Dear President Ahtisaari,
I had the pleasure of meeting you on a number of occasions over the years, including when I was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and I recall your genuine concern for democracy and human rights in a region where they are sadly neglected.
Like a great many people in Scotland I was shocked that CMI is employing Jim Murphy. Of course, in a democracy there are always losers as well as winners in elections, and both are genuine and valid participants in public life. It is not the fact that CMI employs a politician who has been so recently, comprehensively and humiliatingly rejected by his national electorate that will do any damage to CMI. In a sense I think it does you credit.
What shocks many people here is that Mr Murphy is by any standards a dedicated warmonger. He was a major and important proponent of the invasion of Iraq, and is the strongest of supporters of the massive increase of Britain’s nuclear arsenal, in breach of the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Mr Murphy is a member of the Henry Jackson Society, which as you know is a body which exists to promote United States neo-conservative foreign policy in its most aggressive sense, and openly and actively supports and condones extraordinary rendition and the use of torture by the CIA. It has supported every single military action by the USA since its formation, and defends United States exceptionalism in international law, including US non-membership of the International Criminal Court.
Mr Murphy’s belief set is therefore fundamentally at odds with the stated aims of CMI. Indeed, his employment by you can only lead to the suspicion that CMI’s stated objectives are not its real objectives, and that like Mr Murphy and the Henry Jackson Society your overriding goal in the regions where you operate is to promote the interests of the United States.
As you are funded by charitable donations and by governments, I think some explanation of your employment of Mr Murphy is in order, particularly when you have employed him as a conflict resolution expert in the Caucasus and Central Asia when he has no relevant experience of conflict resolution at all, virtually none of the Caucasus, and absolutely none of Central Asia.
I was the Head of the UK Delegation that negotiated the Sierra Leone Peace Treaty, and certainly under no circumstances would I let Jim Murphy anywhere near that kind of negotiation.
With All Best Wishes,
Amb (rtd.) Craig Murray
All this killing in aid of waning empire. Sometime will we sit down and ask why? Is there a single utter nasty villainous entity, one body the architects of the last 40 say years of chaos and hurt, micro-managing all that assails us, rows of buttons in the armrest of a well-padded chair unleash unspeakable horrors on hapless masses, as mindless minions scurry to and fro, issued with orders and reporting with glee the killing machines performance. Or do ‘national interests’ converge towards this inexorably, people come and go, cogs turn and minced bodies and unrealised potential, counter-productive outcomes and decay, all without fail result, the justification being its always been done that way, not my place to say ffs stop this. If we knew what the plan or program was, if there ever was one we would be in a better position to judge if the means could ever justify reaching for ever receding inscrutable ends. Empires at one time lasted, for millenia, the firepower, the battering ram nd the boots behind the present day equivalent to empire, supra-national central banking, was for a time England, then America, both seem like farts in a can in comparision to the idea of Empires significant in geological time. With their sights lowered, rotting heads drooped, having only fleeting but dangerous delusions of adequacy they crisis manage from one transparently obvious desperate infantile ploy to the next. Empire by amateurs, the project for a new american fortnight, ran out of gas.
Thank you for that Mochyn69. I don’t expect you will receive a coherent answer.
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The BBC are still going strong starting from 6am live in Paris with a new team of presenters. They seem to be able to find more to say.
And Marr with more later.
The Andrew Marr Show @MarrShow · 13 hrs
Reviewing the papers and commenting on #ParisAttacks, we’ll be joined by our security corr @FrankRGardner, @amolrajan and @janem. #marrshow
The Andrew Marr Show @MarrShow
On #marrshow tomorrow 9am, guests include Home Secretary Theresa May, Lord Falconer and French Ambassador Sylvie Bermann. #ParisAttacks
His twitter is festooned with the colours of the Tricoleur. And there’s even this comment from the paramount war criminal’s spin doctor, Alastair Campbell who praises Msr Hollande.
‘Alastair Campbell @campbellclaret · 18 hrs18 hours ago
Just watched President @fhollande address to French people. Very impressive and strong. His leadership will be key in coming weeks’
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Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq by Seumas Milne
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYii6nxhvUk
I knew it was a revolutionary song but had never realised how bellicose a message it contained, more so than our own national anthem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise
Mireille Mathieu’s version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA
Now, here’s a quite rich ‘development’ – straight from the Times of Israel mainstream media propaganda hub…
Apparently, the Jews who owned the BATACLAN THEATER sold it to someone else – back in September 11:
“His brother Joel, the co-owner, told Channel 2 that they sold the theater on September 11, and he recently immigrated to Israel. ”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-owners-recently-sold-pariss-bataclan-theater-where-is-killed-dozens/
The Merchant of Wolverhampton (and crew) is in fine form over Je Suis Paris, as can be seen above. But their muted reaction to Metrojet was very telling, their satanic G communication had told them who was really behind that “airplane diplomacy”, satanyahu had obviously not come to London as a tourist only to see the Balfour Declaration. The Bear has wiped out the khazars before and its only a matter of time the cause n effect jug fills to the brim, the problem as usual is the collateral damage to the rest of us goyim.
