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.
@Nevermind
You asked if prices at the pump had come down. I answer you. Yes they have. End of story.
“The Leytonstone guy had previously spent several months in hospital diagnosed with acute paranoia.”
There’s a lot of it about but we can’t section them all or the internet would grind to a halt.
“diesel price in Germany less than 72,- pence per liter, ”
I don’t know how Volkswagens manage to run on paraffin yet still pass the emissions tests.
“The Oligarch Owned Media, the same ones that on a daily basis wax lyrical about the “Stock Market” and it’s rise or fall”
@ Fedup.
We now have graphics of stocks and shares in elevators. So, you take the lift in work, and some stock market figures are shown, for no apparent reason. That’s propaganda, pure and simple. And as you say it means fuck all to most people. I’ve never held a share in my life. I know it affects my pension, but pensions are full of fees and rorts as well, and who knows what a pension may be worth long-term? Nothing, perhaps.
The insiders may make a packet from shares going up and down, but their wealth isn’t all that important to me, funnily enough. It’s all bollocks anyway, an organised scam for insiders, and they all know it.
Well with the oil price crashing and worldwide storage overflowing – welcome to Peak Oil!
I might not even be joking…
“Well with the oil price crashing and worldwide storage overflowing – welcome to Peak Oil!”
The Saudis are keeping prices low because they don’t like fracking.
Fracking is a complicated process which involves pumping large amounts of money into the SNP’s bank account.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/holyrood/763553/snp-mp-critised-over-donations-from-fracking-company/
Fred,
Since 2007 US net imports of crude oil and refined products has dropped from over 13 million barrels per day to 4.5 million barrels per day. That’s an extra 8.5 million bpd on world markets. Much of this decline was made up by a 4.5 mbd increase in crude oil production. Biofuels, natural gas liquids and refinery gain make up the rest.
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=WTTNTUS2&f=4
US production of crude oil has just failed to beat the 1970 (so far) all time US peak and is now falling again.
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
The effect US import reduction has had on oil price is far greater than the that of the relatively slight uptick in Saudi production. That’s if you believe the Saudis at all about their production.
talking of oil …..hmmmmmmmmm …..
…… Vast quantities of stolen oil transported to Turkey to fund ISIS.
Goldman Sachs buys huge share of Turkish petrochemical industry.
Their new company announces plans to build 2 new oil refineries in Turkey.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/goldman-sachs-buys-into-turkish-petkims-aegean-port.aspx?pageID=238&nID=69354&NewsCatID=345
Yes, Lysias, trump 4 prez is partly right – a certain percentage ‘n’ of the worlds Muslims are responding to American hegemonic continuation of the crusades.
He just chooses the value ‘n’ = 100%, which is a bit controversial.
And he seems to be on route to notional socialismus
Fred,
Whatt does your line manager hold as opinions he ordere you to relay?
You really are pathetic Fred.
Have you no shame??
I see the appalling phoney Bono has been milking it in Paris. He got the Bataclan performers to join him.
Band Join U2 On Stage After Paris Massacre
Crowds cheer as Eagles of Death Metal perform live for the first time since the attack during their Bataclan gig last month.
http://news.sky.com/story/1601675/band-join-u2-on-stage-after-paris-massacre
This is the second report Sky have carried. OTT and helping the prop for the war on terror, to state the obvious.
http://news.sky.com/story/1601057/bono-sings-in-solidarity-with-paris-victims
Surprised Geldof hasn’t made it over there too.
Paris has not been included in this list, so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_named_massacres
Scotland (in a decade) might host the UK fleet of Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft, USA is just rolling them out to do SIGINT/ELINT over China, but the Osborne chappie is having a dig for change inside the sofa to see if we can afford some in the 2020s
That means we will finally have replaced Nimrod,
Time to play some patriotic music, Elgar or Green-Day?
Terror – Torture?
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/december/cia-report-zegart-120715.html?
