The Tony Blair House Journal (editor Alan Rusbridger) reports on Kanye West’s disgusting private performance for the Kazakh dictator and his family, and takes a sideswipe at David Cameron for visiting that country.
But peculiarly they fail to mention that Tony Blair receives US $4 million a year as a consultant to the worker murdering Kazakh dictator, and that Alistair Campbell and Jonathon Powell as well as Blair visit to give this support – which has included a behind the scenes campaign to help Nazarbaev win the Nobel Peace Prize, fortunately with no result to date.
“He’s not wearing very well, though, is he?”
They rarely do, Komodo and may well be exposed to early onset dementia and/or some form of psychosis. The mind/body organism isn’t something to be played with — it records everything.
Joking aside –
The present concentration of ownership in Scotland yields some staggering statistics … A
miniscule 0.025 per cent of the population owns 67 per cent of the privately owned rural land.
Thirty owners have more than 25,000 ha each, while the largest private landowner of them all, the Duke of Buccleuch, has Scottish estates covering some 124,000 ha.
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/scottish-affairs/432-Land%20Reform%20Paper.pdf
Cui bono?
“At first glance, Buccleuch Estates Ltd appears to be a conventional limited company with
directors and shareholders. In fact, it is the ultimate parent company for a string of other companies including Buccleuch Properties Ltd which holds property worth £88 million …
Buccleuch Properties Ltd is, in turn, the parent company of companies such as Buccleuch
Property (Kettering) Ltd, Tarras Park Properties (Germany) Ltd, Buccleuch Property (Moscow) Ltd and a slew of joint ventures in Cyprus, Luxembourg, Russia, Germany, Ireland and the UK.
This global empire is all ultimately owned by Buccleuch Estates Ltd. So who owns Buccleuch
Estates Ltd? The answer is that it is wholly owned by a nominee company, Anderson Strathern Nominees Ltd, a company whose total paid – up share value is £4, whose shareholders are four Edinburgh lawyers and whose total assets amount to £4. The company has been dormant since its incorporation in May 1992 and it owns 100 per cent of Buccleuch Estates Ltd, a company with total assets of £275 million and a turnover of £64 million in 2008.
The purpose of Anderson Strathern Nominees Ltd is thus merely to hold the shares of Buccleuch Estates Ltd on behalf of others. Who those others are remains a mystery.”
Andy Wightman, The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It, (Birlinn
Ltd), Edinburgh, 2010, p 272
I told you, Komrade Komodo, Landless Peasants is for you!
Would you prefer that the state owned and managed this agriculturally unproductive land, with the taxpayer footing the bill? What do you propose to do with it,once it has been seized?
I’ll second the book recommendation from Komodo, though if you are a Scot with high blood pressure, maybe not!
That ‘unproductive’ land supported thousands of families before the genocide of The Highland Clearances.
Looks like 59 votes for Landless Peasants now.
Anon, let them read books.
A YES vote next year will do me, Anon.
Only then can we start to take control of our own country.
I thought you would prefer cake, villager?
In all fairness, though, Juteman, the Highlands did need clearing to make way for the grouse.
After reading about John Kerry’s briefing about the planned attack on Syria, it is amazing he was so upfront about telling everyone that any military action against Assad was being funded 100pc by Arab sponsors – presumably Saudi Arabia and Qatar. This would make it all a freelance job with US military acting as mercenaries to all intents and purposes, with in-house legal support from Congress and Senate.
Does anyone think Cameron and Hague were planning to supply our military and weapons on the same basis – i.e. in exchange for a couple of very large cheques?
I thought you said ‘eat’. My apologies.
Soooo clever Juteman, you got it!
There are some decent posters on this forum, that actually care about their fellow human beings.
@ Anon (13h17)
“The Prime Minister wishes Muslims “a very happy and peaceful Eid ul Fitr””
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Thank you, Anon, for jogging certain selective memories 🙂
Ah, the disinformation that’s so maliciously spread on this blog….
This is why we are so necessary.
@ Mary
“I know that Anon. Cameron is assiduous on his greetings to all faiths on Twitter, No 10 website etc.
I said ‘in the House’ though.”
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Does it matter?
I thought you have a low opinion of the House anyway (“troughers”, etc, etc).
To be fair, you could have spelled out the whole picture, couldn’t you.
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La vita è bella, life is good! (combat selective posting)
The Angry Arab says
“You know the US is lying when a major Syrian opposition source of “information” raises doubts” [ref to CW attack – dreoilin]
http://angryarab.blogspot.ie/2013/09/you-know-us-is-lying-when-major-syrian.html?spref=tw
Juteman to be fair, i was still on the previous page when i posted, so i didn’t read your following comment till after. I do see you’re a gentleman.
If you’re serious about change i would highly recommend the K link i posted this morning. The video is more effective if one is an attentive and good listener. It may begin to change one and then impact society, which is our creation.
