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  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Okay, how about NYT reporter David Carr collapsing and dying shortly after he moderated a discussion of film Citizenfour – the leakers who disclosed Edward Snowden’s secrets.

    Now there are only three!

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Anybody who cannot see this is blind. It is Palestine but worse.

    A nuclear-armed country clandestinely eroding the borders of not just a former country but a sovereign state established by treaty? Yes, I see what you mean. Or do I?

  • ------------·´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node

    Clark 13 Feb, 2015 – 11:15 am : “John Goss, is that video available on Youtube or anywhere else please? I really don’t want to corrupt my system with Adobe’s horrible Flash Player, which isn’t required by most sites these days”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMzLrF5uVo

  • Macky

    Clark; “Macky, do you support Putin?”

    Adopting the Habby diversionary & inquisitor style ? My opinion on Putin has no relevance on either the RD’s repellant nature, or you being a useful idiot.

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    The West is constantly cooking up schemes, some of which work, like ousting Saddam after the 9/11 cockup, but many of them just string out the chaos and confusion, like the ouster itself, and trying to hem in Russia in the Black Sea area for years.

  • John Goss

    A Node, I thought Clark meant this video.

    http://en.hunternews.ru/?post_type=videogallery&p=302

    Suggest Ba’al takes a look too. And the other one about western funding of the Nazis in Kiev.

    It’s not about the west having lost control. Chaos is what they set out to cause in the first place in the middle east with the ultimate goal of releasing Israel from its self-constructed prison to rule the new United States of Israel. Taking a long time.

  • John Goss

    I have received an email from Left Unity with the following content. I want to share it because it explains in a nutshell why Left Unity is different. It will support any candidate of any party who has proven credentials of an anti-austerity campaign. Left Unity would not stand in opposition to such candidates.

    “Greece’s Syriza government is the greatest challenge to austerity that Europe’s elites have yet faced. The Greek people’s fight is an inspiration to us all.

    For us on the left in Britain it also poses a question: how can we present the biggest and most united opposition to austerity possible in the coming general election?

    As a sister party to Syriza, sharing its wide range of radical left politics, we hope you will join us in Left Unity and support our member-led election campaigns. But we know that to win our central priority, defeating the big parties’ consensus on cuts, a wider alliance will be needed.

    So we make this public pledge: we will support any candidate, whether they are from the Greens, the Labour left or a smaller party committed to equality, who states clearly that they will never vote for austerity and whose record leads us to believe that they are sincere.

    Not only will we not be standing against these candidates, we will actively campaign for them where possible.

    We will make every effort to negotiate with other parties who are prepared to enter into democratic discussion, with the aim of uniting around one anti-austerity candidate in each constituency. We call on the whole left to do likewise.

    Equally we will vigorously oppose all candidates, whatever their party, who claim there is ‘no alternative’ to the cuts or that they stand for ‘fairer cuts’.

    As Syriza MP Costas Lapavitsas has said, “if a powerful alliance of leftwing forces emerged across Europe, the nightmare of austerity could be ended… Europe would be transformed.”

    We hope this will be a positive step towards the defeat of austerity in Britain and across Europe.

    Left Unity national officers”

    http://leftunity.org/membership-form/

  • Macky

    Clark; “Will you answer plain questions?”

    Sorry, but I’m not in the business of the demonizing national leaders in order to justify Western nefarious meddling, unlike RD, & seemingly yourself.

  • Clark

    Macky, I haven’t asked you to demonise anyone or anything – please do not guess at my motives. I just would like to know to what extent you support Putin, so therefore I asked, plainly and politely.

    Further, I’d like to know to what extent you approve of the Russian political system and Russian mass-media.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Russian propaganda is well-intentioned, scrupulously honest, never selective, and only seeks to enlighten the decadent Western bourgeoisie as to the evils it is inflicting on wholly innocent, freedom-loving, democratic Mother Russia.

    Whereas Ukrainian propaganda is constructed by the Hitler-adoring Nazis who constitute the entire non-Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. Feel free to ignore this:

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/kramatorsk-attack-shows-new-separatist-firepower-380494.html

    More detail –

    http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/kramatorsk-attacked-with-smerch-bm-30.html

  • John Goss

    Now you are getting ridiculous Ba’al. Kyiv Post as put out so many false reports, including a ridiculous admission they had prepared with an alleged recording of separatists claiming to have shot down MH17. Later proved to be a forgery made the day before Kiev’s Captain Vladislav Voloshin shot it out of the sky.

    I have seen that same Kramatorsk rocket in eastern reports claiming that it might as likely have been fired by Kiev. Much more balanced from RT. The freedom-fighters in E. Ukraine have no reason to fire on their own people.

    http://rt.com/news/230975-kramatorsk-ukraine-shelling-poroshenko/

    Remember they all have Russian weapons supplied long before the conflict began. And the east has many weapons that the defectors and captured forces left behind. Come on Ba’a’ it’s not like you to be lacking in objectivity. I expect it of others.

  • Clark

    Many here are highly critical of Resident Dissident, even to the point of denouncing him as a “Nazi”. My own opinion is that he has an abrasive, sarcastic style that provokes unpleasant reactions, which then escalate out of all proportion.

