Dashing off to London now to do an interview with George Galloway for his crowd sourced documentary “The Killing of Tony Blair”. Sounds less like a film, more like a good idea.
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How do the conformity enforcers explain the differing outcomes in terms of numbers of dead and injured, amounts of high explosives detonated and subsequent social order and cost to their own tax-payers when the US helps to spread democracy and bring freedom in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or any of the dozens of other lucky countries that have rerceived the gift of US help compared to the disgraceful and illegal, bloodless “Russian Invasion”of Crimea.
It’s easy to moan about Putin (Prince of Darkness) and denigrate other posters here but just imagine for a moment you have family in a place, which kind of help would you really choose? And why?
Kempe, I don’t doubt there were nasty events on both sides, and you’re very selective about whether RT is a non-biased station. Certainly it has been better than the BBC over the Ukranian and Crimean issues but that’s not saying much in its favour. While nobody agrees with police brutality where ever it happens (must be something to do with a uniform) it does confirm the claim that the police were unarmed at that time. The first bullets came from snipers in January. RT, while criticising the police, said medics had identified the type of bullets extracted. And of course it is clear that because the western-funded Yatsenyuk regime will not hold an inquiry into who started and continued the shooting that, like Urmas Paet, we can all deduce who was responsible. Except you perhaps.
Speaking of vaccines, Mary, there has been talk over the last few days about mass fluoridisation.
I wonder if its proponents have read this:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2813%2970278-3/abstract
John Goss
Of course you believe RT is less biased than the BBC since you believe every word that it says. Don’t you appreciate how circular your reasoning is?
Kempe, I don’t doubt there were nasty events on both sides,
This is just not true you have consistently denied any incidence of nasty events on the Russian side that have been put to you. Are there some other nasty events committed by the Russian side that you would like to draw to our attention?
It’s not a question of either/or but rather degrees of fascism, or maybe minor points of disagreement ( I like tea, you like coffee so gfy)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-face-of-ukraines-maidan-democrats/5375663
“After the overthrow of Yanukovitch, Musytchko was heavily involved in acts of violence, intimidation and arbitrary measures against political opponents.
The day after the right-wing coup, he appeared in a military uniform at the regional parliament in the Rivne administrative district brandishing a Kalashnikov. He then forced a parliamentary sitting to implement his demands. These included the provision of accommodation for his supporters in Right Sector.
Three days later, he stormed the office of the district administrator of Rivne with a group of supporters and assaulted him on camera. The courts investigated complaints and statements according to which Musytchko and his supporters had arbitrarily confiscated cars and occupied houses.
When the new government in Kiev issued a warrant for his arrest, Musytchko threatened Interior Minister Asakov that he would “hang by the legs like a dog and be exterminated.”
Shortly thereafter, Musytchko was liquidated in a police operation.
Interior Minister Asakov is a member of Yulia Timoschenko’s Fatherland Party, which is also far from squeamish in its dealings with political opponents. The Western media has portrayed Timoschenko, who made millions in the gas industry in the 1990s, as an icon of the Orange Revolution and a fighter for democracy. However, an excerpt of a telephone call between Timoschenko and her close ally Nestor Chufritch appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, which exposed the “icon” as a vulgar, unscrupulous criminal driven by hatred.”
John ‘I am going to this historic first conference tomorrow in the hope that out of it, in due course, will spring a new political morality.’
Be there for me. We cannot continue with the present corrupt system, the lies and deceit, the war mongering, the self interest of the politicians. I could go on.
If you get a chance compliment him on his last film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2745
Excellent and a must see for anyone who cares about this country.
I have just been to the local town centre and found a branch of Pret a Manger who serve nice filter coffee for 99p. I will not enter Costa(lot) Grand Metropolitan owned or Starbucks (Schulz a Zionist owns it and it is on the BDS list). I had just sat down near the entrance when this 30 year old woman entered carrying several designer carrier bags in one hand. She was wearing designer type clothes. Anyway she let the door close on a mother entering and pushing a pram with a baby in it and holding a toddler by the hand. I could not believe it and got up to help and said my piece politely to the designer addict about her lack of care for others. She looked daggers at me but did not reply.
Similar on the bus. Two 16 year old or so schoolboys were standing in the space set aside for pushchairs and clearly marked. A young mum got on with a pushchair with two little ones in it with all the food shopping in carrier bags hanging on the handle. These boys made no effort to move out of the way. Others remained sitting in the double seat reserved for the elderly and for pushchair owners and which faces the pushchair space. In the end they had to get out of the way. They all had their bloody silly earpieces in of course.
