Dear President Ahtisaari,
I had the pleasure of meeting you on a number of occasions over the years, including when I was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and I recall your genuine concern for democracy and human rights in a region where they are sadly neglected.
Like a great many people in Scotland I was shocked that CMI is employing Jim Murphy. Of course, in a democracy there are always losers as well as winners in elections, and both are genuine and valid participants in public life. It is not the fact that CMI employs a politician who has been so recently, comprehensively and humiliatingly rejected by his national electorate that will do any damage to CMI. In a sense I think it does you credit.
What shocks many people here is that Mr Murphy is by any standards a dedicated warmonger. He was a major and important proponent of the invasion of Iraq, and is the strongest of supporters of the massive increase of Britain’s nuclear arsenal, in breach of the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Mr Murphy is a member of the Henry Jackson Society, which as you know is a body which exists to promote United States neo-conservative foreign policy in its most aggressive sense, and openly and actively supports and condones extraordinary rendition and the use of torture by the CIA. It has supported every single military action by the USA since its formation, and defends United States exceptionalism in international law, including US non-membership of the International Criminal Court.
Mr Murphy’s belief set is therefore fundamentally at odds with the stated aims of CMI. Indeed, his employment by you can only lead to the suspicion that CMI’s stated objectives are not its real objectives, and that like Mr Murphy and the Henry Jackson Society your overriding goal in the regions where you operate is to promote the interests of the United States.
As you are funded by charitable donations and by governments, I think some explanation of your employment of Mr Murphy is in order, particularly when you have employed him as a conflict resolution expert in the Caucasus and Central Asia when he has no relevant experience of conflict resolution at all, virtually none of the Caucasus, and absolutely none of Central Asia.
I was the Head of the UK Delegation that negotiated the Sierra Leone Peace Treaty, and certainly under no circumstances would I let Jim Murphy anywhere near that kind of negotiation.
With All Best Wishes,
Amb (rtd.) Craig Murray
Combat cant
sorry, because you never read links I forgot to include it:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189146.html
Your job here is to pretend that nothing has changed in the Middle East. This article highlights the fact that Erdogan’s pumping racism against the Kurds will create independence from Turkey of the eastern third of Turkey. The aggression of the Saudis in Yemen has been overpowered because their mercenaries ran away from attacks n Saudi borders.
another article: http://www.voltairenet.org/article189161.html
describes what I have been banging on about for 5 years, that USUKIS want to colonise the Middle-East as they previously colonised Eastern Europe. US farmers now own the land in eastern Europe. That’s why milk’s so cheap.
The gangster master-minds of the UK’s brainchild Muslim Brotherhood originally thought that communism would make them rich by making themselves useful to a state that nationalised the land. then USUKIS proposed the slogan of Islamic Jihad as a means of appropriating land. All they had to do was sit in London and recruit idiots to Islamic Jihad, as a high high spiritual path, so that the dogs of hell from USUKIS could acquire the Middle East.
unfortunately for zio-woodlice like you and Islamo-ants like them the Syrian people have refused to give up their rights to the bullying of USUKIS and its mercenaries. trillions of dollars have been spent bullying the Syrians, all to no avail. Thierry Meyssan has documented the whole sordid story – much to your distaste.
just to add to my groaning sec file, here’s last week’s lecture by a top spook:
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/who-we-are/staff-and-management/director-general/speeches-by-the-director-general/a-modern-mi5.html
(there are no embedded tracking elements on the page, for those of a worried lizard persuasion, tho’ the website seems to be run by the fabulously rich QinetiQ from GU14, rather than ‘5’ themselves)
for those too busy to read the 64 paragraphs of sense, a wordle map shows “work” as the most significant word, closely followed by “threat”, then “MI” then “against”
– the phrase “extra-terrestrial” suprisingly only occurs once
Never mind that shit.
Look Who’s in Charge of UK Government Cyber Security
They control the vertical, they control the horizontal, they control the agenda, they…………..
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/yitzhak-navon
As the subject of Israel is being debated on this thread by Lo Zuccone , I was drawn to this Obituary published yesterday in the Guardian of Israel’s President from 1978-1983 , Yitzhak Navon . I quote from his Obituary :
‘Once telling a Party Rally , ” The whole point of the Labour Zionist Movement is to get the maximum of land with the minimum of Arabs ”
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A brutally honest Zionist and Israeli President . So why all the rancour , discussion and debate around the issue ? Why would anyone especially so many non-Israelis want to tell a late Israeli President that wasn’t a Zionist policy ?
That’s the problem with the old-time Zionists as opposed to those of today . They were just unashamedly honest about their beliefs , actions and intentions .
I sometimes wonder just how much of a fool the so called “superpowers” take us for.
Firstly we have the Western coalition desperately remonstrating over Russia’s intervention in Syria. When infact Syria, a Sovereign country, its government, had asked Russia officially for help, and by all intentions under international law Russia is therefore legally involved in Syria.
However the same cannot be said of Western coalition forces, who have no legal mandate whatsoever to be in Syria, other than trying to remove a tyrant, uncooperative to Western wishes.
