Wednesday - March 17, 2010
ON YOUR KNEES IN AMERICA AND KISS THE GROUND FOR YOUR GOOD FORTUNE. BE THANKFUL EVRY DAY.
They wouldn’t dare try this crap in the USA. Or would they? I wish the heck they would. It might be interesting to see what the reaction, and action, would be.
Perhaps it could trigger the final confrontation needed to rid ourselves of this virus in our own back yard. But it won’t.
Meanwhile, DO NOT place the blame on the muzzies. No,no. They’ll go as far as the powers that be allow them to go. That’s the nature of the beast. If there’s any fault, it’s with the BS diversity, left wing libtard, muslim apologists and sympathizers. Do not blame the muslims.
Blame creeps like this bastard, this filthy lying SOB, this traitor and fugitive from a fetid swamp crawling with slime and disease. Blame ppl like this.
‘I’d rather employ a paedophile than a hero’: Company boss compares British troops to child molesters in rant at job agency
I can’t wish enough bad things on that perv. I can’t even come up with swear words that fit the anger. I’d like to feed him to a pack of rabid wild dogs. No, that’s way too easy. His comments are way beyond freedom of speech and expression. It’s life forms like that, that in turn allow things like the following.
Defamation case over Prophet Mohammed cartoons ‘to be held’ in Britain
A Saudi Arabian lawyer has threatened to use British courts to overturn a Danish free speech ruling by bringing a defamation case over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that depicted Islam’s founder as a terrorist.
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Faisal Yamani, a Jeddah based lawyer, is planning to take a case to London’s libel courts on behalf of over 90,000 descendants of Mohammed who have claimed that the drawings have defamed them and the Islamic faith.
Cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed were published in Danish newspapers in 2006 triggering violent protests across the Muslim world and riots which claimed the lives of over 50 people.
According to Danish press reports, the case can be heard in the Britain because the images, including a caricature of Mohammed with a bomb shaped turban, have been freely accessible via the internet.
Danish politicians and publishers are furious that European Union rules reward “libel tourism” by enforcing British defamation rulings across Europe.
Ebbe Dal, managing director of Danske Dagblades Forening, the Danish national newspaper association, is concerned that Britain’s tough libel laws could be used to restrict free speech in liberal countries such as Denmark.
“The Danish courts have decided that the case is not actionable and that we are allowed to print the drawings in Danish newspapers and websites,” he said.
“It would be very odd if a civilised country like Britain could go against that. If this succeeded we would have to pay a lot of money to Saudi Arabians misusing the British courts to make it difficult for freedom of speech.”
Mr Yamani demanded last year that 11 Danish newspapers remove all cartoon images of Mohammed from their websites and issue front page apologies along with promises that the images would never be printed again.
Only one newspaper, Politiken, agreed to the demand leading to the new threat of an expensive British court action backed by wealthy Saudi Muslims.
Lars Barfoed, the Danish justice minister, has complained to the European Commission that EU rules forcing Denmark to enact British court rulings would damage freedom of expression.
“It’s fundamentally reasonable that judgments in the EU can often be exercised across borders. But it would be taking it to the extreme if a UK court could rule against the Danish media and then require compensation and court costs to be paid,” he said.
EU officials have acknowledged that libel judgements in the British courts have become a major issue since “Rome II” rules on mutual recognition of European court rulings entered into force last year.
“We are well aware that there is a problem with libel and defamation tourism involving Britain, where judges can be sympathetic and damages awards are high. There will be a review next year,” said an official.
A British Ministry of Justice working group on libel law is expected to publish a report calling for reform later this month.
“The government is concerned about any potential chilling effect that our libel laws are having on freedom of speech,” said a spokesman.
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Permalink • Friday - March 12, 2010
No, it’s not wkend women or even eye candy. Am posting this due to some confusion. Take a look.
Somethin’ ain’t quite right here although she is darn pretty. This photo appeared in the hard copy of the morning paper along with this story.
