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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Mary, I apologise.
I think unsurprisingly I have got my Anons and Resident Dissidents muddled up. Apologies.
It seems things have gone from bad to worse following the advent of Habbabreak (Afrend 2 Apr, 2014 – 10:05 pm ) and the outing of RD’s crowd of multiple personalities. But there’s no need to worry. We’re in good professional hands.
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(Thanks Mary. I wasn’t convinced at first but if this isn’t him it’s a pretty convincing imitation.)
Afriend.
I did not mean to imply that “Habbabreak” caused the downhill slide, though I believe the shock of becoming invisible certainly caused him to blow a gasket or two and resort to blanket postings in the names of his imaginary friends.
I want you to know that I am a happy user and request that you make available similar products to deal with others whose motivation is clearly to silence, disrupt and upset.
A Royal Marine contact has communicated a grey colored commercial passenger jet plane with no identifiable markings has flown out from Diego Garcia.
Meanwhile
Three ‘fleeting sounds’ have been picked up in the multi-national search currently being conducted 1,000 miles off Australia’s west coast.
At least one of those ‘pings’ is believed to have a similar frequency to that given off by a black box.
HMS Echo, one of Britain’s most sophisticated hydrographic vessels, is racing against time to determine whether the sounds were signals from the plane’s black box as the batteries powering the device are expected to run out in the next few days.
But first it will have to conduct an ‘environmental search’ to differentiate between the ocean’s sounds and the potential finding.
Australia’s HMS Ocean Shield is also in the vicinity, investigating a third sound detected nearby.
Mary
To try n help to soothe you’re Soul….
My Fav Japanese Hang Drum Girl –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSPi2_v_JKI
Peace n light
Incredible chutzpah and atavism is the only explanation for the vapid continuation of unplugged sock-puppetry.
I don’t subscribe to the notion there is moral fiber connected to their notions, unless ‘end justifies means’ is some sort of perverse Grail of materialism.
I hear Hobbes sobbing in the wake of the recalcitrant hordes, while they stamp their coinage from dross metals forged in fires fueled by the corpses of other people.
Fuckin’ hilarious it takes about 8 trolls to *attempt* to police and steer this ickle blog.
Enjoy the overtime y’all yeah?
Sinister though it has to be said-sinister indeed.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115454618@N06/13502620305/
Ben,
“I don’t subscribe to the notion there is moral fiber connected to their notions, unless ‘end justifies means’ is some sort of perverse Grail of materialism.
I hear Hobbes sobbing in the wake of the recalcitrant hordes, while they stamp their coinage from dross metals forged in fires fueled by the corpses of other people.”
——
This is what happens when you attempt to write an internet post after taking a large hit on a bong.
Thanks Brian. I had not come across that instrument before. So beautiful and complete absorption in the playing. I expected woodland creatures to appear in the background.
Where I walk with my dog, there is a steep hill. At the top in a field, I often see a young Japanese woman performing exercises which I assume to be Tai Chi. She is also completely absorbed and is oblivious to anything else. It certainly looks similar to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNWPk6tYoUM
I have looked at your interesting photos before on Sqonk. I see a parallel to Palestine in the caption on the photo of the Native American!
Anon
I also liked Ben’s “vapid continuation of unplugged sock-puppetry”. The whole post is really just a collection of impressive sounding words strung together without any connecting thread, isn’t it.
Anyway, have a good day, all!
Top of the morning to you, Mary (as the Irish are reputed to say), and congratulations on getting in at the top of page 6! It was your turn, after all.
‘Under-fire MP Maria Miller has bought a countryside Tudor barn worth £1.2million – almost exactly the profit she made from the sale of her taxpayer funded home.
The Culture Secretary’s new 16th-century home comprises of a main barn with four bedrooms, three reception rooms and a study, with an annexe barn with another bedroom and living area.
The Grade II-listed property is set in 1.6 acres of private gardens, has a large cart shed and a range of outbuildings including a summer house.
