We know for certain that the Integrity Initiative targets Scottish Nationalists, because two of its luminaries, otherwise unconnected to each other, David Leask and Ben Nimmo, collaborated on a massive attack piece in the Herald identifying individual SNP supporters as “Russian Bots”.
Ben Nimmo works for the Atlantic Council, funded inter alia by NATO. He is also on a retainer of £2,500 per month from the Integrity Initiative, in addition to payments for individual pieces of work. For his attack on Scottish Nationalists Nimmo was therefore paid by the Atlantic Council (your taxes through NATO), by the Integrity Initiative (your taxes) and by the Herald (thankfully shortly going bankrupt). Leask claims to have received nothing but a cheese sandwich from the Integrity Initiative, but has briefed them in detail on Scottish nationalism, attended their seminars, and they have included Leask’s output in their “outcomes” reports to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (on which more in a few days’ time).
I took apart Leask and Nimmo’s horrendous attack at the time, revealing among other things that one of Nimmo’s criteria for spotting a Russian bot or troll was use of the phrase cui bono.
Nimmo’s role as witchfinder-general for Russian Bots appears very remunerative. His August 2016 invoice to The Institute for Statecraft, apparently the 71st invoice he had issued to various neo-con bodies that year, was for £5,000.
It is interesting that rather than sort code and account number, his invoice gives IBAN and BIC, used for payments coming from abroad.
There is a very important aspect of the detailed minute of David Leask’s briefing for the Integrity Initiative, which CommonSpace cut out of the extracts which they published. Leask says that the Integrity Initiative are “pushing at an open door” with the SNP leadership and the editors of The National, who he characterises as reliably anti-Russian and pro-NATO:
YATA – there would probably be a lot of studenty anti-NATO responses. But that might be more of a reason to do it. But SNP reversed NATO policy when it realised what Russia was up to (under influence of Nordic/Baltic allies)
Mainstream politicians don‟t want to challenge the fringe normally but they’re starting to. Stewart McDonald (defence spokesman) pitching NATO – “friends in Norway, Balts etc are in it”. SNP foreign policy chiefs have very anti-Kremlin, anti-RT, pro-Ukraine rhetoric.
Immigration not an issue in Scotland.
Pushing at open door – allies in Scotland about disinformation. Putin may want to sow discord among Scottish nationalists. Pro-independence sister paper had headline complaining Russian trolls attacking Sturgeon. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16094929.SNP_top_brass_warn__Sturgeon_is_being_targeted_by_Kremlin_trolls/
Yes campaign had attacks on servers and cyberactivity, thought it was the Brits but then concluded it was probably Russians. http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendumnews/15771388.Yes_leaders__Don_t_be__naive__about_Russian_online_meddling_in_independence/
SNP going to Ukraine – to reassure allies they are not pro-Russian.
I am afraid Leask is not wrong. The continual willingness of the SNP leadership to endorse Britnat anti-Russian rhetoric without question is a nagging worry for many nationalists. Precisely the same department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office which funds the Integrity Initiative, funds the Westminster Foundation for Democracy which paid for this joint Britnat/SNP leadership group event at the last SNP Conference, featuring a Ukrainian politician also used by the Integrity Initiative.
Read that carefully, and note that it is not just a discussion on the Ukraine – no harm in that – but one which is openly anti-Russian. The very title, on countering Russian disinformation, is literally straight out of the Integrity Initative’s handbook. Two SNP MP’s took part, including the foreign policy spokesman.
Remember that meeting was on the conference fringe at which I was not permitted to hold a meeting on preparing for Indyref II. An awful lot of Nicola loyalists tell me that, in appearing at present to be much more interested in keeping the entire UK in the EU, rather than striking for Scottish Independence, the leadership are playing a brilliant tactical game.
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Agreed that Ben Nimmo stating his IBAN on his invoice suggests he sometimes gets payments from abroad. But for what it’s worth it includes his sort code and account number. The sort code tracks to the TSB branch in Albrighton in Wolverhampton.
It is however an EU Directive
“The SEPA Regulation (260/2012 which put a deadline on euro payment harmonisation in Europe) states that both the IBAN and BIC value must be indicated until:
1st August 2014 – After this date national SEPA payments do not require the BIC value
1st February 2016 – After this date ‘cross border’ SEPA payments to not require the BIC value”
“1st February 2016 SEPA Deadline is approaching – after which cross border payments wont require the BIC
From 31st October 2016 the EU – incorporating the non-SEPA zone – will need to ensure that any EURO payments are SEPA compliant. But the preparation starts now..!
