The dreadfully stultified pageantry of the British state has been on full display the last couple of days, all mouldy ermine, fraying gold braid and musty velvet. But forms which evolved as a vibrant display of Imperial might have transmuted into rituals of obeisance, as the nonogenerian Prince Philip stumbles behind the Chinese President along lines of men wearing decaying bears on their heads. The sickness of Britain’s monarchical system was never more bluntly revealed than by the rictus grins of the aristocratic clowns balancing their tiaras at the state banquet.
The Chinese are the imperial masters now. Cameron begs them to build a nuclear power station for which the British state guarantees it will pay double the market price for electricity produced, for twenty years. And a government which has just announced the extension of thought crime to the expression of non-violent or anti-violent thought deemed “extreme”, has no locus to talk about human rights, a concept at least as alien to Teresa May as it is to the Chinese Communist Party. Britain has its own war criminals like Blair and Straw running around, immune and very wealthy.
The British state is an immoral entity which I view with disgust. That is what drives for me the imperative to early Scottish Independence to be rid of it. Every day as a British citizen is like bathing in sewage.
Japanese-designed?
Wall Street Journal: Design Flaw Fueled Nuclear Disaster:
“IO don’t have a tumble dryer, dishwasher or electric car, should I now worry about the energy it takes for me to write this missive?”
No, now you worry about how to get the other 70 million inhabitants of these islands to join you then we won’t need power stations. Till then we do and we need them now and they need to work when we need them to work.
So renounce your British citizenship, Craig. Burn your British passport and carry a Scottish moped licence in its place. See how far it takes you.
Survival demands no apology. And the British monarchy is a survivor like no other. Look around, Craig. Tell us how respectable other monarchies are and what great public deeds they perform.
Fred : People want central heating, washing machines, tumble dryers, hot water that comes out of taps. They will be wanting electric cars. What do you suggest? How the hell are we going to provide them when the coal fired plants close down? What else can we do?
We could keep on invading countries to take control of their oil. What else can we do?
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson is not coming out of the Lord Brittan affair smelling of roses, it he.
He sounds – and more importantly, appears to behave – like an arrogant bully boy. KOWN might be moved to call him a cunt (cf KOWN’s post at 16h22).
Surely someone like Tom Watson has no place on the leadership of a Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn.
Kuennsberg became very daring at the ‘one question only new style press conference’. Agent Cameron was apprised of the content and had rehearsed his response. Chairman* Xi had done likewise.
Who do they think they are kidding?
Cameron and Xi Jinping on steel industry and human rights
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34596556
* I still have a copy of the Little Red Book. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung
Comprehensive yet, as ever, almost poetically concise. Always a pleasure to read Craig’s brief articulate analyses of the facts that the establishment media would never disclose.
As earthworms pop up when it rains, so do the trolls here when they see an opportunity to defend of the monarchy and this ‘country’.
Just one comment each from them on the Nazi post and only a few more on the IWPR post but plenty from one who shall be nameless here.
I was told by someone recently not to attack P Harry (We do bad things to bad people) for his psychopathic killing activities in Afghanistan. ‘He was just a kid’ I was firmly told.
…delete ‘of’ in ‘defend of the monarchy’….
UK 62Million pop
Putting solar panels on 15Million household would cost less and produce more than 7% of expected energy from the new nuclear plant. A Humber tidal barrage (£9Billion) was cancelled as too expensive. Coal is plentiful all over Britain. Two new coal plants are being built near Sheffield £2Billion (each?).
A coal CC Project at Longannet in Fife was rejected by Westminster. Hulne refused permission. Scotland has lost Renewable Grants from the EU, because of Westminster indecision.
“The British state is an immoral entity which I view with disgust.”
Well, same here, but I still see separatism as an non sequitur.
In any event, Britain is now a supplicant nation and since nobody is going to take steps to remedy the situation, I suggest that we get used to it. A large part of the problem is that most of us have been lying to ourselves for a very, very long time. Anybody with any sense has seen this coming for years – decades, actually – so it shouldn’t surprise us. There are still plenty more chickens which haven’t come home to roost yet, so things will get even worse.
Cheers, folks; Youtube and Devo’s ‘Beautiful World’ beckon.
Habbabkuk
Why do you say that? I have never called anyone on this blog a cunt, neither a poster nor a public figure of whom I disapproved. It’s not my style.
