My world view changed forever when, after 20 years in the Foreign Office, I saw colleagues I knew and liked go along with Britain’s complicity in the most terrible tortures, as detailed stunningly in the recent Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee Report. They also went along with keeping the policy secret, deliberately disregarding all normal record taking procedures, to the extent that the Committee noted:
131. We note that we have not seen the minutes of these meetings either: this causes us great concern. Policy discussions on such an important issue should have been minuted. We support Mr Murray’s own conclusion that were it not for his actions these matters may never have come to light.
The people doing these things were not ordinarily bad people; they were just trying to keep their jobs, comforting themselves with the thought that they were only civil servants obeying orders. Many were also actuated by the nasty “patriotism” that grips in time of war, as we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Almost nobody in the FCO stood up against the torture or against the illegal war – Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Carne Ross and I were the only ones to leave over it.
I then had the still more mortifying experience of the Foreign Office seeking to punish my dissent by bringing a series of accusations of gross misconduct – some of them criminal – against me. The people bringing the accusations knew full well they were false. The people investigating them knew they were false from about day 2. But I was put through a hellish six months of trial by media before being acquitted on all the original counts (found guilty of revealing the charges, whose existence was an official secret!). The people who did this to me were people I knew.
I had served as First Secretary in the British Embassy in Poland, and bumped up startlingly against the history of the Holocaust in that time, including through involvement with organising the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. What had struck me most forcibly was the sheer scale of the Holocaust operation, the tens of thousands of people who had been complicit in administering it. I could never understand how that could happen – until I saw ordinary, decent people in the FCO facilitate extraordinary rendition and torture. Then I understood, for the first time, the banality of evil or, perhaps more precisely, the ubiquity of evil. Of course, I am not comparing the scale of what happened to the Holocaust – but evil can operate on different scales.
I believe I see it again today. I do not believe that the majority of journalists in the BBC, who pump out a continual stream of “Corbyn is an anti-semite” propaganda, believe in their hearts that Corbyn is a racist at all. They are just doing their job, which is to help the BBC avert the prospect of a radical government in the UK threatening the massive wealth share of the global elite. They would argue that they are just reporting what others say; but it is of course the selection of what they report and how they report it which reflect their agenda.
The truth, of which I am certain, is this. If there genuinely was the claimed existential threat to Jews in Britain, of the type which engulfed Europe’s Jews in the 1930’s, Jeremy Corbyn, Billy Bragg, Roger Waters and I may humbly add myself would be among the few who would die alongside them on the barricades, resisting. Yet these are today loudly called “anti-semites” for supporting the right to oppose the oppression of the Palestinians. The journalists currently promoting those accusations, if it came to the crunch, would be polishing state propaganda and the civil servants writing railway dockets. That is how it works. I have seen it. Close up.
Her Maj’s very smooth Canadian bean counter issues warning.
Mark Carney says risk of a no-deal Brexit is ‘uncomfortably high’
Tom Knowles, Economics Correspondent
August 3 2018, 12:00pm,
Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, insisted that lenders were prepared for a hard Brexit Photo
The value of sterling fell this morning after the governor of the Bank of England warned that the possibility of a no-deal Brexit was “uncomfortably high” and would lead to higher prices.
Mark Carney said that a no-deal scenario would be “highly undesirable” and both the UK and the European Union “should do all things to avoid it”.
The pound was down by 0.3 per cent against the dollar, to an 11-day low of $1.2975 and close to a ten-month low of $1.2958.
With less than eight months to go until Britain formally leaves the EU, the government has begun talking more publicly about the prospect of leaving without a formal agreement on its future relationship with the bloc. During a trip to Austria this…
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/carney-says-risk-of-a-no-deal-brexit-is-uncomfortably-high-v8k02g3pq?
The City dealers will love the run on the pound Carney appears to be setting off. They bet on it to make more money.
I see he started off at Goldman Sachs in company with most of the gangsters-in-charge. LOL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney
Israel interferes in US elections and Zionism is an existential threat to humanity, because Zionists consider humanity anti-Semitic that needs to be eliminated, hence why they always consider themselves the victim when they bomb their neighbours.
But just as the many increasingly obvious false flags are evidence of panic that reveals the hidden hand, so the anti-Semitism frenzy is evidence of a false flag going for broke, because unless it succeeds in quickly toppling Corbyn, difficult due to his rope a dope tactics, then the hidden hand is there for all to see, and this has become apparent in the Daily Mail, which is now identifying the actual issues to its readers, despite officially being part of the bash Corbyn bandwagon, by saying he’s crime is to criticise Israel, which hardly anyone would consider a crime as no state is above criticism, particularly one promoting war (for others) against Iran.