For the UK based IBAN’s, Payments UK has delivered a SEPA Payment Portal solution that will determine the BIC for routing purposes – this has been featured in quite a few headlines. Payments UK are calling their solution SEPAIO (SEPA IBAN Only) directory
By the way, the Payments UK solution leverages the SWIFTRef platform”
It’s obvious that he’s done work in Europe, so the fact that he gets paid for it is hardly a sensational exposé. I once did some work for an MEP, for which I was paid through a European Parliament account so I had to include that IBAN stuff on my invoice. It’s now on my standard invoice, I can’t be bothered to have two versions
Follow the money. Public monies are being misappropriated. Ineptly by all accounts. A golden circle of knaves in the know have their snouts well into the trough.
Yep a willingness by the SNP to appear statesmalike. Has led to them becoming echo chambers of British propaganda. Just another reason to doubt the strategists raison detre.
Sorry to be Ot ..But this Propanda piece –
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1434012-lockerbie-peace-walk-marks-30th-anniversary-of-bombing/?fbclid=IwAR0P7DawtP5-vca8FXE6OTABgaFpkV-TGjD9vAbK1nLiQ2LGBu7VwMhvhYc
Wot, 71st invoice without 20% vat, no vat threshold reached? Grounds for HMRC to investigate, or do they have a polish EU vat no?
The alibi of the man arrested in connection with the Gatwick drone story, Paul Gait, is getting even stronger, or at least in relation to the idea that he was controlling the movements of one or more drones over the airport in real time. His boss is identified in the Daily Express as Gemma Allard rather than John Allard, but Mrs Allard too says that he couldn’t have been mucking about with a drone at the times that someone clearly was. She is his ex-partner and they have a child. She says
“I know Paul very well. He comes to my house every morning (…) The morning of this going on, he was sitting with me in my front room having a cup of tea with me, and the rest of the day he was working for me at my clients’ houses. Paul works for me as a double glazing installer, he goes straight into work where numerous people would have seen him. The police need to let him out of custody and catch the right people.”
Ian Kirk, the former partner of Mr Gait’s current partner, Elaine Kirk, who is also in custody, says “There’s no way that Elaine did it. She hates toy aircraft.”
One of their neighbours, Ludmila Adomako, who is from Russia, is a “retired worker for the Home Office”. Worked in an interesting department, did she? A quick look suggests she is related to John Asare Adomako, the anaesthetist jailed for manslaughter in 1990 when his incompetence during an operation caused a patient’s death.
As for Mr Gait himself, according to the Daily Mirror, he was a gunner in the army and completed tours in Bosnia and Northern Ireland.
His father Francis Gait says ““The times this thing was flying in the daylight – when Paul was at work.”
I won’t be surprised if a drone flies over the runway while these two remain in custody.
I haven’t found any interesting companies registered in Auckland Close or nearby.
Looks like the plod have fallen over themselves to appear competent and arrested the wrong people.The only evidence appears to be hearsay. Does Pablo Miller live nearby?
If some entity wished to sell a drome dome
to Gatwick, you’d need to first demonstrate that needed such a system?
The description of a drone having a 4-foot span is not a simple DJI drone but something much more expensive. Personally, defying the total incompetence of Gatwick/Dept Transport/Police i see this being a deliberate Red Flag in the making. If the Russians could take out 45 drones attacking Hmeimim in Syria I think UK could too. They were testing a playbook and eventually needed a “diversion”. Pity that the Gaits will not get their legal fees reimbursed unless they are charged and acquitted so their Christmas will be a cash-drain for political theatre
Could a man in his late forties, look like a man in his thirties, most drone enthusiasts, use cars to transport their expensive drones.
And one key eye-witness has told police he saw a cyclist ‘frantically’ packing away two drones away on a country lane near the airport.
After speculation the successful bid to bring utter chaos to Gatwick was the work of eco-terrorists police finally arrested two suspects ‘in the Gatwick area’ just after 10pm last night.
