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.
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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.
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‘UK media fail to say Iran war illegal’
The British media are unwilling to inform their audience that threats of military action on Iran as well as a possible de facto attack are illegal, analysis by a British alternative news website shows
News Unspun, which is an alternative analysis source to mainstream news media, said four major news websites have suggested an attack on Iran “attack on Iran would violate international law” only in four articles while they have ran 31 articles suggesting “Iran has, could have, or might violate international law.”
News Unspun said it has examined the stories on the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph since October 1, 2011.
“In the media, one fact is not (yet) up for debate,” the alternative viewpoint website said.
“That any invasion of Iran would be a violation of international law - even if Iran was in the process of developing nuclear weapons. The United Nations Charter also outlaws the ‘threat of the use of force’, an act in which much of the media, in its uncritical stance towards government threats, has made itself complicit,” it added.
News Unspun said The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph failed to make even one reference to the illegality of a war on Iran in their news sections over the past six months while the BBC only mentioned the issue once in the period in an article name “How would Iran respond to an Israeli attack?”
According to News Unspun, The Guardian refused to acknowledge the fact itself leaving the reference to the illegality of an attack on Iran for its “Comment is Free” section, which published three articles that “correctly pointed out that an invasion would violate international law.”
The BBC’s article on March 7, 2012 said “for all the uncertainties as to whether Israel would attack Iran and indeed how Iran might respond, one thing is clear - in terms of international law, such a strike would be illegal.”
The website however silenced the matter in its earlier twin article “How Israel might strike at Iran” (February 27, 2012).
The Guardian’s Comment is Free articles were more specific on the subject.
“Repeatedly threatening Iran with a military attack, thinly disguised under the phrase 'all options are on the table' and publicly announcing that the west must use covert operations to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme (as John Sawers, the head of MI6, demanded two years ago), are only two examples of the UK’s disrespect for the UN charter,” Abbas Edalat wrote on December 1, 2011 on the website.
In another article on February 21, 2012, Seumas Milne echoed that perspective saying “British defence establishment’s Royal United Services Institute, points out, such an attack would be entirely illegal: ‘There is no basis in international law for preventative, rather than pre-emptive, war’.”
The issue was also brought up by Saeed Kamaliu Denghan on March 21, 2012.
News Unspun said the Guardian website further tried to hide the illegality of a military strike on Iran running 14 articles -- and in its news section rather than in its Comment section - that “have insinuated violation of international law on the part of Iran.”
The BBC nine such articles with The Independent and The Telegraph publishing six and two similar stories respectively.
“The media takes little interest in informing us that threats of war, and war itself, are illegal… Government claims that Iran has either acted or is threatening to act outside of international law are, however, free to flourish and propagate their way through the mainstream,” News Unspun said.
Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh underlined that point on the sidelines of a meeting of the IAEA’s Board of Governors in Vienna earlier this month.
"According to the Resolution 533 in 1990, any attack or threat of attack on [Iran’s] nuclear institutions or facilities is a violation of the United Nations Charter, the IAEA’s statute and international law," he said.
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| The so called public British news corporation is controlled by Jewish Zionists |
News Unspun, which is an alternative analysis source to mainstream news media, said four major news websites have suggested an attack on Iran “attack on Iran would violate international law” only in four articles while they have ran 31 articles suggesting “Iran has, could have, or might violate international law.”
News Unspun said it has examined the stories on the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph since October 1, 2011.
“In the media, one fact is not (yet) up for debate,” the alternative viewpoint website said.
“That any invasion of Iran would be a violation of international law - even if Iran was in the process of developing nuclear weapons. The United Nations Charter also outlaws the ‘threat of the use of force’, an act in which much of the media, in its uncritical stance towards government threats, has made itself complicit,” it added.
News Unspun said The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph failed to make even one reference to the illegality of a war on Iran in their news sections over the past six months while the BBC only mentioned the issue once in the period in an article name “How would Iran respond to an Israeli attack?”
According to News Unspun, The Guardian refused to acknowledge the fact itself leaving the reference to the illegality of an attack on Iran for its “Comment is Free” section, which published three articles that “correctly pointed out that an invasion would violate international law.”
