Amesbury is not Salisbury - it is 10 miles away. Interestingly enough Porton Down is between Amesbury and Salisbury. Just three miles away from Muggleton Road, Amesbury. The news reports are not mentioning that much.
Just as the World Cup had forced the British media to grudgingly acknowledge the obvious truth that Russia is an extremely interesting country inhabited, like everywhere else, by mostly pleasant and attractive people, we have a screaming reprise of the "Salisbury incident" dominating the British media. Two people have been taken ill in Amesbury from an unknown substance, which might yet be a contaminated recreational drug, but could conceivably be from contact with the substance allegedly used on the Skripals, presumably some of which was somewhere indoors all this time as we were told it could be washed away and neutralised by water.
Amesbury is not Salisbury - it is 10 miles away. Interestingly enough Porton Down is between Amesbury and Salisbury. Just three miles away from Muggleton Road, Amesbury. The news reports are not mentioning that much.
Amesbury is not Salisbury - it is 10 miles away. Interestingly enough Porton Down is between Amesbury and Salisbury. Just three miles away from Muggleton Road, Amesbury. The news reports are not mentioning that much.
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast" - Alice in Wonderland.
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Let me start with the latest: the taxpayer-funded purchase for more than one million pounds of the homes in Salisbury of the British spy Sergei Skripal and the police officer Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey. This purchase is explained as necessary on security grounds and - some suspect - may be followed by the destruction of both houses and all the evidence therein.
This is difficult to explain in the absence of a state purchase of the Zizi's Pizza Restaurant where Skripal and his daughter Yulia ate what could have very well ended up being their last meal, and where they spent at least as much time as DS Bailey could have been in touch with the pair. Ditto the pub the Skripals visited before repairing for lunch. And anywhere else they went after leaving their door handle on which was smeared in gel form the strangely innocuous Novichok(ish) which killed none of the people who ingested it.
Comment: Nah. Why would the Tories crack down on criminal enterprises in London? London (and the Tories!) would be out of business!
More likely is that the 'Secret Team' was behind this (see Litvinenko and Berezovsky for past form) - which of course doesn't preclude using Mafia to help with the dirty work.
Hersh, of course, could have been implying 'Russian Mafia' in quotes, i.e. Israeli Mossad, but if he was suggesting gangsters and not deep state actors, then he's blowing smoke.
Whoever did this had major behind-the-scenes reach.
Salisbury isn't just any old place: it's like the Mecca, Jerusalem and Constantinople of chemical weapons all rolled into one. Chemical warfare was founded there during WW1; all of the UK's major chemical warfare companies are based there; CS gas - today used by every government on Earth for 'non-lethal' population control - was invented there; all British military forces conduct war drills there; and the UK's specialist chemical weapons division was conducting a drill there at the very time this incident happened.
That's not something a couple of dual-identity schlemiels from Moscow (even billionaire ones) can pull off. That's pinnacle-of-power stuff...
In these depressing times marked by lies, fear and nihilism, I would like to brighten your mood by sharing a heart-warming story; a real life event that is better than a fairy-tale and should restore your faith in humanity and our burgeoning postmodern society.
A Modern Fairy Tale
What happened? In a nutshell, a heroic individual saved a 4-year-old boy from a deadly fall.
Gassama climbing up to save the boyOn Saturday, May 26th 2018, at 8:00 p.m. in Paris' 18th district, the boy was left alone by his white French father who was busy playing 'Pokemon Go'. The boy went to the balcony and fell from the 6th floor over the handrail.
During the fall, the vigorous young boy managed somehow to grab the 4th floor handrail as he hurtled toward the ground. Hanging there precariously, death seemed just a few moments away.
Fortunately, Mamoudou Gassama, a migrant from Mali, was in the right place at the right time. He saw the distressed boy and swiftly climbed 4 floors of the building exterior, pulled the boy up over the handrail and safely dropped him onto the balcony while a crowd below cheered and clapped.
Here is the video, made by an eyewitness:
Less than 24 hours after the heroic rescue, French President Macron received Gassama at the presidential palace. The latter was immediately given French citizenship and a job in a firefighter's squad.
Macron receiving Gassama at the presidential palaceThen Gassama was received at Paris town hall and given its highest distinction: the vermeil medal of Paris. Gassama's triumph went international, and a few days later the hero received a BET award in Los Angeles.
So, there you have it, all the ingredients of a good tale: Gassama, the hero from an oppressed minority, the powerless innocent victim, the dramatic tension, a literal cliffhanger, and the happy ending. Frankly, it was as good as a scene directly extracted from a Spiderman movie.
But like in every fairy tale or superhero movie, there's always a villain. In this case, the villain appeared four days after the heroic rescue, and goes by the name of André Bercoff.
A Modern Fairy Tale
What happened? In a nutshell, a heroic individual saved a 4-year-old boy from a deadly fall.
