Recently an Angus mother of three infant children was separated from them and jailed for ten months for over-claiming £10,000 per year in benefits. Meanwhile the Duke of Westminster evades £3.6 billion in inheritance tax through a transparently fraudulent use of trusts which “have the option” to give the money to someone else instead.
The United Kingdom is a socially backward and sometimes vicious polity, an island which prides itself on the state enforced conservatism which allowed it to evade intellectually motivated reform and retain a historical legacy of gross injustice and privilege.
For historical reasons land reform is an immensely popular cause in Scotland, and one of so many areas where SNP timidity is a deep, deep disappointment. The fact that they are covered in buildings does not make the vast London estates of the Grosvenors any more acceptable than the unnecessarily empty Highland estates where golden eagles are destroyed so the chinless wonders, hedge fund managers and sheikhs can blast away at tame grouse.
The late Duke of Westminster is characterised as a “philanthropist” by mainstream media even though the percentage of both his income and his wealth he gave to charity was less than most ordinary people’s mite, myself included, and I am willing to bet that what he did do, was tax-deductible. That a parasite who sat on £9 billion of unearned money in a country where disabled people commit suicide from poverty, and who got two O levels from Harrow, was Prince Charles’ closest friend, cuts through the lying propaganda about the Royal family we are constantly fed.
The political class have a deliberate will not to enforce inheritance tax on the super wealthy. They have a political will not to tackle landlordism, which as it affects both residential and commercial tenants is a fundamental malaise of the British economy. Neither problem is technically difficult. The problem is that the political class as a whole are in the pockets of the super-wealthy, promote their interests and ache to join them.
Which is why in the UK it is important that the threat to them posed by Corbyn is maintained, and why in Scotland it is essential that the SNP membership now push their own leadership into bold action on fundamental land reform and Independence. To call the current SNP approach to both issues desultory would be excessively polite.
If this report is correct it looks as if what the US (and Hilary Benn) claimed was happening in Syria is actually taking place in Ethiopia ( an ally of imperialism) :
“The people have awakened, and overcoming fear and historic differences are beginning to unite. The two main ethnic groups are rallying under a common cause: freedom, justice, and the observation of their constitutionally acknowledged human rights. And the two major opposition parties, the Oromo Democratic Front (ODF) and Patriotic Ginbot 7 for Unity and Democracy (PG7) have formed an alliance in the fight to overthrow the incumbent regime, and are seeking to bring other opposition groups together.
“The protests are dominated by people under 25 – 30 years of age; young people, connected to the world via social media who are no longer prepared to live in fear, as Seyoum Teshome, a university lecturer in central Ethiopia told the New York Times, “The whole youth is protesting. A generation is protesting.”
“At the moment demonstrations are largely confined to Oromia and Ahmara, but as confidence grows there is every possibility that other regions could become involved, swelling numbers of protestors, overwhelming security forces….
“…To their utter the countries shame primary donors – America, Britain and the European Union – have repeatedly ignored the cries of the people, and turned a blind eye to human rights abuses perpetrated by the ruling party, which in many cases constitute state terrorism. It is neglect bordering on complicity…”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/19/democratic-revolution-sweeps-ethiopia/
As to the photograph from Aleppo: That invaluable site OffGuardian- which makes up for what was lost when Comment stopped being Free points out that the photograph in question came from the Al Nusra run media centre. And should be treated with suspicion (for some reason the ambulance uses English in Aleppo)
https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/18/media-using-pro-al-nusra-media-center-as-source-for-war-propaganda/
Then there is the Moon of Alabama where Bernhard deconstructs the propaganda.
I make it a presumptive rule always to doubt any story appearing in Western media that serves to advance the agenda of the warmongers.
The same site is now reporting that the photographer who produced the-soon to be iconic-photograph of the boy in the ambulance was part of the mob which beheaded a Palestinian child earlier this month.
https://off-guardian.org/2016/08/19/an-id-for-mahmoud-raslan/
Were you not part of the “warmongers” for a good part of your career ?
Don’t you just love it, Malta will be taking over the EU leadership soon. It is the entry point for rich furriners who like to stay hush hush, who appear on Malta’s annual entrylist of ‘buergers’ by their first name only, but are enjoying an EU passport for their eagerness to invest 1 million Euro’s into Malta’s development coffers.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/malta-verkauft-eu-paesse-fuer-hunderte-millionen-euro-a-1108311.html
A number of other countries do it too, but none of them quite so blatantly. Still, seems like a good deal for Malta, so who can fault them?
“…who can fault them?”
Those believing in the rule of law?
Bevin’s Law or Nebelmind’s Law of Envy (of people who a million euros cash to spare to invest, and yes it is an investment, not a gift.)
Bev
Indicate the law that’s being broken, please.
Thanks.
First it was “Who lost Turkey?” (Brennan) Next, due to Britain’s panicked escape from CIA’s EU construct, it will be “Who lost Britain?”
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/08/17/uk-normalize-relations-with-russia-major-policy-shift.html
Paul Craig Roberts wonders what has happened to the American left.
far less war
When was that, pray tell?
Actually I agree with you there Matinned. The American “left” have throughout history started far more wars than the American “right”. Anybody who doubts that can easily check it out.
This article backs this up.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/6/democrats-republicansforeignpolicy.html
Like it says, “Any war that can have ‘humanitarian’ or ‘human rights’ slapped on it will be easy to swallow for Democratic media and intellectuals.”
Silvio, you can say much the same about the UK ‘Left’. They are anti-Assad, don’t want to know about Wesley Clark or Roland Dumas, don’t DO ‘conspiracy theories’, but will march to the tune of the StW ‘Pied Piper’, to no avail whatsoever.
I must say, I do not find this article very convincing.
“The left suffered a tremendous blow when the Soviet Union collapsed. The Soviet collapse deprived the left of its belief that there was an alternative to American “democratic capitalism.””
