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Baron February 29th, 2016 – 14:57
Not you Baron!
Frank P February 29th, 2016 – 15:39
Or you Frank! And thank you for your kind words of encouragement!
Damaris had asked me about the Islamification of SE Asia but she seems to have disappeared again! The square in my comment was meant to be a smiley as my chiding was intended in good humour!
No need to read the piece, nothing that’s new or unusual in the story, only look at the picture for a while. Any sign of suffering, pain, desperation on the faces of the young boisterous boys (for it is predominantly boys)?
One cannot blame them, we all want to better ourselves, look for an opportunity, take risks doing so, but one certainly can and should blame those in power who have created the legal framework for this essentially tragic movement of whole peoples. Whether by design or default, it cannot end but badly.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/
Since Baron, a subscriber to the rag since Alexander Chancellor was running it, had his main posting removed from Fraser’s challenge to comment on the site’s quality, he put in few supplementary postings, in total three of them. Only one was removed, it asked: And the reason for kicking out Baron’s posting was exactly what, Fraser?’
Pathetic, don’t you think?
telemachus
February 29th, 2016 – 17:35
Damaris, I am surprised
All blogs have rules
And this is no exception
1. You cannot be reasonable
2. You must never support the Government of the day
3. You take every opportunity to denigrate the religion of peace
4. You must regard Breitbart as the closest to the Gospels we have today
5. You take as read that anyone who promotes egalitarianism must be attacked
But the Golden Rule is that you cannot upset
telemachus @ 19:05
Your postings, telemachus, are getting rather cryptic, hard to decipher.
What’s this ‘damaris, I’m surprised’? Or, ‘and this is no exception’. What is ‘this’? Or, whose are the five (is it six) rules? This blog’s? In this case, the rules make little sense.
Take as an example Baron’s posting at 17.15 just above yours. What’s bloody unreasonable to expect an answer to a legitimate question about a posting that was also reasonable. No nastiness in it, no swear words, even no offending anyone. And posted in a rag that boasts about backing the freedom of speech.
Nothing cryptic
The definition of reasonable is entirely political
Ask yourself which particular political persuasion is caring and reasonable
And if one should with all temerity extol any reasonable political view does one not suffer the slings and arrows
I feel a charter coming on
Or is that also opaque
Watching the TV News:
‘Asylum Seekers’. ‘Activists’ – let’s call a spade a spade – Fu**ing ‘Humanitarian’ Agitators controlling the Trojan Horse.
Baron February 29th, 2016 – 19:49
‘Cryptic’? That’s a good word for them. ‘Septic’ I would have thought.
I see we are back to that ridiculous charter again. The megalomaniac control freak still presumes he is the moral arbiter for both politics and blogs. An inflated ego bigger than the Hindenburg, but full of hot air rather than hydrogen.
It gets more like being behind the Iron Curtain that ever: 🙂
Secret plan to axe 90 per cent of Tory associations which would smooth George Osborne’s coronation as leader
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/12178192/Secret-plan-to-axe-90-per-cent-of-Tory-associations-which-would-smooth-George-Osbornes-coronation-as-leader.html
Tetley
An attempt at irony? Poor enough, sarcasm really, as we know the lowest form of wit. And so, most becoming.
Be grateful tPat FM, whom you have often made the subject of your personal insults and abuse at the other place, demonstrates a Christian spirit of forgiveness & tolerance by letting you promulgate your canards and sly bigotry here.
I for one have none of the tolerance to which you pretend and would cast you, into the fiery chasm.
“…what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
He trusted to have equal’d the most High,
If he oppos’d; and with ambitious aim
Against the Throne and Monarchy of God
Rais’d impious War in Heav’n and Battel proud
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
Who durst defie th’ Omnipotent to Arms.”
“The definition of reasonable is entirely political”
Is it fuck. Since politics are essentially competitive and combative, replete with bullshit and in an infinite state of weasel-worded debate, the definition of ‘reasonable’, whilst maybe claimed by its more unhinged ideologues, cannot be other than relative. Also, in the realm of politics it is a fact that what might be claimed as a ‘reasonable’ policy at the outset can result in very unreasonable outcomes (the left being entirely careless of the notion of consequences). Attempting to recast political pluralism as some kind of battle between a constant good and a constant evil is not just fatuous but fat headed. No surprises there then.
The definition of ‘reasonable’ in law is something else, and has no burden on any cheap and vainglorious left wing political construct.
“The care taken by a prudent man has always been the rule laid down; and as to the supposed difficulty of applying it, a jury has always been able to say, whether, taking that rule as their guide, there has been negligence on the occasion in question. Instead, therefore, of saying that the liability for negligence should be co-extensive with the judgment of each individual, which would be as variable as the length of the foot of each individual, we ought rather to adhere to the rule which requires in all cases a regard to caution such as a man of ordinary prudence would observe. That was, in substance, the criterion presented to the jury in this case and, therefore, the present rule must be discharged.”
“Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.”
A number of left wing policies, actions and designs could be listed which perfectly demonstrate their distance from any concept of prudence or caution, since they are based on a naive idealism which is assessed only in terms of its intent. In fact the behaviour of most left wing zealots is not marked by a reasoned approach but by an emotive and hysterical one, utterly bereft of any consideration of consequences.
Would a prudent man vandalise social mobility by abolishing grammar schools? Would he risk everything for his country by embarking upon a reckless and secretive policy of mass and uncontrolled immigration merely to spite his political opponents? Would a reasonable man intrude, unwelcome and unwanted, upon a group of like minded individuals enjoying discussions of mutual interest and presume to impose rules on how those discussions should proceed? Would a reasonable man lurk about and stalk those who dissent from his extreme political ideology in order to obtain intelligence about them which he then deploys as innuendo in attempted intimidation (for what other purpose can it serve?)?
What is to be gained by the constant boasts of being a better man when the accumulated evidence demonstrates not just the paucity of that claim but the essentially deceitful behaviour of the claimant? What astonishing egotism must have motivated that performance.
Col Mustard
The errant choirgirl returns!
I’m so sorry. My instinct was to acknowledge your reply to my query & the obvious work you’d put into it – & I would have done elsewhere. But I was trying to figure out CHW conventions & thought I’d noticed that many posts are silently passed over ‘as read’ without further comment. Mea culpa, I got it wrong. Lesson learned is: always follow my instincts.
There was a book you recommended further up the thread which I’ve ordered 2nd hand for the grand sum of £3 (no expense spared).
Frank P:
Having crept into the crypt again (& it’s long past my bedtime so not firing on all cylinders) am not familiar with the un-sanitised version of the joke. But using my few remaining functioning brain cells — I think I can guess.
Now to bed …
“[Mr. George ‘Johnny’ Johnson] pointed out that the Government provided no capital donation to the Bomber Command Memorial in London’s Green Park, built with the help of more than £1 million from Telegraph readers, but when the Queen unveiled it in 2012 ministers were in the front row.
“How two-faced can you get?” ”
We shall see…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/12177903/Britains-last-Dambuster-launches-attack-on-David-Cameron-for-failure-to-mint-Bomber-Command-medal.html
This week’s Wall off to a flying start. Thanks to all concerned. I shall sleep well tonight. I have a feeling that after the latest evisceration by both the Colonel and Noa, our friend from agitprop will need several transplants. Or perhaps his puppeteers will replace the whole thing, as they tend to do from time to time, under different sobriquets.
Damaris (00:58)
Welcome back. I never for a moment doubted that you would follow the alliteration. Stick around gal. Your contributions are appreciated here. You are wasting your talents over on Trolltopia, which at best is ‘no (wo)man’s land’ and at worst enemy territory. 🙂
Has anyone else noted that Ted Klutz is a much smaller version of LBJ, but with half his brain and a tenth of his low cunning.
And another thing: I too noticed the size of the Cuban cocktail waiter’s gigantic ears, but never noticed that Trump has ‘small hands’. Who wrote that crummy line for Rubioil? Moreover his rictus smile and chapped lips always make me wonder if Marco has just surfaced from a muff-diving session.
Go Trump!
And another thing ….
An interesting story from o’er t’pond:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/marco-rubio-profile-213275#ixzz41aXPua00
Eh, Gringo … You wanna buy some snow?
Oh My!
I picked that link up from Bernie Goldberg’s blog, from a commenter ‘amparis’ who posted the following comment:
Is the Media protecting Marco Rubio, why nobody talks about this?
Arrested in the sweep of a half-dozen narcotics smugglers was ORLANDO CICILIA, the husband of Rubio’s sister Barbara. Cicilia’s role, according to the feds, consisted of aggressively moving the drugs around the country, including to Hawaii, reportedly earning $15 million. “Mario Tabraue was one of the original Cocaine Cowboys,” recalls Raul Diaz, a former Miami detective who headed the task force charged with closing down the cartels in South Florida. “I started watching Tabraue around 1977, and Orlando was close to him.”
“Mario Tabraue was a sinister individual who would have you killed simply for looking at him the wrong way,” recalls retired Miami-Dade detective Luis Rodriguez. Officials alleged that Tabraue ran the smuggling operation with his father, Guillermo, a Bay of Pigs veteran. Along with being charged with selling more than $75 million in cocaine and marijuana, the Tabraues were implicated in the murder and the chainsaw dismemberment of a federal informant.
Cicilia’s arrest and imprisonment traumatized the extended Rubio family. After the government seized Cicilia’s house, a pregnant and grief-stricken Barbara Cicilia moved back to her parents’ home—reduced to sleeping on the family’s fold-out sofa. Orlando had been a big part of their family—Marco had been close to him since he was 5 years old, according to his memoir, and he married Barbara when Rubio was only 9 years old.
Mario Tabraue was sentenced to 100 years, but after some helpful informing (“he sang long and loud,” Diaz says) was out after 12 years. Because of the vagaries of the U.S. justice system, Rubio’s brother-in-law, Orlando, ended up doing similar time—12 years—in prison, from 1989 through 2000, even though he was a second-tier player.
After his release, Cicilia moved into the Rubio family home. He is listed on the house as a co-owner with Oria Rubio. (The Cicilias’ son, who also is named Orlando, has worked on several Rubio campaigns and was the real estate agent on Rubio’s house.)
In 2006, when Rubio was made speaker of Florida’s House, Orlando Cicilia joined him and the rest of the family onstage, as he did again at Rubio’s Senate victory celebration in 2010. Despite these public appearances, Rubio had never mentioned his brother-in-law’s criminal past.
In fact, it was not generally known until Gerardo Reyes, an Emmy Award-winning Miami reporter who heads the investigative unit at Univision, reported the story in July 2011.
Reyes says he accidentally came upon the Cicilia case while doing a profile on Rubio. Reyes requested all files on Cicilia at the Miami federal courthouse, and about a month later, the clerk told him the box had arrived. However, there were large gaps in the files. Missing was documentation about Cicilia’s parole hearings, such as who testified or sent letters of reference on the inmate’s behalf and what role, if any Marco Rubio or others may have played.
According to Reyes, when he phoned the Rubio-Cicilia home, Barbara Cicilia denied that her husband had ever been convicted on narcotics charges, then hung up. Matters devolved from there. Within 40 minutes, Rubio’s communications team went on the offense, launching a ferocious lobbying assault to kill the story. Later, Rubio, who derided the story as “a cheap shot” and “old news,” declared war on Univision, a saga minutely recounted in the New Yorker and the Columbia Journalism Review in 2012.
Rubio’s old friend David Rivera, then a congressman, led the scorched earth assault on the network, its journalists and its executives. Rivera, with two other Florida political allies of Rubio, wrote an open letter saying Univision’s news division was guilty of “extortion,” arguing that the story on Cicilia was merely payback because Rubio refused to be interviewed by the network’s star, Jorge Ramos. Moreover, Rivera and the allies asked Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, to push Univision for an official apology and the dismissal of Isaac Lee as head of the news division.
The efforts bore fruit, persuading GOP candidates to boycott Univision’s long-scheduled 2012 Republican presidential debate. However, “[Rubio’s team] were stunned that Gerardo was not fired and the story not killed,” says one veteran Miami reporter, who requested anonymity as he continues to cover the campaign. “They were really shocked that Univision didn’t roll over.”
As a result of Team Rubio’s lobbying, the GOP instead gifted their 2012 debate to Univision’s much-smaller and fierce rival, Telemundo, where the debate moderator was Jose Diaz-Balart, a talented reporter who also happens to be the brother of former Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, Rubio’s close friends and allies.
The Univision fight was consistent with the brawling nature of Team Rubio, which is zealously protective of the senator, and reminiscent of a similar take-no-prisoners war and media boycott in 1992 led by exile czar Jorge Mas Canosa, the political godfather of many exile politicians.
It’s gonna be a brutal summer and autumn in American politics.☺
Major General Julian Thomson declares :I fought for Britain.I know how the EU weakens defence.The myth that leaving would harm Britain’s national defences must be destroyed.
Telegraph heading (£:with a weekly allowance of free hits).
Wow
What is to be gained by the constant boasts of being a better man when the accumulated evidence demonstrates not just the paucity of that claim but the essentially deceitful behaviour of the claimant
What misunderstanding
The reasonable and caring aim to make everyone a better man (and woman, Damaris)
We are ready for Charter part one
When telemachus was created five years ago by such worthies as David Ossitt, verity, Richard from Moscow, Nicholas and Austin Barry he was astonished that his first post about bigotry was removed by Pete Hoskins
He went on to create a charter
The time has come for renewal
A wealth, health, knowledge, safety and rule of law charter
1. The country will be prosperous and no citizen will feel disadvantaged
2. A healthy life within the limits of the possible will be guaranteed by universal timely treatment using state of the art techniques
3. A first class education will be available to all citizens
4. Citizens will live safely in the knowledge of adequate policing and affordable defence
5. Citizens will have equal access to the law that protects them and their families
Now at Last we have a charter on which we all agree
Der maligne unruhestifter’s latest hubris reveals the extent to which he obsesses about others who do not share his passion for monsters like Stalin and “the Caliph”. If he wishes to make ‘everyone’ better then he should go away and stand for election or take holy orders. He won’t do it by stalking people and making mischief and he hasn’t done it after five wasted years of stalking people and making mischief merely to massage his own super-inflated and presumptive ego.
As for his re-heated ‘charter’ he should go away and have those weasel words and empty aspirations chiselled on a large slab of granite, but adding:
6. And everything in the garden will be lovely
Give his comrade Ed a call, who I’m sure will be able to put him in touch with a good mason. He might even let him use the reverse of the Edstone.
Der maligne unruhestifter: “To say so is anti-Zionist Not anti-Semitic”
Pope Francis (2015):-
“To attack Jews is anti-Semitism, but an outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism. There may be political disagreements between governments and on political issues, but the State of Israel has every right to exist in safety and prosperity.”
The left’s convention: to connive in inventing and using weasel words to obviate their hypocrisy, deceit, double standards and bigotry or as a cudgel to batter those who dissent from their orthodoxy.
They are a fervid, quasi-religious, cultish mob of blind faith, fascism and coercion masquerading as the morally superior.
I see our enterprising traveler community have been hard at work again. And one of those jailed was a traveller rights activist.
He was obviously annoyed at the negative publicity travelers get.
Among those convicted of conspiracy to steal were six members of the same Rathkeale based O’Brien family, travellers’ rights campaigner Richard Sheridan, and Donald Chi Chong Wong, a London-based “fence” who made frequent trips to Hong Kong.
As a result of the raids many museums removed rhino horns from display, but the gang simply targeted rare Oriental artefacts such as jade ornaments and vases instead.
Full story in today’s papers.
14 men guilty of plotting to steal rhino horn and Chinese artefacts
http://dailym.ai/1QQgc3W
via http://dailym.ai/ios
Frank P:
Thank you my friend. I’m sooo over the Speccie. But I find this a rather intimidating place. I keep annoying people! I don’t mean to. You’re probably wondering why I care. Well, it’s just a reality, I do.
A comment seen elsewhere:-
“Bracknell facts- 7K plus on the housing list. Schools overcrowded and oversubscribed with no parents choice of school. 2 week plus for a doctors appointment. Frimley and Heatherwood hospitals emergency departments completely overrun with 5+ hour waits at weekend with this hospital trust in the state of near bankruptcy. All local government and hospital literature issued and printed in 9-12 languages Overspill town for Slough which has one of the highest immigrant influxes in the UK. All of this turnaround has happened in the last 7 years and related directly to the dramatic increase in immigrants being transferred into the area. We have a conservative MP who we never see except when there are general elections. So yes I would agree that the majority of people in Bracknell will vote OUT.”
