Shake up at BBC - new Director General in Charge

The Disasters Emergency Committee is composed of well known rabid Hams loving, islamofascist, Al Quaeda sympathisers which inlides : Action Aid, British Red Cross, Cafod, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision

The BBC are not alone (Sky and ITV also refuse to air their appeal ads for humantirian aid to gaza) but the instructions came from the newly appointed DG (Tzipi Livni " There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza" - she told President Sarkozy), her instructions were conveyed ina an urgent telephone call from President O'Bomber in a call to "I am a Zionist" Brown.

David "I am a Zionist" Cameron and his pals have remained curiously silent on the issue.

Friday, December 26, 2008 Obama "the first Jewish president" - has a deep understanding of issues that confront Israel and the Jewish community - Alan Solow .. Alan Solow, is an attorney (Goldberg ,Cohn) from Chicago. He is a widely respected leader of the Jewish community. He was inaugurated as Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations early this month .. At a democratic forum In Cleveland , Ohio , in October 2008, 700 people heard Alan Solow and Denis Ross, Middle East advisor to Obama, and previously director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton as well a co- founder of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) reassured Jewish voters that Obama would not only strengthen Israel’s security but also do a far better job of it than his rival Sen. John McCain.

President O'Bomber - seamlessly follows the Bush plot for aerial bombing of Pakistan / Afghanistan / Iraq - more children killed in colonial bonfire.

Two missile attacks launched from a US drone(s/) killed at least 15 people n pakistan 2 days after O'Bombers inauguration.Both of the eported missile strikes hit Waziristan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

The first hit a village, Mir Ali in North Waziristan. Pakistani government officials issued a statement saying the attack destroyed the house of a man identified as Khalil Dawar and killed 8 people that were retreived by "militants".

A senior Pakistani security official told the New York Times that four of those killed were Arabs—taken - this is supposed to indication a connection with al-Qaeda's presence. (Wapo - U.S. continues hitting al Qaeda in Pakistan)
The first missile struck a village known as Mir Ali in North Waziristan. Pakistani government officials issued a statement saying the attack destroyed the house of a man identified as Khalil Dawar and killed eight people. The statement said that militants surrounded the area and retrieved the bodies. One senior Pakistani security official told the New York Times that four of those killed were Arabs—taken as an indication of al-Qaeda's presence.

In the second attack, missiles struck a house near the village of Wana, South Waziristan, killing seven, according to local accounts. The reports said 3 of the dead were children.

Thos is of course no surprise to those who listened on August 1st 2007 whe (the then Senatar) Obama the bomber delivered a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - (full text here but access forbiden) review by Sourcewatch with links here

Back in 2004, while running for the U.S. Senate, he declared that while "launching some missile strikes into Iran is not the optimal position for us to be in, having a radical Muslim theocracy in possession of nuclear weapons is worse."He added, "There are elements within Pakistan right now - if Musharraf is overthrown and they took over, I think we would have to consider going in and taking those bombs out."In a sabre rattling speech the Senator warned that he would use American forces to invade U.S. ally Pakistan if its leaders weren't doing enough to catch terrorists on their soil.

More here Tuesday, January 13, 2009 President Elect Obama - cooking kids to a crisp as a foreign policy initiative

Just to reassure readers the aerial bombing is faithfully reported for 22nd January in Air Force Link that 61 close-air-support missions were flown in support of the ISAF and Afghan security forces and in In Iraq, coalition aircraft flew 42 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"New" 7/7 Bomber mastermind, organiser, muslimofascsist, Al -Quaeda senior operative captured

CIA front "The Long war" report that "A Saudi al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved with the July 2005 London bombings was detained by Pakistani security forces during a raid on a village near the northwestern city of Peshawar. Six other al Qaeda operatives were also detained."

The Saudi was identified as Zabi ul Taifi and was described as a senior operative (some reports say he is a Saudi national from Taifi) in the July 7, 2005, bombings in London. Taifi and his cohorts were captured in a "militant den," Geo News reported based on a tip from Pakistani intelligence sources. The al Qaeda operatives were holed up in the village of Bara Qadeem.

AP report that "the swoop was in response to a tip-off from U. S. intelligence agents who watched the capture from a nearby car",

What you see is definitely not what you get

To anyone familiar with physics and the nature of string instruments elegaic John Williams piece (who also provided music for Obama's election night rally in Chicago 's Grant Park) which appeared to be created by Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Anthony McGill, a principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera, and the pianist Gabriela Montero seemed to defy reason.

