What we are seeing in Egypt is counter-revolution pure and simple, military hardliners who are going to be friendly with Israel and the US, and are committing gross human rights abuse.
Western backed counter-revolution is going to be sweeping back across the Middle East; do not be distracted by the words of the West, watch the deeds. It will of course be in the name of secularism. There is an important correlation between what is happening in Turkey and Egypt. I made myself unpopular when I pointed out what the media did not tell you, that behind the tiny minority of doe-eyed greens in the vanguard of the Istanbul movement, stood the massed phalanxes of kemalist nationalism, a very ugly beast. “Secularism” was the cry there too.
Approach slope of yesterday’s landing of AAR 214 compared to today’s crash http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae275/Paneuropean/BOhIDCWCUAApHFV_zps37237b1c.jpg
From pprune forum member “Paper Tiger”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/venezuela-nicaragua-talk-asylum-edward-snowden/story?id=19592860#.UdihQeDTKFJ
“There is also the private-flight option. Reports last week quoted the cost of a private plane to Ecuador to be more than $200,000 on one of the few private jets that could make the trip without refueling. Similar flights to Venezuela or Nicaragua would presumably be only a bit less.”
I’d kick-in a few shekels…
@Suhayl Saadi
Just think about what you are saying here. There isn’t anything silly about death threats. It isn’t about playing into stereotypes and it isn’t about publicity.
It’s just about threats and intimidation.
Lack of tail-fin? It’s an absolute effing miracle so much of the rest of the plane is intact at the speed it slammed into the ground. Looks like only a very last second application of power got them over land. Last transmitted track-log was “climb”.
OT’ish
Attempted Setup of Luke Rudkowski
i’ve been hearing of more of the elite’s Lowest of the Low, dirty tricks to catch out Alternative media journalist’s, and whistle blowers, first it was allegations of Rape, now they are planting Child Porn on Target computers.
I wonder who’s children the bastards don’t give a fuck about planting around the globe.
we know how evil the establishment are with all the carnage they have been causing just non stop really for the last decade or so, and always blood thirsty for more, And they blood letting gets ever More Ghastly – ( Syria )
but this sicking child porn weaponry they have been using, leaves one just numb,
Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org received an email from an anonymous sender claiming to be a Bilderberg whistleblower with attached photos from inside the 2013 Bilderberg meeting at the Grove Hotel in Watford, England. The email was sent to his personal email address that he has had since high school, not one of his work or WeAreChange email addresses. Luke opened the email from another computerand it stated that the person wanted Luke to break the story so he was sending him these photos exclusively and specifically stated that Luke needed to download the photos. Fortunately before downloading, Yahoo gives a preview of the photos and the photos were actually graphic child pornography. Luke has had his computer searched by forensics when going into Canada to cover the G20 when they searched him and interrogated him for hours, something like this could happen again when we come back to the U.S. from travelling Europe. Had this been the case, even with deleting, they would still find the images. There would be no understanding of the true story and he would be facing a felony charge. Besides that also completely jeopardizing his work, reputation and livelihood. We wanted to make this public for Luke‘s safety and also for people to be aware that this kind of thing happens. We do not know who this was, all we know is that it is so important for anyone in this line of work to remain extremely vigilant.
THE EMAIL ADDRESS WAS [email protected]. IF ANYONE CAN HELP FIND OUT WHO THIS PERSON IS, IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Hearing that this Quebec oil train crash may be worse than reported up to now.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/10073#comment-969405
“Leanan” is Oil Drum “staff”
Ben @ 9:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
“And although my eyes were open they might have well have been closed…”
Fred
A satirical complains about death threats “real or otherwise”. Hmm…
http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/7305-death-threat-comedienne-refused-to-appear-on-newsnight-scotland
satirical comedienne complains
But anyway, just to be clear: I’m all in favour of being against imaginary non-real death threats. As well as real ones obviously.
BrianFujisan
7 Jul, 2013 – 12:27 am
Very important post Brian thank-you. GCHQ special division P666 – (is that the devil’s porn) specialise, also terrrror is used.
I had an email ‘advising’ I would be shot dead if I left my house after 8pm. The email was routed via Pakistan, the IP was from a ‘Chinese’ block allocation.
Edward should have made that very clear to us…
Suhayl said, “…and so, Castro was driven by the USA into the waiting arms of the USSR.”
While absolutely correct, the point deserves expansion. Any government not “playing ball” (i.e. acting as a client state), and failing to be a stooge for exploitation of its people and natural resources on behalf of corporate America, will be termed as an unfriendly administration.
