The General Discussion Thread

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Okay as an experiment here it is. Discuss your favourite generals here!

Well perhaps… Really this is simply the place to post news-items, fun-items or whatever takes your fancy. In short just post what you want here.

It’s just another wee experiment – comments welcome.

Squonk.

[Image: General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett (Stephen Fry)]

17,285 thoughts on “The General Discussion Thread

  1. Yes, Britain can sink lower as an Argentinian judge has now thrown out the case against the President et al. for killing prosecutor Alberto Nisman who claimed that they conspired with the Iranians to kill all those poor Jews in Buenos Aires 15 years ago.

    All the Mossad and MI6 achieved by the massacre was opening up the UK for that kidon which killed Kelly, Royal Cadet Stephen Hilder and others.

  2. Squonk

    It appears that I’ve been re-banned?

    If so, surely not because I attempted to put Clark right re. “Scouse Billy”?

  3. What makes you think you’ve been re-banned? Your post above appeared straight away and there doesn’t seem to be anything stuck in the spam filter.

  4. Sqounk

    Keep us posted Re Ben…Ta

    Clark thanks for the Cloudburst Flight…and hang in there, the daylight hours are growing longer already, Scotland will Always welcome you back

    Have you heard this wee Gem, that i had at first thought was TD… from the film Thief. Amazingness Music.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-cDz6FW62E

    And saying as your a fellow Storm Chaser….Check this Even More amazing music… Squonk, this is for you too… From the Film Twister…full Version of this from Van Halen is 9 mins long.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxmSAAebKcE

    Stay warm folks. And Wind Free…Or free as the wind. 🙂

  5. Seamus, good netiquette would be to answer Squonk. Part of our responsibility as denizens of the Internet is to keep the system working properly, which includes describing fault conditions to the webmaster, especially if asked.

    Of course you might not have answered because you only have intermittent or limited ability to access this site. You could e-mail me, or try the contact form, or, it’s cheating a bit but you could post at Craig’s.

    Brian, thanks.

  6. Really should correct my timing of the Mossad’s attacks on the Jewish Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires, and the London attacks on the Israeli Embassy and Balfour House as they came in this order in 1994, 21 years ago, not the reverse, as I have stated.

    For more on this, read Annie Machon’s Spies, Lies, and Whistleblowers, especially the quotation that David Shayler told reporter Paul Ford on p. 234.

    Hardly surprising that the Israelis and MI6 are most eager to put the deadly bombing on the Argentine President and the Iranians, now that chief prosecutor Alberto Nisman has been conveniently murdered.

    Hardly surprising that everyone has now gone silent about Machon’s cherry-picking of incidents that Britain’s covert government aided and abetted.

    As the Alexander Litvinenko murder has shown, sometimes it works better to kill one who is vigorously working for your interests, but has run out of things to exploit with good results.

  7. Chalk up another big success to our loony Anglo-American leaders.

    Remember last December when they were looking for that Russian submarine off Faslane, and attacking everything in sight.

    Well, there were lots of things there, and they killed a good number of whales and dolphins!

    Wonder how many were killed by the Swedes in the Baltic.

    No matter, just so long as our alleged protectors come up with something.

  8. It’s unlikely Ben has had no internet connection for so long. Hopefully he has simply rediscovered a life free of the web.

    Has anyone who has his email done some digging? A search may turn up something. A surname, friends, alternative contact. Dunno. Is that going too far?

  9. Phil, I did have a ‘phone number for Ben but I’m slowly cracking up and all my records of contacts are in disarray. I might drop out of contact soon if the authorities come to take me away, to hospital or incarceration.

  10. Now the Israelis are trying to keep Iran the perpetrator of the deadly bombing of that Jewish home in 1994 in Buenos Aires by claiming that an Iranian diplomat tried to plant a fake bomb near its embassy in Montevideo last year!

    The Mossad thinks that it can connect anything terrible with anything else, and be sure that the media, especially The Guardian, takes note of the ‘false flag’ efforts.

  11. Clark

    Jump on a train and get your arse down here. I’m back to work monday but free until then and it’ll be good to see you for a night or two.

  12. “Just an update on Ben. Still had no response to my email. Hopefully just Internet problems.”
    ______________

    I thought he once said something about having to sort out some inheritance problems. Perhaps he’s just prioritising: like any good capitalist, money and possessions first, blog and the ‘community’ afterwards.

  13. Trowbridge, it isn’t personal. You’ve clearly studied decades of history of secret service operations. The rest of us haven’t. I expect most people don’t even vaguely understand your comments, and have little clue as to the truth or falsity of the multiple rather obscure assertions they contain. And you write some of the longest, most convoluted sentences I’ve ever had to try to comprehend.

    Brian, thanks; I’ll read it tomorrow.

  14. Trowbridge

    You seem to assume too much prior knowledge on our parts. A few times I have searched around the subjects you write about but, presumably by their nature, the information is scant and far from clear. I give up and now no longer even try.

    So maybe you could include some background and links to help those of us who are far from specialists in this stuff.

  15. Okay, let’s start with the Mossad’s operations in Britain, shortly after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.

    In May 2003, MI5 director Eliza Maningham-Buller allowed a Mossad kidon and its katsa assistants to return to the UK to fight alleged domestic islamic extremists, as Gordon Thomas recounted about their return at the time. The next month Royal Cadet Stephen Hilder fell to his death in a parachute exhibition in Lincolnshire, his shrouds having been mysteriously cut.

    Just before this, German politician Jurgen Mollemann, a bitter critic of the Iraq War, died of the same sabotage to his equipment – what the killers of Hilder tried to make out was a common occurrence. Only Mollemann was known of dying this way, and his killers were afraid that its exposure would spoil the plot to take out leaker Kelly, forcing it to be expedited.

