Bloody hell. Read this. Brilliant.
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OMG – The spell on the cattle is waning, all can see through the spin of a rifkind (or a habba) now, the satanists need a mass human sacrifice to rekindle the spell, will it be in Ukraine or Iran? Judging from the internet chatter of CMs in-house canaries here, it might just be Ukraine. A savior can be the double dutching investigator of MH17, if the clown can now come up with enough dutch courage to tell us definitely WHO THE DEVILS ARE IN THIS UKRAINIAN FIASCO,IS IT PORO (via the Kiev ATC) or WAS IT PUTIN, the delay is very telling. There can only be ONE satan eg in the microcosm of this blog – its either Mary or its habba !! Only one is the bad guy.
Habbabkuk
Have you actually gone onto the “globalresearch” website?
If you have, perhaps you could point me to the composition of the editorial board, the management board and the declaration of how the website is financed? Or even a list of regular contributors?
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I rang Michel Chossudovsky with your questions. (Gentle reminder, his telephone and extension number at the University of Ottawa is 613-562-5800 ext. 4899) He said they don’t have an editorial board as such, they employ a sophisticated computer algorithm that monitors the corporate media for bias and distortion and commissions articles to correct the bias.
As for finance, he said it doesn’t cost much to run a website, so generally they take a violin and a guitar down the subway on a Saturday afternoon to play a few tunes. In the interests of transparency they collect the money in an old jam jar.
Now can you explain to me why you feel it is necessary to know the credentials of somebody before you can evaluate his/her argument? And, if that is the case, can you explain why we should take anything you say seriously given that you post anonymously?
P.S. Michel sends his love
Ireland is toeing the line.
Ireland Introduces Tougher Anti-Terror Laws
New anti-terror measures will see 10-year jail sentences introduced in Ireland for anybody convicted of promoting terrorism.
http://news.sky.com/story/1422239/ireland-introduces-tougher-anti-terror-laws
From the convicted terrorist via Mr Goss
“On 10 December 2013 as part of a plea bargain for a sentence cap at fifteen years and facilitation to serve the sentence in the UK, I pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to terrorists. I was not guilty of either but I otherwise faced the potential of receiving a life sentence if a jury convicted me in an atmosphere of serious prejudice.”
Although the convicted terrorist goes on at great length about the case made against him by the UK Authorities, he of course presents none of the case that would have been presented against him by the Prosecution in the US – they would have been required to show him their case against him as part of the plea bargain process. Why the silence on what the US case was – once could speculate that it was rather more damming than the selective evidence presented by the convicted terrorist.
I would also note that it seems likely that the convicted terrorist would appear to have be well treated while in US custody – as we can see fairly clearly that he does not hold back when he was treated badly in UK custody so perhaps it is the Prosecution evidence rather than prison conditions that made him enter into a plea bargain in his particular case.
“RD: You seem to be issuing John with threats, and then more questions, rather than answering his reasonable question.”
No I warned Mr Goss on a previous thread what would happen if he accused me of fascism and I will now keep my promise.
I’m prepared to answer reasonable questions from anyone – and quite a lot of unreasonable ones. Mr Goss has demonstrated time and time again that he isn’t. I am not aware of any reasonable questions that Mr Goss may have outstanding – and he certainly hasn’t asked me one on this thread.
I might also point out that Mr Goss once used a link to a particular post to make a racist attack on myself – he apologised to the site in general for linking to a racist site claiming that he was drunk at the time (although he made subsequent posts that were quite cogent) but has most pointedly refused to apologise to myself for the slurs that he made.
The Islamophobia News Algorithm
https://cdn2.cdnme.se/4278748/8-3/news_bs_54b6fae22a6b22b556158961.jpg
The link is from a blog. I do not know the origin of the image. It is clever and accurate.
It was also posted on Medialens earlier.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1423281865.html
“Actually, you’ve got me thinking that one should perhaps refer “Left Unity” to Mr Goss’s views on various matters as expressed on this blog.”
