The entire “liberal” media and political establishment of the Western world reveals its militarist, authoritarian soul today with the screaming and hysterical attacks on the very prospect of detente with Russia. Peace apparently is a terrible thing; a renewed arms race, with quite literally trillions of dollars pumped into the military industrial complex and hundreds of thousands dying in proxy wars, is apparently the “liberal” stance.
Political memories are short, but just 15 years after Iraq was destroyed and the chain reaction sent most of the Arab world back to the dark ages, it is now “treason” to question the word of the Western intelligence agencies, which deliberately and knowingly produced a fabric of lies on Iraqi WMD to justify that destruction.
It would be more rational for it to be treason for leaders to blindly accept the word of the intelligence services.
This is especially true on “Russia hacking the election” when, after three years of crazed accusations and millions of man hours by lawyers and CIA and FBI investigators, they are yet to produce any substantive evidence of accusations which are plainly nuts in the first place. This ridiculous circus has found a few facebook ads and indicted one Russian for every 100,000 man hours worked, for unspecified or minor actions which had no possible bearing on the election result.
There are in fact genuine acts of election rigging to investigate. In particular, the multiple actions of the DNC and Democratic Party establishment to rig the Primary against Bernie Sanders do have some very real documentary evidence to substantiate them, and that evidence is even public. Yet those real acts of election rigging are ignored and instead the huge investigation is focused on catching those who revealed Hillary’s election rigging. This gets even more absurd – the investigation then quite deliberately does not focus on catching whoever leaked Hillary’s election rigging, but instead seeks to prove that the Russians hacked Hillary’s election-rigging, which I can assure you they did not. Meanwhile, those of us who might help them with the truth if they were actually interested, are not questioned at all.
The Russophobic witch hunt has its first real life victim in 29 year old Maria Butina, whose life is to be destroyed for chatting up members of the NRA in order to increase Russian influence. With over 20 years of diplomatic experience, I can tell you that every country, including the UK and US, has bit part players of its own nationals who self-start in a country to make their way, and if they gain any traction are tapped by their national security service as potential “agents of influence”. I could name quite literally scores of such people, but have no desire to get anyone in trouble. The elevation of Butina into a huge threat and part of a gigantic plot, is to ignore the way the United States and the United Kingdom and indeed all major governments’ Embassies behave around the globe.
The war-hawks who were devastated by the loss of champion killer Hillary now see the prospect of their very worst fear coming true. Their very worst fear is the outbreak of peace and international treaties of arms control. Hence the media and political establishment today has reached peaks of hysteria never before seen. Pursuing peace is “treason” and the faux left now stand starkly exposed.
Craig, a favour I don’t expect you have time for, but as you probably know the Labour Party right are yet again orchestrating there summer silly season antisemitism smears against the Corbyn Leadership, and us Lowly members.
Asa Winstanley from Electronic Intifada has written an excellent twitter thread on why it’s happening what it is and how to beat it, please see below
https://twitter.com/asawinstanley/status/1020640114119249920?s=21
Obviously it began this time round with Margret Hodge, the devil of islington council calling Mr C a f*cking anti-Semite. So it’s definately worth reminding people about what type of a person she is firstly with her hidden stemcore millions
https://ducksoap.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/margaret-hodge-has-a-good-reason-to-oppose-corbyn/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Then of course the care home children of islington when she was head of the council
https://twitter.com/blackyellowbrd/status/1019601739719282689?s=21
And of her bitter hatred of Corbyn since at least 1994
https://twitter.com/timjag72/status/1020798075642802177?s=21
I think a good thorough piece from you craig shared fare and wide might actually help bust the Labour right once and for all. They have lost an awful lot of authority over the confected antisemitism row, it’s become quite obvious that they have struck a deal with Mark Regev of the Israeli Embassy, and he being a schlock, has over done it.
I also believe that a Corbyn Labour government is Scotland’s best chance of independence. Certainly more than the Establishment parliamentary Scottish national party.
Is this the same Margaret Hodge who was laying unti tax dodgers a while ago?
I believe the term would be “grandstanding” whilst she sat on her own big fat tax free pile. I mean, you have to admire the sheer brass balls of apparently being the great arbeiter of truth and justice chastising google and amazon(toothlessly ofcourse) whilst sitting on your own handsome pile. Stunning chutzpah, don’t you think?
Whilst she was at it others in her entourage started the hand wringing over how poor old Maggs fought the British national party in her constituency, which of course she did no such thing, emboldened them in fact
You can read about that cheeky little escapade here
https://www.patreon.com/posts/20193104
“I also believe that a Corbyn Labour government is Scotland’s best chance of independence. Certainly more than the Establishment parliamentary Scottish national party.”
What a strange thing to say. You think a unionist party that is openly and unequivocally pro-British offers a better chance of Scottish independence than a Scottish party that is defined by its commitment to Scottish independence?
Okay, I believe in democracy if little else so let’s put it this to the vote. Is this guy a fruitcake or a total retard? Let the readership decide…
Oh come on, the parliamentary SNP are a joke, they exist purely to keep the Tories in power they’re all taking in the cash and influence, supporting dubious evidence about nerve gases and drunkenly grandstanding away just like the rest. And last week the first minister was posting her admiration for Henry Kissinger ffs!
As for Labour the unionist party, well that position can change, it certainly wasn’t Keir Hardy, and in Corbyn you have a man with similar beliefs. Almost all on the Labour left support self determination for Scotland, we’ve just never been allowed a voice, but we will beat the Blairites.
The first minister isn’t part of the parliamentary SNP.
On Kissinger, FM Sturgeon’s crime was to suggest (in a tweet) that Kissinger’s recent article on artificial intelligence was thought-provoking.
I have several books by Kissinger on diplomacy. I highly recommend them to anyone interested in foreign policy but that doesn’t mean I endorse or support anything he ever did. The suggestion that to recommend a book is to somehow support the totality of the author’s views is idiotic.
Do you only read and recommend books written by people you agree with? It would probably explain a lot…
One more thing. I have absolutely no idea what labour voting lunatics or the Labour Party itself stands for on anything. On Europe, on Trident, on Nato, Scottish independence, austerity, anything, I really have no idea. Nobody has any idea, including the Labour Party itself.
All I know is that they assume some sort of moral superiority (for no substantiated reason) and purport to really care about poor people and migrants. This is the same party and these are the same people that killed around 3 million Iraqis a few years ago for nothing. Go figure.
Before you clutch to distinguish between Corbyn and Blair, don’t waste your time. Your party is a bunch of murdering, pretentious, red tory bastards and I have no interest in any further deceptions or snake oil that you want to sell.
Yea, because evidence (as illustrated by what they have actually done during their life) shows blair & JC to be entirely alike.
What happens to someone during their life that sees them end up weaponising the holocaust?
And this is not an isolated incident is it? Lots of people doing it.
I know some pretty vile people, but shit, nothing like the political classes for extreme deprivation such as this.