Vichy Dave in 2011:-
“I believe that will mean net migration to this country will be in the order of tens of thousands each year, not the hundreds of thousands every year that we have seen over the last decade. But with us, our borders will be under control and immigration will be at levels our country can manage.
No ifs. No buts.”
Four years later the annual immigration to this country was 617,000.
Co Mustard:
Now it’s my turn to chide you. Did you see my abject apology? Am I forgiven? 🙂
Damaris Tighe March 1st, 2016 – 00:50
Thank you. I was not annoyed but the smiley wink I had put on my chiding comment turned into a rectangle for some reason and there is no facility to edit.
As far as I’m concerned you are very welcome here. Always.
Damaris Tighe March 1st, 2016 – 08:48
I was typing my 0855 as you posted that! No intention to ignore your explanation and with that nothing to forgive.
Colonel Mustard – 07:31 et seq.
Hear hear.
One would have thought that Haw Haw lite, after all the thorough debunkings that you and others had given him, would consider the “study; bottle of brandy; service pistol” option. The fact that his unwelcome and futile presence, here and elsewhere, escapes him is symptomatic of his pathological condition.
Someone’s been feeding the (would be) resident troll again!
He is resident. Nothing ‘would be’ about it.
The European Parliament adopted by 485 votes to 151, with 32 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning type-approval requirements for the deployment of the eCall in-vehicle system (aka Big Brother Spying On Your Driving) and amending Directive 2007/46/EC.
There are 73 UK MEPs, demonstrating the impossibility of rejecting any European law on grounds that it will not suit us. The Europeans have always endured Big Government, officialdom and regulation, the British have not.
Baron:
You commented somewhere about the Moscow beheading. It’s difficult to know what is insanity & what is religious fanaticism, as the two can merge. Schizophrenics are known for having religious delusions, Christian or otherwise.
One of the problems is that as the establishment likes to whitewash obviously terroristic incidents as one-off cases of individual ‘workplace violence’ or insanity.
So when something occurs which may well be genuine nuttery, we no longer want to accept it. It’s a way of pushing back at the narrative forced on us.
What’s lost in all this crowing or defensive justification, is the fate of the poor child.
I also supect that a religion such as Islam, with its constant threats of violent punishment, death and eternal hellfire for believers who transgress any of the minutiae of rules & regulations (eg robes must not fall below the ankle), is schizogenic. Of course, the fear of hellfire isn’t limited to Islam but nowadays mainstream Christianity wears this teaching lightly.
Edit: remove first ‘as’ in para 2.
Damaris
As I said at 1905 you cannot upset key players
I am so so pleased that you came back and posted at 0050 and that you have been forgiven
And while on the subject of forgiveness, 0740 reminds us that the Pope himself requires absolution
*
The Pope’s need to move from blaming Jews for the death of Jesus which historically stoked persecution of Jewish peoples to an ecumenical stance is good. But Pontifex Max Francis didn’t leave it at that. He not only condemned anti-Semitism but as apologists on this site have posted he said that questioning Israel’s right to exist are a type of antisemitism: “To attack Jews is anti-Semitism, but an outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism. There may be political disagreements between governments & on political issues, but the State of Israel has every right to exist in safety & prosperity”
What he failed to say was that the Palestinians have a right to exist in peace and economic safety. And he failed to comment on Israel’s actions of genocide against them. He did bemoan the rise of terrorism & fundamentalism. Now was he talking about Israel’s terrorism against unarmed Palestinians? Of course not. He was talking about “stabbing Intifada” alleged by apologists for Israel’s pogrom against the brave Palestinians
When the Pope talks on Catholicism we respect his views as part of religious freedom. However when he talks politics he does not talk ex-cathedra as Ponifex Max. It is clear that his ridiculous views are not infallible
telemachus March 1st, 2016 – 13:53
So why are you continuously trying to upset them then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_political_violence
“Palestinian militant groups fired rockets aimed at civilian targets which struck the cities of Ashdod, Beersheba and Gedera. The military wing of Hamas said that after a week from the start, it had managed to fire 302 rockets, at an average of 44 rockets daily. 102 rockets and 35 mortars were fired by Fatah at Israel. Over 750 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza into Israel during the conflict wounded 182 civilians, killing 3 people, and causing minor suffering to another 584 people suffering from shock and anxiety. Several rockets landed in schools and one fell close to a kindergarten, all located in residential areas. The UN fact finding mission stated that this constituted a deliberate attack against the civilian population and was unjustifiable in international law.”
“In 2013, Hamas stated that the “kidnapping of IDF soldiers is at the heart of Palestinian culture.”” (note ‘culture’ not military strategy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Hamas terrorist organisation oversaw a total of 425 terror attacks – including the Park Hotel Seder massacre – which killed 377 Israelis and wounded 2,076.
Among the worst Hamas attacks of the Palestinian Authority-initiated Second Intifada were the following:
June 1, 2001 – Dolphinarium in Tel Aviv, 21 killed – mostly new-immigrant teenagers from the former Soviet Union
Aug. 9, 2001 – Sbarro’s Pizzeria in Jerusalem, 15 killed, including the parents and three children of the Schijveschuurder family
Dec. 2, 2001 – Haifa bus, 15 killed
March 27, 2002 – Park Hotel in the midst of the Passover Seder, 30 killed, including six husband-and-wife couples
March 31, 2002 – Matza Restaurant in Haifa, 15 killed, including two sets of a father and two children
May 7, 2002 – Rishon Letzion hall, 16 killed
June 18, 2002 – #32 bus from Gilo, Jerusalem, 19 killed
March 5, 2003 – #37 bus in Haifa, 15 killed
June 11, 2003 – #14 bus, Jerusalem, 17 killed
Aug. 19, 2003 – #2 bus from Western Wall, 23 killed, including a mother and baby; father and son; and four other children
telemachus 13.53:
Please stop stirring.
Col Mustard 14.18:
In 2012 I and others in Jerusalem heard the air raid siren. I had only a few seconds to rush down several flights of stairs to the basement. An elderly or infirm person would never have made it. I heard the explosion – the rocket launched from Gaza on the civilian population of the city, made up of Jews, Muslims and Christians, fell near an Arab village in the West Bank.
Sorry Baron, but you must admit that he does write beautifully:
http://www.alexanderboot.com/and-still-putin-is-the-darling-of-the-west/
And he now has a commentary box, so you can put him straight first hand. New blog set up.
Watch out!
There’s a Theresa May about!
And she’s looking for you!
If David Davis doesn’t become PM;then,under Le Grand Boris,he should–as a libertarian–be Home Secretary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35689432
Seems to me that the pollsters and the MSM are deliberately inflating Trump’s lead so that they have a better shot at dragging him down when he get far less votes than predicted. Good luck with that, folks. One can only hope he does even better than predicted. ☺
Frank P – 15:38
Some of the passages contained therein were beyond Bootiful 🙂
I found his previous entry more than a bit alarming!
http://www.alexanderboot.com/what-the-dutch-learned-during-the-nazi-occupation/
The Dutch government’s euthanasia program described by Mr Boot sounds identical to…
https://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/learning-materials-and-resources/mentally-and-physically-handicapped-victims-of-the-nazi-era/euthanasia-killings
Also:
May I suggest that, if at times you act eccentrically, as many Englishmen do, you watch yourself very closely when visiting Holland, especially if you’re of a certain age. By getting off the plane at Schiphol, you may implicitly forfeit personal sovereignty over your life.
Looks like I got out just in time!
Frank P – 05:20
“It’s gonna be a brutal summer and autumn in American politics”
Following the Rubio-Cruz axis’ attempt to smear Donald Trump with a 25 year old story about Polish demolition workers used by one of his subcontractors, Trump should go after Little Marco on the loss of American jobs. American jobs for American people. At the behest of potential corporate donors, along with the Democrats, they are to their necks in the misuse of H-1B visa scheme, even wanting to expand it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSyRMtT0-sM
Was glad to hear that the guy in this video is now suing Disney under the provisions of the RICO legislation!
Merkel: ‘I have no plan B’ on migrant crisis strategy
http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-i-have-no-plan-b-on-migrant-crisis-strategy/a-19081119
There is always a “Plan B”, and here’s one that that I’m sure many would commend to her… As I commented elsewhere yesterday, when things go tits up for her in Berlin this summer perhaps somebody might hand her Adolf’s Walther PPK.
Why have the Americans been so doggedly and persistently determined to get rid of Assad? What was it that turned them from seeing the hereditary Syrian strongman as a friend (before 2012) then suddenly as a merciless killer (after 2012)?
As late as 2011, John Kerry (not as yet the Secretary of State, a mere powerful Senator) had been visiting Assad so often (three times in just one week) one might have thought the man’s a closeted gay, wants to come out, pleads with Assad to divorce merry him ….
This is what Kerry said on one of the visits: “President Barack Obama’s administration considers Syria a key player in Washington’s efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process …. Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region …. Both the United States and Syria have a very deep interest… in having a very frank exchange on any differences (and) agreements …”
Then bang, in 2012, almost overnight, Syria became a pariah, armed insurgency everywhere, death and devastation engulfing towns and villages alike, people fleeing, Europe getting flooded with tsunamis of ME immigrants …..…
Can anyone speculate what it was that engineered the U-turn?
Baron will take his hat off to anyone getting anywhere near the ‘affair’. (He didn’t know either, learnt about it yesterday, it has been aired in the press up East).
Here’s a clue:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/489049/russian-president-Vladimir-Putin-gives-falcon-to-Qatar-Emir-Sheikh-Tamim-Bin-Ham
EC @ 18:23
Her ‘I have no plan B’ should be a powerful reason to leave the Brussels pigeon loft monstrosity, EC.
Why is it she runs the EU immigration policy? Has she any position within the EU? What or who gives her the right to overrule the Dublin Declaration?
Radford NG @ 15:57
Good point, Radford, DD was Baron’s choice for the top Tory job. He didn’t get it, the barbarian stopped voting for them, serves them right, ha ha, ha.
Frank P @ 15:38
His writing’s OK, Frank, the barbarian never had any problem with his wordsmithing, it’s the substance that’s a 24 carat trash, close to a vomit. Not for you, of course, the prejudiced ones will always worship at his altar of lies, half-truth and deceptive statistics, those who keep an open mind see things differently.
telemachus @ 13:59
The Palestinians will ‘have the right to exist in peace and economic safety’ when they stop teaching children that ‘two dead Jews plus two dead Jews equals four dead Jews’, when the Arabs give the Jews the same right as Arabs (including the Palestinians) have in Israel, and when they stop killing the Jewish people.
Do you know of an Arabic prover ‘all tribes were created by Allah, it was Satan who created the Jews”?
If we look at Palestine we see David and Goliath
In this case David is a powerless defenceless indigenous population displaced by a powerful well educated group armed to the teeth by the Americans in thrall to the Southern Baptists and given limitless resources by a diaspora around the world
The indigenous folk are filled with resentment and can do little more than use the intemperate language you describe
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For my part I defend the rights and aspirations of some of my extended family in Leeds and Golders Green. They understand the position of defence and friendship of a people while decrying the actions of the Netanyahu gang that currently run Israel
Why can the odious Dougy Murray and folks round here not understand that
Damaris Tighe @ 11:46
Valid point, Damaris, who knows what turned this young woman to be a murderer.
What the barbarian finds hard to accept is that every vile acts committed by the followers of Allah is an act of terrorism. There are deranged individuals amongst us, too, would one equate their committing murder, even if it may have been exacerbated by a religious feeling, with ‘terrorism engendered by religion’?
She wrapped the severed head in plastic, travelled on the undergoes then, holding the girl’s head, she stood at the entrance to the station shouting something that people couldn’t understand (the earlier reports that she shouted ‘I’m a terrorist, Alahu Akbar’ are now being questioned).
Does this suggest to you she’s sane? Who could benefit from what she did? The ROP, the real terrorists, herself?
Let’s wait and see what the Russians have to say about it.
telemachus @ 19:23
(Not that it matters, but) for the last time, telemachus, Baron will judge the Palestinians, or for that matter any other Arab polity that has an argument with Israel differently, if that polity is at least as democratic as Israel is.
Democracies make mistakes, after all, they’re made up of people, people err, but there exist mechanisms within democratic constructs that may, and often do correct those mistakes. Who know, if the Isreali unwashed decide to get rid of Bibi, elect someone else, he (Bibi) may find himself facing a judge, be sent down if found guilty. Nothing of this sort exists in any of the countries where the ROP rules.
That, telemachus, is what cuts it for the barbarian.
No answers to Baron’s test question posed at 18.42?
Please, do try, just a sentence or two will do.
Baron (18:55)
You’ll note that out of due deference to your sensibilities, I studiously avoided comment on the content, that is your bailiwick as an honorary Ruski. But I must pop over and see whether you cleaned his clock.
Just one point:
“Not for you, of course, the prejudiced ones will always worship at his altar of lies, half-truth and deceptive statistics, those who keep an open mind see things differently.”
Heh, heh, heh. And Tut! Tut!
If I’m included in that general catchment, this my response. When he stops acting like a KGB Colonel (which he is) my mind will spring open to see how he shapes up without that mantle. ☺☺
In 2011 Bashir al-Assad was faced with his first serious near home revolt and was terrified that his country was being terminally infected by Egyptian Morsi disease
He reacted by the most brutal put down of his population seen anywhere
After the “Day of Rage” in April 2011, Assad flooded the streets with military, police and security forces. Then began arbitrary arrests, systematic intimidatory brutal torture and a program of disappearances that continued long after the immediate cause and in friendly and rebel areas alike
He ordered actual blowing up of houses and blocks thought to be harbouring dissidents
And used chemical weapons selectively for maximum intimidation
Faced with incontrovertible evidence from the CIA – the kind that Bush and Blair would have died for- the administration had no choice but to drop him. The final nail was said to be when Petraeus took over at Langley in September 2011
Baron (18:42)
The red line, old trooper, the red line! Assad will never be forgiven for calling
the ‘Kenyan Usurpers’ bluff and showing Obummer out as the craven
c-c-c-Commander-in-Chief that he is.
All marf and no trarsers, Guv’nor.
Frank P @ 20:40
Good one, guru, the barbarian did notice you had mentioned the crafting only, rather than the argument itself, the ‘prejudice’ bit was put in in a way that didn’t mention you specifically, and you hit the barbarian. Au, au, au.
The KBG Colonel said it himself, ‘once a KGB man, always a KGB man’. But, as far as KGB men go, there’s difference between them, too, trust Baron, he knows, he had a taste of them.
Here’s a bit for you that you may find what, shocking?
The killing of Nemtsov has enraged the man in the Kremlin, and you know why? The rumour has it the guy was working for him. Whom can one trust, today, ha?
More importantly, what’s the reason for the Americans cannot give up shouting ‘Assad must go’? No guesses from you? It will surprise you, too, unless you know.
How can we believe that the majority of Syrian asylum seekers are fleeing persecution and torture? They are at the best looking for financial gain in what they imagine is the wealthy West. At the worst they are ‘Trojan Horses’ out to destroy western civilisation. After all, if one is fleeing from desperate conditions, why should they turn down the opportunity to live in France? Unless one is a Jew, in the antisemitic climate of today, France is the land of individualism and egalitarianism, and by denying the willingness to settle in France, the whole raison d’être of seeking asylum rings false.
As keen student of the art of blog commentary, I’m struggling with how I, too, can be judgemental and claim to be open minded in the same sentence, and not get spotted.
😉
Thanks for the memory..
The Palestinians have a state. It’s called Jordan.
EC (21:37)
☺☺
Baron
March 1st, 2016 – 18:42
“Why have the Americans been so doggedly and persistently determined to get rid of Assad? What was it that turned them from seeing the hereditary Syrian strongman as a friend (before 2012) then suddenly as a merciless killer (after 2012)?”
Because they, or the state within the state at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, had a cunning plan. It has been mentioned here previously. The ‘news’ seems to go in one ear and out the other. The plan to destabilize, not to reform these countries, and the reason for it was according to General Wesley Clark in place as early as 1991. Of course, it takes a bit of time to stabilise a country, and it it was thought best to have at them one at a time. Consequently, in Syria status quo ante had to be preserved until they were ready. There was no “sudden” change into a “merciless killer”. Just as there was no “sudden” change from a United States’ or a European Union which jealously guarded its borders from any unauthorised entrant to countries which could not give a fig whether they were guarded or not, and opened them up to criminal and other illegals.
