tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post414262207831016398..comments2023-10-18T16:25:13.593+01:00Comments on Famous for 15 megapixels: You are sooooo busted - pt1Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-79587988294606010032007-06-05T10:53:00.000+01:002007-06-05T10:53:00.000+01:00so did I...so did I...Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-39350183726442559992007-06-01T17:44:00.000+01:002007-06-01T17:44:00.000+01:00So. Much. To. Read.If you want to read even more, ...So. Much. To. Read.<BR/><BR/>If you want to read even more, much more, of slightly related stuff, I stumbled up this:<BR/>http://www.ied.info/books/cc/financialwarfare.shtml<BR/><BR/>Seems interesting, alas, I have my problems following every little detail...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-62899159677327666132007-06-01T11:13:00.000+01:002007-06-01T11:13:00.000+01:00Another story that has bugged me for a while - the...Another story that has bugged me for a while - the Al Shiva mention brought it to mind.<BR/><BR/>The story that doesn't sit right is the cloggy chemical trader who sold <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiodiglycol" REL="nofollow">thiodiglycol</A> to Eye-Rack and was subsequently jailed by one of the pretend-independent courts (read John Laughland for more analysis) for war crimes (or crimes against humanity).<BR/><BR/>The story raised a couple of points; firstly most bulk chem traders (in my experience) are thick. They don't know what they're selling other than it can get them a profit; in other words, a patsy for the picking.<BR/><BR/>The other point refers to the chemistry; or more specifically the plant required to do the chemisty. Now, find and follow the logic closely: the plant needed to transform thiodiglycol to <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas" REL="nofollow">sulphur mustard</A> is the same as that needed to prepare thiodiglycol from simpler starting materials (I can draft and post a process outline if anyone is interested). So, the purchase of the <B>watched</B> compound must have been based on the fact that they had plant to convert it to sulphur mustard but this plant could also be used to prepare thiodiglycol from <B>not watched</B> simpler starting materials (eg NaSH, EtOH, chloroethanol). So, why was it purchased?<BR/><BR/>Again, if they had plant to make the poison from the watched starting material; they could've used that plant to make the purchased starting material from not watched compounds. If they didn't have plant, why bother buying it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-33270183794144045132007-06-01T09:44:00.000+01:002007-06-01T09:44:00.000+01:00Well if you approach reporting as anything other t...Well if you approach reporting as anything other than a collection of discrete, transient events, it all gets a bit confusing and upsetting for the readers, let alone the journalists.<BR/><BR/>As the doorknob said to alice:<BR/><BR/><I>Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-46828167758510108742007-06-01T09:21:00.000+01:002007-06-01T09:21:00.000+01:00Al Shifa - nauseating. After the bombing, the own...Al Shifa - nauseating. After the bombing, the owner of the plant attempted to get some sort of redress in the US courts ... so they sequestered his assets. Like Neimoller's poem - we didn't do anything.<BR/><BR/>As to the press announcement - I caught two follow up reports on BBC Radio 5 Lies (er, live). The first one interviewed a former Yeltsin aid who fled to London as an impartial observer; the second report quoted Goldfarb, again, as an impartial source (really!!).<BR/><BR/>Fascinating how thick 'n' shallow yer average journo must be ... they must have a 1 mm depth of understanding of everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-58943741289363401872007-06-01T09:17:00.000+01:002007-06-01T09:17:00.000+01:00Sounds like he's the elvis of oligarchic public re...Sounds like he's the elvis of oligarchic public relationsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-73600948594418467842007-06-01T08:46:00.000+01:002007-06-01T08:46:00.000+01:00From that Guardian piece you just linked to"Some R...From that Guardian piece you just linked to<BR/><BR/><I>"Some Russian analysts said Mr Lugovoi's claims were unconvincing. "I got the impression that someone else had written his statement for him. It was not a very successful defence strategy," Stansilav Belkovsky, the head of Moscow's National Strategic Institute, told Russia Today."</I><BR/><BR/>And after 30 seconds Googling 'Belkovsky Berezovsky'<BR/><BR/><I>"We all have drunk Berezovski's cognac. In reality, practical non drinking karate-kid, girl named Olga, one of my body-guards, have saved about half a bottle. Later, I have finished that historical bottle together with a King of Russian PR: Stanislav Belkovski: that very man who by order of Berezovski have created "Edinstvo" in 1999 and in 2003 started attack on "YUKOS"</I><BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2ftfne<BR/><BR/>Presumably they don't have access to Google at the GuardianStefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-23895738333697455482007-06-01T08:32:00.000+01:002007-06-01T08:32:00.000+01:00Britain continues fight to extradite Lugovoi as se...<A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2092913,00.html" REL="nofollow">Britain continues fight to extradite Lugovoi as security sources dismiss his claim as a 'smokescreen'.</A><BR/><BR/>What about a swap?<BR/><A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6559551.stm" REL="nofollow">Russia's chief prosecutor has sent a new request to the UK for the London-based Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky to be extradited.