The media onslaught has moved past the attack in Salisbury by a “weapon of mass destruction” (quoting Theresa May) which could only be Russian, except that was untrue, and was extremely deadly, except that was untrue too. It now focuses on an attack by chemical weapons in Douma which “could only be” by the Russian-backed Assad regime, except there is no evidence of that either, and indeed neutral verified evidence from Douma is non-existent. The combination of the two events is supposed to have the British population revved up by jingoism, and indeed does have Tony Blair and assorted Tories revved up, to attack Syria and potentially to enter conflict with Russia in Syria.
The “Russian” attack in Salisbury is supposed to negate the “not our war” argument, particularly as a British policeman was unwell for a while. Precisely what is meant to negate the “why on earth are we entering armed confrontation with a nuclear power” argument, I do not know.
Saudi Arabia has naturally offered facilities to support the UK, US and France in their attempt to turn the military tide in Syria in favour of the Saudi sponsored jihadists whom Assad had come close to defeating. That the Skripal and Douma incidents were preceded by extremely intense diplomatic activity between Saudi Arabia, Washington, Paris and London this year, with multiple top level visits between capitals, is presumably supposed to be coincidence.
I am not a fan of Assad any more than I was a fan of Saddam Hussein. But the public now understand that wars for regime change in Muslim lands have disastrous effects in dead and maimed adults and children and in destroyed infrastructure; our attacks unleash huge refugee waves and directly cause terrorist attacks here at home. There is no purpose in a military attack on Syria other than to attempt to help the jihadists overthrow Assad. There is a reckless disregard for evidence base on the pretexts for all this. Indeed, the more the evidence is scrutinised, the dodgier it seems. Finally there is a massive difference between mainstream media narrative around these events and a deeply sceptical public, as shown in social media and in comments sections of corporate media websites.
The notion that Britain will take part in military action against Syria with neither investigation of the evidence nor a parliamentary vote is worrying indeed. Without Security Council authorisation, any such action is illegal in any event. It is worth noting that the many commentators who attempt to portray Russia’s veto of a Syria resolution as invalid, fail to note that last week, in two separate 14 against 1 votes, the USA vetoed security council resolutions condemning Israeli killings of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza.
The lesson the neo-cons learnt from the Iraq war is not that it was disastrous. It was only disastrous for the dead and maimed Iraqis, our own dead and maimed servicemen, and those whose country was returned to medievalism. It was a great success for the neo-cons, they made loads of money on armaments and oil. The lesson the neo-cons learned was not to give the public in the West any time to mount and organise opposition. Hence the destruction of Libya was predicated on an entirely false “we have 48 hours to prevent the massacre of the population of Benghazi” narrative. Similarly this latest orchestrated “crisis” is being followed through into military action at a blistering pace, as the four horsemen sweep by, scything down reason and justice on the way.
Israel wants rid of Iran’s nuclear development sites and the Saudi Wahhâbis want rid of the Shi’a. A marriage made in the bowels of Hades. Trump-May-Macron is another diabolical liaison.
Yes. That is the objective here. Plus of course the numerous ‘positive’ (from USUK imperialists’ point of view) side effects of all of this.
But there is an element of hazard in this. Russia.
The Americans seek to encircle Russia. The MidEast and Iran are essential to that purpose.as it leads into the Caucasus and Central Asia. Keeping the Turks sweet may be an asset to influence the Turkic element in the latter. The Tajiks are another matter, as are the Kurds.
Like sticking your hand in a hole in a wall and expecting not to be stung by a scorpion. Americans do think everyone loves them.
Boris Johnson’s lies hit rock-bottom
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/983795806258987008
“for at least 4 heinous chemical attacks against its people” People will know the last 3 chemical attacks he refers to: Douma, Khan Sheikhoun, Ghouta. But may have forgotten the first one: Khan al-Assal.
Khan al-Assal was in April 2013 and directed against the Syrian Arab Army soldiers and led Carla del Ponte to accuse rebels of using sarin. OPCW investigations, however, have determined all sarin bears the same chemical signaturre
So it appears we are heading to war on the basis that, after had Obama had clearly delineated chemical weapons as his red line in 2012, President Assad first experimented with sarin on his own army’s soldiers in April 2013. Then, after he invited the OPCW inspection team to investigate that attack he unleashed a massive attack exclusively against civilians in Gouta on the night they arrived.
