UPDATE
Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.
Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.
This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.
The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.
Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.
As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.
Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.
But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.
Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.
And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.
Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.
Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.
Tony_0pmoc 20/01/2016 11:34am
And the forum. (Posting re Giyane/John Spencer-Davis disputes, please scroll past if not interested)
(Posting 1 of 4, reference #001/4)
[Tony]: “Perhaps you could elucidate”.
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I’m sorry to have to raise this matter on the forum again: it will be for the last time, as I’ll explain later. However, Tony has asked for an elucidation, and unfortunately Giyane has seen fit to repeat his previous falsehoods (and add some more) in a response to Tony, reference this thread 20/01/2016 11:48am, so I feel that I am entitled to discuss that posting, and point out what is wrong with it including the six false statements that it contains.
I will take a note of this thread and the position of these postings of mine within it, so that when Giyane starts up with his falsehoods again, as there is no question that he will, I can merely refer people back to this discussion, so please accept my apologies and bear with me now, as I won’t need to do this again. The length of this posting is because I am aware that if I do not document what I say, Giyane will deny it. (He will anyway, but it will be easier for Tony and the forum to see what he is doing.) I’m also telling people exactly where to check what I’m quoting, to avoid any possible accusation that I’m making things up. I do hope that at least some posters will find a close analysis interesting: I have tried to make it so.
Okay, let’s have a look at Giyane’s latest effort, in detail.
[Giyane]: Yes Tony. When I quote someone I put the name + : + ” + copy and paste quote “.
[JSD]: Giyane’s intention in beginning with this statement is to claim that his normal method of quoting directly from another poster is so rigid, that he cannot have intended to quote me directly, as what he did in my case was slightly different. Actually, this business of quotation marks does not help him, as I show below, but the claim is nonetheless false. Giyane has employed a considerable variety of different methods when quoting other contributors. It’s not hard to find examples. I give half a dozen, with thread references so that people can check for themselves if they wish to.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 28/12/15 3:53pm Republicofscotland: no quotation marks employed.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 28/12/15 4:05pm Habbabkuk: no name given, no quotation marks employed.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 30/12/15 9:35pm Alcyone: no name given, no quotation marks employed.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 01/01/16 8:12pm John Goss: no name given.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 01/01/16 8:20pm Resident Dissident: no name given.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 06/01/16 9:01pm Lysias: quotation marks used but this is not a direct quote.
It should be plain from this that Giyane does not always post direct quotes in the way he claims he does, so that excuse won’t do.
[Giyane]: An unattributed quote in “” was flying around an earlier discussion,
[JSD]: This statement is false, as well. The sentence was written by one poster (not myself), and quoted, once, by another, who did not even comment on it. I don’t call that “flying around an earlier discussion”.
[Giyane]: which corresponded slightly to things JSD was also saying.
[JSD]: That’s a matter of opinion, but I accept that it could be read that way. I presume that that is why Giyane thought I had written it, as he clearly did.
Tony_0pmoc 20/01/2016 11:34am
And the forum. (Posting re Giyane/John Spencer-Davis disputes, please scroll past if not interested)
(Posting 2 of 4, reference #002/4)
[Tony]: “Perhaps you could elucidate”.
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[Giyane]: He said that I had attributed the quote to him, which I hadn’t.
[JSD]: This assertion, that Giyane had not attributed the quote to me, is a lie. By my count, it is the third time that Giyane has lied to the forum directly on this matter, and of course it is a lie addressed directly to Tony this time, too. Giyane hadn’t attributed the quote to me, hadn’t he?
Let’s have a look at the actual wording of Giyane’s posting, which was put up under the handle “Goonfarm” on the 22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread at 8:23pm on 03/01/16.
(Just an aside about this business of “Goonfarm”. Because Giyane posted his original misattribution, along with his usual cargo of jeers and insults, under the false handle “Goonfarm”, not the one that he normally uses, I had no idea that I was dealing with Giyane until shortly after I posted my first demand for a retraction. When it became apparent that Giyane was responsible, I pointed out that he was breaking the rules of the forum by posting under more than one name. Giyane retorted that he was entitled to use any name he pleased, provided his avatar did not change. The moderators of this forum did not like that. They posted a correction to that retort on his comment at 11:25pm. It’s still up, if you want to check.
