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
Assad’s Syrian TV Response to Paris Attacks: The Scorpion Has Stung Its Owner
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b6_1447746152#WWEqpfuF4qEHBRmO.99
Paris Attack Motivation: Retaliation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq37rglDO4Y
Cameron is taking the revenues from Iraqi oil that his political forebear Winston Churchill dreamed about at the Sykes Picot agreement.
Tory politicians blasily talk about the border between Iraq and Syria being non=existent. This is neo-con speech for ‘who’s going to stop us stealing the oil?’
It takes some getting used to that New Labour under Corbyn is no longer on the same Neo-con , neo-colonial page. At last we have an alternative to wall to tall neo-con thinking. When Cameron gets his debate on Syria the UK House of Commons will show solidarity with the French people by rejecting their own and our neo-con, neo-colonial politicians’ greed and savagery which brought IS terror to our cities.
Weapons for jihadists.
US State Department approves Saudi Arabia arms sale
The US State Department has approved the sale of $1.29 billion (£848.6m) worth of bombs to Saudi Arabia, as its military carries out air strikes in neighbouring Yemen.
President Obama pledged to bolster military support for Saudi Arabia after tensions were strained following a US-brokered nuclear deal with Iran.
The US Congress now has 30 days to stop the deal if it wishes to do so.
Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest buyers of US weapons.
The Saudi-led campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has drawn criticism, with several reports of civilian casualties on the ground.
Washington has backed the campaign and Saudi Arabia – who is a central ally in the air assault against the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34838937
Little pussy’s Habbakunt’s back, crawling to her majesty to beg for protection, slavishly chucking her right to free speech, imploring all possible precautions like a cringing coward. That’s what happens when CIA runs their UK puppet regime with kiddy-fucking puppets – you wind up with a nation of submissive eunuchs.
Wash my dick, won’t you, Cameron? That’s a good man.
No I think nuclear power is in itself inherently bad, even used ‘correctly’ its a killer.
El Flaccido
Unlike you, who thinks that having balls and being British is all about being clever enough to steal the mineral assets God has put under Muslim soil, and unlike Bully boy David Cameron who exposed himself in a cabbalistic ( i.e. Zionist masonic ) ritual, I would cover my private parts.
Giyane
“Unlike you, who thinks that having balls and being British is all about being clever enough to steal the mineral assets God has put under Muslim soil, and unlike Bully boy David Cameron who exposed himself in a cabbalistic ( i.e. Zionist masonic ) ritual, I would cover my private parts.”
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The implication of which appears to be that people would recognise you by your dick and not by your face.
Sounds about right 🙂
Little by little….
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans 1933-1945
Milton Mayer
http://disinfo.com/2013/10/excerpt-thought-free-germans-1933-45-milton-mayer/
‘Echoes from the past to consider in the present.’
‘What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.’
‘This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.’
Get it?
Firstly I like to say, that the terrible murderous acts carried out in Paris are unforgivable and the perpetrators who instructed or coerced those men to commit such neferious acts, must, be brought to justice, and the full weight of the law imposed upon them.
Focusing on the solidarity of nations towards France, Paris especially, which is very touching, and, the unrelenting media coverage of the terrible events which unfolded.
I wondered, why atrocities around the world in places such as Palestine, on July and August last year when 2,200 Palestinians, (mostly civilians were brutality killed) didn’t receive such gestures of solidarity.
I can’t recall French president Francois Hollande, or British prime minister David Cameron, publicly declaring solidarity with Palestine, and its people.
Nor do I recall president Hollande, say (with the Palestinian people in mind) liberte, egalitare, fraterity. I definitely don’t remember important land marks, like the Empire State building, or the CNN Tower, draped or lit up in the colours of the Palestinian flag.
Surely Cameron, and Hollande feel solidarity for the people of Palestine, or maybe they’re like Habb and his minions suffering from the “proximity principle.”
There is red energy, which is stealing the oil and gas by killing Muslims, and there is green energy which is heating your water with solar power and insulating your walls. this disgusting Tory government and its Zionist masters like Nigel Lawson, have consistently shown that they despise Green energy and have chosen red power.
