I see Celtic’s name was dragged by the media into what some low-life vandals did outside Ibrox this week – and a few years ago, for good measure. There are low-life vandals out there, and we don’t have a way to filter them out of the Celtic support, so I‘d not dispute any of the tangential links, but vandalism like this happens all too often without media coverage.
When stories suddenly appear to be so well framed in the newspapers, you have to wonder why? Or who is behind them?
There’s a big play underway for what, in this context, should be called Supremacy in Scotland. Celtic have it right now and no one else is strong enough to eclipse them. The best way to achieve this is to destabilise the club. It’s worked, but only to an extent.
I read Paul Larkin on Hail Hail Media this morning who raises some interesting questions on what’s going on and what we should do about it, “as a collective, cannot be beaten”. It’s hard to argue with.
We’ve got two exciting bits of Magners business for you today………..
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Now I’ve got you in a good mood. If you’ve a spare £1 in your metaphorical pocket, go stick it into the CQN Mary’s Meals appeal Those CQN school kitchens in Malawi feed over 2,000 kids each day. That’s food needed every day………
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Macjay
Mucho gracias J :-)
Bed for moi!
MultiLingualCSC
Emdy sees Jobo Baldie, tell him his tea’s oot.
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Soooo….
What Will Be The Effects Of The Sinister & Secretive N.W.O TTIP ‘Treaty’ Oan The Health Of Bro.Walfrid’s Finest Legacy..?
Why Are Oor Ernie & SFTB Not Shoutin’ Aboot It Fae The Rooftops….??
[ Are They Paid-Up/Useful Puppets…
Of The Illuminati N.W.O…? Ed ]
The Dugs That NEVER BARKED..!
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/05/03/ttip-american-economic-imperialism-paul-craig-roberts/
TTIP—American Economic Imperialism
Paul Craig Roberts
May 3, 2016
Greenpeace has done that part of the world whose representatives are so corrupt or so stupid as to sign on to the Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic “partnerships” a great service.
Greenpeace secured and leaked the secret TTIP documents that Washington and global corporations are pushing on Europe.
The official documents prove that my description of these “partnerships” when they first appeared in the news is totally correct.
These so-called“free trade agreements”
are not trade agreements.
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The purpose of the “partnerships,” which were drafted by global corporations, is to make corporations immune to the laws of sovereign countries in which they do business.
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Any country’s sovereign law whether social, environmental, food safety, labor protections,any law or regulation
that impacts a corporation’s profits..
Is labeled a “restraint on trade.”
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The “partnerships” permit corporations to file a suit that overturns the law or regulation and also awards the corporation damages paid by the taxpayers of the country that tried to protect its environment or the safety of its food and workers.
The law suit is not heard in the courts of the country or in any court.
It is heard in a corporate tribunal in which corporations serve as judge, jury, and prosecutor.
In other words, the “partnerships” give global corporations the power to overturn democratic outcomes.
Allegedly, Europe consists of democracies .
Democracies pass laws protecting the environment and the safety of food and labor, but these laws democratically enacted reduce profits.
Anything less than a sweatshop, with starvation wages, no environmental protection, no safety legislation for food or worker, can be overturned at will by global corporations under the terms of the “partnerships.”
Only a traitor, a well paid one, could sign such a pact.
In my opinion, corporate taxation can also be overturned as it obviously reduces profits.
The Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific “partnerships” have been conducted in secrecy.
The reason is obvious.
Had people known how they were being sold out, there would have been a firestorm of protest.
The corporate shills and their propagandists in the financial media could deny my revelations, because I had no official documents to release.
The “partnership” agreements are treaties.
Under the US Constitution, treaties are the prerogative of Congress, not the prerogative of an executive branch appointed Trade Representative who represents not the people but the corporations seeking the advantage.
To avoid the US Constitution, the agreements are defined as non-treaties. You see how the groundwork for corruption is established.
The way it works is that the appointed US Trade Representative “negotiates” with appointed trade representatives of other countries.
Any resistance to the deal is overcome with bribes and intimidation. All of the negotiation is conducted in secrecy.
When the trade representatives sign on to the deal, it is presented to the legislatures of the countries.
