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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Republicofscotland
“Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, is hunting in Spain – a day before joining his father, the Prince of Wales, to call on the world to combat the illegal wildlife trade.”
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Where is the inconsistency in hunting animals (eg deer or pheasants) which are not in danger of extinction and which are in fact bred especially for the purposes of hunting AND at the same time combatting the illegal trade in, say, ivory, or rhino horn, given that elephant and rhino populations are under threat because of that trade?
Do think a little before cocking your leg at every lamppost you encounter!
Republicofscotland
“Do you evidence as to your assertion that Putin or “some faction” as you put it, killed Mr Nemtsov?
If so I would be grateful if you could post it.”
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Well, I didn’t actually assert anything, but no, I have as little proof as you do about who was behind Nemtsov’s murder.
That is why I wrote the following (please re-read, you clown!):
“I think the real point – which the Mr Gosses of this blog are trying to avoid addressing – is not who killed Nemtsov (rasPutin, some faction in the Kremlin, whatever) but that this is how political, economic and social discourse is regulated in Putin’s Russia.”
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There’s no point in you acting as Mr Goss’s bum-boy, you know – you will reap no gratitude from him, nor will you succeed in diverting attention away.
John Goss
“Marks and Spencer was one of the sponsors of my first play “Something Fishy”…blah, blah, blah…I still believe in boycotting Israeli products until they allow Palestinians to live freely in their homeland.”
A surprising admission that our most anti-fascist anti-fascist accepts sponsorship from the target of a long running international anti-Zionist boycott. He writes pro Palestinian comments on the internet though.
Solidarity (when convenient) comrade!
Tony – thanks for that link to Sahra Wagenknecht. Its amazing how insular our media is (we never hear German politicians speaking German although we see Merkel and listen to her dubbed into English). SW is an elegant speaker alright. I didn’t know that Robert Gates had said, according to SW, that it was a bad idea to have pushed NATO so far east in Europe and to have antagonised Russia over the Ukraine. She is pretty straight talking about the standard of government in the Ukraine.
Brian – if only rulers were required to post their children on the boundaries or give them as hostage to their enemies and if only military leaders were brought up to memorize (if not write) poems. It seems inconceivable today that a military leader would memorize the volume of poetry that Lord Wavell did (Other Men’s Flowers is his anthology of poems which he had memorized)….but perhaps I am wrong. Nothing like death for concentration and insight into one’s terrible situation.
“A seven-metre tall poster that was hung on the front of Dom Knigi on 11 April launched a sinister campaign called “Fifth column. Aliens among us”.
It again showed opposition figures including Navalnyy, Makarevich and politician Boris Nemtsov, and also rock musician Yuriy Shevchuk – who hardly gets involved in politics – with two dark aliens with pointed heads, one carrying a briefcase with a white ribbon on it, the symbol of the opposition.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/monitoring/posters-target-russian-traitors-ridicule-obama
The Establishment, a former deputy director of MI6 and paedophilia
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5504/peter-hayman-and-john-henniker-linked-to-paedophile-scandal
“Where is the inconsistency in hunting animals (eg deer or pheasants) which are not in danger of extinction and which are in fact bred especially for the purposes of hunting AND at the same time combatting the illegal trade in, say, ivory, or rhino horn, given that elephant and rhino populations are under threat because of that trade?
Do think a little before cocking your leg at every lamppost you encounter!”
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Yes, quite, it wasn’t that long age, that a royal prince shot and killed rare birds, of course, the prince in question was blameless, according to a Clarence house spokesperson, who went on to add rather reluctantly, that the prince was in the area at the time.
The rare birds Hen Harriers, have been known to kill a Pheasant or two, you know the ones that, Charles and William shot.
As I previously stated the royals are no strangers to acts of hypocrisy.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/oct/31/monarchy.endangeredspecies
You however have, been excreting urine for such a long time now, that in your eyes, its the natural thing to do.
Peace Envoy????????
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” And it has now emerged that the Quartet is withholding reconstruction assistance in order to pressure Hamas to accept certain preconditions. And who is leading this process? Why it’s none other than Peace Envoy Tony Blair.
According to Mousa Abu-Marzkouk, a senior member of Hamas political bureau chief, the Quartet has demanded that the following conditions must be met in order for Gaza to receive reconstruction assistance:
Accept the Palestinian reconciliation.
Accept the political programme based on a Palestinian state on 1967 borders.
Reiterate that Hamas is a Palestinian faction with only Palestinian goals and it is not part of any Islamist movement with regional goals.
