Yesterday the licensing man from Dundee Council went down the taxi ranks ordering saltires and yes stickers removed from the taxis. (would he have ordered No stickers removed as well? We can never be sure as there weren’t any.)
Having missed the train to my Cupar meeting last night, I got in a taxi (it’s not far) and the taxi driver was giving his side of the story. He said he told the council man that “There is an argument that he was within his rights to tell me to remove the sticker, but when he told me to take off my lapel badge, I told him that he was infringing my absolute right to freedom of speech under article ten of the European Convention.”
This campaign has been the most uplifting experience imaginable. It will not be possible to put the people back in the box of media-induced apathy after this.
One of the most unexpectedly invigorating aspects of the campaign is that in packed town hall meetings, I have been sharing the platform with people who are not good public speakers. If that sounds paradoxical, it is because often they have never done any public speaking before. Yesterday in Cupar there was an excellent lady who works in the NHS who had a deep knowledge of its workings and of the threats from privatization of its services, including the mechanisms by which these privatisations were being advanced. She believed that after a No vote it would not be possible for the Scottish NHS to continue to be insulated from some of these trends, and she explained why she felt that.
There was no polish to her quiet delivery, but her heartfelt sincerity and the depth of her knowledge held the audience in intent silence. She had never spoken in public before. It was truly inspiring.
The substance of the campaign is people in local communities actually talking to each other about what is important to their communities and they way their society is organized. I have never seen anything to compare this to. No wonder the politicians have no idea how to counter it. The happy lack of hierarchical power structures in the campaign on the ground seems to relate to the fact that so many women are coming forward as speakers – for the third time, I was the only male on the panel yesterday.
Better Together have women too of course. Just in case anyone has been living under a rock and hasn’t seen it, here is the Saatchi and Saatchi produced Better Together broadcast that set the campaign on fire. The many spoofs are great, but I think nothing quite equals the sheer comic genius of the original.
I have added this picture as pro-government commenters have started to come on the site with their ridiculous propaganda claims that NATO killed very few people in its 398 bombing raids on Sirte. What you see is just one street of scores in similar condition. You can believe your eyes or the propaganda.
Why the silence over the assault on George Galloway?
By Peter Oborne
September 1st, 2014
Last Friday evening a British MP suffered a vicious assault on a London street. George Galloway, a 61-year-old, six-times-elected politician was beaten up for three minutes by a brutal and determined assailant in broad daylight, and was admitted to hospital as a result.
There are grounds for assuming that the motive was political, and the assault occurred due to Galloway�s criticism of Israeli actions in the Middle East. The assailant was reportedly shouting comparing Galloway to Hitler, and shouting about the Holocaust.
There is something very disturbing about the response to this event by the mainstream British political establishment. Mr Galloway has received no public message of sympathy from a single MP from any party, nothing from Speaker Bercow, from the Prime Minister, or from any of the other elected political leader.
I know that Mr Galloway is a very controversial figure and that many people, for honourable reasons, disagree very strongly with his views. Yet that is irrelevant. The attack on Mr Galloway is beyond doubt an attack on British democracy itself.
It is a basic principle of our political culture that men and women must be able to speak up for the causes they believe in without threats or violent reappraisal. This attack on Mr Galloway comes just days after the Labour MP Jim Murphy was forced to abandon campaigning in Scotland for the No campaign. He cited intimidation and was advised by police to end his campaign.
Had an MP been attacked by some pro-Palestinian fanatic for his support of Israel, I guess there would have been a national outcry and rightly so. Why then the silence from the mainstream establishment following this latest outrageous assault on a British politician?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100284716/why-the-silence-over-the-assault-on-george-galloway/
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Latest news
1 September 2014 Last updated at 15:48
Man denies assaulting MP Galloway
A 39-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to assaulting MP George Galloway in a London street.
Neil Masterson, of Campden Hill, Notting Hill, denies assaulting the Respect MP for Bradford West while Mr Galloway was posing for pictures in nearby Golborne Road on Friday.
The MP is believed to have sustained broken ribs and bruises to his head.
Mr Masterson appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court and denied religiously aggravated assault.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29018884
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Nuff said. It will probably be a caution unlike the sentence for dozens of kettled Palestinian protesters who were jailed by the Isleworth court. The protest took place in 2009 outside the Israeli embassy following the Cast Lead Massacre. The JC had to throw in some anti Muslim stuff in their report.
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/33638/abu-hamzas-son-jailed-riot
A Habbabkuk free day…… so far.
Charles Crawford is at the IAEA today. Presumably in Vienna where their HQ is based.
https://twitter.com/CharlesCrawford/status/506374144091770880
Quod est demonstrandum. !?? 😉
Craig, it was great meeting you in Dundee on Saturday. A very nice surprise in a day when we too were harassed by the Dundee City Council. I don’t know if Duncan told you but we were approached by two council aparatchiks who told us when we were by the Desperate Dan statue and told to move. We enquired as to the legal basis of this order, some bylaw perhaps and were met with silence. They then flounced off saying they would call the polis.
