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  • Republicofscotland

    BBC4 radio, desperately trying to defend discussing Trump’s racist Tweets with no other than far right polemicist Ann Coulter.

    Nick (I’m not apologising to Alex Salmond) Robinson hosted the debacle, I mean show at 8am yesterday.

    Coulter, is best known for her 2001 comments calling for the American government to, invade Muslim countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

    Unsurprisingly Coulter vigorously defended Trumps Tweets on Muslims and the far right wing group Britain First.

    http://www.thenational.scot/news/15695399.BBC_defend_Radio_4_giving_air_time_to_US_alt_right_fanatic/?ref=mr&lp=7

  • Republicofscotland

    Staying on the far right theme this biased rag appears to be in a bit of trouble, oh what a pity, says I tongue in cheek of course.

    “Shares in the owner of the Daily Mail and Mail Online have slumped by more than 20% after it reported a sharp drop in annual profits and warned of a tough year ahead.”

    “Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), which also owns the Mail on Sunday and Metro newspapers and is the largest shareholder in business-to-business publisher Euromoney, said its business would be “adversely affected by recent disposals and challenging conditions in some of our sectors”.

    http://archive.is/DQ9q8

  • Tony_0pmoc

    I’ve just come across this article written by Caitlin Johnstone, which I think is brilliant. In an effort to try and find out who this person is, I did a google search, and found extremely strong criticisms of her work from supposed American left wing journalists . These criticisms from these lying brainwashed creeps, significantly enhanced my appreciation of Caitlin Johnstone. She actually questions everything she comes across objectively, rather than simply regurgitating the official US Establishment Left/Right/Green, evidence free, propaganda.

    A further positive is that she is not a brainwashed American – but an Australian.

    You should read her. The girl writes sense , whilst surrounded by a sea of lies, from more established lying scum bags who call themselves journalists.

    “It Is Your Human Duty To Stand Unapologetically In Your Own Authority”

    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/it-is-your-human-duty-to-stand-unapologetically-in-your-own-authority-c386a5fe9606

    Tony

  • Courtenay Barnett

    Craig Murray,
    It is that time of year when I send greetings to family and friends.
    It is clear to me that this was for you, annus horribilis, but I have the antidote to bring good cheer despite the after effect of the 2017 challenges.
    So to Craig Murray and family I wish you the best for now and the coming new year. To the extended family here on this blog, I wish you and your families all the best.
    And, to keep my promise, this is what I propose to put a smile back on your face Craig. A letter to Jake Wallis Simons:-
    “ Dear Jake,
    This letter is sent upon the advice of a blogger, one Courtenay Barnett, who has suggested that the following may safely (i.e. without any prospect of a successful law suit) be said to you:-
    “ If it were not December approaching the Christmas season I would be willing to give you a piece of my mind as advised by Courtenay who said, “ Wallis you are a calculated weasel and a right royal arse-hole for having sued Craig Murray in the circumstances which arose and in the manner and for the reasons that you did. It would take but a hindquartered mind-set to have advanced litigation of this nature. For my part, I am fully willing to hoist you on your own petard. You placed Murray under financial fire based on a contrivance that was mean-spirited, devious, cowardly and totally shameless. Is that the kind of man you really are? The case suggests in and of itself an answer in the affirmative. The result of the case conclusively confirms its baseless contrivance ab initio .” ”
    Courtenay went on to say that he considered me to be a person of courage, principled, truthful and of good character, therefore he was fully convinced that I would not be saying anything about you post-case that was not factually accurate or was in any way defamatory or born of malice. He further advised that I share with you his song written from and about the Caribbean to demonstrate, by sharing same with you, that I am bigger and better than any likely litigation to be hoisted on a niggling platform of costly hubris. I fully assure you, that nothing said before the case or even now, carried or carries with it any malice and/or malicious intent.
    This is what was shared with me and with all those who blog on my web site, and he said this:-
    “ How well I can rhyme; not just defending innocents from crime; but being a lyricist with a special sense of musical time.

