I shall be quite busy speaking in the next few weeks:
Friday 24 February 8pm in The Elephant and Castle, Lewes, Sussex. The Headstrong Club (entry £3). I shall be attempting a wide ranging radical analysis of world events encompassing Trump, Brexit, Putin, Corbyn, China and where ordinary people stand as the world order changes. I love Lewes, which has the most fascinating radical tradition dating back to Thomas Paine and beyond, and still retains that vibe in an extraordinary way.
Saturday 25th February 1pm to 7pm, Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London. Conference on “Noam Chomsky’s The Responsibility of Intellectuals, 50 Years On.” Speakers are Neil Smith, Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight, Craig Murray, Milan Rai, Jackie Walker, Kriszta Szendroi, and Noam Chomsky himself (by live video-link). The event will be broadcast live here.
I had to send an abstract of my talk for Chomsky to see so he will be able to respond, which makes me feel like a worried schoolboy. I am scheduled to speak at 4.20 for 35 minutes. Chomsky will be speaking at 5.15.
Thursday 2nd March Leeds University Palestine Solidarity Group and Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Talk entitled “Palestine/Israel: A Unitary Secular State or a Bantustan Solution?”. Venue and time details to follow.
Tuesday 7th March in the Black Abbott, Borrowfield at 7.30 pm talk to Montrose SNP Branch on the Next Independence Referendum. I understand they will be inviting other SNP branches in Angus.
Thursday 9th March 6.30pm Talk to Motherwell and Wishaw Rotary Club on Lessons from my Diplomatic Career.
Saturday 11th March 11am, Tigh Na Sghire, Portree, Isle of Skye screening of London Calling and discussion of BBC Bias. London Calling – Skye (PDF)
And a few longer term but interesting ones:
Sunday 26 March, Pacific Quay, Glasgow, BBC Bias Protest
Saturday 15 April, Doha, Qatar, Al Jazeera Forum. Speaker on “State Crisis and the Middle East.”
Thursday 11 May 2.30pm Upper Room Town Hall, Chipping Campden. Sikunder Burnes, Master of the Great Game. Chipping Campden Literary Festival tickets £7.
As I constantly repeat, I am very disorganised so if you are inviting me do keep nagging if I don’t reply, and once confirmed do keep reminding me!
Wallowing and retching through the stench and recrement of quandam capitalist exploitation condensed naked on the event horizon, one becomes conscious of a complete lack of depth to information, an illusion that reveals an entanglement of chaotic disorder projected into our existence.
May I suggest this entropy persists from generation to generation simply because chaotic positions are embedded in the human psyche and like water left in the dark after rainfall eventually becomes foul, rancid, corrupt and good for nothing, much like the West, senseless and impersonally insane.
To control the transmission of the elements of a society’s cultural inheritance is to control the timing of education and indoctrination on the emerging minds of the susceptible at it’s peak in childhood. Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life is an axiom of truth. Indeed, education is deliberately designed to deprive children of learning how to analyze in the most logical ways so as to forestall all impulses to mass rebellion and independence.
By critical analysis and reflection, like rays of sunlight on the polluted water one might diminish and severe this institutional brainwashing tainted by the politics of for-profit. En-masse education and reeducation of our children with the thoughts and prayers of collective understanding, sense and perception may well be key to a perfect hologram where entropy is germination rather than decay.
With great respect, the above looks as if it’s been written by a mis-programmed computer.
Remember Orwell’s 10 golden rules for clear writing!
I imagine that Orwell-of Lion and Unicorn fame- would have been intrigued by Golding’s comment. His views on education are not unlike William Cobbett’s. Cobbett warned against ‘education’ becoming a form of, to employ an anachronism, brainwashing to reconcile the poor to the fate of being robbed by the rich.
John Taylor Gatto used to say that if you could keep them out of school until they were around 8 yrs old, you’d probably saved most of their native curiousity, problem-solving and critical thinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP98ZKt709A
I suspect the Orwell of 1984 fame would be sickened by this:
“En-masse education and reeducation of our children with the thoughts and prayers of collective understanding, sense and perception may well be key to a perfect hologram where entropy is germination rather than decay.”
To say nothing of what he might think of Golding eulogizing of that mass murderer Assad.,
You might also benefit from actually benefit from reading the Lion and Unicorn and in particular those bits regarding patriotism and why Communism would never work in Britain.
BTW Habba – Orwell only had 6 golden rules for clear writing, but rest assured all of them were broken
Myself, I believe indoctrination can be undone if you open your eyes thoroughly RD – the intention this day forward is schooling children beyond the bounds of being told what to think and what to believe using the same old tired and predictable tune, the same recognizable chorus, given both rhythm and leitmotif so the grotesque and crooked dance could begin.
Sadly au courant the lyrics of the tune are chanted, incantations in perfect English (golden rule?), and with that air of moral and cultural superiority, which is supposed to disperse all doubts to the uninvolved and wide-eyed foolish.
“You might also benefit from actually benefit from reading the Lion and Unicorn and in particular those bits regarding patriotism and why Communism would never work in Britain.”
I’m sure that we would all benefit not only from re-reading it but from thinking about it. Your notion that there were two distinct Orwell’s, he of ‘1984 fame’ and a predecessor is one that you might care to explain, if you are not too busy thinking up, what the Americans call zingers.
“Your notion that there were two distinct Orwell’s, ”
Your notion not mine – there is a world of difference between abolishing private schools as Orwell advocated and the reducation with collective understanding as advocated by Mark Golding which would have been an anathema to Orwell.
politics of for-profit = Thatcherism
Rage, rage against the dying of the light means the dying of spiritual guidance.
Dylan Thomas ‘ words get misinterpreted 1000 ways e.g. this tripe:
“I believe that the poem by Dylan Thomas has been used in line with the core concept of the movie. Survival of the human race.”
https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-poem-Do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night-Old-age-should-burn-and-rave-at-close-of-day-Rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light-mean-in-Interstellar
” Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they. Do not go gentle into that good night.” It means this:
When Mrs May tells you on Bing that she’s going to make a society that works for all, and Brexit has caused the stock market to reach record highs, CONNECT. Brexit makes the rich much much richer,
Then the daft buggers vote Tory in Copeland. Well I hope you JAMmers can cope. Because the pound in your pocket now only buys half the continental sausage it bought before Brexit.
How can this happen? Because in a society that has no spiritual nourishment whatsoever, the platitudes of a Tory Whip, an arch manipulator of the arch manipulator community of Tory MPs, , when spoken by a posh lady with the right tone of gravity and depth, appear to the people like the wisdom of Solomon +++.
Mrs Thatcher with a heart!
Some on here – most prominently “Republicofscotland” – seem to welcome North Korea’s plans to build a missile (possibly nuclear in nature) that could hit the West coast of the USA.
I wonder why that should be so.
Probably because he is a devotee of fake news.
The real news is that there are tensions in the DPRK and the regime is in danger of collapse.
As there are about 25 million people resident in the DPRK then any collapse should be good for the refugee industry. As refugees from the DPRK are unlikely to enter Europe via Southern Europe I find myself spending no time wondering how many DPRK refugees will be offered asylum by Germany.
