Exactly one year ago today, just after lunchtime, one of the pivotal moments in Celtic history occurred. Neil Lennon took his Celtic team to Kilmarnock, who had lost their three previous league games, and for 73 minutes looked like surrendering their league title chances just as Tony Mowbray’s team collapsed at St Mirren Park seven months earlier.
The manager later admitted to thoughts of resignation. 3-0 down at half time while already in heavy deficit to Rangers, who were riding a wave of positivity under the reinvigorating ownership of Craig Whyte, events looked to have escaped Neil’s grasp.
It is tempting to write the narrative that a half time talk or tactical change turned things around but turnaround was more difficult to explain. Celtic were awful for the opening 28 minutes of the second half; like condemned men waiting for the inevitable.
Anthony Stokes started the recovery by exploiting Kilmarnock’s weaknesses. A free kick drifted over a wall which didn’t jump and into the net. Had the wall jumped, would history have been different? Three minutes later Stokes fired into the corner of the net from distance, Jaakkola in the Killie goal was not equal to the challenge. Suddenly, we were back in the game, back in the title race.
Charlie Mulgrew, who erred to gift Kilmarnock their third, equalised with 11 minutes remaining, surely there was only one winner now? Not so, images of Heffernan’s last minute header from inside the Celtic six yard box gliding over remain vivid.
We escaped with a draw but it felt like a stay of execution, not a pivotal moment. Neil didn’t resign, he stayed, beat Stade Rennes in the Europa League and never looked back. The imperious positivity which surrounded Craig Whyte was ultimately proven to be a charade, those of us who told you Rangers were in peril were proven correct.
It is impossible to calculate just how much football has changed since Anthony hit that free kick, although imperious positivity still surrounds a charade which is doomed to fail, leaving a lot of football fans out of pocket. If only the football authorities had a warning from recent history that light-touch regulation is dangerous, or had the mechanism to order a financial audit. They do, of course, but despite the traumas of 2012 I doubt they have the appetite to head-off potential problems. It’s easier (in the short term) to hope everything will turn out well.
Not that you need worry about any of this, you can chill and enjoy the season.
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snake plissken
22:59 on
15 October, 2012
I hope you’re right, but think you’re wrong ……..
Night bhoys.
Busy day ahead, Granada again, then back to see the best team on the planet beat the French, free vino as well :>)
Take care and god bless
HH
This bhoy sings with passion, scottish as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THWA_EzVNvA&feature=relmfu
And it’s about Ireland.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
22:58 on
15 October, 2012
sheik yerbouti
22:43 on
15 October, 2012
where
are
BDO???
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auldheid
13:01 on
15 October, 2012
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
I think TBB answered your last questionon the previous but I’ve copied it over.
The Battered Bunnet
11:54 on 15 October, 2012
Auldheid
BDO have not yet been appointed. there was a creditors’ resolution last week to move to a Winding Up, following which D&P need to get Lord Hodge to dismiss them and asign BDO. I haven’t seen anything in the court Listings today to that effect, but I;m guessing it won’t be terribly long. that said, Hodge has still to give his view on the conflict issue raised by Mark Daly earlier this year. Might not be quite so straightforward for D&P to get rid of the job.
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cheers bud
much appreciated
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Snake
The next time your in Glasgow let me know so I can buy you a pint. :-)
Lads sorry i didn’t reply earlier missus had me painting but thanks for replying regarding Neil and the letter to congratulate him.
Observer 1999
When the world-class Scottish composer James MacMillan shook the brave new Scotland by saying that anti-Catholic bigotry still poisoned it, there was much that sprang to mind in apparent confirmation: the sometimes bloody ‘old firm’ rivalry between Celtic and Rangers, or the drums of the annual Orange marches.
It seems impossible to argue with MacMillan’s phrase – that Glasgow is Belfast without the Kalashnikovs. Yet other observers, including some for whom MacMillan has respect, believe he is living in the past.
