Wings Over Scotland

Hi Ian B at 9:44 pm.

You asked,
“Blinkin blimeyness! – this thread is going to go 1000+ – when was the last time that happened?”

Not so long ago…

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Scot Finlayson@9.25
No prize needed, my wife was just doing her job, although as a doctor for 36 years she got a cheap metal pin badge when she retired, our local postie got more recognition from the post office for either 20 or 25 years service. He felt sorry for her and bought her a retirement card.

@ Ian B 10:07pm. Cheers bud.

OT
Anyone remember Captain Sensible , from the band The Damned and of the hit single Happy Talk ?
Did you know he was given his Sensible moniker due to the fact he was an absolute bam with very little sense about him !

Testing.

@Still Positive

Are you isolating yet.

@dakk

I had a feeling that could be the case but I couldn’t be bothered looking it up, i think the point stands despite the facts. There will be no one held to account for the shambles, well nobody from the upper echelons anyway.

I remember Capt Sensible very well.
His real name was Ray Burns and was
A regular visitor to his Scottish Aunt.

Incidental he formed the Blah Party! Really.
He identified politics needed a rebel party to
Challenge the corrupt establishment.

Wonder if membership is still available?

Still Positive
I hope you and all you are close to are well and keeping it together.

Culture, Neurobiology, and Human Behavior: New Perspectives in Anthropology

Abstract
Our primary goal in this article is to discuss the cross-talk between biological and cultural factors that become manifested in the individual brain development, neural wiring, neurochemical homeostasis, and behavior. We will show that behavioral propensities are the product of both cultural and biological factors and an understanding of these interactive processes can provide deep insights into why people behave the way they do.

This interdisciplinary perspective is offered in an effort to generate dialog and empirical work among scholars interested in merging aspects of anthropology and neuroscience, and anticipates that biological and cultural anthropology converge. We discuss new theoretical developments, hypothesis-testing strategies, and cross-disciplinary methods of observation and data collection.

We believe that the exigency of integrating anthropology and the neurosciences is indisputable and anthropology’s role in an emerging interdisciplinary science of human behavior will be critical because its focus is, and has always been, on human biological and cultural systems.

link to researchgate.net

Thanks Cameron. So far we are all fine. Although I don’t know about my eldest son in Surrey whose wife is a nurse specialising in geriatrics so a bit worried about them.

‘There will be no one held to account for the shambles, well nobody from the upper echelons anyway’

That is more than likely, as the moral psychology of Westminster and Whitehall hasn’t evolved much since the days of empire.

Mind, brain, law and culture
link to academic.oup.com

Professor John Ashton former regional director for public health in NW England tells the truth, he doesn’t hold back in saying it like it is. We need more of the likes of this guy to speak out and expose this government’s ineptitude.

They cannot be trusted, so don’t trust a word the lying BBC tell you.

link to youtube.com

@dakk

Yes, he was on Question Time, he says it in the video and tells of how other members of the panel tried to ridicule him on the program. They don’t look so smart now though.

The usual Tories on here are all lying low. Same as Johnson.

Effijy.
Aye , sensible was punk. I was at primary about to start grammar school then about. For me one band and one track stood out .

Something Better Change

Grammatical play on those three words more than match the much later Eats Shoots and Leaves .

Independence for Scotland is for the people of Scotland and no political party will ever control that. The acceptance that we are upsetting the progeny of the globes most successful line of sociopathic doctrine will neither deter them or us .
The porters lodge hope their service may offer protection to them in contrast to our secure knowledge .
Let’s not be too hard on the travails of the SNP and their dealings as the UKers devolved administration. How would any of us cope with that ?
The dissolution of the UKers in this final stand is THE global event beyond more than it should be . Wether we face the Great Leap Forward or not is yet to be decided.

And so the utter shambles of a belligerent Brexit Government wilfully failing to participate in the EU medical equipment procurement initiative still rumbles on as the Government twist and turn the history of events.

We never received the email. It was a communication mix up. It was a political decision not to join says the top civil servant, only for him 12 hours later for him to retract the statement in a 180 degree about turn to say he was mistaken

So what is it then for a country struggling to have enough PPE. What is it for a country that’’s government published mass advertising to say that they were well prepared when they were not.

Liars, liars, lists. Murderous liars. That’s what.

And so at the expense of cut and paste from today’s Independent, here is a history of how there was a communication mix up, how the Government never received an email, and how there was no political decision by a government focussed on Brexit not to participate.

