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.
Kempe: “It would appear that it was indeed illegal, something the Israelis must’ve realised when the took the decision not to use WP anymore in April of this year, although they claimed it was simply a PR move”
Thank you for an answer; I take it that you also agree that similarly the US also clearly broke the 1980 UN Convention when it used WP as an incendiary weapon in Fallujah, so that being the case, do you not think that these two countries, who have signed upto this Convention a) be made to pay a sanction, and/or be required to give-up all their CW immediately, b) be in no position of authority to demand that another country, who did not signed-up to the Convention, surrender their CW on the unproven charge that it had used CW, nevermind actually threaten military action against that country ?
@ Mary 18 Sep, 2013 – 10:24 pm
“Bernanke continues to print QE dollars at the rate of $85m per month.”
A quibble: It’s 85 (American) billion, $85,000,000,000, per month. All comped to the very high rollers in the casino.
1,000,000 “American” million “British” million
1,000,000,000 “American” billion “British” thousand million (milliard)
Or is the lower case m the British abbreviation for 1,000,000,000? Apologies if I’m wrong, which I suspect I am.
Maybe not, found this. All confusing.
telegraph.co.uk/topics/about-us/style-book/
“Abbreviate million to m and billion to bn in headlines.
In stories concerned mainly with money, company reports and City page references to bids and deals, use m and bn. In news stories as distinct from stories in the business section always write million and billion in full.”
That’s no help in distinguishing US and UK billions, since the UK bn is 1,000 X the US bn.
This is all the fault of the French, of course, who invented (échelle courte) and (échelle longue) notation (if not French toast) and you Brits grabbed the “wrong” one. And why don’t you drive on the right side of the road? 🙂
@ Dreoilin
“The language is disintegrating and it’s largely because of sloppy American influence.”
It’s because language is now learned largely from hearing (or mishearing) it spoken (or mis-spoken) electronically without reference to the printed equivalent. Don’t know if the problem is as severe in Europe.
I had the reverse problem; learned to read without hearing spoken words, imagining the pronunciations, and still have peculiar interpretations of some words.
@ John/Nevermind,
It’s a bit hard to describe your own personality, but in order to understand most of my reasoning I think it would be fair to say that I’m a kibbutz kind of guy.
I’ve been fortunate enough to have traveled to, lived and worked in many different countries on various continents around the globe.
For the record: that doesn’t make an expert whatsoever.
I have to admit that I’ve never found a single system that worked for me [keep in mind my ‘kibbutz guy mentality’]. I don’t know whether it is mankind as a whole [needing leaders and such] or greedy individualism [money, money, money], but I only felt at home amongst the Inuit [sans alcohol], native Americans [sans alcohol], Maori [sans alcohol], Australian Aborigines [sans alcohol] etc. I guess that hones in on having a free roaming spirit of sorts
I was wrong to assume that ‘our’ democracy was the light to follow. I have noticed that the communist Chinese government pays more attention to its populace’s whishes than any counterpart does in the western hemisphere. I’ve also noticed that an American had to flee to communist countries [China/Russia] in order to be free. I also noticed that the organization set up to defend Europe [NATO] has actively fought battles outside its boundaries on mandates I don’t believe in.
That’s why I try to make the world a better place to live in, where I live right now. Not yesterday or tomorrow. That’s also why I believe the current bully needs a bloody nose [and at the moment I don’t give a F who does that].
good to see u back Mary.
@ Jon/Others,
How come everyone knows about Auschwitz and far less about Birkenau, Monowitz
and the other 40 satellite camps? There must be a difference between a ‘concentration camp’ and an ‘extermination camp.’ As far as I can recollect, Auschwitz started out as a concentration camp and I’ve never been able to find any documents turning it into a death factory. As I prefer to make my decisions based upon [peer reviewed/verifiable/cross referenced/irrefutable] evidence, I’m very disturbed [if not outraged] by the fact that in some countries this has become an illegal activity, punishable by law [remember, everything the Nazis did was legal too], because… Of what? Since when does the truth needs protective laws?
If anyone has ever visited a museum or exhibition dedicated to ‘torture over the centuries’ one cannot but wonder how much time and energy went into inflicting horrendous amounts of pain on innocent individuals accused of whatever was the crime du jour at that time. It seems [to me] that ‘we’ have changed very little over time.
Banana anyone?
@ Dreoilin,
Q: (I even saw someone writing about a ‘non-prophet org’ tonight.)
R: Oh, Jesus, who’re we turning to next?