Sociologist Lindsay Paterson of Edinburgh University, whom MacMillan consulted before presenting his paper in Edinburgh last week as the artistic world gathered for the Festival, is among those who demur. They spoke together for an hour, but Paterson believes his advice was ignored. ‘MacMillan is describing an old Scotland,’ he says.
MacMillan’s argument rested on a number of examples. He pointed to Protestant bigotry at Rangers’ football club, discrimination in the workplace, the verbal attacks on Catholic schools, and the infamous Monklands by-election after the death of John Smith when sectarian bile boiled over in a vicious fight between SNP and Labour.
Protestant enmity in Scotland against Catholicism goes back to the Reformation, which was less political than in England, and more specifically anti-Roman. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the expansion of the Lowland industrial base depended on manpower migrating from Ireland. About a quarter of these migrants were Protestant. Their Orangeism, a specific product of Northern Ireland, fused with the older anti-Roman tradition and tensions were fuelled by economic competition.
Before the war the hostility towards Catholics sometimes took virulent forms. A report to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland said Irish Catholics were a threat to Scottish stock. The right-wing, nationalist Professor Andrew Dewar Gibb, one of the founders of the modern political movement, wrote a number of books in which he denounced Irish Catholics as ne’er-do-wells who filled the jails. An anti-Catholic political party was formed. According to MacMillan, some right-wing nationalists even visited Nazi Germany to see how to deal with aliens.
Even in the decades after the war they were systematically discriminated against. The skilled workforce of small engineering firms around Glasgow and the shipyards was largely Protestant up until the 1960s. Firms like Outram, owners of the Glasgow Herald , and D.C. Thomson, publishers of newspapers in Dundee and comics across the UK, categorised job applications by religious affiliation, and Catholics were rarely given skilled posts. Anecdotal evidence suggests the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s also practised a tacit sectarianism.
Unfair employment practices were eroded by the end of the old industries. An expanding local government also gave Catholics new political and professional opportunities. They penetrated other professions, notably the law and, like MacMillan himself, the arts. In the meantime the Church of Scotland, and with it the Tory Party in Scotland, went into rapid decline.
Lindsay Paterson says surveys of social standing by religious denomination now show that the access to wealth and social mobility of Catholics are identical to those enjoyed by Protestants. The new firms from the US and Japan which came in their place cared not a jot for their employees’ religion.
Yet atavistic prejudices are persistent and can be virulent. Earlier this year, after a disorderly Old Firm game in which the referee was hit by a coin, a 16-year-old Celtic supporter who had not even been to the game was stabbed to death in the street. It was the latest in a melancholy line of similar incidents.
Another challenge to Paterson’s position comes from the recent outburst of bigoted behaviour almost within the portals of Ibrox itself. When Donald Findlay, QC, a member of the board and Scotland’s leading criminal defender, was overheard singing ‘The Sash’, a song which revels in ‘Fenian blood’, it showed that sectarianism was not dead even in the professions. He resigned as deputy chairman amid an outcry led by the Daily Record .
No sooner had Findlay’s destructive tones died away than Scotland manager Craig Brown was accused of singing sectarian songs, and Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiography exposed the sectarianism which had marked his Rangers career.
MacMillan himself is adamant that his concerns are current and real. In an exclusive interview he told The Observer on Friday of his disappointment with the Scottish press’s reaction to his speech. Unlike the ‘open’ and objective response of the London media, it had been ‘prickly, in denial, embarrassed, and now scornful. And underhand.’
He said he was ‘delighted’ he had raised the issue because there was an ‘invisible’ Catholic perspective which had a history of being trivialised. ‘I think it has led to a very dangerous state of affairs.’
He explained: ‘A whole minority, not a small minority but quite a significant minority, have got to the stage where they are over-cautious about even saying anything as a public expression of their culture for fear of exactly what happened this week.
