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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“your latest evidence free assertion that Putin is behind this latest murder, proves you are not actually a slow learner, but rather a non learner.”
Clearly you missed comprehension classes when you were at school.
Dead from the neck up contd.
ZBC thought it would be a good use of licence fee revenue to send their Peter Hunt to report on the activities of the second in line such as this crap.
Prince William is dressed as samurai warrior in Japan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31671772
What fun he and the British Ambassador (who tried on a wig) had.
There is even a filmed report of the nonsense on the BBC ‘News’ channel.
I don’t suppose we shall hear much about Fukushima or of this subject when the son and heir reaches China.
Chinese Leader Is Putting His Alliances on Parade
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/chinese-leader-is-putting-his-alliances-on-parade/?_r=0
RD; “it takes a particular type of coward who starts their criticism even before the body is buried”
You mean like that man you always admiringly quote and pray in (hopeless) aid;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52yTqMcwuQE
Macky
Please look up the word “starts”
I always thought that Jewish funerals took place straight after the death before sunset. Leonard Nimoy who I greatly admired as an actor, died yesterday and was an Orthodox Jew.
Maybe like Robert Maxwell and Prince Philip’s mother, his body will be interred in the Mount of Olives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Olives_Jewish_Cemetery
I think that R2D2 is capable of having an argument with himself in the proverbial broom cupboard.
RD; “Please look up the word “starts”
Falwell died on May 15, 2007, his funeral took place on May 22, 2007;
“Appearing on CNN a day after Falwell’s death, Hitchens said, “The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called ‘reverend’.”[83] On C-SPAN, Hitchens made the comment that “if he had been given an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox””
Wiki
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article10076461.ece/alternates/w220/spock.jpg
Off out now for some fresh air with the dog.
“UK-based advocacy group Cage has suggested that MI5 may have contributed to the radicalisation of Emwazi.
Downing Street said that suggestion was “completely reprehensible”, while London mayor Boris Johnson described Cage’s comments as “an apology for terror”.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31663988
No, being tortured & harassed, threaten & subjected to blackmail, can only fill you with love for those responsible ! Reality denying is the psychological response to rationality & obvious logic, the more hysterical response, the more obvious denial.
Macky
I think you will find that Hitchens said not a little about Falwell while he was still alive – as I said look up the meaning of the word “starts” – available in all good dictionaries.
@mary
“I think that R2D2 is capable of having an argument with himself in the proverbial broom cupboard.”
Not while my minder is around.
RD; “it takes a particular type of coward who starts their criticism even before the body is buried”
The the meaning is very clear, and underscored by the words “even before”; a cheap hypocritical dig, that you are now shamelessly trying to weasel out of; cowardly indeed.
why it is there have been so many noteworthy assassinations
No assassination is strange or extraordinary; all too easy I believe to feed the ‘establishment’ or pro-US bloggers by tagging or defining the murder of Boris Nemtsov as a ‘hit’ to provoke the Russian government. This I believe to be implausible considering the political opposition has only 3%-5% popularity since Putin’s approval rating increased from 71.5% in 2012 to 81.7%, admittedly after Putin was shaken by anti-government demonstrations in Moscow two years ago and then used the confrontation to consolidate the public behind his leadership, tapping into the deep well of emotion about the Soviet Union’s suffering at the hands of Nazi Germany.
Nevertheless, let’s be clear we all know the reaction of the Anglo-Zionists and their propaganda machine. It will be exactly the same as for MH-17: Putin the Murderer!!! Democracy Shot!! Freedom Killed!! etc.
This shocking and obnoxious killing is intended according to my sources to change the brand and codify the forthcoming demonstrations in Moscow as a ‘tribute’ and eulogy to Nemtsov and increase numbers ten-fold – Western media has been set going already.
There are folks in Langley today who will get a promotion on the turn-out in Moscow!
Live long and prosper.
