Speaking Date Availability 581


I am available again for Yes meetings on 15, 16 and 17 September. Invitations welcome through the contact button above. Happy to go anywhere I can do good. My St Andrews speech a week ago has now had 75,000 views on Youtube.

It is symptomatic of the way this campaign has gone that I can find nothing online from the No camp which has had one fifth as many views, with the solitary exception of the PatronisngBTWoman video, which has massive views from people making fun of it.

Miliband was in Blantyre yesterday where his every bodily function was breathlessly reported by Severin Carrell in the Guardian – but even the Guardian could not pretend his audience in the “Labour stronghold” amounted to more than “dozens”. I am told it was under fifty. Better Together support on the ground has simply evaporated. What they rely on is that the massive output of mainstream media and the authority of the Westminster parties will have sufficient impact on their key demographics – pensioners, and housewives in a 1950’s sense – to shore up a residual no vote of the easily scared. My challenge to people to identify any Better Together gathering of more than 300 has been met with resounding silence.

Television has been wall to wall Miliband lately, and the BBC in Scotland seem to have simply abandoned their obligation to give equal broadcast time and treatment to both sides. Presumably many of the New Labour hacks who control Pacific Quay realise that their behaviour has made a Yes win a career threatening situation for them, so at this stage they see nothing to lose.

If independence is achieved it will be down to a popular movement and not to any politician. Indeed, if one person has to be singled out, I would say the Rev Stuart Campbell has made the most decisive individual contribution in the campaign. If Social media has beaten the mainstream media, the central rock around which millions of flowers have bloomed has been the Wings over Scotland website. This has a significantly larger daily readership than any newspaper in Scotland. The Wee Blue Book I found everywhere, including copies already available in pretty well every pub I entered, as I toured the East Coast. Over 400,000 downloads of the PDF have been made and 250,000 copies centrally printed, as well as a number of private initiatives which had already obtained professional printings from the PDF. Conservatively, there are over half a million hard copies out there, as well as all the reads online. In a population of 5.2 million, that is a major impact.

When we close down BBC Scotland and create a new citizen based, cheaper and more arts-oriented organisation in its place, let’s put Stuart Campbell in charge. Some state-funded drama and arts output seems to me commendable. State funding of pap entertainment is not needed – the private sector can do that perfectly well. State funding of “journalism” which investigates nothing and never challenges the establishment must be stopped.


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  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    CanSpeccy

    “So, Habbupchuck, at least we agree that Julia Tymoshenko, twice Ukraine Premier, and good friend of the EU and NATO, is a genocidal maniac, whereas what you call my racism and Nazism consists in opposing the genocide of the European peoples through mass immigration and propaganda to suppress the fertility of the indigenous population.”
    _______________

    Well actually no – I don’t agree with any of the above. Tewwibly sorry, old bean.

    Timoshenko is a very corrupt politician/oligarch but neither genocidal not a maniac.

    And the European peoples are not undergoing mass (or any other) genocide either.

    Your talk of “suppressing the fertility of the indigenous population” puts you in the General Jack D Ripper category, I’m afraid, CanSpeccy.

    So just fuck off, there’s a good egg!

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    I suppose that, as usual, I shall be the only commenter to raise his/her voice against this sort of filth….

  • Resident Dissident

    Mary

    A genuine thank you for the viral history link – it does of course demonstrate how those who depend on nationalism for their political viewpoint (e.g Canspeccy and now Craig) have really built their houses on quicksand. Fool’s point about languages would reinforce that e.g. although France looks to be a relatively constant entity on the map I think I read in Graham Robb’s book that there was no such thing as a single recognisable French language until about 100 years ago.

  • Mary

    Note the strap line. National police force here we come. St Theresa’s dream come true. PCCs all ready and waiting to comply. Next step full metal jacket police state.

    Police Chief Warns Cuts Raise Risk Of Terror
    The Home Secretary will be called upon to merge police forces and put more bobbies back on the beat to counter terror plots.
    http://news.sky.com/story/1331138/police-chief-warns-cuts-raise-risk-of-terror

    They are already being fully armed of course in some places. Tewwowwism you know as ZBC helpfully tell us and those unruly Scots!