I Fucking Despair
All these War Criminals celebrated..
I’ll leave it Mr Brilliant Blum –
https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/war-criminals-theirs-and-ours
At least he mentioned some of the scum, most of whom are now fortunately dead, but why no mention of the living ones. like GW Bush, Barack Obama, J. Paul Bremer, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, Robert Mueller, the US rabid military corps, and all the foreign leaders who went along with a vengeance to cover up the 9/11 fiasco?
What, is Blum afraid he might run into one of them while walking around Washington?
FYI, the linked excerpt was written in 2005. And, while that list was certainly not set forth as complete and comprehensive, it’s immediately followed by this:
“And the Bush administration, some of them are still at it, even as you read this: George W. Bush, president, Richard Cheney, vice president, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense, Colin Powell, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor, for the awful horrors and grave suffering they deliberately brought down upon the heads of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, who had done them no harm; for the unending lying they engaged in, in an attempt to enlist American and world support for these atrocities.”
Craig…….are you saying that the Palestinians ,who according to Trump are going to be kicked from the back of the bus to the side street should be thankful that Clinton didn’t win?
your source .
I like the phrase ‘ self-described aid workers’!
Syria is being cleansed from some of the evil that has been set upon it.
Israel helping move 800 White Helmets out of Syria via Jordan – report: 22 Jul 2018 | 03:21 GMT
Some 800 members of the controversial Western-backed White Helmets will be brought to Jordan through Israel to be reportedly resettled later in the UK, Canada, and Germany. The UN is overseeing the exodus.
Hundreds of the self-described aid workers, who operate exclusively in rebel-held areas, have crossed into Israel from southwestern Syria overnight on Sunday, German tabloid Bild reported, citing its own correspondents in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.’
/..
https://www.rt.com/news/433924-white-helmets-evacuation-israel/
‘I like the phrase ‘ self-described aid workers’
A propaganda meme for the simpleminded.
The WH’s are recognised as a legit Aid NGO specialising in SAR by the broader NGO community. Russian and Syrian propaganda sought to discredit all NGOs who oppose their narrative by stigmatising the WH’s. They failed, and assuming they learn from their failures will try a different tactic next time. FWIW they may have had more success had they tried to delegitimise the WHs in the eyes of the broader NGO community. Likewise Mr Le Mesurier will have to tweak his model to avoid such an attack. And there always is a next time…
No one discredited the White Helmets. They aren’t very bright and posted images on their Facebook accounts exposing their own lies. Combine that with the repeated pattern in terrorist held areas of al Nusra headquarters being right next door to WH offices. Statements by residents condemning them meant they didn’t need any ‘stigmatising’ or ‘deligitimising’. They are out and out frauds and if I discover any of these terrorists have moved to anywhere in the UK, I will be making it public.
@ duplicitousdemocracy July 22, 2018 at 06:36
Come on, we could have used some in Salisbury and Amesbury (if they (or their ilk) weren’t here already, setting up Novihoaxes.
“No one discredited the White Helmets”
That is a very duplicitous statement because there were certainly many on here who regularly attempted to do so.
Thanks are due to “Certa Certi” (above) for providing useful and truthful information on this subject.
Kid yourself any way you want and have fun doing it.
Fact remains — that they need to be evacuated by the fascist murderer state of Isr4el says all.
LOL.
I am not jeering at you Duplicitous Democracy but Certa Certi’s rot.
No mention of that item about BLiar by Marr but of course he raised anti-semitism in the Labour party just now when discussing the papers with two of the usual stooges. He now has Raab on who will be ‘straining every sinew’ to obtain a deal.
Total cr*p from Wintour. It reads like a joint communique from the FCO and the US Secretary of State.
Israel evacuates 800 White Helmets in face of Syria advance
Jordan says it has struck deal for rescuers and families to be resettled in UK, Canada and Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/22/israel-evacuates-800-white-helmets-in-face-of-syria-advance
How about this spin “IDF says it engaged in ‘irregular humanitarian effort’ to save civil defense volunteers”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-evacuates-800-of-syrias-white-helmets-and-their-families-to-jordan/
@ DiggerUK July 22, 2018 at 07:37
Indeed, the IDF has a heart of gold, but it only displays it when assisting headchoppers and their PR team.
The only reazon I can think of for a hushed and rushed removal by Israel and to Europe and Canada is that the OPCW final report on Douma is about to go public next week . That would explain the urgency in getting them out so that they will never be questioned about it .
The other point being that the best they can expect if captured by Assad’s forces is torture and summary execution with perhaps a show trial.
Then they would be perfectly safe in Israel Kemp . No need to relocate them in Europe and Canada nor would it be necessary to ” evacuate ” them in such a hurry and by Israel of all states .
If you were a Muslim would you want to settle in “apartheid state” Israel? Possible Israel doesn’t want them for the same reason.
Kempe
It depends who you are:
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/four-rebel-commanders-flee-to-israel-as-syrian-army-takes-over-quneitra/
If you are a Muslim how does Israel even come to your help is a more pertinent question .
When you are doing Israel’s dirty work ?
War is bad. Even ‘great’ democracies are known to participate in torture and rendition. Some still have the death penalty.
The leaders of the CIA proxy army must have morphed into white helmets then? Headchoppers coming to suburbia next to us soon. It’s just sickening what the kabal can foist upon us, downright juvenile if I may say so, that these devils are being given safe passage via the MEs “only democracy” !
Headchopping deputies board,
Do you know why Rita Katz (SITE) posted quite obviously FAKE headchopping videos on her website, when most of the headchopping is real?
That to me seems really evil
She also posted FAKE Bin Laden videos, years after he was dead.
So far as I am aware, she doesn’t work for The British, but they might have subcontracted the job.
Do they think we are all stupid?
Tony
Why does the West want to evacuate White Helmets out of Syria: aren’t they neutral aid workers? Syria needs a lot more aid than Canada, Germany or the UK.
No logic there…
That in essence is the first question, and it begs is own answer.
All the rest is obfuscation and propaganda, some seemingly craftily designed to sex up the fascist murderer state of I5rael.
“He broke the bottle” burbles elder bro, “it splintered in his hand”. The very same bottle (presumably unsplintered) the authorities found in Charlie’s flat, although Charlie “cannot yet remember” where he himself found it.
I suspect elder bro has by now been quietly taken to one side by the authorities and told to STFU.
Meanwhile, one wonders if the £6.6 million handed to South Wiltshire is enough, given the splintering of the tourist trade. Has Stonehenge assumed the deserted, sepulchral air of previous centuries? And what about the A303 road tunnel? That will need to be postponed indefinitely, lest the diggers unearth a cache of Novichok bottles.
Anything to let this “show” go on for a few more days, weeks. No clue, no plot, just make it up on the go: an insult to the soap opera genre.
It is only those stupid tax payers who fund this folly, not Them with offshore accounts. No effective opposition, so a non stop scam. Dummy Farage could win now, IF he had kept his party alive.