The BBC’s article on March 7, 2012 said “for all the uncertainties as to whether Israel would attack Iran and indeed how Iran might respond, one thing is clear - in terms of international law, such a strike would be illegal.”
The website however silenced the matter in its earlier twin article “How Israel might strike at Iran” (February 27, 2012).
The Guardian’s Comment is Free articles were more specific on the subject.
“Repeatedly threatening Iran with a military attack, thinly disguised under the phrase 'all options are on the table' and publicly announcing that the west must use covert operations to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme (as John Sawers, the head of MI6, demanded two years ago), are only two examples of the UK’s disrespect for the UN charter,” Abbas Edalat wrote on December 1, 2011 on the website.
In another article on February 21, 2012, Seumas Milne echoed that perspective saying “British defence establishment’s Royal United Services Institute, points out, such an attack would be entirely illegal: ‘There is no basis in international law for preventative, rather than pre-emptive, war’.”
The issue was also brought up by Saeed Kamaliu Denghan on March 21, 2012.
News Unspun said the Guardian website further tried to hide the illegality of a military strike on Iran running 14 articles -- and in its news section rather than in its Comment section - that “have insinuated violation of international law on the part of Iran.”
The BBC nine such articles with The Independent and The Telegraph publishing six and two similar stories respectively.
“The media takes little interest in informing us that threats of war, and war itself, are illegal… Government claims that Iran has either acted or is threatening to act outside of international law are, however, free to flourish and propagate their way through the mainstream,” News Unspun said.
Iran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar Soltanieh underlined that point on the sidelines of a meeting of the IAEA’s Board of Governors in Vienna earlier this month.
"According to the Resolution 533 in 1990, any attack or threat of attack on [Iran’s] nuclear institutions or facilities is a violation of the United Nations Charter, the IAEA’s statute and international law," he said.
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Everyone will ‘regret’ possible attack on Iran
British MP and anti-war activist Jeremy Corbyn has warned about the “catastrophic” consequences of any military move against Iran saying everyone would “regret” it.
“Think of the consequences for the western economies, the whole world economies of the war with Iran,” Corbyn who is a member of the Stop the War Coalition told Russia Today news network.
He said “the effect on the world economy and the oil prices will be absolutely catastrophic” while the world will “live to regret” the military action on Iran.
Corbyn also said the Israeli regime is the source of tensions in the region and “the way forward” has to be “de-escalating the tensions” through “denuclearizing the region,” which should be directed at Israeli nukes, as Iran is already a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“Israel has 200 nuclear warheads … and certainly has the capability of bombing, with nuclear weapons, Iran or indeed any other country in the region,” he said.
“Isolating Iran, allowing Israel to continue with these threats and also allowing the assassinations to go on of nuclear scientists in Iran when Iran has a legal right to develop civilian nuclear power. It seems to me a very very dangerous development indeed,” he added.
His warnings came as the Stop the War Coalition activists held nationwide “Don’t Attack Iran” protests in a dozen major British cities on Saturday.
They lashed out at the propaganda being trumpeted by western governments especially by British officials in support of an attack on Iran, saying the very same people who misled the nation into invading Iraq, are now saying that they need to attack Iran.
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“Think of the consequences for the western economies, the whole world economies of the war with Iran,” Corbyn who is a member of the Stop the War Coalition told Russia Today news network.
He said “the effect on the world economy and the oil prices will be absolutely catastrophic” while the world will “live to regret” the military action on Iran.
Corbyn also said the Israeli regime is the source of tensions in the region and “the way forward” has to be “de-escalating the tensions” through “denuclearizing the region,” which should be directed at Israeli nukes, as Iran is already a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“Israel has 200 nuclear warheads … and certainly has the capability of bombing, with nuclear weapons, Iran or indeed any other country in the region,” he said.
“Isolating Iran, allowing Israel to continue with these threats and also allowing the assassinations to go on of nuclear scientists in Iran when Iran has a legal right to develop civilian nuclear power. It seems to me a very very dangerous development indeed,” he added.
His warnings came as the Stop the War Coalition activists held nationwide “Don’t Attack Iran” protests in a dozen major British cities on Saturday.
They lashed out at the propaganda being trumpeted by western governments especially by British officials in support of an attack on Iran, saying the very same people who misled the nation into invading Iraq, are now saying that they need to attack Iran.
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