My apologies if I posted a link which Node had already posted. Dissent is very important. Of course its usually very difficult to dissent. Who can say they do it honestly? Just as in whistle blowing claims the question of good faith has often been the obvious hurdle. A hurdle because sadly but perhaps understandably people will not usually whistle blow unless as a form of retaliation or defence. I admire Craig because in his case it would appear that he took the unusual step of whistle blowing / dissent and then suffered the consequences ( as opposed to it being tit for tat). But for others dissent can be a form of working out some personal or class or ethnic dissatisfaction. So be it. What sometimes happens is that a state funds dissent either to keep an eye on it, or to promote a more liberal form, or even to make use (abuse) of a more extreme form, or another state funds the dissent. No one wants to be a puppet. Dissent which emerges out of a religious group can be worth listening to sometimes. Donald Reeves the well known former “red rector” of St James’s has been a great voice of honest dissent. If the dissent comes out of an Islamic group though it is immediately suspect. Anyway, all I am saying is that if you belong to a community eg Britain its great for some to dissent but please do it honestly (honest with your self) and look at who is supporting you. If you dissent you are putting your self in a contrarian position and so you have to be prepared to stand alone. If you do not like to be alone then ask who are you with. A great country establishes over time infrastructures that allow for honest dissent. It would be wonderful if the House of Lords could develop in that direction…..wishful thinking perhaps……
There are reports that investigators into the MH17 disaster are in possession of new evidence in the form of a video shot on a mobile phone shortly after the crash.
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/02/27/jubilee-then-shock-as-militia-realise-wrong-plane-shot-down/
Macky – you really are quite thick.
Hitchens was not afraid to be critical of Falwell before he died – Mary starts being critical of Nimmoy just after he dies.
The opposition agreed on a funeral march in central Moscow:
http://lenta.ru/
Representatives of the opposition agreed with the City of Moscow that on Sunday, March 1 at the center of the capital will be held a funeral march in memory of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov. This was announced by opposition leader Ilya Yashin. According to him, the activists will gather at the metro station “China Town” and will be held to celebrate the life of Nemtsov.
@RD, stop digging.
RD; “Really brave attacking the recently deceased.”
“As for Mr Goss’s further episode of Holodomor denial (I will not be a coward and put denial in inverted commas) the man is really sickening – this is up with his links to the Rothchilds pages pushing Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism by the bucket load. And he wonders why he is called a Stalinist from time to time.”
You won’t put it in inverted commas because you know it isn’t true. As I have explained several times to Your Thickness, starvation in the early thirties happened all over the world. It was called the Great Depression. It was worse in some places than others, worse in the Donbas than Kiev. Where is the denial. The link I gave was to the three Holodomors (if you include the latest) engineered by Western Ukrainian fascists on the East, Jews and Poles perpetrated by those you support. SO where is the Holocaust denial. You will never find anywhere where I have denied the holocaust. Stop trying to impute your fascist views onto decent people. The curtain you hide behind is transparent.
http://www.ukrainewar.info/kiev-forcing-death-starvation-relocation-donbass/
Macky
You “replied” to Clark as follows:
“@Clark, I won’t dignify your insulting “questions” with a response; when you learn to engage in a civil debate, then try again.
Over & out !”
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I note that Clark has got the better of you, just as I did the last time you were posting in here (and before you flounced out, vowing never to return).
“Over and out” indeed! Your return is over and you are out cold.
Go back to Squonk to lick your wounds! 🙂
“It was wrong for the Ukrainian nationalists in the diaspora to develop the myth of the 1932-33 Holomodor famine their own families never suffered to become the centerpiece of Ukraine’s nation-building program under Yushchenko after using it so effectively in 1941 against Ukrainians and starving 3 million prisoners to death.”
From the article I linked above. Remember it was published late last year and what was happening before the brave residents of Dnbas managed to push the Putsch government troops back onto their own turf. People like Resident Dissident who on his own admission, in his warped idea of what democracy is, would overthrow (rather push others to overthrow) a government of which he did not approve.
The Holocaust denial is on the delightful Rothschilds conspiracy websites to which you linked – on the very same pages that you linked to, not hidden away elsewhere on the same site.
The Holodomor was rather more than the starvation of the Great Depression – it resulted from Stalin’s deliberate policy of taking all the agricultural produce and selling some of its overseas and its policy of dekulakization – your denial of this again really just shows your true Stalinist colours.
@Habby Walter Mitty, “Over & out !” = I’m tired of this nonsense & loaded questioning, I’m logging off to do something more useful instead, hence the approx 9 hour break from this blog.
Real simple & logical, which is why it apparently doesn’t register with you, or are you playing the fool again ?
The ‘Russian Maidan’
Tony Cartalucci’s insight has a take on the UK/US intention to destabilize Russia and ultimately create chaos and regime change – the West is somewhat good at color revolutions, either by force, sanctions, terror, ‘pussy riot’ propaganda or all four.
http://fables-of-faubus.com/
By way of ‘force’ we understand the Neo-Conservatives are attempting to encircle Russia with NATO on land and sea.
The Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy Initiative, whose membership has helped engineer and promote every war in at least the last 30 years of American history, clearly enumerates what it believes the next steps the US should take toward Russia should be. These include continuing the encirclement of Russia with NATO and its controversial “missile defense” efforts, continuing to build up the Republic of Georgia as a menacing proxy-threat lying on Russia’s borders, and “supporting human rights” focusing on the “Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2011” which seeks yet again to sanction members of the Russian government based on disingenuous “human rights” concerns, just as the FPI and its collaborators did in Libya. source -The foreign Policy Iniative: http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/content/fpi-analysis-moving-beyond-us-russian-%E2%80%9Creset%E2%80%9D
I ask the question:
Will Russia and China be able to have their new alternative to western banking and economy up and functioning, and can President Putin ensure that a US inspired “colour revolution” doesn’t take place to regime change him, because this is what Uncle and his poodle have planned.
The City of London London, the largest banking interests on earth that are producing the policy. They do so via a network of think-tanks they themselves fund. It is essential that we understand who these corporations are, boycott them out of business, and begin replacing them entirely as a society. If they can meddle and cause chaos in the streets of a large, nuclear armed super power, what threat do they pose to average folk, their families, and communities?
Why don’t you read the article to see where all the starvation came from in the three holocausts instead of yet another ad hominem? I have never supported Stalin, though under his and Lenin’s leadership the Soviet Union moved from being a backward starving union of countries to a superpower by the end of the Second World War. Some of his measures were depicable, and those of his KGB henchman Beria. Only recently you ignored my condemnation of the way opposition by artists was rewarded with internement and death in the camps. I particularly mention Mandelstam, Skaldin and the shooting of Gumilev by the Bolsheviks but still you insist in trying to impute what you would like to portray me as being to what I am.
You have been told for the last time. If you persist I will reluctantly have to report you to the mods. I know it’s difficult but please try to address the arguments – not with your usual insults and allegations because if any of this mud got to stick it would only be in the minds of newcomers to the blog. Others know you for what you are.
“The ‘Russian Maidan’
Tony Cartalucci’s insight has a take on the UK/US intention to destabilize Russia and ultimately create chaos and regime change – the West is somewhat good at color revolutions, either by force, sanctions, terror, ‘pussy riot’ propaganda or all four.”
Thank you Mark. At least someone has a rational take on what’s going on.
Two links, one so absurd it’s funny, and other true & damning;
http://original.antiwar.com/malic/2015/02/27/msm-spins-theory-that-putin-hijacked-mh370-and-landed-it-in-kazakhstan/
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/27/isa-munayevs-war/
Regarding Craig Murray:
I’ve just had a telephone conversation with Craig as he was waiting to board a plane to Edinburgh.
Craig apologises for not blogging recently and sends his regards to all of us here. He is very well and in good spirit, though recently recovered from another bout of ‘flu. He says he’s been incredibly busy and has made excellent progress on his book, which he hopes to complete in a matter of weeks, after which he intends to resume frequent blogging. He said that he’s been thoroughly enjoying the furore around Jack Straw’s suspension for corruption and has received many e-mails on that subject.
I asked Craig about his interview via Skype shown on RT, and he confirmed that some parts were cut out. Without further prompting he specifically identified the section following the anomaly in the sound which I pointed out, so I’m rather pleased with my piece of amateur sleuthing:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/amnesty-international-conference-on-torture/comment-page-9/#comment-511428
Craig again warned of the dangers of uncritical acceptance of state-controlled Russian media including RT.
Craig says that he’s hoping to arrange for a “blog yurt” at this year’s Doune the Rabbit Hole festival, with a wood stove, kettle and teapot, right next to The Whistleblower’s Arms bar, of course.
http://dounetherabbithole.co.uk/
Somebody obviously wanted Nemstov dead, but who? Perhaps his silly quote if true “I am afraid Putin will kill me” was the cause of his death. It would not be in the best interests of Putin to have a main opposition leader martyred, so perhaps it is his mafia banking friends. Who knows? These are my thoughts. My contact list does not spread to the Kremlin so I have no idea what the speculation is there. Sorry to disappoint.
Clark, glad to hear Craig is well and his book is progressing. Thanks for the update. I guessed that was the main reason for his not blogging.
Macky your fist link about Putin having hijacked MH370 is so funny when there is that text from the guy in a dungeon in the US military on the Chagos Islands (probably dead now poor man). This blame Putin gets a lot of coverage in Russia. There is a hashtag https://twitter.com/hashtag/blameputin where everything, including the weather, gets blamed on Putin. So naturally today a lot about Nemtsov.