Tonight I am appearing at a panel discussion following the screening of the long-awaited film by George Galloway, The Killings of Tony Blair. I shall have the dubious pleasure of debating with John McTernan, who has never lacked brass neck but does deserve some credit for appearing to represent the forces of darkness before what I imagine will be a very hostile audience. The other panel members are Michael Mansfield and Lauren Booth.
The film has been predictably lambasted by the mainstream media. But it does include some very essential first hand evidence – myself apart, two other British Ambassadors tell what they themselves witnessed, as do Cabinet members. Noam Chomsky adds some important perceptions. This cannot just be dismissed by cries of “Oh look! George Galloway’s in a hat!! Remember when he was on Big Brother!!” The mainstream media’s response to this film has been unanimously puerile.
The Blair-loving Guardian gave the film two stars and called it “sanctimonious”. If one cannot express moral condemnation of a man who forced through an aggressive war, directly killing hundreds of thousands and destabilising both the Middle East and communities in Europe, and who then went on to make multiple millions of pounds promoting vicious dictatorships, then are we to suspend the very idea of ethics itself?
The Guardian subscribes to the world view propounded weekly by Nick Cohen, that to appear on an Iranian government TV channel is a far greater sin than to promote a war which killed and maimed countless thousands of small children. None of the many contributors appeared in the film under a mistaken belief that George Galloway is perfect. That George (whom I first met in Dundee in 1977) is not perfect in no way detracts from the evidence stated against Tony Blair. On Iraq, George was both right and brave. I would add that I did not for one moment consider refusing to take part on the grounds that George is a unionist.
Getting cinema screenings for an independent documentary film is extremely difficult. This is what is available so far.
I assume there are plans to make it available on wider platforms later.
The Killing$ Of Tony Blair – Official Trailer from The Killing of Tony Blair – Film on Vimeo.
Recognition and foreknowledge are mutual and Nice is an obvious false flag.
Can you expand? The late Tony M believed Nice to have been orchestrated by Boris. With “100% certainty”.
I’m wondering about that too. How can it be “fake”, a “false flag”, and also engineered by that bastard Johnson?
Brilliant news for Scotland
‘First gold’ expected from Cononish mine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-36953804
A Scottish mine is expected to produce gold for the first time following the launch of an ore processing trial.
Mining firm Scotgold Resources is crushing 2,400 tonnes of ore which has been stockpiled at Cononish near Tyndrum in central Scotland.
It is targeting “first pour” production of between 400 and 600 ounces of gold during the initial six-month trial.
Last week EDF approved funding – only to be told the U.K. Government would need until September to review the plans further.
But officials at the French State Owned energy giant told the Financial Times that chief executive Jean-Bernard Levy gave board members just 48 hours to review contracts – all written in English – on the Hinkley Point C nuclear project before last week’s crucial vote.
Officials close to
Électricité de France board members opposed to the Hinkley deal said many were “pressured”
into supporting the deal.
One board member – Gerard Magnin – quit just hours before the vote last Thursday in protest at the expense and viability of the project.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3719531/Now-China-threatens-pull-100bn-investment-UK-Theresa-cancels-Hinkley-Point-nuclear-project.html#ixzz4GEhc7QO8
It does seem that this deal is so very important to the troubled French State that they have tried to bounce the new British government into signing this too quickly.
Why did J.B.L. only give his board 48 hours to read through 2,500 pages of contracts
before they had to sign, is this how the French State does business?
EDF Boss Knew Of Hinkley Delay Before Vote
Jean-Bernard Levy says the French state warned him that “in light of her very recent arrival” Theresa May wanted more time.
http://news.sky.com/story/edf-boss-knew-of-hinkley-delay-before-vote-10521448
Jean-Bernard Levy emailed EDF executives on Tuesday this week saying that, when he called the board meeting on 21 July, he had done so with the approval of the French state, the Reuters news agency said. ( Instructed buy the French State)
Sounds like French-face-saving horse-shit
Why ‘good’?
Refusal of planning permission for this mine within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs NP was overturned.
At least one of the LLTNP committee members held shares in Scotgold.
Almost all solution mines around the world leak their toxic tailings.
The mine is in the upper catchment of the River Tay.
How could it possibly be bad when there’s no way to blame it on Westminster?
When Scotland becomes independent, they can mint their own gold coins
Actually, if it becomes
The Peoples Democratic Socialist Republic of Scotland,
they could Nationalize it.
When is a national park a national park?
Refusal of planning permission for this mine within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs NP was overturned.
At least one of the LLTNP committee members held shares in Scotgold.
Almost all solution mines around the world leak their toxic tailings.
The mine is in the upper catchment of the River Tay in a wild land area within a “National Park”
They’ve been buggering about at Cononish for almost as long as I can remember. Only the currently inflated gold price, and the prospect of its going higher as the world economy crashes and burns, makes it economical. Last I heard they’re sending the ore away to be processed, though they may be crushing onsite. If that’s right, it won’t make any more mess than the nearby (abandoned) Eas Anie or the Tyndrum lead veins themselves – which had their own rail spur. That bit of the Highlands has been mined for centuries. If they’d left the buildings up they’d be bloody heritage centres. IOW, don’t panic
Oh, and as at least one of the old Tyndrum veins contains uranium, you might want to panic about its tailings tip too.