More prop. We are given a sneaky peep round HMS Queen Elizabeth by the BiBiCee’s Arthur Anderson. Good to see how our £6.2bn (and counting I reckon – imagine all those cost overruns by the sub contractors) is being spent.
Tour the Royal Navy’s largest ever warship
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35035097
When I hear people saying we can’t afford the NHS (in other words turn it into a private medical insurance model) I say ‘We can afford £6.2bn for two aircraft carriers though, redundant before they are commissioned’ there is silence.
Read Hammond’s statement when he was Defence Minister. Lewis Carroll would have been proud of it.
Aircraft Carriers and UK Shipbuilding
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131106/debtext/131106-0001.htm#13110656000003
The original contract price was £3.9m. I should imagine there is nobody who has any idea of the actual cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrier
Bono. Further.
U2’s Bono Has Written a Song for Paris
12/7/2015
U2 pay their respects and place flowers on the pavement near the scene of yesterday’s Bataclan Theatre terrorist attack on Nov. 14, 2015 in Paris, France. Photo
U2’s Bono has penned a song inspired by Paris and the victims of last month’s deadly terror attacks.
The rock group’s frontman and his bandmate The Edge sat with CNN host Fareed Zakaria for a wide-ranging interview in which they discussed how growing up in Ireland informs their views, the U.S. response on Syrian refugees and, of course, those Nov. 13 attacks in which 130 people were killed in a string of coordinated shootings and bombings across the French capital.
He had the same interviewer as BLiar. Strange coincidence. 😉
Oh. He’s rolling in San Bernardino too.
U2 Dedicates Songs to San Bernardino and Paris Victims at Paris Concert ·
Dec 7, 2015,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/u2-return-stage-postponed-concerts-paris/story?id=35618626
What to make of Trump and his “ban all Muslims” speech??
As with all crazy speeches, there’s more than a nugget of truth in there in fact if you read the whole speech in context:
“We need to ban all Muslims .. UNTIL OUR COUNTRY’S REPRESENTATIVES CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON..”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/07/donald-trump-ban-all-muslims-entering-us-san-bernardino-shooting
You mean you didn’t get the briefing paper either, Donald J Trump!?
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Gordon Brown joins asset manager Pimco as adviser
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35035718
‘Pimco said it had formed a five-strong group of “world-renowned experts on economic and political issues”. LOL
The other members include former US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank, Ng Kok Song, former chief investment officer of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp sovereign wealth fund from 2007 to 2013, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former US Department of State policy director.
Pimco, which was bought by German asset manager Allianz in 2000, administers about $1.47 trillion of assets for its clients.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz
Revenue €122.3 billion
Allianz own Cornhill Insurance in this country.
How did Brown with his record land this little number?
Riyadh call in the rabble rebels for a meet.
A jotting from Frank Gardner no doubt.
Syria conflict: Rebels to meet in Riyadh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35035232
‘Syria’s fragmented opposition is due to meet in Riyadh later in an attempt to unify ahead of possible peace talks.
The meeting, bringing together armed and political factions, aims to create a common position from which to negotiate with the government.
The powerful Jaish al-Islam rebel group said it would attend the Riyadh talks.’
@Nevermind
“RD, please understand, you have been rumbled, your last response is based on revenge, not retaliation in kind.”
Revenge for what? I fear you are losing it again.
Scottish Oil sector is being illegally taxed at 75%. The Tories/Unionists are trying to ruin the Scottish economy. Thousands of jobs are bring lost. More Oil & Gas are being imported putting up the balance of payment’s deficit and the Debt. Osbourne increased the Oil tax 11% (£2Billion) in 2011 budget. He has lowered it 5%, despite the barrel price falling by over half. When Osbourne put up the, the Oil Companies stopped exploration and this has led to a decrease in production because of the illegal 75% tax.
