A Place to Stand

    Last night attended the "Glasgow Skeptics - promoting science, critical thinking and freedom of expression" - a government sock puppet who were running a "debate" on independence. I have previously mentioned the "Skeptics" and their absolute objection to sceptical thinking and free debate over alleged catastrophic global warming. So their decision to give places to the 5 cartel parties and undeniably Fascist and racist Radical Independencers while excluding UKIP was expected. Such is normal of state funded puppets.

Speakers




     I was interested that 2 1/2 of the Yes speakers, and from the cheers almost all of this atypical audience, were resolutely opposed to nationalism (the 1/2 being the official SNP). This may not be entirely how the Yes campaign runs nationally but it is clear that the campaign has very little room for nationalists and patriots. It is entirely about various sorts of "socialist" promising each other that, come the revolution, there will be unlimited money to pay the unwaged, windmills, foreign aid, government employees, Gaelic programming, awareness raising activities, ensuring everybody working on Trident still gets paid etc.

   For some time I have had a self appointed nemesis on here who calls claims anonymity but appears on "scienceblogs" under the name "Skip" where he has claimed to be a scientist able to pontificate on climate change because

Furthermore, the people you are debating with are real researchers. Like Mandas, Richard S., Chris, and others I too have a track record of peer reviewed publication in the finest journals in my field. They and I have a basic demonstration of competence the likes of which a fool such as yourself will never comprehend.

   That there should be, at least, some truth to his claims of validity in the field was supported by the fact that neither the site runner nor any of the named people said "who he" or that they were unable to confirm being in the same scientific club as "Skip", though it was indeed obvious his real identity was known. If you are going to accept that a lying charlatan shares equality with you you must accept being known as a lying charlatan.

   Of course the idea that anybody at "scienceblogs" was in any way interested in truth or science took rather a knock when Greg Laden, who runs one of the sites, publicly claimed to be a "climate scientist" and I subsequently proved that he was in fact an unpaid assistant anthropology teacher. A more serious dent to "scienceblogs" credibility came when Greg kept his site and nobody whatsoever on their even suggested that being proven so wholly and completely dishonest and contemptuous of science was, in even the slightest way, reprehensible.

    Obviously such action is incompatible with any "sciencebloggers" being in any way honest or scientific.

    Anyway Skip promised me that he was going to not only come on my blog and engage, for the rest of time, on what, for him, passes as intellectual debate but also to do so on any other site I commented on (which would include the sole "scienceblog" site that allows a certain amount of free speech.. In fact he limited himself to this site since presumably making himself look like and idiot on a wider stage seemed not to be a good idea.

   Occasionally his comments have contributed what purported to be a matter of fact (for example his repeated claims that the government's Chief Science adviser never made the ludicrous claim that by 2100 "Antarctica will be the only habitable continent" and that the papers reporting it were nonexistent/lying because they are controlled by deniers/mistaken). All his claims of fact were easily and amusingly proven false. The rest of his posts have focused on calling me a Nazi, saying that everybody in Glasgow shags the sheep which are everpresent in our city centre & that the proof that I am a Nazi is that I tend to delete his obscenities (though I specifically do not delete argument that attempts to be fact based).

   Having at least some trace of personal integrity and not being a complete hypocrite Skip has at least been equally willing to denounce all the scienceblogs sites which censor, not obscenity but rational debate.
      Being a wholly corrupt, child abusing*, animal he hasn't.

      So who is this expert in climate science Skip. Well not entirely coincidentally, he turns out to be linked to a child abusing (*there did anybody think I was merely being discourteous when I said that earlier) organisation I have dealt with previously, NCSE (National Center for science Education more properly known as Nazi Child-abusers for the Suppression of Evidence).

     So who is he

     have a look at this account of Skip Evans, formerly of the National Center for Science Education, conversing with some of the local creationists in Madison, WI.


     Skip's account. The idea of pretending to be a real scientist seems to be presaged by a comment he adds

a couple of guys talking to Larry and Kevin the Creationists decided they were sociology professors doing an experiment to see how people reacted to complete nonsense presented as fact.


Posted by: Skip
July 27, 2010 12:43 AM

  With the NCSE connection, which I did not  connection, it appears the world of know of when I the reported the lecture by their boss on CAGW ("you can't blame her for not answering your questions - she's not a climate expert"(. Run by the Glasgow Skeptics (with grandstanding by ecofascist Green MSP Pat Harvie, previously gay government paid youth worker though I would never match the ecofascists by saying that he had ever shagged any of the aforementioned sheep) it seems the world of  anti-science spouting is even smaller and more incestuous than it previously appeared.

From the obscene thieving Nazi Child abuser's entry on NCSE

Should the disgusting animal wish to apologise or feel able make any explanation, without obscenity, or indeed should any member of BCSE feel I have been in any way unfair I extend my invitation, as normal, to give them a platform and possibly a piece of rope. If not to me it might wish to apologise to the people of Glasgow and all the sheep in Sauchiehall Street.