I imagine that North Korea’s government -which is still at war with the United States- is interested in acquiring the capacity to attack the United States for reasons very similar to those which prompted the US to build and aim missiles at North Korea.
When one considers the appalling carnage of the bombing campaigns that the US inflicted upon the country- essentially bombing it until it ran out of targets- it is not surprising at all that the Koreans live in fear of aggression.
The best solution to the problem would be for the US to negotiate a peace treaty with the North and for troops on all sides to withdraw back home. With a national debt of $18 trillion and bridges and dams failing daily the US would do well to stop wasting its money on aggression for the hell of it.
Well your imagination would appear to be completely detached from reality.
The US could destroy the DPRK and suffer no particular consequences.
The DPRK may be able to launch an assault against the US. Such an assault may not succeed. If it did succeed it would not be capable of destroying the US. Any assault successful, or otherwise, would invite a US counter strike that would be terminal for the DPRK,
Did the US really run out of targets in the Korean war? Maybe, or maybe not. The maybe not argument is supported by the fact that at the end of the war the front line was in pretty much the same place as it was at the beginning of the war. It is further supported that there were plenty of Chinese troops left to target.
Maybe if you could look up from your ideological prism you could learn something. Don’t you remember the great Soviet/Chinese ideological split? Don’t you remember Stalin threatening war? Don’t you remember the Chinese response? That’s right they accepted the analysis of Stalin that the soviets could kill 250 million Chinese in a first strike. Oh how they smiled when they revealed their own view that 250 million casualties was an acceptable price to maintain ideological purity and how they they would still be capable of a counter strike.
Loonie has been reading too much Battlefield Action again
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_comics#British_war_comics
Or was that backdoor action? Same thing really.
No mate. Just facts same as always.
Here are some racists – albeit non racists in your book. Never happened. Lies. Nothing to see here. Conspiracy theory, Capitalists. Imperialism. Oppression. Nothing. Does not exist. Help. I am confused. Not real -fake news. My circuits are blowing. Ignore. Go away. Fantasy is my reality..
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-24/police-fire-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-break-anti-immigrant-protests-south-africa
Hey Loony – I know you are schizophrenic because, although you deny it, you and I are the same person. You forgot to mention that in their boundless munificence free heating is provided to British pensioners in South Africa – albeit not the kind of heating that many would want
http://www.newsjs.com/za/dullstroom-community-prays-at-farm-where-woman-was-tortured-to-death/d7hjbe-0856U_eMPLgpI5yzPmi3wM/
But don’t forget in England some people insult Italians who want to by zucchini’s which is obviously far more newsworthy than an old lady being incinerated.
Habba and Loony: two fans of Apartheid.
Good to see birds of a feather responding to seasonal imperatives
That Zerohedge article is quite illuminating.
Better than anything on the BBC.
These poor black South Africans, who were promised so much by Mandela and the ANC, find 25 years later that they’re still bottom of the pile.
Whither Brotherism, when money’s about.
An exclusive educated black middle class rises, scooping for itself massive wealth.
And not a little extra corruptio.
All the while they’re visiting vicious neo-liberal destruction upon the poorest of their fellows, the footsoldiers of the ANCs wars and privations.
That was the arrangement. That was the big ANC win.
All the love and fireworks, all over the world.
Like humanity had entered a new era.
It was all Bollocks!
A fraud.
Fake news.
Fake history.
Fake everything
That’s the BBC!
“Habba and Loony: two fans of Apartheid.”
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Now now, Bevs !
Just because you’ve been firmly nailed as a member of one or other of the myriad groups claiming the true Trotskyite Succession is no excuse for making up things about other posters.
“…Don’t you remember the great Soviet/Chinese ideological split? Don’t you remember Stalin threatening war? Don’t you remember the Chinese response? That’s right they accepted the analysis of Stalin that the soviets could kill 250 million Chinese in a first strike. Oh how they smiled when they revealed their own view that 250 million casualties was an acceptable price to maintain ideological purity and how they they would still be capable of a counter strike…”
Exactly when was it in Stalin’s lifetime that this all took place? Or was Stalin long dead when what you call the ideological split (and I have grave doubts about your understanding of most polysyllabic words) took place?
Underneath that aggression and constant re-iteration of inventions there is a well of ignorance of Teapot Dome proportions.
You are correct, Stalin was dead at the time of the Soviet/Chinese ideological split. I misspoke – or more accurately mis-wrote.
You see how it is for those who are not constrained by ideology – they can readily admit mistakes.
N Korea is a bit of a bogeyman.
Latterly, for an increasingly desperate US.
Who need something really really scary to keep their peeps afraid.
And the Russians have become so cuddly of late.
But more generally for the Japanese elites, who need to keep their peeps in fear.
Japanese and Korean elites are bosum buddies.
Funnily enough.
It’s their own local pretend Cold War.
Wonder who thought that up.
You are wasting your breath Loony in Bevin’s eyes only one party and its allies are capable of imperialism and aggression despite all the evidence to the contrary to which a blind eye is always turned.
Hey loony – who is this Bevin person who thinks we are fans of apartheid?
Look we are the same person – it should be “…who thinks I am a fan of apartheid” – Do you not remember all those English lessons I had to attend
Sorry – but what is he talking about, does he not know that we (I) would not qualify as a privileged person under apartheid?
He does not care – he only cares about ideology.
So he does not care about us (me)
No – not at all.
What have we (I) done wrong? We (I) learned their language and have tried to fit in and be self supporting.
Being self supporting is what we (I) did wrong. We (I) should claim to be victims of something – but not something real, our (my) experiences would make them sick – they would not be sympathetic. They would be repulsed.
Why do you (I) argue with them?
We (I) need to know how deep the sickness runs?
Will we (I) have to leave here as well?
Probably.
Why?
We (I) will explain it to you (myself later)
Do you know you spelled “buy” as “by”?
It is not important.
How helpful to Jamie Reed’s career must all these foreign visits have been. On the list, visits are recorded to China, Japan (ref Fukushima), Flamanville, France, the US and Sweden, presents from contractors like Amey Foster Wheeler and there’s even a trip to Israel with the LFoI. Shame on him. Did he make it to Dimona? 🙂
Destination of visit: Iwaki City, Japan
Date of visit: 7-15 April 2016
Purpose of visit: to attend the Fukushima Conference. The conference focusses on providing factual information to the people of Fukushima, **so they can understand current status and future plans for the affected facilities and surrounding area.**
(Registered 10 May 2016)
**How reassuring his concern must be for the Japanese people living with the contamination and for many of the rest of us likely to develop cancers via the now heavily contaminated marine food chain.
Sellafield paid for his accommodation but the travel costs came from ‘a non registrable source’. I think we should have the name and why are they unregistrable?
Name of donor: Sellafield Ltd
Address of donor: Hinton House, Birchwood Park Avenue, Risley, Warrington WA3 6GR
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): accommodation with a value of �259.96. Travel costs were met by a non-registrable source.