Reprinted from the New Statesman 2010.
Tony Blair must be Arrested under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
“The Paramount War Crime under Nuremberg”
By John Pilger
21 October 2015
Global Research, October 21, 2015http://www.globalresearch.ca/tony-blair-must-be-arrested-under-the-proceeds-of-crime-act-the-paramount-war-crime-under-nuremberg/5483500
John S Warren
“You may trust me on this: I do not give a fig for “popularity”.”
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That’s good – it means that you will be free to post what you think without being worried by attacks and insults from the Excellences when you refuse to sing from their song sheet.
BTW – a couple of years ago there was a splendid (and splendidly critical)post from someone who said he only posted when he knew what he was talking about. Does that ring any bells – was it you?
The owners of Wentworth golf club are described as ‘Beijing based’.
Wentworth golf club asks for six-figure membership fee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-34591272
Now that is gold leafy Surrey!
KOWN
“Why do you say that? I have never called anyone on this blog a cunt, neither a poster nor a public figure of whom I disapproved. It’s not my style.”
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“Oh do fuck off.” (you to me, 16h22 above).
@Habbabkuk (la vita è bella)
21 Oct, 2015 – 3:52 pm
2015 has been a game changer as far as renewables goes. The biggest problem with renewables has always been storing energy for later use; but Mr Tesla has come to the rescue…
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/01/tesla-announces-low-cost-solar-batteries-elon-musk
Tesla’s top end bit of kit can provide 10kWh of energy from wind or solar panel, which is enough to power the average home, and it presently retails at $3500 (about £2300); but as with all new technology, the price will fall steeply as consumers start taking it up. Problem is, the big, bad energy companies won’t take their gobs out of the font of money without the mother of all fights. It’s called free market capitalism.
And as for the British government getting the Chinese to build a new nuke plant in rural Somerset, it’s so Alice In Wonderland and laughable that it’s not even worth debating.
Glenn
I think your scheme for a subscription royal family is an excellent plan, and I can’t see how anyone could reasonably object. Maybe it could be some sort of tithe deducted from their salaries.
Nice photos of BLiar, Clinton and the Beckhams with chairman ‘Dr Chanchai’
http://www.reignwood.com/aboutUs_CircleofFriends.asp
“As earthworms pop up when it rains, so do the trolls here when they see an opportunity to defend of the monarchy and this ‘country’.”
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Another diversion from Mary, Mary, quite contrary (as always).
But I suppose it’s a good job she didn’t call me and like-minded posters “cockroaches” – as she keeps reminding us a former Israeli minister once called the Palestinians…..
Habbabkuk
As I said, I’ve never called anyone a cunt and only very rarely told anyone to fuck off, in fact I suspect not more than twice in three or four years on this blog. You however have used the word cunt on a number of occasions, but interestingly on those occasions you display quite a distinct and different tone and style from your normal manner of posting. In fact, I have come to suspect there are at least three different people posting under your Avatar. It would be quite interesting to subject your posts to those computer style analytics they use to identify authorship of texts. But I can’t be bothered.
KNOW
I shall do you the courtesy of responding to your reply even though I have put you into the camp of the extremists on here.
“Habbabkuk
‘That’s a classic bit of “what about”-ery, isn’t it.’
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It might be whataboutery, but it is a highly pertinent and legitimate example of it. The point in question was human rights abuses. If we consider killing a million people in Iraq as the ultimate abuse of their human rights then China’s human rights abuses pale in comparison to ours3
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Np, it is not. It is silly and inaccurate, as I said. Even if we were to accept your 1 million figure (and many say that that figure is highly questionable), it pales in comparison to the number of Chinese who died in Mao’s various experiments; you have heard of the “Great Leap Forward” and the “Cultural Revolution”, I suppose?
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“But so brainwashed are the people in this country with the laughable notion that we are the good guys that the whole country lines up to condemn the lesser crimes of China totally oblivious to the slaughter done in our name.”
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Here we are again – the people are “brainwashed”. This is always the argument people like you put forward when public opinion happens not to agree with your own particular vision of world events.
KOWN
“In fact, I have come to suspect there are at least three different people posting under your Avatar.”
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Mary-like speculation and, of course, a diversion.
