Standard Life’s Far Right Board needs exposing:
Keith Skeoch, Executive Director of Standard Life, is on the Board of Reform Scotland, the neo-conservative lobby group which wants to abolish the minimum wage, privatize the NHS and pensions, and still further restrict trade unions.
It is difficult for Tories openly to campaign against Scottish Independence as everyone in Scotland hates them, so they do it with their corporate hats on. This is most of the board of Standard Life:
Garry Grimstone, Chairman, “lead non-executive” at the Ministry of Defence, London
Keith Skeoch, Executive Director, right wing political lobbyist
Crawford Gillies, Non Executive Director, Chairman of Control Risk Group, of London, the “security consultancy” of choice for ex MI5 and MI6 officers
Noel Harwerth, non-executive Director, Director of “London First” – [Honestly, I am not making this up]
David Nish – Chief Executive, Member of the “UK Strategy Committee” of “TheCity UK”. “TheCity UK” being a body of the City of London.
John Paynter, non-executive Director, was vice chairman of JP Morgan Cazenove until the 2008 crash
Amazing that lot oppose independence, huh?
Standard Life also threatened to leave at the time of the devolution referendum and gave out No campaign materials to staff. “Leave” of course is a relative concept – the above bunch just pop up from London from time to time to check on how the serfs are doing.
I published this information on 27 February when they last tried to influence the independence debate. Standard Life is again trying today to influence the referendum campaign by a press release claiming it will move key departments to London in the event of independence, enthusiastically amplified by the BBC, Guardian and all the other reactionary media.
Well, here is an opposing press release, from me. If anybody thinks that an Independent Scotland will be a place where major strategic companies can still be controlled by swivel-eyed right wing ideologues, they may get a very nasty shock from the people of Scotland.
9/11/01- For two weeks I watched the video, which was repeated hundreds of times each day on every network. I was hoping to get informed, but all it did was send me into a deep depression. When I shut off the news, I felt better.
@Fool
No I don’t live in Sutherland I’m further north than that.
So what would your alternative to the estates be? They could be split up and shared out I suppose but who would want them? Would you be prepared to come and conserve a few acres on the side of a mountain miles from the nearest road (if you can call that a road) in it’s historic form? What else could be done with them? Forestry? Acres of foreign fast growing conifers planted for a rich person’s tax deductions? Dam a few valleys and build an aluminium smelter?
I don’t understand how else you think it should be. The land is only productive or inhabitable along the coast, the vast acres inland I think are put to good use as places wild animals like the red dear, endangered species like the Scottish wildcat, rare birds like the golden eagle can survive.
Thinking about it, I’m guessing there’s some method in their madness .. all this BS emanating from the unionist Better Together camp frightening the horses is naught but a dress rehearsal for the “REAL” referendum to come ..
Alex Salmond held an international conference today, answering questions on Scottish independence, from journalists around the world, real journalists not BBC journalists, though Nick Robinson from the BBC did take a bit of a thrashing from Alex Salmond.
Of course that old Royal deviant, and inbred, Queen Lizzie, has indicated she’s neutral in the, Scottish independence referendum, I’m surprised her genetically defunct brood hasn’t flooded Scotland, with messages, of one does love Scotland. I suppose there’s still time for (Horse face)Camilla and Dobby aka the FA Cup, aka Prince Charles, to make an untimely appearance.
But don,t expect to see bald Willie and his pregnant Yak, Kate (Digger) Goldsmith, who’s brother Ben is married to Emma Rothschild, they’ll be to busy spending more taxpayers cash on their Kensington Palace Home, in the expectation of her unborn rug rat.
http://www.accuracy.org/release/13-years-after-911-has-isis-been-a-saudi-project/
““More generally, the Saudi regime has been a regressive influence through much of the region. It backed the coup in Egypt against the elected government there, helped crush the popular uprising in Bahrain and took in the dictators from Tunisia and Yemen. And of course, it oppresses its own people, including being the kingdom of women’s oppression — no other government has this notion of women being the property of their male guardians. It’s not that the culture is backward, it’s the government. The monarch has even kept several of his own daughters under house arrest, one of whom recently called for an uprising against the regime.
