Allowed HTML - you can use: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

813 thoughts on “Forget Blairite Propaganda. Sierra Leone was not Blair’s “Good War”.”

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  • michael norton

    hypocrisy

    The Scottish government has been accused of double standards over its stance on fracking.

    Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said the SNP administration had “leapt on its high horse” over shale gas extraction in Scotland.

    But she claimed it had turned a blind eye to gas that was shipped to Scotland after being fracked abroad.

    First Minister Ms. Nicola Sturgeon insisted the government was taking a cautious, evidence-based approach to the issue.
    Weasel words.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-37504945

    • Rob Royston

      Importing oil never halted at Grangemouth even in the most productive yeas of Scottish Oil production. There is no necessary link between the Upstream and Downstream oil activities. Scotland can frack it’s land based resource when it needs to. It does not need to at present.

  • Republicofscotland

    Listening to reports from the Ministry of Truth aka the BBC, that the war in Syria, is a civil one. One might be forgiven for believing that Syrians are at each others throats, they aren’t and war is not a civil one.

    The UN Peace Council representatives, which is a made up of a group of diverse people, paid their own way to Syria, to speak with the Syrian people. The council found that Syrians aren’t fighting each other, and that the people they spoke to said that Syrians are united, whether they be Sunni or Shia (Alawite Assad).

    The council also remarked that the Assad leadership, carried universal healthcare for all. The council was also told by the Syrian people that education was free, though one young Syrian complained that a full university tuition cost $50 dollars. What does it cost in England £9000 a year? For uni, I’m not sure.

    For those of you who missed the UN Peace Council’s report, which shows Syrian under Assad, in a completely different light, to that of the Western media’s accounts.

    Here it is again.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=c8JppJyVxYU

  • Republicofscotland

    So Donald Trump, who has stayed reasonably quiet on the Israel, Palestine front, has finally run his colours up the flag pole, well according to one of his top aides, he has.

    David Freidman, has hinted that Trump, wouldn’t have a problem with it, if Israel went on to annex parts of the West Bank. Friedman added that even if Israel annexed the whole of the West Bank (if Israel felt it was necessary ) then Trump would lend support to Israel.

    Freidman, called into question, the Palestinian peoples right to the land in the West Bank, he then added, in a demeaning way in my opinion, do we actually know how many Palestinians live their.

    In my opinion, it won’t matter which one of the two unworthy candidates, becomes POTUS, the oppressed people of Palestine, who’ve seen most of their country violentlt usurped, as the world timidly watches from the sidelines will suffer further after November’s election in the United States.

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-trump-aid-hed-back-israeli-annexations-in-west-bank/

    • nevermind

      Thanks to Hewlet Packards ID system used at roadblocks to identify west bank Palestinians who have lived there for hundreds of years just as in Jerusalem, used also in their prison and detention system, they know exactly how many Palestinians there are and were they live.

      Freidmann sounds like he has worked for this outcome somehow defending such a stupid and uneducated position of a rather dim man posing as presidential material.
      Americans have no choice between these two candidates but they could easily drop both of them for a far more clued up Jill Stein.

      • Republicofscotland

        “Freidmann sounds like he has worked for this outcome ”

        _______

        Nevermind.

        Well lets look at it, if Israel had any serious intentions of a two state solution, then it would’ve probably come to fruition by now. However in Israels defence I’m not sure that the Palestinian people would agree to it anyway.

        So where do both parties go from there? In my opinion Israel’s path is clear to absorb as much as possible of the West Bank. If I were Israeli, that would be my plan to weaken a potential enemy, by taking their lands.

        • nevermind

          There is not much one could add, except the one state dimension, which in my view should be adopted by the UN. The Oslo accord is clearly dead, its viability was never guaranteed and why should it when Palestinian interests remain all over Palestine, not just in the enclaves into which they were allocated into by armed force.

