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02 April 2024

Hate Crime in Scotland today and yesterday

 

Now that Humza Yousaf’s attempt to control Scottish thinking is enshrined in law, it is appropriate to remember Scotland’s fascist past, which has been well-documented by a recent book which shows the will to control others is deeply rooted in the Nationalist project.

 

More details here:  https://thinkscotland.org/2024/04/april-haters-day-has-a-fascist-past/




22 March 2024

The dangers of UNFLAGGED Artificial Intelligence

An interesting piece about how you can now never be sure that a book you are buying was written by Artificial Intelligence, and not a human being. If books have no authors, just a machine which generates them like sausages, then we will have nothing but an endless circulation of stale intellectual air - the mental equivalent of heat pumps.

This is a VERY dangerous trend and pressure should be brought to bear on all retailers, including Amazon, to FLAG UP all books on offer which are not written by human beings.

TS 038 - Humza Yousaf spouting Artificial Intelligence?

See this disclaimer in the cover of the book described in the article:





06 February 2024

Lying politicians caught by skilled examination in Scottish cover-up case - Sturgeon on the rack

Read it all here!

https://thinkscotland.org/2024/02/why-sturgeons-clannish-conceit-is-a-challenge-to-democracy/


Sturgeon even tried blubbing - but to no effect. Her day is DONE!


There are many parallels with nineteenth century practice, as described in this excellent book about how Britain started on the road to democracy:




28 January 2024

Anyone watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office - or interested in Marshal Petain's "betrayal"of France in 1940?

 Is Paula Vennells the new Nicola Sturgeon? And how does Alister Jack stack up against Marshal Petain?


For a clear statement of the comparison between Vennells and Sturgeon in point of public spiritedness, charity, compassion and long-term intelligence, I recommend this thoughtful analysis, as it also places Marshal Petain’s 1945 trial for treason to France in the context of the Tory failure to control the Scottish pirate parliament today: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/01/paula-vennells-and-the-snp-beware-the-sordid-parallels/ 



08 January 2024

Scotland: The Declaration of Arbroath, and the fake analysis which surrounds it

 A film (made in a beautiful location on the Hebridean island of Coll) which explains how many Scottish nationalists manufacture history when the reality does not suit them.

The classic document which offers them an opportunity to do so is one of the most important in Scottish history - but not for the reasons they claim.

Watch the video (and practice your Gaelic) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS15_hFQL4 

(there is also some beautiful music at the beginning and end)