a) No blogging recently because after the court case I had to dash back to work in Ghana and promptly went down with food poisoning
b) No blogging recently because I am awaiting my next pay cheque from the Kremlin.
Either way, I hope to be back online shortly.
Yes the Turks know how to deal with internal terror and the ingrained criminal fraternities that determine its future, marvellous innit.
Just as some in the west think that Israels ‘determining’ of Palestinians future, from early childhood until they land in prison, rather than school, is an example of how to deal with pesky immigrants.
After watching another well rehearsed performance by the white Helmets in Ghouta last night, everyone was looking at the camera just at the right time, they should get a theatre allocated to them in the West End for their play ‘ Oh look at us we can’t do wrong’.
Never mind that supermarket companies, food growers and academics are all predicting a risk of major food shortages; the Cabinet Office boast about being unprepared.
‘We are not preparing for major food shortages’ says the Cabinet Office
Harold.
One could say that British agriculture at the moment really benefits from EU payments. After we leave these payment will stop, 2020 I think.
Now I recall Andrea Leadsom say that the British government will continue to pay out subsides, but not to everyone. If you read between the lines one could quite easily say after Brexit some farms will fold, which could lead to higher prices and shortages.
Add in a possible deluge of American produce if a trade deal is concluded, and British farmers may need to debase their products just to compete after Brexit.
deary me, the DUP is pulling St. Terezza down into the deep blue Brexit Creek, like an anchor round her feet. Who do they think they are? and how long will moderate Conservatives be able to stand the stink at Westminster?
So countries that leave the EU get better deals than countries that want to stay in it?
NI can have a semi attractive EU solution to their fcked up Stormont mesh up, bury the good friday agreement forever, and put the finger up to Scotland and Gibraltar?
Now is the time for the UN to put NI under an arms embargo, nobody should be able to buy/trade arms there and prepare for strife, mind, there are probably tons of them buried somewhere, well greased and ready to go, so it would not make much of a difference. One thing is for sure, the outfall from Wrecksit will have affect many and any violence flaring up will be squarely down to those who egged on the Tories to go ahead with it.
Dump the DUP now before their blackmail goes any further, banish them from Westminster and give em 10 days to agree a workable program with Sinn Fein at Stormont, we have to stop them piping at two concerts at the same time.
Any of the EU solutions mentioned yesterday will not come to fruition as other countries in Europe will feel as if their wants and wishes are being sidelined to appease some bit part paramilitary outfit turning the thumbscrews on a weak PM.
Bring on another GE, this time without the helping massacres, well, the least the dumbed down voters should expect that next time we help to enable terror suspect entering the country in their dastardly deeds, allow the ambulances and firebrigade to be at the scene immediately.
Are we enabling terror as much as Saudi Arabia by our secret and belligerent deliberations? discuss….
Scotland should now prepare for Indyref 2, no better time than now.
Theresa either has to reach a deal with the EU on phase one by the end of this week and lose the support of the DUP or hand in her resignation. Either way I think it highly unlikely that there won’t be a GE next year. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jacob Rees-Smug were to become our next PM and neither the Tories or Labour win a 2018 GE.
I do hope so. A thoroughly good egg.
#moggmentum
I hear that the sleepy Norfolk town of Watton could become the first 5G town in the UK, whilst the rest of Norfolk have to go upstairs to get a proper connection, well at least the area were I live.
Tough talking Brexiteer, immigrant adversed Tory George Freeman, who loves to spend million on research into unwanted genetically manipulated foods, is always out to hawk unspent billions about and make himself look electable once more.
Great isn’t it, his party is cutting bus services left right and centre and making already acutely bad social mobility even worse, they build massive bypasses and overspent by massive sums, but they can’t get old ladies on to a bus to see a doctor.
What a farce we have been landed with, what will this bunch of Dickensian revivalists come up with next? work houses/tents for the many?
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/tech/could-watton-become-uks-first-5g-town-1-5308485
I’ve never seen so many people so unhappy with BOTH Tory and Labour. The time is ripe for a new movement or party made up of MPs of all colours.
Both parties got the highest number of votes they’ve received in decades in June.
On broadband, the Tories attacked Ian Blackford in the House of Commons recently claiming the SNP government must do more to role out coverage. Blackford shut them up instantly by reminding them it isn’t a devolved matter – still the SNP aren’t sitting on their laurels.
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Economy/digital/action
Norfolk in my imagination is the pig’s rear end. Driving through its vast flat-lands of buttock blandness, immersed in the waft of piggy manure, is a journey of despair, totally different from approaching anywhere on the UK’s Western extremities. The sight of traffic lights, tea parlours and human habitation would seem to me welcome in that land of Anglo-Saxon fen monsters and whoever built those by-passes was not a defender of the Norfolk thanes. I would rather live in Birmingham.
Spain’s supreme court has withdrawn an international arrest warrant for Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont, and four other members of his deposed cabinet.
Though several other Catalan minister’s are still being held in a Spanish/fascist prison, they are former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras, as well as deposed Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn and the leads of two civic groups, ANC and Omnium Cultural.
Craig’s dichotomy in explaining away his absence is proving more absurd every day.
I still think that the beleaguered Security Service has warned him to lie low.
Trowbridge, take a rest mate, think about what you want to say first.
Craig has been an ambassador and probably had more to do with spooks during his abstention from the torture Inc. than at any time before.
Why should they bother to have a go at him now, and for what?
But thanks for caring, we all do here, but essentially its none of our business what Craig does with his time, at times there are more urgent things to life than running a blog.
But I’m sure that he will find the time one day.
I’m sure you have other facts to attend to and are not too concerned if someone does not play with/serve the twatteraty their daily chews.
I recall your not going along with Craig and other supporters, like me, about North Korea having nuclear weapons to deter aggression against it.
Too bad it doesn’t have effective ones to really work.
Sure that it makes the British security services more inclined to go along with the looney Yanks about shutting him up.
Trowbridge,
I think its highly unlikely that anyone has done anything to Craig to shut him up. They quite obviously tried before and it didn’t work. It seems it didn’t work on you either, as you are still posting at the age of 88.
Craig is hopefully taking a long deserved break, somewhere warm and nice. He has had a lot of stress this year, and its only natural that he takes a long holiday to recharge his batteries, and maybe do something completely different. Maybe he is learning to swim, snorkel and even dive. I seem to recall he said he had a fear of water. Its about time he got over it. There’s a wonderful world below the surface.
Someone posted somewhere else that he’s O.K.
Tony
The Yank spooks nearly shut me up in Portugal, Sweden, and here in the good, old USA, and I still suffer physically from its consequences, And I am not just talking about murder, but one deciding that it is more prudent to keep quiet. it’s not all that easy to determine when it is. I finally learned during the height of the Vietnam War that it was safer to speak out against it at a college which was suffering from it after I had been fired by two previous ones for speaking out.
