We are directly responsible for the disasters in the Mediterranean. The bombing of Libya into failed state status is now coming back to haunt us. The ludicrous idea, propounded by Blair, Robert Cooper and the Henry Jackson Society, that you could improve dictatorial states by massive bombing campaigns that targeted their basic infrastructure, is now a total bust. Sadly so are Iraq and Libya, to the permanent detriment of many millions of people. We caused both the Islamic State and the Mediterranean boat disasters, and we caused them with bombs.
But the lack of any effective policing is only part of the problem. What makes people so desperate that they are prepared to give all of the small amount they own, to ruthless gangs, in exchange for a dreadful sea crossing with a one in ten chance of drowning? Most of the refugees are sub-Saharan African. We only see the European end of the saga, not the terrible conditions on the cross Saharan journeys that they start with.
There will be no security anywhere if the world does not address the terrible scourge of African poverty and under-development. That is a huge subject on which I have written extensively and worked much of my life, and I do not wish to open it here. But what it does show is the utter stupidity – inhumanity yes, but also stupidity – of UKIP in thinking that cutting development aid will increase the economic security of the UK.
damn bold tag wasn’t closed properly
White House admits: we didn’t know who drone strike was aiming to kill
Broad target of ‘al-Qaida compounds’ suggests 2013 policy change by Obama – requiring ‘near certainty’ that suspect is present – has not been implemented
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/drone-strike-al-qaida-targets-white-house
“What do you mean “has many countries’ gold reserves”? Do you mean physically? If so, please state which European countries you’re thinking of.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-dollar-collapse-where-is-germanys-gold/5321894
http://rt.com/business/209591-gold-europe-gold-repatriation/
Holland has got a paltry amount back for hosting MH17 and the inquiry which will not release any information.
http://rt.com/business/209591-gold-europe-gold-repatriation/
There is a possibility it was paid back with this.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2014/07/30/ukraine-and-crimeas-vanishing-gold/
“Btw, Obama also admitted they had no idea what the target of the drone strike was. I read that today.2”
Thanks for that Dreoilin. I had not heard.
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Flashback: 9/11 and the gold in the NY Federal Reserve.
Central banking with ‘other people’s gold’: A $368bn treasure trove in Lower Manhattan.
Why Is JPMorgan’s Gold Vault, The Largest In The World, Located Next To The New York Fed’s?
Where Is Germany’s Gold? Almost half of Germany’s gold is stored in vaults under the streets of Manhattan. Or is it?
Fort Knox Isn’t The Largest US Gold Vault.
The 2 (emboldened) in my last comment above was highlighted and overwritten by ” but it still stayed there. Anybody else have those problems?
I attempted to provide links on all the foreign golf stored underground in lower Manhattan at the Federal Reserve, but my comment is apparently stuck in moderation. Let me try again:
Flashback: 9/11 and the gold in the NY Federal Reserve.
Central banking with ‘other people’s gold’: A $368bn treasure trove in Lower Manhattan.
Why Is JPMorgan’s Gold Vault, The Largest In The World, Located Next To The New York Fed’s?
Where Is Germany’s Gold? Almost half of Germany’s gold is stored in vaults under the streets of Manhattan. Or is it?
Fort Knox Isn’t The Largest US Gold Vault.
Gold of course, not golf.
“Habbabkuk, second all your ‘After 8′ comments, including your questions to the professed economist here on gold, and your observation and very reasonable request of RepublicofPlagiarism.”
If it was anybody but Noddy getting the Toytown Idiot’s plaudits they might be a bit concerned. 🙂
Thanks for the support Lysias. If Noddy and the Toytown Idiot were not so lazy they could have found these links themselves.
By the way, when I generalise about arrogant Yanks, I know there are some very good people in the US many of them just as oppressed by the arrogant Yanks as we ordinary people in Europe are.
John Goss you are of course correct,that countries such as Germany have asked for their gold bullion back from the US Federal Reserve,and have met with bluster and stalling tactics.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=germany+asks+us+for+gold+back&oq=germany+asks+us+for&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.8678j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&espvd=1&ie=UTF-8
Habb is either pretending to be stupid,or he is stupid,I think the latter msy apply in this instance.
Incidently Mr Goss I recall last year reading France was owed gold as well from the US,the USA’s reply to this request was vety vaguely reported,not long after,the USA condoned Frances intervention in Mali under the guise of defeating terrorism,Mali has very productive gold mines.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-on-mali-what-you-should-know/5319093
Habb hasn’t got a clue…..period
Read “Message from the Kogi” and these people have put it on a plate for you east simple to understand and true to it,s core.
@Giyane: RobG “Où sont les trolls?”
They fucked up bigtime in the last post by siding with Janner and Lord Carlile, against Craig, thus exposing their gaffers as establishment kabbala zionist paedophiles.
They are currently being waterboarded in a military rehabilitation centre so the same cock-up cannot happen again. 09.40 Nonce1 was just to get you to think they were still alive and operating normally. The money the “fuckwits” get is good but the estafia won’t put up with fools.”
This site reminds me of ChrisSpivey.org, but for the middle class:)
Habby, yes, “critical thinking”, not something that comes naturally to some of our friends out here.