    “With that so said, you will, no doubt, be demanding further evidence and proof. Albeit, the great civil rights activist and social justice seeker, Harry Belafonte, is still with us; I have for all these years avoided showing him up with my publication of a greater, truly lasting, if not immortal Caribbean musical style – the time has finally come – so here with apologies to Harry…
    “ Ice-bucket in my hand”
    ( * A genuine Caribbean song – and – a mere coincidence that it can be sung to the tune of ‘Island in the
    sun). I suggest that, if you know the tune, you amuse yourself by singing along. Mr. Music….please play….

    This is my ice-bucket in my hand
    Where my guests have ice since my shift began
    I may sell on many a bar
    Restauranteurs will always zone to me

    Oh, ice-bucket in my hand
    Willed to me by my able hands
    All my days I will sing in praise
    Of your liquor, waters,
    Your shining brands

    As morning breaks
    The heaven on high
    I lift my heavy load to the sky
    Sun comes down with a burning glow
    Mingles my sweat with the sand below

    Oh, ice-bucket in my hand
    Willed to me by my able hands
    All my days I will sing in praise
    Of your liquor, waters,
    Your shining brands

    I see women on bended knees
    Cutting shame for their families
    I see man at the waterside
    Casting belch on the liquor high

    Oh, ice-bucket in my hand
    Willed to me by my able hands
    All my days I will sing in praise
    Of your liquor, waters,
    Your shining brands

    I hope the day will never come
    That I can’t awake to the taste of rum
    Never let me miss carnival
    With calypso songs philosophical

    Oh, ice-bucket in my hand
    Willed to me by my able hands
    All my days I will sing in praise
    Of your liquor, waters,
    Your shining brands

    Copyright © Courtenay Francis Raymond Barnett
    barnettlyrics.com 2017

    So Wallis Simons – cheers.

    Graciously yours,

    Craig Murray”

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Now Special Counsel Robert Mueller has started throwing Trump people under the bus, getting former NSA Mike Flynn, you remember his joining The Donald in chanting about “Lock Her Up”. for lying to the FBI about a meeting he had with a Russian after the presidential election.

    A few more will suffer a similar fate but not the POTUS.

    Why, because he will not testify to the Bureau about anything.

    It’s like how he got GW and the real leaders off for 9/11.

    Get used to living with Hitler Light.

    • Rob Royston

      Maybe Trump needs to make up with his Scottish roots and investigate Mueller and the infamous MST–13 timer.

  • reel guid

    GQ magazine has an interview and pictures of Corbyn. Jeremy in one of the photos is rolling up his sleeves with a hard look on his face that means business.

    Getting ready to abstain perhaps.

  • Christopher Dale Rogers

    Hang out the bunting chaps.

    Neil Clark, whose been crowdfunding taking action against his online starker, one Oliver Kamm – who’s a very nasty piece of works to say the least, has announced that he’s lodged Papers against Kamm for libel & harassment.

    Hope he’s got enough funds to see this through, given how expensive CMs costs were, but for anyone who supports freedom of speech and a media without lies, this is great news.

    • Macky

      “has announced that he’s lodged Papers against Kamm for libel & harassment.”

      Great news indeed ! 🙂

    • John Spencer-Davis

      I’m delighted to help fund an action against that creature.

      I should think it will settle before the matter gets to court in any case.

      Let’s wait and see. J

    • Trowbridge H. Ford

      Clark should have spoken about the UK and the USA having been long involved in trying to effect regime change in Libya by assassinating Gaddafi, starting in the 1990s, rather than giving them cover by just blaming it on NATO. They led NATO, as always

  • Tony_0pmoc

    If you see that big flash in the sky, depending on your proximity, you may actually survive for some time. Though you will almost certainly wish you hadn’t. I always thought North Korea was bluffing, but it seems not. I am not too impressed with Bernhard’s way of reporting this, but it seems to me he is the only one in The West to have so far done so. I have not read it anywhere else, but Bernhard tends to not make stuff up and the evidence seems pretty clear. If things weren’t bad enough already, this is going to make The Americans even more paranoid. God knows what happens next.