    6 August 2014
    The British police on armed routine patrol
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28656324

    There is already a unified police force in Scotland.

    Scottish National Party arms police in preparation for rising social opposition
    4 September 2014
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/04/poli-s04.html

    A retrograde step by the SNP in my opinion.

    Police Scotland was formally established on 1 April 2013 and is responsible for policing across the length and breadth of Scotland, some 28,168 square miles. Police Scotland is the second largest force in the UK after the Metropolitan Police.
    http://www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Jives

    “Did you actually believe i revealed that to you;with my name as Jonathan all those months ago and my real address and details you dumbkopf?”
    ______________

    No, if course not – but since you called yourself Jonathan I’m happy to stay with that. Anything to make you happy and make you feel that you belong!

  • Just saying

    Focus , ladies (and gentleman), we are about to see a very heavy blow laid on the Beast. They are quite capable of doing a kelly on CM (with a hutton to keep everything under wraps for another 70 YEARS), we all have to be very vigilant leading to the 18th.

  • Resident Dissident

    I have mentioned this before but if you want to see probably the worst examples of racism within Europe the place to go is Moscow and the other major Russian cities and look at the treatment of those from the Caucauses and the former southern republics. Verbal and physical abuse of the “chorny” is common on the streets and is often joined in by the police and authorities. The immigrants are often driven out of their often appalling housing and provide a cheap and easily exploited workforces. The Government doesn’t even stand idly by – rounding up, deportations and beatings are commonplace – and in the typical fashion of Russian bureaucracy is used to make their lives a living hell.

    Putin actively supports this overt racism – which I suspect is the reason why he is such a hero to the likes of Canspeccy, while others such as John Goss turn their usual blind eye and throw the fascist soubriquet at the likes of Theresa May whose crimes against immigrants really pale into insignificance compared with the current Russian regime.

  • Mary

    RoS Thanks, Interesting one there on Sotloff’s provenance from Gilad.

    ~~

    IDF still going strong in Gaza and the ‘West Bank’ as the collection of Palestinian bantustans are referred to.

    Zionism in practice – Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property
    24 hours to 8am
    03 September 2014 [NB: So far, there is no PMG situation report dated 02 September 2014]

    5 attacks – 23 raids including home invasions – 1 beaten – 5 injured – 7 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage – 17 taken prisoner – 12 detained – 110 restrictions of movement

    Israel breaks ceasefire
    Israeli Navy hijacks Gaza fishing boat and captures crew
    Israeli Navy thrice opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats
    Gaza: Israeli Army opens fire on Khaza’a
    Israeli forces open fire in Qalqilya, wounding and hospitalising 2 workers
    Israeli Army occupies home in Palestinian refugee camp for use as military post
    Israeli troops beat up and hospitalise Palestinian villager
    Israeli soldiers terrorise 2 Palestinian youngsters aged 15 and 16
    Israeli Army raid: 15-year-old boy injured
    Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 3 refugee camps and 5 towns and villages

  • Just saying

    From a strictly esoteric “dialectic” point of view, even a devil like bibi is made by the Source to serve as part of the obstacle course laid out for the seekers. It must be true, witness our resident devil habba’s classic comment (that elevated him to the Hall of Fame at this blog IMHO) wishfully thinking about the YES vote “the Yessers (having run out of steam?) have all turned into Yassers !” after seeing all the pro Palestinian posts over Gaza !

  • Dreoilin

    You[r] use of the word “informants” and the general tone of your post (as well as of previous ones from you at the time of those Holocaust denying comments), inevitably leads to the suspicion that you approve of such comments.

    Care to clarify your position on Holocaust denying comments, Ben?

    Yes, please do. (When you and your buddy RoS come back online.)

  • Mary

    Link to the above. http://www.sapienspromise.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3247

    ~~~

    Also saw this clever piece of writing by Jeffery St Clair, the Counterpunch editor.

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/05/israeli-tunnel-vision/

    How about? –

    ‘Mahmoud Abbas, the Marshal Petain of the Palestinian Authority, has helped the Israelis target Hamas leaders.’