Avaaz has just posted a hysterical denunciation of Trump to its list proving that he is “Putin’s Poodle”
@ Walt King July 22, 2018 at 07:46
Actually Putin is not the kind of guy to favour poodles!
Avaaz is financed by Soros of course.
BLiar’s £9m deal with the head choppers.
https://mobile.twitter.com/chunkymark/status/1020787941642317824/photo/1
What evil. When IS the Grim Reaper going to catch him?
This is the link to the piece by Malnick in the Torygraph. Paywall.
Tony Blair is advising the Saudi government under a £9 million deal between the country and his ‘institute’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/21/tony-blair-advising-saudi-government-9-million-deal-country/
21st July 2018
What makes you assume he hasn’t already?
Do you really live in once you reject/loose the innate humanity? One may feel the sun on your face, the rain on your skin as a sensation, but can you really FEEL is as a human being?
No, once you have left your heart/soul behind that’s it. It’s all a kind of fake construction, even if you still THINK such things are true, believe in them 100%, you can’t just BE anymore.
Intant Karma.
Death would be a mercy over “living” with that. And he has departed from himself long ago or he’d have done the deed himself.
Ishmael,
Fascinating analysis, and you may well be correct.
“No, once you have left your heart/soul behind that’s it.”
but what if you have been innocently manipulated into a state of evil, without your knowledge or consent.? In theory, if you can be manipulated into a state of evil, it should be possible to reverse the process, to a state of good.
I am currently reading this person’s book about Brainwashing. Until a couple of minutes ago, I didn’t know she had done a video intro..to her book.
“Kathleen Taylor -Brainwashing:The Science of Thought Control”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80xKMuA3gKo
This issue needs to be taken seriously, because it is widespread – from advertising – to the state of mind of half the US population, believeing a load of lies and propaganda, fed to them on a daily/hourly basis.
Tony
@ Sharp Ears July 22, 2018 at 09:08
The Devil looks after his own – think Soros, Kissinger, George Bush Sr.
He will account for his misdeeds, as will we all, in the hereafter.
Israel has moved White Helmets to Jordan overnight and they will be relocated in the UK, Germany and Canada .
https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/jordan-says-transfer-syria-white-helmets-uk-canada-germany-doc-17u6yo3
“…they will be relocated in the UK, Germany and Canada.”
I wonder how long before one of them is blowing up 7-year old girls at pop concerts.
@ Stonky July 22, 2018 at 09:53
They are ‘friends’ of the West; but they may well be used in ‘False Flag’ attacks or hoaxes.
They have earned their place in the West, with their faithful service providing ‘False Flag’ pretexts for the West to bomb Syria.
Oh I wouldn’t worry about that as we could stage another tribute concert to the victims even before they were buried. Hopefully Noel Gallagher wouldn’t ruin it again this time by refusing to reform Oasis for the occasion.
Wonder if loony is going to protest or welcome these immigrants, and why.
The latest whinge from the Scotch nats is that a full Brexit will leave no one to pick their fruit. I didn’t know fruit was capable of growing in Scotland but here goes.
There are 9,255 seasonal immigrant farmworkwers in Scotland, 10-20% short of the required amount (ie 1,500 workers short) .
Out of 5.3m population there’s 140k on the dole, 100k 16yr+ old schoolkids & students on hols. Why can’t Scotland find 1,500 pickers out of that lot?
Scotch is a drink.
Or an egg.
Or a hop …
Or tape.
It’s a legitimate whinge. Being part of the UK has resulted it many Scots being institutionalised so that they’d prefer to do nothing and claim welfare benefits than work. They call it the poverty trap or something.
One of the reasons I’m in favour of Scottish independence is based on the hope that we could do something about this ungodly situation.
And, as you will already know, those figures on unemployment are totally fake. In Glasgow, for example, I’d say about 80% of the population is either welfare dependent or working for the state. There’s no real economy to speak of.
Successive English governments have been happy to see Scottish workers welfare dependent. It basically neutralises them and forces them to suckle on the nipple of Britannia. In an oil rich country it’s important to keep the population out of the way and that’s why they dismantled the west coast economy where the most militant workers live.
It’s no coincidence that pensioners and many on welfare voted to remain in the UK in 2014. It annoys me that the SNP are championing the interests of these people — doing everything possible to make sure the welfare continues and using money that could be spent elsewhere to mitigate Tory austerity — when the SNP gets nothing but scorn in return.
All of this is made possible by the Barnett formula which plays a key part in marginalising Scots and keeping them UK-dependent. It’s a shameful fraud on English taxpayers.
Waving a Union Jack in Glasgow, as I see it, is tantamount to waving a flag that says “I’m a total welfare queen and want to continue screwing English taxpayers forever”.
“It’s a shameful fraud on English taxpayers” Do you really believe that no tax money flows south from Scotland into Westminster’s trillions of pounds plus black hole?
“…the SNP championing the interests of these people..” FFS that’s part of what the SNP are ,regardless of the political persuasion of “these people”. They are mitigating austerity by doing so. Not all of them are well shod settlers.
Waving a Union flag in Glasgow usually identifies the waver/waiver as being religiously sectarian and rooted in mendacity.
Kaily, it’s simply a fact that individual English taxpayers get less back per head in government spending than Scottish taxpayers.
When you look at total taxation, including vat and corporation tax alongside earnings tax, it’s true that Scotland (the country) pays much more in than it gets back and much more per capita than English taxpayers. That, though, as you know, is down to resources rather than earnings.
Here’s the long and short of it. If Scottish people want to be British then be British. Be taxed like other British people, suffer the same meagre spending levels, cut welfare and privatise the NHS and be just like the other British people.
You can’t have it both ways. Get rid of Barnett and stop expecting preferential treatment.
Be British and get screwed like the rest of Britain or vote for independence and stop scrounging. Scotland is a rich country even within the confines of the mismanaged UK economy which is actually rigged against Scotland.
“No”/Unionist voters are mostly short-sighted shameful scroungers. They want to fleece English taxpayers. It’s really a disgrace.
Th SNP have played this badly and I understand why. They wanted to steal Labour’s cloak etc. Time to move on though.
If you got rid of Barnett and treated people in Scotland the same as people n England, they’d dump their Union Jacks en masse quicker than you can say “Rule Britannia”.
The “whinge” you whinge of is media spin from hyperbolic drama concerning a post Brexit future no one can fully predict. Scotland is open to immigrants (and fleeing well shod settlers) thanks to SNP . Your ridiculous snipe at Scotland’s fruit growing capabilities only proves the total redundancy of your post.
Kaily, that’s great but you didn’t address the substance of his points. Chiefly, why can’t Scottish people pick their own fruit?
We can use official figures on unemployment, if you wish, but I’m sure you’ll agree they don’t give a full picture. So, please explain, why when Scotland has so many thousands of people sitting doing nothing does it need to import workers to pick fruit and work in hotels?
