Tonight I am appearing at a panel discussion following the screening of the long-awaited film by George Galloway, The Killings of Tony Blair. I shall have the dubious pleasure of debating with John McTernan, who has never lacked brass neck but does deserve some credit for appearing to represent the forces of darkness before what I imagine will be a very hostile audience. The other panel members are Michael Mansfield and Lauren Booth.
The film has been predictably lambasted by the mainstream media. But it does include some very essential first hand evidence – myself apart, two other British Ambassadors tell what they themselves witnessed, as do Cabinet members. Noam Chomsky adds some important perceptions. This cannot just be dismissed by cries of “Oh look! George Galloway’s in a hat!! Remember when he was on Big Brother!!” The mainstream media’s response to this film has been unanimously puerile.
The Blair-loving Guardian gave the film two stars and called it “sanctimonious”. If one cannot express moral condemnation of a man who forced through an aggressive war, directly killing hundreds of thousands and destabilising both the Middle East and communities in Europe, and who then went on to make multiple millions of pounds promoting vicious dictatorships, then are we to suspend the very idea of ethics itself?
The Guardian subscribes to the world view propounded weekly by Nick Cohen, that to appear on an Iranian government TV channel is a far greater sin than to promote a war which killed and maimed countless thousands of small children. None of the many contributors appeared in the film under a mistaken belief that George Galloway is perfect. That George (whom I first met in Dundee in 1977) is not perfect in no way detracts from the evidence stated against Tony Blair. On Iraq, George was both right and brave. I would add that I did not for one moment consider refusing to take part on the grounds that George is a unionist.
Getting cinema screenings for an independent documentary film is extremely difficult. This is what is available so far.
I assume there are plans to make it available on wider platforms later.
The Killing$ Of Tony Blair – Official Trailer from The Killing of Tony Blair – Film on Vimeo.
It would appear that US and coalition bombers, have bombed a childrens hospital in Syria, earlier in the week, and then went on to bomb more civilians just North of the hospital.
Several civilians were killed and women and children were injured, in the attack.
Is it any wonder that Syrian refugees are fleeing to Europe, where they are demonised.
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/07/childrens-hospital-bombed-syria.html
Jim appears to be dominating this comments section in the style of Habbabkuk. Are they a pair?
Bright Eyes :
No they’re not, as you well know when you questioned my status before, suspecting I was some security services agent or somesuch drivel.
How convincing did you find Abbotts performance defending the silencing of Syrian activists by the way?
Standard procedure eh? Deny your best mate Habbakook three times eh?
Still calling Syrian activists in exile from the Assad regime benefit scroungers, whilst fantasising over ‘nuking’ the whole middle east.
Welcome to Corbyn-land!
It’s fantastic! Kind and gentle! Did I forget to say Kind and gentle?
Missing question mark.
The trawler Gaul ship and all its crew lost 1974 http://the-trawler-gaul.blogspot.de
‘The term “Conspiracy theory” has started loosing its derogatory sense frequently used in the past by opinion formers – nowadays, quite often, it is just the preliminary stage to the EMERGENCE OF TRUTH … as were the facts about the Hillsborough disaster, which have recently made it to the level of officially sanctioned history’.
Yes they are. Reputedly. they even go running together
Probably.
Jim, appears to denounce the global research website as a unreliable source, a common trait of Habbs. Jim appears to write off George’s comment above as some sort of conspiraloon, again a trait common with Habb, writing off comments as conspiraloon.
Jim appears to push the anti-Assad agenda, with regards to Mr Nasser’s plight, yet I don’t recall Jim ( I could be wrong though) denouncing the Western coalitions bombing sorties which have killed Syria civilians in the region. Again I’ve not witnessed Habb, post a comment denouncing coalition actions in Syria.
So yes there are similarities between Jim and Habb, one must judge for themselves though. However I’d imagine, there’s more than just Habb, keeping a watchful eye on CM’s blog.
I thought of this song. 🙂
Isn’t it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here, at last, on the ground
You in mid-air
Send in the clowns
Isn’t it bliss?
Don’t you approve?
One who keeps tearing around
One who can’t move
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns
I’m still pretty disappointed at Bernie Sanders, calling for his followers to get behind his rival Hillary Clinton. If I were a sceptical person I would’ve thought that Sanders was thrown into the mix, to take the bad look of Clinton, and made the DNC appear more trustworthy.
However with the Wikileaks papers showing the DNC and Wasserman, scheming to blacken Sanders name in the run up to election in November, one would be forgiven for thinking that the Sanders bid was just a ploy.
This 8 minute video of a Sanders rally, in which he’s booed from start to finish, leaves me feeling even more sceptical, Sanders openly calls for his followers to back Clinton. Yet Sanders fails to inform the mass of followers that his name will still be on the ballot alongside Clinton’s.
Sanders wife goes up to the podium and whispers something to that effect, in his ear listen as the remark is caught on the live microphone, it will surprise you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=326&v=XNE_cjSFCXU
“If I were a sceptical person I would’ve thought that Sanders was thrown into the mix, to take the bad look of Clinton, and made the DNC appear more trustworthy.”
As a natural born sceptic, I would say you are right on the button 🙂
” Are they a pair?
Yes, But very small…
Jim on July 31, 2016 at 18:23 stated:
Still calling Syrian activists in exile from the Assad regime benefit scroungers, whilst fantasising over ‘nuking’ the whole middle east.
Yes! Terrible isn’t it? Guess who I got the idea from? One of those right wing American preachers, a “converso” I believe you call them, I heard on the radio.
Welcome to Corbyn-land!
It’s fantastic! Kind and gentle! Did I forget to say Kind and gentle?
Nope! Kind and Gentle, so good you said it twice…. like washing up liquid really?
It’s the palpable pride you have in your repulsive utterances that’s so heartwarming.
1,000s Turkish forces surround NATO’s Incirlik nuclear air base for inspection amid rumors of coup attempt
https://www.rt.com/news/354042-turkish-police-incirlik-nato-coup/
Some 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surrounded the Incirlik air base used by NATO forces in Adana in what a Turkish minister called a “security check.” With no official explanation, speculations have arisen about a new coup attempt or VIP visit.
On Thursday, a huge rally marched towards the NATO base, as people with loudspeakers chanted anti-American and anti-Israel slogans.
Good news most Scottish people want to remain in the United Kingdom.
High water mark now over.
While Britons backed leaving the EU by 52-48 percent, Scots voted by 62-38 percent to remain in the bloc, an outcome Sturgeon argues has changed the political landscape regarding possible Scottish secession.
However according to Saturday’s YouGov survey, 53 percent of Scots wanted to stay part of the United Kingdom with 47 percent backing independence.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-scotland-idUKKCN1092OI
Even when asked if they would rather stay in the EU but leave the UK, 46 percent of the 1,006 respondents said they wanted to remain in the UK and only 37 percent preferred Scotland becoming an independent nation within the bloc.
