One of my oldest and dearest friends has gone public on his support for Scottish Independence. I am greatly cheered by this. More thoughts later.
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Lol Mary
i have tried changing before…but last night after Alcanon’s tip…i got a little farther…. Even looked up what image/ photo i wanted to put up for Avatar… Fucked it up eventually…Bet them techie’s could do the task in minits… got tired with it…think i’ve at least settled on what i’d like….DEM Libran’s Lol
“…it is inconceivable that the super high-tech US base on the UK-owned island of Diego Garcia, has no record of this flight.”
It’s also inconceivable that they’d tell anyone if they did. There is very little evidence on which to base ANY theory, and if you automatically disbelieve anything any government says, none whatever. Discussing it is, therefore, a waste of time. I wish conspiracy theorists could take this on board.
Testing
That above was using my main email address and this is the one I have used here for a long time which contains just my initials. Broadband provider is common to both If I was to switch off my router, wait and switch it back on, I would get another avatar presumably so what is the point of them?
What can be stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Cheerio Mr Goss
Technicolour; “There has been plenty of substance in Resident Dissidence’s posts; most recently in his posts on Russia”
Can you direct me to examples of such “substance”; thank you.
Technicolour – the case was reviewed 5 times and it was decided she was absolutely safe to return to Maritius.
Komodo 8:47am – I’ll get back to you later as I haven’t time to reply to your long post at the moment.
Anon: ‘compassionate and sensible’ doesn’t, in my book, include forcible tearing a young woman away from her family in the middle of studying for her future.
“The usage to which you refer conforms, therefore to an outdated and despicable ideology, as well as to a current and equally despicable one, Zionism.”
That may be – but it is still the one given in the OED and other reliable dictionaries. Given that there are distinct hatreds of Jews and Arabs it makes sense to have different words.
The Normans were a pretty bad lot should we abandon those words that they gave to the English language. Quite a lot of words come from colonial past in India are they too politically incorrect for us now to use. Perhaps we should bear in mind what Orwell said about those who try to twist and reinterpret the language to suit their politics.
Technicolour
I agree the least they could have done is to allow her to finish her school studies by granting a student visa or similar.
Komodo (Who he? – BZ) 8:47am (ah…) – I’ll get back to you later as I haven’t time to reply to your long post at the moment.
Please don’t mistake me for someone who is remotely interested in your no doubt completely predictable opinions.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/01/us-may-release-israeli-spy-jonathan-pollard-peace-process
Despite the URL, the headline reads “Palestinian statehood bid may derail Middle East peace process”
You can’t trust these towelheads, can you? First they want Israel to keep to its undertakings, and then they want to set up their own state. Absurd, of course. As anyone reading the headline can see, CiF Watch is well ahead of the game.
The strongest opposition, however, came from the Palestinian leadership, which insisted that Israel was reneging on its obligations and refused suggestions to link the promised release of a fourth group of prisoners with a commitment to extend peace talks beyond a deadline set by the US for the end of April.
The proposed deal was heavily briefed by anonymous US and Israeli officials, but it was clear it fell far short of what the Palestinian side was demanding.Abbas’s announcement came after a key meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s action committee which met prior to Abbas’s statement.
Kerry has spent days shuttling back and forth to the Middle East in an effort to find a solution in the Middle East. He met the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu twice on Monday evening and Tuesdayyesterday, after meeting Abbas in Jordan last week.
BTW, doesn’t look like the Israelis will be getting Pollard. He was in it for the money, and had no particular craving for shekels – offered his huge cache of secrets to three other nations. More details may be released to support this view.
The Normans were a pretty bad lot should we abandon those words that they gave to the English language. Quite a lot of words come from colonial past in India are they too politically incorrect for us now to use. Perhaps we should bear in mind what Orwell said about those who try to twist and reinterpret the language to suit their politics.
Well, yes. Though I don’t think Orwell was any more a definitive arbiter of correct usage than I am, and he was pretty critical of politically perverted usages himself.
But the associations attaching themselves to words change without anyone trying too hard – eg “expect” in the 18th century meant only “await”, without any sense of “anticipation” – which itself shifted from something like “prediction” to something like “interested expectation”…and I see no enormous harm in giving them a kick in the right direction.
