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Novi-Fog™ In Fleet Street - Truth Cut Off
4
April, 2018
Having
been caught
lying and covering up his
lies about the Salisbury incident, the British Foreign Minister Boris
Johnson decided to
attack:
A
pity endeavor. It were the lies of Theresa May and Boris Johnson
that convinced
the other countries,
not any factual evidence:
BERLIN (Reuters) - Britain needs to show proof that Russia was behind last month’s poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England, the German government’s coordinator for Russia said on Thursday.
Gernot Erler said pressure was rising on Prime Minister Theresa May’s government after Britain’s military research centre, at Porton Down, said on Tuesday it could not say yet whether the nerve agent used in the attack had been produced in Russia.
“That contradicts what we had previously heard from British politicians and will certainly raise the pressure on Britain to show further proof that the traces plausibly point to Moscow,” Erler told German broadcaster ARD.
Armin
Laschert, head of Germany's most populous state North
Rhine-Westphalia and near to Merkel, also questioned the
British behavior.
The
international loss of trust for the British claims is serious. Unless
the UK government comes up with a very plausible story with some real
evidence behind it no serious European official will lend it any
further support. And no, holding up a tube of white powder will not
be enough.
Opposition
leader Jeremy Corbyn, who's skepticism convinced 165 countries to not
fall for Boris Johnson's lies, says that
Johnson has to answer "serious questions".
The
spin-masters of the May government throw Novi-Fog™ into Fleet
Street to prevent that.
Operation
'Save Boris' fills the Fleet Street papers with more lies. It claims
that secret intelligence, which can
not even
be shown to the opposition leader, proves that Russia tested how
to smear the nerve agent 'Novichok' on doorknobs:
Police said last week they believed Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned at home in Salisbury via their front door.
Now agents have confirmed that Putin's scientists carried out experiments looking at its effectiveness on door handles before the March 3[sic!] attack.
A security source told the Daily Mail: "We have intelligence that goes beyond Russia made Novichok and stockpiled it.
"We have evidence that they also explored using it as an assassination weapon including on areas such as door handles and everyday objects."
"Putin's
scientists" experimented and found that two persons leaving a
home will both touch the exterior doorknob and reliably infect
themselves with a rain-resistant, "military grade" nerve
agent which several hours later has a similar sudden effect on a 33
year old healthy women and a 66 year old man with serious diabetes.
That indeed sounds quite plausible to me (not).
More
Novi-Fog™:
The
Times was
told that the spies found the source of the nerve agent. But the
piece is extremely vague and makes little sense:
There
are two different sources: 1. "Security services" which say
they know the source but neither name it, nor pin the location to
Russia and 2. a Whitehall spin-master who points to Russia.
Some
photo editor made sense of what the "security services"
said and introduced the Times piece
with a picture of the likely source:
Behind
the wall of Novi-Fog™ all the
outrageous claims the
government made about the case get pushed down the memory hole.
Meanwhile
Victoria Skripal, a cousin of Yulia Skripal, claims to
have been called by Yulia and told that everything is fine. In
response(?) the Metropolitan Police claims to
have a statement from Yulia in which she also says that everything is
fine. Neither claim is verifiable and both might well be wrong.
Theresa
May's government is in serious trouble. It tries to spin its way out
of its lies. But the time is working against it. The fog will rise:
- The OPCW investigation, to which Russia was denied access, will not help May to make a case against Russia. In the best case for May it will come up with a similar result as Porton Down. It might say that some nerve agent was used on the Skripals but that it is impossible to pin it to a source. It might say that it can not identify the nerve agent at all. It may find nothing.
- Yulia Skripal will have to be released from hospital and is likely to fly home to Russia. She will talk. She is unlikely to know anything that could help May, but might well say something that lets the whole story fall apart. She will have to watch her back.
- Britain's allies are miffed. They have been lied to and damaged their relations with Russia for no good reason. The Brexit negotiations will become more difficult as Brussels has lost trust in any British claim or commitment.
- Russia will continue to attack May while she has lost the protection from her allies.
- The upcoming local elections could well go against the Tories. In 2004 the Spanish Prime Minister Aznar blamed the Basque ETA for the Madrid train bombing. That was exposed as a lie and he lost his lead in the polls, the election and his job. When the Skripal case broke and was pinned to Russia the Tories rose in the polls. But the fall after the exposure of the lies will probably be of equal size.
What
will the British government to get out of this situation?
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Previous Moon of Alabama reports on the Skripal case:
Previous Moon of Alabama reports on the Skripal case:
- March 12 - Theresa May's "45 Minutes" Moment
According to Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn made him lie about the Salisbury poisoning…
4
April, 2018
Boris
Johnson has been accused of ‘misleading the public’. He stated
that experts from Porton Down were “absolutely categorical” that
Russia was the source of novichok, the nerve agent that poisoned
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.
