It’s about time the government loosened up nightclub closing hours. I used to allow my DJ mate to take the occasional break during his gigs & tourists who’d loved his set would come up to the booth afterwards asking were we doing a late night set somewhere. Many Europeans would be frankly incredulous when we told them that everything was closed. These people were having a great time & were ready to keep spending til the sun came up.
jungleman
Wow, well done.
K.Cavan
junglecreep.
SOQ
The publicans are no angels K, they always argued in favour of pubs and against clubs which is why pub opening times previously got extended, but not clubs. When people dance they tend not to drink as much- which is why you’ll find the dance floor space in most remaining clubs has shrank.
Even in pubs you are being manipulated, with little seating area and very loud music, so not a lot to do apart from shout or, drink more. Some people I know in the music scene reckons even the music played is designed to drink more, which is probable.
And on top of all that is property prices. Dance venues tend to be large spaces in prime locations, so they get turned into office and residential units as soon as the leases are up. Any left are probably mortgaged up to the eyeballs with a keen focus on bar profits there too.
Dinkum
And €700 per night for the privaledge paid to the councils
Which is the reason your drink price goes up after 11 pm
Covid19000
I think it would be fair at this point to relax all alcohol licensing laws. Could we not use an Asian model like you’d find in Japanese or Korean cities?
深夜酒類提供飲食店営業 (“Late Night Bar Operation Law”), where registration is required with the National Police Agency to serve alcohol past 12AM. This law makes it possible to serve alcohol to customers from 12AM until sunrise, however there are requirements that also must be fulfilled in terms of lighting, audio equipment, and noise protection. This same law also strictly prohibits activities that may be deemed as “servicing customers,” which means any kind of physical contact, singing karaoke together, sitting together, or even simply talking to just one customer for too long. So owners need to decide if they will just be a regular bar that’s able to stay open late, or one of the other types of establishments that’s more about keeping your customers entertained with the company of the opposite sex
Remember when it was put out by trump that Biden and son had corrupt dealings with the Ukrainians and zelensky would not coroporste and the matter buried .Maybe someone might get to the bottom of zelenskygate
Seems a year into the job we now have the makings of WW3.
Nigel
The bottom of it is that Trump was lying.
TenPin Terry
About Hunter’s laptop ?
You need to get up to speed old sport.
Nigel
About most things, but also about that.
Cato
Thanks comrade
stephen moran
And you thought Gammon Broadcasting was bad – well take a look at the real (K)GB News – QAnon cubed stuff
Operation shocking and awful is still going swimmingly for the Russkies I see. So much winning
K.Cavan
You seem to like QAnon, stephen. Assuming you lend credence to the crap pumped out by the MSM, also, that shows you’re absorbing both streams of the CIA propaganda feed, yum, yum. You’re their perfect subject, well done.
I also admire your conviction that Zelensky will lead Ukraine to victory, if you’re going to allow your authoritarian political instincts to distort your reality, might as well dream big. Zzzzzzzz…
TenPin Terry
Excellent draw for Engerland in the World Cup( a footy tournament every four years for the younger readers on here ) with Iran, USA and either Scotland/Wales/Ukraine.
Ukraine will be the emotionally difficult and ironic game if they get through particularly with Boris’s popularity in that country because of Blighty’s great support for their war effort.
A British-made Starstreak missile shot down a Russkie chopper yesterday – the first use of the deadly weapon in the conflict.
Of course everyone has genuine concerns about this brittle Engerland team but fingers crossed Sir Harry of Kane hits form in Qatar.
Still, it’s nice to be able to cheer on the lads don’t you think ? Such a shame Ireland’s 20-year wait for qualification goes on.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Mwahahahaha.
#COYABE™
Mad
Irish Harry Kane?
stephen moran
Netherlands or Senegal 2nd round and looks like France in the quarter finals (or possibly Spain / Germany) depending on the breaks and vagaries of footie
Mad
Besides the USA are no pushover.
I feel the way things are going it will be Scotland who qualify and that can be anyone’s game.
Fair play to Southgate though he has done a great job with a completely over-hyped, overpaid, spoilt collection of mostly council estate trash rejects, and cleverly bringing in the 3 top, top Irish players raised their levels significantly.
An “Irish” team with Kane, Rice & Grealish – with Wayne Rooney as national manager – what could possibly go wrong
TenPin Terry
Lose to France and become the laughing stock of international football by begging to become the 33rd Team ?
Morto.
COYABE™
GiggidyGoo
The divine intervention of Thierry Henry. Ireland were cheated out of it. Ireland gets over those type of things quickly.
But in October 2021, Gary Lineker was still on about that other deity. Diego Maradona, and his ‘Hand of God’ goal in 1986. 36 years on. 36years? Now, that’s Laughing Stock.
You tans never stop whining.
K.Cavan
Foreigners, eh, stephen? You didn’t get that memo? Foreigners are better than the Irish.
Tinytim
Yer man being labelled as dim has a point. There are plenty of houses that could do with turning off a few lights, maybe turning the heat down from 24c etc.
Unfortunately many of the people who really need all the supports have long since learned this.
Our local councils could also take some lead here. As an example, it’s common practice in many parts of Germany that street lights are turned off fully from 12-5am, or every 2nd light is.
K.Cavan
Why on earth would local councils turn off street lights, Tinytim, it’s not costing them anything. They could increase Council Tax to 100% of the value of your house, if they want, hell, 125%, they could kick you out, owing them money. Only joking, they’d never do that, would they? We’d own nothing but we wouldn’t be happy.
SOQ
“We Trained Nazis” – Scott Ritter, Former US Marine Corp Intelligence Officer “The first troops to be trained by American and British soldiers were the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion”
Here he details who is the real power in Ukraine- the Nazis.
Just remind us Queenie – do you think Russia was provoked into the invasion ?
SOQ
That people like Alex Jones was predicting a war 4-5 months before there was any word of it, means that there was plenty of backroom stuff going on beforehand.
I very much doubt if the Russians just woke up one morning and decided to pop in for a cup of tea- but the motives could be a number of things.
We do know that there are US and NATO fingerprints all over the place so just like under the last regime, Ukraine was most definately not independent.
It could be a bigger power play of course, about killing the petrodollar, timed now because of a very weak Washington administration, actually I suspect that is what it is really about.
TenPin Terry
No doubt you’ve had a few strange bedfellows in your time but none more so than Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage I’d vouchsafe …
Well, Farage, just like Trump warning the Germans about signing a gas deal with Russia, understands how the world really works. And just like Trump, he is not really a politician- more a provocateur.
We need more people like that- not because they are left or right but because they have real world experience- they haven’t spent their entire lives cocooned in political bubbles, so they tell it as they see it.
TenPin Terry
Farage has a finely-tuned political antenna.
It used to be called the common touch.
He listens to Joe Bloggs rather than other politicians and journalists in a Westminster circle-jerk.
I think he’ll be back causing mischief before the general election with the flow of thousands of cross-channel illegal migrants continuing unabated still annoying Tory voters.
It’ll be like déjà vu all over again …
SOQ
I agree, but he is far from the common man- he is part of the jurisdiction known as the City of London.
TenPin Terry
About 30 years and many millions of votes ago.
Lots of ordinary people work in the City too.
johnny
Nigel is so on brand for both you naughty, boys.
“I’ve never owned any Russian asset or done any business with Russians. Full stop. It’s outrageous abuse of Parliament privilege. The NCA investigated the allegations and said the money for Brexit was mine.”
I assume you are referring to Brexit? Yes they did and the reasons they did were varied- some of which had nothing to do with Brexit itself.
My point is about what Farage’s motivations were- rather than all the others reasons given, that the financial freedom exercised by the City of London was paramount- it is a laundromat after all.
Daisy Chainsaw
Did king conspiraloon Jones actually predict Russia invading Ukraine, or a generic war? Any link to this proclamation?
SOQ
He predicted a war in February. it is on record- he also explains how he made that prediction, that his family are very connected to the US military- go look for yourself.
Question: Is it still a conspiracy when it comes through- or has that word been completely hijacked as a slur by the special needs brigade?
Nigel
Mostly it just means that Jones said something and by coincidence it had some correspondence with reality. Taken at face value AT BEST it means someone leaked US intelligence about Russian intentions. In this case you’re the one imposing a conspiracy on this.
‘Question: Is it still a conspiracy when it comes through’
It’s only a conpiracy when you prove it’s a conspiracy.
Daisy Chainsaw
Conspiraloon predicted a war, so when one happens, fanbois spaff themselves over his clairvoyancy! Should have got him to predict the lotto numbers.
His original prediction was that it would be China, but y’know, whatever.
Broadbag
@SOQ “the special needs brigade” Really? You actually thought of typing that and then went ahead and did it. Revolting. The mask slips yet again.
SOQ
You calling anyone out on the tone of a post is more than a bit rich.
Do one you ignorant one handed typer.
K.Cavan
So, Dolly, what object, person, location or event did Mr Jones obtain his extrasensory perceptions from, do you reckon? I have a Premonition, some sort of Precognition, almost a Prophetic intuition about what your answer might be.
K.Cavan
Someone really needs to buy you a mirror, Broadbag. You can practice your pearl-clutching in front of it.