Adopt the two-state solution as a final, not temporary, solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Send an assurance message to Egypt that Gaza is not a terror base for Sinai terrorists and hold talks with the Egyptian government to stop terrorism in Sinai.
No one will be surprised to hear that Blair has laid down these conditions, which naturally are not matched by any comparable conditions directed at Israel.
As is always the case with the Palestinians, the occupied/bombed population is expected to acquiesce to the demands of the occupier/bomber nation and its allies, which in the case of conditions three and four, now include Egypt, whose dictatorship Blair is advising in addition to his tireless work for world peace (that was irony folks).
The Quartet’s attempts to blackmail Hamas are really directed at the population of Gaza itself, at the tens of thousands of people who are still living in schools or bombed-out buildings.
This is a continuation of a game that Israel and the ‘international community’ have been playing ever since 2006, when the Gazans made the mistake of believing that democratic elections entitled them to vote for a government of their choice, which just happened to be Hamas.
And the fact that all this should be happening nine years later, to a population that is moving ever closer towards total ruin and collapse, is a shockingly cynical gambit from which none of those concerned emerges with any credit whatsoever.
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/gaza-in-ruins-how-peace-envoy-tony-blair-is-blocking-reconstruction
Very disturbing if true. We have long suspected that the creation of ISIS is the work of the CIA/NATO alliance. Perhaps some questions ought to be asked in parliament if what this Iraqi MP claims is true. UK supplying arms to ISIS.
http://nsnbc.me/2015/03/01/iraqi-mp-claims-iraq-downed-british-plane-with-arms-for-isis/
“Well, I didn’t actually assert anything,2
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Oh, But you did, you went on to say,
“(rasPutin, some faction in the Kremlin, whatever)”
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Putin? or some faction in the Kremlin?
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That sound pretty concise to me.
Lets face it the authorities, can’t at this moment in time be so concise, yet you can.
Other than you telling big fat porkies, I hasten to add its not unknown, are you a psychic? or are you a seer?, or prophet?
Do let us know, as I’ve almost finished my Earl Grey, and it would be handy to know, what the position of the tea leaves means.
There’s a good chap.
Sickening read about Hayman and Henniker, two ex-ambassadors, in that link RobG. Interesting that they met with Her Maj’s approval and were honoured with CVOs by her.
@Mary: Disgraceful about East Coast Mail Line. I don’t understand why Labour didn’t get Branson and Soutar together to work out a deal that could benefit everybody, once the coalition were out of office… which will only be a few more weeks hopefully (although I do remember March 1992…) .
Can someone please explain why this naked man is trying to escape from Buckingham palace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRyM1TJE6HA
Feel free to voice your theories.
EepublicofLies
““Well, I didn’t actually assert anything,2
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Oh, But you did, you went on to say,
“(rasPutin, some faction in the Kremlin, whatever)”
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Putin? or some faction in the Kremlin?
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That sound pretty concise to me.”
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The key word is “whatever”, RoS. Rather un-concise, I should have thought.
@Squonk: Just heard the latest BBC Radio News. Implied that the demonstration in Moscow today was anti-Putin and added that Putin’s government had “denied” that they were responsible for the wayward opposition leader’s death (like they “denied” MH17).
Worst piece of propaganda yet. I think Dr Fox must have been on to them.
Here is an alternative view to the BBC:
http://rt.com/news/236569-nemtsov-mourning-rally-murder/
Republicofscotland
“Can someone please explain why this naked man is trying to escape from Buckingham palace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRyM1TJE6HA
Feel free to voice your theories.”
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He’s obviously a Palace footman who’s a keen reader of this blog. Much taken with the wit and brilliance of your posts, he got a friend of his in MI5 to find out who you were. Desperate to meet and make out with you (he thought you were somehow that sort) he couldn’t wait for his day off but decided to leave the Palace on the spot and attempting to climb down one of the walls was the only way of leaving that occurred to him. He was naked to save time once he got to your place.
Are you going to stand bail for him and visit him in hospital, RoS? This is your chance to demonstrate your concern and love for the Common Man!
I still think it’d be better to make enemies of the Chinese.
All a Russian invasion will bring is ladyboys, mouldy tattie bread, thin gruelly soup and meatless sausage.
At least the Chinese have a fine cuisine and culture and stuff.
We’re doing this all wrong.
Let’s make enemies of the Chinese and hope they invade before the Russians.
These are the kind of real life everyday choices that that bureaucratic elitist MI6 retired bloke just don’t get.
And I have to say that Craig was a bit disingenuous when he said the Russians won’t invade Cornwall. Course they won’t.
