Confirmed speaking dates at the moment are
26 August St Andrews
28 August Insch
29 August Dundee
30 August Cupar, Fife
I will post details of times and venues shortly – these are all evening events. I am still open to invitations on dates around these, and indeed any daytime events. Don’t mind dashing all over the place. A number are in the pipeline already. Contact me using the button at top of page.
Have been rather unwell the last couple of days, so please forgive lack of regular posts. BBC Hardtalk interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen of NATO made me feel much worse. Totally incapable of acknowledging the disasters NATO and NATO members have inflicted on the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union – and the BBC totally incapable of serious questioning on the point.
Well, I see that the above is your way of admitting you haven’t read the McCrone report, or at least not well enough to be able to give us its main findings and conclusions.
I suppose you just picked up the title and the idea that there was a lot of oil up there somewhere on the internet and decided you’d look clever on CM?
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HABB
So tell me Habb how many genocidal atrocities have managed to report on, so far, I gave you one to start you of,you should have quite few by now. If you’re struggling a wee bit,here’s a few photo’s from around 1948,of brutal murder and land robbing of the Palestinian people.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=israeli+atrocities+1948&rlz=1C1DVCA_enGB329&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cS72U9-NHoWd0AXCxoHACg&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=800&bih=511
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La vita è bellissima, life is good!
Life’s good Hmm! unless you’re Palestinian, isn’t that right Habb.
al Nakba.
Thanks for the great links, I’m about halfway through, thankfully nothing important from our resident 13mm socket.
Now havenocluk, faggot, listen carefully, your obnoxious positioning here as the schoolmaster demands some bending over and adequate punishment to reflect this boardingschool trait.
So, your task for tommorrow morning, after your 3 mile run and your twenty push ups, will be to write 100 times
‘I will not make a fool of others or myself, I’d rather be flogged and feathered’
alternatively you can write in German, ein hundert mal
‘ Ich bin ein dummer Troll der ueberhaupt nicht seiner mutter aehnlich ist’
Now there a good boy, jump to it you feckless interloper.
It does not say what you claimed it said.
The Nationalists have been lying about what Iain Wood said in his report and when he gave an interview to a paper to set the record straight you called him a Unionist liar.
Well he isn’t a Unionist or a liar. The Nationalists are the ones that lied.
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FRED
You’ll have me swearing in a minute with your stupidity, did you even read the report?
Page 3 paragraph 7 at the bottom please read the bloody thing.
I’ll tell you what, you’re so inept I better type it out.
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UKCS Maximising Report
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UK offshore oil and gas is a great industry which has made, an immeasurable and vastly underestimated contribution to the UK economy, over the last five decades.This review provides the opportunity for it to face its next thirty years, and beyond supported by, a better resourced, more capable and more involved,regulator that,working with greater industry collaboration, will help take us closer to the **24 BILLION** barrels of oil, prize potentially still to come.
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Now for goodness sake Fred, Think? before you type, thank you.
Just how many Hasbara Trolls are there in this website? I’ve notice a few so far, a filthy infestation, if you ask me.
“You’ll have me swearing in a minute with your stupidity, did you even read the report?”
Yes I did read the report and I know what the words mean. I know what “closer” means, I know what the word “potentially” means.
I suggest you look them up in a dictionary and you will see that your quote does NOT say that there are 24 bn barrels left in the North Sea as you claimed.
Why don’t you take that course on reading comprehension as I recommended and stop wasting people’s time?
Yes I did read the report and I know what the words mean. I know what “closer” means, I know what the word “potentially” means.
I suggest you look them up in a dictionary and you will see that your quote does NOT say that there are 24 bn barrels left in the North Sea as you claimed.
Why don’t you take that course on reading comprehension as I recommended and stop wasting people’s time?
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FRED.
I’ll take that as an apology then.
Foley was rather calm and perspicacious before the beheading. I watched it wondering why he had an almost fatalistic attitude. I noticed his hands were bound, but his feet were not. Perhaps Stockholm Syndrome was in play as he was captive for quite a while. But if someone is about to saw off my head, I hope i would go down fighting. It reminded me of Jews being slaughtered without resistance to their tormentors. Is it false hope that brings this behavior, or a lack of hope? It’s strange and flies in the face of survival instinct.
RoS
“If Healy favours WMD’s (SIC)that’s his opinion,as long as they’re based outside Scotland, maybe an independent Scotland could sway the removal of WMD’s (SIC)from these islands in the long term.”
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Well, his opinion was and is that that the UK’s WMDs should be based where they are, including therefore in Scotland.
Moral : choose your gurus carefully.
” help take us closer to the **24 BILLION** barrels of oil..”
Now that’s not what it says is t? What it says is 24 billion BOE, Barrels of Oil Equivalent, which includes gas production.
http://moneyterms.co.uk/boe/
However the North Sea is divided up most of the gas fields will end up in the English sector so a sizeable chunk of the 12-24 billion boe remaining won’t be heading to the Scottish exchequer. The report also says that production over the past 50 years or so has been 42 billion boe so eking out less than half or even a third of that amount over the next 50 years isn’t going to produce a vast amount per annum.