Has Mr Roberts lived down a hole for fifty years? Has he never heard of “Neither Washington nor Moscow but international socialism”? The Western left has been dismissive of the Soviet Union – state capitalism – for decades.
“The answer, I think, is that with the demise of Marxism, the left’s only hope is that the peoples oppressed by the West will rise up. The left finds huge emotional satisfaction in 9/11 as blowback of the oppressed against the oppressor. This is why the left clings to the official story of 9/11.”
For starters, who says Marxism is dead? It makes a remarkably lively-looking corpse: people may not use the word much any more, but that does not mean that there is no longer any such thing as class, or as analysis of social forces. There’s a class war going on right this minute inside the Labour Party. Secondly, to say that people of “the left” find emotional satisfaction in the destruction of human life wrought on 9/11 is simply insulting.
I think Roberts is on firmer ground when he talks about the sheer overriding power of the right, and of the removal of constraints on unilateralism. The article seems to me to be a peculiar mix of the sensible and the crackpot. J
JSD (last line)
That is because Mr Paul Craig Roberts IS a crackpot.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2807081/The-plant-pot-valued-Antiques-Roadshow-10-000-went-sell-668k.html
JSD, But this parallels a shift in views of the youth (those entering university) the ‘isms having been discredited , they are quite sensibly keeping their heads down and looking for a nice degree and some nice job afterwards
they seem to have a social knowledge – rather than actual knowledge – of the defined/suspected exploits of the Consulting Association (police, security squirrels & building companies) – there are bound to be other Consulting Association’s in other areas that just havent yet come to light
Dog attacks in the United Kingdom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-37129134
Almost 7,000 hospital visits/year due to dog bites
latin name for generic DOG is “Canis lupus familiaris”
“lupus” (wolf) and “familiaris” (household) is mostly held in balance, but unfortunately there are idiots who emphasise the wolf aspect, sometimes (trying to be Mr. big locally – or unfortunately just random genetic regression to “wolf”) this causes munching & rarely death
DOGS, in a moment of stress they try and put down those with lowest social status – which in GCHQ speak is around “Level 2 – Executive Officer” or equivalent?
are you the agency replacement for the puppet formerly known (and loved) as “Mary”? – she was retired at xmas after a successful campaign, with many idiotic internet protocol Version 4 addresses successfully harvested. You are following a similar rôle of posting many quirky posts, as I do, but I’m not yet a machine!. Anyway, Craig welcomes us all, until we exceed our welcome time then it’s time to retire to listen to Radio4 for the real humans. . . . Did you know that if you listen to BBCR4 using an expensive computer – rather than a nice cheap FM Radio – that on iTunes at least – BBC Radio 4 is only available under the “COMEDY”area of Internet Radio (true)
YCNMIU!
The inquiry into the Edinburgh trams FIASCO could lead to criminal prosecutions, the judge chairing the investigation has said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37116759
Suicide my Aunt Fanny!
‘Julian Assange’s Lawyer Found Dead After Being Struck by Train’:
http://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/julian-assange-s-lawyer-found-dead-after-being-struck-by-train-27812
‘Renowned lawyer who represented Julian Assange died after being struck by train in West Hampstead’:
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/renowned_lawyer_who_represented_julian_assange_died_after_being_struck_by_train_in_west_hampstead_1_4507283
If I had to work for Julian Assange I’d throw myself in front of a train too…
if you had to work for anybody you’d probably throw yourself in front of a train, but you already told us now Mummy and Daddy pay your way in the world.
Make that “How Mummy and Daddy pay your way in the world.”
This is an old report. Mr Jones died on 18th April, 2016.
http://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/documents/uploaded-documents/2016_04_-_Statement_on_the_death_of_John_RWD_Jones_QC.pdf
Right – but I had never heard about it; and the original US site I linked to indicated it had just happened last Monday.
Be interesting to know how many people who would normally know about these things were in the dark on this one.
Notice Martinned shows his true colours again!
“Notice Martinned shows his true colours again!”
That’s right! Mummy and Daddy shell out so he can “Look for enemies of Iz-ray-el on the web”, but the trouble is when you start looking for enemies, instead of trying to make friends, you sure as hell are guaranteed to find some.
I’m reminded of something said by a US statesman around the late-’40s to early-’50s. Some politician said to a group of other politicians, “Israel is our only friend in the Middle East,” to which our statesman replied, “Before Israel we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
Yes Alan, you’ve told us you are into your second childhood, but is there no limit to your childishness?
Are you too stupid Alcyone, to understand that if you go round searching for enemies, you are bound to find some? Even if you go looking for friends you can end up finding enemies, but then again, no matter what you look for, on occasions you meet the terminally stupid who believe in mumbo jumbo such as that garbage you peddle.
Mick, I like that!
I reported it on here a few days after it happened – but I only knew because I went hunting for news on Mr Jones without the least knowledge that he was dead. J
Yep. I sent it out fairly widely to people who ought to know – I’ll report back when I get slagged off for ‘old news’!
From the CIA Assassination Manual:
`The careless, or the gullible, or the lazy, might be misled into thinking that the link provided by Lysias is somehow a real publication by an official body.
It is, of course, nothing of the sort.
It is to a website called the “Frank Olson Project”, which features the following on its home page as a sort of mission statement if you will:
“My father, Frank Olson, died in November of 1953 under circumstances that remain both obscure and controversial nearly half a century later.
This Internet site is dedicated to exploring those circumstances and the political and ethical issues embedded in them – issues of paramount importance to the maintenance of an open democratic society.
The aim here will be to provide a laboratory for the conversion of the secretive, labyrinthine system that led to my father’s death into the expanding, open network of the Web. I think of this site, therefore, as Frank Olson’s window.
– Eric Olson”
So, far from Lysias’s source being a CIA publication – or even a serious study – it turns out that it is merely one of the thousands of obsessive websites that litter and the www.
Lysias seems to specialise in bringing dubious authors and websites to our attention.