          Israel has to choose whether it wants to carry on playing these supremacist games with those who they once lived in peace with, indeed for far far longer than the decades they are chased round the middle east and forcibly settled/unsettled, whichever way Zionismns supporters decided, in which case it will be seen and regarded as a pariah by far more countries than at present, a pirate state that steals land from others and uses depopulation of Palestinians as a lever to colonise.

          Or it can sit around the table and speak of stopping all further planned settlements, or completion with the help of Palestinians as a place were all can live. Roadblocks should be dismantled, however much grieve one expects from revenge attacks. Palestine always was a land for Jews and Palestinians alike, hundreds of years of peaceful cooperation and the original Balfour declaration stands, with all its egalitarian aims and objectives. Israel can live side by side with Palestinians, but those parties that preach totalitarian division and Apartheid with ever grander infrastructure projects, dividing the country into parcels of hell and hope, that has to come to an end. Hamas has to sit at the table and act in unity with Fatah, but all parties there should realise that their future is together, but that both of their children would grow up better in a peaceful environment than in an Apartheid state that is lead by wrong un’s, very wrong un’s

    • Old Mark

      But they won’t annex it RoS, beyond perhaps those areas now enclosed by the separation wall- which arguably have already undergone a de facto annexation.

      A larger scale annexation of the parts of the West Bank would involve either-

      allowing the Palestinians in the annexed parts to stake some sort of claim to israeli citizenship (thereby increasing further the ‘existential demographic threat’ to Israel as a J*wish state

      or
      the expulsion of said Palestinian inhabitants (which would be the final nail in the coffin to the ‘but Israel is the only democracy in the MidEast’ line so beloved by Israel’s foreign admirers)

      Thus it won’t happen-even if President Trump were to give it the US seal of approval.

    • Mick McNulty

      US spokesman John Kirby said Russia might find Islamists killing Russians in Russian cities, but we all know ISIS baboons are controlled and given battle orders by the United States of Atrocity. So Kirby made a direct terrorist threat against Russia. What a despicable lowlife.

      • lysias

        The Chechens were already secretly supported by the U.S. in their rebellions. The Tsarnayev brothers were left free to do the Boston Marathon bombings despite Russian warnings because they were Chechens at least one of whom was involved with Chechen militancy.

  • Republicofscotland

    So not content, with stealing Palestinian land the Israeli’s are now selling gas from fields in the Mediterranean, that belong either to Palestine or Lebanon.

    However there could be a twist in the tail for the usurpers, Israel through an American energy firm have signed a deal to sell the gas to Jordan. But the people of Jordan want nothing to do with the Israeli gas.

    Unrest over the matter is quickly escalating according to this report.

    I wonder what our resident apologists, feels about Russia’s involvement with Israel.

    On 19 October 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed, to allow major concessions for Gazprom to develop the Leviathan reserves.

    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/jordanians-demand-scrapping-10-billion-gas-deal-israel?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=c769768d7a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-c769768d7a-299185473

  • Doug Scorgie

    Macky September 28, 2016 at 18:55

    “A reminder of another time when the worry was terrorists from the Middle East coming to Europe to carry-out attacks”
    ………………………………………………………………………….

    It appears that the release of these files has not been covered by the UK media as far as I can tell from searching the net.
    Censorship by omission?

    I also note that these files were released on the 28th September – the same day that Shimon Peres died but surely that’s a coincidence.

  • RobG

    Quote: “Aid can’t get in, but stories can get out. The Guardian used Skype and WhatsApp to speak with residents about life under siege”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/stories-from-inside-aleppo-it-feels-like-we-are-in-prison

    It makes you wonder why the Guardian can’t use Skype and WhatsApp to talk to the rebel leaders who are bravely holding out against the evil forces of Assad and Russia, or better still to go and interview the rebel leaders personally, like this guy did…

    http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/09/todenh%C3%B6fer-interview-with-al-nusra-commander-the-americans-stand-on-our-side.html

    • michael norton

      Police in Nice did not stop the truck in the attack in July that killed 86 people, as the vehicle appears to have stalled, according to a French TV program, which also claims the killer actually drove on for four minutes – not 45 seconds, as the authorities had stated.