Gassama climbing up to save the boy
During the fall, the vigorous young boy managed somehow to grab the 4th floor handrail as he hurtled toward the ground. Hanging there precariously, death seemed just a few moments away.
Fortunately, Mamoudou Gassama, a migrant from Mali, was in the right place at the right time. He saw the distressed boy and swiftly climbed 4 floors of the building exterior, pulled the boy up over the handrail and safely dropped him onto the balcony while a crowd below cheered and clapped.
Here is the video, made by an eyewitness:
Less than 24 hours after the heroic rescue, French President Macron received Gassama at the presidential palace. The latter was immediately given French citizenship and a job in a firefighter's squad.
Macron receiving Gassama at the presidential palace
So, there you have it, all the ingredients of a good tale: Gassama, the hero from an oppressed minority, the powerless innocent victim, the dramatic tension, a literal cliffhanger, and the happy ending. Frankly, it was as good as a scene directly extracted from a Spiderman movie.
But like in every fairy tale or superhero movie, there's always a villain. In this case, the villain appeared four days after the heroic rescue, and goes by the name of André Bercoff.
The direct result of NATO's destruction of Libya.
Yet NATO is a demonstrably useless institution. Its largest ever active military deployment, for 12 years in Afghanistan, resulted in military defeat throughout 80% of the country, the installation of a pocket regime whose scrip does not run further than you can throw the scrip, and a vast outflow of heroin to finance the criminal underworld throughout NATO countries.
In invading Afghanistan and boosting the heroin warlords, NATO countries destabilised themselves.
Israeli and Iranian fans hang out together on Red Square during the 2018 Football World Cup
Comment: THIS is why they tried to take the tournament off Russia. This is why they tried to get it cancelled, moved, whatever. This is why they conducted black ops like the Skripal Affair and non-stop fake news about how god-awful Russia and Russians are.
They dreaded what would happen when 2 million foreigners actually visited the place - including around 80,000 Americans - and had a grand old time.
And now Fake News has come crashing head-long into Reality.
We may not be there yet, but 2018 is playing out as the year 'the left' (in the US anyway) became completely unhinged. Join Joe and Niall tomorrow Sunday 1st July for a run-down of This Week in Crazy...
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Peter Navarro - Trump's rabid anti-China trade adviser - is now a staunch proponent of protectionism and tariffs. However, in his 1984 book, he warned that ,"as history has painfully taught, once protectionist wars begin, the likely result is a deadly and well-nigh unstoppable downward spiral by the entire world economy." He went on to say that, "consumers will pay tens of billions of dollars more in higher prices for a much more limited selection of goods." Thus we see that economic theories are very political and fungible. Ignoring such hypocrisies, the fact is that tariffs are neither good nor bad by themselves, and the optimal solution will be based on the specifics of a particular situation.
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Activists from the Border Network for Human Rights protest US immigration policies in El Paso, Texas, June 19, 2018
Activists from the Border Network for Human Rights protest US immigration policies in El Paso, Texas, June 19, 2018
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The latest family separation crisis along the border is part and parcel of that war. It was no doubt timed to steal headlines from the release of the IG report. Since its release the media, Democrats and Progressive groups have dominated those headlines and taken the war against the Trump Administration to an entirely new level.
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Mexico fan kisses a toy trophy, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, June 17, 2018
Mexico fan kisses a toy trophy, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, June 17, 2018
Has there ever been a World Cup that has left so many people with egg on their faces.
We were told by indignant neo-cons and virtue-signaling Western 'liberals' that it was a disgrace that Russia, a country of which they did not approve, was being allowed to host the tournament. It would be like the 1936 Nazi Olympics, MPs and media pundits assured us. 'Putin's World Cup' would be the worst World Cup ever.
Fans who went would be in fear of their lives as three out of every four Russians was a racist, homophobic football hooligan and the fourth was like Frankenstein's Monster. England's players could be drugged in their hotel to "slow them down."
In fact, the World Cup has turned out to be absolutely brilliant.
Comment: What was earlier today an "unknown substance" is now, officially, novichok, "the same nerve agent that contaminated Yulia and Sergey Skripal", in the words of Head of Counter Terrorism Neil Basu, who "received test results from Porton Down" this evening. The couple were allegedly found on Saturday, unconscious at a property on Muggleton Road, but there were no media reports or statements until today, four days later. Just as with the Skripals, the couple - Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess - was initially thought to have been having a bad drug reaction: Not likely. How would they know?
The incident happened 12km from Salisbury, but a similar distance from Porton Down. Counter-terrorism police were brought in to assist, though just this morning UK police said they weren't sure if a crime had been committed: Rowley was reportedly a registered heroin addict.
It will be interesting to see how the Brits spin this. Will they really risk worldwide ridicule by trying to blame Russia? But if they don't, how will they explain that they very same substance, which according to them only could have been used by Russia, wasn't used by them in this "attack"? For what appears to be the only eyewitness account so far, see the statements of Sam Hobson, a "friend of the couple", included in Moon of Alabama's latest piece: