London Metropolitan Police has categorized Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) anti-capitalist protestors as a domestic terror group alongside those that are termed foreign terror threats including al-Qaeda.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Peaceful terrorists!
London Metropolitan Police has categorized Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) anti-capitalist protestors as a domestic terror group alongside those that are termed foreign terror threats including al-Qaeda.
BBC Censorship: Obama Care Fail Edition
>> Monday, March 19, 2012 (original post)
Remember when the BBC told you that ObamaCare was going to give health care
coverage to 32 million people and save us all? Well - surprise! - it turns
out that lots of people will actually lose their employer-provided coverage, and
costs will go up, not down, so many will not be able to afford getting it on
their own and will have to go on taxpayer-funded Medicaid. Which, by the way
existed for decades before ObamaCare was a twinkle in Hillary Clinton's eye (it
was called HillaryCare when she tried it on when her husband was President), so
the whole story the BBC told you about millions of people magically getting care
all of sudden was a lie as well. In any event:
CBO: Health reform could cause people to lose workplace coverage
The above is from the JournoList-infested and Media Matters (which is funded by Soros and coordinates with the White House) lapdog, Politico, which we know the Beeboids read. Sure, Politico is trying to spin it so that their readers don't worry about it breaking the Treasury and hurting taxpayers, but that's kind of beside the point.
Another BBC daily read, the HuffingtonPost, spins that up front, and then admits ObamaCare will cover fewer people than promised. Unlike those who trust the BBC for news on US issues, readers of this blog will not be surprised that this will hurt small businesses and ordinary workers.
BBC: We don't want you to know about it. Instead, here's some news about George Clooney and Rosie O'Donnell. News about some idiot getting convicted for making his gay roommate feel bad enough to kill himself is far more important, and worthy of remaining on the main US & Canada news page for days on end.
Maybe they'll get around to the issue when the Constitutionality of ObamaCare comes up before the Supreme Court in the next few weeks.
CBO: Health reform could cause people to lose workplace coverage
The above is from the JournoList-infested and Media Matters (which is funded by Soros and coordinates with the White House) lapdog, Politico, which we know the Beeboids read. Sure, Politico is trying to spin it so that their readers don't worry about it breaking the Treasury and hurting taxpayers, but that's kind of beside the point.
Another BBC daily read, the HuffingtonPost, spins that up front, and then admits ObamaCare will cover fewer people than promised. Unlike those who trust the BBC for news on US issues, readers of this blog will not be surprised that this will hurt small businesses and ordinary workers.
BBC: We don't want you to know about it. Instead, here's some news about George Clooney and Rosie O'Donnell. News about some idiot getting convicted for making his gay roommate feel bad enough to kill himself is far more important, and worthy of remaining on the main US & Canada news page for days on end.
Maybe they'll get around to the issue when the Constitutionality of ObamaCare comes up before the Supreme Court in the next few weeks.
BBC defends decision to censor the word "Palestine"
The broadcaster claims that allowing the lyric "free Palestine" would have comprised impartiality.
I still have the same beliefsBBC production staff covered up the word "Palestine" with the sound of broken glass. The censored version was also aired in April. Responding to the original complaints, the BBC said that "Mic Righteous was expressing a political viewpoint which, if it had been aired in isolation, would have compromised impartiality."
I can scream Free Palestine,
Die for my pride still pray for peace,
Still burn a fed for the brutality
They spread over the world.
Yet its own guidelines make allowances for "individual expression" for "artists, writers and entertainers", as long as services "reflect a broad range of the available perspectives over time". The BBC argues that a late night music show was not the appropriate place to get into political debate as it was not obvious when these other views would be aired.
Amena Saleem, of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign said: '"In its correspondence with us, the BBC said the word Palestine isn't offensive, but 'implying that it is not free is the contentious issue', and this is why the edit was made."
But the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories is a fact, not a statement of opinion. The UN Security Council classifies Israel as the "occupying force" in the West Bank and Gaza. Indeed, in upholding their decision, the BBC Trust has not addressed this key issue in the complaints. Consequently, nine complainants have said that their main point, that the BBC "demonstrated bias against Palestinians", had been ignored.
At the time, the PSC made the point that the BBC did not ban the song "Free Nelson Mandela" in 1984, even though Mandela was considered to be a terrorist by many western governments.
The BBC Trust has decided it is not "proportionate or cost-effective" to proceed further with the complaint, but the original decision does not seem proportionate either. Indeed, had the BBC allowed the song to go through uncensored, it probably would not have been remarked upon (after all, it was two words, not a long political diatribe). As it is, this incident sends a very uncomfortable message.
UK queen accused of drug trafficking
Britain’s financial regulator has fined the British queen’s bank for money laundering failures as a
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the British queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 million pounds for failing to carry out correct checks on “politically exposed persons” and prevent money laundering.
