“Comrade Putin, we have successfully stockpiled novichoks in secret for ten years, and kept them hidden from the OPCW inspectors. We have also trained our agents in secret novichok assassination techniques. The programme has cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but now we are ready. Naturally, the first time we use it we will expose our secret and suffer massive international blowback. So who should be our first target? The head of a foreign intelligence agency? A leading jihadist rebel in Syria? A key nuclear scientist? Even a Head of State?”
“No, Tovarich. There is this old retired guy I know living in Salisbury. We released him from jail years ago…”
“With respect Comrade Putin, are you sure he is the most important target to reveal a programme we have put so much resource into for ten years?”
“Yes. I sit here every day and I cannot concentrate on the affairs of Russia or the World as all the time am thinking of Sergei Skripal. I should never have let him out of jail to spend his life buying lottery tickets and eating in Zizzis. But you must make absolutely certain to kill him.”
“Don’t worry Comrade Putin, we have been training in secret novichok assassination techniques for ten years. We even have an detailed manual explaining our methods. We will spread the novichok on his outside door handle (fiendish laugh).”
“Are you sure comrade? Is there not a danger it will wash off or get diluted?”
“No Comrade Putin, it never rains in England.”
That is, genuinely, in every detail the official British government version of what happened in Salisbury, including the ten year programme and the secret assassination manual.
Despite this story being one of the most improbably wild conspiracy theories in human history, it is those who express any doubt at all as to its veracity who are smeared as “conspiracy theorists” or even “traitors”.
All copyright on this article is waived. Feel free to use, translate and republish as you wish.
Trump’s tweet a few minutes ago:
“Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price…”
Once again, Verdict before Trial.
For the sake of humanity and this wonderful planet, stop this madness!
NO WAR!!!
And Iran was cyberattacked yesterday, with screen displays replaced with the US flag.
These are Reichstag and Gleiwitz incidents, and the attack in Syria was predicted only a short time ago by the chief of staff of the Russian army.
As major war begins, continues, stretches out, as “attrition” climbs to 0.01%, 0.1%, 1%, 3%, who would people rather have as the leader of a country?
1) A maniacal, coiffed, makeup-wearing, tweeting, divisive, failed casino owner and shitmouth like Trump, son of one of the biggest c***s among NYC’s residential landlords, who everybody knows suffers from narcissistic mental illness, and who is too baby-scared of stuff to be able to shake hands with people properly, or
2) a guy like Putin?
They’re both international criminals, so that doesn’t separate them.
A strange comment N_
How is Putin an “international criminal”?
I think if President Putin was the reckless monster he’s painted as by western “leaders” such as Trump and the May, they’d be more careful about baiting him. It’s because he acts with consistency, restraint and caution that they feel able to engage in these egregious provocations.. they are “playing” a very dangerous “game” which, God forbid, could have dire consequences for us all.
When are people going to wake up to the fact that Trump is part of the deep state? He’s on the same side as Clinton.
What is the deep state? Is it really monolithic? Are Trump’s backers in the deep state the same as Hillary’s? Are all 17 US intel agencies on the same side as the FBI and the Pentagon?
If Trump and Hillary are on the same page as far as war for global empire is concerned, that’ surely more to do with the money power to which both have allegiance, than any bureaucratic factor.
“Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army” How on earth did they manage to communicate this event? The Syrian Army will have deployed ECM measures that isolate all GSM devices and no doubt other parts of the EM spectrum. But the Headchoppers have managed to post a report along with HD images of the victims. Russia has the most advanced Electronic Warfare weapons.
The rebels have satellite phones supplied by Britain.
Actually supplied by UAE, Thuraya. Bellingcat did an expose on it a while back. They got pressured and the info was scrubbed from their site. I saved an archive and called them on it. They came back with some bullshit excuse about content being moved around before a site re-design. Well the site is re-designed and not a mention of Thuraya on it.
They can be, and I have no doubt still will be, blocked. Russia EW assets have the capacity to shut down the entire EM spectrum.
The battle of useful idiots versus useless ones continues – in the meantime the innocents get gassed and poisoned.
They are being gassed by Jihadis backed by the gulf states and the western allies.
Duma is controlledby these groups.
I think that you will find that is Douma – the Duma is controlled by Putin’s party of crooks and thieves.