Sudden silence from Giyane then. Not a peep out of him about that. Not so much as an acknowledgment, much less an apology, to the moderators, to the forum, to me, or to anyone, that while posting his insults he had been breaking the rules of the forum, that I had been correct to point that out, and that the moderators had intervened to prevent him from arguing further with me about the matter. I think that is an excellent illustration of how much integrity the forum can expect from Giyane. None.
Nobody has to take my word for any of that. It can all be read at the 22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread on 03/01/16 between 9:14pm and 11:25pm.)
Let’s take a look at this charming posting, written by Giyane under the handle “Goonfarm”. His chivalrous nature really makes him a pleasure to debate with.
[Giyane posting]:
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Aidworker1
Yes, the trolls are acting like crazy kids at the end of Eid.It’s gong to be smacked bottoms all round. First we have a gonk narratve, stroll past this if you’re not interested in freegoonery,
– why can’t the trolls do that, – troll past this if you’re not interested in USUKIS hegemony uber alles? JSD has bored us into submission to accept that freegoonery rules ok.
Then we have his legal gunk about our absent friend:
“””” “Should a harassment investigation be undertaken by the Police, as many here suggested, this post is evidence that you are facilitating it by maintaining contact.”””””””
It really sticks like dogshit , this kind of legalistic freegoonery.
Craig’s not here to smack bums so the goonitrolls are having a whirl.
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[JSD]: He really is a lovely man, this Giyane, isn’t he? However, this posting is copied and pasted precisely as it appeared previously except that I have emphasized certain words in bold, and the colon after the word “friend” is also in bold, although it may not be easy to see.
Tony_0pmoc 20/01/2016 11:34am
And the forum. (Posting re Giyane/John Spencer-Davis disputes, please scroll past if not interested)
(Posting 3 of 4, reference #003/4)
[Tony]: “Perhaps you could elucidate”.
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It is as clear as daylight through examination of the words in bold that the intention of this posting is to jeer at “JSD”’s “legal gunk”, and for this purpose Giyane adduces a specific example of the “legal gunk”, the words enclosed in quotation marks. That Giyane’s purpose is to insult me by sneering at my own words is undeniable. The conclusion is strengthened by the use of the words “legalistic freegoonery”, which are obviously a further insult directed specifically at me, using as an example the words he has quoted directly.
The posting makes no sense unless the words quoted are attributed to me. I am content to leave it to the forum to decide whether that is a reasonable statement or not. I did not, of course, write the words quoted, as is now accepted, and I am entitled to a retraction and apology for the false attribution. Had Giyane not surrounded his quotation with such vile and insulting language, I would probably have been a bit more polite than I was in pointing the matter out, but that is neither here nor there – the error was made, and I have a right to have it corrected.
So much for the false attribution. Now for the lies about it, in case people are wondering why I keep calling Giyane a liar. Giyane has specifically denied at least three times that he attributed the words in quotation marks to me:
22/12/15 ”Coe/Blatter” thread 03/01/2016 10:44pm: “no gonk, that’s just what I didn’t do”.
22/12/15 “Coe/Blatter” thread: 03/01/2016 11:25pm: “I did not attribute anything to you”.
07/01/16 “Feminism” thread: 20/01/2016 11:48am: “He said I had attributed the quote to him, which I hadn’t”.
Given my discussion above, it is not reasonable to conclude that these statements by Giyane are anything other than attempts at conscious deceit. That’s not my fault. I did not ask Giyane to lie about the matter instead of straight away retracting and apologizing, he chose to do that himself. It is not unreasonable, or obstinate, to continue to require that the original misattribution, and the subsequent lying, be put right. It could be done in thirty seconds, but Giyane prefers to pick fights and throw insults.
[Giyane]: I had put several “”” on either side of the quote to indicate it was a thing that was being bandied about in the discussion without anyone saying where it came from.
[JSD]: Oh yes, of course Giyane had. It is worth noting that this “explanation” first made its appearance one and a half hours and five postings after I raised the matter, which is obviously when Giyane first thought of it. If this was his original intention, why did he not say so immediately, after my very first demand for a retraction? It’s hardly as if we were discussing anything else.
This “explanation” is also irrelevant. The attribution does not depend on the use or otherwise of quotation marks, as I show above. Giyane could have used no quotation marks at all, or fifty each side. Doesn’t alter the sense of what he was saying.
Tony_0pmoc 20/01/2016 11:34am
And the forum. (Posting re Giyane/John Spencer-Davis disputes, please scroll past if not interested)
(Posting 4 of 4, reference #004/4)
[Tony]: “Perhaps you could elucidate”.