The other Israeli threat is what I think of as the Armageddon option:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/welcome-israeli-nuclear-weapons-101-13882
How America manages to ignore this elephant in the room is beyond me.
“The liberals loathed democracy’.
Yanis Varoufakis: Live at Politics and Prose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H38tZhPying
“All power rests with finance”.
JRM on tour with Team Mogg. Someone call Social Services.
https://goo.gl/images/5T1VhX
29 C and he’s got Mogg minor dressed in a tank-top and tie. Trying to broil the nipper alive is bad enough. What grates more and he’s got previous on this is using the sprog as a prop in his non threatening, quaintly eccentric toff act of his.
From Shahida, Nadira’s partner in the making of a film about the Rohingya people.
Filming in Burma and Bangladesh
Posted by Shahida Tulaganova (Creator)
[..]
I wanted to update you about the latest development of our project. I’m writing this email from Burma, to where after 2.5 months of struggling with Burmese Embassy in London I’ve managed to get a journalist visa:). So our team is filming here, trying to get big shots in Burmese politics and also the Rakhine state politicians to talk to us. Before Burma, I was in Bangladesh again to finish what I have started in March. We found amazing characters for our film, including 103 years old Rohingya Islamic scholar who spoke so well about history. It’s Monsoon season here and conditions in the camps were just beyond horrible. It was hard to film, but important to show the audiences the reality on the ground.
[..]. I will keep you posted about our progress.
Regards,
Shahida
Good on them. It sounds v difficult. Have you noticed that the subject has been dropped by the British MSM?
So that is the long suffering wife, Helen (née de Chair) who produces the children on a regular basis.
Where were the remaining four? At home with Nanny?
Peter Theodore Alphege Rees-Mogg (b. 2007)
Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg (b. 2008)
Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan Rees-Mogg (b. 2010)
Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg (b. 2012)
Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius Rees-Mogg (b. 22 February 2016)
Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg (b. July 2017)
Poor kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rees-Mogg
Rich kids actually, though perhaps not as rich as your remarks are decisively vicious, disgusting and (pun intended) childish.
Why drag his children into this?
Indeed. It’s not “Sharp Ears” she has, it’s a very sharp tongue. And entirely un-called for.
Sorry, what vicious, disgusting, un-called for remarks are you referring to? All I can see is a list of ludicrous names, provided by a prominent politician.
Well, first off, people are still entitled to have children. The relevant post appears to suggest the RMs are doing something we should disapprove of by having six.
Secondly, asking why the children are named and their birthdates listed is a fair question.
I have no time for JRM’s politics. That doesn’t mean I feel entitled to make judgments on the number of children he and his wife decided to have. That is really none of my business.
I normally enjoy SE’s posts but I really didn’t like that one.
“Well, first off, people are still entitled to have children.” What, six?
“What, six?”
Yes!
Surveys have shown that there are quite a few people around who find that having 6 children (in the West, at least) is excessive. A reason often advanced is the “ecological footprint” , ie hgh consumption of resources, argument.
An interesting thing in those surveys is that disapproval of very large families is highest among those who have no children of their own and lowest among those with 3 children.
thanks dad!
Don’t be surprised if he takes the opportunity to tour the Trump supporting media outlets while he’s there. The man is nothing if not ferociously ambitious.
Looks like this is one Labour mess that isn’t going to blow over anytime soon. Even with the offer of an olive branch extended.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party-jewish-museum-speech-collapse-a8475956.html?amp
“Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper, tweeted: “Can’t think of a time when I have had so many emails and texts in so short a space of time from people all saying the same thing: if Jewish Museum hosts Corbyn next week they will never set foot it in again.”
“if Jewish Museum hosts Corbyn next week they will never set foot it in again.”
Sounds like they’re threatening a boycott.
Using Stephen Pollard as a character witness against Corbyn is like relying on Nick Robinson for information on Scottish independence.
Here’s what Tony Greenstein wrote about Pollard:-
“However no critic has taken their criticism as far as Stephen Pollard, the far-Right editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Pollard it was who defended Michal Kaminski, the Polish Law and Justice Party MEP who defended the ‘good name’ of the village of Jedwabne in Poland. Jedwabne was the site of the murder of up to 1600 Jews, who were herded into a barn which was then set alight by fellow villagers in 1941. Kaminski according to Pollard was ‘one of the greatest friends of the Jews’ because he also happened to be an ardent supporter of Israel.”
http://azvsas.blogspot.com/2018/07/jewish-chronicle-editor-stephen-pollard.html
My enemy’s enemy isn’t necessarily always my friend.
