There was a revealing coincidence of timing yesterday. Philip Hammond made a speech in which he pleaded with the EU to allow the UK continued free access to their financial services markets, on the basis of mutually recognised standards. At the same time, Theresa May met the Saudi Crown Prince in Downing Street and discussed specific legal reductions of those standards in the City of London, to allow for the stock exchange flotation of part of Saudi state oil giant Aramco.
It is symbolic because the toxic addiction of the ruling classes to Saudi cash has been lowering British standards of basic decency for generations. The most blatant example was when Tony Blair as Prime Minister intervened directly in the justice system to prevent the pursuit of corruption charges against the stench-ridden arms dealers of BAE, on grounds of “national security”. The myths about the impartiality of British justice have seldom been so comprehensively exposed. Where there is really dirty money, Blair is seldom far away.
The use of British supplied weapons by the Saudis to maim and kill children in Yemen on an industrial scale has penetrated public consciousness despite the best efforts of mainstream media to sideline it, and Jeremy Corbyn was absolutely right to highlight the involvement not just of arms manufacturers but of the British military. The government and royal fawning has been accompanied by an extraordinary deluge of pro-Saudi propaganda from the mainstream media this last two days for Saudi Arabia and its “reforming” Crown Prince.
There is no doubt that Mohammed Bin Salman has shown a ruthless genius in internal power consolidation in Saudi Arabia, with rivals arrested, shaken down or dying by accident. That he is seeking to end corruption appears less probable than that he is seeking to monopolise its proceeds and thus concentrate power, but time will give a clearer picture. There is no evidence whatsoever that Saudi Arabia is stopping its funding of Wahabbist jihadism across the Middle East and South Asia; indeed it has been stepped up by him, as has the bombing of Yemen.
Bin Salman may have a slightly different take on religion to those previously controlling Saudi Arabia, but in fact he is a much more dangerous fanatic. He is an extreme Sunni sectarian, driven by a visceral hatred of Shia Muslims. This is expressed in an aggressive foreign policy, causing a further destabilisation of the Middle East which threatens to tip over into catastrophe, as Bin Salman seeks to turn up the heat against Iran in proxy conflict in Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere. That he is doing so in active and functional alliance with Israel is the world’s worst kept diplomatic secret. Saudi/Israeli cooperation in Lebanon and Syria is to my mind the most dangerous global flashpoint at present.
But despite his fawning reception in London, Bin Salman is not having it all his own way. I returned from Doha two weeks ago and in Qatar, Bin Salman has seriously overreached. Angry at Doha’s lack of hostility to Iran, including revenue sharing agreement on cross-border fields, Saudi Arabia has blockaded the small Emirate of Qatar for six months now. The excuse given to the West – that Qatar funds jihadist terrorism – is perhaps the worst example of the pot calling the kettle black in History. But the Saudi demands, including the permanent closure of Al Jazeera, expulsion of Arab dissidents and removal of a Turkish military base, reveal an altogether different agenda.
Qatar has proved much more resilient than anybody expected. The blockade has caused some economic damage but it has been survivable, and the effect has been entirely counter-productive for Bin Salman. Qatar has become closer economically to Iran and has developed new port facilities which reduce import reliance on Saudi Arabia and its satraps. The Saudis had massed troops on the border and threatened invasion, but the Qataris vowed to fight.
Then something remarkable happened which the world mainstream media has almost entirely ignored. Despite Saudi sponsored adverts all over US media portraying named senior Qataris as terrorist sponsors, and despite strong Israeli pro-Saudi lobbying, Donald Trump suddenly called Bin Salman to heel. With Saudi troops massed on the Qatari border, on 30 January the United States signed an agreement with Qatar “to deter and confront any threat to Qatar’s territorial integrity”. This was a massive slap in the face to Bin Salman from Donald Trump, and a result of Tillerson recognising the real threat to the world from Bin Salman’s extreme ambition.
I can only conjecture this received none of the publicity it deserved from the corporate media because it went against the prevailing narrative that Trump can never, in any circumstance, do anything strikingly good, and because it was a blow to Israel. The uber-hawk Clinton would certainly not have crossed Saudi Arabia and Israel in this way. It is an important sign that there is more to Tillerson’s Middle Eastern diplomacy than the stupid decision, motivated by US domestic politics, to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The elite loves Saudi money all around the world. But the UK is unique in allowing that to blind them absolutely to human rights abuses, the appalling bombing of Yemen, and the extreme dangers posed by Bin Salman’s hyperactive regional aggression towards Shia Muslims. We should be used to seeing Tories kowtowing to money by now. But this week makes me still more sick than usual.
Why does every thread end up with the Scottish stuff ad infinitum?. This post is entitled “Mohammed Bin Salman: The Truth Behind The Reformist Façade’.
Because we’re on page 2 and the chief culprits have no interest in anything outside Kilmarnock. This post was originally called “Saudi Evil” but Craig soon changed it for some reason. The original title however lives on in the page name (in your browser’s address bar).
MJ, Craig probably thought The Saudi’s did “IT”, but then had second thoughts when he realised that The Americans and his former British colleagues , have been controlling Saudi Arabia, for at least 100 years, or maybe he has knowledge of their computer systems, which I have on very good authority, are not exactly very up to date, to put it mildly.
Its a sign of great intelligence, to change your mind, on the basis of new information, backed by strong evidence, from people you can trust.
Tony
Sharp Ears,
I am not sure, but it maybe because Republicofscotland & reel guid share the same Scottish brain, and have two laptops. connecting by two different IP addresses, so the moderators can’t tell.
I personally don’t mind, and am in no position to complain, except that I have never personally done that, though some people may think I am at times a bit schizophrenic or bipolar (manic depresseive), especially when drunk.
I never find Republicofscotland or reel guid, personally offensive, and often like what they write. If they are the same person, I really don’t mind, and I have no evidence that they are.
Meanwhile to go almost completely off-topic, if I lived in Salisbury, I would go round all the pubs, and try and find out how many people actually believe the current complete load of old bollocks, but would be too polite to ask them if they’ve had a wash recently, as recommended by Her Majesty’s Government.
Off-Guardian is not impressed and neither am I. However the journalists who write there are completely brilliant. I may well send them some money too, cos I personally think they are top of the class.