That is exactly what I shall be doing – his words and links not mine, I shall make it perfectly clear that I am not, never have been and never will be a supported of Left Unity – although I am sure they still have room for one more in their telephone box.
“On the other hand, of course, there’s the risk that, having read his comments, they might put him forward as a prospective Parliamentary candidate.”
If they wish to waste another £500 that is their perogative
Res Dis
If you dislike Mr Goss so much, why did you pretend to be him a while back?
“If you dislike Mr Goss so much, why did you pretend to be him a while back?”
He dislikes everything anti-establishment. He is duplicitous, a deceitful liar, and supporter of the supermax prison service, yet claims to be for the people. I have little time for him and think he might be a spook. Are you a spook Resident Dissident? Or are you not allowed to say?
O/T
I put this photo up yesterday and it has had more hits than most of my photos. Why “Great Tits” should be getting so much attention is beyond me.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127161425@N07/16455821461/
I think he must secretly admire you – imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Mr Goss
I am not a spook, I do not support mercenaries, I am not a supporter of supermax prisons, I do not dislike everything that is anti-establishment (look at my views on economics if you really want evidence), I am not a fascist, I have no fascist friends and I am not a deceitful liar. You on the other hand seem to have a real problem with the truth and think you can make up my views without even asking or looking at what I have said previously.
KOWN
“If you dislike Mr Goss so much, why did you pretend to be him a while back?”
Out of exhasperation with Mr Goss in not answering the many times asked question about his position on Solidarnosc I thought I would put the reasonable response of a normal person to that question in order to trigger an actual answer from Mr Goss. Mr Goss made it all rather easy by leaving his login email all over the place.
KOWN
And please don’t think that because I once read one of your piss poor books (IMHO – but that doesn’t mean I want to ban them) I am also your secret admirer as well.
Just in case anyone is interested: Yesterday’s Resonance FM broadcast about Syriza that I mentioned above is now available online here.
“Out of exhasperation with Mr Goss in not answering the many times asked question about his position on Solidarnosc I thought I would put the reasonable response of a normal person to that question in order to trigger an actual answer from Mr Goss. Mr Goss made it all rather easy by leaving his login email all over the place.”
Bollocks. You pretended, not for the first time, to be another commenter supporting yourself. Your comments were riddled with lies. So don’t try and pretend you have any street-cred on this blog. Everybody knows you for what you are.
Resident Dissident 7 Feb, 2015 – 10:57 am
“If you dislike Mr Goss so much, why did you pretend to be him a while back?”
“Out of exhasperation with Mr Goss in not answering the many times asked question about his position on Solidarnos . . . .”
So contributors to this blog have an obligation to answer questions put to them by other contributors? Great, You’ve ignored this one several times:
Why do you post here? I’m glad you do, but I’m curious as to how you would justify it. You give every appearance of despising the majority of posters here, so presumably you’re not concerned for our moral, spiritual or educational welfare, yet you spend your precious time trying to convince us of the ‘official position’ on topics. Personally, I learn a lot from this site, but I doubt you would admit to that, so just why do you bless us with your presence?
As to my email address being available, that is probably true of all honest people who comment under their own name. But because it is available does not mean that you, or anyone else, is entitled to impersonate and misrepresent me. You have no shame!
Video/transcript – Democracy Now – Interview with Al-Arian in Turkey – so much to read between the lines re 9/11.
Exclusive: Deported Palestinian Scholar Sami Al-Arian on His Chilling Post-9/11 Prosecution
Even in the—a lot of people ask me, “Why did you support Bush?” Well, it wasn’t really supporting Bush per se. You now, I approached both the Gore campaign and the Bush campaign, and the Gore campaign, whose administration at the time was using secret evidence, against mostly Arabs and Muslims, they just ignored our pleas, whereas the Bush campaign gave us lip service, except at the last month, when the race was neck to neck. So I get a call from someone who was very close to Karl Rove, asking me personally how we can get the endorsement of the Muslim community. And my answer was that you need to—so he needs to say—the candidate, Bush, needs to say publicly that he’s against secret evidence and that he is for the bill that we were advancing in Congress. And to my surprise, the following day, during the second debate, he said these two things. You know, he was asked about racial profiling, and he came in saying, you know, “There’s another form of racial profiling used against Arab Americans. It’s called secret evidence. And I support the bill in Congress.” And I get a call back, and said, “Now I delivered. Are you going to deliver?”….
