It is peculiar timing for the unionist rag The Scotsman, to declare it had solved the mystery of Willie McRae’s death – just when security service tasking on the SNP returns to the levels of 1975-86.
The Scotsman claims that the police had first removed the vehicle and then replaced it, and this explains the mystery of why the gun was so far from the car after McRae’s remarkable two shot “suicide”. For me, that adds just another level of improbability to so very many. How, inside a car, you shoot yourself in the head in such a way that the gun falls out of the window, seems problematic. The car was crashed over a burn; how you order that with the suicide is peculiar.
The case is a notorious one in Scotland. There was never any indication of McRae having suicidal tendencies. He was driving to a destination – his cottage – where he was expected and he had phoned ahead for the fires to be lit. A briefcase of documents went missing from his car. Several retired policemen have affirmed he was under police and security service surveillance, which since his death the authorities refuse to comment on. He was not only a leading member of the SNP, but an effective anti-nuclear activist. All that I already knew – what was new to me was that he had also been investigating a senior paedophile ring. It is tempting to put that together with his having been ADC to Louis Mountbatten, but I confess that is mere speculation.
Establishment lackeys have been trying to ridicule my assertion that the SNP is a major security service target. Many know they are lying, and deliberately are trying to distract. But for those who are actually naïve, is it not extraordinary that anytime anybody mentions anything the security services do, it is dismissed as “conspiracy theory”. GCHQ, MI5, MI6 and SO15 employ over 50,000 people between them. What do you actually think they do all day?
Sculpture of Edward Snowden in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park.
http://mashable.com/2015/04/06/snowden-sculpture-fort-greene-brooklyn/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link
RIP Willie McRae and Hilda Murrell who with others did their best to rid us of this evil.
Russian Nuclear Sub ‘On Fire In Dry Dock’
The submarine’s nuclear reactor had been shut down before the blaze broke out, and there has been no word on any casualties.
07 April 2015
A Russian nuclear submarine has caught fire in a shipyard but there were no weapons on board, according to Russian news agencies.
The 155m (508ft) 949 Antei was reportedly being repaired in Zvyozdochka shipyard in Russia’s northern province of Arkhangelsk, when the blaze broke out.
The ship reportedly caught fire as welding works were being carried out, with rubber insulation catching fire.
A shipyard source told the Interfax news agency: “There is a fire on the submarine.
“We are fighting the fire now.”
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http://news.sky.com/story/1460222/russian-nuclear-sub-on-fire-in-dry-dock
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The story I’d heard was that he had been able to gather some kind of incontrovertible evidence and was enthusiastic about getting ‘them’. I heard that the subject was leaking or spillage of nuclear material. As far as I knew this was on the Clyde. Was never sure if it was connected to the British or US presence.
” Because it’s clearly nonsense as this article should make clear:”
I’ll see your article and raise you mine:
https://commonspace.scot/articles/942/in-out-and-in-again-yes-activist-eventually-joins-labour-despite-earlier-denial
Debunked the debunk so to speak.
However, when speaking to CommonSpace, Shoaib failed to confirm this. Instead, he raised concerns that implicit SNP support for the Green party in England would help the Tories.
So support for the Greens somehow equates to support for the Tories…… .nonsense
Mary, if you haven’t already seen it you might be interested in this…
http://owndoc.com/cancer/radiation-true-cause-of-cancer/
It’s a very long article, but I found it quite good because it backs-up everything it says with authorative sources (although I don’t agree with everything in this article).
Of particular interest were the stats on Swedish cancer rates; Sweden being just about the only country that puts in public record cancer rates from the early 20th century onwards.
As can be seen, cancer rates went through the roof from 1945 onwards (the first atom bomb was exploded in July 1945, and the rest, as they say, is history).
@Gary
7 Apr, 2015 – 5:43 pm
The crux of the matter is that we are ruled by psychopaths.
Correct – the SNP is a major security service target – I combine with others who know all salient SNP communications are tracked with highly sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment, both by the ‘Watchers’ and the ‘Tinkerbell’ squads.
Why have such expensive resources (> £200 million) been set aside to spy on the Scottish parliament?
Simple:
Nicola Sturgeon stated that within her party Trident remained a “red line” issue.
She said: “Under no circumstances would we ever vote for the renewal of Trident or the spending of money (£100 billion) on Trident.
The SNP WILL NOT be taking 28 mostly West of Scotland former Labour seats because ‘nuclear rules’ and a ‘little game’ will ensure that.
Even British war-ships carry nuclear depth charges – and that should be ‘Nuclear secret’ but hey, worth the risk of removing the shroud.
Speaking of “debunked” and Fred’s link.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-defector-who-wasnt/#more-69372
But don’t let it get in the way of a good story eh Fred.
“But don’t let it get in the way of a good story eh Fred.”
Do try to keep up and please point out to the “Reverend” at Wings over Bath that the article from commonspace I posted a link to was published after the article from commonspace he put on his web site.
You could always go back to the “sour grapes” ploy I suppose.