‘We make bold claims about the New Scotland, but to be a pluralistic democracy you have to value the experiences of many different components of society, and I don’t think that’s ever really happened in Scotland. It certainly has never happened to the Catholics.
‘We flatter ourselves that we’re not as racist as the English, but that’s bunk. We are worse at being sexist and all the rest of it. We’ve huge problems. It has huge implications for our claims for pluralism.’
He thought politicians, particularly Nationalists, had been very embarrassed that the issue had arisen while ‘the eyes and the ears of the world’ were on Scotland. He was delighted with the quality of the support he’d received, from journalists like Joyce Macmillan (no relation, and Protestant) and the novelist Andrew O’Hagan.
But older Catholics, he thought, were appalled by what he had done. ‘They survived by keeping their heads down, not trying to attract attention. I like the idea of everyone living in social harmony, but it is appalling that a community has to behave so cautiously and in fear.
‘My grandfather was very nervous when he saw the words “James MacMillan, Catholic,” in the Scottish press. He said: “No good will come of it, there’s bound to be a backlash, they’ll get you in the end.” And I’m afraid he was right.’
Somebody had even asked him if he were a member of Opus Dei. ‘I used to be a member of the Communist Party, for heaven’s sake,’ he said.
Because he was middle class, he said, he could retreat to the leafy suburbs, but for working-class Catholics it was ‘more visceral and raw’. He continued: ‘At Ibrox they sing of wading knee deep in Catholic blood.’
MacMillan’s cry was embraced by the head of the Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland, Dharmendra Kanani.
While anti-Catholicism is not often aired by the media, anti-Englishness receives more attention, and is indeed to be investigated by the Scottish Parliament. But, says Kanani, ‘anti-Englishness is not the problem. It’s racism against Asians and blacks, just as it is elsewhere in Europe’.
Of the 80 to 90 complaints received by the CRE each year, three or four concern anti-Englishness while the rest are cases of white on Asian.
‘It’s everyday. The police do nothing either, no matter how many times I have complained – every day it’s “black bastard” this and “Paki” that. They threaten you with violence. And it is getting worse. I don’t know why, but it is getting worse,’ says shopkeeper Mohammed Aszal, who lives in perpetual fear in an Edinburgh housing estate.
While the Scottish Secretary, John Reid, may be a Catholic, there are no Asians in the new Parliament. Though charges of anti-Catholicism make page one, a case of a Glasgow night club accused of excluding Asians was widely ignored.
MacMillan speaks of a new energy in Scotland inspired by the new political structure. His hope is that this energy will purge the old ills. What is worrying is that the first attempt to do that came from an artist and not one of the 129 new politicians Scotland has just elected.
Ernie
What about Keir Hardie? He loved the Irish did he not?
4 months in a call centre? Would that be wee Pamela Nash yer on about?
Lighten up man.
What age are you anyway?
ernie lynch
21:23 on 15 October, 2012
Salmond wouldn’t have let the huns go bust in an independent Scotland.
Agree 100% with that Ernie.
Haw,Bold Canamalar….
Leave Off Ma Pal,Ernie…!
He’s A ‘Good Catholic Boy’….
As He Has Mentioned On Numerous Occasions….
On The Illuminated Pages Of This Hallowed Blog….
So,He Often Attacks The Catholic Church….
And Appears To Have A ‘Bee In His Bonnet’….
When It Comes To Papal Knights….
Being Permitted To Ride A White Charger
Around Saint Peter’s Square…..
But NOBODY’S Perfect….
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Ho,weegreenman…..
How goes your investigation of the ‘murder’ of 79M Native Americans by the evil White Men(All Prods?), in the conquest of the New World…..?
Do you require the assistance of Lieutenant Colombo and Quncy M.E. ?
So are the Scottish courts still doing Sir David Murray favours with the FTT, Lord Hodge report, Craig Whyte Roofing case all being delayed until Charles Green can get them on AIM and the money banked as BSR’s article ..explaining what is the rush ?