      The previously known official version was undermined by new revelations by the ‘Quotidien’ program, aired on France’s TMC channel on Thursday night. In the program, journalist Azzeddine Ahmed-Chaouch uncovered the minutes of a police probe into the attack that happened on Bastille Day, July 14, and claimed the lives of 86 people, leaving a further 434 injured.

      Russia Today

        • michael norton

          Sharp Ears, I have posted that for the benefit of Rob, who thinks it was a conspiracy by President Francois to get himself re-elected

          • RobG

            Michael, just for the record, I’ve never said that the Nice attack was some kind of conspiracy by president Hollande to get himself re-elected.

            Hollande is history, the most unpopular president ever in France; that’s why he’s forced through the new employment laws, because he knows he’s got nothing to lose (and Hollande forced through the employment laws because he is in the pay of Washington, like most of these traitorous feckers are).

            Nice was a false flag (or however you want to label it) to advance a political agenda, as were the recent ‘attacks’ in New York state.

            The increasing frequency of these ‘terrorist events’, and how blatant they are, is a terrifying indictment of A) how the ‘deep state’ is now totally out of control, and B) how dumbed-down the populace have become.

          • Republicofscotland

            Good Evening Rob.

            I know you enjoy, classical music, probably as much as I do, so I thought you might like to ,listen to Veracini’s Violin Sonata.

            Veracini was Italian, his family had many members who played the violin, his father was the execption, in that he was a pharmacist, and undertaker.

            Listen to the piano intro, perhaps you may have heard it include in film OST’s, I’m sure I have, but I can’t quite place the film. ?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CFLYrgJjas&app=desktop

          • RobG

            Both videos that Kempe and I linked to were posted on YouTube about two years ago. The video that Kempe links to has more than 21 million views, according to YouTube. The video that I linked to has about 130 views, in two years.

            Beam me up, Scotty…

          • RobG

            Republicofscotland, many thanks for the JaeIn Shin piece (I’ve always loved violin). I’ve listened to it and really liked it, but what’s termed as ‘classical music’ is not something you can always respond to quickly, unlike the totally frivolous pieces that Kempe and I have posted here (frivolous, but still with merit; just a different genre). I’ll get back to you on JaeIn Shin once I’ve had a chance to listen to more of her work.

            So let’s get onto Francis Poulenc, who is much more accessible. Poulenc was a French composer who lived in Paris and died in 1963 shortly after his sixty fourth birthday. A one-time communist and openly gay, Poulenc was a prolific composer who wrote solo piano music, chamber music, film music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet and orchestral music. He’s probably best remembered for his piano pieces. This short, impudent piano waltz is called ‘Valse in c major’, and it perfectly captures the spirit of resistance in German-occupied Paris during World War Two…

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Du3B5diHys

          • RobG

            Alcyone, our half stray cat, who’s called Herricka, hasn’t been around for days, but with all this classical music blasting out from my computer she’s now sitting contently on my desk whilst digesting a mouse.

            Does anyone else find this with cats, that they just love classical music?

          • fwl

            ROS
            Thanks for the link to Verancini’s violin sonata in e minor performed by Jaeln Shin. Fantastic. A few chords on the piano hint at Michel Legrand’s Go Between score. I almost expected her to start playing the violin part.

          • Republicofscotland

            Rob.

            Thank you for that link, it sounded Chopin-esque, but not quite, as enchanting as his Polonaise. ?

            I found the painting rather interesting, it’s in the style of Gustave Callibotte, a Impressionist painter.

          • Republicofscotland

            Fwl.

            Yes, there are definitely similarties, well spotted.

            ______________

            Alcyone

            Karelia Suite, excellent choice, very rousing indeed. ?

          • Alan

            RoS said “I know you enjoy, classical music, probably as much as I do”

            As I attended one of those Grammar Schools Craig hated so much I had the great pleasure of having Professor Harold Nutt, RCM as my music teacher. Do you know what he said to us lowly mortals RoS?