If you are tired of General Clark or sceptical of his reliability, I have found a new authority worth chewing over with whose writing I am not familiar and with the unpromising name of Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya. In an article entitled ‘What is ISIS?” published by Global Research which may be a somewhat iffy entity he outlines the broad picture:
“Washington is fighting a multi-dimensional global war on several fronts using proxies. In Europe it is using the Ukrainian government and the European Union to confront the Russian Federation while in Arabia it is using Saudi Arabia and a group of Arab regimes to gain control over Yemen. In East Asia, the U.S. is using tensions between the People’s Republic of China and its neighbours to confront Beijing. In this context South Korea is being used to confront the North Koreans as a means of ultimately targeting the Chinese.
The so-called Islamic State or ISIL/ISIS is a creation of the U.S. It has been incubated by Washington as a proxy to wage the very same multi-dimensional war that has been described above. In fact, the U.S. military build-up in Iraq and Syria that the U.S. is leading is a smokescreen for regime change and war operations in Southwest Asia that target Syria, Iran, and their regional allies…”
As for the Middle East alone, Mr. Nazemroya first published and article in November 2006, now republished last month, ‘Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East” ‘ at:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882
This article includes an instructive map of “the New Middle East” which has apparently been in circulation since it was prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters and published in the Armed Forces Journal in June 2006. Russians will be disappointed to see that it does not anticipate the re-establishment of Constantinople. Lieutenant-Colonel Peters won at least 15 minutes of fame last year by calling President Obama ‘a total pussy’ on Fox News – not yet, it seems, having understood that a restraining factor on the president’s hand may be that ISIS is under his command.
Mr. Nazemroaya invokes Zbigniew Brzezinski and it seems that he may be the only begetter of the strategic vision which includes the building of the better Middle East in which President Assad seems to have become unhappily caught up. Mr. Brzezinski, who is considered by some to be a key operative of the New World Order towards which Mr. Trump appears to be turning his not entirely benign attention, published ‘The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geo-strategic Imperatives’ in 1998. That was three years before the attack on the World Trade Center (and Building 3) to which Mr. Trump is also beginning to turn his somewhat critical attention.
Mr. Brzezinski’s book, which provides a global context in which Baron’s question on Syria may be set, is published on line. It is dedicated to “my students—to help them shape tomorrow’s world”. In the book’s sinister final paragraph, he makes his declaration of independence:
“In the course of the next several decades, a functioning structure
of global cooperation, based on geopolitical realities, could
thus emerge and gradually assume the mantle of the world’s current
“regent,” which has for the time being assumed the burden of
responsibility for world stability and peace. Geostrategic success
in that cause would represent a fitting legacy of America’s role as
the first, only, and last truly global superpower.”
On the road which the visionaries have taken, Mr. Assad finds himself a hedgehog in traffic.
Malfleur @ 23:29
Good shot, Malfeur, and correct at an aggregate level of the two powers trying to outsmart each other, but the reason behind Assad’s finding himself on the list of pariahs is rather more specific.
The American visits to Syria around before 2012 were to sell Assad a plan for a gas pipeline running from Qatar through Syria, Turkey up north to Europe branching west and east. (Qatar has huge gas reserves). He wasn’t on the market, or rather the KGB Colonel wasn’t keen on it (for obvious reasons). This engendered the U-turn, a $4.0bn fund (mostly Saudi and Qatar money) was set up, used to procure, ship weaponry to Syria to anyone who wanted to attack Assad.
It went out of control when some of the officer corps of the Iraqi Republican guard got on the act, refused to take orders from anyone, a sort of revenge for what happened to them when the Americans invaded Iraq. ISIL was born, gathered genuine support amongst the (mostly Sunni) population. (The story was allegedly leaked after the recent Saudi and Qatar visits to Moscow, the visitors complained about the American inaptitude to dislodge the Syrian leader).
The idea of the Qatari pipeline isn’t bad, Europe depends too much on the supplies of gas from Russia, not good for European security, but why hit Syria for objecting to it under a smokescreen of the ‘destruction of a dictatorship’?
Baron reckons if Donald were in power he wouldn’t tell suc h a lie, he would tell the truth, publicly, i.e. Europe’s dependence on Russian gas is too high, Russia should share the market, Syria should co-operate building the pipeline.
If Donald were to say that many would back him, in the US, Europe, everywhere. Why be mendacious about it? Just look what the lie has led to. Syria’s in ruins, millions got killed, tens of millions have fled the country, Europe’s flooded with refugees (and not only from Syria), the EU’s passport free travel is under threat, Britain is more likely to vote ‘out’ because of the boost in immigration. Unforeseen consequences, perhaps, but did the Americans got what they wanted to get? Nope, no pipeline.
The Qataris are right, the Americans under the current leadership are incompetent, clumsy, no adroitness in the conduct of their foreign policy. Let’s hope Donald gets in, sorts things out.
Doesn’t really explain why Syria was on the list already in the 1990s.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3472201/Now-Lamont-backs-Brexit-Michael-Howard-second-Dave-mentor-turns-against-PM-Europe.html
It took some time for the barbarian to get hold of a video showing the level of the ‘draconian censorship’ that exists in Russia, and Mr. Boot keeps ranting about over and over again. Most of the stuff is in Russian and domestic, if Baron translated it, you may not believe the translation is accurate, it would also need explaining what the issue is all about.
Here is a short piece of a discussion on TV1, a state controlled channel, the most viewed in Russia, pumped all over the country, a kind of equivalent of the BBC1 here.
This debate was aired a week or so after Russia got involved in Syria militarily i.e. at the beginning of October last year. The guy who is trying to talk lives in Moscow, appears on the TV often, writes for one of the anti-Putin papers. Ignore the interruptions, other debates in the programme called ‘The Round Table’ are as bad or worse than this one, everyone talks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O06hu4Lo5YQ
Malfleur @ 00:55
Please, read Baron’s posting at 18.42, Malfleur, it tells you what Kerry was saying in 2010 (google it if you want). If Assad approved the gas pipeline, there would have been no place for the ‘democratic forces’ in Syria.
Baron & Malfleur,
I suspect that the prime mover in the Syrian turmoil has been and still is Sunni Saudi Arabia and it’s lethal combination of Wahabbism and stupendous oil wealth.
The Saudi minds that comprise this combination firmly believe that Christianity is on it’s deathbed in western Europe and that the present era is a golden opportunity to finish it off. This is why Saudi money is being used to encourage and subsidise the mass migration of Muslims into Europe.
The same Saudi minds are equally hostile to – and terrified of – the combination of Iran’s military potential and its firm embrace of Shia Islam. Consequently, the spectacle of Shia Iran forming a closer relationship with a Shia governed Syria is, to Saudi minds, anathema. Hence the Saudis have every reason, in their own minds, to try to achieve the overthrow of President Assad.
I doubt very much that recent U.S. Presidents – including President Obama – have any of their own religious irons in the fire in Syria, but the activities of lobbyists in Washington are a form of corruption and it would not be in the least surprising if some of the lobbyists have their palms well greased by the Saudis. And no doubt plenty of Saudi money flows into the pockets of people holding power in Turkey.
I expect books could be written about the roles in this labyrinthine mess of Russia, the U.S., Britain, Turkey and the EUSSR, but the main division among them seems to be between on the one hand Russia, led by the highly competent and rational Vladimir Putin, and on the other hand the rest, mostly led and governed by incompetents, even in some cases corrupt incompetents.
0731
We agree an action arm plan is necessary so that everything in the garden will be lovely
At last weekend’s Momentum Caucus we heard this audacious plan
1. Prosperity depends on the drive of each and every one of our citizens who must feel valued
Therefore
The gap between rich and poor will be progressively abolished by a yearly progressive wealth tax
And a truly progressive income tax regime will be enforced
Inheritance will be taxed above £200,000 at 50%
2. The proceeds from the wealth tax will fully fund a health regime integrated with social care and proceeds from inheritance taxes will allow training of the necessary doubling of doctors and nurses
3. There will be an immediate withdrawal of charity status of Private Education. Universities will pay a progressive year on year tax for every student admitted who were educated in private schools. Tax credits will be granted to all in primary and early years secondary education spent in state educational institutions
4. Nuclear provision will cease forthwith and the savings directed to anti terrorist provision
A draconian data protection regime will be instituted to make us safe
No school will be allowed to take more than 25% of any ethnic minority
5. Legal aid will be restored to all categories of litigation. Court charges will be abolished for all but high earners. ECHR will be enshrined immutably in Law such that future withdrawal will not be possible
As a futuristic plan this will not see stone but be sent weekly to every citizen electronically
Why were the Americans been so doggedly and persistently determined to get rid of Gaddaffi? What was it that turned them from seeing the Libyan strongman as a friend then suddenly as a merciless killer)?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8386511/Libya-Barack-Obama-is-in-no-hurry-to-see-Gaddafi-go.html
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John McCain@SenJohnMcCain
Qaddafi on his way out, Bashar al Assad is next.
5:25 AM – 22 Aug 2011
Yall still there?
Well you Limeys must all now have brown pants.
Donald has cleaned up.
Come November none of us are going to vote for that pinko woman. Yall going to regret the Petition. The new normalcy here will sort the Muslims once and for all. And you better believe the sheer physicality of the wall we will put up after expelling the Mexican illegals.
America just got balls again. You think your Premier gonna see the Oval Office again? Well not for eight glorious years!
Love to my old mucker Andy.
http://www.momentumuk.org.uk/
“Momentum is a leading not-for-profit organisation providing rehabilitation, training and care services for disabled and socially excluded people throughout the UK.”
telemachus @ 04:22
You’ve have now joined irrevocably the phylum of the chronically unhinged, telemachus, under no circumstances should you be employed as a nanny.
Here are two more provisions of the not so futuristic plan if the cumryd ever gets in.
6. All private housing will be requisitioned, the ownership transferred permanently to any local group of activists that can prove it has participated in any demonstration, preferably one in which windows are smashed, cars burnt, police attacked. The group’s indulging in drugs, tattoos, gender fluidity will be a distinct advantage in obtaining the deeds for property.
7. All white people will be lined up against a wall, the building of which will be financed by them in full, (except for the cumryd’s supporters who will have their faces and bodies painted permanently in any colour but white), then shot.
Any good?
John Jefferson Burns @ 07:01
It will be over only when the fat lady sings, JJB, she hasn’t yet, but let’s hope she does.
Colonel, Michael Haag’s paperback ‘The Tragedy of the Templars’ has arrived. The barbarian will let you know what he makes of it.
Damaris Tighe March 1st, 2016 – 14:48
Thank you for that reminiscence which puts the bald figures into context.
Baron March 2nd, 2016 – 09:46
My copy is a rather fat hardback so I hope that in paperback it has not been condensed or abridged. I trust that you will find the extensive use of Arab/Muslim primary sources interesting.
Herbert Thornton,
Herbert, I read your last post with great satisfaction. Your analysis of the Saudi interference in Syria is a bulls eye. Why is it that so many people who should know better, resolutely ignore the role of the sand niggers in this situation? I get so irritated at the Western leaders wringing their hands over the related problem of immigration when the whole problem could be solved at a stroke, freeze all Saudi assets in Western financial institutions. Do that and they would come to heel literally overnight.
Very naughty (incorrect) on line magazine :”Vive Charlie!”;a tribute to,but not connected to `charlie Hebdo`
Article:`Jeremy Corbyn Ate My Hamster:Tony Blair`.
Article:Katie Hopkins on Madeine McCann (fom the Daily Mail).
Article:48 questions of the Portuguese police that Mrs McCann refused to answer.
Cartoon: 252 days before a village in Kenya gets it idiot back.(Guess who.)
http://joom.ag/DbOp
Radford NG @ 16:02
As tasty as creme brûlée, the barbarian’s favourite, Radford, thanks. You missed the video on purpose? Is it really her?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TErazJoHfOw#t=30
Herbert Thornton @ 03:38
Good points, Herbert.
Who knows what the real driver of things Syrian (or Middle Eastern) was and is, it may well be there are but many, and we all use our own prisms to judge events without being in possession of all relevant information.
The pipeline was significant in two respects: It would have deprived Russia of a source of income even though gas is only marginal in the country’s fossil fuel’s revenues accounting for some 15% of the total.
More significantly, however, the project would have weakened Russia’s ties with Europe. Baron reckons the Americans would do everything to disrupt Europe’s closeness to Russia, the tightness of the coupling presents as big a danger for them as that posed by China given Russia’s natural resources (the richest of any world country) and Europe’s manpower (almost 500mn people) and technical and industrial prowess.
Btw, a Swiss company Novatek that has been a longterm buyer of Russian gas (around 0.7bn cubic meters pa) has asked Russia’s Gazprom last month whether it would be willing to boost its sales by 2.4bn cmpa. The Gazprom (with the Kremlin’s blessing) has replied in the affirmative. The TV station ‘The Rain’ has carried the story yesterday. It said Putin’s getting on the act was to show the Russians that in spite of the sanctions there still are buyers for their oil and gas.
0844
Certainly Momentum addresses disability
“End discrimination based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or age”
I can list the other aims if you wish
This afternoon, Baron was watching an instalment of RT’s Crosstalk with a chap called Peter (something or other) for whom talking must be what breathing is for Baron (and the reason the barbarian has been giving the programme a miss). Three guests, two from Washington, one from London, the subject the Syrian ceasefire.
It matters little what they thought of the ceasefire (shocked it has held), the role of the Saudis, Turkey (still arming the bad guys) or anything else except for one aspect of the conflict.
Why have earlier opportunities at ceasefire and political settlement been missed? Because the Americans didn’t have, still don’t have plan B, they all said. And not only in Syria, but everywhere else where they have intervened militarily from Afghanistan through Iraq to Egypt, Libya, Syria …The Americans get rid of the bad guys, but don’t have a clue what to do next.
The four, and others who have been making this point elsewhere, are wrong footed here. There’s no need for the Americans to have plan B, messing countries, regions up is what it’s all about.
The Americans feel either consciously or not that their superpower status is waning, they can no longer muscle their way in, destroy what and who they dislike, install their own puppets, help to rebuild because they both lack the resources (it always costs less to break things than to build them). They also have their hands tied with all sorts of ‘uman rites’ legislation.
Given the shortage of money and the legislative constraints, the last thing they need is stable, successful, peaceful world outside with rivals getting stronger as a result of it.
One mustn’t blame them for it, the survival instinct dictates such behaviour, but one has to keep it in mind. In Russia, both Putin and the opposition to him (the internet TV station Baron occasionally watches) have discovered the presence of a growing American influence on politicians, the oligarchs, movements (there are hundreds of political parties in Russia) for the forthcoming Duma election. Unsurprisingly, the former wants to kill it off, the latter player gives it a welcome. (Baron’s money on the KGB Colonel).
JJB 07.01
Trump says he is willing to compromise on the wall. He says he ‘ might make it a bit shorter ‘.
Baron
March 2nd, 2016 – 17:07
Please forgive my ignorance, but where you say “the pipeline was significant” I can’t figure out what pipeline you’re referring to.
Charles Moore rightly points out we do not need trade agreements to trade.Trade comes before agreements.
http://specc.ie/1T86eLB
Herbert Thornton @ 18:58
Scan upwards, Herbert, up to Baron March 2nd, 2016 – 00:33, the posting furnishes the barbarian’s take on the Syrian tragedy.
Baron at 16-26
Is this really the Fuhrerinne? Possible. It comes from an aggrieved Greece in Oct 2011.
See the comments: (Athena P >reply from ar nak)
https://youtu.be/sv-0XjrBVT0
A better item:
`September Song`;Lotte Lenya.
https://youtu.be/rbYjmXfJBik
Longish, but quite well researched piece on Syria as it was about two weeks ago.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n05/patrick-cockburn/end-times-for-the-caliphate
Radford NG @ 19:27
It’s a fake then, Radford, but the song at 19.41 is OK.
Radford NG @ 16:02
Excellent magazine. The news that Valdimir Putin wrestles bears for breakfast makes me love him even more and may even bring Frank P onside.
Furthermore…if Baron read the entire publication, which appears to be the case, he no longer has a case for arguing that he has no time to watch the Alex Jones Show and the Savage Nation.
If it is not just a one-off, it’s going to be like having the Dandy, Beano, Film Fun, Wizard and Hotspur (and the Eagle) back.
As I had always imagined it – my second childhood with political content!