“We hates Putin…we hates him forever…”: the Guardian’s fresh ravings on Russia reflects West’s tipping point into new levels of dangerous insanity”
https://off-guardian.org/2018/03/10/we-hates-putin-we-hates-him-forever-the-guardians-fresh-ravings-on-russia-reflects-wests-tipping-point-into-new-levels-of-dangerous-insanity/
Tony
How surprising to note that a Human Rights blog has attracted zero comments regarding the human rights of one Brittany Pettibone – what with her being a foreign national and a woman you would think someone may have highlighted her plight.
…or could it be that she is the wrong kind of foreign national and the wrong kind of woman. Probably best to ignore her and hope everyone else displays the same kind of wisdom. At this juncture it would be both wrong and dangerous to even acknowledge that Martin Niemoller ever existed. After all if he did not exist then he could not have said anything.
Loony
It is not common in this blog to defend white supremacists. Maybe the Donald can defend her.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Brittany_Pettibone
Like I said it is definitely best to hold the view that Martin Niemoller never existed, and it is pleasing to see that you agree with me.
Loony,
If you are talking about Amnesty International, that was infiltrated and has been controlled by The CIA, and related British t0sspots, at the highest levels, for an exceedingly long time. They have people like David Miliband working for them. They are even more neocon (ex Trotskyist) then Dick Cheney.
I pity the lovely innocent people working for these evil bastards, often for nothing. They don’t realise they are working for the equivalent of Satan, whilst trying to do good deeds.
Tony
Never heard of her, but lets face it, on the basis of this photograph, her bloke does look like a right cnt. I am not surprised they got sent back to America. We do have standards in The UK. I am sure we would have let her in, if he hadn’t turned up too.
First they came for The Barbie Doll’s partner?
“Identitarian Activists Martin Sellner and Brittany Pettibone Detained at Heathrow Ahead of Planned Speech”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/11/hold-austrian-identitarian-leader-martin-sellner-arrested-at-heathrow-airport-ahead-of-planned-speech/
Tony
You may be completely correct.
The thing is I recall struggling to learn English – and that struggle obviously left me with an outdated understanding of the meaning of words. I was (and remain) under the impression that the term human rights applies to all human beings and it is not practically, morally or linguistically possible to remove human rights from people who look like a “right cnt”
If human rights do not include freedom of speech then it is questionable as to whether they have any value at all. As Orwell noted “if free speech means anything at all it means the right to tell people things that they do not want to hear” It seems that Orwell too needs to be airbrushed from history in order to march forward to a brave new world.
This just brings another problem – as Huxley himself is almost certainly not on message and so he too needs to be removed from the historical record – which will have the handy consequence of removing all meaning from the term “Brave New World” Once this process is gone far enough then how will anyone know anything about anything? Perhaps we will all be reduced to relying on Decartes observation “I think therefore I am” Except we can’t because Descartes is often regarded as the father of western philosophy and as we all know western philosophy is rooted in white supremacism and so that too must go.
Basically the west is on the verge of raising Pol Pot and his concept of Year Zero to some form of high religion.
It will not end well, and it will certainly not end as leading zealots expect.
Loony,
Whilst most people I know can and do travel from the UK to the USA and vice versa, without any problems whatsoever, I know 3 people very well, who have no interest in religion or politics, who have been treated absolutely atrociously at The American border, purely because of their appearance. They weren’t doing anything wrong, and all are highly intelligent. They weren’t all trying to get into America, one of them, was trying to get out.
He was told, if you move one inch over that line “I will Blow Your Fucking Head Off” and had a gun Pressed to his Temple, He is a really nice Dutch Man, who speaks perfect English, and had been invited to America because of his technical skills. He simply wanted to go back home to Holland.
I could go on, at least they let him in.
You Americans are Crazy.
Tony
It used to be that when you go to the IS that you used to fill in a form that asks whether you are or have ever been or are related to someone who is a member of the communist party. Presumably if the answer was yes you would find yourself on the first plane back.
News you will not see in the MSM. The residents in several of the towns in East Ghouta are demonstrating against the occupying Jihadisys and asking them to leave.
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/mass-protests-against-militants-take-place-in-east-ghouta-photos/
Here is some more information that no-one will be interested in – but is nonetheless likely very relevant to all things Saudi Arabian.
As has already been pointed out the Cantarell oil filed in Mexico (which is one of the largest oil fields in the world) is in precipitous decline. Next note that the anti violence think tank Seguridad, Justicia Y Paz have compiled a list of the worlds 50 most dangerous cities.
Topping the charts at numbers 1,2 and 3 respectively are Los Cabos (Mexico), Caracas (Venezuela), and Acapulco (Mexico)
Mexico and Venezuela have a further 4 entries n this years top ten with Tijuana and La Paz (sic) occupying positions 5 and 6.Victoria of Mexico takes position 8, Guayana of Venezuela occupying position 9.
If Saudi oil goes the same way as Mexican reserves and Venezuelan production then it is likely that “you aint seen nothing yet”
https://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/ranking-de-ciudades-2017
Loony, Oh dear. You bought that myth too. Can I remind you of the price of oil. If it was running out shouldn’t it be over 100 times the current price..yer know – Market Forces and everything? There seems to be more of it, than we know what to do.
Tony
Your heart seems to be in the right place – but on the price of oil you do not seem to know what you are talking about.
The price should be doing more or less what it is doing – going too high for consumers to afford it, and then going too low for producers to invest in E&P. This kind of oscillation is to be expected when the market is seeking an equilibrium price but is unable to detect that an equilibrium price no longer exists.
There is no shortage of oil per se – but there is a problem with cheap oil, and this is a problem that is getting worse, and will continue to do so.
You are being lied to on a gargantuan scale. Money is not so interesting since it is possible to create limitless amounts of it and the price (in money) of anything can be anything you want it to be. Where oil is concerned it is far more useful to look at the Energy Cost if Energy i.e. the amount of energy required to access energy. Not so long ago it took about 1 barrel of oil to access 50 barrels of oil. Today you are looking at a ratio of about 10:1 – and this ratio will continue to decline. Indeed as far as things like shale, tar sands and Orinoco Basin heavy oil are concerned it is essentially baked into the cake
Whether you like it or not this has consequences – some of those consequences can be seen in Mexico and Venezuela. Others can be seen in the carnage created to gain control over Iraq – the worlds most obvious repository of remaining cheap. Still others can be seen in the endless threats made to Russia so as to try to frighten the Russians into handing over their oil to the west. That does not seem to be working out too well. These are the macro consequences, the micro consequences are that in aggregate young people today have no possibility of moving up the income/consumption scale as your generation was able to do. This means that a lot of young people are confused, directionless and largely dispossessed and are consequently wide open to swallowing the most bizarre propaganda you can imagine. Try to think of a time in the 20th century when an entire nation suffered from these ailments. Ask how that all worked out.
