I wish a speedy recovery, both physically and mentally, to the people stabbed at Leytonstone tube station. It must have been horrifying.
The following comments are in part predicated on a presumption that the media reports of the incident are broadly true. This comes with a serious health warning. At this stage after another tube station incident, we were universally assured that various official “sources” and “eye-witnesses” had affirmed that Jean Charles leapt the barriers and ran through the tunnels, wearing a bulky jacket with wires sticking out. All of those turned out to be absolute lies deliberately spread by the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office.
But assuming this time the account of his shouting about Syria is not lies, what we can see from video is that a single man in a very silly hat, armed with a very small knife indeed, can carry out a vicious terrorist attack with apparently no need for planning at all. Not even planning enough to get a less tiny knife from his kitchen.
Because, sadly terrorism is easy. As I stated recently, if I were crazed enough to want to kill somebody tomorrow, and did not care how I did it, who I killed or if I died myself, I could kill a few people without too much effort or planning. That is why the continual propaganda about “seven foiled ISIS terrorist plots” or “4,000 active Islamic terrorists in the UK” is quite simply untrue. If all those terrorists existed, they would not be so entirely unproductive. What the authorities do catch continually are fantasists, often children, boasting and “plotting” online about being terrorists. That is quite a different thing. It is worth noting that nobody has been charged over any of these seven foiled ISIS plots. Strange that, isn’t it?
As for the man in the silly hat, I fear he is mentally unstable. That is no comfort to his victims. The truth is, of course, that it is always the little people who get hurt. None of the 1% who foment, promote and profit from war have ever set foot in Leytonstone Tube Station. But their agenda is forwarded today. By its continual acts of violence and repression, the neo-con state eventually goads a mentally unstable person into a nasty, vicious and pointless act. They then use that act to justify more wars and repression.
For the security and armaments industry it is a very profitable cycle.
Anon1
I do like your expression “virtue-signalling” and feel minded to use it myself when appropriate.
May I have your permission to do so, please?
Anon1/Bunny La Roche has picked up a new term – virtue signalling.
He must have heard that on LBC this morning on the James O’Brien phone in where it was being discussed.
I heard it on the car radio! LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Brien_(radio_presenter)
RoS
Seeing as you asked, it was a quiet day for the RoP. Just the two executions for ‘sorcery’ in front of a baying mob in Tripoli, Libya.
Divert Distract Divide – the trolls’ mantra on here.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/sadly-terrorism-is-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-567249
If you missed it.
Habbabkuk
Of course! But Mary thinks I first heard it this morning even though she was getting upset by me using it weeks ago!!!
Question from Habbabkuk to Lysias:
“Did the US garrison in West-Berlin include a US Navy presence?”
“Answer” from Lysias:
“East Germany had a navy: Volksmarine.”
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Strange how the trolls’ ad hominems are allowed to stay but any response is deleted.
Andy you may want to watch this clip.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0
Some things I am permitted to reveal, and some things the law prohibits me from revealing.
“Britain is in no way like Nazi Germany under Hitler”
Apart from the imposition of a police state. And a disposition to invade other countries. And the whipping up of public antipathy towards a religious minority. Apart that yeah, no way.
Mary
“Anon1/Bunny La Roche has picked up a new term – virtue signalling.
He must have heard that on LBC this morning on the James O’Brien phone in where it was being discussed.
I heard it on the car radio! LOL”
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Glad to hear you like cars, Mary.
That’s a third thing you like, after John Pilger and Dr Mads “Mad” Gilbert.
Go easy now! 🙂
Hat off to the junior doctor who helped the victim who was stabbed in the neck, he was just coming off a long shift.
Turns out the police was called to help, month before this incident in Leytonstone. The mentally challenged alleged ‘terrorist’, who had underlying mental problems amplified by smoking too much weed, according to his brother, got in with the wrong crowd. They did not bother to help.
And hat off to Dr. Halpin who must have his work cut out these days, when human rights are erased for mammon, oil and Gas. Much will change in Europe as nationalism is on the rise, in France, Germany,Hungary,Poland, Denmark, Holland and the UK, the ugliness of it is breath taking.
Poland wants to ‘lease’ some US/NATO nuclear weapons they said today, is this the beginning for a free for all, xmas wish list for santa NATO?
How long before the first Israeli/US/UK/ or even Russian plane gets shot down for getting too close to Assad?
Which begs the question, is Assad still safe in Syria?
What are the negotiations between all parties, should Assad get killed? Have they agreed an instant ceasefire?
Still no action from the satellite providers, they seem to not have heard of the ‘prevent policy’ tut tut
Eutelsat,SES and Avanti operating most connections here in Europe and the ME, with Eutelsat having full spectrum access globally are all able to determine the location of calls.
If they would cooperate, most propaganda, the downloading of video’s on to the internet, beheading, throwing people of towers, as well as chats, would be minimised first, and then eradicated as and when it turns up on the internet.
Every connection that is made via satellite is GPS logged, they can pinpoint the transmitter and decline him access. They could exclude a certain land mass from their coverage altogether, filter messages for certain words, the scope today is immense.