Fearganainm
Scott Ritter, the registered sex offender, the Scott Ritter who sought out under-age girls in chat rooms? The Scott Ritter jailed after being found guilty on a child sex charge? The Scott Ritter who was charged more than once for such behaviour? The Scott Ritter who enjoyed ‘performing on camera’ albeit not as a journalist, that Scott Ritter?
Contains reference to his prior activities – he was at it for years.
f_lawless
Do you read through the stuff you’re posting or just lash it out there regardless?
Quote from the NYT article:
“History will record, though, that Ritter was right, while those who showed him nothing but contempt were flat wrong. While he wasn’t the only one saying that the (Iraq) war’s pretense was false or that its aftermath could be calamitous, Ritter was almost certainly the most determined dissenter and the one with the most on-the-ground intelligence. And if his views on Hussein’s regime careened from one extreme to the other, at least he demonstrated a capacity to evolve in his thinking — something few policy makers or commentators showed themselves able to do at the time. No doubt his very existence continues to discomfit those who insisted on Hussein’s lethality, and whose explanation for why they were wrong — that the intelligence was fabricated, essentially — has always been undercut by the fact that Ritter was never taken in.”
johnny
….it’s a real pity really that society is so judgy,huh Lawless.
Of course kids,porn,webcams are involved,like duh.
Fearganainm
You’d maybe be better off reading more about convicted child sex offender Scott Ritter.
The Iraqis hated him. When he was doing his weapons’ inspector gig he was a bullying, confrontational, aggressive clown. His reports continually fuelled the narrative that the Iraqis were lying and concealing WMD. Given he’d turned the place upside down and found nothing it’s hardly a surprise that when he got back to the USA it eventually dawned on him – in between stints in chat rooms – that perhaps the Iraqis were telling the truth. His volte face on the WMD issue came too late to dismantle the narrative that he’d personally played a major role in constructing. Ritter later CLAIMED he was ‘not taken in’ when in reality HE was directly responsible for numerous reports that the Iraqis were lying. In addition, he secretly worked with the Israelis to try to dig up dirt on the Iraqis – how ‘neutral’ do you think the Israelis were?
Are you seriously asking people to believe that a lying, twisting, predatory pervert is a reliable source? Is that how low you’re willing to go with your bottom of the barrel scraping?
Me So Harney
Says the man citing criminal Poroshenko..
Gas..
f_lawless
I’m not asking people to believe anything. I’m pointing out that the article you linked to directly contradicted the case you were attempting to make that Ritter’s perverse sexual activity in his private life invalidated his professional career and ability to provide informed commentary on the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine. It’s an example of an “appeal to emotion” logical fallacy.
Personally, I’m able to make a distinction – to give an analogy: I think Michael Jackson was almost certainly a paedophile who should have been jailed. However, this belief of mine doesn’t lead me to interpret Jackson’s professional body of work as something of less artistic value.
Your subsequent comment comes across as a bit of a diatribe; a hyper-emotionalised style of argument loosely associated with fact. It’s a distraction from the point at hand that you’re apparently posting stuff that you’re not really reading beforehand.
Mad
Feargananam
bisted
…bodger…
Fearganainm
Posted (apparently successfully) by Fearganainm April 2, 2022 at 4:23 pm, but subsequently deleted/disappeared:
@f_lawless
Go away and read Ritter’s own book about his time in Iraq. Try to connect some real dots, e.g. when his boss told him to have a meeting with the loathsome Ahmed Chalabi and Chalabi asked Ritter just what kind of gaps existed in the information that could lead to a slam-dunk case being made that Iraq had WMD. Note how your ‘highly intelligent and qualified’ Ritter doesn’t seem able to see/acknowledge/admit that this conversation led to Chalabi stovepiping INC informants (e.g. Curveball), into Western intelligence agencies, each making allegations that – miraculously – were part of the missing jigsaw pieces that Ritter had told Chalabi were lacking, to ‘make a credible case’.
Ritter’s boss, of course, was doing his own stovepiping, dining and chatting with Judith Miller of the New York Times who became – miraculously – the journalist who seemed to have the inside track on ‘the truth’ about Iraq and its alleged (but non-existent), WMD.
Was Ritter a patsy or was he an active member of the team manufacturing and disseminating ‘evidence’ against Iraq? He was clearly aware of the informant conveyer belt and the reason he knew for sure that some of their information was false was because he’d given Chalabi the opportunity to manufacture it.
Given that Miller allowed herself to be used like someone coughing up a barium meal the New York Times is perhaps still anxious to efface its own disgusting part in the fabrication of a case against Iraq.
Unlike you, I actually know something about the Iraq WMD saga and Ritter’s tawdry part in it.
The guy is now a leper in intelligence circles, he doesn’t speak Ukrainian and he is being used as a panellist by pro-Russian media for his anti-Western analysis. Gee, what possible reason could a man have, a man convicted and jailed by a US court after all his lies and excuses were rejected, for badmouthing his own country? Where do you suppose he is getting his information, outside of his personal spoofing?
You want him to be credible because it suits the kind of ramshackle conspiracy theorizing that you’re addicted to. He is not credible. He was not credible when he served in Iraq – he lied. He was not credible when he resigned as a weapon’s inspector in August 1998 claiming that the US and the UN were being too soft on Hussein’s regime and passing up the opportunity to find his WMD – there were no WMD. He lied about his road to Damascus conversion to NOT believing Iraq had any WMD – he ALWAYS knew that there were no WMD in Iraq. The CIA knew that there were no WMD in Iraq – Hussein Kamel al-Majid had defected and been debriefed in 1995 and confirmed the destruction of Iraq’s entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and banned missiles. Ritter knew about the defection and the debriefing but acted as if he didn’t. – because he was an active part of the cooking up of a case against Iraq.
Ritter is a fake, so no surprise you believe in him. You believe a child sex offender is a credible ‘expert’ on Ukraine, a man who hasn’t been allowed near a confidential document for decades. You believe a NYT article hailing his ‘brilliance’ is now, years later, ‘credible’, forgetting that the NYT has good reason to try to downplay its own part in the concocting of a case against Iraq. That’s how addicted to utter garbage you are and that demonstrates clearly that you’re absolutely unquestioning when it comes to the crunch and you should be properly assessing the credibility of sources.
Fearganainm
Poroshenko, of course, has not (yet), been convicted of anything.
Scott Ritter, on the other hand, is a convicted, registered sex offender and jailbird and a proven immoral liar.
Ian - oG
I’ve noted a lot of slack being extended to known predators on here lately.
Not surprisingly coming from the fantasists and conspiracy theory dopes above.
Still, it’s good to know that they are are dumb as they are.
Me So Harney
“LOL the usual clown shows trying look informed on geo political matters now.”
This tripe from clown show Ian on Thursday.. LOL
Mad
A man can be both a sexual predator and also correct about some facts in which he is a domain expert.
TenPinTwrry said so.
Fergalito
A man can also be a paedophile who the RSPCA estimate abused at least 500 children, be a necrophiliac with keys to the morgue and be a decent chap, a bit of a cad if you will according to TPT. This is the calibre of individual to which you refer.
GiggidyGoo
RSPCA?
Mad
Quite, Fergalito.
You may have missed the attempt at sardonic wit.
Fergalito
@GIGGIDYGOO – oops! Very unfortunate typo on my part. RSPCC of course I meant. Far more erroneous than putting two Ls in Savile unless you’re a JS apologist of course…
Fergalito
@Mad – if that’s what passes for sardonic wit then it fails to meet both the sardonic and witty bar. Likely to be trolling or perhaps edgy humour much like Jimmy Carr is supposedly edgy.
Nigel
Thing is, no-one’s denying the existence of Ukrainian Nazis, and if the US provided aid to Ukraine, the Nazis benefitted from it, which is scandalous, certainly, however, crucially, not a justification for the invasion, but going to someone like that for your story? Geez. You are scraping the bottom of the barrel. I also note that nobody needed him to tell us the WMD story was a crock, not at the time, not now.
K.Cavan
Ah, Ferganainm O’Logicalfallacy, what do we have from your good self, today?
Ad Hominem? That’ll do, nicely.
Fearganainm
What’s this? A ‘don’t say anything bad about the convicted child sex offender’ from you?
Would you like your Gazprom a/c credited with € or $ to pay for that gas then which you can swap into Rub and pay the Bank of Russia ?
K.Cavan
Gazprom accounts, stephen? My dear boy, out with it, what sort of ludicrous, paranoid fantasies are we entertaining from you today? So, Me So has their a/c credited, they use that to pay for gas, then, after it’s gone, they exchange it for Roubles to pay the Bank Of Russia?
With a series of transactions like that I fear you don’t have a head for business.
Anyway.
TenPin Terry
Oh the irony.
The Torygraph reports that Mad Bad Vlad risks running out of viable tanks, missiles and fighter jets because the components they use are made in Ukraine.
A substantial portion of fighter jet engines and tank components are made in Ukrainian factories, which no longer supply Russian forces.
Marvellouski™
Shame Jimmy Savile is not still with us, he could do great work for the Ukrainian women and girls charities, eh, what? Now then.
Vlad X. Novichok
Just a quick drop in from your favourite nerve agent and unsurprising that you’re still at it with your rapey notions about Ukrainian women and girls.
Said before, if you’re not already on a register you should be…
Mad
Good man Vlad another one missing the point
Vlad X. Novichok
Oh I get it alright. You just can’t help yourself is all… right?