Better Russian crooks and thieves than British murderers, torchurers and pedofiles.
As opposed to the undemocratic unelected House of Lords.
Syria ratifed with the OPCW in 2013, Israel hasn’t, it borders Syria, and has the chemical weapons at Ness Ziona to carry out such attacks via proxy fighters, a far more logical scenario.
Syria was also recently found guilty by the OPCW of gassing – but let’s ignore that. I somehow doubt that Israel smuggled in chemical weapons to Douma when it is surrounded by Russian, Iranian and Syria troops. But hey believe what you want to believe out there in Prejudice before Facts land.
“Prejudice before Facts land.”
That’s sarcasm right? I mean there’s not one shred of British evidence in the Skripal saga, yet Johnson and May have outright blamed Russia.
Prejudice before Facts Land indeed.
You reek of hypocrisy.
“Syria was also recently found guilty by the OPCW of gassing ”
The OPCW isn’t a court. It is a group of career diplomats with a network of laboratories at its disposal in various member countries.
I mean the IAEA even claimed Syria was building a nuclear reactor – which was always an obvious joke.
All these international bodies are completely politicized and rotten to the core.
” I mean the IAEA even claimed Syria was building a nuclear reactor – which was always an obvious joke. ”
Was it…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outside_the_Box
”Syria was also recently found guilty by the OPCW of gassing – but let’s ignore that”
No chain of custody, evidence provided by the fanatics behind 9/11, but yea you (the US and UK) fight that corner with the Islamic extremists…….while New York vomits.
Tony Blair and George Bush walk the streets free men. Not war criminals. There is no such thing as an independent, free and fair, justice system. Keep sighting the OPCW. They are not a joke…….
“Was it…”
Yes Kempe, I am well aware there is a Wikipedia page and it reflects the fact that IAEA did issue a report saying they had found man-made uranium at the site.
I did not contest the existence of an IAEA report, only that it was unreliable. If I recall correctly man-made uranium was only found in one location – a toilet block. And members of the inspection team privately concede it was quite possibly the result of cross-contamination from one of their team’s lab coats.
Although deliberate contamination – in the circumstances – I think is far more probable.
You ain’t fooling anyone on here RD.
I believe they are already fooled and are beyond redemption.
And you have been sent here by the regime to save us, right!
Yes – by the “president’s party” with an absolute majority, a model recently adopted in France.
“I think that you will find that is Douma – the Duma is controlled by Putin’s party of crooks and thieves”
Same thing in Arabic, but perhaps you don’t know that Arabic uses a different alphabet. Right-wing Conservatives often don’t have vision stretching outside the West – you don’t need knowledge for demonising Arabs and Russians.
Nobody’s being gassed unless it’s by the rebels. Learn from people on the ground like Vanessa Beeley.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/361957-syria-white-helmets-un/
It’s more White Helmets’ propaganda. Those who have got out of the clutches of the rebels in East Ghouta are so relieved that the Russians negotiated a safe-passage. These are the rebels funded by the west.
Let’s get it more precise, John: these are the *Jihadis* funded by the west.
You are the living definition, mate.
What a petulant pompous idiot of an interviewer, she tried to make him look foolish for not understanding the technicalities of how the TV industry works, and then called a camera dolly a tracking thingy.
And she called Sergei Skripal a “KGB agent”. I don’t particularly mind people calling the FSB “the KGB” (so long as they know what they’re doing), but he wasn’t an agent and he wasn’t in either the KGB or the FSB. He was an officer in the MILITARY intelligence service, called the GRU.
She also referred to “strains” of “Novichok”. It’s biological weapons that can have “strains”, not chemical ones.
Truly that was tabloid TV, probably deeper in the gutter than the Daily Express and Sun, more akin to the Daily Star.
“She also referred to “strains” of “Novichok”. It’s biological weapons that can have “strains”, not chemical ones.”
There appears to be a deliberate effort being made to conflate chemical with biological agents. In his televised interview posted by Craig, Aitkenhead, the Executive Director of Porton Down twice used the word “infect” or “infection” with reference to Novichok, indicating that he is either a total moron or a shyster propagandist hyping the horror of Novichok, the chemical weapon that infects, multiplies and spreads like the plague.
That is a valuable observation.