It is a mess deliberately orchestrated to smear Corbyn and it is absolutely shocking and despicable that members of the PLP are at the centre of it. I have never seen anything like it. (Has anyone else?)
McDonnell’s intervention was unhelpful to say the least. Margaret Hodge publicly verbally attacked the leader of her Party in the chamber. I don’t care if she used the f-word or not. (Some say she did.) By behaving like that she absolutely breached rules governing conduct which means she must be disciplined yet these appalling people say, no, it’s not appropriate. Why the blazes not?
The number of different parties involved in this current stage of the “Get Jeremy” crusade grows by the day! But make no mistake, the core group consists of Labour MPs who have sunk to unspeakable depths. John McDonnell is now just as bad by failing, utterly, to call them out.
I say again, I have never seen anything like it.
She called him a ‘fucking racist’ as well as anti-semite.
A fellow MP of 30 year from an adjoining constituency!
Plot. Lost. It should be a disciplinary matter.
The NuLabInc foreign agents have failed to retrieve the control of the party and membership – this is a full steam ahead to destroy it as they leave and walk into a junta government by declaring a coup – they will call it a coalition hard brexit government without the official Labour party.
The bankers are busy lining up the pieces. All depends now on how treacherous Macron is prepared to be to the EU and whether he can survive it.
No to a coalition without a GE.
No updates on the amusing story regarding wikipedia and Philip Cross. Its all gone a bit quite so here’s a ‘cash for control of editing’ story from 10 years back if anyone is interested in a laugh. Some hilarious ‘turf wars’ way back when.
The Durova affair
https://dan.tobias.name/controversies/cyber/wiki2.html
”Some of the drama centers around a “secret mailing list” used by some high-ranking Wikipedians. Or, a “private” list; some, including Guy, are adamant about maintaining the distinction between “secret” and “private”, since “private” spins much better.”
”The other list, “investigations”, is so new (set up in November) that it’s unlikely to have actually managed to do very much yet in the area of its stated purpose. Still, it raises some red flags as a possible venue intended for just the sort of thing that Guy insists didn’t take place in the other list: the airing of secret investigations of the Durova sort, and the organizing of administrators to go en masse back to Wikipedia to announce their latest ban as a fait accompli, with the reasons confidential and the decision already endorsed by a bunch of bigwigs before any public discussion has even been able to begin.”
some hilarious observations and analysis by editors wronged below;
http://wikipediareview.com/lofiversion/index.php?t13912.html
http://wikipediareview.com/lofiversion/index.php?f49.html
https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Durova
and some news coverage
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/
”The secret mailing list
But this particular false positive was only part of the problem. With her email, Durova also revealed that the ruling clique was using that secret mailing list to combat its enemies – both real and imagined. “The good news,” she said, was that the Wikipedia Review “trolls” didn’t know the list existed. And then she linked to the list’s sign-up page.
The list is hosted by Wikia, the Jimmy Wales-founded open source web portal that was setup as an entirely separate entity from the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation that oversees Wikipedia.
The sign-up page explains that the list is designed to quash “cyberstalking” and “harassment.” But it would seem that things have gotten a bit out-of-hand. Clearly, the list is also used to land “the banhammer” on innocent bystanders.
“The problem is that their false positive rate is about 90 per cent – or higher,” says Kelly Martin. “It’s possible that every last person Durova has identified is innocent.”
Recently, in another effort to quash “harassment,” several members of the Wikipedia elite tried to ban the mention of certain “BADSITES” on the encyclopedia, and naturally, Wikipedia Review was on the list. Dan Tobias was one of the many editors who successfully fought this ban, and as he battled, he marveled at how well organized his opponents seemed to be.”
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Lets roll out the Maybot; ”Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed”……..
So Jimmy Wales knowingly allow(s?)ed wiki editors earn money for editing and marketing purposes on wikipedia?
I wonder has anyone asked the Guardian, Times, Mail etc if they employ people to maintain the narrative created and perpetuated by British ‘journalists’ (not spooks) and news outlets on Wikipedia?
Anyone find it strange a Philip Cross supporter, fellow wiki editor ‘Bobforbrockley’ only edits citing The Guardian on the such fake news Syria stories as the ”Omar Daqneesh” page. Quite a dishonest narrative he is promoting with the protection of the hierarchy?
TLDR – Wikipedia seems to be a fake information platform since birth. Pay to play.