PPS: You can see that the announcement triggered a massive leap in the Scotgold share price. From 0.85 to 0.95 pence
http://www.iii.co.uk/research/LSE:SGZ
If you’re into penny stocks, the best of luck to you. But as old man McKinstry observed in his ‘Mining Geology’, when you see a report indicating that a gold vein grades up to 4 oz/ton (it’s an old book) your next question should be “And down to what?”
perhaps but how and where is the ore is currently being processed? overseas?
However quite incredibly they have permission to use dissolution methods on site , my guess is that Scotgold have been hedging their investment and have jumped the gun on gold price rise having not installed the chemical processing plant yet. How many of the promised klondike jobs have and will materialise from a cowboy operation with the shady LLTNPA letting SG do what ever they damned want?
It’s not currently being processed anywhere, as far as I know. It hasn’t gone into production. Some years ago it, or the previous owner, announced that extraction would not take place on site. I think the processor was to be in Sweden, but that’s from memory. Earlier this year Scotgold was proposing to use gravity separation rather than solution (which would certainly be a cause for concern), and this is borne out by their 2011 planning application:
http://www.scotgoldresources.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Cononish-Gold-Mine-Non-Technical-Summary-2011.pdf
In which biodegradeable reagents are to be used (ie not cyanide or mercury, and probably surfactants) to produce a high-quality concentrate.
If they’ve changed their mind, and are using solution on site, I’d be glad if you’d give me a source or link.
In any case, the marginal economics of the mine are confirmed by Scotgold’s intention to use this initial move to test the market for speciality Scottish gold (which is the same as anyone else’s but can be flogged to tourists). They’re rather coy about the extent of development which has taken place, but they must be approaching the limits of their startup capitalisation, and are probably looking to stay solvent as their main priority. Remember, too, that sometimes the last thing a marginal mining company wants to do is produce. It can make more profit by pumping and dumping its shares.
So, now Eagle’s CP has been suspended. Homophobia this time, totally unproven of course. It appears that the tactic is to suspend all CP’s that might have a vote of no confidence in their MP. This is all of them.
These pound shop Stalin’s may not understand this, but they are being mocked now. There is no return from this disgrace, they’ve utterly lost the respect of pretty much anyone considering voting Labour. This isn’t being disliked, but accepted coz winning. This is being laughed at. Mocked for incompetence, and exposed for being charlatans. The Right of the party will take a long time to recover. If they were wise, they’d accept Corbyn, try and work with him, and replace him when he loses the election, which they always tell us is inevitable. Instead, they prefer to banish all wrong-thinkers. This can only work if they are in charge – but they aren’t.
Pound Shop Stalin? Interesting expression. Better a Pound Shop Stalin than a Harvey Nicks Stalin?
Nice one, but are you getting confused with blue flags?
George H W Bush and the CIA
In this Youtube video, The Dirty Secrets of George Bush, former CIA officer John Stockwell says that while he was working for the CIA as chief of the CIA’s Angola task force he was working for George Bush, and at the end of the CIA’s Angola operation, he witnessed George Bush orchestrating coverups to avoid Congressional and FBI investigations of the CIA’s illegal activity. The video appears to be from a US cable TV’s community television show which was discussing the then recent ascension to the presidency of GHW Bush and the implications of having a president with very close ties to the CIA, and who was known to have engaged in illegal activities such as drug smuggling etc. with the likes of Panamanian presidential strong man Noriega, and working with Oliver North and the Iran-Contra gang to fund the CIA’s unauthorized covert actions in Nicaragua. Former CIA officer John Stockwell left the CIA after 13 years and wrote a book about his experiences In Search of Enemies.
For more on drug running presidents (or future presidents) check out the Youtube video “The Clinton Chronicles” (you can search for it on Youtube) a documentary which details how Bill Clinton while governor of Arkansas engaged in covering up a drug running organization headed by the notorious CIA pilot/drug runner Barry Seal who was flying drugs into the small town airport at Mena, Arkansas, while he (Clinton) also ran a massive money laundering operation through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and some BCCI connected banks laundering proceeds from the drug running operation. It’s a 3hr documentary, but you can get a quick 10 min overview here:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/campaign-2016/the-bill-and-hillary-show.html
Notice I haven’t yet mentioned GHW Bush and his connection to the Kennedy assassination, but lots of good material on that out there on Youtube and the internet. Interesting factoid: GHW Bush is the only known person who was alive at the time (and over the age of 5) who says he can’t remember where he was when Kennedy was assassinated. Although, it turns out the day of the assassination, within an hour or so of the shooting, he called the FBI office in Houston, identified himself as George HW Bush and offered up a tip on a possible assassin for the FBI to investigate. See author Russ Baker talking about this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je_7CNWa-Ek
CIA drug running is a given, but even when they get caught red-handed their ability to deny successfully shines like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. GHWB is not even a critical key, just a shill and happily so.
http://www.madcowprod.com/2016/07/20/election-decides-drug-trade/#more-12288
UKIP descending into a NULABOUR type farce
UKIP leadership: Steven Woolfe excluded from race
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36962266
They already got one candidate excluded from the leadership race as she is on suspension.
Did UKIP lean this stuff from Angela Eagle?
European Terror
More armed police are to be seen on patrol in London,
Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have said.
Sir Bernard announced the move to reassure the public and deter attackers following terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Met has already said the number of armed officers will go up 600 to 2,800.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36961338
The latest announcement comes after 84 people were killed when a lorry ploughed into a large crowd watching a fireworks display in Nice in the south of FRANCE last month.