It was painful. I expect Craig only went on there to indulge in a spot of product placement.
Cocaine can give its users a sense that whatever they’re thinking about, whatever they know, is the most important thing in the world. Perhaps she’d just looked up and watched a camera move along a dolly. She does a dance in imitation of moving one. I have to admire Craig for not laying into her as she so richly deserved.
We have also trained our agents in secret novichok assassination techniques.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services
I can’t seem to find the word Novichok in your link, nor a assassins manual, though I don’t doubt for a second that Russia has bumped off folk with poison.
Of course you still haven’t provided one shred of credible evidence of Russia’s guilt. You never answered my question as to why the Skripals didn’t die after exposure to a military nerve agent more deadly than Sarin or VX, with no known cure.
http://www.newsweek.com/russian-novichok-developer-says-there-no-antidote-so-sergei-skripal-and-his-854500
Nor did you answer why the Skripals sauntered around town and ate a meals hours after exposure to the deadly military grade nerve agent, that’s because you can’t.
You’ve been well found out Kempe, stop flogging the dead horse.
Re the queztion it may have been RD, however you and RD sing from the same page so msybe you could shine some light on it.
Thanks.
indeed this is a question i would like to hear a plausible answer to as even Research Fellows at Portland Down seem to indicate that:-
“Novichok is reported to be 5–8 times more lethal than VX nerve agent and effects are rapid, usually within 30 seconds to 2 minutes.” – Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents (Second Edition) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/novichok-agent)
Authors:-
Ian Greaves FRCP, FCEM, FIMC, RCS(Ed), DTM&H, DMCC, DipMedEd, RAMC,
Paul Hunt MBBS, DipIMC(RCSEd), MCEM, MRCSEd, DMCC, RAMC
Professor Ian Greaves, is a Army Medical Corps Honorary Research Fellow Dstl Porton Down
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/consultants/prof-ian-greaves/
As I’ve pointed out before there are antidotes to nerve agents; the message just doesn’t seem to sink in.
The Novichok or whatever would have had to have been diluted to make it safe for the assassins to handle. They’d be a bit conspicuous blundering around Salisbury in full hazmat suits. No doubt they had antidotes to hand as well.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/novichok-agent
Aitkenhead stated in his Sky News interview that the Skripals were not given any antidote(s).
Aitkenhead said on Sky TV: “There’s not — as far as we know — any antidote that you can use to negate the effects of [a novichok]. We can, and we have, advised the hospital and the medics on the best course of trying to mitigate against the effects. But this is an extremely toxic substance and not something that you can easily give something to somebody to help them recover.”
Suddenly the “radio salesman” becomes a relaible source.
Wikipedia the encyclopedia of the latrine`s.Come on it even refers to Luke Harding.
Come on can’t you do better than that.
Run Soviet Poison Laboratory through the search engine of your choice and you’ll find plenty of other sites although I’ve no doubt you’ll think of some reason to reject them all if they’re not to your liking.
A view from Germany were Merkel is getting criticised for supporting the UK’s deliberations without any evidence provided. They are rather disturbed by the lies of Boris and the discrepancies and changing stories. Here is an excert
” A More Strident Chord
And now, Britain’s blundering is threatening to erode the solidarity of what had been a more or less united European front. London already encountered difficulty in getting countries like Italy and Greece to support accusations of guilt against Moscow in the statements they released on the attack, and not all European countries have been in favor of expelling Russian diplomats. Now, skeptical politicians in Germany have likewise begun speaking up. On Tuesday, North Rhine-Westphalia Governor Armin Laschet, a member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a close confidant of the chancellor’s, tweeted: “If you force almost all NATO member states to show solidarity, shouldn’t you also have clear proof?”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-on-defensive-in-skripal-novichok-case-a-1201573.html
That Blimp has broken loose from its tether, battered by the diplomatic storms over Wiltshire its now threatening the world with its deadly novichoc stories and ‘intelligence sauces’.
I take my hat of to the demure, unquestioning people of Salisbury who had to endure this farce for now over a month, their policing budget must have been exhausted for the next five years.
I wish some of our press were as balanced and as informative as Der Spiegel
This kind of crap plagues our world everyday, though usually in a less serious way.