Now let’s be clear. I like immigrants. I’m not racist. I love the work ethic of immigrants, and most that I know are very productive and entrepreneurial. Conversely, I have no particular gripe with those who own hotels and fruit farms, I just think they should do more to use Scottish Labour (I.e. pay more).
I haven’t seen any mention of Hatuey applying for jobs as a fruitpicker. Is he up to it I wonder?
Still, its good to see Hatuey indulging in the Tory rhetoric of the ‘undeserving poor’. Very SNP!
What you need to do Hatuey, is open a broadsheet newspaperand start reading. Okay so far? You need to pay special attention to those bits where it talks about migrants working for very little in inhospitable conditions, while the unemployed are sent out to complete short term zero hours contracts in their local neighbourhood for which they will not get paid for several weeks so that they will end up applying for a foodbank voucher. Their job applications are, of course, being monitored by the state.
Got that now?
European fruit pickers have been used for years, because of many economical reasons I’m sure, but one of the key things the growers have had is a reliable work force – agents arrange groups who are contracted for the needed length of time. There has not been the structures in place in Scotland for many years now for doing itinerant farm labour – most labour is done now by machines, with fruit picking one of the last needing to be done by hand, so a worker cannot move from one crop to another by season and make a living out of it. Also, because of the polytunnels, the season is now much longer – a bus load coming up for a few weeks to pick is not enough (as was done in the past). The season is also during the tourist season, when many people can be gainfully employed in hospitality. It was also, obviously, not anticipated just how hostile the uk government was going to be towards other EU nationals (or the fall in the pound) and so advertising has not been done in Scotland for pickers.
So with this season and next a write-off for the fruit farmers (because farmers, in general, do actually plan ahead), they will likely go out of business before they can get work forces arranged by other means, due to the uncertainties imposed by the current UK government.
There are fruit farms in Kent suffering the same problems – this can all be found out by watching parliamentary committee meetings.
Fruit pickers aren’t immigrants, they are here to work for a season. Just like sheep shearers will work over a few different countries to give them a longer season to work over. These aren’t permanent office-type jobs. seasonal work means moving frequently and a lot of uncertainty, and planning ahead.
Scotland’s employment figures are greater than England’s (by percentage, obviously), but unemployment I believe is on a par.
A little discussion here that probably requires the knowledge and focus of Craig to clarify, though perhaps it will be in a grey area that he is legally unable to discuss.
According to that billionaire owned beacon of democracy and brightness, the WaPo, facts below were checked here and could not be confirmed;
FACTS? They were trying to fact-check a covert intelligence agency project, a matrix of coerced intelligence agencies plot.
How can you fact check an obviously secret thing, with many compartmentalised codewords and hierarchical mystique bound all over it.
Did the Washington Post simply telephone the Central Intelligence Agency and ask if they could confirm or deny this story?
So let’s have another look as the Andrew Marr show was so narrowly focused on Brexit & boring the viewers, that I did something else.
ARTICLE ONE WaPo senior editor Lally Weymouth, put this article into print on Thursday 19th July 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ specifically
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/italy-has-done-a-lot–maybe-too-much/2018/07/19/dc81a292-8acf-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html (you have ‘a few free articles’ & lots of tracking to accept first)
TEXT FROM ARTICLE, which is in interview with the current Italian deputy prime minister and interior minister Matteo Salvini.
An NATO supporting EU interior minister no less; although he might be replaced at the next election, whenever that is, by someone with a different point of view – this is what we have today, Salvini.
Q. [Lally Weymouth] Why do you want to lift the sanctions on Russia?
A. [Matteo Salvini] Because they didn’t prove to be useful, and according to the data, they hurt Italian exports.
Q. You said that Russia had a right to annex Crimea?
A. There was a referendum.
Q. It was a fake referendum.
A. [That is your] point of view. . . . There was a referendum, and 90 percent of the people voted for the return of Crimea to the Russian Federation.
Q. What kind of referendum was it with Russian soldiers there?
A. Compare it to the fake revolution in Ukraine, which was a pseudo-revolution funded by foreign powers — similar to the Arab Spring revolutions. [Editor’s note: Independent fact-checkers have not found evidence for this claim…]
EDITOR’s NOTE!
I guess the independent fact checkers for the existence or not of Color Revolutions did not bother to check even the BBC website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12522848 [Gene Sharp, author of the ‘public’ non-violent guide]
I suppose it was good of the WaPo to at least interview Salvini, and then print his answers, tho’ “CIA note: Independent fact-checkers [Mi6?] have not found evidence for this claim…” makes it funny.
from Craig ” it is now “treason” to question the word of the Western intelligence agencies, which deliberately and knowingly produced a fabric of lies”, makes it sad
So how was the bottle broken? Did Charlie in a rage take a hammer and smash it, for reasons unknown but which can be guessed at? Or was the bottle fragile, so fragile that the six (or more) burly Russians who transported it from Moscow Central needed to wrap it in multiple layers of bubblepack and encase the whole thing in a standard issue biological weapons crate?
And did the Russkies play tag team while transporting it to Salisbury, with the point man being given a wide exclusion safety zone by the others, say 1000 yards?
And was it carried aboard the jetliner in hand luggage, against regulations, to the jeopardy of fellow passengers and crew, all in danger of being Novichoked?
And were there backup bottles which, upon successful delivery of the first “package”, were disposed of in litter bins at every station stop on the return journey from Salisbury to London?
These and other questions we expect will be successfully dealt with by the investigation.
Looks like Ecuador has finally had enough of Assange
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/ecuador-close-to-evicting-julian-assange-from-london-embassy-20180722-p4zsw2.html
@ Alex Westlake July 22, 2018 at 11:31
Another way of putting it is that it is not Ecuador, but the snake-in-the-grass turncoat traitor Moreno who has taken his orders from Uncle Sam. Moreno is now detested by all those who voted for him, when he pretended to be following the same path as Rafael Correa.
Bit like Bliar with his ‘New Labour’, but even more blatant. Moreno even took a bunch of the Right-wing opposition into government, and is rolling back the gains of the people under Correa.
Ah, then he’s a pragmatist who can see the mess Maduro is making in Venezuela and doesn’t want to make the same mistakes
Barbara
” Moreno is now detested by all those who voted for him,”
A bold statement indeed. How do you know? Or do you have a second job (apart from your regular job as a non- taxpaying, social security-dependent professional demonstrator) as the official spokesman for the Ecuadorian people?
In china long ago there used to monasteries where people practiced esoteric arts, restricted to these small groups, for it was thought that this “hidden power” may be used for nefarious ends by people with bad intent.
But the truth is “hidden power” such as it is, not felt by many, though not hidden at all really (children feel it, why they have so much energy) is not accessible unless your open to yourself.. The “body” (“That – we call body” as blake said) Is really a concept, like spirit, and neither have much “reality” as separate distinct things. So the “blockage” is more a kind of self hypnosis, pure rational (very western) mindset we “grow up” into.