“Inevitably, some will suggest that the high-water mark of Scottish independence has now passed, especially as it was thought that leaving the EU might persuade ‘No’ voters to change their minds and vote against the Union,” said Joe Twyman, YouGov’s Head of Political and Social Research.
Survey on Scottish Independence, by always wrong UK government crack pollsters yougov, who’ve just apologised for their 75% U-KOK-wide Remain predictions for the EU referendum, admits too, after being cagey about the data, that a significant number of their respondents in this survey weren’t even Scottish or domiciled in Scotland. Their methodolgy, mysterious weighting-factors and all sorts of tomfoolery has been laughed out of Statistics 101 with Mrs. West (who had to come up on the ferry). They might as well have polled in France, some even think they did but they’re naive to think that, pollsters as a rule just make it up as they go along, most of the time, especially if it’s wet out. Other news agencies interpret the results of this very same survey as indicating a modest rise in support for independence. They’re a bunch of lying swine and the sooner they’re off our backs the better. You must be the last true believer, michael norton, taken in right to the end, always surprised by events as you’ve bought wholesale the narrative of lies that has been the backdrop to your entire life.
Theresa May must have been delighted with the technology that burns out internet adsl routers, via the phone line, when Home Sec, even if BT weren’t.
Ile de Re, off La Rochelle, Western France
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/La+Rochelle,+France/@46.2273747,-1.3365275,11.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x48015383c9253d75:0x405d39260ee9640!8m2!3d46.1603343!4d-1.1508179
French MP calls for ‘new Guantanamo Bay’ for terror suspects to be built off country’s coast
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-terrorism-terrorists-isis-prison-guantanemo-bay-ile-de-re-la-rochelle-a7164881.html
Jim
You put up a good fight but don’t think you’re ever going to get any of the haters and conspiraLoons to admit you might be right more often than not..
What you have to realise is that only an infinitesimal proportion of those who read this blog also comment on it. And the vast majority of the comments in fact come from a small handful of people – a dozen at most (Republicof scotland, Bevin, Alan, Michael Norton RobG, , etc), some of whom are in any event just on here for fun.
Their dedication to keeping this blog supplied with comments would be laudable if one thought that their motives were any other than compensating for the lack of traction their ideas and fancies have in the real world and/or for the boredom of their everyday existence (a lot of them have too much time in their hands). Another reason is of course that Craig is extraordinarily tolerant of views bordering on lunacy and so this blog is a kind of safe haven for the sort of views that get automatically modded out of the comments sections of the MSM or which an MP would direct automatically to his wastepaper basket.
Hope that helps you to gain a perspective and stay sane 🙂
“You put up a good fight but don’t think you’re ever going to get any of the haters and conspiraLoons to admit you might be right more often than not..”
Like you, Jim is not going to answer a thread on anybody else’s terms, eh?
Welcome Habba, to the night shift.
Dare I quote, Jim? I think I will.
“Just to tear you away from Internet conspiraloon bullshit for a moment,”
Habb old boy you admit to reading every single comment, on this blog something even Craig admits to not doing, now either you have to much time on your hands? Or, the more likely reason you are paid to do so?
The latter appears to be the favourite choice, especially with your self incriminating comment, that you keep “your vigilant eye on CM’s blog.” A comment you made to Clark.
What further incriminates you, as to your true purpose on this blog, apart from you read every single comment, whilst keeping a “vigilant eye” on the blog, is that you also appear to have the time to post multiple comments, at anytime of the day.
There maybe a small band of commentors that post regularly (though you omit Anon1 who post regularly) however the small band not including myself, posts interesting and informative comments in my opinion.
It comes as no surprise then, that you feel the need to shut us up, by constantly harping on about becoming a mod in here. I say to the small dedicated group of posters, take a bow your comments (mostly) are hitting the mark, much to the annoyance of Habb &Co.
I know Habbs. I’m doing this so that others (friends of mine who’ve bought into this drivel themselves) can see just what sort of people they’re allying themselves with. It’s the nauseating self-righteous faux radical pose they all strike, it turns my stomach.
It’s fantastic to have such a source of evidence of their egregious hypocrisy as the Sainted Diane Abbott. Bed soon, I’m pretty tired, gotta be up at 6 for work!
Does he mean he knows what Habbabkuk means or is he is saying that the pair of them are known to each other?
I don’t particularly like either of the pair, Abbott for her patent hypocrisy, or the other one, who has just been unmasked as yet another willing warmonger’s stooge. A media-whore doesn’t mean what you think, but they do sell themselves and other people, all the same.
If you really get so upset by some puff-piece filler stage managed on Belle Colour Brillo’s sofa, for the barely sentient fans of such things. Why Don’t You switch off your TV and do something more interesting … kite-flying is good fun, choose an area with lots of pylons to give it an extra sparkle.
Ah Hab – I was wondering when you’d show. Now let’s see:
“haters and conspiraLoons” – yes back to the old invective. I’ll let that condemn itself.
“What you have to realise is that only an infinitesimal proportion of those who read this blog also comment on it.”
Now this bit worries me. Do you have godlike powers of observation or have you some kind of intelligence gathering network?
“laudable” and “lack of traction” are good. They have an erudite ring. And oh yes, us pathetic social misfits can’t cope in the real world. We have ideas “bordering on lunacy” and we have come to this “safe haven”. Nice of Craig to keep us off the streets. Not sure what “modded” means. When I googled it Pokémon came up. Oh you young ones with your trendy fixations!
Nah – on analysis, invective and a colossally presumptive arrogance are all that I can see. On the other hand I do appreciate your smiley face.
Cher George
1/. ““What you have to realise is that only an infinitesimal proportion of those who read this blog also comment on it.”
Now this bit worries me. Do you have godlike powers of observation or have you some kind of intelligence gathering network?””
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Just more or less quoting Craig 🙂
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“laudable” and “lack of traction” are good. They have an erudite ring. And oh yes, us pathetic social misfits can’t cope in the real world. We have ideas “bordering on lunacy” and we have come to this “safe haven”. Nice of Craig to keep us off the streets.
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Again, I believe it was Craig who once said something about keeping people from shouting in supermarket car parks 🙂
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“Nah – on analysis, invective and a colossally presumptive arrogance are all that I can see.”
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If my posts get under your skin to the extent they seem to, you could just close your eyes and scroll on 🙂
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Hope that helps, George 🙂
It certainly does help. Thanks. But I might keep half an eye open for those marvellous smiley faces.
Many have been the times on this blog when the UK has been called a “police state” (or worse) and numerous have been the lamentations at the activities – real or supposed – of the security services, inevitably seen as bad guys and bogeymen.