EXTRACT FROM INDEPENDENT.
The timeline of the episode shows how the government handled the situation:
4 February
British officials attended a meeting in Brussels during which the European Commission said it was ready to help organise the bulk-buying medical equipment using the power of the single market.
2 March
British officials attended another EU meeting where the commission’s health department said 20 EU countries were ready to join such a scheme for personal protective equipment.
13 March
British officials attended another meeting where EU officials discussed the addition of ventilators to the procurement scheme.
17 March
A spokesperson for the commission confirms in public when asked by journalists whether the UK is able to take part in the procurement scheme.
19 March
The prime minister Boris Johnson is urged by British politicians to join the scheme. In Brussels, the UK takes part in another meeting on joint procurement
24 March
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, announces publicly that the commission’s joint procurement initiative had generated “concrete offers of considerable scale at short notice” to supply surgical masks, overalls, goggles, and face shields.
26 March
Asked in the morning why the UK isn’t taking part in the scheme, a Downing Street spokesperson says: “We are no longer members of the EU.” Boris Johnson is accused off being “ideological” for not taking part.
Later in the evening the prime minister’s spokesperson tells Westminster journalists that in fact, a communication error meant the UK had missed the invitation to participate in the scheme
29 March
Asked why the government did not join the scheme, cabinet minister Michael Gove tells The Andrew Marr Show “there is nothing that we can’t do as an independent nation that being part of that scheme would have allowed us to do” adding that there was “communication confusion”.
10 April
Matt Hancock tells a Downing Street briefing the UK is working hard opening new supply lines for protective equipment around the world to fill a shortage.
12 April
The extended deadline for putting orders in the latest round of the EU’s equipment procurement scheme. The UK has placed no orders.
14 April
Cabinet minister Therese Coffey seems to suggest not going the scheme was a deliberate decision, telling LBC radio: “The government has made an assessment that by joining the schemes, it wasn’t going to make any particular difference.”
21 April
The Foreign Office’s top civil servant Sir Simon McDonald tells MPs he briefed ministers about the options and that they made a “political decision” not to join the scheme.
Later in the afternoon, Matt Hancock tells a daily press briefing “as far as I’m aware there was no political decision not to participate in that scheme … we are now members of that scheme”.
Following the briefing by the health secretary, Sir Simon writes to MPs to retract what he told them.
22 April
Contrary to what Matt Hancock said the day before, EU officials tell The Independent: “They are not participating in any of the existing schemes but they have indicated that they would be open to participating in any future schemes.” In Brussels, a Commission spokesperson refers to the meetings the EU attended and says there was “ample opportunity” to join. At a briefing in Westminster, a Downing Street spokesperson says “nobody” leant on Sir Simon to get him to retract his report to MPs.
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Everyone having a long lie?

Looks like Scotland might not come out of the lock down before England, the trigger point being that the English Treasurer Rushi Sunak is refusing to give a cast iron agreement that Scottish busninesses will receive support if they come out of lock down earlier.

Alister Jack, you remember him, also said that the UK shoukd exit lock down together, but what does he know, he’s a London puppet.

Sturgeon has intimated that if things go well Scotland might take another route from England and exit the lock down earlier. I suppose the difficulty is the timing get it right, and Scotlands economy can restart, get it wrong, and we could see a resurgents in the virus.

The site has become Wings Over Covid-19, so that’s why I’m no posting comments.

What to make of this genuine concern for our wellbeing or Covid-19 bill restrictions of our civil rights.

Englands chief medical advisor, Professir Chris Whitty, has said we could have restrictions, of some sort in place until December 2021.

Now call me an old cynic but I certainly don’t agree with that, especially with the Scottish elections coming up next year, one wonders will they be postponed until 2022. Of course I’m hoping thing are a bit better in Scotland by then and we’ve eased ourself out of the lock down.

However, we need to be careful, but I fear the UK government might in the end, abuse the powers of the Covid-19 bill.

So the British states main propaganda channel the BBC has apologised for being found out. Its 6pm news bulletin programme incorrectly doubled Scotlands carehome deaths from last week, showing a huge chart behind the news presenter with the large numbers 651 on it in bright red.

Lets not kid ourselves the Covid-19 virus and its terrible consequences are being used against us in this endless propaganda war to cower Scots, and stop them from seeking independence.

Klm flight from Gla to Ams just took off.

Not seen that for few weeks.

Pragmatism must be guided by the natural law if it wants to remain ethical. Otherwise, pragmatism turns rather nasty (see Brexit).

What Difference Does Anti-Foundationalism Make to Political Theory?

Beginning as one of Nietzsche’s “unpopular opinions,” 1 anti-foundationalism has become ever popular in the modern academy. Stanley Fish, one of the foremost anti-foundationalists, surveys the breadth of its current appeal.