Mad
You’re back to your only subject again Vlad.
Suck my balls/
Vlad X. Novichok
The truth will set you free/frei, George.
Mad
Don’t speak with your mouth full, Vlad.
K.Cavan
I’d say that could be true, TPT. They do have coal & steelworks in a certain part of Ukraine, all right & it’s possible the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled some of them during their genocidal war against Donbas, which has been going on since 2014.
On the other hand, it’s in The Telegraph.
Mad
It’s nice to see the English girls do well temporarily in the cricket before their inevitable slaughter by Oz tomorrow.
You can always rely on the English lasses to be fun, well up for it, gamey and then lie down and take it like a man
jungleman
What the hell, Bodger? I’m not allowed to have an innocent jibe at some jumped up bl but this freak is allowed post the above filth?
You seriously need to get your house in order.
Mad
Haha you are the very definition of a scumbag Jungleman
jungleman
Do explain how, you dirty little sex pest.
Mad
Suck my balls as well jungleman
SailorGerry
I keep seeing Larry Fink popping up in my news feeds explaining his worldview perspectives, with the need for a coordinated global response to the issues of the day.
The NWO seems to be marching on whilst most people are distracted by trying to pay the bills, the situation in Ukraine or the ever constant threat from the Covid monster.
Our digital prison is being created today in real time, but nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
Our Digital Prison – that would be a great name for a modern shoe gazing EDM outfit
stephen moran
Ironically for the lets dump the Dollar crew here – any rollback on the use of the greenback as the global reserve currency will I can assure you hasten this dystopian worldview as do you seriously think the Chinese authorities will allow the largescale offshore use of the CNY (losing control over monetary policy) without it being in some sort of controllable form i.e. in digital (and time limited form as they have already experimented with domestically) – file under be very careful what you wish for.- I’d much prefer my anonymous $100 bill in my wallet to spend at the time of my choosing anywhere in the world without being monitored – that is the choice of a rational libertarian not a knee jerk anti-American binary one.
SOQ
Speculating that the petrodollar may be on it’s last legs is just that, especially as a potential reason for what is going on in Ukraine- it is neither in favour nor against.
It may be the case that Russia/China/India/Africa collation may set up its own social credit system yes, but given that their driving motivations are nationalistic rather than globalist, such would be national rather than international- which in one swipe defeats the whole WEF attempted subversion.
stephen moran
My point is that the potential infringement of civil liberties and personal monetary sovereignty so beloved by most here would be severely curtailed by such arrangements. The capital controls required to prevent leakages would also be crippling. It would involve the Bank of China ceding a degree of control over monetary policy which would be anathema to them. Apart from that none of the CNY / INR or Rub are funding currencies, therefore there are no developed capital markets which would you to allow to hedge anything denominated in them – which given their volatility would cause chaos. Some African countries may be desperate but they aren’t dumb
Me So Harney
More nonsense from the gaslighting bluster bot..
Ian - oG
Thick Thock working exactly as the CCP hoped I see.
A good explanation of what is happening, and what is coming down the road for the US and the dollar.
SOQ
@ Ian – oG- you do realise how petty and insecure you make yourself appear?
K.Cavan
Utter nonsense, stephen, the Chinese have, in case you haven’t noticed, two currency names, because they have two currencies, a domestic one and a foreign exchange one, the Renminbi (RNB) & the Yuan (CNY).
You can work the rest out for yourself, no loss of control over monetary policy.
All currencies are mostly Digital anyway, the vast majority of currency issued is never even printed, the CBDCs are not a currency, they are a control mechanism that signals the end of freedom in The West.
K.Cavan
I don’t think ”bands” will be allowed in the New World Order, Mad. Since we’ll all Own Nothing & Be Happy (or else) it’ll be Barbershop a go-go, no instruments, they’re things.
Verbatim
I’ve been noticing and caring, but what can you do about it really? Most people don’t care, as long as they have their devices, food, drink and shelter! I keep up with it because I have an incurable curiosity in most things.
What amuses me about WHO and WEF sites is how beautiful they make it all appear, all is blue and calm, all the shiny happy people (elite) just waiting to change the world for our and our children’s benefit.
What’s also amusing is not so long ago “a world government” was a “conspiracy theory” People don’t want to know, all the information is out there…we are in a “digital prison” already. There was no need for a digital pass for the vaccines. All very well for banks to freeze the naughty oligarchs accounts and block SWIFT but wait until it becomes “normal” to do it to Joe-Soap, but by then, Joe will be lured into further acceptance and compliance.
Once you see it you can’t un-see how we are manipulated, sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Like, what happened to the war in Ukraine? What’s the next show coming up…I look to Bodger.
Mad
well done on your win yesterday
Verbatim
My tail’s still wagging :-)
K.Cavan
You took the Red Pill, Verbatim. Many on here are still on the Blue ones, so it’s hard to decipher their interpretations of the fictional world they live in, while staring at the stark reality.
SOQ
The World Economic Forum and the sovereignty of mankind – Dr. Robert Malone
Great victory for the America’s working poor with Amazon on Staten Island,voting to organize.It’s impossible to have any semblance of a life in NY on the18 bucks an hour they pay.
The first couple times in various recovery groups in NY,I heard…oh,I had a typical Irish American childhood….I had no idea they were referring to the Biden’s.
Hunter’s just awful judgement and his father’s ‘old school’ misty eyed,poor parenting skills, have doomed,any real chance of cannabis reform at the federal level,Schumer is a show pony,not a workhorse so he has his own bill.
There is just no chance of any white house support for badly needed criminal justice reform regarding cannabis,as Hunter and drugs have almost burnt the Biden house down,never minds his sisters issues.
The house yet again passed the MORE act,but included too much social equity,its dead on arrival.
But contrary many ill informed pundits on here America is chanigng,Irish American and very serious player in DC,Marty Walsh is sec labor,this is a great win for him and organized labor,the R’s hate the WaPo and its adherence to facts and truth.
Cannabis legislation is coming at federal level,too much money to be made,the largest legal weed drug market in the world is opening up,its so good they named it twice.
Yep, definitely, Deliveroo, the end of the Gig Economy, sure. Any day now, co-ops, is it? Sounds like commie business, to me, just when we’re fighting the Soviet Un…the EU…eh,USSR…Russia.
Ah, Saving Private Ryan, they wouldn’t have bothered if his name was Eamonn.
Ian - oG
Delighted to hear about the union.
I’d like to see the same level of health & safety standsrds in his sweatshops applied next time BuysUs rides his MicroPenis compensator up to the edge of the atmosphere.
Hahaha, only joking, I hope it blows up on the launchpad.
Fearganainm
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary calls for army to be drafted in to deal with queue delays at Dublin Airport
Permission to slope off for a few scoops and a bucket of KFC Captain O’Mainwaring !
GiggidyGoo
The Bufton Tuftons of the UK MOD have no problem with the UK army executing…306…..members of the UK army. What a great lot to have behind you. They’ve got your back.
K.Cavan
See, O’Leary knows how to deal with uppity proles, a small platoon of soldiers, thin out the queues, drag away the bodies. Why isn’t this man in government, he could take the edge off the visceral hatred for the Irish people emanating from FF, FG & The Greens.
SailorGerry
Tessa still has the best synopsis on how they want the great reset to work and the speed with which it is moving forward is shocking.
”The Great Reset For Dummies”
The target audience for that is right here. It’s all going to be such a shock to them, not that being aware of what’s coming helps very much, since it’s a Dystopian Hell far worse then even Wells, Huxley or Orwell could conjure up.
Fearganainm
Stephen ‘The Bankrupt’ Yaxley-Lennon deported from Mexico
to jonjoker I listened to that podcast you recommended – you would seriously get an F is pass LC economics if you scribbled that as an exam answer – why are foreigners happy to fund the US deficit – because the US buys goods and services off them – its vendor financing – it has nothing to do with funding the MIC – the US cannot print $ to funds the its balance on payments deficit – that is clueless voodoo economics as the deficit on the current a/c must be balanced by and inflows on the financial capital a/c from abroad – day one page one stuff – if you could just print money why then has the £ devalued 3 times in the last century – because of chromic current a/c deficits – do you think the Bank of England would have avoided this humiliation if it could just print £ to finance this – if the US did that is would cause hyper inflation and the value of the $ would fall. As I’ve said before people have been writing off the $ since 1971 – TINA – bar the €. Paper never refused ink and I can recall reading earnest articles in the last 80’s when I started work predicting the $ imminent demise (yes ZH was called something else back then and equally sensationalist and wrong most of the time)
The CNY has capital controls, is non convertible and is not an accepted as medium of exchange outside China because you cannot open an a/c in it etc etc.- so it cannot be a reserve currency. And see my reasons above on why you wouldn’t want it to be if you have genuine libertarian concerns rather just engaged in cheap anti-US grandstanding
jonjoker
Mr Moron, your username is well-chosen, as you clearly demonstrate your understanding is fairly limited.
I’m certainly not going to bother trying to discuss your empty verbiage with you. Simply to say your comment about the renminbi not being a reserve currency etc etc shows your complete lack of knowledge about the world of international trade.
