And we’re back! What a two days of systems nightmare. We went down at 7pm on Thursday. No conclusive information on why, we have had traffic volume related outages before, but this was on a more serious and persistent basis. We had to move the database to a new location and restore from backup to recover, we lost a few days articles. Better not speak to me about Fasthosts for a while.
We got access to the databases this morning and took the opportunity to upgrade facilities in the background. We’re on a new incarnation of WordPress and now have Facebook and Twitter integration. Good news is you can link your Celtic Quick News account with your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, and share information from CQN to your social network timeline.
To do so:
Login to Celtic Quick News.
Cick on your name at the top of the Comments box to access your profile.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to access the Facebook and Twitter links.
Update your profile.
You will then see a Share link beside your comments.
Should we be Celtic Slow News for today? Here it is:
Rennes 1-1 Celtic.
Hugely important second half performance and Joe Ledley goal.
Your favourite billionaire is getting divorced and has claimed he has no money! Oh dear.
One year on, the SFA are still smoking out religiously offensive correspondents!
The Berlin Wall fell and I hear Elvis is dead.
Have a try at the Facebook and Twitter links and let me know what you think of it. I’m off for a break but will catch up later.
Most importantly, there is a Celtic fan called Andrew who will be walking about Belfast in a daze this weekend. If you see him, but him a beer.
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Paul67,
gonnae never, ever, ever, do that again
CQN’s off for 24 hours and the whole world’s gone David Ike
I had to spend a civilised… yup, civilized… Friday night, talkin to folk… an stuff
You’ve gone an killed Gaddafi… and to cap it all, Mags is postin in daylight
I’m away for a lie down
Oh, we’re now all worried that the old firm board will do what an old firm board is supposed to do, protect the old firm.
TET
My wife’s cousin is married to Bob’s daughter, Sarah.
He is a great lad and a big Tim.
I will indeed pass on your good wishes.
Take care!
Will we ever be free of the rocketry?
Auld Neil Lennon Heid
Why should these reforms be a bargaining tool?
I can’t see why reforms should be connected to allowing a new Rankers to compete in the SPL.
Welcome back Paul/CQN, thank god i do not need to watch another soap on tv, by the way when did Elsie Tanner leave Coronation Street (LOL)
hamiltontim says:
22 October, 2011 at 20:58
I do not know anything about the living conditions of ordinary Libyan people during the time of Gaddafi,therefore i am not in a position to agree or disagree with your assessment.
As for your point about Thatcher – The Colonel began supporting the struggle in Ireland in the early 70’s,many years before Thatcher came to power.
Belfast Celt
Interesting post mate
Indeed your man was to play a pivotal role in what became peace
An interesting book written by ed moloney, a secret history of the IRA explains further
Worth a read
The Jury’s Out says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:02
Fair enough.
Auldheid
If by the horse you mean the sfa, we have to force them, and we can, we hold all the aces, in fact we hold all the deck.
Anything short, our club will be shafting the support.
BelfastCC
No, it disny matter, I just wanted to clear up a few things in my head, about a few things that had been said in the past, it makes sence to me now.
hamiltontim says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:02
googybhoy
Our ‘wee’ friend has passed on the baton I’m afraid. Amongst others, today is the feast of St Mellon.
Apparently she was a fruit cake :)
But at least not called St.Mellion the Manic.
I still think the wee man got a bad deal.
Back in the room…is CW been sectioned yet?
The Jury’s Out says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:02
BelfastCityCelt,
Repost: I posted this last week
The Jury’s Out says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:02
BelfastCityCelt,
The Jury’s Out says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:02
BelfastCityCelt,
Repost from last week
Have you ever been to Libya? No, me neither. But there are a lot of people in print, on radio and TV these days who have been. Or certainly from the way they report the fall of Tripoli and the collapse of the Muammar Gaddaffi regime, they must have been, because they are as one in welcoming the end of what Miriam O’Callaghan, among others, described as “the end of the 42-year reign of terror”. On TV we get shots of guys tearing up or driving over posters of Gaddafi. On RTÉ earlier this week, a young Libyan woman living in Dublin who’d visited Libya annually since 2000 spoke of the pervading sense of fear in the country. Mind you, until prompted, her main complaint had been that young people were going to college, graduating and then having no job, and if you don’t know where that reminds you of, stop reading now, would you? Thanks.
So what sort of place was Libya under Gaddafi? Well, it certainly wasn’t a democracy – Gaddafi took power over forty years ago and held on tight until recently. We’re told that he operated a massive system of secret surveillance of the population, that people were imprisoned without trial, that in some cases he had his political enemies killed. Not nice. And if you don’t know where that reminds you of, stop reading now, would you? Thanks.