Malaysian Prince wins £1.2 million defamation suit against wife
A Malaysian prince was awarded 6 million ringgit (£1.2 million) in damages in a defamation suit against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after fleeing home to Indonesia.Miss Pinot and her mother told Indonesian media that the Prince, 32, held her captive and treated her as a sex slave. She also made graphic allegations of physical torture during their marriage.
The Prince subsequently filed a defamation suit against Miss Pinot and her mother, both of whom refused to testify in the hearings.
But that is not the photo they ran in the on line version .... they ran this. Now then. Is this the girl above? The mouth is different and so is the nose. Even allowing for weight gain, which of the 2 pix are more recent. But since the top photo is so damn pretty, who really cares?
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Permalink • ‘Terrorist British Airways worker planned to take advantage of strike’ a pox on unions and muslims
Two things this country and the world can do without. Unions and muslims.
So there I was last night looking up flights to the USA on Brit. Air. Originally I had planned to use ship, those plans are not abandoned, but there was a very good write up in the weekend travel section of a little known flight BA runs where one can clear US Immigration at Shannon Airport. Huh? Now that’d be ideal. The filght takes an hour longer then the regular overseas flight BUT, you save time once arriving. So anyhow I’m trying to get further info and as it’s a business class flight I know it won’t be cheap. I also know that the damn union is striking BA and positions are being staffed by volunteers and I guess, strike breakers. So it is pretty risky. And then I woke up to this when I brought in the morning paper. Damn these useless bastards.
Yeah I know I’m not supposed to think this way but have to ask anyway.
Are you all certain that genocide isn’t after all, the only answer? This is a scary read. The boat’s getting to look good again. Oh right. Pirates. Can’t win these days.
BA worker ‘planned to use strike to become suicide bomber and passed on secrets to terror masterminds in Yemen’By SAM GREENHILL and PAUL SIMS
A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew strikes to launch an attack, it was alleged yesterday.
Rajib Karim, a trusted IT expert at the airline, planned to volunteer for crew training to help keep flights running during the threatened walkouts.
He also used his access to BA’s computer systems to gain insider knowledge about airline security and pass it to terror masterminds in Yemen and Pakistan, a court heard.
Union bosses seized on the revelations to claim that passengers could be endangered by BA’s tactics for beating the planned strikes. The airline says it has more than 1,000 volunteer staff ready to work as cabin crew in the event of industrial action.
Karim, 30, was born in Bangladesh and came to Britain a few years ago to get a UK passport which would smooth his terror mission, it was claimed.
Two years ago he secured a full-time job at a BA call centre in Newcastle upon Tyne and became ‘heavily involved’ in software development.
But he had a ‘clear intention and desire’ for martyrdom and wanted to become a suicide bomber, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.
His computer allegedly contained encrypted files showing he was in contact with terrorists abroad.
Karim requested ‘permission’ from ‘those who appear to be able to give [it]’ to carry out an atrocity in the UK and suggested to colleagues in Yemen that he might be able to train as a cabin crew member to work on planes during strikes.
This would give him ‘inside knowledge’ of training and procedures that could assist in carrying out a terror attack, the court heard.
He also offered to travel to Yemen and Pakistan to train in terrorism, and suggested other people he knew who could potentially be recruited.
The court heard that Karim gave details of ways in which BA security systems and computer servers could be subjected to physical or internal attack to inflict ‘severe financial losses’.
Thousands of BA passengers face travel chaos as cabin crew plan TWO crippling strikes
By RAY MASSEY
Last updated at 1:48 PM on 12th March 2010British Airways cabin crew are to stage a series of crippling strikes threatening travel chaos for more than a million passengers, it was announced today.
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 02, 2010
better banking?