K.Cavan
stephen, Libertarianism is a joke concept thought up by freshmen, for the lolz, when they were high. Nobody actually stays a Libertarian for more than a few years, it’s like a philosophical version of a spotty phase you go through as an Asimov-reading teenager, just before you discover girls or boys.
The West, by seizing the assets of the Russian Central Bank, have committed a Sovereign Default, for the last time, too.
SailorGerry
2 minute watch, well worth it as the new CBDC is sold as a great idea by a globalist in the know.
I thought Tommy Robinson was correct to point out the prevalent religion of the grooming gangs and did not deserve the concerted effort to criminalise him.
John Pilger:
“This is the news you don’t see. Patrick Lancaster, a Russian-speaking independent American journalist reports from inside Mariupol, Ukraine. The civilians here are eye witnesses to a war that, for them, began eight years ago.”
[link to Youtube video with auto-translated subtitles]
A few quotes to give the general inclination:
“May Poroshenko, Zelensky and all his boasters be damned. Death to them. ..Beat these Ukrainians. They destroyed our houses to such a f*cking extent..”
“Ukrainian army committed such terrible things here! Terrible!. How we only managed to survive..”
“They kicked out people from their houses in the settlements. They occupied the premises and put there guns and mortars..”
stephen moran
Patrick Lancaster is an infamous Russian propagandist for Donbas Separatists. He hasn’t a shred of credibility – besides selling fake war souvenirs – he’s was called out years ago FFS, He’s a totally comprised bell end and on Zvezda and RT more often than Farage on (K)GB news
Patrick Lancaster was the journalist whom seven days ago broke the story of the woman who was tortured, killed and had a swastika carved into her body. He published the video on YouTube.
At the time the usual suspects on Broadsheet done all that smearing stuff- including one who suggested the body has actually been stolen out of a morgue.
A criminal investigation has now been launched- not that it will get very far with the Azov Nazis of course- but it proves that what he was saying did actually happen.
Anyways- if you want something to discredit then try this- Zelenskyy’s inner team- I kid you not.
1. The Chief of Staff of the Presidential Palace, Andre Yemark, is a comedy producer;
2. The head of the Presidential Administration, Andre Bodin, is a lawyer in the entertainment industry;
3. The president’s chief policy adviser, Sergey Sheffey, is a comedy writer;
4. Ivan Bakanov, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Intelligence Service, is the boss of a comedy film company;
5. Senior adviser to the Ukrainian National Defense Committee, Sergei Sivoko, is also a comedian and is Zelensky’s partner in acting.
‘but it proves that what he was saying did actually happen.’
Not in itself, it doesn’t. I’m curious about the prosecution of a criminal investigation in a war-zone controlled by a mliitary for whom this being real is useful propaganda.
None of those are especially discrediting, to be honest. They seem to be dealing with an invasion by a massively more powerful military power quite well, relatively.
SOQ
What nationality are you Nigel?
Nigel
Toldyoubeforeistan.
Broadbag
Investigation equals proof in SOQland
SOQ
What else do you think they would be investigating bullyboy?
Broadbag
I think you’ll find crimes are generally investigated, what with them being crimes and such – a simple enough concept I would have thought, investigation of a crime does not = proof that you were right, just proof a crime was committed. As for ‘bullyboy’, you’re the one wishing vaccine injury on people and constantly hounding Nigel, calling people idiots and shills etc, so look in the mirror for that one. A classic case of can dish it out but can’t take it.
K.Cavan
It’s brilliant, SOQ, Zelensky brought all his girls with him, the entire crew he needed to script and direct a fantasy where he gets to play the President of Ukraine, for a credulous but low-brow Western audience.
And they love it, they imagine that, as soon as the camera stops, he’s handed a mobile phone & asked important questions about soldiers, electricity supplies, what newspapers to shut down (all of them, it seems) & so on, as he walks, briskly to his next performance.
What a trouper, though, old school showbiz, the show must go on, well worth his fee.
The other Oligarchs have all transferred their ill-gotten gains abroad, along with their families, presumably in preparation for the massive victory they are about to achieve over the Russians.
Poroshenko, $1 billion transferred overseas, along with his kids, Kuchma, $3 billion abroad, as is he & his family, Avakov, $2 billion & all his relatives spirited away, Yermak, No.1 on your list, $1 billion transferred abroad, family in UK, Timoshenko, Yermak’s deputy, $1.5 & his family, also in the UK, Lutsenko, former Prosecutor-General, a mere $800 million, he’s with his family, in the UK, Yatsenyuk, former PM, $2 billion, he’s with his family in Miami, Akhemetov, $15 billion, abroad with his family, Kolomoisky (funder of the Nazis) & Bogolybov, $6 billion between them, being looked after, abroad, by their families, Korban, oligarch & war criminal, $1.5 billion transferred out, family in Israel, the Kiltschko brothers, $2 billion transferred, families in Germany & US, Yaroslavsky, $1 billion in o/seas accounts, he’s in the UK with his family, Kosyuk, £1.6 billion & all his relatives taken abroad, Turnichov, former acting President, $1 billion & family abroad, Nalivaichenko, former Head of the SBU, the secret police, $500 million & his family are in the USA.
Between them, these men owned everything in Ukraine & they’ve taken it all with them.
The looting is complete, we’ve just got to wait for the Army to collapse. Since many of the armaments being ”transferred” to Ukraine are actual army stores, they don’t have the RFID chips used to ensure that only the purchasing nation in an official arms deal uses the weapons & Ukrainian Generals find willing buyers for these untraceable weapons among the many Israeli Arms Dealers in town & are using their ill-gotten gains to get their families into Poland.
Fearganainm
You were given a link to an article which examined whether material posted by Lancaster, and others, was genuine. A number of military and medical sources gave their opinions on whether footage and images alleged to be of the aftermath of an IED attack were genuine or ‘doctored’. Outside doubts expressed about alleged blast damage two medical sources gave it as their opinion that at least one of the corpses shown in a clip that Lancaster shared bore all the signs of having been a cadaver that had been the subject of a posr-mortem examination some time prior to the alleged IED incident. Tell-tale incisions in the skull were among signs that they pointed to. The consensus among those critics of material Lancaster was sharing was that it was a faked scenario.
That was the context for asking you how confident you could be that material posted by Lancaster was authentic and not staged. The suggestion that he had shared material that possibly used a corpse taken from elsewhere was raised by medics and that being so it is perfectly undertandable why anyone should treat his clips with caution.
K.Cavan
”Donbas Separatists”, see, stephen you’re engaging in Newspeak there. It allows the Ukrainians to be classed as ”Freedom Fighters” while those resisting the tender ministrations of their larger neighbour in Yemen are ”Rebels”.
stephen moran
if you want to hear fearless reportage by those who paid the ultimate price for it them I’d recommend
Ed Milliband. Really stephen? Ed Milliband, the Ed Milliband?
stephen moran
Some really harrowing footage emerging from areas liberated for the murderous Russian invaders – I wonder if the average Russkie realizes how long they are going to be paying reparations for after Putin’s incompetent ragbag of war criminals get driven out of Ukraine’ sovereign territory.
Yes, stephen, I’ve seen some awful stuff from the Azovs, Right Sector, White Hammer, Aydar, Dnepr & other Nazi groups that The West has armed & trained. Then again, I’ve been watching videos of them shelling civilians since 2014, once they finished their NATO training at the Peacekeeping Centre.
How many CIA-organized coups would have to happen in a country before you realised using the word sovereign in relation to it is a nonsense, stephen? How many police & protestors would need to be gunned down by CIA snipers? How many Nazis, who had lost their electoral power but still had lots of guns, would you allow into government before you reckoned, maybe, this is not a functioning Democracy? How many of those aforementioned civilians need to die at the hands of their own government before you’d think that maybe that wasn’t quite right? 14,000 not enough?
In case you haven’t realised it, we’re paying the reparations, already, in our energy bills. When manufacturers & producers get their energy bills, we’ll be paying it, in all our other bills. The EU government, or whatever you call that bunch of bandits in Strasbourg & Brussels, are driving us over a cliff. What’s more, it’s deliberate.
It’s about time the government loosened up nightclub closing hours. I used to allow my DJ mate to take the occasional break during his gigs & tourists who’d loved his set would come up to the booth afterwards asking were we doing a late night set somewhere. Many Europeans would be frankly incredulous when we told them that everything was closed. These people were having a great time & were ready to keep spending til the sun came up.
Wow, well done.
junglecreep.
The publicans are no angels K, they always argued in favour of pubs and against clubs which is why pub opening times previously got extended, but not clubs. When people dance they tend not to drink as much- which is why you’ll find the dance floor space in most remaining clubs has shrank.
Even in pubs you are being manipulated, with little seating area and very loud music, so not a lot to do apart from shout or, drink more. Some people I know in the music scene reckons even the music played is designed to drink more, which is probable.
And on top of all that is property prices. Dance venues tend to be large spaces in prime locations, so they get turned into office and residential units as soon as the leases are up. Any left are probably mortgaged up to the eyeballs with a keen focus on bar profits there too.
And €700 per night for the privaledge paid to the councils
Which is the reason your drink price goes up after 11 pm
I think it would be fair at this point to relax all alcohol licensing laws. Could we not use an Asian model like you’d find in Japanese or Korean cities?