The legislators are told that they must approve the pact and not endanger all the hard work that has gone on for so long and that is in everybody’s interest as attested to by all of the bribed and coerced trade representatives.
These “trade pacts” originate in the US, because American global corporations and the American mega-banks are the largest players in the world economy, and the agreements that the corporations walk through the process give the American companies economic hegemony over the countries that sign the agreements.
The Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific “partnerships” are tools of US financial imperialism.
Today (May 3, 2016) I debated on Press TV Sean O’Grady, the financial editor of the UK newspaper the Independent.
It is extraordinary that O’Grady took a line totally opposite to that of his newspaper.
I suggested to him that perhaps he should read his own newspaper.
Today an article in the Independent reported that the leaked “documents show that US corporations will be granted unprecedented powers over any new public health or safety regulations to be introduced in future.
If any European government does dare to bring in laws to raise social or environmental standards, TTIP will grant US investors the right to sue for loss of profits in their own corporate court system that is unavailable to domestic firms, governments or anyone else.
For all those who said that we were scaremongering and that the EU would never allow this to happen, we were right and you were wrong.”
As I understand it, the situation is worse than the article describes. TTIP applies to laws already on the books, such as France’s laws against GMO seeds and food products.
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TTIP
(Cont;)
The Independent article continues:
“Today’s shock leak of the text of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) marks the beginning of the end for the hated EU-US trade deal, and a key moment in the Brexit debate.
The unelected negotiators have kept the talks going until now by means of a fanatical level of secrecy, with threats of criminal prosecution for anyone divulging the treaty’s contents.
“Now, for the first time, the people of Europe can see for themselves what the European Commission has been doing under cover of darkness – and it is not pretty.
The leaked TTIP documents, published by Greenpeace this morning, run to 248 pages and cover 13 of the 17 chapters where the final agreement has begun to take shape.
The texts include highly controversial subjects such as EU food safety standards, already known to be at risk from TTIP, as well as details of specific threats such as the US plan to end Europe’s ban on genetically modified foods.
“The leaked texts also reveal how the European Commission is preparing to open up the European economy to unfair competition from giant US corporations, despite acknowledging the disastrous consequences this will bring to European producers, who have to meet far higher standards than pertain in the USA.
“According to official statistics, at least one million jobs will be lost as a direct result of TTIP – and twice that many if the full deal is allowed to go through.
Yet we can now see that EU negotiators are preparing to trade away whole sectors of our economies in TTIP, with no care for the human consequences.
“The European Commission slapped a 30-year ban on public access to the TTIP negotiating texts at the beginning of the talks in 2013, in the full knowledge that they would not be able to survive the outcry if people were given sight of the deal.
In response, campaigners called for a ‘Dracula strategy’ against the agreement:
Expose the vampire to sunlight and it will die.
Today the door has been flung open and the first rays of sunlight shone on TTIP.
The EU negotiators will never be able to crawl back into the shadows again.
“For those of us in the thick of the EU referendum debate, the contempt shown by the TTIP negotiators to the people of Europe is the most potent reminder of the democratic deficit at the heart of the EU institutions.”
You can read the Independent article here: http://www.independent.co.uk /voices/ttip-leaks-shocking-what-are- they-eu-us-deal-a7010121.html
The revelations are disconcerting for the British and European peoples.
For Example, The Independent Reports That TTIP Could Cause The Privitazation Of The National Health Service And The UK Parliament Would Be POWERLESS To Stop It.
http://www.independent.co.uk /news/business/news/ttip-could-cause- an-nhs-sell-off-and-parliament-would- be-powerless-to-stop-it-says-leading- union-a7006471.html
See also: http://www.independent.co.uk /voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six- reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare- you-9779688.html
In our debate Sean O’Grady performed as a shill, a propagandist for the corporate interests behind TTIP.
He said that it was a free trade agreement that benefitted everyone just as NAFTA and other such agreements have proved to be the case.
Tell that to all the displaced American workers.
He said that it was unfortunate that the secrecy had possibly hurt the agreement’s prospects and that it would have been better if the pact’s provisions had been known as they were negotiated.
That way, he said, the agreement would not be threatened by the shock effect of the leaked documents.
O’Grady also claimed that no one has thus far agreed to the pact despite the fact that the representatives have agreed to the pact. Perhaps what he means is that legislatures have not given their approval.
The headline on the Independent article suggests that the leak will prevent approval: “After the leaks showing what it stands for, this could really be the end for TTIP.”
If so, O’Grady regards it as a great loss.
For the global corporations, of course, not for the peoples it would exploit.
The Greenpeace revelations should deep-six the pact, but I am uncertain.
French president Hollande says, provisionally, that France will not sign the pact as it is. In other words, give us some fuzzy language to make it look like we got it fixed.
The EU’s chief negotiator, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, a likely recipient of a large bribe, rushed to the defense of TTIP by declaring Greenpeace to be “flatly wrong.”
Bercero’s statement makes no sense. Greenpeace released the official documents.
No one denies that the leaked documents are legitimate.
So apparently Bercero’s position is that the official documents are wrong.
He sounds like a guy working hard for his money.
Bercero, went on to say, according to the BBC, that “it is not correct to say the US is pushing for lowering of the level of protection in the EU.”
This is an amazing lie !
Those who are trying to put a good face on the leak themselves admit that this is precisely what the US is trying to do.
They claim that the Europeans haven’t yet given in.
It is disingeneous for Bercero or O’Grady or anyone to pretend that TTIP has not been from the very beginning about establishing global corporate hegemony over the governments of democratic countries.
I pointed this out when the corporations first made their move.
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TTIP
(More Cont;)
There is no doubt whatsoever that the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific “partnerships” are about giving global capitalism immunity from the laws of sovereign countries.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilla Malmstroem is, according to the BBC, “steering the TTIP talks.”
Malmstroem, another likely recipient of a large bribe, says:
“I am simply not in the business of lowering standards.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe- 36185746
Her statement is misleading. She is not in the business of lowering standards.
She is in the business of making it possible for global capitalism to overthrow all standards, high and low.
From my encounter today with Sean O’Grady, a person whose integrity I no longer respect, I expect the corporate bought-and-paid-for Western financial press and governments to close ranks and discredit the leaked documents as some kind of Greenpeace “conspiracy theory.”
Even in my presence, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Wall Street Journal editor, O’Grady had no compunction about misrepresenting to my face the agreement as a good one harmed only by secrecy.
If it hadn’t been secret, said O’Grady, it would have been OK.
All of the blather about free trade and tariff reduction is mere cover for the only purpose of TTIP, which is to establish American economic imperialism over the peoples whose governments sold them out for money.
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Jock Tamson’s Bairns Hiv Been Here Afore….
http://www.robertburns.org/works/344.shtml
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The Donald
The Obampot ” advises ” UK to remain in the E.C.
( What a cheek )
And Belgium responds accordingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8LRQWuntk
(What a laugh.)
HOOTENANNY REMINDER.
3PM Kick Off Sat 7th May. Extra time guaranteed. No penalties. Play will continue until play can no longer continue.
All welcome, except orange bastards.
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Macjay..
Worse Than That…
Stay In The European UNION…
Not Merely The European Community..!
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Anyhoo….
The Latest From “My Gals”….
Diamond & Silk….
The Next US Ambassadors Tae Israel And Saudi Arabia…
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Hamiltontim on 5th May 2016 11:57 pm
Congratulations to you and Minx. At least there will be no arguing about you going to the game without her.
Diamond , Silk and R.Dean
Indiana wants me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8LRQWuntk
Better version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDppeMt0FeQ
Looks like Labour are going to take another tanking. Ernie’s action man will be hiding under the bed.
A CEILER GONOF RUST on 6TH MAY 2016 1:11 AM
Yi broke the blog ya diddy
See you Saturday ;))
HH
WWW(GBWO) on 6TH MAY 2016 2:26 AM
Who`s the Diddy ?
Good morning, CQN
Looking forward to James Forrest’s article regarding the offshore.net revelations regarding malpractice at SFA re granting of UEFA licence to the former Rangers. This review by a prestigious and independent institute demolishes any suggestion that pursuit of Res 12 is merely down to disgruntled Celtic supporters. All to the good. HH
One thing is for sure, and when you Frame it in a certain way, aye the EndTimes, there is no doubt whatsoever, that he is running amok by confusing people Right, Left and Centre.
