“J K Rowling’s always been batshit insane, this is nothing new”.
“Why are people just surprised about J K Rowling now – she has been this mental for years.”
“The, I presume, mentally ill, J K Rowling”
“J K Rowling should get F back to England”
“Don’t feel too bad for that lunatic J K Rowling” – followed by a sexual reference to her partner.
The newspapers would be full of stories tomorrow about this dreadful cyber-abuse. But that will not happen because all those tweets were about me, and all sent within the last twenty minutes, from identifiable unionist tweeters, some well known. Substitute Craig Murray for J K Rowling and they are verbatim. Just do a twitter search on craig murray and see for yourself.
I have never much been into Twitter. When I post here it is automatically tweeted, that is all. It is only today I realised how much you can see of twitter conversations and the interesting links between people. I had not realised that the execrable Carl Gardner, former very junior government lawyer and anti-Assange campaigner, has such warm links with anti-Muslim pro-torture campaigner Douglas Murray of the Henry Jackson Society, Vice President Jim Murphy. And how very interesting to see Blair MacDougall, Ross McTernan, Allan Massie, Euan Mccolm and numerous others from Scotland’s corporate media, all tweeting each other about how absolutely ridiculous it is to believe that the UK state would ever be involved in anything nefarious.
The same people were, of course, tweeting each other euphorically about how fantastically Jim Murphy had demolished Nicola Sturgeon in the leaders’ debates. It subsequently turned out nobody in the country saw it the same way as their smug little gang. I fear they will find the same is true now. Indeed, in the two hours since I posted, over twice as many people have already read about the false flag schemes, as the entire membership of Scottish Labour. That is more than the circulation of the Scotsman. There’s a thought.
The same people, of course, told you I was lying when I blew the whistle on torture and extraordinary rendition in 2004. The security services and the British Government would never do such a thing, they said. I was insane, they said.
Everybody now knows that I was telling the truth about torture and extraordinary rendition, and the Labour Government and the establishment shills were the liars. I am telling the truth again now and they are lying again now.
Ishmael, your numerous posts are having the same effect as a disruption technique known as “forum sliding”
Craig politely requested that your posts become fewer and more meaningful. You’ve done the opposite. 52 out of 148 posts on this thread are yours (including the one with the different avatar at 10.15pm). Out of respect to Craig and those who use his blog, please post less frequently.
Well this is my last. I’v said and done enough on this blog. How dare you slag me off for being prolific. Putting in effort.
…..Goodbye
Freedom.
@YouKnowMyName
Well JK Rowling is an internationally known, high-profile figure who has sold millions of books whereas…
“What about rearranging your sign-off expletive, when ired, making it a pronounceable acronym:”
How about minding your own business.
I don’t tell you or anybody else how to post, too many control freak bullies already for my liking.
If people don’t make it personal they don’t get flamed, if they do they do, end of story.
“Craig isn’t certifiable, far as I can see,”
But he doesn’t have good form when it comes to matters relating to Scottish independence. His blind faith does dominate his rational judgement.
Last year before the referendum he predicted a security scare, Muslims arrested and charged with making a dirty bomb. He also slated yougov polls for repeatedly saying that No had a 10 point lead when it was obvious Yes was going to win, he said they were bent and could be bought. He isn’t repeating the allegations now they are predicting a SNP win.
Mary
“‘Operation Gladio (Italian: Operazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) “stay-behind” operation in Italy during the Cold War. Its purpose was to continue armed resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest.”
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What is your objection to that?
Oh yes, of course I forgot – had there been such invasion, you’d pribably have h
Mary
“‘Operation Gladio (Italian: Operazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) “stay-behind” operation in Italy during the Cold War. Its purpose was to continue armed resistance in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest.”
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What is your objection to that?
Oh yes, of course I forgot – had there been such invasion, you’d probably have had hopes of becoming the British Hilde Benjamin 🙂
Fred at 1.11 pm
You sometimes make sensible points, as you did at 2.00 pm on the tendency – one that many share – for Craig’s hopes to make him less reliable as a forecaster. But why do you engage in the control-freakery you claim to abhor? My earlier post merely made a suggestion – my business just as much as yours – that might gain your non-vituperative posts a wider readership. However, I thank you for not responding to it with intemperate language.