Today it’s the alleged Russian-Assad gas attack in Syria which killed dozens, though no dead or dying bodies are shown. That’s if it really happened, and no evidence is provided, just a whole lot of smoke, debris, and very alive people being washed down because it’s a very dirty place all the time.
@Trowbridge – Where has it been alleged that it was a “Russian-Assad” attack? The most I’ve got so far is what Trump has said:
“President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay.”
This was reported by Tory warmongerers at the Torygraph with the headline
“Donald Trump condemns chemical attack in Syria and says Vladimir Putin will pay ‘big price’”
That’s scary enough but it’s not yet an accusation of an Assad-Russian attack. There is absolutely no way that that accusation could be made by the US government without a US-Russian military conflict being imminent. I’ve stocked up on food and diesel but should get some more diesel.
What Trump claims is official US policy because he is the POTUS, the country’s chief of state and executive.
He can declare war for us all.
But as far as I know Trump hasn’t yet said it was a Russian-Assad attack, or in other words an attack carried out by Russian forces and the Syrian government, or even carried out by the government and knowingly “backed” by Russia. He says Russia backs the Syrian government and that the Syrian government did it, but that’s different. If the US bombs Russian positions in Damascus (so bye-bye US naval vessels) this point becomes moot, but until then…
So the policeman fell seriously ill after attending the scene where Skripals were found. That a third person had become ill wasn’t known to the authorities such as Public Health England till after the 7th March, when it was reported by Counter Terrorism command. Or he may have also become poisoned at the Skripals residence although this was also not known by Wiltshire Police prior to the 7th. Apparently biomedical samples have been taken from him for the OPCW. Where was this mystery heroic and seriously ill policeman in the days 4th – 7th march?
An anagram of ‘DS Nick Bailey’ is ‘Lay in sickbed’. Spooky.
What about “Old Nick” and “Old Bailey”. That’s spooky.
The “new identities for the Skripals” line is just garbage, put out in the Sunday Times, darling newspaper of the weapons sector, and in the Sunday Torygraph, MI6’s in-house rag. Perhaps soon we’ll get a monarchist Tory professor from Oxford University tell us all what’s what, planning his next BBC-pumped book with lots of pictures of “royals” in it.
This is while Britgov is deliberately isolating the Skripals from the rest of their family and from the Russian consulate.
Further diplomatic events seem likely.
Did you notice the BS in the Times the other day about security services locating the plant where the novichok was produced?
They gave the game away with a it was “thought”, rather than something certain, proven or known.
Mind you, naming Russia’s equivalent of Porton Down (Shikhany) as the place responsible isn’t exactly a stretch. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (Chem Weapons expert to the masses) had already said it was the place 3-4 weeks ago in The Guardian. He seemed certain, but of course he would be, wouldn’t he, in a ‘I used to work on CW in the military, don’t you know, and now I am in the private CW business myself’ kind of way.
He couldn’t possibly know this. Like the ranty chemist that Craig had dealings with, ‘It was a novichok, therefore it was Russia’; only this goes one stage further, and therefore it must be Shikhany that produced it.
This was supposition and presumption dressed up as fact; which makes it propaganda.
I suspect the new identities will be used as the reason we will never be able to see or hear from the Skripals again. That’s the way thing are shaping up: DS Nick Bailey and the Skripals, probably the only 3 people to be exposed to Novichok (allegedly) and make complete recoveries, will never do a media interview or otherwise share their stories.
Why do you think it is garbage? My guess is that the recovery of the two Skripals is, to put it plainly, awkward for the powers-that-be in this country, who have held them incommunicado for weeks. I was just thinking this morning that they are lucky this is Britain rather than some less scrupulous/inhibited state where they might simply be “disappeared” – when I read that they might be “given new identities” in America c/o the CIA. Which, surely, involves “disappearing”, if only in the less sinister sense. No chance even to say goodbye to Granny Skripal, or Viktoria, or Yulia’s fiancé – and all for what? To save HMG’s face?
As Bill Haydon correctly observed, we are, and have been for some time, Americas streetwalkers. So when push comes to shove, the Yanks will ensure that the Skripal story does not lose all its wheels, simply because the embarrassment factor now has the potential to effect too many parties in the ‘Western’ camp.
That being the case, its entirely likely that the Skripal’s will get to enjoy the American Dream, beyond the reach of enquiry.