Bombing Syria and Iraq is choosing red energy. Corbyn has the clarity of vision this country needs. he has been thinking about the real issues about Ireland for years and years. Just as in Ireland, just massacring the terrorists the UK red energy Tories have invited here is not targeting the real murderers, Cameron Hague, Blair, Brown Hoon and Straw. If we have a shoot to kill policy, those named above kindly raise your hands and stand facing the wall.
RoS
“Firstly I like to say, that the terrible murderous acts carried out in Paris are unforgivable and the perpetrators who instructed or coerced those men to commit such neferious acts, must, be brought to justice, and the full weight of the law imposed upon them.”
i.e. French ex legionnaires
Mary
Nail on head. No wonder the Hasbara stalker spends so much of its time trying to run you down.
Judge Garzón was the heroic Spanish judge who went after the tyrant Pinochet.
Fwl
There would be a lot to critique in your longish post but I shall just make one general point if I may and also pick you up on a point of detail (you know that I always like people to learn something from my posts).
1/. You say that “since last Friday there has been a marked “your either with us or against us and if your against us your a traitor” sound to your posts and your suggestion at 5.48 is one such item.”.
I should phrase that rather differently, as follows: you are either for or against terrorism, there is no half-way house or ‘third way’. It therefore follows that he who is not against terrorism is for it.
2/. You write “In the 1970’s we took pride in our Blitz spirit resistance to the IRA and insisted in continuing without buckling to fear or intimidation, which having to have armed police and forces on the streets implies. Was not our confident resistance in the 1970’s the cornerstone of what it (was) to be British.
Now, apparently being British means cowering in fear and welcoming a full surveillance security and police state. That has to be bullshit.”
It would be bullshit – if what you say was true. But it is not – no one is cowering in fear. What you fail to understand is that this is not an either-or game: confident resistance on the level and part of the individual citizen is not incompatible with taking precautionary and preventive measures (such as increased surveillance). I would contend that these two things are complementary and not contradictory.
3/. On the point of detail: every Swiss male keeps his rifle at home not because (as you imply)anyone is “scared” but because he is required, after doing his national service, to do a short refresher course every year until a certain age. Once that age reached, the rifle is surrendered. This system, as you will understand, is a result of the Swiss doctrine of the army as citizens’ militia (another manifestation of which is that, in peacetime, there is no General in the Swiss army).
Judge Garzon is the currently suspended judge about whom one finds the following on Wikipedia:
“In 2012 the Supreme Court of Spain considered three charges against Garzón. They found against him in relation to one of the charges, that relating to his investigation of the corrupt, money-laundering “Gurtel” network.[9] On 9 February 2012 the Supreme Court convicted him of illegally wiretapping conversations between suspects (on remand in connection with inquiries into “Gurtel”) and their lawyers who were believed to be moving their money beyond the reach of the court.[10] The trial judge described this act as appropriate to a dictatorship and sentenced him to eleven years disqualification from judicial activity.[11] The Court did not find against him in the other two cases:
On 12 February, a charge against Garzón relating to his relationship with a bank was abandoned on a technicality.[12]
On 27 February 2012 he was cleared of abusing his powers in investigating the crimes of the Francoist era (the charge which had resulted in his first suspension in 2010).[13]”
Perhaps he was a “heroic” wire-tapper?
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As a further footnote, it has to be said that Senor Garzon was a left-wing, political judge, whose appointment, coincidentally of course, dates from the time of the Socialist Gonzalez govt in Spain.
“i.e. French ex legionnaires”
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Gyiane, it’s very difficult if not impossible to unmask the true origins of the attackers, and for that information to be made public, only if it benefits a certain section of society will it be widely aired.
Instead, we should focus on what unfolds from the event, who benefits from it, what new laws or infringements, on our rights emerge.
Especially pay attention as too where the focus of attention now points, in this particular case Syria seems to be ground zero.