And the Muslim leaders, the Arab—the Muslim American leaders actually met and decided to support Bush based on his stand on secret evidence. And the following week, they met and endorsed him, and they identified six states as being the swing states. And Florida was my—because I lived in Florida, it fell into me. And we did a lot of programs, again, based on this; it wasn’t based on Iraq or Palestine or other things. It really was based on that one issue. And he won by 537 votes. And obviously, we proved later on that we delivered to him 14,000 extra votes than what he would have got had we not intervened.
And then, the following month, you know, I get invited to the inauguration, and I get a thank you from Newt Gingrich and John Sununu and Tom Davis, that we really delivered that to Bush. And then we asked them to deliver for us secret evidence, you know, the bill against secret evidence. And they tell us that the Bush—because Ashcroft was delayed, his confirmation was delayed, he said it’s going to take time to study the issue. But I get a call back in August of 2001 basically telling me, from the same person, that they’ve studied the issue, and we were going to get—to hear good news. And he asked me to invite all the Arab and Muslim leaders to Washington, D.C., at the White House, in which that news would have been announced…
SAMI AL-ARIAN: Right. And I did invite everybody, and I briefed them, and I told them that there will be an announcement, an important announcement, against the use of secret evidence by Bush that afternoon. And everybody was in town. Unfortunately, it was on 9/11. It was 3:00 on 9/11. So that meeting never happened. But everybody was asking, “How come all these Arab and Muslim leaders were in Washington, even though the airspace was closed for several days?” And the reason they were behind Bush when he visited a mosque and when he went to the National Cathedral is because they were already there. They were going to meet with him for that announcement…
AMY GOODMAN: Wow! And did it ever happen?
SAMI AL-ARIAN: It never happened, of course. You know, at the time, we were protesting secret evidence. What happened after 9/11 is that they were arresting people with no evidence. I mean, we really went totally backward. And as I said, all the rules were no longer valid. So, you know, it’s a sad story in the history. One day it will be written..
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: But I wanted to ask you, have you noticed any change whatsoever since the Obama administration came in, in terms of how some of these issues are being handled?
SAMI AL-ARIAN: You know, I’ve heard a lot from Obama, but it’s all rhetoric. You know, when it comes to actual policies, I haven’t seen much change. I mean, at the beginning, I give him the benefit of the doubt. You wait for a couple of years. He’s busy with the economic program. He’s busy with, you know, trying to get elected for the second term. But after six years, I haven’t really seen much change. And that is very distressing.
And I tell people, you know, change should come really from the bottom up…
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/6/exclusive_deported_palestinian_scholar_sami_al
French President Francois Hollande said if a lasting Ukraine peace agreement is not reached “we know the scenario … it is called war”. Exactly the outcome.
Of course this last ditch attempt at peace is an illusion, a covert action back-stop for the EU if Putin somehow gets the upper hand.
I myself believe Merkel and Hollande should be honorable and denounce Kiev’s regime whose genesis relied on a putsch. Why have they not supported the Donbas rebels’ democratic struggle?
Why? Obviously because America funds NATO at 75%; Obama didn’t wage proxy war on Ukraine to quit. He knows Congress will authorize many more billions of dollars in tactical military aid for Kiev. America calls the shots while Britain, France and Germany are subservient US vassal states prepared to covertly support a NATO war.