I notice that your interviewer, Kate Burley, said Mr Skripal was in a coma. That was the day before Yulia announced that they were both all right. Now there is speculation in the news that the Skripals are seeking new identities.
https://johnplatinumgoss.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/the-expected-false-flag-in-syria/
John Goss,
“The picture accompanying this piece is of the man who took a photograph of the Skripals in The Mill, Salisbury, some hours before they were found slumped on a bench. Anyone know who he is?”
I and others have been intrigued about the photographer’s identity too. It is extremely unlikely to be the press. They rarely use small cameras, though sometimes they do use mobile phones, to “blend in”.
I don’t think it is The Detective, because he was supposedly shortly later, poisoning himself on the doornob, though he wasn’t added to the story until several days later.
Maybe its the bloke who picked up Yulia from the airport, who is a close neighbour and friend?
However, I think the most likely person, taking the photograph, would be someone working for The CIA or Mossad. I would hope that someone working for British Intelligence, wouldn’t be so stupid, to accidentally take a photograph of themselves in the mirror..
But standards have obviously fallen.
I am amazed, they pulled off that false flag yesterday. It is far too obvious. I wouldn’t be surprised, that if the Americans really do launch a missile attack on Syria, that the Russians will do what they said.
Glad, I’m not an American Sailor on a floating bathtub in The Med.
Tony
Put in harm’s way just like the American sailors on the WW1 scrapheaps lined up as targets at Pearl Harbour?
Of course it could be another customer the Skripals got to take a photo for them. Perhaps they knew they were soon going to be famous.
It’s been established that the picture wasn’t taken on the day of the attack and wasn’t taken inside The Mill which looks entirely different.
https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz_photos/the-mill-salisbury?select=wIfKGKUj1ndZn05R7gQlSg
If the US attack Russian positions, Russia will certainly do what they said.
It’s not Ross Cassidy, the guy who picked up Yulia at the airport, photos of whom have been published.
I gathered from a extract from theSunday Times published here in the Knobs and Knockers discussion earlier today, that Mark Sidwell and security staff [he is UK national security advisor] has taken control of relatiions with the media on this subject..(Look at the last postings in K &K.) Presumably because the FCO were screwing it up.
This presumably explains why the Cabinet has launched a personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn. They have nothing better to do now Skidwell has taken over media relations on the actual poisoning. I can believe Russia is capable of it but am puzzled about the timing, choice of target and choice of poison. If it some coherent narrative had emerged from the FCO I would be less sceptical than I am now. Attacking Corbyn (and I am no supporter) is not going to make me any more convinced.A calm dispassionate and coherent round up of the events as they unfolded, might. Seems I will be disappointed.
See comment Sunday Times Article by Mr Woo Tango Hi esq in section13 of the comments on Knobs and Knockers discussion.
Let me give the correct spelling for those who may want to Google: Mark Sedwill.
thanks – blame predictive texting and hasty spell checking
I do understand. I really hate Autocorrect.
Replying to: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/portonblimp-down-episode-2-a-tale-by-boris-johnson/#comment-733166
Hope this helps:
http://photopol.com/pics2/Ashampoo_Snap_2018.04.08_14h50m59s_007_.jpg
and some earlier ones on the same lines
http://photopol.com/pics2/Ashampoo_Snap_2018.04.08_14h50m33s_006_.jpg
Date and time of capture are in the filenames.
Sorry, error in links in previous comment.
Replying to: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/portonblimp-down-episode-2-a-tale-by-boris-johnson/#comment-733166
Hope this helps:
http://photopol.com/pics2/Ashampoo_Snap_2018.04.08_14h50m59s_007_.jpg
and some earlier ones on the same lines
http://photopol.com/pics2/Ashampoo_Snap_2018.04.08_14h50m33s_006_.jpg
Date and time of capture are in the filenames.
Pól Ó Duibhir, Its probably something trivial, but Firefox wouldn’t link to your pics. I get this
“Your connection is not secure
The owner of photopol.com has configured their web site improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this web site.”
Crappy domain wildcard cert.
Just get rid of the s and change https:// to http://
Yeah, it’s trivial. It’s just Dan Kaszeta.
Thanks SO. That’s what I intended to do and thought I’d done in the second comment. Below is my last shot.
