John Ward June 9, 2012 Uncategorized

Odd goings on at The Slog: the disappearing Angela of Death.

I don’t know why, but my piece of this morning ‘Merkel the Merciful offers Athens a clear choice’ has disappeared.

The piece attracted an enormous (and vitriolic) comment thread. It also evoked four highly suspicious comments, all from joke email addresses and all pro-EU.

Just in case anyone is harbouring the deluded thought that I took this piece down, forget it. But it has disappeared entirely, and I am on the case of working out how and why.

If anyone captured the piece or can still see it on their browser, please let me know urgently on jawslog@gmail.com

Thanks

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Stephenroi on June 10, 2012 at 9:16 am

Ay which point he will be getting down to the nitty gritty!

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aflatoxin on June 9, 2012 at 11:32 pm

@H you’re on. I’m the dark glasses

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Hieronimusb on June 9, 2012 at 9:43 pm

They may be onto us. If it all goes wrong, we meet up middle of Blackfriars bridge first of the month ok? Tell nobody, hands up for a secret ballot etc.

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Hieronimusb on June 9, 2012 at 9:20 pm

Do you think they already know about Wolkenkuckucksheim?

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Hieronimusb on June 9, 2012 at 9:12 pm

He’ll need to get the sand out of his underpants first.

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Mudplugger on June 9, 2012 at 8:42 pm

Maybe it got lost somewhere between Menwith Hill and GCHQ……

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Caratacus on June 9, 2012 at 7:48 pm

“All sins forgiven, RD”

I’ll get me coat :-)

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Bankrupt Taxpayer on June 9, 2012 at 6:50 pm

Not sure why you think there’ll be a bank run on Monday, but there’s a very interesting essay here from Mises which exposes the Left’s fake God of economics for what he is:

Click to access Mises-of-Krugman-and-Diocletian.pdf

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Romford Dave on June 9, 2012 at 6:44 pm

I used to think it was just our policeman that were wonderful, now I think all our security services are wonderful; in fact everyone’s security services are wonderful and those who are not so secure or services at all.

Phew, I think that should throw them off the trail……….

Ok now that I’m alright Jack,

They can f*ck themselves ;)

Danny Boy calling Broadsword>>>Danny Boy calling Broadsword>>>The Euro has floundered>>> …—…>>>

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Bankrupt Taxpayer on June 9, 2012 at 6:44 pm

I sent JW a private e-mail the other day to jawslog@gmail.com and as far as I know it got to him. Meaning that I didn’t get a bounce return.

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Henry on June 9, 2012 at 6:40 pm

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/wolkenkuckucksheim/
Bank run Monday.

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Viking Jack on June 9, 2012 at 6:28 pm

I just tried sending this eMail:

“Shenanigans at the Slog

Hi John,

Assuming this eMail gets through:

I still have the original essay showing in a Firefox window.

When I press the “Comment” button it moves to a piece with the title: ” The British Government problem: It’s not rocket science.”, allegedly released at June 9, 2012 • 9:18 am

However, the comment thread below it is for the original essay – my own comment is still there!

Does that help with the investigation?

Ciao”

Less than a minute later I received it back: “Failed addresses follow: John Ward

This is not the first time it has happened – hence my opening sentence! Methinks someone is watching you closely.

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Bellevue on June 9, 2012 at 6:26 pm

Chilling……
Welcome to your future.

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John on June 9, 2012 at 6:20 pm

Well… this is what happens when you start to report the truth.

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tembo11 on June 9, 2012 at 6:17 pm

Just reading through and remembering what I’d read earlier.
Post that were there at 11:57 I’d read and posts at 12:56 I hadn’t

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the ghost on June 9, 2012 at 6:17 pm

Mi6 nothing to do with us john MI5 sorry john nothing to do with us, Mozad we know nothing, CIA could be black ops otherwise no, not us,
health and safety got you john

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BillK on June 9, 2012 at 6:02 pm

WordPress support say that they store the previous 25 versions of every post. Access through the Post Revisions feature.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-revisions/

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Henry on June 9, 2012 at 5:56 pm

http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/john-ward-euroblown-merkel-the-merciful-offers-athens-a-clear-choice-9-june-2012/#more-15945

This worked for me.

John Ward – Euroblown : Merkel The Merciful Offers Athens A Clear Choice… – 9 June 2012
Posted on June 9, 2012 by lucas2012infos | Leave a comment

The Angela of Death

…stay in the eurozone and die, or leave the eurozone and be poor.