On this day 14 years ago, our troops entered Afghanistan to set up a base at Bagram. That was just two months after 9/11. What horror has flowed from it.
‘The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, today said he is “relatively optimistic” that a stable, broad-based, multi-ethnic government can be formed in Afghanistan. Interviewed this lunchtime, he compared the war-racked country to Germany following the second world war.
After the war, Germany was devastated and collapsed as a state and had to recover from having been ruled by the Nazis in the same way as Afghanistan now had to recover from having been ruled by the Taliban, Mr Straw told the BBC.
“It is bound to take some time to rebuild what is an almost completely devastated state. That happened in Germany after the war. It is almost bound to happen here now,” he said.
“The important thing is that we get on with the job right away, not suggest that there is no alternative to the chaos which has befallen that poor state for the last 20 years.”
Any future Afghan administration should be based on yesterday’s UN security council resolution calling for a broad-based, multi-ethnic government that respected the country’s territorial integrity, said Mr Straw.
This was not an impossible task, he said, adding: “There was a relatively strong and stable Afghan state for 40 years up to 1973, so we have got a fair idea of what works.”
Earlier today the prime minister and leading members of the war cabinet briefed ministers at a full meeting of the cabinet in Downing Street.’
Straw ‘optimistic’ over rebuilding Afghanistan http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/15/september11.usa2
False-flag is the default assumption to make, as it’s the most probable. What too is the big deal about ‘co-ordinated’ attacks, why would any terrorist care in the least about simultaneity of their actions, why is it any the more terrifying, they’d be far more successful, more terrifying if there were a completely random unconnected profusion of smaller incidents, the terror of those they injure and kill firsthand is no greater due to something else that might or might not be going on some distance away across town. When undue emphasis is placed on the precise co-ordination, it does make me shudder to think that terrorists may have acquired of all things Watches! and that they can Tell The Time…omg! Throw on a dollop of jibberish such as symbolic dates, numbers, abstruse meaning contrived retrospectively or too highly conveniently, the bell rings and the eyes light up, the terrorist is not typically known for their subtlety. Chance and opportunity, convergence of imponderables make timing effectively outwith their own or fine control, so a calling card yes, but not from who we’re told its from, and a strong indication we’re in danger of being had once again.
Max on liars and fantasists, most of which can be applied to the spooky trolls:
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/etcetera/books/war_historian_max_hastings_i_m_not_a_pacifist_but_all_wars_are_ghastly_1_4309138
He reminds us that war is generally awful, and that British spies are also not that good
A cool relative of mine is studying history A-level, past weeks has been ‘the start of the second world-war’; Great, I said, it is important to learn about stuff like Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz; (Polish: Prowokacja gliwicka) which was a false-flag operation by Nazi forces as part of Project Himmler
“What’s a False-Flag?” said the budding historian, seems that A-levels don’t mention the word (like the BBC) and the months of propaganda and acts with Germans dressed as Poles , culminating in destroying Europes tallest wooden antenna structure -then Germany invading Poland with blitzkrieg the very next day!
are ‘not relevant’ to UK history teaching?
Somewhere on the web you might find the written works of Otto Strasser, who as well as having been imprisoned with Hitler and Hess, sat in on all the packed-out proceedings of the show trial of a simple-minded patsy, that followed the Reichstag fire.
Evil is creeping
a World of Nations Sleeping
Olive Trees Weeping
‘Timing’ is a military construct Tony and ‘coordinate’ is also a military regulation – those subtleties become visible when we try to entangle with the planner of these barbarities. Ad interim the politicians use the construct interval to arrange the direction.
That construct interval is exposed, unsafe, it leans on the media to amplify the possibility, to register in the many.
We are in the interval right now and with intention we must use the alternate media to decipher and dismantle the narrative.
If one can try to understand this and commit to the intention then without doubt one will reflect and reverse the fear crucial to the killing and the target of the planners.
Anon1:
‘You believe the French security services carried out these attacks so that the government can pursue a particular policy.’
I categorically believe no such thing and there is nothing in any of my posts that supports that imputation.
I have no doubt that the nutters who blew themselves up were terrorists inspired by hatred of the West; and that they were working for an organisation called ISIS.
However, given that this event may well invoke Article 5 of the NATO charter which would lead to a potential NATO confrontation with Russia in Syria I believe it is entirely legitimate to ask who ISIS are, who funds them? It is quite possible that the suicide bombers were being used as unwitting pawns in a wider game.
Wonder if they were on these ‘fearless’ pills the Saudi Prince was caught with a plane-load of. Was it ‘Calcagon’ or something, or is that something for removing limescale?
There’s a sense of déjà vu about this, before we even get into Laurence of Arabia, with promising a Homeland here to one lot which turned out badly, now giving away a Caliphate, no less, there to another crowd, again not possessing title or occupancy of the place concerned and with the locals distinctly unimpressed with the plan.
” It is quite possible that the suicide bombers were being used as unwitting pawns in a wider game. ”
The Jack of Facts may yet be Stronger (and Stranger) than the Kings and Queens of Fiction.