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Hope this helps:
http://photopol.com/pics2/Ashampoo_Snap_2018.04.08_14h50m59s_007_.jpg
and some earlier ones on the same lines
http://photopol.com/pics2/Ashampoo_Snap_2018.04.08_14h50m33s_006_.jpg
Date and time of capture are in the filenames.
Sorry, the software changes it back to https when I post the comment.
Giving up. Anyway I have images of Kaszeta’s tweets if the glitch is sorted.
Thanks for the help.
Victoria Skripal claiming that MI5 has tried to manipulate her, and that she’s denied access to her family because she’ll find out things aren’t what they seem.
Victoria Skripal is to go to the UN in attempt to get the truth.
In case you haven’t seen on here. I have said from early on that the two Skripal’s are both bought and paid for by MI6 and this has been faked. I believe they will be paraded soon parroting that Putin did this and espousing all sorts of evils actions that have a geopolitical purpose.
In the case of Victoria I am of the opinion that here situation if being used by the Russian government to expose this charade.I don’t blame then using what leverage they have to mitigate what will be coming. After all if the situation was reversed then our government would do the same.
I think the Skripal’s are resigned to never going back to Russia or getting any of there wealth back because they will be very well compensated. The UK Russian ambassador dropped the subtle hint about Yulia’s property and wealth for her to come home to. I don’t think Victoria is in on the deal and whether the Russian government have told (or if they have and are paying her)her that they think they aren’t planning on coming back I don’t know but I would think she should have worked it out that:
1)She is being used by the Russian government to publicly embarrass the UK government.
2)Her cousin and uncle have sold out to the UK government and it was all faked. Also the reason why her visa was denied.
Stephen, Good summary, and I agree with you, except I think it highly unlikely “they will be paraded soon parroting that Putin did this”. Neither strike me as media stars, and I think it highly unlikely that either are still in Salisbury.
Safe House Tony with new identities? More likely some prison where they cannot be contacted. The worse scenario for them would be “dead” in which case our information experts and spin doctors would inform the press to inform the public that they are safe, but have new identities to protect them from danger from foreign agents.
Good point. Maybe just a written statement where she just stands behind a podium while a FCO official reads it out in English because she is too fragile. I can’t see the government not making something of this in the next 2-3 weeks if they are bought off. With the local elections at the beginning of May.
The have their anti Russia/Syria script written for this week with the Douma White Hemlet carnival show.
President Trump is well aware that the latest batch of chemical attacks were devised and commissioned by Rex Tillerson.. They are a regular occurrence in the Syllywood soap that was started by Gonad Betrayus to colonise Syria. The entire US administration had been utterly bonkers for years. The “swamp” appears to be full of thrashing, wriggling, panicking creatures like Boris Johnson and Theresa May, who have been drained down to uncomfortably thirsty levels of fossilisation on the swamp floor.
The smaller invertebrates in the MSM are writhing around with stories like Corbyn anti-Semitism, and rise in crime nothing to do with cut-backs in Youth Services. I think everyone has to be patient and understanding while entire neo-liberal philosophy turns first to sludge, then clay, then stone. Compression will preserve them for posterity in a few million years. I know it may feel like watching puppy-dogs drown, but it has to be done. there will be other pastimes for politicians to engage in other than flattening the infrastructure of the Muslim nations and oppressing their peoples. Today’s molluscs will be replaced by humans. But it may take a little time for each and every hard-nosed Tory to lose its career and get mummified for the future.
Very eloquent comment.Whilst I hate the Tories as much as the next person, I believe it’s a cross-party de-molluscaion that is required – the other parties and politicians stink too.
On the topic of “conspiracy theories”…
The release of JFK files last year saw a raft of articles in the corporate media about the danger of conspiracy theories and speculation on why they exist. Simultaneously these same newspapers were promoting a theory that Trump is being blackmailed by Russia with a video of multiple prostitutes pissing on him in a Moscow hotel.
“On the topic of “conspiracy theories”…
The irony. They not realising that the conspiracy theorist tag was first used by the CIA to describe opponents of the Warren Report findings.
Assad would be crazy to use chemical weapons, knowing fine well this would give licence to the regime changers waiting in the wings. So fake chemical attacks need to be fabricated by the regime changers in order to accrue the support required to remove Assad.