The reason that the west is willing to play such a high risk game is because the elites are well aware of the consequences that will flow from the end of cheap oil, and they are trying to avoid those consequences for as long as possible.
Loony,
20 years ago, I read the No 1 web site, about peak oil. It was called dieoff.org To my amazement, it still exists. I thought all the peak oil doomsters would have gone bust by now.
I found dieoff.org very interesting. It was completely logical, and made perfect long term sense – eg – when it takes more than the energy contained within a barrel of oil, to extract a barrel of oil, then it’s game over. That is true now, unless nuclear power is developed for civilian purposes, as it should have been. The reason for this, has nothing to do with money.
So, for about a week, I believed all this on dieoff.org, and was really worried for the future of my children, and their children
During this week, it just so happenned, I didn’t have a great deal of work to do – I had got the bloody thing working, and it was stable. 20 years later, it still is. The company I worked for hasn’t gone bust. I have no idea if they have upgraded it.
So I researched everything I could find about oil. I came across this website, and I was really interested in it, cos I had actually done some computing work in London for the people in Houston (Our Computer was exceedingly Powerful) . I used to talk to these American scientists, and engineers on the phone a lot. I liked working afternoon/evening shifts, cos it coincided with the Americans 9 to 5, and after their midday, all The British Management had gone home, and there was only me and a few other people to talk to. I got on with them really well.
So far as I am aware I have never spoken to Dr. J. F. Kenney, though I have heard him speak. Whilst I didn’t do geology at university, I did do Pure Physics and Maths – and at the time(69-71) the educational standards in UK universities, for such subjects taught in English, was by far the best in the world (as was the computing).
Dr J.F. Kenney made perfect sense, as did his physics, maths, and detailed other observations and success.
I am really pleased his website is still going
He proved, conclusively so far as I am concerned that OIL is Not a FOSSIL Fuel, but is formed deep within the Depths of the Earth, and it is not going to run out, for many Millions of Years, irregardless of what life forms populate The Earth’s surface (I seriously doubt it will be us lot). Not with the current lunatics in power.
Tony
http://www.gasresources.net/
Extract
“The public-access pages on this site are presently being built to provide easy reference to various publications involving modern petroleum science. Modern petroleum science, – or what is called often the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins, – is an extensive body of knowledge which has been recorded in thousands of articles published in the mainstream, Russian-language scientific journals, and in many books and monographs. However, effectively nothing of modern petroleum science has been published in the U.S.A., and this body of knowledge remains largely unknown in the English-speaking world. For reason of this circumstance, a brief introduction to modern Russian petroleum science has been written separately, and is offered together with a brief indication of some of its immediate economic consequences.
The unfamiliarity with the Russian-language scientific literature has been further worsened by the bizarre circumstance that modern Russian petroleum science has been subject to the most extensive attempt at plagiarism in the history of modern science. This particular aspect of the history of this body of knowledge is taken up in the section dealing with the political and sociological essays.
The articles on this site have been put here to accommodate the many requests for reprints and further information, received during the past few years following the publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. of an article formally enunciating the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins and demonstrating the high-pressure genesis of petroleum. Therefore, although the articles on these pages have been contributed by more than a dozen authors, the majority have been written or coauthored by Dr. J. F. Kenney, of both the Russian Academy of Sciences and Gas Resources Corporation. It deserves to be recognized that all of the contributors to these articles that deal with petroleum science and petroleum operations are all highly competent oil and gas men and women. All have extensive experience in discovering and producing petroleum.
In the pages containing articles connected with petroleum economics, there are several papers by Professor Michael C. Lynch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which address directly the myth of “oil exhaustion.” There is also a link to an article by Professor Peter Odell of the London School of Economics concerning the common misperceptions connected with petroleum economics.”
@ Tony_0pmoc March 11, 2018 at 22:46
Though there is still oodles of oil, ‘they’ can now make oil from algae. I read somewhere that the Gulf of Mexico was deliberately ‘killed’ in order to use the Gulf as a great algae farm. I already believed that Katrina was deliberate, and that virtually the whole Gulf seaboard of the southern US was going to be taken over by oil facilities.
‘ExxonMobil biofuel partnership makes oil from algae ‘breakthrough’:
https://www.ft.com/content/85bb7f54-54da-11e7-9fed-c19e2700005f
Another thing I read, ages ago, was that burning fossil fuel was a huge waste, as it could be used instead as building blocks for all kinds of useful products and chemicals.
Sorry to butt in to an interesting conversation, but it is rather juicy and delicious just how low USUKIS has to crawl when they are losing a4th generation war to what is supposed to be a 2nd world state.
First the pathetic insinuations that Putin, smiling smugly through a wine glass, is the richest man in the world. Secondly the pathetic murder mystery being staged in Salisbury. Last but not least, but simultaneously, Pritti Patel’s scheme to send aid directly to Saudi headchoppers in the Golan gets re-packaged through the Saudi branch of Israel.
Mrs May certainly developed a sense of humour, working in the Home Office. Slapstick farce suits her well.
Ow! my sides are hurting. Can it be sarin, or is it just the SIS script-writers new comedy?
This has got to be the best pantomime this season; Widow Wanky has just walked on dressed as a Dame. She is an extremely litigious person who really and truly wants to imprison people who express their opposition
to our goverment’s lies on the internet. Please welcome, gunpowder explosions off, spotlight centre stage on, smoke filling the auditorium, D a m e N e v I l l e – J o n e s, ladies and gentlemen, a big round of applause please . The Dame, dressed in re tights and black penguin tail coat, with a sort of sequinned miniskirt somewhere about where maybe she had loins a long time ago because I went to school with one of her offspring, wants to cast a spell on that evil frog Putin,
Baroness Neville-Jones , pillar of the dark state, wants to threaten WW3 against Moscow for apparently causing a UK wholly-owned double-agent to consume a Porton Down poison that is so dangerous it can be administered @? whooff bang by SATAN @? purple and crimson sulfurous stench ” go and wash your dirty linen. How dare you not believe the lies of your rejected government?” She came on the Radio 4 Westminster Hour tonight. I laughed so much I nearly p**d my p***s.
@Giyane – I don’t quite follow the link between the Dame’s imagined miniskirt and your attending school with one of her offspring. If you were male I might guess that she’d come to watch a school play and her attire had left some kind of “Horny Dame” impression on you, but…you’re a lady, aren’t you?
