This is my last comment for the year as we are off to spend Hogmanay as the guests of an Ambassador in Paris. Out of deference to my family, who have had the brunt of it these last few days, I am definitely not taking the laptop, so I will no longer be able to take part in the popular new bloodsport of proving your loyalty to the SNP by being nasty to Craig Murray.
My parting thought is that, as every year of my entire life, it has been a disastrous one for the Palestinians. Yet more land occupied, settlements built, homes destroyed, olive trees uprooted, shipping vessels sunk and yet another murderous onslaught on Gaza.
I warmly recommend this rare public appearance by Col. Larry Wilkerson, ex-Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and a fellow recipient of the Sam Adams Award for Integrity. His brief musings here on Israel and Syria come from a deep store of knowledge and a razor-sharp intellect.
Do have a wonderful celebration. The future will be good. We are closer to a transformational change in society than you may realise.
Happy New Year everyone!
“Happy New Year everyone!”
You OK? I’m hearing loud bangs down the line and squonk.tk disappeared.
Fred,
It’s the 1st of the month apache config reset bug which I patched but forgot about the once a year deamon which also decided it needed to regenerate httpd-vhosts.conf. My fault for editing by hand config files which are auto-generated by the software in use. Fixed now 🙂
Happy New Year to everyone, from over here in Dublin.
I’d wish you a happy new year Dreoilin, but there’s nothing good within me to offer it from.
Same to all.
Clark.
Come on pal keep your pecker up.
If you think it is good, then it is good.
Better than the other, is it not?
All the very best.
Hic!
Robert, the Best to you, too.
The Worst to me, ‘cos that’s what I deserve.
Clark.
STOP THAT RIGHT NOW.
You deserve the best, just like everyone else.
Here is a wee bit of psychology for you.
Our feelings and thoughts are what determine where we are to-day. If what is happening to us now, both physically and emotionally is undesirable, our feelings and our thoughts are what need fixing.
Start fixing!.
Robert, that’s kind of you. Probably I should just go to bed at present. I shouldn’t get so down, but so much effort leads to so little result, and so many people are cruel.
Other people aren’t cruel, but if you’re hurt they shy away, and that feels cruel.
Clark.
Auld Lang Syne, that’s Scottish too. Whaw’s like us, damned few.
When the stone cutter is tapping away to cut the sone to the correct size, it is not the last blow that breaks the stone. It is all that he did before.
In other words, it takes time and effort to make the break through.
I have been tapping away for 70 years to get my Independence from the English, and I am not stopping now.
I have been feeling hellish since the 19th. September, and I mean HELLISH!!!.
I am not giving in, no way.
Onwards and upwards!.
Don’t you give in either.
You are valued here.
Clark.
This is a bad time of year to be carrying old emotional baggage.
Dump it. Easy for me to say, because eventually, I dumped it.
If you don’t dump it, it will hold you back and make your life a misery, until you do dump it. Next year and the year after that, and on and on.
You savvy?
Clark.
I need to lie down before I fall down.
Speak to you later, if you like.
Good night, or good morning, if you prefer.
This is in praise of Dan..
Dan, Dan Dan..that was ‘kin awesome
The New Manager Dan..I did hint..
The Place Was PACKED
The Young Band Were Brilliant
So I thanked Dan..well and his Boss..and The Band
The Girls..the Girls the Girls…
I had never seen so many Beautiful Girls in My Life…and they all knew me and wanted to..but I said no…I’ve got ebola and I don’t want to infect you…
She said..well I’ve got that too…what else is there to do..
Happy New Year…
What you got to realise is that she wasn’t on facebook and the lights come down and you are cuddling together…in her lace and her tights…and I say well its moments like these..that make life worth living isn’t it…get your knickers off kid…
I can’t do that..I am your wife….
You sure as hell look and feel like 17 years old to me…you even did your hair in pigtails. What else am I supposed to think Girl…???
My Wife Just Looked So Incredibly Beautiful Tonight..I couldn’t stop looking at her.
Tony xx
Happy New Year tae yeez aw fae Glesca..
Even the idiot trolls,i guess…
But mainly to them mair humane compassionate regulars.
You’ll know who you are…:.)
I am copying out John’s Mail link.