Tony, perhaps Craig’s fear of water was in the context of his whisky! ??
Apologies, Trowbridge, I didn’t mean my post to be flippant to the point you were making.
And don’t forget what happened to Gareth Williams and Gudrun Loftus who really pissed off the Yanks.
I think I have changed my mind, mainly because of what Nick Cave said which was moronic and indefensible.. I argued that it was not unreasonable for bands such as Radiohead to play there, as they had not boycotted either The UK, nor The USA (and look what we do).
So far as I am aware Jonathan Cook still lives there.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/2/The-row-over-Jerusalem-giv-by-Jonathan-Cook-American-Jews_Israel_Jerusalem_Jew-Bashing-171205-286.html
Extract
“The move follows recent decisions to allow pupils to provide racist answers in civics exams and to expand gender-segregation to universities. Meanwhile, two new bills from Mr Netanyahu’s party would crack down on free speech for Israelis promoting a boycott, even of the settlements. One proposes seven years in jail, the other a fine of $150,000.
Defence minister Avigdor Lieberman is seeking stronger powers against political activists, Jews and Palestinians alike, including draconian restraining orders and detention without charge or trial.
And for the first time, overseas Jews are being grilled on arrival at Israel’s airport about their political views. Some have signed a “good behaviour oath” — a pledge to avoid anti-occupation activities. Already Jewish supporters of boycotts can be denied entry.”
“gender-segregation” in Universities???? I know they are close to Saudi Arabia. Is the next move a merger?
Tony
Hullo Tony
I Have Lost all respect for Nick Cave.. The picture is just horrible.. a lavish concert, Meanwhile Beyond the wall !
ROGER WATERS
“I read Nick Cave’s press conference statements with a mixture of sorrow, rage and disbelief. No wonder he avoided a conversation with anyone from BDS before going ahead with his shows in Tel Aviv.
” Lastly: Sorrow? What if it was your demolished home? Your invaded country? Your villages razed to the ground to build stadiums for the invaders to promote pop concerts on? Your uprooted olive trees? Seven million of your brothers and sisters living in refugee camps? Victims of ethnic cleansing? Would your sorrow trump your obsession with concerns about the censorship of your music?
By the way, on one of the Israeli news sites I was directed to a video of yours on YouTube. Towards the end I picked up on the following lyric:
“Let us sit together in the dark until the moment comes.”
Nick, the moment came and went brother, you missed it, if at some point in the future you want to climb out of the dark, all you have to do is open your eyes, we, in BDS will be here to welcome you into the light.”
https://artistsforpalestine.org.uk/2017/11/20/artists-respond-to-nick-caves-comments/
Well said Brian.
Ignore later provocation.
Aye Sharp Ears… Shocking though
Hope you are Well Sister.
Thanks Brian, Nick Cave has decided that greed is more important than the human rights of Palestinian children, he will have to come to terms with being included in the BDS and with selling less of his work.
Well, the Spanish government has played a blinder by withdrawing the international arrest warrant for Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont, and four other members of his deposed cabinet!
A brilliant move which deprives the Great Rebel of his aura of victimhood and leaves it squarley up to him whether he returns to Spain volontarily or continues to skulk among the fleshpots of Brussels.
The appropriate conclusions will be drawn if he continues to skulk in Brussels. And it will be interesting to see how he fights the election campaign from abroad and what that will do for his credibility.
Mr Puigdemont is an embarrassment even to the Catalonian separatists and I predict he will very rapidly turn into yesterday’s man.
yes, what you call a blinder does not seem to come easy to the Swedish Government who could easily withdraw the haranguing EAW from Julian Assange in a matter of hours/days.
It is very much to be hoped that President Trump will remain true to his promise and that the US Embassy will finally be moved to Jerusalem.
Let’s face it, keeping the Embassy in Tel Aviv was just silly gesture politics what with the government of Israel being carried out from Jerusalem.
Difficult to see what is wrong with Jerusalem becoming the capital of Israel de jure as well as de facto. After all, the “Palestinians” say that the very same city should be the capital of a state which does not exist yet (ie, “Palestine”) and no one seems very fussed about that.
BTW, the declared capital of the Flanders Region in Belgium is Brussels, this at the same time that Brussels is itself one of the three Belgian Regions. As far as I know, the world hasn’t collapsed around the Belgians’ ears just yet.
There is such a very tiny difference between the largely prosperous Belgians, largely Christian if polyglot, and the religiously and economically divided inhabitants of your favourite apartheid regime, isn’t there, Habbabkuk? If Trump allocates Jerusalem to the Jews alone, he’s asking for an end to any possibility of regional peace, unless the Great Orange Dealmaker can extract major concessions from the non-Muslim Israelis. Which seems unlikely. No-one else has ever done so.
And when Belgium was stolen from its citizens, it was restored….
Just Brilliant Ba’al
thank you
BBC radio 4: Balfour’s Promised Land. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h3rcf
100 years ago, someone called Curzon predicted the total impossibility of any future reconciliation between Zionism and the Palestinians in Israel. British political deception created one of its signatures ‘ set-up to fail ” projects. Anyone who fails to acknowledge the Curzon warning – like Trump putting the US embassy in Jerusalem – has also failed to notice what happened to the British Empire after the warning was given.
There’s always an easy way and a hard way, and I am all in favour of US hegemony failing.
Even the Zionist supporting NYT disapproves as the blond property developer prepares to light the blue touch paper. He fancies a conflagration for Christmas. No matter. It’s a handy diversion from his Russiagate.
‘President Trump plans to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American Embassy there, upending nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and potentially destroying his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Mr. Trump’s decision, a high-risk foray into the thicket of the Middle East, was driven not by diplomatic calculations but by a campaign promise. He appealed to evangelicals and ardently pro-Israel American J..s in 2016 by vowing to move the embassy, and advisers said on Tuesday he was determined to make good on his word.
But the president, faced with a deadline of this past Monday to make that decision, still plans to sign a national security waiver to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv for an additional six months, even as he set in motion a plan to move it to Jerusalem. Officials said the process would take several years.
More significantly, Mr. Trump is to announce his formal recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital in a formal speech at the White House on Wednesday, when he will become the first American president to take that step since the founding of Israel in 1948.
[..]
Since then, however, the administration’s efforts have shown little evidence of narrowing the differences between Israelis and Palestinians. Mr. Kushner and Jason D. Greenblatt, the president’s special envoy, supported Mr. Trump’s decision, officials said.
Mr. Trump’s pledge was extremely popular with evangelicals and pro-Israel backers, including the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who donated $25 million to a political action committee supporting Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign. Mr. Adelson expressed anger when Mr. Trump signed the waiver in June to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv. ‘
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/world/middleeast/american-embassy-israel-trump-move.html
A back-firing for the Zionists, as now all pretense of a two-State solution is exposed for the sham that it has been for the last few years; a unified single State is now inevitable, then demographics will do the rest.