And eye-witness Paul Motts, 52, said he saw a man in his 30s wearing hi-vis clothing and crouching over at least one drone in a road near the West Sussex airport on Thursday.
Mr Motts said: “I was delivering a parcel and drove past a suspicious man in fluorescent cycling gear crouching over a large drone which was all lit up.
“It looked like he was packing the drones away. Two minutes later we turned around and came across him cycling away.
“I expect he wanted to disassemble the drone as quickly as possible and get away as fast as he could.”
The couple have been released without charge. Had it not been for the man’s boss contacting the press to state he was at work with him at the time of the drone incidents, I’ve no doubt this innocent couple would have been held over Christmas as useful stooges and quietly released in the New Year. It’s the same dangerously corrupt security service cabal who in 2003 spun up such an imminent ‘threat’ that Blair surrounded Heathrow with tanks, just a few weeks ahead of the vote in Parliament on going to war with Iraq. The Gatwick drone incidents are more of the same, intended to push a feeling of fear and vulnerability on both the public and MP’s, again just ahead of crucial Parliamentary voting.
Parliament is shut for a few weeks, it’s Christmas.
Plod set Mr and Mrs Gait up without doing any reasonable investigation work. I suspect Plod wanted to stand their people down so they could enjoy Christmas holidays and keep their political masters happy.
Who stitched the Gaits up with Plod I suspect the neighbour who had trees next to the gaits property and their had been a dispute.
I can remember as a child my father who had a friend who was an inspector in the met who was based at Balham police station, south west London telling my father if there was a major incident which achieved national coverage in the media, the cops had to find a body and arrest them, did not matter if they were innocent. So you then get trial by media as default. At least on this occasion the Gaits had people who supported them and were prepared to take the Police on. Those being locked up for 36 hours is a long time and will impact the Gaits for the rest of their lives.
I hope a good knowledgable lawyer could reach out to them and sue the Police for compensation and have the Police pay their fees.
In George Galloway’s show of Dec 21st, there is an interesting discussion on drones between GG and his producer, Tamar, who so happens to be a certified drone operator himself.
Certified, because apparently he has another film creating company, and if you use drones professionally like that, there are certain certifications you must meet (I didn’t know all that).
The drones in question are the more expensive kind, from up to say a 1000 to 1500 pounds. Those can be programmed to follow certain paths and routes.
The discussion involved geo-fencing, protection and its problems, etc.
For those who don’t already know, “Paddy” Ashdown (his real name was Jeremy; “Paddy” was a racist nickname he got given at private school because he spoke with a strong Irish accent) as well as being in the SBS was also in SIS (MI6). This is on the record. Those who are interested can try to spot an obituary that mentions it.
His last speech in the House of Commons was a long piece of public relations for weapons contracts. He basically went on and on saying that what was needed was lots more government spending on weapons, lots more, lots more, for a long time, for a long time. You could easily imagine a thought bubble saying “The weapons companies have got to pay me double for all this work I’m doing for them”.
Compare this with Robin Cook’s resignation speech. Whatever one might say about his time in the cabinet alongside Blair and Brown and Straw, he eventually decided he’d had enough and that he’d aim some criticism where he thought it deserved to be aimed. At least to some extent. I mean it wasn’t much, but he did mention I__ael, and I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Ashdown on the other hand came across as a complete and utter c***, a killer, a queen and country man through and through. Whatever his SBS background, such a person is an utter moral coward and a creep.
Sorry, a person who launches such a vicious attack on another using the name “N” only, really shouldn’t accuse anyone else of “moral cowardice”.
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Actually, whilst generally speaking, going off the points and jibes he usually makes, I think that N_ is a bit of an arsehole, he/she actually made some excellent and valid points in that little piece; I was surprised enough that I had to check the heading a couple of times to make sure it was ?him? or ?her?.
He even omitted Paddy Pantsdown support and backing for Pol Pot – which was very very naughty of Pantsdown.
On the OTHER hand, Robin Cook had no trouble whatsoever in lobbying for and successfully selling arms to the odious genocidal military dictatorship of Indonesia, or of supporting the wholly unwarranted destruction of Yugoslavia (though the latter was far better propagandised than later Western atrocities – the lies were “better”).
So really neither of these men deserve any praise; In a comparison, on balance, it MIGHT be true to say that Pantsdown was more of an odious shit than Cook; but that’s not something I don’t think that disagreement would be unreasonable.