What has happened to people? It’s depressing.
“While nobody agrees with police brutality where ever it happens (must be something to do with a uniform) it does confirm the claim that the police were unarmed at that time. ”
It does no such thing. As is the case with para-military police forces the Ukrainian plod are armed as a matter of course. Besides even if ex-US Navy SEALS snipers were hired by Zionist Freemasons on behalf the EU to take out the odd copper or two in Kiev it doesn’t justify the police firing indiscriminately on unarmed protestors as they undoubtedly did.
Kempe
“It does no such thing. As is the case with para-military police forces the Ukrainian plod are armed as a matter of course. Besides even if ex-US Navy SEALS snipers were hired by Zionist Freemasons on behalf the EU to take out the odd copper or two in Kiev it doesn’t justify the police firing indiscriminately on unarmed protestors as they undoubtedly did.”
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I’m interested to see, Kempe, that you have seen fit to remain silent on the rôle played in these shootings by Enrique Capriles Radonski, AS Victoria Nuland, Sir Robert Cooper, Craig Murray and Old Mother Brown.
Have you become a troll?
Baal Zevul writes in mockuflection :
3. New Right propagandists will take isolated incidents of Islamist criminality and minor electoral advances, lump them together as evidence of a coordinated movement/conspiracy, and megaphonically demand that legal and public policy measures be implemented to curtail the growth of public sympathies for Islam as a whole… Meanwhile, they ridicule similar observations about the encouragement of a violent religion with a violent past, currently engaged in systematic repression and ethnic cleansing at home and subversion around the world – by labelling those observations as proof of the mythical disease of “Antisemitism”.
Reads just as well, as far as I can see, Jemand.
“Jemand”…btw, anything to do with Yemen?
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Way off the mark BZ.
You can’t invert the key terms of a narrative, willy-nilly, and expect it to nullify the logic of the original. And while “Islamophobia” is indeed a political invention and mythical disease of the mind, anti-Islam is very much an extant product of clear observation, deep contemplation and honourable conviction to call things as they really are. You can discuss anti-Semitism, anti-Communism, anti-depressants, anti-lock brakes and anti-whatever all you like. They all exist, but not “Islamopobia”.
Incidents of Islam-motivated violence (not to be confused with violence committed by Muslims for other reasons) are not isolated. They are unified by a common understanding that calls on Muslims to never tolerate being a minority in any land they call home. It doesn’t require all Muslims to be active – just an aggressive minority who has the ancilliary support, tacit approval or fearful compliance of the remaining majority. In fact, this is how it works for all despotic, tyrannical and oppressive regimes. Think North Korea. Think Nazi Germany. Think Pinochet’s Chile. Think!
Right wing politicos will certainly exploit public anxiety over rapid growth rates of local Islamic communities and various violent incidents involving Muslims, regardless of whether it is religiously motivated or not. Right wingers are no less obnoxious in their exploitation of public ignorance than are the New Left control-freaks. But the New Left have a large political investment in the nice sounding but dubiously obscure concept of “multiculturalism”. They are required to apologise for Islamist violence because to condemn it would be a catastrophic admission of failure.
Lastly, I do not understand your final line. Do you imagine that you are peeping behind a my veil?
“I have just been to the local town centre and found a branch of Pret a Manger who serve nice filter coffee for 99p. I will not enter Costa(lot) Grand Metropolitan owned or Starbucks (Schulz a Zionist owns it and it is on the BDS list).”
Is that the same Pret a Manger that is 33% owned by Bridgepoint Capital the rapacious US private equity firm, who bought their stake from MacDonalds and treats its employees like dirt?
http://boingboing.net/2012/12/08/pret-fires-longstanding-employ.html
That’s another one off the list then. The private equity tentacles are long and sticky. You will find Lord Patten of Barnes on the advisory board. Also Milburn the NuLabour traitor who continued Major’s PFI privatisation pioneered by Lamont, the Thatcher Treasury minister and the Major Chancellor. NuLabour gave way to these cruel ConDems. Plus Stuart Rose ex M&S is also there having found a new niche.
Bridgepoint Capital have interests in the health sector. They bought out Care UK, now in receipt of large NHS contracts, which was owned by John Nash who is now a Cameron peer and Tory donor. Latterly made an Education Minister.
http://www.bridgepoint.eu/en/investment-portfolio/ Healthcare sector/London office
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fury-tory-party-donors-handed-3123469
They resemble death watch beetles eating away at the fabric of our society until only sawdust remains.