I would wager we are more likely to still be at an apartheid impasse come 2067 than see a one state solution.
They will run-out of land for illegal settlements long before; the demographic time-bomb that signals the end of the Apartheid State is ticking faster & faster, hence the desperate Israeli efforts to start more ME wars.
A critique of the conviction of General Ratko Mladic, by Christopher Black, a Canadian lawyer and expert in the law of human rights and war crimes. Mr Black may be thought to be partisan, as he has acted for the defence (and, perhaps, against the interests of NATO, as he sees it) in Rwanda and was a fierce critic of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. Nonetheless, he must be a brave man and indifferent to consensus opinion, to speak up publicly for Mladic under present circumstances. J
https://journal-neo.org/2017/11/28/the-mladic-case-a-stain-on-civilization/
Thanks John for a fascinating insight into NATO historical revisionism.
No doubt this trial will be used as a precedent for the NATO trial of the supporters of Syria’s Assad.
The difference between the two would be that mobiles and computers were extremely primitive at that time so the NATO narrative supporting Al Qaida terrorism against Soviet military force was little understood.
The penny only dropped for most people when the US and UK openly backed Al Qaida terror in Aleppo in the Syrian war. Since then we have been able to understand how the West uses terror against civilians in foreign countries to achieve its colonial ambitions. As a result NATO has unnecessarily incurred the ire of Russia and China. Turkey has already switched sides from the US to Russia. Others will follow because state-backed terror has no place in the souls of mankind.
Giyane
Turkey supported the terror and probably still supports it now but in a more subtle and less overt way, in Syria.
Turkey’s Erdogan has played and probably is still playing a double game. It was only when he realised that the US were trying to get rid of him through the failed coup that he switched sides. There is obviously a lot of secret diplomacy going on behind the scenes fascilitated by Putin, the master tactician, who has managed to put a stop and expose a lot of this hypocritical support of terrorism by the coalition of the willing.
It is of course important for the west to maintain this facade of selectively backing international justice, but I doubt there will be an equivalent war crimes tribunal for Syria.
Turkey is Terror. Always has been. The difference between Trump and Putin is that Trump calls Islamist poison freshly squeezed fruit and serves it for breakfast, while Putin calls it ricin and keeps it in a sealed jar.
I always feel somewhat uneasy about the official version of the Balkan wars. No doubt atrocities were commuted by both sides but the amazing fact that is seldom highlighted is that NATO took one side, even at one stage bombing civilian infrastructure deliberately but this apparently is not a ‘war crime’.
A while ago I read s very interesting book by Misha Glenny who witnessed the war firsthand and who was a correspondent for the Guardian and I also think the BBC, called The End of Yougoslavia which also implicated the German government and the EU in stoking up the tensions and the particular interest of Germany in separating Croatia and Slovenia from the rest and in particular the polarisation of the conflict between the pro Russian Serbs and the pro western Croats and Slovenes. Of course in those days, Russia could only stand by and not able to intervene, under Yeltsin. This whole episode has formed a basis for the Ukrainian action which was enacted through a putsch rather than NATO bombing.
Another interesting bit of information especially about Kosovo is the collaboration between the west and the Albanians and the KLA on the Kosovo war.
The Syrian regime change war was supposed to be a reprise of the other Arab Springs ,especially Libya. The method used is well known as Hybrid Warfare.
Western financed NGO’s are used to create civil unrest. Provocateurs are used to attack police and use snipers to kill demonstrators. The unrest is then blamed on the Govt to escalate the violence. The propaganda machine goes in overdrive to support a ‘so called popular peoples uprising for human rights and democracy’. Ukraine and Libya are classic examples of this MO.
The regime change war in SYRIA used Western and Gulf Monarchy backed Jihadis to attempt to overthrow Assad,
These Jihadis had sprung from the original war in Afghanistan and created by the CIA and had been used in Kosova, Chechnya, Dagestan and Libya. The remnants of Saddams unemployed and disaffected Sunni army,imprisoned in Camp Bucca were added to the mix of ISIS.
The Libyan Jihadis were transferred to Syria ,plus the looted weapons and looted bullion and money from the Libyan Treasury. This is what the death of the US Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi was about.
The coalition of Western and Gulf Monarchies had different agendas ,which coalesced in the overthrow of Assad.
Israel had her Oded Yinon Plan to create chaos and break up Syria ,to grab more land mass.It also wanted to break the Shia Crescent landline from Iran,via Iraq and Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Turkey had ambitions to reclaim some of the old Ottoman Empire lands as far as Mosul and control the oilfield along the route,plus subdue its rebellious Kurds and prevent the creation of a Kurdistan state straddling Turkey and Syrian borders. Erdogan now allies with Russia but is fluid in his alliances.
The Gulf Monarchies Saudi and Qatar wished to install a gas pipeline via Syria to the Meditteranean Coast and onward to Europe.
The gas line would have undermined Russian near monopoly of supply and damaged the Russian economy, , in line with Washingtons long term plan to undermine and loot Russia.
The UK and France and other NATO puppets ,do Washingtons bidding and also wished to reduce their dependence on Russian gas.
The US has a long term plan,outlined in Zbigniew Brezinzki ‘Grand Chessboard’ and Sir Halford Mackendrie ‘ Heartlands Theory’ to drive up into Central Asia and cut and control the New Silk Roads connecting China to Europe, thus maintaining Dollar hegemony.
The Silk Road High speed train trading routes are the death knell of the US hegemony and by-pass the US Navy control of the Maritime choke points.
Syria,and Iran are obstacles in way of this Washington plan for Central Asia. Ukraine is another on the European route.
The defeat of the US and Western plans in Syria is a major turning point in history and the beginning of the decline of the West and the resurgence of the East. Only nuclear war can end this transition.
Indeed S.L., a well thought out appraisal of where we find ourselves. The ‘Grand Chessboard’ and’ the Great Game’ before it are the enduring manifestations of a corrupt greed driven power that feeds off stolen money and innocent blood.
Trump just made things a little worse this week by recognising Jerusalem as the the apartheid capital of the middle east, how this will hurt Iran remains to be seen.
The way I see it the West has been in decline for many years, while the East has been rising, What we are seeing increasingly since post 2000 are the more desperate and more bloody attempts to avert the inevitable.The narrative they use to sell their
appalling agenda becomes more laughably pathetic with each passing year, what amazes me most is the fact they still seem to be getting away with it.
” Hybrid Warfare ”
Mongrel more like. BTW thanks for your concise summary of where we now are.
A hybrid car uses a fossil fuel ( bad ) in combination with a renewable ( good ).
A hybrid war uses an evil empire ( USA ) with Islamist terror ( IS/ Al Qaida.