What, then, should one say of a country whose former President, former PM and current President (they are one and the same) was actually, in his previous incarnation, a policeman – a policeman of the secret police variety?
Is that what Diane Abbott said about private schools? Fascinating!
So that’s the thread for tonight? Pick on Putin night? You and Jim are just so predictable.
Any more ‘nuking’ fantasies tonight?
The words I used was “Make them glow in the dark”. Nobody mentioned nukes, or nuking.
Such delicate poetic nuance! I’m convinced!
Yea, I learn quickly and some, such as yourself, are such excellent studies.
So as this is tonight’s topic, I figured to save you some time, How about?
http://policestate.co.uk/
Rowan Atkinson discusses freedom of expression and other really interesting stuff. Aren’t I good to you Habba?
Come on Habba, you are so slow; how about:
http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2013/03/19/police-state-uk-the-rights-you-didnt-know-youd-lost/
http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13807603.There_is_growing_evidence_that_the_United_Kingdom_is_becoming_a_police_state/
https://policestatebritain.blogspot.co.uk/
Or maybe
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/03/the-shocking-truth-about-police-corruption-in-britain/
“Imagine you lived in a country which last year had 3,000 allegations of police corruption. Worse, imagine that of these 3,000 allegations only half of them were properly investigated — because for police officers in this country, corruption was becoming routine. Imagine that the police increasingly used their powers to crack down not on criminals but on anyone who dared speak out against them. What sort of a country is this? Well, it’s Britain I’m afraid — where what was once the finest, most honest service in the world is in danger of becoming rotten.”
How about that Habba?
I was going to guess Turkey?
He’s got the top brass bang to rights, anyway:
The present generation of police chiefs come from a very different breed. Fast-tracked and homogenised from an early stage, they can be difficult to tell apart. Often laden with degrees in law, business and ‘criminology’ accumulated during their police careers, they are more managers than police officers — managers of budgets, managers of public relations and, most importantly, managers of risk to their own careers. They speak in the obscure, vapid jargon of stakeholder engagement, paradigm shifts and proactivity. So much for transparency.
Still, that’s the problem everywhere, from politics to finance, isn’t it? Too many generously-rewarded theory-packed chiefs talking gibberish at each other in endless meetings, and too few practical
IndiansNative Americans.I have to agree with you on the point that Putin has manufactured his steely grip on Russia, he’s been PM or President of Russia since 2000, how very undemocratic indeed.
However I could say that with regards to American politics, the Bushes and Clinton’s far exceed Putin’s grip in the political field for nominees or government posts.
I also agree that when taken into consideration British politics does appear more democratic, though Len McClusky claims the British security services have been infiltrating that sphere for many decades, the unexplained death of Willie McCrae springs to mind, though I could cite a few others to boot.
Re my last comment.
Of course Putin a former KGB agent appointed by Yeltsin, cannot afford to let go of his grip on Russia. One can say for certain, that the West, has in history and today always tried to get one over on Russia.
One just has to look at a map of all the US/Nato bases that virtually surround Russia, to see why Putin must keep a tight grip in the Kremlin. Is Russia such a dangerous threat to the people of the West? that dozens if not more bases armed with deadly missilies, are needed to subdue the Russian bear.
Or is it outwith the realms of possibility, that Western leaders led by the US, want to either crush, or control the Russian economy to a greater extent?
Could one say that Russia was protecting its interests when it annexed Crimea? Another point, that is of interest is who manufactured the unrest in the Ukraine in the first place?
One could say that Russia did not invade and control the whole of the Ukraine, which would’ve fufilled the criteria, to allow the West under US leadership to, dare I say, make outright war with Russia.
RoS
Two items for ya –
1. Ahh the reasons for Endless war revealed, Destruction of Life’s and countries in the M.E….
Check out this video where…
President Putin asks the US Ambassador for his analysis on whether or not the Missile Defense System, being positioned on Russia’s doorstep, is in fact a threat to Russian security? His answer attempted to dispel the argument, but came out even more disturbing. According to the US Ambassador, America needs war to create jobs. Putin, amused, asks – “Why can’t you create jobs in a sphere that does’t threaten the existence of the human race?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdypP11X2P8
2. Have you heard of the curious case of..
WEST Dunbartonshire Council was accused of censorship yesterday, after it dropped a play about SNP activist Willie MacRae from its programme before telling the show’s producer he could come back if the Labour council administration was ousted in the next elections.
After a successful run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Andy Paterson from Theatre Magnetico said the authority called him asking about the possibility of putting his play 3,000 Trees: The Death of Willie Macrae on at Clydebank Town Hall –
http://www.thenational.scot/news/council-accused-of-censorship-after-blocking-willie-macrae-play-until-labour-are-kicked-out.5773
Brian; What do you make of the Trump/Putin bromance? Are they birds of a feather and mightn’t they turn European politics upside down?
Thank you Brian for the link, as for West Dunbartonshire council, I’m not that surprised. Tammany hall, aka Glasgow city council, turned off the city chambers webcam that would’ve allowed people, who couldn’t attend the indy march on Saturday to see it.
The council site claimed the webcam was down, just as the rally entered George Sq.
Unsurprisingly the Orange Order day out at George Sq awhile back, was captured with great clarity, on the council’s webcam.
So tell me Habba, I’ve noticed that you have asked this question previously, so does this mean you have some deep-rooted insecurities concerning the forces of law and order? Have you spoken to a health care professional regarding your secret fears? I do recommend seeing your doctor if these feelings persist.
What one should do is to produce evidence of wrong doing.
It really ought not matter that Putin was an agent of the KGB. So were many of his opponents. It was a very large organisation which hired the best it could find and promoted on merit.
It was not unlike the ICS and played a similar role.
Those objecting to the UK on the grounds that it acts like a Police State do so by adducing evidence of actual behaviour: surveillance on a scale unprecedented and dwarfing anything Stasi dreamed of;
actual evidence of involvement in hundreds of murders in Northern Ireland and elsewhere;
maintaining black lists of union activists in co-operation with employers;
agents provocateurs, making Father Gapon look like an amateur, working for years in opposition groups, managing anti-government campaigns etc.
And, of course, Police State relationships between the state and ‘jihadists’ not only abroad (where militias paid and trained by the UK attack foreign states and brutally murder civilians including children) but at home where mosques abound with provocateurs and spies paid large salaries by the UK.
So far as Putin is concerned: he is perfectly open about his background. If you have any evidence of misdeeds on his part (and I am sure there have been many) present it to us.
Let us leave sneer ‘n’ smear ad hominems to the denizens of other blogs.
Remember Habba you are pretending to be the perfect English Gentleman, urbane, Oxbridge educated, scholarly, fluent in many tongues…., Act like one.