There has never been a more fertile Time for that Bad Guy to take people away from Christ, I know….. he has done the, I will bide my Time, And come back for YOU.
Noone knows what ANY person has went through, I know this will, awaken people more than me.
Respect To All on CQN.
I’d Hazard a guess that Summa of Sammi’s mind has just went Bonkers, like SoS, he has no idea about me, nor I of him.
Jesus, I thought I was going Mad there. Thank you for not making me blaspheme.
Another annoying thing.
Sammi
this
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Every voice is important. EVERY Voice is Important.
I put oot the Music of my own son on CQN, I know not why?
Shutdown is in Tokyo, Boiler Room as well this weekend.
Never forget though, We are ALL Sinners, a few stray frae that jibber jabber, some might say and think they Know it all, when in Reality they Know only what the Almighty has Blessed them with.
Come on the Scottish People. ;))
De La Hoya Knox!!!!!
AN TEACH SOLAIS
Apparently WHEN SATURDAY COMES has an interesting article on Rangers in its latest edition.
If I can find it online,I’ll post it.
Maybe some people down south starting to ask questions?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Thank you. Look foward to reading it if and when you can post it. What, IMHO, is essential now is preading the word. The biased SMSM cannot keep it under wrap if it is now gaining the attention of media outlets furth of Scotland.
Also, IMO, it is important for all Celtic supporters to spread the word. There must be no hiing place for the incompetents at SFA.
Thanks again. HH
AN TEACH SOLAIS
I’ve tried to find it online,but no joy. I’ll probably end up buying the magazine,photograph it and send it to some techy type on here to post on the blog.
One of my mates down here texted me about it yesterday. He’s pretty much clued in on most of their shit,he’s had to listen to my rants for years!
The SNP now have Time to do what they are going to do. hmmmmmmmm
Thank the Almighty we never got Independence.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry, calm, bright looking and optimistic feeling East Kilbride. There’s something in the air, I can feel it…. ;-)
PETEC
You going to The BV tomorrow?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Thanks. I will appreciate it if you can. Publicity on this is important and good on those south of the border for investigating. Pity all these self-styled sports journalists in Scotland cannot, or will not, do the job they claim to do.
Again, thanks and have a great day, sir. HH
I like to have a flutter on the volatile markets, Brent Futures mainly.
That is no way to Run a Country. I even told my wee Brother in Switzerland my DEFINITE ways to keep getting quick profits, always wary of haircutting.
Basically, he laughed at me. He stays just outside Geneva, I’m in Dumbarton. ;))
If I had lots of Luck, I’d be cracking at it.
Populist sh1t by this Horrible group of chancers.
IMO ofc
For anyone that forgot to set their Betamax…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b079vtpm/peaky-blinders-series-3-episode-1
Happy Birthday, Paul67
I’m pretty sure you will have wonderful day. God bless you.
ZBYSZEK
Good man!
Hope yer well,bud.
HAPPY HOOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY to
PAUL67
Have a Friday Flyer,tell the boss I said it was fine…
Happy birthday Paul…. I will pop round later with your card which will be in a white envelope ;)
BOBBY,
No, the wee guy is in the middle of his exams and I’m picking him up noonish Saturday – I think he’d actually rather spend the Time with his Grand Parents than me. The Voice changes instantly to mega nice. He has been crabbit on the phone. You dudes will have a whale of a Time anyway.
Who knows what the Future holds.
CHARLIES BOOK ARRIVED..
Cheers for the extra surprise..
Hoopy Birthday to Paul 67
Apparently Nothing
My Son has been in an unlucky year Educational wise.
Massaging stats etc.
I know nothing, anyway.
Bobby Murdoch’s
Thank you, I’m fine. I hope you are well.
Very Hoooopy Birthday Paul67
Also my lurking nephew in Toronto’s birthday
So happy Birthday to you as well Kevin :-)
Happy birthday Paul
And Kevin the lurker in Canada
Happy birthday Paul67
Auldheid thank you! The only fight will be over Lisbon one has fixed holidays and one is self employed:-)
MINX1888
Send him a postcard!