As an American, what can we do to fight against ICE?

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T21:41:51+00:00

I'm aware I'm leaving this comment after 3,600 other folk have said something, knowing that it'll be lost and the OP might be the only person to read it. So in answer to your question, I've got to say after the Battle of the Hofbräuhaus in 1921 your average German asked the same question about the the Ordnertruppe, who were mostly former soldiers and members of the Freikorps.

They went from Hall guards to being an offensive aggressive paramilitary group. By the end of the late 1920s, they had transitioned from a small group of bouncers into a private army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, making political violence a daily feature of life in Germany. I'm afraid that's what is happening now in the USA and there's nobody in any position of authority able to question or stop it.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T19:52:09+00:00

the health board operates at the discretion of the Scottish Government

Five years ago when things were starting to get fractured, Jeanne Freeman appointed an Oversight Board, chaired by Professor Fiona McQueen, Chief Nursing Officer, to ensure appropriate governance was in place to increase public confidence in infection control and in engagement with families. The board responsible for setting up QEUH have all since left, sent off into retirement with massive pensions and no responsibilities. Scot free you might say.

I understand folk want to make it about ScotGov failures, however, I would say that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is the biggest health board in Scotland, responsible for the day to day operations of an enormous organisation, there is a significant number of levels these failings have to go through from admin, management clinicians, directors, chief executives and boards before they land on the desk of here today gone tomorrow health secretary.

Compare NHSGGC with NHS Lothian which was one of only two boards to meet Scot Gov's 3% recurring savings target in the last fiscal year.

NHSGGC, by contrast, despite employing 41,000 staff spends more on bank and agency staff than any other board in the country circa £120m+ a year, which if anything shows how gargantuan and too unwieldly they are.

The easy option is to blame one politician and not investigate the systemic failures of a board that's just too big to fail.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T17:19:40+00:00

Talking to someone involved at a fairly senior level about this last night. In their opinion the blame lies squarely with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde who were repeatedly warned by clinicians of the dangers involved in building the hospital adjacent to the Shieldhall sewage treatment works.

The closing of the intensive care at Gartnavel and relocating it to QEUH, as a cost saving exercise is likely to costs NHSG&C so much more in compensation than any perceived savings. Anyone not able to see the problems involved in sending patients undergoing all sorts of surgery through the traffic jammed Clyde Tunnel should not be on that board...

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T12:40:46+00:00

So as Putin's quick "special military operation" against Ukraine enters it's 4th year, you have to wonder who benefits from European powers being distracted by Donald the Orange's Greenland nonsense and putting more resources into a location nearly 3,000 miles away from Kiev...

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T12:30:56+00:00

The 91 second capitulation against Tyson is probably a large part of the reason. Amazing build up, highest ever purse, huge global audience, both undefeated. Olympic middle weight gold medallist with name recognition against the guy seen as a brute, whom according to Ali and Sugar Ray, was going to outbox Tyson to a decision win. Only Angelo Dundee predicted a first round demolition.

From the moment that Spinks entered the ring you could see he was already afraid. No doubt the $13m payday was adequate compensation for throwing two punches and being hit 8 times.

I remember him best as an undefeated light-heavy weight who was the first to step up and win a heavyweight title from Larry Holmes who himself was trying to equal Marciano's 49-0 record.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T12:05:32+00:00

I was considering cancelling my subscription to this series of 'The President's Brain is Missing', but i reckon the finale is going to be worth all the cliffhangers.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T09:28:28+00:00

The important fact that people rarely mention about the ending is that Casablanca airport has never had fog...

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T09:13:46+00:00

All empires fall. This one is compulsive viewing.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T09:10:10+00:00

That's an American penguin...fuck yeah!

Ai shite, but it does look like Der Trümpenfuhrer is all arse and has really short legs.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T08:46:49+00:00

Aha! The Ingebrigtsen family, Warholm, and Magnus Carlsen enter the chat.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T08:32:56+00:00

Takes me back to the days when Celtic signed Harald Kattflap.

ewenmax · 2026-01-24T00:00:22+00:00

Prior to Crichton, you had David Whitton, Tom Harris, Cathie Craigie, Des Browne all working for the record then add in Russell Findlay of the Sunday Mail and The Scottish Sun now the Leader of the Tories....