“It really ought not matter that Putin was an agent of the KGB. So were many of his opponents. It was a very large organisation which hired the best it could find and promoted on merit.”
Perhaps you might wish to support this assertion. – you could start with the merit that allowed Beria to rise to the top of that organisation.
Handbag:
“What, then, should one say of a country whose ….” current PM ” ,,,,, was actually, in his previous incarnation, a policeman – a policeman of the secret police variety?”
Whatever you are trying to insinuate about Mrs May and her illustrious career as Home Secretary, I’m sure you’ll agree that her diplomatic skills with China fall somewhat lacking by comparison with Mr Putin’s.
The lesson she has obviously not learned as chief pig is that if you want missiles that work you make friends with China.
Cameron fancied Oriental ladies, so he was obviously wearing rosy pink spectacles. Question is, Can ladies suffer from yellow fever?
In terms of sexual political drama it’s as clunky as a love affair on the Archers, a porn movie with all the porn removed:
David Cameron was led astray by his passion for oriental ladies, but his mum has saved him and us from his infatuations, blocked all obscene images and restored the UK ship of state to its ordered navigational path.
Tel Aviv bimbos are OK. They haven’t got any new technology to offer. We share all our technology with them already.
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. Diane Abbott
Did she turn you down, or something? Is this a bruised male ego thing you have going?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udGTdbPJqXc
Ben
There is no Reply button on your post.
But To me, Putin talked up Trump, to Talk Down Clinton.. She is a war hawk up to her neck in war crimes.
i think Russia are, like many of us Worried about a Clinton Pres,..Shocking the Way Sanders started asking his Hopeful Followers to vote Clinton, even though his name is still on the Ballot..
I’m afraid i cant agree with the Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa Re Clinton..
“The rejection of (Bush’s) policies and ideas was so strong, that it actually strengthened our progressive governments,”
“I believe something similar would occur if Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidency,” he continued. “But for the sake of the USA and the world in general, I hope Hillary Clinton wins.”
Is that an Early Self Defence Parry / Statement me wonders
Just be glad you don’t have to vote in the US election, Bri… 🙂
Take an hour off with the headphones Brian. I think you’ll enjoy his folksiness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL8xJXxJ7Rw
Ben Yes…. Thats the Strangest Reggae Stuff i ever heard..Is it Reggae.. Where the Fk you get that.. Cheers….I see Next door is down…. The First.
Never thought of it before Brian but his songs sometimes have that sound. it’s folk/country/rock. He wrote lots of stuff . Saw him back in 1980 in a small venue. One guy cried out a request. “Yeah, I wrote it. But I don’t remember it.”
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“Using contested intelligence, a powerful adviser urges a president to wage a war of choice against a dictator; makes a bellicose joke when he is killed; declares the operation a success; fails to plan for a power vacuum; and watches Islamists gain power. That describes Dick Cheney and the Iraq War—and Hillary Clinton and the war in Libya.
At Tuesday’s primary debate, Clinton was criticized not just for the Iraq War vote that cost her the 2008 election, but also for the undeclared 2011 war that she urged in Libya.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/hillary-clinton-debate-libya/410437/
Pure Evil.
Dedicated to those who scoff at the idea of police using patsies to create terrorist incidents
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/07/29/rcmp-entrapped-bc-pair-in-terror-plot-judge
Node Since you Are Up n Aboot….. I dont want to upset…But i Know it’s a shared Passion…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqum-_5RhY
Thanks Brian. Powerful, moving, sad, and true. It would be nice to think that one day there will be no need for videos like this, but until that distant day, people need to make them and we need to watch them.
Shared…
Anyone believe in conspiracies?
“Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee blaming the leaks on Russia and/or Trump also permits the corporate media to avoid looking further into the murder of Seth Rich.
“He was the DNC computer nerd whose job was running their database.
“First, if the earlier NGP-VAN firewall breeches did permit HRC’s team to get the info on Sanders’ supporters (and the source of what Mayor de Blasio called the “targeted” voter roll striping in NYC, and across the nation), Seth would have known where those bodies are buried.
“Second, he could be the actual source of the leak.
“But he was shot to death in the wee hours of the morning, mid-way between DNC admitting the leak and the Convention in what the police are trying to call a robbery even though NOTHING was taken from him. Not his wallet. Not his watch. Not even his cell phone. ”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/washington-dnc-staffer-seth-conrad-rich-shot-killed-article-1.2707538
Sounds a lot more likely to me than the “forget the story, the Russians hacked the DNC to hurt our lovely Hill” scenario. It always seemed to me most likely that the DNC leaks came from within. And that the most likely source was someone under the age of 30. Seth was both.
Wasserman-Schultz quoted there resigned. She was the chair of the DNC.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/debbie-wasserman-schultz-resigns-dnc-chair-emails-sanders
Yes she resigned. And was immediately appointed head of the Clinton Campaign. By doing so the Clintons confirmed that they publicly supported the crimes-for there were many real criminal offences- for which she was responsible.
And there has hardly been a word said in the media about this astonishing display of arrogance.
This is a good explanation of the DNC events
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38328-10-reasons-why-demexit-is-serious-getting-rid-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz-is-not-enough
Don’t forget the death in a suspicious small plane crash of the Republicans’ Ohio computer expert just as he was about to testify in Washington about the 2004 election debacle in Ohio.
For those interested, not many I suspect, there is a long list of suspicious (and more than suspicious) deaths associated with the Clintons, which have taken place over many years. Seth Rich is in this quite up-to-date list. Anybody who would vote for a Clinton is voting for a family of sociopaths.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/BODIES.php
Talking of deaths associated with political figures perhaps you might wish to comment on why the Nemtsov trial is being conducted behind closed doors as a military trial?
http://www.france24.com/en/20160728-france-edf-approves-hinkley-point-nuclear-reactor
FRENCH STATE broadcasters still don’t recognize that Islamaphobic Theresa May has slammed the hand brake on the FRENCH Nuclear Plant at Hinkley Point C.
They claim that Électricité de France has a debt of 37,000,000,000 Euros
with assets of 18,500,000,000 Euros
yet EDF has 58 reactors running in France that it is estimated will cost 51,000,000,000 Euros to renovate.
France is already over the debt threshold, where the E.U. should impose sanctions, yet the FRENCH STATE is so keen on Hinkley point there are going to invest a further 3,000,000,000 Euros, give give EDF a float.
It seems that as the FRENCH STATE already owns 85% of EDF this nuclear business is likely to bring the finances of the French national purse into a terrible and on-going mess.
Can nobody else see the recklessness of this project, if only from a financial point of view?
http://deciphering-fukushima.blogs.sciencesetavenir.fr/tag/monique%20sen%C3%A9
The Great Lesson FRANCE has to learn from Fukushima.
