I wish a speedy recovery, both physically and mentally, to the people stabbed at Leytonstone tube station. It must have been horrifying.
The following comments are in part predicated on a presumption that the media reports of the incident are broadly true. This comes with a serious health warning. At this stage after another tube station incident, we were universally assured that various official “sources” and “eye-witnesses” had affirmed that Jean Charles leapt the barriers and ran through the tunnels, wearing a bulky jacket with wires sticking out. All of those turned out to be absolute lies deliberately spread by the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office.
But assuming this time the account of his shouting about Syria is not lies, what we can see from video is that a single man in a very silly hat, armed with a very small knife indeed, can carry out a vicious terrorist attack with apparently no need for planning at all. Not even planning enough to get a less tiny knife from his kitchen.
Because, sadly terrorism is easy. As I stated recently, if I were crazed enough to want to kill somebody tomorrow, and did not care how I did it, who I killed or if I died myself, I could kill a few people without too much effort or planning. That is why the continual propaganda about “seven foiled ISIS terrorist plots” or “4,000 active Islamic terrorists in the UK” is quite simply untrue. If all those terrorists existed, they would not be so entirely unproductive. What the authorities do catch continually are fantasists, often children, boasting and “plotting” online about being terrorists. That is quite a different thing. It is worth noting that nobody has been charged over any of these seven foiled ISIS plots. Strange that, isn’t it?
As for the man in the silly hat, I fear he is mentally unstable. That is no comfort to his victims. The truth is, of course, that it is always the little people who get hurt. None of the 1% who foment, promote and profit from war have ever set foot in Leytonstone Tube Station. But their agenda is forwarded today. By its continual acts of violence and repression, the neo-con state eventually goads a mentally unstable person into a nasty, vicious and pointless act. They then use that act to justify more wars and repression.
For the security and armaments industry it is a very profitable cycle.
This is an interesting concept that when the oil prices fall evidently economy tanks!!!!! Fact that a cheaper price for a commodity would mean more of it getting used somehow does not apply to this product/commodity/oil.
The Oligarch Owned Media, the same ones that on a daily basis wax lyrical about the “Stock Market” and it’s rise or fall (as if this indicator means jack shit to any working man or woman that is for other than the suck ups and the keyboard brigade that repeat the meme of stock market is relevant to everyone which is a total bullocks and an utter lie as in the rest of the matrix).
However the price of a commodity falling and world economy doing badly is to be corelated that the world demand for oil is less, ie less economic activities! Bullshit!!!!
The world supply of oil is huge, proving the end of the oil as we know it Jim is yet another lie, on top of the other lies. Furthermore, as the prices have fallen. Have the prices at the pumps gone down? Has the price of Gas piped into your house gone down? How about electricity tariffs? These were subject to price rises at the whiff of an oil price rise. However, then the gravity takes a holiday because the upped prices don’t come down, and the world economy does badly and adding insult to injury we are told the costs have gone up!!!!! Get it?
They raise the prices and then keep them up to tell us the costs are high!!!! The falling oil prices don’t matter because the privateers and profiteers who stole the public services and utilities for a song are coining it and then blame the rising costs for even greater rise in the prices!
That was the trouble with miners scripps, the same trouble which is dogging the Rothschild scripps that is being passed as money these days!
Habbabkuk, I half read the last sentence, it’s the furthest i’v got with all your posts so far.
There is something stomach turning about shallow clever smuggish attitude with the advocacy you obviously endorse behind it all..
If I where to read you again, well, rest assured I won’t.
Fedup – Since oil starting going down in price a few years ago. Petrol prices have decreased.
Ohh and gas isn’t oil so i’m not sure what your point is.
“The trolls then just talk amongst themselves, in a not very convincing display of ‘conversation’.”
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Sound a little like this blog before I and a couple of other dissenters happened along, doesn’t it?
You should be grateful we’re here.
“Furthermore, as the prices have fallen. Have the prices at the pumps gone down?”
Yes.
Diesel £1.04 last I looked.
The Saudi led master plan to put off the shale fracking investors is starting to bite them on the ass. Them and their allies are starting to get hit economically way beyond what they anticipated.. Idea was drive oil price through the floor to hit fracking industry and Russia, but it has not worked.. So they have a big problem. But they can’t get Iran to play ball on lowering production so they’re stuck. I think it’s quite significant.
