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  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Clark

    “I make myself sick.”
    ______________

    Cheer up, laddy. There are other posters who must surely even feel sicker when they look at themselves in the mirror after a hard day of posting rubbish (a hard evening in RepublicOfDementedRamblings’s case).

    Can you imagine what Mr Goss, Mary, Tony M, RobG and so on must feel? They’re the ones all right-thinking people should feel sorry for.

  • John Goss

    I’m not sure about this Bellingcat site but it seems fairly objective.

    https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/01/10/su-25-mh17-and-the-problems-with-keeping-a-story-straight/

    How can somebody who does not exist have their Twitter account deleted? Anyway everything he tweeted seems to have been corroborated by facts. But those of you, and I mean you Fred too, who dabble in subterfuge and misinformation should start looking for facts instead of making stupid statements.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    “A Saudi historian has sparked outrage by claiming Western women drive cars because they do not care if they are “raped by the roadside”.

    Dr Saleh al-Saadoon appeared to justify a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia by saying that they could be attacked and sexually assaulted if their car broke down.”
    ________________-

    Amazing the things some prominent Arabs come up with , eh?

    Apparently Hamas isn’t too keen on women drivers either. But they’re OK for suicide bombings.

  • Mary

    Capita approved for NHS England’s £3-5bn Lead Provider Framework for Commissioning Support Services
    5 February 2015
    Capita plc (‘Capita’) announced today that it has been approved by NHS England to join the new Lead Provider Framework for Commissioning Support Services. Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) will be required to re-procure many of their support services by April 2016 in order to comply with EU procurement law, which NHS England anticipates will mean that between £3-5bn of services will be procured through the framework. NHS England has put in place free procurement and legal support to reduce the burden on CCGs so that this process is as quick and simple as possible. It expects that the typical procurement process will only take three months to award each contract.
    http://www.capita.co.uk/news-and-opinion/news/2015/capita-approved-for-nhs-englands-lead-provider-framework-for-commissioning-support-services.aspx

    The Register report that ‘the outsourcing giant Capita, is one of three companies to be awarded a place on the >£5 BILLION Lead Provider Framework for Commissioning Support Services.’ These outfits will be advising the CCGs how they should invite tenders for services, right up to the district hospitals. They would scrutinise the competence and other qualities of those tendering to care for us in those many ways.

    It is also reported that ‘The CCGs will be required to re-procure (always neologisms) many of their support services by April 2016 in order to comply with EU procurement law’. So our NHS is being fundamentally changed, and definitely for the worse, by organisations that have unelected commissioners. It is no surprise that they are driven by market theory. The massive bureaucratisation of the NHS arises out of the belief that private is good and public bad.

    When the ‘Internal Market’ was being promoted under Thatcher, the words were “The profit motive is the only driver of individual energy and ingenuity.”

    We know this is not true and we know also that all these complicated, costly constructions are designed to greatly increase the flow of our taxes into private hands.

    See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/09/capita_lead_on_mega_5bn_nhs_commissioning_deal/

  • Dreoilin

    “Your article provides no evidence whatsoever.” — Fred

    I linked to two different articles, Fred. Anyway, I’m not interested in getting into an argument.

    You believe what you want, and I’ll do likewise.

    I want to sleep early and well. And an argument here will not increase the likelihood of that.

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    Mr Goss

    “But those of you, and I mean you Fred too, who dabble in subterfuge and misinformation should start looking for facts instead of making stupid statements.”
    _______________

    Or we could take a leaf (several leaves, actually) out of your book, Mr Goss, and start making up facts*, eh? You could start a masterclass.

    * the “Fulbright scholars” on http://www.stopfake.org refer

  • Kempe

    ” You believe what you want, and I’ll do likewise. ”

    Yes it all about what you want to believe and not what the evidence says. I mean if you want to believe that a ground attack aircraft with no AI radar and lacking the speed and altitude to catch a B777 shot it down with a couple of puny heat seeking missiles which miraculously left the engines undamaged or that a non-existant Spaniard in Kiev would know what was going on in an area where air control is based in Dnipropetrovsk why not?

    http://www.whathappenedtoflightmh17.com/conspiracy-theory-debunked/

  • Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)

    ReoublicOfWildRavings

    “You couldn’t make this shit up, an unelected parasite promotes another unelected parasite, even though the parasite, is mired in a sex scandal.”
    ______________

    Actually, on re-reading that cri de coeur I had to laugh.