HH
TSD
HH :-)
Heard tonight that BDO Staff have been briefed re personal security,so it could happen soon.
Ernie Lynch
Ernie Lynch
I was talking about people who I know NOW not Andrew Dewar Gibb who was a vile bigot but the SNP are light years away from that kind of man – a man who was a Unionist before he was a nationalist. A bigot is a bigot but any can you find any of his input in current policy by the modern incarnation of the SNP?
I will not apologize for sticking up for decent people who I know who are SNP supporters from a variety of backgrounds in terms of geography, religion and even football team. Sorry pal but they’re friends and decent people who are motivated politically and economically and find bigotry tiresome at best and disgusting at worst.
I have no reason to apologize to you or anyone else for defending people I know.
Enoch Powell was in the Tory party, should all Tories apologize for being Tories because of Enoch Powell? or Thatcher? (well mibbe)
Should all Labourites disown the party and their friends because of the Iraq war (Far more recent disgusting behaviour wouldn’t you say?).
In no way do I defend Dewar Gibb – filth like him have no place in politics but the SNP has evolved since 1934 but the man wasn’t even a real Scot. His version of Nationalism came via Unionism. If you think I was then you are mistaken.
!!bada bing!!
23:27 on
15 October, 2012
Heard tonight that BDO Staff have been briefed re personal security,so it could happen soon.
….says it all, really…..
And now we are having a Part Political Broadcast on behalf of the Coke-Fuelled, Cousin-Bothering, Chinless Aryan Party.
The SPL indepedent inquiry chaired by Lord Nimmo also delayed due to the,above not being resolved or is it coordinated. Coordinated with regards a successful share issue. Explains also why UEFA and the ECA do impressions of the three monkeys when questioned along with the SFA and the police ?
HH
Sftb
Now a televised version of that would be amusing.
Brilliantly observed.
Snake
Great post earlier
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
23:19 on 15 October, 2012
Far be it from me to be defending Donald Findlay, but there is nothing in The Sash which mentions Fenian blood, or that I would find offensive in any way.
I suppose I must be a latent HUN.
KK
Good point. Don’t know who wrote that, but he doesn’t know his sash from his billy boys!
What is interesting with this approach is that even if Lord Nimmo finds them guilty nobody or no body even is compelled to act upon it or was this also agreed upon when the dirty deal is made. Greens comments so far would back this up especially the not an SPL team and never returning to the SPL.
Trying to isolate them.
Before UEFA tell the SFA it is a national decision as the European debts will be paid by then and thats all they care about and if they have dirty hands its buried.
No European football for any deserters.
DD talking charmingly about Rangers.
Not so clear cut when you think about it. It rounds up what Salmond said and the quote I pointed out earlier.
Sevco have been told show us the money and we go easy on you. If you dont then we cant. I reckon Campbell has been busy brokering the deal.
HH
HT
It’s already been done.
That was not one of mine. That was Armando Iannucci’s quote.
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo
23:58 on 15 October, 2012
Hope you’re wrong matey but i have a guy feeling these delays are happening for a reason
Hi Ghuys, Salve salve;- I will not be voting for independence :- I am a grown up.
Greenwells
Quod scripti scripti
LoL, stupid iPhone ha ha
So Skelped For Talkin’ Bull*….
How Went Your Day…?
Promoting The Two Wicked Totalitarian Ideologies….
Closest To Your Cold,Cold Heart….
Have You Filled-In Your ‘Frankfurt Rules’ :How Am I Doing ? Self-Assessment Form For Today…?
Earning Enough Brownie Points To Feather Your Nest….?
Betraying The Fine People Of These Sceptred isles…..
What’s The ‘Going-Rate’…?
Still Fifty Pieces Of Silver…?