[T]he anti-foundationalist argument . . . has been made in a variety of ways and in a variety of disciplines: in philosophy by Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, W. V. Quine; in anthropology by Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner; in history by Hayden White; in sociology by the entire tradition of the sociology of knowledge and more recently by the ethnomethodologists; in hermeneutics by Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida; in the general sciences of man by Foucault; in the history of science by Thomas Kuhn; in the history of art by Michael Fried; in legal theory by Philip Bobbit and Sanford Levinson; in literary theory by Barbara Hernstein Smith, Walter Michaels, Steven Knapp, John Fekete, Jonathan Culler, Terry Eagleton, Frank Lentricchia, Jane Tompkins, Stanley Fish, and on and on. 2

Anti-foundationalism has most frequently been aligned with pragmatism. 3 Indeed in its contemporary expression, the philosophical lessons of pragmatism are the lessons of anti-foundationalism: As situationally and contextually bound, we cannot obtain a warrant for certitude about our beliefs by basing them on transcendental or metaphysical entities.

Of course, this position is not an epistemological claim that there are no transcendental or metaphysical entities – though it does include a criticism of philosophical positions that lay claim to incorrigibility. For there can be no judgment which is immutable, impervious to changes in context or our description of context. 4 Rather, the truth of a judgment is always susceptible to such changes. Hence, although we can and do make determinate ethical and political judgments, there can be no decontextualized or nonsituational way of doing so….

link to muse.jhu.edu

Better than Wings over Coco.

Guardian story regarding UK PPE shambles. Private company, Movianto, U.S. healthcare Corp, used by UK gov for Storage of UK emergency PPE? Seems to be changing hands regularly, U.S. to German to French? Where does SCCL ( private company fully owned by .uk gov) fit into this. If it was set up to bring PPE procurement under one management function, why are health trusts not not using SCCL, why are potential suppliers not being directed to SCCL, instead of being ignored. Why are health trusts bidding for for PPE. Why was SCCL not involved immediately with the Joint EU PPE procurement project. Did SCCL source UK manufactured PPE for the UK gov to sell overseas. What the hell is going on?

Woke-nats are ideologically incapable of defending a legal respect for difference. You do the maths…

I agree with that… but I think what we’re looking at is the “Joanna Cherry” factor…

When I say the SNP needs Joanna Cherry more than Joanna Cherry needs the SNP, I mean it quite literally.

To test the legitimacy of ’Brexit by colonial subjugation’ surely comes down to the initiative of an individual lawyer who is resolved to test a legal argument. The ‘mandate’ which would spawn such a test case comes from the act of unlawful colonial subjugation that runs contrary to the Constitution, and is thus unlawful. The law deals in absolutes, not ephemeral democratic opinion.

Hence, in my opinion, Joanna Cherry doesn’t need the SNP, nor indeed any democratic mandate, to bring down the 1707 Treaty of Union. It is the illegality of Brexit which mandates a legal challenge to the Treaty of Union.

So, to the SNP needing Joanna?… Well yes. Because right now, the SNP is hamstrung by Section 30 of their devolved constitution, and with strategic policy riven between the bizarre fiefdoms of the Wokists, Devolutionists, deluded gradualists, and “Get Alex Salmond” Conspirators, and apparently Nicola Sturgeons coterie of “pals”… which sounds terribly complicated, but the Venn Diagram would I think be very revealing in it’s simplicity.

Frankly, and bluntly, I have great difficulty seeing the SNP under Sturgeon “somehow” evolving into the revolutionary initiative which brings down the accursed Union. There is no hunger in their eyes no ambition in their hearts, and perhaps worst of all, no potency or innovation whatsoever in their Section 30 wild goose chase.

ALL of this has to change, but it won’t change under Sturgeon’s watch because it’s Sturgeon’s leadership which has created all of this hindrance and exasperation.

A bigger question to ask is what is wrong with the SNP rank and file, who see the same events and incongruity as I do, but then draw alarming conclusions which I find bizarre and truly unfathomable. At what point did you all give up?

I have posed the question, time and time again, for those who espouse the Sturgeon Section 30 route, to explain how a democratic referendum is apparently undone by having it’s constitutional parameters properly scrutinised under a rigorous constitutional lens. What is there to lose? To proceed solely on a sovereign Section 30 ticket “lent” to you by Westminster, means you are already acting as if the potency of sovereignty is already a lost principle. You are preparing to fight on the very principle you have just surrendered. Some of us out here in the cold just see that as reckless blindfolded stupidity.

Just do one thing! Plan A. Defend the Constitution of our nation, do it robustly, and you will establish three things:

First, that the sovereign will of the Scottish people cannot be overruled.

Second, the result of ANY Scottish referendum will stand as a sovereign edict. Fk Section 30 of the Scotland Act. The entire Scotland Act is a colonial beachhead for Westminster’s perennial ambition to rule Scotland.