Yet the French foreign minister, has iterated, that Russian president Vladimir Putin will be joining the UN conference on climate change in Paris, on November 30th.
No need to let the war in Syria, get in the way of climate change. No doubt Hollande and Putin will feast on caviar and lobster, and exchange pleasantries, whilst Syrian children starve.
Listening to Jeremy Corbyn bemoan a war hawk general, (Sir Nicholas Houghton) to be precise over Trident and Corbyn’s stance not to use them under any circumstances (of which I applaud) brought back memories.
The memories in question are of Scottish independence and how lickspittles spokesmen from the MoD claimed a independent Scotland would have its airport runways bombed, or Scotland would be open to attack from outerspace or nuclear weapons, the quotations are numerous.
Alex Salmond the Scottish FM at the time handled the Whitehall prevarications firmly and with great dignity, however Salmond had the full backing of his party.
Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t seem to posses such loyalties in the Labour party, with the likes of Maria Eagle contradicting Corbyn on nuclear weapons, as shown on the Andrew Marr show.
Instead of being drawn into a war of words with the military Jeremy Corbyn should be planning how to get his house in order, a task that may be beyond him, unless he can change minds.
Seems like the more reptilian strands of DNA in a person’s genes, the harder it is to keep it fully under wraps. 🙂
Mr. Athisaari and the CMI organisation seem to sit on their hands as Europe disintegrates over a few refugees. Merkel is clearly jeopardising her Kanzlership and the right wing all over Europe is smarting for change.
Those right wingers in parliaments are not that keen, because they know that if Merkel falls, Europe will fall to pieces and those refugees already there would be even more in danger.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/08/angela-merkel-refugee-crisis-europe
Its getting colder on the continent.
Fedup
I was sitting having a nice cuppa yesterday with my close family and..
Never mind that shit.
You’re absolutely right Fedup. It doesn’t matter if it’s your own flesh and blood or the witch of shit, most of what they do is a winding-up exercise.
Islam tells us that one of the signs of the day of Judgement is that authority is held by those who are not competent to exercise it. Another sign is that things which are left in trust will not be safe.
what’s the relevance of that? You ask. nothing, just that a/ they will have less time to wait in their graves for their entry into the fire and b/ we should expect less and less of government.
Apparently the BBC, I’ve not got a TV so I haven’t seen it myself, have shown exactly how to put bombs under passenger seats on aeroplanes, so that those of us who have somehow not yet been directly affected by the scarey Islamic state can enjoy the BBCollywood adrenalin rush of imagining ourselves planted into one of those holiday destination seats.
I am very very scared. Not.
Did you listen to aaronovitch’s Bond slot at 22.45 on Radio 4 last week? It was dire. Gould as cyber manager will be just like that. OK chaps, we’ve downed the Russian flight. What would we think or do if we really believed it was IS in Sinai that dunnit? Come on girls and boys, empathise, we’ve got to get some kind of trash ready for the ten 0 clock news. Any trash, doesn’t matter what kinda trash so long as it really winds the sheeples up.
Now the anti-Putin anti-Russia propaganda extends to the IAAF proposing expulsion for Russia. Other countries including the UK and US have never produced medal winners who have cheated of course.
Ms Bruce on the BBC 6pm News and the reporters from Moscow and Geneva sounded triumphant as this item was given top billing on the programme.
Athletics doping: Wada commission wants Russia ban
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/34765444
If only President Putin had not supported President Assad!
Petition to sign if you wish:
https://www.change.org/p/matthew-hancock-mp-don-t-weaken-the-freedom-of-information-act?utm
“Yet another subverted irreversibly compromised NGO like the Nobel Peace Prize committee corrupted by the political right, hideous Amnesty”
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Andrew, you mention the Nobel Peace prize.
If it wasn’t for very poor journalism of the (something that’s still very prevalent today) there would be no Nobel Peace prize to award.
It was reported in the press of the day, (circa 1888) that Alfred Nobel had died. What had actually happened is that Alfred’s brother Ludwig had died not Alfred.
Waking that morning and reading of his demise, he continued reading obituaries about himself, in which he was described as a bellicose monster amongst other unsavoury things.
Alfred, who admittedly invented dynamite used in wars, but made it safer for blasting and mining, felt disheartened at the less than complimentary epitaphs.
Alfred Nobel, determined to change the public’s image of him, used his vast wealth to create prizes in several areas one of them being, the Nobel Peace prize.
BBc news item No1 is the cheats in sport, not the situation in Syria, those jets doing their weekly flying, they say, started early this morning despite the weather, not the Freezibng refugees and this Government reluctance and cowardice to take responsibility for their bombing, not the hottest issue that might face us very soon, the break up of the EU.
No its all to do with posing before the subjects, keeping the masses in thrall, one’s national pride destroyed by the Russians, our most effective foe against the ISIL/Daesh Saudi mercenaries. All you hear is moaning all day that somebody might have cheated us out of heavy metals on the rostrum.
Perverse, obscene news pornography from the BBC
It wasn’t all peaceful ballistite was invented for very specific military purposes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistite
See the where the funding of BBC Media Action comes from.
FCO
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
USAID
US State Dept
EU
UN
BMB Mott Macdonald ?
