In Florianapolis, Brazil. I am fit and well and very busy. I have neither retired from the fight nor am I sulking in my tent. Simply so much is happening in my life at the moment and I am in a crucial period for my long term ability to earn a living for myself and my family. I am also devoting an extraordinary amount of time – many thousands of hours – to research on the Burnes book. So just now I cannot find the resources to blog well. I apologise to my readers and commenters for the intermission, which was unplanned and a result of things piling up on me. But I will be back, and the pressures on me are of a positive rather than negative nature.
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‘Atos, Unum, Mp’s, Norman Lamb, Democracy & Trust ?’
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6491#newspost
‘Conservative MP piloting legal aid cuts may profit from the changes’
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?id=6485#newspost
Hello Mike – I’m not ‘buying’ it either; of course the ‘game is rigged’ and we all know it.
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Interestingly the game has changed. The Arab Spring and a now fragile peace treaty with Egypt has forced the Zionist regime to rethink Israel’s long term survival objectives.
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The Zionists lead by war criminal Sharon conceived limited conflict with weak opponents such as Syria and Palestine would aid long term survival objectives.
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Peace in the region would kill Israel’s apartheid by natural migration that might also drive out Israelis of Western or European origin who find it hard to integrate with local middle east culture. Israel might disintegrate from the inside.
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Conflict brings Israel sympathy, American arms, American dollars and propaganda (rocket attacks).
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Sharon believed peace in the region would evolve the country back to what it was as Palestine.
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Yet America, the provider has been weakened by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The world’s economy is crashing and fossil fuel is becoming a scarce form of energy with no real alternative. Israel is becoming isolated, the double edge sword is sharper on the back-swing as pressure mounts for peace. Peace will destroy the Jewish homeland in the eyes of the Zionist terrorists.
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Thus a vision slowly appears – Israel’s enemies must be destroyed now, this year, this month, this week. Syria must fall to NATO bombs and Iran must fall to nuclear annihilation.
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That of course must be the Zionist diabolical plan.
‘Virgin media threatens, fines and abuses dying customers and grieving families.’
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/virgin-media-threatens-fines-and-abuses.html
Mark Golding: I liked that, “Peace will destroy the Jewish homeland”.
I think that eventually Israel will revert to what it was before.They have adopted the Palestinian diet as their own and we are what we eat.
“Simply so much is happening in my life at the moment and I am in a crucial period for my long term ability to earn a living for myself and my family. ”
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Look after yourself and those you love first. Everything and everyone else is secondary.
Good to see you’re still with us Craig. 😀
Mary, thanks for posting the links on Israel, interesting stuff.
THE ARROGANCE of POWER – Stephen M Walt:
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“Since World War II, the United States has fought at least eight wars (Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Iraq War I, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Gulf War II), and we’ve intervened in other countries countless times. Israel has fought at least six wars since independence (the 1956 Suez War, 1967 Six Day War, 1969-70 War of Attrition, 1973 October War, 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and 2006 war in Lebanon), and it started the wars in 1956, 1967, 1982, and 2006. It has also conducted innumerable cross-border raids and covert actions.
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Iran has fought one war during that same period — against Iraq — and only because Saddam Hussein attacked. It has also provided material support to groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, but its overseas activities are paltry compared with ours.
Yet it is these two comparatively powerful and nuclear-armed nations are insisting that Iran cannot under any circumstances have its own nuclear weapons — which Iran has repeatedly said it does not seek — and Israel’s leaders are declaring that Iran must give up even the potential to acquire them.”
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http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/25/the_arrogance_of_power
The British involvement in those wars is not included I see Mark.
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At the time of the Coronation, we were fighting the Communists in Korea. Almost forgotten now. Now 60 years later, we are still doing the same for Queen and Country but the enemy now are ‘terrrrists’. All wrapped round with the bloody flag.
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This is Michael Caine who was doing National Service in the Royal Fusiliers.
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Michael Caine on his service in Korea:
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“Whenever I killed someone there was no guilt, no remorse – it didn’t feel real. It was during the Korean War and I was just trying to stay alive. It was self-defense. It was always done at night and we never had any idea who we had killed. I didn’t even think about it – we had machine guns and we just did it. I never did anything close up or hand-to-hand. It didn’t give me nightmares, because the Army brutalizes you. It was like the World War I trenches – half a mile apart – and we were just firing backwards and forwards, so we never knew who any of our victims were as individuals. You never saw the whites of a man’s eyes when you killed him.”