From
https://www.nomunication.jp/japans-drinking-laws/
深夜酒類提供飲食店営業 (“Late Night Bar Operation Law”), where registration is required with the National Police Agency to serve alcohol past 12AM. This law makes it possible to serve alcohol to customers from 12AM until sunrise, however there are requirements that also must be fulfilled in terms of lighting, audio equipment, and noise protection. This same law also strictly prohibits activities that may be deemed as “servicing customers,” which means any kind of physical contact, singing karaoke together, sitting together, or even simply talking to just one customer for too long. So owners need to decide if they will just be a regular bar that’s able to stay open late, or one of the other types of establishments that’s more about keeping your customers entertained with the company of the opposite sex
The greatest political cover-up of the century.
Hunter Biden’s Laptop 101.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/the-greatest-political-cover-up-of-the-century/
#rundonaldrun
I suspect the greatest cover-up would be something else, TPT.
Try the Great Covid Cover-up for starters.
Vanity Fair reports on how a “Save the Manatees” NGO came to fund Covid virus gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Using official US money handed out by Fauci.
More details at:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/the-virus-hunting-nonprofit-at-the-center-of-the-lab-leak-controversy
Remember when it was put out by trump that Biden and son had corrupt dealings with the Ukrainians and zelensky would not coroporste and the matter buried .Maybe someone might get to the bottom of zelenskygate
Seems a year into the job we now have the makings of WW3.
The bottom of it is that Trump was lying.
About Hunter’s laptop ?
You need to get up to speed old sport.
About most things, but also about that.
Thanks comrade
And you thought Gammon Broadcasting was bad – well take a look at the real (K)GB News – QAnon cubed stuff
https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1509909056479236097
I other news even Borat’s mates think Putra is a banker
https://twitter.com/b_nishanov/status/1509913543507947526
If I was a Rishi man – a profile of an just “old Golf” man
https://twitter.com/supertanskiii/status/1509934946856677378
Operation shocking and awful is still going swimmingly for the Russkies I see. So much winning
You seem to like QAnon, stephen. Assuming you lend credence to the crap pumped out by the MSM, also, that shows you’re absorbing both streams of the CIA propaganda feed, yum, yum. You’re their perfect subject, well done.
I also admire your conviction that Zelensky will lead Ukraine to victory, if you’re going to allow your authoritarian political instincts to distort your reality, might as well dream big. Zzzzzzzz…
Excellent draw for Engerland in the World Cup( a footy tournament every four years for the younger readers on here ) with Iran, USA and either Scotland/Wales/Ukraine.
Ukraine will be the emotionally difficult and ironic game if they get through particularly with Boris’s popularity in that country because of Blighty’s great support for their war effort.
A British-made Starstreak missile shot down a Russkie chopper yesterday – the first use of the deadly weapon in the conflict.
Of course everyone has genuine concerns about this brittle Engerland team but fingers crossed Sir Harry of Kane hits form in Qatar.
Still, it’s nice to be able to cheer on the lads don’t you think ? Such a shame Ireland’s 20-year wait for qualification goes on.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Mwahahahaha.
#COYABE™
Irish Harry Kane?
Netherlands or Senegal 2nd round and looks like France in the quarter finals (or possibly Spain / Germany) depending on the breaks and vagaries of footie
Besides the USA are no pushover.
I feel the way things are going it will be Scotland who qualify and that can be anyone’s game.
Fair play to Southgate though he has done a great job with a completely over-hyped, overpaid, spoilt collection of mostly council estate trash rejects, and cleverly bringing in the 3 top, top Irish players raised their levels significantly.
Meanwhile https://youtu.be/WxZ2SofxPzI
An “Irish” team with Kane, Rice & Grealish – with Wayne Rooney as national manager – what could possibly go wrong
Lose to France and become the laughing stock of international football by begging to become the 33rd Team ?
Morto.
COYABE™
The divine intervention of Thierry Henry. Ireland were cheated out of it. Ireland gets over those type of things quickly.
But in October 2021, Gary Lineker was still on about that other deity. Diego Maradona, and his ‘Hand of God’ goal in 1986. 36 years on. 36years? Now, that’s Laughing Stock.
You tans never stop whining.
Foreigners, eh, stephen? You didn’t get that memo? Foreigners are better than the Irish.
Yer man being labelled as dim has a point. There are plenty of houses that could do with turning off a few lights, maybe turning the heat down from 24c etc.
Unfortunately many of the people who really need all the supports have long since learned this.
Our local councils could also take some lead here. As an example, it’s common practice in many parts of Germany that street lights are turned off fully from 12-5am, or every 2nd light is.
Why on earth would local councils turn off street lights, Tinytim, it’s not costing them anything. They could increase Council Tax to 100% of the value of your house, if they want, hell, 125%, they could kick you out, owing them money. Only joking, they’d never do that, would they? We’d own nothing but we wouldn’t be happy.
“We Trained Nazis” – Scott Ritter, Former US Marine Corp Intelligence Officer “The first troops to be trained by American and British soldiers were the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion”
Here he details who is the real power in Ukraine- the Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQoi4gzRJc
Just remind us Queenie – do you think Russia was provoked into the invasion ?
That people like Alex Jones was predicting a war 4-5 months before there was any word of it, means that there was plenty of backroom stuff going on beforehand.
I very much doubt if the Russians just woke up one morning and decided to pop in for a cup of tea- but the motives could be a number of things.
We do know that there are US and NATO fingerprints all over the place so just like under the last regime, Ukraine was most definately not independent.
It could be a bigger power play of course, about killing the petrodollar, timed now because of a very weak Washington administration, actually I suspect that is what it is really about.
No doubt you’ve had a few strange bedfellows in your time but none more so than Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage I’d vouchsafe …
https://mobile.twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1509535827881336836?cxt=HHwWiIC9yc21-fIpAAAA
Well, Farage, just like Trump warning the Germans about signing a gas deal with Russia, understands how the world really works. And just like Trump, he is not really a politician- more a provocateur.
We need more people like that- not because they are left or right but because they have real world experience- they haven’t spent their entire lives cocooned in political bubbles, so they tell it as they see it.
Farage has a finely-tuned political antenna.
It used to be called the common touch.
He listens to Joe Bloggs rather than other politicians and journalists in a Westminster circle-jerk.
I think he’ll be back causing mischief before the general election with the flow of thousands of cross-channel illegal migrants continuing unabated still annoying Tory voters.
It’ll be like déjà vu all over again …
I agree, but he is far from the common man- he is part of the jurisdiction known as the City of London.
About 30 years and many millions of votes ago.
Lots of ordinary people work in the City too.
Nigel is so on brand for both you naughty, boys.
“I’ve never owned any Russian asset or done any business with Russians. Full stop. It’s outrageous abuse of Parliament privilege. The NCA investigated the allegations and said the money for Brexit was mine.”
https://www.cityam.com/nigel-farage-hits-back-at-claims-he-accepted-550000-from-the-russian-state-nonsense/
I assume you are referring to Brexit? Yes they did and the reasons they did were varied- some of which had nothing to do with Brexit itself.
My point is about what Farage’s motivations were- rather than all the others reasons given, that the financial freedom exercised by the City of London was paramount- it is a laundromat after all.
Did king conspiraloon Jones actually predict Russia invading Ukraine, or a generic war? Any link to this proclamation?
He predicted a war in February. it is on record- he also explains how he made that prediction, that his family are very connected to the US military- go look for yourself.
Question: Is it still a conspiracy when it comes through- or has that word been completely hijacked as a slur by the special needs brigade?
Mostly it just means that Jones said something and by coincidence it had some correspondence with reality. Taken at face value AT BEST it means someone leaked US intelligence about Russian intentions. In this case you’re the one imposing a conspiracy on this.
‘Question: Is it still a conspiracy when it comes through’
It’s only a conpiracy when you prove it’s a conspiracy.
Conspiraloon predicted a war, so when one happens, fanbois spaff themselves over his clairvoyancy! Should have got him to predict the lotto numbers.
His original prediction was that it would be China, but y’know, whatever.
@SOQ “the special needs brigade” Really? You actually thought of typing that and then went ahead and did it. Revolting. The mask slips yet again.
You calling anyone out on the tone of a post is more than a bit rich.
Do one you ignorant one handed typer.
So, Dolly, what object, person, location or event did Mr Jones obtain his extrasensory perceptions from, do you reckon? I have a Premonition, some sort of Precognition, almost a Prophetic intuition about what your answer might be.
Someone really needs to buy you a mirror, Broadbag. You can practice your pearl-clutching in front of it.
Scott Ritter, the registered sex offender, the Scott Ritter who sought out under-age girls in chat rooms? The Scott Ritter jailed after being found guilty on a child sex charge? The Scott Ritter who was charged more than once for such behaviour? The Scott Ritter who enjoyed ‘performing on camera’ albeit not as a journalist, that Scott Ritter?
Not the most impressive of sources…
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/scott-ritter.html
Lol the very one
Can you post a link we don’t have to pay for please?
He was sentenced to ‘up to five and a half years’ imprisonment’:
https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/975-eda-2012.html
Contains reference to his prior activities – he was at it for years.
Do you read through the stuff you’re posting or just lash it out there regardless?
