US support for Israel must stop immediately

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The US cannot support such a genocide. US must stop supporting Israel now.

ed: UK [sorry US] support for Israel is huge – billions of dollars. OK I’m researching it: military, money …

18.15 edit: I got these graphs from Why Israel and other foreign militaries — not the global poor — get the biggest US aid packages. It’s not the whole story because Israel will get aid other than foreign aid.

US foreign aid to Israel 2015

 

US foreign aid per capita

 

per capita gdp

 

5/8/14: $3.1 billion military aid budget from US to Israel

 

 

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A conspiracy theory is …

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A suspicion that a group has conspired to arranged something …

Is that so difficult to accept?

Don’t political parties conspire to promote something to their best advantage? (spin)

Why shouldn’t other groups conspire to promote things or events to their best advantage?

Don’t they have reasons to do so?

Conspiracy theories

29.7.14 I like ‘conspiracy theories’. Tone doesn’t.

 

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Coming soon :: Comment on the penumbra

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26/7/14 DRAFT subject to many revisions

OK, this is taking longer than expected.

It seems very sensible that those intending to influence government are not terrrists

because

that is the [ed: very] basis of representative democracy i.e. that elected representatives represent their electors. You cannot be a terrrist on the basis of intending to influence government because that is exactly what active citizens do and are expected to do. That is recognised as completely legitimate action.

penumbra is used as a legal term.

TBC

ed:

UK definition of terrorism ‘could catch political journalists and bloggers’

 

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Coming soon :: Call me Al ed :: Let’s call him Al

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ed: Alexandr

ed: Looks like you’re having it now instead of coming soon …

Alexandr Litvenienko. Poisoned by Polonium-210. That’s the way it was reported back then. It’s getting reported now that he was poisoned by Polonium …

Alexandr, Alexander. Litvinienko, Litvinenko. The point is that his name is Russian (Russki) – like other foreign languages and alphabets it can’t readily be translated into the English (Latin?) alphabet.

I have been reliably informed that Russki nicknames are often far longer than their original names which seems a lot weird. Anyway let’s call him Al.

ed: the wider meaning of al

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Researching Blair back in 2006/7 and coming across paedo all the time

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and I was doubting where my research was taking me

I was developing hypotheses … supplying boys … supplying drugs

Everything about Him was that the shop was open

I was doubting myself ~ why was I coming to paedo, why was it paedo all the time?

Why was any theory or avenue I was researching coming up paedo?

My working hypothesis now is that paedos engage in politics and the judiciary, that their paedoness is their incentive to attain high office beyond the reach of the law.

There is a subsidiary hypothesis that they are identified as paedos and then owned .

It certainly appears that privileged paedos were able to quite literally shaft the working class with immunity. I’m starting to think that was important for them.

It obviously didn’t stop with the Thatcher government because there’s a Blair minister. ed: with Thatcher it looks deliberate that there were so many. I’m not sure if Blair’s government was different.

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Cameron, Clegg and Ed sneak in a snoopers’ charter by the back door

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A snoopers’ charter by the backdoor: One day until Drip is forced through

by Ian Dunt

Privacy campaigners are frantically trying to brief MPs about the implications of the data retention and investigatory powers bill (Drip), before it is forced through all of its Commons stages tomorrow.

The more experts look at the bill, the more convinced they’ve become that it provides authorities with the spine of the snoopers’ charter, but without any of the public debate or parliamentary scrutiny which were supposed to accompany it.

The charter – known as the draft communications bill before it was killed off – would have forced internet service providers and mobile operators to keep details of their customers’ behaviour for 12 months.

Analysis of Drip, which was supposed to only extend the government’s current powers for another two years, suggests it forces through many of those requirements on internet firms without any of the political outrage which derailed the earlier effort.

Clause four of the bill appears to extend Ripa – the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (basically Britain’s Patriot Act) – so that the UK government can impose severe penalties on companies overseas that refuse to comply with interception warrants. It also lays out situations in which they may be required to maintain permanent interception capacity.

Clause five then provides a new definition of “telecommunications service”, which includes companies offering internet-based services. That seems to drag services like Gmail and Hotmail into the law, and very probably social media sites like Facebook too.

The government insists the extraterritoriality clause merely makes explicit what was previously implicit. It’s tosh. As the explanatory notes for the legislation – released very quietly on Friday night – make clear, overseas telecommunications companies did not believe they were necessarily under Ripa’s jurisdiction.

“Regarding the amendments to Ripa, in view of the suggestion by overseas telecommunications service providers that the extra-territorial effect of Ripa is unclear, it is considered necessary to amend the legislation to put the issue beyond doubt,” it reads.

“This includes clarifying the definition of a ‘telecommunications service’ to ensure the full range of telecommunications services available to customers in the United Kingdom are included in the definition.”

David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband insist Drip merely extends their current powers for two years. That’s nonsense. These two clauses, which have nothing to do with the purported aim of the bill, provide the spine of the snoopers’ charter.

They also appear to provide a legal basis for programmes like Tempora, the project revealed by Edward Snowden to allow GCHQ to tap into transatlantic fibre-optic cables and stored data.

Notably, Privacy International, Liberty and others are taking the government to a tribunal this week on whether Tempora is legal, even though the government won’t even admit its existence. Drip could make the tribunal ruling irrelevant.

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Labour peer’s letters to care home boy

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Graville Jenner letter in court

The Guardian: Questions over Labour peer’s letters to care home boy reports “Despite allegations about the peer, no action was taken and he was robustly defended by a number of politicians, including at least one prominent MP who has been openly critical of the government’s response to allegations of historical child abuse by MPs and peers.”

I find it strange that the Guardian was not willing to name Greville Janner. Hardly a secret is it?

No action was taken despite such a letter appearing in court. I wonder who that one prominent MP is.

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