I have never ruled out the possibility that Russia is responsible for the attack in Salisbury, amongst other possibilities. But I do rule out the possibility that Assad is dropping chemical weapons in Ghouta. In this extraordinary war, where Saudi-funded jihadist head choppers have Israeli air support and US and UK military “advisers”, every time the Syrian army is about to take complete control of a major jihadist enclave, at the last moment when victory is in their grasp, the Syrian Army allegedly attacks children with chemical weapons, for no military reason at all. We have been fed this narrative again and again and again.
We then face a propaganda onslaught from neo-con politicians, think tanks and “charities” urging a great rain of Western bombs and missiles, and are accused of callousness towards suffering children if we demur. This despite the certain knowledge that Western military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have had consequences which remain to this day utterly disastrous.
I fear that the massive orchestration of Russophobia over the last two years is intended to prepare public opinion for a wider military conflict centred on the Middle East, but likely to spread, and that we are approaching that endgame. The dislocation of the political and media class from the general population is such, that the levers for people of goodwill to prevent this are, as with Iraq, extremely few as politicians quake in the face of media jingoism. These feel like extremely dangerous times.
I had to agree with Sir Simon Jenkins who was interviewed on Sky this morning during its All Out Politics show.
Jenkins said that bombing and killing innocent civilians in Syria, as a form of revenge or retribution is wrong. He added, and I tend agree with him that Britian has no business whatsoever in Syria, that Britain isn’t some sort of democracy enforcing peace force to be deployed around the world.
Jenkins continued if that were the case why isn’t the UK invading the Congo etc. Jenkins pointed out that Britain didn’t even have a properly equipped air raft carrier.
Sadly though none of that matters, in my opinion Assad will be found culpable in deploying chemical weapons. A force will then be raised against him, and a full scale attack will follow.
The question is, will Putin commit to a full scale defence of Assad? Or will Russia fall into a covert supporting roll, and what of China will it secretly supply Syria?
In my opinion Yulia Skripal and her father are being held prisoner by the UK authorities, The Metropolitan Police put out statements on her behalf, the Chief executive Cara Charles-Barks and Medical Director Christine Blanchard have also put out statements on her behalf, including her wish for privacy [don’t ask any questions]. She along with every other patient should have access to the Salisbury hospital phone system, was she not allowed to use it to phone Relatives and friends, why not? All prisoners in UK jails have access to phones even category ‘A’ prisoners, why was she denied access to the phone system and denied access to Russian Consular staff in breach of those two conventions? She and her father are being held as prisoner and incommunicado. This is a disgrace, heads should roll.
http://johnhelmer.net/salisbury-hospital-becomes-secret-rendition-center-for-yulia-skripal/
To verify what the Salisbury Hospital authorities are claiming about Yulia Skripal’s wishes and the lawfulness of her reported consent, Chief Executive Charles-Barks and Medical Director Blanshard (along with their spokesmen Patrick Butler and Paul Russell) were asked by email on Saturday morning two questions.
___________________________________________________________________
To: “Patrick Butler”
Cc: “Cara Charles-Barks” ; “Paul Russell (PP Manager)” ; “Christine Blanshard”
Sent: 07/04/2018 11:20:25
Subject: Request for proof of Yulia Skripal’s consent
Dear Ms Charles-Barks and Dr Blanshard:
Your last line in your email to me of April 4 was changed by Dr Blanshard’s sudden decision to issue a statement on Friday afternoon confirming that Mr Sergei Skripal is no longer unconscious. I refer to this release: https://www.england.nhs.uk/south/2018/04/06/updates-on-the-salisbury-incident-6/
Ms Yulia Skripal had confirmed this, as you know, a day and a half earlier in her Thursday morning conversation with her cousin, Ms Victoria Skripal. You have added to the evidence dispelling media speculation that the call was not a genuine one, and I am most grateful for your contribution.
May I refer you to Dr Blanshard’s claim in the Friday statement — “Yulia has asked for privacy while she continues to get better”. The Metropolitan Police statement quotes Ms Skripal as saying “I hope that you’ll respect my privacy and that of my family during the period of my convalescence.”
Two requests, please:
— it is universal hospital policy that patients sign consent forms relating to care, to contact with next of kin, and to privacy. You were referring to this when you said in your statement — “Yulia has asked”. Do you have these signed consents from Ms Skripal, and if you do, I request you prove it.