    When asked politely, Resident Dissident is prepared to present and defend his opinions. To me, that makes him a serious commenter. For instance, in answer to how Russia could be run better, he replied, on 9 Feb at 11:30 pm:

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/wow/comment-page-4/#comment-508169

    “Perhaps by dealing with the oligarchs rather than encouraging them – not introducing a flat income tax rate of 20% might have been a start. Perhaps by taking measures to tackle corruption rather than increasing it. Perhaps by not taking over and closing down opposition tv stations, radio channels and newspapers. Perhaps by reduicing capital outflows from the country rather than by increasing them. Perhaps by respecting the independence of his neighbours………….. […] There are plenty of young decent highly qualified Russians full of alternative ways for running their country – perhaps you might wish to listen to them first”

    which looks pretty sensible to me. He did not reply “by being overrun by proxy US forces”. Unfortunately he spoiled his answer by imputing motives to other commenters and interjecting some sarcasm:

    “I could go on but I rather doubt that you recognise that there are other ways of running Russia other than that followed by Putin and Norwegian democracy”

    but that was pretty mild considering the number of times he’d been accused of supporting murder by Nazis, which he never has, not once.

    There is a simple fact that needs to be accepted by both “sides” in this argument:

    CRITICISING ONE SIDE IS NOT THE SAME AS SUPPORTING ITS OPPOSITE.

  • Clark

    John Goss, please be assured that I have some questions for Resident Dissident too, when his presence and mine coincide at this blog.

  • Clark

    Craig got it right, right at the start. Ukraine needed, and still needs, to split, but the politicians are too macho.

    Ba’al identified the practical problem with this, at 8:56 am:

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/wow/comment-page-6/#comment-508745

    “Awaiting with interest the successful implementation of the ceasefire, and its equally successful breach or circumvention, leading to the successful annexation of at least the coastal strip connecting Crimea with Mother Russia”

  • Ba'al Zevul

    When asked politely, Resident Dissident is prepared to present and defend his opinions. To me, that makes him a serious commenter.

    Agree with that. Also he seems to have some awareness of economics, and his views, agree with them or not, are upfront and pretty consistent. Like, despite myself.

  • Macky

    Clark; “I just would like to know to what extent you support Putin”

    Why ? How does that relate to my thinking that the US is delibrately causing trouble in Ukraine to try & ultimately destroy Russia as a possible superpower rival ?

    Anyhow, iro of the Ukraine situation, I believe Putin has been the only adult in the room, the only one who has tried from the start to seek a negotiated peaceful settlement, which is why you can only laugh at RD’s “the pressure on Putin to come to the negotiating table has worked”; the fact that Merkel & Hollande, seemingly without US involvement, eventually took up Putin’s offer for negotiating, is probably a sign they realize that the imminent US weapons supplies would really be a disaster of all, including Europe.

    One also has to laugh again at his gleeful “point’ at this withdrawal of heavy weapons, because as Saker points out;

    “n purely military terms the withdrawal of heavy systems is entirely to the Novorussian advantage. Remember that Kiev used these systems to try to terrorize the Novorussian population while the Novorussians used their artillery to try to suppress the junta’s artillery. The Novorussians could never use their artillery to attack because they were liberating their own land and did not want to murder their own civilians. So, in other words, if both sides really withdraw their heavy guns the junta will lose a crucial capability while the Novorussians will lose an almost useless one.”

    Clark; “I’d like to know to what extent you approve of the Russian political system and Russian mass-media”

    Again no relevence, I’m only concerned with the Ukraine situation, and how it appears to me, & especially after exposure to media from all sides.

  • Republicofscotland

    So Miliband is using double standards when it comes to tax dodgers, the Labour party has received million s in donations from tax exile Sir David Garrard.

    Garrard has pledged to back Jim Murphy in his quest to thwart the SNP, in the run up to the GE.

    In 2005 Garrard,tried to buy his way into the House of Lords, by donating £2.3 million quid to Labour, the Lords Appointment Commission blocked Garrard, from the becoming a Lord.

    Labour like the Tories can’t be trusted.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Now you are getting ridiculous Ba’al.

    Intentionally. Well done. But while you swallow Moscow-affiliated propaganda whole, and pass it on as fact, I reserve the right to be equally uncritical of Kiev’s offerings. But I know how Moscow works, and has always worked. It isn’t an innocent party. Ever. Any more than we are.

  • John Goss

    “It isn’t an innocent party. Ever. Any more than we are.”

    No I agree. No government is innocent. I believe that to get to the top in politics, largely speaking, you have to have the carapace of a Tony Blair.

  • Republicofscotland

    Deutsche Bank, which warned Scotland that it would be bankrupt if it voted yes to independence, has now come out and said that Scotland would be far better off going it alone.

    Deutsche bank, stated that many of Europe’s regions of bigger states, including Scotland would prosper.

    Hmm…Funny how Deutsche bank predicted a great depression worse than the American depression of the 30’s for Scots if they went alone and voted for independence.

    Now Deutsche bank, predict prosperity for Scots if Scotland now were independent.

  • John Goss

    I know that was after the first Minsk agreement and Kiev has lost a lot of ground since then. Warmongers are warmongers. I fear there will be no peace because he said when he came to power he would soon bring peace to eastern Ukraine.

  • Macky

    Clark; “CRITICISING ONE SIDE IS NOT THE SAME AS SUPPORTING ITS OPPOSITE”

    No it’s not, but motives are everything; if you really think it is a coincidence that RD tries to mitigate every act of Western aggression with diversionary dissembling, much like Habbu, then on this one you need to wake up & smell the same coffee as Craig, who has called out shills here more than once, and if my memory serves me right, that may have included RD himself.

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