A couple folks sent me this link, which I saw out at Insty yesterday. It seems Canada’s banks are in great shape, and they weren’t damaged by the “housing crisis” at all. Because they do things differently in Canada. Stronger rules and regulations, no tax write-off for interest, and NO POLITICS involved in the lending process. And, while I have no proof of it at all, I’ve always had the feeling that they have far fewer layabouts than we do. A much smaller permanent victim class.
It’s late, so here’s the link. Interesting short read. What’s the catch? I think there is one, but I can’t quite figure it out right now.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 25, 2010
Greek deputy PM’s extraordinary attack on Germany over debt crisis. It’s the Nazis fault.
I guess it isn’t funny and some are saying that the euro could fall if Germany doesn’t help to prop up the Greeks and see em through this disaster.
I haven’t done a lot of reading on this and don’t know what all the ramifications would be. It’s surely nothing to bother the US, or might it?
Anyone with knowledge on this topic, welcome please. I’d really like to understand it better. I find things like this quite interesting, especially living so close to things.
You might want to see the comments at the end of the article at the MAIL. Very interesting. Also, I happen to think while reading this earlier today, isn’t it nice for a change, going from it’s Bush fault to , It’s the Nazis fault.
‘The Nazis took our gold, they should at least thank us’: Greek deputy PM’s extraordinary attack on Germany over debt crisis
By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICENazi theft of Greek gold during the Second World War is to blame for the country’s faltering finances, Athens claimed yesterday.
It came as new protests about the economy turned violent.
Greece said the real culprit for its problems were the Nazis, whose occupation lasted from 1941 to 1945.
‘They took away the Greek gold that was at the Bank of Greece, they took away the Greek money and they never gave it back,’ said Deputy prime minister Theodoros Pangalos.
‘I don’t say they have to give back the money necessarily but they have at least to say “thanks”.’
Germany had failed to offer enough compensation for the economic impact of the Nazi occupation, he added.
Germany swiftly rejected the accusation, saying it paid £50million in compensation by 1960 and more to forced labourers of the Nazi regime.
The economy was crippled, as foreign trade was suspended, agricultural output ground to a halt, and the treasury had to loan Germany money.
The EU has asked Greece to explain reports that it engaged in derivatives trades with U.S. investment banks that may have allowed it to mask the size of its debt and deficit from authorities ahead of its entry into the euro zone.
But Mr Pangalos said Italy did more than Greece to mask the state of its finances to secure euro zone entry.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 20, 2010
Video: Allah, the Netherlands, and the House of Orange
First of all ...
H/T EUROPE NEWS
I meant to post this yesterday, too much going on but better late then never.
This is a very short video, the speaker (Dutch) is very emotional and VERY angry. He’s had enough of immigration and his country sucking up to muslims.
The screen crawl at the very start is too fast but of special interest is the one at the very end. Some of you who have followed this from the past will be familiar with his name.
A video about how the Dutch Government betrayed the people of the Netherlands, and destroyed the separation of church and state. Pim Fortuyn expresses his frustration about how political correctness is destroying Holland with Islam. Very good little video.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 18, 2010
Europeans resist Obama on Gitmo prisoners.
I’ve done a bit of chopping here at a site of German origin. Pretty interesting I think. Europeans been on us (USA) to close Gitmo like it’s their damn business. So ok, bad move I think but Barry says he’ll close. Any takers for the prisoners? Uh huh. Right. Some lip service maybe.
Trans-Atlantic Relations
Europeans still resisting Obama over Guantanamo inmates
European countries on the whole are still reluctant to take in detainees from Guantanamo Bay despite the best persuasive efforts of the United States. While some have grudgingly agreed to help, others still resist.
One of the major obstacles in finally closing the book on the military prison in Cuba is the White House’s struggle to convince foreign governments to accept detainees.
Obama had promised to close the facility during his first year in office but that deadline passed in January. At the time of the deadline passing, 192 detainees remained at the much-criticized camp, with fewer than 50 inmates having left Cuba since Obama took office.