AKA Booby trap
Another hilariously interesting fact;
10+ years later and the same Wikipedia editor/admin user JzG has banned journalist Peter Hitchens from editing Wikipedia. All transparent and above board, no secret predetermined banning going on……………..
Hitchens; ”Anyone interested in my trial at Wikipedia (I’ve already been sentenced, condemned and convicted without a hearing, and am being ordered to grovel if I want them not to censor me anymore) – here’s the place to look.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Block_review_for_Clockback
Anyone on twitter want to point Hitchens to the info feel free, he seems quite busy between wikipedia bans and the Atlantic council backed ”white helmet” twitter mob abusing him for not toeing the ‘Syria needs to be nuked’ line.
Is Wikipedia going to the dogs? Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Too big to fail?
How to end this near monopoly?
Yes, the Philip Cross/Wikipedia “story” was a real storm in a teacup, wasn’t it. Speaking of which, George Galloway seems to have gone very quiet about the “legal proceedings” he announced he was going to start against Philip and the mysterious string-pulling Mr X behind Philip. Was it all just typical George Galloway bluster?
Perhaps I’ll phone in to him on his “Mother of all talk shows” and ask him.
The NYT and the agony sister Guardian have just succumbed to their delusions of grandeur.
Facebook should eradicate any non credible news site from their feed, says the NYT. Wouldn’t that be just wonderful for them. The Blue Pencil is back and suggested by the press. Meanwhile they keep going on and on about fascism in tehir articles. I’ve seen it all now!
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/03/just-use-cat-videos-new-york-times-boss-mark-thompson-wants-facebook-to-cut-out-news?CMP=fb_gu
McCarthy must be turning in his grave with excitement and pleasure. Maybe also Goebels and Stalin would join in.
They must be having a hell of a party . The uninterested , the gullible and those who seek confirmation bias or excuses, are also partying , I’m going on holidays back home Sunday and I think I will keep away from the miserable and biased Anglo Saxon news for the duration as it is making me so angry and frustrated . Anger brcause everyone dismissed history and proved facts as conspiracy or ” what about” , just going to try and take a break SA before they break my spirit .
ISA
Enjoy your break. I am also taking a few days off next week away from this madness.
The BBC referred to this article by Jeremy Corbyn in the Guardian, in their 6pm bulletin on BBC1.
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me
Jeremy Corbyn
Yes, there is a continuing problem. But the party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the J.wish community
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party
Unfortunately, he is still being apologetic and therefore giving credence to the accusations. He is wrong and is being badly advised. Why is he on the back foot?
The BBC referred to this article by Jeremy Corbyn in the Guardian, in their 6pm bulletin on BBC1.
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me
Jeremy Corbyn
Yes, there is a continuing problem. But the party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the J.wish community
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party
Unfortunately, he is still being apologetic and therefore giving credence to the accusations. He is wrong and is being badly advised. Why is he on the back foot?
The BBC referred to this article by Jeremy Corbyn in the Guardian, in their 6pm bulletin on BBC1.
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me
Jeremy Corbyn
Yes, there is a continuing problem. But the party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the J.wish community
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party
Unfortunately, he is still being apologetic and therefore giving credence to the accusations. He is wrong and is being badly advised. Why is he on the back foot?
The BBC referred to this article by Jeremy Corbyn in the Guardian, in their 6pm bulletin on BBC1.
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me
Jeremy Corbyn
Yes, there is a continuing problem. But the party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the J.wish community
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/03/jeremy-corbyn-antisemitism-labour-party
Unfortunately, he is still being apologetic and therefore giving credence to the accusations. He is wrong and is being badly advised. Why is he on the back foot?
OK, OK, OK, OK.
I agree with you but the thing is that the IHRA guidelines are so clever. Reg in an earlier post was brave enough to outline why these guidelines themselves have problems. Not many people are brave enough to say so.
Corbyn had nothing to apologise for . I like him , he’s a good and honest man , however he should never have apologised for something that is not true . Being critical of Israel is not anti semitism . Apologising is equating that criticism of Israel is anti Semitic , which it’s most certainly not . Corbyn should have got rid of two or 3 people on his side , one of them , tom Watson the exaro news fake moral panic and the other Diane abbot who went to an interview totally unprepared without reading the document on topic on the” eve ” of a general election . Unexplainable and ridiculous .
“Not many people are brave enough to say so.”
Well,yes. The whole sickening crusade has achieved its chief aim. People are remaining silent because they know there’s a label waiting to be pinned on them if they speak! There’s a name for that!
Even McDonnell is now having a go at Corbyn. It’s a whole “crisis” manufactured to create maximum damage based, pretty much, on lies.