One does have to wonder why.
“One does have to wonder why.”
Because he is searching for truth, unlike you Habbakook.
A facsimile of the CIA document “A Study of Assassination” is to be found in the George Washington University Archive at http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/docs/doc02.pdf . Whatever anyone says, it is a CIA document, released by the CIA on July 12, 1995, as a stamp on the facsimile document informs us..
I physically obtained the A5 blue cheap cardboard (SAS) manuals on alternative-warfare/demolition/gladio in the early 1970s from a neighbor. I shared them with the entire school before I gave them back, (it’s wise not to annoy Hereford). I was able to progress up to page 12 ‘how to build a letter-bomb’ before the prevention of terrorism act POTA 1974 meant that the druggist shop Reynolds & Branson was unable to further supply me with chemicals. There is an entire world out there Habby without the internet.
A “study” of assassinations which, if you read it, consists of suggestions on how to commit a successful assassination.
But at least it’s now admitted that the quoted language comes from the CIA.
Yes, a CIA “study” of assassination, not a “CIA assassination manual”.
I imagine the CIA has done hosts of studies on all sorts of subjects. As have countless academics, researchers, think tanks, govt agencies, parliaments, lobbyists and private individuals of all sorts.
Even a Washington lawyer (allegedly) is aware of the difference (real and implied) between a “study” and a “manual”, surely?
Lysias must stop trying to mislead in this snaky way.
Barbara
“Suicide my Aunt Fanny!”
Was he killed by an Illuminato, a Bilderberger or a Rothschild?
Probably Nat Rothschild pissed off at being usurped by a moslem for the job of Mayor of London?
Ahh f****d up
Zac Goldsmith was the j*w who wanted to be mayor of London
and only one glass of red so far tonight.
Are you answering on behalf of Mr Barbara this evening?
We need your permission to answer on behalf of anybody?
No! We don’t!
One can answer for oneself, thank you very much. (just in case you hadn’t noticed).
Hmmmm, ‘apology’ for a Muslim (‘Uncle Tom’?).
” Was he killed by an Illuminato, a Bilderberger or a Rothschild? ”
Whichever it was an invisible one according to witnesses and CCTV.
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/qc_who_worked_on_julian_assange_case_jumped_in_front_of_west_hampstead_train_after_being_allowed_out_of_private_hospital_1_4664571
reply to establishment machine labelled ‘Kempe’
there’s always the ‘Hobsons choice’ (From Thos. Hobson c1554) i.e. no choice option
he may have had no choice
he had a family
Jones’s antidepression meds had just been changed. That could have deepened his depression, and made him suicidal. We probably can’t prove whether or not the change of meds was intended to produce this result, but it is certainly possible. Starting New Antidepressant Can Make Depression Worse Before It Gets Better.
..or it could have been a HAARP generated mind control ray.
If only he’d worn his tin foil hat…
The guy was a pain in the ass to the PTB – nuff said? Plenty of ways of ‘creating’ probs, from ‘heart attacks’, cancers, you name it – ‘Mickey Finns’, microwave attacks, sudden desires to throw oneself out of a high window (Olsen) or in front of a bus or train (or get a gentle shove?). Suicide, says the MSM, police coroner (but, guv, shooting himself in the back of the head, TWICE, with a gun that doesn’t match the bullets? Piss off, you tin hatted ‘Conspiraloon’!
” We probably can’t prove whether or not the change of meds was intended to produce this result, but it is certainly possible.”
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A splendid example of the Lysias technique……… 🙂
It’s not speculation that Jones’s antidepressant had just been changed. That’s in the Hamhigh article.
Correction: I should have said “A splendid example of one of Lysias’s techniques… 🙂 ”
Another one consists in presenting a link misleadingly (presumably in the expectation that most readers won’t bother to delve into the link?).
A slippery customer.
Hey Habbakook, have you noticed lately that if you do a search on your name it brings up eight plus pages of hits on Craig Murray? Aren’t you the big success story?
ROFLMAO
Lock people up whose dogs kill or even seriously injure other people.
The dog owners are responsible, and people should try and stop them when they are attacking people.
Never forget when a police dog started attacking my beautiful Fresco, and I just tackled it, and it stopped.
Glad to see that Dinah Rose, QC, who represented Assange in Sweden, was not the one killed yesterday by a train.
She is the only child of Barry Rose, my publisher. He was a media guy who would publish stuff outside the box.
Barry died about ten years ago, and I often think of him with fond memories.
Trowbridge, the original US link was wrong – John Jones was ‘suicided’ last April – but I hadn’t heard about it, nor hadtwo friends I told, who are also progressive types.
No problem, Paul.
People get dropped so regularly these days that it’s hard to remember who they at=re, and when it happened.
Think I recall something about a QC Jones back then.
I think you will find that David Rose is the brother of Dinah
The Horrid Cathy Newman – Whom we recall lied about being thrown out of a mosque – in Hostile Form as Ch 4 show their true colours – anti Corbyn –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-abpv9tPca4&feature=youtu.be
” Whom we recall lied about being thrown out of a mosque”
Any source for that please Brian?
Alcy
Here is one of the pages I looked at Re C. Newman
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/05/cathy-newman-mosque_n_6620026.html
Habbabkuk
August 18, 2016 at 20:35
“May I take that to mean that none of the Loquacious Ones are attending this year?
Perhaps they do not wish to be seen?”
……………………………………………………………………..
So you’re not coming up with your hidden cameras this year Habbabkuk?
Not in person, Doug, so you can leave off that false goatee and the shades.
Let me guess; Jim is covering as he is noticeable by his absence lately?
Government austerity to blame for 30% rise in homelessness, says parliamentary committee.