This is mostly what the 51,000,000,000Euros refurbishment is about, that and the fact if they keep them running another twenty years they kick the can down the road as far as having a solution to the nuclear waste conundrum.
It’s total insanity from a financial point of view, as well as every other point of view.
We need a new generation of coal fired power stations.
Not ideal but better than nuclear, that’s for sure.
A new generation of coal fired power stations is the second last thing needed.
The last thing is another nuclear boondoggle, whose immense costs will not include insurance against its inevitable catastrophic failure.
Well, I am not a believer in Global Warming
but the Chinese were constructing several coal-fired power stations every week for a few years, the Australians have just ripped a hole through the Great Barrier Reef, to put an out-at-sea port for monstrous bulk coal ships to take the coal from one of the most massive open-air coal pits in the World for onward use in India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_coal_mine
Mind you this massive venture is sickening as the World price of fuel plummets.
But I do not see, why we in the U.K. should not have some new, more efficient coal-fired power stations.
It seems a crying shame the just closed Longannet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longannet_power_station
If we do leave the E.U. we could do what suits us.
Chinese not happy bunnies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36943792
China’s state-run news agency has criticised the UK government’s decision to delay signing off on the Hinkley nuclear power project.
It said putting off the deal – which is one-third funded by China – put at risk the momentum of the “golden era” in UK-China relations.
It has been suggested Prime Minister Theresa May had national security concerns about China’s role.
The government has said it wants until early autumn to review the scheme.
Officially the Chinese government said it hopes for smooth and speedy implementation of the Hinkley Point project.
But a strong-worded commentary from the state news agency said it cannot understand the “suspicious approach that comes from nowhere to Chinese investment”.
“The new British government is actually running the risk of dampening the hard-won mutual trust with China,” it said.
“China can wait for a rational British government to make responsible decisions, but can not tolerate any unwanted accusation against its sincere and benign willingness for win-win cooperation,” it added.
Mrs May’s official spokeswoman said: “Of course with the role that China has to play on world affairs, on the global economy, on a whole range of international issues, we are going to continue to seek a strong relationship with China.”
On Saturday, former business secretary Sir Vince Cable said Mrs May was unhappy with what she saw as the government’s “gung-ho” approach to doing deals with Beijing when they were in the coalition cabinet together.
They are trying hard to tar Andy Burnham:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/27/missing-presumed-lost-andy-burnhams-spine/
“Corbyn calls for end to UK ‘arms bazaar’ policy in Middle East”
This is well worth a read:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/corbyn-challenges-foreign-policy-ethics-blair-cameron-664783825
or, read the full interview, even better:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/middle-east-eye-meets-corbyn-full-interview-742537858
alCY
Y ou Do Not Fiit in with the other asholoeslse
Jim
July 31, 2016 at 20:10
“It’s fantastic to have such a source of evidence of their egregious hypocrisy…”
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“egregious”?
Now isn’t that a word most often used by dear old Habbabkuk on this blog?
Do you not have any original views to put forward? (No conferring)
The alleged Hells Angel General Breedlove, so fond of badly engineered Harley’s, is surrounding himself with warmongers and arms pushers who love nothing more than to attack Russia.
That this will mean war in Ukraine is clear as crystal, that it would also mean a new world war which will inevitably hit the US of A has not dawned on them yet.
“The newly leaked emails reveal a clandestine network of Western agitators around the NATO military chief, whose presence fueled the conflict in Ukraine. Many allies found in Breedlove’s alarmist public statements about alleged large Russian troop movements cause for concern early on. Earlier this year, the general was assuring the world that US European Command was “deterring Russia now and preparing to fight and win if necessary.”
The emails document for the first time the questionable sources from whom Breedlove was getting his information. He had exaggerated Russian activities in eastern Ukraine with the overt goal of delivering weapons to Kiev.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/breedlove-network-sought-weapons-deliveries-for-ukraine-a-1104837.html
Thanks for that Brian Fujisan, just to pick up were you left off, here we have Phillip Karber of the Potomac Foundation, the driving academic force behind the Ukraine crisis and close confidant to many, incl. Breedlove.
http://www.thepotomacfoundation.org/experts/phillip-a-karber-2/
Nevermind ..Its you … I …We Should Thank…..The Squonkoids And the Blog…Hugs To the Mr’s
I do not Remember Tampering with the ( BrianF )..Lol
Testing
thanks Brian, my best to you and yours, hope your wee yin is OK.
Another Blairite-Clintonire lie exposed:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/01/the-exoneration-of-milosevic-the-ictys-surprise-ruling/
RUSSIAN helicopter on Aleppo aid mission shot down, all 5 aboard dead
https://www.rt.com/news/354128-russian-helicopter-syria-down/
A Russian Mi-8 helicopter has been shot down by ground fire in Syria following delivery of humanitarian supplies to Aleppo, the Defense Ministry said. Three crew and two officers from Russia’s Reconciliation Center died, according to a Kremlin statement.
Probably by friends of America.
Analysis – By Sebastian Usher, BBC Arab affairs editor
This is the single worst loss of life for Russia since it launched its air offensive in Syria in support of President Assad towards the end of last year.
Moscow says the helicopter was not involved in a military mission, but was delivering humanitarian aid.
That claim may be open to question as Russia has mostly used its air power to back military offensives by pro-government forces in Aleppo and elsewhere. But it will further inflame feelings in Russia against rebels in Syria. Moscow has repeatedly said it sees little distinction between the rebels in terms of brutality and extremism.
Graphic images posted online of the aftermath of the incident will add fuel to the fire.
Russia has previously, though seldom, lost aircraft since it launched operations in support of the Syrian government at the end of September 2015.
In July, two Russian pilots were killed when their helicopter was shot down east of the city of Palmyra by so-called Islamic State (IS).
Last November, the pilot of a Russian Su-24 fighter plane was killed when the aircraft was shot down by Turkey on its border with Syria.
A Russian marine sent on a mission to rescue the pilot was also killed when his helicopter was shot down.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36939137
The crew were slaughtered by the moderate terrorists, and the bodies defiled.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/warning-18-video-syrias-islamist-rebels-desecrate-bodies-fallen-russian-pilots/
Miscarriage of justice:
“Life term for IS-inspired Tube attacker Muhiddin Mire”
“Sentencing him at the Old Bailey, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC said while he accepted Mire was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the offence, he also believed he had been motivated by events in Syria.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36942245
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Schizophrenia is defined as a chronic mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality (psychosis).
A shameful political trial and verdict I think.