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http://seanlinnane.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/michael-caine-royal-fusilier_19.html
Hmm, what does this latest ‘airstrike’ consist off? hasthe word drone been edited out? These latest Aghan murders of civilians, with high tech weaponry and the follow upm report shows that the powers to be won’t like their murderous NATO effort ‘misinterpreted’.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/05/20125277911748807.html
Thanks, Mark G. Indeed it is arrogance and deliberate planning from the start.
Why should we forget that in 2000, a russian born CIA double agent gave the Iranian Atachee in Vienna a deliberately altered blueprint for a nuclear device/bomb, in order to then be able to implicate that Irasn had ‘knowledge’ of making these devices.
That single event clearly shows the premeditated nature of the wests resolve at a relationship with Persia.
A ploy, sad and tired as the Iraq WMD plot, to vilify and sanction this oil and resource rich country Persia. Its a peaceloving country, a fact to mention at all times, one that is not easily rubbed out.
Absolutely no irony whatsoever.
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Orwell prize: Christopher Hitchens honoured with memorial award
Widow accepts Hitchens’ honorary prize, as Toby Harnden scoops prize with book the Ministry of Defence paid to pulp
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/24/week-in-books-orwell-prize-hitchens?newsfeed=true
Note that ZBC doesn’t really believe the report Nevermind.
The use of inverted commas in the title says it all. A little like their reporting of atrocities perpetrated against the Palestinians by Israel. Israel says…etc
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Nato air strike ‘kills Afghan family’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18224875#
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The blood keeps flowing into the sand and dust.
I see a kind mod has illuminated the nystery of smilies in my post above, Rose.
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Donnie -“I think that eventually Israel will revert to what it was before.They have adopted the Palestinian diet as their own and we are what we eat.”
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Hmmm. Isn’t that more a case of eating (a) what’s available in the region and (b) what the near -identical dietary laws* of both Judaism and Islam permit? And the historical failure of Jews to assimilate beyond the bare minimum with the societies they find themseves in is notorious. Sorry, but it is. They’ve documented that extensively. Judaism is intentionally difficult for outsiders to join, readily forms economic and social cliques, and is, if truth were told, far less likely to accept goyim into its orbit than they are to reciprocate. IMO as long as the creed endures, so will the friction. The best we can hope for is that the moderate aspects of Judaism, which have a humanitarian tradition, prevail.
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*Strictly speaking, these should also apply to Christians. However, they were corrupted by Greek and Roman cuisine, thank God. It was the Romans who became Christians, not the other way round….
What a monster. There are few people of whom Britain can be less proud than the aristocratic arms salesman Prince Andrew:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9291896/Money-laundering-probe-puts-spotlight-on-the-15-million-sale-of-the-Duke-of-Yorks-home.html
Of course, there are some even worse people, e.g. a certain man giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry tomorrow.
http://www.arrestblair.org/blairs-schedule
It is so hot outside that I came indoors. There was a choice of golf, F1 or tennis. I clicked on to the golf. There was Lord Coe hobnobbing with a smoothie who we were told by Hazel Irvine owns the course.
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That’s not all he owns. Friend of Lords Levy and Philip Green and with a vast empire. Very acquisitive.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caring
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Note his non-dom tax situation. Revolting.
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I assume Coe’s minions are doing all the last minute stuff at Stratford and elsewhere.
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Cowell, Green and Caring here.
{http://www.metro.co.uk/news/860610-simon-cowell-accused-of-helping-tycoon-hide-alleged-2bn-fortune}
Spare a thought for the regular Israelis guys, I’m sure there are plenty of good innocent people in the country. In fact I’ve always been a bit bewildered by the venom towards a whole country full of people, who like you and I had very little choice in what they’re leaders were doing. 🙂
The owner of the house in Acton where Warsi was staying for which she was claiming £165 overnight allowance is said to be this doctor.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafik_Moustafa
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Baroness Warsi: Labour urges expenses probe
Lady Warsi says she made ‘appropriate payments’
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Labour MPs are calling for an investigation into an expenses claim by the co-chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, in 2008.
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Questions are being asked about whether she paid rent at a London house, for which she claimed an allowance.
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Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna told the BBC’s Sunday Politics there had to be a “proper” investigation.
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Lady Warsi said she made “appropriate” payments equivalent to what she was paying at the time in hotel costs.
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{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18227036}
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The opinionated Warsi is always the first to condemn wrongdoers.
Nevermind,
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Is Congressman Brad Sherman human?