Mr Goss
“Something in Russia was destroyed when the Soviet Union peacefully capitulated to public demands.
“Twenty years ago, we were not defeated. We surrendered. We did not lose militarily, but culturally. Etc, etc, etc from some tendentious Russian link)
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Yes, yes, of course;
Sounds very much like the Dolchstoss (stab in the back) idea of 1918 and after – the German army wasn’t defeated but the German nation was stabbed in the back by socialist politicians, Jews and assorted other villains.
Not very original, your Rooskie.
Node
You appear to know quite a lot about trolling, disrupting blogs, disinformation techniques, etc, as this is not the first time you have entertained us on the subject.
Whence your extensive knowledge?
“You sometimes make sensible points,”
Here’s a good point for you. If you don’t like my posts don’t read them.
Or even better, use Habbabreak!
By the way, where is our friend Afrend?
Can his silence be explained by the possibility that he might be working on a new device, eg, to record the number of times each poster uses apostrophes incorrectly? Now that WOULD be useful! 🙂
” Fred linked an Indy article suggesting (admittedly in translation) that if Denmark joined NATO its naval fleet would be nuked by Russia. Hmm. Russia is likely to respond to NATO aggression (defensive the Indy calls NATO bases) creeping ever closer to its borders. I doubt it would be a nuclear attack on Denmark’s navy. I do not even think Denmark will join NATO. ”
Denmark was one of NATO’s founder members. What the Danes are pondering is joining the defensive missile shield. Threatening a non-nuclear nation with a nuclear attack, sounds pretty aggressive to me.
Fred
What if I like some of your points (and, as a general practice, I give people the benefit of the doubt)? The only way I can “not like” any of your posts is to read them first, rather than judging them, unread, by the name of the writer. You’re posing a logical conundrum, not unlike the billboard advertisement: “We dare you not to read this advert!”, itself a variant of the Cretan Liar (“I am lying”) and Catch-22 i.e. roughly paraphrasing Joseph Heller,(who had the good sense to include Orr as a leading character), “If you apply for release from the army because you are insane, that shows you ARE sane.”
“What if I like some of your points”
I keep telling you it’s not open for discussion.
A reminder for anyone who forgets that the UK government will stop at nothing to suppress the self-determination of the peoples in its grasp.
Good to see Noam Chomsky,and Proffessor Peter Higgs,come out and condemn nuclear weapons in the UK.
I am pleasently reminded,that Mr Chomsky was in favour of Scottish independence as well.
@Habe 13:15Z & 13:16Z
The objection that some people had to NATO’s ‘defensive’ Operation Gladio was that in Luxembourg all the Gladio false-flag bomb explosions caused sound/fury/no-damage whilst in Italy and elsewhere hundreds of innocent bystanders were slaughtered in the Gladio Strategy of Tension. If I can retrospectively see why the 16 dead of Milan 1969 & 85 dead from Bologna 1980 might have objected, surely so can you!
This happened even after the early-seventies when the likelihood of a Soviet invasion was receding, it was a conscious and deliberate ‘offensive’ action
There’s even a BBC TV ‘Gladio’ documentary still online for you should you have some time free from your other hobbies, there was amazingly a Display at the Imperial War Museum on the UK’s role in ‘Gladio’
Turkey is of course *still* arresting policemen accused of being active in their ‘Gladio/Red Sheepskin’ and subsequent parallel deep state organisations. 29 names listed today in Hurriet, including Deputy-Chief of Istanbul Police and a head of their Organized Crime Department
Some argue that the initial concept of Gladio post WWII was reasonable, but that it quickly excessed the bounds and simply directed terror against the people and the democratic institutions of Europe, I leave it up to you to decide whether similar strategies are at play today . . .
Noddy at 2.23 pm. I didn’t expect you to understand what Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich had to say about the way the Russian population has gone from being supportive of the US and the west to being able to see it as being as repressive in its own way as the old Soviet Union was in a different way. To have understood it you would have to have read the article and everybody on this blog is well aware of the level your reading and comprehension has reached. I posted it for the more discerning.