It’s not the first time the regime changers fake chemical attacks have been exposed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24358543
Assad’s won back 90% of East Gouta, why use chemical weapons for that last 10%? All too convenient for the West now to launch a massive strike…
Earlier comments mentioning trapped ‘Western contractors’ now make more sense.
The Iｓ?aeli government is urging a US military attack on Syria in response to the alleged chemical attack in Douma.
Since that would be likely to trigger a military conflict between the US and Russia, it also makes an Iｓ?aeli involvement in the Salisbury story – which has played a major role in the demonisation of Russia and the formation of an international anti-Russian coalition – more likely.
“Construction Minister Yoav Galant, a former IDF major-general who is the security figure closest to Netanyahu, said ‘Assad is the angel of death’“. He seems to have got the Passover story seriously mixed up!
Surprise, surprise – Iｓ?aeli “opposition” leader Isaac Herzog also called for US military action against Syria.
“Z??nist Union MK Nachman Shai demanded an emergency meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to discuss the readiness of the Iｓ?aeli Homefront for a Syrian chemical attack on Iｓ?ael.” Will that be the next false flag?
Scream if you want to go faster…
Posturing, probably because Netanyahu looks as if he’ll soon be out of the frame ? And in Israeli politics, posturing is everything 🙂
In chess white has the advantage sense white is the aggressor and moves first. The same is true in tennis where the attacker – first server – has the advantage. Aggression pays, and not only that, it pays in both money and power. It is people such as Tony Blair who rise to power, the people willing to slaughter on a massive scale the most aggressive, and ruthless are honored and rewarded with the power to slaughter. Look at the awe with which George W. Bush is held (even in revulsion), Blair’s sinister presence still tolerated in British politics.
Western society believes deeply in aggression and constantly rewards the most aggressive. The highest respect is given to Barrack Obama, the “nice” family man president. He slaughters by the thousands orchestrates slaughter around the globe, then smiles and makes silly jokes, goes home and kisses his wife and hugs his kids. Many of the Nazi high command were the same with their loving families to go home to after slaughtering all day.
Two things must happen for there to be any hope of a better life for ordinary citizens 1) Society must stop rewarding aggression and brutality. and 2) The vast fortunes of the Saud family and the Cargill family along with each and every private accumulation of capital must be dismantled and their power neutralized.
All this chemical weapons stuff is just so obvious, the AngloZionist/Wahhabi Empire is just operating out in the open now, no need to continue the charade of democracy or the rule of law – the Empire does at it chooses – this is Imperial Neofeudalism.
Baring this what hope is there really?
Agree completely with this. The problem is that most people simply believe what they’re fed by the corrupt media.
Can Craig or someone else with some heft telephone the Salisbury Hospital ICU and ask to speak to Yulia. The number is +44 (0)1722 336262 ext 4373.
Also can any human rights solicitor apply for a writ of habeas corpus. If Yulia is compos mentis she should instruct her own solicitor, not rely on a HMG one.
Anyone contemplating doing this should under no circumstances user their real name or dial in from a phone which could identify them.
Ross,
Why not? The chances of getting through are minimal, and they are hardly likely to prosecute an English Barrister attempting to find employment. The Skripal’s appear to be quite well funded.
Tony
Patrick Mahony,
I think it is important to make the point, that there are almost always real people in Intensive Care Units, and their very close relatives, will want to contact the ICU, if they can’t actually be there. The last thing, they or the hospital will want, is people blocking the lines, re people who are very probably not there and have absolutely no connection with the people who are.
Tony
You go first…
Comrade Putin has also apparently today condoned further chemical attacks in Syria. It just so happens that the US are looking to launch new attacks and so are threatening Putin and Assad again.
It really is incredible that Assad would use chemicals when he is already winning.
It makes perfect sense for the losing US-funded rebels to try and claim Assad is a monster.
It takes incredibly credulous publics to believe this never ending nconsense.
Viktoria Skripal’s video addressed to Theresa May, with English subtitles.
She says she has been looking after Sergei Skripal’s mother, her own grandmother, that she has been in regular contact with him, speaking on the phone every two weeks, and she offers to visit her uncle and cousin in hospital without Russian officials being present.