Nevermind, I’m sure those thousands of people sleeping in cardboard boxes in the doorways of Marks & Spencers will take great comfort in the knowledge, that Westminster is preparing to spend billions renewing WMD’s.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/homelessness-austerity-government-to-blame-for-30-rise-in-homelessness-says-parliamentary-committee-a7195981.html
“Russia kicked Soros out of the country last year for good reasons. It was Soros who helped ruin the Russian and Polish economy in the early 1990s. Like the great white shark who can forcibly copulate with a female, Soros moves around and looks for his prey virtually everywhere. Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone said of Goldman Sachs six years ago”
Soros claims that Putin is a bigger threat to Europe than ISIS, it appears to me that Soros and his neocon buddies are desperate to remove Putin and get a firm grasp on the Russian economy.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/17/vladimir-putin-to-george-soros-thank-god-we-kicked-you-out-of-russia/
My friends who grew up in the extended Soviet Union (not inside Russia) were told that *many British people* lived inside cardboard boxes under railway sidings/Marks& Spencer shops. It was an example of the outrageous Soviet state propaganda untruths at the time. My friends were sensible, listened secretly (with real danger) to foreign radio broadcasts, briefed their children NEVER to tell the truth about what happened at home, to their ‘nice’ teachers – as the teachers regularly checked & asked the kids for info. They watched Finnish TV an became aware. One of my soviet friends from Sverdlovsk Oblast cried in the late 90’s when I showed her Harrods. “They lied,” she sobbed, uncontrollably.
The shock for me, aware of both sides, is that I never expected the UK to become the lying state, broadcasting biased propaganda, newspapers completely screwed, perverting the teachers, starting/supporting illegal pointless wars. YES, energy security is important. Sort it out using planning, economics & physics. Less sh!t & bombs please, don’t listen to the security squirrels, at least, not all the time.
YKMN.
The Western press let out a collective outcry recently when Sputnik, began broadcasting radio in Edinburgh, the lateral thinking ran along the lines of Putin’s mouthpiece in Scotland, to an extent it’s true.
However the BBC’s World Service broadcasts 24/7 in 31 languages all over the world, it’s a bit like the tea pot calling the kettle black.
The BBC World Service was once called the BBC Empire Service, it is funded by the Westminster FCO department, and is 100% a Westminster propaganda machine, the worlds biggest.
They sh*t themselves when the first ‘Sputnik’ started beeping! One would have thought they would have ‘Got over it’ by now!
And to add to my ‘useful’ bulk personal dataset could I please inform the team that I worked with picture number three on the left of this list for several years!
Context is everything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_dissidents
A new report, whose release last month coincided with the 12th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, attempts to draw attention to civilian and combatant casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet the study, authored by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and other humanitarian groups, barely elicited a whisper in the media. Washington’s preoccupation with the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other regional conflicts has largely obscured the humanitarian, economic and political toll of its “war on terrorism.”
The report estimates that at least 1.3 million people have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan from direct and indirect consequences of the U.S. “war on terrorism.” One million people perished in Iraq alone, a shocking 5 percent of the country’s population. The staggering civilian toll and the hostility it has engendered erodes the myth that the sprawling “war on terrorism” made the U.S. safer and upheld human rights, all at an acceptable cost.
http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/body-count.pdf
I sincerely apologize to all my former teachers for all the wrong words I used on my papers and exams.
I should have graduated summa cum lousy.
And I’m sure I’m going nuts these days.
What utterly amazing good news, the U.k. is certainly not dysfunctional, today.
Rio Olympics 2016: GB’s Nick Skelton wins show jumping gold with a broken neck at the age of 58
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36691138
Team G.B. has TEN GOLD MEDALS
more than any other European country
so how dysfunctional is that you U.K. haters?
Wow, how you equate the dis-United Kingdom winning more “gold” medals, with being less dysfunctional than our European neighbours is one assumption I’d like to read the answer to.
Go on Michael lets see the answer, bearing in mind that Scotland is on verge of holding a second indyref, Norther Ireland and the Republic of Ireland don’t yet know what kind of border they’ll have. Westminster is spending billions on nukes, yet homelessness has risen 30% (see my comment above).
The Tories, haven’t a clue as to when to trigger article 50, Labour are in meltdown, and the LibDems are well, insignificant. I’m only scraping the tip of the iceberg.
” bearing in mind that Scotland is on verge of holding a second indyref”
Are they? When is it going to be?
Before the last referendum the SNP told us they had legal advice that an independent Scotland would automatically retain membership of the EU. They lied. They then spend £20,000 of tax payer’s money fighting a FOI request to try and hide the fact they lied before finally admitting they had no such advice.
Then today, after another FOI request it is revealed they knew damned well an independent Scotland would definitely not retain EU membership and the President of the EU had refused to even discuss the matter with them.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/702058/Sturgeon-told-Scots-they-could-join-the-EU-despite-Brussels-telling-her-THIS
Go on then, call your referendum.
In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the USSR came in first, with 55 gold medals and 132 medals in all. Second was East Germany, with 37 gold medals and 102 medals in all. The U.S. was only third, with 36 gold medals and 94 medals in all. The UK was 12th, with 5 gold medals and 24 medals in all.
there were rather a lot of chemicals/growth hormones and everything groovey happening in those far off days!
My point was that the fact that a country can win lots of Olympic medals most definitely does not imply that it cannot collapse tomorrow.
MN, whoever you are, computer of human living somewhere warm in the EU
we typically do not ‘hate the UK’
rather its a case of surprise that what we accused the enemy of a few decades ago, we recognise that our dear blightly is up to the same tricks now, but of course slightly improved due to modern technology, but of course slightly worse as they (the old old enemy) are fundamentally better at chess than we are/were/will be (it seems)
not hate! cuddles (sorry)
warporn for those professionally or amatorially interested
https://youtu.be/0NF0njeYQKA
(high speed expensive technical pointy things launched allegedly in the direction of al Nusra front in Syria)
UK Navy would obviously like to post similar videos except A) we’re all on holiday in Gib & Ayia Napa, B) we can’t afford to launch the hardware – these cruise things cost one point two hospitals per launch dont ya know; crowdsource our anti-putin drive on , perhaps.