Sadly a few years ago, on Robin Cook’s death, George Galloway’s Respect Party published a fawning obituary to Cook, which I caught on the indymedia platform; Here is my response to this (the obituary and other responses can be found by scrolling upwards):
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/320612.html?c=on#c126444
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“Putin may want to sow discord among Scottish nationalists.”
Does anyone seriously believe that Putin spends any amount of time or effort trying to influence Scottish politicians? One would have thought his foreign affairs in-tray is somewhat full as he consolidates the hard-won victory in Syria and dances around NATO provocations for conflict in Ukraine. This is a cartoon characterisation of Putin that reminds me of the sort of propaganda that was spouted during WW1 about the Kaiser.
Enemies of the UK, real or perceived, do not have to do anything other than sit back and watch amazed at the dysfunctional shower-of-shit in parliament and those throughout the media and establishment working very hard at making the UK an irrelevant joke on the world stage. As Napoleon said “do not interrupt your enemy when they are busy making a mistake”.
It is narcissism – to think that you are important to Putin ! I imagine he is truly disillusioned with the quality of his counterparts in the West. If you watch “Deutschland 86” on Amazon Prime you can get a taste of the decay that hit the GDR pre-final collapse which is now endemic in The West.
Putin in this case of course is used in a ‘pars pro toto’-kind of way.
That said, this continued and steadfast pars pro toto usage –in a sense a very simple, naive and childish way to represent situations– has now found mainstream and social media usage. To wit, in the ridiculous neurotic reactions to anything Trump does, never mind if it happens to be positive now and then.
Re. the chatterati idiots like Bette Midler and Cher, etc. over Trump’s decision to pull out of Syria.
And Mia Farrow — sad as it is.
Retrospectively, Woody Allen gains a lot of credibility…
Yes, it’s impressive to learn that so many among the Hollywood glitterati are learned experts on geopolitics and military strategy. Who knew?
Mia Farrow’s son Ronan was a floundering mediocrity until he jumped on the “#metoo” bandwagon, and began doing very selective “muckraking” exposés of dodgy celebrity sexual escapades. He and his famous mother have both gotten a second wind from this cultural inquisition.
It’s a bit like a struggling French cutthroat in Revolutionary days suddenly landing the job of guillotine operator, and becoming a “star”.
It prompts one to wonder whether “Rosemary’s Baby” was a work of fiction after all.
‘…a brilliant tactical game.’ Corbynites are saying the same thing about their Grand Vizier.
Leask is retweeting Cohen now. Cohen had retweeted Waterson. They are like a collection of echos. Suggest they all go and do some useful physical work for a change.
David Leask Retweeted
Nick Cohen
@NickCohen4
Dec 20
Nick Cohen Retweeted Jim Waterson
RT admits it’s a propaganda channel. British broadcasting regulations outlaw propaganda. If Ofcom bans RT, then Russians will exploit it as an attack on free speech. If it doesn’t, Putin will have rewritten out media law
Nick Cohen added,
Jim Waterson
@jimwaterson
This is the most most interesting bit of the Ofcom ruling on Russia Today is this bit. RT argues it didn’t break due impartiality rules because its viewers *expect* it to reflect anti-UK government, pro-Russia views on topics such as Syria and Salisbury. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/20/rt-guilty-breaching-broadcasting-code-salisbury-novichok-aftermath …
https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/1075713392919363585
Mr Shurrup and Go Away sees himself holding the front door key of No 10.
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is caught ‘plotting Tory leadership bid’ while dining at £100-a-head Mayfair restaurant
Williamson was overheard with two diners on Tuesday night at The Colony Grill
Mail on Sunday sources say he said he ‘had the DUP eating out of his hand’ and could ‘neutralise’ threats from Tory high-ups Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid
Williamson, dubbed ‘Private Pike’ after a Dad’s Army character, denies the claims
#https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6524065/Defence-Secretary-Gavin-Williamson-caught-plotting-Tory-leadership-bid-Mayfair-restaurant.html
We should be told who he was with and who paid the bill.
The deployment of HMS Echo to the Black Sea and his subsequent visit is nothing more than a photo opportunity to enhance his image for his upcoming bid to become PM; using millions of pounds of taxpayer money to promote his political ambition.