Particularly in the case we are discussing. We have, for instance, “Islamophobia”, a recent coinage for political purposes, and carrying with it an automatic association with fear. I propose “antiislamism” or even “antislamism” to carry the same weight as “antijudaism”: both expressive, equally balanced, non-prejudicial terms applying to hatred of followers of the two religions respectively. Which is actually the problem, rather than the shape of someone’s nose or their predeliction for falafel..
We can dispense with “antisemitism”, which has now acquired a meaning, even in dictionaries, (and reminiscently of Humpty Dumpty) which is precisely what BICOM says it means. “Antisemitism” parallels “gay” – it’s a hijacked word.
And we could restore the balance by coining yet another term: “judaeophobia” for people who want to incite fear of Jews.
Fair enough, I think.
Goodness. That was quick. It took all of 32 seconds. Agent Cameron is standing by her naturally and gives her his whole hearted support.
‘Maria Miller ordered to repay £5,800 and apologise to MPs
Maria Miller: “I fully accept the recommendations of the committee and thank them for bringing this matter to an end”
The Commons Committee on Standards has ordered Culture Secretary Maria Miller to repay £5,800 and apologise to MPs.
It cleared her of the central charge of deliberately submitting expenses claims to which she was not entitled, but said her attitude to the inquiry breached MPs’ code of conduct.
The £5,800 is to cover over-claiming of mortgage expenses after she failed to cut her claims as interest rates fell.
In a 32 second statement, Mrs Miller told MPs she apologised “unreservedly”.
The committee suggested that she had tried to argue her case before the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in a “legalistic” way.
She should “apologise by personal statement on the floor of the House for her attitude to the Commissioner’s inquiries”, it concluded.’
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26865695
To clarify:
my “and he was pretty critical of politically perverted usages himself.” simply reinforces what you said. What I should have added was that “antisemite” is exactly such a usage. The word suggests one meaning, but conveys another. It is impossible to characterise someone who hates other Semites as an antisemite: indeed, there is no word which means a hater of Semites, if we accept the harangue of any Zionist apologist.
However, Orwell seems to have accepted the usage uncritically. Though he did say this:
“A Jew, for example, would not be antisemitic: but then many Zionist Jews seem to me to be merely antisemites turned upside-down”*
Which is approximately my original point.
*George Orwell: ‘Antisemitism in Britain’
First published: Contemporary Jewish Record. — GB, London. — April 1945.
War criminal Mr Blair was directed by his Israel masters to convince Norway to stop funding the Palestinian Authority:
Norwegian state-owned NRK TV is continuing its investigation into Norway’s financial support of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) budget.
The PA uses its budget to pay the salaries of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails for security offences, including those serving multiple life sentences for murder, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
Some prisoners, it is reported, can earn up to 18,000 kroner per month (£2095), nearly three times the Norwegian public pension base rate.
In an interview with NRK TV, Norwegian MP, Peter Gitmark, expressed his concern over Norway’s “indirect” contributions to Palestinian terrorism.
” The word suggests one meaning, but conveys another. It is impossible to characterise someone who hates other Semites as an antisemite:”
It is possible, but extremely difficult since Identity politics has monopolized the word into just one meaning, Ba’al.
Semites also include the Arabic people. They descended from Shem just as did the Israelites
Links are always good, Mark. Here’s the story. Also on the Good Idea thread, earlier.
http://china.org.cn/world/2014-04/03/content_31988705.htm
Blair in 2012:
Norway has a population of around 4.5 million and a GDP of $485.8 billion. It also has a sovereign wealth fund presently at over $600 billion rising to $1 trillion by 2020. It has this through vast reserves of oil and gas.
http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/news/entry/tony-blair-urges-uk-to-shape-the-future-of-europe/
(as usual, skip through a lot of old cock to find it)
Next thing you know he’ll have put in a governance squad to tell Norway how to give him money.
Ben – Semites also include the Arabic people. They descended from Shem just as did the Israelites
That’s just what the excrescences won’t allow. Check out the earlier posts from Anon and me.
Ba’al; Poliitcal correctness is the jibe? The word is as rabble-rousing as…..the JOOOOOOS!
or the MOOOOOOSLIMS! and the pushback is veiled racial, when it is merely politically incorrect for the correct target Zionism.
Is that what Anon is missing?
Afrend. 5 40pm yesterday
Thanks a million for Habbabreak.