Did he do any good during his time in power? Well, nothing to speak of, not if you’re reporting for the BBC or ITV or in The Sindo. But if you dig a bit it’s there. When he came to power in 1969, a barrel of oil was sold to the West for 40 cents – exploitation on a massive scale. Gaddafi got the Arab world to withhold their oil and by 1973, they’re getting $40 a barrel. In Libya itself he built roads, he created jobs. He saw to it that all Libyan children had a free education. The country now has a high literacy rate and six universities. It’s got a health care system and along with subsidized food, this has reduced infant mortality from 105 per 1,000 live births in 1970 to 20 per 1,000 live births in 1998.
So why don’t we hear that side of Gaddafi’s time in power, as well as the “reign of terror” claims? Well, maybe for the same reason that the rebels’ success is presented in terms of happy Libyans firing their guns in the air rather than in terms of NATO bombings and the secret placement of Western SAS-type personnel on the ground: because it looks better if it seems the Libyan rebels did it themselves. Except they didn’t. It was Western intervention decided the fate of Gaddafi’s regime. One example: since the start of April, the US has carried out over 1200 air strikes and over 100 Predator drone strikes against Gaddafi’s forces.
And why did the West get involved? The official reason is that Gaddafi denied his population human rights (and would the person who shouted “So are they going to intervene in China, then?” please leave the room now). The real reason is…I can see you’re ahead of me…oil. Libya produces about a million barrels of oil a day and it’s very good quality. Gaddafi from the start made it clear that he wasn’t going to dance to the tune of the Western world at the expense of the Arab world. That’s why the West has always detested him. Not because he denied the Libyan people democracy (which he did) but because he refused to be a puppet of the West and encouraged others to act likewise.
I haven’t mentioned the arms shipments Gaddafi sent to the IRA in the 1970s? That’s true. Just as I haven’t mentioned the £100 million–worth of arms – tear gas, chemical weapons, electronic equipment – Britain sold Gaddafi between 2005 and 2009. But listen – shhhh. Don’t talk about that, it complicates the picture. Let’s just keep it black and white, OK? Now repeat after me: “Gaddafi bad, rebels good”… Now you’ve got it.
Belfastcity
Gadaffi gave token support to the PIRA in the 70s again as a means of sticking it to the west. The big shipments came in the 80s after the bombing of Tripoli.
I repeat mate, the working class people of Libya despised him and displayed their rage on Thursday.
“we are all Neil Lennon and love the Celtic, “mouldy67” says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:08
I have read the said book my friend.Personally,i am without politics…all that i have are opinions,on how i see things.
Sometimes on CQN various posters seem to be cheerleaders for the likes of Adams and McGuinness – well it wouldn’t take them to read the book that you have mentioned,and see if their opinions remain the same.
a bottle or red and a couple of co drydamol and BT returns….
Belfast Celt
Exactly, book is a real eye opener And leaves you with a number of potential assumptions or theories, I say no more as each to their own theory/ opinions
The most important factor is that peace was delivered
Hail hail
BT
Just the one bottle, catch up for you……:)
blantyretim says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:21
a bottle or red and a couple of co drydamol and BT returns….
Are your suffering from MAN flu???
“we are all Neil Lennon and love the Celtic, “mouldy67” says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:08
Read that book as well, load of rubbish to be honest not going to mention names but a person I know is mentioned and photographed in it….Only the photo isn’t him….the photo they printed was some poor guy from the same area who was never involved in anything…..He sued the pants off Maloney and the publishing company….They don’t tell u that
Mouldy67
Did u get my earlier e-mail?
Welcome back CQN.
Welcome back Gordon_J.
Quick comments – OG was both players fault. CHs should never have passed it back and the first rule is always always pass it to the side of the goals just in case. FF should have tried to chase it down. Both players redeemed themselves in the 2nd half.
For what it is worth I had always thought they would do a pre-pack administration next week before the frozen cash crystallises. It is fraught with legal an football questions that have never been tested. Those unknowns make me think CW may wait until after the tax case.
I will never forgive the Celtic Board if they let Them away with anything less than starting in the SPL with zero points and no history.
p.s. well done NL. I am still behind you 100%
hamiltontim says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:15
I honestly do not know mate.All i seen were the Sky and BBC pictures of the place on television.I am not saying that Libya looked particularly affluent,but in an African context,it seemed to be far from impoverished.
Also i am aware of a vast underground reservoir of water that exists in that country,that goes by the name of The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer.Well Gaddafi had began to exploit this vast resource,building dams,canals etc.This resource had and still has the potential to turn the arid desert plains of North Africa into a lush oasis.Maybe that great “rebellion” was about more than just oil?
Strange but true.
