I am available again for Yes meetings on 15, 16 and 17 September. Invitations welcome through the contact button above. Happy to go anywhere I can do good. My St Andrews speech a week ago has now had 75,000 views on Youtube.
It is symptomatic of the way this campaign has gone that I can find nothing online from the No camp which has had one fifth as many views, with the solitary exception of the PatronisngBTWoman video, which has massive views from people making fun of it.
Miliband was in Blantyre yesterday where his every bodily function was breathlessly reported by Severin Carrell in the Guardian – but even the Guardian could not pretend his audience in the “Labour stronghold” amounted to more than “dozens”. I am told it was under fifty. Better Together support on the ground has simply evaporated. What they rely on is that the massive output of mainstream media and the authority of the Westminster parties will have sufficient impact on their key demographics – pensioners, and housewives in a 1950’s sense – to shore up a residual no vote of the easily scared. My challenge to people to identify any Better Together gathering of more than 300 has been met with resounding silence.
Television has been wall to wall Miliband lately, and the BBC in Scotland seem to have simply abandoned their obligation to give equal broadcast time and treatment to both sides. Presumably many of the New Labour hacks who control Pacific Quay realise that their behaviour has made a Yes win a career threatening situation for them, so at this stage they see nothing to lose.
If independence is achieved it will be down to a popular movement and not to any politician. Indeed, if one person has to be singled out, I would say the Rev Stuart Campbell has made the most decisive individual contribution in the campaign. If Social media has beaten the mainstream media, the central rock around which millions of flowers have bloomed has been the Wings over Scotland website. This has a significantly larger daily readership than any newspaper in Scotland. The Wee Blue Book I found everywhere, including copies already available in pretty well every pub I entered, as I toured the East Coast. Over 400,000 downloads of the PDF have been made and 250,000 copies centrally printed, as well as a number of private initiatives which had already obtained professional printings from the PDF. Conservatively, there are over half a million hard copies out there, as well as all the reads online. In a population of 5.2 million, that is a major impact.
When we close down BBC Scotland and create a new citizen based, cheaper and more arts-oriented organisation in its place, let’s put Stuart Campbell in charge. Some state-funded drama and arts output seems to me commendable. State funding of pap entertainment is not needed – the private sector can do that perfectly well. State funding of “journalism” which investigates nothing and never challenges the establishment must be stopped.
Back on topic.
The Spanish fishermen have already agreed to blockade Brussels if they lose their right to fish in an independent Scotlands North Sea. There will be no problem in gaining immediate membership to the EU.
To all those captive labour voters worried about their HMRC(and like) jobs, its simply impossible for Her Majestys Govt to outsource them due to confidentiality issues, they cannot even be outsourced to Ireland let alone to a tax evading Mr Patels cousins in India. There is no uncertainty, they will be doing the SAME jobs 20 years from now !
Now for the next niche of voters !
Divine intervention God has ordained that Scots must vote YES, well at least the Church of Scotland has, HALLELUJAH!!!!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-28917877
Ben (American Nazi)
“Such denialism is my prerogative”
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In which case you should have no problem denying that you approve of Holocaust denial comments, should you.
Still awaiting your response!
Just saying
“The Spanish fishermen have already agreed to blockade Brussels”
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Last time I looked, Brussels had neither a coastline nor a port.
@habba – nobody can accuse you of anti-semantics ! At least you got the point.
Hab; You often neutralize your enablers hob-nobbing with your less-than-deft add-ons. Not seeking any semblance of subtlety seems to run counter to the alliance. Be advised.
In which case you should have no problem denying that you approve of Holocaust denial comments, should you.
Still awaiting your response!
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So you fully deny then genocidal murder is taking place in Palestine?
I think that the events of the last few days have shown at least three things:
1/. The constant anti-Jew undercurrent to this blog finally gave birth to quite a number of comments tantamount to Holocaust denial;
2/. There was an attempt underway to wreck this blog using those comments;
3/. With a few honourable exceptions, the truth/justice/liberal/anti-racist brigade – normally so vociferous – remained silent. Where was the righteous anger from the likes of Mr Goss, Mary, Komodo-Baal-Afrend, Nevermind,Guano et al?