She’s certainly no Lady – Boom Boom. Seriously N_ are you not displaying a very narrow gender view here?
When a schoolpupil thinks another pupil’s mum is a bit of all right, admires her slinky short sequined number, and talks about her “loins”, I assume the pupil is male 🙂 Then again, women do tend far more than men to notice and care about what each other are wearing.
Anyway who mentioned the Baroness’s attire first? Into to the naughty corner you go, Giyane! 🙂
N_
Not sure how anyone could see a parent at a public school. I think that part of my comment was factually wrong because of British male primogeniture. This person had the same name, but agents of the dark state do not publish their family trees on google. It’s irrelevant.
Baroness N-J has a very contorted accent , like Rees-Morgue, and the only time it appears on Radio 4 is in connection with some dark purpose of right-wing repression. You could say Mrs May is the kindly face to the dark state’s malign policies. certainly Mrs May doesn’t appear to have any brain of her own. She used to Left Wing advisors to script her speeches so that she could appear to be on the side of the people – hence my use of the dark arts metaphor.
The Queen , by contrast, appears to be a feminist, and is prepared to use males for one thing only, bypassing male duds to produce some female heirs.
giyane,
A few months ago, Putin published in detail, all his earnings, and assets. I can’t remember where I read it, but I was interested in his two very old Russian cars…He has got a new one too, and a big flat or whatever, and probably an odd “Dachau” or two (I got that word wrong – but it makes it funnier) I meant Russian country house “Dacha” Obviously if and when he retires, he is going to be exceedingly well looked after, because so far as I can gather, most Russians really like him
I think my house is worth more than his, but his old cars are worth a fortune. Apparently The Russians were very good at Rustprofing Their Cars. Built to Last. My British ones are prettier, and accelerate a lot faster, but They are Rust Buckets. Already had to replace two sills.
I don’t think Putin has any need to steal. If he gets skint, he can flog one of his cars.
I have a very nice Putin T-Shirt (a bit offensive) that I bought a few years ago from Germany. With all this current bollocks, I’m not sure I still have the balls to wear it down the pub.
Tony
FWIW, Mr Skripal’s home in Salisbury is only about 100 metres from Salisbury police station.
It is such a shame that Corinne Souza passed away. She would have so much to say about this case. Her father was an Iraqi recruited by MI6 whom they brought to Britain when Britgov threw their weight behind Saddam Hussein several decades ago. In Britain he continued to meet regularly with his handlers, and she has stories about e.g. how street signs near their home were made clearer to facilitate responders getting to the house FAST in an emergency.
I wonder whether police were called to the bust-up in the restaurant. I’m not saying Mr Skripal was in the habit of picking fights – someone who worked in the GRU as an MI6 spy for several years is likely to have some self-control and unusual skill at coping with stress – but he seems tough-looking, he presumably speaks with a Russian accent, people thought he was involved in the property business and in business in Poland, and as well as all that he was presumably not in a happy frame of mind given his elderly mother’s illness, so you could easily imagine a scenario where the argument became a bit scary and some people had a five-letter Italian word beginning with “m” pop into their minds.
N_
“FWIW, Mr Skripal’s home in Salisbury is only about 100 metres from Salisbury police station.” Whilst, that is one of the funniest things I have read today, I don’t think its true. I found out where he lived when his name came out. Its a bit further than that.
But you made me laugh. The local coppers are probably p1ssing themselves laughing too (especially if they are getting paid overtime) but just wishing all this bollocks would just go away. They probably can’t stand the cnts from The Met , and all the ‘orrible press.
Tony
@Tony_0pmoc – I stand corrected. The buildings that used to house the Salisbury police station, which at their nearest are about 100 metres from Mr Skripal’s house, are now occupied by the Salisbury University Technical College. I was using Bing Maps which are out of date. Google Maps correctly show it as the UTC. Thanks 🙂
LOL
nice One N_
We’ve found a role for the army – they can separate police and reporters. After the massacre at Dunblane the police had to tell the reporters to stay the f*** out of town for the funeral.
@ N_ March 12, 2018 at 00:45
Yeh, they would, wouldn’t they? Wouldn’t want journos poking around, they might stumble on the truth, something the police and PTB most certainly did not want to come out, and it still largely hasn’t.
The Dunblane court papers were sealed for 100 years(!), but most have subsequently been released (after suitable ‘weeding’ to make sure no ‘High Bods’ links leak out, as well as ‘victims and there families’, which still stays under the 100-year rule).
There was much, much more to that massacre than meets the eye.
Paul
I did not Know some of that..Thank you
What about the holocaust, Paul – was that a hoax too, do you reckon?
I was looking for info ref Alan Milburn and came across this site which gives details on the N Wales child abuse cover up
Very long.
http://www.drsallybaker.com/tag/dr-ruth-briel/
December 1 2017
It concludes:
‘So those are some of the people who led the NHS during those years following the Waterhouse Inquiry whilst the surviving witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal were systematically exterminated. It’s a rather different story to the one that launched Milburn’s political career – the story of the son of a single mother who worked as an NHS secretary and who was brought up on a council estate and never recovered from the Council painting his front door the same colour as everyone else’s on the estate. I know that was a bit of a liberty Alan, but it couldn’t have been that traumatic – it’s not as if you were murdered when you were fire-bombed because you had information about politicians molesting children.’
.The author’s biog note: http://www.drsallybaker.com/about/
@Paul Barbara. I was only joking about the army. You are absolutely right about Dunblane. The wagons were circled right from the beginning when George Robertson rushed there together with Michael Forsyth, the latter soon telling John Major that a safe judge had to be appointed. Both Robertson and Forsyth knew Thomas Hamilton. There were “boat trips to Loch Ness” : children started to be killed long before the day of the massacre. There was a culture of utterly horrendous abuse at the Queen Victoria School, and then a coverup which William Cullen was detailed to run. And nobody ever gets a medal in Britain for looking too closely at the royal family. True at the time of the Profumo scandal; still true now. Behind the “parents mustn’t take photos at the school play because they might be paedophiles” lunacy in this country, there is a culture that if revealed would dwarf the Marc Dutroux case in Belgium ten times over, and goes to the heart of the elite.
I can’t get over this foto.. the Pain in it……. I got into a wee bit of bother ….for using fbook..I tried not to..as is my habit..But NOW –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZsdLNVxFpc
People can now see Corbyn’s Labour in its true colours.
