The dreadfully stultified pageantry of the British state has been on full display the last couple of days, all mouldy ermine, fraying gold braid and musty velvet. But forms which evolved as a vibrant display of Imperial might have transmuted into rituals of obeisance, as the nonogenerian Prince Philip stumbles behind the Chinese President along lines of men wearing decaying bears on their heads. The sickness of Britain’s monarchical system was never more bluntly revealed than by the rictus grins of the aristocratic clowns balancing their tiaras at the state banquet.
The Chinese are the imperial masters now. Cameron begs them to build a nuclear power station for which the British state guarantees it will pay double the market price for electricity produced, for twenty years. And a government which has just announced the extension of thought crime to the expression of non-violent or anti-violent thought deemed “extreme”, has no locus to talk about human rights, a concept at least as alien to Teresa May as it is to the Chinese Communist Party. Britain has its own war criminals like Blair and Straw running around, immune and very wealthy.
The British state is an immoral entity which I view with disgust. That is what drives for me the imperative to early Scottish Independence to be rid of it. Every day as a British citizen is like bathing in sewage.
Giyane: “… and the boiler has also packed up.”
Have you tried replacing the thermocouple? That’s the fault in gas boilers about 95% of the time. The other 5% is usually down to the valve, or the thermostat. If it’s a combi boiler – or anything modern – it may be more complicated, but if it’s a fairly old one, you should be able to sort it out yourself.
Glenn
An engineer said it was the diverter valve so I bought a new one from ebay. I can’t see any holes to squirt wd40 in except the pressure sensor hole. It’s still 14 degrees c and I’ve changed all my windows to double glazing and lined my bedrooms with thermal insulation. All the things Cameron has just removed or never introduced after the recession. Maybe a squirt of wd40 in the coke holes of chancellor Osborne?
Well Fred, we already have a house in the Highlands that we share with two siblings. Open fire with back boiler means plenty of hot water and we can heat radiators with a circulating pump. There are also three storage heaters. If I was living there permanently I would invest in a wind turbine and/or solar panels to store enough power to run the pump and a couple of lamps. Paraffin heaters and a mobile Calor Gas heater for emergencies, and maybe a small genny.
A solid fuel kitchen range would be a must with all these power cuts. Obviously, we would keep the electricity, but should be able to live without it if we had to.
Mary,
Indeed
Understand-as im sure you do- they are all and always jockeying for position.
The shameless grasping desperate nabobs.
Blair obviously knows what’s coming from Chilcot and this is his attempt to spike the guns, so to speak.
‘I’m sorry’: Historic moment Tony Blair FINALLY apologises for Iraq War and admits in TV interview the conflict caused the rise of ISIS
Former PM makes the confession after 12 years of refusing to apologise
Blair says he is sorry for his conduct which has now led to ‘hell’ in Iraq
Says there is an element of truth that the war caused the rise of ISIS
Comes after Lord Blunkett revealed he had challenged Blair about the war
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3287982/I-m-sorry-Blair-takes-blame-Iraq-War-admits-conflict-caused-rise-ISIS-astonishing-apology-TV-show.html
The Mail gives him a 3 page spread and the interview is given to an American station, CNN.
At this stage does anyone care about what he has to say? He is looking ragged and will rot in hell regardless.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/25/europe/tony-blair-iraq-war/index.html
There is an extract of the interview on the link. Blair looks very orange and strange. He sounds even stranger. Perhaps he should go to see Pope Francis or Cardinal Nichols to obtain absolution for his sins.
The video that accompanies this article can only make you weep at the cruelty and heartlessness displayed.
‘Caught on Camera’: Extrajudicial killings of Palestinians
By Annie Robbins
October 22, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Mondoweiss ”
A new report summarizing Israel’s Arbitrary Killings and its System of Structural Violence was released by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor at a press conference in Geneva on Friday. The release included the following video, “Caught on Camera: Israel’s extrajudicial killings,” illustrating the killings of Palestinian civilians involved in political protests during the last two weeks.
