I am delighted that a new canpaign has started today against the state enforced child slavery in the uzbek cotton industry, especially as this campaign originates in Germany, where a significant portion of society appears to have finally woken up to the reality of the German government’s appalling complicity in the Nazi style regime and atrocities of Karimov.
However in the UK it remains the case that since the coalition government came to power, there has not been one single government statement on the human rights atrocities in Uzbekistan or – even more damning of our sham democracy – one single statement or question from New Labour.
“Mission to Mali: UK to send 200 troops to Africa just days after 5,300 are axed
29 Jan 2013
The deployment marks a major ramping up of UK efforts against the Islamist groups behind the Algeria hostage massacre and Mali rebellion.”
I think we’re only there to keep an eye on the French and make sure they don’t surrender.
Anyone who equates the (horrible and tragic) situation of the Palestians to the Jewish holocaust is a fool.
Any fool who cannot see because he’s wanton blind best go to speccsavers.
Not to have the humility and magnanimity of a Cambodia, punished and ravaged for daring to be next to a US slaughter ground, forgive, were American young men were sent to be slaughtered, really has no spine or brawn left in their own body.
When Britain is infested with BICOM and FoI’s we get ilk as such come here and spout their Holocaust denials, as if priory and making money from showing tourists the horrors that has been done to one’s forefathers and fathers, is a legitimate business. Making money from the bones of one’s dead has got to be the most disgusting profits ever.
Now to the psychological deeds of depraved warfare, that of shooting children to hurt their family friends and all those who came to enjoy their wry smiles, their laughter and play, who has seen them grow up and those who had high hopes that their offspring will be one day realising their dreams and wishes.
Killing children deliberately, whether it is via an order given to soldiers or via a bill of rights that allows nutters to buy guns, regardless, is most vile, de human and depraved.
To defend such behaviour means that you have no two brain cells to rub together.
Zionism is fascismn and the sooner those weary of war realise this and overthrow their yoch from within the better for it. The religious notion of the chosen one’s, by no means the only one in the world, adhered to after a long and arduous and insecure journey, hampered by infighting strife and murder amongst one’s own ranks, no more than clever propaganda, the soothing cloth after much pain, propagated to jeer up an insecure and internally torn people.
Just as today’s disabled, unemployed and those with not much means, permanently injured soldiers, Arabs who helped and made the state work, without whom the country would be reliant on ‘DIY’ and other ‘blind’ slaves from Russia, America and Romania.
The murderers leading their people are not popular by their actions, their unwillingness to make peace means an uncertain future for one’s own children; and they are not happy any more with making war against everyone, having to steal land to let fascists live on it who treat other human beings who rightfully own this land like dirt, worse than animals.
Why? because they think they can live by their prophesies.
And what off the rest of the world? what of their rules, fora and laws? Well the normal discourse for such Zionists is threats, disdain, rejection and murder on the high seas.
A rogue nation with no borders should be chucked out of the UN, not fettered and given special status. The EU, once their presidency changes, should only ever exchange trade for humanitarian advances, You want to trade? be civilised to those who live with you.
Israel should be taught to live with its neighbours, not indulged in its fascist nationalistic tendencies.
And you will never stop us talking about it here,we will continue to show up the compliances of our own spineless self interested politicians with the money men that turn BICOM into a back hander machine to be able to influence people like William Hague and British Foreign policy with it.
This is not about parties though, one look at Jim Murphy’s shekel politics makes it obvious that BICOM sees no parties, just malleable strings to pull, but about how we elect these shirkers, an old election process that is manipulated, as massaged, fraudulent and deceptive as that of Uzbekistan’s dictatorship, we just do not realise it.
Bring on demarchy, bravo Laurent Louis, good shout, Britain needs a Government of Citizens as well. Looking at the unwillingness to change in Davos, the back slapping and gerrymandering of things to come, it is obvious that the EU will change for the worse for people.
Still I maintain participation, even if our Foreign policy has been usurped by a rogue country, giving up is not an option.
Tony Blair acted in good faith, and accountability and reasoning of Blairs “good faith” is how peace is avoided. New paths are there fo taking its just the theold path s are well worn, and the pathfinders are mostly self serving.
How we are aware of Blairs good faith may help us understand our own path and strengthen our commitment to it. When questioned we must always stick to our guiding principals.
Mary please carry on, you have my faith.
Glenn, thank you very much for those figures on who posted how many times on various recent threads! They were quite revealing.
