of the expansion of Russia into other countries?
@Clark, lashing out at people when you lose an argument is very ugly behaviour, but so revealing; a known psychological condition.
Macky
“@Clark, your post @ 8.09 is nothing but a heap of demonstrable lies & ad-hominens, but I don’t expect it will bother the Mods.”
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Your constant whining about the Mods seems to be bearing fruit because I notice that the Mods have quietly deleted a post of mine in which you get a good kicking
Good to know you’re appreciated by someone, eh, Macky? 🙂
Clark
“Macky, there is no point arguing with you because you don’t have a shred of honesty in you.”
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The scales have – at last! – fallen from your eyes, Clark.
You should note that Macky’s not very brave either: since his sudden reappearance on this blog he’s been very careful not to tangle with me. This is probably because he remembers what happened to him last time he did…..
Clark; “Macky, so that’s a “yes” then, is it? You’re in favour of the expansion of Russia into other countries?”
My answer was very clear; if you wish to indulge in dishonest misrepresentations, then you are fooling nobody, but betraying more ugly traits.
“Ukrainian parentage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy#Early_life”
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No mention of the Jewish blood, Mary? You’re improving with age! Or perhaps I’m having a beneficial effect on you.?
@Clark 3:37
3)…clue (and trick question); which country is “the Donbas region” in? Come on, come on, think!
We’ll I haven’t needed to look this up , but from Soviet time, when I spent some time there, Donbas = Donets Bassein = Don Valley,
which means basically Rotherham, Sheffield, nay lad Barnsley = the country of Jeremy Clarkson!
er…perhaps I’m missing some subtext!?
Macky (to Clark)
“My answer was very clear; if you wish to indulge in dishonest misrepresentations, then you are fooling nobody, but betraying more ugly traits.”
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Not very clear at all, Macky.
In fact, you avoided answering. Here is your non-answer:
Clark: “Would you be happy to see some more big lumps of Ukraine assimilated into Russia?”
Macky : “I’ll be happy to see the ending of the ethnic cleansing being carried out by the Nazi goons of Kiev”.
Hilarious!
Habby I don’t bother with you most times because you have nothing worthwhile to respond to; the last tme I think I addressed you was to pulled you up on falsely claiming that John Goss had written “the indigenous inhabitants of the Malvinas”, a lie you were then forced to admit to.
The other reason why I don’t bother much with you is that you play the fool so well, such as pretending not be able to read the whole of my post at 8.17; if you can’t manage to read a whole post, that is indeed “Hilarious” !
One reason that I guess he was rolling on the floor laughing so much was the last sentence of your 8.17 post, which implies that the right of self determination only exists when in opposition to US policy. Does it apply in the north Caucasus?
At this rate there will be more foreign “advisers/trainers” than actual Ukrainians in Kiev’s army !
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_ukraine/2015/02/26/3887
“Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Sir John Sawers said: “These people draw attention to themselves because of their activity, their mixing, participation in extremist and sometimes terrorist circles, so of course they’re going to draw attention to themselves.”
Really? Or are they targeted because of their colour and religion?
@Tim, sorry but are you engaging in whatabouteries or stetting up a srawman ? If you have something to say, say it clearly.