— I have highlighted two word forms in the Metropolitan Police quotation of Ms Skripal’s remarks. These cannot be translations from the Russian language we know Ms Skripal uses. They are also English idioms which she cannot form herself. Do you as the responsible physician have evidence that Ms Skripal’s exposure to the purported nerve agent has improved her English beyond the level she exercised prior to March 4.
I invite you to respond promptly.
In the event that you do not answer the questions, I am obliged to remind you, as before, that you will be reported as refusing to answer.
Yours sincerely,
Dr John Helmer
_______________________________________________________________________________
By press time, Salisbury Hospital refuses to produce evidence of lawful consent.
So, she has gone from locked ward to house arrest. That’s about all you can say.
I note that the hospital asked for the press to respect the Skripals’ privacy…now obviously if this were anyone else, the press would disregard this, would have been camped out outside the hospital 24/7, would be pursuing Yulia, eager to discover and reveal her new address/identity…
But what’s the betting this will be the first occasion in the history of the modern press when the “request for privacy” will be scrupulously respected and obeyed…?
There must be somebody working in the hospital with a bit of discrimination and integrity, so as to offer something interesting and insightful about the Skripals’ time there???
Or were they being treated by military doctors?
Convenient cover with the nerve agent story so as to offer them high level quarantine, away from the regular hospital staff.
Aha! Nurse Morris!
Please sit down.
In my left hand I have a bulging envelope full of travellers cheques, and in my right a cordless Black & Decker.
Which would you prefer that I put on your knee?
Didn’t you hear? By a remarkable coincidence there were two doctors specialised in dealing with the effects of chemical weapon poisoning on duty at Salisbury Hospital on the day the Skripals were brought in. They wouldn’t normally have been there so it was a truly miraculous stroke of good fortune. They’ll have had the best possible care for the duration.
Not only that, but they miraculously knew that the Skripals had been poisoned with chemical weapons, and precisely what treatment to deploy despite having no idea what weapon had been used.
And despite the fact that, as admitted by Porton Down’s Gary Aitkenhead, they didn’t have the antidote for Novichok.
It’s a miracle, no less.
see my post https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/march/06/180306-toxic-storm-for-royal-marines-in-major-chemical-exercise
see my post
Thank goodness Tony Blair’s just announced he’s for a war with Syria.
Everyone will instinctively turn against it.
Yes. He’s finally doing something worthwhile. Albeit unwittingly.
I thought exactly the same thing! The odious rat doesn’t realise that his approval for an idea is the kiss of death to many of the British public. For once, I’m actually glad he opened his mouth this time. He’s probably just vasty increased the percentage against further intervention in Syria.
see comments at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5598071/Tony-Blair-backs-military-action-Syria-suggests-Theresa-strikes-without-vote.html
I don’t think ‘St Petersburg Trolls’ can ensure an absence of red arrows.
Thanks – I needed that!
Manufacturing consent is a long game … but ultimately those with the most money to spend have the most pieces on the board. Only a few more rolls of the dice left to go now.
In my opinion, the Sailsbury chemical attack, and now the chemical attack in Syria, are no coincidence. In my opinion they are a prelude to a full scale attack on Assad, and an attempt alienate and demonise Russia, and weaken their hand in Syria.
Chemical attacks are universally condemned around the globe, and are seen as just cause for a intervention, even though in this case they appear false, and lack any concrete evidence.
We just have to look back to the build up of the full scale attacks on Libya and Iraq, to see that the production of solid evidence, or the lack of it, in Libya and Iraq, doesn’t halt an attack, infact uncertainties only seem to speed up attacks.
As the narrative of what ifs and buts are pushed to scaremonger further action against whatever country the crosshairs are set on.
There is as far as I can see no solid evidence that Assad used chemical weapons in Douma, nor that the Skripals were poisoned by a military grade nerve agent, yet the connection between Assad, Putin and chemical warfare has been made, reinforced, and action will probably follow.
Indeed, what’s become of the surprising declarations of USUK reps at UN Sec. Council that they were open to an OPCW inspection of East Ghouta. Alexander Mercouris has suggested that Russian control of East Ghouta, and their ability to protect OPCW investigators, makes a Western attack *more* likely if it the chem attack was staged. In which case their declarations would have been off message, or there was some expectation that something particularly damning would actually be found (A-234, perhaps?).