            “As long as a piece of music has just one person who likes it, then it is music,”

            Unlike you pretentious ones RoS. LMAO

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvuoWhTJbPA

      • Alan

        “the vehicle appears to have stalled”

        And?

        Why does this particular incident so occupy your mind in such a manner? Haven’t you any real concerns such as how to pay the mortgage, or the car HP payments, or does the boss think I’m an idiot, or any of those things normal people worry about?

        • Alan

          I mean, surely you were taught elementary road safety at some point in your life? As in, you look left and right before stepping out into the road?

          I mean, somehow this basic training has got me through 65 years on this planet, yet some people seem to have escaped, or avoided, such basic safety training such as don’t walk in the road otherwise you might get run over.

          Walk in the road and you are going to get run over, sooner or later. Live with it, or die attempting to prove otherwise!

          And that is no propaganda; it’s a fact of life!

        • Republicofscotland

          Thank you Mick for that link, it astonising the mentality of the French military, to leave such incriminating evidence is a cave of all places.

          With regards to France and the dubious events of late, I’d say we’ve surpassed Gladio B, and are now rapidly charging through the alphabet heading towards Gladio Z.

          Several ex-CIA operatives have come forward Mick, and admitted that most domestic terrorist event are, false flags, “Strategy of Tension” techniques have been used in Europe, since the Cold War, and possibly even earlier.

          • Kempe

            ” Thank you Mick for that link, it astonising the mentality of the French military, to leave such incriminating evidence is a cave of all places. ”

            Yes quite when they could’ve kept it under lock and key in a secure military base. Obviously put there to be found in a security exercise like the fake bombs at Old Trafford.

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Did Shimon Peres ever do great things, as David Grossman claims in The Guardian?

    All I can think of is ending the goal of a two =state solution with the Palestinians by the Six Day War, and making sure it died with the signers of the Oslo Accords.

    He sure did talk great though.

    • Alcyone

      I saw a woman with a perfect english accent interviewed on Sky news this am. I would not have known she was Palestinian if it weren’t for saying so. She ripped into Peres; I ahve to say she and another short preview of an Israeli, son of a General who apparently worked with Peres, have me convinced that the man was anything BUT of Peace. Particularly not his designs resulting in illegal nukes in the hands of the Israeli governmental scoundrels. There, I’ve said it; now I shall wait for my round of applause. Bastards, their Govt that is. And the lily-livered Saudis, Qataris, Emiratis et al.

          • michael norton

            And the UN warned of “a humanitarian catastrophe” as talks between Washington – which backs some rebel groups – and Moscow appeared to be close to collapse.

            Since the Syrian army operation in Aleppo began over a week ago, Damascus and Moscow have pounded the east with airstrikes, barrel bomb attacks and artillery fire, reportedly killing 216 people, including more than 40 children.

            Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan told Sky News that “proxy wars” in Syria could prolong the conflict.

      • Alcyone

        Where’s my applause?

        Not even from Come September? Not much of Sept left though, it’ll soon be Red October!

      • Habbabkuk

        Alcyone

        “Illegal” nukes – at the time Israel is supposed to have acquired them? Could you tell us which laws (national or international) were allegedly broken at the time Israel allegedly acquired military nuclear technology?

        We must beware of calling “illegal” phenomena which we simply happen to disapprove of.

        • Alcyone

          Morning Habby, I was thinking of the NPT, but you know history is not my strong point at all, so am happy to stand corrected. A little bit of poetic licence perhaps!

          But aren’t they ‘illegal’ as of today? Educate me.

          • Habbabkuk

            I think not, Alcyone.

            If they were, then all the nuclear powers – USA, Russia, China, UK, France, Pakistan and india – would be acting illegally.

        • Paul Barbara

          Grand Theft – nuclear material from the US; Treachery – of US and Dual Nationals who ‘turned a blind eye’ to the theft.