Tighter restrictions will apply throughout Europe, and immigrants will be further demonised, Schengen will come under threat, and of course defence budgets will rise.
Republicofscotland
“..the perpetrators who instructed or coerced those men to commit such neferious acts, must, be brought to justice, and the full weight of the law imposed upon them.”
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I agree. That would mean going into Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever they are courageously lurking and getting them. But in the real world and in the interests of efficiency and economy I would prefer to see the “full weight” of a drone-fired missile on them.
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It’s known as ‘salami tactics’: little by little, bit by bit. We are now at a crucial period, when they are about to roll-out the full police state. This will all be quite legal, because they’ve written it into law over the last decade.
On a lighter note, my telephone/internet has been down for more than 7 hours today. If I were paranoid I might say that the NWO are nobbling me, but here in middle-of-nowhere France the cause is more likely a drunk driver crashing into a telegraph pole (it happens quite often).
The mundane and the profane.
We live in very strange times.
Be in no doubt too, when Cameron/Osborne/May talk of a ‘cyber threat’, it’s you and I they mean, bloggers and commenters, even passive readers if the material is deemed a threat, and a threat to them is mere criticism or exposure of the scope of financial elite’s and ‘blue-blood’ families depravity and lust for ever more wealth at ever greater human and environmental cost.
Giyane
Did Oxford drive you potty or was it the disappointments you suffered in life after going down?
Habba, so you support extra-judicial killings carried out by the British state.
Just think of how many of your nemesis on this board you can now ‘liquidate’.
I’m sure that the likes of you went to Oxford, but only on the No.59 bus.
“but here in middle-of-nowhere France the cause is more likely a drunk driver crashing into a telegraph pole (it happens quite often).”
I’m glad you’re OK, Rob.
“with brains like Cameron’s, Corbyn doesn’t stand a chance”
I see Cameron as a lightweight. One good punch and he’s down and he doesn’t last the count.
TonyM
“Be in no doubt too, when Cameron/Osborne/May talk of a ‘cyber threat’, it’s you and I they mean, bloggers and commenters”
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I think I’ve already mentioned the point of view that holds that those who seek to downplay or minimise the threat of terrorism, or work actively against the state’s efforts to protect its citizens against terrorism (eg by asserting that the acts of terrorism have in reality been carried out by agents of the state itself)are objectively guilty of complicity with terrorism.
No one is talking about blogs/ comments on legal activities or blogs/ comments criticising or exposing this, that or whatever.
, even passive readers if the material is deemed a threat, and a threat to them is mere criticism or exposure of the scope of financial elite’s and ‘blue-blood’ families depravity and lust for ever more wealth at ever greater human and environmental cost.
Garzón did something legally doubtful, but he was treated extraordinarily harshly because he had gone after powerful people. Sentencing Spain’s ‘Superjudge’: Why Baltasar Garzón Is Being Punished:
“When the IRA bombed London we didn’t then react by arming the police and our streets.”
The IRA was a completely different threat. They usually gave warnings, when they didn’t they were targeting the establishment, and you could understand their aims, the lengths they would go to and what they wanted.
With the Islamoloons the aim is to murder as many innocent people as possible, anywhere at any time and without warning. Hence the security.
Never vote tactically, always vote for your beliefs, with your instincts. The SNP may be pro-EU, may merely relish the prospect of a split result, rUK out, Scotland in. I do not. Vote to Exit the EU.
“I agree. That would mean going into Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever they are courageously lurking and getting them. But in the real world and in the interests of efficiency and economy I would prefer to see the “full weight” of a drone-fired missile on them.”
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Nothing in your above comment, inspires me that justice will be done, infact reiterating the establishment line, says a lot about your ideologies.
Drone bombing doesn’t win hearts and minds, nor does it guarantee success.
I know this is an alien concept to you, and the establishment in general, but, negotiating with people can achieve more than drone bombing ever could.
But alas negotiating doesn’t usurp regimes now does it.
I think we should bomb Belgium. That’s where the attacks were organised. We won’t be safe till we’ve blasted Brussels back into the stone age.