After that he agreed to dismantled all his chemical weapons. Then he waited until a new president had settled into the White House promising to withdraw from Syria and decided to unleash another chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun in 2017.
Then after slowly clearing all rebels from Gouta unleashed yet another attack exclusively on civilians in the last pocket a few days after Trump had again said he wanted to withdraw from Syria.
Our elite seem to have gone into some kind of catatonic shock for some reason
syriangirl, Explains Who Is Behind The Latest “Chemical Attack” In Douma, Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbffI52stc0
just a thought after watching the UNSC resolution meeting/vote — OPCW are on their way to the site of the alleged chemical attack and US are planning bombing Syria, i wonder which will get to the site first OPCW or US bombs and who benefits from that.
This is a replay of Iraq 2003 when the IAEA inspectors had to withdraw from Iraq because bombing was going to start.
You’re forgetting ‘2525’, Zager & Evans.
Tramp’s Tweet in 2013:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Don’t attack Syria – an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again!
12:59 – 9 September 2013.
The full tweet was –
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Don’t attack Syria – an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again, then bomb them.
12:59 – 9 September 2013.
No he didn’t. Google it. And stop spreading fake news “Fakey McFaceface”
Actual tweet:
“Don’t attack Syria – an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again!”
4:59 AM – 9 Sep 2013
This year’s Armed Forces Day in June should be extra obnoxious and objectionable given the Syrian context.
It has now become the Britnazi’s main annual swaggerfest.
But go along anyway and give two fingers to any Tory MPs, MSPs, AMs or councillors you see.
Every conflict has its “disappeared”, Argentina… Northern Ireland… to which we must now add Salisbury. First to go was the heroic Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey (and his family): Seriously injured in the line of duty, rescuing the Skripals in their poisonous near-coma condition, rushed to hospital. A well known and much-loved local policeman. However, no interviews with his proud wife or worried children, no photos of them arriving to visit him… but then mercifully released after a couple of weeks… and never seen or heard of again. Whisked away before any questions could be asked. Just “a statement issued through Wiltshire Police on his behalf”, asking of course that no one speaks to him about what happened. Now, like contagion, the same fate has befallen Yulia, conveyed secretly to a “secure location”, provided by the British Security Services, who manage all of this for us. And her Dad Sergei too is also suddenly recovering very well. After having been exposed to a poison “20,000 time more dangerous that VX”, for a period of 2-3 hours… He no doubt will also disappear soon, never to be seen again, let alone to give an open account of what actually happened to him. And what of Steven Davies, listed on the NHS portal as a “Consultant in Emergency Medicine” at Salisbury NHS Trust, from whom The Times published a letter that states that “no patients have experienced symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury”. Is he still around? And is he well?
. And what of Steven Davies
Wait to find him sitting under a tree with his wrists cut….
He’s on Linkedin. Someone with a suitable account should message him, ask if he’s ok & ask him if he stands by what he wrote in the letter to the Times.
Done – reply awaited.
I just tried to look for him and he isn’t listed.
Well: I found him okay.
Of course the authorities say Julia Skripal has said ‘she is free to go’ and ‘She does not want to speak to Journalists or Russian Consular officials’ and that ‘she wants her privacy’ it is possible that the authorities are giving opinions here [in the third person] which may, or may not be in line with what Julia actually wants. What is unbelievable is Julia’s apparent reluctance to phone her friends and relatives including her fiance, informing them personally of her wishes and desires. Even category ‘A’ prisoners in British jails have daily access to telephones. Julia has been abducted by the UK state, and is being kept prisoner in a “safe place” and incommunicado.
Or perhaps the Skripals were both in on the plan.
A golden handshake from the UK and a nice new home in the USA. All parties adequately compensated including replacement cat and Guinea Pigs 9if they even died).
