tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post116506465212245164..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Mr Litvinenko had converted to Islam.What was the dead Russian ex-spy up to?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165121369145104882006-12-02T23:49:00.000-05:002006-12-02T23:49:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165084958250630682006-12-02T13:42:00.000-05:002006-12-02T13:42:00.000-05:00Whether Litvinenko converted to Islam or not, for ...Whether Litvinenko converted to Islam or not, for all practical purposes he was a Jihadist shill. The more of his kind are disposed of, the better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132252460964519368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165076928901686932006-12-02T11:28:00.000-05:002006-12-02T11:28:00.000-05:00Fellow, you need to get that blog of yours fired u...<I>Fellow, you need to get that blog of yours fired up again. You have some very interesting points of view.</I><BR/><BR/>Bizzare, you meant bizzare and/or unhinged points of view. :D Too much desert, too much snow, trying to twist my brain around Adorno's truely abominable <I>Negative Dialectics</I>, but you need to use a socialist readers guide, I don't think Adorno really has squat to say, what matters is what socialist idiots believe he says.Fellow Peacekeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645105032419455560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165076285751153982006-12-02T11:18:00.000-05:002006-12-02T11:18:00.000-05:00Fellow, you need to get that blog of yours fired u...Fellow, you need to get that blog of yours fired up again. You have some very interesting points of view.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165075058277035402006-12-02T10:57:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:57:00.000-05:00It was inevitable that the Beeb's political slant ...It was inevitable that the Beeb's political slant would come to reflect their business model. <BR/><BR/>But their business model is cornering the British government into legislating fixed public purse revenue combined with zero <I>actual</I> accountability to either public or government. They are supposedly, by the charter, responsible only to the listeners/watchers, thought the feedback mechanism is of course subject to positive selection bias, which is Beeb bureaucrats only listening to listeners they want to listen to. That may explain a prelidiction to socialist dialectical materialism but it does not explain their prelidiction to cultural marxism, unless one stereotypically believs that ex-theatre types and journalists are a bunch of poofs.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky called it "The Red Service".Fellow Peacekeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645105032419455560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165074999918294942006-12-02T10:56:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:56:00.000-05:00check *this* weirdness.<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15976951/site/newsweek/" REL="nofollow">check *this* weirdness.</A>buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165074164729035382006-12-02T10:42:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:42:00.000-05:00Certainly. As soon as US Treasury started writing ...Certainly. As soon as US Treasury started writing as many checks as it cashes, the country found itself @ 50/50 politically.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165073883658193102006-12-02T10:38:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:38:00.000-05:00Fellow peacekeeper said, "Ha! That was back when t...Fellow peacekeeper said, "Ha! That was back when the BBC was not a communist organization. Now that was a different world."<BR/><BR/><I>It was inevitable that the Beeb's political slant would come to reflect their business model.</I>Drive By Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01773841712897591583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165073193543663322006-12-02T10:26:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:26:00.000-05:00Ha! That was back when the BBC was not a communist...Ha! That was back when the BBC was not a communist organization. Now <I>that</I> was a different world.Fellow Peacekeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645105032419455560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165072356642737502006-12-02T10:12:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:12:00.000-05:00boy, that's for sure. USSR was scary as hell.boy, that's for sure. USSR was scary as hell.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165071405328734582006-12-02T09:56:00.000-05:002006-12-02T09:56:00.000-05:00When I was your age fellow peacekeeper, I listened...When I was your age fellow peacekeeper, I listened to Radio Moscow on my vintage Grundig. From there I would the go to what was then the very respectable BBC. The Soviet heel stretched from the Arctic to the Black Sea across all of Europe. The radio reports were coming from two different worlds. This is like an echo from the past.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165070779873207242006-12-02T09:46:00.000-05:002006-12-02T09:46:00.000-05:00Oh man, Robert Ludlum triple cross wierdness in re...Oh man, Robert Ludlum triple cross wierdness in real life. <BR/><BR/>There hasn't been that much of it since the Cold War, has there? As much an old divil as a new menace.Fellow Peacekeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645105032419455560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165070377750084012006-12-02T09:39:00.000-05:002006-12-02T09:39:00.000-05:00Exactly fellow, "it's a mystery wrapped in riddle ...Exactly fellow, "it's a mystery wrapped in riddle inside an inigma".Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165069888306660252006-12-02T09:31:00.000-05:002006-12-02T09:31:00.000-05:00Wretchard is right there is too little hard inform...Wretchard is right there <I>is</I> too little hard information.<BR/><BR/>Still, Russia loses an enemy <I>and</I> the Islamists get blamed somehow.<BR/><BR/>That too would be dreadfully convenient for Putin. If theres any organization capable of wheel within wheel double-bluff machinations then its the new heirs to the old KGB.Fellow Peacekeeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06645105032419455560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165069722551174652006-12-02T09:28:00.000-05:002006-12-02T09:28:00.000-05:00Meeting the Italian who lives as if he is in a Col...Meeting the Italian who lives as if he is in a Cold War spy novel<BR/><BR/>By Peter Popham in Rome<BR/>Published: 02 December 2006<BR/>"I learnt yesterday that I belong to a select club: those who have been close enough to Mario Scaramella, the Italian KGB expert, since his now notorious lunch with Alexander Litvinenko at the Itsu sushi bar in London on 1 November, to require testing for radioactivity.<BR/><BR/>Because yesterday, in the latest twist in the poisoning saga, the world learnt the Italian is contaminated with polonium-210.<BR/><BR/>When I met him in the lobby of Rome's Termini station on 20 November, it was the first interview he had given to the Western press since being implicated in the Litvinenko case. He was clutching a large envelope with the name of a hospital in Rome printed on it. He had just returned, he said, from being tested for contamination by radioactive thallium. They had given him a clean bill of health.<BR/><BR/>Did he even then have reason to believe that he was contaminated? If so, he wasn't letting on - and even yesterday, as news of his positive test became known, he said reassuringly from London that he was in the clear.<BR/><BR/>He agreed to see me because I was the only British journalist who knew him personally. He was behind a story last year claiming the Soviets had laid 20 nuclear torpedoes on the seabed in the Bay of Naples. To follow the story up, I had lunch with him near the Pantheon in Rome.<BR/><BR/>Meeting Scaramella is like walking into the pages of a Cold War thriller. This time, post Itsu, he showed me e-mails from an ex-KGB agent called Limarev warning that he and Litvinenko were in danger. This, he said, was the reason for meeting Litvinenko - only Limarev has denied sending them. Yesterday, in London, Scaramella said he was unable to return to Italy yet as there was "a problem". He may be away some time."Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com