If the people are behind that government, having enthusiastically supported a move to direct the resources of their country to the majority of the people, it may be deemed that the entire nation is “going communist”. This is where useful idiots like old Abe come in, nodding in agreement when suggestions like those of Kissinger are aired – old Abe would doubtless also agree that Vietnam villages had to be destroyed in order to save them.
Tiny countries are a particular threat, because they can demonstrate how the masses can fair well given more even distribution of resources. If tiny countries can show healthcare, education, wealth distribution and power sharing can actually work well, then this is a massive threat to much more wealthy countries where there still exists grinding poverty. Not to mention, horror at the idea of fair distribution among the investor classes.
In the case of Castro, as with many others, he was actually forced to either accept assistance from the USSR, or abandon the revolution altogether, or to let his people be utterly destitute. The US allowed no other option. Cuba is a tiny country. They have to trade to survive – the US neither would trade with it, nor would they allow any “allies” to trade. Left with no option, such countries turn to the only possibility left, which allows the US to shriek and gasp, “They’re turning to the commies!!”. Shock and horror. Now we can really turn the guns on them.
What a pitiful, tiny stooge old Abe is – parroting this same washed out line decades after being so discredited.
From ATC recording
Departing Aircraft (United 285?): “We may need a few more minutes – just a heads up”
ATC: “United 85(?) hold short of runway 28 left. Advise when ready.”
I think the crew on the ground about to take off saw this coming. That “heads up” was about 5-10 seconds from impact.
6 july – Former British MP condemns media ban on Iranian channels
Former British Conservative MP Derek Conway condemned the decision by the international Satellite providers to take dozens of Iranian channels, including Press TV, off the air.
Speaking on Press TV’s weekly debate program Comment, Conway said, “I just wonder as someone who’s been involved in politics for 40 years of my life, how you can preach about freedom of speech, if you don’t encourage it”.
You don’t have to like what Iran says. What people have to say is of interest and you listen and maybe you disagree, maybe you go somewhere else for a view, it’s called freedom of speech”, he added. ..
Iranian officials say they are determined to take legal action against the illegal media ban and are preparing to take the case to the United Nations (UN).
Press TV and other Iranian satellite channels have been taken off the air regardless of mutual contracts and agreements in several Western countries including Britain, France, Germany and Spain.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/06/312544/exuk-mp-slams-ban-on-iranian-channels/
yet this is the Norman Pattiz-founded Alhurra western/zionist propaganda channel!
ABC America – Israelis Strip-Search Arab Journalist at US Party
The U.S.-funded Alhurra network said Thursday that one of its cameramen was interrogated and strip-searched by Israeli security men while covering a July 4 party at the U.S. ambassador’s residence near Tel Aviv.
The Arab satellite channel had coordinated with the Israeli prime minister’s office to cover the event on behalf of the international media. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other VIPs were in attendance. But when cameraman Samer Jallad arrived, he said he was detained for questioning, ordered to remove his shoes and sit in the sun for more than half an hour, and then taken to a room where he was forced to remove his pants for a body inspection. He said he was held for more than 90 minutes before he was permitted to enter…
Jallad, who said he has covered Netanyahu on many occasions, is a Palestinian from east Jerusalem who holds full Israeli residency rights and has a government-issued press card…
“We find it especially shameful that a staffer of a U.S.-funded network would be the victim of racial profiling at an official U.S. event celebrating American Independence Day,” the Foreign Press Assoc said…
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israelis-strip-search-arab-journalist-us-party-19581321?#.UdgqxKwr9y0
There have been no details given of the alleged threats to Ms. Calman following the second last episode of the last series of News Quiz, the whole thing had the whiff of a stunt about it from start to finish, it was initiated by Miles Jupp and it should have been edited out of the transmitted program and Jupp banished, along with other right-wing twits like Rifkind and Finkelstein being given their marching orders back to Conservative Central Casting Orifice. As far as I am aware there has not been a mite of substantiation and if true it would surely have – should have – become a police matter. This smeary story never got off the starting block, despite the big bad BBC itself knee deep in the smelly plot thinking again that it ‘the institution’ is itself the news, rather than the real word outside their over-spun lovey-bubble, this time tragi-comically dragging along some other bad news outlets all to eager to serve the inglorious union that keeps these publishers afloat and these pretendy papers first among the dangerous playthings in the quislings’ toy-boxes. The media is never so ridiculous as when caught smelling their own farts in the glare of a full moon.