Even Resident Dissident’s ‘fifth column’ in Russia, the one to which Boris Nemtsov belonged, is starting to fall apart. And not without good cause. A brave UK reporter, Graham Phillips a former student of Craig’s alma mater, has been bravely covering the Kiev-led civil war waged against the residents of Donbas. For his trouble RD’s ‘fifth column’ in the form of one Vladislav (@unkn0wnerror) called for celebration on 22 February this year for the death of Graham Phillips. This was re-tweeted by Nemtsov himself the same day, a week before he was killed. It has since been removed from the twitter feed of Vladislav. Nice people.
“На память, когда зту суку убьуют, моралфаги не мешали радоваться.”
Beneath this text is a link and photograph of Graham Phillips.
A rough translation would be something like: “To the memory of Graham Phillips, when they kill this bitch the roosters will not stop celebrating.”
A fine example Noddy of the mixed metaphor.
The troll gets so excited when he directs a comment at/to me, his rogue finger plays up. Such a shame.
@Kemp
“Threatening a non-nuclear nation with a nuclear attack, sounds pretty aggressive to me.”
Nuking a non-Nuclear nation just to test your new toy is aggressive.
America is the most aggressive nation on this planet its about time you accepted it
and wake up out of your hypnotised state.
http://internationaltimes.it/mokusatsu/
“A rough translation would be something like: “To the memory of Graham Phillips, when they kill this bitch the roosters will not stop me celebrating.”
Missed the word ‘me’ out probably because it is implied in the Russian. I struggled with the word моралфаги and plumped for roosters. Perhaps “moral faggots” might be better but you can take your pick. It was aimed derogatorily at people with morals.
http://lukomore.org/lurk/Моралфаг
“A brave UK reporter, Graham Phillips a former student of Craig’s alma mater, has been bravely covering the Kiev-led civil war”
I’ve been following him on Twitter for some time. He clearly has some haters.
Iain Orr at 3.17 pm. Great book Joseph Heller’s ‘Catch 22’. My recollection was that Yossarian went to the psychiatrist, after sitting naked in a tree, and pretended he was insane so he did not have to fly any more missions from which some of his colleagues never returned. And that as you say was the catch, if he knew it was insane to fly a mission, he must be sane. War is a madness. Yossarian, though a fictional character, was right. He attempted “to live forever, even if he died in the process.”
“He clearly has some haters.”
Dreoilin you’re right about Graham Phillips. It is what happens in this topsy-turvy world when you report the truth as you see it. You make enemies of those with an agenda to ensure the truth does not get out.
I’m reminded,by an article,I read recently,of just how sinister,the Westminster security services can be,and,just what a stand-offish buffoon,David Cameron is.
In 2010,a young lad named Nicky,upset at the thought of his community room shutting due to cuts.Decided that he and a few friends would demonstrate outside,their constituents office,it just so happened that his Westminster representative in leafy Oxfordshire was the PM David Cameron.
The head of Thames Valley counter-terrorism,visited the 12 year old at his school without his parents,being in attendance. Young Nicky was told he’d be arrested if any disturbance occured,whether he was there or not.
The lad was then told in no uncertain terms, that armed police would be in attendance, and if things got out of hand….the officer let the young boys imagination fill in the blanks,as too what could occur.
It occured to me that David Cameron, could’ve defused the situation and done his credibility no harm, by meeting the young lads,and listening to their concerns.
Harold Wilson,PM,was once hit by an egg,thrown by a young lad,the police moved to apprehend the boy,but Wilson shouted “leave the boy alone,he should be bowling for England.”
New security laws,implimented by Westminster have not only made it more difficult to approach politicians,but they have also made it more difficult, to demonstrate,against their decisions.
I would like to know why the Italians came clean and why they co-operated with the making of the BBC programme was it because they assumed that in 1992 Gladio was no longer required, or because they wished for that?
” America is the most aggressive nation on this planet ”
Which has got what exactly to do with Russia threatening Denmark?
Thanks YouKnowMyName for that info on Operation Gladio.
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‘A Suicide in the Family
Simon Jack’s father took his own life when he was 44. Now the same age, Simon investigates the circumstances around his dad’s death and why more middle-aged men kill themselves than any other group.
He meets with men who have overcome suicidal thoughts, including professional sportsmen, who are now trying to help others do the same.’
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