Tickets for rugby at Twickenham were donated by Amec Foster Wheeler. From their website when searching for ‘Sellafield’
2 results within Sectors & Services for ‘sellafield’
Decommissioning & waste management
In support of our decommissioning and waste management activities, Amec Foster Wheeler provides Radiological and Environmental services
http://www.amecfw.com/sectors/nuclear-sector/decommissioning-waste-management
Plant operational support
For decades, Amec Foster Wheeler has provided independent support to operators facing ever-increasing challenges to ensure their plants are as safe and efficient as possible.
http://www.amecfw.com/sectors/nuclear-sector/plant-operational-support
‘This work is underpinned by our experience of leading extensive change and delivery programmes at Sellafield in the UK, the world’s most challenging nuclear site, where we were part of Nuclear Management Partners, the consortium which owned and operated Sellafield from 2008 to 2016.’
So It’s a case of ‘I’m alright Jamie’. He certainly got around.
Keep glowing Jamie!
Have you ever looked at the Wikipedia page for Sellafield and the section on Radiological Releases?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield#Radiological_releases
Don’t if you want an unworried mind. It’s a litany of £billions and billions of cost and waste and of huge pollution of the land and sea.
“How helpful to Jamie Reed’s career must all these foreign visits have been… there’s even a trip to Israel with the LFoI. Shame on him.”
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He visited Israel – the horror !
Let him be anathema !
You old Israel-hater 🙂
SNP MP Alison Thewliss wants all football clubs in Scotland to declare their stadiums breastfeeding-friendly
It just had to be from The Scottish Monster Raving Loony Party
You do wonder if the two Labour MPs were offered better paid jobs to vacate (Leave) seats Labour could easily lose in by-elections as a deliberate attempt to sink Corbyn! Blair’s intervention wasn’t intended to help matters which makes Labour’s performance impressive in the circumstances. Andrew Neal played the BBC/Israel Embassy line that Corbyn was to blame for the loss of Copeland, ignoring the fact that if so, he must have been responsible for the Stoke win, which he probably was by imposing the 3 line whip on Article 50!
**BREAKING**
SNP MP wants all football clubs in Scotland to declare their stadiums breastfeeding-friendly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-39076539
You heard it here first.
Are you against breastfeeding in general or just believe that mothers who wish to do what they think is right for the child should be confined to their homes?
I think the pertinent question is: who the hell takes a baby to a football match?
Or, is this even an issue?
And, where does the SNP find idiots like this?
We now know who the hell says they shouldn’t. Anything else you would like to ban while you are at it?
A football match is the same as anywhere else for a baby.
I don’t see there being huge up take for this but I’d support the idea that football clubs should provide decent facilities for families.
That Ayr are the club leading the way on this is strange considering the toilets on the terracing at Somerset Park don’t seem to have been upgraded since the 1930s.
Scotland’s top police officer has said tackling hate crime is an “absolute priority” for his force.
Police Scotland: Highest Priority LGBTI-Hate Crime
Speaking at the start of Hate Crime Awareness Week, Phil Gormley said he was determined to eradicate all forms of hatred in Scotland.
A new network of LGBTI liaison officers has been established in a bid to improve the reporting of hate crimes.
About 90 officers have been trained to work with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex community.
The chief constable’s comments come after a recent report called for a stronger approach to tackling hate crime in Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-37584951
This is the same Police Scotland that are in debt up to their Scopttish eyeballs.
‘Escalating behaviour’
Mr Gormley called on all victims of hate crime to report every incident to police.
He said: “Tackling all forms of hate crime remains an absolute priority for Police Scotland.
“Every incident has a significant impact on the victim, their family and wider communities. Police Scotland continues to work closely with our criminal justice partners to do everything in our power to protect all communities and eradicate all forms of hatred.”
Mr Gormley said hate crime manifested itself in many different ways – through violence, offensive graffiti and vandalism as well as intimidation and harassment in person and online.
He said: “All of this behaviour is completely unacceptable, and whether criminal or not, Police Scotland wants to know about in order to avoid behaviour escalating and being unchallenged.”
It found the issue was far worse than official figures suggested.
Scottish Shambles
Former S. N. P. minister says Police Scotland is ‘in CRISIS’ amid ‘£200m black hole’
SCOTLAND’S beleaguered police service was branded “an organisation in crisis” by a former SNP minister today amid warnings of a £200 million financial BLACK HOLE.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/759300/Police-Scotland-debt-crisis-Former-SNP-minister
Alex Neil, who served in the Cabinet until last year, warned financial management of single force and funding body the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) was “totally unacceptable”.
His comments came as MSPs quizzed the country’s spending watchdog over a damning report which laid bare “weak” financial leadership since Police Scotland’s creation almost four years ago.
“A new network of LGBTI liaison officers has been established in a bid to improve the reporting of hate crimes.
About 90 officers have been trained to work with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex community.”
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That asteroid really can’t come soon enough.
It might as well be about Sweden?
The slow creep to fascism continues – news organisations banned from Press briefings, the Syrian cinematographer who worked on a film on the White Helmets banned from attending the Oscar ceremony due to “derogatory information” (provided by the Putin regime would be my guess)
First they came for the Moslems, then the transexuals, then the journalists, then the film makers…………
Sorry RD but you come across like some luvvie performing at the Oscars.
Now which side can’t accept the result of a democratic election? Which side claims to be anti-fascist whilst behaving like fascists? Whose side are the biased media on? 100% pro-Obama coverage followed by 0% pro-Tump coverage. The bastards at CNN even leaked Hillary the questions. Is it any wonder Trump doesn’t want anything to do with them? I don’t think you quite appreciate what it’s been like for those who don’t share your liberal views to live under near-total liberal media-enforced bias for the last 20-odd years.
Take Sweden as an example. Oh how the media ganged up and laughed in unison at Trump because he said something happened in Sweden last night. The same media, it was pointed out by the alternative media, that have studiously avoided reporting anything of what’s been happening in Sweden every night ever since that previously peaceful country decided to flood itself with Islamic migrants, to show how enriched and tolerant it was. Gang warfare, violent crime, mass-rape and jihadism are what’s been happening every night in Sweden. There is even grenade warfare on the streets. All hushed up and denied by your caring, tolerant liberal elite. Don’t like what’s being done to your country? You’re a racist, a bigot, an extremist, an ‘Islamophobe’. Your views should be censored. Now tell me who the fascists are, RD.
Oh, and I really could not give less of a fuck if a man pretending to be a woman can’t just wander into the Ladies and start waving his todger around in front of little girls. If that’s your idea of fascism then so be it. You have gone too far. Too far with you identity politics, too far with your censorship of opposing views, too far with your fascist-inspired closing down of free speech, howling down of ordinary folk as racist, bigoted, far-right and so on for daring to oppose your liberal ideals. Your era is over. Get used to it.
Very well put
Anon1
The murder rate in Sweden is less than that in Florida, let alone the US as a whole. Trump should put America first.
Nice crack WBO.
But, after Assange, if I were in Sweden I’d have consent forms ready for signature at my bedside before having any kind of sex.