Going from soft to hard body/spirt as most people get older (or though trauma etc), it’s not inevitable But you really have to be honest with yourself.
I know I may seem random with this information but somehow feel it really part of whats going on that people don’t consider much. This is not that I don’t value the focus & angle others come from. Just saying.
Personally a valuable thing craig reminds me of (of many examples) is to stay soft, & despite whatever different attacks he gets by often hard people. He does well on that it seems to me.
Actually, ill tell you why i think it important for this blog, because i recognise in myself the tendency to just be reacting to circumstance & not really think about & do much in a pro active way. Or maybe thats just my own reading. Informing people is sure important, but when it’s all this then this then this then this going on.
I wonder if we loose some awareness & could be working on more positive, proactive stuff.
?
Ahh, it’s just me, thinking to much.. ……Ignore ^ move along.
You guys do a great job, Have a good day.
But yes, it does answer the age old question, Where do they get the energy from? Because they don’t “see themselves” as separate.
But that is “educated” out of them by our “enlightened” culture.
Do you have any reading material that illustrates what you are trying to explain here? I find myself agreeing with you and would like to know more
@ Ishmael July 22, 2018 at 11:34
You really should read Craig’s ‘Murder in Samarkand’; I have a feeling you haven’t yet.
Iv read (listened) to one of his books. Can’t remember which of the top of my head. May do but iv lots creative to do atm. (& bureaucracy of poverty)
i normally take in lots of stuff (to much often, esp with the net) during a period, then let it go. Like an onion stripping off layers. Staying alive, you know…
Laters.
I note that up to a thousand “white helmets”, together with their families and impedimenta, are to be evacuated from Syria due to their being in “danger of their lives”, which is highly likely.
As many of the evacuees will be returning home to Britain and, in the light of their acquired expertise in the staging of chemical weapons attacks, it is to be hoped that the authorities here will deploy them in and around Salisbury, to assist with the investigation and explore further possibilities.
I thought they were always in danger of their lives. They seemed to have the unfortunate knack of of being in the vicinity of staged “outrages” just before they happened. Strange that.
Let’s hope the most moral army in the world takes good care of them.
I notice Pursuance seems to be coming along. Will keep an eye on this.
https://twitter.com/BarrettBrown_/status/1018584194077872128
Could the intention of the Westminster government be to use the UK trained White Helmets in a policing role in Scotland and Ireland?
It happened before when the UK used Japanese soldiers to police British POWs after WW2.
Are you serious?
The Guardian recognises the Golan heights as part of Israel, even though no country in the world apart from Israel does so – not even the USA.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/21/syrian-refugees-cling-to-life-on-golan-heights-israel-border
The Guardian piece about Syrians fleeing from the Assad “regime’s missiles” describes the eastern boundary of the occupied land as “the frontier with Israel”, and part of it as “where three countries meet” (with Jordan to the south). It shows a map with that boundary marked as Israel’s border with Syria.
There’s no mention that the Golan heights are part of Syria, or that the occupation by Israel is illegal under international law. All it says is that they were “captured from Syria half a century ago” and that “Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights was not recognised internationally”.
If a wellby could reach the top of the Anglican Church, the Guardian is easy meat. But there is usually a jet black toupe up front or a hershey highwayman fronting the show if the taqqiya needs to be terminal.
All it says is that they were “captured from Syria half a century ago” and that “Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights was not recognised internationally”.”
That seems to sum up the position quite fairly.
You will of course be aware that before the annexation, Syrian batteries regularly fired shells into Israel (with civilian targets) from the Golan Heights?
Well, that hasn’t been possible since 1967, a fact which should be welcomed by all peace-loving people.
BTW, did you know that Syria is still officially in state of war with Israel – despite Israeli offers to negotiate a peace treaty as it did with Jordan and Egypt?
@ Eitan Bemamou July 22, 2018 at 14:46
Even Moshe Dayan admitted the Golan Heights was not kept for strategic reasons, but, as he put it, greedy Israeli farmers wmted the good arable land.
Surely you are aware it was not kept strategic reasons? Other than the ‘Strategic Yinon Plan’ reasons, plus the local greed factor.
Was Moshe Dayan a Luciferian? Will greed rot the human soul? Why have you paid no income tax since the 1970s? And is attending demonstrations a productive use of one’s time? Was Yogi Bear murdered by Mossad?
@ Eitan Bemamou July 22, 2018 at 15:26
I posted a serious answer to your comment, and in reply get some made-up hodge-podge?
Afraid to face the truth?
Oh, by the by, you forgot to respond re the murderous attack on the USS Liberty. Wouldn’t do for too many people, especially Yanks, to know the truth about that treacherous incident, would it? Might stop the $billions and the high-tech weaponry going to a certain ME country, might it not?
@ Eitan Bemamou July 22, 2018 at 18:34
‘But the bit about you not having paid income tax since the 1970s wasn’t made up – you told people yourself some time ago. And surely you wouldn’t deny you spend much of your time demonstrating?’
I’m afraid you are barking up a gum tree with the ‘..But the bit about you not having paid income tax since the 1970s wasn’t made up – you told people yourself some time ago. And surely you wouldn’t deny you spend much of your time demonstrating?…’ lie. I have never told anyone that, and my tax records till I retired in 2012 can prove that.
So I don’t know where you got that misinformation from. Yes I go on a lot of Demos, and yes, I am fully aware that I am a ‘person of interest’ to many ‘Security Services’, including the M*ssad, who have a section which has protected me in the past, and I am sure will do so in the future. But be that as it may, I should vorry, already… the Big Guy in the Sky is keeping an eye on me.
Israeli Jews, Syrian Alawites, Islamic Kurds, assorted Christians: all vulnerable minorities in a Sunni sea. They should all be on the same side if they had any sense.
@ Antonyl July 22, 2018 at 15:10
They all got on pretty well until the West smelt oil and started it’s divide and rule shenanigans, and Palestine was colonised.
You seem to encourage sectarianism. No all should live in harmony without exception as they once did.
The good old harmony of the dhimmi second class status for all non-Muslims, those were the days! Better than most men being killed during invasion and many women enslaved – all legally encouraged.
Only dummies would be satisfied with that. Pay your jizya tax
No I am talking from real experience are you? Have you lived in the ME as a native or is all what you say just second hand?
And whilst we are in the subject of this jizya let us remind ourselves of the great collaborators in the new attempt of curving up the ME by Saudi Arabia and Israel working together. Let us not forget that the great democracy in the ME has been arming and protecting the same Islamic terrorists who want to implement this jizya.
Sectarianism in the ME is a very recent invention and sponsored by the West and accelerated by the implanted state of European settlers.
Just to clarify in case you say sectarianism in the ME started with the Sunni Shia split, I refer to the recent sectarianism.
Unfortunately Israel now uses it regularly to fire missiles into Syria. No doubt when these illegal and murderous squatters are sent packing it will be welcomed by all peace-loving people.