Outrage as Blair aide who brokered deal that took us into Iraq war gets New Year Honours gong (even though Chilcot STILL hasn’t reported)
Sir David Manning helped Tony Blair forge secret pact with George Bush
The 65-year-old is made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Honour comes as he faces prospect of criticism in delayed Chilcot report into 2003 war in Iraq
He was among 1,164 people recognised by today’s New Year’s Honours
Fiona Woolf, who stood down from Government’s child abuse inquiry, becomes a dame
Cressida Dick, policewoman in charge when Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead, is made a CBE
By Sam Greenhill And Claire Ellicott For The Daily Mail
Published: 31 December 2014
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2891860/New-Year-Honours-gong-Blair-aide-brokered-deal-took-Iraq-war-Chilcot-hasn-t-reported.html#
Manning is the ex FCO stooge who accompanied Wills/Kate to Canada and then the US etc. Useful tool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning
Belated HNY to all. Afraid I was in bed asleep by 10pm!! I awoke at 7 this morning.
Sad news from Hong Kong. Apparently the stampede was started by someone throwing fake money from a nearby building. 36 dead and 47 injured. Terrible toll.
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Millipede D is well in in New York. Pressed the start button in Times Square with de Blasio.
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Agent Cameron’s New Year message consisted of some early electioneering.
Cameron urges ‘right choice’ in 2015
The UK faces “chaos” if it changes economic course in next May’s general election, David Cameron warns in his new year message.
Miliband in ‘kitchen table’ promise
Clegg: Ignore election mud-slinging
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30645707
Craig on Manning.
‘To return to Chilcot, there is a sense in which it is good that he has not yet reported. Chilcot is holding out to be able to include the Bush-Blair correspondence, which offers conclusive proof that the “WMD” meme was a knowing lie to justify a vicious and pre-determined war. The recent Tory pressure for early publication is for publication without these documents. Much better to wait and get the actual proof.
The idea that two heads of state corresponding on taking their states to war can be “private” and kept from their people, is so outrageous that the fact it is stated at all is, in itself, sufficient evidence of the media control being as complete as I assert. It is a laughable proposition. Besides which, if these were private letters, why were Sir David Manning and Sir Christopher Meyer delivering them at public expense? Can we charge Blair for this service? Meyer and Manning don’t come cheap. It was, incidentally, Sir David Manning who brought back to No. 10 the request from the White House that I be sacked as British Ambassador in Uzbekistan for kicking up a fuss internally over extraordinary rendition.’
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/05/the-blair-bush-letters/
May 19 2014
As I read your post Mary I had this waiting in the clipboard:-
Observe the absolute venality in the British Establishment
Sir David Manning helped Tony Blair forge secret pact with George Bush
The 65-year-old is made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Honour comes as he faces prospect of criticism in delayed Chilcot report into 2003 war in Iraq
He was among 1,164 people recognised by today’s New Year’s Honours.
Fiona Woolf, who stood down from Government’s child abuse inquiry, becomes a dame.
Cressida Dick, policewoman in charge when Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead, is made a CBE.
Why do you need to mention that your host in France is an ambassador? And why the capital A? Are you beginning to see why some people find you self-important? Did you never think that SNP people have been working at their thing for years and would resent the likes of you coming in as a parasite on their hard work?
Thanks to Node for this bit of good stuff:
@Meg McGarrin 12:10 pm
There you go, fixed that for you.
“Thank yo’. Th’ noo year will be all th’ happier now we knows yo’ will nevah be a member of parliament eifer side of th’ bo’der. Yo’ haven’t a houn’dog in hell’s chance of winnin’ as an independent ennywhar in Britain, an’ no mainstream party will now evah accepp yo’ as a kindidate. Yo’ show utter corntempp fo’ varmints who hold views thet oppose yer own, as enny fool kin plainly see. Yo’ haf a massively inflated ego. How c’d yo’ postibly represent them who didn’t share yer mino’ity views?
No’mal varmints find yo’ a pompous, se’f-righteous, establishment snob. Well bust mah britches an’ call me streaker. Establishment varmints despise yo’. Yer main suppo’t seems t’come fum a weird bunch of cornspiracy theo’ists an’ a few other varmints who come acrost as bein’ clones of yo’seff.
But yo’’re not a-gonna lissen t’ennyone else, is yo’?”
Translate to Redneck-speak with the The Dialectizer
Happy New Year everybody, including Meg
And happy 2015 to Scouse Billy and all other Scousers. Not everyone who comes from Kensington is Labour or socialist, but we **all** can’t stand suited wankers who think everyone else is thick as pigshit.
Try knocking on doors round here, Craig, for support as an independent candidate – but not dressed like that (and leave your attitude back down south where it and you belong).
Ă‘ Don’t Stop – End of 2014 Year Recap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonPgAIMbCY
The Mail is like a dog with a bone on Manning.