If it was a vehicle it would have been banned long ago , for emmissions, inefficiency, noise and ” unsafe at any speed ” technology. The attraction of Neanderthal war to USUKIS is that nukes might permanently destroy the perpetrators themselves. But we should make no mistake that Theresa May and Boris Johnson and the 6.5 Tory Nasty project specialises in Neanderthal war.
The political slogan ‘hybrid war’ reminds us of Greenness and God’s providence. I was utterly disgusted by BBC Radio 4 crocodile tears for the refugees created by this government’s own policies this morning. on the Today programme. FFS BBC, spare us the fucking crocodile tears.
And this was scarcely odd, because, they’d eaten every one…
6.5 year..
At least Mladic is still alive; guess yet another dead Serb would be just too embarrassing ;
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/320048-murder-hague-serbians-milosevic/
Ba’al :
“And the Kurds would grab a quarter of Turkey if they got the chance”
Kurds are united with Turkey’s left wing in opposition to the extreme right-wing dictator Erdogan.Eastern Turkey is their ancestral home, unlike the Turks who came from China and still speak a form of that language which is foreign to the region.
Erm. No need to grab what is already your home
What is that Nasty little man I D-F doing interfering with Brexit?.
Everything he touches, withers and dies. I know Craig has mentioned his respect for the nasty little man because he isn’t a toff in the past, and because he is an Army Officer. I can’t help Craig’s particular chips on shoulder about the public school, un-educated, un-educatable Tory swine but I can ask the question whether in 37 years of continuous red/blue Tory rule the UK has done anything we can be proud of. And what possible admiration can rub off the UK’s disgusting foreign policy onto one of its bonkers officers?
” I know Craig has mentioned his respect for the nasty little man because he isn’t a toff in the past, and because he is an Army Officer.”
You’ve just reminded me of the time Craig devoted a Post on what a golly nice chap Gordon Brown is; yes the War Criminal whose’s green-light to fiance the attack on Iraq enabled Blair to get his war, not to mention his unrepentant whitewashing of Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry.
Did you mean I D-S Giyane? This?
Iain Duncan Smith: EU needs to ‘back off’ or ‘move on’
BBC News-16 hours ago
The former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has suggested the UK should walk away from the Brexit negotiations if the European Union does not change its position. Speaking to the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Duncan Smith said the EU needed to “back off” or the UK will “get on with …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-42245012/iain-duncan-smith-eu-needs-to-back-off-or-move-on
Theresa May enteratained the Spanish Premier Rajoy, in which the British PM reaffirmed her support for him.
Rajoy, who recently sent his Guardia Civil police into Catalonia, with a remit to beat, shoot and teargas the young and old who’s crime was one of exercising their democratic right to vote.
The British PM’s good friend then went on to bestow two separate honours on his 10,000 armoured police. Rajoy had the audacity to whilst visiting May at Downing street, say:
“That, without democracy, we would simply be going back to the dark ages.”
It’s obvious that the British prime minster, doesn’t really care that Spaniards are now openly giving fascist salutes on the streets of Spain, and singing the fascist anthem Cara al Sol.
As Trump transition team’s pretty brazen collusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to undermine both U.S. government policy and international law, it’s now time for payback, in the form of the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
You could say Trump has been colluding with a foreign state, and it’s not Russian.
Meanwhile, rumblings from Cairo and Istanbul, on Trump’s coming declaration, aren’t good.
As Trump prepares to push the all out conflict button in the ME, at home he’s thrown his full suport behinda Republican US Senate candidate, Roy Moore, who faces allegations of child sex abuse.
Well today is Finnish independence day, why would these bloody separatists want to keep governing themselves, I mean its not as if Finland has done well for itself.
Being ranked 5th in the happiest country index of 2016, surely must show that they’ve made a huge mistake in becoming independent, those silly nationalists.
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-happiness-index-2016-just-ranked-the-happiest-countries-on-earth
I suppose the above is meant to be humorous and refer in some way or another to Scottish independence Perhaps a few facts would not go amiss to show that the implied comparison is silly:
Finland was forcibly incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1809 and was therefore only part of that Empire for less than a century. Scotland, on the other hand, joined in Union with England and Wales in 1707, ie over three centuries ago. A volontary Union, by the way.
But more importantly, the vast majority of Finns wanted independence from Russia in 1917. That contrasts with the position of Scotland, the population of which – if I’ve been correctly informed – rejected independence by a comfortable majority in a referendum some short while ago.
Habbabkuk, if you’re a stickler for facts, you should know that Wales wasn’t part of the 1707 union, but was included in a later Act that also included Berwick. Best accept obvious sarcasm / humour rather than be dour…
But before 1809 they were part of the Swedish empire for approx 200 years; even though Swedish is an official language the majority of Finns don’t seem to like their “arrogant” neighbor – IMHO!
RoS: “As Trump prepares to push the all out conflict button in the ME, at home he’s thrown his full suport behinda Republican US Senate candidate, Roy Moore, who faces allegations of child sex abuse.”
Entirely agree. But then again, Hillary! Hiiiillllaaarryyy!! Emails, emails, emails, Benghazi! Bhooga bhooga … she’s the devil! Would definitely have started a war by now. “We came, we saw, he died!” !!! Couldn’t vote for her, nooooo…. oh, my precious purity.
And now we have this nice man Trump in instead. Hope all the purists are happy.
Agree. Trump is what you get when the second worst candidate ever takes on the worst candidate ever. If only Clinton had been unsuccessful in meddling in the election process: we’d have President Sanders now.
It’s a total cop-out. Sanders had little better chnace of being elected POTUS than i did.
Almost all Americans hate anyone who snacks of being a socialisi.
Trump is far worse than the hated Hillary.
Trowbridge.
I fear you are correct, I sometime quote Robert Reich who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations. Reich pushed fkr more socialist like policies
Trowbridge.
I fear you are correct, I sometime quote Robert Reich who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations. Reich pushed for more socialist like policies, but in the end realised that the political will just wasn’t there to implement them.
Thanks, Ros.
Most Americans almost hated Hillary as much as socialism.
Of all the people I know, many with advanced degrees and fairly sensible ones. none of them voted for her, wating their ballots by voting for Jill Stein or even Trump.
Think it is more relevant to expian his election than going on about the Evangelicals in the Bible Belt.
Hillary got substantially more votes than Sanders, we simply have to get over that. Even if the DNC had its thumb on the scales, Sanders didn’t actually start running properly until the contest was almost sealed. He had no real base to launch a successful challenge at the last minute.
But that’s all by-the-by. Too many purists suffering from Clinton Derangement Syndrome put Trump in office, and they – and their apologists – now own Trump and should answer for the result.