For the record:
GMC Reference Number
4122151
Given Names
Stephen Donald Lewis
Surname
Davies
Gender
Man
Status
Registered with a licence to practise; this doctor is on the Specialist Register
Also advice given by Public Health England
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-health-england-statement-regarding-events-in-salisbury#history
My own thoughts exactly
I must take issue with part of what Craig Murray said here…”There is a reckless disregard for evidence base on the pretexts for all this”. There is evidence, ‘children being hosed down with water’, the only problem is, the evidence was supplied by the head choppers and their supporters. In fact the Russians say there has been no chemical attack at all. The West are in a dilemma, do they wait for the proper investigations and procedures or do they listen only to the head choppers and their supporters, the West have decided that the head choppers version exactly matches Western policy objectives, war and regime change on Syria, so they will go with them. Disgusting.
‘children being hosed down with water’ IS EVIDENCE?
Here you go, for some other evidence.
https://markdoran.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/easy-peasy/
TFS, I am being sarcastic, thanks for the link.
Rather than laughing this off perhaps these people need helped? The World Health Organisation has offered but they have been told by Russia not to investigate.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/11/syria-douma-patients-chemical-attack-symptoms-who
Multiple water hoses? all ready for action? no visual signs of burns on either hands or faces. chlorine would leave whitish marks on the cloth, so the OPCW is needed.
Whether they then see the same arm twisting as we are seeing in the UN currently, they will come out with an independent statement.
Not off topic:
Referring to insiders, the “Sun” announced yesterday that Julia had been taken to a military base by armed bailiffs, where military doctors will take care of her.
A source said of Yulia: ”She is in hospital on a military base for her own protection and to monitor her health.
“The effects of this nerve gas are unknown and could resurrect themselves at any point.”
The latter is a complete lie.
On the other hand, the risks of real poisoning with nerve gas – it was not present here, for all we can know – are well known: Epileptic seizures, which can be fatal in individual cases. This is not the department of military medical staff and clinical surveillance is unnecessary precaution. There are nurses specially trained for such care – probably several thousand in the UK. Conversely, military physicians can be removed from civil jurisdiction at any time – unlike the medical director of the hospital in Salesbury, Dr. Christine Blanchard or medical attendants appointed by the clinic.
Julia has therefore either already been killed, or she is set in a status to kill her at demand, i.e. if she refuses to collaborate with MI6. In case of the latter, she is currently undergoing torture. The Russian government is silent on this. She has more important things to do.
At the same time, the OPCW remains silent in the Skripal case. She had announced results for the beginning of the current week.
Why do you keep accepting certain aspects of this sham, instead of seeing it in its totality as a ….. well, sham!
If we met in a pub and you would slap me in the face, I would lean back and laugh at this … sham.
But there are other guys I would hit back immediatly and hard – because otherwise I could swiftly find myself in need of a knife. Got it?
(That’s for you in private, I prefere to omit the other topics involved.)
I’m afraid I don’t understand what you’re saying here.
The OPCW are due to report over the next couple of days, they are not silent as they explained their investigation would take 2 weeks at least. No doubt this is not what you want to hear so you will ignore logic regardless.
https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/EC/M-57/en/ecm57dg01_e_.pdf
Thank you very much for linking to the statement I refered to in my comment. There is written, the samples were delivered to the OPCW labs on March 23th. You know how to count? I’m sure, you know. Use your digits. Yes, that’s three weeks and the announcement of results for “early” this week is also there to read. So at least an adjournment is due.
Trump’s latest tweet (18 minutes ago):
“Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation, headed up by the all Democrat loyalists, or people that worked for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all (except Rosenstein who signed FISA & Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go crazy!”
A first reading might suggest the madman is saying “discontinue the investigation or I’ll start nuclear war”, but of course Trump himself is a sockpuppet.
And why did he wear lipstick for his Twitter profile photo?
Perhaps he had been kissing Stormy Daniels. Sorry to jest but if you don’t laugh, you cry.
So he is saying, it’s all your fault but I will go to war anyway, you should actually thank me for starting the war on your behalf.
He did a Julia Skripal and managed a brief communication with the outside world before his minders took away his laptop.
One might also conclude: he had someone smuggle a smartphone into the White House, and now, while sitting in the men’s room –what, with his obstipation, should come as no surprise– he found an opportunity to get a tweet into the world of what’s going on.
Speaking of smartphones: why doesn’t someone toss a smartphone over onto the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy??
You’ve taught me a new word – “obstipation”!