It may be a whistle-blower that will advise Jeremy Corbyn that although special forces operations should be subject to proper democratic oversight through a new War Powers Act, Britain’s ‘shadow wars,’ that is Syria right now, has assembled ex SAS/SBS/SO14 mercenaries contracted out from security firms such as Aegis, Henderson risk, Hart security and others at £500/day. I know this from close protection personnel who worked in Kosova and Bosnia such as one-leg John. These so called security firms who also include MI5 hit-men must also be regulated in any War Powers Act.
http://remotecontrolproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Special-Forces_Jon-Moran_Formatted-003.pdf
So Better Togethers biggest donor is in line to receive a knighthood after David Cameron included him in the honours list, payment for services rendered I guess.
Ian Taylor, the chief executive of Vitol, donated £500,000 pounds to try and halt Scottish independence.
In 2001 the Observer newspaper, revealed that Vitol paid $1 million dollars to a Serbian war criminal, whom I will not name, to sort out an oil deal for the company. Vitol claimed no illegal actions took place.
In 2007 Vitol pled guilty in a New York court, to paying surcharges to Iraqi’s national oil company, which at the time undermined the UN’s oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
Alistair Darling has already donned the ermine robe, for his part in the lying and scaremongering, that saw no win. Now Mr Taylor, will join him, rewarded for actions above and beyond, the call of duty.
Habbabkuk
July 31, 2016 at 19:56
“What, then, should one say of a country whose former President, former PM and current President (they are one and the same) was actually, in his previous incarnation, a policeman – a policeman of the secret police variety?”
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“Russian Approval of Putin Soars to Highest Level in Years”
http://www.gallup.com/poll/173597/russian-approval-putin-soars-highest-level-years.aspx
Hitler was pretty popular in Germany for a few years as well, I believe.
If that was a comment of substance perhaps you’d do better to get back into Lurker mode again, Doug. 🙂
“What, then, should one say of a country whose former President, former PM and current President (they are one and the same) was actually, in his previous incarnation, a policeman – a policeman of the secret police variety?”
George H W Bush. Except he’s not a former PM or current president and, rather than a policemen, he was actually Director of Central Intelligence; ie, Head of CIA.
Don’t be daft, Esclavo.
President/PM/President Putin was a front line KGB officer – and nothing else – until he entered politics.
Bush senior was a political appointment.
No comparison.
Bush was head of the CIA! Just look it up, for once, Habbakook.
Gave the criminal Ferdinand Marcos a bolt hole on Hawaii to retire safely in.
http://www.pkarchive.org/economy/Marcos.html
Yes, he was. And it was a purely political appointment. Few if any of the recent heads of the CIA have been practising CIA operatives. President Putin, on the other hand. made his career as a practising KGB operative. Do keep up.
What exactly is “a purely political appointment”? And how do you know that “few if any of the recent heads of the CIA have been practising CIA operatives”?
Georgie
!/. A “political appointment”. broadly speaking, is one where the head of an organisation or body is appointed by the govt from outside that organisation or body. Eg, Bush senior to the CIA without being a CIA man, Walter Annenberg to the US embassy in London without being a State Department official, Peter Jay to the UK embassy in Washington without being an FCO man, This may occur for a number of reasons, eg for the three examples given above,the post is one which does not necessarily require prior specialist knowledge, it is bestowed as a favour to someone of your political persuasion who had donated handsomely to your party, it is given because you are the PM’s son-in-law who will, it is felt, bring a breath of fresh air to the job.
2/. How do I know? Well, don’t just take my word for it. I suggest you google something like “heads of the CIA” and read about the last, say, dozen or so heads. Come back to me if you have any difficulties.
Hope that helps.
PS – you might also profitably read up about Mr Putin’s career since graduating from university.
Applies equally to the Bush dynasty too, GHW Bush was head of the frankly depraved CIA from around 1974, after a long career with the agency, records have him employed by them in Dallas when Kennedy was assassinated, his oil companies were fronts. He was effectively President, when vice-President during the debilitated dotard Reagan’s years through the 1980s, almost gained the top job when Reagan was handily shot early in his Presidency, before terms as President himself in the nineties, before his son then got his father’s job and another son was until recently a Republican presidential candidate for the present US electoral pantomime featuring ‘rival’ billionaire elites.
I’m all for a rule that ex- or present- intelligence personnel, directly or through cut-out fronts steer well clear of, or are excluded from politics. And that the present litter and the recently departed MPs, be scrutinised for such involvement, either with agencies of their ‘own’ country or of foreign countries.
When does it start? Those who’ll say it would be a witch-hunt, I’d suspect immediately of devilish intrigues themselves.
“I’m all for a rule that ex- or present- intelligence personnel, directly or through cut-out fronts steer well clear of, or are excluded from politics.”
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Ah, but there’s the rub, Tony.
Your “indirect route” would enable you to exclude from politics anyone you disapprove of by the simple expedient of claiming that they might once have had something to do with intelligence work.
Nutters of your sort would, I’m sure, be willing and able to concoct such a claim about just about anyone not on your political side.
Over and out as far as you’re concerned.
Doug.
I’d say that Putin’s popularity is down to the actions of the West, the sanctions, the US/Nato bases, all pointing towards Russia, has pushed Russian’s closer together and towards nationalism.
A recent turn of events, that has a similar outcome can be seen in Turkey, the recent coup attempt, has renewed nationalist pride among the Turks.
Russia however, has over history, felt the need for exaggerated national pride, as enemies, in the shape of Napoleon, Hiltler and earlier threats, approached the gates of Moscow.
That report is over two years old. Putin’s rating is probably even higher now.
Re my previous comment.
Meanwhile the lies, I mean core promises, that Better Together preached to the people of Scotland, have collapsed, quivker than Owen Smith’s chances of defeating Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.
Firstly we had Alistair Darling, and his keyword “frankly” say with the help of the biased BBC, that the only way to secure the oil industry was to vote no , as the broad shoulders of the UK, was the only real option. Fast forward to today and the British oil industry lies in tatters.
Then Mr Darling and his zealous minions, again with the help of the BBC, claimed that the only way Scotland would remain in the EU was if we voted no to independence. That lie has now gone belly up as well.
The third core claim and I use the word lightly, was that pensions would only be safe in the UK, and a independent Scotland, couldn’t guarantee to ring fence or triple lock them. Which sees state pensions rise with inflation.
Now a secret memo written by the former pensions minister, recommends that pensioners should lose their rights to a guaranteed state pension, that increases yearly with inflation.
Baroness Altman has called for the triple lock protection to be abolished, Altman suggested that Theresa May the PM, is in favour of abolishing the safeguard.
How many more false promises will no voters in Scotland be taken in by, before they decide enough is enough, and realise that voting yes, to independence, is the only real way forward.
As I have said on several occasions, one can only welcome the prospect of the Labour Party entering into the next general election under the leadership of Mr Corbyn.
Should be a home run as I believe our American cousins say.
For the Conservatives, I mean.