And then there is this from the horse’s mouth:
‘Swedish city one of ‘largest recruiting grounds for Isis’
“Gothenburg, in western Sweden is, per capita, one of the European cities from which most people have joined Islamic extremist groups, according to Swedish integration police chief, Ulf Boström.”
http://www.thelocal.se/20151115/swedish-city-is-largest-recruiting-ground-for-islamic-extremism
Large-hearted people with little understanding of funda-mental Islam.
I have no problem with you or anyone complaining about bias in the media, my problem is with the banning of them. The freedom of the press to be biased. or for anyone to have different views (including yourself) is also part of democracy as well as elections be it in the US or Russia.
Are you worried in the slightest that Trump has also said that the media should be required to name the sources for their stories?
Do you have any red lines when it comes to the freedom of the Press?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-demands-no-anonymous-sources-w-h-briefing-article-1.2981338
Trump can’t do anything about anonymous sources in the media.
However the fact anonymous sources are as often used as a propaganda tactic as they are to genuinely inform the public should not be forgotten.
Remember the Miliband ‘rebellion’ and the BBC leading with the story for a week despite not one ‘source’ being willing to go on record.
Sadiq Khan says Nationalism no different to racism.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scottish-nationalism-same-racism-says-9913799
Brexit was fuelled by nationalism. The Labour Party is going along with Brexit. By Sadiq’s definition then, Labour is racist. But of course that would be a nonsensical thing to maintain. Just as it’s nonsensical to maintain that the pro-immigration, civic nationalist Yes movement is racist.
You hold a responsible and high profile office now Sadiq. Must do better than come out with this kind of thing.
I opposed Brexit and voted against it.
Me too.
“Restore Scottish sovereignty”, “Take back control”, “Drain the swamp”.
Let’s face it, they’re all singing off the same hymn sheet.
Come on, in this country we say “Drain the moat!”.
You voted no in 2014, which makes you a British nationalist.
However dozens of dependencies have voted for independence through nationalism, since the end of WWII, so in your opinion they must all be inward intolerant bigots.
Narrow minded people like you base all nationalists and their movements, on the Nazi form of nationalism.
Voting against Nationalism doesn’t make someone a Nationalist.
You do say the stupidest things sometimes.
You voted to keep Scotland in the union, that makes you a Britnat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nationalism
No it doesn’t.
It makes me not a Scotnat.
I voted remain and I’m not a Eurnat either.
I’m someone who is not a Nationalist of any flavour.
Do you understand yet or will you require words of one syllable?
“It makes me not a Scotnat.”
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No I’m afraid this is what you voted for.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gs4.jpg
Oops! Looks like I hit a nerve.
I rest my case.
Fred
A H0locaust denier is accusing you of being a Nazi. Just laugh.
“being a Nazi.”
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Did they go away, or did they just move?
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.726107
Anon1
Thanks for reminding me that “Republicofscotland ” did indeed once deny the Holo****t.
Sadiq Khan has hired Mandelslime to advise on Brexit.
The Blairites scratch each other’s backs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/peter-mandelson-hired-to-advise-sadiq-khan-on-brexit_uk_5857c36be4b0acb6e4b899ef
This is Mandelslime’s £8m ‘Gothic Revival’ house which he acquired in 2011. Perhaps Cherie acted as adviser on the purchase and got a good price for him.
Mandelson’s £8m (four storey) mansion: New questions over former Labour minister’s wealth after ‘huge property offer’
£8m home boasts wine cellar, atrium and elegant reception rooms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028356/Lord-Mandelsons-8m-mansion-Questions-Labour-ministers-wealth.html#
Sadiq seems to be ignorant of the fact that Scotland is a country if not at the moment an independent country.
Sadie Khan might do well to check this out
http://wingsoverscotland.com/for-sadiq-khan/#more-92144
I don’t understand why the Vicar of Bath thinks a picture of Sadiq Khan starting a charity cycle ride is significant of anything.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Co8Qm7bWAAQm4rm.jpg
Don’t you think it would have been more honest of him to state the context of the picture?
Obviously, you haven’t read what the Vicar of Bath has to say on this matter. Fly the flag…
Life is far to short to be reading the Vicar of Bath.
Maybe you could explain to me the significance of someone starting a charity cycle race with a union flag and why you think it honest to put a picture of it amongst pictures of right wing Nationalists?
If you want to know, Fred, read the article yourself.
Will you stop telling me what to do.
Either you can answer the point here to everyone or you can’t. If you can’t just say so.
End of story.
Blood pressure Fred, calm down, deep breaths, in and out that’s it.
Sadiq Khan, desperately back tracking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-39089604
JOML.
You hit a nerve too. ?
Oops, looks like I’ve hit a second nerve, you’d better watch your blood pressure.
Think so, RoS.
Saw this guy playing last night – you might find the lyrics interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQofuyZKGA
From there, he has more songs, including one about the BBC.
Thanks JOML, there’s much truth in that ballad, Special Branch followed him constantly, take from that what you will, as to who bumped him off.
I understand that you feel you are qualified to comment on articles you haven’t read. That suggests that you are not open to discussion or increasing your understanding of issues. Therefore, this is more of a chat room for you, rather than a blog. You have my sympathies.
You can stuff your sympathies.
Would you like to answer the question I asked about the photograph or would you like to continue the flame war? I’m easy either way.
I know exactly how Nationalist thugs and bully boys operate and it won’t work on me sunshine.
A huge oil rig is on its way from China to the UK’s North Sea. It arrives in June.
Of course the UK is now incapable of building an oil rig.
How do you move an oil platform from China to the UK?
A semi-submersible ship carrying an oil platform is going from Shengsi County in China to the North Sea Oil Field in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39089587
So Habb, and Looney believe that I welcome NK’s attempt to build a missile, that could reach the west coast of the USA.
Would Looney or Habb please point me to comment that I’m alleged to have made that assertion.
Or is it the usual nonsense from the pair? I think the latter opinion holds more veracity.
“Meanwhile I note that you are keen to disparage the English and ally with the EU – an EU that includes (or is perhaps dominated by) an entity that was absolutely essential in the gassing of Kurds.”
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Looney also wrongly claimed that I disparage the people from England, on the contrary, I have nothing but goodwill towards the people of England.
I do however have a go at their government, and its policies over the decades, Brexit, McCrone Report, the stealing of 6000 miles of sea (which contains oil wells) the tampering with the 1979 devolution vote where the dead counted as no voters and the 40% rule was applied.
The illegal invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and the the aiding and abetting Saudi Arabia, the support of Israel and the British governments meddling in Syria. Plus a whole plethora of other devious activities to boot.
Not to mention the outright lies and deceitful behaviour of the government and the Better Together camp during the 2014 indyref, the lies and propaganda has continued unabated and will continue to do so.
Mind you this isn’t the first time Looney has put his foot in his mouth.
Saturday 25th February 1pm to 7pm, Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London. Conference on “Noam Chomsky’s The Responsibility of Intellectuals, 50 Years On.” Speakers are Neil Smith, Nicholas Allott, Chris Knight, Craig Murray, Milan Rai, Jackie Walker, Kriszta Szendroi, and Noam Chomsky himself (by live video-link).