I recall Major referring to a difficult mob within his lot as “bastards”. I’m struggling to find a suitable noun to describe those who make up the Fifth Column within the PLP.
Sharp Ears – ”He is wrong and is being badly advised. Why is he on the back foot?”
Since that ‘van incident’ with Darren Osborne looking to kill Jeremy, he has caved on every life long position he has held like a deck chair. He values life. His own in particular. Unfortunately Jeremy has been nobbled.
Strange how the police never tracked down the ”guys” (not psyops) who swamp Osborne with the extremist material that set him on a kill mission in the space of a few days. Maybe it was a middle eastern IP address? I think they blamed Tommy Robinson hate clips or similar for his rage. Who funds Tommy these days again?
LC: “[…] he has caved on every life long position he has held like a deck chair.”
I think _folded_ is the idiom you wanted.
Diolch.
Croeso … I do generally agree with your posts, though, FWIW. Personally, I like “Folded like a cheap suit”.
Read it again. Jeremy is speaking to those that would support him but are tending towards the smears. It’s not an article for us, it’s incredibly specific.
He is extremely aware of what is going on and has been fighting in for 40 years.
The problem is not from him. He and McDonnell MUST. distance themselves from the skirmishes.
However Momentum have utterly failed him. They are wimps. They have allowed themselves to be pushed around by their celebrity members, in particular Owen Jones, who is an absolute disaster, he flip flops, he allows narrative to be dictated by his enemies and caves to them. He knows full well that Antisemites wouldn’t join the Labour Party and yet will pay more credence to that than the obvious attacks from Mossad via the Israeli Embassy.
The culminated in the removal of Pete Willsman from the 9 candidate left slate recommendations. Clearly an attempt to prevent the imminent left majority on the NEC, the plan to instigate manditory reselection and therefore put LFI labour MPs at risk of losing their mandate. The big mistake of LFI and The Israel lobby is they presume that momentum have some kind of sway over it’s stupid rank and file members. Who have almost all completely rejected the momentum volt face on Willsman. With members cancelling their subs.
The grassroots have a lot more fight in them than the weak student union style momentum leadership realise.
Steady on.
JC has made a very clear statement that can be referred to for ever.
Gird your loins the establishment is at stage 3 of the following, again (having got a bloody nose in the hit and run election attempt last year)
‘First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then they lose’.
Wow
https://twitter.com/michaelwhite/status/1025361215726518272
The “muslim > terrorist”.
So by this measure if some who are part of other groups who do bad things, like ooo I don’t know, keep a whole population under subsection & extreme violence? & periodic slaughter, Then when said group gets targeted for expulsion/cleansing. We don’t have to speak up. Because some of therm are bad.
I take it this mentality is not an exception. Explains a lot about our “liberals”. Some are more worthy it seems.
I wandered why the constant islamophobia that the gutter press spew out isn’t called out.
under subjection*.
This is my issue more than anything, this media narrative bias/bigotry is followed by “the left”. The “issue of the day”.
Any for all that time when people where being shot, actually gunned down, the media focus (and the “independent” “left”) was 90% antisemitism? story after story. …Yea, it makes me feel rather contemptuous of many. & hurt feelings.
Some act like most can’t trace back to lost loved ones during that time. But it was still a long time ago.
While the British right-wing media whips itself up into an anti-Corbyn frenzy, fueled by repellent and absurd comments from the likes of Margaret Hodge and nefarious far-right gobshites, saner voices can be heard in the Israeli media.
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-dial-down-the-hysteria-on-anti-semitism-in-corbyn-s-labour-1.6336942
Noted the cited article was paired in the same edition with ‘Why Corbynism is a Threat to Jews throughout the Western World’. The comments on both articles were pretty much divided and this in a paper that is the flagship of liberal thought in the state.
Why has this whole issue come up now after all the time JC has been MP for Islington , active in chosen circles, and where Magaret Hodge was Chair of Islington Council , both being at least negligent in failing to take child abuse seriously?
https://www.aanirfan.blogspot.com/2015/08/corbyn-and-child-abuse.html
A planned economy. Who’d have thunk it.
https://therealnews.com/stories/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-socialism-rai-with-a-buzgalin-12-12
The toothless Electoral Commission, decides that the DUP has nothing to answer for on dark money donations.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/opendemocracy-investigations/opinion-electoral-commission-s-dup-decision-shows-again-how-rules-that-
My gran uncle have a few words to say through me ( Long dead Sturmbannfürhrer in 5th. Division Viking):
Ach my dear boy, I am zorry to ze tzat you hafe learnt nothtzing. I waz mezmerized by thizs and itsz satz all folz gold. I am proud thta you held your head and stuck to uouz principle of sozialism!.