Can’t you do better than that Habb? The old, tired line. As you well know, but can’t admit when you’re trolling, Labour has done well in all elections under Corbyn, and there’s every reason to suppose that it will continue. After all, when a party does well, you normally expect it to continue. Only the Habbs of this world don’t.
“Should be a home run as I believe our American cousins say.”
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Habb.
Why would you think that? Could you elaborate a tad, thanks.
I’m under the impression, and I’m pretty sure others are as well, that Corbyn, is popular with the masses? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that a politicians remit to if possible placate the masses, that he’s been elected to represent?
Or are my notions outdated? And the first interest of a politician, should be remuneration and career, everything else should be secondary. However that type of representation, which I’m sure is rife at Westminster now, and has increased in my opinion, since the Thatcher/Reagan era, doesn’t really sit well with the masses, and it shouldn’t.
Even as we speak Corbyn is calling for a shake up of employment laws to improve the rights of workers. A move suggested in the wake of the shambolic handling of BHS, that allowed a very rich man, I won’t name him but you know who I mean. To become even richer at the expense of 11,000 workers, who now aren’t sure if their pensions are safe or not, possibly the latter.
yes, were are the condemnatory noises from our Conservatives who serve the 1% just as Blairs boys and babes did?
have you heard Mrs. May condemning the audacity of billions bypassing the exchequer?
Did she say much about holding back 5.3 billion in applicable EU grants to local councils? No? I thought she didn’t .
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/sort_out_our_eu_funding_delays_councils_warn_treasury_1_4637050
thanks to leave companies are shedding their best staff and science is loosing out big time. Did I hear Lord Sainsbury pledging to support them, regardless of whether he’s earning on genetic mutated foods?
No I don’t think so.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/referendum_result_has_already_contributed_to_departure_of_norwich_scientist_1_4639486
And Corbyn is soo popular they even had to stop local meetings because of his amazing success at the ballot box since he’s got in.
So whatever our resident no link boy Habby is on about , its irrelevant and inconsequential.
“Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has demanded a root-and-branch review of Britain’s alliance with Saudi Arabia in the wake of the brutal Saudi interventions in Bahrain and the Yemen.”
“Speaking to Middle East Eye, Corbyn called for a fundamental change in Britain’s relationship with the Middle East, establishing a foreign policy based on democracy rather than military interventions. The Labour leader said that Britain’s relationship with the Saudi monarchy should focus on human rights – not arms sales.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/corbyn-challenges-foreign-policy-ethics-blair-cameron-664783825
Well, I certainly can’t argue with the above, Mr Corbyn, appears to be advocating common sense. Of course the rebel far right in the Labour party, which, will need to be purged, sooner than later, will vehemently disagree with Corbyn’s thoughts on the matter.
It is time that politicians at Westminster, stopped appeasing their corporate sponsors, and reverted to serving the public, that elected them for that very reason, Mr Corbyn appears to be leading the way.
RoS
“Popular with the masses”?
The “masses”?
That sort of pseudo-Marxist language is very early C20, don” you think?
So yes, your “notions” probably are somewhat outdated.
Habb.
And you have the audacity to berate Doug over comments that lack substance. ?
RoS
The substance of my reply was that your use of outdated language is indicative of outdated thinking.
Hope that helps.
“Should be a home run as I believe our American cousins say.”
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Habb.
A somewhat poor response Habb, to the original poser I set you, to your vague comment above.
I shall try again.
Why would you think that? Could you elaborate a tad, thanks.
I look forward to reply, something with a bit of shall we say, substance attached to it. ?
Anon1
August 1, 2016 at 12:11
“We need a new generation of coal fired power stations.”
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I didn’t realise you were a fan of Arthur Scargill Anon 1.
Doug.
Germany has in recent years increased its use of coal in coal fired power stations as it phases out nuclear power.
However Merkel has come under increasing pressure, to reduce the use of coal and lower Germany’s carbon footprint. This article claims that subsidies given to coal fired power stations, will slowly be phased out.
However like any industry under threat from government reform, opponents say phasing out the stations and the use of coal, will cost many jobs in the sector. Merkel claims that coal will be imported, whilst the sector diversifies, away from its use.
An act that ex-miners in Britain can relate to.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-germany-ditch-coal/
German energy policy is about as coherent as German immigration policy.
Both RWE and Eon are undertaking forced corporate restructurings in an attempt to adapt to the insanity that is German energy policy.
Already unwanted German power exports have caused a grid failure in about half of the Netherlands and are putting serious strains on a number of other countries power grids.
It is far from clear that Eon and RWE can actually survive as viable entities. Perhaps they will be reduced to firing power stations on the paper that contains the $57 trillion of Deutsche Bank derivatives – but maybe the emissions from this will be just too much for the Germans to stomach. Although they could always hire people from Volkswagen to teach them how to lie about actual emissions.
And from this afternoons cabaret macabre…..
How about some pedal generators instead? Dougie, I’m sure that we could enthuse Anon 1 about its multiple uses and application for the Tory’s social responsibility policies.
with extra sturdy seats ready to accommodate two 28stone humans, and with a mileage counter that can’t be tampered with.
You want to watch taskmaster?, you peddle for it.
It would take such a different slant on come dancing, graceful moves on screen reflecting the frantic peddling of two out of breath slouches peddling their 100 miles to get their benefits.
Should they be subscribed by an ATOS doctor? or hired out from G4S, after all they already cornered the prison portfolio for children? Such experienced agencies this Government is working with.
I’m sure that the security and information bill will go down so much better if all those pesky cheese faced computer nerds be required to benefit from this sort of ‘generation game’ for their power, what fun,excitement, the more powerful the computer, the more of them will have to peddle. I’m sure it would cut down the useless interferences from bridge dwelling creatures on serious blogs such as this.
BTW, its probably quiet hard to peddle with webbed feet.
@ Paul Barbara. That is one scary list you’ve posted there.
@ bevin August 1, 2016 at 02:34
‘Anyone believe in conspiracies?
“Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee blaming the leaks on Russia and/or Trump also permits the corporate media to avoid looking further into the murder of Seth Rich.
“He was the DNC computer nerd whose job was running their database.
“First, if the earlier NGP-VAN firewall breeches did permit HRC’s team to get the info on Sanders’ supporters (and the source of what Mayor de Blasio called the “targeted” voter roll striping in NYC, and across the nation), Seth would have known where those bodies are buried.
“Second, he could be the actual source of the leak.
“But he was shot to death in the wee hours of the morning, mid-way between DNC admitting the leak and the Convention in what the police are trying to call a robbery even though NOTHING was taken from him. Not his wallet. Not his watch. Not even his cell phone. ”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/washington-dnc-staffer-seth-conrad-rich-shot-killed-article-1.2707538
Sounds a lot more likely to me than the “forget the story, the Russians hacked the DNC to hurt our lovely Hill” scenario. It always seemed to me most likely that the DNC leaks came from within. And that the most likely source was someone under the age of 30. Seth was both.’