It did.

The piece the listening millions heard was pre-recorded the previous Sunday at the Marine Barracks in Washington.

Resisting the idea of using their priceless string instruments ,Ma and Perlman used new instruments that looked as though they came straight out of the box at Macy's. Their earpieces were a dead giveaway as well.

Is this what O'Bomber means by the "transparency - the new touchstone" ?

Killing Kids - a story of Biblical proportions !!! A land fit for Heroes !!

Ken Clarke, the former chancellor, replaces Alan Duncan as Trade Secretary

Gay groovy, oh so sensitive sensitive, and oh-so chic, giggly Alan Duncan whose office was so kindly funded by oil traders Vitol , was employed be them. Duncan, is of course, a former Tory vice-chairman and a supporter and close friend of Michael Portillo, and was a paid consultant to Vitol in the early 1990s.

He worked with Vitol's president, Ian Taylor, at Shell and was at one time a very close friend.
Duncan, a millionaire, made part of his fortune by brokering a deal between Vitol and Pakistan during the Gulf war. Duncan's company, Harcourt Consultants, continued to do work for Vitol in Pakistan for many years.

He was /is also a close friend of millionaire oil trader Bob Finch, who paid Arkan the Serbian terrorist US$1 Mn to settle a payment "problem" by "persuading" Zveto Dragovic to settle a "misunderstanding" over some oil, US$2 mn and who had rights to sell oil to what was then called Yugoslavia.(Guradian 2001)

This list of events may also help those anxious to follow the exciting career of the now Ex Conservative Trade Shadow Boxer.

1997 onwardsOmani government invites Alan Duncan MP on series of visits to Oman as an official guest. Over fifteen visits are declared over the next decade.

Alan Duncan registers ownership of Harcourt consultants, described as “trading as oil broker and adviser on energy matters.”

Prior to 1999Jonathan Aitken introduces Kevin Maxwell to Shiekh Ahmed Farid al-Aulaqi, a successful businessman operating in Oman.

November 1999Kevin Maxwell’s company Telemonde, purchases a 49% share in Ahmed Farid al-Aulaki’s Desertel in exchange for shares in Telemonde. Desertel has a license to sell calling cards in Oman, via a relationship with the state owned telesoms provider, Omantel. Telemonde later takes a controlling interest in Desertel for an extra $3million.

1999Alan Duncan changes his register of interests in House of Commons. It now describes him as “Owner of Harcourt Consultants, adviser on energy and privatisation matters to foreign companies operating outside the UK, including the Desertel/Desertline group.”

Early 2002Desertel ceases trading. Kevin Maxwell’s Telemonde collapses.

May 2001 - May 2002Alan Duncan changes registration of Harcourt Consultants, removing the mention of Desertel.

2005Alan Duncan’s Harcourt Consultants is registered with the House of Commons as “dormant for the last six years”

March 2005:Vitol Oil revealed to be in negotiations to create an Oil trading joint venture with the Omani government. Vitol is said to be on “shortlist of two”

September 2005:Vitol Oil signs a multi-million dollar joint venture deal with the state owned Oman Oil company, creating Oman Trading International to market oil and related products from a planned refinery in Oman.

December 2005:Alan Duncan becomes shadow Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and Energy.

May 2006:Ian Taylor, CEO/President of Vitol, donates £100,000 to the Conservative Party. In October 2006 he donates another £8,000 and another £50,000 in February 2008.

March/April 2007:Production begins at Oman’s Sohar refinery. Oman Trading International markets Oman’s oil and liquefied natural gas.

March 2007Harcourt Consultants is re-registered with the House of Commons as “advisers on oil and gas matters for non-UK business projects.”

November 2007Vitol pleads guilty to Oil for Food trade in Iraq, agrees to pay $17.5 million restitution

April 2008Alan Duncan becomes director of Arawak energy, an oil company specialising in eastern europe, Arawak energy is 41.5% owned by Vitol.

June 2008Alan Duncan employs Carter-Ruck solicitors to obtain an apology from the Sunday Times to clarify that Ian Taylor donated money to the Conservative party, not directly to Alan Duncan.

June 2008Alan Duncan’s register of members interests makes clear his office was funded by donations from Ian Taylor which were made to the Conservative party.

Alan Clarke MP to take over as Conservative Party Trade spokesperson

Simply, beefy, beery, cigar chomping champion of the smokers is the only person they can put up, to dampen down the Knight of Darkness and lead the Conservative Party into any hastily called election.

... or possible gain the support of the rich Tory grandees prepared to fund such an election...