I think that the events of the last few days have shown at least three things:
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Oh they’ve shown a hell of a lot more than that, you haven’t answered the question?
Just a general note to any who find me verklempt. I don’t give a damn. Think what you want. I don’t need your companionship. And if you ignore the gist of my comments in history of my doing so at CM, and trash that with this crap about Holocaust denial, and my failure to pogrom the source of the suspicion, you can go straight to the 7th circle of Hell. Most of you don’t respond, unless it’s to snipe at some nugget that fits your diatribe or pet gripes. Yet i continue to post here. Why? To get some European perspective for fresh ideas; avoiding the sink of ethnocentrism, that’s why. I can learn more if you respond, but it’s not the crux of my interest. I don’t need the companionship, although it’s nice to connect. But it isn’t essential. So if you think you’re going to discourage me with the same tactics as the trolls, you are sorely mistaken.
Now I’m done with that nonsense
“Anonymized IP’s show as unknown”
No they don’t, Ben. In fact with Hide my IP (I think it’s that one) you can choose which country you want to show up as coming from.
“I DENY that i said die in a fire”
So whata you said was, “Fuck off and Dominant Introverted Abstract Feeler”
Yeah right. Twerp.
“So many errant ways to interpret the printed word, except for those who exemplify perfection, in every single sense of the word.”
More Ben waffle … You know I didn’t have you down as a liar and a fraud, but that’s what you are.
“You know I didn’t have you down as a liar and a fraud, but that’s what you are.”
Praise from Caesar.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73075000/jpg/_73075213_021182901-1.jpg
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http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1410090930.html
LOL
Back on topic (yet again).
Its simply not on to have auld Rabbie turning in his grave until the next vote, 300 years hence. More dangerously, Darling and his latter day parcel of rogues may end up with the kind of seed that may not even be able to hide its gait behind plush peshmerga pants, if we end up with a Labour Party that leads us into war next year after a NO vote ! But are they even vaguely aware of the workings of Mr Cause n Effect?
Ah yes, the Church goers vote. Clearly AoC Wellbys deafening silence over Gaza may be a personal decision to protect his invitation to lay a wreath on herzls grave, but its not done much to garner any NO votes for the cause. Mebbe someone should have told him
Mary; That’s only about one beheading per day, and they don’t ‘pike’ the heads in public, do they? They certainly could try to DENY it !
BTW; IIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS ! Benghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiii ! Much worse.
RepublicOfGaseousDreams
“So you fully deny then genocidal murder is taking place in Palestine?”
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Certainly. No doubt that there are some murders (mostly Jew on Arab but also some Arab on Arab and Arab on Jew) but the accusation of genocide is facile and absurd.
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Now I’ve answered your “question”, perhaps you’d like to persuade your friend Ben (American Nazi) to answer mine? Ta!
BTW – this thread is getting as hazy as the pulverised dust cloud atmosphere from the 90 stories of the WTCs that disappeared into thin air on 911 (and all that molten metal). With habba trying trying his damnedest to digress, whilst all we want to do is strike a definitive blow at the Beast on the 18th !
“whilst all we want to do is strike a definitive blow at the Beast on the 18th !”
I’m afraid you’ll have to do that at the ballot box. Talking here won’t work 🙂
” accusation of genocide is facile and absurd.”
Not according to UN. The deliberate destruction of the Al-Badr grain mill, the only operating one, qualifies as a war crime because it is an attempt to starve the civilian population.
“Most of you don’t respond, unless it’s to snipe at some nugget that fits your diatribe or pet gripes. Yet i continue to post here. Why?”
Yes, why? You arrived here at about 7am California time today, with Republicofscotland in tow, as usual. This place must mean a lot to you, despite the fact that as you correctly say, “most of you don’t respond”. Probably because of all the convolutions you fling at the page, to “impress”.