The report follows Euro-Med Monitor‘s October 10th Call on International Community to halt Israel’s extrajudicial executions.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43217.htm
The details are on the link above and in this pdf
http://www.euromedmonitor.org/uploads/reports/ArbitraryKillings.pdf
The video
Caught on Camera: Israel’s extrajudicial killings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6Ae68ADzA
Published on 16 Oct 2015
Israeli forces have used excessive force and committed arbitrary killings in the Palestinian territories for years. That trend escalated during the past few weeks, as Israeli soldiers deployed to the West Bank and Jerusalem used firearms against Palestinians suspected of involvement in attacks, as well as those already detained.
Good morning Mary, hope you are well?!
Thanks or that link on Blair. Fareed Zakaria is a top journalist, not to be messed with.
I agree Blair is looking strange. In the end, we are born alone and we die alone. In the intervening period, for most of us, we live rather more in the zone of suffering ( we need not), than in the space of Joy. Blair cannot know what Joy is. Further, the brain can be a very michevious thing; therefore, though needs to be observed and put in it’s place.
The ‘mind’ (brain +heart) is a very beautiful thing. All one’s actions are recorded and one’s state of being is the aggregate of things good and positive, and evil and negative. It is not impossible to anticipate what the horrible man must feel like in his skin, inwardly. Outwardly, there are signs to observe. Just look at the bags under his eyes, the lines on his face.
There is more to come with Chilcot, and, if not with Chilcot, with Life! Then, there is quantum mechanics and, you may well ask what the hell has that got to do with it? I say, good question, investigate it go into it deepl, very, very deeply. The Universe is deep; very, very deep. In fact it is infinite.
I await the full interview; please do post it on here.
A good place to start Sunday morning. Music is God’s language! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGRSK9FDPY
” All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance,
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance. ”
That’s Leonard Cohen describing quantum mechanics, unknowingly.
Did anyone else see Bob Dylan this week? Good musician but not nearly as heartful as Cohen. They are both great poets. I had the privilege to see Leonard Cohen in an amphitheater in Rome, on a summer’s evening, 2,000 people at best. The feeling of Love in the open air theatre, you could cut it with a knife!
Magic, yes. Miracle, yes. And then you have sick, devious and evil people like Blair. But then again, Sirs, it is we who put him there. Have we learnt from it? I doubt it.
Sorry, Einstein. Quantum Study Suggests ‘Spooky Action’ Is Real.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/science/quantum-theory-experiment-said-to-prove-spooky-interactions.html?_r=0
Must read!
Blair:
“I can say that I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong because, even though he had used chemical weapons extensively against his own people, against others, the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought”
did not exist, eh? The first part of the sentence ‘ the program that we thought it was ‘ and the second part of the sentence ‘ the program … in the way that we thought’ are tautology or repetition. This is not calling a spade a spade, it’s calling a tool for digging a digging tool, splitting hairs and straight lying.
Why not just say: ‘The WMD was a Bush/Blair invention which was subsequently proved to be an invention.’
Alcyone
Sorry, what kind of spooks do you mean?
Re Blair “All political lives end in failure” https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell
CCS is being undertaken for Gas at Peterhead Power Station, where the NS Gas should have landed. Thatcher tried to get it to Newcastle. It is beside Edinburgh feeds Grangemouth. The Longannet CCS Project for coal should have been given permission (£1Billion). Two we coal plants are vein built in the NE of England.(£2Billion each?) thatcher closed all the mines. Coal is half the price of imported Gas.
Nuclear is still the most expensive and dangerous £18Billion. Last two built in France & Finland (7 years) were over time and over budget. There were reconciliation talks to work out the over budget between the Finnish Gov and the company.