Thanks. I nearly pissed in my pants :o)
Unverified videos allegedly show Syria rebels using chemical weapons.
Video found on cellphone of dead terrorist. Time stamp is August 21, 2013.
You were spot on NR!
‘The Federal Reserve will continue to provide its massive stimulus effort that has pumped $2.8trn (£1.76trn) into the US economy.
The announcement came as a surprise, as it had been widely expected that policymakers would decide to start to wind down the $85bn a month economy bolstering package.’
After I posted it I went off to bed and lay thinking whether I had got the value right. No, I said to myself, it could not possibly be $85 billion a month. It was!
Good for Vincent Nicholls.
‘“For these reasons the peace talks between the state of Israel and the state of Palestine, which have been taking place since July, are so important,” he declared.
“They are difficult, having to face the well-known problems of security, of boundaries, of territorial occupation and settlements, illegal in international law.”
The peace talks faced “major challenges,” he said. “They need our prayers.”
Archbishop Nichols went on: “No one who has seen the security wall that divides so much of the Holy Land, cutting off people from their traditional land and means of sustenance, no one who has felt the fear and insecurity that mars that land, no one who has seen the contrast between the provision of goods on one side of a line and the lack even of a reliable source of water on the other, can have any doubt about the importance of finding this pathway to peace as soon as possible.” ‘
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/111532/insecurity-mars%E2%80%99-israel-says-uk-catholic-leader
Haven’t noticed any similar statement from our Jewish Archbishop of Canterbury who recently visited the unholy ‘Holy Land’.
I found Collaborators open door to the devil a rather interesting read.
@ Mary,
Obambi just explained to us mere idiots that, ‘raising the dept ceiling doesn’t equate to creating more debt…’
My grandmother has four wheel, an engine and a steering wheel, but she ain’t no car.
Kanye West of the title above.
He wanted the carpet ironed and everything in his dressing room to be white!!
Kanye’s wacky BBC show demands
All white on the night … rapper Kanye West
Published: 5 hrs ago
KANYE West shocked staff on Jools Holland’s BBC music show with a bizarre request before he recorded his spot last Tuesday.
It was among a string of outrageous demands issued by the controversial US rapper at the studios in Maidstone, Kent.
Paywall
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/5146611/kanye-west-diva-demands-jools-holland-bbc-show.html
I spotted in the photo of him (wearing white!) on the link that he is wearing one of those red Kabbalah bracelets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_string_(Kabbalah)
@ Nevermind,
More about Fukushima & government @ LINK.
Again, new measures to silence and kill the truth.
It’s official. Cleggover is made of plastic.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69910000/jpg/_69910152_69910151.jpg
Seven hours of printing on the Microsoft stand at the LD conference did the trick.
NR 18 Sep, 2013 – 6:08 pm
“InfoWars goes too far in claiming drugs cause homicides in any particular case, but they’re correct in saying, in the US, it’s verboten to discuss the possibility they’re a contributing factor on commercial TV or in print media, because those derive so much revenue from Big Pharma ads.”
Yes anti-depressants are overused and under discussed because they are big revenue (for pharma, media, medical industries). Over the years I have observed that users remain hooked and ill for years whereas without the use of drugs depressed people make a return after a while.
Sorry Jon, I went to bed. Thanks for that summary of Kempe’s motives as you see them. Perhaps it is just responses to my comments that have given me a false impression. I agree with the healthy debate argument and will try to be more open. Agree too largely with your comparison of Nazi concentration camps with Guantanamo (which is an argument I could not have made and why I opted for the First World War camp at Ruhleben). I’m not an apologist for the holocaust though agree with Mark Golding’s proposition that it has become an industry.
“Also, our understanding of human rights and the international legal mechanisms that protect them are a great deal more advanced, and so it is at least harder for abominations like Guantanamo to do as they please.”
Can’t agree with the above statement though. The League of Nations and the United Nations have both been failures and the US is not even a signatory to the ICC.
But I think you do a great job as moderator. Thanks.
Three names that I recognise just above that Spectator link that actually turn my stomach, Rod Liddle, Douglas Murray & Nick Cohen.
Agree. I once got a free sub to the Spectacle – couldn’t stop the postie delivering it – and most of it’s pretty vile. Though I see Oborne’s sounding vaguely rational these days.
“Yes anti-depressants are overused and under discussed because they are big revenue (for pharma, media, medical industries). Over the years I have observed that users remain hooked and ill for years whereas without the use of drugs depressed people make a return after a while.”