“The failings at Coutts were serious, systemic and were allowed to persist for almost three years. They resulted in an unacceptable risk of Coutts handling the proceeds of crime,” the FSA said in a statement posted on its official website.
The news comes less than a week after a fringe candidate for April’s French presidential election said the British queen owed her fortune to drugs money laundered by “Jewish bankers in The City.”
On 21 March, Jacques Cheminade, an independent presidential candidate running in the French election, said, “a part of the fortune of the Queen of England comes from drug trafficking.”
“No, not any property, there are several other sources. But it is a series of trafficking in which, yes, there is trafficking drugs,” Cheminade said on television LCP French National Assembly.
Known as the British queen’s banker, Coutts was criticised for “significant, widespread and unacceptable” failures, as described by Tracey McDermott, acting director of enforcement and financial crime.
“The size of the financial penalty demonstrates how seriously we view its failures,” McDermott said.
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French presidential candidate has said part of the queen’s fortune “comes from drug trafficking.”
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined the British queen’s bank, Coutts Bank, 8.75 million pounds for failing to carry out correct checks on “politically exposed persons” and prevent money laundering.“The failings at Coutts were serious, systemic and were allowed to persist for almost three years. They resulted in an unacceptable risk of Coutts handling the proceeds of crime,” the FSA said in a statement posted on its official website.
The news comes less than a week after a fringe candidate for April’s French presidential election said the British queen owed her fortune to drugs money laundered by “Jewish bankers in The City.”
On 21 March, Jacques Cheminade, an independent presidential candidate running in the French election, said, “a part of the fortune of the Queen of England comes from drug trafficking.”
“No, not any property, there are several other sources. But it is a series of trafficking in which, yes, there is trafficking drugs,” Cheminade said on television LCP French National Assembly.
Known as the British queen’s banker, Coutts was criticised for “significant, widespread and unacceptable” failures, as described by Tracey McDermott, acting director of enforcement and financial crime.
“The size of the financial penalty demonstrates how seriously we view its failures,” McDermott said.
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Disabled soldier backlog puts Army at risk
The backlog of soldiers too injured to serve is growing so large that it could affect the Army's ability to go to war.
Army leaders plan to reduce the size of the service by 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers each year over the next decade, but that's not counting the 20,500 troops Army doctors have declared unable to serve.
Budget cuts, combined with the end of the Iraq war and drawdown in Afghanistan
The backlog is caused by failures in a system built to transition those soldiers out. Quite simply, Army doctors classify more soldiers as too injured to serve than the system can separate each year.
The number of soldiers in the Integrated Disability Evaluation System has grown by 42 percent just this past year. It's grown from 11,900 soldiers to 20,500 soldiers since 2009. Army medical leaders expect that number to continue to rise. The Defense Department adopted the IDES -- and it will apply each one of the services -- but the Army is in most dire straits.
Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, the Army's top manpower officer, described the system to Congress as "fundamentally flawed," saying, "The biggest area that we need help is in the disability evaluation system."
It's rare to hear military leaders openly criticize a system under their control. But it's clear their frustration is mounting. military.com
HIGHLIGHTS
The Army mans units at 110 percent so they can deploy at 90 percent of their authorized strength, said Col. Daniel Cassidy, the deputy commander of the U.S. Army Physical Disability Agency. vetawarenesscoalition.org
The Army colonel said the Defense Department can only do so much to salvage a system in which rules were laid out by congressional legislation in 1949. vetawarenesscoalition.org
What's truly holding the Army medical command back is a lack of staffing. There are not enough doctors or physical evaluation board liaison officers, better known as PEBLOs, to process the soldiers. military.com
The Army is adding 1,400 people this year to its disability evaluation staff, but it will take a while to train the new staff and make gains toward reducing the backlog. military.com
Turkish party warns of plot to disintegrate Syria
A senior Turkish politician has warned that Turkey’s move against Syria could pave the way for disintegration of Syria with establishment of a Kurdish autonomous region in the country, Press TVreports.
"Prime Minister Erdogan’s meeting with US President Barack Obama in South Korea and his [Erdogan’s] remark that their views towards Syria are completely identical shows that the preparation for the occupation [of Syria] and the plot for disintegration of Syria have become mature,” Devlet Bahceli, the leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), one of the major parties in the Turkish parliament, said in his weekly address to his party in Ankara on Tuesday.
"Just like the territorial integrity of Iraq was not preserved, Syria faces the risk of a similar destiny. The establishment of a Kurdish government similar to that of northern Iraq and a kind of Peshmerga (Kurdish military) this time in Syria, seems inevitable,” Bahceli added.
The MHP has repeatedly warned against any foreign intervention in Syria.
On Tuesday, Damascus accepted a six-point plan by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to end the unrest in Syria.