It would be unwise for Julian Assange to flout Ecuadorean law.
if anyone is interested, here is the write-up by Lebanese TV station Al-Manar of what Alexander Zaspikin, Russian ambassador to Lebanon, told them (in English translation):
“The Russian ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zaspikin told Al-Manar that the US and Western escalation against Syria will lead to a major crisis, adding that they resort to the ‘chemical allegations’ to justify their offensive acts.
Zaspikin stressed that the Russian forces will confront any US aggression on Syria, by intercepting the missiles and striking their launch pads.”
Perhaps someone can dig deeper and find the video of the interview. Going just by the summary, it does not seem that the ambassador is referring only to a scenario in which Russian service personnel are attacked, injured, or endangered. Which may be a moot point given that the drive is almost certainly towards war between the US and Russia – not proxy war or psychological war (which started a few years ago) but direct physical conflict between the two nuclear powers.
I screen saved it, but it now seems to have disappeared.
As of now it is (still) present.
Haley vetoes the resolution to investigate IDF snipers targeted murder of Palestinians but then whinges that the Russians are protecting Assad from repercussions of using chemical weapons. There is a stark difference in the quality of evidence separating the two crimes. One of them is not alleged, we’ve seen it with our own eyes. Journalists with ‘PRESS’ emblazoned across their chests have been executed by Israel, it’s not in doubt. So we are being told IDF snipers have been mistaken due to the black tyre smoke and yet pictures show the protective jackets are still clearly visible through it. There is no excuse so the media ignore it and go to the ‘stonewall’ evidence of Syrian atrocities.
Part of the reason Jaysh al-Islam were delaying their exit from Douma would seemingly be to set up this latest bogus chemical weapons attack. The other reasons were that the group are so despised by other terrorists (probably because of their links to Israel/US/UK intelligence agencies), which resulted in nowhere to remove them to. It says something when the rest of the drug fuelled head choppers reject you because you are too extreme. Nevertheless, it doesn’t stop the West from using them as credible witnesses to a CW attack.
It defies logic that Assad would allow thousands of terrorists to escape certain death for him to then drop chemicals on their children. The mainstream media again fail the ‘modicum of impartiality’ test by allowing Haley to criticise Russia and ignore the fact that she has just used exactly the same veto powers to the detriment of Palestinians.
Appears that the shooting has already stated with the downing of the Russian-built !l-76 with 250 Algerian soldiers on board. Algeria is essential for where Turkey stands politically in case of war. Looks like the Mediterranean Dialogue in action.
Won’t fight NSA/GCHQ more in trying to post.
It occurs to me that we have all – even the most wary and cynical of us – been gradually acclimatised to Western violence and the impunity that attaches to it.
I was thinking about the prospects of Russia striking an Israeli air base, or sinking a US warship, and caught myself thinking with horror, “But that would be an overt act of war!”
Then I remembered that the USA and its catamites have been attacking countries for over 50 years, killing millions, and laying cities to waste. All flagrant and terrible acts of war – but a kind of precedent has gradually been established that “it doesn’t count” when done by “the West”.
For the West to attack a country, bomb it, invade it, massacre its citizens and flatten its infrastructure is nothing out of the ordinary.
But if the victim defends itself by shooting down a single aircraft, sinking a single ship, or – God forbid – striking the US mainland, THAT is “an act of war”, “naked aggression”, and wholly unacceptable.
How did we let them take on such a mantle of entitlement and impunity?
Or try this one: one government has incarcerated 2 million people in the world’s biggest concentration camp and when some of them have a demonstration on the inside of the fence, they put their heavily armed soldiers on the earthworks outside it and calmly shoot dozens of protestors inside, murdering dozens and wounding hundreds. Then they start talking about “terrorists” and “Hamas”, as if violence against Nazi genocidalism isn’t justified.
@ Tom Welsh April 11, 2018 at 14:27
‘..For the West to attack a country, bomb it, invade it, massacre its citizens and flatten its infrastructure is nothing out of the ordinary..’
and virtually always, brought about by lies and ‘False Flag’ attacks or hoaxes (Gulf of Tonkin lie, Kuwaiti Incubator Babies lie, Iraqi WMD lie, Afghanistan lie, USS Maine lie, Libya lie, Syria lies).
