Honoured to give the keynote speech at Amnesty’s conference on torture in London yesterday. Then dashed back to Edinburgh for a very romantic evening with Nadira – and Cameron!
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By the way, no need to reply to Jumpin’ Jack Flash, He’s a Gas right now because he’s otherwise engaged for the time being.
All comments to Habbabkuk tomorrow, please.
We rightly allied ourselves with Stalin, because Hitler was the greater threat. If we had not allied ourselves with Stalin, it is not at all clear that Hitler would have been defeated.
The Zionist lobby at work attempting to clamp down on free speech in British universities. Is this Gould’s last knocking for the UK Zs before he gives way to Mr. Quarrey in July.
From Medialens
British ambassador met Universities UK over Israel & ‘free speech’ concerns
Posted by The Editors on March 12, 2015, 7:05 pm
Ben White
British ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould met last month with UK university heads in a meeting that discussed Israel and the limits of ‘freedom of speech’, it has been reported.
The meeting was held in early February with four vice-chancellors from umbrella group Universities UK, and also included representatives of at least three pro-Israel organisations: the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council, and the Union of Jewish Students.
In a brief report two weeks ago, the topics discussed were described as “concerns over antisemitism, Israel boycotts and extreme speakers on campus.” Yesterday, more details emerged in the context of pressure on the University of Southampton to cancel a forthcoming conference.
The April gathering, ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’, has been attacked by Israel supporters seeking its cancellation. The university, meanwhile, has stated its commitment to “academic freedom, free speech” and “scholarly debate.”
/Full article:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/blogs/politics/17477-british-ambassador-met-universities-uk-over-israel-a-free-speech-concerns
David Quarrey has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the State of Israel.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/change-of-her-majestys-ambassador-to-the-state-of-israel
And Stalin allied himself to Hitler because……?
Had he stayed allied to Hitler, it is quite clear that Britian would have been defeated.
And Britain didn’t change sides and ally itself with Hitler to get rid of the Communist beast because….?
Had it and the other Western democracies done so, it is quite clear that Stalin would have been defeated*
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* despite his “brothers and sisters” appeal on Moscow Radio and his cosying up to the Church.
Mary
I fear you over-estimate the influence which Ambassador Gould wields in the UK university world.
No need to panic. Stay vigilant but chillax!
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That’s a very nice pussy you’ve shown there, Mary.
Meeeeow!
Conservatives suspend Sir Malcolm Rifkind over cash-for-access claims
David Cameron confirms move and says party will carry out disciplinary inquiry into allegations. Jack Straw also implicated! Will Craig return to this forum to say something about these developments?
I learned from a poster on this forum a while back that Malcolm Rifkind and Leon Brittan are related. It turns out to be true. I was interested, because I had been infuriated shortly before to hear Rifkind delivering a sophistic defense of the misdeeds of GCHQ and NSA.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/amnesty-international-conference-on-torture/comment-page-18/#comment-513689
Well said Habba – one really has to ask what certain people are trying to keep out of the sunlight by playing such diversionary games.
I learned from various bits of reading some while back that there are literally thousands of people related by descent to King Charles II, including, quite possibly, me. It turns out to be true. I was interested because I had been infuriated shortly before to read a post from Republicofscotland insulting the present Royal Family.
The above is trivial and very boring and should never have been posted.
Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)
12 Mar, 2015 – 11:03 pm:
That’s a very nice pussy you’ve shown there, Mary.
Meeeeow!
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Moderators on this blog seem to think that the above is ‘free speech’.
The fascist lunatic asylum that Britain has become, ay.
Speaking of moderators, I find it rather curious that requests from Mr. J J Flash and myself concerning Tony Opmoc’s drunken ramblings were deleted, no trace – without explanation. Yet the drunken BS from Opmoc still stand – apparently this sort of post is just fine.
The mods and CM are at liberty to make whatever rules they like. But if they want to claim there is some integrity to their decisions, it would be easier to accept were obvious exceptions not quite so blatant.
Mr. JJ Flash and myself sought to draw the mods attention to the likes of this:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/amnesty-international-conference-on-torture/comment-page-18/#comment-513647
and this:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/amnesty-international-conference-on-torture/comment-page-18/#comment-513649
Our notes about these comments were deleted. The target of those comments were not.
Could the mods please explain how these comments from Tony Opmoc meet their approval, while other posts get edited or deleted?