I can just about forgive Flaming June for posting a link to the Scotsman story which, like all of their effusions is in the category of remaindered imaginative fiction, with added infinite improbability; the source cited desperately wanted for comparision with reality, falling far below usual FJ standards. Fred however is no innocent abroad: emerging from some cave, with matted locks and his once fine garb reduced to rags, clutching tightly a sheaf of well-thumbed last season’s newsprint, some slightly soiled with indeterminate stains of organic origin, and has clipped out this very piece with his bare gnashers, and though now shaped like a pie crust, this article had fired a laggard neuron or two in his noggin -he thinks he scents something, his hobby horse is set a-rockin, knees-trembling, this new scent it mixes with the odours emanating from his full library of learned chip wrappers as they fly in all directions. It’s the holey-grail of a discarded smear campaign -ripe for reanimation, ‘McEureka’ he cries.
Pungent gaseous media emissions, they drift for many miles backwards and forwards, in all directions, collect especially in low places and take you unawares –don’t succumb. This non-story has been so discussed to death in Independence forums, the story is old and tiresome. Ms. Calman has a rather hyperbolic style with a porous border delimiting fact from farrago, she did once describe a bus trip from Glasgow to Somewhere as ‘her Vietnam’!
Re Luke Rudkowski, that setup looks more likely to be an attack on tormail, a boon to mankind (try it out!), than on Icke’s gang, who have made themselves enormously useful to the permanent state by garnishing awkward facts with easy-mock lizard overlords.
“I had an email ‘advising’ I would be shot dead if I left my house after 8pm. The email was routed via Pakistan, the IP was from a ‘Chinese’ block allocation.” Mark
This sounds a little like Zerzetsen (see also under Roderick Russell). Mind you, perhaps it was the same people who allegedly made the “death threats” against Ms Calman.
Glenn, 2:08am, 7.7.13: Wrt Cuba/imperialism, yes, agree.
Cryptonym, 3:02am, 7.7.13: Interesting. Yes, it seems likely to have become very useful for the anti-independence lobby. So if someone did post ‘death threats’, one would have to ponder on just who that might’ve been.
Fred, at the Witching Hour: I did think about what I wrote, earlier, as I do about everything I write, since this is a public forum and I am a (sort of) semi-public figure not using a different name.
Perhaps, though, we ought to have a high index of suspicion, given the political and entertainment contexts (which, unless Mark Golding has become a stand-up comic and unless his father is chairing a commission which, it has been argued, was an attempt to help stymie independence, are unlikely to apply to him). If one is against Scottish independence, one might well see the ‘Calman’ alleged incident as useful ‘comms’/PR/propaganda with which to tar the pro-independence lobby.
And finally, after all, Calman may well be a lovely person, just like her dad, and I take my hat off to anyone who can stand up on stage make anyone laugh night after night (it’s not an easy job), but she’s not exactly Lenny Bruce.
Oddie. The treatment of the cameraman Samer Jallad is appalling.
This retired Israeli general who once escaped arrest at Heathrow after a tip off, now decides not to risk coming here despite assurances of immunity.
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9651:suspected-war-criminal-doron-almog-cancels-uk-visit-despite-offer-of-immunity-by-uk-government&catid=145:in-focus
The nationalists are really showing their true colours on this one, seems the victim of the crime is guilty unless proved innocent.
I think it is obvious that death threats “real or otherwise” means death threats made by someone intending to carry them out and those which are empty threats. Yet in the Nationalist mind it means something different, they imply it means the victim made it up. If she appears on TV regarding the matter she is publicity seeking and if she doesn’t she has something to hide.
Bullying and intimidation are Nationalist tactics, you just have to read this blog to see that. Those are the tactics of Nationalism everywhere. Complain about the bullying and intimidation and you will be demonised.
You want evidence?
“Fred however is no innocent abroad: emerging from some cave, with matted locks and his once fine garb reduced to rags, clutching tightly a sheaf of well-thumbed last season’s newsprint, some slightly soiled with indeterminate stains of organic origin, and has clipped out this very piece with his bare gnashers, and though now shaped like a pie crust, this article had fired a laggard neuron or two in his noggin -he thinks he scents something, his hobby horse is set a-rockin, knees-trembling, this new scent it mixes with the odours emanating from his full library of learned chip wrappers as they fly in all directions. It’s the holey-grail of a discarded smear campaign -ripe for reanimation, ‘McEureka’ he cries.”
There is your evidence of Nationalist bullying and intimidation.