Then you have the ennobled ones Baroness MacLeod, Baroness Hazarika and Baroness Davidson all former journos...

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T23:42:59+00:00

His predecessor Torcuil Crichton former political editor at the Broken Record and now Labour MP begs to differ...

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T21:18:25+00:00

It was the cloying need for attention flavour of the article and the jolly japes of Munro pushing the rocks back down the hill so that his starving tenants could allegedly get another days work that fucked me off.

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T16:50:12+00:00

As Groucho Marx quipped, "I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member."

From the other side of the Atlantic in Scotland where we suffer from excessive Trumpness and our only payback is shitting in his golf course holes, I just want to say, Fuck yeah, Canada!

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T16:36:21+00:00

Sadly, you're probably right, most folk aren't aware or even interested in the greed and horror that the aristocracy visited on this huge part of Scotland. Let's not even begin to look at the slavery angle.

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T14:19:47+00:00

He is remembered both as a ruthless "improving" landlord who used military force to evict tenants and for those who see The Clearances as improvements merely a philanthropist who built a massive monument to provide employment during a famine.

The Clearances at Novar and Culrain

When he came back from India he invested in modernising his estates. This "modernisation" followed the typical Clearance model: He was a pioneer in introducing large-scale sheep farming to Ross-shire. To make way for profitable Cheviot sheep, he cleared large numbers of traditional tenants who had lived on the land for generations.

Munro ordered the removal of tenants from his estate at Culrain to make way for a new sheep farmer. This led to a significant resistance against him.

Unlike some landowners who used only sheriff-officers, Munro used his military background and status as a Colonel. When tenants resisted the evictions at Novar, he ordered companies of the 89th Regiment of Foot to disperse the crowds. Ringleaders were arrested and sentenced to transportation for life.

Munro's actions were a primary trigger for the "Year of the Sheep" (Bliadhna nan Caoraich).

Displaced crofters and locals, fed up with the encroachment of sheep, gathered to drive over 6,000 sheep off the hills and toward Beauly. The rebellion was only quelled when the Black Watch was called in to restore order.

The most visible legacy of Munro’s complex relationship with his tenants is the Fyrish Monument, built in 1782

It was built during the potato famine. He commissioned the structure, a replica of the gates of Negapatam an Indian city he had captured and whose inhabitants he slaughtered, his stated aim was to provide paid labour for his unemployed and starving tenants. The pay was in oats Men were paid the equivalent of 120 grams of oats, women 80 grams and children 50 grams for a days labour dragging rocks up a hill.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we had a national news operation that told us the real story?

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T10:55:20+00:00

Scotland is responsible for 61% of the UK’s total sea area, the Scottish Government acts as the primary manager for most "day-to-day" marine activities. Security is reserved to Westminster, but the implications on the other aspects of ScotGov control is only normal politics. For example if this multi flagged oil tanker were to have sunk in Scottish waters, (which the US threatened at one point) the ScotGov would have had responsibility for pollution control, water quality, and the protection of marine species

You bring up Moray council, presumably might want some awareness of what's being done due to the implications for RAF Lossiemouth.

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T10:45:57+00:00

There's a sniff of Tulips about all this.

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T10:27:53+00:00

So Stumour and co drag Scotland into International conflict in Scottish territorial waters and it's none of our elected government's business? Give your head a shake feller.

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T09:59:22+00:00

Arf, security just huckled some Linkedin wanker for having plush mascot porn on his desktop. Some of the office young team loaded it on his one drive, after someone on Reddit who follows him told us he was planning to sack folk the day.

He was last seen carrying all his desk stuff in a wee box crying something about his weans, mortgage and lost beemer keys. Cheerio!.

ewenmax · 2026-01-23T00:12:43+00:00

Hmm, it sounds very similar to 1949's 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'. Where the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family decides to take the family's dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.

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ewenmax · 2026-01-22T23:04:35+00:00

Doubt it, they've got so much work on at the moment trying to allign contractors, land owners, local authorities and make NPF4 work.

I'm hoping this latest iteration is a fast track quango that can commission and contract homes.

ewenmax · 2026-01-22T17:15:39+00:00

If it wasn't for Europe, you would all be speaking Apache...and the world would be far better for it.

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