Mrs Miller was ordered to pay back just £5,800 pounds after overclaiming £45,000 pounds in expenses for mortgage interest payments and council tax on the south London property where her parents lived, while designating her main home as a rented property in Basingstoke.
Under-fire MP Maria Miller has bought a countryside Tudor barn worth £1.2million – almost exactly the profit she made from the sale of her taxpayer funded home.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2598145/Culture-Minister-Maria-Miller-bought-Tudor-barn-worth-1-2million-profit-taxpayer-funded-home.html
She seems to have missed out on finding somewhere with a lake and a duck house.
Explosive revelation that you can’t find in the MSM; Turks responsible for the Ghouta gas attack;
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
Compare and Contrast
April 6, 2014
“It’s quite wrong that there are people in our society who will behave like this. But we will not shrug our shoulders and let them get away with it any longer. We will take the necessary measures to stop fraud happening in the first place; root out and take tough action against those found committing fraud; and make sure the stolen money is paid back.”
David Cameron on Benefit Fraud
“It was found she had made mistakes, she accepted that, repaid the money, she apologised unreservedly to the House of Commons so I think that we should leave it there.”
David Cameron on Maria Miller
IDS New Strategy To Victimise, Demonise and Bully Benefit Claimants and Pensioners
Maria Miller will NOT be Sacked
The Political Ramblings of a Working Class Man in Scotland
http://aworkingclassman.com/compare-contrast/
Surely an ex UK Ambassador could not be so puerile?
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)!
7 Apr, 2014 – 8:16 am
Top of the morning to you, Mary (as the Irish are reputed to say), and congratulations on getting in at the top of page 6! It was your turn, after all.
“Good to see our old friend Rehmat1 is a regular contributor to “The Ugly Truth”. All getting a bit incestous!”
Good smear, Anonbcuk. Twat contributes to public blog comments therefore comments are entirely owned by twat. Rehmat’s been going for about a decade, and posts anywhere that doesn’t delete him, btw, including his own horrible blog.
Have you considered contributing (instead of here) to a blog that does not continually cause you to bubble over with outrage? You do appear to have the general relevance of the proverbial pork chop in a synagogue, it has to be said.
How about this one? Flinging filth at the evil Ay-rabs…suits you, sir.
http://adinakutnicki.com/
Sample:
…a fifth column, via Muslim-American front groups, and those who support them are aided and abetted by Obama Inc.:Terrorists Intimidate GOP!
And, anyone foolish enough to believe that the RINO leadership will come to their rescue, well, good luck with that fantasy land meandering:Republican National Convention Heralded “Arab Spring” In Its Platform, Oblivious To The Unfolding Arab/Muslim Nightmare!
More specifically, between House Leader Rep Boehner, an addled bonehead and booze hound, and Repub political operative Grover Norquist, himself an Islamist, who exactly are Conservatives expecting to sound the (sleeper) alarms??
To make matters even more chilling, perhaps this will hit some nerves:EX-SEAL SHOT IN STOMACH, SUSPECTS AL-QAIDA!
Does anyone still ! believe that the above hit on an EX-SEAL is random in nature, considering that a planeload of their band of brothers mysteriously dropped from the sky:OBAMA INC’s COVER UP OF SEAL TEAM SIX SHOOT DOWN:SECRETS MIRROR BENGHAZIGATE OMERTA.WHO WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE?
MOST significantly, where exactly are America’s leaders, be they political, military and high up law enforcement in all this? Are they intent on getting to the bottom of the above ready to explode dangers, or are they more invested in keeping citizens in the dark and (literally) disarmed?
You decide. It’s your call. Your lives are on the line.
Yup. You got it. Obama AND the Republicans are aiding and abetting Moooslim sleeper terr’r groups right here in the land of da free. By an Israeli-American.
“Under-fire MP Maria Miller has bought a countryside Tudor barn worth £1.2million – almost exactly the profit she made from the sale of her taxpayer funded home.”