It doesn’t matter how many police there are if they’re going to be withdrawn a couple of hours before something happens.
Or if they’re going to be instructed not to intervene –
“The Paris Bataclan Terror Attack: Six French Military Were Present, Instructed Not to Intervene, People Died…
They were instructed according to their rules of engagement not to intervene, not to come to the rescue of the people inside the Bataclan nightclub or those in the street in front of the Bataclan.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-paris-bataclan-terror-attack-six-french-military-were-present-instructed-not-to-intervene-people-died/5534527
For those who turn their noses up at Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, put this into Google and see many Belgian articles giving the same info –
“Six militaires en armes devant le Bataclan ne sont pas intervenus”
These are the links to the original sources quoted:
http://www.lalibre.be/archive/un-depute-belge-l-affirme-6-militaires-en-armes-devant-le-bataclan-ne-sont-pas-intervenus-le-soir-des-attaques-577b5d4735705701fd967b73
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/attentats-terroristes-a-paris/20160506.OBS9964/bataclan-pourquoi-la-police-et-l-armee-n-ont-pas-pu-intervenir-ensemble.html
http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1502/Belgique/article/detail/2787904/2016/07/05/Six-militaires-en-armes-devant-le-Bataclan-ne-sont-pas-intervenus.dhtml
Good to hear from you Clark.
Michael.
Watching Met Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe, parade his officers and weapons on the news today. I couldn’t help but notice how militarised the police have become, in London, when you look across the pond to America, you see that some states are already on the verge deploying officers, on a full time basis that emulate heavily armed soldiers. You realise that London could be going down the same route.
Of course Britain is on the highest alert possible, severe, even though we haven’t had a major incident. However the events in France and Germany, have allowed London’s chief of police to put more militarised police officers on the streets. Who’s to say for how long ? and is there deployment preemptive?
In the long term Londoner’s could become desensitised, to heavily armed and militarised police officers. Which when combined with RIPA and the Snoopers Charter, could see London, moving towards a more controlled city.
ROS somebody ( police rep) has said that no extra police have been taken on, these shooters will be trained up, but if they are to stay on high gun-totting alert, other police duties will have to be left undone, like dogs attacking children, pensioners being mugged by George Osborne, and bricks being thrown through Eagle’s window.
My brother once told me that the police were doing a stake-out at the local public bogs, arresting the toilet traders.
Anyway a man (toilet trading detective) was unaware of the sting and was caught with his dick through a cubicle wall.
I believe he was actually charged and drummed out the force.
It looks like the Govern General to Scotland David (the only Tory MP in Scotland) Mundell, has been frozen out of Theresa May’s Economy and Industrial Strategy Committee. Which has been set up to address long term productivity growth, however it doesn’t include representative from, Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland.
http://www.thenational.scot/politics/snp-claim-scotland-is-on-the-outside-looking-in-after-theresa-may-leaves-david-mundell-out-of-economy-taskforce.20718
So much for Better Togethers promise of we’re all in it together…hmmm.
Another good reason to vote yes in the next indyref.
Meanwhile the Old Lady of Threadneedle St, the Bank of England, has failed miserably in a stress test according to the Adam Smith Institute, a leading think tank.
The stress test published today, ridicules the BoE, describing the banks ability to withstand the stress test as “worse than useless.”
http://www.thenational.scot/business/adam-smith-institute-ridicules-boe-stress-tests-as-it-warns-on-fresh-banking-crisis.20691
Well, well ,well I wonder, if a note to Nicola has emerged yet.
I very much doubt the Ministry of Truth aka the BBC will, give much airtime to the story. Nor will the Scottish version of the notorious Express newspaper, I use the term newspaper loosely.
I think it’s the stress test rather than the BoE that te ASI’s having a go at:
http://www.cityam.com/246719/bank-england-stress-tests-worse-than-useless-according-free
In other news, major Tory donor and grandee Michael Ashcroft’s offshore tax-avoidance scheme (of which he is of course entirely unaware) goes tits-up just as Belize’s concessionary tax holiday to the group expires. Spooky.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/02/lord-ashcrofts-belize-bank-hit-wave-withdrawals-bbi
But strangely heartwarming. Even the Yanks regulate financiers better than we do.
Baal.
Thank you Baal, it appears you are correct, the stress tests apparently diguise the poor shape that the BoE, and the banking industry are in.
Maybe they could take some tips fron Volkswagon. ?
If the ASI’s worried, and prepared to say so, we really are in the shit.
The ASI was the architect of some of the most hated and disasterous policies of the last 30 years. NHS internal market, bus de-regulation and privatisation of the railways can all be traced back to the ASI.
Probably better if they were ignored.
I’d agree with you Kempe, but… Either the ASI is making a genuine point, in the context of the system as it is, in which case we’re in the shit, or, equally likely, it’s punting a scare story designed to underpin the austerity narrative and ensure that those of us not (like A. Blair currently) enjoying the charms of a boutique hotel in sundrenched Croatia, sacrifice more of our hard-earned in order that T. Blair and his hedge-funder chums can, etc. Which also leaves the hardworkingfamilies in the faeces. I don’t claim to know which interpretation is correct, but neither looks good, and I can’t think of any others.
Rather than ridicule, could “worse than useless” actually be an objective description?
– “Express newspaper, I use the term newspaper loosely”
How about noosepaper?