    ‘In his Middle East diplomacy, John Kerry doesn’t shuttle so much as flutter, every tedious conversation monitored by Israeli intelligence to assure he doesn’t deviate from the script.’

    ‘With Netanyahu strutting like a blow-dry Pompey Maximus, the IDF feels compelled to assert its power every four or five years with fusillades of rockets and bloody ground incursions. The nation has become seduced with it’s own technological omnipotence: it’s sophisticated weaponry, it’s drones, it’s Iron Dome. Israel has now gone beyond blaming the victims. The goal now seems to be one of annihilation. First of Palestinian identity, then the Palestinians themselves.

    There is a bloody dialectic at work. The path that Israel has chosen, one of separation and isolation enforced by eruptions of extreme violence, will lead inexorably to its own ruin. As for the people of Gaza, the tenacity of their resistance, their unshakeable will to be free, is an affirmation of their humanity—and that is the most decisive rebuke of Israel’s revolting cruelties.’

    September 5-7, 2014 S
    tanding Up to the Behemoth
    Israeli Tunnel Vision
    by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
    Is Gaza locked in a terminal enclosure or is Israel?

    Bravo!

  • Just saying

    RD (on a SoS mission to attack Putin) – “Theresa May whose crimes against immigrants really pale into insignificance compared with the current Russian regime.”

    Pray is this same poster who was chastising the Palestinian Authority in Gaza for executing 18 spies (for pointing out targets to the IDF) whilst bibi shelled OVER 2,300 Gazans (including 500 children) to death?!! These hasbaric hounds are simply unable to see the log in own their eyes.

  • Resident Dissident

    Just saying

    You will also find that I described what the IDF did in Gaza as an atrocity – I am not for the moment supporting what Theresa May has done.

  • Just saying

    @Dreo, this debate over the holocaust/holohoax has been made insignificant now. We CURRENTLY (as we speak)have devils who are into GOD denial !!! Forget a few 20′ x 20′ gas chambers for the 6m dead. We have just seen some devils shoot down a plane with 300 people on board for their nefarious spin ends and EVEN want to keep the black box under wraps for 70 years now. A few mo9re examples, 911 where 110 stories turned into only 4 stories remaining at Ground Zero (3,000 humans murdered or USS Liberty (34 humans murdered) are other examples. But the GOD DENIERS in their impunity are accusing us readers of the Murdochs SUN for denying the Foley bloodless “beheading” Hollywood clip now, bwahahahahaha ! Sick !

  • Dreoilin

    “Sick!”

    You’ll get no argument from me on that, ‘Just Saying’. [But I don’t think any ‘debate over holocaust/holohoax’ is insignificant.]

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    I see Mary has had her buttons pushed over Hilde Benjamin. 🙂

    Somehow I don’t think Habbabkuk will be fazed by her latest …

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    Does anyone know where Clark is? His input is always interesting.

  • guano

    Kate Adie, From our own correspondent, Radio 4, talking about Sharon being kept alive for 8 years in a vegetative coma, just said, without a hint of self-questioning that in Jewish Law it is forbidden to end anyone’s life.

    Well Kate, the Moses I read as a child ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’, might have had something to say about 2000 citizens of Gaza recently dead. Peace be upon him and blessings and mercy from God.

  • fred

    “We have just seen some devils shoot down a plane with 300 people on board for their nefarious spin ends and EVEN want to keep the black box under wraps for 70 years now.”

    If anyone is actually interested in what is actually going on regarding MH17 the

    Dutch air investigators released a statement yesterday.

    The Dutch Safety Board will issue the preliminary report on the investigation into the crash of MH17 on Tuesday 9 September 2014. The preliminary report will be available at http://www.safetyboard.nl at 10:00 AM local time Amsterdam (08:00 hours UTC).

    The preliminary report will present factual information based on the sources available to the Dutch Safety Board. In the months to come further investigation is needed before the final report can be written. The Dutch Safety Board expects to publish the final report within a year after the crash.