They’ll come in through Scotland. Down through Scapa Flow, where Russian cuisine will seem like ambrosian nectar to the locals.
I’m sure someone will claim that bit was edited by those devious Brits working at RT.
Choose your enemies wisely, is all I’ll say.
Two cowardly & vile posters have taken advantage of the fact that John Goss doesn’t hide behind a screen name, but is brave enough to use his real name here. They either have or are threatening to take action in the real world to cause problems for him, simply because they don’t like the opinions he expresses here. Habbabkuk who states he has high level influence iro Poland is gloating that John will receive a nasty surprise the next time he tries to visit Poland, and Resident Dissident has/is threatening to cause trouble for him at a organization John stated he belongs to, Left Unity.
How ironic that Clark, who must know above the above, as they have been stated several times in recent weeks, lets this despicable behavior pass without comment, but chooses instead to strongly berated John Goss several times for John saying to RD that his relatives who had died fighting Nazis in WW2, would be ashamed that RD was now supporting Nazis in Kiev;
“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.”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/amnesty-international-conference-on-torture/comment-page-9/#comment-511634
“John Goss you owe Resident Dissident several apologies. Insulting people through their family relations is dreadful behaviour and you should feel ashamed”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/amnesty-international-conference-on-torture/comment-page-9/#comment-511638
John’s comment here is “dreadful”, both the real life threats to harm him are not even worth mentioning.
“Accept the political programme based on a Palestinian state on 1967 borders.”
“which naturally are not matched by any comparable conditions directed at Israel.”
These two are mutually incompatible.
Macky
I shall be reporting Mr Goss to Left Unity using entirely his own words and making clear that my own political views are not at all supportive of Left Unity. It is purely for Left Unity to decide if it and Goss’s views are compatible. Mr Goss was warned that I would do this if he continued with his insulting behaviour – and his response was to repeat the insult and to encourage me to contact Left Unity.
Mr Goss has repeatedly called me a fascist and other terms of abuse, he has responded to me with links to web pages containing racist and openly homophobic abuse, he has sought to use my family to abuse me – and if I then seek to respond you Macky accuse me of threatening behaviour!
Of course one feature of bullies such as yourself is that you expect the victims to lie back and just keep on taking it – apologies if I disabuse you. My rule when commenting here and elsewhere is not to initiate abuse with those with whom I disagree – and I even will hold my tongue for a while if they respond with abuse, but I am afraid my patience is not unlimited.
Macky at 7:18 pm. Thanks for the support. I think you know, like I know, that Noddy and Resident Dissident are all puff and puffball dust. I’ve called them out before. Resident Dissident would never contact Left Unity because he knows what a fool he would look (not to mention that to be given any credibility he would have to reveal his name). It’s a non-starter. Noddy I doubt has contacts anywhere, certainly not in Poland. The last time I visited (last year) it was still part of Europe and there were no border controls.
I’ve not been too involved with his blog recently, but I seem to remember that a suggestion was made that Craig’s excellent appearance on RT had been edited. Any evidence yet to support that assertion?
I only heard of this today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30355953
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/britain-to-establish-first-permanent-military-base-in-middle-east-for-43-years-in-bahrain-9907802.html
@John: You may be interested to hear that the Ukrainian Deputy Gerasimenko allegedly involved in the Odessa tragedy was detained at the Nemtsov march in Moscow today:
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-detains-ukrainian-parliament-member-over-odessa-fire-185447254.html
“are all puff and puffball dust”
A bit like our Russian experts view’s on modern Russia
As I have said Mr Goss the only views and words Left Unity will have to consider will be your own. My name and thoughts will be of no relevance whatsoever to them. I might even post the email here!
Like yourself Mr Goss I shall post in my own name when I reach retirement age and no longer have any contractual responsibilities to my employer – we still don’t know what name you posted under prior to retirement.
Clark… that is old news. Didn’t do much for GB’s International reputation, as you can imagine.
Bahrain military base: sorry, I meant to post this link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/building-a-british-naval-base-in-bahrain-is-a-symbolic-choice–for-no-clear-reason-9908344.html
Oh well pardon me “Peacewisher”. I’ll just shut up shall I and let John Goss and Macky sanitise another immoral government’s reputation, yes?
Go Macky! Hurry John Goss! Russia isn’t a nuclear power! Those nukes are just cardboard! Russia isn’t one of the most militarised nations on Earth! Not even a major arms manufacturer!
Nothing allowed on Craig’s blog except praise of the Great Russia!
Putin! Putin! Oligarchs forever! I love Alisher Usmanov and Gazprom!
(better, “Peacewisher”?)