Re my comment on London’s heavily militarised police, it would appear Israel’s heavily militarised border police, are not very nice people, as they bully little children, and make them cry, they then throw one little girls bike, into the bushes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=0MWiPhRylGg
“A recent report published by The New York Times has pointed out that an overwhelming majority of Americans, 91% of them in fact, did not support or vote for Clinton or Trump in the recent primary elections.”
According to the article, the reasons that Clinton and Trump, prevailed to become POTUS candidates for their parties, is that millions of Americans don’t vote, and millions more are disinfranchised. The block vote that’s left, are the ones that have mainly voted for Clinton or Trump.
So if in the future the millions who don’t vote voted, and those who are disinfranchised such as felons, are allowed to vote, maybe just maybe, America could get a POTUS, that actually does something good for the American people.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/91-americans-vote-clinton-trump/
Notorious Israeli company offers to build Trump’s wall between America and Mexico, if Trump becomes POTUS.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/02/478047/Israel-Magal-US-Mexico-border-wall-Trump
I seen that on Monday night RoS…Between that and the footage in LOWKEY FT. MAI KHALIL- AHMED (OFFICIAL VIDEO)…I was in One hell of crap mood all day yesterday
terrorize 8 year old girls and steal their Bike.. Cowards
Brian.
It does make you wonder what kind of men could do that to little children, and not feel ashamed of themselves.
This is the story of Justice in America, which went there and got lost.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/03/the-nightmare-of-rev-pinkney-the-scales-of-justice-no-longer-exist-for-you-and-me/
Armed French police start cross-Channel ferry patrols
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36964059
Terrorist threat’
Speaking to the AFP news agency, French marine police spokesman Lieutenant Pierre-Joachim Antona said a “permanent unit” had been deployed since Monday to carry out high-visibility patrols on passenger ferries.
“The marine gendarmes will carry out patrols, which will be random but regular, with the aim of securing these vessels against the terrorist threat,” he said.
The first patrol took place on Monday, when three French sea marshals arrived on the Brittany Ferries vessel Mont St Michel by helicopter.
pity they weren’t around in the Nice hoax, or even the ‘beheaded’ priest. There are increasing numbers of people wising up to this BS.
Do you reckon World-War-II was a hoax, or maybe the Blitz was a “false-flag”? How about Hiroshima and Nagasaki – “False Flag” or hoax? I just can’t figure it out.
How about Krakatoa – now that was a “False Flag” if ever I saw one!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki definitely were.
Syria
U.S.A.-backed Syrian “moderate” rebels responsible for toxic gas attack in Aleppo – Russian military
https://www.rt.com/news/354511-toxic-gas-syrian-rebels/
Syrian fighters from a rebel group considered ‘moderate’ by Washington are responsible for using toxic gas shells that killed seven and injured 23 in Aleppo on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“On August 2, 2016 at 19 hours 05 minutes militants from the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki group, considered by Washington as ‘moderate opposition’, launched poisonous materials from the Sukkari district towards the eastern part of Aleppo,” the ministry said.
It added that the territory is under rebel control and that shells were fired towards “the residential area” of the Salah-Eddin district.
Moscow informed Washington of the use of toxic shells on Monday, Lieutenant-General Sergey Chvarkov, head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, said.
On Tuesday evening, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported that Syrian officials said an attack using poisonous gas had occurred in Aleppo. A “terrorist attack” on the Old City of Aleppo with “shells containing toxic gas” led to the deaths of five and suffocation of eight more civilians, the outlet quoted the city’s health director, Mohamad Hazouri, as saying.
A local police source told SANA that terrorist groups fired rocket shells at the al-Hamadaniyeh neighborhood, injuring six. They also targeted the Salah-Eddin neighborhood, killing two and injuring 11 more.
Meanwhile a chilling video purporting to show the aftermath of the deadly toxic shelling in Aleppo emerged online on Wednesday.
The footage captures the moment victims were rushed to hospital. Most of them appear unable to walk on their own and on the verge of fainting.
“We’ve taken 12 injured people, six other patients have already died from suffocation. Our doctors were prepared to treat people showing symptoms of gas poisoning. We’ve been expecting terrorists to use weapons of this kind,” a doctor at the Aleppo hospital told
The gas in question was reportedly chlorine – a highly toxic substance that leads to breathing problems, a loss of consciousness, and illnesses among those exposed to it.
Very nice.
Perhaps they were celebrating the nomination of their friend and patron Hillary Clinton.
And here is one of Syria’s many British enemies:
https://twitter.com/walid970721/status/760479344657661952
Talking about the Hildabeast,, oh, sorry. I’ve got to throw up…
Chlorine was the first poison gas used in World War One, thanks to Fritz Haber.
Might be an appropriate point to mention this – caught during a trawl for Tony Blair, currently in the Balkans:
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-opens-weapons-supply-line-to-saudi-arabia-08-02-2016
And Saudi = Syrian rebels or terrorists, depending on your daily newspaper.
(The Flying Rictus hasn’t been reported in Montenegro, but has been in Croatia and Albania this week.)
UK-educated Isil supergrass claims terror group planning simultaneous attacks in England, France and Germany
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/03/uk-educated-isil-supergrass-claims-terror-group-planning-simulta/
British-educated Isil supergrass has revealed how the terror group has planned simultaneous attacks in England, France and Germany but is struggling to recruit UK-based jihadis.
Harry Sarfo, who was born in Germany but grew up in the UK, told how he travelled to Syria to fight alongside Isil jihadists but was told to return to Europe in order to take part in terrorist attacks.