Watch this space.

PS : There may be a brief hiatus in service as Lord Patel has to undertake some major reconstruction surgery and Toni Fabuloso will necesarily be on hand to salve the wounds with restorative and gentle massage, oils, unguents and lotions liberally applied ... in all the right places.

£200 Mn. Giveaway - form an orderly queue, whilst it lasts, shortage of supplies means bankers must be dealt with first (alphabetically)

Taxpayers face years of debt in bank salvage deal

Taxpayers are poised to take on the "toxic" debts of High Street lenders in a new bank rescue deal which will cost taxpayers billions of pounds.

Under the "pay as you go" plan, details of which are secretly being horsetraded between bankers, wankers and the rest of the Threadneedle flapdoodles in their elegant "parlours" , the Government will create a new insurance scheme (like the one that saved Equitable Life shareholders ?) that would see liabilities of up to £200 billion potentially kept on the public books for years. Sunday Telegraph

So we turned to Dean Swift and his exquisite tales of the voyage of Lemuel Gulliver to the Land of Brobdingnag - he spends some time telling the King about how his country is run and the King poses several questions,of which one is .

"What qualifications were necessary in those who are created new Lords: whether the humour of the Prince, a sum of Money to a Court lady, or a Prime Minister, or a design of strengthening a Party oposite to the Public interest , ever happened to be the motives in these advancements."

With all this exciteable talk of a snap election which needs funding ....?

" .. he was still at a loss how a Kingdom could run out of its Estate like a Private person. Who were our Creditors? and where, wwe found money to pay
them? he wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and extensive wars; that
certainly we must be such a quarrelsome peple ... he was amazed to hear me talk
of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace, and amongst a free
people."

..and he added ...

" You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best explained , interpreted, and applied by those whose interests and liabilities lie in perverting , confounding, and eluding them."

All of which caused him to say....

" I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."

and to conclude (and repeat) ..

But, if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate, like a private person." He asked me, "who were our creditors; and where we found money to pay them?" He wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and expensive wars; "that certainly we must be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad neighbours, and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings."

Gazprom / Ukraine / EU impasse

Now what happens if by some sort of accident a gas pipeline / pumping station / compressor or 3 gets damaged, blown up.

May 7th 2007 90 feet of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline was blown up - in the same place as one occurred in 2003.

Expecting the Unexpected - Russia’s acute dependence on energy, and its desperate need for higher energy prices makes it very tempting for Putin to stir the pot. To blame Amerikanski plots just as the new US President settles his bottom onto the Presidential perch in the White House would not be a surprise.

It would distract attention from major problems like - "What dog will the O'Bomber kids get ?" ... Gaza, what exactly to do with the TARP 2 funds, Gaza, Israeli war criminals and the upcoming elections, ladling money out to Detroit, Gaza, UK troops pulling out of Iraq, UK Marine sbeing blown up every day, Gaza etc.,

Good Commentary at Streetwise Professor

Zionist central Heating - A Phosphor bomb hits housing area.

Spiegel

White phosphorus results in painful chemical burn injuries. The resultant burn typically appears as a necrotic area with a yellowish color and characteristic garliclike odor. White phosphorus is highly lipid soluble and as such, is believed to have rapid dermal penetration once particles are embedded under the skin. Because of its enhanced lipid solubility, many have believed that these injuries result in delayed wound healing. This has not been well studied; therefore, all that can be stated is that white phosphorus burns represent a small subsegment of chemical burns, all of which typically result in delayed wound healing.

Incandescent particles of WP may produce extensive burns. Phosphorus burns on the skin are deep and painful; a firm eschar is produced and is surrounded by vesiculation. The burns usually are multiple, deep, and variable in size. The solid in the eye produces severe injury. The particles continue to burn unless deprived of atmospheric oxygen. Contact with these particles can cause local burns.

These weapons are particularly nasty because white phosphorus continues to burn until it disappears. If humans (or animals) are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone. Burns usually are limited to areas of exposed skin (upper extremities, face). Burns frequently are second and third degree because of the rapid ignition and highly lipophilic properties of white phosphorus.

Article two, Protocol III of the 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons states: "It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by incendiary weapons."

Israel is Immune From Criticism By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Counterpunch January 5, 2009

Wet beavers split rural communities : Amazing pictures !!!

BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning reports on sighting of the elusive beavers which have been introduced by "Natural heritage" (?) in their natural native style wet habitats unseen in the UK for millennia.