They must have done so as about 30min two unenthusiastic polis persons duly turned up. I informed them of the previous conversation (after confirming there was nobody ‘in charge’) and asked if they knew of any lawful reason why we could not campaign in the public street during the regulated period of an official election campaign. They either knew of none or were undecided since they did not arrest us. The guy did nod in agreement when I pointed out we were not causing an obstruction.
Before they all came back though we had to decamp anyway down to the penguins, I took one end of the table, a panda the other and we proceeded through the town causing a minor moving obstruction. Which is where you found us.
So it seems Dundee Council aparatchiks were on ‘harass Yes voters’ duty on Saturday generally. Shame on them.
Pictures of me remonstrating with the polis are here:
https://www.facebook.com/RadicalIndependenceDundee/photos/a.501724656540297.1073741825.464182743627822/751914084854685/?type=1&permPage=1
I’m the guy in the red shirt.
What is strange is that the council is SNP controlled. Though both these incidents involved council officials not councillors.
Regardless when officialdom pre-emptorally tells you to do or not do something it is important for the sake of democracy and the proper rule of law that they identify the legal basis of this order. Not to do this will embolden them to act arbitrarily and illegally. We withstood these two attempts to prevent us engaging in legal political activity by demanding to know the legal basis of the order to move.
Mary
was just reading that on GG over on Medialens –
There is something very disturbing about the response to this event by the mainstream British political establishment. Mr Galloway has received no public message of sympathy from a single MP from any party, nothing from Speaker Bercow, from the Prime Minister, or from any of the other elected political leader.
Something here reminds me of the Colourful, Carefree Dress codes of the Good people at Doune The Rabbit Hole – A far cry from the Pinstripe suits.
Muscleguy
Well Done Man, standing up to them.. Hat Tip
” Regardless when officialdom pre-emptorally tells you to do or not do something it is important for the sake of democracy and the proper rule of law that they identify the legal basis of this order. Not to do this will embolden them to act arbitrarily and illegally. We withstood these two attempts to prevent us engaging in legal political activity by demanding to know the legal basis of the order to move.”
US Zionists raising money online for man charged with assault
1 September 2014 – 12:49pm Updated | posted by James Doleman | 0 comments
Online crowdfunding bid made to pay legal bills of man charged with George Galloway assault
An online crowdfunding drive has been launched to pay the legal bills of a man accused of assaulting MP George Galloway and another man last Friday evening.
Neil Masterson, 39, a former manager at the BBC, pleaded not guilty at Hammersmith magistrates court this afternoon over two charges of “religiously aggravated assault” against the MP and a bystander who were attacked in North London.
The prosecution told the court that Galloway was having a photo taken with the other man when Masterson approached, knocking the MP to the ground. He then carried out what was described as a “frenzied attack” punching Galloway around ten times while shouting obscenities, before fleeing, according to the prosecution.
Masterson was later arrested on a bus while wearing an Israeli Defence Force T-shirt, the court was told.
The fundraising page on website [REMOVED] was launched yesterday and has already received donations of over $3,500 from 82 people towards its target of $10,000.
The organiser, who gives her name as ‘Teresa Israel’ and her location as Kentucky USA, said that while she doesn’t support violence, she respected the accused for “allegedly standing up for Israel.”
Defence counsel for Masterson told the court his client admitted his “involvement in the incident” but denied it was religiously motivated.
The court was told that the attack was motivated by Galloway’s views on the Israel Palestinian conflict which the defendant believed were “anti-Semitic.” The three magistrates decided they did not have sufficient sentencing powers to deal with the case and it was referred to the Crown court.
Masterson, who the court was told has volunteered to do work for the Conservative party, was denied bail and remanded in custody until 15 September.
http://www. thedrum.com/news/2014/09/01/online-crowdfunding-bid-made-pay-legal-bills-man-charged-george-galloway-assault
Note the name of the former employer, ZBC.
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/09/01/online-crowdfunding-bid-made-pay-legal-bills-man-charged-george-galloway-assault
Out of identical moulds. No wonder they all say the same and sound the same.
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Mary
Couldn’t make it up…Shocking, and disgusting.
I’m leaving the Barrafest video for ya, over at Squonk 🙂
Opps
the above was meant Regarding the crowdfunding for the wee shit that beat up GG.
Hi Craig; someone may have already posted,but it turns out that our BT lady is a YES voter.See Glasgow Herald’s article online. Roflol.
A Habbabkuk free day…… so far.
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With a bit of luck Mary the Jihadist’s will have gotten him.