Like Dross, the Russian Doll, an exemplary example who constantly eggs Putin on to go to war in the Ukraine allegedly as a way of creating Peace. Medieval man.
Technicolour tried hard, to her credit, to get him to see that that was a nonsense, citing that even most Russians didn’t want a war. Perhaps Major Lysias and Sergeant Dross will be the first to enlist in the Russian Ground Force when the war starts.
Major lysias tried very hard to dissuade Komodo from referring to wily Vladimir as the diminutive Vlad. He was positively affronted!
God, the loons we have to put up with here!
I know that doing so risks making you look a lot less original, a lot more derivative and therefore even less intelligent than you already seem, but you know it would be the right thing to do.
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HA ha ha, a bold attempt to demean, or provoke a rise,but unlike you I have no ego to stroke,ordinary will do me just fine.
Becky Cohen, it takes a while to get Giyane’s sense of humour. I’ve been reading his comments for years and I’m still not sure when he’s being serious, but he’s always entertaining.
God, the loons we have to put up with here!
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Villager.
No ones forcing you to stay…..get the picture if you don’t like what you read…then cheerio,bye, adios,tata.
I wonder if your bossom buddy Habb feels the same,I sincerely hope so.
Sorry to put you straight ROS, it’s not about egos, it’s just the correct, ‘ordinary’ convention to follow. Or is that asking too much of you?
“No ones forcing you to stay…”
Does it get more childish than that?
Sorry to put you straight ROS, it’s not about egos, it’s just the correct, ‘ordinary’ convention to follow. Or is that asking too much of you?
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Villager……are you still here!
Does it get more childish than that?
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Villager.
You’re the one bitching about how you have to put up with the loons.
More from the Sony files;
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/david-cameron-v-outlander-pm-met-sony-execs-stop-scottish-rebel-drama-before-referendum-vote-1497534
John Goss, you should be ashamed of yourself, using Windoze 8. That means you’ve given a sizeable lump of cash to be divided between various horrible corporate entities when you could have given it to a worthy cause. Every time you give these corps money you give them power; starve them! There’s little point in propagandising for the Kremlin while sending cash donations to the other side; you may as well put your feet up and do neither.
I installed Debian GNU/Linux on a fifteen year old laptop yesterday and it’s running like a dream; boots in 50 seconds. One less discarded laptop to pollute the environment and a big lump of CO2 emissions avoided by not buying a new one.
Rather different to what Manning & other whistleblowers received;
https://exposefacts.org/to-send-a-message-judge-sentences-david-petraeus-to-75-of-one-speaking-fee/
“His second childhood” Or how to escape the past and collect a get out jail card.
http://internationaltimes.it/his-second-childhood/
On the day the World marks the Armenian Genocide, I remember as a child growing up in the 70’s & 80’s hearing about the occasional murders of Turkish diplomats by Armenians; I wanted to know not only why, but also what exactly happened, to cause people to want to seek vengeance after so many decades had passed; so I began to read books like, “The Blight of Asia” by George Horton, “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story” by Henry Morgenthau, “Smyrna 1922” by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, and of course many other books & accounts.
The Germans, unlike the Turks, have acknowledged their historic crimes, and until the Turks do the same, this will remain an open wound & shameful stain that no amount of rewriting of history will wash away.
John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership
It started with copyright protection to evolve into a racket with DRM and DMCA, soon they will stamp the newborn infants butt with corporate logos and claim the baby is only temporarily in custody of its parents, as it was delivered and kept alive by the various pharma industry!
Then there is the fight back
What is a MegaSquirt® EFI Controller?
It’s amazing what a company will give up in order to access a large market.
In Beijing in late March, IBM CEO Virginia Rometty announced that the company’s new strategy in China will be to share its technology to help build the country’s IT industry.
That’s one hell of a giveaway in order to access a market,of course,China has a population of around 1.3 bn people,which is a prosperous market for any firm that can break into it.
Its a big gamble for IBM,does China need IBM,when it has its own growing IT industry,companies like,Lenovo,Huawei,Baidu and Alibaba.
“I installed Debian GNU/Linux on a fifteen year old laptop yesterday and it’s running like a dream; boots in 50 seconds. One less discarded laptop to pollute the environment and a big lump of CO2 emissions avoided by not buying a new one.”
Clark I am ashamed of myself. In the nineties I worked in the high technology industry as an author. There were some clever people (programmers and developers) there but only ten to twenty years earlier they were tape-feeding and card-feeding computers. Languages like COBOL seem to have disappered. A further twenty years have passed since then. I tried to install Linux and some protective software but it fell over and I had nobody to ask.
You need to be young and at the leading-edge of technology like Julian Assange was when he was instrumental in setting up Wikileaks. I would dearly like a protected system, but I just accept they are there and there is not much we can do about it. So hat’s off to you. And apologies that I cannot recycle old laptops as you do.
Macky
24/04/2015 9:34 pm
It’s fifty years ago this year that the slaughter of more than half a million human beings in just a few months began in Indonesia.
“With 500,000 to 1 million Communist sympathizers knocked off, I think it is safe to assume a reorientation has taken place” (Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, July 1966).
I wonder if anyone will even remember it. And I wonder if an honest accounting will ever be made of it.
Kind regards,
John