Naturally the first "wild" beavers first seen were six adults caught in Bavaria who awoke after a lengthy trans - European journey and kept in "carefully controlled" circumstances in Lower Mill Estate near South Cerney, Gloucester in October 2005. Very near the extensive and rolling acres of Prince Charles and, much in the news for beaver sightings - Cirencester Park !

Beavers in Countryside not a new phenomenom

It can now be revealed, earlier attempts were made in Kent (easier channel crossing by tunnelling ?) in 2001. DEFRA have apparently , according to the program started clamping down on this activity - although feral wolves / dogs are said can be found in well monitored but unlicensed "dogging sites" in parts of the UK.

There are also attempts to meet Scottish appetites for access to beavers - more here at Scottish Natural Heritage. (SNH) who also have a range of "Beaver Publications " for a more ...er ... specialised audience.

One news item that escaped our attention over the Christmas break was news of SNH's plans to release "Norwegian" beavers (an albino sub species ?) in the Independent with opposition from an unexpected source.... "Farmers protest at plan to bring beavers back to Britain after 400 years". Alocal landowner whom we will not name is quoted ..."beavers could spread giardiasis, a disease that damages the immune system.." The Indpendent also had a story in July "Viva la beaver: Britain's population is beginning to thrive again" ... more pictures or Google.

So if you are out for a bit of activity in the countryside this weekend, (especially i Royal Gloucestershire) keep your eyes open for some cheeky, slinky, splashing wet beavers.

Wet beavers split rural community : Amazing picturs !!!

Years of fraudulent Accounts by Barclays, overvaluing assets, over stating profits and jolly fine divvies - shares crash - again.

WSJ reports that Barclays said it didn't know of any reason for the fall in its shares shortly before close of business Friday. Ho.Ho.Ho.

Reasons market denizens give include ;

1. The 3 month Financial Services Authorityban on short-selling financial stocks ended.

2. The UK Government will announce new aid / bailout / throwing away taxpayers money measures next week from which Barclays will not benefit unlikr previous recipients of Gordon's helicopter cash - Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS (now including Lloyds) including "softer" terms on preference shares taken up.

3. If (as is wildly rumoured) the UK Government setup a "bad bank " to buy up bad assets (as the original but discarded after 13 days US TARP scam ..er...plan... bright idea) Barclays will not be able to particpate.

Readers might not be up to speed on the way Barclays prepare their financial statements - they might usefully look at Page 167 of Barclays Annual report 2007 which details how asset impairment is handled.

8. Impairment of financial assets

The Group assesses at each balance sheet date whether there is objective evidence that loans and receivables or available for sale financial investments are impaired. These are impaired and impairment losses are incurred if, and only if, there is objective evidence of impairment as a result of one or more loss events that occurred after the initial recognition of the asset and prior to the balance sheet date (‘a loss event’) and that loss event or events has had an impact on the estimated future cash flows of the financial asset or the portfolio that can be reliably estimated. The criteria that the Group uses to determine that there is objective evidence of an impairment loss include: (inter alia)

e) the disappearance of an active market for that financial asset because of financial difficulties; or

f) observable data indicating that there is a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows from a portfolio of financial assets since the initial recognition of those assets, although the decrease cannot yet be identified with the individual financial assets in the portfolio, including:

The amount of impairment loss is measured as the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The amount of the loss is recognised using an allowance account and recognised in the income statement (ie as a loss) .

So the rub is , that if Barclays have been lying about the value of their very many assets and refused to take impairments so maintaining the fiction (which they have done for years) that they have made profits - they are, by by refusing to "come clean" , put themeselves in the position that they cannot use the taxpayers money to scrub their balance sheets of all the shit they have been hiding and overvaluing.... for years.

So they persist in reporting after close of trading today that "its 2008 profit before tax, (reports due Feb 17th) after reflecting all costs, impairment and market valuations, would be "well ahead of the GBP5.3 billion consensus estimate of sell-side analysts."

CEO of Barclays (£2.8Mn a year) since 2004 is John Silvester Varley (born 1 April 1956), in 1981 he married Carolyn Thorn Pease, daughter of Sir Richard Thorn Pease, and in so doing married into the fascinating Quaker Pease family, whose bank became part of Barclays in 1902.

Curiously ( Catholic, Downside, Oriel College Oxford (History)) by then trained and working as a solicitor (like his father) , joined the Merchant Banking section of Barclays the following year,1982, with it appears no knowledge, history or experience of banking in any form. He is apparently, unlike any other major bankers and excellent table tennis player.