90 SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF INDIVIDUALS CLOSE TO BILL CLINTON, 81 WHILE PRESIDENT
http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/liberty/liberty/bdycount.txt
One more to the list!
Now that Milosevic has been cleared, posthumously, of the charges against him (see my earlier post for this link:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/01/the-exoneration-of-milosevic-the-ictys-surprise-ruling/ )
here’s a case that needs to be pursued.
It is the one about the organ harvesters who contribute to the Clinton campaign:
https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/01/gulen-gate-islamic-terrorists-descend-on-the-democratic-national-convention/
Anything to say, Bevin, about the wars he started against Slovenia (well, he soon gave that one up, didn’t he), Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina?
When replying, try to use examples – eg the shelling of the historic centre of world heritage site Dubrovnik.
Thank you for your thoughts but do try to avoid saying that the USA, Mossad and Douglas Hurd were behind it all.
🙂
Who bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?
Obviously the CIA, Mossad, the Bilderbergers and the Rothschilds . Douglas Hurd pressed the ‘bombs away’ button and MI6 supplied the floor plan.
Hope that helps, Loony.
Why not read the article and comment on that?
Milosevic appears to have been cleared of the charges he died, in custody, fighting. That is all that the piece seems to say.
As to your silly remarks re Hurd, Mossad etc you live in a dream world of one line talking points and spew them out promiscuously. Why not talk sensibly about the matters under discussion, rather than, automatically, revert to your juvenile debating society quips?
“Milosevic appears to have been cleared of the charges he died, in custody, fighting. That is all that the piece seems to say”
Lie – he was cleared of one of the charges. The three others remain outstanding – not that I believe in trying dead men – I ‘ll lead that to the Putin regime who tried the brave Sergei Magnitsky after his death, In which I daresay your friends in the KGB played no small part.
Sometimes, Bevin, the puerile content and tone of the comments from you and others merit nothing more substantial than a shaft of wit.
Actually, the article does not say he was cleared of all the charges against him. Read it carefully – and better, read the entire court record rather than the selective choice made by the authors of your Counterpunch link.
Re my question about who started wars against Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, could you perhaps provide a better reply that the one from Loony “(Who bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade?”)?
It was Germany and the Vatican that were the principal backers of Slovenia and Croatia breaking away from Yugoslavia.
Bevin
If and when Scotland declares independence and secedes from the Union, do you think London should send troops to Scotland in an effort to keep the UK together?
No. Why do you ask?
Because that is what President Milosevic did.
Of course Milosevic did nothing of the kind. Something very different occurred, although troops were involved, on both sides, and a federal state replaced by several smaller states.
Brevity, incidentally may be the soul of wit, but it is not wit’s entirety. And while your quips are often mercifully short they are rarely clever and never original.
“Now that Milosevic has been cleared, posthumously, of the charges against him (see my earlier post for this link:”
You really are disgusting regarding how you continually try to rewrite history – it is crystal clear even from that very bias Counterpunch article that Milosevic was not cleared of ALL the charges against him. The charges in respect of Kosovo and Croatia still stand as do many of those relating to Bosnia. I think you owe this blog an apology.- and that is being generous and ignoring you apologia for the KGB – I always find it interesting how the KGB and its arselickers are incapable of demonstrating the merest hint of shame.
What a cheap line in invective you use.
Have you started shopping where Jim gets the perfumes he uses to cover up the stench of fascism?
So far as charges re Kossovo are concerned- including dismembering live prisoners for vital organs to take to market- they still stand and if the US and NATO would get out of the way their Albanian wahhabi allies could be tried in court.
Sturgeon’s obsession with independence ‘ruining’ Holyrood’s EU consensus
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/695472/Nicola-Sturgeon-obsession-with-independence-ruining-Holyrood-EU-consensus-claims-Rennie
SNP’s Westminster leader Angus Robertson said SCOTLAND was “truly on the brink of independence”
just hours before a new poll revealed more than half of Scots do not want independence from the UNITED KINGDOM despite BREXIT.
So when is the second Referendum?
Note to Nicola
OIL dropped another 3% today, now hovering around $42/barrel
Note to Nicola
OIL risen 56% since Febraury, now hovering around $42/barrel
https://www.rt.com/business/354131-saudi-price-asia-iran/
Saudi Arabia has dropped the price of crude to try and stuff the Iranian oil.
Iran now back to 80% of pre-American oil wars.
Maybe. Or maybe there is ongoing demand destruction and prices cannot move in an opposite direction to demand over the long term.
What’s the latest on Seumas Milne, guys?
Is he still on leave of absence from The Guardian as Mr Corbyn’s chief spin-doctor?
Since the start of the year Brent crude rose 17 percent as a result of supply disruptions in Nigeria and Canada. However crude prices have slipped in the last three months and are still 12 percent lower compared to a year ago.
Too many countries producing energy,
not enuff punters to consume it all.
What is the accepted break-even price for Brent Crude production, is it $45/barrel?
Habbabkuk
August 1, 2016 at 16:03
“As I have said on several occasions, one can only welcome the prospect of the Labour Party entering into the next general election under the leadership of Mr Corbyn.
“Should be a home run as I believe our American cousins say.
“For the Conservatives, I mean.”
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We all know that you and most, if not all, right-wingers are not great lovers of democracy; well, not if a vote goes against your preferred candidate; in that case you would want to cancel the result and have another vote after disqualifying the winner through some jiggery-pokery; just like the right-wing Blue Labour Blairites have tried on Corbyn.
Perhaps you can convince me that I’ve got you all wrong.
Mr Scorgie
“We all know that you and most, if not all, right-wingers are not great lovers of democracy; well, not if a vote goes against your preferred candidate; in that case you would want to cancel the result and have another vote”
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You mean “another vote” as in “a second Scottish independence referendum” ?
“A British Muslim preacher in Cardiff has stoking tensions with his radical sermons by saying it’s ok to take prisoners and sex slaves under Islam. The imam preaches at the same mosque that saw three young radicalized jihadists leave the UK for Syria.”
“Preaching to boys as young as 13, Ali Hammuda would deliver many of the messages associated with radical Islamic groups like Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), including that “the day of judgment is close,” according to the Daily Mail.”
“Hammuda is officially known as an English Islamic Programmes officer. He still preaches at the Al-Manar mosque, two years after three of its young members traveled to Syria to fight for terrorist organizations.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/354066-islam-preacher-sex-slave/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
What do we think, is this man a radical, subverting young minds, that then go on to commit crimes?
Or is he a security service plant, put in place to radicalise impressionable young minds, to further the demonisation of Muslims in Britain? You decide for yourselves.
I’ll go for your second option.