Live now https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Live/15
Craig at 4.20 followed by Chomsky. I suspect that Craig may be the only one comprehensible. The twit reading out her speak at the moment certainly is not.
The ‘intellectuals’ have fucked up this country. They cannot even organise a simple webcast to run smoothly!
This is completely unsurprising and is par for the course for the academia of this blessed country. As I have wondered before, what is their contribution to the economy of this country? It’s a scandal.
I watched the start of the ‘conference’, it was a bumpy ride technically; at first they didn’t even have the volume set right so I had to stream it through a serious blue-tooth speaker. After lunch, and now, I couldn’t get back into the site and now it’s a dead black screen.
Do these fuckers who keep complaining and moaning about the Govt, need the govt to run their websites and conferences for them? No wonder they want to suck on the EU’s teats.
It’s being streamed from UCL’s own media servers by the UCL Media Centre. That may be University policy which forces them to do it that way, Either UCL Media Central are completely incompetent or they are under a denial of service attack. I don’t think the conference organisers have any control of the streaming. They should stream it via ustream or youtube live like everyone else does – not use the university’s own servers.
I agree the streaming is a total disaster. If you got a stream at the start don’t close it if you still have it or you won’t get back in
Squonk, there is no either or in my mind. The UCL Media Central are completely incompetent as are the whole of the UCL.
I expected this. You don’t have to be an intellectual guru to gauge the incompetence of British academia, especially useless historians, linguists and anthropologists and their ilk who are all parasites on society.
(Take a look at my link on innovation I shall post shortly.)
So streaming now in spurts and Craig appears in his Christmas sweater. I would go into an immediate depression if I had to wear it. I hope he bumps into Pamela Anderson who might give him a tip or two on how to dress as a former ambassador.
Anyhow it is a complete washout.
They’re probably in a state of delerium at the thought of being addressed by St Noam.
You’re right.
Shame. I was really looking forward to hearing a good rant about Israel from Jackie Walker.
Anon1,
You’ll be happy to know that they have tweeted that a recording of the the event will be made available for those unable to watch live.
My last remaining stream has gone black and I’m not even sure if they’ve managed to establish a video link with Chomsky yet.
Got a stream back – midway through Chomsky so at least the transatlantic link worked.
“A secretive right-wing Unionist organisation with links to the former director general of the Saudi intelligence service is preparing to funnel hundreds of thousands of pounds into campaigns opposing Scottish independence.”
The CRC were also outed as the “shadowy” donors behind a payment of £425,000 to Northern Ireland’s DUP during the EU referendum. That money was then used to buy Brexit supporting adverts during last June’s campaign throughout the whole of the UK, including a £280,000 four-page advert in the Metro, a newspaper not available in Northern Ireland.”
http://www.thenational.scot/news/15117143.Secretive_Unionist_funder_with_links_to_Saudi_Arabia_opposes_indyref2/
Is it any wonder Scots are looking to secure independence, the dirty underhanded British establishment and its die-hard unionist lackeys, will do anything to hold onto Scotland, and by the looks of things Northern Ireland as well.
But if Scotland is such a “economic”basket case and a subsidy junkie, why is the British establishment going to such lengths to keep Scotland in the dying union?
The answer is of course, is that Scotland is more than capable of making its way in the world as a small independent nation.
I doubt though Looney, will be able see the above aspect as anything, but disparaging to the good people of England.
An example of the mentality of the undying loyalty of a life long Labour member, of the Scottish branch office.
Anne Dean said that if Scotland voted yes to a second indyref, that she’d probably move to Denmark or Sweden.
When pointed out that Sweden and Denmark are small independent nations, that are doing well, for themselves. Dean didn’t think that Scotland could do likewise.
http://www.thenational.scot/politics/15117136.Labour_member__absolutely_sickened__by_the_demise_of_her_party/?ref=mrb&lp=3
Still no word on the Tory expenses scandal, that could see 29 Tory MP’s face charges over spending declarations. The police have been given a years extension to look into the matter under the, Representation of the People act.
It would only take 9 Tory MP’s to be convicted for the Tories to lose their majority, it could also lead to another general election being called for, probably Labour’s only real chance of winning a GE.
There hasn’t been much media attention of late on a situation that could potentially blow up in the faces of the Tories, and lead to a GE. Apart from Channel Four’s coverage, the rest of the media has been pretty quiet on the matter.
Will it be kicked into the long grass? Will the police quietly drop their investigation? And what stance will the Electoral Commission take?
I can’t believe it. It’s actually worth watching Scotland play rugby again. Well done Scotland. Great match, great result.
https://www.indy100.com/article/most-innovative-countries-economies-in-the-world-global-bloomberg-index-7598966
The UK comes in at #17 after 11 European countries, including Ireland.
1. South Korea
2. Sweden
3. Germany
4. Switzerland
5. Finland
6. Singapore
7. Japan
8. Denmark
9. U.S.
10. Israel
11. France
12. Austria
13. Belgium
14. Norway
15. Netherlands
Who is this cunt Greg Clark?
https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/secretary-of-state-for-business-innovation-and-skills
I see Israel is at No 10, easy to do when you’re scrounging billions of dollars from other countries.
Britain behind EU and Scandinavian countries, no surprise there then.
Jackie Walker was being subjected to a stream of heckling including some from the odious Jonathan Hoffman of the JNF.
He has form on disrupting pro-Palestinian events. I can remember him when I was at UCL on two occasions some time back, when Gideon Levy and Dr Mads Gilbert were the speakers. A fanatic.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FreeSpeechOnIsr
The charitable status of the JNF-UK, has come under increasing attack. British prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had been Honourary Patrons of the JNF-UK, like all British prime ministers before them since its inception.
Though David Cameron (did something right for a change) resigned the position, because monies raised in the UK were sent to Israel, and focused only on Israel.
T’ruah (The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights) has expressed concerns that the JNF is not transparent, about where their funds go, and that the organisation may be subsidising projects in West Bank settlements. The organisation’s chief executive later acknowledged that JNF does fund projects, within settlements.
A review of their tax filing from 2014 led Rabbi Jill Jacobs of T’ruah to estimate, that about $600,000 of the $27.2 million in grants by JNF-USA went to support settlements.
“A fanatic.”
And you?
“Jonathan Hoffman of the JNF… has form on disrupting pro-Palestinian events.”
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Oh, I hadn’t realised the conference Craig was speaking at was a “pro-Palestinian event”.
Glad that’s been cleared up, then! 🙂
Ah the person that makes wild assertions about people who comment on NK, then fails to back them up when challenged.
Incidently if it’s any consolation, your sidekick Looney also hasn’t responded.
Well it was some kind of collective moan by a handful of people who think that the rest of the world is ‘evil’ and they are the anointed keepers of human conscience. Every single one of them is an escape artist, painting blame, blame, blame, (outwardly) apart from themselves. Their only responsibility (ability to respond) is to analyse and skin the dead cats of history. Insights? Zero. And then they go home, and send their ‘followers’ (lemmings) home pleased as punch, as if they’ve done a honest day’s work in goodness. Laughable.
The bells chime in unison, yet again.
To make it clear, I wasn’t referring to you RoS. It’s this crazy ‘Reply’ function which sends a reply to later comments.