International law says that territory acquired during war cannot be kept by those who acquired it – which is why “Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights was not recognised internationally.”
Israel has no right to hold on to the Golan Heights.
Are you sure about that?
@ Alex Westlake July 22, 2018 at 17:28
That’s International Law. But a certain ME country could give a d*mn about International Law already?
Then presumably you think Pomerania and East Prussia should be returned to Germany
@Alex Westlake:
Strawman of the week.
Since it’s nearing the end of the month, this makes a good chance of becoming strawman of the month.
Congrats are in order either way.
Yeah, peace loving isr4el roams the skies there freely, their handout jets always waving their wings to signal “we’re sitting here at the peace table, waiting for you…”.
Eitan Bemamou, you seem to consider a minor conflict more than a half a century ago to be a justification for the annexation of part of another country (not to mention the ethnic cleansing).
International law takes any country’s occupation of territory outside its own borders much more seriously. If it didn’t, any country could make excuses to grab any land that it wants, and there would be far more wars.
The state of war is a result of the annexation. The obligation is on Israel to return the stolen land, not on the country it was stolen from.
No, Brendan, Syria has been officially in a state of war with Israel since 1948 and not since only 1967.
1948 was when Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian armies attacked the new state of Israel.
Hence it is incorrect to say that “the state of war is a result of the annexation”.
@ Eitan Bemamou July 22, 2018 at 15:30
The truth of the matter is I^rael couldn’t give a fig for International Law, the Geneva Convention or common decency and humanity. And the West applauds it’s intransigence and lack of humanity.
They have form themselves, of course – American Indians, Indigenous Canadians, Africans, Aborigines, Irish, Sub-continental Indians and Muslims and so on.
Barbara
No. In the context of this sub-thread, the truth of the matter is that Syria has been officially in a state of war with Israel since 1948 and not – as claimed by Brendan – since only 1967 9the annexation).
I note en passant that Brendan himself has not sought to deny my correction, so I assume he accepts it as correct.
Eitan, it’s not a very good argument on your part to say that the the state of war began in 1948, because that only draws attention to the ethnic cleansing at that time by Israel of more than half of the Palestinian population who fled to other countries, including Syria. Israel was not the victim as you suggest. The main reason for a state of war in 2018 is that the Israel and its army still occupy part of Syria.
@ Eitan Bemamou July 22, 2018 at 18:40
As you must surely be aware, I was not addressing Brendan’s position, but taking one on for myself.
To which, apparently, you have no response.
Eitan, there’s a big difference between simply fleeing a warzone and being expelled. The Palestinian civilians were “expelled” and not allowed back. In other words, ethnically cleansed.
@Paul Barbera
Why even discuss anything with this apologist of an imperial murderous fascist apartheid-state.
I agree with your story but am confused by the events around Maria Butina, surely she should have known the troubles she was getting into, and even not embarked on the enterprise in the first place. I have no wish to denigrate the lady but wasn’t she acting naive and foolhardy, knowing the reputation of the alphabet soup agencies. Or perhaps there is another agenda in place.of which I and many others are not aware of.
@ shortchanged July 22, 2018 at 13:30
Here’s Paul Craig Roberts’ view: ‘The Arrest of Maria Butina Is Another Hoax’:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/07/20/the-arrest-of-maria-butina-is-another-hoax/
‘…I have read the indictment of Maria Butina. She is not accused of any crime recognizable by Anglo-American law. She is indicted under Jeremy Bentham’s 18th century totalitarian argument that she is guilty of the “crime” of possibly intending to commit one in the future. (See The Tyranny of Good intentions by PCR and Lawrence Stratton.)
Maria, who has long red hair but otherwise is unremarkable, especially in contrast to the women that the interest groups, such as the military/security complex, Wall Street, and the Israel lobby are believed to provide to the executive and legislative branches of the US government, is certainly not the seductive Russian spy that Americans know from James Bond films.
The woman has not done a thing. She is indicted for a non-crime. She is indicted because she is Russian and living, according to the presstitute media, with a congressional staffer. Maria has no way whatsoever to spy on the US through the low level congressional staffer with whom she was allegedly livingl
Her arrest is just another hoax perpetrated on the American people in order to fan the distrust and hatred of Russia, distrust that protects the totally unnecessary $1,000 billion annual budget of the US military/security complex….’
She’s Russian – ain’t that a good enough reason to arrest her? Just as if your Black, that’s a good enough reason for cops to beat or shoot you.
The lawyer for “Russian entity” Concord Management is arguing this in court:
“In short, the Special Counsel found a set of alleged facts for which there is no crime,” the company’s attorney, Eric Dubelier, argues in a 57-page motion filed Monday. “Instead of conceding that truth, however, the Special Counsel attempts to create a make-believe crime that is in fact no crime at all, much less one with the requisite mens rea of willfulness.”
Concord Management is accused of funding the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that spread information on social media to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
Dubelier argued in his motion Monday that there is no federal law prohibiting “interference” in a U.S. election and that there isn’t a federal law making it a crime to conspire to do so.
“Just as critically, there is no federal election law or regulation prohibiting any person or group of persons, whether American or foreign, acting independently of a political candidate, from conveying political speech on social media, at political rallies, or in advertisements available for viewing in the United States,” he argued.
“Further, there is no law or regulation requiring that any such speech be accurate or truthful or that any U.S. or foreign person truthfully or accurately identify herself or himself when engaging in such speech—when it comes to political speech, one is free to pretend to be whomever he or she wants to be and to say whatever he or she wants to say,” Dubelier added.
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/397307-russian-firm-indicted-in-mueller-probe-accuses-him-of-creating-make
The Prisoner of Knightsbridge is a bail-jumping scofflaw and in his case there are outstanding legal procedures to be invoked.
I cannot sympathize with any man who self-incarcerates himself for six years.
When the US Extradition Warrant hits the deck the payoff will be hormone beef and chlorinated chicken. For our elites, much more than that.
quasi_verbatim,
What has Julian Assange done to upset you, except tell the truth?
Not guilty are you?
He might not have told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but his record seems pretty good to me.
Tony
@ quasi_verbatim July 22, 2018 at 13:50
So, in your book, people who expose War Criminals should take the rap, but the exposed War Criminals get off scott free?
“I cannot sympathize with any man who self-incarcerates himself for six years.”
What you really mean is that, you’re vexed that he hasn’t lost hope and given up and fallen into the hands of his unjust denouncers.
Here’s hoping he lastes another six years, just to piss you off.
So you think Cardinal Mindszenty was a self-incarcerator and deserving of no sympathy?
The good Cardinal broke no laws. That’s the difference.
The Hungarian Communists thought Mindszenty had broken their laws. And just what laws has Austraiian citizen Assange broken?
I just noticed your question, isa, about Mueller’s connection to 9/11 about which I have never gone along with the government;s explanation.
Fearing Craig’s prohibition about discussing 9/11 except on the thread devoted to it, I shall keep my answers most cryptic.