Expect the threshold for the threat of nuclear war to be reached by mid March. Nazi child abuse appeaser, Senator Ron Johnson, VP Biden and ‘bomber McCain are fixed on NATO expansion, backed by the CFR this psychotic trio have a plan called the McCain-Biden Ukraine Resolution that calls on President Obama to use all necessary force to facilitate and provoke an armed response from Putin that will set a terrible, cretinous and genocidal war in motion.
http://rt.com/news/230211-hollande-war-merkel-ukraine/
Resident Dissident
As you have offered to answer questions may I ask: what is your anti-establishment economic opinion?
“Bollocks. You pretended, not for the first time, to be another commenter supporting yourself.”
I suggest you look at what I actually said – you duplicitous liar. If you really think I impersonated you so as to heap praise on myself – when anyone reading your usual comments would immediately know that such praise was either a forgery or duplicity on your behalf, then you really are more stupid than even I imagined. Might I suggest rather than wasting your time on these matters you devote ypurself to preparing the defence to Left Unity of your own words and links.
If I wanted praise from anyone I wouldn’t deal with people such as yourself. You, Node and KOWN are all very good at making assumptions about my motivations for posting – whatever I say on that matter should I chose to do so will not have the slightest impact on your own views so why should I bother? But If you want an answer – it is because I diaagree with what you are saying.
Phil
That is a very wide question – I don’t have a single economic opinion, but if you want my general drift I agreed strongly with Robert Skidelsky’s piece in the News Statesman (a magazine to which I have subscribed for over 30 years) yesterday about anti austerity and Greek debt foregiveness. Being a Keynesian I have never belived that slavish defict reduction and austerity are the way to prosperity – I appreciate that view may not be anti-establishment enough for you, but there is more than one way to be anti-establishment.
I happened to listen to LBC radio earlier to a phone in hosted by David Mellor and Ken Livingstone, an unlikely pairing, but quite interesting topics of discussion – Ukraine, Putin, etc.
Then followed a programme hosted by Petri Hoskins Sp? Guess which topic came first in the list of suggested topics for discussion? The rise of antisemitism! Over and over that is what we hear and read.
I looked up the ownership of LBC. Global Radio. Founder Ashley Tabor, Stephen Miron CEO and Charles Allen chairman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Group
Allen. Latterly CEO Granada group, CEO ITV plc and non exec director Tesco. Currently advisor to Goldman Sachs! and chairman of the executive board of the Labour party as appointed by Miliband.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Allen,_Baron_Allen_of_Kensington
Some interesting connections there.
He must attend a lot of board meetings. In the loop.
Professional life
Chairman ISS Group 2013-
Chairman 2 Sisters Food Group 2011-
Senior Adviser Goldman Sachs 2008-
Executive Chairman EMI 2008-10
Chairman Global Group 2007-
Chief Executive ITV 2004-07
Executive Chairman Granada Media 2000-04
Public life
Chairman of Executive Board The Labour Party 2012-
Chairman Join In Trust 2012-
Chairman British Red Cross 2012-14
Mayor Olympic Village London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012-
Member London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games (LOCOG) 2012-
Chairman Manchester Commonwealth Games
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
Director, Global Radio Group (media and publishing holding company)
Director, Classic FM Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, Global Music Television Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, Global Radio Acquisitions Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, Global Radio Holdings Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, Global Radio Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, Global Radio Services Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, This is Global Limited (subsidiary of Global Radio Group)
Director, Get A/S (Norwegian cable company)
Director, Boparan Holdings Limited (food company)
Director, Grandmet Management Ltd (management consultancy)
Director, Grandmet Development Ltd (property development)
Director, ISS A/S (facilities)
Director, ISS World Services A/S (facilities)
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Management Consultant, Goldman Sachs PIA
Management Consultant, Boparan Holdings Ltd
Management Consultant, Xsequor Partners
Management Consultant, Global Radio Group
4: Shareholdings (a)
Grandmet Management Ltd (management consultancy)
Grandmet Development Ltd (property development)
4: Shareholdings (b)
ITV plc (media)
Standard Media Index (information services)
ISS A/S (facilities)
6: Sponsorship
An Executive Assistant is provided by Global Radio Group and two Assistants are provided by Grandmet Management Ltd
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Chair, Join In Trust
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-allen-of-kensington/4304
Finally…
‘It also emerged that a company run by one of the party’s business supporters – Lord Allen of Kensington – is ultimately based in Jersey.