    North Korea: “The Missile Program Is Now Complete” “Last night the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched another nuclear capable missile. It was a new type never shown before. Its name is Hwasong-15 and it is a beauty.”

    http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/north-korea-the-missile-program-is-now-complete.html

    http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

    Tony

    • Trowbridge H. Ford

      North Korea doesn’t have effective nuclear weapons, just the US making out that it has, and Kim Jong-un having enough sense to go along with the ruse, holding Washington at bay.

      • Tony_0pmoc

        Trowbridge,

        That’s what I thought. However, the South Koreans make extremely good electronic and mechanical stuff. China are pretty good at it too, and all these people are related, with Russia on their border too. You Americans did almost completely destroy their country (and a large percentage of their population after WWII). This probably really pissed them off. The fact that they are supposedly peaceful Buddhists, is no guarantee of anything. Genghis Kahn, may or may not have been a Buddhist – but he was a right CNUT. His Mongol empire was even bigger than ours, and he ruthless killed a much larger percentage of the countries he invaded, than either us British – or you Americans (and we were bad enough)

        Hope you get better – my brother did another 30 years, after he got it..so that should take you to well over 100 if you have similar luck.

        Tony

  • Republicofscotland

    If you’ve had an X-ray in Portsmouth recently I’d be a bit worried if I were you.

    “During their visit in July, CQC inspectors also found the hospital had a backlog of 23,000 chest X-rays.”

    “None of the 23,000 images from the preceding 12 months had been formally reviewed by a radiologist or appropriately-trained clinician.”

    However some folk have died since the discovery.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-42178069

    • Sharp Ears

      Better get the Tories to fund OUR NHS properly and relieve the pressure on the staff and the system. An appreciation is needed of what it’s like working under that pressure which is relentless. Also stop the
      Tory outsourcing and privatisation by the back door.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    I got a Result today, after a week’s long intensive series of negotiations involving numerous emails and phone calls eventually elevated to the highest levels of the company I was negotiating with. They finally realised I was completely serious. No solicitors, judges nor barristers were involved, nor other third parties. Today, we agreed, and at a personal level we finally got on really well, helping each other resolve the dispute without having to resort to going to court.

    I remained exceedingly polite throughout.

    Tony

    • glenn_nl

      Excellent news… and well done. It’s difficult for the other side to get all worked up and uncompromising, when you are being polite and reasonable throughout.

    • JOML

      Polite, but assertive, is the way to go, Tony, and always ask for senior management if the situation merits. The ground staff aren’t granted discretion, despite being capable, whereas senior staff often are less capable but have discretion to take the route of least resistance… for them! Well done ?

      • Tony_0pmoc

        Sometimes, if you aren’t getting anywhere with the chain of command, it is very worthwhile going right to the top. Most companies have a list of directors, and their email addresses are very easy to work out, if you don’t actually feel strong enough about the problem to phone them up on Christmas Eve – send them an email instead, and let them phone you back (email actually) on Christmas Day,

        He promised to have the problem fixed for free before The New Year, almost live from somewhere in Italy.

        I had actually bought Welsh – Hotpoint, but The Italians took them over. This Italian guy couldn’t have been more nice and helpful and so professional. I have always had an affection for Italians. I just love their culture and how nice they are (nearly as good as The Thai’s – but they take it to a much higher graceful level….but I have generally found Italians really nice.

        In this case they are a local English Company and manufacture their own stuff which I bought. It will be fixed by Thursday.

        I can’t speak for The Welsh, cos I assume The Italians fired them.

        Buy my Welsh Designed and Manufactured Washing Machine is still working Fine more than 10 years after

        I think the Welsh are Class Designers and Engineers. I wonder what you guys are designing now and going from idea to model to prototype to hard internal test to a few production models – testing them with real customers and then ramping it up to maybe 10×10 if its selling like hot cakes…. Bank please – can we have s short time loan to pay for production?