“Moderators on this blog seem to think that the above is ‘free speech’.” — RobG
It’s certainly not as bad as this:
Mary (re child abuse)
“PS Methinks the troll doth protest too much on this matter. Why is that?”
That’s the nastiest piece of innuendo I’ve seen on any blog, anywhere.
Actually, I don’t think most of the “anti-terrorism” measures are anything but security theatre. Not taking a bottle of water through “security” clearance before an air-flight, for instance. Utter nonsense. The astonishingly intrusive monitoring of our every move and communication, spurious charges against inconvenient people on the grounds of “terrorism” legislation – it’s almost as if the authorities want to bring the laws into disrepute.
More people die from drowning in bathtubs than “terrorism” each year. That is indisputable fact. Vastly more die and are life-changingly injured while cycling, yet the government does next to nothing about it. That is why the interests of cyclists are such a good example of the contrast between government rhetoric about “keeping us safe”, and their actual applied policies.
Sorry, but I cannot agree with you – the government likes sounding tough, but the only genuine priority is protecting the interests of the investor class. Almost all of the rest is mere window dressing.
Dreoilin: You are right. Someone asks why child abuse isn’t being condemned regardless of the perpetrator, and a sly insinuation is made that the person asking that must be guilty of same.
That is as nasty an accusation as anyone could make.
Started to unravel? Spy helped British girls into Syria.
http://www.torontosun.com/…/man-who-helped-british-girls-in…
Awaiting moderation. Hah.
Link doesn’t work, Dave. This one does, however…
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/12/man-who-helped-british-girls-into-syria-may-have-connection-with-csis
Alternatively, there’s a link on the front page of the Canadian Sun website! Canadian press seems surprisingly free.
Ben;”Yes. Yeltsin was the drunk the wrst exploited.”
Indeed; the West’s hypocrasy is very much revealed in the sharp contrast in attitudes shown to Yeltsin & Putin;
“Boris Yeltsin permitted western interests to rape his country, and did little to assert Russian power. So though he bombarded his own parliament, conducted a grisly war in Chechnya, raised corruption to Olympic levels and shamelessly rigged his own re-election, he yet remained a popular guest in western capitals and summits. Vladimir Putin’s similar sins, by contrast, provide a pretext for ostracism and historically illiterate comparisons between him and Hitler.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41205.htm
@Resident Dissident, you often cite Putin’s record on Chechnya, yet I read that more Chechens were killed during Yeltsin’s time, and that still is the case now, so why have I never seen you critise Yeltsin over Chechya like you do Putin ?
O/T but there’s a NASA launch of multiple satellites coming up in about an hour.
https://squonk.tk/blog/2014/01/20/the-general-discussion-thread/comment-page-38/#comment-17208
http://www.nasa.gov/
BLiar’s funder in chief (£100m) and his one time special envoy, nicely bronzed was on Hardtalk with Sackur. He still keeps a home in Israel and his children lived there for a time.
Levy: Netanyahu’s aliyah call for all European Jews ‘arrogant’
12 March 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for all European Jews to make Israel their home was “arrogance in the extreme” the former Middle East envoy, Lord Levy has told BBC HARDtalk.
“Look at the incidence of terror in Israel and I think it’s a gross exaggeration to say that it is the only safe place for Jews,” he said.
“Those who wish to make aliyah [going to Israel] I think it is fantastic,” said Lord Levy, “but I don’t agree with him and I don’t think the vast majority of Jews who live outside Israel agree with that either,” he added.
Lord Levy added that he was very proud of Israel, its achievements and was happy to visit, but as far as he was concerned his home was in the UK.
You can see the full interview on HARDtalk on BBC World News at 16:30 and 21:30 GMT on Thursday 12 March and on the BBC News Channel at 00:30 and 04:30 GMT on Friday 13 March.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31851901
The son works for European Council for Foreign Relations. Nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levy,_Baron_Levy
Levy himself was involved in the initiation of BLiar’s academy and free schools project.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1515802/Blair-under-pressure-to-strip-Levy-of-academy-cash-role.html?mobile=basic
Glorification of one of our horrible and obscene wars against people with brown skins takes place today with the involvement of the Church of England and the monarchy.
‘Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pays tribute to UK war dead
Ashraf Ghani’s words “contrast” with those of his predecessor, the BBC’s David Loyn said
The Afghan president has paid tribute to UK soldiers who died fighting in the country, ahead of services to mark the end of British involvement in the war.