Q. Not sure you are correct about Bridgepoint being US owned. Wikipedia has them as ‘pan European’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgepoint_Capital
I misspelt the name of the Starbucks owner. It is Schultz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schultz
When it comes to coffee all of the chains are to be avoided – try somewhere locally owned if they haven’t already been priced off the high street – the prices will be lower and the coffee better.
The State broadcaster has made no comment on this story, although Ms Miller’s expenses claims for her second home in which her parents have lived have been the subject of reports for a long time.
She’ll have to go before the election!
The Torygraph and Sky News so far. They don’t like her. Leveson rankles.
Maria Miller’s £1m profit on taxpayer-funded home
Culture Secretary expected to be told to pay back thousands of pounds claimed in expenses for Wimbledon property she designated as second home
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/10730894/Maria-Millers-1m-profit-on-taxpayer-funded-home.html
Maria Miller ‘Will Have To Repay Thousands’
The Culture Secretary will reportedly be told to repay up to £5,000 over expenses claims for a house she sold for a £1.2m profit.
http://news.sky.com/story/1233803/maria-miller-will-have-to-repay-thousands
A Muslim PhD student at Yale describes his experiences with BLiar who was a guest lecturer there in 2009. We learn nothing new about the psychopath.
[..]On the other hand, I felt it my moral obligation that I not leave this class and end this semester without bringing up the past. While I realized that it would not change anything that had happened, I wanted to have a clear conscience and be able to speak my mind on this issue. But I also wanted to see:
1) if Blair had any regrets regarding his decision,
2) if he realized that his actions seemed to demonstrate to many people the hypocrisy of democracy when a majority of his own people opposed the war, yet he so stubbornly brought his country into this conflict against the will of his people,
3) and, lastly, if he understood that his perception in the Middle East, and in fact in many parts of the world, as a man of war, actually made it impossible for him to be an ‘Envoy of Peace’ in the Middle East.
With regards to the last point, I was trying to get the point across that his new-found role as ‘Special Envoy of the Quartet’ to try to solve the Palestinian crisis was viewed as a big practical joke by pretty much all players in the region.
Although it was extremely uncomfortable to get to this topic, alḥamdulillāh in the very last class (with the help of certain classmates whom I had prompted) I did manage to raise all of these issues and more with him. I tried my best to be firm and keep my cool, but despite all my attempts, my bluntness did fluster him considerably (as even my friends attested to). To summarize the entire ten minute back-and-forth, as is to be expected, Blair does not regret his decision at all (‘In the end of the day we got rid of an evil dictator’). He felt that his decision was in fact democracy in action, for if the people disagreed they could vote him out (which they eventually did). And he did not believe that his perception in the Middle East was that bad (no comment), for wherever he went he was thanked by the people of Iraq (to which I replied he should meet people on the street rather than hand-picked spokespersons). He firmly believed that he was a perfect person to be EU’s special envoy to the Middle East.’
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http://muslimmatters.org/2009/02/04/to-blair-or-not-to-blair-that-is-the-question/
“A Muslim PhD student at Yale describes his experiences with BLiar who was a guest lecturer there in 2009. We learn nothing new about the psychopath.”
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So if we learn nothing new, why are you posting? Therapy?
“That’s another one off the list then. The private equity tentacles are long and sticky. You will find Lord Patten of Barnes on the advisory board. Etc, etc, etc….”
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Yoy have to admire the old girl, don’t you 🙂 The way she got out of that one and then, doing a swift U-turn, used it as a springboard to dish out more dirt on Bridgepoint Capital.
‘Which is EXACTLY why it’s splendid news that the jab will henceforth be offered on the NHS and therefore FREE.
Aren’t you pleased about that?’
As I have already said, it has not yet been decided. It is dependent on the DoH and the manufacturer agreeing the price. The vaccine is given in either 2 or 3 doses depending on the age of the child plus a booster for some. Sounds pricey in terms of administering it.
You can bone up here.
http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/human/medicines/002333/human_med_001614.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058001d124
‘Bexsero is given by deep injection into a muscle, preferably into the shoulder muscle, or into the thigh muscle in children under two years old. In adults and adolescents aged 11 and over, two injections are given (at an interval of at least one month). In younger children, two injections are given (at an interval of at least two months), except in infants aged between two and five months who receive three injections (at intervals of at least one month). Children under two years old also receive an additional booster dose (at a time point determined by age).’
“As I have already said, it has not yet been decided. It is dependent on the DoH and the manufacturer agreeing the price. The vaccine is given in either 2 or 3 doses depending on the age of the child plus a booster for some. Sounds pricey in terms of administering it.”