They planned to raise the price months ago but can’t manipulate it. So crown prince is in a pickle really.. Especially when they’re burning cash blowing up the Yemen.
They’re all loosing money hand over fist trying to retain market share and it backfired this week as the meeting where opec were supposed to agree how to get the price up again fell apart, it’s every member for himself. Enter the dragon.
Ishmael (22h27)
Sorry your stomach’s turning. I recommend Habbabreak, it’s better than Alka Seltzer.
I’ve already pointed out that the assumption that the U.S. garrison in Berlin was all Army is erroneous. For example, it is well known that the U.S. Air Force was there.
I will not say how many other of the assumptions are erroneous.
The barracks of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, where the U.S. Air Force used to be housed, is now being used to house Syrian refugees, I have been interested to read.
So you contend the cheap generic diesel (god knows how they cut the UK diesel) that rusts the diesel pump and knocks it out making for a huge repair bill to make good the damage has gone down a whole lot of few pennies whilst the oil prices have gone through the floor?
Is that all? How about the Rothschild scripps that are fast losing any intrinsic value that it makes more economical sense not to print them anymore? In the way of saving on the printing costs as in case of Sweden?
Well, if I am to comment semi-regular, i’ll have to measure myself…
Night, and best wishes to those with feeling enough to properly absorb the sentiment.
To others who may try, you’ve got a heart of stone, you can never feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dirzMDYz0rc
It’s excess of psychiatric help and of pharmaceutical ‘cures’ that is the problem, not absence or lack of it.
I agree about excessive prescription of pharmaceutical ‘cures.’ A new psychiatric ‘condition’ is identified, many are diagnosed as ‘suffering’ from it, vast profits go to Big Pharma from ‘treating’ it. Distrust any condition ending with ‘syndrome’.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t people with serious mental problems who are dangerous to themselves and others. Our dysfunctional society breeds misfits. The Leytonstone guy had previously spent several months in hospital diagnosed with acute paranoia. When his caring articulate brother goes to the authorities and begs them to section him again, they probably should. If lack of resources is the reason why they don’t, and the guy goes on to commit violence and link it to the UK’s action in Syria, action which the UK government claims will increase the security of its citizens, then it’s legitimate to question our government’s priorities.
To whomever is on the ‘Habba shift’ at the moment (all on huge amounts of tax payer’s money):
This ‘Habba’ person tries to put forth the notion that he/she is well educated, but of course can’t provide links to back-up anything they say (because URLs make it a lot easier to find out who Habba & Co are).
This Habba person tries to create the impression that they have an Oxbridge education.
Dear Habba, can you perhaps tell us what college you actually went to, in either Oxford or Cambridge?
As opposed to the Gas Works Lane Secondary School and an apprenticeship on the Millwall football club terraces.
“So you contend the cheap generic diesel (god knows how they cut the UK diesel) that rusts the diesel pump and knocks it out making for a huge repair bill to make good the damage has gone down a whole lot of few pennies whilst the oil prices have gone through the floor?”
It was £1.49 last year, it’s £1.04 now.
So the prices at the pumps have gone down.
“all on huge amounts of tax payer’s money”
As opposed to tyrants money?
I’ve posted lots of URls in the past – so you can find out who I am unless you are just a hot bag of air.
“….Sound a little like this blog before I and a couple of other dissenters happened along, doesn’t it?
“You should be grateful we’re here…”
Gratitude, or indifference, perhaps mild amusement are all possible reactions. What is unconscionable, not to say nauseating, is the realisation that you trolls are actually rewarded out of the taxes for disrupting these discussions of serious matters neglected in the oligarchs’ media.
Resident Dissident, anyone who openly calls for war is a psycho. Fullstop.
Leaving aside Habba & Co, I invite any reader to look at previous posts by Resident Dissident.
You are all going to be put on trial; you do understand that, don’t you?
“is the realisation that you trolls are actually rewarded out of the taxes for disrupting these discussions of serious matters neglected in the oligarchs’ media”
more self projection I fear
“You are all going to be put on trial; you do understand that, don’t you?”
Kangaroo or show?
“Resident Dissident, anyone who openly calls for war is a psycho.”
Even when dealing with the aggressor?
Robert Crawford
06/12/2015 11:56pm
07/12/2015 12:00am
Thank you for asking, Robert. My health continues to improve, touch wood.