Most people are aghast at the manipulation going on however there will always be an uneducated unthinking mass of people who believe anything they’re told by the press and govt. Evil stalks and controls the halls of power.
Not really. We’ve all been misled for most of our lives. We’ve had calibrated lies projected into our skulls, thousands of them each day. Globally, the declared spending on PR is $450 million per year, sculpting our attitudes, creating an emotional attachment to all sorts of ideas we have no interest in, lobbying governments and selling us everything from plasic ornamental dice to war.
“..there will always be an uneducated unthinking mass..”
That’s a series of choices expressed as a law of nature. We all project those kinds of sentiments at others but we rarely picture ourselves as this uneducated, unthinking mass. As soon as you see them as they are and talk to them, you’ll find it easy to dissuade yourself that people are unthinking.
We’re not.
The disappearance of Yulia Skripal is precisely the kind of case that habeas corpus is for. There is strong reason to believe that the executive authorities may be holding a person who, as far as we know, has not been read her Miranda rights, has not been charged, and is not communicating with her consulate, her family, or anyone else in the outside world.Produce her. There is supposed to be the rule of law in this country.
There are also grounds for believing that the course of justice was perverted at the hearing of Amber Rudd’s application in the case of the Skripals at the Court of Protection last month.
The Russian consulate or Viktoria Skripal should apply for a writ right now. Since it is not known for sure who has custody of her (the Sun is not a newspaper), serve the writ on the Attorney General Jeremy Wright or Prime Minister Theresa May. Subpoena the Sun editor Tony Gallagher so he can explain whatever he may have heard about Yulia Skripal’s whereabouts, an army base, etc., and who from.
The Russian embassy are right to refer to an “abduction”. Well there is a procedure in this country when the executive authorities are suspected of abducting someone, and it’s called habeas corpus.
Isn’t the ‘Miranda Rights’ an Americanism, i.e. what’s the British term for the same right?
Yes it’s an Americanism. But in this context I thought it was snappier. The British term is “cautioned” or “cautioned under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984”.
“She has been taken to an undisclosed secure location. The location is a matter for the police, who remain the lead figures in the investigation, rather than the intelligence agencies”. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/10/will-the-skripals-fully-recover-and-will-they-get-new-identities Is it the Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police or Home Secretary or other, who is responsible for the abduction of Julia Skripal, the writ of habeas corpus to be decided by a Judge in the High Court.
Probably the Home Secretary given that no specific police force is mentioned.
The Russian embassy needs to abstain from Monty Python and Hercule Poirot references for a while and take up the Magna Carta as a PR hook.
” The disappearance of Yulia Skripal is precisely the kind of case that habeas corpus is for. ”
Well no it isn’t and it’s rarely use in the UK these days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4329839.stm
It’s also been reported that Yulia has refused any contact with the Russian embassy which is hardly surprising.
Anyway if they did wheel her out for a press conference and she didn’t say what the conspiracists want she’d be dismissed as a patsy or a crisis actor on some such nonsense.
Why do you say it is not the correct way to proceed. From your link…
“it still represents the fundamental principle that unlawful detention can be challenged by immediate access to a judge – even by telephone in the middle of the night.”
It no longer plays a role in regard to detention by the police as it has been superseded by the much more detailed and workable provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, which lays down precise rules about the length of pre-charge detention.
Then you say “It’s also been reported that Yulia has refused any contact with the Russian embassy which is hardly surprising”.
How do you explain her inability to contact friends and relatives including her fiance [she is human, isn’t she?] when even category ‘A’ prisoners are afforded that right in all British jails?
Non of this, including your well informed explanation, is really surprising.
In which case Yulia should be provided by a neutral third party such as a lawyer who can present her interests and can speak on her behalf otherwise it is all hearsay.
SA. “In which case Yulia should be provided by a neutral third party such as a lawyer who can present her interests and can speak on her behalf otherwise it is all hearsay”. She was represented by a ‘litigation friend’ at the recent court case involving the taking of samples for testing by the International Chemical agency, the Official Solicitor named a so called lawyer Vikram Sachdeva QC as her litigation friend, who proceeded to ignore the provisions of the 1965 bi-lateral treaty between the UK and USSR articles 30 and 36 which guarantees access to Yulia Skripal for Russian consular officials.