Maybe they’re covered either way–war or planted evidence.
My wife and I have a different relationship. We have rarely been apart in 37 years. It’s more like this. She knows what I am thinking.
“Golden Earring – Radar Love (1973) HD 0815007”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY
(Check out the Audience – They all look bored sh1tless – but they are Dutch – In Manchester this would be done in one take)
Comment
“Evonik
4 months ago (edited)
That crowd though fick me, dead bodies from the mortuary? Talk about livin’ it up, thank god no one in the band tried to crowd surf on top of that layer of stale p1ss.”
Tony
I’m not sure I agree that we are heading towards “war”, although I of course agree any conflict under such circumstances is unjustified. The military intervention could be limited to some missile strikes. Assad does not have the capability to retaliate and Russia will complain but is not stupid enough to start a war with America.
Trump and May both need military action at the moment but only temporarily. Trump to distract from Mueller for a few days until another scandal or further distraction and May to boost her support before the Local Elections. With a missile strike (or three) both leaders could claim victory and portray themselves as “tough”.
Meanwhile the Russian Rouble took a nose dive on Tuesday and Russian stock prices plummeted due to further US sanctions.
“This (chemical) attack that took place in Douma is a barbaric attack.”
Theresa May.
So what should we make of a nuclear attack as advocated by Theresa May? And let us not forget she has said she would be willing to kill 100,000 innocent civilians—far more than died at Douma.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/theresa-may-prepared-use-nuclear-weapons-first-strike-1618332
Mrs. May, you have to remember, is an expert on barbarism.
Having worked and lived in what was then North Yemen I became very aware of the role that Israel has played in persecuting the people of Palestine and how the unilateral support that the Zionist s enjoy from the USA had radicalised many young men against the West. In every conflict since, the Warmonger’s led by the USA and UK have enjoyed vast profits from the sale of arms used in conflicts across the Middle-East. The tragedy that is presently being played-out in Yemen by the Saudis and UK “advisors” is simply a continuation of this. The Russian support for Assad has proven to be decisive in getting very close to “winning the peace” and suddenly the White- helmeted actors appear with the well – worn tales of chemical attacks by the Assad forces ? Don’t think so ! but I would not be surprised if there was an Israeli accent or two providing the “proof”
It’s been two days already that he has been in office, and still no nukes; has John Bolton been contained?
Wasn’t it Bolton that seeped the poison of WMD into the open ears of Bushbaby and boyBlair, leading to Iraq and all that followed? He’s even better placed now – and holding Trump’s tiny hand, so…..
Meanwhile the U.K. regime admits that the WH are doing a great job protecting our interests
“Rudd told the joint committee on national security strategy that the fund was spent on 97 programmes in 40 different countries. “They do a great job in reaching out, addressing UK interests in unstable areas,” she said. “They include groups such as the White Helmets in Syria, who do a great job.” The White Helmets are a volunteer civil defence force that operates in rebel-held areas in Syria.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/06/amber-rudd-secret-billion-pound-conflict-stability-security-fund?__twitter_impression=true
vanessa beeley
https://www.ukcolumn.org/live
Always worth listening to Vanessa. This time on “predatory NGOs”. Thanks Jazza.
Just listened to Johnny Mercer MP (CON) making the case for action on the World at 1.
Theresa May will ‘have had access to DV level intel not available to the rest of us…’ and ‘…that’s why we have the National Intelligence Council…’ – members include Boris Johnson, Gavin Williamson, Amber Rudd, Theresa May, Penny Mordaunt and Phillip Hammond among others.
Apparently decisions should be left to them as opposed to Parliament as they will have access to the acutest intelligence.
Its difficult to argue against that but theres a lot of potential for things to go wrong…
Its not difficult to ague against it at all. None of them cal lie straight in bed.
May once blamed a cat for her failure to follow international law.
Johnson has never knowingly told the truth about anything
Rudd was on TV lying just yesterday
That level of distrust is enough for them to be incapable of acting in good faith about anything, especially the well being of the people of this country. They are not a group who you could take at their word about anything. If may insisted the sky was blue, I’d ask for a second opinion.
Spot on MAB. A nest of vipers.
Why should secret intelligence come into the decision? If it’s plain and obvious that Assad ordered a chemical attack there is no need for such intelligence.