These days the drug companies invent the drug first and an illness for it to cure second.
http://www.cchr.org/cchr-reports/inventing-disorders/introduction.html
Yet again, and for the n th time, Surrey residents will be subjected to kettling, road closures, business closures, inability to leave home, etc etc. for more bloody professional cycling.
We’ve had last year’s Limp Ics, the recent Prudential/Boris show, and now the return of the Tour of Britain this weekend. It is run as a commercial operation by Tour of Britain Ltd for the benefit of the millionaire? celebrity cyclists like Bradley Wiggins, the lycra and helmet manufacturers and the bike and equipment makers.
Q Why so many companies Mr Roberts of the Sweetspot Group?
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/908046002
http://www.sweetspotgroup.co.uk/company/
http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/home.php#.Ujqqi69wbSc
We’ve had enough.
PS Approve of cycling for recreation and travel to work etc but this professional stuff gives me the pip.
All in on the act.
http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/partners/index.php#.Ujqq669wbSc
Drugs
Back in the day, when psychiatrists were not allowed to prescribe drugs and doctors tend to look down upon them, it looks like there was a lot less wrong with ppl&kids. A friend showed me a clip of a ‘cat expert’ the other day, A man who proclaimed that Fluffy was ‘bi-polar…’
Seriously?
more bloody professional cycling
A lycra-clad Wiggins-emulator I saw yesterday actually showed other road users a bit of consideration, and displayed signs of SITUATIONAL AWARENESS – ie not being in a dream involving a yellow jersey and being conscious of his surroundings.
Just one, but maybe he will infect others.
So no further comment for now.
Great Links chaps. So Ms Japan is wrecking her TV career for speaking out, my utmost and sincere thanks to her, it must have taken some very hard thinking on her behalf.
It seems that Japan is clamping down on any sort of protest rather than trying to ameliorate this WORLD WIDE CONTAMINATION.
When will our public health servants dare to open their mouth, or has it been sown shut by the nuclear industry who can’t build anything else but dangerous expensive tax sapping PWR reactors?
Gary Brumback on Big Pharma.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/06/inside-the-corpocracy-big-pharma-and-servile-government/
His website: http://www.uschamberofdemocracy.com/
While His Holiness has day-and-night security, paid for by us, which he flies round the world and stores in five-star hotels, His Holiness’ daughter is apparently unguarded:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10319425/Tony-Blairs-daughter-held-up-at-gunpoint-by-muggers.html
No, you stupid bastard mugger. Not her. Him. And don’t forget the blade.
In light of recent events here, it seems that Medialens is being presently troubled by a Troll, sparking a little bit of a debate;
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1379569587.html
It seems their Troll is minding his P’s & Q’s, so surviving so far.
I do like Rhisiart Gwilym’s comment “Ridicule is more potent than censorship”, and I think our Sofia certainly proved that here, but I never got the chance to thank her, or even say goodbye, sniff, sniff !
Personal experience is an important yardstick. This morning I was seen and given a temporary crown at guy’s dental hospital within the hour. A fantastic service that yet again belies the disparaging propaganda that is designed to further privatise the nhs.
Komodo, I notice the comments page is not open for a rather weak attempt at robbing the daughter f the biggest thief and mass-murderer of the 21st century.
Fred 19 Sep, 2013 – 8:28 am
“These days the drug companies invent the drug first and an illness for it to cure second.”
Links and endorsement is a contentious subject where my views differ from many others here – but fred, did you know that is a scientology site you linked to?
So His holiness daughter is a barrister too, no doubt with mummy pushing her all the way. Agreed on the muggers wrong target, Komodo.
How much loner before the EU sends a delegation to the Shanghai cooperation Organisation, what else will the USUKIS cabal do to send EU representatives up a tree?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/nsa-spying-european-parliamentarians-call-for-swift-suspension-a-922920.html
It amused me that his holiness’s son was married last weekend, an event widely reported not least because (a) a large number of political and other celebrities attended and (b) it was opined said son was a future PM in the making. I hadn’t even been aware he had sisters (I instinctively blank information about successful war criminals’ families). Naturally none of the daughters (or is there only one daughter?) are spoken of in such terms, however able they might be. His holiness’s court is an intensely patriarchal outfit.
Nevermind I doubt EU countries will be represented in the SCO (although an independent SCOtland might). The Rothschilds own all western European governments, in fact all western governments outside Europe too, and would therefore need the bankers’ permission (order). It’s a nice thought.