In an interview with The New York Times Sarfo, who is serving a prison sentence in Germany, said that Isil commanders want to organise “loads of attacks at the same time” in different European countries.
His disclosures about the operation of the terror group comes after a wave of attacks in France and Germany that have alarmed intelligence authorities across the continent.
“UK-educated Isil supergrass” followed by:
“In an interview with The New York Times Sarfo, who is serving a prison sentence in Germany,”
Duh! So the “super-grass” is in prison, so what exactly makes him so “super”? He looks like just another criminal who got caught to me.
“Super my arse” might be more on the money.
British educated? Did you mean Brit controlled?
The fascists in Ukraine have renamed Moscow Ave. in Kiev “Bandera Avenue”, after the N*** collaborator. http://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/out-moscow-avenue-in-bandera-avenue-418693.html
From the same link:
“Beside Moscow Avenue, the Kyiv City Council changed the names of four more city streets on June 7. They were previously named after Russian Empire military generals Mikhail Kutuzov, Alexander Suvorov and a member of the Bolshevik Party Nikolay Bauman.
Instead of them, the streets will be named after Polish educator Janusz Korczak, an officer of Ukrainian People’s Army Oleksa Almaziv, the commander of the Ukrainian Galician Army Mykhailo Omelianovych-Pavlenko, and writer Yevhen Hutsalo. ”
Accusations of “fascism”, anyone? LOL
If the Kiev City Council merits being called “fascist”, does Lysias merit being called a cunt?
After all, the evidence for both appelations is equally compelling – or not.
🙂
And see…
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/07/killings-tony-blair/comment-page-7/#comment-617019
They could have named it ‘Wall Street’, or even ‘Langley Ave’; c’est la meme chose.
Or even “Paul Barbara Boulevard”.
As a tribute to a great but hitherto somewhat unrecognised fighter for truth and justice.
AKP organs like Yeni Şafak are now reading like the German press after the Reichstag Fire. Like this piece: http://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/yasinaktay/from-coup-to-revolution-july-15-2030856
What is the above poster going on about?
The journalist is saying that the coup failed – which it did.
Where exactly is the problem?
Is ‘Jim’ still away?
Thank you for that substantive and thoughtful response. 🙂
I’ve just been reminiscing over some classic Brexit moments. This, from Alyn Smith of the SNP, in his speech to the EU Parliament, must be my favourite:
“But colleagues, there are a lot of things to be negotiated. We will need cool heads and warm hearts. But please, remember this: SCOTLAND, did NOT let you down. Please, I BEG you, chers collègues, do NOT let Scotland down noo.”
Granted, you have to actually have him in front of you in full screen on YouTube to really appreciate it, with his inverted eyebrows and shouty mock-Braveheart capitulation to foreign rule, but nonetheless, what an absolute bellend.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t say “noo”.
“the noo”?
Come to think of it, does anyone know what happened to the sudden surge for Scotch Independence that was supposed to happen post-Brexit? Does the SNP actually want independence?
I reckon that in 20 years time Craig will still be here with a straw in his mouth claiming Scotland is on the “brink” of independence and that the time has never been better and that if we don’t seize the opportunity now it will never happen, and that etc.
Now that the Aleppo gas attack looks to be the work of the “moderate” rebels, the Beeb cools on the story. Funny, that.
Meanwhile, the Empire goes into overdrive on hammering Trump, while Killary hints at things to come in Syria. The war machine might lose a lot if Trump wins; it might not. But the REAL psychos – as opposed to blowhard billionaires – ain’t taking the chance.
It’s interesting, isn’t it? I don’t for a minute think Trump will make a good president, but generally speaking countries have ‘elections’ and people ‘vote’ to make these decisions. If Trump wins, such is life. He’s hardly a fascist, indeed his policy positions aren’t even that extreme, for a Republican.
Also, when did educated journalists start confusing ‘douchebag’ with ‘fascist’? The all out attacks on Trump are now just totally bizarre, and possibly self-defeating. I suspect Trump’s main negative is that he’s dared to talk about outsourcing, and criticised the war-machine. He may have done so for cynical, populist reasons, and may well just carry on as before (that’s my guess), but he’s gone further than most candidates, and the oligarch’s are displeased.
I’m afraid we just have to accept that the next POTUS, whoever wins, is going to be terrible. One may argue that Trump is more terrible than Clinton, and that’s ok. I am not entirely convinced on that score, personally. Mysterious things occur around the Clinton’s, and always have done.
You are quite right. As the astute and honest columnist Margaret Kimberley poiunts out in her Freedom Rider column http://www.blackagendareport.com/ fascists are invariably supported by precisely the business oligarchs and media monopolists who are supporting Hillary and are against Trump.
Trump is many things but only those ignorant of the support that Hitler and Mussolini (Franco and Salazar, Dolfuss and Pilsudski) received from industrialists and financiers would call him a fascist.
Hillary on the other hand, whose father was a John Bircher and whose first political activity was for Goldwater, …….
I hear they’ve promised Hillary if she makes President they’ll carve her image on Mt Rushmore. As soon as they find two faces.
It’s a foregone conclusion – the Clinton’s have long been ‘on board’ (‘sold their souls’; very good friends of the Bush’s etc).
The beat goes on; the ‘Hildabeast’ was chosen by the Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove a**holes long, long ago…
Don’t forget the Rothschilds and the Iluminati, Paul!
They’re included in the two groups mentioned above.
You also forgot to bring up “The Antichrist” and “666”.