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In any case, the “explanation” is clearly absurd. I could retort to Giyane, that his intention in using all these quotation marks was obviously to doubly emphasize that the words came from me, and that would make as least as much sense, if not more, as the idea that he used them to indicate that the provenance was uncertain. There was no mention of an ongoing discussion. There was no mention of anyone else. There was no mention of the quote being unattributed or bandied about. The intention was clearly to concentrate on and attack me personally, and to give an example of my “gunk”, no-one else’s.
This statement about the quotation marks is therefore obviously a lie too. The statement that the quote was “a thing that was being bandied about in the discussion” is also false, in a similar way to “flying around an earlier discussion” noted above.
[Giyane]: JSD is being obstinate. So be it.
[JSD]: What Giyane calls “being obstinate” is a consistent refusal to be abused, jeered, insulted or bullied out of what I have just shown I am plainly entitled to. I’m not bothering him about it. I have no interest in engaging with Giyane at all. I have raised the matter again whenever he has attempted to intimidate me directly with his nasty, childish little insults, without provocation; as he did, to give three examples, on this thread: 16/j01/16 12:01pm, 16/01/16 9:38pm, and a particularly random and spiteful one on the morning of 20/01/16, now deleted by the mods. However, no need for that any more, I will just refer back to here.
[Giyane]: I’m not going to apologise for something I haven’t done.
[JSD]: Giyane means he is not going to apologise for something that he clearly has done. He simply does not have the courage to do the right thing and correct the errors and lies he has engaged in, concerning someone he evidently hates and has contempt for. I would have. Does anyone on the forum doubt, if I had done what Giyane has done, if I had been disputing with the devil himself, that I would have immediately withdrawn and apologized? Of course I would have. Any reasonable person would have. And Giyane knows it: which is partly why he is so venomous.
I won’t be having any more punch-ups with Giyane, but people may have noticed that I have used exactly three epithets when addressing him, or some variation or combination thereof: liar, coward, and occasionally, stupid. That hasn’t been by accident. I have said no more that I have had a perfectly reasonable basis for, as I hope people have now seen. If I have retained the interest of anyone on the forum this far, perhaps they would like to politely request Giyane to respond to these postings, if he chooses to, in a reasonable and civilised manner, without using the words goon, gonk, prat, prick, satanist, pink tights with pom-poms on, poison, madman, or any others of the puerile insults he has come out with in the last month or so, or similar new ones. See how far you get.
It is very clear that Giyane misattributed words to me, has consistently lied about it, and is never going to put the matter right. He obviously has no integrity, and the forum should be aware that if they engage with Giyane in any manner and discover him in a mistake, contradiction or lie, he is very likely to simply blatantly lie about it and deny it, as he has done with me. My advice would therefore be, never to engage with him at all. It’s pointless engaging with someone who has no interest in honest discussion.
That’s it. I appreciate your reading, if you have.
Kind regards,
John
“John Goss is quite wrong about campus protests stopping the Vietnam War”
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
We were protesting in the UK too and everywhere in the world. The Tet Offensive was part of it but it was the student protests, as well as conscripts saying “Stuff this”. Students believed the victory was theirs.
It’s clear from a book I read a few months ago, Eleven Bravo: A Skytrooper’s Memoir of War in Vietnam by E. Tayloe Wise (the son of veterans, a descendant of the governor of Virginia at the time of secession, and a family friend of the World War Two cavalry general Tubby Tuckerman, so no leftist), how bad the morale of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam had become by 1969-70.
Oliver Stone’s time in Vietnam as a soldier was 1967-68. It’s clear from his movies, especially the largely autobiographical Platoon, how bad morale in the U.S. Army was even then.
I was stationed around the world, in Berlin, during the Vietnam War. But it was obvious even there how demoralized and drug-ridden the U.S. Army had become. We were very lucky that the Russians didn’t attack our hollow army at the time. We would have had no choice but to use nuclear weapons. But I guess the Russians knew that.
My mother worked for a while for Gen. Tuckerman’s wife. He was chairman of the National Horse Association and president of the National Horse Show at the time.
“What I hate is what the West has become under the plutocrats.”
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So the poster of the above does hate the West.
Noted.
“My point about the Vincennes (for those too thick to have understood it) is that it shows that it is dangerous to conclude anything from the fact that a government rewarded someone after he did something awful.”