Third, Scotland’s involuntary Brexit is unconstitutional, democracy-busting subjugation, contrary to International Law, and Which breaks the 1707 Act of Union Treaty to it’s demise. The UK is thus a broken concept, which does not warrant international recognition. Scotland and England are thus recognised, in law, as separate constitutional sovereignties because the Treaty which joined them was unilaterally broken.

So, for all the pro Nicola SNP folk… Please explain to me why you would deny all of this, leave the UK Constitution untested and unresolved as Brexit steadily disappears in the rear view mirror, and wait indefinitely for Nicola Sturgeon to play her lousy poker hand when everybody knows a joker and two queens, doesn’t beat a Section 30 full house.

Seriously. I’m asking you a direct question from the heart. Please, join the fkg dots for me. I can’t work it out. You’d throw away certain constitutional victory and then… bleughhhh… See? You’ve already lost me…

Can we rewind back to the bit just before you throw away certain victory… let’s go back to the bit where Westminster cannot overrule the will of Scotland… That’s the watershed event. That is the fulcrum which tipped the game our way.

link to m.facebook.com

Joanna Cherry appears to be pointing in the right direction, but she’s still playing British constitutionalism. Without regard to international law, Scotland is relying on constitutional law to undo itself. That simply won’t happen.

What about AUOB collecting signatures to petition the ECJ regarding the abuse of our human rights?

We the Scottish people being soveriegn were never consulted in any way shape or form in the run up to 1707 and the creation of the union.
That the people were sovereign but were never consulted to me this makes not only the union of 1707 illegal, but any event that has taken place since that time.

Republicofscotland
NAIL ON THE HEAD.

FM says:

“Discuss with WM reserved matters including ‘border controls'”

My eyebrow raised and my ears pricked up!
Seems to me the envelope might be getting pushed at long last.
Hope so!

Noted:
Laura Kuenssberg asks first question for big Auntie BBC tells me that somethings afoot with poor Glenn for shortbread a poor 4th.

Encouraged but we will see.

“We the Scottish people being soveriegn were never consulted in any way shape or form in the run up to 1707 and the creation of the union.”

Indeed Wullie, it was 313 years ago yesterday, the 22nd of April that the ancient Parliament of Scotland adjourned for the last time.

Lord Godolphin the English Treasurer handed out over £20,000 pounds to lower members of the Scottish Parliament, with the purpose of inducing them to sign their countries rights away to England.

The vile Treaty of Union was signed in the cellar of the house 177 High street facing the Tron church away from prying eyes, and the baying mobs above in the streets, who knew their country had been sold out.

What aboutAUOB marching to the berry fields to aid Scotland’s stricken economy?

@jackie

Point noted:
That should be done without doubt in Scottish airports and sea ports.

I was hoping for more relating to ‘that land border’. 🙂

I see that nicola is finally starting to acknowledge that the economic damage caused by the lockdown is going to cause more damage than the virus.

There is no evidence at all that a total economic lockdown, like this, has anything effect on the outcomes of corona virus. There are plenty of examples of countries around the world that have implemented a less strict lockdown and have had lower rates of infections and death. The governments scientific advisers are not infallible, they have in fact been consistently wrong throughout this crisis, just look at the now widely panned imperial college study which was the basis for the uk govs u-turn, or the we don’t need mass testing position they had back in march.

Col.Blimp IV says: at 2:16 pm

“relating to ‘that land border

A 150Km long 50m wide no mans land with coils of razor wire, land-mines and poisonous snakes, flanked by a moat filled with crocodiles and overlooked by a 5m high wall with strategically placed floodlight and machine-gun towers should do the trick.”

Sounds like a lot of work and expense, could we no just get John Smeaton?

CameronB Brodie

This one is for you:

“Coronavirus: The First Big Test of Behavioral Science”.

It was written on 11/03/2020.

link to duncanrobertson.com

Don’t forget the youtube clip on the page.

Colin Alexander
Cummings is certainly a keen eugenicist and Tories are ideologically opposed to public-health ethics. They are also bio-neurologically impaired in terms of their moral and ethical competence. So I’m quite happy to consider this disaster an unintended consequence of the latent social Darwinism in Tory ideology.

@ Breeks 12:23.

Now why didnt I think of that. It’s taken 4 coats of white paint, I could have / should have bought a couple of cans of spray paint, job done. Mind you I would probably ended up sleeping there.

One way of testing the Scottish constitution is seeking to “impeach” Empress Elizabeth for breaching the constitution of Scotland by interfering in indyref.

Arguably, she usurped her powers and acted against the will of the people of Scotland by interfering in democratic processes at the request of David Cameron.

It would be a re-assertion of Claim of Right.