Quote from the NYT article:
“History will record, though, that Ritter was right, while those who showed him nothing but contempt were flat wrong. While he wasn’t the only one saying that the (Iraq) war’s pretense was false or that its aftermath could be calamitous, Ritter was almost certainly the most determined dissenter and the one with the most on-the-ground intelligence. And if his views on Hussein’s regime careened from one extreme to the other, at least he demonstrated a capacity to evolve in his thinking — something few policy makers or commentators showed themselves able to do at the time. No doubt his very existence continues to discomfit those who insisted on Hussein’s lethality, and whose explanation for why they were wrong — that the intelligence was fabricated, essentially — has always been undercut by the fact that Ritter was never taken in.”
….it’s a real pity really that society is so judgy,huh Lawless.
Of course kids,porn,webcams are involved,like duh.
You’d maybe be better off reading more about convicted child sex offender Scott Ritter.
The Iraqis hated him. When he was doing his weapons’ inspector gig he was a bullying, confrontational, aggressive clown. His reports continually fuelled the narrative that the Iraqis were lying and concealing WMD. Given he’d turned the place upside down and found nothing it’s hardly a surprise that when he got back to the USA it eventually dawned on him – in between stints in chat rooms – that perhaps the Iraqis were telling the truth. His volte face on the WMD issue came too late to dismantle the narrative that he’d personally played a major role in constructing. Ritter later CLAIMED he was ‘not taken in’ when in reality HE was directly responsible for numerous reports that the Iraqis were lying. In addition, he secretly worked with the Israelis to try to dig up dirt on the Iraqis – how ‘neutral’ do you think the Israelis were?
Are you seriously asking people to believe that a lying, twisting, predatory pervert is a reliable source? Is that how low you’re willing to go with your bottom of the barrel scraping?
Says the man citing criminal Poroshenko..
Gas..
I’m not asking people to believe anything. I’m pointing out that the article you linked to directly contradicted the case you were attempting to make that Ritter’s perverse sexual activity in his private life invalidated his professional career and ability to provide informed commentary on the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine. It’s an example of an “appeal to emotion” logical fallacy.
Personally, I’m able to make a distinction – to give an analogy: I think Michael Jackson was almost certainly a paedophile who should have been jailed. However, this belief of mine doesn’t lead me to interpret Jackson’s professional body of work as something of less artistic value.
Your subsequent comment comes across as a bit of a diatribe; a hyper-emotionalised style of argument loosely associated with fact. It’s a distraction from the point at hand that you’re apparently posting stuff that you’re not really reading beforehand.
Feargananam
…bodger…
Posted (apparently successfully) by Fearganainm April 2, 2022 at 4:23 pm, but subsequently deleted/disappeared:
@f_lawless
Go away and read Ritter’s own book about his time in Iraq. Try to connect some real dots, e.g. when his boss told him to have a meeting with the loathsome Ahmed Chalabi and Chalabi asked Ritter just what kind of gaps existed in the information that could lead to a slam-dunk case being made that Iraq had WMD. Note how your ‘highly intelligent and qualified’ Ritter doesn’t seem able to see/acknowledge/admit that this conversation led to Chalabi stovepiping INC informants (e.g. Curveball), into Western intelligence agencies, each making allegations that – miraculously – were part of the missing jigsaw pieces that Ritter had told Chalabi were lacking, to ‘make a credible case’.
Ritter’s boss, of course, was doing his own stovepiping, dining and chatting with Judith Miller of the New York Times who became – miraculously – the journalist who seemed to have the inside track on ‘the truth’ about Iraq and its alleged (but non-existent), WMD.
Was Ritter a patsy or was he an active member of the team manufacturing and disseminating ‘evidence’ against Iraq? He was clearly aware of the informant conveyer belt and the reason he knew for sure that some of their information was false was because he’d given Chalabi the opportunity to manufacture it.
Given that Miller allowed herself to be used like someone coughing up a barium meal the New York Times is perhaps still anxious to efface its own disgusting part in the fabrication of a case against Iraq.
Unlike you, I actually know something about the Iraq WMD saga and Ritter’s tawdry part in it.
The guy is now a leper in intelligence circles, he doesn’t speak Ukrainian and he is being used as a panellist by pro-Russian media for his anti-Western analysis. Gee, what possible reason could a man have, a man convicted and jailed by a US court after all his lies and excuses were rejected, for badmouthing his own country? Where do you suppose he is getting his information, outside of his personal spoofing?
You want him to be credible because it suits the kind of ramshackle conspiracy theorizing that you’re addicted to. He is not credible. He was not credible when he served in Iraq – he lied. He was not credible when he resigned as a weapon’s inspector in August 1998 claiming that the US and the UN were being too soft on Hussein’s regime and passing up the opportunity to find his WMD – there were no WMD. He lied about his road to Damascus conversion to NOT believing Iraq had any WMD – he ALWAYS knew that there were no WMD in Iraq. The CIA knew that there were no WMD in Iraq – Hussein Kamel al-Majid had defected and been debriefed in 1995 and confirmed the destruction of Iraq’s entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and banned missiles. Ritter knew about the defection and the debriefing but acted as if he didn’t. – because he was an active part of the cooking up of a case against Iraq.
Ritter is a fake, so no surprise you believe in him. You believe a child sex offender is a credible ‘expert’ on Ukraine, a man who hasn’t been allowed near a confidential document for decades. You believe a NYT article hailing his ‘brilliance’ is now, years later, ‘credible’, forgetting that the NYT has good reason to try to downplay its own part in the concocting of a case against Iraq. That’s how addicted to utter garbage you are and that demonstrates clearly that you’re absolutely unquestioning when it comes to the crunch and you should be properly assessing the credibility of sources.
Poroshenko, of course, has not (yet), been convicted of anything.
Scott Ritter, on the other hand, is a convicted, registered sex offender and jailbird and a proven immoral liar.
I’ve noted a lot of slack being extended to known predators on here lately.
Not surprisingly coming from the fantasists and conspiracy theory dopes above.
Still, it’s good to know that they are are dumb as they are.
“LOL the usual clown shows trying look informed on geo political matters now.”
This tripe from clown show Ian on Thursday.. LOL
A man can be both a sexual predator and also correct about some facts in which he is a domain expert.
TenPinTwrry said so.
A man can also be a paedophile who the RSPCA estimate abused at least 500 children, be a necrophiliac with keys to the morgue and be a decent chap, a bit of a cad if you will according to TPT. This is the calibre of individual to which you refer.
RSPCA?
Quite, Fergalito.
You may have missed the attempt at sardonic wit.
@GIGGIDYGOO – oops! Very unfortunate typo on my part. RSPCC of course I meant. Far more erroneous than putting two Ls in Savile unless you’re a JS apologist of course…
@Mad – if that’s what passes for sardonic wit then it fails to meet both the sardonic and witty bar. Likely to be trolling or perhaps edgy humour much like Jimmy Carr is supposedly edgy.
Thing is, no-one’s denying the existence of Ukrainian Nazis, and if the US provided aid to Ukraine, the Nazis benefitted from it, which is scandalous, certainly, however, crucially, not a justification for the invasion, but going to someone like that for your story? Geez. You are scraping the bottom of the barrel. I also note that nobody needed him to tell us the WMD story was a crock, not at the time, not now.
Ah, Ferganainm O’Logicalfallacy, what do we have from your good self, today?
Ad Hominem? That’ll do, nicely.
What’s this? A ‘don’t say anything bad about the convicted child sex offender’ from you?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60946340
… wasted lives
Twitter said so init..
Would you like your Gazprom a/c credited with € or $ to pay for that gas then which you can swap into Rub and pay the Bank of Russia ?
Gazprom accounts, stephen? My dear boy, out with it, what sort of ludicrous, paranoid fantasies are we entertaining from you today? So, Me So has their a/c credited, they use that to pay for gas, then, after it’s gone, they exchange it for Roubles to pay the Bank Of Russia?
With a series of transactions like that I fear you don’t have a head for business.
Anyway.
Oh the irony.
The Torygraph reports that Mad Bad Vlad risks running out of viable tanks, missiles and fighter jets because the components they use are made in Ukraine.
A substantial portion of fighter jet engines and tank components are made in Ukrainian factories, which no longer supply Russian forces.
Marvellouski™
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/uk-sell-weapons-russia-arms-exports-ukraine-crimea-3585359
The UK not shy about exporting arms to Russia mind you.
Shame Jimmy Savile is not still with us, he could do great work for the Ukrainian women and girls charities, eh, what? Now then.
Just a quick drop in from your favourite nerve agent and unsurprising that you’re still at it with your rapey notions about Ukrainian women and girls.
Said before, if you’re not already on a register you should be…
Good man Vlad another one missing the point
Oh I get it alright. You just can’t help yourself is all… right?
You’re back to your only subject again Vlad.
Suck my balls/
The truth will set you free/frei, George.
Don’t speak with your mouth full, Vlad.
I’d say that could be true, TPT. They do have coal & steelworks in a certain part of Ukraine, all right & it’s possible the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled some of them during their genocidal war against Donbas, which has been going on since 2014.
On the other hand, it’s in The Telegraph.
It’s nice to see the English girls do well temporarily in the cricket before their inevitable slaughter by Oz tomorrow.
You can always rely on the English lasses to be fun, well up for it, gamey and then lie down and take it like a man
What the hell, Bodger? I’m not allowed to have an innocent jibe at some jumped up bl but this freak is allowed post the above filth?
You seriously need to get your house in order.