Talking of “Hilldabeast” she has a fan-site:
http://www.hilldabeast.com/
BBC propaganda machine winds its neck in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36970220
The Russian military says it has informed the US that it believes rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo have deployed “toxic substances”.
Syrian state media says toxic gas was contained in shells that rebels have been firing at government-held areas in the divided city.
If it is later proved beyond doubt that it was the American funded “moderate gang” caused the gas attack in Aleppo,
will the B BC say sorry, their propaganda people got it very wrong, will they explain why they have a propaganda department, I mean, it is not as if we are fighting the second world war any more.
“If the Kiev City Council merits being called “fascist”, does Lysias merit being called a cunt?”
The evidence in favour of the first is fairly compelling: Kiev’s Council, dominated by nazi militias whose death squads liquidate critics of their foul ideology, has renamed Moscow Street in honour of the nazi collaborator Bandera who was responsible for ordering the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Poles and Jews as well as anti-fascist fighters.
In my book that would constitute presumptive evidence that the council is run by fascists who treat the people of Kiev with contempt, cheat them and steal from them. In the next free election, absent the death squads and the electoral cheats, they are bound to lose. In the meantime, as their naming practices suggest, let them be viewed as fascists.
As to your second question it not only betrays your bad manners but an unfortunate aversion on your part to that part of the female anatomy most of us regard with fondness. On the LGBTQ spectrum exactly where do you fit? Among the hermaphrodites?
Bevin
Any comment on the renaming of the other four streets?
Would you consider those four other renamings to be “fascist” as well?
Bevin
“As to your second question it not only betrays your bad manners but an unfortunate aversion on your part to that part of the female anatomy most of us regard with fondness.”
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I could imagine that a certain lack of contact with that delightful part of the female anatomy might be one of the reasons for the ill humour and feelings of exclusion so richly demonstrated by the posts of so many of the Eminences.
Bevin
Were you aware that “Loony” often uses the word “absent” as well?
And the “two of you” often post as a kind of duet, don’t you.
Another conspiracy theory from Habbakuk, the literary detective in the tin foil hat.
There is only one response to this sort of story:
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/03/478348/russia-us-warned-chlorine-aleppo
And it will come from the Establishment’s voices on this blog: unless it is on BBC or in The Guardian it cannot be true.
Check out the film “Hillary’s America” by Dinesh D’Souza.
Some of Hillary’s America’s recent achievements:
https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/03/americas-recent-achievements-in-the-middle-east/
Talking of Hillary, what’s all this then?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/02/australian-street-artist-who-painted-hillary-clinton-in-bikini-c/
“Australian street artist who painted Hillary Clinton in bikini covers her image in niqab after council complains”
American Leaders JOKE About Dead Veterans and Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocih62dSJR8
I recommend the film “66 Days” as it reveals the true brutality off the British state:
http://66daysthefilm.com/the-film
And let us never forget: Just when you’re certain you’ve heard about and explored every conceivable crime to which President Clinton has been a party, another bombshell drops.
http://www.wnd.com/1998/10/1229/
http://www.wnd.com/2005/10/33137/
http://www.taintedblood.info/background.php
Check out “Clinton Cash”, too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td2pyyCau30
A bit arty to begin with but soon settles down to some serious demolition.
Knife attack in Russelll Square yesterday night. One woman in her sixties dead, five injured. Assailant (19 years old) tasered and apprehended by police. Reliable sources say “not a hologram”.
(Cue various loonies…..)
, Habby, your the only loony talking of it. Was he another plant? a mentally challenged terror sleeper, and how come the German supergrass, telling fairy tales to bust his a..e out of prison, did not know about the carefully prepared Nice action,. how come that Richard Gutjahr managed to know about Nice and Munich, in advance.
Is he being interviewed as to his alliances with dubious ME Government intelligence services.
No? I didn’t think so.
I was thinking he seemed more like one of those people who were looked after medically and kept “safe” for themselves and for others up until Thatcher did the hatchet job on the asylums. Thanks for nothing Maggie! I bet those doctors and nurses were cheaper than the shock-troops “guarding the streets” these days.
Nevermind
Success again!
I knew my mention of the Russell Square stabbings would bring out the nutters and conspiraLoons!
Your
” Was he another plant? a mentally challenged terror sleeper, and how come the German supergrass, telling fairy tales to bust his a..e out of prison, did not know about the carefully prepared Nice action,. how come that Richard Gutjahr managed to know about Nice and Munich, in advance.”
refers. 🙂
The American woman in her sixties bled to death. Are there no medical facilities close enough to Russell Square that they could have rushed plasma to the scene to administer to her?
I agree with Lysias that that is highly, highly suspicious. There is obviously more behind this woman’s fate than meets the untutored, un-higher-degreed eye! It behoves us all to think long and hard about what Lysias has pointed out.
I see elsewhere in the world things are far worse:
http://truepublica.org.uk/global/palestinians-inside-israel-attack/
Thanks for that report Alan, it once again shows that Palestine is being Governed by a dictatorial zionist regime that knopws no borders to their inhumanity.
Not enough evidence at present (but working on it) to suggest radicalisation. The murdered woman was a US national and those injured were Israeli, Australian, British and American. The attack happened in Russell Square not far from the proposed 7/7 Tavistock Square Memorial Trust Garden (just to assert and maintain a foreboding and an elevated terror alert.