Habbakuk at 12.23
I seldom comment here, given that Craig’s pieces are sufficient in themselves – as here. But I judge from the comments of this minor Hebrew prophet that he has some respect for the Zionist entity. That is why denial is expressed so often in regard to the entity and in defence of the closely associated neo-liberalism. (syn – rabid capital)
He proposes that I am probably paranoid. Anyone who has come up against the entity might be justified in being paranoid. The parents in that remnant of Palestine, the ‘West Bank’ – a misnomer, might be paranoid in fearing their child could be violently abducted by Israeli thugs in the early hours, handcuffed, blindfolded and taken to Ofer prison for ‘interrogation’. Charge – throwing stones the usual. Possible release after signing a ‘confession’ in Hebrew with a substantial fine – in shekels of course. At worst – administrative detention of undefined length. I cannot find the two very short videos showing raids on two families and their homes. The temple of the family being fouled by the most foul.
Having had a scientific training and having risked my life a few times for my sisters and brothers in Palestine, I am able to separate paranoia from fear. It was fear that I would be drowned with 15 other ‘activists’ at 5.30 30 December 2008 and not paranoia! That it was dark, the waves about 10ft, and our position 66 miles off the coast of Palestine made drowning likely as a result of one of three 45 knot ‘Israeli’ gunboats ramming MV Dignity with great force. Add to that the fact that I knew our assailants were ruthless and heartless. There would have been no trace of humans, the vessel or the cases of antibiotics from Cyprus and LIBYA
http://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/6-articles/palestineisrael/70-piracy-off-the-promised-land-the-ramming-of-the-dignity-with-clear-lethal-intent
And while you are at it Habbakuk – read this and kneel in forgiveness for what the entity does to dear children by Erez in Gaza
http://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/6-articles/palestineisrael/107-the-methodical-shooting-of-boys-at-work-in-gaza-by-snipers-of-the-israeli-occupation-force
Is there a degree of paranoia in North London as a result of alleged anti-semitic slogans on synagogues? Is the CST responding to ?fear or ?paranoia whereas the Muslim population goes hang?
I consider that the Zionist entity, which is tooled up with every weapon, is the greatest threat to world. Again that is fear and not paranoia.
Correction I consider that the Zionist entity, which is tooled up with every weapon, is the greatest threat to world PEACE. Again that is fear and not paranoia.
I add – Of course there is no peace now. Blair, the paramount psychopath and war criminal, lit the fuse with that nitwit that blew up frogs with firecrackers. A fellow psychopath.
” Even British war-ships carry nuclear depth charges ”
Not since 1990.
Oh sorry, you don’t do facts do you?
David Halpin, Habbabkuk has stuck a b in the Old Testament writer’s name, though he did not do so to begin with. Most people tend to ignore his comments, or choose to humour him occasionally, because he can be awful rude. He would try and send you on a wild goose trail but I have known your work long enough to realise that would not be possible.
As to having your mail opened, snap. Got another one last week from Germany. Royal Mail puts them in a seethrough envelope with a message on them “APOLOGIES We are sorry that this item has reached you in this condition . . . ” It’s obviously the spooks. Using Royal Mail they can do it as often as they choose with no comeback. I have a whole catalogue of them. For me it is no different from the times I’ve been stopped and had my car searched, even my bike searched, when I’ve been going abroad. I was even stopped when driving through Germany from Romania and had my car searched. They are nosy. They are the poverbial old person who has no life of their own they go rifling through drawings my friends’ children did for my birthday. Charming people.
Interesting Kempe – thank-you for your input – ah yes ‘slaying the nuclear dragon’ – The strategic defence review 1990 – I forgot about that…
David Halpin @ 8:43pm
“I cannot find the two very short videos showing raids on two families and their homes. The temple of the family being fouled by the most foul.”
Not sure if these are the ones you are referring to, but here are videos of two such raids in Hebron:
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-25/videos-of-israeli-raids-on-sleeping-children/
Thought this thread was about Willie McRae’s apparent murder.
It stinks to high heaven, starting with his meeting up with someone in a lay by on the way to his cottage, and brought along documents which have gone missing about what it was about.
Looks to me like an ambush – what the 14 intelligence Company was notorious for.
Wonder if the documents were from Haughey about Britain’s ‘shoot to kill’ campaign?
oops, that should be 8:39pm
Thank you Neil for that reminder of young Palestinian children being turfed out of their beds and carted off by the IDF.
Coincidentally, I put up the same link from Jonathan Cook’s blog in March on the comments on the Impunity thread.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/03/impunity/comment-page-7/#comment-516047
Thereafter I was not trolled by Habbabkuk but by ‘Anon’ with the bright red gravatar.
Willie MacRae was an anti-nuclear activist as is generally known. I am sure that such a decent and principled man would have supported the Palestinian cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_MacRae
He died aged 61, thus deprived of many years of a fulfilled later life.
Reopen case of Willie McRae, Scotland’s David Kelly, after 25 years, Lord Advocate is urged
Tuesday 02 November 2010
http://www.scotsman.com/news/reopen-case-of-willie-mcrae-scotland-s-david-kelly-after-25-years-lord-advocate-is-urged-1-827235
Palestinians Want UN Timetable to End Israeli Occupation
APRIL 6, 2015
UNITED NATIONS — The Palestinians are “ready and willing” to see if the U.N. Security Council has “the political will” to adopt a resolution with a deadline for ending Israel’s occupation and establishing a Palestinian state, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador said Monday.
