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.
Just to annoy Fed Up I would like to point out that he is technically correct. If the Onderzoeksraad were a Government Department the web site would say so. You will see from the link http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0017613/geldigheidsdatum_06-09-2014 the law setting it up. It is not secret its just in Dutch, but then it is a Dutch organization.
Its address is here http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/nl/contact
The law was made by Queen Beatrix as Princess of Orange
Vronsky, thank you for that youtube segment. It’s amusing to know that the dishonourable unionist tricks date back to the outset of Scottish devolution. No votes including the recently dead; debates as propaganda set-pieces for media distortion; the 40% hurdle; and now, packing the sample with the English-born, adamant predictions of No by purportedly-objective polling executives, and the centrally-coordinated panics we see here.
Scotland is NATO’s Petőfi movement, the first crack. The NATO Pact’s UK satellite state will stop at nothing to squelch it. Still, the Scottish now know not to count on good faith. The UK’s ruling class is discredited and weak and it might fail.
” Check out the latest on MMR vaccines and autism. ”
Ahh you mean like there’s no link?
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf
Perhaps you think it’s the mercury (LOL).
“It’s funny how mere words can make others STFU.”
Don’t count your chickens.
My question to Ben (California Haze)was as follows:
“Your 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?”
My question was echoed by Dreoilin.
Ben (California Haze)’s answer(to Dreoilin)was:
“Heh. The McCarthy Hearings made famous the need to prove a negative, putting the burden on the accused as though guilty until proven innocent. That’s what this feels like, and the mean-spriitedness of your Star Chamber indicates the opposite of your intent, I believe. You’re a nasty and intemperate piece of work.8
Your coercion and glowering has no impact on me. i feel no need to defend myself from the toxins emanating from the acrid smoke of your inner anger, and over-compensating self-esteem. As to your sense of humor, it must be so dry as to be unnoticed. You have gone full troll. Begone, hind-tit Harridan.”
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We can note two things there and draw one conclusion:
1/. The “answer” in not an answer but merely an over-long piece of empty bluster.
2/. No one is asking Ben to “prove a negative”. We were asking Ben for his reaction to the Holocaust denying comments posted by Republicofscotland and others (posts now deleted by Craig.
3/. The conclusion is that Ben is unwilling to share his opinion of those comments, which must lead most reasonable people to infer that he does not disapprove of them.
In that context, I’d recall that several threads ago I jocularly referred to Ben as an “American Nazi”, or in words to that effect.
It’s now evidently time to drop the jocularity.
Ben – you are an American Nazi.
Mil(l)ipede Jnr has lost it.
We’ll put guards on the Scottish border.
Mail on Sunday headline.
All the other papers have headlines relating to new poll showing Yes @ 51%
Le May was promoted to brigadier general on Sept. 28, 1943 and to major general on Mar. 3, 1944. Which means that he fought the last two years of the Pacific War against Japan as a general.
“Check out the latest on MMR vaccines and autism.”
Perhaps you ought to also check out the statistics on the rise of measles, mumps and rubella since all this scaremongering started. As I had a very young daughter who caught rubella before the minimum vaccination age, who fortunately came through it without any complications, I wouldn’t wish other parents to have to go through that experience just because people with knowledge of statistics and medicine think that scaremongering is a cool anti establishment thing to do.
Dreoilin
“Absolutely. All we’re missing is Macky and her interminable 😀 :D”
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Good grief, is Macky a woman?
That said, Evelyn Waugh believed that Tito was a woman….
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Re your comment about the “pack mentality”, I really do think you’re being unduly insulting to the notion of packs.
I think of a pack of noble huskies, or then a pack of dangerous, ravenous wolves sweeping across the tundra terrorising all before them.
Surely this ragtag and bobtail collection of mangy curs on here don’t deserve to be called a pack? All bark and no bite, and one crack of the whip from their master Habbabkuk is enough to send them off in craven flight.
“don’t count your chickens”
Nazis don’t count chickens or Novorussians, donchaknow.
An awful lot of stuff on here today from “Republicofscotland” and “Ben” (California Haze – it’s the best shit ever!).
A Habbabkuk medal (Order of the Troll Buster) for the first person to identify what had upset them so 🙂
And another Habbabkuk medal for anyone who can tell us where Herbie and the Celtic Poetaster (aka Sophia Kibo Noh) have “disappeared” to. 🙂
@Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)
“Timoshenko is a very corrupt politician/oligarch but neither genocidal not a maniac.”
I disagree she is totally insane. Ukraine is awash with Nukes.Remeber this, when the Soviet union
collapsed the Soviet fleet was rotting away in Odessa were do you think the nukes that were stashed in hose ships went stupid. You could even by spare parts for them in the flea market.
“Besides wanting to shoot Putin in the head with a machine-gun, ‘Madam Ethnic Cleansing’ spilled the beans on Ukraine’s nuclear weapons they are not supposed to have. NATO, the EU and the US can claim all they want that they did not know, but no one will believe them. That means the West and Ukraine breached the separation agreement with Russia when they signed it because they had no intentions of abiding by it.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/25/355978/nuke-8-million-russians-in-ukraine/
Ben – as I suggested on the previous thread, if the West took a rational view of the situation, ISIS could be relegated to the status of bad dream by next year. The people in the MidEast who are actually motivated to destroy the Caliphate are Assad and the Shi’a. Saudis are playing a double game, the Gulf states are tiny, and Israel is effectively behind ISIS if it wants to scupper Iran. So, therefore, is AIPAC.