Ten now confirmed dead during the month long Yellow Jacket protests.
https://www.rt.com/news/447222-macron-effigy-beheaded-protest/
Authorities in a south-western French town are furious after Yellow Vest protesters beheaded an effigy of Emmanuel Macron with an axe, put its “head” on a stake and danced. Now the mock executioners face a very real criminal case.
Macron has buckled after six weeks of protests.
The measures provide a “quick, strong and concrete response” to the crisis, said the labour minister Muriel Penicaud in a debate which lasted into the early hours of Friday morning.
The measures include the removal of a planned tax increase for a majority of pensioners and tax-free overtime pay for all workers.
Economists estimate the cuts will cost up to 15 billion euros.
https://www.france24.com/en/20181221-french-national-assembly-approves-macron-tax-concessions-yellow-vest-protesters
Of note, Macron has not reversed the recent fuel tax rises, he has only put off the extra rises for January.
Nor has he reversed his removal of the tax on wealth, one of his first priorities when he assumed office and the measure that confirmed most people’s suspicions about him.
Facebook suspends ‘researcher’ on “Russian interference” who himself faked….Russian interference in Alabama election!
https://www.follownews.com/facebook-suspends-researcher-who-faked-russian-interference-in-alabama-election-58oi6
The Democrats invested $100,000 on a false flag in the Alabama Senate race to make it look as though Russian trolls were trying to help the Republican candidate. They are now claiming this “miniscule” expenditure had little bearing on the election’s outcome (the Democrat won).
AND YET .. $100,000 Is the maximum sum that “the Russians” are alleged to have spent across 50 states in the $3 billion presidential election of 2016. So according to Democrat logic, the $100,000 they spent false flagging in one southern state was “miniscule” and negligible impact but the $100,000 “Russia” spent across the entire USA in 2016 is what determined who entered the Oval Office.
Of course it is all irrelevant in any event because the Alabama revelations will never be headlined by CNN, NYT, WaPo, BBC, Guardian, etc, so they have not really been revealed at all. It is a story that does not really exist.
good catch, the weasels twist themselves into knots trying to justify this crap.
Labour MP Chris Williamson, who raised awareness on The Institute for Statecraft’s dirty dealings, now under attack and accused of being antisemitic.
He was on LBC yesterday and was treated very fairly, no middle-eastern DNA nonsense, and came across as a sensible politician.
Looking wider at the last few days of news, compare the management style of an ‘orange-utang’
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/22/trump-syria-bolton-withdrawal/
Changed policy after one question!
With the 19 hours of ‘brexit-style’ drone management at LGW
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6523733/RAF-unit-downed-drone-causing-chaos-tens-thousands-Gatwick.html
Then MI5 took over the British government…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6523725/Transport-Minister-Chris-Grayling-comes-pressure-amid-claims-MI5-took-command.html
all three above stories from ‘anonymous authoritative sources’
Whaddayouknow.
Gatwick pair released without charge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46665615
Thanks Sharp Ears, that is good news for them
it does not explain why the wrong people were arrested and the right people were not arrested?
It is a mystery.
Activists in the town have previously declared a ‘state of emergency’ in the countryside to counter a proposed second runway
for Gatwick.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6524457/Police-continue-quiz-double-glazing-worker-Gatwick-drone.html
The people who have made money out of this are the Drome Done People
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
There was a veritable parade of security companies’ marketing managers on the corporate media, flogging their wares and products, it was just like being at an arms trade fair at times.
They were only released because the man’s boss contacted the press to say he was at work throughout the ‘alleged’ drone incidents, otherwise they would have been held over Christmas and quietly released in the New Year. Meanwhile the false flag event would have served it’s purpose by creating fear and a sense of vulnerability in the minds of the public and MP’s alike – conveniently ahead of crucial Parliamentary voting. It also makes legislation against drones inevitable, something the government has been attempting through numerous bogus press reports of drones ‘near misses’ for the last five years. Just like reports of paedophiles using encryption, the government is always and endlessly creating false scenarios to purse, legislate or ban technology that it sees as a threat to the status quo.
Classic Hegelian Dialectic used over and over again; problem, reaction and solution.
The problem, which they have usually created, demands an appropriate reaction as a solution, which is usually achieved by changing the law, i.e. giving themselves more power to prosecute people or denying people their legal rights, which of course does nothing to address the perceived problem but does address their problem, which is not having complete power or control over every aspect of peoples lives in order to consolidate their grip on power.