He was actually Danish, so he did not speak like that 🙂 But he was a nazi at one time. But he converted from National socialism to Social Democratic socialism. I have no doubt he would have shot Tony Blair at first sight, but alas, he died before) but he severely repented “stuff” , he thought he was going to fight the bolsheviks. He died in 1985, ever the black sheep, and when his brother, my grandfather died (1982) he was ostracized and forgotten, even though he tried to make amends.
What spurred me to write this was a post at another site that called out for Genocide of Lebenese people and, Syrians, Iraqis, and Iranians. Having lived for 62 years with a divided family (I am part jew, my mother was jewish) and a inherited debt of guilt all my life, I simply exploded; I was called out all the time in my youth, even at officers exam in the army, because of my easily recognizable surname. I have paid enough.
And now a self confessed jew calls out for genocide!! I needed 3 malts to calm down.
But that I suppose is where we are. I don’t know who will help us.
Craig can breath a sigh of relief now that the judge hearing the suit against Fox New for fabricating the case that their son Seth Rich, who worked for the DNC, may have been killed for leaking its emails to Wikileaks has been dismissed for a lack of evidence,
Remember Craig’s story of being their delivery boy.
Some evil.
My gran uncle have a few words to say through me ( Long dead Sturmbannfürhrer in 5th. Division Viking):
Ach my dear boy, I am zorry to ze tzat you hafe learnt nothtzing. I waz mezmerized by thizs and itsz satz all folz gold. I am proud thta you held your head and stuck to uouz principle of sozialism!.
He was actually Danish, so he did not speak like that 🙂 But he was a nazi at one time. But he converted from National socialism to Social Democratic socialism. I have no doubt he would have shot Tony Blair at first sight, but alas, he died before) but he severely repented “stuff” , he thought he was going to fight the bolsheviks. He died in 1985, ever the black sheep, and when his brother, my grandfather died (1982) he was ostracized and forgotten, even though he tried to make amends.
What spurred me to write this was a post at another site that called out for Genocide of Lebenese people and, Syrians, Iraqis, and Iranians. Having lived for 62 years with a divided family (I am part jew, my mother was jewish) and a inherited debt of guilt all my life, I simply exploded; I was called out all the time in my youth, even at officers exam in the army, because of my easily recognizable surname. I have paid enough.
And now a self confessed jew calls out for genocide!! I needed 3 malts to calm down.
But that I suppose is where we are. I don’t know who will help us. God ?
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the death (executed) of Roger Casement. Described as the father of twentieth-century human rights investigations.
Here is his inspiring speech from the dock.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Roger_Casement%27s_speech_from_the_dock
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement
Casement figures as a central character in Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, the history of the Belgians in the Congo:
“Casement saw much more brutality on the part of other white men in Africa. It is hard to tell whether there was a particular moral turning point for him, as there was for E D Morel when he made his discoveries in Antwerp and Brussels. One such moment for Casement may have been in 1887 when he travelled up the Congo river on a steamboat that also carried a Force Publique officer named Guillaume Van Kerchoven. Van Kerchhoven was a hot-headed, notoriously aggressive commander with a rakish grin and a waxed-tip mustache, one of whose expeditions even the Congo’s Governor general called “a hurricane which passed through the countryside leaving nothing but devastation behind it.” Casement listened, aghast, as Van Kerchhoven cheerfully explained how he paid his black soldiers five brass rods (2 and a half pence.) per human head they brought him during the course of any military operations he conducted. He said it was to stimulate their prowess in the face of the enemy.” (Page 196)
It does not seem that the soldiers had any problem with the practice.
@ pete August 3, 2018 at 23:19
If you read the book, you will remember the picture of the Black African man, kneeling down and contemplating one hand and one foot, on a small carpet, of his very young (3, 4?) year old daughter, cut off because the man did not collect enough rubber from the plantation.
That’s life, under League of Nations, who also gave Britain the Mandate over Palestine, with all the subsequent abominations.
Beauty of it is, Woodrow Wilson, who was the brainchild of the League of Nations, didn’t manage to get the US to join.
Yes, the book is distressing to read. There are things to say about Woodrow Wilson too, but this is not the forum for that.
@ pete August 4, 2018 at 09:58
I put the cart before the horse in above comment:
‘..Woodrow Wilson, who was the brainchild of the League of Nations, didn’t manage to get the US to join.’