    Then, in July, four persons spent the night on the Thames near where Dr. Kelly was bushwhacked in the woods along the river, forced to swallow drugs until he fell unconscious, and then sat on until he apparently died.

    The four, the usual number of a kidon, took off when Louise Holmes et al. found his body, requiring it to be moved by the TVP to Harrowdown Hill so that its location would not be close to the last location of his killers.

  16. Trowbridge, OK, I can engage with that to some extent. Stephen Hilder has a Wikipedia page that confirms what you wrote, except for it being murder. Do you know why he might have been killed? Jurgen Mollemann indeed also died while parachuting. But I don’t get this bit:

    …what the killers of Hilder tried to make out was a common occurrence

    I think you use “what” when you mean “which”, but anyway… Who made the claim it was a common occurrence, and what makes you think they’re the killers?

    Why was Dr Kelly killed, and how do you know about the four in the woods?

  17. The presence of the four in a boat tied up on the Thames for the night was provided by Louise Homes and her associate in the search party which (note bene) went looking for him in their testimony before the Hutton whitewash.

    Kelly was killed because he would ruin the 45-minute claim about Saddam’s WMD.

    And Hilder certainly looks to have been murdered as attempts to make it look like suicide have fallen flat, as the poor guy couldn’t have been happier.

    His death is still being treated as a homicide.

    He was killed to make Mollemann’s murder look like a similar suicide which fell apart when it was shown that such killings were unique – which speeded up Kelly’s murder for fear that Hilder’s would start getting traction in the media.

  18. Trowbridge, OK, that could make sense of Hilder’s murder, though I suppose there could have been more to it. But why Kelly? The Iraq war had already started three months previously; the warmongers had already got their own way. Would it really be worth the risks involved in killing him just to save someone embarrassment?

    Mike Ruppert kept mentioning a whole series of possibly suspicious deaths of microbiologists, and suggested that Kelly’s murder might have been another of those.

    Four in a boat – four in a kidon; tenuous. Got anything more? What’s a kidon, anyway? A Mossad team of some sort?

  19. Here is a link to my research, “Recent Mossad Undisclosed ‘False Flag;’ Operations: The Dr. David Kelly Story,” which can get you started:

    cryptome.org/mossad-kelly.htm

    And don’t forget to read the article I mentioned by Gordon Thomas about MI5 giving the Mossad the green light to operate in Britain in May 2003.

  20. Would you believe that Ashton Carter, the new Secretary of Defense, is a greatest supporter of the Crusades in the Middle East!

    While a few have talked about his involvement in the Stat Wars program which has now resulted in the USA having an integrated laser system to conduct space wars, his MA degree at Yale, which everyone has ignored even discussing, is about how 12th century monks in Flanders mobilized knights to lead the First Crusade to retake Jerusalem, but failed to prevent it from being retaken by Saladin about 80 years later.

    Carter makes Dr. Strange Love look like a rank amateur.

  21. Don’t you love the articles about leaker David Carr’s demise!

    He was given CPR while unconscious by the paramedics when they arrived though he suffered from diabetes.

    Think that giving him some sugar would have been better – what my doctors recommend I have on me if I again fall unconscious.

    Of course, if Carr had fallen unconscious, like what happened to leaker Robin Cook, after he ingested something like ricin, giving Carr CPR would have been the quickest way to kill him as his stomach should have been pumped as that is the only remedy then to stop the killing.

    Looks to me like the paramedics finished him off either ignorantly or deliberately, though I am, of course, a conspiracy theorist, among other things.

  22. And the earthquakes in the Reykjanes Ridge have been increasing steadily over the past year, but leveled off, it seems, about the time of the referendum vote.

    Wonder if the Boeing X-37B noticed the continuing rise and intensity of them, calling off the undersea laser work by one of America’s special attack submarines before it was too late?

  23. Now we are told that NYT reporter David Carr died from the complications of lung cancer, something that had never been mentioned before!

    Of course, the autopsy showed that heart disease had helped, but there was no mention of his severe diabetes for which he took insulin shots.

    If it had reportedly killed him, the paramedics would have been shown to have performed badly.

    Imagine my corpse will show that I died suddenly too from lung cancer!

    Whatever the cause, it will not be too soon.

  24. Brian: I’m a bit concerned about Ben too at this point. Recall that he said his very good mate (best mate?) was in some difficulty with bladder cancer. The death of someone you love makes writing on blogs seem all a bit trivial for quite a while.

    It’s a poorly understood phenomenon, but bladder cancer is often rapidly followed by a particularly aggressive form of Parkinson’s disease, which sees off the patient shortly after what had appeared to be a successful treatment of the cancer. I wonder if that happened to Ben’s mate. Hope not.

  25. Glenn
    My recollection is that Ben said something about an inheritance and a (dishonest) brother and that it would take him time to sort things out.
    I would be dishonest if I said that I thought his absence was unwelcome but no doubt you think differently.

  26. LKV: That might explain Ben’s absence too, thanks. And you’re right – I’ve always liked Ben while not agreeing with him on every issue.

  27. Did Ben not say something here at one stage about becoming a volunteer firefighter? Or an assistant volunteer firefighter or something?

    I’m not up to date on Californian fires at the moment.

  28. In the above article Pilger mentions “Researchers at the University of the West of England in the UK studied the BBC’s systematic bias in reporting Venezuela”.

    He has before spoken of similar research, such as BBC reporting in the run up to Iraq (being 95% pro war). I think that was Cardiff University. The Glasgow Media Group also crop up in such discussions. However, I have never found such research itself on the www and seen it little discussed elsewhere. Does anyone know how these surveys are released and if they are available for public consumption? Am I just not looking in the right place or are these only available on paid academic networks? I have no idea.

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