Johnny Mercer of the famed Amercan soap ad and distiller of lies to his constituents in Plymouth watching the naval base disintegrate in the way of EU military union – that Johnny Mercer!
Ironically the other famous Johnny Mercer, the American song lyricist, wrote the words for the song ‘Fools Rush In’.
Weeks after whatever happened in Salisbury, there are any number of hypotheses but hardly any facts. Regardless of who did what to whom and when and how, is there nobody with any clout on the international stage calling for PEACE? Is any of this worth even one more death?
Chemical weapons are indeed evil but supplying aircraft and materiel to friendly régimes so that they may wage war on their neighbours apparently is ok.
Syria is a sovereign state that has not declared war on any other sovereign state. Yet the UN stands by while Syria’s territorial integrity is threatened by a preditory foreign power with criminal form.
tosh! utter tosh!
Seems to me that an immediate OPCW on-site investigation is in order and if it doesn’t happen, we KNOW who was responsible and who is backing them.
The Russians and Syrians have already proposed this (they should travel “tomorrow”, ie today) but so far there has been a deafening silence in return.
OPCW will be going to Douma-
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-opcw-will-travel-to-douma-to-investigate-reported-chemical-weapons-attack/
Whilst I believe that the Salisbury “poisoning” along with the alleged Syrian government poison gas attacks are false-flag events, I fail to see why America, UK Franc and Germany consider such attacks to be the “line in the sand” the crossing of which justifies military action as a response. So it’s ok for American and British aircraft, missiles, drones etc to kill by high explosive or anti-personnel devices or indeed small arms fire. That’s not to mention the thousands of deaths of Iraqi children and civilians by the embargoes and blockades by these same powers. And as for the supposed Salisbury poisoning being the first use of nerve agent since the Second World War, what do proponents of this view consider the Agent Orange poisoning of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to be? That’s not including the use of depleted uranium munitions poisoning thousands (including our own troops firing them). I could go on but am longing for an explanation of the moral distinction between killing with a nerve agent or high explosive, bullets, white phosphorus, etc etc.
You could say the same about atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many Americans will say that it was the correct decision as it shortened the war and saved lives, an argument that could also be deployed in Syria.
Except that in the case of recent proxy wars in the Middle East, we started them. Not ourselves of course, but factions we egged on and armed to do it.
If the hegemon has chemical weaponed or nuked innocent civilians, a nuanced finesse and sympathetic interpretation will always be forthcoming. It was done with god’s sanction and no other option was available.
“I fail to see why America, UK Franc and Germany consider such attacks to be the “line in the sand” the crossing of which justifies military action as a response.” Two reasons:
1. It works politically in the “Homeland” as we fascist Americans call it (or has proven to work so far).
2. It is easy to engineer.
It’s interesting that the three EU heads of state interested in action is Macron, May and Merkl and the USA’s Trump all have serious domestic issues at home from which they cannot extricate themselves.
I’d hazard a guess that Teresa May will have even bigger problems come the local elections in May if she endorses military action without consulting Parliament,
They’ve made some “very important” distinctions – “offensive use of any military-grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia, for the first time on European soil in over 70 years” (EU Joint Statement).
The most glaring of course is the “European soil” – as if anything done outside of Europe simply doesn’t count. This exceptionalist attitude evidently hearkens back to colonial times, when everything outside Europe was “second-rate” and only “civilized nations” had a voice in world affairs. The neo-colonial overtones come as no surprise when the U.S.A. and its client states treat the Third World as some kind of property to be exploited and “protected” against outside “meddling”.
Of course, sometimes this useful caveat falls flat, as for instance happened with Boris Johnson (yes, him again!) branding Russia’s involvement in Ukraine as “the first forcible annexation of the territory of a European country – and the first forcible redrawing of a European frontier – since 1945.” Bojo, as many before him, conveniently forgot all about the bloody Balkan wars and NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia which led to the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and later Serbia into a patchwork of quasi-sovereign mini-states (some of which unsurprisingly became hubs of crime and islamic extremism in Europe, and others have hurriedly joined NATO). An entire country had been shattered, its borders completely “redrawn” – and then the biggest remaining part, Serbia, has been shattered again – but this was all thrown down the memory hole, and now our Foreign Secretary blithely ignores Europe’s own recent history as if it never actually happened. Disgraceful.
I thought the whole Brexit point was that it isn’t European soil!
Yes, and it serves further to isolate in the public’s minds Russia from “Europe.” Russia is “Othered” by this rhetorical device: it is to be associated in the public’s mind with Syria, Iran, and so forth–an eastern, foreign, scary, primitive place that shows up on the public’s political radar only as the source of mindless terrorism, tyranny, and barbaric plots against civilians.
What the U.S. did to Muslims (and Islam) as a whole after 9/11 is now being done to Russians (and Russia) as a whole. The “good” Russians, like the “good” Muslims, live in the U.K or U.S. and work via MI6 or CIA handlers for some neoliberal think-tank where they earn six-figure incomes spouting nonsense to the NY Times, BBC, and so forth thus “informing” the public about the true nature of our adversary.
It’s funny, I was just coming round to being convinced that it was the Muslims who had a disease of the mind and an irrational thirst for violence and barbarism when now I find out that it is really the Russians who do. It is hard to keep up.
IM THE SAME AS YOU!
Re : Blair intervention :
“Everyone will instinctively turn against it.”.
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Don’t think so, unfortunately, the die is already cast.
What might make a difference is the Chinese agreeing to take a hit by selling US Treasury Bonds.
Enough to give the Bankers a quick shock’n’awe..
Yeah Blair is in full hawk mode again.
” Blair told Radio 4’s Today programme. He added: “If the US are taking action, we should be prepared to be alongside them…”
“If the Americans are prepared to act and are going to act fast, I think ourselves – and probably the French government will be in the same position – should be supportive.”
“Because it’s important that when chemical weapons are used in this way and the international community has taken a firm position against it, that you have to enforce it.”
“He added that failure to act would be giving “carte blanche to the [Syrian] regime to do whatever is necessary to retake opposition areas by force.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/423690-tony-blair-syria-strike/
“He added that failure to act would be giving “carte blanche to the [Syrian] regime to do whatever is necessary to retake opposition areas by force.”
Even if Assad is responsible for chemical attacks that might not be such a bad thing as it would shorten the war and save lives.
Why isn’t anyone in Britain making a citizen’s arrest of this arch war criminal?
“What might make a difference is the Chinese agreeing to take a hit by selling US Treasury Bonds”
Yes. Also a big devaluation of the yuan might concentrate minds a little.
Chinese have already stopped buying Treasuries, and they don’t have to take a hit selling them, just position some OTM Puts to make it all back and more.
Israeli sniper films a Palestinian shot in the head, he laughs and says wow what a fabulous video.
Watch it here.
https://www.rt.com/news/423660-israeli-sniper-shoots-palestinian/
Israel has been murdering Palestinian people for over 70 years, yet very little has been done about that particular rogue state. However Syria is about to be attacked, under false pretences, the hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Difficult days ahead indeed. It would appear that we are witnessing one false flag after another. Rather than dealing with their own inequities and ‘failing’ domestic issues the US, UK and Israel would seem to rather embark on another costly, destructive and disastrous crusade. It is disgusting to note the agressive tone as well as the offensive, misleading, hypocritical and hysterical language which has all but replaced reason, diplomacy and due process.This includes a lack of any meaningful, impartial, independent and transparent investigations first and foremost. One can only come to the conclusion that we are led by fools, aided and abetted by the neo cons and mainstream media, whose periniciousness, apparent contempt for life, hate of peoples and rule of law appears to know no bounds. I hope I will be proved wrong and that reflective, reasonable, rational and positive decisions rather than illegal and unjustified ‘knee jerk’ military aggression and/or punitive sanctions will be made but I remain to be convinced.
When looking at the media response, always remember that Murdoch, through genie energy, has already paid Israel for the rights to drill for oil in the golan heights.
He can’t do that with assad in power.
Nice little overlooked expose of Hamish de Bretton-Gordon’s background and commercial interests
(guess what…selling gas masks and CBRN equipment!)
Avon Protection Systems, based in Melksham, Wiltshire.
The company website states: “We have been supplying respirators to the UK Ministry of Defence and other Nato allies since the 1920s and we are the primary supplier of CBRN respiratory equipment to all United States Department of Defence Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Special Operations Forces.”