A classic recent example is anti-terror legislation being used to spy on peaceful protesters and which has also been used to deny them their liberty, thereby suppressing peaceful demonstrations and criminalising dissent, which is the real problem for totalitarian governments and not the threat of terrorism (which they create).
United Nations human rights experts yesterday repeated a demand that the UK abides by its international obligations and allows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to walk free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/un-experts-urge-uk-to-honour-rights-obligations-over-julian-assange-893570.html
Any mention of this in the major newspapers that profited by exclusively publishing WikiLeaks revelations a decade or so ago?
Mad Dog Mattis was constructing watch towers, along the Syrian border with Turkey
Mad Dog Mattis had arranged for dual- border watches U.S.A./Turkey, this was in November,
now he has walked.
A network of U.S.A. bases and airstrips has been established in an arc across the north-eastern part of Syria.
On Saturday,the Donald continued to insist that the decision to pull out of Syria,
was the right one and that, now that IS was defeated on the ground, other players could take care of the situation.
I wonder if he means Turkey?
Quneitra, SANA- Authorities on Sunday 23/12/2018 found huge amounts of weapons and ammunition,
some of which Israeli-made and US-made, left behind by terrorists in the northern countryside of Quneitra.
https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=154151
The destroyed city of Quneitra, The Golan, Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quneitra
A settlement was established at least as early as the late Hellenistic period and continued through the Roman and Byzantine times;
it was known by the name “Sarisai”. The settlement served as a stop on the road from Damascus to western Palestine.
Saint Paul is said to have passed through the settlement on his way from Jerusalem to Damascus.
The site of the Conversion of Paul was traditionally identified with the small village of Kokab, north-east of Quneitra, on the road to Damascus
Michael, here is what I’ve read in russian news yesterday:
Trump had a phone conversation with Erdogan on December 14. Erdogan asked why Trump still provides weapons to kurdish, yet saying he has already defeated terrorism.
“Ok, Syria is yours, I’m leaving” – answered Trump (on Erdogan’s words, as if Erdogan influenced the decision).
Mattis and Co. tried to persuade Trump to stay in Syria, but failed.
Mattis has left his position.
Brett McGurk is also leaving his post.
https://ria.ru/20181223/1548506437.html
the respected America “Dilbert” cartoonist and part time Trump explainer, Scott Adams, pre-confirms Tatyana’s skazki
https://www.pscp.tv/ScottAdamsSays/1vAxRyRDarYJl
(periscope YouTube style video podcast). Scott explains a plausible middle-east pivot, and mentions how to verify his claims.
Radar O’Reilly 🙂
In russian ‘to tell skazki’ means ‘to tell lies’
Skazka is fantasy story, fairy tale, fable
Hi Tatyana, it would seem our very own Radio 4 confirm what you have written.
That Trump has been bamboozeled by Erdogan.
Erdogan is going to take Rajova
https://thekurdishproject.org/history-and-culture/kurdish-democracy/rojava-democracy/
The “plan” is for Russia/Syria to take no part, just sitting on the side-lines whilst Turkey steals/destroys Northern Syria.
The trouble with this plan, is Assad, he has stuck to his guns, all through this torment, when most of the World’s governments have been trying to tear Syria apart, I expect Assad will be up to his old tricks soon and start gassing the Turks.
Ukrainian warmonger stirs the pot.
‘A deputy minister in Kiev suggested that the British Navy should send its warship to the Sea of Azov to test Russia’s response. Moscow described the idea as ‘bonkers.’
“When it is being said that Russia won’t allow the passage of a British ship, I have one remark – has anyone tried it?” Yuri Hrymchak wondered during a talk show aired live on a Ukrainian TV channel on Friday.
Hrymchak serves as deputy minister of temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons – a department tasked with facilitating the ‘future return’ of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine. He was discussing last month’s naval standoff near the Kerch Strait.’
https://www.rt.com/news/447244-british-ship-kerch-strait/
Get HMS Echo out of it pronto Theresa May and control your own ‘Defence Minister’.
Seriously though, is anyone in that ukrainian parliement not f***ed in the head? Full of hatred and stupidity.