Sorry glenn, it doesn’t wash any more. Funny and accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBhF9DunCo
Corporatism had both sides owned. It owns too many voters everywhere through the stranglehold of the corporate media; concentrate on breaking that grip.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2017/859-survival-symptoms-of-breakdown.html
Sanders would have wiped the floor with a buffoon like Trump.
Thanks for the excellent link to medialens analysis, Clark, tipping point has been reached and we are still chasing a few morsels of fossil energy by using millions of gallons of fresh clean water, mixing it with large size quartz sand from Norfolk and unctuous dangerous chemicals to fracture the hell out of Ryedale and many other areas earmarked for shale gas extraction.
This despite the fact that this shale is very likely too old to contain much gas and against the combined voices of those who’s house prices are already nose diving.
Still there are minions and puppets who still believe the mantra of the fossil fuel industry and argues for more of the same.
Trump is a woman and Hillary is a man, judging them both by their hair from across the Atlantic Ocean. It will now be easier to hit the Knesset and the enemy embassy with one small bomb.
Replying to Nevermind on fracking, garbage in, garbage out, like all Tory thinking.
Successful Tories become businessmen; unsuccessful ones invent scams. There is a lowest common denominator point at which stupidity rises to the surface as Tory policy, wasting millions of hours of our clear, intellectual cogitation.
Why H.R.C. ‘lost’?
“And it’s deadly. Doubtless, Crosscheck delivered Michigan to Trump who supposedly “won” the state by 10,700 votes. The Secretary of State’s office proudly told me that they were “very aggressive” in removing listed voters before the 2016 election. Kobach, who created the lists for his fellow GOP officials, tagged a whopping 417,147 in Michigan as potential double voters.”
http://www.gregpalast.com/trump-picks-al-capone-vote-rigging-investigate-federal-voter-fraud/
Glen.
In my opinion there is no lesser evil between Trump and Clinton, both have aggressive foreign policies.
Hillary backed every single US foreign intervention for the last 25 years. Trump will be just as much a warmonger.
Oh come on, RoS, you should know better than to come up with this false equivocation. Of course Clinton was the lessor evil.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/6/1650811/-The-14-Defining-Characteristics-Of-Fascism-Trump-Is-a-Fascist
Glen.
You appear to have grasped the wrong end of the stick, if you think I’m defending Trump over Clinton, I thought my above comment made that perfectly clear.
Neither are the preferred POTUS, in my book, both are neocon warmongerers, both Israeli puppets.
If however you’re proposing that Clinton has a bit more evenhandedness about her than Trump, then I’m afraid you’re barking up the wrong tree with me.
RoS
glenn underscore nl is using irony in imitation of the POTUS. Viz: You select the worst possible policy and wait for the headless chickens to calm down. Then you declare that the US doesn’t need a US embassy in Israel because your head is already far enough up them to reach their brain.
Glen
Haven’t read the article but if you look at the headings you will realise that actually of the 14 so called defining characteristics of fascism only no. 1,5,8 and 11 apply to Trump more than to Clinton. But then when you look at these 4 they are not unique to Trump but are common to a lot of how US politics work. In fact American exceptionalism and religious extremism are both common recurring themes.
It always makes me mildly amused to think that intelligent people still believe that individual presidents determine US foreign military policy. This is predermined elsewhere. I remember clearly how the hope of all peacemakers had great faith in Obama the Nobel laureate who then presided iver new wars and droning of weddings.
It’s the system not individuals.
Clinton is the same evil as those bloody bastards Obama, bUShA, Clinton, Bush, Reagan et al. that’s why the Americans who were allowed to vote got rid of her. It was the same in 2010 here, getting the filthy bastard Bliarites out was more important than anything else.
Glenn the majority of those traits also fit Obama and G.W Bush.
The supremacy of corporations and the military in the USA is nothing new.
Where is Ben? California is still burning. No rain for 6 months, high winds and it’s hot.
I have just mowed the grass. 6th December!
Was the grass dry? I’ve been waiting weeks to cut mine. If it’s not rain it’s heavy dew.
Yes thankfully. Heavy rain forecast tonight and tomorrow.
It’s a slow news day, so why not check how our neighbours view us?
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deutschlandfunk.de%2Fbrexit-verhandlungen-britanniens-abschied-von-der-weltbuehne.720.de.html%3Fdram%253Aarticle_id%3D402326&edit-text=
I couldn’t care less how Germany views us. The EU project is run for the benefit of Germany and they don’t want to lose their second largest cash cow in case the whole thing collapses.
I doubt you’ll like this either.
http://www.dw.com/en/german-pilots-refuse-to-carry-out-deportations/a-41638832?maca=en-SocialFlow_English_Tweet-25239-xml-mrss
David Davis, has been called to resign over lies about the Brexit impact assessments.
The Brexit Secretary was today forced to admit that the government has not assessed the impact of Brexit, for different sections of economy to the EU select committee.
Yet Davis claimed last year that, 57 sets of analysis, each has implications for individual parts of 85 per cent of the economy, were in the process of being carried out, now we find out that’s not true.
It now becomes apparent why recent impact reports were heavily redacted. It also shows the sheer incompetence of the British government, as they stumble and faulter, as the economy of the nation begins to recede.
A new years around the corner, and a new indyref me thinks.
Ros
Davis is like someone who has been given a grant to do some extensive work of some kind and who keeps stringing his backers along that he’s making great progress. Only in the end for the backers to find that virtually nothing has been done and the guy was just a waster.
Yes reel guid, the British government are in a state of organised confusion. Like the rest of the British government Davis is way out of his depth and he knows it, he’s threatened to resign if Damien Green is fired or resigns, that’s Davis’s escape route.
Westminster must surely be the laughing stock of Europe.
hang on. What has Damian Green done wrong? Outside Islam there is no social constraint on a wife committing adultery, so in a marriage lived apart a busy politician could either take a mistress or browse porn. Is he not allowed to be a human being? If he was an angel maybe Mrs May could use his Wingpower and predilection for SW1 to assist in the repairs to Big Ben.
if he was found to have been browsing porn on a company computer in any other workplace, he’d be gone .. not even a debate. of course different rules apply for big shot tories.
zoot
MPs are held in greater respect than ordinary citizens in other ways as well.
We would not want our MPs to be easily removed by voyeur policemen.
Secondly, the voyeurs/spies/ nosey parkers in big corporations would never admit to spying because doing that would expose their vulnerability, criminality and deceit.
The police can only dare to expose an MP because they know he is protected because of his position. The MP can only dare to deny his looking at porn because he knows he is protected because of his position.
This highlights an extremely important aspect of our democracy, that we the public are free to denigrate our professional leaders to our hearts’ content. it’s called freedom. Without it no CM blog, zoots or giyanes. One of the things that incapacitates Middle-Eastern despots and imams with rage is that our system allows their lies to be exposed and they cannot lock up and beat the s**t out of the entire western population.