Better not be all on Gib, it’d sink!
. . . (eaten by HTML5) . . . perhaps “[email protected]”
Craig has mentioned that nobody “reads the comments” so this following typing is irrelevant
Dysfunctional UK:
Lord Carlile (former reviewer of terrorism legislation) co-owned a consultancy, “SC Strategy,” with the former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, a newspaper in a moment of clarity mentioned that the pair had received £800,000 from their consultancy over the last three years! Lord Carlile has rejected claims that this was the reason for his surprisingly strong support for the State’s surveillance activities, claiming: “Our business relationship developed for reasons totally unconnected with Sir John having been chief of MI6.”
YCNMIU!
now we are talking about in the UK , simply Bulk personal datasets, Bulk personal datasets the passport register, the electoral register, the telephone directory and [other] data about individuals . . . are acquired through both overt and covert channels
(these are useful) and being acquired as we type. . . .
and
Bulk equipment interference Equipment interference is the term used to refer to the UK & many-many partners’ aggressive hacking activities
anyway an investigation published today revealed and warned that there was not yet a proven operational case for “bulk equipment interference.” sorry, GCHQ knows best!
Julie Webster, founder of the Maryhill food bank, featured here:
http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-states-revenge/
Has been arrested and charged with fraud.
http://m.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14689801.Maryhill_foodbank_founder_arrested_and_charged_with_fraud/
Yup, I say let’s ban all food banks, and don’t worry about stepping over dead and dying people on our way to zero hour contract work each morning.
Yes, why not? The dead and dying could then be recycled into Soylent Green to feed us all.
Quorn is bad enough, we don’t need the sustainable green sci-fi food to survive!
Fraud, however, is when an average human is near to a stream of wealth, without the necessary royal training. The NZ two who’s bank a/c suddenly accidentally went positive by several million (NZ$) are still missing, whilst the best-man who recently collected just 8 grand (8£K) for the stag-do & spent it on sweeties has been caught (dailymail)
Recently, I was asked to contribute a big bag of rice for the “Syrian” refugees – stuck at a certain block point within the greater EU?
I’d rather fund a uk food bank with Asda Whoopsies – but you have to do what you can – what would you offer? Rice/tea/children’s food/feminine hygiene products/zero-day exploits?
“..don’t worry about stepping over dead and dying people on our way to zero hour contract work each morning”
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“Our” way, Rob?
.As a matter of interest, when did YOU last step over a dead or dying person on your way anywhere?
It’s time to be NICE (Not In Conflict with Everyone), so…
I have a confession to make: I have long had an affectation for a certain poster here, who I will just call ‘H’.
H makes me tremble with his incredible knowledge and wisdom – it’s such that he never needs to give a link to back up anything he says – and my willowy eyes get even more willowy when H explains how noble and correct the State always is, and we should never under any circumstances question it.
Gosh, I’m so shy, but will try to overcome that when I say that I love H and I want to bear his children, so that we can have a new and stronger state that…
*cue the sound of a needle scratching across a vinyl record*
Mods, I know that Mr Murray is probably rat arsed behind a bar in Scotland at the moment, and Mr Murray – for very good reasons – is terrified of these security service a-holes; but I’m not terrified of them, and perhaps I should be allowed to call a spade a spade?
Just a thought.
H alone has sent Craig’s website right up in the rankings. Just search on his name and you get a million hits on Craig Murray. It’s a miracle – honest!
I think you know full well that Craig is not ‘quaking in his boots’ over our ‘Security Services’: he has encountered them before (an induced ‘life-threatening’ illness on his way back to Uzbekistan, against official displeasure), and various ‘confrontations’ with Uzbek ‘Security Forces’ (read his book, ‘Murder in Samarkand’ if you haven’t already – f*cking good read).
Rat-arsed? Not unlikely!
Talking about ‘spades’, how are we gonna cope with a Lesbian Luciferian?
Paul, for the record, I didn’t mean to infer that Craig is in any way a coward. Craig is quite the opposite, and has every reason to be scared of the spooks, because Craig is high profile.
Unlike me, a z-list celebrity, which means that I can steam into the spooks with little fear of being bumped-off.
By ‘Lesbian Luciferian’ I presume you’re referring to Herr Hillary? Hmm, nothing’s going to happen during the Olympics, but in the months after the Olympics I wouldn’t dare to predict what might take place.
We live in absolutely crazy times.
Women G.B. Hockey Team win GOLD
U.K. not that disfunctional
but I do not expect the Scottish gingers to be happy, in fact they will be livid that Team G.b. are doing so well
Sì, Gingers in Écosse are “UK when winning,” “Scottish” when UK is performing normally (= “abysmally”) but luckily it seems these clever Britishers have focused on the ‘lympics to the exclusion of less important european championships, confusing the Confuciosisns. . .
The hilarious “EU wins 256 medals” that you published earlier would only be true if US states had 2 top athletes each competing.
UK is still in EU till around 2020 or forever based on Theresas’ seeming preferences
Galloway is much harder than I would be, and Galloway doesn’t explain the immigration issue very well (because Galloway et al are terrified of criticising corporate America). A 15 minute excerpt from a few years ago, from George Galloway’s show on TalkRadio…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meWlEpK8Il0
The number of people killed when a lorry ploughed into crowds in the French city of Nice on 14 July has risen to 86.
A French government official said a man who had been injured in the attack on the Promenade des Anglais died of his injuries.
The man, who has not been named, leaves behind a wife and two children.
The attack, which has been claimed by so-called Islamic State, was carried out by a Tunisian man living in France.
Eighty-three people died on the night of the attack on Bastille Day and three have since died in hospital of injuries sustained when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry into celebrating crowds.
Among the dead were 10 children and teenagers.
bbc
So where’s all the news media coverage of the funerals?
Why aren’t there a huge number of news interviews with the loved ones of those killed?
