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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If it’s not ISIS attacking Christians, it’s these people again;
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/26/suspected-israeli-nationalists-torch-christian-seminary-in-jerusalem.html
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What I am saying is that the right of self determination should not be conditioned by the attitude if a third country. i am questioning the use of “especially”.
Mary, Sqounk
Yes sad news of Spock.
Thanks for the Bill Blum extract Mary, the exact same Segment that i had copied, but ya beat me to it.. Hope you enjoyed the outdoors.
Sqounk cheers for the latest on Ben. 🙁
A Coup nearer to home;
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/seumas-milne-on-pinkoes-and-traitors-by-jean-seaton-review-my-father-the-bbc-and-a-very-british-coup?CMP=share_btn_tw
Tim; “What I am saying is that the right of self determination should not be conditioned by the attitude if a third country. i am questioning the use of “especially”.”
Yes, indeed; it was a bit badly worded perhaps, but I wanted to remind people why all this was happening.
Clark
27 Feb, 2015 – 8:05 pm:
Why have you abandoned our discussion of nuclear matters?
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Because it seemed to me that you wanted the discussion to be about the technical aspects of depleted uranium, and not the greatest disaster in human history; aka, Fukushima
How can I sum this up..? I know, the fact that there is an almost complete news blackout about all things Fukushima; which firstly shows how completely compliant and controlled the media are; and secondly shows just how psychopathic are the loons who are in control
Its all about money; nothing else matters; they dont care how many people die, and they are so sick and stupid that they dont even realise that they are also killng themselves
The first thing that humans need to realise is what they are
So I ask, what happened to British Leyland?
A combination of crap management and crap trade unionists leading to the production of crap cars that no one wanted to buy.
Resident Dissident, some people are quick to bring out the usual suspects (British Leyland), but the fact is that Britain had a real industrial and engineering base back then; Thats all been destroyed, and now all we have are a bunch of spivs and spin doctors and people working in call centers on zero hour contracts
Do you consider yourself a patriot?
“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.”
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Far from that being a lie, Macky, it gave rise to the expression “a John Goss moment”.
There have been a few since that time – and not all from Mr Goss himself!
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Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot to death in central Moscow late Friday.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150228/1018865497.html
“The other reason why I don’t bother much with you is that you play the fool so well,”
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Yeah, yeah – whatever!
The reason you don’t “bother” with me is because when you last attempted to argue with me you got such a kicking that you fled the blog vowing never to return.
So now you’re back you’re being a lot more careful. You’ve learnt not to pick a fight with overwhelming force; nothing wrong with that, very wise in fact.
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“Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot to death in central Moscow late Friday.
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150228/1018865497.html”
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Typical behaviour for the Moscovite fascists. To think that there are people in the West – even in the UK!- supporting their destabilising rôle in eastern Ukraine; they must have a death wish!
RobG
“Resident Dissident, some people are quick to bring out the usual suspects (British Leyland), but the fact is that Britain had a real industrial and engineering base back then”
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So it might have, but it wasn’t very solid, was it, otherwise it would still be here.
Don’t forget that industries like the car industry were going going the pan before the Thatcher years.
For the reasons Resident Dissident points to.
Apologies. How can I apologise to RD and yourself when you support the fascist regime in Kiev and don’t know that the Donbas is a long-established area of Ukraine. You have made yourselves look very stupid in supporting these fascists. I make a simple comment about “Peace” which I hope will hold and get abuse about owing apologists for genocide an apology. Grow up Clark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya
“So I ask, what happened to British Leyland?
A combination of crap management and crap trade unionists leading to the production of crap cars that no one wanted to buy.”
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One of those crap trade unionists was the Commie shop steward Derek Robinson, aka Red Robbo. An “acquaintance” of Mr Goss at BMC, apparently.
RobG
I wouldn’t disagree with you that much of the UK’s industrial base was destroyed because our governments lacked an industrial strategy backed up by investment – and instead let the City and finance capital have a free hand to do what they wanted. Incidentally, Wilson as a civil servant after the War wrote a famous report on how we had the wrong balance between finance and industrial capital, so deindustrialisation is a rather longer running phenomenon than most people think and didn’t start with Margaret Thatcher. But even if we had an industrial strategy that would have meant concentrating scarce resources on dead ducks and white elephants such as British Leyland and Concorde – if the money that was squandered on those two enterprises had been more properly targeted on a few new areas of potential growth and with organisational structure that actually worked then we would have been considerably better off today. On the other hand the money, in the case of Concorde and British Leyland was handed out by that financial illiterate Tony Benn to lost causes and was ultimately squandered. I’m afraid there are many on the Left who although they might sing the right song they are just incapable of walking the walk – while those who actually understand these matters (and there are a few) are just ignored, possibly because they don’t support the shibboleths that obsess some of the more vocal members of the “Left”.