RoS
I’m sure you’ve read the McCrone report thoroughly and it is only your natural modesty that prevents you from giving readers of this blog a succinct reminder of its main findings and conclusions. 🙂
That being so, would you care to tell us whether – in your considered opinion – those main findings and conclusions are still valid and applicable today?
” Foley was rather calm and perspicacious before the beheading. I watched it wondering why he had an almost fatalistic attitude. ”
Possibly drugged?
Nevermind
“you feckless interloper”
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On what basis do you consider me to be a feckless interloper, Ingo – in contradistinction, for example, to you?
Trottel!
Ed Murray to Jon Snow
Snowmail…Short email to 6 Pilgers
I see we’re all hating ISIS this week Jon.
Gone are the heady days when you lot were opining, all dewy-eyed, about the “Britons fighting with Syria’s jihadi ‘band of brothers'”(Snowmail, 4/6/2013), with your “exclusive footage” that “is by turns sad, poignant, emotional and even funny.”
Remember that? I do.
Now they are in Iraq however, threatening US oil interests and cutting heads off Americans, instead of tearing out and eating the hearts of Assad supporters, it’s suddenly not so funny is it?
Reminds me of your fleeting sympathy for the Palestinians in Gaza, that soon evaporated when you got home and had a chance to blame Osama Hamdan for Israeli war crimes.
Your allegiances seem to be as changeable as your daft socks.
Ed Murray.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1408648367.html
Benjamin you have been thinking pretty deep there.
RIP Foley, he knew he is going to die, and his clenched jaws were indicative of his anxiety, but the man had enough guts and gumption to face his death with dignity and fortitude.
Your thoughts are based on camera angle, and we cannot determine what was behind the camera? How many of the thugs were present?
But in contrast to the guts and bravery shown by Foley the ever present stenographers have been busy spreading manure; “Foley was forced to say those things”!
As you know in any culture, that is any culture other than the “chosen” a dying man’s statement is taken as the gospel truth, and to find these gutless weaklings whom would lose the control of their bowls and bladder under a far lesser threat, feel free to sully the Foley’s memory and as he said himself; “rob me off my dignity”! He knew what was to follow.
Fact is unless you are in such a situation you will never know how you would react? However Foley faced his murderer with dignity and did not let that scum to rob him off his dignity and manhood.
The weakness of the murderer was so apparent; the tied hands of a brave man who was retrained and was then decapitated, that was not a victory or kill for the murderer that is shame that the scum will take to his grave, there is no manhood or bravery in killing a vulnerable adversary!
Foley had transcended as he said; “I wish I was not an American” he could see beyond the brand US and he could see the stark and bitter reality. That is why he is getting suppressed and his voice is silenced.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking he had gone native, and his words were not measured and his own. Foley knew he was going to be put to death, and that makes a rare breed indeed to face his end with such dignity. Listen to what Foley said before he was snuffed out by a weakling degenerate scum sporting a standard issue Nato knife.
@DaveLawton
“You should
look at the history of the 1960`s Counter-culture before you engage your brain.”
It is precisely because I do look at the positive aspects of 1990s counter-culture that I do believe that change is possible within the framework of Western democracies without resorting to the nihilism, violence and support of despotic regimes that is the standard response of yourself and many others here.
Republicofscotland
“Just how many Hasbara Trolls are there in this website?”
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Silly as you are when you write about Scotland, you are sillier still when you write on other subjects.
I use the verb “write” generously, of course.
That eminent Sovietologist, diplomat, poet and historian Robert Conquest once formulated what he called his First Law. It runs roughly like this : every organisation appears to be headed by agents of its greatest opponents.
I often reflect on how true that is of this blog when I read the “offerings” of those I’m pleased to call the Eminences, aka the Original Trolls.
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Habbabkuk for sanity, truth and straight dealing.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Beheading Of Journalist James Wright Foley Is A Ridiculous HOAX!
Yes, I have been extremely busy the last couple of days, and this blog has indeed fallen to the wayside… But as I have said, I will put up as many articles as I can when the time is available, such as now..
Today, I and others were alerted to the recent actions of the criminal Israeli/US BS “terrorist” organization known as “ISIS”, or as they like to be called now just simply “IS”, the “Islamic State”. It is a fact that this “terrorist” group is just as phoney as its other predecessors such as the famous “Al Qaeda” and more recently the so called “Boka Harum”. It does appear that the criminals in the Israeli and American governments do indeed want to keep their phoney “war on terror” going and use this latest instrument of pure propaganda as a method of keeping the gullible masses in a state of “fear”.
Just today, I was alerted to a new video, that comes through the LiveLeak site, and supposedly shows the beheading of Journalist James Wright Foley…. This video has been the showpiece of our governments over the last few days and is being used by them as a propaganda weapon to infuriate their citizens, and will definitely be used to justify a likely escalation of American involvement again in Iraq. I suspect that it will also be used as a tool for the long planned US attack on Syria, just as another excuse to go after this phoney “IS” group.
I watched this infamous “beheading” video, and I found it so ridiculous and obviously a very poor piece of propaganda….I am troubled that others cannot see just how phoney this complete piece of crap truly is!
