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Public beheading and abuses of civil liberties are not acceptable even if you are "fighting terrorism".

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-yemen-comments-no-country-more-committed-to-fighting-terrorism-a7367301.html No country is more committed to fighting terrorism than  Saudi Arabia , the Kingdom's foreign minister has said. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir "No country is more committed to fighting terrorism than Saudi Arabia", the Kingdom's foreign minister has said. Public beheading performed in Saudi Arabia. Or more committed to publicly executing people, or abusing human rights on an epic scale, or committing war crimes in their military interventions in Yemen, Bahrain Syria and other places, or entering into very suspect "deals" for arms supplies from the UK. Saudi's send troops to Bahrain. The Saudi Arabian regime is corrupt, barbaric and hypocritical but successive British governments and our ow n Royal Family treat them as "the good guys". Prince Ch...

Hypocrisy in Riyadh and in London.

                  http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-arabia-100000-empty-tents-ac-3-million-people-refugees/ Saudi Arabia Has 100,000 Empty Tents with AC for 3 Million People – They’ve Taken Zero Refugees The tents, which measure 8 meters by 8 meters,are air conditionedand fire proof.   Saudi Arabia is a country run by the evil and despotic Al Saud family. The Saudi Arabian "justice" system, executes (beheading) more of its citizens than any other country and is a serial violator and abuser of human rights and civil liberties. Saudi Arabia arms, finances and supports ISIS in its terrorist activities in the Middle East and in Europe. Saudi Arabia is a dangerous and destabilizing regime in the region and in the world. The United Kingdom is a major supplier to Saudi Arabia with arms, munitions, weapon systems and aircraft being at the top of the list of exports. ...

The media should report on all terrorist atrocities, not just those in Europe.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-says-the-media-should-have-covered-attacks-in-beirut-and-ankara-as-well-as-paris-a6736381.html The media should have covered Isis attacks in Lebanon and Turkey more prominently Lebanon after deadly Beirut blasts A bomb in Turkish capital   Yesterday, I posted a very similar story and I asked the same questions. There were a number of responses to the post in Guardian, Independent and even here of Facebook, which were in the same vein. These nasty, ignorant, pathetic "comments" actually suggested, or even stated, that the atrocity in Paris was the only story which should be reported because the bombings in Lebanon, Turkey and the continuing attacks in Syria and Gaza were  the victims own fault. I can tolerate being labeled by some as "stupid" or  "a worthless piece of Corbynista trash" or "scum like you" and other, even more colourful descriptions, but ...

Hypocrisy is not truth

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-france-to-hold-emergency-meeting-to-avert-future-terror-attacks-9969643.html France to hold emergency meeting to avert future terror attacks       There is little worse than hypocrisy. The Western governments have for many years been engaged in the most crass form of hypocritical explanations of their actions, particularly in the Middle East. These governments pass laws which marks criticism of Jews as anti semetic and a criminal offence and yet defends criticism of Muslims as "Free speech". These governments condone the killing of thousands of Palestinians, men, women and chi ldren in Gaza with the cliche of "Israel has the right to defend itself". They defend the excesses and barbarism of the IDF in the occupied territories, demolishing homes, destroying crops and infrastructure and the killing of demonstrators as part of the "war on terror" preventing suicide bomber...

The "cost" of a futile war.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-last-exit-the-union-flag-is-lowered-british-troops-depart-and-afghanistans-next-chapter-begins-9819826.html The closure of British base marks the end of Britain’s ground war in Afghanistan  The "cost" to the United Kingdom alone, of this Blair/Bush adventure into Afghanistan is the lives of 453 British service personnel, and hundreds if not thousands of maimed and injured.At the end of the day, this "cost" becomes another statistic of a futile war, which never had any possibility of fulfilling the objectives set out in 2001. The ego's of Blair and Bush, fueled by the rhetoric of politicians both here and in the United States, has resulted in what can only be described as a defeat for the western powers. The Taliban are still very much in evidence, the Poppy and opium industry is still flourishing, and the Afghan army has little if any possibility of maintaining control of even the small amount of the ...

The "war on terror" reaches disabled pensioners

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disabled-and-elderly-campaigners-protesting-removal-of-travel-concessions-kettled-by-the-police-at-sheffield-railway-station-9560606.html Disabled and elderly campaigners protesting removal of travel concessions ‘kettled by the police’ at Sheffield railway station Pensioners and disabled arrested The establishment and their police force are becoming desperate in their quest for control. This time they attack disabled and pensioners. The time is not too far off when they will attack everyone in the name of "the fight against terrorism".

Another unwanted contribution from Blair.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/23/tony-blair-battle-islamic-extremism-political-agenda#start-of-comments Tony Blair, who supported Egyptian military's overthrow of democratically elected government, urges west to take sides Tony Blair: Middle East peace envoy   The "Middle East peace envoy" adds his unwanted contribution to a debate on a problem which has essentially been created by the foreign policy decisions of the Bush family, with Blair's unquestioning adherence to and enthusiastic support for  military interventions in middle eastern countries.  Even from the sidelines of the worlds stage, Blair continues with his lies, distortions, hypocrisy and badly concealed desire for a position which he neither deserves nor warrants. His whole existence is fueled by the growing megalomania of a dangerously deluded man seeking to promote himself to a messiah like position where his words are the gospel, his actions are exalted and his mere prese...

"Terrorist threat" closes Embassies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/03/british-embassy-yemen_n_3699631.html?utm_hp_ref=uk British Embassy In Yemen To Close After US Issues Global Travel Alert     Travel alert is reportedly based on intercepted communications.   Déjà vu. When, as often in the past, nothing happens, the media, television, press and of course the spooks who create this kind of scaremongering scenario, can loudly announce "another stunning success for our security services". The fact is that governments desperately need to have this threat/fear level at the highest possible point, in order to maintain and justify all those other control measures which dominate peoples lives every day. At some point there will no doubt be another "terrorist attack" which the security services will not have predicted and this will ensure that the "War or terror", with all its associated restrictions, surveillance and "threat warnings" will subsist. Winston Smit...

Artillery Road, Woolwich

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/26/snoopers-charter-revived_n_3338781.html?ir=UK+Politics   'Snooper's Charter' Will Be Revived in wake of Leigh Rigby murder. Drummer Leigh Rigby  The horrible murder of Drummer Leigh Rigby has quite rightly provoked outrage and disgust across the country. Having said that however, it is difficult to understand the motivation for the hysterical media coverage, spearheaded by Sky News and BBC News 24, which has been a constant feature of their programmes over the past week. It is not as if there has been no other deaths of British soldiers over the past decades upon which the reporters could have lavished such hyperbole and repetitive rhetoric. The effects of an IED in Hellmand are equally if not more traumatic on the human body than are knives in Woolwich, but the...

A new Crusade

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/29/mali-hundreds-of-british-troops-west-africa-france_n_2571840.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Mali: 'Hundreds' Of British Troops Could Assist France In Fight Against Islamists     The people of this country should wake up to the reality of what is taking place in Mali. It has nothing to do with terrorism, rebels, insurgents, Islamist extremist, jihadists or any of the other emotive descriptions used by politicians and repeated parrot fashion by the media and television “pundits”. It has nothing to do, except indirectly, with the abundance of mineral resources in the country, which are currently only exploited to a fraction of their real worth. The situation in Mali today is about war. Not the war of nations as was the case in 1914 and 1939, or even the wars of the 1950's. This war in Mali, is at the same time new and almost as old as history. It is a war of religion. In exactly the same way as the Cru...