“Obama has been part of a long line of U.S. presidents who have backed the Saudi regime as it has oppressed the people of the Arabian Peninsula. The U.S. has no credibility on human rights without publicly confronting the Saudi monarchy on its dire human rights record and its destruction of the Arab people’s desire for freedom and progress. The Saudi regime is not the solution as it’s often portrayed — it’s a huge part of the problem.”
Background: Steve Clemons, Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation recently wrote: “‘Thank God for the Saudis’: ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback,” which notes: “U.S lawmakers encouraged officials in Riyadh to arm Syrian rebels. Now that strategy may have created a monster in the Middle East.”
Yeah, they just write checks not policy.
for the families…
http://realecontv.com/bankers-spooks-and-911/
Saudi, Pakistani, and Israeli officials would all have facilitated the work of the 9/11 hijackers only if they knew they were carrying out the wishes of the U.S. government, or at least of powerful forces within that government. Add to that the fact that nobody was punished for the manifest failures of numerous parts of the U.S. government on 9/11, and the conclusion is obvious.
@Mary
11 Sep, 2014 – 7:20 pm
Even as we speak .. breaking news!!!
Walmart orders underpaid staff to cough up for new uniforms
http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/sep/11/walmart-legal-new-uniform-clothes-polo-shirts
It doesn’t matter if the Saudis were not the original promoters of 9/11. I feel sure, just as in Iran/Contra when McFarlane didn’t directly ask for the money, just for their support, that they all are co-conspirators with the US. Certainly not dupes.
It’s like Omerta. The criminals agree to keep their secrets and thereby eliminate their danger. Hang together, or hand separately.
Still can’t think of one good reason why Sarah Smith should host the BBC’s news 24 Scottish independence, programme, talk about riding on the shoulder of others, her father John Smith was head of the Labour party, and held some, but not much, sway in Scotland. I suppose the patently transparent BBC, thought to themselves, John Smith’s daughter likewise, will hold some sway with Scots.
The BBC couldn’t have been more wrong, Sarah Smith is an incoherent, constantly repeating, interrupting, inaudible squeak. I used to and still do find Katie Hopkins nauseating,but Sarah Smith come a very close second.
Fred – I don’t have a considered solution. I love these estates although I understand how the dispossessed might feel about Highland clearances. I was surprised by the statistic. In Wales the great estates were sold off and tenant farmers took over. The stats came from George Monbiot’s book on re-wilding. Its a considered book and he expresses considerable sympathy with those with whom he is in disagreement (eg Welsh sheep farmers). If I had the time I would research crops with unusual and valuable properties which could be grown in difficult climates eg for medical uses.
Wow!
97% register to vote in referendum
More than 4.29 million of Scotland’s adults now signed up for independence vote, with 118,640 added in last month
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/11/referendum-registered-voters-scotland-four-million-97-per-cent
Mochyn69
At the end of that piece. What a cruel and unfair world.
‘The Walton family, which owns more than half of Walmart, is worth about $145bn.’
Next up from the anti-independence cabal is the Sir Craig Reedie’s opinion, and might I add its just his opinion, that Scottish athletes may not be able to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, yet the BBC and SKY have given Mr Reedie’s opinion plenty of airtime.
Far be it for me to tell you that South Sudan was roughly just a year into independence, when the Olympic Committee came calling with the olive branch of participation, at the London Olympics.
Of course the shambles,that is Better Together and Westminster, will portray just about anything in a negative light, in order to secure a no vote.
An official European Parliament delegation that visited the besieged Gaza Strip after the recent Israeli onslaught on the blockaded area says Israel has committed “genocide” against the defenseless Palestinians, Press TV reports.
The delegation, which includes 13 members of the European Parliament, has called on the EU to break diplomatic ties with Israel and implement sanctions against Tel Aviv because of the war crimes it has committed against the Palestinian people.