Ashraf Ghani said the 453 UK troops had “paid the ultimate sacrifice to enable us to live in freedom, in hope for peace, prosperity and dignity”.
The Queen and many veterans will attend a service at St Paul’s Cathedral later to commemorate the end of the war.
A simultaneous service will be held in Afghanistan for troops still there.
The Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prime Minister David Cameron are all expected to attend the St Paul’s ceremony, which will be followed by a procession through London.
UK forces were part of a US-led coalition which invaded Afghanistan and toppled the ruling Taliban in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31864330
As of February 2014, at least 21,000 civilians are estimated to have died violent deaths as a result of the war. The total number of civilians killed in Pakistan may be as high or higher than the toll in Afghanistan, with NGO estimates ranging widely between 20,000 and 50,000 recorded deaths.
Civilians Killed and Wounded | Costs of War
http://costsofwar.org/article/civilians-killed-and-wounded
RobG
“Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)
12 Mar, 2015 – 11:03 pm:
That’s a very nice pussy you’ve shown there, Mary.
Meeeeow!
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Moderators on this blog seem to think that the above is ‘free speech’.”
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Well, fair’s fair, Rob, after all, it was Mary who posted the picture of the yawning pussy, wasn’t it:
https://media.giphy.com/media/89U4ODjFSNdV6/giphy.gif
So if seeing pussies on this blog fills you with horror (or terror), I would advise you to contact Mary directly.
Woof! woof!
A vociferous commenter writes:
“Boris Yeltsin permitted western interests to rape his country, and did little to assert Russian power. So though he bombarded his own parliament..”
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Was the bombarding of the Duma building not part of Yeltsin’s resistance to an attempted coup against Gorbachev by die-hard Communist/KGB elements?
If that is correct and the Vociferous Commenter knew it when he posted, then his post must be seen as expressing regret that Gorbachev was not overthrown by those die-hard Communist/KGB elements.
Why am I not surprised?
Mary puts the following onto Lord Levy’s charge sheet:
– Blair fund raiser
– Blair special envoy
– appeared with Stephen Sackur on Hardtalk
– is sun-tanned
– has a house in Israel
– children lived in Israel for a while.
These are all heinous offences, to be sure. But I find myself unable to rank them in order of heinousness. Could Mary please help?
Thank you.
ISIS ISLAMIC STATE DAESH IS ‘stealing our girls’ ?
إيزيس daesh الدولة الإسلامية هو “سرقة الفتيات لدينا؟
Asylum seekers launch hunger strikes, protests at UK detention centers
March 12, 2015
Detainees in several of the UK’s immigration detention centers, including Harmondsworth – the country’s largest detention facility – have staged hunger strikes and demonstrations, calling for improved conditions and a limit to the maximum detention time.
Several hundred asylum seekers at Harmondsworth detention center, near London’s Heathrow Airport, have been on hunger strike since Monday. A reported 300 migrants are participating in the strike at the detention facility, which houses around 620 men. Hunger strikes and protests have been breaking out in similar centers since last week.
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http://rt.com/uk/240205-detention-center-hunger-strike/
Some good news in amongst the bad.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/13/uk-sweden-assange-idUKKBN0M90NE20150313
Let’s hope this means an end to Assange’s siege at the Embassy of Ecuador.
Nigel Farage talking sense on the matter of an EU army and European military support for the Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_pMvLZd8
@Mary
It’s difficult situation with detainees being afforded less rights than general population.
Now much of their detention is due to the fact that there is insufficient provision in the system to care for the needs of migrants. As with the current health care system under pressure due to lack of resources. I say this health care is the responsibility of the individual as well as the state.
Be responsible means by being health conscious you could be less likely to need government health care.
The detainees are under the jurisdiction and protection by the uk.
That is what is in question. Ask not what is it they do ask what is that they do not do.
In my opinion finding work is essential to well being.
I am sorry to see so many of us disenfranchised with man so closely connected to the folly of not working.
Government should provide work but under the present liberal regime it seems that is not essential to our well being but access to anything seems more applicable.
What do the detainees want?
More stirring of the pot against me, in support of the troll, from the Irish lady. Although she has initiated it, I will not engage with her in with the request from Craig on an earlier thread. Strange that he allows the troll to insult and aggravate others on here though.
The context of my comment as quoted is that the troll disliked me condemning the sexual abuse of children perpetrated by members of the British political establishment. He was desperate for me to solely condemn the Pakistani gangs and persistently commented to this effect.