Comrades – when posting links to the Daily Wail, various white-power groups and so on, consider making a link through this “do not link” redirect: href=”http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/do-not-link-donotlink-ethically-criticize-seo-nofollow/”>Do Not Link
As the link explains, search engines pick up on these links and it acts as a promotion of the site. It’s easy to use:
http://naturalnews.com
becomes
http://donotlink.com/naturalnews.com
Please consider using this where appropriate.
I’m busy eating a Chicken Madras, Villager. 😉
@glenn_uk – everything here is automatically nofollowed. I think it’s designed to discourage pagerank spamming – it should have no SEO effect.
Jon: Great stuff, that’s good. But I’d messed up the link, in case anyone wants to read about it:
Do Not Link info
“A ThinkProgress analysis of the public statements of 400 Representatives found that 199 lawmakers have either decisively ruled out supporting the measure or say they are unlikely to back it. Just 49 of the 400 members of the House of Representatives said they will definitely or likely vote in favor or the resolution… positions of 33 members are unknown.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/09/02/2561371/congress-support-military-action-syria-thinkprogress-whip-count/
@ oddie 5 Sep, 2013 – 9:13 am
“… the role of senior British officers at the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, has been downgraded because their American counterparts believe that they cannot be trusted with high-level intelligence about a conflict with which they are not involved.”
O, the horror! No longer the best tables at Tampa bistros; Justin Bieber escorted past them at da club; Tampa socialites refuse to socialize with them, as the have no worthy secrets.
Recall the Tampa socialites and their role in the scandal of the horny Generals? Jill Kelley and her sister Natalie Khawam who attempted to broker deals in D.C. for a finder’s fee.
Allegedly Maronite Christians — clutch your pearls — allies of Israel!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/13/1161265/-Jill-Kelley-Khawam-The-Lebanese-Mata-Hari
@ Mary 5 Sep, 2013 – 3:18 pm: “Where B.Liar makes his £millions.”
I had not heard of Mongolia, but the resource sector corruption goes on an on. Toronto/London stock exchanges. Canadian mining scamsters, Russian billionaires and Bill Clinton off partying with dictator in one of the ‘Stans. Clinton’s fee was $6,000,000 donation to his Library/Foundation. Crooks tricking each other with gold-mine salting in Indonesia.
The results of the previous ‘intervention’.
September 05, 2013
A Region in Turmoil
Lawlessness and Ruin in Libya
by PATRICK COCKBURN
A little under two years ago, Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, urged British businessmen to begin “packing their suitcases” and to fly to Libya to share in the reconstruction of the country and exploit an anticipated boom in natural resources.
Yet now Libya has almost entirely stopped producing oil as the government loses control of much of the country to militia fighters.
Mutinying security men have taken over oil ports on the Mediterranean and are seeking to sell crude oil on the black market. Ali Zeidan, Libya’s Prime Minister, has threatened to “bomb from the air and the sea” any oil tanker trying to pick up the illicit oil from the oil terminal guards, who are mostly former rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi and have been on strike over low pay and alleged government corruption since July.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/05/lawlessness-and-ruin-in-libya/
Villager
3 Sep, 2013 – 9:14 pm
“Fact is Habby has never declared that he’s a Jew. He has if i remember right, stated that he’s catholic, but i may be wrong.”
Villager, it matters not whether Habbabkuk is a Jew, this is not a racist blog.
Also, by the way, you seem to be unaware that a Jew can be a Catholic.
I once suggested that Habbabkuk was a Zionist and instead of admitting or denying that charge he demanded evidence from me.
Very strange.
Thanks for the excellent links Arbed and Passerby and muchas gracias Brian for your concern, I’m fine, been working on this shit hot day and I’m feeling it
NATO’s refusal to get involved is either a good sign that can be worked upon, just one more step to breaking up in friendship and going one’s own ways. Such move would open the door for a European peace and Defence Force, long overdue in my view.
Or its a shiner, waiting to see what happens, because the refugee crisis is growing and we are hearing about it. Still nobody is talking to each other when they should. The refusal of the rebels to come to the table makes them just as bad as Assad, should he be found to have used CW, so the US should have no problems with targeting bastards.
Since my contribution yesterday i expected to see an escalation of the situation today, with Russia setting its forces on alert and Incirlik busy as never, it will only take the single action of a rogue to set this alight and he has been testing missiles and defences.
Thosee missiles that have been shot, from a vessel at sea and they landed in the sea, at least two of Israels submarines have CBM capabilities and they do have a nuclear arsenal, I stick with my hunch that it was shot from a submarine unless someone can educate me on this point.
Why do I think it comes from a sub? Because I believe that they would not use something that has not been tested by them and proven to work.
Now pardon me, but what does a normal working class man has to listen to since last weeks vote?
Did our PM not get a full mandate from us, not just in opinion polls but also in Parliament? So why is he whining on a daily basis and going back to the vote and blaming Labour, lamenting this that and the other, every day, with poodle BBC amplifying it.
Oye, Cameron, represent our views. Stop winging and be happy, you have our mandate, now grow some balls with your prick, and make that condom fit.