“Vladimir Putin is purposefully creating a refugee crisis in order to “overwhelm” and “break” Europe, Nato’s military commander in Europe said today.” (Daily Telegraph online, March 2nd)
Breedlove is a bit slow off the mark on this. One would have thought he and his propaganda experts could have come up with something a little more convincing. No, Breedlove! If it’s anyone, it’s the New World Order’s cunning plan to overwhelm and break Europe and, by virtue of the US government’s order to the Border Patrol to stand down on America’s southern border, the USA.
Before he commits us to war with Russia, perhaps Breedlove could spare a moment from his busy schedule to explain how Russia was involved in the events written of and photographed in this article dated March 7th 2015 and referring back to a trend which had begun with the overthrow of Quaddafi in 2011, not without the help of the NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION by the way.
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/03/07/one-million-or-more-illegal-alien-muslim-invaders-set-to-flood-into-italy-and-the-rest-of-europe-from-libya/
But what difference, General – at this point, what difference does it make?
Oh, and by the way – in passing, as it were, speaking of deliberate acts of sabotage by western government of western society…
Our own Mervyn King, “the former head of the Bank of England [said] Europe’s economic depression “is the result of “deliberate” policy choices made by EU elites”.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-02/striking-admission-former-bank-england-head-european-depression-was-deliberate-act
Why that looks to me like part of an attempt to “overwhelm” and “break” Europe, no?
Surely it must have been the Russians, not European Union elites – but perhaps Zero Hedge got the story wrong and it was really Mervyn King the darts player, after a few beers down the pub.
(Oh, and yes, we’re in a DEPRESSION.)
But what difference, – at this point, what difference does it make?
Baron
March 2nd, 2016 – 19:21
Thanks for identifying the pipeline. So it appears that the U.S. government and presumably Qatar wanted it built while Assad and Putin were against it?
That makes me speculate about motivations. For a start, Qatar – which would benefit enormously from the pipeline is populated mostly by Wahabi Sunni Muslims. Assad on the other hand belongs to some Shia sect. Was that in itself enough to make Assad opposed to it?
As for Putin, I doubt he can have had much of a hold on Assad, but I can certainly see that he would have had reason to encourage Assad’s attitude – why not try to protect Russia’s gas export business?
Looking at the situation in those terms could well explain the sudden U.S. government’s antipathy towards Assad. But if asked to describe the U.S. government’s actions in Syria in a few colourful phrases, I would say that they have been –
1. “Paranoidly anti-Russian.”
2. “Too Machiavellian by half.”
3. “Reminiscent of a Greek Tragedy”,
4. “Foolishly over-willing to do business with Wahabi Islam” , and altogether –
5. “Uncaring Incompetence on stilts”.
Signs of Hope for Fresh Thinking in the U.S. and the U.K.
by Conrad Black (March 2016)
http://www.newenglishreview.org/Conrad_Black/Signs_of_Hope_for_Fresh_Thinking_in_the_U.S._and_the_U.K./
Malfleur
March 3rd, 2016 – 00:01
Yes, that’s an excellent commentary by Conrad Black. I think you will be equally interested in this interview with Gorbachev – you will need to scroll down to read the full text of it –
https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/215851-gorbachev-us-ukraine-war/
It’s especially interesting to read what Gorbachev says about the U.S., and how he responded to questions from a couple of American students who were to get him to give his opinion about what America needed. From his answers, this comment struck me as especially remarkable –
“I will not give you a plan or a recipe, I just think the US needs its own perestroika.”
I think that very much parallels Conrad Black’s call for fresh thinking in the U.S. and Britain.
“ …who were trying to get him to give his opinion….”
Herbert Thornton @ 01:16
Thanks for the link. It is good to see Gorbachev recommending perestroika in the USA, talking of Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex and, along with the Pope and George Bush (whose motive is perhaps not so benign), mentioning a new world order…
I don’t know if it can be called perestroika, but there does seem to be a sea change under way in American politics:
“Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee told Fox News this morning that Donald Trump’s success represents a peaceful “overthrow of the government” and that the Republican establishment should be glad it’s being achieved with “ballots not bullets”.”
http://www.infowars.com/huckabee-trump-phenomenon-is-a-peaceful-overthrow-of-the-government/
Prosecutors should serve the law not the other way around. They should not be clamouring for new law to serve prosecution but in this ghastly new state bureaucracy the agencies now seek to extend the remit of their power by public lobbying and Parliament begins to represent the needs of the state bureaucracy rather than to protect the people.
If Parliamentarians cannot see this and do not prevent it then they are complicit in creating an oppressive state.
“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”
What do all these evil maniacs have in common?
If it’s Islam, you can count on the BBC and the Guardian not to mention it
Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, the nanny suspected of killing a young girl in her care (Photo: Getty)
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, the nanny suspected of killing a young girl in her care (Photo: Getty)
5 March 2016
More bad publicity for the Islamic State’s ‘Kafir Tiny Tots and Babycare Service’. A burka-clad madwoman wandering through the streets of Moscow swinging a decapitated toddler’s head while shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ is just the kind of image the company wished to dispel. You begin to doubt its vetting procedures for potential nannies, and also whether or not it has a valid Investors In People certificate.
The less than conscientious nanny was from Samarkand in Uzbekistan (which last had a half-decent government in about 1990). ‘I want your death,’ she screamed at the Muscovites, waving the poor child’s head about. The madwoman is now in prison and already, I daresay, the BBC and the Guardian are formulating a means by which her actions can be conveniently detached from the faith of which she is a particularly vigorous adherent. Nothing to do with Islam. Just madness. As if these two states of mind were mutually exclusive.
We are back with the liberals, the people who think that something is a circle when it isn’t a circle. The BBC managed to deliver a series of three reports — the top story of the day — on the conviction of the Muslim child sex abusers and rapists from Rotherham, without at any point mentioning the words ‘Islam’ or ‘Muslim’. They were just yer every-day ordinary British folk, then.
I mentioned this fact in a short Sunday Times article and a small handful of liberals objected. What relevance is their religion? Well, on one count, it was the fact that they were Muslims which prevented, for politically correct reasons, the social services and the police doing anything about it for a decade or longer. But even then I might swallow the libtard argument were it not for the fact that this was not a one-off. Very far from it. The same vile abuse has happened up and down the country and the one thing the perpetrators had in common was their religion. If there had been 15 separate incidents of, say, Christadelphian or Methodist gangs raping and sexually abusing children then I suspect that the BBC might have found this strange thing that they all had in common worthy of comment and possibly even investigation.
Some of the liberals went on to assert that the commonality was cultural rather than religious — but it wasn’t, not in the other places away from Rotherham. The commonality was Islam and the attacks were occasioned as a consequence partly of its somewhat tendentious view of women and what one should be allowed to do with them, and its similarly dismissive view of humans who are not Muslim (all the victims were non-Muslim). Nor were the horrific sexual assaults on the continental mainland — the mass attacks at Cologne railway station on New Year’s Eve being the most infamous, but there have been many others — perpetrated by Pakistanis or Bangladeshis, but by North Africans and Arabs. But then the BBC didn’t care to report the identity of those people, either, showing a remarkable lack of curiosity.
There are plenty of Muslims brave enough to admit that there may be something within the faith which facilitates this sort of behaviour, just as there are Muslims who are brave enough to admit that the religion occasionally shows the teensiest little bit of anti-Semitic sentiment. But not the white liberals. They’re still staring at a squiggly line, desperate to believe it’s a circle.
Meanwhile, just to prove that Islam does not have the monopoly on vile acts of extremism, the police have been called in to sort out a very dangerous presence in our midst, a 15-year-old Hampshire boy called Joe Taylor. Teenagers get up lots of bad stuff, of course — but even so, what Joe did frankly beggars belief. He was caught by staff at his school in Hedge End looking up on the internet a website so repulsive that the teacher concerned must have gagged before he reported the matter to the headmistress.
Yes, it was the website of the United Kingdom Independence Party. Within hours the old bill were hammering on his front door, desperate to quiz both Joe and his dad, Mick, about extremism. Mick admitted he had voted Ukip in the past, but in an act of leniency or laxity — you decide — the police decided against pressing charges for this brazen crime. Mr Taylor later told the press: ‘We are turning into a police state and I am worried that everyone is being snooped on now. Ukip is being flagged as an extremist website, like Islamic State. But have they ever beheaded anyone?’
I don’t know Mick, but one of them once suggested that women knew where the mustard pot was kept, which is almost as bad as decapitating someone. In a sense, it is like decapitating an entire gender: that is what they are good for, women — locating the mustard pot. Just that and cleaning behind the fridge. Nothing else.
Aah, in a perfect world you might imagine that a teacher, having observed a pupil checking out the manifesto of a mainstream political party in his spare time, would have commended him for the interest he was taking in the wider world.
But not today’s lot — in the state sector at least. Our state schools are stuffed to the gills with embittered and furious libtards frantically trying to tell each other that the squiggly thing before them, drawn by an imbecile on graph paper, is a circle. They are perfectly capable of equating a political party which has views with which they would ineptly contend with the head-chopping maniacs of the Islamic State. Or, for that matter, with any one of a number of extremist Islamic groups which may draw the line at head-chopping but nonetheless believe that we should abide under a caliphate and that kafirs are no better than cattle.
Unattributed quotes used to shore up points of view
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Remember he also wrote
“it was my principle always to obey authority in everything instantly, but never to allow my mouth to be closed as to the expression of my opinion”
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We can opine but we need to be mindful of the need to regulate in the interests of society as a whole
Otherwise we have anarchy
The Makhnovists found that
Prosecutors should serve the law not the other way around. They should not be clamouring for new law to serve prosecution but in this ghastly new state bureaucracy the agencies now seek to extend the remit of their power by public lobbying and Parliament begins to represent the needs of the state bureaucracy rather than to protect the people.
If Parliamentarians cannot see this and do not prevent it then they are complicit in creating an oppressive state.
“It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.”
Tourette’s?
Regarding the USA, I’m not certain of the exat number, but it is more than 300 million people. If one considers who they have vomited up to represent them, Hiliary Clinton, Trump, Saunders et al, there must be something stinking in “the State of Denmark” (USA). And I haven’t even mentioned the pathetic choice of UK candidates!
A caller to the Alex Jones Show on Wednesday called for electoral reform so that senators and representatives would remain in the districts from which they are elected. There would be occasional exceptions for ceremonial occasions when they would visit the capital. The argument was that technology now permits almost everything which necessitated long journeys by horse, coach, rail and air to be done on the politician’s own turf and communicated electronically. Meanwhile, his constituent’s could the better keep an eye on him and the more difficult would it be for him to succumb to bribery and blackmail. The local constituency would become correspondingly more powerful, so reinforcing the democratic, republican base and detracting from or largely obviating the need for centralised federal government.
There was then some discussion of the Swiss cantonal system which lost me, as I am afraid I am not familiar with it.
As we prepare to brexeunt, and as the populist wave begun by UKIP and now gathering all patriots within its momentum as it resonates to the sound of the trumpet across the Atlantic, this would be a good time to consider renewing the old English county system along these lines as the country becomes our own again – and perhaps more so than before.
anne wotana kaye @ 10:45
About 330 million – closer to 380 million and rising if you count the illegals.
Malfleur March 3rd, 2016 – 11:13
A very good idea but the current agenda of the elite who rule over us is for regionalisation which pretends devolution but in fact creates yet another tier of centralising bureaucracy with its taxpayer funded elite telling us what to do.
Me, I’m all for the county and shire with a constabulary subordinate to those and politicians embedded and answerable who must be indigenous to the locale with a requirement to have lived and worked there (not in politics) for at least 20 years. No PPE wonks with parachutes.
We need to return to our own stable political heritage not take lessons from Europeans who have managed to politicise chaos or to import their rotten “systems”.
Equality. What is that? Egalitarianism? What is that?
Both false constructs applied in partisan, cherry picked ways by worm-tongued politicians to undermine the stability of society.
Is Colonel Mustard equal to the Governor of the Bank of England? Is a back bencher equal to Vichy Dave? Is some poor, put upon husband equal to his wife in the divorce courts? Is a man without a job equal to the jobsworth deciding his benefits? Is Joe Bloggs, bin man, struggling to pay his mortgage, equal to Lord Kinnock who huffs and puffs about ‘equality’ whilst robed in ermine?
Society is a hierarchy. All societies are hierarchies. Stop this pretence of seeking ‘equality’ which disproportionately empowers the noisiest at the expense of the quietest and instead ensure that the hierarchy is just and fair, with integrity and duty instilled in those who are privileged within it. The only equality construed by government should be equality under the law and that might be best served by disbanding the CPS.
I do find it puzzling that a fifteen year old girl from Sunderland is considered to have a complete lack of responsibility for her actions that is putting a ‘fool’ in prison, yet at sixteen, and in Scotland, she can vote.
And no wonder men don’t want to be teachers.
The article is about a lot more than the headline or my selected quote:
The Migrants of Calais
“The Polish writer Adam Soboczynski even put in a good word for pre-feminist ways. “The patriarchal society,” he wrote, “which remains alive and well in other parts of the world, was never one in which a woman could be humiliated for sport.” He noted, with a certain Polish mischief, that the young men he saw in the German subways hardly seemed up to the task of being protectors. “They were very sweet and very slender,” he wrote, “and it would have made a very very politically incorrect parlor game to guess which of them were gay and which of them were only acting like it.” Elisabeth Badinter, the French feminist doyenne, was simply bleak: “That about a thousand men,” she wrote, “should take possession of a public space and, along with it, all the women there is unthinkable. I have no memory, in my entire life, of anything similar.” Of course not. You would have to go back to 1945 for that.”
Here is the link:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-migrants-of-calais/article/2001284
I found it using a link from this article, which is about GOP future 🙂 :
GOP RIP
“The Republican Party as we know it is not going to survive this year, and in fact is already dead. If Trump gets the most delegates and is denied the nomination somehow, that’ll tear the party apart. If Trump gets the nomination, it’s going to tear the party apart. If Trump gets the nomination and wins the presidency, it’s going to tear the party apart.
I don’t see how it goes back now to what it was. Nobody saw this coming, because the Trump voters were invisible to a whole lot of us (me included), for whom America works.”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/gop-rip
I am on a roll! Here is another article linked from the GOP RIP article, again, with a lot more in the article:
Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right
“Let that sink in. Conservative voters [in the US] are being scolded for supporting a candidate they consider conservative because it would be bad for conservatism? And by the way, the people doing the scolding? They’re the ones who’ve been advocating for open borders, and nation-building in countries whose populations hate us, and trade deals that eliminated jobs while enriching their donors, all while implicitly mocking the base for its worries about abortion and gay marriage and the pace of demographic change. Now they’re telling their voters to shut up and obey, and if they don’t, they’re liberal.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-is-shocking-vulgar-and-right-213572
Watch Melania Trump’s interview with Greta Van Susteran last night (three different segments of Fox New’s “On the Record’ – watch it all and you’ll learn a lot about DT. Then ask yourselves, “Who would you rather see in charge of the security of the Western World: The Donald and his side kick Melania, or the botox bolstered beady eyes bitch Hillary with her clapped out side-kick seeking a third term in the Oral Office?” *
A no brainier? I think so.
By the way Alison Saunders, he was of the CPS has issued a dictum to her staff that nasty ad hominem remarks on blogs and social media should be prosecuted. I’m sure that the old bat is being objective and not reacting to criticism about her and odious cabal, no?
My next comment will therefore be sent from the communal computer at the Scrubs.
Watch your back folks.
*To be fair to Billy-boy: he’ll probably be confined to the domestic quarters if Hillary manages to wheedle her way to the White House. Any on-the-knees-beneath-the
resolute-desk “oral” activity will be between Huma Abedin and the beaver’s tail. ☺
Sorry about the two instalments. Beats me? That’s technology for ya. And ‘Director of the CPS’ for some reason appeared as ‘he was of the CPS’ above. Must be this infernal auto-corrector. It looked fine before I pressed the comment button.
Either that or the CPS are already hacking my blogging adventures. ☺
Good news! Brian Pagliano, the techie who set up Clinton’s server, has been granted immunity to give evidence! Judge Nap avers that this means a Grand Jury has been convened.
Pagliano previously pleaded the fifth.
Wow! Watch this space!
Frank P @ 15:23
Someone tell this chap Magliano to watch out crossing the road, Frank.
Frank P @ 14:59
Where do watch the ‘On the Record”, Frank, on the TV or the internet?
RobertRetyred @ 14:11
Good one, Robert, but bit dated, the barbarian has read it somewhere before, perhaps even here.
RobertRetyred @ 14:02
The problem Baron has with the scribblers who are beginning to wake up to the challenge of Donald is that they admit he has a point, says the truth, resonates with the masses, but then say ‘but would you give him your vote?’.