While canvassing for host nations has been worldwide, the Obama administration has specifically concentrated its powers of persuasion on its allies in Europe. However, Obama has yet to charm many in Europe into accepting detainees.
the US says it would be really grateful if the Europeans help, and on the other it says, ‘well, you told us to sort out this mess, now help us to sort it out’. Mostly the Americans are making it very clear that any help will be much appreciated.”
Despite being given the chance to curry favor with Washington, European governments on the whole are reluctant to help, although some have grudgingly pledged to assist. Some of those who have agreed to take in Guantanamo detainees have preferred not to advertise the fact.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 16, 2010
PAT CONDELL ON THE GEERT WILDERS TRIAL. TRIAL? NO. KANGAROO COURT
I’ll leave it to other to comment. Condell speaks for all of us on this subject.
As many already know, Geert Wilders is on trial in the freedom smashing suck up to muzzies home of the Dutch. RIP Netherlands.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 23, 2010
In Cold Blood
h/t to Townhall.com
Maybe you caught the Glen Beck show, maybe you didn’t. But if you did, and it seemed a bit rushed, quite overly parsed, you were right. His 1 hour show ought to have run 4 hours. Or if you visited Glen’s web page entry about Friday’s show, and you wondered a bit about this guy Edvins Snore, then this is for you.
This is the link to Snore’s film, The Soviet Story: Click Here. It’s a 90 minute film, and it will require you to install the Veoh video viewer, available at that link. It takes a few minutes, it’s free, and it’s clean. You may also have to install the proper codec, located over here.
Then you can watch the film. If you don’t understand spoken German and Russian, and if you can’t read Portuguese, you’ll have a bit of trouble; the film is about 80% dubbed in English. So you’ll miss significant parts, though the pictures tell the story. Besides, if you have even a passing familiarity with Spanish or Italian you can get the gist of the sub-titles.
Marxism, Leninism, Socialism, Eugenics are all slices from the same progressivist pie. Rebuild society through class warfare to make a better world for the elites. And at the very core, class warfare doesn’t mean “striving” or “converting” or “changing people’s minds through reason and debate”. It means killing them. In their millions. This film makes that point, and then things get really ugly.
(hey did you see the news? Now Obama wants to turn people against those rotten banks! Tax them! Hate them! Elitist moneybags, ruining our economy! Fire Bernanke! Probably all joooooos!!)
This is a horrific film. It is uncovered history, in the raw. It’s the story, or a story, about how things really were under both flavors of european socialism in the 20th century: International Socialism (Soviet communism) and National Socialism (Nazi Germany). The differences are very, very slight. Both were blood drenched nightmare worlds, criminal enterprises from their very beginnings. Both ideologies were highly congruent, very closely related. Snores has made a film that shows that the relationship was deeper than any of us ever realized; that the death camps began in the USSR, that the NKVD trained the Gestapo, that the Soviets supplied the Nazi war machine with massive quantities of material and food while their own people starved. And when the war was over, it was the Nazis who were the hated war criminals, while the Soviets were the heroes. Even though both had committed the same atrocities. Even though the camps were simply moved to Siberia and continued to function for decades after the war. Even though Stalin ... well, I don’t want to give too much away. All we were ever taught in school was that the two nations had a “non-aggression pact” that lasted until Operation Barbarosa, when they became enemies. All the rest was just swept under the rug, and forgotten. But the truth has been found.
In Russia today, there is a resurgence of nazism. According to Snore, in Europe, all of Europe, today there is still the socialist idea that the lesser people need to be eliminated so that the progressives can progress. There will be no call for justice against the dark horrors of Soviet brutality. Not only are such things not even war crimes in Britain, by law!, but Europe is held hostage to Russian oil and gas. And as Snore says, they really aren’t against the basic idea very much anyway.
When inferior nations are being killed, it cannot be seen as a crime, because it makes way for the more advanced nations to build a better life.