Disinterested in really protecting jobs (supporting hard brexit).
Deliberately courting the xenophobic vote (Corbyn’s speech about immigration driving down British wages).
Denying party democracy (all pro-single market motions at Dundee conference turned down for debate).
Denying Scotland fairness and democracy (enforced EU exit and denial of indyref2).
No support for democracy further afield (tacit support for the Francoists against democracy in Catalonia).
Mmmmmmnnn
“There can be little doubt that the Russian government is behind the attempted assassination of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.” 12th March 2018
https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/skripal-attack-test-uk
“Speaking in the House of Commons, Johnson said the incident had “echoes” of Russia’s state-sanctioned murder of another former agent living in Britain, Alexander Litvinenko, and warned such violence needed to be reclassified as “acts of war” to deter further attempts on the lives of people living in the U.K.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/sergei-skripal-boris-johnson-warns-russia-over-acts-of-war/
“Home Secretary Amber Rudd has warned that Britain has a plan of action in place to deal with those who attempted to assassinate a former Russian spy on UK soil.
The Cabinet minister also said members of the public may not hear about all of the action British security services take to keep the people safe.”
“You may not hear about it all. But when we do see that there is action to be taken – we will take it.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russian-spy-amber-rudd-sergei-skripal-poisoning-nerve-agent-police-investigation-a8245416.html
And so to war, or so it sounds, except Britain hasn’t got the wherewithal to go to war with Russia and if Britain’s politicians were stupid enough to attack Russia because of made up lies they kow perfectly well that Russia could evaporate the entire British isles within half an hour.
So why are our politicians saying stupid stuff?
Why are they embarrassing themselves? To what benefit? Who benefits?
@graham – You are asking the right questions. See my post below. Not sure whether you know of Shirreff’s novel.
Some of the politicians may think all they’re doing is PR for contracts – that’s a big part of what their job is anyway. Government is principally about contracts, either short-termist in the near future or about long-term changes that enable big profits to be made in this or that sector, usually with large-scale moneylending involved. That’s true whatever is being talked about: housing, education, health, security, broadband, “wellbeing”, “behavioural economics”, anything. They’re lackeys for Mr Bigs for whom it’s always grab grab grab.
Whether a big war is planned, though – well I think it is. The real hero of the British elite has always been Thomas Malthus. Too many smellies in the country. Workshy breeders whose physical existence is a terribly awful drain on decent people. Public transport is full of them. There are far more of them in existence than are necessary to keep buy-to-let merchants in business. Whole estates full of the scum. And they shag like rabbits too, the men with tattoos and the women with no knickers. About time someone did something about it. They’ve no right to complain. They’ve been breeding for generations, the dirty chavs with Christmas decorations all over the fronts of their council houses, texting on their phones as they push supermarket trolleys with their fat bellies.
That’s how the right wing thinks.
Have you read Dan Brown’s Inferno? He paints bioterrorism that causes huge cuts in the ability to breed as being all sweetness and light.
Before we get too optimistic and decide WW3 is not about to break out…
It’s true that the post-Cobra meeting statement did NOT say that Britain was invoking Article 5 of the NATO treaty, nor did it announce a military “response” to Russia. Perhaps they’re waiting for the National Security Council meeting.
In 1982, cuts to the navy were in the pipeline. Then what happened? A limited war.
More recently, cuts to the army were “shelved” – to use journo speak – until a “new” review could take place.
Then we get lots of pictures of the dear old army helping people in the snow, as if nobody else can drive a snow plough, lead a road convoy, or know about chains on tyres. That was little more than PR for the army. (By August and September it could be famine they’re dealing with, not snow.)
We also get stories about
a) the new Russian weapons cupboard, full of frightening missiles that don’t just carry nuclear warheads but are nuclear-steered too, and which can penetrate the most carefully deployed
white man’swestern defences, whizzing over Aldershot and plopping down the chimneys of Eton, andb) just how smug Vladdy Putin is being about not being “contained” (message: “Doncha just spit out your Pimms when foreign johnnies talk like that?“).
That doesn’t strike me as PR for “Nah, let’s cut military spending after all”.
I have to smile at the idea of a Tory government doing something about dirty Russian money in London. I’d certainly be up for the idea of buying Chelsea Football Club for a pound, but can we imagine George Osborne moving to the Metro? Nikita Khrushchev said if he was British he’d vote Tory. No prizes for guessing which leader Tories would support if they were Russian? Clue: he’s keen on martial arts. Second clue: he gets his picture taken on horseback. He and the Women’s Institute could make a hell of a calendar together.
Could it be that some have been told that their role in the farce is to help bring about a wee “brushfire” conflict with Russia? Y’know – nothing too serious, just a few hundred deaths, resulting in big weapons contracts, a fortified line down the east of the Baltic three, but allowing the Russian johnnies (isn’t the white man kind?) a fortified corridor across Lithuania into Kaliningrad?
If anyone thinks I’m talking rubbish, please have a look at General Sir Richard Shirreff’s 2016 book 2017: War with Russia before you say so. Shirreff was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) until 2014. He
proposesdescribes a scenario just like the one I’ve just mentioned.Then, whaddayaknow, the idea of a small war – helps both sides, shake hands afterwards, blocks taken off the Russian bank accounts in London, 800 service personnel and 2300 civilians dead, but Russian “businessmen” welcome back in the royal enclosure at Ascot in 2019 – turns out to be bullsh*t… Russian isn’t Argentina, nor is the Baltic Sea a British lake, and we DO have to bend down and kiss our arses goodbye after all? Just a thought.
This photo is from Evgeny Lebedev’s Evening Standard. Heavy military vehicles stand there with their gun barrels showing, while four service personnel in grey hoodies, gas masks, blue gloves, and with what looks like duck tape around their wrists (are they from the Deepcut barracks?), walk along two by two.
And for some reason three of them seem to have boxes over their genitals.
Where are some satirical left wing comedians when we really need them?
You obviously don’t understand modern policing. If you want to catch a would-be murderer you don’t conduct methodical door-to-door enquiries, put up road blocks or stake out railway stations and airports. That’s old school and too much like hard work. These days you sashay around in hi-vis jackets looking important. That’s the way to do it!
Theresa May is due to make a statement in the HoC at 5pm.