It is of interest to note that Varley's sister in law Nichola Pease is chief executive of JO Hambro Capital Management and was a nonexecutive executive director of what was Northern Rock plc. Her husband is Crispin Odey who founded Odey Asset Management, which made £55 Mn Y/E April 2008 and paid him£23 Mn salary....their especial skills ? Shorting UK bank shares. They were at it again later this year shorting Bradford & Bingley involving the taxpayer in a direct £ 4 Bn write off and the introduction of the FSA ban on shorting financial shares.

What goes around, comes around.

Are Barclays too BIG to fail ?

No.

Expect some remarkable and "unexpected" events as the share shifters get dug in. Again.

Get ready to shortly own a chunk of Barclays along with your other banking assets like RBOS and HBOS.

Military Intelligence ? - 30 years too late

Sir,

Recent speeches made by the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and the previous Defence Secretary, and the letter from Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson in The Times on June 30, 2008, have placed the issue of a world free of nuclear weapons firmly on the public agenda. But it is difficult to see how the United Kingdom can exert any leadership and influence on this issue if we insist on a costly successor to Trident that would not only preserve our own nuclear-power status well into the second half of this century but might actively encourage others to believe that nuclear weapons were still, somehow, vital to the secure defence of self-respecting nations.

This is a fallacy which can best be illustrated by analysis of the British so-called independent deterrent. This force cannot be seen as independent of the United States in any meaningful sense. It relies on the United States for the provision and regular servicing of the D5 missiles. While this country has, in theory, freedom of action over giving the order to fire, it is unthinkable that, because of the catastrophic consequences for guilty and innocent alike, these weapons would ever be launched, or seriously threatened, without the backing and support of the United States.

Should this country ever become subject to some sort of nuclear blackmail — from a terrorist group for example — it must be asked in what way, and against whom, our nuclear weapons could be used, or even threatened, to deter or punish. Nuclear weapons have shown themselves to be completely useless as a deterrent to the threats and scale of violence we currently, or are likely to, face — particularly international terrorism; and the more you analyse them the more unusable they appear.

The much cited “seat at the top table” no longer has the resonance it once did. Political clout derives much more from economic strength. Even major-player status in the international military scene is more likely to find expression through effective, strategically mobile conventional forces, capable of taking out pinpoint targets, than through the possession of unusable nuclear weapons. Our independent deterrent has become virtually irrelevant except in the context of domestic politics. Rather than perpetuating Trident, the case is much stronger for funding our Armed Forces with what they need to meet the commitments actually laid upon them. In the present economic climate it may well prove impossible to afford both.

Field Marshal Lord Bramall

General Lord Ramsbotham

General Sir Hugh Beach

House of Lords, London SW1

Now let's get rid of those damn aircraft carriers.

Olmert yanks Bush's chain Part 276.

Those rebuttals by White House PR bulshit merchants just really don't seem to ring tru. If not true why not simply deny them and call Olmer ta Liar ? Condi's explanation is even more extreme ..."And I had made very clear that I thought the resolution was premature, and there were also concerns about a resolution that had Israel, a member-state of the United Nations, and Hamas, which is a terrorist organization, you don't ever want there to be any equating those two." ... if this is such a fundamental problem why were you even talking about the resolution ...seems late in the day to bring that up.

Is the Israeli Government isn't a democratically elected terrorist organisation - of course it is.

More about this egregious use of power and influence over the US President.


Defective judgment Ha’aretz, Israel - 2 hours ago - What is clear is that Olmert phoned US President George W. Bush late Thursday night, and in the end the United States abstained in the vote. …
Rice calls Olmert account “fiction” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 9 hours agoBy Eric Fingerhut · January 14, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Condoleezza Rice called “fiction” Ehud Olmert’s claim that he persuaded President Bush to abstain …

Olmert stands by his version of Rice flap International Herald Tribune, France - 15 hours ago Olmert claimed earlier this week that he humiliated Rice by persuading US President Bushto instruct her not to vote for it. Rice spokesman Sean McCormack …

Olmert’s ill-advised move Ynetnews, Israel - 10 hours ago I’m certain that spitting into the plate he ate out of is not the kind of farewell present Prime Minister Olmert planned on granting Bush and Rice in return …

Olmert hits back in spat with US over remarks on UN Gaza truce vote Ha’aretz, Israel - 17 hours agoThe US State Department on Tuesday flatly rejected Olmert’s assertion that he had convinced the Bush administration to abstain from last week’s United …

... for all this thanks to Culture of Life news

Raja Shehadeh - "Open letter to Barack Obama"

The BBC World Service (paid for by the Foreign and Commenwealth Office) has invited 5 people to send an Open letter to Barak Obama.