WOW! Three minutes and he’s gone!
I was hesitating. As you know I owe my existence to Dad’s constant bullying. But then I thought, what has my scroll button done to deserve all that work?
Dad. YOU ARE SACKED.
Abbas threatens to actually DO something, so Kerry runs around trying to re-establish the cycle of inertia that characterises what the media describe as the peace process. It is of course nothing of the sort. Every once in a while, Israel agrees to send some people to sit in the same room as a few Palestinians. That’s all. These meetings are designed to give the media “something positive” to report while they obligingly ignore the ongoing theft of land and illegal building.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26868119
Retune required for the Eminences and sub-Eminences
Doesn’t look as if Akavov* is all that averse to other peoples’ blood himself –
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/28/ukraine-s-interior-minister-arsen-avakov-begs-rebels-to-help-defend-ukraine.html
*Current Ukraine interior minister
He hasn’t a prayer if Russia does move, and I don’t think it will, so he’s safe enough looking decisive.
Is that what Anon is missing?
That and his radio link to Tel Aviv. Normal service will probably be resumed shortly.
It is just part of the zionist mentality.They have a thing about making words and language theirs.Anti-semite is theirs,no matter about Shem.Actually most Israeli’s are not descended from Shem, but someone much further north.
“holocaust” only happened to them and can only be used by them about them.Jewish jokes are fine as long as you are a Jew,but the smile vanishes when the joker is not.”Nuclear ambiguity” is another.Iran cannot use it despite the fact they have no nuclear weapons, but Israel weilds it as shield to hide their arsenal from the world.Even the word Jew has become explosive for non-Jews to use.
That’s what they do with a dictionary and that’s what the Israeli’s do with the land in Palestine.Doesn’t mean they are grammatically correct
Ba’al;
There seem to be many terms infecting the target as having ‘cooties’. Run for your life from such accusations because…STFU !
“liberal’, ‘conspiracy theorist’, ‘smoker’ 🙂 et al.
Post your questions for Ken Loach
This afternoon Ken Loach will answer your questions about why he is backing the new political party Left Unity
3 April 2014 13.48 BST
Ken Loach will be joined by Left Unity activists Sharon McCourt and Salman Shaheen below the line.
“Building a democratic party with volunteer activists is a daunting task. But if we leave the sidelines and finally work together, it might just be possible.” Writing for Comment is free last week, the director Ken Loach explained why he is backing the new political party Left Unity. This afternoon, you’ll have the opportunity to put your questions directly to Ken, and to party activists Sharon McCourt and Salman Shaheen.
You can leave your questions below from 4.30pm BST, and Ken and co will join us from 5.30pm BST to respond. Don’t worry if you don’t already have a log-in – you can sign up here.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/03/post-your-questions-for-ken-loach-left-unity
Good on Archbishop Tutu for speaking out to American Zionists and their supporters.
Statement by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on US Efforts to Curb Freedom of Speech
2 April 2014
I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge the human rights violations endured by the Palestinian people. In legislatures in Maryland, New York, Illinois, Florida, and even the United States Congress, bills have been proposed that would either bar funding to academic associations or seek to malign those who have taken a stand against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.
These legislative efforts are in response to a growing international initiative, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, of which I have long been a supporter. The BDS movement emanates from a call for justice put out by the Palestinian people themselves. It is a Palestinian-led, international non-violent movement that seeks to force the Israeli government to comply with international law in respect to its treatment of the Palestinian people.
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http://adc.org/index.php?id=4406
“International implications of Scottish independence. Anyone?”
It’s all unknown Clark, but here is one possible scenario.
It’s the future, Scotland is independent. Scotland’s vast wealth has been syphoned off by Salmond’s immensely rich oligarth friends. There is mass unemployment the haggis harvest has failed for the third year running, people on Leith Walk have been seen eating salad out of sheer desperation.
There are mass demonstrations in Edinburgh, Salmond has fled to England for his own safety. A group of extreme right wing fanatics from the Western Isles storm Holyrood and declare themselves the legitimate government, they are instantly recognised by France, Germany and Russia. The first thing they do is declare gaelic the official language and make smiling on Sundays illegal.
Britain has no choice but to send in troops to protect the English speaking people. Russia raises a resolution at the UN, Britain vetoes it.
Pure fiction, but not impossible.