This is nothing new. It goes from Margaret Sanger, to George Bernard Shaw wishing for a “humane poison gas” to nicely murder the undesirables, to the Turkish starvation pogrom in Armenia, to the millions killed by Lenin in the Ukraine, and then to the millions of internal “enemies” killed in the CCCP by him and then millions more by Stalin, to the millions killed by Hitler, to the further millions killed by the Soviet after 1945, through Bill Ayers and his matter of fact awareness of a need for “re-education” camps that would eliminate 25 million Americans, right up to the islamofascists today with their genocide in Darfur and their desire to eliminate first Israel, then the rest of the Western world. All groups who have decided that it is their right to decide what the better form of humanity is, (the answer is ALWAYS “people just like us") and all of them utterly willing to kill millions (of lesser beings “just like you") to achieve that goal. a sangue-frio. In cold blood. And it never works, but they keep right on trying, generation after generation.
This is a European film. The Western hemisphere plays only a very small part in it. So it’s up to you to see any similarities, and then draw your own conclusions.
Watching this might just give you nightmares. Do it anyway.
Oh, and I found it really ironic that several of the ads that pester you at the top of the screen during the first part of the film ( just keep clicking the X when they show up; eventually the thing gives up ) were for russian merchandise and clothing. I followed the link to one, the russianlegacy website. And found pro-soviet and Che shirts for sale. Cuz, like, it’s just fashion man. Chill out. It never meant anything, and like, Stalin and Che are totally cool.
I think I need to punch a hippie. Or a progressive democrat. And then I might have to watch this film again.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 20, 2010
ARCHEOLOGY - A WOW FIND. TWO IN FACT. This is neat stuff and exciting
Every once in awhile things like this pop up and I get all kinds of excited over them. The very idea that so much is still hidden away and then suddenly bingo, a dig in a remote place or someone with a metal detector or a scientific group find antiquity. Amazing.
I know I’m not the only one here who likes this stuff because some have commented positively on past items of this sort.
So enjoy. And three cheers for the people who find these things. Wish I could be one of em. I have read about finds under the city of Alexandria in the distant past.
Cat goddess discovered in ruins of templeJanuary 20, 2010
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be a Ptolemaic-era temple dating back more than 2,000 years that may have been dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the ruins were discovered in the heart of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the seat of the dynasty founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. The dynasty ended with the suicide of Cleopatra 300 years later.
The temple was thought to belong to Berenice, the wife of Ptolemy III, who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century BC. Muhammad Abdel-Maqsood, the lead archaeologist, said that the large number of statues depicting Bastet, right, indicated that it may be the first Ptolemaic temple discovered in Alexandria to be dedicated to the cat goddess. Statues of other Ancient Egyptian deities were also found.
Modern Alexandria was built squarely on top of the ruins of the classical-era city and many of the great temples, palaces and libraries of that time remain undiscovered. (AP)
AND THEN THERE IS THIS FIND. OR AT LEAST THEY THINK THEY HAVE FOUND,
Oldest remains of English royalty unearthed
The oldest surviving remains of the English Royal family have been unearthed for the first time in more than 500 years, scientists claim.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Published: 6:50AM GMT 20 Jan 2010Archeologists believe they have discovered the coffin and skeleton of Queen Eadgyth, the sister of King Athelstan and granddaughter of Alfred the Great, who died in 946.
It was thought that her actual remains were lost when they were last moved in 1510 and that a monument built in Magdeburg Cathedral in southern Germany, was a cenotaph in her honour.
But when the tomb was investigated as part of a wider research project, a lead coffin was found inside bearing her name and inside that the nearly complete skeleton of a woman aged between 30 and 40.
Queen Eadgyth, the old spelling of Edith, died aged 36.
Now the University of Bristol are going to carry out tests on the bones to see if they can prove beyond doubt they are those of England’s oldest regal ancestor.
In particular they will try to match radioactive isotopes embedded in the bones to those found in her birthplace in England.
