It is lead news in every outlet of the mainstream media today that there is a massive increase in terrorism – as everyone can plainly see from all the bodies littering our streets.
I can also tell you that there is a massive increase in the threat of deadly asteroids about to hit Britain and destroy us all. My unimpeachable evidence for the existence of this massive asteroid threat is my own anti-asteroid activity. I and my dedicated team have visited 268 sites this year where we thought an asteroid was about to strike. That represents a 40% increase on our activity last year and therefore the media can say a 40% increase in the asteroid threat.
Thankfully due to the brilliance and never-ceasing vigilance of my anti-asteroid team the world has been saved. We can continue to do this if given a further 15% budget increase to 32 billion pounds and the right to arrest anyone anytime who looks a bit dusky, and take Theresa May to pose in their home.
There will also be a new crime of denying that asteroids are dangerous or looking at videos and pictures of asteroids. Anybody found guilty of looking at asteroids in other countries will be found guilty of treason and hung drawn and quartered.
“BEIRUT, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time the militant group had taken to the air.
The group, which has seized swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been flying the planes over the captured al-Jarrah military airport east of Aleppo, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify the report and U.S. Central Command said it was not aware of Islamic State flying jets in Syria.”
Wow. What a threat. Reason enough to establish ‘no fly zone’ over Syria? You betcha, cuz imagine how skilled ISIS would be learning avionics from an Iraqi pilot, then earning your wings. Turkey shoot !!!!!
O/T
Israeli forces shoot, kill 13-year-old Palestinian child near Ramallah
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of Beit Laqiya northwest of Ramallah on Thursday evening.
Medical sources said Bahaa Samir Badir, 13, was shot in the chest after Israeli forces raided the village.
Badir was reportedly shot in the chest from close range, and suffered from severe bleeding shortly before dying at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
Clashes broke out in the village of Beit Laqiya after news of Badir’s death spread.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that Israeli forces “encountered an illegal riot in Beit Laqiya,” and “while they were exiting the village, rioters hurled Molotov cocktails at the forces.”
“They responded to the threat with live fire,” she said, adding: “Reports of a dead Palestinian are being reviewed. There will be military police investigation.”
She added that the Molotov cocktails had posed a “direct threat” to the lives of the soldiers.
The death of Bahaa brings the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank so far this year to 42, in addition to the nearly 2,200 Palestinians slain during Israel’s summer offensive across Gaza.
More than 4,300 Palestinians have also been injured by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank since the beginning of 2014, as well as more than 11,000 during the nearly two-month assault on Gaza.
The West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=733631
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and a message from a friend visiting Palestine.
9 October. Depressing day today in Palestine. So today we got up at 5am
& went to one of the agricultural gates. The farmers took an hour
to try & get through the gate to their land. It is open at 6am to
let them onto their own land and again at 12pm to send them back off
their land again. I stood by the gate all of the time. The reason for
this is because the Israeli soldiers don’t like you watching them &
seeing the impact of their occupation. One of the soldiers came to
close the gates & I had to move but just as he was closing the
gate four young men turned up & even though they had not put the
lock on the gate they would not let them through.
There was one particular young black man who when I asked them to let them
through told me to ‘get away you stupid woman. I can kill women like
you with my gun. I can kill women with my gun and children’. I said
‘And you are proud of this?’ He said ‘Yes I am. I have killed 25
children with my gun’. I responded ‘I feel sad for you’. He told me
he felt sad for me. I asked him why he felt sad for me, ‘because you
support terrorism’. He then asked why I felt sad for him & I told
him ‘because you are the terrorist’. I then said to him ‘How can you
support a racist ideology when you are a black man?’ I told him I had
seen the way black people were treated in Israel by Israelis &
knew that they didn’t really accept them. The soldier then started to
be sarcastic & say ‘Bye. I love you’. I told him ‘I would love
you too if you put your gun down’.
Later in the day we tried to go to Upper Shuffa village from Lower Shuffa.