  • Brianfujisan

    Well

    anyhoo..I was out at a Screening of ‘London Calling: How the BBC Stole the Referendum’

    With Inverclyde For Independence..GA Ponsonby. was there…Ronnie Cowan MP too

    Brilliant Documentary.. Craigs Work in Exposing Gavin Esler’s deceitful Shenanigans with Vote No Borders, a private limited company..and Acanchi.. is Great work indeed

    Very well done all involved

    A reminder From Craig’s ‘ BBC Propaganda Hits New All-Time Low ‘ Post –

    ” Now this long propaganda piece for the No campaign is disgusting in itself for its internal bias, and for the fact that the very much larger grassroots movement the Radical Independence Campaign has never been given any publicity by the BBC (and the failure to reference the longstanding anarchist No Borders movement). It is not even news – it is two days since “Vote No Borders” was given an even longer bout of free publicity on Newsnight Scotland.

    But what makes this propaganda utterly unforgiveable is that Vote No Borders is not a grassroots campaign at all but a government organized campaign which has mysteriously acquired start-up cash of 400,000 pounds with no declared origin.

    The registered office of Vote No Borders, a private limited company, is at 24 Chiswell Street, London, EC2Y 4YX . Which is perhaps surprising for a “Scottish grassroots campaign”. The directors are Malcolm Offord and Fiona Gilmore.

    Now pay close attention: Fiona Gilmore is chief executive of Acanchi a PR Consultany which specializes in “Country Branding”. Its clients include Israel, Dubai, Bahrain and “England”. Yes, it actually specifies “England” on the company website. Acanchi also works for DFID – in short, it gets UK taxpayers’ money, plus Israeli and Gulf Arab money. Are you familiar with the word fungibility?

    Malcolm Offord, it turns out, has donated over 120,000 pounds to the Conservative Party plus made personal donations to Michael Gove….

  • Tony_0pmoc

    This is an important message to people who use mainly text messages to communicate with their friends – and in my case my wife.

    Now with friends – you don’t really know . I sent her a message – and didn’t get a reply – and normally text messages work normally…

    I thought maybe its just me I said something wrong? (which is entirely possible)

    My wife is back home now – and I didn’t delete anything.

    We exchanged mobile phones..

    i never got that – etc

    But when I told her the detail of the message – and she said – I never got that…

    Well its all there – I showed her and she showed me as if we were teenage kids both with thrush.

    Tony

    • glenn

      That’s fantastic, Tony!

      Do keep us posted – I don’t know how I’d make it through the day without these gems.

  • Sharp Ears

    Craig speaking at last year’s Sam Adams Award ceremony, held in Berlin.
    33mins in

    The full video of the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence. The ceremony was held in Berlin and the award went to former NSA Technical Director, William Binney.
    http://vimeo.com/117941309
    Posted by Annie Machon

    This year’s event. Craig makes several appearances. The award was given to John Kiriakou.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6za5Am2XIA
    Details http://samadamsaward.ch/

    • michael norton

      McGarry has previously denied any wrongdoing. Her arrest and charge raises the possibility of a byelection in her seat, one of the key battlegrounds in the 2015 general election.

      WFI was founded in 2012 by a group of activists to promote women’s voices across the referendum debate. The group’s national committee identified an apparent discrepancy between its income and expenditure at the end of 2015 and referred the matter to the police.

      McGarry, who has described the SNP leader, Ms. Nicola Sturgeon, as a role model and campaigned for her in Glasgow’s south side.
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/27/glasgow-east-mp-natalie-mcgarry-charged-fraud-women-for-independence
      “Following this interview she was charged with several offences, including the embezzlement of funds, breach of trust, and offences under the Scottish Referendum Act 2013.”

    • Old Mark

      What a malevolent oaf; of course he’s a lager, not an ale drinker- and even by their tasteless standards an undiscriminating one, as he is pictured knocking back Primera Casa Urina aka Peroni.