Total taxes raised in the UK £466Bilion. Scotland raises £54Billion. Gets £50Billion? Back. Take £54Billion from £466Billion = £412Billion divide by 11 (11/12 UK pop) = £39Billion (pro rata). The rest of the UK borrows and spends £90Billion more.
Westminster illegally and secretly took over £220Billion of Oil revenues from Scotland. Thatcher wrote ‘this most be kept secret’, on official documents as she slashed Scottish Grant and off shored the Oil revenues and spent them on Canary Wharf and Tilbury dock development etc. She left over 3 million unemployed, destroyed manufacture and interest rates were at 15%. Labour ‘ the winter of discontent’ the McCrone Report, illegal wars and banking fraud. The power cuts were because of strikes, not lack of power.
Scotland is in surplus in fuel and energy. It exports 25%. Scotland pays more because it is colder, despite being near the source and in surplus.
The steel produced in Scotland was a different type to the kind required for new Queensferry Crossing.
M15/CIA knew the informer was a fantasist. The WMD’s on lorries which were paint pots. Blair/Bush knew there were no WMD’s. Total manipulation. Iraq was secular and was being modernised. Western sanctions were destroying the economy, not helping the people,
Churchill did the same in Iran in the 1950’s took all the Iranian Oil. When the Iran MP objected. M15/CIA discredited the PM, caused unrest, put the PM in jail and reinstated the discredited Shah.
The West support the most despot,absolute monarchies in the world in the Middle East. They support Israel the apartheid State which will destroy itself because of religious totalitarism. Non viable economy without US support which could be waning.
Also in the Mail (undoubtedly the blog’s favourite paper), white Muslim plumber caught collecting money for his jihadi brother.
Remind you of anyone?
The paramount war criminal and psychopath chose his interviewer well.
Zakaria has been an asset from the start. No way a ‘fine journalist’. Just one of the stenographers to power like Amanpour also on CNN’s payroll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria
Note Harvard.
Note Huntington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington
‘He serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, Columbia University’s International House, City College of New York’s *Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and Shakespeare and Company. He was a trustee of Yale University and the Trilateral Commission.
A snake.
*that caused a chuckle
BLiar should be locked up in a cell on a cold island listening to a loop of the sound of Iraqi children screaming in pain from their burns and injuries.
He still lies too. He and Bush went to war on the basis that WMD existed. When it went wrong, the story was altered to regime change and removal of Saddam.
Ken2
It’s ridiculous that Thatcher closed down our coal mines, only for us to have to import Chinese steel made from Chinese coal mines. Once started, the illegal wars and banking fraud have proved unstoppable. Outsourcing our colonial greed to Al Qaida has got to be the worst decision ever made up the backside of a US politician, namely general Petraus close friend of the witch Hillary Clinton.
David Cameron, clad in condom, operating from the Petraus rectum was no less poodle and slave to the CIA in his illegal wars against Libya and Syria, than Blair against Iraq. Just more time and trouble has been spent on deceiving the public about UK involvement in them. Including the Westminster vote against Syrian involvement.
Praise be to God, Cameron’s illegal war against the Syrian people has been wrecked by Russian bombing. The Thatcher spawn, Blair and Cameron might deceive themselves by thinking that wearing a condom will allow them to engage in anal sex with the institutionally violent CIA and its Muslim mercenaries Al Qaida and IS. You can fool some of the people some of the time and also take retroviral drugs like building Chinese power stations with Chinese steel, to keep you alive for a while.
As far as I can see Blair hasn’t apologised for anything. Saying, ‘I apologise for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong’ is categorically not an apology, it’s another self justification and exculpation.
I agree he looks a haunted man but I don’t think it is his conscience that his haunting him, just the way it has all turned out so catastrophically for him.
“A solid fuel kitchen range would be a must with all these power cuts. Obviously, we would keep the electricity, but should be able to live without it if we had to.”
I will write to David Cameron and tell him we don’t need power stations after all, Rob has a holiday home.