“The odds of such a symmetrical occurrence (that of WTC7 flat uniform free-fall collapse over its entire 100 yard length, no less!) exceed the 2.5 billion to one chance of an error in DNA evidence!”
According to who and based on what?
So Fred (00h16 today) seems to believe that Palestinian infant mortality figures justify equating the Palestinian tragedy with the genocide of the Jews (aka the Holocaust).
Nonssensical, of course, but Fred’s figues got me all curious and so I looked up the figures on the Infant Mortality Rate (number of deaths of infants under 1 year old per 1000 live births) as published by the Unitede Nations Population Division.
Firstly, those figures show that the Palestinian IMR is 5 times the Israeli one, not 7.
But, more interestingly, Israel comes in at 20th in the league table with an IMR of 5.09.
Thus, it does better than illustrious countries like Ireland, Canada, Greece, New Zealand, Cuba, USA, Poland, etc, etc. Curiously, it also does better than the really rich Arab countries like the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia.
The figure for the Palestinian territories is 24.81 (so, about 5 times higher than Israel.
This compares unfavorably – but perhaps not too unfavorably – with the IMRs of the neighbouring Arab states of Syria and Jordan, which weigh in at 17.75 and 23.78 respectively.
Finally, the Palestinian figure is better than the figures for most of Africa and countries such as Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt,Iran, Turkey, Brazil, Peru, India, etc etc.
Feel free to come back with a better argument on why Israel’s deplorable treatment of the Palestinians is the same as the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews during WW2.
“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men
Gang aft agley
And leave us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy!
Robert Burns.
HywC.
I would just like to say I read the comments mainly for the useful information that Mary imparts so please don’t pick on her. On another subject, does anyone know anything about the British Defence Contractors Britam? I came across them at Cyberwarnews.com. They’ve apparently been asked to arrange a false flag operation in Syria as well as being up to their necks in Iran, Saudi Arabia etc.and are run by Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE.
+ another
The number has risen in the two hours I have been away at a swimming session.
UK is to deploy around 350 troops to Mali and West Africa to support French forces, Downing Street says = Breaking News BBC
There is an emergency ‘debate’ on our ‘intervention’ in Mali in the HOC at 12.30 when that very virile defence (offence) minister Hammond will respond.
Thanks for all your posts, Mary.
You give rather than detract. You flesh out topics with useful background information and introduce breaking stories. You’re a strong reassuring presence that adds to the sense of community here. Your heart is plainly in the right place.
I am confident that nobody with good intentions towards this blog is anything other than grateful for all your contributions. Recent attacks on you are a kind of back-handed compliment, a recognition of your importance here.
Let’s use these attacks to make us stronger.
Bless you for saying that A Node although we never used to have to say such things. There is an unpleasant atmosphere now on this good blog.
I was just listening to Alex Crawford of Sky News who has been embedded with the French army and disseminating this coalition’s war propaganda just as she did in Libya and Syria. She is now in Timbuktu. It would be funny if it was not so serious but following the eupohoria of yesterday’s ‘liberation’ by the French, as she put it, she is reporting mass looting taking place and general disorder. Cameron is involving us in another situation like Libya and look at that country now. There were even beheadings reported the other day and British consular staff are in danger.
Another state broadcaster, Mr Naughtie of Radio 4 Today was heard to say this morning that a few months ago, hardly anyone in this country knew where Mali was, thus insulting many of us. He also used the term ‘Islamo fascist’. Irony is dead. As opposed to Christian Judeo fascist, especially when we feed the so called Islamic fascists in Syria with ‘communications’ equipment to ‘oust’ Assad as per Hague’s ‘aid’ packages. The vortex sucks for ever louder; our ‘civilization’ is white and skin deep.
The leaders know we have NO power when they have all the power with the media by their side. Was In Amenas a false flag? The analysis is absent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Darroch – the National Security Advisor – the title apes the Yanks and his Wiki entry has been shorn. Must be MI something or other – selected at Durham which makes a change from Oxford.
There is hardly a mention of gold and uranium in the Mali coverage though La Belle France generates over 80% of its electricité with grossly polluting, Fukushima style, non-fossil fuel.
I am well past retirement age and consider that I am pretty well informed but I am ‘led’ by liars and homicidal psychopaths.
Thanks for that Summerhead, Britam is part of ADS, their ‘trade association’ and part of a future ‘ministry of truth’ if the privatiser’s get their way.