STEPHEN GLOVER: How CAN we honour Blair’s key aid who was so complicit in secretly committing Britain to war in Iraq By Stephen Glover for the Daily Mail
1 January 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2893131/STEPHEN-GLOVER-honour-Blair-s-key-aid-complicit-secretly-committing-Britain-war-Iraq.html
It seems to me the dirtier the deed the bigger the Honour!
Then their is others who just cannot see the good others are trying to do.
What a shame.
Man’s inhumanity to man.
A sad New Year to most as peeps are burdened with Christmas debt. According to the Children’s Society, more than 42,000 families in Merseyside are in debt – meaning nearly 73,000 children are living in households facing financial ruin.
In Wallasey 28% of households – 10% above the national average – and including 6,000 children, are trapped by debt, with families owing £15m. The town is home to the second highest levels of debt in the North West.
We note the ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER and tiers are almost exclusively bestowed on the royal household and servants.
I put through the wringer to the British people and enquire, what recognition was given to Her Royal Highness Diana, Princess of Wales in recognition for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. What appreciation when from 1989, she was the president of Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in addition to dozens of other charities.
Why did the British people have to insist the Union Flag be flown at half mast over the Palace on the day of Diana’s funeral in respect AND FOR THE LOVE of her grand-children.
Princess Diana received foreign honours. Bestowed by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Diana was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, in 1982.
With love and admiration Diana was gifted with the Egypt Supreme Class of the Order of the Virtues (or Order of Al-Kamal), again in 1982.
In this 2015 year AD I say SHAME ON THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales#Titles.2C_styles.2C_honours_and_arms
There is also massive poverty in America.
There is supposed to be 50 million living in poverty. Almost the entire population of England, and 10 times the population of bonnie Scotland.
‘If the EU stops business deals which are achieved through corruption and coercion, and which on past evidence would be used as the basis for further coercion, going ahead then that can only be a good thing. I don’t wish to deny that the US and perhaps even more so Germany use improper techniques in business deals to get their way – but I’m afraid two wrongs don’t make a right.’
ResDis , when Gazprom uses ‘ improper techniques in business deals’, it gets shafted by the EU. When one of the Seven Sisters, in cahoots with a US megabank, indulges in market manipulation for their mutual benefit, the authorities in ‘the West’ twiddle their thumbs-
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-30/rigging-triangle-exposed-jpmorgan-british-petroleum-bank-england-cartel-full-frontal
Clark, I hope listening and watching this gem from the Queen of East Wickham lifts your mood-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5P0v0kGauc
A belated Happy New Year to one and all
Happy New Years to all, but with exceptions, too numerous to mention. Have to agree with Clark’s, Mary’s and others pessimistic projections, for most it surely won’t be. This might be the first year I’ve not been awake through The Bells since childhood, including the years working, risking life and limb dealing with aggressive drunks. Three cheers for all for whom this time of year is just another, but particularly fraught, shift. In bed with a hot water bottle by 8:15pm last night, out like a light, and all the better for it.
It seems also hello to another year of arbitrary pre-moderation.
This is my last comment for the year – oh, how important you are!
the guests of an Ambassador in Paris – oh, how important you are!
being nasty to Craig Murray – oh, how you write about yourself in the 3rd person!
My parting thought – oh, how it’s all about you!
my entire life – ditto
Try to avoid making yourself the topic. It’s possible to express your views without constantly referring to yourself and your privileged circumstances and background.
“I me my former I me ambassador my blah me I Craig me my I thick my former ambassador evil me blah my me blah”
FFS, ‘loose cannon’ is the gentlest of all the critical remarks made about you recently.
And as for your family bearing the brunt of it… of what, exactly? Did your I me get wounded? How did the family bear the brunt? You beat them? You lost your erection? Or you just droned on about it ad nauseam?
“Oh, darling, rich cousin Craig was unsuccessful in some strange, brave venture! Let’s go drink champagne!”
Get a real job. Work. And apologise to Jim Murphy for your outrageous, drunken, vindictive smear.
I warmly recommend – ditto
a fellow recipient of the Sam Adams Award for Integrity – ditto
WTF! How often can a man talk about himself!
I warmly recommend watching Elementary…., or Hey, watch Elementary!
YOU ARE NOT IMPORTANT TO ANYONE. NOT TO LABOUR VOTERS, NOT TO SNP VOTERS. NOT TO GREENS. NOT TO TORIES. NOT, ANY LONGER, TO YOUR HOME LIBERALS.
And probably not very important to your lap-dancer when you can no longer pay her.
@Daniel – Happy new year, Mr Murray. I still maintain that Murder In Samarkand is the greatest book I’ve ever had the privilege to read.
You’re catching the disease….. “I still maintain that…the privilege….”
Get a room!