</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-13834147961274072972007-06-01T08:14:00.000+01:002007-06-01T08:14:00.000+01:00Let's get this straight, we're the good guys, not ...Let's get this straight, we're the good guys, not them. <BR/>The stout yoemanry of our secret services are no match for the bottomless guile of iranians/russians or anybody else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-26390339839332013132007-06-01T08:05:00.000+01:002007-06-01T08:05:00.000+01:00Of course what didn't get discussed was the actual...Of course what didn't get discussed was the actual meat of the question i.e. could yesterday's accusation of a secret service conspiracy against Putin possibly be true<BR/><BR/>It goes without saying, even though the British media has started to, that the suggestion that MI6 - the UK's external intelligence agency - might be recruiting intelligence agents to work against foreign governments is an an outrageous and baseless conspiracy theoryStefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-55002791687970745062007-06-01T08:01:00.000+01:002007-06-01T08:01:00.000+01:00astonishingly well putwhilst Schama was doing his ...astonishingly well put<BR/><BR/>whilst Schama was doing his piece on Russia sliding back into barbarity it was necessary to restrain the Mrs from lobbing things at the television. As well as having spent some time in the FSU, she also hails from NZ and consequently has a strong allergic reaction to millionaire lefty luvvy cunts<BR/><BR/>Obviously, if Schama were actually in the room I would have been handing her shit to throw at him as efficiently as I couldStefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-83940128389449546552007-06-01T07:44:00.000+01:002007-06-01T07:44:00.000+01:00The annoying thing is that after all the help we i...The annoying thing is that after all the help we in the west have given them, modernising their economy, surrounding them them with military bases etc. they still persist in acting like their some kind of sovereign power with their own military and resources. This has our rulers scratching their heads:<BR/>Just what does it take to kill these bastards off? <BR/>The turn of the tide against putin's russia makes it plain that we have had enough and some people(s) just never learn. <BR/>Perhaps the war on terror will go the way of the war on drugs, just become part of the (authoritarian) furniture and elements in the west are itching to get back to a nice cold war.<BR/>Question time is often a good indicator of the official mood. Last time I watched, the tiny but awful scribbler Martin Amis was gravely informing us of our moral duty to destroy Iran. <BR/>This week Simon schama (who seemed to exhibiting signs of late onset tourette's)earnestly warned us that russia is sliding into an odious dictatorship. An audience member seemed very concerned that the russians were 'holding us to ransom' over gas and oil supplies. God dammit, are we going to put up with the great bear's paw on the spigot of our lifestyles?<BR/>No one pointed out that that is what what they're supposed to do according to the fairy tales of international trade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-36963021035206465542007-06-01T06:21:00.000+01:002007-06-01T06:21:00.000+01:00I hear that Bono speaks very highly of himI hear that Bono speaks very highly of himStefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-90145156612216203352007-06-01T00:36:00.000+01:002007-06-01T00:36:00.000+01:00Jeffrey Sachs is the fucking anti-christ.Jeffrey Sachs is the fucking anti-christ.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-23032471961349635852007-05-31T21:40:00.000+01:002007-05-31T21:40:00.000+01:00I'm sure he forgave president elvis for bombing th...I'm sure he forgave president elvis for bombing the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant as a distraction when caught up to his nuts in monica's guts.<BR/><BR/>Maybe he left his compass thereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-49047858461816532202007-05-31T20:52:00.000+01:002007-05-31T20:52:00.000+01:00OMG I realised Nobo was a tool but until read thro...OMG I realised Nobo was a tool but until read through that diary I couldn't have begun to imagine how much of one<BR/><BR/>Who could have?<BR/><BR/><I>President Clinton--Even his staffers refer to him as Elvis. He's got that Southern twang and he doesn't need much sleep. I like him. I don't normally hang with people that tall. The U2ers have gotten to know him over the years. He has almost total recall and from his Sunday school roots, a moral compass for the important things...Taking the high ground in Bosnia while Europe prevaricated. In Northern Ireland he was the glue. The list goes on and I can forgive, for the moment, the fact that America runs the world like it's a company."</I><BR/><BR/>btw Who says Bobby S.'s mate Jeff S. made a mistake?Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-33507179617515339272007-05-31T20:10:00.000+01:002007-05-31T20:10:00.000+01:00All ushered in by bongo's pal I need a crash cours...All ushered in by bongo's pal <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=287&Key=&Year=2000&Cat=14" REL="nofollow">I need a crash course in Economics. Bobby S. suggested I meet Professor Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard. He is Elvis of Economics and Development. </A><BR/><BR/>CV: cratering an entire economy, cutting life expectancy in half,culling the population<BR/><BR/>Still we all make mistakes and must 'move on'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com