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With great respect, a curious way of making your “point”. Perhaps one needs to be an Oxford Greatsman to understand it? 🙂
But that aside, are you pleased that sanctions against Iran – to which I imagine you were opposed – have been lifted? And do you welcome the prospect of improved relations between Iran and the West/USA?
Notes being taken. No doubt they have files on all of us.
If and when we get rounded up, it will be a mark of honor.
Meanwhile, those who side with the plutocrats increasingly resemble those who sided with the Nazis and the Communists. Without honor.
Of course I welcome improved relations between the U.S. and Iran. After the way the U.S. (and the UK) toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadegh and supported the brutal tyranny of the Shah, we bear the primary responsibility for the bad relations that have prevailed in recent decades.
Another question for the Pugnacious One
“It’s clear from his movies, especially the largely autobiographical Platoon, how bad morale in the U.S. Army was even then.
…during the Vietnam War. But it was obvious even there how demoralized and drug-ridden the U.S. Army had become.”
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How would he evaluate the morale of the US Army now (after Afghanistan and Iraq)?
Better than in the Vietnam era or the same?
If better, how would he account for the improvement?
Pretty pathetic, John Goss, as I was in the thick of college protests in the States the whole time, getting fired by a college in Ohio for staging a teach-in on the war, getting fired by the University of Maine for protesting the appearance of that scumbag Vice President Humphrey at a lecture, and leading protests at Holy Cross College on the Pentagon, and helping the College close down over the Kent State murders.
Then the whole place went complete quiet while the North Vietnamese took over the South.
You should stop thinking that you observe everything.
Lysias
“If and when we get rounded up, it will be a mark of honor.”
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You know perfectly well that no one’s going to get rounded up. Especially not you 🙂
“Of course I welcome improved relations between the U.S. and Iran.”
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Thank you for that and could you just confirm that you are pleased that sanctions against Iran have been lifted?
Mr Goss
“We were protesting in the UK too”
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Who is the “we”?
(I assume you’re not using the royal we.)
“It’s one of the many acts of routine brutality that add up to genocide”
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No, Node – acts of brutality, even if they are routine, do not add up to *genocide*
You must learn to use words properly lest they become devalued.
Must say I have noticed an improvement in your posts, Habby.
Wonder if it will continue if Mary ever comes back.
There still seems to be some confusion about whether Israel is committing genocide. I am therefore obliged to continue publicising views on this matter to clarify the situation.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/holocaust-survivors-and-their-descendants-accuse-israel-of-genocide-9687994.html
FAO RobG & other interested parties
Post from CluesForum
http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1847&sid=d41a7590e36bca369bccf24679e83bb5&start=360
“How many people are purported to have died in the Paris Tetris Attacks?
How many funerals have there been?
Well according to a google search there have been two funerals…well one and a bit actually.
~google bataclan funerals
It has been widely reported spread in the so-called “media” that a so-called “state funeral” was held in Venice, for simbody known as Valerie Soleshin. I had to push forward to the end of page two in Google Search to find any report of another funeral. This time for the alleged “Nick Alexander”, which amazingly segues into an advertisement for some scummy metal band types.
http://bravewords.com/news/eagles-of-de … ert-photos
Anybody see any more?”
Just to help, the french word for funeral is obsèque.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/11/22/01016-20151122ARTFIG00195-pour-les-familles-le-temps-des-funerailles.php
Acts of brutal murder does add up to genocide, especially if directed against fellow Semites.
As for milking the lifting of sanctions as something special, it took them 10 years and despite this controls over Irans affairs are still being used to stifle its INDEPENDENCE.
Iran is a nation that is surrounded by nuclear bases and weapons. Apart from Russia in the north, all of the other nuclear armed forces are not from the region. There are multiple border intrusions on its western borders, both above and below the surface of the Persian Gulf,
take note, not Saudi Arabian Gulf, or UEA Gulf, nor Iraqi Gulf, But all riparian States are co users of the Gulf, all with their territorial waters, some with islands that once belonged to Iran, and some harbouring naval forces that are promoting themselves aggressively and hold nuclear forces in that region.
Iran has all the rights in the world to develop its own missile system should it choose to, not for the threats mentioned previously, but by the huge arms amassed by Saudi Arabis, the nuclear threat from rogue Israel, the French nuclear forces in UAE, an unstable rogue NATO member, Turkey, making a fool out of the wests attempts to bomb ISIS, by training their recruits and by giving free access to Syria for wannabe mercenaries and criminal murderers. Turkey also provides communication equipment to IS/Daesh by the thousands, satellite dishes and simple internet transmission systems which are used to spread their vile propaganda, recruiting, logistics, chats, etc.