Etc, etc, etc.
How people can fall for this crap is beyond me.
A-big-white-lorry, without not a speck of blood on it.
Shots of some bodies covered with sheets, whereas if they’d really been hit by a big-white-lorry there’d be blood and entrails all over the road, non?
I think Disney have now been contracted to stage these false flags.
That’s BS RobG – every time we go through it. I produced plenty of links showing lots of damage to that lorry, so that gore-porn freaks like you could beat off to it. Every time, you lot slink off and just don’t want to discuss it for some reason.
Then up you pop again, denying that any such evidence exists (that you ignored in plenty last time around), and we’re off to the races again.
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To remind you. Look at these pictures:
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/nice-truck-attack-750×400.jpg
http://www.vocfm.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Bastille-Day-nice-attack.jpg
https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/ad_212985196.jpg?w=748&h=468&crop=1
https://newsnation1.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2016/07/16/345292467-Nice-truck-attack_6.jpg
http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/1040424/category_article_update_img.jpg
https://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article8427068.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Lorry-Attack-Aftermath-Nice.jpg
http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/incoming/2016/07/15/nice-truck-reuters5.jpg/RESIZED/bigResize/Nice+truck+Reuters5.jpg
http://media2.abc2news.com/photo/2016/07/15/16×9/84_dead__hundreds_wounded_in_Nice_attack_2_42476692_ver1.0_640_480.jpg
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nice-attack-hero-motorcyclist-reveals-how-he-threw-himself-onto-truck-to-try-to-stop-killer-a7144326.html
And you don’t see any damage, huh?
https://media2.abc2news.com/photo/2016/07/15/16×9/84_dead__hundreds_wounded_in_Nice_attack_2_42476692_ver1.0_640_480.jpg
Fascinating.
glenn_uk, every one of your links (some of which don’t work) just proves what I’m saying.
The Nice ‘attack’ is a blatant false flag.
I repeat, show me the funerals of any of the 85 alleged victims.
Show me the large number of eye-witnesses that there would have been at an event like this.
And of course show me the huge amount of mobile phone and security camera footage that there would be if it was a real event.
You think someone wants to upload videos of a loved one’s funeral to youtube, for the entertainment of the likes of yourself? Seriously?
In fairness, some of those old links I reproduced don’t work anymore. But in more fairness, it wouldn’t be hard to find others.
And how can we know if anybody claimed it? When these phony events are claimed by the target bad-guy it’s just the progression of the big lie. But it suits bigots to say it was claimed, in the same way they knew the Blair government was lying about WMD when they just wanted war, and since it turned out very badly they claim they were lied to. All BS.
He certainly ‘socked it to’ the Congress on a previous occasion – so I don’t quite agree with you.
There was three and a half minute of whooping and screaming gold this morning on radio 4’s tub thumping program ‘massage and balm the Brexit away’.
Maybe you should record it in a loop Michael put it on your iphone when you next go out and shake your gonads on your BMX.
PS when is your 18th. birthday?
No “bedroom tax” for these benefit scroungers:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3749679/Through-KP-keyhole-Eugenie-s-moving-Kensington-Palace-Wills-Harry-Kate-shares-pile-Diana-hated.html
Dysfunctional United Kingdom indeed!
French authorities report ‘spectacular’ rise in Calais migrant camp population
and they all want to come to the United Kingdom
http://www.france24.com/en/20160819-france-calais-spectacular-increase-migrants-refugees-jungle-camp
i expect it is all because we were colonialists
but let them all come, the more the merrier let them cut off our heads in the name of Islam.
Yes, it’s obvious, the ‘spectacular’ rise in Calais migrant camp population is because they are all coming to get you: Da Da DAH!
ISIS is coming to get you. London has fallen, etc, etc.
Meanwhile, our vermin politicians just laugh at the likes of you, because you are so easily manipulated.
You’re a great humanitarian, aren’t you, Rob?
And you recently said that business was bad.
Have you considered offering accomodation to a couple of the Calais camp people at your gite ?
They could repay you by doing odd jobs around the place, thus leaving you more time to drink and “comment”.
And your French neighbours would admire you greatly for your practical gesture.
IMPORTANT!
If you are a Labour supporter of Jeremy Corbyn you need to be very careful that you can register your vote. As a former technical author and proof-reader certain things stand out a mile (yes, I make mistakes on this blog). It would seem that most of Jeremy’s supporters are going to get their ballot papers sent to the Junk folder of there emails. Those of us who have coughed up twenty five quid but did not join the party before January get the message (and I have copied this:
“You’re eligible
Your ballot will arrive via email by the end of August. The subject line of the email will be “VOTE NOW: Labour Leadership Election” and the email will come from labourelections@ electoralreform.co.uk. To avoid any chance that this goes to your junk folder you should add this address to your contacts.”
Of course, if you copy it from this text (the easy way) it is useless. The space after the @ sign means you will receive no notification whatsoever. Be vigilant. I doubt this is a genuine error. To avoid problems the address should be I presume: [email protected]
You don’t need to do anything unless your email has changed since signing-up, in which case let us know if your details have changed.
their emails
Be vigilant. I doubt this is a genuine error. To avoid problems the address should be I presume: [email protected]
Well Said John
Now then ye see, Great minds think alike… Watch the Hawks
Earlier i mused at Why now, and Who, gets to decide when war tots are ok for the MSM..
Here ‘ Watching the Hawks’ are asking the very same thing –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy52tRqQuSo
Ooops forgot to say that my point is matched in the first two mins.
It’s a good question being asked. Why haven’t all the other hundreds of kids killed or maimed in western-funded wars – Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine, Palestine, Somalia and elsewhere – been given prime-time coverage on MSM. Does nobody know what happens when a drone strikes?