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Re George Galloway, no doubt his assailant is a paid, puppet, as for not much mention in the press of his tributes from fellow MP’s, they only laud him when he’s spouting his anti-independence rhetoric.
After the UK bombed Libya and Gaddafi was supposedly killed the Telegraph began to brag about how well Cameron had lied about the number of UK boots that had been on the ground running into several thousand. I’ve tried googling it but nothing comes up so perhaps the FCO asked for the boasts to be removed.
The bombs total was 800 tons. If one quarter ton bomb had knocked down 10 blocks of flats, each one housing 30 families of 6 people, (1800 people) and only 10% of the other 3200 bombs hit a highly populated target, then 576000 people would have been killed.
I believe the UK genocide machine would have been a lot more efficient than this estimate and the destruction of the Libyan state infrastructure would have led to at least an equal number of terrorist deaths.
The aim of the Arab Spring has so far been to crush the living daylights out of practising Sunni Muslims and to replace Civilisation with rabid dogs of hell, jihadist rapist genocidal madmen from the prisons of the Arab world.
Obviously Cameron and Hague should have their passports removed, by their own criteria, so that they have nowhere to claim asylum other than the Terror State known as IS which they and their genocidal Zionist friends have set up to terrorise the Muslim world.
If they asked a ransom for their release, nobody would donate more than 1 pence for their safe return to the UK. There is nothing cheaper, Al Milliner, than a free lift in a Rolls.
Well spotted Mary in the DRUM, Galloway’s assailant, Masterson was wearing an Israeli Defence Force T-shirt, no doubt the Hasbara troll Habb will be contributing to his crowd funded defence.
As much as I detest Galloway, I detest that lot more.
“Have to agree with Fred about the Police, though this militarisation has been a UK wide phenomemon, which I can only hope Independence will reverse, voting No is a certain vote for continuation of the same.”
Policing is a devolved issue. Westminster has zero control over the police in Scotland. The police in England and Wales have not been armed.
Ring any bells? George Orwell’s 1984
“On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns – after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces – at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally. There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.”
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The latest piece from the Medialens editors.
Damascene Conversions – Isis, Assad And The Bombing Of Iraq
1 September 2014
http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2014/773-damascene-conversions.html
“Have to agree about the Electoral Commission, have received a few weeks back a booklet from them containing pages which seemed to be paid-for advertising by the No campaign, which I was flabbergasted and outraged to find there, from this avowedly ‘neutral’ organisation. And these are the people responsible for fair conduct of the referendum.”
Maybe if you read their statement all will be revealed. The booklet contains information from both side plus a joint statement from the UK and Scottish governments. All have to agree to the booklet before it is sent out.
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/news-releases-referendums/electoral-commission-publishes-its-information-booklet-for-the-scottish-independence-referendum
HTH
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel announced Sunday it will expropriate 400 hectares (988 acres) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, angering the Palestinians and alarming Israeli peace campaigners.
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The move to seize the land, in the Bethlehem area in the south of the territory, is the biggest of its kind in three decades, Peace Now said.
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“On the instructions of the political echelon… 4,000 dunams at Gevaot (settlement) is declared as state land,” said the army department charged with administering civil affairs in occupied territory, laying down a 45-day period for any appeal.
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It said the move stemmed from political decisions taken after the June killing of three Israeli teenagers snatched from a roadside in the same area, known to Israelis as the Gush Etzion settlement block.
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They kill with impunity, they steal land with impunity, when is the genocide going to end.
On September 4 and 5, Britain will host a summit meeting of NATO heads of state. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will chair the proceedings.
At issue is justifying the unjustifiable. It’s doing so based on Big Lies. It’s wrongfully accusing Russia of “illegal actions in Ukraine.”
It’s suppressing polar opposite truths. It’s supporting Washington’s imperial agenda. It’s presenting a unified anti-Russian front.
It’s deploying thousands of combat-ready forces closer to Russia’s border. It’s “sustain(ing) a robust (Eastern European) presence…”
It’s risking the unthinkable. It’s risking open East/West confrontation. it’s risking global war.
It’s risking the use of nuclear weapons able to extinguish life on earth. If enacted, Senate bill 2277: Russian Aggression Prevention Act (RAPA) increases the possibility.
It’s called “(a) bill to prevent Russian aggression toward Ukraine and other sovereign states in Europe and Eurasia, and for other purposes.”
It’s madness. It wrongfully considers Russia an existential threat. It barely stops short of declaring war.
It provides “major non-NATO ally status for Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova for purposes of the transfer or possible transfer of defense articles or defense services.”
It effectively incorporates these countries into NATO. It makes its killing machine more formidable. It lets Washington establish bases on Russia’s borders.
Wrongfully accusing Moscow of invading Ukraine provides added justification for challenging Russia politically, economically and belligerently.