“I don’t think it is too strong a word, not when you think of how genocide is described; it’s described as the partial or the whole destruction of people; and what we are seeing happen in Gaza, in Palestine, is the destruction of Palestinians,” Martina Anderson, an Irish member of the European Parliament, told Press TV.’
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Indeed the illegal military state of Israel,is comparable with, the Nazi’s, in their action towards the Palestinian people.
Kinda surprised Craig has nothing on 9/11. Maybe after the vote he’ll remember 7/7
No one got any medals, for their diligent cooperation by looking the other way.
1998 Bu$h biographer resigned/kicked out and he spilt the beans, Bu$h could not organise a booze up in a brewery. 2000 Bu$h was the POTUS. The hanging chads of Florida and the Supreme court selection of Bu$h as POTUS are often overlooked and no one pay an attention to the systemic setting the relevant ducks in a row. IN fact in 1998 the plans had been drawn up and the subsequent execution of the plans was given the go ahead on the relevant day 9/11 for some reason this is the kind of Masonic Machination and symbolism that is over and again used as the execution dates of the plans.
Come to think of it, when a fraud of such gargantuan proportions re perpetrated the fraudsters and crooks revert to type by hanging on to hocus-pocus and “ancient rites”. This could be passed as some kind of the religion of the crooks and murders if you will.
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No one dares to speak, because if they did, then the rat shot awaits them.
Where is Kenny Boy? Last he was heard of, he went home to get ready for his Jail sentence to begin, then he had a fortuitous heart attack and got buried (probably in cocktails and champagne fountains). No one is on his trail, for some reason.
Anon1
“But shoehorning Israel into every thread is clearly not enough for Mary, so she starts on her other major obsession, the Jooooz:
“There were several Jewish names in lists for TheCityUK…”
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Yes, Anon, I noticed that too.
Mary is, I suppose, this blog’s Jew-finder General – the 2014 equivalent of the old Witch-finder General.
Would she like to essay a little disquisition on the subject of “Jewish names”? I’m sure it’d make a fascinating and instructive read.
RepublicOfGenocideDeniers
““I don’t think it is too strong a word, not when you think of how genocide is described; it’s described as the partial or the whole destruction of people; and what we are seeing happen in Gaza, in Palestine, is the destruction of Palestinians,” Martina Anderson, an Irish member of the European Parliament, told Press TV.’”
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Is that by any chance the Martina Anderson who’s a Sinn Fein MEP and a former volonteer in the Provisional IRA?
” IN fact in 1998 the plans had been drawn up and the subsequent execution of the plans was given the go ahead on the relevant day 9/11 for some reason this is the kind of Masonic Machination and symbolism that is over and again used as the execution dates of the plans.”
Indeed. The Patriot Act was formulated well in advance (80’s) in the dungeons of the Pentagon. It was said the Japanese were the best long-term game planners, but that was a business model…oh wait !
If she is, she might in fact be well qualified to talk about the destroying of people (Omagh and sundry other places refer).
Think you missed something about Levene, Mary. He got the Israeli agent Ambassador Ron Prosor* the Freedom of the City…
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/freedom-city-prosor.
I don’t get the impression he has qualms about Israel at all, in fact.
*nearly as funny as Mark Regev. Or an exploding hospital.
From the top of this page (RepublicOfGasChamberDreams) hereinafter referred to as RoS):
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Quite a gavotte, but unfortunately without the grace.
No child should be harmed but they always are. May the war criminals rot in hell.
U.S.U.K. Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children
By Sherwood Ross
September 11, 2014
Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.
The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign, and who in 1991 filed a class-action complaint with the UN against President George H.W. Bush.
The U.S. and U.K. “obstinately insisted” that their sanctions remain in place until after the “illegal” Gulf War II aggression perpetrated by President George W. Bush and UK’s Tony Blair in March, 2003, “not with a view to easing the over decade-long suffering of the Iraqi people and children” but “to better facilitate the U.S./U.K. unsupervised looting and plundering of the Iraqi economy and oil fields in violation of the international laws of war as well as to the grave detriment of the Iraqi people,” Boyle said.