I was also disappointed to find out just yesterday that those like us who stumped up the £25 to vote can only vote by e-mail and not by post which is reserved by members who joined before January. I just don’t trust them not to rig it but I have no choice but to vote electronically or not vote at all. If they had made the e-vote clear from the start I would seriously have considered not bothering, so if nothing else it has earned them a large sum of money by being economical with the truth..
I have no reason to trust electronic voting, since that is what got George W. Bush elected when he actually lost the election (source: Presidential Puppetry, Andrew Kreig). However I think you should use your vote. It would be good to know who the software producer is for the electronic electoral voting system.
It has reached a sad state of affairs when western countries, so critical of poor African countries’ elections, under so much suspicion themselves these days.
The email I received does not have the gap you speak of, so maybe it’s been corrected.
Hopefully it has John. I doubt though I was targeted alone. 🙂
Perhaps no one was targeted, Mr Goss, and it’s just your Soviet-style paranoia surfacing again?
Can you still have soviet paranoia
seeing as how The U.S.S.R. went down the pan a quarter of a century ago?
“soviet-style”, I wrote. Can’t you read?
@ Republicofscotland August 19, 2016 at 19:27
“Russia kicked Soros out of the country last year for good reasons. It was Soros who helped ruin the Russian and Polish economy in the early 1990s. Like the great white shark who can forcibly copulate with a female, Soros moves around and looks for his prey virtually everywhere. Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone said of Goldman Sachs six years ago”
Soros claims that Putin is a bigger threat to Europe than ISIS, it appears to me that Soros and his neocon buddies are desperate to remove Putin and get a firm grasp on the Russian economy.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/17/vladimir-putin-to-george-soros-thank-god-we-kicked-you-out-of-russia/ ‘
Putin: How America checkmated Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpf2H8lIZjs
Vladimir Putin to George Soros: Thank God we kicked you out of Russia:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/17/vladimir-putin-to-george-soros-thank-god-we-kicked-you-out-of-russia/
“George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, political activist and author who is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry and holds dual citizenship. He drives more than 50 global and regional programs and foundations. Soros is named an architect and a sponsor of almost every revolution and coup around the world for the last 25 years. The USA is thought to be a vampire due to him and his puppets, not a lighthouse of freedom and democracy. His minions spill blood of millions and millions of people just to make him even more rich. Soros is an oligarch sponsoring the Democratic party, Hillary Clinton, hundreds of politicians all over the world. This website is designed to let everyone inside George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and related organisations. We present you the workplans, strategies, priorities and other activities of Soros. These documents shed light on one of the most influential network operating worldwide.”
http://soros.dcleaks.com/
@ Habbabkuk August 19, 2016 at 20:22
`The careless, or the gullible, or the lazy, might be misled into thinking that the link provided by Lysias is somehow a real publication by an official body.
It is, of course, nothing of the sort.
It is to a website called the “Frank Olson Project”, which features the following on its home page as a sort of mission statement if you will:
“My father, Frank Olson, died in November of 1953 under circumstances that remain both obscure and controversial nearly half a century later.
This Internet site is dedicated to exploring those circumstances and the political and ethical issues embedded in them – issues of paramount importance to the maintenance of an open democratic society.
The aim here will be to provide a laboratory for the conversion of the secretive, labyrinthine system that led to my father’s death into the expanding, open network of the Web. I think of this site, therefore, as Frank Olson’s window.
– Eric Olson”
So, far from Lysias’s source being a CIA publication – or even a serious study – it turns out that it is merely one of the thousands of obsessive websites that litter and the www.
Talk about ‘blowback’! Don’t get me started! https://www.amazon.com/Hit-List-Depth-Investigation-Assassination/dp/1620878070
But the Olson site quotes the CIA’s document “A Study of Assassination”, and the language I cited occurs in that document. If you look at the link to the facsimile of the CIA document which I provided just below my original posting with the quote, you will find the same language in it. It’s the CIA’s language.
Of course it’s the CIA’s language – because it’s the CIA’s study.
Duh!
Someone seems to have forgotten that he was saying yesterday was not the CIA’s, and thought he could duscredit it by saying it came fron the Olson site.
Well, our Washington friend’s link was to the Olson website although one would not have guessed that from reading our friend’s title for the link (“CIA assassination manual”).
But be that as it may, perhaps our Washington friend might care to focus on why he misleadingly called a CIA study a CIA “manual” for its operatives?
(Notice, by the way, how our friend is now referring to a “document” (12h39) or, with a little grammatical violence, just calling it “it” (18h19).
He’s not much good, is he 🙂
I’m not sure whether it’s in the book you cite or in a different book, but I believe I remember Belzer citing the CIA Assassination Manual, and I think he gives it that title. In any case, we should not be fooled by the title the document gives itself, “A Study in Assassination”, into thinking it is not an assassination manual, because that is precisely what it is: a how-to book on how to assassinate.
I have provided a link above to a facsimile of the CIA document, and anyone who wishes can check the veracity of my description of the document.
“In any case, we should not be fooled by the title the document gives itself, “A Study in Assassination”,”
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As we should not be fooled by by your claim that a study written by the CIA is really a manual instructing CIA operatives how to carry out assassinations.
The onus is on you to show – convincingly – that the document is not indeed a study on how assassinations could be carried out by anyone and any organisation (and indeed were by the Soviets and their associated Eastern European secret services – remember the poison-tipped umbrella used to kill exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London?).
As I have said before thousands of studies are produced every year by many people and organisations on thousands of matters.
Anyone who doubts that it’s a CIA how-to book has only to follow the link to the facsimile, and judge for himself.
Next we’ll be being told that the CIA does not have a history of conducting assassinations.
“Anyone who doubts that it’s a CIA how-to book has only to follow the link to the facsimile, and judge for himself.”
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What a weighty piece of argument 🙂
Out of interest : would our American friend consider(for example) that a study on paedophilia and the whiles used by paedophiles to ensnare children is really a how-to manual for paedophiles?
Should have been : “..the wiles used by paedophiles..”
“Next we’ll be being told that the CIA does not have a history of conducting assassinations.”