These ex forces agencies attracting mercenaries and paid soldiers, are asked to do the dirty work for the state again.
So now we are at war with MALI as well, when is the debate in the House about these soldiers send to fight?
http://www.adsgroup.org.uk/
Summerhead
Britam is a private security company providing Police & Military Training
There is a website: http://www.britamdefence.com/policemilitary.html
The threats to national security from terrorism and criminal activity are constantly changing in shape, scope and magnitude. Government security forces, whether military or police, must have the appropriate operational capabilities to respond effectively.
Britam is recognised as a leading provider of specialist training solutions for Government Police and military organisations. Our comprehensive training programmes cover all aspects of counter-terrorism, maritime and aviation security, and public order and public security.
Summerhead – Unsurprisingly Britain leads the pack in specialist security operations such as close protection, explosive entry, sniper teams, counter-insurgency, planting bombs and assassination mainly from experience gained in the IRA campaign by the Special Air Service.
At the beginning of 2012 a contact working out of Dubai was training ‘rebels’ or terrorists in a insurgency expansion campaign conducted as a combination of conventional military operations by the Free Syrian Army and other means, such as propaganda, psy-ops, and assassinations intended to dislodge the Syrian government of Assad and thwart any effort by Syria to cause trouble after a strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
An ex 2Para contact has now been silenced as agent Cameron attempts a damage limiting operation on British involvement in Syria and lays the ground for pre-strike raids into Iran including sabotage of Iran’s defensive missile installations.
Murdoch is back; the powerful elites are at it again:
In attendance at Rupert Murdoch’s private dinner in Mayfair last week were Boris Johnson and George Osborne. Very cosy. A full list of attendees doesn’t seem to be available.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/28/george-osborne-rupert-murdoch-dinner
The mayor is seen as a future challenger to David Cameron’s leadership of the Conservatives party and the recent meeting will fuel speculation of a closer relationship between him and the media mogul.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269055
@Mary: It doesn’t strike me that the tone here is any worse than usual. Look at the extensive race-baiting Suhayl received at one point.
There really is no need for division concerning those numbers – I only posted them as a matter of interest, using a little routine knocked up for a thread a couple of years ago. The fact that you (Mary) consistently come out on top is testament to CM’s statement, that you are the heart & soul of this blog. CM even suggested turning the blog over to you during his absence, which might not be a bad idea on these protracted occasions.
Did anyone get offended by my posting these numbers? That was certainly not intended.
It’s beyond a tiny algorithm to put a figure on the proportion of these posts that made a valid point, were directed as a affront against another individual, or have a net positive/ negative effect on this blog.
OK then thanks Glenn. I am probably and understandably touchy.
The Tory stooges all read out their questions to Mr Hammond. Nothing came of the debate. Hammond finished off in the manner of Naughtie by saying that until a few days ago, most of the public thought Timbuktu was a place in a fairy story book. An insultinh throwaway. Half way through he apologised for his earlier mistake in saying that the majority of the Malian population is Christian. It is of course Muslim. Showed us how much he knows.
We will have to learn a new acroymn. AFISMA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-led_International_Support_Mission_to_Mali
One of our Sentinel surveillance plane is also in the operation.
Update http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9834115/More-than-300-UK-troops-set-for-Mali-mission.html#
It was obvious from Hammond’s replies that this ‘intervention’ is being done on a shoestring and that resources badly needed in Afghanistan, eg the C17 transport planes, are being used.
Just looking up C17 to check I had got the name correct, I see that Canada is in Mali too. That was news to me.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/24/pol-c-17-extension-mali.html
No Glenn, there is one poster who has been freely flooding what they know to be pointless bullshit, since they arrived, starting on spelling and grammar.
Look at the moving misrepresentation and jibe to David for posting a quote from the shin bet guy. A short simple quote with a general meaning, responded with sneers of ‘only fools’ would suggest this [specific thing]… leading to “i found some data supporting my [fools extrapolation], go and get some data to prove you are not an extrapolating fool.” The poster sending that in knows it is bullshit, and has happily been flooding the board with similar and will continue to do so unless limited, and it does naturaly and unavoidably (barr buddha like detatchments) stink the place out.
Mary, what makes you suppose that Kim Darroch must be “MI something”? Because he’s the National Security Advisor? By that logic, and since we’re apparently “aping the Yanks”, US NSAs like Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Zbigniew Brzezinski must have been CIA or something. Unlikely!
Would you like me to say that Mary “must be a member of the Socialist Worker Party”? No, I think you’d tell me to get lost and you’d be right.