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The Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism: A Primer

Cultural Marxism is used to socially engineer a society through the subversion of culture. This is happening right now in our society, Political Correctness and Multiculturalism are tools used to destroy western culture, their aim was / is to subvert all the institutions by a “long march through the culture”. They want to destroy our society to then implement a radically different one. The European Union have been implementing these techniques in Britain since the 1960′s, to hopefully destroy our society and culture to then take us into a federal European superstate free of any borders, culture and national sovereignty.
Cultural Marxist techniques:
These techniques are broadly based on the Frankfurt School, the University department BOUGHT by the Soviet Union in 1935. The Soviets asked it for the best methods of undermining other nations so it could bring them under its control. The EU has been implementing these techniques in Britain since the early 1960s.
‘The Frankfurt Rules’:-
1) The creation of Racialism offences
2) Continual change to create confusion
3) The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4) Huge immigration to destroy identity and create tension
5) The undermining of schools and teachers authority
6) The promotion of excessive drinking
7) Emptying the Churches
8) An unreliable legal system with bias against the victims of crime
9) Dependency on state or state benefits
10) Control and dumbing down of media and TV
11) The attack on fathers and the encouraging the breakdown of the family
12) Multi-Culturalism
13) The creation of trauma through injustice
14) Destruction of the monetary system
15) Political Correctness
Sound familiar?
Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism, its Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. Political Correctness is a form of mind control to control free speech, to undermine public opinion, to weaken the defenses of democracy and to re-educate schoolchildren; it is a well documented communist subversion procedure.
These are only a few of over 200 techniques, they are ALL used to destroy western civilization and bring about a “One world government” and a Socially-Marxist society built on repression, poverty and war. Cultural Marxism is used to socially engineer a society through the subversion of culture.
These techniques have been remarkably successful at undermining local and national government, the Police, NHS, schools and children. It has alienated British people from our nation and its politics; millions are now disinterested and apathetic.
● Cultural terrorism
● Cultural warfare
We are at war….
Pinkety…?
Goodnight Johnboy.
Goodnight Mary Ellen.
Goodnight Jean-Marie le Pen, wherever you are.
“We are at war…”
Aye, but is it Eurasia or Eastasia this week we’re fighting.
If only there was some dark-tinted commie we could hang.
SingalongaEnoch now!
“Ha-ang Nelson Man-Del-Ah!”
More corrupt rotten dark arts at the heart of the UKplc:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/15/uk-arms-northern-ireland-loyalist-massacre
Cultural Marxism? Political Correctness? The good old Commies – now where can those commies get their ideas from ? No one expects the Frankfurt School of Political Correctness!
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was a tribunal established in 1480 by Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms, and to replace the Medieval Inquisition which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Christian Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.
The Inquisition was originally intended in large part to ensure the orthodoxy of those who converted from Judaism and Islam. This regulation of the faith of the newly converted was intensified after the royal decrees issued in 1492 and 1501 ordering Jews and Muslims to convert or leave.
Various motives have been proposed for the monarchs’ decision to fund the Inquisition such as increasing political authority, weakening opposition, suppressing conversos, profiting from confiscation of the property of convicted heretics, reducing social tensions and protecting the kingdom from the danger of a fifth column.
The body was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy. It was not definitively abolished until 1834, during the reign of Isabella II, after a period of declining influence in the previous century.
Buddy M
“No one expects the Frankfurt School of Political Correctness!”
Amongst our chief weapons are, apparently, fear, surprise,ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to TSD’s bogeymen, and nice red uniforms”
Maybe to convert TSD to our wicked ways we need to fetch the comfy cushions.
Wow…..tsd came along and shut the night shift down faster than clap in a convent.
Mountain_Bhoy is Neil Lennon
19:16 on 15 October, 2012
Che, Scotland as a nation has had the confidence battered out of it ever since the failed Dorien project.
M_B
Where did you pluck this from? I haven’t heard of the “Darien” Venture for years. Agree with most of your points, especially the contradictions.