    • michael norton

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva_NC#2007_conflict_with_Niger

      The Uranium mining in Niger is done by Areva, these are the people who are making the new nuclear plant of Hinkley Point C in Somersetshire, England.
      Areva Admits to “Irregularities” in Hundreds of Nuclear Plant Components, Possible Falsified Documents

      05/04/2016 | Thomas Overton
      http://www.powermag.com/areva-admits-to-irregularities-in-hundreds-of-nuclear-plant-components-possible-falsified-documents/

      • michael norton

        France’s nuclear sector was rocked to its core on May 4 when the country’s Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) announced that state-owned nuclear manufacturer Areva had confessed to “irregularities in the manufacturing checks” on about 400 parts produced since 1965, about 50 of which are still in service in France.

        ASN said in a statement that the irregularities “comprise inconsistencies, modifications or omissions in the production files, concerning manufacturing parameters or test results.”

        The problems came to light as the result of an audit ASN began last year after defects were discovered in the Flamanville EPR reactor vessel head and a review of the manufacturing work performed at Areva’s Creusot steel forging plant. That audit uncovered enough problems that ASN ordered Areva to review its records going back to 2004 when manufacturing for the EPR began.

  • Paul Barbara

    @ Alcyone September 30, 2016 at 23:12
    ‘Where’s my applause?
    Not even from Come September? Not much of Sept left though, it’ll soon be Red October!’

    At least it’s not ‘Condition November’ (JUST YET, though may be closer than Joe Blogs realises)!
    ‘the day the US nearly nuked cairo: USS liberty, isrel and LBJ’:
    https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/03/287545.html

  • michael norton

    Hungary is holding the so called quota referendum on Sunday over the EU’s controversial refugee numbers policy. The question is: Do you want the European Union to be able to mandate the obligatory resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens into Hungary even without the approval of the National Assembly? The government initiated the poll and want a big ‘no’ vote.

    “We want more people to go and clearly give their opinion as to whether they find it possible that the institutions of the EU can decide without asking the Hungarian Parliament in a decision that is about who do we want to live with in our country,” said Zoltán Kovács government spokesman
    http://www.euronews.com/2016/10/01/hungary-to-vote-on-controversial-eu-refugee-quota

    Why doesn’t Hungary go the whole hog and just have an EU in or out Referendum, just like the United Kingdom?

    • fred

      “Why doesn’t Hungary go the whole hog and just have an EU in or out Referendum, just like the United Kingdom?”

      First Cameron went to Europe and explained that the open borders policy was leading to so much support for right wing nationalist parties that unless Britain was allowed some control we would have to have a referendum. Europe told him to get lost.

      This referendum in Hungary is doing effectively the same thing, trying to get change from the EEC.

      I can’t help feeling that Merkel’s intransigence is designed deliberately to foster right wing nationalism in Europe. I would very much like to one day see a Europe without borders because it would be a Europe without wars but it can’t be imposed on people against their will and attempting to do so is ensuring it fails.

      • Alan

        “First Cameron went to Europe and explained that the open borders policy was leading to so much support for right wing nationalist parties that unless Britain was allowed some control we would have to have a referendum. Europe told him to get lost.”

        Strangely enough, Alistair Campbell is saying the same kind of things now:

        https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/01/alastair-campbell-new-labour-tony-blair-immigration-brexit

        “Alastair Campbell has admitted that his newly published diaries show clearly how New Labour sowed the seeds of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union by failing to respond to growing concerns over immigration.”

      • Republicofscotland

        “I can’t help feeling that Merkel’s intransigence is designed deliberately to foster right wing nationalism in Europe.”

        __________

        No mention of blood or soil, I’m rather surprised, but then again Germany is already independent.

        It does make one wonder though, if the multitude of nations that have gained independence since WWII, if they were blood and soil nationalists, because they favoured independence.

        Or if it’s just Scottish nationalists that are blood and soil nationalists, in the blinkered eyes of you know who?

        I have an inkling, as to the answer.

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Still nothing about Peres role in the 1967 war, and the poisoning of Yasser Arafat in 2004, as he had access to the Ratah leader when he was locked up in Ramallah.