What therefore follows IMHO is that if you were to combine the truth of Islam, that God created and looks after our world and the next alone, with the truth of democratic freedom, then you would have an unstoppable force, like an atomic fusion. the Al Qaida tin=pot imams and the gold-plated-roller family of Saud cower in shame and guilty consciences at being exposed for their personal crimes, public lies and their public war-crimes.
Would make a good snake oil salesman.
ROS
I sympathise with what you say and I hesitate to disagree with you on this website on Scottish indipendence, but I am not sure how this will solve any problems. The new Republic of Scotland would become an easy prey to the depredations of the EU who will demand conditions for regoining and who it transpires, as Craig has pointed out, is made up of some unsavoury elements.
As I pointed out elsewhere tinkering here and there is not the issue, it is the system that has to be changed. Personally I would want to see The Republic of Great Britain or even better the Federation of the Republics of England, Scotland and Wales. I am still not sure where NI will fit into this.
Tomorrows breaking news?
President Putin is set to announce that Russia is to establish their Palestinian embassy in Jerusalem.
Xi Jinping of China says it is irrelevant in today’s modern world where a country places its overseas buildings. He added that China now controls the PetroYuan and is becoming the world’s greatest economic power they have more to worry about than local squabbles fabricated by the US.
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What the Middle East needs is a UN that cares about them, whilst it is dedicated to allowing US crimes the Middle East will burn, It doesn’t matter whose embassy is where (except of course to the US and Israel because they only care about their own needs – fuck the rest of the world)
No need for your version of fake news in today’s confused world.
SNP MSP Gordon Macdonald has said that the BBC’s Reporting Scotland programme is fake news.
Actually he’s only half right. Half the show features real news…………………the trouble is it’s about football.
The blond property developer should stick to the one he has already.
Wired up to the nines seemingly. All to protect that little ‘democracy’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Tel_Aviv
Ambassador Friedman is happy where he is.
‘David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) is an American bankruptcy lawyer and the United States Ambassador to Israel. He joined the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (then known as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres) in 1994, where he met and represented Donald Trump, then chairman and president of The Trump Organization. He served as an advisor to Trump during his successful presidential campaign.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Friedman LOL
Mr Quarrey, ex BLiar PPS, is along the street from the US Embassy.
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-quarrey
So Putin is to run again in next years “election” jeez they should just give him a crown and say here you go the country’s all yours.
Putin has been in power in Russia in one form or another since 1999. Unsurprisnly the Wests continuing demonisation of Russia and Putin, has seen Putin’s approval rating remain in the high 80’s. So in essence one could say Putin’s popularity is down to Western propaganda.
The elections are to be held in March, the anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia. I don’t holdout much hope for the opposition winning.
Probably going to coincide with the opening of a new bridge directly into Russia, and a water pipeline supplying the Crimea which was cut off water by the Ukraine.
We shall see if this project is ready in time.
You guessed my name there
President Sanders might have been a slight improvement on Clinton, but is hardly likely to have made any significant difference in US Foreign Policy, except perhaps not starting a Nuclear WWIII, which Clinton almost certainly would.
Both are much more Deep State / Establishemt than Trump, which is why they are heavily supported by all the media propaganda, and Trump is continuously attacked.
Sanders is an American Bomber like the rest of them. He just doesn’t sing “Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran” quite as loud as some of the lunatics on both sides (which in reality are the same)
“Bernie Sanders’ Troubling History of Supporting U.S. Military Violence Abroad”
https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-troubling-history-supporting-us-military-violence-abroad
Trump is undoubtedly an odd-ball as he stands out like a sore thumb, amongst the rest of the psychos in the assylum, all of who’m hate him.
The folowing is probably as close to the truth as you will get, but hardly anyone is going to believe it due to the intense propaganda.
“The FBI’s Perjury Trap Of The Century”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48349.htm
Tony
A slow news day? Trump announces that the US will accept Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the BBC schedules “Jihadis You Pay For” for tonight’s Panorama…
Clark,
I hope you are well. I don’t actually watch TV, unless I can’t avoid it – like next week (family visit) I gave it up many years ago, to try and maintain at least some semblance of sanity, and objectivity amidst a world of propaganda, and the vast majority of people who actually believe it – including my wife. I couldn’t possibly tell her the truth. She is innocent and the truth, would lilkely make her very depressed. So she believes much the same as you and most people.
The world really is as completely evil, as I am convinced it is, yet I find the vast majority of people I meet very pleasant. I just try my best not to to discuss politics, religion, conspiracy theories, or anything that might be contrary to what the vast majority of people in my social group believe. Amazingly enough, I still manage to speak, most of the time without being offensive, though my wife usually tells me off, for something she perceives that I have done wrong. I don’t see how its my fault, that some of my friends sit on my lap and cuddle me, even if most of them are female. I also have a habit of dancing with blokes, especially if I know they are not gay, but give all the impressions of being so. I just find it funny.
As regards “Jihadis You Pay For” for tonight’s Panorama…apparently it has already been broadcast. I find it exceedingly hard to believe that the BBC is going to do much more than hint about the real truth re this subject…but as its approaching Christmas, I might even watch it.
Give my regards to Craig, the next time you see him. Someone did a very skillful edit on my post last night. I suspect it was him. If not his moderators have significantly improved.
You haven’t got your old job back have you?
I must have driven you mad. Sorry. You were very tolerant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09j0fql
Tony
“I don’t actually watch TV, unless I can’t avoid it – like next week (family visit) I gave it up many years ago, to try and maintain at least some semblance of sanity, and objectivity amidst a world of propaganda, and the vast majority of people who actually believe it – including my wife. I couldn’t possibly tell her the truth. She is innocent and the truth, would lilkely make her very depressed. So she believes much the same as you and most people.”
This is, perfect expression of a contemporary problem.
Most people enjoy the manufactured reality
Until real reality interrupts.
Your job, as you say, is to keep it at bay.
Yer a good soul.
And a real man.
That was Transmitted last monday Clark, not tonight.