So I don’t think you should say that Kim Darroch was “selected” at Durham – and would prefer you to inform the readers of this blog about him by saying “attended Durham University, where he read zoology”.
I am more enraged and exasperated at the Murdoch caper Doug Scorgie. Bully boy Boris and Gideon Osborne are trampling on the eye-balls of Bob, Sally and Gemma Dowler, James and Margaret Watson, Sara Payne, parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, 7/7 victims mother Sheila Henry and more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20728141
I have written a letter to Lord Hunt and copied it to DAC Stephen Kavanagh citing ‘defeating the due course of justice’ and quoting Archbold.
And our Habbakuk must be a member of the BNP, a really intelligent outfit.
Stalking those you can’t usurp with your desire to control must be as hard to desist as gambling, unless Habbakuk is being a paid shill of the crudest type, no less.
Thanks for the listing Glenn, is does not offend to have the ‘figures’.
Glenn, I need your advice.
ThatCrab’s post (13h55) presumably refers to me. In your opinion
– should I turn the other cheek and not respond to what is patent nonsense, or
– should I ask him to repost a clarified version which we can understand without recourse to a stiff whisky and an ice-pack around one’s temples, or
– should I ask him to refer us to just a couple of posts of his which he feels were valuable contributions to this blog?
The Times is now anti-Semitic
[Zionist] Rupert Murdoch has offered a “major apology” for a “grotesque” cartoon in The Sunday Times, after the newspaper was accused of anti-Semitism.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014383756
Will we soon see the cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looking for another job?
A complainant has just been informed that BBC News have admitted that the Golan Heights are Syrian and not Israeli which was the impression given in a broadcast of May 2011, ie that is 21 months ago. The BBC’s complaints system does grind exceedingly slowly.
p 21 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/appeals/esc_bulletins/2012/21_nov.pdf
13 pages long!
From Haaretz.com
“Four reasons why #UK cartoon of @netanyahu isn’t anti-Semitic in any way” writes @AnshelPfeffer
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/four-reasons-why-u-k-cartoon-of-netanyahu-isn-t-anti-semitic-in-any-way.premium-1.496880?trailingPath=2.169%2C
Precisely, Thatcrab. Spot on.
And yes, Mary, it’s ironic that those buffoons at the Today prog have the gall to make light of their audience only to pratfall themselves in their ignorance.
I’m sure you’ll remember too that there was a time Today was worth listening to, in Brian Redhead’s day. Sadly missed. But that applies too across the whole BBC organisation. The current crop are but pygmies compared to what went before, and every one an apologist for the lowliest qualities in humankind. These two things often go together.
On that BBC pdf also see p53 on the non broadcast of a trailed Radio Jersey programme. The subject was child abuse on Jersey.
The BBC’s decision not to reply further about: The complainant contacted the BBC regarding a “programme” [in fact an item] entitled The Truth of the Matter which she said was trailed but not broadcast by BBC Radio Jersey. The complainant made allegations of bias at BBC Radio Jersey as she believed the cancelled programme may have been removed from the schedule because of political pressure. The complainant also raised concerns about how her complaint had been handled.
Re. the Scarfe cartoon (which I thought was rather good, btw) : inadvertence or intentional? We all know that the Dirty Digger is very pro-Israel (or, rather, very pro-Likud), but I would guess that not all of the people on The Sunday Times necessarily share the boss’s enthusiasm. So, rather than looking out for the sacking of Scarfe, I’d be more inclined to see whether there won’t be any sudden dismissals amoung the editors or sub-editors (or whatever the guys who decide what goes into each edition of the paper are called).
“So Fred (00h16 today) seems to believe that Palestinian infant mortality figures justify equating the Palestinian tragedy with the genocide of the Jews (aka the Holocaust).
Nonssensical, of course, but Fred’s figues got me all curious and so I looked up the figures on the Infant Mortality Rate (number of deaths of infants under 1 year old per 1000 live births) as published by the Unitede Nations Population Division.”
Not as nonsensical as using the under one mortality rates to try and prove the under five mortality rates wrong. That would be a stupid thing to do.
I answered your question, yes millions of Palestinians have died as a result of conditions imposed on them by Israel.
End of story.
“Did anyone get offended by my posting these numbers? That was certainly not intended.”
Speaking for myself, I am a grown man with complete control of my actions. I read what I want to read and ignore the rest. Post what you like so long as it isn’t about me.