Egypt crisis: Oil giants BP and BG Group withdraw expat staff as violent clashes erupt
Oil giants BP and BG Group have pulled about 160 expatriate staff out of Egypt as violent clashes erupt across the country.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/10163935/Egypt-crisis-Oil-giants-BP-and-BG-Group-withdraw-expat-staff-as-violent-clashes-erupt.html
Note the LNG contributions to Egypt from Qatar.
Yes, I agree, Fred, 8:18am, the caveman image deployed by Cryptonym was a bit heavy and personal. Such things ought to be avoided. Still, it’s so very ridiculous and cartoonish, it’s rather silly; Fred Flintstone, yes, ha, ha, blah, blah, blah. Crytonym should be cyber-whipped six-and-a-half times with a thick, black leather thong by a dominatrix dressed as a lizard. At least you’re not being accused of being a “ziofuckwit” or of wearing a tutu (not that there’s anything instrinsically wrong with wearing a tutu). Still, you’re quite right, ad hominems best avoided, as Craig advised.
Speaking for myself, I am not a nationalist, I ahve a natural repulsion for flags and national anthems, and having been mildly opposed to it for many years, nowadays I keep an open mind about Scottish independence, though now it might be only way to minimise the damage of fundamentalist neoliberalism. I have little innate faith that our politicians won’t U-turn on most important thkngs (see also under NATO, Nukes…).
Oddie, 7 Jul, 2013 – 2:32 am. It is because PressTV is reporting on news stories the owners of mainstream media outlets do not want you to see. The Bilderberger, Richard Branson, does not allow Russia Today on Virgin, to which I subscribe (but am thinking of leaving). It’s available on Freeview. The trouble is all the cables are Virgin and I could do without the hassle.
Unfair to smear the move towards secularism. Secularism in the region is a logical and rational choice.
Secularism would protect all faiths and none under the rule of law, in stark contrast to the various religious regimes that do not protect citizens of different faiths and of no faith.
Unfair and misguiding to draw a connection between modern secularism and nationalism.
You bet. US Foreign Asset Control Dpt. is hot on the tail of PressTV to stop it from ruining the bubble that the Western mejdia have so carefully built up around their audiences, keeping these poor audiences in near complete state of ignorance.
Although an arch ziofuckwit Adam Szubin heading the AFCD, to begin with was coordinating his war on freedom of speech/press/expression through his mate Michel de Rosen, the French-Israeli CEO of Eutelsat (Europe’s satellite giant). De Rosen had been sending all manner of nasty letters with threats of hell fire and brimstones to other satellite owner operators in Europe and elsewhere. Informing these other companies about the EU sanctions on someone supposedly in charge of PressTV. This by default then had been made out to be an EU sanction on PressTV as a whole.
However When EU commission was approached by the “Sanctioned Chap”, EU responded; there wre no Sanctions against PressTV! This fact however has not deterred the shameless ziofuckwit Michel de Rosen, who has changed his letter from EU sanctions to US sanctions in a heartbeat.
This is the kind of gaming the system that these ziofuckwit bastards have been busy getting away with, while the world has sat by idle, and tried to reason and understand/explain away the supremacist, racist, and murderous motives of the ziofuckwits, all in the best possible way.
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What are you on about?
fedup, 11:08am, 7.7.13:
It’s like Monty Python and “the Spanish Inquisition”!
“Zio… No, I won’t say it. Z-z-z-z… I will not say it. Ziofu… I most definitely am not going to say it! No, I didn’t say it. No, not me. Must’ve just come through the ether.”
Humanity has always got it “right”: Earth is flat, Earth is the centre of the universe, Sun goes around the Earth, Earth is the only planet with water, Earth is the only planet with life, Earth and its resources belong to a handful few wankers because they have bought the biggest army on the Earth!
Whilst we are witnessing the mass murder of human beings, and the claims of; supremacy, secularism is good, religion is bad, human beings are crap, human beings destroy the Planet, ……. There is only one hundred thousand million other planets that don’t have water, are not centre of the universe, and do not have life on these.
Is any of our killing technologies capable of repelling any other galactic marauders claiming to be the masters of universe, or have we just learned to beat on human beings, in a fashion after our ancestors; the monkeys, chimps, and the apes?
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No its not!
Your intonation of being; ” accused of being a “ziofuckwit””.
Thanks for the laugh though.
“It is because PressTV is reporting on news stories the owners of mainstream media outlets do not want you to see. ”
For example?
Kempe, eg, http://rt.com/news/todashev-head-shot-father-009/
Kempe, for example, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/05/312296/iranian-channels-taken-off-air-under-pressure-from-us/
Departing Aircraft (United 285?):
“United 885” it was. No doubt they saw this happen right in front of them.