Since we have had a small exchange on Jerusalem on the previous page, the following might be of interest :
“After the establishment of the state of Israel, Jerusalem was declared its capital city.[200] Jordan formally annexed East Jerusalem in 1950, subjecting it to Jordanian law, and in 1953 declared it the “second capital” of Jordan.[194][201][202] Only the United Kingdom and Pakistan formally recognized such annexation, which, in regard to Jerusalem, was on a de facto basis.[203] Some scholars argue that the view that Pakistan recognized Jordan’s annexation is dubious.[204][205]
After 1948, since the old walled city in its entirety was to the east of the armistice line, Jordan was able to take control of all the holy places therein. While Muslim holy sites were maintained and renovated,[206] contrary to the terms of the armistice agreement, Jews were denied access to Jewish holy sites, many of which were destroyed or desecrated. Jordan allowed only very limited access to Christian holy sites,[207] and restrictions were imposed on the Christian population that led many to leave the city. Of the 58 synagogues in the Old City, half were either razed or converted to stables and hen-houses over the course of the next 19 years, including the Hurva and the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue. The 3,000-year-old[208] Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery was desecrated, with gravestones used to build roads, latrines and Jordanian army fortifications. 38,000 graves in the Jewish Cemetery were destroyed, and Jews were forbidden from being buried there.[209][210] The Western Wall was transformed into an exclusively Muslim holy site associated with al-Buraq.[211] Israeli authorities neglected to protect the tombs in the Muslim Mamilla Cemetery in West Jerusalem, which contains the remains of figures from the early Islamic period,[212] facilitating the creation of a parking lot and public lavatories in 1964.[213] Many other historic and religiously significant buildings were demolished and replaced by modern structures during the Jordanian occupation.[214] During this period, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque underwent major renovations.[215]
During the 1948 war, the Jewish residents of Eastern Jerusalem were expelled by Jordan’s Arab Legion. Jordan allowed Arab Palestinian refugees from the war to settle in the vacated Jewish Quarter, which became known as Harat al-Sharaf.[216] In 1966 the Jordanian authorities relocated 500 of them to the Shua’fat refugee camp as part of plans to turn the Jewish quarter into a public park.[217][218]”
And that in turn leads me to the following observation : there are fully functioning mosques, Buddhist temples, Sikh temples and so on in just about every Western European country you can think of and, of course, in the US. There are also functioning mosques and Christian churches in the state of Israel. However…..are there functioning synagogues and Christian churches in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia? There are certainly functioning Christian churches in other Muslim countries such as Egypt and Pakistan but it’s a risky business announcing your faith in thise countries by all accounts.
It’s a rum world…….
“.are there functioning synagogues and Christian churches in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia?”
“Today, there are at least 600 churches and 300,000–370,000 Christians in Iran.” Wiki
“It’s a rum world…….”
Indeed;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkbwUyycop8
“Any synagogues ? Functioning ones, that is.”
What’s the problem, don’t know how to use a search engine ?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-jews-on-life-inside-israels-enemy-state-we-feel-secure-and-happy-a6934931.html
These Iranian Jews have been subjected to bribes from Israel to leave Iran, but they stay put.
Boom
‘Rum’. being Arabic for the Orthodox church, so very pertinent comment
The rights of religious organisations in Israel are not constituted as they are in Iran, not even for those of the Jewish faith.
Jerusalem was always the home of many religious faith and those ^ who think some US egomaniac psychopath has the right to determine that Jerusalem belongs to Israel should be ashamed of themselves.
12 hrs. after this announcement not a single other country has acknowledged support for this crackpot idea.
and yes there are mosques in Iran, and the rights of the Jewish faith has been enshrined in the Constitution for over a hundred years.
Habbabkuk
The piece you are quoting refers to a time in which Jerusalem was occupied as it is now. therefore any of the priveleges that would the occupying forces would normally enjoy under Islamic rule would be denied to them.
The victim card is wearing very thin for the Israeli illegal occupiers of the Holy Land. Yet like the threadbare flags in St Paul’s Cathedral, the victim card is constantly refreshed by Zionists somewhat loudly sweeping their strings.
So long as Zioinists play the victim card, their extreme aggression to the Palestinians will always be condemned.
06 December 2017
22:07 GMT
A general strike has been called by all Palestinian factions in protest of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Midday rallies are due to take place Thursday.
The Palestinian education ministry declared a day off and urged teachers as well as high school and university students to take part in the planned rallies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Palestinian areas in Jerusalem.
Palestinians switched off Christmas lights at Jesus’ traditional birthplace in Bethlehem in protest on Wednesday night.
Trump’s Jerusalem recognition: Fears of global backlash
Published: 6 Dec 2017
World leaders are expressing concern over the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A number of demonstrations are planned across the Arab world in the coming days.
21:59 GMT
The UN Security Council is likely to meet Friday, according to diplomats who say that a meeting has been requested by half of the council’s members, Reuters reports.
The request for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to publicly brief the Security Council meeting was reportedly made by France, Bolivia, Egypt, Italy, Senegal, Sweden, Britain and Uruguay.
https://www.rt.com/news/412084-trump-israel-capital-jerusalem/
NB
Corpus separatum (Latin for “separated body”) is a term used to describe the Jerusalem area in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. According to the plan the city would be placed under international regime, conferring it a special status due to its shared religious importance. The corpus separatum was one of the main issues of the Lausanne Conference of 1949, besides the other borders and the question of the right of return of Palestinian refugees. The plan was adopted by the General Assembly with a two-thirds majority, although its implementation failed and nowadays the view that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and Palestine is widely supported internationally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem
So there you have it.
yes they did Habbakuk, for fear of being rolled over next by the Jewish ethnic cleansing juggernaut and the massacres against Palestinians that occurred.
Shame on you for defending this rogue state and his orange peel puppet.
Interesting post by Habbakuk at 17:51with much to consider there, but on the last point. It used to be the case that synagogues were permitted within the Ottoman empire. Persian religion of old had an enormous influence on the development of Judaism. Something has happened that we are so intolerant these days. What is the cause of that intolerance? Is the ME now, not withstanding our liberal sensitivities, less tolerant than before the First World War? Why?
David Davis hasn’t actually got any impact statements even though he told parliament they existed and were “excruciatingly detailed”.
John Swinney won’t be ready to tell the Holyrood Education committee how he intends to make the Named Person scheme compliant with European Humans Rights law until Autumn 2018.
It’s been a day for political malingerers.
“John Swinney won’t be ready to tell the Holyrood Education committee how he intends to make the Named Person scheme compliant with European Humans Rights law until Autumn 2018.
It’s been a day for political malingerers.”
Erm… Brexit is a economy destroying event, that will see god knows how many jobs lost, price hikes, EU citizens leave in droves, hospitals and all manner of industries lose personnel of EU countries, farming and fishing subsides will also be hit, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Yet you compare a named persons scheme with the monumental upheaval, that is Brexit that will take to 2019 (if we’re lucky) to loosely sort out.
You don’t work for the BBC by any chance do you?
Surely you see the connection between non existent documents and disrespect for parliamentary process?
Swinney asking a committee to issue a report when he cannot provide any information to the committee is astonishing. The reality is that Named Person is a privacy nightmare and is never going to be compliant with Article 8 of the European Convention On Human Rights. The SNP should be looking to start work on a bill that improves child protection whilst respecting human rights legislation.
I’ve got a feeling that the autumn 2018 delay will see this scheme join Advanced Passenger Duty and the abolishment of corroboration on the legislative scrap heap. Holyrood is obviously crippled working under Tory budget cuts but their political instinct has been very poor.
Indeed Stu, I agree, but scale man, have you no sense of scale.