The letter by The Palestinian lawyer and writer, Raja Shahadeen (Shehadah) best known for his books on international law and human rights, is exceedingly good on the lethal ambiguities of the Zioniist warmongers.

We canot embed it, but ask you to read it and pass it on to friends, family, politicians.

The most elequoent expression for the Palestinian cause you will find on the BBC.

Meanwhile Uruknet Sitrep on Gaza



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Superb British (from ooop North) aircraft design and engineering helped save everybody in Hudson River crash

The US Airways A 320 Airbus Flight 1549 that took off from La Guardia for Charlotte .NC., had a bird strike (Canada geese ?) and was attempting to land back at LG. The pilot and crew did a great job in a forced water landing - the plane did not break up and the passengers could be evacuated from the wings..

The Airbuses are the only passenger planes that can re-land immediately with a full fuel load - other planes need to dump fuel becuase the wing / undercarriage structures are not strong enough for them to land with a ful fuel load.

The Rib that supports the wing in the Airbus' is the longest, strongest and most precisely machined piece of metal in the world.

It was made about 5 miles away in Middleton - but production has recently moved because the Government pulled out of the Airbus consortium.

PS : The composite Boeing 787 Dreamliner has still not flown ... many are beginning to believe it never will.

Mark Jago with some disturbing news and a very simple proposition

Ardent Observations led us to Australian poet Mark Jago. Mr Angry - who wants people to ‘Switch off the box”. Some people with an undeveloped brain might find the language offensive. 312 viewers to date.

the Boy David's Damascene revelation on the road to peace making in Gaza - is reality finally breaking through ?

The Boy David who was so vilely abused last week when he fully expected to arrive in London being met by a grateful nation as his carefully crafted and highly burnished UN resolution for peace in Gaza was shot down by Olmert demanding Bush tell Condileezza Rice to abstain.

The Boy David has had a Damascene revelation brought about by his unpleasant and very public bruising in the real politik of ME politics as played by the Washington Hawks and the Zionist war criminals.

Now ( strangely as Lady Dame Jane Baroness Nevill Jones has also become to discover )the infantile concept of a "war on terror" against a man in a cave in Afghanistan is - he puts it mildly, "a mistake" ... and may have caused "more harm than good". ( See Dame NJ May 2008 - "In Britain, Neville-Jones pointed out that policymakers do not talk in the language of the war on terror any longer. However, they do take the view that jihadism, while it is incapable of being defeated, is at very least capable of being disrupted. Terrorism is a tactic and attempts to deal with it can be handled in a way which does not lend support to your ideological opponents. " RUSI conference)

One the eve of his self important visit to Mumbai where he will be as popular as syphilis in a nunnery for his nonsenical mutterings about the responsibility for ther Mumbai killings he writes in today's Guradian.

Miliband says, adding that, in his opinion, the whole strategy has been dangerously counterproductive, helping otherwise disparate groups find common cause against the west.

"The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists or good and evil, the more we play into the hands of those seeking to unify groups with little in common," Miliband argues, in a clear reference to the signature rhetoric of the Bush era. "We should expose their claim to a compelling and overarching explanation and narrative as the lie that it is."

Late his conversion to the real world may be, it is nonetheless welcome.

He has discovered some universal truths which people have been crying from the roof tops for years ..."Terrorism is a deadly tactic, not an institution or an ideology." (qv Neville Jones above)

The Guradan asks him if he had not left it late in the Bush era to make his criticism, anonymous "British officials" had stopped thinking in terms of a single war on terror more than two years ago, and had been putting a "more comprehensive approach" into practice.... well some evidence of this change in heart would be welcome.

For example when Gordon went to Washington upon taking up the burdens of office to receive his instructions he said ..."“We must undercut the terrorists’ so-called ’single narrative’ and defeat their ideas. At home and abroad we must back mainstream and moderate voices and reformers, emphasizing the shared values that exist across faiths and communities.” D Telegraph

It was of course at this time that he banned the use of the words "Muslim" and the "war on terror" by Ministers, not because of any change in policy or reality but to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair.

Fpeign Policy has untiln ow not altered one iota , we still suport the crazy war in Afghanistan , we have supported the bombing of Pakistan, our crazed Metropolitan Police, (when not shagging each other and fiddling expenses or running businesses on the side) still have 6 / 11/ 15/ 20 / 30 terror plots and 2,000 extremist (AKA Muslim fundamentalist) crypto terrorists under surveillance.