I honestly do not understand why that woman is not in prison where she belongs. Anybody else would be after getting caught stealing that amount of money. Not only has she not been prosecuted she still has her job. Disgusting.
There is no justice in Britain, those who take benefits from the disabled claiming we can’t afford them are robbing us blind and getting away with it.
Macky There is a thread on Medialens about the Seymour Hersh piece which the estimable John Hilley (my idea of a fine Scot) put up. They are asking how the corporate media will deal with it.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1396828102.html
Thanks for the Medialens page Mary, it contained links to interesting commentary by Johnathan Cook & Justin Raimondo.
It’s just a year ago I thought Turkey was not an over willing member of the Anti Syria coalition. I thought they had everything to lose considering how well business , investment and modernisation was going.Now it turns out they are trying to provoke all out war,which would be a NATO war according to their Musketeer agreement.One for all,and all for one !
WTF does Turkey gain by destabilising the Levant, and deposing Assad ? They handled their Kurdish problem together and had a prosperous border.
Komodo 8:29am – ” Flinging filth at the evil Ay-rabs…suits you, sir.”
A pretty hopeless attempt at a smear, even by your low standards, Komodo. I have never made any derogatory comments about “evil Ay-rabs” (your phrase, not mine).
It says a lot about you that you are so hopelessly bound up in obsessing about Jews and Israel that you feel anyone disagreeing with you must be comparable to some extreme Zionist American-Israeli fanatic you found on the internet (your search, not mine).
I suggest a short break to a pine forest, away from the links, the blogs, the interminable obsessing about Zionists. Breathe in and feel what it is like to be alive again!
Habbabkuk 8:14am
He’s such a pseud I’m calling him Benjamin Zephaniah from now on.
This sick Tory supporter and funder, believes in shooting lions and having them skinned for fun. If you have a heart please sign the petition to remove his knighthood.
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/david-cameron-remove-sir-david-scholey-s-knighthood
DoNNyDarKo; “WTF does Turkey gain by destabilising the Levant, and deposing Assad ?”
A neignbouring puppet compliance state ? More territorial land grabbing at the expense of Syria yet again like the Hatay annexation ? Afterall Turkey has gotten away with occupying half of Cyprus for 40 years this Suummer. Perhaps you don’t spends decades in super close military partnership with Israel, without picking up old bad habits again !
“WTF does Turkey gain by destabilising the Levant, and deposing Assad ? They handled their Kurdish problem together and had a prosperous border.”
Pipeline, innit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar-Turkey_pipeline
Ryan Dawson and Pepe Escobar are very good on this stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artcLfC9t_A
John,
I won’t be signing the petition, not because I don’t have a heart, but
A) Change.org changes nothing.
B) The sad truth is that allowing some idiot to pay a fortune to shoot a lion is one of the most effective ways of conserving them. In many parts of Africa it’s either controlled hunting or indiscriminate poaching. If, however, he has been involved in illegal and unregulated hunting then he ought to be prosecuted.
C) Demanding the removal of a knighthood would seem to be a pointless exercise.
Sir David Scholey. Once a banker, always a banker.
“Business dried up, and Warburg was in a terrible squeeze between rising costs and declining income. This was Scholey’s first real test and, I’m afraid to say, he failed”
“That was all, ultimately, Scholey’s fault. He has many friends and they are unwilling to talk disparagingly – at least in public – but one said: ‘There’s no getting around it – it happened on his watch.’ ”
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/jun/09/theobserver.observerbusiness13
Anyway, all’s well now and he’s made a killing…
http://www.lionaid.org/blog/2011/09/a-lion-trophy-hunting-weekend-with-ukip-and-sir-david-scholey.htm
I wonder whether it’s the killing of a lion that led to the Twitterati storm, or hatred of a rich banker and Tory donor? I mean look at the way they tried to get Nigel Farage on the BBC to “explain” the auctioning of a 50 year-old lion skin at a UKIP fundraising event. I mean FFS!
Let’s face it, it’s all political. And we won’t be hearing any criticism of Putin’s big game hunting exploits around here now will we?