Two articles by Cadwalladr – not one mention of II or IoS and her links to it. Neither open for comment.
Some stuff about Assange/Russian/brexiter collusion based on tweet calling her codswallop – That is her evidence!
Some mention of Trump/Mueller ;
FB evasion; Bannon/CA /AIQ;
Wiley/Cabinet Office; Some Brexit outfits.
That’s the dogs dinner conspiracy theory she serves up – that Putin, Suckerborg, Trump, Breitbart, wikileaks, Brexit, No 10 are ONE!
BIT She still TOTALLY ignores Dominic Cummings and Leave.EU – who ADMITED they targeted a BILLION FB personalised ads at specific people and areas to STEAL brexit!
Ignore the confession and evidence of Cummings – sell a concoted lie instead.
Sorry Carole that is codswallop and I am not buying it without bona fide proof.
If anyone fancies dropping that on the Obsessive Groan or her Tweet please feel free.
Holly shit just had a look at her twitter – she is firing in all directions – mainly Corbyn!
The droners – could have been russia! … she has lost her narrative control and is trying to create a fug to hide in. Whilst totally ignoring any query on her and II.
Wow! They are dumb.
This woman, Catweazle, or whatever, is clearly winding herself up for something.
Something like a Christmas surprise.
Paul Gait and Elaine Kirk-Gait have been released without charge. Sussex Police Detective Chief Superintendent Jason Tingley said they fully cooperated with enquiries and they are no longer suspects in the drone incidents.
Mr Gait’s former partner Gemma Allard, says she suspects that someone “with a bone to pick with him maliciously told police he had a drone (…) Paul wouldn’t do this, not a chance, he was sitting in our office in Crowborough (…) I’ve gone to the police. The custody suite said they might get back to me. My belief is that they don’t want to get back to me as they know he wasn’t there (…) I think somebody with a bone to pick with him has gone to the police. They’ve said to them ‘this guy lives near Gatwick Airport and he has had a drone’ – I wouldn’t name who I think that’s said it, but I think that’s one potential.”
She seems to be as naive as most people concerning security and intelligence matters. It’s interesting that she clearly has a particular person in mind and, if she is to be believed, the “police” weren’t interested in who it was. I wonder whether she knows Ludmila Adomako, retired “Home Office” “worker”?
Edit: the person Gemma Allard refers to without naming is probably a red herring. According to the Daily Mail, a “friend of his” said “Paul told me that his neighbour’s hedge was quite overgrown and that he was having difficulty parking his van. He said that he’d asked the neighbour if he could trim the hedge back slightly but he refused and so they didn’t speak again after that.” Ms Allard may be naive enough to believe that that could be the reason for the arrests.
What info is there about “motorist” Paul Motts who claims to have witnessed a man packing away two drones into a rucksack?
Looks like they’ve found parts of the drone within the gatwick perimeter. Not flying, but pigs might.
I would expect to see photographs in the media if true.
I have never been keen on Sturgeon.
Shrill and politically correct. And very comfortable in Bute House.
Not really as bothered about Scottish Independence as I would have expected.
Playing a “clever game”? Perhaps, but most likely in the same way that Corbyn is “playing a clever game” over Brexit…
Can’t believe things would have gone this way with Salmond in charge.
hate sound sexist but… men break windows and women build homes
Quite sure she cares not a jot for some random person’s view…She has a country to take to independence
Four French Police Motorcyclists, narrowly avoided a lynching in Paris, yesterday.
https://www.ledauphine.com/france-monde/2018/12/23/policiers-agresses-a-paris-une-enquete-ouverte
So it is not yet over for Emmanuel Macron Banker to the Rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=Uvzy1olFtTQ
Police Motorcyclists pulling pistols on “protesters”
it does look very violent, not like it is winding down, as Macron would have the French think.
Interesting.
It’s heart warming to see the police state run for cover now and then.
Macron risk turning a small dictator, and no one in west seems to care – that that the police provoke protesters to become violent. Remember the early days when people protested, there were no clash with police, now the idea seems to provoke the protesters with offensive tactics.
The protests really show the failure of the neo liberalism represented by Macron.