Ambassador Riyad Mansour told reporters that adoption of a resolution with a timetable would be “one of the most effective measures to combat extremism in our region, because extremists receive their fuel from the injustice of the Palestinian people.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/06/world/middleeast/ap-un-united-nations-palestinians-israel.html?_r=0
If I wanted to top myself, I don’t think I’d use an antique revolver firing .22 short rounds. Would I shoot myself while driving? With that? I think I’d pull over and make sure I was aiming at the right place. It’s plausible that Macrae missed completely with the first shot (which went where?) and had another go, but he’d have had to be completely irrational to do it that way.
This was a very old pistol: a collectible antique. It was manufactured for a black powder cartridge, NOT a modern cordite one, although the latter would fit, and the barrel would probably take the extra pressure. This is the basic model No. 1 (available with pearl handle, though the engraving on Macrae’s would seem to be nonstandard):
http://www.smithandwessonforums.com/forum/s-w-revolvers-1857-1945/9423-old-s-w-7-shot-revolver.html
More questions than answers here, but I think they’re the right questions.
http://robertlewis.com/blog/death-wester-ross-willie-macraes-flat-tyre/
Robert Lewis has added to his own questions by having Willie McRae respond to the child abuse scandal – which he calls the Mullwatcher Inquiry – in 1980 when it only surfaced in January 2015. AndLewis is dead wrong about Dr. David Kelly committing suicide.
Have to investigate who Dr. Chris Murray, the investigator at Salford, is. Seems to be presenting false leads about who killed McRae.
Really strange that adviser Martin Manserge wrote an appreciative piece on his former boss Charles Haughey in January, stating that the former Irish PM had initiated many reforms, especially making the republic a modern democracy, than David Torrance, the biographer of former SoD George Younger who had to defuse the Palme assassination from triggering a nuclear war with the USSR, volunteered that there was no conspiracy in the death of Willie McRae.
Seems that Haughey’s desire to make Northern Ireland a similar state was what led to McRae’s murder for fear that he would want one too in Scotland..
And the Salford University expert on intelligence is Dr. Chris Murphy.
Trouser…
Mullwatcher Inquiry……pmsl.
Mullwharchar* enquiry: not about child abuse, but nuclear waste disposal. February-March 1980. As stated.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1982/mar/23/nuclear-waste-disposal-mullwharchar
And regardless of the tempting (for some) but irrelevant distraction – or perhaps smear by unwarranted association, Trouser?- of child abuse, nuclear weapons and waste disposal were what Macrae was about. Indeed, I was very peripherally involved with this issue at the time, and knew some of the personalities involved.
* Thus. Scottish hill nominated as possible waste repository.
So, do you think that Willie was murdered, and if so, by whom?
I think that those letter bombs going to leading Tories, especially Thatcher, SSoS George Younger and FS Geoffrey Howe, were the reason he was murdered after the Brighton bombing, thinking that he was supporting the SNLP, and they set him up for the killing.
Reminds me of what they did to Olof Palme in Stockholm a year later, and why they had that terrible falling out when leading hitman Simon Hayward published his Under Fire to try to establish a new life about himself after he was set up on a drugs charge back in Sweden.
For those posters tending to believe the spin doctors over the Cabinet shakeup on July 24, 1989 where Alan Clark hears that Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe has been sacked, and George Younger has resigned as SoD in protest, leaving Clark to think he might be taking Younger’s place, only to learn bitterly after a long wait on the telephone that he is to be Tom King’s new Minister of State at the MoD. (Alan Clark Diaries, pp. 246-8)
Reminds me how Robert Haldeman’s Diaries where he corrected all the false stories about LBJ dying back on the ranch in Texas when he had died, apparently from taking dilantin on Air Force One, thanks to what Nixon’s private physician had prescribed, after his bitter falling out with the re-elected President in late January 1973.
Can’t we do any better with our elected leaders!
On the subject of odd disappearances in the far north… here is another.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7251045.stm
And has anyone read New Zealander (living in Australia), John Morgan’s detailed books on the death of Princess Diana?
http://princessdianadeaththeevidence.weebly.com/how-they-murdered-princess-diana.html
If one looks at what went on for many years in Northern Ireland – and we know only a small part of what went on – it ought not to surprise anyone that the deep state assassinates people domestically in mainland UK when it needs to do so. Usually on the mainland of the UK, other mechanisms will have been tried first. But when the matter at hand, and the potential damage to power structures, is of sufficient importance, it is likely that they will kill. Most of the other stuff they put out and the PR with which they cooperate, is designed primarily to obfuscate that basic likely truth. Think, too of the 1980s Miners’ Strike.
I have absolutely no doubt that right now, every SNP politician and activist – including, and especially, Nicola Sturgeon – is being surveilled through mutiple means by the security services. We are paying for this political interference.
Thanks, Suhayl Saadi, good to see you back.
Thanks, Trowbridge!