But
on 3 April, Porton Down said it could not identify the “precise
source” of the novichok. And then, on 4 April, it also emerged that
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) had deleted a tweet that
also claimed the nerve agent was “produced in Russia”.
Amid
calls for his resignation, Johnson’s answer was… to blame Jeremy
Corbyn. Obviously.
“Lamentable”
Johnson
issued a series of tweets outlining his position. Firstly, he blamed
Corbyn:
It is lamentable that Jeremy Corbyn is now playing Russia’s game and trying to discredit the UK over Salisbury attack.
Let’s remember the key facts:
Let’s remember the key facts:
Next,
he outlined his “key facts”:
1) Porton Down identified nerve agent as military grade Novichok; 2) Russia has investigated delivering nerve agents,likely for assassination,& as part of this programme has produced and stockpiled small quantities of Novichoks; 3) Russia has motive for targeting Sergei Skripal.
It
is true that Corbyn urged caution before jumping to conclusions about
the source of the novichok. And this sent right-wing media into a
frenzy. But it now seems Johnson is also blaming Corbyn for his own
words to a German media outlet:
28 other countries have been so convinced by UK case they have expelled Russians. In contrast, Jeremy Corbyn chooses to side with the Russian spin machine.
And
Corbyn is also probably responsible for the actions of the FCO, of
course:
This looks very embarrassing for Boris Johnson. Foreign Office confirm they deleted a tweet that said Porton Down said Salisbury nerve agent was 'produced in Russia'.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-jo…
Really,
Boris?
After
a month of near-constant smear campaigns against Corbyn, many on
Twitter were quick to challenge Johnson’s version of events:
Just
in case you haven't figured it out:
Just in case you haven't figured it out:
1. Tory gets caught lying/doing something corrupt/depraved
2. Tory desperately deflects attention by crudely smearing @jeremycorbyn
3. Tory's chums in the media report the smear, rather than the Tory lie/corruption/depravity
It is lamentable that Jeremy Corbyn is now playing Russia’s game and trying to discredit the UK over Salisbury attack.
Let’s remember the key facts:
The key facts are, Theresa May's spy poisoning story is unravelling, which is inconvenient to your Brexit is a mess coverup agenda, and pretending May's "strong and stable" for the local elections you're going to get trashed at in May.
Fixed this tweet for you too Boris.........
just go ahead and resign will you?#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn#SackBorisJohnson#Salisbury
#IStandWithJeremyCorbyn
But
as diplomatic tensions rise between the UK and Russia, Johnson’s
‘error’ has serious implications. So calls to #SackBorisJohnson
are spreading across Twitter:
It's
clear Boris Johnson's comments about Russia were inaccurate. With
tensions across the world high enough as it is, such behaviour is
unacceptable for a Foreign Minister. He must go.#SackBorisJohnson
Boris Johnson told a blatant lie, designed to stir up tensions between Russia and the West. This is an act of astonishing duplicity and warrants nothing less than his immediate dismissal from public duty. #SackBorisJohnson twitter.com/skynews/status…
It's clear Boris Johnson's comments about Russia were inaccurate. With tensions across the world high enough as it is, such behaviour is unacceptable for a Foreign Minister. He must go.#SackBorisJohnson
As
The Canary previously reported, BBC News coverage of recent events
has also received widespread criticism. But as lawyer and activist
Peter Stefanovic points out, the BBC also failed to accurately report
Johnson’s statement:
EVERYTHING BBC1’s NEWS AT TEN “FORGOT” TO TELL YOU about BORIS JOHNSON & the PORTON DOWN revelation! If you think the public should know the TRUTH please RT!
But
others have not been afraid to call Johnson an outright liar:
Corbyn
clearly stated that Johnson “needs to answer some questions”. And
he went on to say that Johnson has “egg on his face for the
statement he made on German television”:
Jeremy Corbyn: "Boris Johnson has exceeded the evidence and has serious questions to answer".
This is serious. When will the BBC wake up?
The
latest announcement is that Russia’s request to the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for a joint
investigation into this case was voted down. On 5 April, Russia has
called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council – a move
that the FCO has already called “diversionary tactics”. And this
suggests that relations between the UK and Russia look set to
deteriorate further.
‘War
is peace’
According
to The Moscow Times, Sergei Naryshkin (head of Russia’s foreign
intelligence service – SVR) warned of “‘unprecedented
hypocrisy’ and a Cold War mentality” from the West, and said:
In
fact all the norms that regulate intergovernmental relations are
given precisely the opposite meanings.
Naryshkin
reportedly went on to quote George Orwell’s famous line: “War is
Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.”
As
Johnson blames Corbyn, who is so open in his opposition to war,
chemical weapons and the government handling of this case, Orwell’s
words do seem alarmingly accurate.
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