To them, a part of the establishment as they are, he’s untouchable, an upstart, someone to enjoy but not get intimate with. Their mistake, Baron reckons, because if Donald doesn’t get the nomination not the GOP, the Republic is in big shite.
Baron
Just Google “on the record interview with with Melanie Trump” which gives you the You Tube full interview. My tablet doesn’t me the top link.
Robert Retyred (14:11)
Tucker Carlson is a feisty writer and a good anchor in Fox at times. Good piece, thanks. I hadn’t seen it before.
RobertRetyred
March 3rd, 2016 – 12:20
I do find it puzzling that a fifteen year old girl from Sunderland is considered to have a complete lack of responsibility for her actions that is putting a ‘fool’ in prison, yet at sixteen, and in Scotland, she can vote.
And no wonder men don’t want to be teachers.
Guess what, Robert? Last night on TV, Vichy Dave was saying how Oxbridge graduates so want to be teachers since this government is in charge!
Concerning the girl, BBC insisted on referring to her as “the child.” Seems scrubbers are born that way, and in a few years she will be writing her memoirs. The stupid man is more a victim than she is.
Colonel Mustard @ 11:49
Very well put, Colonel.
Why is the sculpture dominating the entrance to New York the Statue of Liberty and not the Statue of Equality? The telemachuses of the world, note.
It’s at the altar of freedom that we should worship, we are born free not equal, and we should remain free.
Freedom and equality are uncomfortable bedfellows anyway. Under communism, people had no freedom, but were as equal as one can get for a large and complex societal construct, but equal in what – poverty, lack of opportunity, impotence to better themselves spiritually, moral, economically ….
As you say, the only equality that should apply is that under the law, and nowhere else. In fact, when one thinks of it, how could there be equality in a system that still rooted in a pot of meritocratic soil? It’s demonstrably non-sensical to expect an outcome of ‘equality’ in a meritocratic arrangement for all those participating in it.
To share in the economic spoils, the society may, it should, put in mechanisms for the distribution of wealth created by the more capable, but never so that the share of everyone – the successful and the non successful – becomes equal or anywhere close to it. It that were the case there would be no incentive for the able to try, wealth creation would diminish.
That’s what happened under communism, if one’s salary for running a plant of 1,000 employees equals that of one of the 1,000 employees, why take on the burden of management?
China’s recent past furnishes an excellent example of what the two approaches lead to. For some reason, the MSM haven’t been very keen highlighting the penury of the Chinese under the ‘equality’ regime, and her success after she abandoned it, partly, Baron reckons, because we’ve been moving in the opposite direction to the latter, almost desperate to emulate the former stage of China’s economic past.
The corollary of the capitalistic route is a group of the stinkingly rich, but it’s by far preferable to have a bunch millionaires and enough to eat for the rest of the unwashed than no millionaires with the unwashed forced to graze to to survive.
Malfleur
March 3rd, 2016 – 11:18
anne wotana kaye @ 10:45
About 330 million – closer to 380 million and rising if you count the illegals.
Thanks, Malfleur. And all we see is a horrible travesty of the democratic process.
Frank P @ 14:59
Worry n not, Frank, whilst you’re ‘Scrubbing’ the barbarian will send you a card each Christmas, (more likely will reside next door, will just shout the greetings).
And thanks for the tip how to get Melanie.
Live: PMQs – 02/03/16 | PoliticsHome.com
https://www.politicshome.com/party…/live-pmqs-020316
Politics Home
1 day ago – “I know what my mother would say, I think she’d look across the despatch box … #PMQs Cameron just won’t admit the gap between Govnt rhetoric and action … We want all of these children to have the start in life they deserve. … and now Teach First is the most popular destination for Oxbridge graduates, …
I found the rubbish Vichy Dave and all the rest blabbered on about teachers.
(My posting anne wotana kaye
March 3rd, 2016 – 16:16)
Anne (16:20)
All politics is a ‘travesty of the democratic process’ – always has been, always will be; America one of the worst examples. But you have to try to define democracy to understand why that is so.
It was best summed up by Dick Tuck;
“The people have spoken , the bastards!”
Problem is after ‘the people have spoken’ the bastard politicians ignore what they have said and carry on regardless. ☺
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck
Donald Trump is no angel, but America would be wise to let him have a shot at at least opening the windows of Washinton’s Augean Stables. He might even turn out to be the modern day Hercules. If they try to sabotage him by rigging the primaries, he will bring down the whole House of Cards, anyway. And Hillbillary will rise from the scorched earth like Phoenix from the Flames and the game will start all over. Business as usual. Watch the You Tube of ‘On the Record’ that I recommended to Baron above. Imagine Melania as the First Lady and tell me whether you think that’s a better prospect than either the current FLOTUS, or the First Gentleman (rapist and general philanderer, not to mention part of the conspiracy of the Clinton Foundation).
The GOP are heading for murder/suicide if they sabotage Trump’s train. If they don’t, then who knows? He may turn out to be the best POTUS ever.
The You Tube is worth watching, if only to see what it’s like to have a ritzy pent-house overlooking Manhattan.
He (and she) must have something going for them. Don’t be fooled by his coarse bluster. At least he exhibts his wealth, rather than hiding in the shadows like most of the crooks behind the scenes if politics.
Good luck to them! I can enjoy it second-hand, not being the envious type, like most commies who now call themselves ‘Democratic Socialists’ or ‘Progressives’.
Baron 1618
The Statue of Liberty
If you are rich
Being poor itself is not yet a crime, but in at least a third of the states, being in debt can now land you in jail. If a creditor like a landlord or credit card company has a court summons issued for you and you fail to show up on your appointed court date, a warrant will be issued for your arrest. And it is easy enough to miss a court summons, which may have been delivered to the wrong address or, in the case of some bottom-feeding bill collectors, simply tossed in the garbage – a practice so common that the industry even has a term for it: “sewer service”. In a sequence that National Public Radio reports is “increasingly common”, a person is stopped for some minor traffic offense – having a noisy muffler, say, or broken brake light – at which point, the officer discovers the warrant and the unwitting offender is whisked off to jail
And Baron
Remember the Magnificent 1987 Speech
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I think of the youngsters I meet. Three, four, five years out of school. Never had a job. And they say to me, ‘Do you think we’ll ever work?’
They live in a free country, but they do not feel free.
I think of the fifty-five year old woman I meet who is waiting to go to hospital, her whole existence clouded by pain.
She lives in a free country but she does not feel free.
I think of the young couple, two years married, living in Mam and Dad’s front room because they can’t get a home. They ask, ‘Will we ever get a home of our own?’
They live in a free country, but they do not feel free.
And I think of the old couple who spend months of the winter afraid to turn up the heating, who stay at home because they are afraid to go our after dark, whose lives are turned into a crisis by the need to buy a new pair of shoes.
They live in a free country – indeed they’re of the generation that fought for a free country – but they do not feel free”
Baron (15:46)
His name is Pagliano and take it from me, his corpus will be under heavy armed guard for the duration. Poor bugger. Mind you – if he was in Russia …. ☺
Btw, Melania didn’t deny or confirm Rubioil’s nasty implications about Trump’s “small hands”. But by her general demanour she seems perfectly satisfied.
Rubio should be so lucky! ☺☺
Baron March 3rd, 2016 – 16:18
Thank you Baron.
Even in the communist states there was always a hierarchy. And in those states the hierarchy could imprison and/or murder you on a whim. Again the notion of equality (and of égalité in Revolutionary France) was/is bogus, bogus, bogus.
Now our own stupid politicians have jumped on that fallacious bandwagon we are headed down the same road. And the fact that supposed “Conservatives” have signed up to it means we are in deep shit. They passed Harmon’s hair brained legislation FFS.
There will always be some thick as mince socialist wazzock telling you that the state must intervene on the side equality and using meaningless phrases like the “rich must pay their share”. In other words this equality is limited and parcelled out when the state is doing the bossing and coercing. Reagan had it taped:-
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you’re ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don’t understand that we also dream.”
“If you analyse it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
“Government does not solve problems. It subsidises them.”
“Remember that every government service, every offer of government – financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom… In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyse very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.”
“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order – or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.”
“If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.”
Thatcher and Reagan. The last of the grown-ups. We are now governed by silly children.
The loser, Romney, the “choker”, has just railed against Trump. Which may well ensure Trump’s victory. Hypocritical stiff! A phoney calling a competitor a phoney rings somewhat hollow. One of the biggest bunch of string pullers and hypocrites behind both the Mafia and politics in general, are the Mormons. Their money built a big chunk of Las Vegas for the Mob when the Mob ran the Casinos (probably still do) and ruled them by murder and intrigue and skimmed off the cream.
I wonder what the ” suckers” will think of it? He’s insulting millions of Trump supporters. It’s the ultimate example Washington insiders dirty tricks. What a bunch of double dyed bastards the GOP are. Almost as bad as the ROP.
“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. That is the reason we care for those in our midst who do not share our good fortune.”
― Ronald Reagan
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“It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour.”
― Margaret Thatcher
Colonel Mustard (17:43)
Bravo!
Frank P
March 3rd, 2016 – 17:07
Hi Frank,
I will certainly see the You Tube you recommend, and get back to you tomottow with my opinion. Lord save us from the so-called Democrats!
Frank P @ 18:07
The tally of ‘influential’ Republicans saying they won’t back Donald has just grown to 22, Frank (Baron’s on an e-mail list for ‘Trump News).
Here is copy&paste of who they’re:
“Freshman Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska became the highest-profile elected lawmaker to give a thumbs-down to supporting Trump, saying he prefers a third-party candidate. He was closely followed by GOP Reps. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin, Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Carlos Curbelo of Florida and Scott Rigell of Virginia.
Outside the Beltway, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, conservative commentators Erick Erickson, Glenn Beck and radio host Steve Deace, and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol also won’t back Trump.
The others who make up the roster of 22 non-backers, The Hill reports, are: Jay Caruso of the conservative website RedState; Eliot Cohen, a former George W. Bush official; Doug Heye, a former RNC communications director; Kevin Madden, a former Mitt Romney aide; former RNC chairman Mel Martínez; GOP strategist Liz Mair; former New York Gov. George Pataki; former Texas Rep. Ron Paul; former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge; former Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts; conservative New York Times contributor Peter Wehner; and former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman.
The two most powerful Republicans in Washington — House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell – remain pledged to back the party’s nominee”.
That’s childish, shortsighted, counterproductive.
Many a commentator have correctly judged the backing Donald to represent a revolt of the great unwashed against the professional political classes of any hue, not unakin to what the Tea Party movement was all about. Here, it’s Donald who’s the conduit for their airing the dissatisfaction, the disappointment, the anger with the lot of them.
If that’s true, and one can instinctively feel, true it may be, then their hostility to him is likely to result in the opposite to what their intentions are. The more the ‘political professionals’ kick the guy, the more the voters will line up behind him. The blind arrogance of the wanking tossers makes one truly despair.
Also, sorry for the errors in this and earlier postings, not only it’s all cobbled up in a hurry, the fugging software adds to the pain, too.
Frank P @ 18:49
Seconded, Frank, Colonel’s shot at 17.43.
So to the point, and so true, Colonel.
telemachus @ 17:11
The barbarian may come back to it (the one below), telemachus, he’s running short of time, has to disappear again.
Baron (19:01)
Many tks for the data. All grist to the mill. Trump had a gathering a little while ago and stuck it to Romney.
Intercut with video clips of Romney praising Trump for endorsing him on his last run.
I’m tooled up with popcorn for tonight’s Fox debate in Detroit, got the background CD for the gig, too:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=drTknFLlL68
I hope that’s the right link (Tom Jones singing Detroit City).
Btw can anybody tell me the best way to extract a link from a You Tube video on a Nexus tablet? When I pull up a Google search the clip appears but no URL.
Frank P @ 22:35
No help with your Nexus hitch from the barbarian, Frank, his knowledge of the high-tech gadgetry doesn’t reach that far.
The barbarian has now watched the short interview with Melania. Could he be brutally honest with you?
Well, Donald should keep her well away from from any battle of wits, she seems almost fully unarmed for it. On looks though, one would be hard put to find anything that either nature or the army of face and body specialists she can employ have not tweaked to heavenly perfection. Good enough for the Americans, you reckon?
How about a ticket for the next launch, telemachus? One way, of course, because who k nows, the Martians may be more receptive to your ideas:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRCIzZHpFtY?rel=0
Absolutely nothing to do with Donald, Syria, the KGB Colonel or anything else we get so excited about except for a link to the country that has surprised, and it surprises here, too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rncVMG-HaYI
Stephen Maybery @ 15:33
Scanning further back, Stephen, the barbarian has discovered your posting. So glad to hear from you again. You still beavering on the next one?
Not one his best, he’s better writing and talking than interviewing, but if you have spare 40 minutes it may be worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWSMURYM7bA,
John birch @ 09:22
As has happened with Stephen’s posting, John, the barbarian came across yours only minutes ago. Thanks for copy, whatever one may say about Rod, he’s one of the greats in Baron’s book.
The barbarian is still of the view the woman’s mad. (In court she yawned, before the sickening atrocity she was already on the books of a local psychiatric ward, the authorities are looking for an accomplice, someone who apparently put her to it knowing of her mental state). Rod slices it differently, and the last sentence in the following is a gem:
“I daresay, the BBC and the Guardian are formulating a means by which her actions can be conveniently detached from the faith of which she is a particularly vigorous adherent. Nothing to do with Islam. Just madness. As if these two states of mind were mutually exclusive”.
Further to my heads up on the David Pagliano ‘grant of immunity’.
Reading between the lines of the background chatter from the pundits on Fox, this could still be a political fix on behalf of Hillbillary.
If he melodramatically appears before a Grand Jury and only involves lower echelon members of the Clinton cabal, he can neatly exclude the two top villains and still fulfil their purpose. Clinton could have briefed him and named the fall guys he should implicate. It’s only a hunch. I hope I’m wrong, but we’ll see how it comes down.
OTOH (to play devil’s advocate) perhaps Comey wouldn’t bother to be arsed with going through the hoops to get a grant of immunity, unless he knew that Pagliano would cough the whole story. Unless Comey is in on the fix.
It’s like another episode of House of Cards, ennit?☺
Baron
If you had watched the whole hour of the interview between Greta and Melania and still concluded that she’s an air head, I would be surprised. The first section was just jacks for openers.
Perhaps Slovakians are not your tribe? No? (to use a Baronism).
Frank P
March 3rd, 2016 – 17:07
Frank, I’ve pondered long and used these insomniac hours to try and find some shred of hope. Trump’s brashness doesn’t frighten me, it seems all politicians have huge egos, being the nature of the beast. I am completely distrustful of all candidates, the same as I am about those in the UK. Even Farage has lost his “knight in shining armour” role, and as for Boris, he is just a very cunning clown. I hope I am wrong, and regarding Trump, I truly wish thathe is a rough diamond with his country’s best interests at heart. The same sentiment goes for Boris. I really hoep my cynicism is ill-placed,
Just to lift the gloom, just a little…
http://order-order.com/2016/03/04/nick-clegg-photographed-at-dogging-site/
An opportunity missed, Baron reckons. When the little one pointed to Donald’s hands, quipped how small they are, and what that implies, Donald should have calmed the audience, then wait abit (timing’s always important) and say ‘for President of this great country it matters not what size of hands he or she has, the size and ability of this is what matters’ pointing with fingers of both hands to his head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RshXRDYj9_o
Btw, Frank, she’s Slovenian, the Slovaks, (used to be together with the Czechs, split from them on New Year’s day 1993), live further north. An easy mistake to make, but more to the point, he (Donald) seems to get attracted to a certain type of female beauty, don’t you think? If one were to line up the three wives (so far) could one tell the difference?
How much must the French hope we remain in the monstrosity. It is we who pay a lion share of the funding of the dreaded Common Agricultural Policy.
If there were just one reason we should quit that may be it. The money that goes to the CAP should be used to fund old people’s homes (can you feel the barbarian self-interest here, soon he may be in one of them, ha, ha, ha).
EC @ 10:10
Perhaps a serendipitous choice, EC, the then leader of the confused party may have been there on business?
So it is March already,not February (?)……..but better late the never.
25th of February 2016 : The 60th Anniversary of Khrushchev’s Speech to the XXth Party Congress.
English language text in full :
https://www.marxists.org/archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24.htm
The left always ‘eat their own’ … 🙂
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/caitlyn-jenner-supports-cruz-tolerant-left-spews-hate
Imagine if he (still unlopped) had come out for Trump!