This must be the same Jonathan Hoffman, from 2010.
http://jewdas.org/jonathan-hoffman-anti-zionist-hero/
The only person hostile to Jackie Walker was Mr Hoffman (if that’s his name – I had no idea who he was).
Everyone else was hostile to Mr Hoffman and supportive of Jackie Walker. Incidentally, I think they should have let Mr Hoffman speak without heckling him.
He told Jackie Walker that she was not Jewish.
How do you know if someone is Jewish?
Jackie Walker says herself that she is. I assume that she knows more about it than Mr Hoffman does.
Hoffman is a crab
Because Jackie Walker says herself that she is Jewish. I assume she knows.
I’m sure she knows, but maybe she’s wrong and how do we know if Hoffman is Jewish, or even part Jewish and what make’s someone part Jewish? I’m being serious, because if Jewish is a protected characteristic and if any criticism of Jews/Israel can be perceived as the proscribed motive of anti-Semitism carrying on conviction a potential additional 2 years in jail, then who makes the charge and to whom is of legal importance, particularly if a matter involving anti-Semitism goes to trial, if only in the court of public opinion.
Fortunately, the “hate crime” legislation covers this by saying that something is anti-Semitic if anyone anywhere perceives it to be anti-Semitic even if no one involved is Semitic/Jewish”! And if MSM can be shown to apply the term/insult in a partisan way that would make a fair trial difficult!
In parts this thread resembles being in the public bar of a charming little pub called the Knuckle & Duster, in Thatcher’s post-industrial wasteland Britain; so let’s move across to the saloon bar: yet more censorship of the so-called ‘alternate media’. Do no evil…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLtZh3U2g0g
Is FRANCE ungovernable?
Towards 0.30 am, relief was called for a fire at the bus station in Annemasse, Haute-Savoie.
Four buses have literally gone up in smoke. The fire caught on a first bus before spreading quickly to the other buses in 10 minutes. The windows of the customs building exploded as well as those of a neighbor. A safety cord has been installed around the buses. Around 3:30 am the fire was under control
http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2017/02/25/annemasse-4-bus-en-feu-a-la-gare-routiere-cette-nuit
Almost every day vehicles are set fire in France, yet there is a State of Emergency,
do they ever lock anyone up?
The place is an utter shambles.
Marine seems rather keen on The Scottish Donald
http://news.sky.com/story/marine-le-pen-praises-donald-trump-i-only-have-reason-to-rejoice-10779502
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has praised US President Donald Trump, saying his actions have been good for France so far.
Ms Le Pen, who is leading in the latest opinion polls ahead of the spring election, applauded Mr Trump’s promotion of “intelligent protectionism” and “economic patriotism”.
The Front National leader also praised his plan to change or scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, as well as his “rupture with total free trade imposed on the world”.
She told the Associated Press that she “only has reason to rejoice” in Mr Trump’s actions.
“So far there is no (untoward) international fallout,” she said.
Maybe Marine is the only candidate that can stop the downward spiral in France?
The French stand up for their hard fought rights, whereas the Brits thesedays just doff their cap and wave flags for Royal parasites and watch total brain-washing garbage on the tv.
I’m a British patriot.
You are not.
And they won’t lock-up anyone in France, because the people are awake, and the government are bricking themselves.
Nearly all humans think of themselves as doing good.
The trouble is, our thinking, rational minds are dependent upon the ancient motivational brain system, and can be deceived by it. All the “good” we think we do is illusion, as our recently evolved rational functions serve their ancient master by inventing excuses, justifications and rationalisations for disadvantaging thy neighbour, stealing their mate, blackening their reputation and dismissing their concerns.
We’re an evolutionary dead-end. We need more neocortex with which to master the beast within, but our birth as infants nigh kills our mothers getting the head out. Our brains can’t develop further in natural human form, but our technology will continue to develop greater weaponry and more effective means of mass influence. The inevitable outcome is disaster.
But thanks for trying to cheer me up, Rob x
YES! WEE KHAN
Scotland’s not brexiting. And that doesn’t make us racist, but the opposite.
It may not make you racist, but says an awful lot about how you rank your own self centered narcissistic interests higher than the basic needs of the peoples of Southern Europe – who are being unremittingly crushed by the neo-con entity that is the EU
In that case, losing neoliberal Westminster and gaining socialist Holyrood should do the EU a power of good…
Is there something special about Scottish socialists – are they Nietzschein supermen?
Greece elected a socialist government – and it was promptly emasculated by the trioka of the EU (Germany)/the ECB (Germany) and the IMF.
It was nothing whatsoever to do with Westminster.
Yes Looney tends to make assertions, that he hasn’t a hope in hell of backing up.
Does anyone dispute what has happened to the Greek economy and to the lives of Greek citizens? Do you think that Spanish youth unemployment numbers are all fictional? Do you not see with your own eyes the growing numbers of Southern Europeans in the UK? Do you ever speak to any of these people and ask them if they are happy in the UK -If they miss the land of their birth? If they want to return home? and why they can’t return home.
Exactly what evidence do you want of the economic devastation visited on Southern Europe?
This has happened because of the EU. Either the EU will be destroyed or ultimately all countries of the EU who are not called Germany will be destroyed.
Scotland will indeed be brexiting, unless it can become independent within the next couple of years. Even then membership of the EU cannot be guaranteed; existing members of the EU will decide.
The EU has made it clear. As long as Scotland votes for independence before Brexit.
It doesn’t mean we have to have a referendum campaign, vote Yes, negotiate a settlement and have a formal hand over of power all within two years.
Great – so now your narcissism is so great that you basically don’t give a fuck if you spark a rerun of the Civil War in Spain.
Why do you despise these people so much and why do you want to enter a union of subservience to Germany with people you despise?
Loony
Try swapping vituperation for debating skills matey.
I would do but you seem to prefer debating without reference to any facts. Maybe I am wrong. Why not explain
(i) what factual evidence you have that the Government of Spain would permit an independent Scotland to either join or remain in the EU?
(ii) What factual evidence you have that the collapse in economic activity in each of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece are attributable to anything other than EU policy.
Maybe you could explain what is so attractive to Angela Merkel of upwards of 1 million people whose origins she does not know and what is so repulsive to her about Southern Europeans?
The SNP will be trying to do a deal with Germany.
Like they were in WWII.
I didn’t get to London for Craig’s lecture. I would have liked to have seen Craig and Iain and Phil and whoever else went, but I found that there are no trains at the weekends at present due to Crossrail construction. I got off the Rail Replacement bus because I wouldn’t have got there in time.
Mind, human nature is so horrible that human rights are probably counter-productive anyway.
Try not to be so negative, Clark. I know that bods like me often come across as being negative, but what keeps us going is a supreme faith in human nature.
Good will always prevail over evil.
(trust me)
God can’t prevail over something that he does not know. There is no ‘evil’, as in moral badness, in Nature.
What Clark calls human nature, may actually be unnatural. Mischief as a result of our large brains, programmed to be physically insecure as the animal, spilling into the psychological sphere. And unable to resolve his conflicts, because he believes that the whole world is outside him, separate from him:
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Now, carry on quibbling.