Some other small donors
and nearly half, £20m, from DFiD with Ms Greening i/c. Did you see her tight lipped defence of government policy throughout Question Time last Thursday. A cold fish.
Piechart
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/corporate2/images/width/live/p0/2j/pp/p02jppx8.jpg/624
Article in The Hill about the strains caused by the shortage of U.S. aircraft carriers does not mention the problems with the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. Experts alarmed at ‘strains’ on aircraft-carrier fleet.
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/who-we-are/governance/executive-committee
With the World Anti Doping Agency [ WADA ] announcing today that Russia should be banned from International Athletics you can’t help wondering about the timing of this in view of the current geo-political stand-off between Russia and the USA . With both its Director and Executive Committee coming from overwhelmingly western vassal States , suspicions are aroused that behind this decision political forces are at play .
UK GOVERNMENT PREVENTS CLINICIANS FROM GAZA ATTENDING UK CONFERENCE
Next weekend (November 14th/15th) an academic and clinical conference is to be held at Kingston University, entitled “Trauma and Resilience in the context of Political Violence”. We have just been informed that the British consular authorities have refused permission for four Palestinian clinicians from Gaza to attend:
Dr Hasnaa Al Sourani
Dr Amal Shaat
Dr Rula Al Helo
Mr Yousif Abu Rahma
It is beyond our comprehension how such an interference with intellectual and clinical discussion on such an important topic could be justified.
This is a measure that further isolates clinicians from Gaza, already struggling under the impact of military assaults and siege, who need the opportunity to breathe in order to sustain their work.It has detrimental implications for the treatment of children and families whose suffering under these unconscionable circumstances it is difficult for us to appreciate. We urge the UK authorities to reverse this decision immediately, and to resolve to nurture, rather than undermine, urgently needed psycho-social support services for the people of Gaza.
Signed: The UKMHN Steering Group
Teresa Bailey, Christiane van Duuren, Martin Kemp, Mohammed Mukhaimar, Eliana Pinto, Cathy Troupp, Adrian Worrall
They say it is beyond their comprehension. Not beyond the comprehension of anybody who has been seeing what has been going on over many years. It is just one speck of what has been the slow genocide of a native people.
Signed that Petition Doug..it almost at 21,000
Then i was wondering if Israel was a Democracy, like the no-democracy U.K. and The No-democracy U.S.
Then i remembered the words of Those who Should Know for sure…Like Lior Akerman – former Brigadier General and division head in the Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency)
Yeh seen that Rob
One can only conclude that Humans have Not yet become an intelligent Species, Although we……. But that’s science….NOT Wisdom
http://i100.independent.co.uk/image/18137-4pxxdl.gif
Sorry if that link is faulty
Oh, and there was also the stuff that Netanyahu said recently about the Nazis and Israel.
I’m afraid that Netanyahu is such a loon that I don’t waste my time keeping up with what he says; but here’s a link, if interested:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/netanyahu-under-fire-for-palestinian-grand-mufti-holocaust-claim
If you want to discover further loons you can try here:
http://www.parliament.uk/
If you want the real psychos try here:
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/
But I forget, you park your car there every morning, don’t you, Habba.
Brian, we will win through.
Don’t lose the faith.
For every troll there are zillions of people like you and others that post here.
They can’t beat us.
Everyone of these feckers will be put on trial.
Very funny piece on Moon of Alabama about hundreds or thousands of people, or robots, repeating the same language on line attacking Assad’s government. http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/11/no-this-is-not-the-anti-syrian-twitter-campaign.html#comments
What is Jim Murphy employed to do?
Provided bias is understood by all participating parties why rule anyone out of a peace process?
or Peace Envoy
But There’s More
http://www.outlookindia.com/article/we-brought-you-the-promise-of-the-future–but-our-tongue-stammered-and-barked/295797
RobG you’re some fool of an arse on a deluded train!
Broken record…
You mean Blair? I take the point.
Fwl:
“Provided bias is understood by all participating parties why rule anyone out of a peace process?”
Craig knows the correct political terminology to address neo-cons. Serving the interests of the US is political blarney for serving the interests of Israel. Israel is an aggressive neighbour of Syria and it has a declared intention to overpower Syria and a shameful record for attacking Syria.
David Cameron has already prepared the ground for Israel to pretend to play a military role in Syria as a ‘peace-keeper’ by stating that the UK can include peace-keeping in its foreign aid budget.
While Cameron might be able to persuade some people that CMI is an independent organisation dedicated to negotiating peace, Cameron is himself a wolf who bombed Libya creating chaos and a nest for al Qaida, who he then armed to fight Assad for Israel and he needs wolves dressed as sheep to salvage the wreckage wrought by Al Qaida for Israel’s benefit.
You are a shepherd on a mountain and you want some time off to yodel your girlfriend on the other side of the valley, so long as you know that the wolf pack dressed as sheep are actually wolves, why not let them look after the sheep?
I do do irony, but your irony here is drier than sloe berries. After the wolves have eaten the sheep only the strands of wool left on the sloe bush thorns remind you of the existence of the eaten sheep.