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Take a good hard look at this AIPAC android:
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http://bradsherman.house.gov/2011/04/sherman-ros-lehtinen-lead-effort-to-stop-licenses-for-repair-of-iranian-aircraft.shtml
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Mr Sherman, a Russian Jew, said, “Critics [of the sanctions on Iran] argued that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.”
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Mr Sherman is the leading force behind sanctions that have prevented the upkeep of Iran’s civilian fleet of Boeing aircraft sold to Iran together with a legal requirement to supply knowledge and spare parts as necessitated by safety updates.
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Mr Sherman pressed the International Air Transport Association to apply political sanctions, despite the fact that Iran is a member of the international trade group of airlines and pays membership fees to the body. Mr Sherman also lobbied the EU stopping Iran’s civilian aircraft from using its airspace which rubbed off on agent Cameron who made certain Iranian aircraft could not refuel at Manston Airport in Britain. [Wiki]
In the past decade more than a thousand people have been killed in Iranian civilian air crashes. The most recent occurred in January this year when a Boeing 727, built in 1974, crashed with a loss of 93 civilian passengers, including children. [Aviation Safety Network report].
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I have reminded Mr Sherman that Russia [Soviet Union] was the most powerful and dangerous enemy the United States ever had (neither Nazi Germany nor Imperial Japan had nuclear arsenals), yet even at the height of the Cold War, Presidents Kennedy and Reagan emphasised that it was the Russian government that was our enemy, not the Russian people. Members of Congress did not suggest doing our best to encourage Aeroflot planes to fall out of the air killing innocent children.
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Bravo Mr Brad Sherman, you have ensured that Iran’s civilian air fleet is the most dangerous in the world. Three cheers for your total obedient to Zionism, your vast memory recall and specialised knowledge; although too menial or too dangerous for humans and other species, like all droids you are entirely and wholly expendable!
The immediate logic to point the finger, at the physical location -what is called the “nation”, driven by.. the most combative few.. all at war for land and everything else war promises. all concerned their families might suffer defeat. Stuck in a historical predicament sometimes seeming glorious sometimes shameful.
Possibly, it is the normal Israeli people which web discussion should most productively aim to reach -at least to allow on board the road to resolutions. It is an obstacle to reach key groups to characterise them harshy, to worry them even.
Who is for peace, who is for rearranging war, who knows?
UK retailers going bust jumps 38 pct in quarter
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Note an economic growth rate of less than two percent is considered to be a case for recession, however with the current growth rate of zero percent and given the inflationary trends (which currently is far higher than the acknowledged levels) the contraction in economy is a case for depression, hence the jump of forty percent in the bankruptcies within the retail sector.
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The fact that there exists an inflationary economy that is concurrently also contacting is the case for stagflation which has been blighting Japanese lives now for a few decades.
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However it is patently obvious that underwriting wars, making good the bankers losses, and financial aid to various basket case countries that includes isreal, can no longer be foisted upon the tax payers.
As I read this piece, I was thinking of what part Fox/Werritty played in this arming of the Sri Lankan government.
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Sri Lanka War Crimes – Genocide with West Complicity
by Ron Ridenour / May 25th, 2012
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/05/sri-lanka-war-crimes-genocide-with-west-complicity/
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This is the paragraph on Israel’s contributions.
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Israel
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The Zionist State — which practices genocide against the Palestinians whose right to self-determination was recognized by 46 governments on the HRC during the 19th session with only the US voting against — hardly comes into the spotlight when the Sri Lanka-Tamil conflict is discussed.
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Nevertheless, “Israel has been a faithful supplier to Sri Lanka” serving the military, commerce and politics, as the Swedish book maintains.
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The most decisive sales and donations in the latter years of war came from Israel (and China). A vast number of combat aircraft—nine of 24 since 2000; 16 Kfir jets in all—and many of the ships (especially six Super Dvora and 38 Shaldag fast patrol craft) used by Sri Lanka came from Israel. It also supplied seven unmanned vehicles, 16 anti-ship mines, communication and surveillance equipment, and great quantities of ammunition; plus pilots and Mossad intelligence agents.
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Makhdoom Babar, editor-in-chief of the pro-Sri Lanka government Daily Mail reported that Israel uses Sri Lanka waters to test their missiles.
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A 2009 SIPRI report, “International Arms Transfers”, shows that between 2000 and 2007, Sri Lanka acquired “several large warships from India, Israel and the USA”. The Swedish-based international arms conflict monitor reported that Israel has been a major and effective arms supplier.2
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Mossad-Israel military intelligence also played an important role in preventing Tamils from gaining their liberation. In the 1980s Israeli experts advised Sri Lanka to create border villages and arm Sinhala civilians as home guards. This is what the US also did in parts of Southeast Asia during its genocidal war in the 1960s-70s.