You’re not immune, Alcyone, no matter what your thinking brain tells you.
Know yourself first Clark, before you tell me what I am or am not.
Quibbling, Alcyone?
Not at all Clark, though I note the roots with your trying to personalise things. I stated a fact though and I shall let you have the last word as I have no more interest in arguing with you than with a drunkard.
Sorry I can’t help you feel better about yourself as I’m not a soothsayer. But you can, it’s all up to you.
Oops sorry, that’s Einstein. Whereas Krishnamurti was the Einstein of the Mind. I suggest you stick to first trying to figure out the 4th dimension before going any further.
Alcyone, Ping-ting comes for fire.
Sorry Clark, but I don’t understand your (Essex?) linguistics.
Now have a good Sunday, even if it’s minus the Sun.
But you can; it’s all up to you.
Rob, thanks for trying to cheer me up. I’d posted a reply, but some sort of glitch seems to have eaten it. Maybe it’ll appear later.
“but what keeps us going is a supreme faith in human nature”….and in Chablis!!?
I understand that Alcoholics Anonymous’s 9-step, or whatever programme, essentially tries to substitute your favourite spirit with God. Perhaps because in their state of inebriation they think they experience God. Their success rate is miserably low. And their ain’t no backdoor to Heaven.
That’s very true – the success rate hovers around 5%, which is lower than nothing at all. The “surrender to a higher power” might work a bit with the religiously deluded, but if they were that high on superstition they probably wouldn’t be addicted to alcohol in the first place.
This came out a few years back – but from the Official approval of AA-type programmes, you’d swear no such conclusions had ever been made:
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/23/the_pseudo_science_of_alcoholics_anonymous_theres_a_better_way_to_treat_addiction/
Thank you for confirming Glenn–hope you are as fit and well and grounded as ever.
Still plodding along, thanks Alcyone… although not really that glad to be back in the UK. The southern parts of Europe are much more agreeable at this time of year, even if living in a van doesn’t offer all the amenities one finds at home!
Yes I can understand that Glenn; though, i am grateful that it’s been a mild winter. I even saw my first butterfly last week and she was even prettier than any i saw through the whole of the last summer. A good omen, even if she probably didn’t last out Doris.
Come to London sometime if you’d like to dip into Hell for a weekend. It’ll be a pleasure to meet.
RobG: “what keeps us going is a supreme faith in human nature.”
Now if you say faith (or better still, an understanding) in/(of) Supreme Nature, that is something else.
For insomniacs, Ian Dury and the Blockheads live at Ronnie Scotts during the 1980s…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sNykJnVqcA
Thought for the night.
“Socialism has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” – Thomas Sowell
Capitalism is hardly a raging success story either, and it would get nowhere at all without the total backing of the state, as you fully well know.
“Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbour.
Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then gives you some milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then sells you some milk.
Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows
Most amusing… it didn’t include Crony Capitalism though, which is the system under which we operate.
Crony Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell the milk, and write off the cost of upkeep on the cows against tax. You claim taxpayer-donated subsidies on the two cows and the land they occupy. You claim vastly more subsidies on land you own which is doing nothing. You allow the cows to get foot & mouth, or BSE, due to your shoddy practices and have to put the cows down – but get generously compensated by the taxpayer. The bank you keep all your loot in goes bust through its dubious gambling practices, but gets bailed out by the taxpayer so you get your money back. You deliver the milk to the market on roads paid for by the taxpayer. Your customers are assured that the milk is safe to drink through tests and regulations provided by the taxpayer. Your health is looked after by the NHS, funded by the taxpayer.
And so on. Lots of that socialised taxpayer-funded stuff that’s the bedrock of crony capitalism, wouldn’t you say?
You’ve got me thinking Glenn, whereas I’m trying to wind down to sleep, and I know your day is just beginning. I’m very nearly vegetarian, definitely no beef; now I think I shall stop milk too and do my bit to let all cows roam free.
Sometimes I do think that all money is funny, but I can’t say that to a starving child. So one shares what one can, and it is true, life is all about sharing.
I should add, well writ.
Alcyone: Much appreciated.
But I should have gone a bit further…
Crony Capitalist: You borrow the cost of buying out the farmer with debt which is insured by the bank (and back-stopped by the taxpayer), and that loan ought to be from one of your other companies so you can write off the loss. You make sure the debt is paying interest on your holdings in the UK, while the profit from selling the milk goes through a parent company in some tax efficient country (Luxembourg, Cayman Islands, who cares) who takes an enormous percentage for “intellectual copyright” of the milk, while leaving all the costs in the UK. So your UK branch takes all the losses and risks, backed by the ever generous UK taxpayer, while your profits are taxed at about 0.05% by some foreign government who owes no allegiance to us whatsoever.
At the same time, make sure your mates in the press (and the useful idiots on the ground) blame immigrants for social deprivation while your accountant writes off the three Martini lunch you had while discussing how a “businessman” just can’t get ahead these days with all this regulation, and make sure the bobble-heads get worked up about _that_, and how it’s holding them back, as they struggle on while faithfully buying The Express/Mail/Sport/Star or whatever is needed to keep them stupid and misinformed.
glenn _UK
” Lots of that socialised taxpayer-funded stuff that’s the bedrock of crony capitalism, wouldn’t you say? ”
I think you have just explained in a nutshell why Corbyn is a loser. Those of us who are old enough to remember the original Labour policies know that today’s pensioners got rich and fat on them, with the consequence that pensioners now earn more and save more than their working children, who can never afford a mortgage.
The mixture of Old Labour and post- Crash politics is completely toxic because Thatcher’s solution to State, socialist, over-spending on us, which was unregulated banking gambling, turned out to be socialism for the rich. The rich bankers’ gambling debts cost the state much more than the socialist debts for the poor ever had.
That’s why Steve Bell always put Cameron in a condom, because he always practised ” safe rubbing of finger and thumb “.
Where did you find that appalling website The Salon? If that’s American journalism, with pop-up clips of properganda which disappear, no wonder Trump is against them.
Crony capitalism is not capitalism, Glenn.
I’m afraid it is in practice, Anon1.
Some tweets about Craig on
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23ChomskyUCL17
Go back to 5 hrs to Patrick D Elliott who wrote:
Patrick D Elliott @patrickdelliott
Speaking now: Craig Murray on the willingness of ordinary ppl to go along with things they *know* to be wrong #ChomskyUCL17
Several others follow.
Hoffman tweets that Jackie Walker falsely accused him of heckling. Not true – he was undoubtedly heckling and in fact he heckled another speaker as well.
Is it anti-Semitic to accuse someone who may or may not be Jewish of heckling if the person denies heckling even if they clearly are?
Is there an ideological conflict in the making?
Scottish Nationalists who tend to be multicultural supporting socialists strongly in favor the EU share much in common with Sadiq Khan the much respected Mayor of London.