    There’s stiff competition for the Idiocy Cup on this blog, but only you, ROWR, could complain because monarchs are non-elected.

    Precious!

  • Clark

    I love the Nazis on all sides and all their backers and infiltrators. I love it when Russia taps Nuland’s ‘phone, and I love it when the US taps Merkel’s ‘phone. I love the beheadings done with the weapons paid for by my country’s allies, with weapons supplied by friends of my country’s Royal Family. I love it when a government persuades a country to give up weapons of mass destruction for a promise of safety, and then after an election a “different” government arms and backs the opposition with air cover and destroys all the infrastructure. I can see what our democracy must mean to the people living there; it means that no one’s ever responsible, no one is ever to blame, no one ever goes to prison. I love my vote being used to justify treachery and torture. I love it when Russian journalists get thrown out of windows. I love Russian oligarchs and US dynasties. I want to be rich and powerful, one of the Great and the Good, one of the movers and shakers. I want a strong leader.

    Play loud:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrGRR6Su4E

  • fred

    “You believe what you want, and I’ll do likewise.”

    Right now I’ll believe that the rebels were in posession of BUK misiles because the report pre-dates the crash and that they insisted on amnesty for events that took place in specific parts of Donetsk and Luhansk as terms of the ceasefire.

  • Anon

    From the office of Kim John Goss:

    “But those of you, and I mean you Fred too, who dabble in subterfuge and misinformation should start looking for facts instead of making stupid statements.”

    You have been warned!

  • Mary

    12 Feb 2015
    Funding for joint British-Israeli projects announced

    British Prime Minister David Cameron announced the eight joint British-Israeli medical research projects to receive over £3m in British funding in 2015 via the BIRAX Regenerative Medicine Initiative. Not only are Israeli universities not held accountable for their active role in perpetuating the Israeli occupation, but they become (funded) saviours working to rid the world of the scourge of disease.

    Teams at Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Manchester and Oxford Universities will receive funding in 2015. Details of their Israeli counterparts were not publicised.

    BIRAX (the Britain Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership) is a £10 million initiative of the British Council and British Embassy in Israel in collaboration with the Pears Foundation and the UJIA. BIRAX funds “cutting-edge research using stem cell therapies to tackle some of the world’s most dreadful diseases”.

    Conducting medical research is ostensibly a noble venture, although here it is used to cover Israeli universities’ complicity and even active collaboration in occupying Palestinian territory and oppressing the Palestinian people. Not only are Israeli universities not held accountable for their role in actively perpetuating the Israeli occupation, but they become (funded) saviours working to rid the world of disease

    /..
    http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/activism/bds/485-funding-for-joint-british-israeli-projects-announced

  • Anon

    “Conducting medical research is ostensibly a noble venture, although here it is used to cover Israeli universities’ complicity and even active collaboration in occupying Palestinian territory and oppressing the Palestinian people. Not only are Israeli universities not held accountable for their role in actively perpetuating the Israeli occupation, but they become (funded) saviours working to rid the world of disease”

    Yes, best get rid of them and collaborate instead with some of those famous Arab universities at the forefront of medical research…

  • ------------·´`·.¸¸.¸¸.··.¸¸Node

    Update from George Galloway about his kickstarter-funded film : “The Killing of Tony Blair”

    Dear backers,

    Please forgive the delay in bringing you this update, and thank you once more for your patience and continuing support. A lot has happened both on and off the film since I last wrote, all of which, thankfully, is good news for us, and bad news for Mr Blair.

    But let me cut to the chase. I’m happy to report that the Blair Doc is now, finally (!), on the home stretch. Over the winter period we’ve been busy tying up the remainder of our 40+ interviews (among them our second and third former cabinet ministers) and planning the post-production process. As a result, we have now secured a top quality editor who has started to put the film together. Meanwhile, our composer Steve Finnerty from Alabama 3 (of Sopranos theme-tune fame), is working on an original score with the help of art rock legend Robert Wyatt. We are also working with graphic designers, animators to make sure our documentary looks the part too.