I wonder if ‘choice’ is perhaps the most twisted reinvention of a word in the history of language. Jeremy *unt is a great choice driveller: choice of 56 Murdoch Channels all showing braindead soft-porn sh*te. Lansley is another one: choice in the health services available to all. Bollocks: the choice is between having money and getting some service, or the opposite of that.

Angela Merkel, however, has topped everyone for utterly crass, inflexible neo-Nazi hypocrisy this weekend. This is a direct quote from a speech she made yesterday:

“What we have always said is that we want Greece to remain a member of the eurozone. The precondition for that to succeed is that the future Greek government sticks to the memorandum that was agreed with the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and the European Commission.”

Or, put another way:

“In order to stay in the eurozone you must freeze all your old people, make everyone unemployed, empty the hospital budgets, bad-debt the pharmacies, and starve all the mental patients”.

Personally, I wouldn’t give the Sprout-Kraut axis of granite stupidity four plastic buttons with no holes in to be in the eurozone, let alone stay there. What is it about our materialistic West these days that even the emptiest threat involving money-loss is enough to convince people to join a dying empire busy shooting itself in every important body part?

One is reminded about the PoW camp joke, when the Kommandant announces to the chaps that “Today izz ze fuhrer’s Birssday, zo every man vill haff a change of clothes. Hut 29 vill change clothes vizz Hut 42….”

Just to reiterate for one last time before moving on from this mercifully brief visit to Bedlam: the Greek elite borrowed too much and embezzled a fair proportion of the money; both the ECB and US banks hard-sold them those loans at cheap rates; the French and Germans sold the Greeks €165bn of arms they did not need, insisted they stick to the purchase, and sprayed corrupt backhanders everywhere in order to speed the deal through; Goldman Sachs were paid by the Greek elite to teach them how to cheat Brussels; the French and Germans bottled on the original highly unwise decision to let the ClubMeds into the euro, because they were in love with their poxy toytown currency; the austerity ‘strategy’ is killing every economy to which it has been applied; and the Spaniards have been just as lax (and mendacious), but they will face few if any of the punishments shouldered by Greece.

The people of Greece are being bullied by Sprout cowards, blamed by neurotic Kraut tabloids, lectured by the French whose banks lent money more recklessly than anyone else – and punished both for the dishonesty of their own politicians, and megalomania of the Franco-German europhile madhouse.

But nil desperandum fellow Island Racers, because Big Brother Scameron is going to protect us from the ickid-wicked nasty smelly bogey men he is so and he’s bigger than Mrs Merkel and he will bash her up and he will become our hero and then we will all eat cake for ever and ever we will too because my mum told me so.

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william on June 9, 2012 at 5:46 pm

Have a look at Zerohedge,which seems to be very up to date on the refinancing of the Spanish Armada,which is limping home from a circumnavigation of the tiny island state that houses Casino London,which Steve Wynn does not own, yet.When our overworked politicos return from a well deserved break,Cameldung may have some explaining to do,when the ‘safe haven’ status of the UK is exposed as mere posturing, in the tradition of the abolition of the economic cycle.

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Bankrupt Taxpayer on June 9, 2012 at 5:40 pm

@JW: As far as I can see, all the comments are still there (now 86), but of course they’ve now been merged with comments to the new article you posted. Maybe you have been hacked as @rmiglobal says or maybe it’s a WP ‘issue’ or – dare I say it – maybe finger trouble (unlikely)?

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rmiglobal on June 9, 2012 at 5:28 pm

I hope they ‘hunt’ down the culprit wink wink lol

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rmiglobal on June 9, 2012 at 5:27 pm

You’ve been hacked JW. Congratulations ;-)

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Bankrupt Taxpayer on June 9, 2012 at 5:26 pm

Exactly. The same comments (83 at the time of writing) but attached to another post about IQ.

Weird or what? Gremlins, saboteurs or finger trouble?

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fredw on June 9, 2012 at 5:20 pm

John , I found your piece here…..

https://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/john-ward-euroblown-merkel-the-merciful-offers-athens-a-clear-choice-9-june-2012/#more-15945

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Nick Markakis on June 9, 2012 at 5:17 pm

The article is still here:
http://lucas2012infos.wordpress.com/tag/euroblown-merkel-the-merciful-offers-athens-a-clear-choice/

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patrick powell (@pfgpowell) on June 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm

That explains it. It was very odd: I went to read over one or two comments left in response to comments I had left, and found the the original post had been replaced with another, but the commetns appended were still the same. I did think it odd.

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Anne on June 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm

Wow. That’s creepy. Now I really have to read that article. Keep up the excellent work.

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