The soldiers have put a checkpoint there so even though we could see
Upper Shuffa which was only 2km away we were not allowed to pass and
were told to go another way which was ‘only two minutes’. I told the
soldier it was not two minutes away. He replied ‘sorry’. I told him
he was not sorry because if he was he wouldn’t be doing this. We had
to take a 25km detour to get there.
A very depressing day but with the realisation that we can leave at any
time whereas the Palestinians cannot. Tomorrow off to Kafr Qaddum
demonstration against the settlement. Hugs …..
10 October. We went to the peaceful demo at Kufr Qaddum. Before the demo
had even started the Israeli soldiers came to the village &
started spraying sewage at us. The demo is a peaceful one against the
road block in KQ. The Israelis have taken their road as it is near an
illegal Israeli settlement. As the demo started after Friday prayers
the soldiers fired tear gas at us & again sprayed everyone with
sewage. Our eyes were burning & the tear gas mixed with the
stench from the skunk spray makes you vomit.
The Israelis broke into one old lady’s house & used it to fire at us.
They smashed the lady’s house & she was taken to hospital. We
visited her later. We are all okay now.
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That is real terrorism.
It’s no joke … there is also a truly massive increase in the numbers of UK Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer, ASDA’s, ICELAND, Morrison’s and WAITROSE’s where really efficient both “undercover” and overt Police Units have now been successfully established. The sale of NEW SCOTLAND YARD is also proceeding stealthily by leaps and bounds. Stroll along Victoria Street London without wearing a crash helmet at your peril.
Glenn uk.5.14pm.
I find your latest comments offensive.
@Robert Crawford: Sorry to hear that. Which bit in particular?
Craig
To reply briefly to your comments at 10h28 and 10h39 if I may.
It would be fruitless for me to essay a detailed definition of terrorism, except to say for the purposes of THIS discussion* that it would probably include at least the following: an element of organisation (membership of a terrorist organisation, or adherence to the aims and modus operandi of such an organisation); and the use of violent means – mostly lethal in fact or in intention – to oppose given State policy or policies (in other words, it is political in origin and intent).
Therefore it seems possible to distinguish between terrorism as a phenomenon and what we might call “acts of terror”. I would therefore suggest that the example you give of Spencer Perceval falls into the latter category (as would, for example, the assassinations of various American Presidents, Cailloux, Barthou and King Alexander and so on) and arises out of the insanity of the perpetrator.
It follows that I don’t agree that there have always been terrorist attacks (in the sense you’re using the expression, ie terrorism) in the UK. Rather, I should say that terrorism as it should be understood is a relatively recent phenomenon, probably starting with the Fenian attacks in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Now you are correct in saying that that terrorism in the UK has been (very) low recently and that it was much more prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s (that is, of course, a reference to IRA terrorism). But that does not prove that anti-terrorism measures and activity today are otiose; all it shows is that (1)terrorism is cyclical and (2) terrorism is a “response” to different aspects of state policy, meaning that different groups perpetrate it.
To illustrate (1) : IRA terrorism occurred (at a fairly low level) in the late 1940s and the first half of the 1950s, disappeared thereafter and reappeared in the 1970s and 1980s, only to have (virtually but not completely) disappeared today.
To illustrate (2) : IRA terrorism; the Angry Brigades and similar groups; Islamic fundamentalist terrorism today.
And going on from (2), for you to say that the UK is busy creating terrorism by its policy in/towards Syria is meaningful and relevant only in the sense that you could have made the same claim about IRA terrorism, ie that the UK created or helped to create it through its policies in respect of the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and in respect of the way Northern Ireland was governed at the time of the Troubles. There is always a “cause” of terrorism, for without such a “cause” we are back in Spencer Perceval or Abraham Lincoln or William MacKinley territory. And because such “causes” can always exist as long as there is such a thing as State polic(y)(ies), it is foolish to pretend that the threat of terrorism is a fiction and that, accordingly, the State should not remain on guard against it.