So, Iran is surrounded by armed and unstable States who harbour no good. And it has negotiated this peace deal, it was not granted to Iran, so the least one could expect from those who sign it to respect the spirit of it and begin making plans to demob the region somewhat.
One could envisage that Iran could be lenient on its support for Hezbollah in return for an Israeli inspection regime under the IAEA with a view to sign the NNPT.
One could not envisage that this could ever happen with chancer’s in power such as Erdogan and Netanyahu.
You can read into this what you like. Many on this blog have strong suspicions that 9/11 was an inside job – the dirtiest cynical attack on Americans by their own leaders. Whether Putin has actually said he is going to release evidence which proves that the 9/11 ‘attacks’ were controlled explosions I do not know.
http://yournewswire.com/putin-russia-is-ready-to-show-proof-that-911-was-an-inside-job/
However there are a lot of Americans now questioning the twin tower events, including this former CIA pilot. Wake up world.
http://yournewswire.com/cia-pilot-swears-oath-planes-did-not-bring-towers-down-on-911/
“What I hate is what the West has become under the plutocrats.
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So the poster of the above does hate the West.
Noted.”
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That’s a bit presumptuous of you Habb, the sentence expresses that the poster hates what the West has become, not that he/she hates the West per se.
You can relate that particular scenario to a person/s. You can still love or care for someone, even though you hate what they’ve become, example an alcoholic or drug user.
It looks like the yournewswire site is off beam. Some of the stories are outrageous. I was suspicious and my first checks tend to confirm that suspicion.
Trowbridge
“Must say I have noticed an improvement in your posts, Habby.”
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Gracious of you, Trowbridge. And I have found myself agreeing with a couple of thibgs you’ve said. Perhaps we should both start getting worried….? 🙂
Has Craig retired from blogging?
“There still seems to be some confusion about whether Israel is committing genocide.”
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No confusion at all, except in your mind: Israel is not committing genocide.
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“I am therefore obliged to continue publicising views on this matter to clarify the situation.”
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I love a chap with a sense of duty…..
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“More than 300 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have condemned what they described as Israel’s ‘genocide of Palestinian people’ in an advert in the New York Times”
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…but I am less patient with fools. 300 – or even 3000 – survivors describing Israeli policy and actions as “genocide” still doesn’t mean that Israel is committing genocide, Node.
Just as brutal acts, even if recurring, do not indicate a genocide.
China’s president Xi Jinping has been a busy boy of late in his attempt to strengthen the “Silkroad”economy.
In recent weeks he’s visited Egypt and Iran.
In Egypt president Jinping announced major investmenthe deals span several development and infrastructure investments, including the first phase of a new Egyptian administrative capital announced last year.
A $1 billion financing agreement for Egypt’s central bank and a $700 million loan to state-owned National Bank of Egypt.
In Tehran president Jinping announced that Iran and China have agreed to expand bilateral ties and increase trade to $600 billion in the next 10 years, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday during a visit to Tehran by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
With the Chinese economy on the verge of slowing down president Jingping is frantically nerworking all over the globe to keep growth in the black.
It used to be if China agreed to built a countries infrastructure, that Chinese companies and labour took precedence over native companies and their workforce. I wonder if that is still the practice.
From Nevermind
“As for milking the lifting of sanctions as something special, it took them 10 years and despite this controls over Irans affairs are still being used to stifle its INDEPENDENCE.”
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The stench of disappointment from Nevermind is overpowering.
Anon1 was spot on.
Thanks to Node for his continuing attention to the situation in Palestine. I’d taken my eye off the ball, I’m ashamed to say, but focus returned with – yet another – appeal for funds from Medical Aid for Palestinians. MAP only makes substantiated allegations – it has no political axe to grind – and the latest letter lays very definite charges against the IDF for its raids on hospitals in the West Bank; in contempt for and defiance of international law.
The current wave of extreme violence, one side of which is obviously more or less unreported by our compliant press, has led to 140 Palestinian and 19 Israeli deaths; 13,450 Palestinian and 220 Israeli injuries, since October. (This is round about the 100:1 ratio favoured by the IDF, I note)
Emergency medical supplies are urgently needed.
http://www.map-uk.org/notes-from-the-field/archive/article/98-please-help-buy-medicines-to-treat-wounded-palestinians
Yes, there are other regions which urgently need your help too. But I hope you will consider this one.