Mueller’s problems go back to the assassination of Olof Palme to promote a non-nuclear conclusion of the Cold War against the USSR, and you should look into the spying by American spies, especially the Bureau’s Robert Hanssen, which helped prevent it from happening, the first attack on the WTC, FBI agent John O’Neill role in keeping track of what Al-Qaeda was up to, the most belated discovery of Hanssen’s spying in 2001, how this put the Bureau most on the defensive when new attacks were being planned on the WTC allowing George Tenet’s CIA to take control of counter terrorism, resulting in Mueller allowing the Agency to take over the mission while he himself took a powder because it was feared that the Bureau could not be trusted, the attacks themselves which not only killed sidelined O’Neill but also 15 apparent unarmed CIA agents on the planes, and all those people on the ground.
Search my articles on Veterans Today, codshit.com, flying cuttlefish picayune.The Local in Sweden, and Eye Spy magazine for various bits about the fiasco as I have not written an article directly about it.
Trowbridge H. Ford,
I’ve read much of your stuff elsewhere, and actually agree with some of it, though on some critical points, I think you are completely wrong. However, if you are still on the payroll and still receiving your pension, then I can understand that.
I have almost always found what you write very interesting. I seem to recall you saying recently you are shortly coming up to your 90th birthday. I don’t know if you have made 90 years old yet, but congratulations for keeping all your marbles, and happy birthday if its today.
Tony
I have not been on the government’s payroll since I was discharged from being drafted into the US Army during the Korean War, and your claim that I voluntarily served afterwards it is not appreciated.
I shall be 89 in a few months, but don’t appreciate anything you say about me or rmy thoughts.
Trowbridge H. Ford,
I never made an such claim “that I voluntarily served afterwards”
I will look forward to wishing you a Happy 90th Birthday in 2019, even if you don’t appreciate my good wishes.
Tony
You said about me,”… if you was are still on the payroll and still receiving your pension, I can understand that.” meaning that I am still being paid by the shit hole US government for writing its lies.
You comments are the only thing that makes me hope that I don’t reach 90.
Ian’ t the thread on 9/11 defunct and no longer accepting comments?
Isn’t
Thank you Trowbridge . Interesting . I will have a read of your site during that week . Thank you again .
The media, especially the Guardian, are portraying the ‘rescue’ of the White Helmets as a noble humanitarian effort for these ‘heroes’. The question is surely why compared with the interpreters in Iraq and Afghanistan. It shows who’s side they were on. Not only that I suspect some blackmail from these heroes. Get us out or we reveal the false flag ops and who told us to do them.
Hmm. Interesting conspiracy theory, Clive p – but you could well be right!
Their extraction is currently being made into a movie. The sequel something.
Keep an eye on the Oscars next year.
Is Julian really going to be expelled from the embassy soon, perhaps in the days to come?
Would it be an idea for someone on here, perhaps even Craig, to organise a demonstration outside the embassy, perhaps also others outside the FCO, the Home Office and so?
I would certainly attend.
Is he really still there? He hasn’t been seen on the balcony for a long time.
@ MJ July 22, 2018 at 15:54
He has only been out on the balcony six times since he’s been holed up in the Embassy. As the Ecuadorean Embassy (under their government’s orders) have now put him incommunicado, what on earth suggests to you or others that they would allow him onto the balcony?
Some weeks back, when there was a vigil outside the Embassy, Craig told me he was still in the Embassy.
That is good enough for me.
19th June. Craig is on this video.
https://www.newsflare.com/video/215302/politics-business/julian-assange-vigil-at-the-ecuadorian-embassy
When was the last time?
@ MJ July 22, 2018 at 16:29
I don’t know. Check on the internet.
Protests being organised against imminent eviction of Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/21/assa-j21.html
Sharp Ears
I know all about the 19th of June demo, thanks. I was there. But the situation looks like it’s moved on since then (in the bad sense for Julian)
Joel
Many thanks!. I see the armchair warriors who wrote before you (Paul Barbara, Sharp Ears, MJ…) didn’t seem too keen – very disappointing. But I hope they’ll make the effort to attend the one you kindly brought up. I shall try to do so.
Armchair warriors.
I hope you realize some of these armchair warriors may not be in the vicinity of London, or even in the country.
Some of them may even literally depend on their chair — arm or otherwise.
In short, you facetious remark is dumb.
@ joel July 22, 2018 at 18:05
There’s a vigil today at 10:00 )Monday 23 July) outside the Embassy.
Check out Facebook: ‘Londoners Protect Julian Assange’.
Obama presumes to lecture South Africans on Mandela
http://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1532255604.html
The commenter is South African and lives there.
I see Hain is in the photo next to Meghan. Of course. Use the search box on here to read what Craig wrote about him a few years back.
Obama waxing lyrical on Mandela, and his values of justice and equality. Lets not forget, that Obama dropped thousands of bombs on those who sought justice and equality, and he received a Nobel Peace prize in 2009.
Obama, and Mandela are ethnically Africans, but that’s where the similarities end.
Just been looking around. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-orban-is-a-clever-anti-semite-corbyn-is-a-stupid-one-1.6292393
illustrative comments, Not washing is it.
It’s understandable for an oppressed group. But though I look for, & do see very isolated groups who present this radicalised view (maybe none more than the Israelis state, though kind of what all states do) & some “rule the world” type discourse. I don’t think there is that much threat, & definitely not compared to others.
I think we can all spot that mindset, pure bigoted hate. I don’t think that picture was very clever, but look at the guys artwork, its all over the place. I just don’t see how people made the leap from a few people prortraid in a bad light, some with .—-…”character features” to “this picture is antisemitic”.
The chronical? Didn’t seem to have big issue with it when it first came out.
Aside from the all sorts you’d find in any party, & labour less, this all seems like very little. No matter what words you use. I assume most leftists understand bigotry, let no group under the bus.
Sky are saying they had to leave as their lives were in danger! No mention of how many Syrian lives have been lost from their and the coalition’s activities.
Gong in the post for Le Mesurier?
‘Prior to his founding of the White Helmets, Le Mesurier served as Vice President for Special Projects at the Olive Group, a private mercenary organization that has since merged with Blackwater-Academi into what is now known as Constellis Holdings. Then, in 2008, Le Mesurier left the Olive Group after he was appointed to the position of Principal at Good Harbor Consulting, chaired by Richard A. Clarke – a veteran of the U.S. national security establishment and the counter-terrorism “czar” under the Bush and Clinton administrations.
Related | John Pilger: The White Helmets Are A “Complete Propaganda Construct”
After joining Good Harbor, Le Mesurier became based in Abu Dhabi, where he specialized in risk management, emergency planning, and critical infrastructure protection. He trained a UAE gas field protection force and “ensured the safety” of the 2010 Gulf Cup in Yemen, a regional soccer tournament. But following this work, Le Mesurier claims to have become dissatisfied, wanting to have a more direct impact on the communities he worked in.’