So Colonel de Bretton-Gordon, among other things, sells gas masks. In fact, it’s likely you’ve seen his company’s products on TV worn by military or police personnel at high-profile incidents such as the one in Salisbury. Last month, Avon Rubber, Avon Protection’s parent company, announced a five-year £16m contract to supply the Ministry of Defence with general service respirators. In November, Avon Rubber announced it was a recognised bidder in a 10-year $8bn US Defence Department programme on CBRN equipment.
In January, it announced the completion of a multimillion-dollar order from the US Department of Defence after revealing last May that it had won a contract to supply 37,000 of its FM50 masks to “an unnamed customer.”
In 2017, the company made £50m from its US military contracts and a further £63.3m from other “protection and defence” revenue.
You don’t need to be a market analyst to predict that 2018 is likely to be a stellar year for the company.
After his military intelligence service ended and before he joined Avon, de Bretton-Gordon was a director of SecureBio Ltd, a company officially registered in the Northwest of England. However, de Bretton-Gordon’s social media accounts place SecureBio’s location during this time as Porton Down in Wiltshire, home to the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). According to the website of Military Speakers, “a specialist agency for keynote, motivation and after dinner speakers for corporate, industry and public sector events … Hamish advises UK government at the very highest level on CBRN and frequently appears on the BBC, Sky News, AJE and CBS News as their expert commentator on Syria chemical weapons and all things CBRN.”
A veteran of war-torn Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, he conducted, we are told, “highly secret operations some of which are now declassified.”
We are also told that he has travelled often to Syria and “has reported with the BBC on some of the very high profile chemical attacks. He has also worked with US networks and British newspapers to smuggle chemical samples out of Syria for verification in UK and France.”
The British newspaper was the Daily Telegraph. On April 29 2014, the paper reported that it “obtained soil samples collected from sites of chemical attacks inside Syria by Dr Ahmad — a medic whose real identity cannot be revealed for his own protection — who had previously received training in sample collection by western chemical weapons experts.
“Mr de Bretton-Gordon, a British chemical weapons expert and director of Secure Bio, a private company, was one of the trainers.”
And who carried out the tests? None other than de Bretton-Gordon himself.
In a previous piece for the paper, Syrian activists and doctors being trained to combat chemical attacks October 12 2013, de Bretton-Gordon wrote about his training programmes in Turkey, which were attended by senior leaders and activists of the Syrian National Council, the political wing of the Free Syrian Army.
This came at critical juncture in the war when every attempt was being made to use allegations of chemical weapon attacks, vehemently denied by the Syrian government, to promote overt Western military intervention.
Colonel de Bretton-Gordon was active on both sides of the Atlantic to further this aim. According to Homeland Security Today (May 22 2015), “In mid-April, he collected and analysed samples from the chlorine attack in Sarmin, Syria, which was presented to the UN Security Council by US Ambassador Samantha Powell (sic) [Power].”
In his many opinion pieces, this military intelligence veteran repeatedly called for the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the imposition of no-fly zones by the RAF and the US air force, the key foreign policy demands of the Nato hawks.
The current anti-Russia hysteria is not simply directed against Russian President Vladimir Putin but also against the current Labour leader, whose refusal to meekly line up behind the Tories has appalled Establishment diehards, including right-wing Labour MPs.
It’s a concern de Bretton-Gordon shares, as he outlined in yet another Telegraph opinion piece on May 31 2017, just a week before the general election, entitled Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street would be a gift to Britain’s enemies.
Whatever truth eventually emerges from the Skripal attacks, there is no need for complex conspiracy theories to see how the incident is manipulated in the media to promote the interests, both commercial and political, of Britain’s very own military-industrial complex.
The mask has slipped.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mask-military-industrial-complex-slipping
Thanks Billy. Why on earth has it taken so long for this simple piece of info to emerge.
Here is his Linked-in profile. (screen saved of course)
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/hamish-de-bretton-gordon-obe-37aa9a35
Surely this is worth sending to any acquaintances who buy the government line. This potential conflict-of- interest should have been attached to his every public utterance.
From Guardian, 4th April
>De Bretton-Gordon told the Guardian: “Having seen a lot of various intelligence sources I feel 100% confident that the prime minister is correct that the Russians are guilty. The Russians do appear to be on the front foot with communications and their disinformation campaign is putting the UK on the back foot.”<
On what basis did he get to see these sources?