Who needs a railway station to abuse women? Not these 30 migrants, apparently:
Mob of 30 migrants chase girls through shopping centre before clashing with police
A MOB of 30 migrants chased three teenage girls through a German shopping centre before clashing with police.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/649769/Mob-30-migrants-chase-girls-through-shopping-centre-clashing-police
Can the world get any sicker?
Abortion is now reportedly “Christian” …
http://www.lifenews.com/2016/03/03/abortion-clinic-owner-the-jesus-i-was-taught-would-hold-womens-hands-as-they-abort-their-baby/
Cue Richard Littlejohn, YCMIU, Hell, Handcart etc.
EC
March 4th, 2016 – 13:50
Can the world get any sicker?
Abortion is now reportedly “Christian” …
It certainly can. It gets worse daily as people become more ‘sophisticated’ and deny G-d, believing they are gods themselves.
Just a thought on multi-culturalism.One of the most multi-cultural,multi-ethnic states we have seen was the Austro-Hungarian Empire with its Germans,Hungarians,Czechs,Slavs,Italians,etc. Even though they were all Europeans with only two main branches of a single religion this did not end well.
For an idea of the relations between the various national groups you might consider “The Good Soldier Schweik and His Part in The Great War” by Jaroslave Hasek.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a relatively Benign autocracy mitigated by a degree of democracy;but it still did not work.
The EU is trying to build a simular system;if not recreate the Roman Empire without the Legions.It is not working ;any more then the Federated Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia worked after the power of the Party collapsed,even though the Serbs and Croats are essentially the same people.
I can’t help wondering who would be especially eager to be included on the guest list for this notable event –
http://www.smh.com.au/video/video-entertainment/video-entertainment-news/private-sydney-murdoch-and-hall-to-wed-20160304-4bjag.html
Any suggestions? For a start how about David Cameron?
Another apologist of an expert knows all about the backstage dealing between the Mutti and her Turkish boyfriend:
(It’s on the blog, you should be able to get in, if you want to).
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/when-the-eu-is-no-longer-able-to-bribe-turkey-the-blackmail-will-begin/
Herbert Thornton @ 18:41
The old Australian has lost it, Herbert, someone should tell him to buy a pair of slippers, retire, indulge in beer drinking.
The ghastly Blair may be a useful man to have around, he’ll put an end to the marriage in no time.
Radford NG @ 18:27
Quite productive thinking on the theme of the multi-culty pap, Radford, and spot on, too.
Edmund Burke shouldn’t have said “those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it”, but those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Come June, one hopes, the people will remind the ruling class that there still are those of us who’ve learnt the lesson, remember it.
“HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
Ambrose Bierce
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
Philip Guedalla
“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
H. L. Mencken
…and not forgetting what Henry Ford said.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H. L. Mencken
… and not forgetting what Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli said.
There was one chap who was not happy with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.In the political tract and personal memoir of A.H. (Mein Kampf) he declared that as a boy he became politicised by what he saw as the degrading of the German element in the Empire by the Habsburgs in favour of the Slaves.
Above:that should be Slavs,not Slaves.
I hope he takes the BBC to the cleaners:
Cliff Richard set to sue the BBC after news report on Jimmy Savile review included a clip of the paedophile saying his name
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3476526/Cliff-Richard-set-sue-BBC-Jimmy-Savile-report.html
They are so vile.
Radford NG @ 20:39
The low to mid layers of the Austro-Hungarian Civil Service were staffed by many Czechs, they seem to have had what was required of an obliging bureaucracy. Adolf himself saw them as ‘cyclists, bent from waist up, peddling like hell down below’. Quite fitting, and still valid.
RobertRetyred @ 22:19
The BBC has succeeded in diluting Savile’s evildoings by adding other lesser miscreants e.g. Hall, who were anywhere near the debauched behaviour of the cigar smoking peado, Robert. That should not have been allowed, and happened probably because many of those at the BBC who either suspected or were told are still around at the monstrosity. Unforgivable that.
Baron – 23:29
Yes. In a way, each step of their malpractice is worse than the last. They also sacked Tony Blackburn, to create a distraction. The similarity of the BBC ‘elite’ and Rotherham police ‘service’, ‘Social’ Services (etc etc) is striking.
Death by Democrats – the decay of American cities.
“The most shameful injustice”
Bill Whittle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqQR-NnnIs
Sounds familiar?
EC @ 08:11
The plight of the library says it all, EC, it’s at the core of the Republic’s inability to recover, for it’s knowledge, the hunger for it, the reach of it within population that underpins any sphere of human endeavour.
Bill’s unbelievably good, the only drawback is he’s too fast when quoting facts, one, well, Baron for one finds it difficult to digest the figures, not enough time let them sink before another one hits. When it’s an non-statistical point he’s pursuing it’s fine, it runs at the same frequency, with facts it’s different, he should slow down, even repeat the figure.
RobertRetyred @ 00:01
And nobody would touch them, Robert.
The barbarian thinks nobody has touched them them because everyone is afraid their career, perhaps even personal life may suffer, be destroyed. Most of today’s journalists have been incubated in their hatchery, or are coupled with, depend on the largesse of the money they get each year, £5.0bn plus, that’s a massive number of supporters, all with access to MSM.
It would take months if not years of debating, discussing, arguing of any re-design of the monstrosity, certainly long enough for the journalistic and bureaucratic hyenas of the BBC to mount a campaign aimed at destroying the individual in order to kill the re-shaping of it.
As always, the implosion of the agitprop may come from totally unexpected quarters, that’s what happens to dictatorships.
Baron – 10:06
Spare another 5 mins? I’d recommend Scot Ott’s latest thought”
“You Can Become GOP Establishment Overnight with These 6 Simple Words”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizoM3O84Y8
His personal journey described here, but as ever his wicked humour used as the delivery vehicle for the serious point(s) he wishes to make.
Baron,
Not much beavering, I have not worked for damn near five months, and there have been a few ups and downs, but hell, what is the point of life without a bit of drama to spice things up? Getting back into the saddle slowly, this week I am putting together an article, it is about time this EU bollocks was put into perspective. In the meantime, on with the motley. I ain’t giving up.
Best wishes to all on the wall.
Baron,
Forgot to tell you, I am currently reading Simon Sebag-Montefiore’s latest, The Romanovs. It’s brilliant.
EC @ 10:24
The guy’s amazing, the fluency, the clarity of the message, the presentational skills, arghhh. It makes the poorly educated Slav angry, EC, angry with Him (nature?), he (it) endows Scott with a spectrum of amazing abilities, leaves the barbarian empty handed. Where TF is equality, ha?
Anyway, what’s wrong with the American electoral system today that it cannot elevate to the top job someone like Scott? Is it really money, one has it, or gets it donated, one has a chance?
Stephen Maybery @ 13:16
You remember, Stephen, to keep breathing, that’s what underpins everything else, and do let us know if we can help either here (or via e-mail).
Good editorial in this week’s Speccie on the resurrected and re-heated so-called Snooper’s Charter. I do hope some of the blithering idiots in Cameron’s government read it and get the point.
Also another good article ‘Communism Kills’ about the grisly shame of that ideology and the twerps who still worship it and flaunt its symbols instead of being thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Apparently its horrors are not much taught in UK schools. No need to wonder why. This is a subject close to Wallsters, not by choice, but because we face constant reminders of the twerpery involved.
The programme, Kate Adie’s ‘From Our Correspondents’ running on BBC4 from 11.30 each Saturday (she, one of the fossilised BBC hacks), the first report today from Jon Sopel, youngish, aggressively progressive correspondent in Washington, the subject, what else, ‘the Donald’.
Impossible to tell you how much dirt has dear Jon heaped on the Republican frontrunner in about ten minutes. Everything was there, his wealth, hair style, furnishing of his abode, the revoltingly populist views, the entourage of cosmetically enhanced women at an interview, even a shock that everyone, yup, every poor unwashed at some dirt racing event the wanker attended was in favour of the truth telling candidate, not that they had a dime to spend, but they loved Donald … Any objectivity, you may ask? Nope, not a grain of it.
This was followed by a report from Germany. A concentration guard is on trial well over half a century after the event, which may one wonder ‘why now’? Well, the timing’s right because of the challenge presented by the waves of refugees. And the report didn’t disappoint on the link, virtually every part of it was a coupling of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, and the need for the German Volk to atone for it by welcoming the masses escaping hunger, pain, death.
No mention at all of the newcomers religious affiliation, creed, the fact backed by a UN data that three quarters of the immigrants were no refugees, but young men seeking better life for themselves.
Next in line, a report from a Pakistani correspondent, a funeral of a bodyguard who killed a Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in January 2011. The killer got hanged four days or so ago. The governor was a strong opponent of blasphemy laws, represented a Christian woman against an enraged Muslim neighbour (her family is now in hiding), a rather decent Muslim man by all accounts.
Thousands of the executed man’s supporters took to the streets in cities across Pakistan as news of his death emerged, and security forces were on high alert at his funeral on Tuesday, large numbers of mourners attended, placards like ‘you’re our hero’ and ‘we are all Qadri now’ (that’s the name of the killer) were everywhere.
Nuffsaid of the BBC program except that dear Kate didn’t think the scheduling of the reports through well enough.
The newcomers from the ME and elsewhere from the lands of Allah flooding Europe today are of the same Islamic block as the hordes of pre-medieval religious zealots demonstrating in Pakistan. It may even be, some of those who chanted for the killer will arrive here next week, next month.
How mad can one get?
This considerably brightened up my Saturday morning – I hope it does the same for the Wallers’ evening –
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-dont-underestimate-donald-he-will-win
Feminist glaciology? Stop the world, I want to get off!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/05/climate-craziness-of-the-week-feminist-glaciology-in-the-climate-change-context/
Cue Richard Littlejohn
Cue the Spike Milligan theme tune…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB3i8Wftv6g
The last sane person ever to be employed by the BBC?
(and the had a certificate to prove it)
EC @ 18:50
That’s a genus of madness one can take, EC, who would object to it?
Pity, the man isn’t with us anymore, even pitier nobody has beenable to fill the vacuum his leaving us created.
EC @ 18:47
Whilst this genus of human imbecility, EC, should best be filed in the waste paper basket.
Perhaps we’re wrong objecting to the Islamic infusion of the West, better still, as AA Gill once asked (and got very much reprimanded by his editors) ‘where are the suicide bombers when one needs them?’.
The Moscow nanny explains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZaDxnaVmN0
You may recall, some time ago, the barbarian mentioned a contemporary Russian thinker Alexander Dugin, in favour in Kremlin, then not. What’s his position today, Baron doesn’t know.
In the clip he speaks in English, not bad but not perfect either, in Russian he’s much better. And, in case some of you think Baron agrees with everything he says (here or elsewhere) you’re wrong, he doesn’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54gzSBhqJSc
Herbert Thornton @ 17:15
Cheering us, or rather the barbarian for the evening, Herbert, the piece can. But what about tomorrow, the day after?
It truly pains Baron to keep saying it, but there’s no reverse gear for the Republic, reverse in a sense of the re-discovery if its former strength. The old cliched quip ‘the people have the leaders they deserve’ applies. The past holders of the presidency didn’t help, but they are not the prime culprit for the country’s ills, the morphing of the whole society is.
The current generation of the American burghers differs both in demographics and ethnicity from the past, it resembles not their forefathers, it possesses not what they possessed – the hard labour, the expectation of no entitlements, and above all the hunger to better themselves.
Money is what makes things go around, but the debt burden on the balance sheets of individuals, corporations, the Government is massive, to boost it further will make the financing of it unbearable even if the cost of money stays low (it cannot and won’t), the dollar remains a reserve currency, (which is far from certain, too).
If Donald gets the nomination, even if he wins in November, he will find the electorate expecting a miracle. What the electorate doesn’t and won’t comprehend is that it isn’t up to the top to deliver the miraculous turnaround, but up to them.
Donald may cut welfare, cancel useless projects that buy favours, slash other federal spending, but it all must inevitably, even if transiently, engender a phase in which resources will move from the less to the more productive segments of the economy, and that includes the re-training and re-education of the labour force. A labour force that doesn’t shine as the best in the world. Whether those effected by the reallocation will endure it remains uncertain.
In a sense, the American society has reached a peak in what the barbarian calls ‘the shirt syndrome of final demand’. One has one shirt, buys another, a genuine happiness for one has doubled one’s assets in shirts. One has 100 shirts, buys the 101st one, one barely notices it.
Most Americans have enough shirts not to get excited about the addition of another few, may not like it if the acquiring of many of the garments is financed from the Federal budget, but will live with it for reasons of compassion, altruism, charity.
Those who still hunger for many more shirts will be increasingly outnumbered by those who’ll take what’s coming to them, will grumble sometimes they haven’t got enough, occasionally shout, but will not join in the wealth creation on their own.
The distribution of assets will continue as it has done in the recent past. There is enough wealth in the Republic to keep going for few decades yet. What happens then only He knows, or the Mandarin speakers will decide.
(Baron may of course be wrong, Herbert, and he hopes he is).
Newsletter 2016/02/23 – The Brexit Summit Show
BERLIN/LONDON (Own report) – Assessing the outcome of last week’s
“Brexit” Summit quite positively, Berlin continues to urge London to
remain in the EU. In the shadow of British demands to restrict social
benefits for foreigners from other EU member countries, the German
government has reached its objective of significantly cutting payments
of child support benefits to immigrant workers from Eastern und
Southeastern Europe – with an estimated three digit millions in
savings to the German budget. The other concessions to London are
primarily symbolic and, therefore, without consequences. It is also
not sure that they fulfill the stipulations of EU jurisprudence.
According to reports, a “summit choreography” was stage-managed, to be
able to sell the meager results of the meeting to the British public
as the negotiating success of their prime minister: All-night debates
and hectic appearances of a seemingly stressed David Cameron
suggesting tough power struggles over decisions that, in fact, had
long since been made. Berlin is interested in keeping Britain in the
EU, primarily for military and economic reasons.
more
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58920
DAMASCUS/BERLIN (Own report) – In an interview with Germany’s ARD
public television, the Syrian President Bashar al Assad acknowledged
Germany’s role in hosting Syrian refugees and does not rule out
Germany’s playing an influential role in Syria’s future. He “hopes”
that other countries, “especially European countries” – and Germany as
the strongest EU power – would “play a role” in ending the Syrian war.
However, to accomplish this, they must be “independent” of the USA,
Assad declared. The ARD broadcast the exclusive interview at a time
when Berlin is seeking a leading role in the international Syria
negotiations and preparing to enhance its influence within the
framework of the eventual reconstruction of this Middle Eastern
country. Meanwhile, a US think tank is strongly criticizing the West’s
war on the “Islamic State” (IS/Daesh). According to the
military-affiliated Institute for the Study of War (ISW), it is a
mistake to focus the fight on Daesh and ignore other jihadi militias,
such as Jabhat al Nusra. This would only facilitate the al Qaeda
subsidiary Jabhat al Nusra taking power, particularly in Northern
Syria, where the jihadists have firmly established themselves in the
population. Berlin would also be confronted with significantly
reinforced jihadist organizations, such as Al Nusra, in the framework
of the eventual reconstruction efforts.
more
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/58922
http://eureferendum.com/Default.aspx
One for you Baron, if you have 55 minutes to spare.
Peter Hitchens being provocative at the University of Lincoln on Monday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBzoMuJUrAU
From a brief conversation with a loon at the Spectator,it occurs to me : in small and medium shops in the inner suburbs we can buy goods from Africa,the West Indies,and various parts of south Asia ;which,now I think of it,are subject to 10% import duty from the EU.
I haven’t heard CMD telling us INTDWI, but then I don’t watch BBC news:
Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Worsens
Public spaces are becoming perilous for women and children
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7557/germany-rape-migrants-crisis
“Public spaces are becoming perilous for women and children” is Sharia Law in action.
Dunno if this is on wallsters radar but the lisbon treaty puts many issues under qualified majority voting from 31 March 2017.
One of those areas is EU membership.
That could mean even if the UK parliament votes to leave and the UK invokes article 50, if we dont get a majority of other countries to agree in a vote, then we cant leave.
WTF?????
Driverless lorries are to be trialled in the UK, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to confirm in his Budget speech this month. (BBC Web)
Why not government without ministers – now that would be economica; and make sense!
Noa @ 23:31
Thanks and merci, Noa. Provocative, but closer to the truth than any nonsense the MSM poodles are telling us.