    He sounds like the American Hubert Humphrey, the global right winger in leftish apparel.

    • fred

      There must have been some because I remember reading about it at the time.

      It’s an internal Labour Party matter, Karen Rennie wasn’t a public servant or an elected public official, it’s just a crime same as any other dealt with like any other and reported like any other.

    • Republicofscotland

      Don’t be silly Brian, you only get full blown coverage from the unionist media, when the SNP are involved.

      Skullduggery from the unionist parties, goes largely uncovered, or if it is reported, it’s usually a postage stamp article at the bottom of the page, between the dog sitting ads, and tv aerials installed ads.

      • fred

        So has Mc Pravda, sorry I mean The Nat-anal reported on the court case and conviction? Headlines across their front page was it?

  • Sharp Ears

    Apologies for the link coming from the Mail but their photos are good.

    Sitting next to Mirvis, Cameron is looking sulky. Blair is wearing his kippah and P Charles looks like a clown in his blue velvet one with an embroidered crest.

    Dave and Tony, the back row mourners: Former prime ministers find themselves relegated at the funeral of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres
    Tony Blair and David Cameron among international leaders in Jerusalem
    The pair were relegated to the back rows at the funeral of Shimon Peres
    Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas seated in the front row of mourners
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3816800/Former-prime-ministers-relegated-funeral-Israeli-statesman-Shimon-Peres.html#

    • michael norton

      French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault condemned the bombing of the hospital, saying the shelling of healthcare structures and personnel constituted war crimes.

      “Their perpetrators will be held to account,” he said on Saturday. “France is mobilising at the Security Council as we speak to put a stop to this unacceptable tragedy.”

    • Kempe

      Why would anyone bomb a hospital; but it happens and it’s not as it barrel bombs are precision weapons.

  • Doug Scorgie

    Alcyone
    October 1, 2016 at 08:48

    “Morning Habby, I was thinking of the NPT, but you know history is not my strong point at all, so am happy to stand corrected. A little bit of poetic licence perhaps!
    ………………………………………………………………

    Alcyone, while you wait for a sensible reply from Habbabkuk, I’ll state my opinion on Israel’s nuclear weapons.

    Israel is not in contravention of the NPT because it hasn’t signed it.

    Further, there doesn’t seem to be any specific international laws that prohibit possession of WMD – only the use of them.

    Also, by not admitting to the possession of nuclear weapons, Israel avoids a US law that prohibits the US government from funding countries that proliferate these WMD.

    So the US funding for Israel can continue apace.

    Good innit?

    • Why be ordinary?

      Actually there are. The BTWC forbids even the possession of biological weapons.

    • bevin

      Offences were undoubtedly committed in the many countries involved in assisting Israeli nuclear development. Not only technological knowledge but nuclear materials were stolen in the USA, the UK, France, Norway and other countries and then smuggled into Israel.
      The programme was largely realised by Israeli agents whose presence was studiously overlooked by our governments. And whose illegal actions have never been legally sanctioned.
      The entire process, much of which involved endangering public health by moving radioactive materials surreptitiously, was not only illegal but profoundly immoral in its corruption of public servants.
      But there is nothing new about this.

  • michael norton

    Ms. Nicola Sturgeon a millionaire?

    The First Minister who entered the Scottish Parliament 17 years ago and who is believed to have earned more than £1m from the
    United Kingdom, which she detests, has been blasted over her inaction over the living conditions in the Govanhill neighbourhood in Glasgow which has been branded an embarrassment to SCOTLAND

    Now fuming residents are demanding she shelves her plans for Scottish Independence and gets back to her day job insisting she is neglecting her constituents.
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/714615/Nicola-Sturgeon-blasted-after-fleeing-constituency-over-rat-infestation-amid-slum-crisis

    • Paul Barbara

      Natch. The ‘Puppeteers’ pull the strings, and the Demoprat-Repugnant ‘Punch&Judy Show’ mesmerises the ‘Sheeple’.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Comments are closed.