Wednesday, 17 September 2014

WHY SCOTLAND SHOULD VOTE YES



If Scotland votes YES, it will be a good time to invest.

George Godber, manager of the £100m CF Miton UK Value Opportunities fund says: "Sterling could fall 10 per cent."

"I have got a number of businesses lined up that we will look to substantially increase our holdings in.

"They are all international, world-class businesses that would see a significant uplift from a weaker sterling...

"With 80 per cent of UK stock market earnings derived overseas there are very big chunks of the market that will have a very big upgrade from a weaker currency." 

Godber: My fund is ready to buy if Scotland says 'Yes'.



The UK's mainstream media and the London politicians have lied to the people of Scotland.

On 124 september 2014, pro-independence Scots rallied outside the BBC's Glasgow HQ to protest against the BBC's pro-union bias and demand the resignation of the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has proposed replacing BBC Scotland with a Scottish Broadcasting Service after independence.

‘Stick your license fee up your arse!’ say some Scots to the BBC, as they denounce a ‘liar’ BBC journalist.

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 The corrupt London politicians have been booed and heckled and mocked.

The NO to independence campaign has relied on fear.

The NO campaign has said that if Scotland gets control of its oil wealth, it will become poorer.

The NO campaign has said that if an independent Scotland gets rid of the Faslane nuclear base near Glasgow, then Glasgow will become less safe.

The NO campaign cannot explain why MI5 and MI6 did not manage to prevent the London bombings.

Former police chief says a Yes vote will help secure a safer Scotland.

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The very dodgy Deutsche Bank opposes independence for Scotland.

This is the same Deutsche Bank which made a loss of 1.153 billion euros in the last four months of 2013.


Mapping the whiskies of Scotland

Crimes of Empire reminds us:

"One of the many ridiculous myths perpetrated by New World Order advocates is that the bigger and more distant a Government is from the people, the more benevolent and competent it will be...

"A national Government based in Edinburgh will have an obviously stronger knowledge of local issues, greater incentive to meet the needs of the people and generally fewer barriers than exist between the people of Scotland and the London government."

Scotland the Brave?.

Simon Jenkins writes the following about Scottish independence:

I would vote yes because ... of the well-known advantages of newborn states and more intimate governments.

Scotland ... would be driven towards true self-sufficiency, capable of resembling Denmark, Norway, Ireland or Slovakia as a haven for fleet-footed entrepreneurs.



"The international and security case for Scottish independence has been boosted with Yes endorsements from senior Scottish military and diplomatic figures only days before the referendum.

Yes support from senior Scottish military and diplomats.

"The senior Faslane Naval intelligence officer Lieutenant Commander Colin May - who has just retired from the Royal Navy - and former British Ambassador Donald MacLaren have both declared their support for a Yes victory in the referendum.

"The announcement comes shortly after a Yes vote was supported by the last UK ambassador to NATO Dame Mariot Leslie and the former head of the UK defence industry association Ian Godden."

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Lieutenant Commander Colin May said: "Faslane would be an excellent conventional naval base and home for Scottish Joint Forces HQ...

"Unfortunately the UK has not taken the northern dimension seriously in recent years. We are without any serious ocean-going conventional vessels based in Scotland and the MOD scrapped the entire Maritime Patrol Aircraft fleet...

"More settled military service in Scotland will also be of huge benefit to defence dependent communities like those around Faslane and Coulport.


Weapons of mass destruction, sited near Glasgow.

Retired Ambassador Donald MacLaren wrote: "Today’s reality is that, with the Union, we continue to float downwards...

"I tell you, there are plenty of Scots (and non-Scots) in the Foreign Office and in every other branch of government who are ready to swap shaughly Union decision-making for the creativeness and vigour of real responsibility within a Scotland making its new way in the world."

Yes support from senior Scottish military and diplomats


Scotland's GDP per capita is £24,398, which is above the UK, Finland, Iceland, France and Japan.

What Impact Will a Yes Vote Have on Scotland's Exports?

The top economist John Kay (above) writes in the Financial Times:

http://www.ft.com

Would an independent Scotland be economically viable?

Not an issue. Scotland ... is the richest UK region outside London and the southeast.

How does the economy differ from that of the rest of the UK?