    The address to go to on Tuesday morning is:

    http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en

  • Mary

    You are an unpleasant piece of work Dreoilin. The more you say, the more you reveal of yourself.

  • guano

    In truth, the Zionists missed out on Truth 1, Moses, Truth 2 Jesus and Truth 3 Muhammad, may Allah’s peace be upon all of them.

    Reactive violence, as opposed to legal redress/qisas/ en eye for an eye, is way out of the boundaries of Allah’s commands.

    Reactive violence is what USUKIS have fostered in Iraq by bombing the shit out of that country. The spectacle in Wales of Cameron condemning the Islamic State which he created, in that he took no action against Blair for his destruction of the Iraq State, and he himself destroyed the Libyan State and most of the Syrian State by devious manipulations of Zionist power, was only surpassed by the spectacle of Saudi Arabia its funders and paymasters condemning it.

    Don’t worry Dave, word-mincer, gnat-strainer, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, Al Milliner, is out and about with his pooper-scooper. Saudi Arabia took pity on the Western world when the foaming mad bankers of Thatcher capitalism brought the world’s economy to its knees, thinking they might be allowed to get a Caliphah for their trillion dollars bail-outs.

    What do they get instead? USUKIS terrorists threatening to cross from Iraq into Saudi Arabia.

    http://www.voltairenet.org/article185132.html

  • Mary

    Dreolin. LOL Really? You keep it well hidden under your cloak of waspishness.

    You will probably have the last word but I will not be responding. All very Irish. You could probably have an argument with yourself in the proverbial broom cupboard. Have a good day.

  • guano

    Ladies, please, if Craig became a Muslim he could take you both as political wives. They asked a fakir lying on a bed of nails if he was alright? Yes he said wincing, I’m still better than a man who has 2 wives. If Craig is successful on the 18th we can all move to Scotland together and rain RPGs onto England together clad in wellies and hair flying in the drizzle. Good plan? Can we be friends now please?

  • Mary

    There is schizophrenia within the BBC. They produce this Rivers muck:

    BBC Min. of Truth rewrite: Joan Rivers was “criticised for suggesting Palestinians were to blame”
    http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1409991714.html

    but then produce this sympathetic piece from Quentin Sommerville. Weep with little Sama left fatherless and with her Mummy still in hospital in Jerusalem, There is no house for them.

    Gaza ceasefire: Family left devastated by attack on UN school
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29093363

    During the Gaza conflict more than 2,100 people were killed in the seven weeks of fighting, and around 475,000 were displaced.

    The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville meets two young girls in Gaza whose family were victims of an attack on a UN school injuring their mother and killing their father.

    Read more
    Gaza crisis: Toll of operations in Gaza
    Gaza conflict: Israel and Palestinians agree long-term truce
    Gaza-Israel conflict: Is the fighting over?

  • Mary

    Guano, no disrespect and I hear what you are saying but it is nothing to do with you.

    I have had enough of her digs and siding with trolls.

  • passerby

    Was Hilde Benjamin Habbabkuk’s birth mother before he was adopted?

    Are you sure the said entity could have been born to a woman?

    His hive mentality can only point to some kind of a test tube farm, or a larvae factory birth process.

    Although little Hilde is one sexy fox, isn’t she? He hair do just like Tymoshenko and her face just like the back of the bus, and she radiates something, does she have any Irish in her?

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    Guano why do you wish Craig any harm? He can be a Mormon with all the fringe benefits of enjoying the company of eighteen wives and no sign of scalpel in sight.

  • No n sequitur

    Be careful of the City-of-London tories trying to squeeze independence into their “nationalism” frame. It’s a last-ditch effort to hang onto their Scottish colony. By warning us about nationalism – the same nationalism they obsessively enact for their own, British, construct – they hope to appeal to some imagined leftist sentiment. In fact, what’s at issue in independence is not nationalism but self-determination of peoples, as legally enshrined in the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Self-determination of peoples is what gives you the chance to restore rights and rule of law, and to constitute a state that fulfils its obligations to the people of Scotland. You’re not glorifying a nation, you’re dismembering a state that has failed its people.

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