Global Radio, which is chaired by Lord Allen, made operating profits of £34.6million in 2013/14 but did not pay tax as it filed a loss when other financial figures were taken into account.
A Global spokesman said: “Global’s accounts are published and you can take a look at them to check any details.”’
ex:
Tony Blair’s former business backer Sir Charles Dunstone ‘frightened’ by Ed Miliband winning election
Sir Charles Dunstone, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, said business people now ‘feel very detached’ from the party and ‘isolated’ by its lurch to the Left under Ed Miliband.
05 Feb 2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11394001/Tony-Blairs-former-business-backer-Sir-Charles-Dunstone-frightened-by-Labour-winning-election.html
Resident Dissident
Unfortunately the NS article you refer to doesn’t appear to be online so I can’t draw anything from that.
So all I have to go on is your Keynsianism (if that is even a word) and long term subscription to NS. Excuse and correct any wrong assumptions I may make or infer.
I suggest Keynes merely tinkered within a broken system. That the problem is political not economic. Wealth accumulates wealth in a progressive march towards…well weher we are. Non-democratic forces hijacked the political process and destroyed what was, on Keynsian terms, a golden age (golden for whom is of course another matter). To see the solution as economic in isolataion ignores these forces. The concentration of political power ineviatably leads to the concetration of economic power. To hope for a just mixed economy whilst otherwise supporting the status quo is dreaming.
How do you explain the triumph of neoliberalism?
Resident Dissident : “You, Node and KOWN are all very good at making assumptions about my motivations for posting – whatever I say on that matter should I chose to do so will not have the slightest impact on your own views so why should I bother? But If you want an answer – it is because I diaagree with what you are saying.”
I haven’t voiced any assumptions – instead I gave you the opportunity to explain yourself. Saying you disagree with us isn’t an explanation, it’s part of the question. I disagree with Stormfront but I wouldn’t spend my time hanging out with them trying to improve their outlook unless I had an ulterior motive.
Excuse my typos above. To be clear when I said: To hope for a “just mixed economy” I meant “just” as in fair, equitable, providing for all, etc.
In the case of Ukraine these more properly could be called former Polish and German colonies exacted from historically Russian territories. Maybe not in 1933, but soon after, the same right-wing groups and hate-filled philosophies the US, UK and others have been financing and encouraging and propagandising to the Ukraine since world war 2, were previously being given the same support from Nazi Germany. It now takes the form of Gladio 2. From the Maidan where ‘protestors’ were paid to attend to transported in on fleets of buses, onwards to the present Ukranian-run genocide in the east, the issue the Kiev junta’s forces are fighting for is not Ukranian independence from Russia, which it already had without question, but for the supremacy of sundry dual-nationality oligarchs and for utter domination by the US/NATO, a nexus of military subjugation and extracgive economic exploitation –and they know this themselves, those fighting for Poroshenko and friends. Far from being revolutionary the Ukraine is in the destructive grip of ultra-reactionary and mainly outside elements. When the mercs have gone home after detention in East Ukraine upon criminal convictions and the oligarchs have finished looting everything that’s movable and fled ahead of the the mob, the productive East Ukraine will recover fully and mourn their many dead but are unlikely to help in the least with picking up the pieces and putting the rest of Ukraine back on a sustainable footing. Germany and Poland will be welcome to the pickings if they’re still keen on lebensraum.
Such is the fear of Russia that Ukranians have, more than a million have fled to Russia, and more included the latest draftees, no more than adolescents. Russia has even taken in many of Ukraine’s HIV sufferers to ensure their safety and continued medical treatment.