What I meant, of course, was the the League of Nations was his brainchild, or at least he drove it forward zealously (but in the case of the US, ineffectively).
My understanding was that Wilson was put into the Presidency specifically to pass the planned Federal Reserve Act. He later regretted it:
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” -Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve into existence.’
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Woodrow_Wilson#%22I_am_a_most_unhappy_man…%22
I’m sure judging by that effort that it would have been very enlightening and informative. Such a shame it was denied to us.
BREAKING CONSPIRACY THEORY*
The REAL Skripals were not seen by anyone on 4th March, except the intelligence persons who kidnapped them.
There is no evidence of them having been properly identified by anyone in Salisbury.
All apparent identifications are by persons made to believe that they were the Skripals.
There is not one single CCTV image of them seen in Salisbury, which explains why none has been released by the police.
The duck feeding boys’ parents were shown videos of actors pretending to be the Skripals, two weeks after the alleged poisonings. The video has not been released to the public.
If the Skripals had been poisoned by the door handle when they left home, the boys would have been in grave danger. Would the police have waited two weeks to find them?
The alleged poisonings in Salisbury and the accusations against Russia are to cover up a major scandal, probably the UK government’s role in trying to prevent Trump from winning.
*Breaking on this lazy blog – well discussed elsewhere – it is not my creation, but seems credible to me.
The author of this blog posts sensational stories to incite his readers but does not follow them up. It is two months since he said he was going to post his own theory.
He should stop seeking sympathy at every opportunity and get on with the “day job”? What sort of treatment did he expect from the establishment?
CB: ” It is two months since he said he was going to post his own theory.”
Actually, it’s just at the long end of a fortnight:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/the-holes-in-the-official-skripal-story/
Interesting points you raise there, nonetheless – thanks for that.
As for what sort of treatment CM expected from the authorities… I suppose if you’re under the illusion that we actually stand for something decent – as a country – and you try to work to further that aim, it comes as a bit of a shock to discover that’s not what we’re about at all. Further to that, if you try to bring matters of serious concern to the attention of people you believed uphold these values, and you get told to sit down and shut up, it must be something of a jolt.
After all, not everyone working in upper echelons of the civil service is a complete cynic – not yet, anyway. You have to give them a bit of time to see how it really works.
Which of hisany dayjobs swould you prefer? And thank for coming to the same conclusion as Craig.
Did you voice ypur suspicions when it happened? Or were you alarmed by Craigs post? Hes a busy man who needs the odd break, just as you do.
If there is evidence that Jack Straw,David Milliband, Brown, Blair etc knew about torture and were complicit in it’s execution along with rendition etc. Why doesn’t someone throw down the gauntlet and make a direct accusation in public and see if they sue for libel ?
Presumably they would have state aid to pay their legal fees, so if they are innocent they would have nothing to lose.
@ Geoffrey August 3, 2018 at 23:31
That is implicit in Craig’s testimony, I believe, but the a**holes haven’t taken the bait.
I suspect Craig would be more than willing to take on Straw and Bliar, and any other hangers on.
Then he would be dealing with evidence, rather than a slip of the tongue.
And the a**holes don’t like it up ’em (well, maybe I’m wrong there!).
Maybe we should start a fund to get Craig to do start a process if that helps.
Maybe if a popular figure who would get tabloid coverage made the accusations ? Eg a Russel Brand ?
@ Geoffrey August 4, 2018 at 07:52
Russel Brand is definitely highly dodgy – short video, but there is plenty of other info on the net:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PAzspMCj4o
He’s not the sort of person for serious business like taking on Bliar, Straw etc.
Why has Craig’s site stopped saving people’s info, so it is necessary to add name and email each time?
I have not ecounterd That From my end Paul
It was Great to hear your Project is moving Forward BTW
And Thanks for Sharing the Wee Chained Tot Foto
@ Brianfujisan August 4, 2018 at 02:04
There used to be a little box below the ‘Comment’ box that said ‘Remember my name and email’ or something. That box has now disappeared.
Re the tot, there is an even worse picture, purportedly of the same baby, with it’s heart cut out.
I tried to verify if it was genuine, but have been unable to.
I was getting paranoid and thought I was the only one. Maybe it is to make it more difficult for repeat commentators?
I doubt it. More likely to do with data protection.
Correct. It is to comply with the recently introduced EU-wide privacy laws. Websites must now obtain informed consent from users before saving data about them, even when that data is stored on the users’ own systems in the form of cookies.