    As a feature-length doc covering a wide range of topics, and with extensive archive footage and many, many interviews, we expect the edit to take at least 12 weeks to complete, and will give the editor the time he needs to make the finished article as good as it can be. With further post-production work required after the editing is complete, it is still too early to set a formal release date.

    Back in the (sur)real world the winter months been rather less successful for Mr Blair. From the public disgust at his GQ and Save the Children ‘philanthropy’ awards to his placing in the metaphorical dock by parliamentary Lords and even Nick Clegg (yes you heard correctly) over the CIA torture report and the Chilcot Inquiry, even I am surprised at how quickly mainstream opinion has turned against Blair. Indeed it appears we’re approaching somewhat of a zeitgeist. You may recall Kony 2012. By the looks of things this year’s shaping up to be #Tony2015. Thanks to your support myself and the Blair Doc team will do our best to make sure of it

    Respect,

    George Galloway MP </blockquote

    Respect right back at ya, George.

  • RobG

    Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)
    13 Feb, 2015 – 8:27 pm:

    “Cheer up, laddy. There are other posters who must surely even feel sicker when they look at themselves in the mirror after a hard day of posting rubbish (a hard evening in RepublicOfDementedRamblings’s case).

    Can you imagine what Mr Goss, Mary, Tony M, RobG and so on must feel? They’re the ones all right-thinking people should feel sorry for.”

    I see the head is swivelling round and round again. I’ve now got myself an umbrella, to catch the projectile vomiting.

    Thus protected, I would be fascinated to know what Habba’s definition of a ‘right-thinking’ person is?

    I’m now stretched out on the couch, because I know I will have to lay down…

  • Dreoilin

    “What a useless, stupid apologist I am. I make myself sick.”

    Clark. Stop it. You’re talking yourself down, when you should be talking yourself up.

  • Mary

    Amidst all the ‘noise’ on here and the diversionary tactics of the trolls, think of this lonely and ill Palestinian child languishing in an Israeli prison cell.

    URGENT APPEAL: Ref: UA 01/15
    NAME: Khaled Husam Mahmoud Sheikh, 15

    VIOLATIONS: Abuse of the rights of the child, denial of treatment & family visits

    Please call for the urgent intervention to immediately release Khaled Husam Mahmoud Sheikh, 15 who is held in Ofer Israeli prison and suffers from a number of health conditions, including anaemia. His current haemoglobin blood cell count is low and Israel is not providing him with the urgently needed medical attention.

    Please send letters of protest to H.E. LEILA ZERROUGUI Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, H.E.RIYAD H.MANSOUR, Ambassador, Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine and H.E. RON PROSOR, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations

    Current Urgent Appeal on http://www.palestinematters.com

    For Further Information:
    Military Court Watch http://www.militarycourtwatch.org/index.php

    ~~~~~

    I see that the C2H6O appears to be flowing freely for some on here at the moment!

  • Mary

    For the attention of the troll known as Anon.

    History of Medicine
    The Islamic Golden Age, spanning the 8th to the 15th Centuries, saw many great advances in science, as Islamic scholars gathered knowledge from across the known world and added their own findings.

    One of these important fields was Islamic medicine, which saw medical practice begin to resemble our modern systems. Certainly, this period of the history of medicine was centuries ahead of Europe, still embedded in the Dark Ages
    https://explorable.com/islamic-medicine

    ‘Islamic Middle Ages C9th-12th]
    Main article: Medicine in medieval Islam
    An Arabic manuscript, dated 1200, titled Anatomy of the Eye, authored by al-Mutadibih.

    The Islamic civilization rose to primacy in medical science as its physicians contributed significantly to the field of medicine, including anatomy, ophthalmology, pharmacology, pharmacy, physiology, surgery, and the pharmaceutical sciences. The Arabs were influenced by, and further developed ancient Indian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine medical practices.[45] Galen & Hippocrates were pre-eminent authorities. The translation of 129 works of ancient Greek physician Galen into Arabic by the Nestorian Christian Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his assistants, and in particular Galen’s insistence on a rational systematic approach to medicine, set the template for Islamic medicine, which rapidly spread throughout the Arab Empire. Muslim physicians set up dedicated hospitals.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medicine#Physicians

    etc etc

  • Dreoilin

    “Yes, best get rid of them and collaborate instead with some of those famous Arab universities at the forefront of medical research…” – Anon

    That’s a truly ignorant remark.