I can assure you it’s all my own work – and not based on cut-and-pastes from the pretentiously-named “globalresearch”, Chris Spivey and the like. 🙂
PS – “suspect” is copyright Lysias – do you have permission to use it?
“Putting solar panels on 15Million household would cost less and produce more than 7% of expected energy from the new nuclear plant.”
Not at night they wouldn’t.
So we’d have to build new power stations anyway, or only switch the lights on during the day.
To revert for a minute to Tom Watson, he is clearly a member of the Thuggish Tendency within the Labour Party. A category well r”presented by mainly Labour MPs from the North of England and Scotland (as was).
I suspect (copyright Lysias)that his political mentors were those other outstanding members of the Thuggish Tendency Mr Adam Ingram and Dr John Reid.
Royal families are thicker on the ground in Europe than anywhere else in the world. Seven of the 15 states of the European Union are monarchies, if you include the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
And then there are Norway and Monaco, not to mention the claimants to the ancient thrones of much of eastern Europe.
The Ruritanian parasites are spread across Europe, but it’s the Saxe Coburg-Gotha parasitic strain that infects the UK. It constantly grows in number leeching endlessly on resources, and like the mosquito, it leaves a infection through its proboscis.
The infection leaves subjects (they call themselves such due to the infection) delusional and they believe the Royals to be worthy and righteous. In the latter stages of the parasitic infection the subjects begin mumbling constantly Dieu et Mon Droit, when referring to the parasite.
In the very latter stages of the infection the parasite can sometimes (mainly if you’ve been an extremely obedient host) excrete material, medical professionals refer to this worthless detritus as a MBE or a CBE, or even a OBE, it should washed off immediately, contact with such dross can lead to the host feeling illusions of grandeur.
I always do. And no it wasn’t me; I have only commented here relatively recently, I do not do it regularly; and do not intend to do so. There are many interesting issues raised here, but the facts are rarely easily accessible and the debate is often bad tempered, arrogant and ill-informed, on all sides; this inevitably goes with much of the territory explored, but too often it is wasted effort. Craig has much greater knowledge of much of this territory, but whether he has sufficient knowledge is often difficult to show. In some cases the evidence has been buried from sight deliberately and deep from public scrutiny; and will never be revealed.
There are many, many important issues in 1930s politics in Britain about which we know almost nothing, nearly ninety years later; and the history has inevitably been poorly researched and badly written. It is even more difficult to write competently about the last thirty years, especially about foreign adventures. This is just reality, but it often reduces comment to little more than idle speculation.
I think I have now written quite enough on this subject.
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“Corbyn is nothing special…” That’s all that’s required to be a socialist.
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tony_opmoc SamanthaSays • a few seconds ago
I read a lot of foreign press…I’m retired and got nothing better to do when the weather is crap…
Corbyn is Worldwide Headline News…
How the hell did he manage that??
And that is an important question..because Corbyn isn’t that special – and I am sure he would be the first to admit it and would be completely honest about his entire life history and everything he knows.
That Is NORMAL
Tony
Fred
““Putting solar panels on 15Million household would cost less and produce more than 7% of expected energy from the new nuclear plant.”
Not at night they wouldn’t.
So we’d have to build new power stations anyway, or only switch the lights on during the day.”
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Booker and North, in their book “Scared to Death”, make the interesting claim that electricity generating installations using renewable energies – precisely because of the vagaries of the weather (sunshine and wind)- need to be backed up by capacity from traditional fossile fuel-powered power stations; these have to be kept turning over in order to be able to come on stream at short notice (which itself uses energy).
The potential contribution of wind and solar power to Europe’s energy needs has been very wildly overstated.
Habba said: “Here we are again – the people are “brainwashed”. This is always the argument people like you put forward when public opinion happens not to agree with your own particular vision of world events”.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/navy-sailors-possibly-exposed-to-fukushima-radiation-fight-for-justice-a-1016482.html
Apart from the human cost, at least 12 US Navy warships have had to be taken out of service. Billions and billions of tax payer’s dollars down the drain. No one has ever been held to account for it. None of it is ever properly reported by the presstitutes (the above link, from January this year, is the latest I can find on all things USS Reagan. There’s now an almost total news blackout on it).
Without a free and open press there is no democracy. Instead, one finds oneself in a total dystopia, ‘debating’ with government trolls on boards like this.