A somewhat biased but nevertheless interesting report describing the effects of foreign policy on British Somalis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Ioj4JqspE
Unreliable sources say its not a staged event following the Met Chief’s foreknowledge forecast!
Theresa May’s new Britain….
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-s-new-charter-for-cruelty-at-immigration-detention-centres-a7168991.html
Well it is totally consistent with packing a hunger striker on a plane against medical advice he was unfit to fly.
I see Owen Smith has developed strange stomach problems, as he recently stated “deep in my belly there is “a burning fire”. Maybe he needs to discuss this development with a reliable pharmacist?
Or JIm.
Financial expert Mr. Marsh interviewed by der Spiegel, re Brexit and what the uk would like to happen. It is striking how the referendum result has clouded minds as to the reality and facts.
Sounds a bit like,’ if we can’t bend it to our advantage, we will do our best to release all these rich European accounts from our vast tax Offshoring operation, so you Europeans better play cricket and we make the rules as we go along.’
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/brexit-the-british-always-want-special-treatment-a-1105751.html
The real revolutionary-humanist non-sectarian position with regard to the Brexit vote is to remind the workers and others on both sides of the vote that their real problem lies with the capitalist mode of production and not with each other. The task, among other things, is to point out that their shared goals for decent homes and standards of living depend upon not blaming each other but of coming together to change the mode of production. The task is to explain that all the negative symptoms raining down upon the vast majority of the world’s populations are the results of a mode of production which has outlived its ‘sell by date‘, never mind its ‘use by date‘. It is time for a revolutionary change – at the very least in thinking – not time to use this Brexit side-show as an excuse to indulge in a reformist blame game.
Roy Ratcliffe (June 2016)
https://critical-mass.net/2016/06/26/brexit-and-the-blame-game/
FRENCH President Francois Hollande says Donald Trump is “sickening”
http://www.france24.com/en/20160803-donald-trump-makes-me-sick-says-hollande
O.K. Francois Flanby is sickened by Trump – so what.
Monsieur ‘Flanby’ is more dangerous than he looks
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/monsieur-flanby-is-more-dangerous-than-he-looks-7715334.html
I bet in the forth coming elections in france and in U.S.A.
Trump gets a greater percentage of votes from the American voters
than does Francois Flanby from the French voters.
The only way Francois will still be President of the Republic of France in Twelve months time
will be if he can continue to extend the State of Emergency
and claim it is too dangerous to have an election, we are at war.
just lately they have been claiming France is at war.
‘We are at war’
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160802/more-summer-shows-cancelled-in-france-over-security-fears
From the underground IT the Newspaper of Resistance.
Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton A Foaming Sleazeball from Hell versus An Iron Lady whose Hands Drip with Blood
http://internationaltimes.it/donald-trump-versus-hillary-clinton/
Note for Nicola Zika in SCOTLAND
A number of people in Scotland have been diagnosed as having the Zika virus, it has been confirmed.
The Scottish government said the disease, which has sparked a major health alert in South America, did “not pose a public health risk” in Scotland.
It is understood that no more than five Scottish cases have been detected.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-36973986
Corbers to create a million more jobs!
Speaking in Dagenham, east London,
Mr Corbyn outlined plans to ensure full employment by creating one million jobs building new infrastructure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36972038
Jeremy is pledging to rebuild Britain from the grass roots upwards to the sunny uplands.
That says that “small heads and brain damage” are the symptoms? Is that like you see in any UK town or city on a Friday night? 😉
EDF extends depreciation period of 900 MWe units
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C-EDF-extends-depreciation-period-of-900-MWe-units-0108164.html
France’s EDF has extended the accounting depreciation period of its fleet of 900 MWe nuclear power reactors from 40 years to 50 years, the company said last week whilst announcing its results for the first half of 2016.
The company said that, during the first six months of this year, “all of the technical, economic and governance conditions necessary to align the accounting depreciation period of the French nuclear fleet with the group’s industrial strategy were met”.
It added, “The consolidated financial statements at 30 June 2016, approved by the board of directors on 28 July 2016, include the extension from 40 to 50 years of the depreciation period for the 900 MWe series plants excluding Fessenheim on 1 January 2016 and does not prejudice the decisions to authorize the continued operation which will be made unit by unit by the French nuclear safety authority (ASN) after each ten-year visit.”
This is a bit difficult to understand unless you are a smart talking accountant.
What I guess it means,
if EDF extend the life of their reactors by another ten years, they can extend the time they pay back the money they are in debt?
Would someone brighter than me give it a read.
However what this piece does not go into is the 51,000,000,000 Euros needed to be borrowed to keep these plants running past their sell buy date.
i should have been an accountant.
If EDF have just had accountants value their debts at
37,000,000,000 Euros
and their assests as
18,500,000,000 Euros
If these reactors are very soon the come to the end of their design-life, at some point they cease to be an asset and they become a liability.
Now let’s guess that in the next decade half of all French reactors come to the end of their design-life,
this half ( of the business end) moves from the asset side to the liability side.
Now the liabilities will be astonishingly massive, they will include a never ending bill for spent fuel storage ( no solution yet in the pipe-line, the half a kilometer deep storage shaft, recently collapsed, burying the workers alive, then there will be the phenomenal cost of de-commissioning the plants, over the next one hundred and fifty years)
so we can see, that by apparently extending the useful working life of these monsters, they are but delaying utter financial collapse of the FRENCH STATE.
And these jokers are trying to dump a double plant on Somerset.