Scotland remains strong in ... insurance and asset management. Tourism, and premium food and drink - whisky but also products such as Aberdeen Angus beef and seafood - are important. And the North Sea oil industry has helped establish a strong energy services sector.

Scotland exports 40 bottles of whisky every second.

Scotch whisky represents about 26-27% of Diageo's sales and 25% of Pernod's.



Business for Scotland wrote: "The oil in the North Sea is worth over £1tn.

"There are at least 15-24 billion barrels of oil remaining which will continue long into the 21st century.

Business for Scotland reports on the potential for a west coast of Scotland oil boom that is currently blocked by the UK Ministry of Defence, because of Faslane's nuclear submarines.

Getting oil from Scotland's west coast would revitalise the economies of Ayrshire and the Strathclyde region as a whole.

Scotland's Pentland Firth is the "Saudi Arabia of renewable tidal energy".

Martin Gilbert

Aberdeen Asset Management is the largest fund manager in Europe, managing £350 billion.

It operates across 33 offices in 25 countries.

Martin Gilbert, the boss of Aberdeen Asset Management says that an independent Scotland will be a 'big success'.

He dismisses suggestions that a Yes vote will harm the economy.



Scotland will copy Ireland which has reduced corporation tax - in order to attract  top technology and pharmaceutical companies.

Scotland exports more than it imports, unlike England.

The trade deficit for England has widened

This is one reason why the pound sterling has weakened.



On 10 September 2014, the headlines in the newspapers suggested trouble for 'Scottish' businesses.

Yet the truth is otherwise.

On 10 September 2014, we read that twelve analysts have assigned a buy rating to Aberdeen Asset Management.

JPMorgan Chase is one of the firms with an 'overweight' rating on Aberdeen Asset Management.

On 10 September 2014, The Daily Telegraph writes that shares in Cairn Energy are worth considering ahead of a busy drilling schedule.

On 10th September 2014, Investec removed Royal Bank of Scotland from its list of stocks to avoid and moved it to a more moderate ‘hold’ rating (previously ‘sell’).

On 10th September 2014, Standard Life's stock had its 'outperform' rating reaffirmed by RBC Capital in a research note.

They currently have a £460 target price on the stock. Standard Life opened at £405.90 on Wednesday. Standard Life has a 52-week low of £331.70.

Warren Buffett likes whisky producer Diageo plc


The coal power station at Cottam, in England, privatised in 1991, bought by Electricité de France in 2000.

England is run by strange people.

In the Financial Times, James Meek has explained how Power has been taken from the people, and,  what privatisation has meant for Britain

James Meek explains that the coal power station at Cottam in Nottinghamshire was privatised in 1991.

Cottam was then renationalised - by the French government.

"In 2000 it was acquired by the French state concern Electricité de France, which also owns a huge chunk of the rest of Britain’s electricity industry, including all its nuclear plants.

"There, in Nottinghamshire, all the supposed goals of privatisation - to dismantle state control over industry, to give ordinary Brits a financial stake in its success, to show inefficient, socialistic European state companies how much more successful privatised, entrepreneurial British executives would be - were being defeated, day by day, hour by hour."

James Meek refers to "privatisation as the dispersal of control over national economies ... towards tax havens, multiple jurisdictions, super-rich families and authoritarian states."

Scotland must realise that England is run by crooks.

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Friday, 12 September 2014

DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE LIES



Let us not be fooled by the lies about 9 11, Ukraine, ISIS or anything else.

Fortunately, there are whistleblowers, such as Martin Gilbert.

Martin Gilbert

Aberdeen Asset Management is the largest fund manager in Europe, managing £350 billion.

It operates across 33 offices in 25 countries.

Martin Gilbert, the boss of Aberdeen Asset Management says that an independent Scotland will be a 'big success'.

He dismisses suggestions that a Yes vote will harm the economy.

Martin Gilbert is of course correct.



The shitty American company ASDA (owned by Walmart) threatens the people of Scotland with higher prices, if they vote for independence.

It has been pointed out that Aldi and Lidl operate in over 35 Country's with different currencies and tax systems and yet still manage to sell food in the UK 10% cheaper than ASDA.

Only a fool would shop in Asda.

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Martin Gilbert says that a currency union with the UK is 'highly likely'.

He also says that if London was to refuse a currency union, a refusal by Scotland to share the London government's debt would be a shrewd move.