He was no friend of the Skriples, but a safe pair of hands for the government.
Harry
That was when she was unconscious
I was under the impression that the investigation was led by the Metropolitan Police anti terrorism squad under Mark Rowley?
Sorry Mark Rowley retired at the end of March 2018 and was replaced by Neil Basu i/c anti terrorism operations for the Met Police
excellent response from former Syrian ambassador Peter Ford can be watched on youtube called Peter Ford Dropping The Truth Bombs.
^^ link
https://youtu.be/3j_Z1f84Ps8
thankyou Node for adding the link above.
Just emailed my Prime Minister (Australia) voicing my anti-war stance – will ask others to do the same. There might not be enough time or people willing to organise mass demonstrations across the world, but perhaps if MPs received unprecedented numbers of anti-war emails, they might at least stop and think before setting out to kill yet more people.
Australian PM stops to think ….
“Bugger those emails. If I support war I’m made for life, if I don’t they’ll destroy me. I didn’t get where I am today by having a conscience.”
https://twitter.com/UKUN_NewYork/status/983805382819766272
Karen Pierce wearing a Tiara tweets from the UN, They are all NBarking Fucking Mad.
More
“It’s become very clear that Russia will do what it takes to protect Syria whatever the compelling evidence of the crimes committed & to shut down further investigation & discussion of those crimes”
?? @KarenPierceUN tells #UNSC after veto by ?? for independent investigation
“It’s become very clear that Russia will do what it takes to protect Syria whatever the compelling evidence of the USUK crimes committed.”
FTFY. Glad to assist, Ms. Pierce.
O/T – Theresa May writes a letter to pensioners asking for money and addressed to Dear Mr Fuckingjoking.
https://skwawkbox.org/2018/04/11/tories-sweary-begging-letter-suggests-even-they-dont-believe-their-bull/
They were almost right. After the Tories’ Brexit, power grabs, austerity and sabre rattling it should be Mr. Youmustbe Fuckingboaking.
It all began for me about 65 years ago when I asked myself, “how does one become a King?”
At that time the local Picture House would put on a free film for children on a Saturday afternoon, (usually cowboys and indians).
The wagon train would be attacked by indians and the camera would highlight some poor white woman being killed by an arrow, and her children crying. Then just before the last bullet was fired and the water had run out, we would hear the bugle being blown. At this point all the children would stamp their feet and cheer, except one wee boy, me. The indians were defending their own country, I thought. What is wrong with that? My wee mind asked, and why is everyone cheering on the Cavalry?
I asked my father. The indians are just savages was his answer. Away and play and don’t ask stupid questions.
A wee while after that, Nasser grabbed the Suez Canal and the Royal Air Force wiped out Nasser’s Air Force in a few days.
I again asked my father why Nasser needed to grab the Suez Canal when it is already in Egypt, his country. “He is only a Wog” was his reply. “What is a Wog”? I asked. Away and play and don’t ask stupid questions.
Then the Government said, “don’t drink the water when you go abroad”.
“If we can’t drink the water when we holiday abroad, what do the locals drink?”, I asked my father. ” They just drink wine” was his reply.
“You can’t give babies wine to drink dad, their populations are bigger than ours, therefore, their water must be okay, I have just done a geography lesson at school”. “Away and play and don’t ask stupid questions”.
And so it went on until I came to the conclusion that my father was an ignorant man and I was being manipulated by the Government through films and radio, and so was he. At that time I was not reading newspapers. Also at that time I did not realise the Government’s propaganda was not working on me. It still does not!
Years later when I had a son of my own I noticed at a tense moment in a film he would get up and go to the toilet. If the tense moment was still playing he would go back to the toilet. He is believing this, must put him straight, I thought. So we bad a heart to heart and I explained what film makers are all about and it is designed to make the viewer “believe” it is real/true, when in actual fact it is basically a pack of lies, dressed up. I gave him a Mantra, “they can do anything in the movies”. I have heard him say this on many occasions. I am thankful it worked.
Better than, ” away and play and don’t ask stupid questions”.
My opinion on all these chemical attacks, I think it was an inside job.