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After the caning you got, Mary, I’m surprised you’ve popped up again with the meningitis B vacccination. Not the bad-loser syndrome, surely?
Anyway, to the substance. Worry not, a price will be agreed.
As to your “sounds pricey in terms of administering it”, what’s that supposed to mean? You don’t like the fact that it needs to be administered two or three times? You object to the call on a nurse’s time? If so, that’s what nurses are paid to do from the public purse (amoung other things).
Or are you simply against this particular vaccination? If so, I suggest you find the parent of a child who’s had meningitis B (or died from it) and discuss further, either in, person or on the internet, with him/her.
When in a while, stop digging.
s/be “when in a hole”
Four very pathetic posts in a row there addressed to me. Old habits seem to die hard. There is a repetition happening.
‘Drop it’, as I say to the dog.
I’ve detected a change in the media since Obama visited Saudi Arabia. Yesterday, Channel 4 were condemning SA leadership on women’s rights… and the hypocrisy about trade before rights… with RT similarly condemning them regarding gay rights. Now Catherine Ashton is daring to speak out about “right Sector”.
http://seeingtheforest.com/why-did-we-invade-iraq-2/
“With the Russian takeover of Crimea we are seeing just a bit of the damage done to the world by the invastion of Iraq. We used to be able to say, with some authority, “This is wrong, you shouldn’t do it.” But now everyone can say, “What are you talking about? You invaded Iraq based on a bunch of obvious lies.”
Redemptive self-awareness escapes Obama.
With MH 370 dominating the news, few eyes on Syria.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/first-group-syrian-refugees-arrives-uk
This is the sort of café we should all encourage to set up in our towns.
Chef Adam Smith serves up food deemed past its best. His Pay As You Feel Cafe in Leeds offers delicious meals made from ingredients discarded by the city’s various food establishments. It might be steak, soup – or just a cup of tea. Not only does it save perfectly good food from ending up in landfill, this inspiring little cafe (temporarily closed for refurbishment but opening again soon) is also helping to feed locals in need: facebook.com/PAYFcafe
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2014/mar/27/cafe-food-past-sell-by-date-video
@Ben_Scot. Turkey is abusing the spirit, if not the actualite, of NATO membership. There is no way that a small country like Syria would attack a regional power on its doorstep, and the rest of NATO being called to come to its aid seems quite ridiculous.
Peacewisher; I was implying the wheels within wheels of international strategies. Russia is being punished for it’s support for Syria, under the guise of International law. Plus, i infer a connection between NATO, Sevastapol and Tartus, Russia’s only ice-free ports in those shipping lanes via the Mediterranean.
Plus, neither NATO or Russia is capable of fighting on multiple fronts. It’s all threats and bluster, but it’s a dangerous game of bluff.
Ben
“Plus, i infer a connection between NATO, Sevastapol and Tartus, Russia’s only ice-free ports in those shipping lanes via the Mediterranean.”
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Glad to see that you’ve learnt something since the last time, when you posted that Sevastopol and Tartus were Russia’s only ice-free ports – period.
Someone – probably Resident Dissident or Anon – corrected you and, mirabile dictu, you have taken the correction on board.
There is hope yet for you, Ben.
Breaking News:
DARK FORCES JOIN UKRAINE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
As if things weren’t bad enough with Right Sector and Svoboda running amok, it seems an altogether more sinister force is now active, and running for the Ukrainian presidency.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
http://rt.com/news/vader-presidential-hopeful-ukraine-885/
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More Breaking News:
TROLL BORES HIMSELF TO DEATH
I will never forget him, and I’ve written this poem in his memory. (Apologies to the ghost of Oliver Goldsmith)
Ode to Dad.
Upon yon struggling laptop taped away
With keen intent to upset and dismay
There, in his noxious manner, skill’d and rude,
The old blogmaster sought to hush and rule;
A man most drear he was, without a clue,
I knew him well, as any daughter knew;
Well had the trolling wreckers learn’d to trace
The day’s distractions arrogant and base;
Full well they laugh’d with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whinger searched and found,
Conveying insults for to hound.
Yet in his mind from endless contradiction wrought,
His fevered accusations quite unsought.
The village all declar’d how much he knew;
‘Twas certain he could write, and cipher too:
Correctness he could measure, attitudes proscribe,
And motives dark and evil then ascribe.
In argument this person own’d his skill,
For e’en though vanquish’d he could argue still.
And words of tedious length he always found
Dumbfounding gazing bloggers rang’d around;
And still they gaz’d and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could have so loose a screw.
All others knew his game. His tedious plot
Which marked him simply as a dull crackpot.