James Le Mesurier: The Former British Mercenary Who Founded The White Helmets
James Le Mesurier, a British ex-mercenary, founded the White Helmets in 2013. The group has been lauded for its “humanitarian” efforts in Syria, but they have actually functioned more as a logistics and propaganda arm of Syria’s al-Qaeda branch, complete with training from Le Mesurier.
by Whitney Webb
https://www.mintpressnews.com/james-le-mesurier-british-ex-military-mercenary-founded-white-helmets/230320/
Can the government talk anything other than cock? Because they don’t seem to be able to talk English. Brexit secretary Dominic Raab says “Of course, if we have no deal, we want to make sure we’re prepared at the border with the knock-on effects that that would have if, on the EU side, they take the worst-case scenario approach, which is frankly irrational”.
In other words, make sure yer keep ‘old of yer ration card yer council will stick through yer door, and no riotin’, mind. Oh and blame the w*gs. Always blame the w*gs.
Of course there will be no f***ing “deal”. (Must everyone talk as though their discussing a reality TV show nowadays?) You can’t walk out of a club and expect to continue to use its facilities.
As I’ve said before, Malthusianism is coming home. Party time at the Athenaeum. But when isn’t it?
“their” -> “they’re”
If they withdraw the daft offer to collect tariffs for the EU and refuse to enter into further negotiations, the UK will automatically and completely leave the EU next March – just the way we voted. Phew!
I still have petrol coupons from Heath’s Three Day Week! And a wartime ration book that belonged to my mother! It is made from strange paper which seems to include hair or threads.
I remember the TV going off at 10.30pm during the three-day week. Folklore (probably accurately) said the birth rate shot up!
Got to wonder what people are going to do if they can’t charge their smartphones!
Pay their electricity bills I expect.
@ N_ July 22, 2018 at 16:58
Never mind Bitcoin – London Rubber shares are due to soar.
“Can the government talk anything other than cock? Because they don’t seem to be able to talk English.”
But they do manage to talk without a liberal sprinkling of four-letter words and other vulgarities, don’t they.
Unlike you.
Which proves you can have a public school and Oxford education without being crude and vulgar in expression….doesn’t it, N_ ?
Any comment from Ms Dick?
‘It is claimed there are officers in the Met’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) who are said to have interfered with or curtailed investigations, according to Mr Green.
He added: “The investigation includes alleged interference in, and curtailment of, investigations by potentially conflicted senior officers, failure to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, systemic removal of the restrictions of officers under investigation and racial discrimination.
As part of this investigation, three officers have been served with gross misconduct notices and one of those officers is also under criminal investigation.’
Met corruption claims investigated by Independent Office for Police Conduct
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44915885
Green is the regional director for London of the Independent! Office for Police Conduct.
His biog –
Jonathan GreenJonathan joined us in 2018 from the General Dental Council where he was Executive Director of Fitness to Practise. Jonathan played a key role in work to reform dental regulation to make it better for patients and fairer for professionals. He was a member of the Executive Management Team for three years, overseeing a very challenging improvement programme in fitness to practise investigations.
During his tenure, the GDC’s performance against regulatory standards has seen very significant improvement. A qualified lawyer, Jonathan has also worked as Senior Legal Manager at the Royal College of Nursing, where he led the modernisation of the in-house legal services team and was involved in the Mid Staffs Inquiry led by Sir Robert Francis. Jonathan has both defended and prosecuted professionals in regulatory and disciplinary investigations and was shortlisted for In-house Lawyer of the Year Award by the Law Society in 2012.’
The IOPC is the IPCC renamed!
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/our-people
The dep director general worked for the IPCC.
The UK Supreme Court, creation of war crimes perpetrator Tony Blair, will soon be giving a ruling on the validity of the Scottish Parliament’s Continuity Bill. If, as seems likely, the Court gives the UK gov the ruling it wants and declares the Bill illegal then it at once reduces the Treaty of Union. Reduces it from a political partnership that has always been manipulated by the larger partner to nothing more than a complete and utter fiction written on parchment.
No English based legislature or court has the right to override Scots Law. The Treaty of Union is underpinned by the inviolate status of both Scots Law and the sovereignty of the Scottish people. International Courts here we come.
The 2014 independence referendum and Brexit has emboldened the idiot Britnats to go way too far. Their hubris has ended the Union. Accomplished what conventional political campaigning couldn’t bring off. Thank you ladies and gentlemen of the benighted British nationalist movement. Proof that your enemies can sometimes achieve your aims for you.
“Their hubris has ended the Union”
Still alive and kicking the last time I looked. International courts will doubtless be quaking in their boots at the prospect of a visit from a swarm of ScotsGnats.
Hooray! Must get a bottle of bubbly and some balloons.
@ reel guid July 22, 2018 at 17:10
Best of British! And please take Bliar, kicking and screaming, as a ‘Sacrificial Offering’.
We don’t want ‘him’ (‘it’).
Hi Paul
Did you ever get that German Translation project done ?
@ Brianfujisan July 22, 2018 at 18:53
It’s slowly moving forward; the rights are secured.
I hope Julian was tucked snugly inside the setee that was removed from the embassy
I declare Scotlands Independence .. and Julian is Welcome here.. ( But The ‘ White helmets Are NOT )
“I hope Julian was tucked snugly inside the setee that was removed from the embassy”
That would be brilliant. But then, where to?
The Zionazis haven’t accepted a single one of the 6 million Arab refugees in Syria [*], one of the countries they occupy part of, but they’ll evacuate the “White Helmets” until they’re blue in the face. Should we draw any conclusions?
(*) This number roughly equals the size of the entire population of the privileged ethnic group in I__ael.
We know the White Helmets are knobends but they don’t represent a reversal of male genital mutilation!
Trump and Trudeau asked for the White Helmets, Netanyahu said.
https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1021058788235890688?s=20
It is pity those two haven’t asked for Arabian refugees
Has the Russian Federation asked for any? Being humanitarians and friends of Syria, i mean.
This year we pay 30% more for my nephew’s education in medical institution. This raise in paymen is to allow 100 more Syrian students to study for free.
We are not asking, as you see.
@ Eitan Bemamou July 22, 2018 at 20:24
Are you seriously suggesting that you don’t know that the White Helmets are the PR Agents for the headchoppers, and are totally integrated with them, to the point of being not so much embedded, but in bed with them?
Straight question.
In addition to the transit granted to the white Helmets Israel has also taken in four rebel leaders who fled the fighting:
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/four-rebel-commanders-flee-to-israel-as-syrian-army-takes-over-quneitra/
“Opposition sources revealed that the aforementioned commanders have been recruited by the Israeli intelligence to rebel against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, and remained in touch with Israeli officers ever since.”
@ SA July 22, 2018 at 21:02
But no official sanctions for assisting terrorists. That’s why it is so important for Joe Public to put into effect (as far as they can) BDS.
There’s a movie and an Oscar in there….
(I just mistyped Oscare …) (:-)