Why do you think we are quite prepared to sing Flower of Scotland in bars after a few beers, on vacation, etc., yet were not prepared to sing it, in retaliation, when faced with renditions of other anthems by the Zombies?
I love the way the debate on independence has swung one way and then the other today. Some of the comments have been ludicrous, some brilliant, but the best by far goes to Snake, and his wonderfully constructed argument.
You know, I am amazed at the fear that stalks this forum sometimes. Fear is a terrible thing, but I don’t know where some of you learned it. I grew up in this country, I’ve seen what some sections of it are all about. I sat at a Labour Party meeting once where Catholic education was attacked, in quite venomous terms, by people from the left, who said segregation of children is not on.
During the crazy years, I joined the SWP for a while, and actually went to one of their functions and got up and sung The Ballad of James Connolly and sat down at the end in disbelief at hissing and booing which had sod all to do with my singing. The anti-Catholic rhetoric I endured that night was like nothing I’ve ever heard.
A good friend of mine in the trade union movement had to listen to intolerable anti-Catholic slurs because he was pro-life, which was termed “a very Catholic attitude”, and that by a senior member of a Scottish trade union.
Anti-Catholic sentiment in Scotland is not the sole preserve of the SNP. I heard more of it from lefties than I ever heard from those on the right. I heard it from the very people who are the most vociferous defenders of the Union.
Some of you are worried about anti-Catholic sentiment exploding in Scotland if this country votes to go it alone. It is a foolish notion, and the absolute wrong reason to vote no. Furthermore, it is cowardly. It is a surrender to reactionary forces which we should be thinking about ending. You know what keeps them alive? Sincerely?
The Union Jack does. The Union itself is an anti-Catholic creation. It was crafted for the specific purpose of unifying these islands under an anti-Catholic – please note that’s ANTI-CATHOLIC, not non-Catholic – hegemony.
The Union is the breeding ground of the bigot. It is the nurturing point of the hater. It is the swamp in which the sectarian nature of parts of this country was formed.
End the Union … and the sectarian beast loses its head.
Those who worry about an anti-Catholic Scotland could not be more misguided or driven by irrational fear. The alternative to an independent Scotland is the staunchly anti-Catholic Union which created the cesspit in the first place.
To deny that is to deny the face in the mirror belongs to you.
I am not afraid of boogeymen in orange sashes. This country is not theirs. It’s mine. And their narrow, backward, hate-filled mindset will not forever dictate our future.
All we have to do – and I don’t mean Catholics, I mean all progressives – is reach out and grab this thing by the nuts. I am not giving in to fear. I am moving forward in hope, because I believe those of us who want to see an independent Scotland are motivated by something stronger than hate, something more sustainable than fear.
We are the future. The swamp dwellers are the past.
What’s that saying some of you are so fond of? Oh yes … Our Day Will Come.
That’s why I’m voting yes.
The mind numbing stupor of political agendas continues on CQN during yet another international break.
Yes/No voters all lumped together in a soup of opposing Unionist (just saying that word gives me a bad taste), Nationalist, undecided and Philvis rants. Gie us peace.
Does anyone think really that there is any difference between any of these pasty faced politicians groveling in submission to their corporate masters? Conservative, Liberal, Moderate, Green, Communist. Let’s see them all wear jackets like race car drivers and see who is really behind them in terms of sponsorship/bribery.
“This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.” — Simon Heffer
C’mon Oscar! I’m praying for you every day.
The news today was heartening. Let’s hope there is some more tomorrow.
Strength to you and all your family.
All I’m saying is, you are fooling yourself if you think your political point is any more valid than the other lot. “They” don’t care a hoot about any of us, as long as we are distracted enough to buy our shiny toys and distract ourselves with mutual in-fighting and distrust, while they pursue their sleekit agenda of quietly robbing us of our freedoms.
There are many things in life to support and take a stand over. MSM politics ain’t one of them.
Miki67- are you aware of the Bildebergers?