In an address last Nov. 22 to The International Conference on War-affected Children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Boyle tallied the death toll on Iraq by U.S.-U.K. actions as follows:
# The slaughter of 200,000 Iraqis by President Bush in his illegal 1991 Gulf War I.
# The deaths of 1.4 million Iraqis as a result of the illegal 2003 war of aggression ordered by President Bush Jr. and Prime Minister Blair.
# The deaths of 1.7 million Iraqis “as a direct result” of the genocidal sanctions.
Boyle’s class-action complaint demanded an end to all economic sanctions against Iraq; criminal proceedings for genocide against President George H.W. Bush; monetary compensation to the children of Iraq and their families for deaths, physical and mental injury; and for shipping massive humanitarian relief supplies to that country.
The “grossly hypocritical” UN refused to terminate the sanctions, Boyle pointed out, even though its own Food and Agricultural Organization’s Report estimated that by 1995 the sanctions had killed 560,000 Iraqi children during the previous five years.
Boyle noted that then U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright was interviewed on CBS-TV on May 12, 1996, in response to a question by Leslie Stahl if the price of half a million dead children was worth it, and replied, “we (the U.S. government) think the price is worth it.”
Albright’s shocking response provides “proof positive of the genocidal intent by the U.S. government against Iraq” under the Genocide Convention, Boyle said, adding that the government of Iraq today could still bring legal action against the U.S. and the U.K. in the International Court of Justice. He said the U.S.-U.K. genocide also violated the municipal legal systems of all civilized nations in the world; the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocol 1 of 1977.
Boyle, who was stirred to take action pro bono by Mothers in Iraq after the economic sanctions had been imposed upon them by the Security Council in August, 1990, in response to pressure from the Bush Senior Administration. He is the author of numerous books on international affairs, including “Destroying World Order” (Clarity Press)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39639.htm
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/09/standard-life-far-right-board/comment-page-2/#comment-478675
What a silly post from a very silly man. A waste of space on two counts.
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“Ba’al Zevul (WIth Gaza Too)
11 Sep, 2014 – 8:55 pm”
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“With Gaza too”, eh?
Switched off your Habbabbreak, did you (my post about “With Scotland” refers)?
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Mary
Careful, Mary, or I’ll do the rest of this page for you 🙂
Do you, Ben (American Nazu) and RepublicOfNaziLongings draw up a roster every day, or is it just plain incontinence?
Mary
“No child should be harmed but they always are. May the war criminals rot in hell.
U.S.U.K. Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children
By Sherwood Ross
September 11, 2014”
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Any thoughts about the real genocides and the death of thousands and thousands of children in Sudan, Congo, Burundi, Ruanda…?
Just a little peep from you, perhaps? A little reference now and then when you’re weeping your crocodile tears about Iraqi children?
You shameless hypocrite. No wonder you kept so quiet when RepunblicOfGassingDreams was posting his Holocaust-denying garbage!
The fact that ordinary man is kept blissfully ignorant and ill educated is part of the game plan. While the morons and hamburger munchers are busy tilling the land, and manning the machines, and keeping guard on one another, the degenerate few are left alone to plan, scheme and conspire with ever more horrific events to keep the lands tilled, machines running, and the “peace” kept. All the while tertiary scum bags ie the zionist scum and their pathetic supporters fulfil the role of the barometer.
These degenerate agents of their degenerate masters, constantly test and retest the credulity of the populace with ever more fantastic stories, and events of unlogic, and unreason. Thus the masters can lie in their beds and sleep, in preparation for another day, during which they can rain death, destruction, debt on their captive slaves.
Slavery was not abolished, it was refined and it evolved. Just read the canspec (the most vile specimen) and his “theories” a perfect example of ignorance adopted to standard. Also note the interactions of the self inflicted, and its “economic” (now that is really funny, I mean really comical) nostrums.
“Any thoughts about the real genocides and the death of thousands and thousands of children in Sudan, Congo, Burundi, Ruanda…?”
Oh, do you mean Rwanda?
It’s time you ceased the ambivalent commitment to such tragedies. That’s your homework for tonight, laddie.