On Monday, a Syrian opposition group claimed that Turkey had promised to set up a buffer zone on the Syria-Turkey border, a plan brought up by Turkish premier more than ten days ago.
About 200 members of the Syrian opposition have been jointly invited to Istanbul by Turkey and Qatar, ahead of the second so-called “Friends of Syria” meeting which will be held on April 1.
Turkey, which shares a 900-kilometer border with Syria, has allowed thousands of Syrian gunmen to take shelter and regroup on its soil.
Meanwhile, a Turkish diplomat said on Monday that his country suspended the activities of its embassy in the Syrian capital city of Damascus.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011.
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| Leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli (file photo) |
"Prime Minister Erdogan’s meeting with US President Barack Obama in South Korea and his [Erdogan’s] remark that their views towards Syria are completely identical shows that the preparation for the occupation [of Syria] and the plot for disintegration of Syria have become mature,” Devlet Bahceli, the leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), one of the major parties in the Turkish parliament, said in his weekly address to his party in Ankara on Tuesday.
"Just like the territorial integrity of Iraq was not preserved, Syria faces the risk of a similar destiny. The establishment of a Kurdish government similar to that of northern Iraq and a kind of Peshmerga (Kurdish military) this time in Syria, seems inevitable,” Bahceli added.
The MHP has repeatedly warned against any foreign intervention in Syria.
On Tuesday, Damascus accepted a six-point plan by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to end the unrest in Syria.
On Monday, a Syrian opposition group claimed that Turkey had promised to set up a buffer zone on the Syria-Turkey border, a plan brought up by Turkish premier more than ten days ago.
About 200 members of the Syrian opposition have been jointly invited to Istanbul by Turkey and Qatar, ahead of the second so-called “Friends of Syria” meeting which will be held on April 1.
Turkey, which shares a 900-kilometer border with Syria, has allowed thousands of Syrian gunmen to take shelter and regroup on its soil.
Meanwhile, a Turkish diplomat said on Monday that his country suspended the activities of its embassy in the Syrian capital city of Damascus.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011.
MGH/MHB/MF
Sunday 25 March 2012
Israelis rally to condemn Tel Aviv’s war plans against Iran
Hundreds of anti-war activists have rallied in Tel Aviv to warn the authorities of the Israeli regime against a potential military attack on Iran over its nuclear energy program.
The campaigners fear that mounting pressure on Iran can escalate into an all-out regional war, the effects of which will reverberate globally.
The protest followed a recent spontaneous Facebook campaign in which a large number of anti-war activists working on the internet united in their opposition to potential war against Iran.
On Saturday, the participants in the march held signs with captions such as "No to War with Iran," and "Talks, not Bombs," as well as “No to pre-emptive suicide.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the chair of the 'Stop the War Coalition,' told Russia Today that isolating Iran and allowing Israel to continue with its threats will lead to very dangerous developments.
“The way forward has to be de-escalating the tension and denuclearizing the region, otherwise somebody somewhere is going to develop a nuclear weapon,” he said.
He urged people to think about the consequences of a possible attack on Iran, saying it would dramatically affect the world economy and result in an inconceivable human loss should it happen.
“If we let slip the dogs of war, we will all regret it,” he concluded.
A recent poll conducted by the Israeli daily Haaretz in cooperation with Tel Aviv University in early March showed that 58 percent of the respondents were against a military strike by Israel on Iran.
The US and Israel accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran refutes the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and member of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful use.
The IAEA has never found any evidence indicating that Tehran's civilian nuclear program has been diverted towards nuclear weapons production.
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The campaigners fear that mounting pressure on Iran can escalate into an all-out regional war, the effects of which will reverberate globally.
The protest followed a recent spontaneous Facebook campaign in which a large number of anti-war activists working on the internet united in their opposition to potential war against Iran.
On Saturday, the participants in the march held signs with captions such as "No to War with Iran," and "Talks, not Bombs," as well as “No to pre-emptive suicide.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the chair of the 'Stop the War Coalition,' told Russia Today that isolating Iran and allowing Israel to continue with its threats will lead to very dangerous developments.
“The way forward has to be de-escalating the tension and denuclearizing the region, otherwise somebody somewhere is going to develop a nuclear weapon,” he said.
He urged people to think about the consequences of a possible attack on Iran, saying it would dramatically affect the world economy and result in an inconceivable human loss should it happen.
“If we let slip the dogs of war, we will all regret it,” he concluded.
A recent poll conducted by the Israeli daily Haaretz in cooperation with Tel Aviv University in early March showed that 58 percent of the respondents were against a military strike by Israel on Iran.
The US and Israel accuse Tehran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran refutes the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and member of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful use.
The IAEA has never found any evidence indicating that Tehran's civilian nuclear program has been diverted towards nuclear weapons production.
SS/PKH/IS
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