Alcyone
Have you any interest in the notion receiving more and more credence these days that the universe is a holographic simulation, a bit like a computer game? It seems to neatly explain so many of the baffling things about quantum mechanics such as quantum entanglement aka ‘spooky action at a distance’. I find it fascinating. It also answers the age old question, ‘If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?’
The answer is no, because there is no tree. The server doesn’t bother rendering the tree if there is no consciousness to observe it. Just as in a computer simulation if you have a door leading onto a garden the garden doesn’t get rendered unless you open the door and observe it.
Here endeth the King of Welsh Noir’s Sunday Sermon on the Illusory nature of reality.
“The steel produced in Scotland was a different type to the kind required for new Queensferry Crossing.”
We don’t produce steel in Scotland any more, Tata steel needing to cut costs decided to close plants in the countries which gave contracts to the Chinese rather than them.
Anon1
You are a vacuous troll. Do you really think that readers here will take up your insinuation that by mentioning the word Muslim, the connection with mercenary jihad will be obvious and funny. I’ll respond as I did with your racist Jewish joke by changing your comment to the Haredi version:
“Also in the Mail (undoubtedly the blog’s favourite paper), white Jewish plumber caught collecting money for his IDF brother in Palestine.
Remind you of anyone?”
funny isn’t it?
Alcyone – 25 Oct, 2015 – 9:07 am The fundamental ‘spooky action’ is the basic mechanism that supports intention. The power of intention can be used to transform an occurrence in time if one can successfully entangle with that instance thus avoiding the need for any physical intervention.
‘If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?’
Or if a tree fell in a forest and there was no Nationalist there to hear it would it still be Westminster’s fault?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pLXMGtW64k
Why the US and Israel want to ban this video.
King, thank you for your responding. I already had a premonition earlier this morning, just after posting that I would be engaging with you (in particular [interesting word!?] ) on this subject. Now how do we explain that?
I don’t know about holographs and video games, for one these are serious subjects so I don’t want any traces of games around me whatsoever. Second I refuse to be distracted by unnecessary or useless comparisons. I want to, as a scientist investigate the darned thing directly, not indirectly.
My approach recognises the fact that I stand on the line between The Known and The Unknown. Which means I take full account of what we, as Man know. Having done that, I am at liberty to speculate and theorise, again while fully cognisant that what I am exploring is just that: mere speculation. String theory, as a whole, is very much still just that: a theory. Even though, bits of it are being demonstrated as proven, very slowly, though steadily. I can’t even at this stage say surely.
More to come, but something here for you to consider. I hope we can keep the conversation going and I hope Dave Lawton will join us here.
Tea break (and I am ill, although lying quite happily in my sun-drenched bed atm.) Glorious sun! Part of this miracle. 😉
Even, thank you for responding!
PS I am delighted I finally found my favourite colour;Pink!
Time for Pink Martini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L-_DiZlrUI
My grandfather with whom I grew up for a few years: first pink gin at noon, second at 12.30….1pm sharp lunch. Clockwork and discipline. Unfortunately I can not tolerate alcohol.
Steel was/is being produced in Lanarkshire? That is the plant that is being shut. The Scottish Gov is trying to keep it open.
King of Welsh Noir, and Alcyone
“If a tree falls in a forest, and there is nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound.”
Well, if we are all entangled, (all One) then yes, it does, because the tree is part of the one consciousness, part of the One since the Big Bang, and of course so is the forest.
Paradox is the key that unlocks the universe. The universe is an infinite sphere, whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, as de Cusa said.
To stay on topic, I must note that I believe Cameron is a used car salesman, treating the UK like an old Ford Capri that he wants to flog off to whoever will take it. The Chinese, seeing the value that Cameron cannot, are quite happy to take it off him…
“The Scottish Gov is trying to keep it open.”
Maybe the way to do that would have been to award the Queensferry contract to the company which owns it.
But instead they sucked up to the Chinese and what did we get in exchange?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtQyhM_z3yw