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This is a frightening scenario, which could lead to all out open war, I’m utterly disgusted by the actions of Washington, Westminster, NATO, and its other axis of evil allies.
I never noticed any Yes material (in the Electoral Commision booklet), which was torn up and thrown out immediately, what must have neen the Yes material, must have been cunningly disguised as simple facts and common-sense, and seemed as impartial as the rest of it. The No material included was recognisable dishonest blatant nonsense. Such a booklet should only have been about the process and mechanism of registering and voting, inclusion of material from either side was neither welcome or desirable.
NeverHadAMind
“Scotland woul;d do well in keeping out of NATO and joining in with the non aligned such as Norway.”
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How strange – I had the impression that Norway, far from being non-aligned, was a founder member of NATO (1949) and is still a member.
Dunce!
Republicofscotland
“I’m utterly disgusted by the actions of Washington, Westminster, NATO, and its other axis of evil allies.”
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More or less disgusted than I am with your Holocaust-denying posts? And with the refusal of the Axis of Idiots, aka the Eminences, to give you a well-deserved kick up the backside…. 🙂
I spoke too soon.
Agreed, RoS. They’ve got a cheek after all the death and destruction they’ve caused from Hiroshima to present day. It seems that they are now behaving like spoilt kids… either they win or they’ll turn the board over.
Mary
Top of page 2, and thanks to me. Well done!
Mary
Sorry to disappoint you re the Habbabkuk-free day.
But the thought occurs – has there ever been a Mary-free day?
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Oh dear. More SHTF…http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/putin-celebrates-groundbreaking-russia-china-gas-pipeline-worlds-longest
“Overnight, following a grand ceremony in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, Russia and China officially began the construction of a new gas pipeline linking the countries. The bottom line to Russia – nearly half a trillion after China’s CNPC agreed to buy $400bn in gas from Russia’s Gazprom back in May. In return, Russia will ship 38 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas annually over a period of 30 years. The 3,968 km pipeline linking gas fields in eastern Siberia to China will be the world’s largest fuel network in the world.”
If you think I am as puerile like you about bagging a place on a webpage, then you are mistaken. Do you rush out at dawn to bag your sunbed by the pool?
Good flights today?
Goodnight Vienna.
Ben that is good news, any move that can break the monopoly of the energy brokers, is a move for the better of the humanity.
Follow the pipeline and see the disasters that have been caused to keep the brokers fingers in the pie. These ghouls have no qualms to set the planet alight in a bid to keep their monopoly intact.
The smooth ex CCGS ups the ante and chides Cameron for his insufficiency of killing. He speaks from the safety and luxury of his grace and favour apartment at Kensington Palace and with his army pension bolstered by these many financial interests. Note Bahrain – lack of any principle is obvious.
Directorships
Chairman and Director, Palliser Associates Ltd (provision of strategic advice to governments and companies) (the company is 100% owned by the Member and his wife – see category 4(a); personal clients are: Ondra Partners (whose business is financial advice); Vitol Group (whose business is energy provision); International Institute for Strategic Studies; the King and Government of Bahrain; the King and Government of Jordan; Government of UAE/Royal Ruby Group; Huntsworth plc (international PR and communications company); Apache Asia (traditional merchant bank with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore); Portfolio Consulting and Advisory Company LLC (an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management LP; USA); income from employment listed in category 2 is also paid to Palliser Associates Ltd)
Chairman and Director, Equilibrium Gulf Ltd (provision of geo-strategic advice to governments and companies) (see category 4(a) – no personal clients)
Chairman and Director, Equilibrium Global Ltd (provision of geo-strategic advice to governments and companies) (see category 4(a) – no personal clients)
Non-executive Chairman, Arturius International Ltd (a company started by ex-servicemen and specialising in logistic and transport services)
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-richards-of-herstmonceux/4317
He is also a governor of the Ditchley Foundation. The list of the company he keeps there provides an emetic.
http://www.ditchley.co.uk/the-foundations/the-ditchley-foundation/the-governors
Ex-Army Chief Says West Has No Strategy For IS
In an exclusive interview on Sky News Tonight, Lord Richards says David Cameron has not grasped the ‘immensity’ of the IS problem.
http://news.sky.com/story/1328447/ex-army-chief-says-west-has-no-strategy-for-is
The No shills love to fret about NATO and EU and natural resources and second-order problems like that, to make it seem ever so difficult and daunting. But in all the many previous cases where illegitimate states were broken up, very simple principles served quite nicely.
The principles were good enough for Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Bosnia, Macedoniz, Moldova, Motenegro, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Croatia. As Scotland escapes from the City of London and Elm Guest House, the country might choose to adopt the same principles:
http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/3_2_1978.pdf
It’s really very cut-and-dried, this process of escaping from a failing state.