You haven’t told the omni-all Mr. Boot, have you. Please, don’t, a coronary may get him.
Here’s another example of the imbecilic behaviour of those who run us, in this case some top NATO analyst says the KGB Colonel is using the refugee crisis to undermine Germany democratic institutions and get rid of the MUtti. Not once in the whole piece is there a mention of how it works. Does he sneak in at depth of night into Mutti’s bedroom, whispering into her ear ‘listen, woman, when you wake up, go tell the immigrants to come, you’ll love them, do everything for them, as will the the German people ….’
Is there no end to the man’s abilities? The American unwashed were spot on when asked a year or so ago who should be governing them, answering Putin by a ratio of 2 to 1.
You may see it differently, Baron gets often scared thinking the people in charge in the West are deficient in the brain department, behave as if released by mistake, a greater danger to us than ISIL, and not only, or mostly, because of the idiocies they feed us on Russia, but in other walks of life, too.
What would be more convincing for NATO is to claim Putin converted the NATO Latvian expert to say this transparently untrue story to sow unrest, resentment to the EU, dislike of the Mutti.
It just occurred to Baron the Guardian may have given the expert the prominence it doesn’t deserve knowing readers will think it’s bollocks because the Guardian’s in Putin’s pocket?
Conspiracies, conspiracies, don’t you just love them, Malfleur?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/05/russia-refugee-germany-angela-merkel-migration-vladimir-putin?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=160362&subid=11371947&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
You may not bother with the piece, but read some of the comments below, hardly any agreeing with the analyst/Guardian. When will the ‘leaders’ learn that people use the internet, can and do find things, cannot be easily fooled.
anne wotana kaye @ 10:05
Seconded, anne, no trial’s necessary for the suggestion of yours.
Alexsandr @ 06:10
It may work in our favour, Alexandr, if the refugees keep coming many other EU members may get restless, join the queue to leave.
RobertRetyred @ 00:48
It’s all Putin’s fault, Rebert, it must be he who not only let the immigrants in, he also tells them to behave badly. Simples.
Are the Americans getting ready to put in action another false flag operation, succeeding, then claiming we must put boots on the ground in Russia to accomplish another successful regime change?
Btw, a big row in Ukraine. Newland’s attempt to salvage whatever can be salvaged and replace the going PM with one more ‘pro-reforms’ has failed (a woman who has both Ukrainian and American citizenships, imagine if before the putsch Putin wanted a PM holding a Russian passport, arghhh). One of the previous PMs, the blonde woman who embezzled billions, spent time inside, has now called for new election, totally against the American advice (they fear is the individuals backed by the West will lose).
It won’t be long before some hack pens a piece Putin’s behind it all (it would ring true more than the Latvian expert’s story though).
Apologies for not giving you any names, not necessary, hard to remember anyway.
Mistakes galore again, sorry.
telemachus, an avid theatre buff came across this wonderful review this morning on his return from 8 O’Clock
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“It seems strange to go to the King’s Head and not see its presiding genius, Dan Crawford. But dear Dan, who died two weeks ago, had a passion for old theatrical forms, and they don’t come much older than this farce by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans, which deals with the Spectator’s sexual shenanigans.
The premise is simple enough: Boris Johnson, on the promise of high office or at least the job of shadow arts spokesman, declares the Spectator a “nooky-free zone”. Fat chance when the editor himself is entangled with a star columnist, Rod Liddle is on the prowl and the publisher, Kimberly Quinn, has set her cap at David Blunkett. Add a gay, visa-seeking Chilean chef and a sexy receptionist who is a Guardian mole and you have all the ingredients of basic British farce.
The obvious objection to the show is that it’s a metropolitan in-joke that wouldn’t have much resonance in Leamington, Lerwick or Louth. Far from satirising the Spectator, the show also seems like a discreet puff for its supposedly aphrodisiac quality. No one stoops to anything so mean as commissioning, writing or editing: they’re all too busy banging away in cupboards or on a double-bed concealed behind a portrait of Margaret Thatcher. As the voracious lady columnist says when she hears that the editor is likely to be promoted to shadow chancellor, “desk or carpet?”
But although the show is old hat, I couldn’t bring myself to dislike it. Some of the situations are quite funny, such as the home secretary, tactfully played by Paul Prescott, inadvertently receiving a blow-job from the Chilean chef. Each character is also given a single quality that is mercilessly milked. Thus Kimberly Quinn is turned into a power-groupie enthralled by David Blunkett’s hardline measures and Boris Johnson into a bumbling buffoon who, in the play’s best line, cries: “If we don’t save the planet, we’ll have to move.”
If any one performer transcends the material it is Sara Crowe, as Petronella Wyatt. With her pinched vowels and sharp tongue, she creates a character who exudes an aromatic hauteur.
Having stolen nearly every show she’s been in, Ms Crowe is a class act who lifts an incestuous media romp onto a higher level.”
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http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jul/26/theatre
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I am sure the good Lloyd Evans
And indeed many more
Will have a fund of anecdotes in the event that Trump Lookalike Boris seeks high office
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We British still have a moral compass
What it’s like to be white, indigenous, ethnic British.
• Worrying you’ve accidentally packed 3 kilos of cocaine and a dead goat as you stroll through “Nothing to declare”
• Being unable to stand and leave without first saying “right”
• Not hearing someone for the third time, so just laughing and hoping for the best
• Saying “anywhere here’s fine” when the taxi’s directly outside your front door
• Being sure to start touching your bag 15 minutes before your station, so the person in the aisle seat is fully prepared for your exit
• Repeatedly pressing the door button on the train before it’s illuminated, to assure your fellow commuters you have the situation in hand
• Having someone sit next to you on the train, meaning you’ll have to eat your crisps at home
• The huge sense of relief after your perfectly valid train ticket is accepted by the inspector
• The horror of someone you only half know saying: “Oh I’m getting that train too”
• “Sorry, is anyone sitting here?” – Translation: Unless this is a person who looks remarkably like a bag, I suggest you move it
• Loudly tapping your fingers at the cashpoint, to assure the queue that you’ve asked for money and the wait is out of your hands
• Looking away so violently as someone nearby enters their PIN that you accidentally dislocate your neck
• Waiting for permission to leave after paying for something with the exact change
• Saying hello to a friend in the supermarket, then creeping around like a burglar to avoid seeing them again
• Watching with quiet sorrow as you receive a different haircut to the one you requested
• Being unable to pay for something with the exact change without saying “I think that’s right”
• Overtaking someone on foot and having to keep up the uncomfortably fast pace until safely over the horizon
• Being unable to turn and walk in the opposite direction without first taking out your phone and frowning at it
• Deeming it necessary to do a little jog over zebra crossings, while throwing in an apologetic mini wave
• Punishing people who don’t say thank you by saying “you’re welcome” as quietly as possible
• The overwhelming sorrow of finding a cup of tea you forgot about
• Turning down a cup of tea for no reason and instantly knowing you’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake
• Suddenly remembering your tea and necking it like a massive, lukewarm shot
• Realising you’ve got about fifty grand’s worth of plastic bags under your kitchen sink
• “You’ll have to excuse the mess” – Translation: I’ve spent seven hours tidying in preparation for your visit
• Indicating that you want the last roast potato by trying to force everyone else to take it
• “I’m off to bed” – Translation: “I’m off to stare at my phone in another part of the house”
• Mishearing somebody’s name on the second time of asking, meaning you must now avoid them forever
• Leaving it too late to correct someone, meaning you must live with your new name forever
• Running out of ways to say thanks when a succession of doors are held for you, having already deployed ‘cheers’, ‘ta’ and ‘nice one’
• Changing from ‘kind regards’ to just ‘regards’, to indicate that you’re rapidly reaching the end of your tether
• Staring at your phone in silent horror until the unknown number stops ringing
• Hearing a recording of your own voice and deciding it’s perhaps best never to speak again
• The relief when someone doesn’t answer their phone within three rings and you can hang up
• Filming an entire fireworks display on your phone, knowing full well you’ll never, ever watch it again
And while we discuss moral rectitude
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Read Toby Helm Saturday 9 February 2013 21.16
Michael Gove faces accusations that he may have misled parliament over claims of bullying and intimidation by key advisers at the Department for Education.
The Observer can reveal that a senior civil servant in the education secretary’s department has received a secret payoff of about £25,000 out of public funds, after a lengthy grievance procedure involving members of Gove’s team, including his special adviser, Dominic Cummings, and the department’s former head of communications, James Frayne.
While an investigation within the department cleared the men, and said no disciplinary action was necessary, the final judgment made clear that their conduct had on occasions fallen short of the levels expected and that the behaviour of Cummings and Frayne, who has since left the department, “has been perceived as intimidating”. After the internal investigation was launched in the spring of 2012, the civil servant also decided to lodge a case with a tribunal, where the allegations would have been heard in public. A date was set for last month, but after further negotiations the financial settlement was agreed and the tribunal was cancelled.
On 23 January, however, Gove – who under the ministerial and special advisers’ codes is responsible for the behaviour of his advisers (known as Spads) – denied knowledge of any allegations of misconduct during an appearance before the education select committee.
Labour MP Ian Mearns first asked him about “previous allegations about Spads acting inappropriately”. He asked: “Are there elements working within the department that are out of control, secretary of state?” Gove answered: “No.”
Mearns asked: “Categorically, absolutely not?” Gove replied: “I am not omniscient, but I have seen no evidence of that.” Mearns then asked: “Are you aware of allegations of Spads acting inappropriately to civil servants within the department?” Gove answered: “No.”
Labour sources said that it was almost inconceivable that Gove could not have known about the case and the payout. The Observer also understands that last year more than a dozen more junior officials lodged a “collective” grievance procedure and many later left the department.
Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, said: “These are incredibly serious allegations. It appears that Michael Gove has either misled parliament or appears to have no control or knowledge of what his advisers do on his behalf. Either would be a breach of the ministerial code. We need a full investigation by the cabinet secretary.”
Mearns told the Observer that there was a case for Gove to be recalled to the committee: “Clearly there is a case for the secretary of state to come back to the committee and answer further questions. He has either misled the committee or is the most ill-informed minister in the government.” The DfE said: “It would not be appropriate to comment on individual employment matters.” There was no response from the education secretary or the individuals involved.
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The worry is that this man now directs our Justice
Chilling
anne wotana kaye
March 6th, 2016 – 10:05
“Driverless lorries are to be trialled in the UK, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to confirm in his Budget speech this month. (BBC Web)
Why not government without ministers – now that would be economica; and make sense!”
Indeed so Anne. At what point will they realise we don’t need them and they can all …f,f,f fade away? As one Michael Jagger once tunelessly warbled.
I’m always surprised that Messrs Cameron and Co, those patronising practitioners of spin and gobbledegook to we illiterate and uncomprehending masses, fail to realise that the ultimate logic and consequence of their EU enthusiasm and one world liberalism is in their own demise and replacement by even less talented career apparatchiks than themselves.
And that’s saying something.
‘And while we discuss moral rectitude’
Bwahahaha!
Moral rectitude is not something upon which you, a demonstrable hypocrite, self avowed Leninist and promoter of the execution of your political opponents and enemies can hold any tenable position other than slithering over them in self ashamed silence.
So take your reasonableness, your revived, ghastly charter, you collective grievances and stick them up your rectitude.
Baron
“..You may see it differently, Baron gets often scared thinking the people in charge in the West are deficient in the brain department, behave as if released by mistake, a greater danger to us than ISIL, and not only, or mostly, because of the idiocies they feed us on Russia, but in other walks of life, too.”
No, I don’t believe I do. Western politicians want, no they need a bogeyman. Someone who can be whipped for their own sins. Putin, the representative of the cruel and mysterious East, the ‘Ostfront’ serves in that role, for the moment.
Germany’s traditional Eastward hegemonic ambitions and expansionism, now through the mechanism of the EU, has been and continues to be supported by the US, whose geo-political ambitions have long favoured a strong US controlled German-led Western bridgehead expanding into the Asian landmass and reducing Russia to a buffer state.
The complication for Europe is its dependence on Russian fossil fuels and Putin’s demonstrable ability and willingness to control their supply in Russia’s interests.
You know well that Vladimir Ilyich simply paved the way for their Great Leader who saved us all from German domination
Ye Gods!
Wind breaking news
Dan Dan ‘the Labour man’ Hodges scion of Labour peeress (I never can or will get used to that oxymoronic juxtaposition of socialism and inherited privilege) and actress luvvie Glenda Jackson, joins the Mail on Sunday next week as a columnist.
What has middle England done to deserve this master of tendentious prosaic tedium, this apologist for Blair treachery, this pin-head dancing observer of Notting Hill nausea and angst, plonking on its breakfast table?
Come back the News of the World, all is forgiven better the news of the screws than death by a thousand vegan cutlets.
“You know well that Vladimir Ilyich simply paved the way for their Great Leader who saved us all from German domination”
Of course, the great Stalin, that man of steel. Let us all pay tribute to the man who, in the midst of killing some 20 million of his people during the Terror, including the officers of the Red Army, nevertheless found time to enter the Non-Aggression pact at Brest -Litovsk with his ideological enemy, pave the way for the gang rape of Poland and the Baltic states and the near destruction of Russia.
The saviour of us all from German domination indeed.
AW Kaye, @ 10:05
I wonder what happens when the first of these driverless lorries is irradiated by a bright green laser from a motorway bridge?
Noa March 6th, 2016 – 13:10
The figure of 20 million comes from Robert Conquest’s ‘The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties’ (Macmillan 1968) but the overall deaths attributable to Stalin’s complete reign are much greater, probably about twice that although some estimates are up to 60 million dependent upon the criteria, e.g. gulag deaths.
Regardless, the fact that some choose to hero-worship that monster reveals just how disgustingly, repulsively vile they are. Even if the boasts about Stalin are intended only as provocative mischief they are still sick given the reality of his victims, human beings every one. And the fact that such vile creatures inhabit the British left of the Corbyn era should be a stark warning to us all.
Colonel Mustard 15.05
With which comment I concur.
In addition to the unfortunate Russian citizens already being subjected to the Red Terror “…The pact also affected Poles, Jews, Latvians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Byelorussians, Ukrainians and Romanians who became Soviet citizens under its aegis, their homelands annexed by the USSR. A few of them, certainly welcomed the change. The vast majority did not. Huge numbers suffered persecution, torture and death at Soviet hands, the most notable being the 22,000 Polish army officers and officials murdered in the Katyn massacres of 1940.. [as you have pointed out previously to the comrade]… Many more suffered deportation to the Soviet interior. From eastern Poland alone, as many as 1.5 million people were deported in 1940-1. Tens of thousands were also deported from the Baltic states and Bessarabia. All were destined for the wild depths of the USSR…and a life of hard labour in the many Gulag camps, which only the strongest would survive. For those in any doubt about the grim reality of Stalin’s Gulag, it is worth remembering that the Soviet camps had a higher death rate than Hitler’s concentration camps. Some of those survivors and their descendants are still there today…”
Roger Moorhouse “The Devil’s Alliance Hitler’s pact with Stalin 1939-1941”
telemachus @ 12:58
It wasn’t the great leader who saved us from the Nazi domination, telemachus, it was the Russian unwashed led by officers who were often recalled from prison cells dispatched to the front still covered in blood from torture.
If anything, without the Great Leader, his grave misjudgment and inaptitude in things military fewer men and women would have perished in their heroic struggle with the evil.
Colonel at 15.05 and Noa at 15.43+:
Seconded.
Baron and Noa
If you looked at things from the point of view of a superficial understanding of International Socialism, the Molotov Ribbentrop pact of 23 August was a betrayal
Not so
The Visionary Leader knew that his people were not ready to repel the mighty Panzer divisions
He bought time
He used the time to harness Russian industry to a Great War effort
When Barbarossa was in full swing he motivated the Russian people to do their historic duty for the motherland
The turnaround on the Volga was the most impressive demonstration of the effects of one man’s will seen since Alexander the Great
History tells us how that effort of will took the Russian people to Berlin to crush an evil enemy that had eluded the combined efforts of the old colonial powers propped up by America
If you go to Moscow now or go to talk to my friends in Yekaterinburg you lean that the great betrayal was that of Gorbachev and his successor Yeltsin
Not the Great Leader who won the Great Patriotic war for the whole world
He is revered
They begin to see in Putin some of the stirrings of that greatness
Noa @ 12:28 & 35:
You really are in a combative mood today, Noa.
Btw, what has happened to the guru, is he already serving time? That was quick, he only mentioned the possibility of it a week or so ago, and bang, his case done and dusted. What an amazing efficiency.