Let us hope the Boy David - frightened perhaps by the sights of extreme military bloodlust and carnage caused by his fellow Jews in Gaza and the slaughter of families, and reflecting on his own young family, has seen the light.

We might yet see the Boy David on a marchsoon holding hands with Jeremy Corbyn and george Galloway.

Why the US sunk Gordon Brown's UN Security Council resolution

In a state of terminal boredom Lord Patel watched Prime Minister's Question time (PMQ's), for the first time ever today. He perked up when Jeremy Corbyn Labour MP , Islngton North, was called and asked (roughly correct, but look for the text in Hansard in the morning). See below for actual Hansard record.

"There is ample evidence that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza , will the Government be making a case to bring them before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In a stony silence, Gordon saw it as a planted question and explained in his self congratulatiry and grating Lang Toon vowels how he had saved the world by sponsoring, writing, eding, wording, re-wording, burnishing , polishing, the UN resolution on Monday calling for a cease fire - failing to mention that out great ally had not signed up for this polished, tabernacle of plitical language and carefully nuanced UN flummery.

This is how the live report from the BBC ONline PMQ's AS IT HAPPENED - BY JUSTIN PARKINSON reported it .... er they didn't. The Times to their credit have the story .

Story Number two

We reported on the US absention on the UN resolution Gordon's UN Myrmidoms and minions had been burnishing and polishing and the consumption of midnight oil -Friday, January 09, 2009 UN votes for peace (except the US) and AIPAC makes sure the Senate votes for Israel and Zionism - all in one day. and the astonishing volte face by dusky beauty Condileezza Rice.

No explanation has been offered to explain her extraordinary behaviour.

Well there is one.

Priot to the vote corrupt, war criminal Ehud Olmert , PM of Israeli for the moment heard the terms of the resolution of the Security Council.

He exploded and called President Bush.

At this time President of the most powerful nation in the world was adressing an audience on Philadelphia on education policy the speech took 27-minutes and ended at 11:46 a.m..

Bush was interrupted, hauled, off, took the call and either directly or through staff told Condileeza Rice to abstain. Which she did about 10 hours later, shortly before 9:30 p.m.EST

The rest , as they say is history.

More here BUSH STOOPS FOR OLMERT WHO PISSES ON HIM

and here at Anti War Olmert Brags About Embarrassing Rice in UN Gaza Vote

“Early Friday morning the secretary of state was considering bringing the cease-fire resolution to a UNSC vote and we didn’t want her to vote for it.” Olmert said. “I said ‘get President Bush on the phone.’ They tried and told me he was in the middle of a lecture in Philadelphia. I said ‘I’m not interested, I need to speak to him now.’ He got down from the podium, went out and took the phone call.”

A beaming Olmert then described telling President Bush “the US cannot possibly vote in favor of this resolution,” and spoke with pride of how embarrassed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was at having to abstain from voting for a resolution she helped to organize and gather support for.

See also Here on Al Jazeera (a service unavailable in US) Olmert call 'behind US abstention' and also Geoffrey Wheatcroft: How Israel gets away with murder Independent

So Israel - not a member of the UN Security Council can influence the result of their resolutions. ... and of course carry on bombing the shit out of anybody who gets in their way - using munitions, aircraft , weapons etc., supplied free C/O kind Uncle Sam.

Reuters here have another account in which the White House refute the story.... but unconvincing - Reuters say

Arab ministers said after the U.N. vote Thursday that Rice had promised them the United States would support the resolution, but then made an about-face after talking to Bush.

A few minutes before the scheduled vote at the United Nations, Rice's staff told reporters she would make a few brief comments beforehand, but then abruptly cancelled her press appearance, saying she would instead speak to Bush by phone.

She then entered the U.N. Security Council chamber, huddled with Arab ministers who shook their heads as she spoke to them. Immediately after the vote, Rice left for Washington without talking to reporters.

UPDATE from Hansard

Jeremy Corbyn (Islington, North) (Lab): Will the Prime Minister bear it in mind that, in the past three weeks, the Israeli forces have killed 1,000 people in Gaza, 300 of whom were children, and denied medical aid, food and energy and blockaded the people during the past year? These are war crimes. They have committed acts against the people of Gaza that ought to be referred to the International Criminal Court. Will the Prime Minister join the calls to ensure that that takes place?