Apologies if I misunderstood you. However, cognitive-behavioural therapy is not merely a tool for the treatment of depression. It tries to correct the person’s view of his or her environment from unwarrantedly pessimistic, to more realistic. I felt that was akin to what you were saying.
“Visualize everyone living in peace, harmony, abundance, health. If we constantly talk about war, death and destruction, that is what you will continue to get!”
The trouble is, that we all have to do it. You can’t create peace, harmony and abundance by yourself. (Health, to a certain and circumscribed extent, you can.) War, death and destruction occur for reasons. If you cannot persuade people responsible for war, death and destruction that those reasons are inadequate, you have got a problem that all the visualization in the world cannot solve. However, it’s not a bad idea to start with yourself.
By the way it was not my intention that you should read the whole of my links! I added them because they are sources.
Cheers.
Pan
07/12/2015 2:26pm
Many thanks for responding. I hope you are well. And no doubt you are right about the sadness.
I am trying to limit my contributions on here so will leave it at that.
Kind regards,
John
Donald Trump has now called for banning all Muslim from entering the USA for now, and if he is elected POTUS next November, he will surely move to lock up all Muslims already living here.
The loon makes American treatment of Japanese-Americans during WWII look like a tea party.
The Trump is the biggest supporter of Isis’s strategic goals.
Look who else is sending Hanukah greetings as well as visiting the devil incarnate. Not sure that it will go down too well in Red Surrey.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/putin-says-hanukkah-spirit-should-extend-to-international-affairs/
Have I mentioned before that this is complete and utter bullshit..?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/isis-papers-guardian-syria-iraq-bureaucracy
Any journalist worth their salt could tear this apart in two seconds flat.
Alas, we don’t have journalists anymore; we just have the Ministry of Truth.
This is based on offering the lowest price even if it means below the average, and then recollection of the highest price to prove a point that the price has gone down! The usual propaganda technique regardless of the actual parities with the relevant price falls ie in proportion to the fall in the oil prices and not just a philanthropically elected price cut of some sorts!!
Fact that some lickspittle has come out with this gem;
Says it all. The suppression fire is bordering in infantile kidding along and thinking skill sets!!!
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This coming from an authority in “debate” whose skills of “poopy pants” transactional merits include;
Wow such cutting and concise points of debate!!!
The usual memes shoved in regardless of the flow, as reflected in “aggressor” this self appointed judge, jury, police, bottle washer, chief cook has decided that Assad is not a president because he says so, hence declaring him an “aggressor” or as in the case of other bilge splattered over this board that concluded Murdoch and Rothschild theft of the Syrian resources only mounting up to 238 million dollars were the theft of Assad and his cohorts for a mere morning!
This is the level “debate” offered by res dis why would anyone wish to engage such an specimen?
Deflation is worse than inflation.
It’s good for the rich, though, since it increases the value of their property.
spot on Mary, well bar a few other facts that should really be aired over a cup of tea, not here.
RD, please understand, you have been rumbled, your last response is based on revenge, not retaliation in kind.
@ Fred playing oil games again. Well Fred, OPEC is broken and your lamentations about the prices for this that and the other are pitiful when one considers that the good unionist Osborne takes a massive hike of the top.
diesel price in Germany less than 72,- pence per liter, so what is it here, remind us how much these unionists like to tax the workers in the UK, Fred, those who need their cars for work and are fleeced for it?
Tell you , its 107.55/liter, that is 35 pence on every liter of fuel. And what does he do? He pays for a war with no plan, surely an apprentice to the job. Say it again.
What have the active participants in Syria agreed for when Assad dies?
And what do the major satellite operators in Europe, as well as our MP’s, don’t understand about ‘Prevent’?
any ideas?
Prices will fall even further, because the third industrial revolution is in full swing, people make their own decisions regards energy, they are moving away from fossil fuels, the intelligent solution all round.
Nothing what the Guardian writes regards ISIS/L cuts the mustard, its conjecture, custard.
The only journalist that has talked to IS had to work on it for some month, that was not like getting a skinny latte at some coffee chain, is Juergen Todenhoefer.
we are still linking to BS, Rob, I’m as guilty as anyone.
I will not read any more links to the Guardian, however newsy they might be. After near enough ten years without it, I can’t say I missed much.
with this I shall go and share my pillow
Nevermind, we are being carried into a war against the Russians.
Do you have any comments about this?
My tolerance of trolls is zero at the moment.