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  • A Node

    Carrot and stick.

    Be a good donkey, George. We need a front man for one of our military operations. There’s a Lordship in it for you, but step-out of line and we re-open the Dunblane files.

  • John Goss

    A Node the Guardian report is the tamest I’ve read about George Robinson and his association with the alleged paedophile ring run by Hamilton – having his child removed from a club!

  • A Node

    Damn, my 2nd correction of the day.
    The Guardian ran that story a few months before the Sunday Herald was sued.

  • A Node

    “the forces of darkness would simply love it” if the UK broke up, Lord (George) Robertson said.

    He should know.

  • ESLO

    “A Node the Guardian report is the tamest I’ve read about George Robinson and his association with the alleged paedophile ring run by Hamilton – having his child removed from a club!”

    Don’t think that by changing George Robertson’s name to Robinson that you are excluded from a potential libel action – though you may be by being a worthless low life who Lord Robertson doesn’t think is worth the bother.

  • technicolour

    Clark, thanks for your points about the NHS – beautifully put. Quite agree.

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    “In court this week, Lyon denied he could have downloaded pornography at work, because other people had access to his computer and anyone could walk into his busy, open office.”

    This is a continual problem. No respect for employer work stations where people are paid to be productive, but spend hours online with personal matters.

    Now, of course if many servers are provided for internet mischief, then it fits the job description.

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    “MOSCOW — Under the attentive eye of Russian state television, several hundred pro-Russian demonstrators in the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, declared on Monday that they were forming an independent republic and urged President Vladimir V. Putin to send troops to the region as a peacekeeping force, even though there was no imminent threat to peace.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/world/europe/russia-crimea-ukraine-unrest.html?hp

    Isn’t this the way things started in Kiev?

  • Kempe

    ” There will undoubtedly be a period of grace where ‘U.K.’ is still acceptable for all countries of the former U.K. ”

    Even the SNP reckon Scotland won’t actually become independent until March 2016 so time enough to sort out postal addresses and “.jok” (or whatever) websites.

  • Kempe

    “Isn’t this the way things started in Kiev? ”

    Similar, although of course you won’t see any accusations that the Russians could possibly be driving things behind the scenes and staging “false flag” incidents to ratchet up the tension or questioning of the legality of the new “independent” republic.

  • A Node

    Kempe 8 Apr, 2014 – 3:50 pm

    “Even the SNP reckon Scotland won’t actually become independent until March 2016 so time enough to sort out postal addresses and “.jok” (or whatever) websites”

    You’ve missed the point again, Kempe.
    After independence, Scots will be able to write ‘Scotland’ as the last line of an international address. You’ll be able to write ‘Israel. What will the English, Welsh and N. Irish write?

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    China’s military capabilities are significantly greater than Russia’s.

    ” Taiwan watched Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea from Ukraine very closely. After all, the island nation, which is claimed by China, has long feared Beijing might do the same thing.

    “We learned a very important lesson that we have to modernize our military by spending [to] develop [weapons and equipment] ourselves or working closely with the Americans,” Andrew Hsia, Taiwan’s deputy defense minister, said Wednesday at a Center for a New American Security event in Washington.”

    http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140402/DEFREG02/304020027/Taiwan-s-Takeaway-from-Russian-Annexation-Crimea-We-Must-Modernize-Military

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    “Afterwards witness Rachel Cross summed up the feelings of many of the audience when she said: “I kind of liked Lord Robertson’s speech. To be honest it made more sense than claiming that a united England and Scotland is all that stands between some Russian or fundamentalist Islamic takeover of the world. Now that really would’ve been mad.”

    I’m not going to touch that line…. 🙂

  • Mary

    Just as you see barristers for each side hobnobbing with one another, Miliband, Cameron and Clegg are having a nice chat prior to the Irish President’s arrival.

  • Mary

    David Cromwell of Medialens writes:

    Media blacks out Seymour Hersh exposé of US lies on Syrian gas attack
    April 8, 2014, 4:21 pm

    By Patrick Martin
    8 April 2014

    Nearly two days after the London Review of Books published a lengthy exposé by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh detailing efforts by the Turkish government to stage a provocation to bring the US military directly into the civil war in Syria, the US media has blacked out the report.