Maybe our Corbinyte’s here can shoot a memo to their MP’s and see what can be thrown at the dogs of war.
C’mon Camerooon, you pledged it, now do it!
“Some things I am permitted to reveal, and some things the law prohibits me from revealing.”
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So Wikipedia must be breaking the law when it details the various US (Army) units making up the former US garrison in West-Berlin?
“Britain is in no way like Nazi Germany under Hitler”
Apart from the imposition of a police state. And a disposition to invade other countries. And the whipping up of public antipathy towards a religious minority. Apart that yeah, no way.
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Ahh yes i often remark at the number of SS and SA men wandering the streets of tamworth.
The Shaytan thugs terrorize a young Palestinian girl. She is so terrified you can see her hands shaking.
Two of them v a young girl. Then she was going to be fitted up.
‘A video has emerged apparently showing an Israeli soldier dropping a knife on the ground and forcing a terrified Palestinian girl to pick it up before she is arrested.
The video was circulated widely in Palestinian media and on social networks on Tuesday, the same day that two more Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces, who claimed that the youths had attempted to carry out stabbings.’
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-soldier-forces-knife-palestinian-girl
The fact that classified information has appeared in public does not result in the automatic declassification of that information. Only those who have signed agreements not to reveal classified information are legally obliged not to reveal it. That doesn’t include Wikipedia.
Does the Resident Inquisitor really mean to abet the commission of a crime?
Ishmael
I’m not sure what your point is. Richard Seymour is a hard-left (former?) Guardian writer, SWP activist, who made a name for himself by writing of Simon Weston, the Falklands veteran who suffered severe disfiguring burns to his body:
“Seriously. Who gives a shit what Simon Weston thinks about anything? If he knew anything, he’d still have his face.”
He used to ban anyone on his blog who disagreed with him. I believe he no longer allows comments.
Node, thanks; that explains a lot.
Ishmael, Nebelmind attempted to misuse his relationship with Craig; that is all. He was rightly slapped down. Good moderation.
Mary, I was just around a friends house, she has a girl, looks about that age. Unconscionable..
I guess this is the culmination of the sort of thing Lucy Allan just did.
Think i’d rather shoot myself than be like this.
Why is The Guardian excluding Palestinians from its comment pages?
Ben White
Monday, 07 December 2015
The Guardian, often accused of bias by pro-Israel lobby groups, is excluding Palestinian voices from its comment pages, an examination of two years of coverage has revealed.
Out of 138 op-eds on Palestine/Israel published by the paper in its ‘Comment is free’ section from October 2013 to November 2015 (which includes both print and online-only articles), just 20 were written by Palestinians – 15 per cent of the total.
By contrast, 39 op-eds (28 per cent) were written by Israelis, while the majority, 79 pieces or 57 per cent, were contributed by international journalists and analysts, most of them British.
Amongst the pieces authored by Israelis were six by state representatives, including four by the then-Israeli ambassador to the UK Daniel Taub and his embassy colleague Yiftah Curiel. There were also op-eds by Israeli minister Gilad Erdan and president Reuven Rivlin.
In addition, The Guardian published four pieces by opposition politicians, including former-minister Yair Lapid, and Labor MKs Hilik Bar and Michal Baran. Thus the number of pieces by Israeli embassy staff and serving politicians – 10 – is equal to half the total number of op-eds by Palestinians.
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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/debate/22695-why-is-the-guardian-excluding-palestinians-from-its-comment-pages
A The usual exceptionalism/special treatment allowed by the media.
Alcyone, fair enough, i’ll stay out if that issue then. Gladly.
Anon1
You never answered my question. Just saying…
It’s excess of psychiatric help and of pharmaceutical ‘cures’ that is the problem, not absence or lack of it. For tens, maybe hundred of millions around the world, the damage is already irreparably done, with even children’s brains now bleached to a pulp in big-pharma’s quest for new markets and greater profit. Pseudo-science combined with grotesque chemical destruction of brains, treatments nothing more than unimaginable torture. Mentioned also here lately was cognitive behavioural therapy, CBT, or the power of wishful thinking, an offshoot of neuro-linguistic programming, for those for whom TV is not sufficiently lobotomising. Bombing is probably the more humane, less deadly option than psychiatry.
Phil @ 7 Dec, 2015 – 7:53 pm
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“… Ahh yes i often remark at the number of SS and SA men wandering the streets of tamworth.”
I thought you were a resident of Oldham.
I am but i thought tamworth had a greater effect for the point i was making…….That being said i don’t see any SS members in Oldham. Well not many anyway…..
“The fact that classified information has appeared in public does not result in the automatic declassification of that information.”
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Information on the units making up the former US garrison in West-Berlin would have been de-classified long ago, of indeed it was ever classified in the first place.
So our Transatlantic Friend should have no problem telling us if the US garrison in West-Berlin contained US Navy elements.
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Speaking of classified information, is which Oxford college Our Friend attended also classified information? 🙂
The U.S. government is notoriously slow in declassifying information, sometimes — it would appear — unreasonably. In the case of Berlin, however, there is a good reason, which I am not supposed to mention.
Does the Resident Inquisitor really want to abet the commission of a crime?
It is looking increasingly as if he does.