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http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-beheading-of-journalist-james.html
Are we being manipulated? Seems farcical when you watch it.
resident cliché strikes yet again. Without any irony, whilst Gaza is under bombardment, and its refugee inhabitants are being made into refugees twice over; that is those lucky ones who are not torn to shreds and or maimed and injured, with the dart bombs and high explosives. resident cliché’ waxes lyrical about; “without resorting to the nihilism, violence”.
Evidently the Jewish supremacist bombers, and murderers are not supporting a despotic regime, hence resident cliché can safely go on to support the zionist scum all the while attacking everyone else in defence of the despotic regime he is busy lending his ceaseless support to.
To all intents and purposes the internet is a theater in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and we must be active in that theatre, otherwise we will lose,” said Ilan Shturman, who is responsible for the project.
In an interview this month with the Calcalist, an Israeli business newspaper, Shturman, the deputy director of the ministry’s hasbara department, admitted his team would be working undercover.
“Our people will not say: ‘Hello, I am from the hasbara department of the Israeli foreign ministry and I want to tell you the following.’ Nor will they necessarily identify themselves as Israelis,” he said. “They will speak as net-surfers and as citizens, and will write responses that will look personal but will be based on a prepared list of messages that the foreign ministry developed.
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Habb.
Recognise yourself, the similarities are astonishing.
PS. How the genocidal list coming along? are we getting there.
Mary
“I watched this infamous “beheading” video, and I found it so ridiculous and obviously a very poor piece of propaganda….I am troubled that others cannot see just how phoney this complete piece of crap truly is!
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http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-beheading-of-journalist-james.html
Are we being manipulated? Seems farcical when you watch it.”
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The above – yes, Mary, I know they’re not your words, you’re just cutting-and-pasting again…and again…and again – would make equal sense if the words “I watched this infamous beheading video” were replaced by the words “I read most of the comments on CM”.
RoS
This is a thread on Scotland, and in reply to questions about the McCrone report you write about Israel.
Would you by any chance be attempting to deviate?
Are you modelling yourself on Mr Salmond, the future former leader of the SNP?
I watched this infamous “beheading” video, and I found it so ridiculous and obviously a very poor piece of propaganda….I am troubled that others cannot see just how phoney this complete piece of crap truly is!
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MARY from what I’ve seen and read Mary I agree, and we’re not alone in this line of thinking.
“Are we being manipulated? Seems farcical when you watch it.”
Then don’t watch it. I haven’t because I think it would be disrespectful to both the victim and to his family. Someone’s violent death should not be entertainment for the perverted on Youtube.
However I read the blog and I can tell you that the writer knows absolutely sod all about cutting heads off. Five or six pints of blood? He has obviously never cut a head off in his life nor even seen one being cut off. I think he can safely be ignored.
This is a thread on Scotland, and in reply to questions about the McCrone report you write about Israel.
Would you by any chance be attempting to deviate?
Are you modelling yourself on Mr Salmond, the future former leader of the SNP?
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Habb.
Is it really? my my you learn something new everyday.
Right listen up folks, according to Habb you can’t discuss anything unless it has a Scottish tinge to it.
Of course you could tell Habb to @%** $£*& if you like, I know I would.
We gave them background material and hasbara material, and we sent them to represent the Israeli point of view on news websites and in polls on the internet.”
“During Operation Cast Lead we appealed to Jewish communities abroad and with their help we recruited a few thousand volunteers, who were joined by Israeli volunteers,” Shturman said.
Shturman said that during the war the ministry had concentrated its activities on European websites where audiences were more hostile to Israeli policy. High on its list of target sites for the new project would be BBC Online and Arabic websites, he added.
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The truth really is out there,you’ve just got look for it and recognise it, for what it is.
Then don’t watch it. I haven’t because I think it would be disrespectful to both the victim and to his family. Someone’s violent death should not be entertainment for the perverted on Youtube.
However I read the blog and I can tell you that the writer knows absolutely sod all about cutting heads off. Five or six pints of blood? He has obviously never cut a head off in his life nor even seen one being cut off. I think he can safely be ignored.
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FRED you’re doing it again, you didn’t watch the staged beheading yet you, can comment on it proclaiming it to be true, and of course you’ve cut many heads of so yo’d know how much blood comes out, don’t you.
But I hear you say in your defence a human body holds eight pints not six, did you watch the beheading, no? then you really should, then comment on it.
RoS
You have obviously never cut a head off either. There is very little blood. As how much blood a human has very little of it actually escapes.
I would stick to talking about things you know about…if there is anything.
Fred says to Republicofscotland
“I would stick to talking about things you know about…if there is anything.”
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There is very little.
And the McCrone report on oil is not part of that little.
That’s why he keeps deviating from something he himself raised and talks about Israel.
Republicofscotland
Since you yourself first raised the McCrone report on oil here, I’d like to ask you the following:
which of the main findings and conclusions of the McCrone report are – in your considered opinion – still valid and pertinent today?
Fred: It’s always the quiet ones. You have experience cutting off heads ? Really ?