.buchanloony’ I expect this is Ireland’s PPE arriving on a regular basis’

I presume Ireland must be handling this pandemic much better than England, notwithstanding half of Ireland went to Cheltenham fest.

That would explain the utter silence from the English media regarding the welfare of their closest neighbours.

Colin Alexander says

“Arguably, she usurped her powers and acted against the will of the people of Scotland by interfering in democratic processes at the request of David Cameron.”

Why not “Impeach” her for Refusing to grant the S30 for a referendum requested by the Scottish Parliament?

The Queen as English Monarch allows the Westminster Parliament to act in Her name.

The Queen as Scottish monarch is bound to act in accordance with the wishes of the Scots, with particular importance being placed on, not permitting the English to walk all over us.

Seems to me that she was contractually bound to tell Johnson to agree to the Scottish parliaments request but chose not to

Either that or Johnson usurped a power that neither he nor any of his predecessors were ever granted (or were they?). Namely to overrule the wishes of the representatives of the Scottish people.

That last constitutional point is something that definitely should be established one way or another – even if we lost we would win.

I don’t expect the international community would touch a constitutional rift between a nations monarch and the people with a barge pole.

It’s the inter-national aspect of Scotland’s Constitution which we would need to dispute, and seek the UN’s endorsement and recognition that Scotland’s written constitution is properly the superior constitution over the UK’s Mickey Mouse Union and unwritten convention on sovereignty.

It’s painful to listen to those journalists at Scots Gov Covid briefings. What do they add to the sum of human knowledge?

And why does The National never get to ask a question for a bit of balance. Are they even invited to this or at the UK supine list of Tory rags.

Also should Nicola not have two large saltire in the background to wind upthe yoons

Two metres distance? No bother.Shops mark out distances and arrows to show direction of travel. What could go wrong?

Mouthy thirty something in leopard pattern tight pants forgot an item but instead of going around pushes past two frail elderly people and one protests and she badmouths them till she leaves.Her spit was almost visible.

Is the tight pants significant? Only if they restrict blood flow to her brain.

@Call Me Dave 5.55pm

We were told to “stop all campaigning” just now because of a virus! Hmm!

@Flower of Scotland

Hope you are well! Long time no hear.

Am I getting telt? 🙂

….The yoonatics argument that 2014 determined that Scots wanted to remain part of the union does hold water ( but as we all know it was crooked )

Thanks twathater, but the 2014 result doesn’t matter from a constitutional perspective, because the result, whether it was a YES or a NO, the choice made was sovereign either way. From the constitutional perspective, it was a sovereign choice, not a choice made to abdicate sovereignty.

I hope we’re not daft enough to do it, but we could vote for the Union everyday day for a month and still not forfeit our sovereignty. But lie down and roll over when Westminster usurps Scotland’s sovereignty, as is happening with Brexit, is, or should be, an absolute non-starter which should be angrily rejected and challenged to destruction by both YES and NO voters alike, because ‘they’ are stealing a thing that belongs to us, not them.

@twathater

Aye, Breeks absolutely nails this matter.
There were two democratic results that conflict with each other. “Vote NO to Scottish Indy or you’ll be oot the EU” they said… So the Kingdom of Scotland voted for the status quo of remaining in a Union with the Kingdom of England and continuing EU membership, only for a couple of years later England shitting the Union bed.

An additional point about that latter “democratic” (not) EU ref. result.
The remain vote % in Scotland would likely have been higher than 62% if EU Nationals and 16 & 17 Year olds had actually been allowed to vote, but were denied by Westminster gerrymandering the voter franchise.

I’d like to see the SNP Rebuttal Unit fire up and produce a concise explanation of why they appear to be ignoring the expressed will of the Scottish people, especially when multiple mandates have been generated since the EU ref vote.
There is no need to play smoke and mirrors / don’t let your enemy know your hand games, when Scots Sovereignty trumps over all that shite.

Reporting Scotland hijack.

We are all familiar how the Labour party would exploit a member of the public at FMQ’s for a political point.

Tonight Reporting Scotland went for the same technique. The FM presumably thought she was being invited on to talk about the Scotgov document released today. But no what they done was run one of these Labour type exploitations prior to the interview to hijack her and focus the start of the interview on a personal case. RS, Labour at its heart.

Plus of course Jackson Carlaw demanding that we stay in lockstep with England no matter how many extra deaths this causes in Scotland. The Britnats are plain the union uber alles, ‘give me union or give me death’, that’s the empty shell that is their morality.

Ayeright 21 April @9.55 pm

One of the exel files in your link shows that the total deaths for this year (to the end of week sixteen) are the same as the five year average rounded to the nearest 1000 (20,000).