And yes I am a patriot as Orwell described patriots in his anti nationalist essay the Lion and the Unicorn. I also would not be a disparaging as you are about the current situation – there are still a lot of modern and successful industrial concerns within the UK (and it isn’t all call centres) – not enough, but sloganizing without concrete ideas regarding what should be done doesn’t really help anyone.
“Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot to death in central Moscow late Friday.
sputniknews.com/russia/20150228/1018865497.html”
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Anyone surprised to learn that? Par for the course for the Muscovite fascists, I’d say.
And to think that there are people in the West – even on this blog! – who applaud the interference of the Muscovite fascists in eastern Ukraine…!
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Habbabkuk ; “So now you’re back you’re being a lot more careful. You’ve learnt not to pick a fight with overwhelming force; nothing wrong with that, very wise in fact.”
LOL ! The Walter Mitty of this blog provides yet more laughs !
You might would to check-out your delusional condition, it could be something quite serious !
Sadly another opposition voice in Russia has been silenced – how many more before some here realise that there is something very wrong with the Putin regime. Remember that if you wish to understand Putin the works of Mario Puzo are as good a starting place as anywhere – I did laugh when Mr Goss described him as a free marketeer, although he must be the only one that he isn’t prepared to criticise.
Habba, I hope you enjoyed the stuff up in the Welsh hills; you certainly seem invigorated
The British industrial base was run down purely as a result of neocon policies, which started in the early 1980s (arguably before)
To put it in simple terms, it was the destruction of the working class and all the equitable society stuff that began at the end of WW2
The best recent example of this is the Arab Spring, which has been completely wiped out by the vermin who are in control
We cant have the plebs demanding freedom, can we
@Resident Dissident, I hope that nobody has ever wasted their time asking you to do Jury Service; who needs evidence or facts when you don’t like somebody !
“How can I apologise to RD and yourself when you support the fascist regime in Kiev and don’t know that the Donbas is a long-established area of Ukraine.”
I have always known where the Donbas is having covered the Soviet Union in my O Level Geography (anyone remember PRAMSHL?) – perhaps rather than throwing out his habitual insult we could have Mr Goss’s views on the current regime in Russia, especially given that Mr Goss has refused pointedly on many factual posts and links I have made about current conditions and government policies – or do we just have to rely on the position that Putin is a gentleman and peacemaker and doesn’t like the US?
“. . . perhaps rather than throwing out his habitual insult we could have Mr Goss’s views on the current regime in Russia . . .”
There is not much in this article that I disagree with. Read and learn. It is modern history.
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/john-pilger-us-fascism-and-a-new-holocaust-beckons-if-we-remain-silent
“I hope that nobody has ever wasted their time asking you to do Jury Service”
They have – but I had to turn it down as I was working on a long secondment to Russia – which is part of the reason that I know considerably more about the facts of what is going on there than you are ever likely to do so.
One of the thing members of the jury have to do is weigh up evidence from both sides of an argument before reaching a view – the problem with you Macky, or should I call you Vshinsky, is that you miss out the evidence stage.
“I have always known where the Donbas is having covered the Soviet Union in my O Level Geography (anyone remember PRAMSHL?)”
Perhaps you could instruct your sputnik because he does not seem to know.
John Goss, I think you should apologise because Resident Dissident revealed some of his family’s Russian background to demonstrate his connection to the region and his direct knowledge of some of the history behind the current conflict, but you misused that information to abuse him personally. That was wrong of you, no matter how your opinions differ from his. Resident Dissident does not believe himself to be “supporting fascists” as you put it, and I would never do so.
John, do you regard yourself to be working in the interests of the Kremlin and the Russian oligarchy? This is not a rhetorical question or an attempt at some kind of accusation. I’m asking directly if you’re deliberately working to advance the Russian government’s agenda.
“It is modern history.”
First of all modern history is something of an oxymoron. And I suppose your believe history should just be a one sided account where no consideration is paid to other views (which is probably a better definition of propaganda than the one you provided earlier this week).
And of course not one breath of criticism of dear old Vlad.
Resident Dissident; “you miss out the evidence stage”
Clear % pure projection ! It’s exactly what you have done with your comment that Putin is resposible for this killing !
Macky, you too. Do you consider yourself to be deliberately promoting the Kremlin’s agenda? Is that something you’d be proud to do?
“Perhaps you could instruct”
Mr Goss – I only instruct those who are in need of it, and Clark isn’t my Sputnik and there are many things on which we don’t agree – but I can live with that, I worry about regimes where there has to be 100% acceptance of the creed being from nonconformist stock.
I think it fair to say that most Russians call that part of the world the Donbas and have done so for many years.