Well, the comments in the article about the BBC are coming true tonight. Yes moves into the lead in the Times Poll, Rupert Murdoch has been tweeting it for seven hours and it’s being reported on even foreign sites, but from the BBC there is not a cheep. They are indeed a disgrace to journalism.
Craig’s St Andews talk approaching 77,000… Great Stuff.
But i’m not having this…And Herby Announce The Wabi-Sabi Alternative Philanthropist of the year award ….
Nominations Are –
Craig Murray – for services to Whistle Blowing, and the indyreff yes Campaigne
Ben – For being the most Active Living American on Craig’s Blog…And the Indyreff Debate
Jamie Murray – for service’s to music, art and culture
Mary – For keeping us all ahead, and up to date
Mark the artist taxi driver – for surviving the High blood presures
Clark, And My Humble self – for services to Astronomy, with Phil the Frog’s Beautiful telescope
Jim Mcoll – for saving my towns Shipyard
Alcanon – For his Very pleasant Space next Door
And The Winner Is…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dMC0BkhQiY
P.s…Sorry if i missed anyone out…Always next year…:) ( I hope … Nukes… ect ect )
“As I had a very young daughter who caught rubella before the minimum vaccination age, who fortunately came through it without any complications”
In my day, when rubella was called German measles and every child at some point went down with it – along with mumps, measles and chicken pox – we all seemed miraculously to pull through without complications. Indeed, providing they occurred during term time, they were eagerly anticipated opportunities for a week off. I caught measles during the World Cup. Result!
Brian; Thanks for the honor, although I’m not sure being the only American gives me props. 🙂
And what’s with the ‘living’ sarcasm? Are you prematurely predicting my demise? I should tell you I don’t buy green bananas.
Btw; have you been to squonk?
Had a Quik look in Ben… Gonna pop back Shortly…I’m on a Friend’s Laptop, which aint behaving very well…Effin machines. if i aint Careful i’ll end up like chunky mark yelling at the thing.
Would love to have you around Craig but right now we’re all doing what we should be doing – knocking doors and talking to people. However we’re going to need to keep the fire glowing after the poll so keep posting your availability. Lots more understanding, inspiration and thoughtfully focussed anger still needed. No claymores being hidden back in the thatch for a wee while yet.
CanSpeccy
“So on what basis do you claim the existence of a Scotch nation — culture? LOL. Language?”
Its’ Scottish not Scotch. Scotland has its own history, legal system, educational system and church as well as different constitutional nuances such as the idea of sovereignty residing in the people and not parliament or the crown as is the case in England. Although you obviously think it doesn’t have a distinctive culture judging by your lol, obviously it does and of course it has the Gaelic language although not widely spread but also various other dialects such as Doric. I am not a nationalist by the way but socialist being a former labour party member. I think self-determination for Scotland is the only way we can shape our own future in a more democratic and socially just way. How can you possibly blame us for wishing to remove ourselves from the clutches of the corrupt paedophiles of Westminster and their American masters?
I doubt I should have even replied to you as you seem to think we are a colony of England. Hate to disappoint you but the British Empire is no more.
38 degrees has created a petition seeking to “Reverse the decision to appoint Fiona Woolf as the chairwoman of the CSA enquiry in to child abuse.”
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/block-fiona-woolf-from-chairing-csa-enquiry
Sunday Times poll indicates the YES’ in the lead!
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29096458
51% yes to 49% no
Shades of Cat among Pigeons
Ba’al; 21 minutes well spent. Origins of ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im6BK-HA9Y0
51 per cent is close enough to steal. Ask the Republicans, they stole two presidential elections in a row. Ask the guy who stuffs the ballots for CIA at home and abroad, FBI surveillance contractor and Booz Allen revolving-door VP Dominic Endicott, he can flick a finger and make it NO, if he wants. CIA is there on the ground right now running agents. You’ll have to push it through by much more than 1 per cent, I’m afraid.
” Sunday Times poll indicates the YES’ in the lead! ”
This would be one of the opinion polls of the type previously condemned by Mr Murray?
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/08/liveblogging-the-great-debate/
This weekend’s FT has an article on the referendum that says the YouGov poll has tended to play down support for Yes. So, if the YouGov poll now shows Yes in the lead 51-49, that is more significant than if a poll regarded as impartial or pro-Yes said the same thing.
51-49 may be close enough to steal. But, with momentum on the Yes side and relative voter enthusiasm also being lopsidedly Yes, Yes is likely to get considerably more than 51.
Petro is on Hard Talk with the USUKIsNATO stooge Sackur.
eg Are you sure you can trust President Putin?
Petro is very fluent in English unlike Hat. Wonder where he acquired his linguistic skills?
And yet the really weird thing remains thus:
Regardless of the petty meaningless points we all score or lose on a blog such as this the element remains thus:
How much truth,wisdom and compassion we all carry into a tolerant enlightened future and how much shit and ignorance we are all prepared to leave behind?
Hmm.