Maybe I’m shed of the Gorgon. It appears St Patrick didn’t drive all the snakes out of Ireland.
Edit; No it appears the Gorgon has legs….but the walk seems a bit crooked.
I have always wondered how the giulianis and bloombergs got the commissioner kellys to clean up the crime scene for them at 911. This blog is a microcosm, dreo appears to be such a similar animal, like a magan kelly on murdochs faux! The question how does the SoS manage to rope in such “volunteers”? Is it the same reason why we have a surfeit of Irish and Polish jokes?
Is this new sock OCD your response to the numerous embarrassing revelations of ResDes socking? You are an execrably retributive scion.
Now I’ve answered your “question”, perhaps you’d like to persuade your friend Ben (American Nazi) to answer mine? Ta!
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Listen up everybody we have a Palestinian genocidal denier in here, his sockpuppet name is HABB.
I thought Craig instantly deleted comments on deniers.
Yes, why? You arrived here at about 7am California time today, with Republicofscotland in tow, as usual. This place must mean a lot to you, despite the fact that as you correctly say, “most of you don’t respond”. Probably because of all the convolutions you fling at the page, to “impress”.
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Pfft. Big words from a sockpuppet, pot and kettle springs to mind.
Tony M, welcome to the world of Alice in wonderland. Notice the leaps made and shoved into one paragraph?
The “denial” is lumped in with the “one race to be blamed” and on goes the classical conditioning.
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The forecasts of mystic dreo are evidently all on the same lines, but involve differing commenters; ROS is a none European, and now I am an Imam lecturing in the mosques at lengths too. Although strange as it may seem the same harridan used to admonish me for being drunk and posting comments, so drinking and being an Imam does not compute but hey when there is the notion of discounting anyone’s views any excuse would do.
Although dreo is upset that I use too many words, shades of Jon the mod who used to complain about the same too, apparently there is limit of words per comment that ought to be adhered to, set by dreo of course, and perhaps observed by Jon?
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Who said self inflicted does not have sense of humour?
I nearly pissed myself as I laughed about the self inflicted prognostications.
Mary re pic Dobby aka Prince Charles,why would Scotland want that buffoon as their king when old Liz-zard kicks el bucketo. the UK and the Saudi’s are joined at the hip, in there murderous middle eastern pact.
“Yes, why? You arrived here at about 7am California time today, with Republicofscotland in tow, as usual.”
I was hoping someone, you know, concerned with the efficacy of the blog would call her out on that. It’s a Habby sentence for sure.
Now is the Gorgon a Palestinian Genocide denier, or is Hab socking her? It seems, though changing from time to time, the same avatar, but that IP address….we’ll never know.
“You are an execrably retributive scion.”
‘Big words from a sockpuppet’. If only they had some bearing on something.
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“I nearly pissed myself as I laughed about the self inflicted prognostications.”
Liar. You weren’t laughing. Much less nearly pissing yourself.
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I’m sick of the pretend and pretensions on here.
Bye for now
Palestinians having to contend with over 100 checkpoints and daily settler aggression. In Bethlehem the MEPs discussed the stark contradictions between Israel’s actions and their stated aim of peace; last week Israel announced it would seize over 1000 acres of Palestinian land near Bethlehem.
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Group of MEP’s visited family of the murdered Palestinian 17-year old Mohamed Khdeir at their home in East Jerusalem. Mohamed was kidnapped by Israelis and set on fire after having been forced to swallow petrol. The Khdeir family are taking the police to court as they failed to locate the perpetrators despite having been presented with video evidence of the kidnap. GUE/NGL MEPs pledged to offer support to the family in bringing the case to the attention of the ECHR.
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There should be a law against Palestinian Genocide deniers.
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http://www.eccpalestine.org/members-of-the-european-parliament-call-for-suspension-of-eu-israel-association-agreement/