First item on here.
https://www.rt.com/shows/news/447243-rtnews-december-23-12msk/
If the majority of Scotland’s MPs are unwilling to assert Scotland’s sovereignty then it is perhaps incumbent on the rest of us to give them the confidence to do so. Could someone therefore coordinate a crowdfunder to underwrite an action in a Scottish court where we could establish if the majority of Scotland’s MP’s may legally withdraw Scotland from the UK ‘union’ in the same way it was constituted? If this was done now we might get somewhere before Brexit day.
«The continual willingness of the SNP leadership to endorse Britnat anti-Russian rhetoric without question is a nagging worry for many nationalists.»
It could be a tactical game, or it could be that so many people are compromised and can’t do otherwise. The current issue of “The Economist”, a newspaper that once had a reputation as being pro-establishment but still somewhat independent, contains this summary of the “Skripal affair:
https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2018/12/22/the-world-this-year
“Tensions increased between Britain and Russia after two Russian intelligence officers poisoned Sergei Skripal, a dissident, and his daughter with a nerve agent in Salisbury, an otherwise quiet cathedral town. They both survived. Russia paraded the attackers on television, claiming that they were innocent tourists with an interest in church spires.”
If even “The Economist” is so shamelessly aligned with the security services propaganda… I wonder what has been happening. Perhaps historian of the next century will eventually discover that in the past decade total surveillance has finally put the security services in charge of the politicians instead of viceversa.
The Financial Times too used to be somewhat independent. (Opposed the Iraq War, for example.) No longer.
Even governments. Germany, France, and Canada all opposed the Iraq War, but have since been brought to heel.
Well I’m sure it was an NSA management type who stated that they could do whatever they they wanted; whenever they met a telco engineer [or politician?] who said “No”, then they first tried blackmail, large sums of newly minted $$$ if that didn’t work. I’m not sure why they killed the Greek engineer during the Olympic phone buggery, last resort for those targets with a conscience?
I mean the spooks aren’t omnipotent, and unfortunately work with a blinkered chiaroscuro mindset, but since their early simple days of FVEY Echelon, they are now at a matrix of many (30+) tier partner states.
All completely legal provided the people in the PRISM’d nations approve of their securocrats alignment with (currently) about 47% of the American establishment. (not wholly Trumpland)
When MP’s are elected to Parliament if they don’t tow the line, they soon find kiddie porn on their computer and inspector knacker taps them on the shoulder. What have we got it here ? From that time on they are controlled and managed by the intelligence services.
So much for democracy
I see the police have now found a damaged drone near Gatwick. Now that plan A has gone after a couple of patsies were arrested but released on a cast iron alibi, it goes without saying that plan B will find the drone loaded with software of a type developed by Russia.
I do not think Westminster support for Ukraine is much other than vassal state subservience to Washington. NATO orders, wanting Ukraine in NATO after having spent $5bn on a coup. When you see that that twit Williamson is kissing public arse in Odessa, you know where the orders are coming from.
By the way, IBAN codes do contain sort codes and account number. I know this as I have used them myself. You should be cautious before publishing them. If I were you, I would block out the numbers of the IBAN, the document clearly shows what you want it to show.
SNP anti-Russkies are clearly looking for US investment. Why you want an Americn owner of Dundee Utd is beyond me, but none of my business. Maybe a few lairds are looking to sell up to rich shooting Yankees?
I have used the term cui bono a few times. Proving I am neither a bot nor Russian is simple.
Perhaps, to prove I am a Langley bot I should say ‘Follow the Money!’?
Meanwhile JK Rowling loses the plot over Corbyn and Labour.
http://archive.fo/XZFBL
Oh well she could always pinch somebody else’s plot!
Merry Christmas from the IDF, as they cut down a Palestinian man’s only source of income, his Olive tree’s and force him from his land.
Watch the poor man cry my olive tree’s.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BitarDeen/status/1076457712471420930
“I took apart Leask and Nimmo’s horrendous attack at the time, revealing among other things that one of Nimmo’s criteria for spotting a Russian bot or troll was use of the phrase cui bono”.
Wouldn’t that be more likely to reveal Roman trolls?
Nimmo must have lost his mental abilities, because ‘cui bono?’ is the first question coming to mind on hearing the Scripal tale. Madness only can lead to the idea thar Putin could ‘bono’ something from poisoning forgiven and forgotten traitor.
Ah, yes, we study latin in universities, Mr. Nimmo. Together with Logic.
interesting
https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/false-flag-confession/
sorry if already posted