Haha you are the very definition of a scumbag Jungleman
Do explain how, you dirty little sex pest.
Suck my balls as well jungleman
I keep seeing Larry Fink popping up in my news feeds explaining his worldview perspectives, with the need for a coordinated global response to the issues of the day.
The NWO seems to be marching on whilst most people are distracted by trying to pay the bills, the situation in Ukraine or the ever constant threat from the Covid monster.
Our digital prison is being created today in real time, but nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.
https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/home
Our Digital Prison – that would be a great name for a modern shoe gazing EDM outfit
Ironically for the lets dump the Dollar crew here – any rollback on the use of the greenback as the global reserve currency will I can assure you hasten this dystopian worldview as do you seriously think the Chinese authorities will allow the largescale offshore use of the CNY (losing control over monetary policy) without it being in some sort of controllable form i.e. in digital (and time limited form as they have already experimented with domestically) – file under be very careful what you wish for.- I’d much prefer my anonymous $100 bill in my wallet to spend at the time of my choosing anywhere in the world without being monitored – that is the choice of a rational libertarian not a knee jerk anti-American binary one.
Speculating that the petrodollar may be on it’s last legs is just that, especially as a potential reason for what is going on in Ukraine- it is neither in favour nor against.
It may be the case that Russia/China/India/Africa collation may set up its own social credit system yes, but given that their driving motivations are nationalistic rather than globalist, such would be national rather than international- which in one swipe defeats the whole WEF attempted subversion.
My point is that the potential infringement of civil liberties and personal monetary sovereignty so beloved by most here would be severely curtailed by such arrangements. The capital controls required to prevent leakages would also be crippling. It would involve the Bank of China ceding a degree of control over monetary policy which would be anathema to them. Apart from that none of the CNY / INR or Rub are funding currencies, therefore there are no developed capital markets which would you to allow to hedge anything denominated in them – which given their volatility would cause chaos. Some African countries may be desperate but they aren’t dumb
More nonsense from the gaslighting bluster bot..
Thick Thock working exactly as the CCP hoped I see.
LOL
Have a listen to this, the interview starts around 27 minutes in:
https://popularresistance.org/michael-hudson-us-dollar-hegemony-ended-abruptly-last-wednesday/
A good explanation of what is happening, and what is coming down the road for the US and the dollar.
@ Ian – oG- you do realise how petty and insecure you make yourself appear?
Utter nonsense, stephen, the Chinese have, in case you haven’t noticed, two currency names, because they have two currencies, a domestic one and a foreign exchange one, the Renminbi (RNB) & the Yuan (CNY).
You can work the rest out for yourself, no loss of control over monetary policy.
All currencies are mostly Digital anyway, the vast majority of currency issued is never even printed, the CBDCs are not a currency, they are a control mechanism that signals the end of freedom in The West.
I don’t think ”bands” will be allowed in the New World Order, Mad. Since we’ll all Own Nothing & Be Happy (or else) it’ll be Barbershop a go-go, no instruments, they’re things.
I’ve been noticing and caring, but what can you do about it really? Most people don’t care, as long as they have their devices, food, drink and shelter! I keep up with it because I have an incurable curiosity in most things.
What amuses me about WHO and WEF sites is how beautiful they make it all appear, all is blue and calm, all the shiny happy people (elite) just waiting to change the world for our and our children’s benefit.
What’s also amusing is not so long ago “a world government” was a “conspiracy theory” People don’t want to know, all the information is out there…we are in a “digital prison” already. There was no need for a digital pass for the vaccines. All very well for banks to freeze the naughty oligarchs accounts and block SWIFT but wait until it becomes “normal” to do it to Joe-Soap, but by then, Joe will be lured into further acceptance and compliance.
Once you see it you can’t un-see how we are manipulated, sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Like, what happened to the war in Ukraine? What’s the next show coming up…I look to Bodger.
well done on your win yesterday
My tail’s still wagging :-)
You took the Red Pill, Verbatim. Many on here are still on the Blue ones, so it’s hard to decipher their interpretations of the fictional world they live in, while staring at the stark reality.
The World Economic Forum and the sovereignty of mankind – Dr. Robert Malone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcPUAP__CLk
Great victory for the America’s working poor with Amazon on Staten Island,voting to organize.It’s impossible to have any semblance of a life in NY on the18 bucks an hour they pay.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/labor-organizers-closer-to-forming-union-at-amazon-warehouse-on-staten-island
The first couple times in various recovery groups in NY,I heard…oh,I had a typical Irish American childhood….I had no idea they were referring to the Biden’s.
Hunter’s just awful judgement and his father’s ‘old school’ misty eyed,poor parenting skills, have doomed,any real chance of cannabis reform at the federal level,Schumer is a show pony,not a workhorse so he has his own bill.
There is just no chance of any white house support for badly needed criminal justice reform regarding cannabis,as Hunter and drugs have almost burnt the Biden house down,never minds his sisters issues.
The house yet again passed the MORE act,but included too much social equity,its dead on arrival.
But contrary many ill informed pundits on here America is chanigng,Irish American and very serious player in DC,Marty Walsh is sec labor,this is a great win for him and organized labor,the R’s hate the WaPo and its adherence to facts and truth.
Cannabis legislation is coming at federal level,too much money to be made,the largest legal weed drug market in the world is opening up,its so good they named it twice.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/01/house-passes-marijuana-legalization-bill-again-but-with-no-clear-path-forward-00022303
+V
It’s starting
Workers coming together, and organising
Deliveroo also facing significant challenge against coops of riders and drivers that are starting to spring up
Another Stay tuned btw
Please bring back the bake off/ cake making articles.
Seriously.
Anything would be better than these unending gaslighting bots (see above).
That’s a hard No
Be happy to comment under that stuff tho’
Ah go on
Yep, definitely, Deliveroo, the end of the Gig Economy, sure. Any day now, co-ops, is it? Sounds like commie business, to me, just when we’re fighting the Soviet Un…the EU…eh,USSR…Russia.
Ah, Saving Private Ryan, they wouldn’t have bothered if his name was Eamonn.
Delighted to hear about the union.
I’d like to see the same level of health & safety standsrds in his sweatshops applied next time BuysUs rides his MicroPenis compensator up to the edge of the atmosphere.
Hahaha, only joking, I hope it blows up on the launchpad.
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary calls for army to be drafted in to deal with queue delays at Dublin Airport
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/ryanair-boss-michael-oleary-calls-for-army-to-be-drafted-in-to-deal-with-queue-delays-at-dublin-airport-41513555.html
You mean THIS Irish army ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DTIRNnY1SZU
Permission to slope off for a few scoops and a bucket of KFC Captain O’Mainwaring !
The Bufton Tuftons of the UK MOD have no problem with the UK army executing…306…..members of the UK army. What a great lot to have behind you. They’ve got your back.
See, O’Leary knows how to deal with uppity proles, a small platoon of soldiers, thin out the queues, drag away the bodies. Why isn’t this man in government, he could take the edge off the visceral hatred for the Irish people emanating from FF, FG & The Greens.
Tessa still has the best synopsis on how they want the great reset to work and the speed with which it is moving forward is shocking.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies?s=r
”The Great Reset For Dummies”
The target audience for that is right here. It’s all going to be such a shock to them, not that being aware of what’s coming helps very much, since it’s a Dystopian Hell far worse then even Wells, Huxley or Orwell could conjure up.
Stephen ‘The Bankrupt’ Yaxley-Lennon deported from Mexico
https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/02/tommy-robinson-arrested-in-mexico-with-his-kids-16393286/
A review of Trumps fledgling Twitter “competitor” Truth. Spoiler alert bot city and more loons than………
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-truth-social-media-app-review-ghost-town-overrun-bots-2022-3
A review of Trump’s “Truth” social media app counter offering to Twitter.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-truth-social-media-app-review-ghost-town-overrun-bots-2022-3
to jonjoker I listened to that podcast you recommended – you would seriously get an F is pass LC economics if you scribbled that as an exam answer – why are foreigners happy to fund the US deficit – because the US buys goods and services off them – its vendor financing – it has nothing to do with funding the MIC – the US cannot print $ to funds the its balance on payments deficit – that is clueless voodoo economics as the deficit on the current a/c must be balanced by and inflows on the financial capital a/c from abroad – day one page one stuff – if you could just print money why then has the £ devalued 3 times in the last century – because of chromic current a/c deficits – do you think the Bank of England would have avoided this humiliation if it could just print £ to finance this – if the US did that is would cause hyper inflation and the value of the $ would fall. As I’ve said before people have been writing off the $ since 1971 – TINA – bar the €. Paper never refused ink and I can recall reading earnest articles in the last 80’s when I started work predicting the $ imminent demise (yes ZH was called something else back then and equally sensationalist and wrong most of the time)
The CNY has capital controls, is non convertible and is not an accepted as medium of exchange outside China because you cannot open an a/c in it etc etc.- so it cannot be a reserve currency. And see my reasons above on why you wouldn’t want it to be if you have genuine libertarian concerns rather just engaged in cheap anti-US grandstanding
Mr Moron, your username is well-chosen, as you clearly demonstrate your understanding is fairly limited.