The Prime Minister: We took action in drafting the resolution that went through the United Nations last week. Words cannot describe the feeling that families will have as a child dies, or at the level of civilian deaths and casualties and the displacement of 90,000 people in Gaza, but our resolution sought to call for an immediate ceasefire, to recognise the damage that had been done and was being done, and to call for humanitarian action—a call that I repeated when I talked to Prime Minister Olmert last night and asked him to increase the humanitarian action and to take the necessary action to achieve a ceasefire.

The reason why we supported the UN measure was that the Arab countries were also prepared to sign up to two things that are very important to any sustainable ceasefire. The first is an end to arms trafficking and particularly the destruction of the tunnels in Gaza. I talked to President Mubarak yesterday about what we can do and how we can help to achieve that. Secondly, of course— [Interruption.] I think this is important, as we will also need international support to execute the opening of the crossings. It is important that we have the support of the Arab League countries as well as the other countries that signed that motion. In other words, we are doing everything that we can to make possible an immediate ceasefire.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090114/debtext/90114-0003.htm

Silence - but at a price. Colette Bowe and John Mogg

Collete Bowe is chairman of council of Queen Mary College, London University, where she studied for her first degree in French. It was there she met Paul Sullivan the Porn rag billionaire who in those days studied economics, drove round in a pink Cadiallac wore an ankle length Afghan fur coat and pissed off Professor Peston (faher of the ever present BBC commentator of doom)so much that he refused to entertain him receiving First against the wishes of the department.

Allegedly, not only his girl friend but also quite happy in front of the lens , Collete went into the Civil Service, maked as a high flier and ended up as press secretary to the repulsive, sweaty, and ugly Leon Brittan at the DTI - and alongside the youthful, dashing, John Mogg, the now Lord Mogg of Queen's Park and the silent, listless, useless Chairman of OfGEM (who when he was admitted to the House of Lords was done so by Lord Brittan - who lists as having a Parliamentary pass John Anthony Saward (chauffeur).

Fruity old Leon was locked for reasons lost inthe mists of antiquity and the history of opur cruumbling air defences locked in unseemly combat with dashing blond wannabe leader Michael Heseltine over a complicated Westland helicopter contract. At a crucial point Collette leaked to the Press Association a key memo which was highly damaging to Heseltine and helpful to cuddly old Leon.

The crisis rumbled and grew , hinging upon the crucial point as to whether she had an official instruction from Brittan and Thatcher to leak it. They denied it. She said absolutely nothing and has said the same thing ever since.

However leaving the Civil Service some time later she then sped upwards and onwards on an increasingly rewarding career . Without regrets but she did say tearfuly in her lilting Scouse accent over a strong G&T " I wish I had followed my intention to write to David Kelly when the press were after him to offer him my help and advice. Maybe I could have helped him."

Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Broadcasting Authority then on to the forerunner of Gordon's tripartite regulatory power house, the Financial Services Authority, as director of retail regulation.

Chief executive of the Personal Investment Authority - still regulating - and only then did she join the world of money and markets as executive chairman of Save and Prosper Group and a branch of Chase Fleming.

Deputy chair of Thames Water, the board of Yorkshire Building Society, Framlington Group and Morgan Stanley Bank International, chair of the Ofcom Consumer Panel and a member of the Statistics Commission.

Then as a sort of Christmas present on December 18th when nobody was really looking it was announced she would take over the chair at Ofcom from Lord Currie when he goes at Easter.

She was chosen following a recruitment process handled by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Of course.
"I am delighted to announce that Colette Bowe is our choice for chairman of Ofcom," said the youthful culture secretary, Andy Burnham.

The still, pretty sloe eyed, pale skinned, slim, svelte exceedingly well dressed, 61-year old will serve a five-year term with a modest annual salary of £200,000 (more than the PM) for"up to three " really hard days a week whilst maintaining her board positions at Axa Framlington, Morgan Stanley and Electra Private Equity.

How nice it is that those two old friends Collete and John or rather, Lord Mogg (appointed for a second five year term this year as the non-executive Chairman of Ofgem (the energy regulator for Great Britain) both end up past their retirement age in such hugely well paid jobs.

Like two peas in a pod.

And neither of them have ever breathed a word about how that Press Notice became available to the Press Asssociation and whether Mrs Thatcher instructed leon to leak the memo.

We look forward the early accession of Baroness Bowe of the Sealed Lips to join her friends leon and John

Danger !!! War criminals hard at work - a spectator support for diplomats , Church leaders, politicians ....

Der Spiegel have a gallery of the events in Gaza ...here is one the rest are here