A lot more detail can be found here about his activities:
http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Porton_Down_investigates_Syria#Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon.27s_role_in_collecting_samples_for_MI6
The US is being led by two bald faced liars and cowards….
These regime changers, Donald ‘Bone spurs’ Trump [he couldn’t remember which foot was effected] and John ‘I don’t want to die in Vietnam’ Bolton, now lead the US war machine, both cowards avoided the US draft.
A series of audio clips surfaced from the 1990s, including one in which Mr. Trump told Howard Stern, the radio show host, that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating “is my personal Vietnam.” Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he declined to enter combat duty, instead enlisting in the National Guard and attending law school after his 1970 graduation. “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,” Bolton wrote of his decision in the 25th reunion book. “I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.”
I am sure both cowards are more than willing to send other peoples children to die for US goals all over the world.
It is what cowards do Harry. They manufacture world-changing events in which others die. They do it from the comfort of some operations’ office. Or they sit behind a screen operating drones which kill indiscriminately. It was ever so, even when the weapons and technology were not as sophisticated. We are still savages. Professor Carlo Cipolla said something like that. He also had a lot to say about stupid and non-stupid people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla
Very facile John..
and true to form the US launched war with Vietnam on the back of lies about ships USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy being attacked by Vietnam ships in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, no such attacks actually happened.
You’re in the money – the system is rotten -UAE today fund Taliban weekly wages yet the west are silent on this. The west are full of tax paying citizens who pay the bill for the cost of covert military games designed to keep its fighting ability ahead of the rest of the pack- the idea is small threatening wars give permission for over the top military budgets. Check out the 2007 Rand Report on Sunni Shi’a proxy war- it’s the 100% design of ISIS. And take a look at the fall or handover of Mosul
Cogent view from Syria.
Syrian Girl on the gas attack. Gas attack now being words the BBC finds the need to place in inverted commas!
https://russia-insider.com/en/what-really-happened-gas-attack-syria-syriangirl-back/ri23023
I watched it, it seems highly plausible. The only problem is if I send it to people who are anti-Russia they will reject it because the site is called Russian Insider. It needs to be freed from Russian associations.
Just link the YT video, it’s on her channel not theirs-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RyTTFIHxs
Israel signed…but did not ratify
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4182820
I agree completely about the ongoing farce of the UK demonising Russia whether in Salisbury or Damascus with no evidence and nothing but fictitious toxic mudslinging. The media scriptwriting skills in Westminster leave a lot to be desired. They need to recruit a professional or two from EastEnders or Hollyoaks with some indepth understanding of how far you can stretch the credibility of a plot before it falls apart before everyone’s eyes.
One quick question, Craig. Marginally off-topic – but not far off-topic.
To what extent do you believe the unrelenting USUK regime-change + nation-flattening agenda in the Middle East in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, (probably Iran next), has modified itself beyond the 2003 ‘mad-dog’ policies masterminded by Blair/Bush when they shocked and awed Iraq based on falsified data? Or was the agenda driven principally by state third parties all along even in 2003?
Trump and May have both proudly been taking humongous amounts of money from the Saudis for weapons and for support in the Yemen conflict. Those who pay the piper(s) call the tune. It seems to me that our military forces have become reconfigured as very well paid mercenaries in the Syria theatre under the direct orders of other interested parties in the region via Quislings like Bolton and our buffoon of a foreign secretary.
We see two nations in the immediate neighbourhood of Syria and Iran frothing at the mouth at the prospect of the fall of Assad and then of Iran’s government – whatever the human cost in fatalities and refugees simply coldly written off as collateral damage. Both these nations have enormous traction in Washington and in Westminster. It is tragic that USUK political leadership is so amoral as to take the cash like pimps, make fools of themselves and exploit those in our armed forces, and cause such bloodshed and mayhem to get their pay-checks..
HMG jumped the shark in 2003 with WMD.
I agree. There was no chemical attack in Douma. In fact, I don’t believe chemical weapons were used in this war at all. It’s all staged. Not even a “false flag”, because false flag refers to a real chemical attack carried out to make someone else look guilty. Here, the “attacks” were just staged, not real attacks.
Trump is a mentally ill unfit moron, but he ran against an opponent who is pure evil and would have pursued this course wittingly with no remorse. Obama was the last stopgap against WW3, and he’s gone.