She has been at Westminster Abbey for the Commonwealth service. Read from Romans 12 3-13. She was wearing a lopsided scarlet hat. Baroness Scotland there too as the current Sec Gen. See Craig’s search box ‘Baroness Scotland’. Massive expenditure of public money on her residence and HQ, Marlborough House in St James, a five storey C18 mansion built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, and Scotland’s employment of an illegal immigrant as her skivvy.
Even the state broadcaster is not impressed by her.
Concerns raised over Commonwealth leadership
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38760133
Wikipedia have the expense and employment matters listed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Scotland
She speaks but says nothing.
‘A former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia, Theresa May has told MPs.
The prime minister said the government had concluded it was “highly likely” that Russia was responsible for the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury on 4 March.
She said Russia’s ambassador in London had been summoned to explain whether it was “a direct action by the Russian state” or the result of it “losing control” of its stock of nerve agents.’
All the stooges are falling into line with May, Duncan Smith, Blackford! SNP, Tugendhat, now the ex attorney general Grieve (who refused an appeal for an inquest for Dr Kelly incidentally), blah blah, now Yvette Cooper (hedging her bets slightly). They are searching for the strongest adjectives they know to describe Russia and Putin.
Perhaps they really want WWIII.
Well Craig, nice oatmeal jumper you had on during your RT appearance today, on a more sombre note, you made sense as to why now over the alleged Russian attack on Skripal.
Of course the insinuations from the western media, and their so called experts is deafening, shouting louder than anyone else doesn’t add more veracity to their claims.
Staying on those so called nasty Russian’s for a moment.
It would appear that cash for access to the Tories has come under the spotlight. Colonel Rape Clause Ruth Davidson, has come under pressure to cancel her bought and paid for access lunch by Lubov Chernukhin, a Russian oligarch who made billions as Putin’s Deputy Finance minister.
Just how much money have the Russian’s paid the British governments over the years for access to politicians? Yet we have the likes of May and Johnson blustering over the Skripal event, and that’s all it is bluster.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/16079790.ruth-davidson-told-to-ditch-russian-donor-after-skripal-poisoning/?ref=mr&lp=2
Meanwhile the chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committie, has called on Ofcom, to review RT’s licence, accusing it of being a hostile agent. All very Trumpesque in my opinion, if you can’t match them on propaganda then ban them.
Meanwhile Ruth Davidson has joined forces with Michael Gove to attack EU remainer Philip Hammond. Davidson who told Gove to stay away from the Scottish Tory branch office conference, because he’s too toxic (at least she got that right), are demanding that Britain quits the Common Fisheries Policy.
In their joint statement Gove and Davidson describe themselves as “Proud Scots” quick pass the sick bucket.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/16079802.ruth-davidson-and-michael-gove-call-for-fast-eu-exit-on-fishing/?ref=mrb&lp=23
So it looks like Xi Jingping, has taken a leaf out of Vladimir Putin’s book on how to remain in power for life.
The Chinese National Peoples Congress, put forward 3000 hand picked delegates, and to give it a bit of credibility only 2958 voted to endorse Jingpin’s life long tenure of China, a nice touch I thought.
The vote overturns the policy of former leader Deng Xiaoping, who put it in place, to prevent a return to dictatorships such as that of Mao Zedong.
In The Times Lib Dem establishment figure Magnus Linklater has a go at SNP Europe Minister Mike Russell by accusing him of “grandstanding” in negotiations with the UK Gov.
By which Linklater means, the Scottish Government should capitulate and accept Westminster autocracy and neo-colonialism.
Oh it get better reel guid, the Tories specifically, David Lidington has told the Welsh and Scots to “leave governing to London” we should reply, You have you made a complete arse of it, so we will take it from here.
Lidington has indicated that Westminster will just ride roughshod over Holyroods Continuity bill, and go ahead with Brexit and the repatriation of the 25 powers that should go to Holyrood instead of Westminster.
The powers that Westminster wants to grab include, animal health and traceability, food safety, hygiene laws, food labelling and chemical regulation.
In my opinion when you factor in that Theresa May as part of her trade deals with Trump, that Britain will be flooded with substandard chemical pumped foods from America. Then the 25 powers surrounding the imports of these types of inferior foods needs to remain at Westminster.
If we don’t manage to wrestle these powers out of Westminster’s sweaty palms, then our shops will be stacked high with very unsavoury foods, that have had very little or no regulations in there production, and have arisen from god knows where.
Yes Ros. And those 25 powers which we’re told would only be at Westminster temporarily would for sure be there permanently. With other Holyrood powers to be snatched piecemeal. With Scottish Government ministers overruled with impunity by UK ministers, until one day Westminster would say ‘look there’s really no need for a costly Parliament in Edinburgh is there?
It will be interesting if on the day war is declared the Commons Speaker gets the boot. Mustn’t suggest any “conspiracies”, though.That would be so naughty!
John Bercow is known when he was a local councillor to have advised in print about taking sexual advantage of “drunk girls” – or, as it’s also called, rape. Seriously, just saying he’s not like that any more was never good enough. Most men have never in their entire lives talked in that way about rape.
Remember the circumstances which brought Bercow to his current office, in particular his promise (in his manifesto) to give “voluntary bodies” access to that office. That was after the Torygraph’s number on the expenses, and in my view, part of the same operation.
Strange that it is Bercow who is calling some of the members who are making the allegations about his bullying. Caroline Lucas asked the Urgent Question.
Bercow ‘should step back’ as bullying probe goes on
Speaker’s former private secretary Kate Emms claims she was signed off sick after mistreatment
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/11/john-bercow-bullying-allegations-step-back-until-inquiry-over
Theresa May says “world-leading experts” identified the nerve agent.
I wonder what country those experts are from.
Boris Johnson has demanded that Russia provide full info on its Novichok programme by tomorrow.
Quite obviously, Russia will tell Johnson to stick it up his arse.
Will Britain provide full info on its own chemical and biological warfare programmes?
The BIG question is the “or else”. What will Britain do when they get the Russian response to shove it?
She’s now talking about NATO and British troops in Estonia.
No specifc threat to invoke Article 5.
OK, now she’s coming to the British response when Russia tells them to shove it.
She is saying she will take Russia as having committed an act of war against Britain (without using those exact words).
FFS Corbyn, don’t crawl up Theresa May’s arse now!!
Corbyn is supporting Theresa May.
He is saying she’s right to demand a “full account” from Russia.
Corbyn was good during the election.
Now that war looms, he is total crap.
Ian Duncan Smith, just attempted to appear sincere (an impossibility) in the HoC, IDS, also added that Russia had made a giant mess in Syria, and the Ukraine, and what’s more he actualky believes it to be true.