Of course the fact that three of the main parties at Holyrood work for the best interests of a foreign government (what would you call that Stu) doesn’t help any.
So Trump finally did it, where all other US presidents feared to enter, that bumbling dangerous idiot Trump jumped right in with his tackety boots, and has lit the blue touch paper on Middle Eastern conflict.
Trump, a 100% Israeli stooge, said it was a long overdue step to advance the peace process. All this fool has succeeded in doing is to deepen the divisions not just in the occupied country of Palestine but across the region.
Trump said he had judged this course of action to be in the best interests of the United States of America, and the pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. No one in their right mind believes that fawning statement to be true.
Once again the people of Palestine have been dealt a unjust blow, how much longer will the world standby and watch as Israel’s attack dog the US, destroys what little hope the Palestinian people have left.
A lot of Democrats support this craziness as well. Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein.
AIPAC runs deep.
Not forgetting the Christian’s United for Israel, the largest of the US pro-Israel lobby groups.
Or the Conference of Presidents of Major American J**ish Organisations. Another major movement in the US.
I totally agree RoS. Jerusalem is in our being. Where Jesus carried his cross along the Via Dolorosa. I have walked along it.
Jerusalem
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon Englands mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.’
The blond property developer must stick to Tel Aviv. He’s probably lining up a contract for a new embassy right now. Jared in charge. Quite a few shekels to pick up.
Sharp Ears
The first Christians were from the Middle East, but since the crusades Christianity has become appropriated by the West and now unfortunately is used often for political purposes. In fact all three Abrahamic monotheistic religions originate in the ME and also have been heavily politicised for aims that are completely alien to their original purpose. Dare I also say that the world has also moved on but not according to some fanatics on different sides of the divide.
Who was corrupting the American political system?
Russiagate Becomes Israelgate :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48350.htm
The attempts to influence U.K. politics both covert and overt by the same state meanwhile goes on without a squeak from those concerned with foreign interference. I wonder when Priti Patel will be back as Foreign Secretary?
I just watched it. Panorama “Jihadis You Pay For”. Excellent photography, sound, and “news drama”, but it only really exposed a little tip of an iceberg of corruption, “British money going to the wrong people – because well, its a warzone isn’t it – and they are all Muslims – and such corruption is inevitable. Us British are are only trying to help – we are trying to do our best…sorry about things going wrong” – Is the message that the vast majority of viewers will get
It’s an almost complete and utter Total Lie.
I knew much of the Truth that was going on in Syria, about 4 or 5 years ago, simply because I bought a book by Susan Lindaure – Extreme Prejudice (ex CIA asset), and I contacted her, and she knew people who were there in Syria – and she told me what was going on.
How come I could find out in 2012, simply by asking someone, and The BBC are still not telling anything much of the Real Truth now???
It’s all very well documented, by some REAL journalists – who had the courage to go there – actually Be There in The Warzones in Syria, and find out for themselves.
None of them work for The BBC, and most of them are GIRLS
Far more courage than men. If you don’t know who they are, then do a Goggle Search (if they haven’t yet been deleted)
I am disgusted by my country, but very proud of some highly courageous Women.
The whitewash won’t work. We all know Who The White Helmets are Working For, and some of us know what they actually do….and it is not nice. We also know about the airdrops, the supply of British arms to the crazy jihardists, and even a couple of British supply planes being shot down. Somewhat embarrassing? I didn’t read it in the Daily Mail.
Still, that was a pretty good effort (start) from the BBC – but must try harder. It was slightly better than faking an entire event (again) and broadcasting it as if it was real.
Tony
Tony
I think that to me this was a beginning of a sea change. It is the first time that the BBC has taken this line and as the saying goes in Arabic (translated) the beginning of the flood is but one drop (of rain).
Interestingly the Guardian was very dismissive of this report and took the side of the ASI.
I agree with you that we still await , maybe in vain, for exposure of how not only we supported the Free Syrian Police, the white Helmets, FSA and even Al Nusra, and who knows even IS will slowly come out. If all this does it would be interesting to see whether all this will be blamed on some rogue elements or some other fudge even though we know it is core foreign policy originating from No. 10.
On the matter of naming, it is clearly a big PR job to attach names like Free to organisations run by Islamists and clearly closely associated with jihadists. Another one is ‘the SDF’ The D standing for democratic which is made up mainly of Kurds, a small minority population in Syria, and a bunch of local tribesmen as a fig leaf. George Orwell must be turning in his grave.
Has MI5 and the Met gone on the offensive about stopping domestic terrorism?
Mr Rahman’s plot to blow his way into Downing Street, and murder the PM iwith a suicide vest or a knife seems like something a modern Nadin would dream up.
It did seem like a handy news story to cover up (1) May’s Brexit incompetence (2) David Davis lying to parliament (3) The incompetence over the Manchester bombing.
On the topic of the Manchester bombing the lack of press scrutiny proves we don’t have a free media in this country.
Trowbridge, even some of the nuttier conspiracy websites, find it hard to take such “news” events seriously. My view about a lot of these events, is somewhat different to some of theirs but maybe the people working for them (and they seem to get paid) didn’t have a Box Brownie 60 years ago, and do there own colour photography 50 years ago. I must admit I did believe that The Americans landed on the moon in 1969, and only doubted it, when I started getting interested in video editing. I had already done the physics and maths – and thought well that doesn’t look right. I am not sure they didn’t go to the moon, but I am 100% sure they did most of the photography on earth.
Incidentally, I used to do some work in London, for guys in Houston, and I always found them incredibly nice and polite. It’s just that our computer was a lot more powerful than theirs – so they outsourced the computing side of the job to us in London.
https://www.sott.net/article/370327-MI5-Foils-Islamist-Terror-Plot-to-blow-up-and-assassinate-Theresa-May
Tony
Trowbridge, Sir. Every motorway and petrol station has ANPR for cars and every mosque has ANPR for humans. I don’t pray in the mosques that preach jihadist terror because they can use their ANPR face recognition systems to associate me with the daft opinions of rogue MI5/6 imams. Trump is absolutely correct when he tells Mrs May about the extent of the infection of terrorist sympathies in UK Islam. How she’s supposed to reverse it when her entire intelligence and foreign policy operations are fuelled up to increase it – beats me.
Prevent is a program designed to divide the Muslims into patsies or rebels. The patsies get looked after and groomed . The rebels get spied on and obstructed in their daily lives. Nobody who has any personal experience of UK imams still believes that UK mosques are harmless institutions for the enlightenment and education of Muslims. They are slaves to British power, as they always have been.
Oh yes and we all believe that one man is a terror threat to the PM….
When in an unpopular hole with wet pants, try creating some sympathy with an unbelievable fictional terror threat….
It’s so fanciful that I can’t help wonder who incited him. I daresay that a PII will keep it out of court too….