The Tories/Unionists are wasting £Billions on illegal wars, tax evasion and fraud. HMRC are not fit for purpose. The Tories have banned wind turbines and decreased solar investment. They are spending (borrowed) £Billions on Hinkley, HS2, Heathrow (anywhere but) and Trident/illegal wars and wasting public money. Lining their own pockets on £Million/Billions in contracts, consultancies and fees. Wasting £Billions of Public money which could be better spent. They are ruining public services. Cutting NHS and sanctioning the vulnerable and starving them to death.
The UK is already importing US frack gas. Consumers are using it. It is being imported in tankers. The Tories/Unionists are stopping coal production in the UK but are importing fracked US Gas and Norwegian Gas. Home produced coal is half the price, but now coal is bring imported. There are vast coal reserves all over the UK. Thatcher ruined the coal industry. Two new coal plants are being built in the North of England Cost £2Billion (each?) of borrowed money. The Tory/Unionists have cancelled CCS projects in Scotland. At Longannet in Fife and at Peterhead, wasting £Millions already spent. Technology which could have brought in £Billlions to the economy. The Grid management is flawed. Different all over the UK. Scotland consumers despite being nearer the source are charged more. Scotland which is in surplus is being charged more for fuel and energy.
Scotland is half empty. There will be places where it is safe to frsck and where it is not. Scottish planning Laws are different from US planning Laws. In the US building can happen anywhere. In Scotland it can be restricted everywhere. Planning Laws can hold development back.
Johnston wants to back Putin and Assad. Just to wind Cameron/Osbourne up? The dangerous Tory boys in disarray again. Just wait for the EU Ref,
What about ceased fire and talks? Germany (in surplus) might broker peace. After total devastation of war and the worst migration crisis since 11WW. Millions of vulnerable people maimed and killed. Trade and give aid. Do not invade.
The US has banned Muslims and everyone else as well. The ‘terror’ is home grown. The US Gov condones. Gun Laws. 26,000 Americans kill each other every year. Gun crime. Plus drug deaths + suicide. More than any ‘terror’ attacks. Mentally unstable people (including Presidents) get access to violent weapons. The people do not trust their own Government and arm themselves against Fed attacks. CIA/Police assaults. The US Government use violence and brainwashing as a form of State control. then export it, all around the globe.
Is Carmichael Craig’s best friend?
I read somewhere that the privatisation craze in the Thatcher years was a means by which the Rothschild family basically carved up the UK’s utilities for themselves.
Imagine that, Israel bought up all our power generating facilities.
Brown let insurance companies (banks) rip off consumers. Now gets a pay back. Brown and Blair should be in jail.
“Jeremy Stocks”
“I read somewhere that the privatisation craze in the Thatcher years was a means by which the Rothschild family basically carved up the UK’s utilities for themselves.”
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Ah yes, it was about time the Rothschilds were taken out of the cupboard and dusted off again, wasn’t it 🙂
Non elected Rothschild devised the Poll tax, against elected members advice. It brought Thatcher down. Stabbed in the back by her colleagues. Thatcher deregulated banking (causing the banking crash) Demutialised the Building society owned by their members, no one could access the capital. It was redistributed to the members. Thatcher sold the Building Societies (shares) off to the banks. Banks bought them over and used the mortgage book as collateral to gamble on the stock markets. Over extending and losing investors money. Losing pension funds etc. in manipulated illegal stock crashes. Thatcher left over 3million unemployed, destroyed communities, interest rates at 15%. Lied and broke the Ministerial code. Used the Official Secrets Act to cover up her criminality and theft. Thatcher was a greedy, lying criminal who should have been put in jail. Thatcher invented Tax havens. Tax evasion.
Lord Rothschild, Balfour and Lloyd George the Balfour Agreement 1917.
Westminster gov members break the Law with impunity, break the Minister Code and use the Official Sectets Act to cover up their crime – fraud, child abuse, blackmail, suicide and murder. Many are greedy Psycopaths, criminally insane.
re Nevermind
No, he isn’t. There’s a good film on vice.com, which is well worth watching for understanding ISIS.