        A Couple of Million will do.

        Thanks,

        Tony

    • Geordie Bordie

      The House of Saud is in complete disarray/consolidation.

      Or both.

      Discuss.

      Anyway, they were always going to have to address that “consensus rule” problem, or never get anything done.

      And they had to address the old diversifying the economy thing, which consensus rule could never achieve.

      And the youth, the golden youth.

      The Westernised youth.

      Lock up the nasty puritan clerics.

      Take back the wealth from the parasitic plutocrats.

      Split the temporal power from the spiritual power.

      This MBS bloke, sometimes called the clown price, is trying to do what it took Europe about five hundred years to achieve.

      And he’s doing it in a few weeks!

      That’s youth for ya.

      He either Alexander.

      Or he’s not.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    The first thing they did with me was to promote me to Quality Assurance at the age of 20. So I intensively tested it…I told them our kit is shit. it only works a bit (well most of the time) and then it crashes. We’ve got to fix it

    “We can’t possibly send that out – we will go bust.” The reply was – “err if we don’t send that out – we won’t get paid and we will go bust very soon. We will have no money to pay our wages and we will all lose our jobs”

    I thought Oh Shit…and had to go to site to clear the mess up …and fix it.

    We got it working.

    They customer ended up offerring me a job, after we had gone bust.

    I always put the customer first and in this case it is me.

    I accepted the job and moved from Manchester to London.

    You can’t beat Quality.

    Tony

    • Tony_0pmoc

      SA,

      I read about dominos falling across The Middle East, and all the inter-related events, last night in a book. I do like a book at bedtime.

      It was so close to the truth of what has happenned, I found it hard to believe the date it was written at the end of the chapter. I thought he had written it a couple of years ago, but he wrote it before he wrote this…

      http://thesaker.is/sakers-man-of-the-year-2013-the-syrian-soldier/

      I guess, I am a bit of fan. He hasn’t banned me yet. I bought his book

      “The Essential Saker: from the trenches of the emerging multipolar world”

      £20 in hardback – or free on the internet if you are skint and know where to find it, if you don’t like paper books. Anyone who tries to print it out, will pay far more for the ink. Its enormous.

      Tony

      • SA

        Tony

        Yes the Saker does not mince his words and has robust answers for those who disagree. I enjoy his blogs.

        • nevermind

          My first thoughts were that he is taking the rap, I’ll bet he’s had his family looked after etc. but Its not changing the substantial boll-cocks of ‘the Russians were behind it’ story, the whole narrative seems to be made up as we walk the news plank, utter bolderdash

          Now if they would have talked about Russian Mafiosi, Oligarchs and Putinistas, that would have been really interesting, but hey, their links to western finance etc. etc. who’s calling whom a worm here…..see Cyprus.

          • BrianFujisan

            Up Late Nevermind

            I seny you a wonderful Video of Karate..Over Next Door ( Squonkland )

    • James Dickenson

      It appears that he did wish to help Israel?
      “Jeff Blankfort· 4 hours ago

      What is not true is that the Russian ambassador did not refuse to try and block the UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements but instead was the one who tried to get the other ambassadors to go along and wait until Trump had taken office before having the vote. The other ambassadors refused and Russia, because of its international position supporting the Palestinians was obliged to vote for it as well, 

      The Russian ambassador, who has since died, was acting on the orders of Putin who had been asked to intervene by his good friend Netanyahu in return for the favor that Netanyahu had done Putin, by having Israel’s UN ambassador absent when the vote was held in the UN sanctioning Russia for its annexation of Crimea. The ambassador tried 

      This was reported in the Israeli press and came up in the White House press conference following the Israeli abstention in which the WH press spokeswoman announced the Obama Administration’s disappointment that Israel did not support their condemnation of Russia. 