I’m certainly not going to bother trying to discuss your empty verbiage with you. Simply to say your comment about the renminbi not being a reserve currency etc etc shows your complete lack of knowledge about the world of international trade.
stephen, Libertarianism is a joke concept thought up by freshmen, for the lolz, when they were high. Nobody actually stays a Libertarian for more than a few years, it’s like a philosophical version of a spotty phase you go through as an Asimov-reading teenager, just before you discover girls or boys.
The West, by seizing the assets of the Russian Central Bank, have committed a Sovereign Default, for the last time, too.
2 minute watch, well worth it as the new CBDC is sold as a great idea by a globalist in the know.
I thought Tommy Robinson was correct to point out the prevalent religion of the grooming gangs and did not deserve the concerted effort to criminalise him.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZQnbog5foegW/
Didn’t they criminalise him because he’s a criminal?
I think it was because he thought grooming gangs, essentially rapists, should be prosecuted, which I’d assume you’re against, Nigel?
https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1510219755659038720
John Pilger:
“This is the news you don’t see. Patrick Lancaster, a Russian-speaking independent American journalist reports from inside Mariupol, Ukraine. The civilians here are eye witnesses to a war that, for them, began eight years ago.”
[link to Youtube video with auto-translated subtitles]
A few quotes to give the general inclination:
“May Poroshenko, Zelensky and all his boasters be damned. Death to them. ..Beat these Ukrainians. They destroyed our houses to such a f*cking extent..”
“Ukrainian army committed such terrible things here! Terrible!. How we only managed to survive..”
“They kicked out people from their houses in the settlements. They occupied the premises and put there guns and mortars..”
Patrick Lancaster is an infamous Russian propagandist for Donbas Separatists. He hasn’t a shred of credibility – besides selling fake war souvenirs – he’s was called out years ago FFS, He’s a totally comprised bell end and on Zvezda and RT more often than Farage on (K)GB news
see some of his other recent fake news
https://twitter.com/Derick_YVR/status/1510284149692645384
We’re supposed to believe it’s actually the Ukrainians are besieging their own city.
Patrick Lancaster was the journalist whom seven days ago broke the story of the woman who was tortured, killed and had a swastika carved into her body. He published the video on YouTube.
At the time the usual suspects on Broadsheet done all that smearing stuff- including one who suggested the body has actually been stolen out of a morgue.
A criminal investigation has now been launched- not that it will get very far with the Azov Nazis of course- but it proves that what he was saying did actually happen.
Anyways- if you want something to discredit then try this- Zelenskyy’s inner team- I kid you not.
1. The Chief of Staff of the Presidential Palace, Andre Yemark, is a comedy producer;
2. The head of the Presidential Administration, Andre Bodin, is a lawyer in the entertainment industry;
3. The president’s chief policy adviser, Sergey Sheffey, is a comedy writer;
4. Ivan Bakanov, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian Supreme Intelligence Service, is the boss of a comedy film company;
5. Senior adviser to the Ukrainian National Defense Committee, Sergei Sivoko, is also a comedian and is Zelensky’s partner in acting.
https://businessner.com/while-russian-ukrainian-war-is-ongoing-lets-take-a-look-at-the-composition-of-the-ukrainian-government/
‘but it proves that what he was saying did actually happen.’
Not in itself, it doesn’t. I’m curious about the prosecution of a criminal investigation in a war-zone controlled by a mliitary for whom this being real is useful propaganda.
None of those are especially discrediting, to be honest. They seem to be dealing with an invasion by a massively more powerful military power quite well, relatively.
What nationality are you Nigel?
Toldyoubeforeistan.
Investigation equals proof in SOQland
What else do you think they would be investigating bullyboy?
I think you’ll find crimes are generally investigated, what with them being crimes and such – a simple enough concept I would have thought, investigation of a crime does not = proof that you were right, just proof a crime was committed. As for ‘bullyboy’, you’re the one wishing vaccine injury on people and constantly hounding Nigel, calling people idiots and shills etc, so look in the mirror for that one. A classic case of can dish it out but can’t take it.
It’s brilliant, SOQ, Zelensky brought all his girls with him, the entire crew he needed to script and direct a fantasy where he gets to play the President of Ukraine, for a credulous but low-brow Western audience.
And they love it, they imagine that, as soon as the camera stops, he’s handed a mobile phone & asked important questions about soldiers, electricity supplies, what newspapers to shut down (all of them, it seems) & so on, as he walks, briskly to his next performance.
What a trouper, though, old school showbiz, the show must go on, well worth his fee.
The other Oligarchs have all transferred their ill-gotten gains abroad, along with their families, presumably in preparation for the massive victory they are about to achieve over the Russians.
Poroshenko, $1 billion transferred overseas, along with his kids, Kuchma, $3 billion abroad, as is he & his family, Avakov, $2 billion & all his relatives spirited away, Yermak, No.1 on your list, $1 billion transferred abroad, family in UK, Timoshenko, Yermak’s deputy, $1.5 & his family, also in the UK, Lutsenko, former Prosecutor-General, a mere $800 million, he’s with his family, in the UK, Yatsenyuk, former PM, $2 billion, he’s with his family in Miami, Akhemetov, $15 billion, abroad with his family, Kolomoisky (funder of the Nazis) & Bogolybov, $6 billion between them, being looked after, abroad, by their families, Korban, oligarch & war criminal, $1.5 billion transferred out, family in Israel, the Kiltschko brothers, $2 billion transferred, families in Germany & US, Yaroslavsky, $1 billion in o/seas accounts, he’s in the UK with his family, Kosyuk, £1.6 billion & all his relatives taken abroad, Turnichov, former acting President, $1 billion & family abroad, Nalivaichenko, former Head of the SBU, the secret police, $500 million & his family are in the USA.
Between them, these men owned everything in Ukraine & they’ve taken it all with them.
The looting is complete, we’ve just got to wait for the Army to collapse. Since many of the armaments being ”transferred” to Ukraine are actual army stores, they don’t have the RFID chips used to ensure that only the purchasing nation in an official arms deal uses the weapons & Ukrainian Generals find willing buyers for these untraceable weapons among the many Israeli Arms Dealers in town & are using their ill-gotten gains to get their families into Poland.
You were given a link to an article which examined whether material posted by Lancaster, and others, was genuine. A number of military and medical sources gave their opinions on whether footage and images alleged to be of the aftermath of an IED attack were genuine or ‘doctored’. Outside doubts expressed about alleged blast damage two medical sources gave it as their opinion that at least one of the corpses shown in a clip that Lancaster shared bore all the signs of having been a cadaver that had been the subject of a posr-mortem examination some time prior to the alleged IED incident. Tell-tale incisions in the skull were among signs that they pointed to. The consensus among those critics of material Lancaster was sharing was that it was a faked scenario.
That was the context for asking you how confident you could be that material posted by Lancaster was authentic and not staged. The suggestion that he had shared material that possibly used a corpse taken from elsewhere was raised by medics and that being so it is perfectly undertandable why anyone should treat his clips with caution.
”Donbas Separatists”, see, stephen you’re engaging in Newspeak there. It allows the Ukrainians to be classed as ”Freedom Fighters” while those resisting the tender ministrations of their larger neighbour in Yemen are ”Rebels”.
if you want to hear fearless reportage by those who paid the ultimate price for it them I’d recommend
https://open.spotify.com/show/7G0k7KRI6va8DCQ5JUzNjp
A story covered by The Duran I have not seen anywhere else is-
Belfast Solicitors challenge OFCOM on its banning of RT in the United Kingdom.
The Applicant seeks to remain anonymous for reasons of personal safety in the current social climate.
The Applicant is a former Irish political prisoner and trained restorative justice/conflict resolution practitioner.
https://theduran.com/belfast-solicitors-challenge-ofcom-on-its-banning-of-rt-in-the-united-kingdom/
Oh but the chaos there would have been under Ed Miliband volume 666
Tory MP David Warburton is suspended after he was alleged to have sexually assaulted three women and pictured with cocaine. Nice. Great.
He’s under investigation by parliamentary authorities
The MP also took undisclosed £100k loan from a Russian businessman
https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1510301596609130498
Ed Milliband. Really stephen? Ed Milliband, the Ed Milliband?
Some really harrowing footage emerging from areas liberated for the murderous Russian invaders – I wonder if the average Russkie realizes how long they are going to be paying reparations for after Putin’s incompetent ragbag of war criminals get driven out of Ukraine’ sovereign territory.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1510336248526909447
Yes, stephen, I’ve seen some awful stuff from the Azovs, Right Sector, White Hammer, Aydar, Dnepr & other Nazi groups that The West has armed & trained. Then again, I’ve been watching videos of them shelling civilians since 2014, once they finished their NATO training at the Peacekeeping Centre.
How many CIA-organized coups would have to happen in a country before you realised using the word sovereign in relation to it is a nonsense, stephen? How many police & protestors would need to be gunned down by CIA snipers? How many Nazis, who had lost their electoral power but still had lots of guns, would you allow into government before you reckoned, maybe, this is not a functioning Democracy? How many of those aforementioned civilians need to die at the hands of their own government before you’d think that maybe that wasn’t quite right? 14,000 not enough?
In case you haven’t realised it, we’re paying the reparations, already, in our energy bills. When manufacturers & producers get their energy bills, we’ll be paying it, in all our other bills. The EU government, or whatever you call that bunch of bandits in Strasbourg & Brussels, are driving us over a cliff. What’s more, it’s deliberate.