Most people’s browsers are set to retain ‘form history’; ie. what you have previously entered into the fields of the comment form. If you click in an empty form field, your browser will produce a list of entries you have made previously; just click on the one you want to use and it will be filled in automatically.
Correction:
– “If you click twice in an empty form field…”
I don’t know why the tick-box has disappeared; I’ll ask about it later.
OK, we have an answer.
The “Save my name” etc. tick-box disappeared because of a mistake in the latest WordPress update; sites hosted at WordPress.com itself have been affected similarly. On this blog, site admin have just now implemented a work-around. However, this will probably be undone by the next update of WordPress, causing the tick-box to disappear again until the work-around is re-implemented manually.
So he is trying to get troublemakers like me to stop coming, snd the errand boy is succeeding.
Yes it’s all about suppressing you and your world-changing knowledge, Trowbridge. Obviously.
Well, it won’t allow, for example, anything about Reagan’s ‘October Surprise’ to appear which resulted in the CIA assassinations of Jphn Lennon, that attempt on The Gipper himself, and now Pappy Bush’s cardiologist Dr. Mark Hausknecht.
Need I supply more?
The major story breaking today is that Christopher Steele was previously working then fired by the FBI. This story at the moment is focusing on the Trump dossier but who knows what it might lead to in relationships to the novichok saga.
https://www.rt.com/usa/435078-fbi-steele-redacted-documents/
The FBI admonished Christopher Steele on 02 02 2016, (p71), so way before Fusion GPS allegedly hired him. Also notice the 99% blank space: so much to hide. https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/
Trump administration lifts ban on pesticides linked to declining bee numbers
Environmentalists say lifting the restriction poses a grave threat to pollinating insects
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/04/trump-administration-lifts-ban-on-pesticides-linked-to-declining-bee-numbers
The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted.
Environmentalists, who had sued to bring about the two-year-old ban, said on Friday that lifting the restriction poses a grave threat to pollinating insects and other sensitive creatures relying on toxic-free habitats afforded by wildlife refuges.
“Industrial agriculture has no place on refuges dedicated to wildlife conservation and protection of some of the most vital and vulnerable species,” said Jenny Keating, federal lands policy analyst for the group Defenders of Wildlife.’
[..]
Sheehan said the move was needed to ensure adequate forage for migratory birds, including ducks and geese favored and hunted by sportsmen on many of the nation’s refuges. US interior secretary Ryan Zinke, whose department oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, has made expansion of hunting on public lands a priority for his agency.’
No words.
No words.
She took Arthur Askey along for her menage a trois with Emmanuel and Brigitte on the Cote d’Azur. That was a bad move.
Meanwhile, panic now grips the Wiltshire Constabulary, the associated security forces and the purveyors of tatterdemalion Official Narratives as they whirl despairingly around the Salisbury Black Hole and its twin the Amesbury Triangle in ever decreasing circles. For these suck in everything, including reason.
‘But on spotting a ceremonial antique weapon in the fort’s ramparts, her husband risked dampening the mood as he said: “Ah, a cannon – to stop the English.”
To which Mrs Macron promptly replied: “No, it’s not for England.”
The financier’s remark was embarrassing, given the visit’s purpose was to court the French leader amid Mrs May’s tricky Brexit negotiations.’
‘Financier’ LOL I read that he was some sort of relationship manager at Capital Bank, a US outfit.
‘May has worked in finance since graduating from university. As of 2016, he has been employed by the financial group Capital International as a relationship manager for more than ten years; he had previously been a fund manager for de Zoete & Bevan, Prudential Portfolio Managers and Deutsche Asset Management. His former LinkedIn profile listed his focuses in work as pension fund and insurance relationship management.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_May
Although I have no knowledge of this particular Fort, I would speculate that the cannon was emplaced there to repel Muslim corsairs, pirates and slave-raiders, who terrorised the Mediterranean for twelve hundred years, from the seventh-century on.
An encouraging post. This interview left me pretty gob smacked.
https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/36006172/kerri-harris-runs-for-delaware-upset/
Formally served during Iraq invasion.
Thanks for that. Quite a moving interview. Kerri certainly has a real grasp of what really matters at ground level. Wish her all the best.
The significant increase in ex military running for political office was picked up earlier this year by ICFI. Kudos to them for the basic research but why do they have to see this as some sinister, deep state conspiracy?
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/13/pers-m13.html
A message from a friend in Gaza.
Dear beloved …..
Warm Greetings and thanks for the message.
The 2nd flottila boat was captured by israeli naval forces and dragged to Ashdod ….. participants will be interrogated then deported as usual. Palestinian participants will be kept for further interrogations………
Thank you.