Sir Angus Grossart, chairman of Noble Grossart merchant bank, is also a whistleblower.

Grossart suggested in the Financial Times that the impact of the referendum on the markets had been "severely overstated".



The top economist John Kay (above) writes in the Financial Times:

http://www.ft.com

Would an independent Scotland be economically viable? 

Not an issue. Scotland ... is the richest UK region outside London and the southeast.

How does the economy differ from that of the rest of the UK? 

Scotland remains strong in ... insurance and asset management. Tourism, and premium food and drink - whisky but also products such as Aberdeen Angus beef and seafood - are important. And the North Sea oil industry has helped establish a strong energy services sector.
John Kay writes in the Financial Times:

Who would then be lender of last resort?

Royal Bank of Scotland ... might redomicile its head office to London - where the critical executive functions are already located.

(RBS is already owned by the London government, and 90% of its customers are outside Scotland. RBS says it is not planning to move its Scottish staff and Scottish operations to London.)

Scotland’s budgetary position? 

An independent Scotland would surely inherit a pro rata share of the UK’s budget deficit and outstanding debt (although the government in Westminster will remain guarantor of the existing debt)...

Would an independent Scotland emulate the economic dynamism of some (but not all) other small European states? ...

(Did the Scots invent most things?)

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Wednesday, 10 September 2014

THE ECONOMY - TRUTH AND LIES

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The trade deficit for the UK economy has widened

This is one reason why the pound sterling has weakened.

England, unlike Scotland, imports more than it exports.



On 10 September 2014, the headlines in the newspapers suggested trouble for 'Scottish' businesses.

Yet the truth is otherwise.

On 10 September 2014, we read that twelve analysts have assigned a buy rating to Aberdeen Asset Management.

JPMorgan Chase is one of the firms with an 'overweight' rating on Aberdeen Asset Management.

On 10 September 2014, The Daily Telegraph writes that shares in Cairn Energy are worth considering ahead of a busy drilling schedule.

On 10th September 2014, Investec removed Royal Bank of Scotland from its list of stocks to avoid and moved it to a more moderate ‘hold’ rating (previously ‘sell’).

On 10th September 2014, Standard Life's stock had its 'outperform' rating reaffirmed by RBC Capital in a research note.

They currently have a £460 target price on the stock. Standard Life opened at £405.90 on Wednesday. Standard Life has a 52-week low of £331.70.

Warren Buffett likes whisky producer Diageo plc 



"Already, the myth of political apathy has been scotched by the tumultuous movement north of the border.

"As soon as something is worth voting for, people will queue into the night to add their names to the register.

"The low voter turnouts in Westminster elections reflect not an absence of interest but an absence of hope."



Andrew Garthwaite (above), of Credit Suisse, predicts that if Scotland votes for independence, and gets control of its vast oil wealth, there could be a ‘large-scale deposit flight’ from the Royal Bank of Scotland - or a run on savings - unless the Bank of England stepped in to guarantee bank deposits.

dailymail.co.uk

This of course is nonsense.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is owned by the London government and 90% of its customers are in England.

So, the Bank of England will protect the Royal bank of Scotland (and other such banks).

Credit Suisse is said to be run by crooks.

Some people mention it alongside Enron.

Credit Suisse has been convicted of a felony

It has pleaded guilty to “conspiring to aid tax evasion” and been fined $2.6bn.

Credit Suisse has a long history of investigations, out-of-court settlements and prosecutions of executives in several countries.

Credit Suisse Is Too Big To Jail - Forbes



Are the bankers a bunch of crooks?

Rona Fairhead (above), the BBC’s chairman-elect, is being sued over her involvement in the HSBC money-laundering scandal.

Rona Fairhead is facing a class action lawsuit by HSBC shareholders over allegations the bank allowed terrorists and Mexican drug cartels to launder money.

Rona Fairhead chaired the bank’s ‘risk committee’ in 2012, when it was fined £1.2billion by US authorities to settle allegations that it allowed drug traffickers to launder millions of pounds.

The bank was also accused of breaching sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Libya, Burma and Zimbabwe.

The BBC's Rona Fairhead is being sued over claims HSBC laundered drugs money...

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Spies off line: New gadget to stop unwanted drone ...

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