Apparently EDF is owned 85% by the French state, so the French State will be responsible for at least 85% of the liabilities or you could guess 100% of the future liabilities, because the present 15% owners will die or vanish to evade thier responsibilities.
There are currently 58 active reactors operating in France, first they must seal the plants for one hundred years.
Then when the robots have been designed and built for the active de-commissioning phase, at a guess, four years per plant,
58×4=216 years for decommissioning, but the spent fuel will have to be kept secure for one hundred thousand years.
Also the land on which the plants were situation is unlikely to ever become available for any commercial use, it will be a waste land / nature reserve.
I can see how the financies could ever stack up,
perhaps I’m missing something?
Any news on the attacker yet? Amish? Mormon?
Exactly. You hit it in one.
Partisans of the three main religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam often claim to be in the business of promoting the cause of a better, more humane relationship between human beings. This should be strongly challenged for, as we shall see from the evidence below, religion is not some innocent mystical belief system, but a system of patriarchal governance. This means religion cannot possibly produce better, equal or more humane forms of interaction between human beings. What follows is the third section of a chapter of a book I am currently writing which deals with ‘Monetheism’s promotion of – malice, murder, misogyny, mammon, militarisation and monarchy. It is a section which considers the attitudes to women promoted and authorised by the respective holy scriptures of the three monotheistic religions.
https://critical-mass.net/religion-and-womens-rights/
Mentally ill, and it might have something to do with this…
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/13/mental-health-services-crisis-britain-revealed-leaked-report
http://wfwmarketingimages.womenforwomen.org/news-women-for-women/files/crit-half/CHJournalv1.pdf
Women’s struggle for their rights as women has been said to undermine the national/religious struggle.
http://www.truthbeknown.com/mental.htm
The question is “Is religion a mental illness?”
I would venture that anyone who believes all this ISIS nonsense might perhaps be suffering from mental illness.
Police arrested a 19-year-old Norwegian national of Somali origin. They say there is no evidence of radicalisation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36972126
I expect he will turn out to be a lone wolf.
The woman he killed was from the United States of America
If one of his targets was a Briton, one was an Israeli, one was American,
and if he is an ethnic Somalia, are we allowed to ask if he is Islamic?
If someone chops up two Belgium police women shouting “Allahu Akbar”
is he against women?
is he against Christians?
is he against the police?
is he working for Islamic State?
is he against the E.U.?
who the hell knows?
http://www.france24.com/en/20160806-belgian-police-officers-injured-machete-attack
Religous Discrimination against women:
http://www.persepolis.nu/queens-discrimination.htm
http://wfwmarketingimages.womenforwomen.org/news-women-for-women/files/crit-half/CHJournalv1.pdf
Women’s struggle for their rights as women has been said to undermine the national/religious struggle.
So the ICTY have exonerated the late Slobodan Milosevic, of committing any war crimes. Yet prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal accused Slobodan Milosevic of committing the following offences in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995: Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions. Violations of the laws or customs of war.
How on earth can the ICTY suddenly do a U-turn and declare Milosevic not guilty of anything? Of course Milosevic conveniently died of a heart attack during the trial.
No doubt Milosevic had incriminating evidence, that saw these amounts of chargers;
“Genocide; complicity in genocide; deportation; murder; persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds; inhumane acts/forcible transfer; extermination; imprisonment; torture; willful killing; unlawful confinement; wilfully causing great suffering; unlawful deportation or transfer; extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; cruel treatment; plunder of public or private property; attacks on civilians; destruction or wilful damage done to historic monuments and institutions dedicated to education or religion; unlawful attacks on civilian objects.”
Somehow dropped due to lack of evidence, however, Radovan Karadzic, wasn’t so fortunate, no heart attack for him, he couldn’t have had some sleazy incriminating insurance policy stashed away somewhere.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/milosevic-exonerated-as-the-nato-war-machine-moves-on/5539411
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Slobodan_Milošević
Milosevic should never have been charged. The propaganda campaign that led to his being charged was one of Tony Blair’s sleazy triumphs. Milosevic is just one more of the less innocent (he was a politician after) victims of this monster and the criminal organisation (aka the PLP) which enabled his crimes.
“No doubt Milosevic had incriminating evidence, that saw these amounts of chargers;”
___________
Well Bevin, I do have some doubts over Milosevic’s guilt, that’s why I added the above sentence.
“Official documents on Britain’s relationship with Israel, including papers on “military and nuclear collaboration” in the 1970s, have disappeared from the National Archives in the last four years.”
“Among them is a Foreign Office file titled ‘Military and nuclear collaboration with Israel: Israeli nuclear armament,’ in which the British government notes Israel’s intention to purchase nuclear weapons.”
“The document is thought to be linked to a United Nations resolution from 1978 listing the “increasing evidence” of the Middle Eastern country’s attempts at acquiring weapons of mass destruction.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/354455-files-israel-nuclear-missing/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome
But how can that be, I’m under the impression, like many others, that Israel has no nuclear weapons, says I tongue in cheek. It’s the worst kept secret in the world, yet Israel trots out the line of nuclear ambiguity.
Still I’m not surprised about the British governments collaboration with Israel, over the matter. Westmister will collaborate with anyone, if it leads to fortune or favour.
Still I’m not surprised about the British governments collaboration with Israel, over the matter. Westmister will collaborate with anyone, if it leads to fortune or favour.
Actually, as I said yesterday, Golda Meir gave Europe an ultimatum.
As you missed it, here it is again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option