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US Quakers divest from Caterpillar.
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After a roller coaster United Methodist divestment campaign ending in partial victory, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is so excited to announce that the Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation (FFC), which holds over $200 million in assets, has divested from Caterpillar! FFC divested $900,000 in shares of Caterpillar, which continues to feel the pressure from all sides for its production and sale of weaponized bulldozers to Israel, used to violate Palestinian rights and destroy Palestinian homes, schools, hospitals, olive groves, and lives.
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Ann Arbor Quakers asked FFC to divest and issued this warm statement of thanks:
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“Ann Arbor Friends welcome the decision by Friends Fiduciary Corporation (FFC) to divest from Caterpillar Corp. This is a significant step since FFC handles investments for over 250 Quaker meetings, schools, organizations, trusts, and endowments around the US. In taking this action, FFC is truly upholding the core commitment of the Society of Friends to peace. We ask Friends and people of faith everywhere to join us in expressing thanks to FFC and asking them to continue divesting from all companies that are helping to sustain the Israeli occupation.”
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Let’s heed their call. Click here to thank FFC for its decision to divest from Caterpillar!
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http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=F4Xtl7d2KorSK9cld5aB8pTOqBA%2FVGzs
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PS Caterpillar Campaign
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The company which best exemplifies the interest of US corporations in the Occupation and the complete refusal to address human rights concerns in the region is Caterpillar. The most destructive weapon of the Occupation may not be an F-16 or helicopter gunship, but rather, an armor plated D-9 or D-11 bulldozer. These are the machines that have demolished thousands of homes, uprooted countless olive trees, and carved gaping holes in roads, making them impassable. Even when used in Israel’s colonial intrusions on the land through construction of illegal housing or bypass roads, CAT equipment is being used daily in the commission of war crimes and violations of human rights.
Enjoy Brazil…I am stuck over here in South Sudan at the moment…
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Well, yes. There’s something in that. It is rather the reverse of the policy pursued by Israel against the Lebanese, the Palestinians and now Iran, though, isn’t it? About whose people the same can be said, and whose people have an equally small chance of changing their leaders’ direction. The vast majority of people, regardless of their state’s orientation, want only to get on with their own lives, undisturbed by bullets whistling past their heads, and that should be a statement of the bleeding obvious.*
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Let’s not be beastly to the Israelis? Let’s not be beastly to the Iranians, either, eh? Lift the bloody sanctions and stop demonising them. Ah, sorry. You are the People. You have no control over your State….
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*It should also be obvious that the State’s measures alleged to stop bullets whistling etc almost invariably result in an increase in the number of bullets etc….
The psychopath is answering questions at Leveson, ie putting on another performance. Looking more weasel-like than ever. The right eyelid droops even more and the hands are hyperactive. He should be made to keep them in his pockets. The hollow man is either suffering from a menopausal hot flush or he has had too much sun.
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It is extremely uosetting to hear his voice again.
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I hope Robert Jay cuts him down to size.
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http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/hearings/
A Mr Doron believes in ‘free markets’ for the Middle East. I wonder if he understands the meaning of ‘free’ vis a vis Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
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http://thepassionateattachment.com/2012/05/27/israels-free-market-solution-for-the-middle-east/#more-5006
good to hear from u, craig. enjoy the scenery as well.
MSM psyops continue apace, so many wars and threats of war.
don’t let it get u down.
His bitterness about bad press is music to my ears.
Hopefully his voice will be heard from the dock one day.
Mark Golding, thanks for your e-mail about comments of yours that have gone missing; did you get my reply? I’ve just found four of yours in the queue; I’ve approved one and deleted three near-duplicates.
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Your comments were presumably queued by the spam filter, but I don’t know why; it wasn’t the “two links” rule, as two of the duplicates had the link curly-bracketed.
Notice how uses “you” extensively when justifying himself?
Eg. “you were in a position where you were dealing with very powerful people who had a big impact in the political system,” he says, adding that if these people were against you they were “really out against you”.
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Who is this “you”? Not Leveson or Jay, for sure. The reporters and their public, perhaps. A transparent but often effective technique for creating engagement. But I increasingly get the feeling that this is Blair’s imaginary friend or inner voice, a separate personality from Blair, and one which can be implied to have done all the bad stuff while nice-Blair resons with it ineffectually.