Finally, on your comment that information on potential terrorism may be false: it is certainly a possibility that some of that information is false (for a variety of reasons) but I don’t believe that all of it is. Moreover, I believe that your point, while being true to some extent about information gathered abroad and/or from foreign sources and/or through torture by those foreign authorities( the personal examples you refer to concern Uzbekistan and the CIA), is not really/necessarily relevant to investigations and possible arrests and prosecutions taking place in the UK.
Jake
“you’re a dinosaur Habbabkuk, and you really ought to treat the asteroid threat more seriously.”
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I liked that one for its elegant wit! 🙂
You should post more often!
Glenn uk.
Low level act: Is it? Stand next to it.
” You are doing the work of real terrorists for them”. Am I really?
“Sleeper cells”. I did not mention anything about “sleeper cells”. Adding “cells” to what I said implies, organised group. I don’t know if they are part of a organised group. I do however hear the Umbrella name, Muslim added to all these incidents, organised or not.
One thing is for certain, “I do not do the dirty work of others”. Got it?.
Just dont agree with you Robert.With my schoolboy knowledge of home made fireworks,I could’ve done a better job than these 2 well educated Muslim Doctors.I think what they did was stupid and could’ve had more serious consequences but as terrorist attacks goes, it ranks with the exploding underpants.
Anyway on a lighter(scuse the pun) note.
Polish football fans applaud Scottish supporters after the match on Wednesday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tpaUK65r7VQ
Mr Goss in another of his “the indigenous inhabitants of the Falklands” moments:
“The terrorists are our leaders. The terrorists against Jews in the Nazi holocaust were their own Zionist leaders. This is a bit off-topic but very interesting. Germany made provision for Jewish families to leave Germany, leave their properties, and pay $1000 dollars at the border.
“The Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey received this offer with the clear understanding that the exclusion of Palestine as a destination for the deportees was based on an agreement between the Gestapo and the Mufti.
The answer of the Zionist leaders was negative, with the following comments: a) ONLY Palestine would be considered as a destination for the deportees. b) The European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations, in order that the victorious allies agree to a “Jewish State” at the end of the war. c) No ransom will be paid. This response to the Gestapo’s offer was made with the full knowledge that the alternative to this offer was the gas chamber.”
http://www.truetorahjews.org/lieberman”
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Apart from the egregious silliness of the first two sentences (what about the Jews of Poland and the other countries occupied by the Nazis??), Mr Goss has obviously never heard of the Kindertransport.
Nor does he appear to be aware of the many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of German Jews who were allowed to leave the Reich (usually against payment and/or confiscation of their money, properties and businesses) for the US and the UK and other Western European countries..
Not a Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in sight, I’m afraid!
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But what else can one expect from a Putin fan and defender?
I think you can get a cream from the chemist’s to deal with asteroids… or am I thinking about rings around Uranus?
Talking about terrorism, I’m presently on a months ‘work placement’, arranged by ATOS, for the crime of being unemployed; and during the induction I’m told how caring ATOS are regarding their ‘charges’, because they deal firmly against bullying in the workplace. No sense of irony given by the ATOS agent, as they then read all the paragraphs of how I will be sanctioned for the slightest default.
I can fight bullies, but how do I fight hunger?
A novel and somewhat surprising take from our friend DonnyDarkside:
“I could’ve done a better job than these 2 well educated Muslim Doctors.I think what they did was stupid and could’ve had more serious consequences but as terrorist attacks goes, it ranks with the exploding underpants.”
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The implication being that if an intended terrorist attack is bungled, it’s OK and not really an intended terrorist attack?
Headline in “The Independent”: “Isis Fighters training to fly captured planes by Iraqi pilots.” (sic). Apparently 3 Mig 21 and 23 planes have been captured. Bullshit level reading on my Bullcrapometer is noted as at an all-time high.
RC: Low level act: Is it? Stand next to it.
Nobody was standing next to it.
RC: ” You are doing the work of real terrorists for them”. Am I really?