UPDATE It seems Skip Evans has died. No mention of cause though he was clearly relatively young. Since he didn't apologise or produce any evidence to support his lies I don't think any other comment would be appropriate.

  This seems to be the best single coverage of the Occupy Glasgow rape, though it is buried inside the article.

A 28-year-old was attacked in a tent in George Square in the early hours of Wednesday morning as she took part in the anti-capitalist Occupy Glasgow campaign.

Police said they are looking for two men they believe are known to the victim.

The Glasgow protest is part of the global occupy protests which have been taking place in cities around the world following the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York.

The protesters are campaigning against the perceived injustices of the global economic system....

Strathclyde Police are now hunting for two men they said were staying in the makeshift campsite outside the City Chambers.

Detective Inspector Dougie McKinlay said: "We are looking for witnesses to an incident that took place some time between 9pm and midnight on Tuesday, where a serious sexual assault occurred on a 28-year-old female within the Occupy Glasgow protest camp."

The men are described as 20 to 30, both 6ft and of slim build. One had short, spiky blond hair and one had short dark hair, police said.

Detective Inspector McKinlay added: "The victim may have known her attackers, but possibly not by name. We know there were other people in the area at the time and we are appealing for them to come forward."

On Wednesday evening Occupy Scotland held a meeting to discuss the incident. A spokesperson later said: "A young woman supporter was raped while staying at the occupation camp in George Square. There was lengthy discussion about this abhorrent and intolerable crime and its repercussions.

  When you believe that you have a right to grab other people's property, and are given massive supportive coverage by the state fascist broadcaster, this is logically inevitable. It isn't reported whether the other tents were full and everybody looked the other way or whether most the tents in the "occupation camp"were empty because the protesters were back home for the night.

   This has had coverage across the USA, though it is the same story repeated, but our local media has downplayed it.

  A few links I have looked at recently:

The optimal size of government - they say 22% which fits remarkably well with a poll I did.

List of countires by GNP, on current trend, to 2015

Quotes from Milton Friedman

 Quotes about Milton Friedman (I have sympathy with Nixon's)

Al Fin looks at Chile's growth - the country which adopted the Chicago school of economics advice hint - it worked

Taranis Britain's unmanned aerial weapon system

Denmark: Freedom of speech dies over not saying provably true things about some Moslems

What actual power Conservative Party members have over their party: ---- all (previously asked by me)

The legality of killing tyrants - wiki article

Japanese tsunami picture

Finland's eurosceptic party goes from 4% (equivalent to UKIP) to 20% on promise not to sign up for bail outs. Update - the other parties have got together to form a government which will bail out. Is this a harbinger for a Labour/Conservative coalition next time?

    This letter from me in today's Scotsman.

WWF's call for us to institute a trade war with Canada (Letters, 10 February) describes a report disagreeing with the Canadians about what Canadian industry does as "an independent study commissioned by the EU".

Something funded by somebody else, let alone by politicians, is not independent. Perhaps WWF can be forgiven for not knowing this since some of its income comes via government.

Interesting how it has been edited. The last phrase "some of its income comes from government" originally read 

1/6th of all their income comes from government funding or government funded "non"-governmental organisations. Indeed it is now difficult to find any organisation calling for more government regulation or taxes which is not quietly funded, at least to the extent of its own advertising budget, by the state.



Since the state produces nothing, it is ultimately funded by us. As H.L. Mencken said "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Indeed it is difficult to find any part of the "environmental" or other nannying movements which are not secretly funded by the state.


I would have thought that journalistic ethics would require that any news story planted by government funded sources or letters from the same should be identified as such. I am sure that if the same tactic were used by the Russian or Chinese government our media would report the source.

So enormously toned down then. Granted this is closer to mentioning the problem of fakecharities being used by government to propagandise than any other paper has done, but it is hardly close. Which says volumes about how restricted the entire MSM are.
I provided them this ref  -WWF annual statement p21 http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/stat_accounts_fy10_unsigned.pdf  I assume most of their "trading activities" are with government departments as this is the normal pattern with fakecharities.

  The WWF's call for a trade war was saying we should ban imports of shale oil & gas from Canada. Shale gas, in particular, is a new technological breakthrough which can produce quantities of cheap hydrocarbons far greater than all our current reserves. This will end any alleged prospects of "peak oil" for generations and once again demonstrates that the whole "running out of ...." scare depends on the false assumption that human beings are incapable of invention. WWF and other eco-Nazi groups are clearly scared stiff that yet another scare story has been proven a lie and hope that if their prophesied doom cannot happen naturally government must artificially prevent progress, or at least limit it to the non-European part of the world.