This is not to say that the Saudis are not responsible for generously aiding The Bad and The Ugly. Not Good.
So, The Fact is there is an endless supply of heavily conditioned (since childhood) Islamists, brainwashed into believing the only good contribution they can make in life is to blow themselves apart, sacrifice their lives, murder multiple others with them and arrive in a Heaven full of virgins.
Evil exists, including the Evil of The Two Bees, Anyone like to guess who they are?
Fact is Human Consciousness is very murky. Billions, of our Blue Planet, are an integral part of that content, including the Mary’s, RoS’s and Banal’s of this blog. Well intentioned Sleeping Cells, all.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=krishnamurti+un
Islam, as a whole, is a very immature ‘religion’ with an extraordinarily imprisoning force. More than any Institution in the World, it is in acute and dire need of Reformation.
Who’s gonna do it?
I wondered when and how the esteemed K would be brought into this thread. What piffle. Just Jemand to come with links to the ‘awful muzzies’.
Captagon
Not sure why it is, but it is quite clear that conspiracy theorists like to come out and do their work at night – is it because that is when normal people are sleeping and the chances of exposure and ridicule are reduced. I think it is now safe to say that we are on to Stages 2 and 3.
“We are in the interval right now and with intention we must use the alternate media to decipher and dismantle the narrative.”
Mr Golding’s modus operandii is all too clear this is not about the truth or otherwise but about dismantling the current narrative – of course Putin attacking ISIS and anyone one else that challenges the sickening murderous thug that is Assad is totally ok and will never be condemned or hardly ever mentioned. But anything that harms the “evil” west is to be encouraged and justified as being the Western democracies own fault. Like all propagandists Mr Golding wants to get us back onto the line that he has always pushed – facts are just there to be deciphered and dismantled.
Captagon TonyM
2 tons of the stuff in the prince’s diplomatic baggage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenethylline
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/11/open-letter-to-president-ahtisaari-re-jim-murphy/comment-page-3/#comment-561135
‘This is all a very big game. And captagon is not just some recreational drug, intended for underground nightclubs in the Gulf, and for notorious private orgies in Saudi Arabia. It is, as I was told by local experts, a “drug that makes one extremely brutal; a drug, which destroys all fear”. It is a “combat narcotic”, which has been given mainly to the ISIS fighters.
It could have been destined for Iraq and the ISIS cells there, but most likely the Saudi Prince was bringing it for the Saudi allies in Yemen” I was told on the basis of anonymity. “Or both… Most likely: both.’
Strangely enough this is one possible false flag that you will never see being pushed by Mark Golding or Tony M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanation_attempts_for_the_Russian_apartment_bombings
Nice one Brian at 8.34 – a perfect 17 too!
Who have the BBC got on to some Sunday discussion presented by a former newsreader? Douglas Murray of the HJS of course. His name is not in the blurb below so a last minute addition.
You can watch live. How helpful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06q6tj8
‘Series 6
How should Britain react to the attacks in Paris?
The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris. In a statement published online, the jihadist group said the attacks were designed to show France it remained a “top target”.
At least 128 people died in gun and bomb attacks in Paris, with around 180 injured.
There were six separate attacks, believed to have been carried out by at least eight perpetrators.
Five of the attacks saw gunmen targeting bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert venue, plus a bomb attack targeted the Stade de France in the north of the city, where the French national football team were playing Germany with President Francois Hollande watching. He called the attacks an ‘act of war’ after declaring a nationwide state of emergency, and vowed to wage a “merciless” fight against terrorists.
“We in the UK face the same threat,” says The Prime Minister David Cameron. “We will redouble our efforts to wipe out this poisonous extremist ideology.” He added.
There will be “strengthened policing at ports” and more police at public events in the coming days. Security is of paramount importance, but what more can be done?
Among the panellists Joining Sian Williams this week are:
Usama Hasan from Quilliam Foundation, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown from the Independent and Peter Hitchens of Mail on Sunday. Plus Chris Allen, lecturer in social policy and writer of ‘Islamophobia’.’
” I wondered when and how the esteemed K would be brought into this thread. ”
Wonder away. It’s what you do, not very well though.
The Original Trolls (except, ironically, they are the most unoriginal) = The Sleeping Cells
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PS Mary have you watched Bernard Levin;s interview of Krishnamurti…..,yet?
Mary, are you ‘forum sliding’ at 10.14am?
Btw, anyone who cannot see that hundreds of terrorists are co-mingled with refugees entering Europe, have no understanding of mathematical probability.
If Jemand is saying the same thing as me, I don’t think, he is right.
If there were a way of banning all organised religions, I’m all for it.
Now Mary, perhaps Einstein is more your cup of tea (to yet awaken your Sleeping Cells). K being way-too-esoteric for a mere professional keyboard, copy-pasting, warrior:
” Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.”
– Albert Einstein, Response to atheist, Alfred Kerr (1927), quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
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Errata
” I don’t think ” = * I think *
Happy Sunday, all!
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You summons me from my genie’s bottle, Mary. What amusing lies do you have for me to ponder?