No Russkies died in Salisbury, only guinea pigs.
Now Trump has promoted ‘Butcher’ Assad to ‘Animal’ Assad I’m looking for some reciprocity and no dead Russkies hanging on Syrian doorknobs.
Tomahawks had better fly deep, deep into the desert.
Israel clear on what they want to happen.
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-officals-US-must-strike-in-Syria-549144
The Israelis regularly gun down unarmed civilians in cold blood and shoot, shell and rocket everything that moves in Gaza with no remorse but we are to believe the genocidal war criminal BibiYahoo and his gang of murdering thugs are oh so concerned humanitarians who lie awake at night fretting over Syrians killed in a deliberately protracted war they have stated on record is “good for Israel”.
How do “journalists” employed by western media outfits justify the free pass they give that despicable little apartheid state to kill, lie and deceive with impunity? I don’t understand how people of good conscience can do that. Or, for that matter, how they can pen the blatant war-mongering propaganda and disinformation that passes for “news” these days and be okay with it.
I have a feeling the US, Israel and their gutless satraps are preparing to drag the world into another bloodbath for “democracy” and “human rights”, likely before the end of Trump’s first term. After the media’s active participation in shilling for the Iraq invasion editors and journalists who help soften up the gullible and naive public for war using fake news and PR tricks ought to be charged as war crime enablers. Will never happen of course but I still hope I live long enough to see Bush, Blair, BiBi and their ilk swinging from lampposts or doing Dante’s Lambada with burning rubber tires around their necks.
You forgot to mention he was stroking a white cat.
To say the UK’s cabinet is drawn from a limited talent pool would be to imply there is some talent in the pool.
Republic of Scotland & Flambard d’Quinceteth,
Has the Times got a Mole working for them? It seems rather strange, that a story linking the Skripals to the CIA (offereing them new identities) should appear twice, and then be deleted twice, or is it an English 15 year old kid, working for The Times for free on work experience, during the Easter holidays, who has a conscience, and is having a laugh whilst embarrassing his Dad?
“The Times’ URL has changed to https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sergei-and-yulia-skripal-offered-new-identities-with-cia-help-ztf896rnj from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sergei-and-yulia-skripal-offered-new-identities-with-cia-help Maybe it’ll stick with that? Dunno.”
Tony
The latest news: following the deeply hidden clues inside the secret Russian chemical weapons assasination manual, the MI6 and CIA find Iraqi WMDs and Russian Novichoks buried at the bottom of the Gulf of Tonkin. It has also been discovered that Russian ships have been regularly digging them out in barrels and delivering them to Bashar al-Assad to gas his own people, all to finally fulfil his lifelong perverse desire to get US and NATO involved directly in Syria war instead of through their terrorist proxies. Why should Assad kill Syrians when he can outsource it to US, NATO and Israel?
“Why should Assad kill Syrians…..?”
I dunno force of habit, genetics?
Why should RD always take a pro-western anti-Russian view?
No idea. Force of Habit? Genetics?
There you are mixing up Russians and Putin yet again. Remember when it was the CPSU and its citizens?
Here’s how the story ends: A Very British Farce
An online petition is calling on Theresa May to issue Viktoria Skripal with a visa so that she can visit her uncle and cousin in hospital.
Sure she can bring along her new friends Lugovoi and Kuvtun who she met at Russia 1 when she took her recorded interview along for a public airing.
Yeah and if British diplomats want to return to Moscow they can bring along the surviving senior faces in the Berezovsky organisation who are still under protection in London.
Berezovsky…the famous “dissident” as the BBC called him, while omitting to mention how the British authorities protected the mass murderer from extradition.
Is that the same Berezovsky who helped promote Putin as the drunk’s successor? On the whole I don’t think we should allow the mafia to settle its internal feuds – Kadyrov is not a good role model.
I rather think that the organiser of this petition should have added Jeremy Corbyn’s name. I’ve signed it but Theresa May will do no more than Tony Blair did when 2 million of us marched on Hyde Park in the previous major false-flag.
Why she was constantly saying “ex-KGB agent” during the interview? Skripal is not a former KGB agent. He was a colonel of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate). It is absolutely different things. For russians it looks like confuse CIA and FBI for example. Just this is a sign of utter unprofessionalism.