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This is yet another example of Lysias’s techniques.
Methinks thou dost protest too much!
@ Kempe August 19, 2016 at 20:37
” Was he killed by an Illuminato, a Bilderberger or a Rothschild? ”
Whichever it was an invisible one according to witnesses and CCTV.
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/qc_who_worked_on_julian_assange_case_jumped_in_front_of_west_hampstead_train_after_being_allowed_out_of_private_hospital_1_4664571
Hmmmm. – ‘CCTV footage of the death was not played to the court because coroner Mary Hassell said she thought it would be “too distressing” but that she had watched it, and was satisfied that “nobody else was involved”. …’
Yep, lest we see something we ought not to, official CCTV always seems to be ‘not working’ (London 7/7 – NOT ONE pic of any of the ‘so called’ ,Muslim tewowists’ on ANY Underground station, or Underground train; a bus that had been ‘extensively’ worked on the previous weekend (by a strange, unknown to bus staff group (yeh, you try to follow that up)), with THREE CCTV cameras on board, ALL OF WHICH ‘FAILED’; Princess Di (CCTV ‘Not working’ – even though minutes before a French driver had been caught speeding on the same cameras; Nice – Frog govt. ORDER Nice authorities to WIPE all CCTV pics of ‘Tewowist’ Islamic truck driver ‘ploughing through’ revellers (lots of ‘bodies’ under blankets, etc. – none seem to be ‘squashed’ – like they would be if run over by a truck) – Nice refused order – still awaiting developments on that one – hope the woman police officer isn’t so ‘depressed’ she ‘commits suicide’ like the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ police officer.
Oh, and ‘Ham & High’? Not the same ‘Ham & High’ that gloried in ridiculing the people exposing a possible case of SRA?
I wonder if coroner Mary Hassell is related to the French judge who categorically REFUSED to allow the parents of Henri Paul to have a blood sample said to be from their son, for private analysis?
NEXT?????????
“Hmmmm. – ‘CCTV footage of the death was not played to the court because coroner Mary Hassell said she thought it would be “too distressing” but that she had watched it, and was satisfied that “nobody else was involved”. …’
Yep, lest we see something we ought not to, official CCTV always seems to be ‘not working’..”
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I fear you are guilty of conflating two different things here, Barbara. Re-read carefully.
Don’t forget the train driver! He saw Jones leap from the platform edge; or at least says he did.
He must be a lizard too!!
@ YKMN August 19, 2016 at 21:21
‘I physically obtained the A5 blue cheap cardboard (SAS) manuals on alternative-warfare/demolition/gladio in the early 1970s from a neighbor. I shared them with the entire school before I gave them back, (it’s wise not to annoy Hereford). I was able to progress up to page 12 ‘how to build a letter-bomb’ before the prevention of terrorism act POTA 1974 meant that the druggist shop Reynolds & Branson was unable to further supply me with chemicals. There is an entire world out there Habby without the internet.’
In the ’50’s, being a precocious little git, I learnt how to make nitro from the encyclopedia; I was a regular customer in various chemists, where I could obtain 3d or 6d packets of virtually any chemical on earth, to say nothing of bottles of Nitric, Sulphuric or Hydrochloric acid (and I was about ten years old!!!!). And, yep, I didn’t have the internet, and (just a sec, there’s a banging on the door – I’ll just go and see who it is – …………………………………………………………………………………
@ michael norton August 19, 2016 at 20:18
‘Probably Nat Rothschild pissed off at being usurped by a moslem for the job of Mayor of London?’
See what (brother?) Nick Rockefeller told Aaron Russo in 2000 – ‘Alex Jones Interviews Aaron Russo’ (Full Length) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3NA17CCboA (Tres interresant , n’est pas?) – there is a longer version, made after Aaron’s death (RIP – bloody good man), but this one should be watched first.
When you’re in a hole, stop digging????
there are no such thing as tame grouse..land reform is not like buying a bag of chips ..it will take decades to implement . Chinless wonders there are for sure but the author knows little of his subject..
‘Rottweiler savaged by pair of grouse – ‘read all about it’ in next week’s exciting episode!!!
@ Alan August 19, 2016 at 19:22
‘A new report, whose release last month coincided with the 12th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, attempts to draw attention to civilian and combatant casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yet the study, authored by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and other humanitarian groups, barely elicited a whisper in the media. Washington’s preoccupation with the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other regional conflicts has largely obscured the humanitarian, economic and political toll of its “war on terrorism.”
The report estimates that at least 1.3 million people have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan from direct and indirect consequences of the U.S. “war on terrorism.” One million people perished in Iraq alone, a shocking 5 percent of the country’s population. The staggering civilian toll and the hostility it has engendered erodes the myth that the sprawling “war on terrorism” made the U.S. safer and upheld human rights, all at an acceptable cost.
http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/body-count.pdf ‘
‘500,000 kids dead? well, we think it’s worth it’ (paraphrasing slightly) – but that was just under 6 years old kids, and after that they stopped counting. Other estimates, including over 6’s, come around the one million mark. Her’s ICH’s count of totals:
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq “1,455,590”
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,801
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,487
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,707,476,791,403
Almost certainly underestimated, I reckon.
In the ’80’s-’90’s, I campaigned for East Timor; probably best estimate 200,000 +, though estimates go up to 300,000. Around a THIRD of the population. But no one knows (God knows, and the guilty WILL pay); people not only don’t know. they often play with the figures of deaths (yes, ‘something’ does spring to mind!).
Whoops! I forgot to put in the link to above ICH quote:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
@ Paul. Back when I was campaigning I used to read a blog called “Sleepless in Sudan” https://sleeplessinsudan.blogspot.co.uk/
“Sleepless” was moved elsewhere in 2006.
This week TruePublica posted this
http://truepublica.org.uk/global/un-peacekeepers/
which shows that nothing much has changed in 14 years of “peacekeeping”.