Setting aside the unlawful emergency legislation, and interesting oil prices arising, presumably the situation in England (and further afield) is entirely different hence the solidarity vis a vis house arrest & social distancing, etc.

@Tinto Chiel (6.36) –

Thanks for the feedback.

It’s strange that no-one else seems to have watched the piece, or if they have, don’t feel moved to pass comment – on the face of it, it’s good news, isn’t it?

Makes you wonder sometimes if there’s much difference between Stockholm Syndrome and plain auld masochism.

Ach well, ho-hum, must get ready to go out and clap like a performing fucking seal.

(Then again, might just have a bath then watch Twin Peaks to regain some sense of normality – but shhhhhhh! don’t tell anyone FFS!)

😉

Famous 15. 6.08. Then staff should have taken all her items,refunded her, and f/ed her out the door.

Pavlovs dogs out at 8pm again tonight….

…..should be ashamed of themselves, but then, the Germans in the 30’s thought they were doing the right thing and it was all rather harmless, all in it together, THE GREATER GOOD.

I’ve always regarded Dresden as a War Crime…..maybe I should review my opinion on that.

I’ve been keeping an eye on The Rev’s Twitter page.

Call be a bigot but, as far as I can see, science has determined there are two sexes; male and female. That is biological fact.

However…
there are (apparently) well over 100 “identified” genders. These are “social” identifications, not scientific facts.

What the Phük is going on with society?

Brian Doonthetoon
Sex is biological, gender is psychological. SImples. These should keep you right. 😉

Gender Identity
Definitions
Gender identity and gender role

Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or neither). This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the outward manifestations of personality that reflect the gender identity. Gender identity, in nearly all instances, is self-identified, as a result of a combination of inherent and extrinsic or environmental factors; gender role, on the other hand, is manifested within society by observable factors such as behavior and appearance.

For example, if a person considers himself a male and is most comfortable referring to his personal gender in masculine terms, then his gender identity is male. However, his gender role is male only if he demonstrates typically male characteristics in behavior, dress, and/or mannerisms….

link to emedicine.medscape.com

Gender Analysis Toolkit For Health Systems
link to gender.jhpiego.org

Fundamentally misunderstanding gender critical feminism
link to medium.com

T’was busy fixing a classic Honda lawnmower this evening with a fucked exhaust. I was awfy awfy tempted to fire it up sans silencer at 8pm to drown out the monotony of The Galley Band*.

*For those interested, “The Galley Band” is a term used on boats and ships working in rough seas. The band starts playing when all the pans, crockery, and cutlery start flying around as the vessel pitches and rolls on the big waves, often reaching an impressive crescendo if a particularly large swell manages to cowp everything onto the floor.

It goes without saying that I am appreciative of all the efforts folk are making, at their work, and those having to endure lockdown.
So next time I’ll just whack this on a turn it up to eleven.
Techno street drummer banging stuff. (5mins)

link to youtube.com

Hi Liz g, hope you’re keeping well, had noted your absence recently.

@Mike D
“Papko 1.42pm. Or the orange loyal mob marching to pick the strawberries ya twat.”
What about the Orange lodge in one field and the AUOB in the others?
This notion that nationalist ardour could not sustain and early start and a days work.
Must be put to rest.

The Soft Noes will notice the fields filled with YES supporters and be impressed how they diligently worked during the crisis.

Dan @ 9.38
Hey Dan….I hope this finds ye well!
I haven’t been absent….. I’ve been behaving :-)..

Seriously though,I’ve just been catching up on projects around the house,and,by that I mean explaining and supervising the two young men who have been furlough/paid off at ma hoose :-).
I’ve really only had time for a quick read through the thread most day’s…. Not that I’ve not been tempted to wade in but the clowns were duly corrected by the time I read up on their nonsensical musings….

cirsium says:

“The other narrative which is being punted is everything starts at Wuhan when, in fact, things were happening long before.”

The Spanish Flu in all likelihood did not originate in Spain. The finger was pointed there because they were neutral in WWI, thus the press there was not censored. But in the belligerent countries reports of outbreaks especially in military camps were suppressed for reasons of morale.

I think I was correct in my assessment, the HMG is almost certainly guilty of gross negligence and murder through policy.

Bioethics Briefings
For Journalists, Policymakers, and Educators
Disaster Planning and Public Health

The Learning Curve of Emergency Preparedness and Response

A public health emergency exists when the ordinary health service capabilities of a community are overwhelmed by an extreme situation or event. Emergency preparedness is that aspect of public health designed to ensure sustained public health and medical readiness in the event of an emergency, minimize the impact of emergencies on affected communities, and foster safe and healthful environments before, during, and after an emergency….

link to thehastingscenter.org

Ian Brotherhood at 2:03.