Theresa May stating that Porton Down, a British state facility had identified the nerve agent as Russian, no surprises there then.
The HoC, is in full anti-Russian sabre rattling mode, it’s a pitiful sight.
It’s very very scary.
In particular, talking about Russian “occupation” of the Crimea is absurd. It is just repeating the line of what are basically Ukrainian Nazis. It’s rather like a group of Welsh ultras claiming that Cumbria and Strathclyde are occupied. The referendum in Crimea was NOT fake.
Some Tory c*** is now praising the crook Bill Browder.
“Whole of the government’s machinery” is code for MI6.
In Britain, some Tories seem to believe that you can say any old shit and people will believe you, so long as you say it with a posh accent and wearing a club tie. The MP who has just said that Russia was hit hard by Britain’s expulsion of its diplomats in the past doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
Britain has given Russia an ultimatum for goodness sake.
They are going to get a response and it will be “shove it”.
I think you’ll find that the Tory c*nt was Labour. Either Bryant or Bradshaw.Can’t remember which. Both repellent, Bradshaw in particular. He has been an officer of LFoI and supports the Henry Jackson Society. His civil partner is Neil Dalgleish, a BBC producer, at sometime on Newsnight.
It was Bradshaw.
‘Mr Ben Bradshaw (Exeter) (Lab)
May I commend the Prime Minister for today making the sort of resolute and realistic statement about the Kremlin that many of us have been looking for in this House for some time? Will she invite the heroic and brave Bill Browder, who has done more than any other single individual to uncover the Kremlin’s methods, to give her a full briefing about what he knows of Putin’s cronies’ money-laundering exploits in London and the British political figures who have been corrupted by Kremlin money? Will she also make sure that the whole of the Government machinery is now giving full co-operation to Robert Mueller’s inquiry in the United States, because of what he has already uncovered about what the Russians have been doing here?’
Wonder what connection he has to Browder?
Sounds like a nice type. Not.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder
Tugendhat has asked May to “call on our allies”.
“Allies” is a military term.
Politicians and media scum are unlikely to talk specifically about Article 5 until the decision has been taken to invoke it and in particular the fascist government in the US has agreed to join a war against Russia.
So – the moment they talk about Article 5, make sure you’ve stocked up a lot of food and got out of the cities if you can.
Corbyn is being absolutely pathetic.
Remember the words of Karl Liebknecht in a similar situation:
“Down with the government. Down with the war”.
If there is any decent left wing remaining in any country, they should pressurise the government in that country NOT to support the British posh boys’ ultimatum to Russia, or the British response to the inevitable Russian rejection.
C’mon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, c’mon Der Linke, go for it.
Solidarity with the British and Russian people, not with the stinking warmongering British government!
“Corbyn is being absolutely pathetic.”
Corbyn has to pick his battles.
There is no advantage to him in speaking out about this. If it is a false flag then everything happening in the commons is simply a pantomime and those pulling the strings will use the event to hurt Labour’s mission to rebalance the UK economy in favour of workers and their families. He has pointed out that the Tories are funded by Russia and that the City Of London is a den of money laundering.
Corbyn/McDonnell have a specific task to perform. They are correct to remain focused.
Stu, I agree with you. In this evidence free situation, where the vast majority of people will believe the propaganda, there is nothing much else Corbyn could do, except maybe, demand the evidence re who was responsible, and maybe ask, Do Porton Down make Novichok too?
However, I got the serious impression they are all on stage, with none of them, having the courage to break through The Fourth Wall.
“The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this “wall”, the convention assumes, the actors act as if they cannot. From the 16th century onwards, the rise of illusionism in staging practices, which culminated in the realism and naturalism of the theatre of the 19th century, led to the development of the fourth wall concept.
The metaphor suggests a relationship to the mise-en-scène behind a proscenium arch. When a scene is set indoors and three of the walls of its room are presented onstage, in what is known as a box set, the “fourth” of them would run along the line (technically called the “proscenium”) dividing the room from the auditorium. The “fourth wall”, though, is a theatrical convention, rather than of set design. The actors ignore the audience, focus their attention exclusively on the dramatic world, and remain absorbed in its fiction, in a state that the theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski called “public solitude” (the ability to behave as one would in private, despite, in actuality, being watched intently while so doing, or to be ‘alone in public’). In this way, the fourth wall exists regardless of the presence of any actual walls in the set, or the physical arrangement of the theatre building or performance space, or the actors’ distance from or proximity to the audience.”
Tony
“and those pulling the strings will use the event to hurt Labour’s mission to rebalance the UK economy in favour of workers and their families. ”
Stu.
Just like they’re doing in Wales eh? Meanwhile Corbyn was in Scotland where the Corbynistas, unanimously rejected staying in the Single Market, much to the Scottish branch manager delight, and of course Corbyn’s as well, that will really help poor working families.
As for your claim Labour can’t make political hay from the Skirpal event. Well John McDonnell has said he’ll no longer appear on RT, McDonnell whose appeared on RT on several occasions has suddenly turned on the station, claiming its failing to be objective.
However it was all good and fine when it allowed McDonnell to spout Labour rhetoric, and recently too, on Saturday McDonnell’s deputy Peter Dowd appeared on RT, waxing lyrical of how goodie two shoes a Labour government would be.
“Just like they’re doing in Wales eh?”
I don’t understand what you mean? The Welsh Assembly has less powers than Holyrood.
Here’s a clue Stu, Labour are in power in Wales, have they mitigated the Bedroom tax? Or abolished student fees?
Has Corbyn done anything in Wales, to help Jones mitigate the poor state of its NHS?
Or what advice has Corbyn given Jones on the levels of poverty in Wales, the UK’s highest.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/nearly-quarter-people-wales-living-14374552
Carwyn Jones is the First Minister of Wales and he is not a fan of Corbyn.
I’m not up to date with Welsh politics and I have no idea how the Welsh government spend their block grant. Regardless none of the the devolved assemblies have the ability to make the structural economic changes the UK requires.
Stu.
Hmmm..things much have soured between them only the last few months.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/carwyn-jones-praised-corbyn-articulated-13668451
“I’m not up to date with Welsh politics ”
I thought we were dìscussing Labour’s attributes, or lack of them.
You don’t have allies.
The hypocrisy boggles the mind even for those who are used to it.
Some Tory MP has just said, with an oh so serious look on his face, that Putin was responsible for the Beslan massacre.