    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/04/08/hrsh-a08.html

    DC

    A reminder of what happened last time

    An Awkward Silence – Burying The Hersh Revelations Of Obama’s Syrian Deceit:
    http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/alerts-2013/751-an-awkward-silence-burying-the-hersh-revelations-of-obama-s-syrian-deceit.html

    DC

  • Ben-Scot NON-collaborator

    Mary; Wasn’t it Solomon who said ‘There is nothing new under the Sun”?

    Hersh continues:

    ‘A former senior intelligence official told me that the Obama administration had altered the available information – in terms of its timing and sequence – to enable the president and his advisers to make intelligence retrieved days after the attack look as if it had been picked up and analysed in real time, as the attack was happening.’

    The former official said that this ‘distortion’ of the facts by the Obama administration ‘reminded him of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the Johnson administration reversed the sequence of National Security Agency intercepts to justify one of the early bombings of North Vietnam.’

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident

  • Mary

    Good on Sabina Higgins.

    ‘The decision by the President Michael D Higgins’s wife to visit her old friend in a “private and personal” capacity has been hugely controversial because it could be interpreted as a PR coup for the Shannonwatch group, which has been campaigning to end foreign military use of Shannon Airport.’

    Activists claiming boost to cause after Sabina Higgins jail visit
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/activists-claiming-boost-to-cause-after-sabina-higgins-jail-visit-29942489.html

  • DoNNyDarKo

    I always write England,Scotland , Wales or Northern Ireland on letters and Xmas cards , and they always get there.The Chinese do know where Scotland is as do most countries around the world.If they sell whisky,they know where it is. I preferred Great Britain…. never liked the rebranding to UK and therefore refused to take part.
    Used to take the hump when I lived in Sweden and they called the whole of the UK England.It was a windmill I couldn’t ignore and I wrote to TV stations, Atlas printing companies,radio stations etc to make sure they knew there were a few more countries on the Islands.
    It didn’t help but made me feel better.
    Why would George Robertson step down after only 2 years in the job as NATO chief ? Why would evidence have to be hidden for 100 years for the paedophile case of Holly Grieg ? Many unanswered questions. Perhaps independence will re-open the file. It would have paralysed Blair’s cabinet just before we began dropping bombs on Baghdad.Can’t have all these macho War types into bairns. Doesn’t go down well with the voter.

  • Kempe

    ” After independence, Scots will be able to write ‘Scotland’ as the last line of an international address. You’ll be able to write ‘Israel. ”

    My point was that they and the rest of the world will have two years (almost) to sort it out and so will rUK or whatever we elect to call ourselves. I could write Israel but I fear it would confuse as I live in the home counties (of England).

  • A Node

    Kempe,

    “rUK or whatever”

    Any suggestions? Choosing something that doesn’t draw attention to the split is tricky.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Resident Dissident

    “Habba

    There have been various attempts to introduce pricing/internal market into the NHS over a number of years – do you really think that they have contributed to an improvement in its performance? If not – why do you think more of such measures will help?”
    _____________________

    You’ll know that I only post about something when I’m as sure as I can be of the facts. I don’t know enough about these various attempts to which you allude to be able to answer your questions. But that doesn’t matter, actually, because my original post wasn’t about those attempts; it merely pointed out that a monthly charge, as suggested by Lord X, is akin to what happens in all western European healthcare systems.
    It should also be noted that an element of pay-at-the-point-of-use in fact already operates in the UK – when you take your prescription to the pharmacy.

  • John Goss

    Getting near the rollover to 1200 comments but where’s Habbabkuk?

    We low-lifes are not likely to be sued for defamation of character by George Robertson (a high-life no doubt) mostly because we have not said anything libellous.

    Apologies for writing Robinson instead of Robertson. No doubt those who can never latch onto a piece of substance and dismantle it get great pleasure in pointing out a simple error and making a big issue of something trivial. Get something of substance to challenge and they just attack the person with snide insults like calling us a low-life.

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