A very interesting and thoughtful interview.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/05/steve-forbes-weighs-in-on-economy-2016-election/
h/t Sheriff David A. Clarke
Chris Morriss
March 6th, 2016 – 14:24
I wonder what happens when one of those driverless lorries is presented with a parking ticket from an attendentless official….
telemachus @ 16:43
You need to brush up on few facts, telemachus.
If the talk be of greatness, it’s the Russian peasant, he and only he, the maligned, unappreciated, full of melancholy bearer of centuries of oppression, slog and pain who can legitimately make a claim to that title, not the Georgian thug or Vlad, who will be long gone whist the Russia will still be here.
Still, even after the Panzers have moved into Ukraine, the Stukas decimated villages and towns, the Great Leader wouldn’t believe it, told the front commanders not to return fire, the Wehrmacht troops have been already on the Russia’s land for days, but the railway wagons full of grain, cattle, wood continued to move from Russia in the western direction, final destination Germany, and when he finally woke up to the tragedy (having been doled in a dacha for over a week, totally isolated, answering no calls from anyone, waiting for the Politburo to issue an order for his arrest), many of the soldiers went to battle without arms, picking rifles from fallen comrades.
The man was a common thug, murderer, and a traitor to Russia, the biggest ever.
EC @ 16:56
You’re right, EC, it is interesting, his take on Trump’s possibility of winning in particular.
The barbarian’s rather lost on Donald’s progress, how come he didn’t take Texas? You can explain how he’s doing?
On what evidence
Sounds like CIA propaganda to telemachus
And no doubt the bullets found in thousands of bodies at Katyn were not German either
anne wotana kaye @ 17:02
When that happens, anne, out Muslim friend will already be in charge, it will be their problem, ha, ha, ha.
telemachus @ 17:14
Some of it was known before communism imploded in Russia, some after, it’s true, and there’s more to it, the barbarian isn’t mischievous, go to a library, borrow few books, you’ll find out.
And as for Katyn have a peep here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11845315
You recall the boy and our Defence Secretary saying the Russian bombing in Syria is inaccurate, it’s killing civilians, demolishing schools and hospitals rather than the ISIL thugs, the MSM echoing it in abundance? It was one of the reasons we decided to join the air bombardment what with our precision bombing capabilities.
Here’s a piece of news from a leaked secret NATO report contradicting the claims.
Leaving aside the substance of the argument, why was the report leaked, how could it be leaked? We seem to be unable to keep secrets, it looks nobody much cares about it. It’s another example of the quality of the personnel employed by those in charge. There should be a full investigation, the culprit punished.
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/03/06/bombshell-classified-nato-report-praises-russia-airstrikes-as-efficient-and-accurate-in-syria/
As you probably already know Nancy Reagan has died. RIP
The German bullets thing was being peddled by the Communist Party of GB from 2009 – telemacus is just parroting his party line. He is a communist entryist in the Labour party – a truly vile creature now in good company there.
The Poles were shot with Genschow (Geko) 7.65mm ammunition made in Germany. But it was imported by the Soviet Union before hostilities in large quantities, along with German Mauser and Walther pistols, particularly favoured by the NKVD. Many pistols from that era could use that ammo-
(1) 1898 Browning automatic pistol, manufactured under license by the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale D’Armes de Guerre; “used as a side arm in practically all military groups in the world at one time or another.”
(2) 1899 Browning automatic pistol, manufactured under license by the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale D’Armes de Guerre
(3) 1900 Browning automatic pistol, manufactured under license by the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale D’Armes de Guerre
(4) 1900 Swiss Luger automatic pistol
(5) 1903 Browning automatic pistol, manufactured under license by the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale D’Armes de Guerre
(6) 1905 Mannlicher pistol
(7) 1906 Swiss Luger automatic pistol
(8) Colt Hammerless .32 Automatic Pistol
(9) 1908 Savage pocket automatic pistol, used by the military in Portugal
(10) 1910 Browning automatic pistol, manufactured under license by the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale D’Armes de Guerre; “hundreds of variants of this pistol have been manufactured in Belgium, Italy, France, Spain and Czechoslovakia;” “extensively used abroad as a police pistol”
(11) 1910 Mauser blowback pattern automatic pistol
(12) 1912 Frommer Stop Pistol
(13) 1915 Beretta Automatic Pistol
(14) 1922 Browning automatic pistol, manufactured under license by the Belgian firm Fabrique Nationale D’Armes de Guerre; adopted as a service pistol by the Netherlands, Yugoslavia and Belgium
(15) 1927 Czech Ceska Zbrojovka Nicki design blowback pattern automatic pistol, used in the Czech military
(16) 1929 Walther Model PP automatic pistol
(17) 1929 Swiss Luger automatic pistol
(18) 1929 Hungarian automatic pistol
(19) 1930 Sauer Behorden Modell automatic pistol
(20) 1931 Walther Model PPK automatic pistol
(21) 1934 Beretta Automatic Pistol
(22) 1937 Hungarian automatic pistol
(23) Mauser HSc automatic pistol
(24) 1938 Sauer automatic pistol
(25) 1939 Frommer Stop Pistol
I clearly know little
But I have many Russian friends
I am very aware of other views
See for example US Congress hearings
“The Katyn massacre appears in the Nuremberg trials as a charge against Herman Goering since he was the highest ranking German officer. The Soviet prosecutor produced three witnesses to establish the Germany guilt for the Katyn massacre.”
I see more propaganda
My final word
“The fact is that the bodies were shot by the Nazis and with German bullets. These bullets were still in the bodies when they were exhumed.
Goebbels, who masterminded the campaign to put the blame on the Soviets in order to cause trouble between the Soviet Union and Poland in a vain attempt to save the German fascist empire, wrote in his diary on 8 May 1943: “Unfortunately, German ammunition has been found in the graves at Katyn … It is essential that this incident remains top secret. If it were to come to the knowledge of the enemy the whole Katyn affair would have to be dropped.”
The German Nazis had killed the Polish officers in order to ensure permanent weakness in the Polish armed forces, which might otherwise have been able to resist them. According to Nazi propaganda, the Slavs, including the Poles, were an inferior race which had to give way to the needs of the Germans for Lebensraum (the Nazi quest to expand eastwards to occupy new land and utilise the space and raw materials for Germany). All Slavs were expendable.
The historical context in which these events occurred arose out of the peace treaty that followed the first world war. After this war it was necessary to allocate disputed territories between various contending parties. To define Poland’s eastern frontier, recommendations made by Lord Curzon were accepted, but Poland laid claim to more territory than this, to areas largely inhabited by Byelorussians and Ukrainians (with very few Poles) to the east of what came to be known as the Curzon Line and which had been ceded to the Soviet Union.
Poland forcibly seized back this territory, and kept hold of it until 1939. The Soviet Union reoccupied it after the Nazis invaded Poland and the Polish government fled. Hundreds of Polish army officers who had resisted the Soviet advance were imprisoned at Katyn in the Ukraine, where they were given road-building and other such types of work.
Two years later, on 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union by surprise. The Red Army was forced hurriedly to retreat and the Ukraine was taken over by the Germans. During this hurried retreat, it was unfortunately not possible to evacuate to the Soviet interior the Polish prisoners of war, and they were left behind to be taken over by the Germans, who then massacred them.”
telemachus
March 6th, 2016 – 12:06
Isabel has Boris taped
“But he also rambled rather, and did not give the positive image of a post-EU Britain that he needs to offer. His line about jobs was particularly unhelpful, though in truth there wasn’t much else the Mayor could really have said that was honest. Marr stated that ‘there would be a period where people would lose their jobs’, and Boris replied that ‘there might. It might or it might not’ ”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/in-campaign-seizes-on-boris-johnsons-brexit-jobs-comments/
this jobs thing on Brexit is bollocks .no-one knows.
telemachus @ 17:50
The Duma’s acknowledgment of Soviet Union’s (KGB’s) responsibility for Katyn dates from 2010, the Nuremberg’s trials were held when, telemachus? It’s no propaganda, it’s a well established fact today, you look quite silly peddling the old lie.
17:52
“My final word!”
W-E
F-U-C-K-I-N-G
W-I-S-H!
Colonel Mustard @ 17:46
Thanks for the information, Colonel, it’s new to Baron, the use of the 7.65 ammo in so many hand held guns, he only knew the Browning, and the CZ27 were chambered for it (during occupation of the country by the Germans the latter was known as P27). After WW2, the CZ27 was the most popular pistol for the Czech STB (the equivalent of the KGB) and other services.
Baron…..Colonel Mustard :
There is a standard prescription from The Church : when conducting an exorcism,The Devil will try to engage you in conversation.Do Not Him/Her Lead You Into This !
Brethren ! Beware, be vigilant ; for The Devil is abroad and she stalks the Darkness like a raging lioness !
And I suddenly notice that Radio 3 is just about to broadcast “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgarkov; at 9pm. (No doubt to be available for 30 days on the iplayer.
Baron 1948
Silly I may look
Perhaps your version is correct
Assuming the Duma do not have their own motives
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But what then of the British actions
“We have been obliged to . . . restrain the Poles from putting their case clearly before the public, to discourage any attempts by the public and the press to probe the ugly story to the bottom,” wrote Owen O’Malley, Britain’s ambassador to the Polish government in exile, in a May, 1943 letter. “We have in fact perforce used the good name of England like the murderers used the conifers to cover up a massacre.”
Mine at 20-36
Should be:`Do Not Allow Him/Her To Lead You Into This.`
Baron (re 21-00)
See mine 20-36.
“…If you looked at things from the point of view of a superficial understanding of International Socialism, the Molotov Ribbentrop pact of 23 August was a betrayal…”
Telemachian Weltanschauung! A closed loop mindset, amply demonstrating the inability of the truly stupid and bigoted to accept empirical evidence in establishing the truth but rather, distorting it to fit their preconceptions.
Canards worthy of Goebbels, even Blair himself.
“…The Visionary Leader knew that his people were not ready to repel the mighty Panzer divisions
He bought time…”
As Zhukov warned Stalin on 16th June of German military manoeuvres on the Western front, requesting permission to go to fully military readiness, Stalin grew more irritated, finally exploding:
“…And what, have you come to scare us with war, or do you want a war, as you are not sufficiently decorated or your rank not high enough?… You have to realise that Germany on her own will never fight Russia. You must understand this… If you’re going to provoke the Germans on the frontier then heads will roll. Mark my words
“He used the time to harness Russian industry to a Great War effort”
“German soldiers fed by Ukrainian grain, transported by Caucasus oil, and outfitted with boots shipped via the Trans-Siberian railroad, fired their Donets-managanese hardened steel weapons at their former allies. The Red Army hit back with artillery pieces and planes designed according to German specifications and produced by Ruhr Valley machines in factories that burned coal from the Saar.”
The T-34s and KV tanks that momentarily frightened the invaders in 1941 had rolled off production lines set up using largely imported German machinery-lathes, cranes, forges and mills.
‘When Barbarossa was in full swing he motivated the Russian people to do their historic duty for the motherland”
Baron has already reminded you of the man of steel cowering in his Dacha, awaiting the arrival of his own NKVD enforcers.
Is there any merit to the revisionist claim of the Great and far sighted leader? Not much, though Gabriel Gorodetsky in ‘Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia’, provides some support for this claim, ultimately though, he rejects it.
An intellectually able but profoundly lazy and self indulgent BoJo should take the trouble inform himself of the facts before debating with the marred, mardy Gaberdine Swine of HM BBC.
If only Richard North had the opportunity to make this point:-
http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=85964
Baron – March 6th, 2016 – 16:50
Noa @ 12:28 & 35:
“You really are in a combative mood today, Noa.”
Yep Baron, it’s true, lying, mendacious trolls, whether in Westminster or on t’internet can have that effect on me.
“Btw, what has happened to the guru, is he already serving time? That was quick, he only mentioned the possibility of it a week or so ago, and bang, his case done and dusted. What an amazing efficiency.”
There you have me Baron. My memory fails me. To whom are you referring my friend?
Radford NG March 6th, 2016 – 20:36
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Frank P March 6th, 2016 – 20:03
√√ !
I do enjoy a good end of the world tale. The problem is, this one may well come true.
http://www.alexanderboot.com/new-economic-crisis-and-same-old-problem/
A new blog and also a chip off the old blog.
http://peterjnorth.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/i-will-vote-to-leave-whatever-cost-may.html
Dr North has kindly provided this link to his and Christopher Booker’s excellent book on the EU, “The Great Deception”
Please feel free to re-post as appropriate.
http://www.eureferendum.com/documents/greatdeception.pdf
Only then did Howe address himself to how this was to be done. Already there had been speculation that any Bill might have to run to thousands of clauses, which Labour’s leading dissident, Tony Benn, claimed would never get through Parliament in time for 1 January 1973, when the accession treaty was due to come into force. However, with the help of his senior parliamentary counsel, John Fiennes, Howe produced what he himself described as a coup de théâtre: a ‘European Communities Bill’ of just twelve clauses and four schedules, in a mere thirty-seven pages.
At its heart was one short passage, Section 2, sub-section 2. This used a long- standing device in British law-making, the ‘enabling Act’ whereby Parliament delegated to ministers the power to enact law directly, without a laborious passage through Parliament. Howe’s inspiration was to borrow this device to allow any relevant minister to enact directly into British law any item of Community legislation. In purely constitutional terms, this represented by far the greatest accession of power to the executive in history. As that internal Foreign Office paper on ‘sovereignty’ had predicted, it would place unprecedented powers in the hands of unelected officials, both in Brussels and Whitehall, who were now in effect being given the right to make laws with only a semblance of democratic accountability.
“…Howe’s next challenge was to persuade Parliament to accept what in effect was its own redundancy ticket. Heath’s chief whip, Francis Pym, knew that even one amendment could negate the whole accession treaty, putting her entry in jeopardy. In addition, Heath’s government had by now become highly unpopular. Inflation was rising rapidly. Wracked by industrial unrest, Britain was in crisis over a miners’ strike. Trade union power had become one of the most conspicuous features of national life. ‘The stakes’, Pym declared, ‘couldn’t have been higher’.
And finally, proof of my existence at last!!
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/proof-of-noahs-ark-found/
Noa
Thanks for the various links relating to North and Booker, particularly the 600 page download of their book, which I hope I’ll have time to read before June.
But I suspect it may all be summarised in three words, appropriately paraphrasing Nancy Reagan’s and Occam’s succint imperatives:
“Just Say Brexit!”
“Everything’s lost. I give up. Lenin founded our state and we’ve fucked it up. ..Lenin left us a great heritage and we his heirs have shitted it all up” Stalin, 28 June 1941
*****
… my friends in Yekaterinburg…?!
Now let’s get back to the current crisis of western civilization, shall we?
It’s a chance of a lifetime to really change the course of world politics.
There is a concomitant rumble in the transatlantic political tectonic plates.
Maybe it’s just my digestive system playing up again but really feel that something is happening which is beyond the control of the puppeteers.
It’s a chance of a lifetime to really change the course of world politics.
There is a concomitant rumble in the transatlantic political tectonic plates.
Maybe it’s just my digestive system playing up again but really feel that something is happening which is beyond the control of the puppeteers.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of Peter’s software, my moniker was changed to Frank Please.
FKW!
Until an hour or so ago, I’d never heard of Sam Gerrens.
Here’s my first exposure to his ideas.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gerrans.php?articleid=2439
Another of his rather startling pieces claims that there’s nothing wrong with the Koran and that the problem is that in the Muslim world it’s been much misinterpreted, but I find that hard to swallow. It seems to me to be just the sort of thing that Arsolenus/T********s would gleefully cite – and twist further – in order to annoy us.
Have any other Wallsters read him? He seems to be a bit of a heretic, but apart from his whitewashing of the Koran, I incline to agree with a good deal of what he says.
If the names Hillary you need to be careful with the presentation.
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/liar-hillary-750.jpg
It is rare that I post here, tending to read and learn, but I have to correct Noa for the comment at 12:28 “and they can all …f,f,f fade away”. That was Roger Daltrey of The Who not Mick Jagger singing Pete Townshend’s “My Generation”. Given the days that are in it, I find myself drawn, as so many times before, to “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by the same band – “Meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss.” Perhaps the Teletubby should listen to it and learn about the revolution devouring its children.
http://www.coffeehousewall.co.uk/the-coffee-house-wall-7th13th-march
`Declan
Thank you for the correction. I second your observations.
might spoil his day
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/123469
Call for a vote of no confidence in David Cameron