      That this story never appeared in the US media is a tribute to the power of America’s Zionist agents who control what says and doesn’t say about Israel.”
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48333.htm

    • BrianFujisan

      Yep.. Hurry along…Get the deck chairs out…. And Cheer …Watch Children Die..And Pregnant women… Just like the Last War crime ,

    • Republicofscotland

      Good link Sharp Ears.

      Israel bombs across the border almost at will, yet the international community does nothing.

      It’s not NK we should be worried about.

    • Republicofscotland

      It’s not just bombing other nations when they feel like it, Israel also invites itself to where it’s not wanted. Talk about chutzpah.

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly infuriated several European Union diplomats by announcing that he would attend an upcoming summit of the 28-nation bloc.

      “This is the European Union, not the US Congress, and Netanyahu cannot invite himself,” Times of Israel quoted one EU diplomat as saying in the TV report.”

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-diplomats-reportedly-angry-after-netanyahu-invites-self-to-summit/

      • Node

        From your link, RoS :

        In July, on a visit to Hungary, Netanyahu criticized the European Union in unusually harsh terms for its treatment of Israel, urging the leaders of four Central European countries to use their influence in the organization to ease its conditions for advancing bilateral ties.

        “I think Europe has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel and disappear,” he said in a closed-door meeting whose content was accidentally broadcast to journalists outside the room. “I am not very politically correct. I know that’s a shock to some of you. It’s a joke. But the truth is the truth — both about Europe’s security and Europe’s economic future. Both of these concerns mandate a different policy towards Israel.”

        A ‘not very politically correct’ observer might interpret Netanyahu’s ‘joke’ as a threat that Israel could destroy the European Union if it doesn’t get what it wants.

        From elsewhere in your link :

        ““This is the European Union, not the US Congress, and Netanyahu cannot invite himself,” one EU diplomat told Channel 10 …”

        BUT YET …

        “Angered EU diplomats have since acquiesced to the visit …”

        • Geordie Bordie

          Very important in these confusing days to understand that Netanyahu is not Israel and he’s not international Zionism and he’s not Judaism.

          Netanyahu has been attacked from inside Israel by the state’s own military and intelligence leaders, by Globalist think tanks and by religious Jewish organisations, and media worldwide.

          Netanyahu’s power comes from that mass exodus of Russian Jews who left as the USSR collapsed.

          Many not real Jews, the rabbis said.

          That moved Israel from your more softly softly fabian type husbandry to hardball.

          Creating more enemies than one would normally think necessary, and especially with what were once thought friends.

          Anyway, Netanyahu, Trump and Putin seem to get on well enough together, and amongst many others too.

          Who are their common enemies?

          It’s kinda like all the littler nobles coming out against their tired-out elders.

          And showing them up.

          They’ll be needing a bit more than Magna Carta this time.

        • laguerre

          The reputed Israeli military historian van Creveld warned us as far back as 2003, that Israeli nuclear missiles are aimed at Europe, in case of necessity. Including Britain, I imagine. That, of course, doesn’t prevent government members of CFoI betraying Britain in favour of a country which aims its nuclear missiles at us.

          • nevermind

            Should there be somebody making a case for France’s Force de Frappé to re-target its nuclear missiles towards this apparent threat Laguerre?

          • laguerre

            nevermind

            The French govt has much the same attitude towards Israel as the British do. I wouldn’t expect anything different.

            Mind you, van Creveld hasn’t repeated it since 2003. No doubt he was “leaned on”. He wouldn’t want to be treated like Vanunu.

        • nevermind

          Netanyahu is weaseling itself into the EU by threats(Hungary) and innuendo, as he spawns Israel’s Apartheid policies to the members of the European Conservatives reformists.

          Israel is not a member of the European Union, I’m afraid that taking part in the Eurovision song contest does not count. Why should a rogue state that conducts warfare on its neighbours, steals lands and imprisons children on a daily basis be part of a high ranking EU meeting is beyond me.
          He should be shown the door by security, failing that he should be searched for hidden microphones and bugs. I despair.

    • giyane

      Torture and Lithium works wonders on the psyche. Muslims who have been brought up respectful of all human life warped and twisted into USUKIS killing machines by torture and mind-changing drugs. It all makes the Nazis look a little quaint and cute.

      • SA

        Giyane
        I am afraid to say that Marx was right, religion is the opium of the people. In saying this I am not criticising religion as such, but it’s abilities to both make people fanatic but also obedient has been used and abused throughout the ages by all 3 so called monotheistic religions. It is not the fault of the true teachings it is that of those who misuse it.

    • Republicofscotland

      Re my above comment.

      “The United Nations General Assembly has voted to declare as null any Israeli measure to practice jurisdiction over Jerusalem al-Quds, days before US President Donald Trump decides whether he would relocate the US embassy to the occupied city.”

      Now lets see if the UN has the courage of their convictions and backs up the resolution, with action if need be.

      “In a rare show of unity against the Tel Aviv regime, 151 countries voted on Thursday to adopt a resolution that denounced Israel.”

      http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/01/544113/UN-Israel-Jerusalem-Quds-resolution-jurisdiction

      • SA

        The general assembly resolutions have no clout. In fact neither has the UNSC when it runs against the de facto rulers of the world.

    • giyane

      “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

      Blair built the good Friday agreement on the slippery sand of the UK having been an innocent party in Northern Ireland’s troubles and being an honest broker in their resolution. We know with hindsight that the UK destroyed Iraq, Libya and Syria with their partners USIS.

      Not only the Good Friday Agreement, but also the partnership between the Tories and the DUP are about to disintegrate, leaving Jeremy Corbyn to pick up the pieces of UK lies.. Mrs May continues to place sandbags on the ramparts of her fantasy tower of Tory financial responsibility. The edifice of Thatcherism is riven with plaster-filled cracks.

  • Tony_0pmoc

    “Do we Really have to do this?” .

    “Yes you are getting paid for it”

    “Can’t we have The Queen instead or Jeremy Corbyn?”

    “(I wish -whispered quietly) – Maybe next time”

    “And no rude noises, no sarcastic questions, and it would be appreciated if you politely applaud when she has finished, and don’t laugh until she’s gone”.

    “Theresa May meets the workforce.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2017/11/30/TELEMMGLPICT000128842845_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqsXJ4x1hHApqw7ff8y1ZSzeJDYlGOsQvziYaAhGJZIHQ.jpeg?imwidth=1400

    Tony

    • Tony_0pmoc

      Link above didn’t work it added an s to http.

      Maybe this will – if not google Theresa May addresses workers at Screwfix in Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday It makes the photo even funnier.

      telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/theresa-may-pledges-scrap-severn-bridge-tolls/

  • Republicofscotland

    Niger officially lets the US arm drone in the country, permission might be given to France as well very soon.

    The US has pledged to spend $60 million fighting “terrorism” in the region. On Wednesday, a joint anti-jihadist force linking forces from Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mauritania began operating with support from the French military.

    Macron also wants to charge into Libya under the guise of freeing slaves, as if the neoliberal hadn’t enough problems at home, foremost his tampering with the French Labour Laws.

    Pausing for thought for a moment, with the recent French electlon in mind. One wonders if the tactics now, are to put up a candidate so odious and loathed by the public, that voters flock in there droves to vote for the other candidate. Even though he/she might only be slightly less appealing.

    Job done the preferred candidate takes office, and public lose again, just a thought.

  • Republicofscotland

    “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says all foreign forces, including those of the so-called US-led coalition that are present in Syria without the authorization from the Damascus government, have to withdraw from the Arab country after the total defeat of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.”

    Reading between lines, I think he’s saying, okay your attempted regime change didn’t work, you were soundly beaten, time to pack up and go home.

    http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/02/544172/Syria-USled-coalition-Russia-Daesh

    • SA

      Could he also be saying that since your proxies have been defeated and your link with them exposed by us, that it is time to recognise that you are the problem, not the solution. I paraphrase generously.

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