But oh dear, what is this? Mr. Khan believes that Scottish Nationalists are basically racists. How can this be? Mr. Khan is clearly not an English imperialist – his family are more likely to have been victims of English Imperialism obviously along the countless Scottish victims of English Imperialism.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sadiq-khan-sparks-huge-row-by-likening-sottish-nationalism-to-racism-a3475926.html?google_editors_picks=true
Oh what a tangled web we weave…
Sadiq Khan usually stands his ground on what he believes. Yet he has started retreating on what he had said about Scottish nationalists. Which means he never really believed it in the first place and people have been leaning on him.
Sadiq Khan isn’t sadiq then, is he? Sadiq = truthful in Arabic.
Well, maybe he is. The speech was pre-released to the press so he might not have had time to read it properly. They say that you can tell a man by the company he keeps.
You can’i sup with with the Scottish Red Tories and not lose stature. They’ll drag you down to their level.
It does seem remarkably reminiscent of what usually happens when a public figure states the obvious about Zionism.
Which is ?
Is Khan a racist?
Jonathan Cook, from Nazareth, describes the extent of online hate abuse being directed at the Palestinians, even from one of Likud’s ministers. Gilad Erdan.
Palestinians face intense online hate from Israelis, say campaigners
Palestinian lawyers call for investigation of police minister as survey shows soaring levels of anti-Arab speech on Hebrew social media
Jonathan Cook / February 25th, 2017
http://dissidentvoice.org/2017/02/palestinians-face-intense-online-hate-from-israelis-say-campaigners/
Shai Masot is on Erdan’s staff. (@ Israeli Embassy London)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/who-lying-about-israeli-embassy-agent-shai-masot
Hate Crime is a new term being popularised as a catch-all to replace all the ism’s as part of the big brother culture of denouncement in which everyone is guilty of saying nasty things, but some are more guilty than others. The legislation says that the offence, proscribed motive, is something that is perceived to be a proscribed motive by anyone!
That is hate crime involves two crimes, the crime e.g. assault and proscribed motive. Although in practice the term hate crime is being used to describe proscribed motive alone. I.e. words not actions.
Thus anyone can report the offence and the Police are required to log it as a reported hate crime or incident even if they conclude it wasn’t. Hence the complaint claiming the Home Secretary’s immigration speech was a hate crime has been recorded as a non-actionable hate incident!
Therefore anyone as a third party could report all crime as a perceived hate crime and presumably the Police would have to record nearly all crime as a non-actionable hate incident and presumably the Remainers would blame the epidemic of “hate” on Leave voters, except Leave voters could equally blame it on Remain voters, depending on who is more mean spirited and holds the megaphone!
Not good for community or neighbourly relations considering a conviction for a crime involving a proscribed motive carries up to an additional 2 year jail sentence and considering perceived offence is entirely subjective it means anyone could be found guilty if a judge/jury if they perceive your legitimate and/or justified words as for example “racist”, which they could do simply to avoid being called “racist” themselves in the culture of denouncement.
I watched almost all of the live broadcast until 15 minutes before the end when the link went dead. I was very impressed by Jackie Edwards, particularly by how she responded to the zionist Jonathan Hoffman. Craig was excellent: informative, thought-provoking and funny. And delighted to see Noam Chomsky, at 88, still in full flow. Long may he continue, the world has so few like him.
Quote The Scottish Donald “Take a look at what’s happened to France”
http://www.france24.com/en/20170225-french-president-paris-mayor-hit-back-trump-anti-france-remarks
Mr. F. Hollande is not happy with Mr. Trumps remarks.
However, it should be pointed out that France is in a State of Emergency.
I wish one of our French correspondents could tell us what that is actually about and how it works?
French President François Hollande was quick to declare a state of emergency in the wake of Friday’s bloody terror attacks in Paris. But what does the “etat d’urgence” mean for the country and its citizens as they go about their daily lives?
The state of emergency measures are set out in a 1955 law and are designed to be used in “cases of imminent danger resulting from serious breaches of public order, or in case of events threatening, by their nature and gravity, public disaster”.
The measures give a number of exceptional powers to the authorities, including the right to set curfews, limit the movement of people and forbid mass gatherings, establish secure zones where people can be monitored and close public spaces such as theatres, bars, museums and other meeting places.
http://www.france24.com/en/20151115-what-does-france-state-emergency-mean
The state of emergency also gives more powers to the security services and police, such as the right to conduct house searches at any time without judicial oversight, enforce house arrest and confiscate certain classes of weapons, even if people hold them legally.
Parliament can extend measures
A state of emergency can be put in place by the French president for a maximum of 12 days, after which he must get parliamentary approval for an extension. Hollande would therefore need to get parliament’s backing by November 25 if he wants to extend the measures he put in place on Friday.
The last time France declared a state of emergency was during the 2005 riots in the Paris suburbs. Back in 2005, parliament approved a three-month extension to the measures introduced by then president Jacques Chirac.
A state of emergency has only been declared one other time since the end of France’s 1962 war in Algeria. That was in December 1984 amid violence in New Caledonia, a French archipelago in the Pacific Ocean east of Australia.
Date created : 2015-11-15
Tourism in Paris is down 1.5 million, or 15%. I can’t understand why. Surely with all the the enrichment and vibrancy and diversity, the figures should be going up?
I mean who wouldn’t want this on their bucket list?
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/835296138278416384
Tell that to the S. N. P. and they’ll say Trump is a racist.
We need to get out of the European Union, straight away.
No that’s Sadiq Khan’s department.
Gladio 2, tends to chase the tourists away.
RoS
could you tell us in your own words what is Sadiq Khan’s department.
Thanks in advance.
Khan was playing to the narrow minded Red Tory branch office in Scotland, his veiled comparison of the SNP and racists, would have went down well in gallery of the Scottish branch office.
As the northern branch office, has no agenda or real policies, just SNPBAD.
They should just give it to whoever does the best audition.
The Netherlands considering their future in the Eurozone?
The possibility of leaving the Eurozone has been raised amid a rising tide of euroscepticism on the continent, which populist parties are hoping to exploit in a series of national elections this year, including in the Netherlands on 15 March.
What kind of sinister, authoritarian regime would ban journalists from a press conference?
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/telegraph-mail-and-express-journalists-barred-alex-salmonds-resignation-press-conference/
Alex really slipped up there, letting a Daily Record journalist in.
A. Donald Trump.
British establishment pumps up the strategy of “tension and fear.”
Will there be an event on these shores sometime soon?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39093389
“Britain faces a level of terror threat not seen since the IRA bombings of the 1970s”
Of course the media have already hinted that if NI can’t agree on a government, that Westminster may run NI in the interim.
We’ve seen from the Hillary campaign’s leaked emails that the establishment loathes the idea of further terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims. They “pray” that the attacker is not a Muslim whenever there is a terrorist attack.
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“The email was originally sent by a campaign operative, Matt Ortega, to Clinton consultant Karen Finney, who then relayed it to Podesta.
Podesta received an email of a tweet posted by Christopher Hayes of MSNBC.
The tweet read that one of the shooters was identified as Farook.
‘Damn,’ Finney commented in the forward to Podesta, who replied: ‘Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk [sic] was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.'”
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Better that a guy with a Muslim name was reporting a terror attack by a guy with a white name.