Houl yer Wheest
That seem more like it . As well as the oil is the gold currancy they wanted to bring in which would have undermined the dollar and Exiled Tim said they are rich in the comodity of water too.
Sir skinty breeks of auld reekie in pound held grip has abandoned
to the wildest winds of fantasy any hope or refuge them cruise enshipped
Guns on their voyage of discovery.
All at sea with no prospect of land nor friendly natives with big screen
Outage to spark a flash riot.
No Big cup chance this millennium to jettison 5 stars for 1.
Lucky Boys us we done it first with dignified holy grace.
HH
Houl yer wheest
Aye, and the water that he tapped into, he had a plan to feed Africa, can’t have Africa not going hungry can we.
Under Lybian soil there is one of the planets largest resivoirs of pure water, he had built pipelines to irrigate the desert, nato have blown up the pipeline, and for good measure, nato have blown up the factories that make the pipes.
Stephen Black says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:27
Mouldy67
Did u get my earlier e-mail?
Just contacted you on your impressive Facebook site.
Heres my take, ok,… our board, year by year have been downsizing consistantly, it has proved detrimental to onfield success..
Some of the boards decisions regarding transfers have left us, baffled, angry, and frustrated and in turn has partly allowed rangers to enjoy all that success over the past 3 years…We have all started even questioning the positions they hold at our club!!! I know I do!! …
but heres the snag,…..as this rangers tax case has rumbled on and on, to where we are now, in that it is almost certain that rfc will be put into administration.I’m thinking…
Does anyone think that the cutbacks that we as a club have made was due to our boards vision of where the scottish game is going, knowing that without a strong rangers there will be an even less interest in the scottish game, and was only to prepare our club for when the going really does get tough for the scottish game financially…I ask this now because Peter Lawwells comments at that joke of an agm have stuck with me…scottish football is teetering on the edge of abyss.
If this is why the cut backs have been made to this degree over the past 3 years then and only then will I hold my hands up and say I understand……
It’s widely acknowledged that health and education are well in advance of all other African countries. Belw are a few facts about Libya which Mr Cameron has “overlooked.”
1. The massive water project to irrigate land to free Libya from dependence on Imported Food.
2. There are no Electricity Bills in Libya.
3. Car purchases are financed at zero interest.
4. Should someone wish to farm, they receive free land and seeds and animals.
5. There are no mortgages on homes in Libya.
6. All Libyans receive a portion of the sale of Libyan oil – Directly to their Bank Accounts.
7. Banks do not charge interest in Libya (Islamic Bank Model, not the Rothschild Slave System).
8. All Libyans have a home. Qaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gadaffi’s father died while he and his wife were still living in a tent.
9. Each newlywed couple receives 60,000 dinar gift from the government. (the highest banknote in circulation in Libya is 50 dinars)
BelfastCityCelt says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:27
I personally think its a payoff for Al Quaida….No laughing here me out….The yanks and the brits are pulling out of Afgan & Iraq…They need it to look like a success, so as part of that deal give them Libya, its no secret Gaddiffi hated Al Quaida and them him…then there were the stories about some of the Rebel leaders having links with Al Quaida…that all got very quickly swept under the carpet…..Just food for thought
Now a media ban imposed by mini thems bit.ly/nwvtPJ
nice to see both sides of the Bigot Firm quaking a little
Bloke109
It’s a small world.
A man called Walter and Art. Maybe looking after your good ladies shop. Ring any bells. Walter works with my wife.
MWD
Belfastcity
Yes you’re correct regarding Gadaffi’s attempt to tap into the underground reservoirs. Yes his financial and military support allowed the Republican movement to move onto another plane and it probably took Britain to the peace table and the GFA.
However, I’m a great believer in the actions of the people being a good gauge when these dictators are removed.
As much as it was horrific to watch, the people have spoken.
googybhoy says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:33
Just seen that mate…
TET
No Celtic are the horse that holds all the aces, they will be in a position to play them but rather than hope that they will folk might want to write to them, as I have and tell them how they feel and what they need to do
hamiltontim says:
22 October, 2011 at 21:39
But have they….Media outlets show what they want you to see….For someone so hated it took 8 months to topple him once nato started there offenceive….compared to 2 weeks to get Sadamm
Its USA ,UK and France who are international war criminals. What gives our little land the right to choose who should govern Libya.
What gives them the right to cowardly bomb a country in another continent.
Welcome back Paul67
Well done Andrew and yourself on re booting the servers
Spent a bit of time on RTC some salient points posted on there
Hope your back to normal soon Gordon J
Get well soon to the bhoy from Livi
Great result in the EL but I felt we should have brought all 3 points home
As for the Huns, be interesting to watch the fallout when it all goes down the pan
CW will not be a saviour then. Match made in heaven imho
Hail Hail
Stephen with a “ph”