How about injecting some truly Independent negotiators and middlemen who have a proven track record of peace making….?
And for every negotiator killed by the rebels, because they don’t want to talk, you refuse a top Saudi access to their London play grounds, Harrods Fortnum, etc.etc. no more weekly whiski flights from the UK. No whoring around and as for horse blood stock, there are so many levers he can pull now that he has our support.
This is a comment posted today on the al Hilli thread. Today is the first anniversary of the murders of the family members.
Hypocrisy from Obama in the penultimate paragraph as he plans to burn, maim and shred Syrian people with Cruiae missiles.
Obama at Stockholm synagogue offers a ‘shanah tovah’
September 4, 2013 1:43pm
At a Holocaust memorial outside the synagogue, Obama delivered a short Rosh Hashanah greeting.
“To all our Jewish friends here in Sweden, in the United States and around the world — >especially in Israel — I want to wish you and your families a sweet and happy new year,” he said. “L’shanah tovah.”
Obama met with Swedish leaders and toured presentations of the country’s innovations in environmentally friendly technologies on a stopover before he headed to St. Petersburg for a G20 industrial nations summit.
The White House on Wednesday also released Obama’s video message for the Jewish New Year. The message recalled a speech delivered 50 years ago by Rabbi Joachim Prinz at the Lincoln Memorial, just prior to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the March on Washington.
“Representing the thousands of Jews there that day, [Prinz] told the marchers, ‘When God created man, he created him as everybody’s neighbor. Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept,’ ” Obama said.
“As the High Holidays begin, it’s a chance not just to celebrate with friends and family, but to ask some of life’s most piercing questions: Am I treating strangers with kindness? Am I living not just for myself but for others? Am I doing my part to repair the world?”
Obama also recalled his visit to Israel earlier this year to “renew the unbreakable bond between our two countries.”
The link is
http://www.jta.org/2013/09/04/news-opinion/united-states/obama-tours-srockholm-shul-delivers-shana-tova
And yes, the G20 were supposed to talk about offshore havens, regulation of tax dodgers and multinationals who are taking the piss now. Syria has replaced the long grass and not much will come of it.
Anything ‘Vodafone’ has got to be the pits now.
From 38 Degrees
Andrew Lansley’s myth buster busted.
Andrew Lansley’s Mythbusters: A solicitor’s response
These are some quick comments on a briefing sent by Andrew Lansley, Leader of the
House of Commons, to MPs. His briefing relates to the Transparency of Lobbying,
NonParty Campaigning and Trade Union Bill.
He calls his briefing a ‘Mythbuster’. We asked Ros Baston, a political and election
solicitor, to comment.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/38degrees.3cdn.net/af9eaaa5298bf72d87_y0m6b5sh1.pdf
38 Degrees would like people to contact their MPs before the next stage takes place next Tuesday. The Bill passed its first reading this week and 11 coalition MPs rebelled.
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/gagging-bill-write-to-mps
1] Parliament.org: Transcript of second reading debate on the Transparency of Lobbying, Non Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, Hansard: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130903/debtext/130903-0001.htm#13090336000002
[2] The Telegraph: Evening Briefing: Barnacles back on the boat: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/matthewholehouse/100234125/evening-briefing-barnacles-back-on-the-boat/
[3] There were two key votes. On the vote on whether or not to give the bill a second reading, there were 5 Conservative rebels: Douglas Carswell, Philip Davies, David Davis, Zac Goldsmith and David Nuttall. There was 1 Lib dem rebel: David Ward.
On the vote on whether or not it should be rushed through (the “Programme Motion”) there were 7 Conservative rebels: Andrew Bridgen, Douglas Carswell, Philip Davies, David Davis, Zac Goldsmith, David Nuttall, Chris White. There were 3 Lib dem rebels: Andrew George, Mike Hancock & Stephen Williams
Source: the Labour whips twitter page: https://twitter.com/labourwhips
[4] Parliament.org: Transcript of second reading debate on the Transparency of Lobbying, Non Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, Hansard: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130903/debtext/130903-0001.htm#13090336000002
Isn’t it remarkable how both the US and UK have managed to get samples out of Damascus? It must have been tough for whoever was given the job of smuggling the samples out of a war zone, surrounded on all sides by the enemy. Still, it’s not impossible. There must be some clear lines of communication open between “us” and the rebel areas.
In fact, I’m damn sure there is. Some very clear lines.
It’s also amazing how, given that it is sarin (according to Cameron) the “rescuers” in those initial videos weren’t wearing any protective gear and yet didn’t seem to be suffering any ill-effects like the experts expected. Maybe it was sarin-lite (just a little bit lethal). Or maybe the rebels have built up a natural immunity to the stuff. I would say the heart-eating crazies (sorry, future Ministers of Agriculture and Beheading) are DEFINITELY not bothered with a little sarin now and again.
Now that we know, there’s really no need to wait for the UN to finish their little report. Not that the US and UK are trying to put any pressure on the UN to come up with the same results for some…unknown reason.
That’s simply unimaginable.