Yes, really good video, lot of very good points. Attempt at juryless trials rejected (in Scotland) thankfully. Yes, times like this when governments will seize our rights and be reluctant to give back. A good excuse to get rid of privacy and do the hell what they want. Also huge harm to economy and worse, lack of exercise and depression through isolation causing heart attacks and strokes. When this is over, I’ll be wanting all my rights back, plus some. And to prosecute those responsible of unjustified actions.

However, I think the lockdown is needed. CoVID19 IS nasty. Overall deaths seem to be above normal. Point is still valid that UK deaths per reported infection in UK is among the worlds highest (see my comment 13Apr 2:08 going-walkabout). Something is very wrong there. The “Heard Immunity” phrase has been hijacked. Originally used for those vaccinated protecting those not. Sorry, but I feel by allowing an unknown disease to spread is tantamount to premeditated murder. We won’t really know all the intricacies of this virus for a generation. Vanishingly small chance I imagine, but what if virus sterilises folk after a number of years. What happens if like chicken pox, a second bout comes round with totally different symptoms in the same way as shingles. We just don’t know. For our so called government to play fast and loose like this is just damnedable. The big picture is now visible for all to see, and that is the leaders of the UK are a bunch of self interested well networked psychopaths.

1. Lockdown in the next xxxhrs should’ve been declared the day WHO declared a pandemic, and lifted later if false alarm. Otherwise WHAT is the point of having the WHO?

2. Protective masks, gloves, antiseptics, UV lights, coveralls, instructions for civilians should have been warehoused with at least 6 months supply. This costs money, but what cost compared to Trident – the so-called defense of UK citizens?

3. Arrangements in place with existing manufacturers (and state-own at least one for continuity) to ramp up and replace used stock. Keeping NHS up to date with 4 times normal required capacity (after the WWII it was).

4. UBI brought in immediately. (And keep UBI permenantly in conjunction with flat-rate tax on profits to maximise economic efficiency!)

5. Distribute PPE to whole population with detailed instructions on use. Follow up media campaign of education on how to use PPE and disinfection.

6. Gradual relaxing of lockdown with continual testing publics adherence to correct PPE use and strict enforcement, allowing economy to restart.

7. Once the infection has been properly studied and understood and a vaccines developed, then society can return to normal.

Existing procedures have been ignored (like the foot and mouth disaster of the Blair years). OK, things WILL be different each time and new procedures developed with the different nuances of each infection, but the fundamentals of dealing with infections will always remain the same. The trouble is, this time we have been lucky (hopefully) with low mortality. The next time WHEN this happens, we might not be. Oh, and we need to change how we take care of our fellow animals, from whom we caught this infection, instead of careless husbandry and the hot-housing of pathogens.

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Analyzing Racism
Through Discourse Analysis
Some Methodological Reflections
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Whaddya make of this then?

1916: Emergence of radiowaves – 1918: Spanish Flu

2003: Emergence of 3G – 2003: SARS outbreak

2009: Emergence of 4G – 2009: Swine Flu

2019: Emergence of 5G – 2020: Covid-19

There is a lot of to things I will never do in life,,,,and clapping in unison with some english Prince is one of them

And, “we are all in this together” is a step too far

Next they will be telling us we are “Better Together”.

This is gettin too close to the english,,,keep the bastards where you can see them.

I’m in the bad books with wife and neighbours
As I’m not participating in the happy clapping sessions.

What a farce that the people we are to clap to show we
Have that Dunkirk spirt in supporting them are not being supported.

The Nurses had a pay cap imposed by this Tory Government that
Ended up a 15% pay cut due to inflation.

The English Doctors had their first ever strike as the Tories imposed
New lesser contracts on them.

Foreign medical staff are being asked for payments of £12,000 if they
Wish to have their work visas extended and continue risking their lives
Saving the lives of Tories.

They are being sent into death zones without the necessary equipment,
Against WHO advice they are now being told to reuse PPE if they have it.

Guess who can’t even get tested for the virus as the Tories wouldn’t buy the kits.

So clap in your doorway like a seal and try to make it loud enough that staff 5 miles away
Might hear it and say all this worry about dying at work and struggling with bills at home
Is just so worth while?

Stop this idiotic noise intended to mask death and abuse by government and media neglect!

Effigy @ 12.30
Orrr….Own it ?

I’m no expert in the law, but I hope there are better legal brain in Scotland than there appears to be in Holyrood, as Scotland needs better protection from real and present danger (see English Torydum).

Accountability Criteria and Remedies under Tort
Law for Victims of Human Rights Abuses
link to repository.uel.ac.uk

Has Scotland just decided that Treaty law and human rights have no value because British constitutionalism is impervious to international law? That’s more than a bit limp.

Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law
link to fee.org

Just read on rev Stu’s twatter feed that Craig Murray is to face charges of contempt of court, WTAF is going on in this country when actual churnalists flout the law and are ignored

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@ Mist001 at 12.22

Correlation does not equal causation.

There have been plenty of other epidemics that have not coincided with the emergence of particular forms of electro-magnetic radiation.

Your list is cherry-picking in an attempt to imply a connection. You need a plausible mechanism as well as a temporal coincidence.

Crazycat @ 2.49
Aw….trust you way common sense…. That comment could have been so much fun…
JFK lost brain 1963 – JK Rowling insane 2014 🙂

@ Liz g 2.32am aye Liz hopefully Craig knows how to fight them but it is the usual policy same with Stu , keep them busy and hopefully distracted , throw as much mud as possible and hope that some of it sticks

The good thing about it is that it shows us that when we’re independent there are more institutes that need a good clear out and mibees some charges to follow , but unfortunately it is tiresome and time consuming and expensive

Apologies – just realised that the CH4 clip I linked to stops at 1.13. Wonder why they didn’t show the fuller version?

Perhaps because, at 1.20, outside some unnamed hospital, the staff are packed like sardines, with prepared banners etc, giving it -yee-ha for the cameras.

Perhaps instead of clapping we should each evening stand outside our doors or at our windows and observe a minutes silence in respect for those who have lost their lives that day.

crazycat says:

“Correlation does not equal causation”

In 1st year psychology in the statistics modules, you are presented with research showing evidence that an increase in ice cream sales in New York resulted in an increase in the number of murders in that city.

Even more troubling, this experiment could be repeated in other cities and the evidence showed the same correlation.

Of course, we were soon told that in that section of the lesson we would learn that ‘correlation does not equal causation’ and that the reason ice cream sales had increased was that it was very hot, and it was on days that were very hot that tempers became flared and it was this that caused an increase in murders in these big cities.

Then again, it might just be that both of us are working for the Chinese government to suppress the truth about viruses being able to surf along on the radio waves created by 5G systems.

Strange that none of our fearless journalists have picked up on fact that ultra establishment figure Sir Keir Starmer failed sign the all party petition calling for a Basic universal Income. He was criticised for this on Labour List.

Also why the MSM lack of coverage on That Leaked Labour report which was disected by Craig Murray in this usual forensic manner?

Meanwhile Union Jack Ian Murray attacking SNP and Tories very care home deaths but forgets to mention Labour’s record in Wales

FFS Handcock on BBC now advising that Nicola’s speech
about tests for when Lockdown should begin to be eased
are the guidelines he announced over a week ago?

He is glad Nicola is following their instructions?

Where did I put that pitchfork?

Mick Lavelle says: at 12:41 am

“Looks to me that coronavirus is a big factor in increase”

Indeed, and in addition there’s also the point that it isn’t really accurate comparing year by year first quarter statistics in itself, because we have been in lockdown with all that entails for approximately 25% of this first quarter.
If the trend is up significantly even with measures in place to limit transmission and protect folk, then one can only imagine what the infection and death numbers would be if we had just went about our routines normally as per other years.
The point I am making in no way should be considered praise for the UK Government with their late implementation of lockdown and other lackadaisical aspects not conducive to restricting the spread of the virus.

I hear the sound of falling pennies.

If you think things are bad just now, then just wait until 1st January next year.

That is the date when we crash out if the EU.

It won’t just be PPE we will be short of after that date. There will be shortages of most goods as lorries and containers are held up at border points trying to get goods into the UK.

Also selling to the EU will have the same problems, with having the correct documents and registrations being the main problem.

It is going to be utter chaos if you add into the mix this Virus.

I am surprised that it is being totally ignored.

Not one politician is talking about it.

Like Scottish Independence, Brexit is very real and it ain’t gonna disappear just because we don’t talk about it.

In Scotland we have three hurdles to overcome,,, Corona Virus, Brexit and,,,,, Nicola Sturgeon.

I suppose Craig Murray can expect to be railroaded through a semi secret court trial like all Sturgeons political enemies.Beware this First Minister making hay while we are locked up .

Watching Humza Yousaf the Justice Secretary yesterday, and he had that empty “Do not disturb” look about him.

He just looked too comfortable in his job as a Devolved Minister. He knows Scottish Independence would upset that Devolved little apple cart.

And it isn’t just him who likes the lifestyle that goes with his cushy job. From Nicola Sturgeon down, they all look as if the feet are firmly under the table, the slippers are on and they have no intention of fighting for Scottish Independence, because for them to do that would be like Turkeys voting for Xmas.

It’s time for a mass clear out at the top of the political wing of the Independence Movenent.

And a ratcheting up of preparations to get our Indy Party up and running.