I noticed the other day a pensioner’s house was broken into and the pensioner fought back against two young men half his age, one of the criminals was killed and the pensioner was not prosecuted, (rightly so in my opinion). Have we got the courage of the pensioner?
Demonstrating in front of an empty building on a Saturday never works, and you know it. What I have noticed in demonstrations throughout the world is when the demonstrators get inside the building the desired result is achieved.
I was speaking to a very successful local businessman in his sixties the other day and he told me Putin was worth 200 billion dollars and he don’t half bump off the opposition. I wonder where he got that information.He obviously did not ask any stupid questions when he was a wee boy.
Your local MP only agrees with you one month before the elections, or, is willing to write a letter on your behalf at that time. In my experience. As far as getting a MI5 file on you when you write to you MP, mine must be as thick as that book that cost me £40-00 when I was looking for a way to help Craig Murray when he was being sued. the book is about the Talmud.
When are you all going to lose your fear of these bullies who are bleeding us white?
Bullies are cowards.
I was just looking at a map of the world and reading the size of the countries and their populations, (of the protagonists concerned).
England is too small to withstand a nuclear attack, Israel is tiny by comparison, it would completely disappear, pity it’s neighbours would be hurt. One big bang in America would have the population running out into the streets the way they did when they heard a play on the radio they thought was real (the war of the worlds). This is the danger when you believe a Play on the radio or television is real.
Is that not what is happening now (and in the past) believing it is real?
In case I don’t manage to write to you again, or, you can’t write to me again, Love and blessings to you all.
“how does one become a King?”
In my country, you only thing you have to have done, is come out of the right hole. No further job requirements.
The aforesaid applies to every single country on this Planet.
“And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man’s arse.” Montaigne
We intend a standoff bombardment of “Gas-killing Butcher Animal Monster” Assad to defend the right of Yulia and Sergei Skripal to drink and dine unmolested.
Spare a thought for Corbyn. Much interest (& admiration) from ‘progressives’ in USA about the Labour leader.
Corbyn is really important, not just for the UK but worldwide. Whether your’re left or right etc Corbyn needs your support.
Stephen F. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies at New York University & Princeton, assesses Corbyn’s role in the Skripal saga. A good piece but for speed go straight to about 3 mins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9-c4M7UhA
There doesn’t seem to be much mutual admiration between Corbyn and Catalans.
Nor Barry Gardiner and Corbyn, who said Labour’s policy on Brexit is bollocks.
What happens if Labour is elected and Corbyn becomes PM but they are unable to loosen the grip neoliberalism has on society? What if the locus of power has already shifted from parliament to the boardroom and elected government, no matter how sincere its intentions, no longer has the power to affect non-trivial change on behalf of the citizenry?
Global capitalism has been working for 40 years to neuter the state’s power to reign in the corporations and the banks and shift that power back to the unelected elite. I think the days of elected politicians being able to collect and spend significant amounts of tax revenue on social programs, education and to protect people from the tyranny of the market are over. The state is anemic and weak and the banks and corporations are flush with cash and power.
To change this state of affairs will require nothing short of a revolution. Of that I am certain. And a successful revolution needs to advance a workable system that can replace global capitalism…turning the clock back to 1975 is not a realistic option. This requires a mass movement rallying behind a vision of society that can usurp the “populist” right and inspire those who have given up on politics altogether.
Elected politicians and political parties of the left that try to work within the parameters of the current system will find they are unable to fulfill their promises. Market democracy with job security, good wages, empowered workers and generous social benefits is effectively dead. I can’t prove it of course but just wait and see. If you live comfortably it might take a while for this reality to sink in.
A reminder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxN1STgQXW8
3,145,832 views Brilliant.
How I loath her and all the Tories.
Great to watch. Thanks!
It’s Your Choice Donald …… Blow up Syria, and see your majority evaporate after The Midterms…
I’m afraid you have that a bit wrong…. It’s your choice Donald… Blow up Syria and see your majority incinerate before the midterms..
BBC Foreign News Producer Riam Dalati tweets on Syria – deleted after “deemed in breach of editorial policy” but still stands by it.
https://www.rt.com/news/423780-bbc-journalist-syria-tweet/
Thanks Labougie. That’s the end of Riam Dalati’s BBC career.
https://twitter.com/Dalatrm
Riam Dalati says it wasn’t pressure to toe the line that caused his tweet to be deleted.