    “Writing is a key part of the Arab nation’s bequest to the world. Paper was introduced from China before the end of the first Christian millennium, freeing Arab writers from the costly straitjacket of parchment and papyrus, some 300-400 years before paper reached western Europe. The result was a torrent of poetry and prose, philosophy and scholarship, learning and entertainment. This was the era of The Thousand and One Nights and of vast public libraries. There were astronomical observatories, pharmaceutical laboratories and medical schools. And most of these were flourishing before England’s King Alfred was born.”

    You can read the rest here – I’d advise it.
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/15/race.television

  • Mary

    Amazing! How do they do that? Chutzpah.

    13 February 2015
    HMRC failed to prosecute tycoon over tax evasion
    By Richard Bilton
    BBC Panorama

    ‘HMRC has failed to prosecute a wealthy tycoon who did not pay tax for 24 years

    HSBC whistleblower: There are ‘more revelations’
    HSBC whistleblower’s email to HMRC surfaces
    HSBC ‘helped clients dodge tax’

    Tax inspectors failed to prosecute a wealthy tax cheat who did not submit returns or pay any tax for 24 years, documents seen by BBC Panorama show.

    HM Revenue and Customs had concluded that Paul Bloomfield, a property investor involved in the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium, was a UK resident and liable for 20 years’ tax.

    Mr Bloomfield was on a list of HSBC clients with secret Swiss accounts.’

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31459067

    It’s quite easy to muddle the two acronyms – HSBC and HMRC. I thought Lin Homer the HMRC chief officer was unimpressive in front of Mrs Hodge’s committee. Her CV is not exactly glowing but she seems to get parachuted in to new posts.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Homer

  • mike

    Right one cue: Obama gets permission to fight Round Seven of the Big Fight for Hegemony, then we get this:

    http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/02/13/397460/ISIL-militants-attack-air-base-in-Iraq

    Won’t be long before ISIS kill their first American. Then the build up of forces for the campaign which, inevitably, will “spill over” into Syria will take place in earnest.

    PS Ukrainian Nazis reject Minsk agreement. The war on those pesky “rebel held cities” — you know, where the people live — continues.

  • Anon

    “That’s a truly ignorant remark.”

    I mean now, ditsy. Ditto Mary with her ‘golden age’ of 1,000 years ago.

  • Clark

    Oh how right Habbabkuk is, how disgusting that I should have any respect for John Goss.

    Oh how clearly Macky sees, my grotesque support for Resident Dissident.

    Should I shoot at both sides? Should I shoot myself to save them both having to shoot at me? Should I just stop caring?

  • Mary

    ‘Isaac Marrache also spent a while explaining his business relationship with Paul Bloomfield, a well-known UK-based property developer. The defendant has claimed he shared a credit card with Mr Bloomfield, something the liquidator Adrian Hyde previously said he found hard to believe. Today, Mr Marrache presented what he said was evidence of this credit card arrangement he had with the property tycoon. He claims he found this evidence among the many boxes of unused material in this case.’
    http://www.gbc.gi/news/3176/isaac-marrache-gives-evidence:-day-4

    Bloomfield’s fall and rise
    5 Sep 2005 –
    By Jenny Davey
    September 5 2005

    PAUL BLOOMFIELD, friend of well-known property entrepreneurs such as Elliott Bernerd and Gerald Ronson, gained the nickname “Boom Boom Bloomfield” in the 1980s after blazing a trail buying and selling some of Britain’s best-known sites, including Paternoster Square, near St Paul’s Cathedral.

    He worked with the late Tony Clegg and his Mountleigh Group, a property investor and trader that collapsed after their departure.

    A separate project forced Mr Bloomfield into bankruptcy in the 1990s property crash but he retreated to Russia to trade his way out of trouble, reportedly making £158m through deals in the former Soviet states…..paywall

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/construction-property/article2165670.ece

    PS Ronson served a jail sentence in 1990. Founding Chairman of the Community Security Trust. Rewarded with a CBE from P Anne in 2012 for his charitable work.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ronson

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