Yup. Ginning up a couple of idiots doing something very disorganised and ineffective, into something we should be “terrorised” over.
RC: “Sleeper cells”. I did not mention anything about “sleeper cells”. Adding “cells” to what I said implies, organised group. I don’t know if they are part of a organised group. I do however hear the Umbrella name, Muslim added to all these incidents, organised or not.
A distinction without much of a difference.
RC: One thing is for certain, “I do not do the dirty work of others”. Got it?.
Sure you are! Stop playing up minor incidents, and you’ll be reducing any effectiveness they might have had. But in fairness, you’re not really doing their dirty work for them. You’re just acting as a useful idiot for them.
No Habbathink But then you do have a tendency to jump to the wrong conclusions, or the conclusions you are paid to jump to.
Al oH Nina , Perchance a no fly zone will be necessary to keep these old crates out of the skies over Syria ? The US air force will not want to jeopardise collateral damage,and drones will probably be too slow, they’ll fly too high for Kurdish AA fire.Scheisse !!
The implication being that if an intended terrorist attack is bungled, it’s OK and not really an intended terrorist attack?
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Habb-itual Liar.
Of course it depends on who the terrorists are, if you’re Menachem Begin, and you blow up a hotel, then you end up being awarded, the Nobel prize for peace.
JimmyGiro.
There is a better situation coming for you, with that wonderful wit.It shows brains.
What you need to do now is; Find what you are good at and what you are good at will find a way to be good to you.
Robt.Crawford @7.37p.m. My Bullcrapometer has gone off again. It has been working at full stretch since you joined Mr. Habacret on here. DoNNyDarKo @7.31p.m. Yes-No-Fly Zone, new super-drones, and a few suitcase nukes, just in case.
DoNNyDarKo.
“Nobody was standing next to it”.
The baggage handler booted one of them in the b—-s. I guess he must have had very, very long legs. There is a photograph of a cop spraying the burning terrorist with a fire extinguisher.
It was as you remember it well, in the passenger area. Hundreds of people near it.
The idiot bit is talking to you. Got it?.
Then stop talking to me Robert.
Cop ? Guid Scottish word that !
Well well well, it seems the “Promise Land” isn’t so promising afterall.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795168/israel-s-fury-young-jews-moving-berlin-cheaper-life-abandoning-homeland-pudding.html
I can see this money making scheme coming to the UK, councils will love it.
http://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/
Unfortunately the really wacky ones are staying in their Govt subsidised Settler Homes.
Nobody will want to take them even if they wanted to leave.
DoNNyDarko. My a apologies. I meant my last Post to, Glenn uk.
So sorry.
Robert.
We have it in Austria already.
They are very lucrative.
Running amber is dangerous.
One such country is India, where the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and their vaccine empire are under fire, including a pending lawsuit currently being investigated by the India Supreme Court. Narayana Kumar of The Economic Times of India has just written a scathing report of fraud and scandals surrounding the Gates vaccine empire: Controversial vaccine studies: Why is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under fire from critics in India?
Kumar starts out his 4 page article by focusing on the current case before the India Supreme Court regarding deaths and injuries occurring during drug trials carried out over Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil. Vaccine trials were conducted on thousands of girls between the ages of 9 and 15. Many of the girls fell ill, and at least 7 died, and the lawsuit is alleging that in most of these cases, the girls and their parents did not even know what kind of vaccine trial they were participating in.
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Gates can’t even build a reliable version of Windows, yet he swan’s off around the third world jagging God knows what shit into poor kids.
http://www.zengardner.com/gates-vaccine-empire-trial-india/
We have it in Austria already.
They are very lucrative.
Running amber is dangerous.
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Yes it is dangerous, even more so, now for your wallet.
Unfortunately the really wacky ones are staying in their Govt subsidised Settler Homes.
Nobody will want to take them even if they wanted to leave.
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I believe you’re right on that one.
A look at how the genocidal maniacal monsters, specifically targeted civilian and residential areas of Gaza, with devastating accuracy.
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/protective-destruction-professional