Renegade Inc.: “Really important screen grab. Imagine the establishment pressure the BBC journalist is under to tow the line… that’s why he deleted it.”
Riam Dalati: Not so & thank u 4 asking me. Original tweet correctly deemed in breach of editorial policy thru use of ‘sick/tired’ & failure in providing ‘Last Hug’ photo with > context.
Still stand by original opinion that ‘Last Hug’ was staged and can voice that in factual tweet if I want to
He has now tweeted with the photos:
“Pro-rebel activists appear to have staged “Last Hug” photo. It went viral claiming to show young victims of the Douma gas attack in their “last embrace”. Victims can be clearly seen on 2 separate floors in aftermath footage. Placed in position at collection/identification point.”
I think the WH were founded and have been run since the beginning as a strand in the effort by what Giyane calls “USUKIS” for WW3. The scale of their operations – by no means a single-job affair – indicates its strategic nature.
Lionel Nation doing some straight talking on Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEtuTMjdYlI
Russia is stealing the North Pole now! We have to stop them !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43720024
There goes Christmas…
Trump’s tweet gives an insight into the mind of the average consumer who is influenced by the media. He believes that Assad enjoys gassing his own people. There is no evidence for this but it fits comfortably with the good-evil dichotomy which is constantly pushed by the entertainment industry.
I have seen many comments over the past few days where people who have no idea that they are idiots calmly explain the rationale for both chemical attacks was to demonstrate that Russia/Syria can do whatever they want. It is not possible to these people that the leaderships of Russia and Syria are rational actors, they are attributed motivations which belong to the villain in a bad movie rather than the educated elite of a large country.
We are heading towards disaster and the lessons of Iraq have been completely discarded. Chilcott called for greater scrutiny of evidence and the reaction of the war mongers has been to vilify the mere call for the presentation of evidence. There are no publicly stated aims for an attack never mind a long term plan for stabilising the region. The lies of Libya are being repeated with infographics of the Syrian air force creating a false impression of a bloodless war where only planes and helicopters are damaged and the millions of people living in territory controlled by the Syrian government do not exist.
The media refuse to allow any scrutiny of this whatsoever. The Guardian are allowing no comments on the issue. No one on TV is questioning the veracity of the reports from Jaish Al Islam. No is asking why we have no taken no action of any kind on Gaza or Yemen. No one is asking why Chemical weapons are verboten but depleted uranium is fine. With the slightest scrutiny the case for war falls apart so there will be no scrutiny.
“We are heading towards disaster and the lessons of Iraq have been completely discarded.”
If I were on the other side I would plan an action that would marginalise references to the Iraq war. Similarly “Vietnam syndrome” was brought to an end on 911. Which is not to say that there has been much of an Iraq syndrome. Had Blair, Brown, Dearlove, Irvine, Falconer all been jailed for life as they deserve, opponents of slaughter would be in a stronger position now.
Interesting that the UK and the French and Saudi’s seem eager to get involved in what is being presented as a Crusade of the Righteous.
In light of the fact that even the mighty Israeli air force seems loath to tackle air defences that are no doubt organised, if not run by Russians, I’d be surprised if those 3 nations had much to offer in terms of capability as it must be almost certain that operating manned aircraft over Syria, and against Russia’s wishes could end badly ? So I’d suggest any action will almost certainly be 99% American, involving getting rid of some of their older cruise missiles.
Then there’s the issue of what should happen in the event that any Russian service personnel should be killed ? Especially as the USA has many of its own troops within Syria, who would no doubt be subject to retaliation. Given lukewarm public support for this venture (at best) in both the US and UK, the prospect of any sort of a butchers bill arriving in those nations would likely provoke serious questioning as to whether Syria is worth the bones of a proverbial Grenadier ? Such questioning in HMG’s case would be like body punches to a prize fighter who is already about to go down.
I doubt that the USA is prepared to risk a real war with Russia over an alleged incident in a far away country of which the average American knows little, and the posturing of the UK et al does seem to fall within the ‘Running Dog’s’ definition that the Chinese used to use 🙂