The fact is that Britain has given residency to Akhmed Zakayev, a leading figure in the Chechen group that committed that massacre. Zakayev has lived in Britain for years. Britain has refused the Russian request for extradition.
Now some posh-voiced prat is talking about “hybrid warfare”, a thicko’s phrase if ever there was one.
Ha ha! Theresa May says her stinking government will consider cyberattacking Russia!
I am not suggesting she was lying, but for the first time, in a long time, I actually watched live TV. She looked, and sounded incredibly nervous. Maybe she was overcome with emotion, at the dastardly Russians, or maybe she was nervous because she had to read all this crap, live, and might not be able to go to Moscow, for The World Cup, cos by then, she will have helped kick off Nuclear World War III, and its all her fault for shaking and nearly crying, but she put on a brave face, whilst thinking, My God, I wish I wasn’t here. Why couldn’t Cameron have done this – or even Blair.
I feel sorry for the poor woman. Bloody awful job. Even worse than The Queen’s.
Maybe the Russians, will admit it, say sorry, and promise not to do it again, or maybe they will p1ss themselves laughing as they turn off the gas to Europe and say – if you want any more Russian gas, then you have got to be nice to us, and stop accusing us of evil deeds, without any evidence whatsoever.
Tony
At times her voice almost broke. She probably knows that if Russian or Chinese historians or whoever look back from 2100 and research the origins of WW3, they will look at two of her speeches in particular, namely
* (18 July 2016) her brag that she was willing to give an order to incinerate hundreds of thousands of people with nuclear weapons
* (12 March 2018) her ultimatum to Russia, demanding that that country hand over to the Poshboy government a full account of its chemical weapons programme, by the end of the following day
Agree entirely,Tony. Except in no possible way can I feel sorry for anyone who is the architect of their own misfortune.
I sometimes wonder about you Tony Opmoc. Feel sorry! ffs She is evil personified. Think back to her deeds when she was Home Secretary. Sending people to the US. etc etc. She is a bloody hypocrite too. All the religious stuff. Church on Sundays
with Philip. Reading lessons from the bible as she did today at the Commonwealth Service wearing a hideous scarlet hat and a shiny black coat.
Romans 12 v 2-13.
‘BY the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement,each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching; the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.’
Sharp Ears, Yeh, but the poor woman is probably brainwashed. Do you really think she knows what she is doing? I know she said in the House of Commons, that she would quite happily murder 100,000 people, but she hasn’t actually done it yet – has she? It’s not quite that many yet is it?
“Teresa May and the Holy Grail”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvEp_B5Kq8
Tony
Hypocrisy’s the singular trait that is most associated with Britain in most of the world. Has been for centuries and probably always will be.
The hypocrisy is astounding. How many times do we hear that it is insensitive to the victims of an atrocity to even question whether it might be a false flag? Yet, now we are told that terrorist attacks on Russian soil are ‘false flags’. What a bunch of cnts!
Will Prince Michael of Kent (receiver of money from Boris Berezovsky) be resigning as patron of the Russian-British Chamber of Commerce?
The level of evidence required before you pronounce judgement in a criminal case is far higher and more robust than that of accusing s leader of a foreign country of ‘probable’ attempted murder, and act on it having appointed the judge and jury as well as all the witnesses including experts from your side and have not even discussed the charge let all the evidence with the accused.
It seems obvious to me that whoever committed this deed wanted to harm Putin and point the finger at him. It may be the coalition of chaos or it might by dissidents within Russia with access to this agent. Isn’t it only proper to entertain this probability before these pronouncements are made?
And where is Craig when you need him?
It’s most likely Ukranians or Americans.
More likely the poisoning is what it looks like and it’s Putin silencing leakers to prevent another Steele memo situation.
I mean – who else saw Putin’s denial of election meddling on NBC? Totally ridiculous.
“Maybe they are not even Russians, but Ukrainians, Tatars or Jews, but with Russian citizenship, which should also be checked,” he said.
Like Putin couldn’t figure out who these individuals are by now?
LOL. He’s so ridiculous. Only idiots would fall for Putin’s schtick.
Bob the Steele memo is a load of nonsense.
Do you honestly believe the pee video exists?
LOL. I don’t know. It’s Donald Trump.
If anyone would have a Russian pee video, it’s him.
“Stormy” Daniels?
But it doesn’t harm Putin.
Another in a series of documentaries which may well include “The Facts about Catholicism” by Ian Paisley and “The Honest Truth about Donald Trump” by Hilary Clinton, we bring you “Putin – The new Tsar”
Tonight, BBC2 11.15pm
The Britgov ultimatum is that Russia must “provide full and complete disclosure of the Novichok programme to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”.
Has Britgov told the OPCW about its own chemical and biological weapons programmes?
de Bretton-Gordon has been all over the media today. BS about Novichok. ‘an oily gloopy liquid’ ‘you can get it in powder form’ ‘an eggcupful is all you need’. blah blah.
He was on BBC South Today. Salisbury stuff from the start. Available until tomorrow 7pm.
That’s funny. The programme finishes at 7pm. The BBC normally put it up on iPlayer within half an hour. It is not up at 8pm!
Within, he let on that he lives near Salisvbury. Not near Porton Down we trust!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09vjntb
On 16th March he is at Magdalene College, along with Dr David Nott!, at this seminar. Biographical notes within are worth a read.
More prop for the USUKIsNATO activity in Syria.
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/event/attacking-health
I heard this Norman conquest tosser saying that his charity dealt with chemical attacks “daily” in Syria on the news earlier.
The Hansard report on today’s statement and responses on Salisbury is not yet up. Normally the reports go up within 3 hrs. Perhaps it is being gone over with a fine toothcomb by the PTB.:)
It is listed on here as ‘Salisbury Incident’ but the link is dead.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-03-12?showNoDebateMessage=True
Is a fine toothcomb like a toothbrush?
The saying refers to the process of removing lice so it is very fitting for Westminster.
So this “toothcomb” is for removing lice from your teeth?
It’s working now…
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-03-12/debates/722E1DF5-68E2-41A0-8F3C-23B6480B93BF/SalisburyIncident
Agreed about the timing. Got to wonder whether a German angle may appear. Angela Merkel is due to get elected Chancellor on Wednesday. That’s the same day that Britain will announce its response to Russia’s response to (rejection of) its ultimatum.
It is quite interesting that no other government has yet publicly supported Britain on this. Is there something wrong with Twitler’s tweeting finger, or is he a bit sensitive about things to do with Russia?