Professor Mark Horton, of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, who is co-ordinating the research, said: “We know that Saxon royalty moved around quite a lot, and we hope to match the isotope results with known locations around Wessex and Mercia, where she could have spent her childhood.
“If we can prove this truly is Eadgyth, this will be one of the most exciting historical discoveries in recent years. It is quite a surprise to find them so much in tact. It really is an important discovery.”
Queen was the sister of King Athelstan, generally considered to have been the first King of England after he unified the various Saxon and Celtic kingdoms following the battle of Brunanburgh in 937.
His tomb survives in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, but is most likely empty. Eadgyth’s sister, Adiva, was married to an unknown European ruler, but her tomb is not located. Historical chronicles tell that Adiva was also offered to Otto, but that he chose Eadgyth instead.
Eadgyth was given in marriage to Otto I, the Holy Roman Emperor in 929.
She lived in Saxony and bore Otto at least two children, before her death in 946 at the age of 36. She was originally buried in Monastery of Mauritius in Magdeburg, and her tomb was marked in the Cathedral by an elaborate sixteenth century monument.
However, when the lid was removed in the latter, a lead coffin was discovered, bearing Queen Eadgyth’s name and accurately recording the transfer of her remains in 1510.
Professor Harald Meller, of the Landesmuseum fur Vorgeschichte in Saxony Anhalt, who led the project said: “We still are not completely certain that this is Eadgyth although all the scientific evidence points to this interpretation. In the Middle Ages bones were often moved around, and this makes definitive identification difficult.”
As part of the research project some small samples are being brought to the University of Bristol for further analysis.
Different geographical areas have different radioactive signatures, particularly when it comes to concentrations of the metal strontium.
If they can prove that the concentrations of strontium in the skeleton’s teeth, formed up to the age of 15, match those found in England then it proves she was brought up there and so is most likely Queen Eadgyth.
The discovery of Eadgyth’s remains illustrates the close links between European states in the early medieval period and how in the formation of both England and Germany intermarriage between the emerging royal houses of Europe was commonplace and has left a lasting legacy in the present royal families of Europe.
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Permalink • Monday - January 18, 2010
The U.S. must not ‘occupy’ Haiti, declares French minister. wtf? Huh?
Gosh oh gee. Wonder where these folks will eventually be headed.
Get ready America. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Coming soon, whoops. They’re almost there now.
btw ... Any word over there (USA) of possible takeover of Haiti by the US? You haven’t heard from the French yet have ya?
The U.S. must not ‘occupy’ Haiti, declares French minister as aid FINALLY trickles through
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 4:21 PM on 18th January 2010The UN must step in to ensure the U.S. is not occupying Haiti in the wake of a devastating earthquake that may have killed 200,000 people, a French minister has said.
French Cooperation Minister Alain Joyandet spoke as the country descended into anarchy. Aid is only just trickling through the ‘bottleneck’ at Haiti’s airport, while angry Haitians desperate for help are striking out at international agencies - and each other.
Some 10,000 U.S. troops are on the way to try to restore order - but their role is being questioned.
‘This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying Haiti,’ Joyandet, in Brussels for an EU meeting on Haiti, said on French radio.
Joyandet has already complained about America’s role in Haiti. Last week U.S. forces turned back a French aid plane carrying a field hospital from the damaged, congested airport in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, prompting criticism from the French minister.
The plane landed safely the following day.
In another weekend incident, some 250 Americans were flown to New Jersey’s McGuire Air Force Base on three military planes from Haiti.
U.S. forces initially blocked French and Canadians nationals from boarding the planes, but the cordon was lifted after protests from French and Canadian officials.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday the U.S. government had no intention of taking power from Haitian officials.
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Permalink • Friday - January 15, 2010
EU LAW CHIEF SAYS BRITS MUST PAY BENEFITS TO FAMILY AND WIVES OF TERRORISTS.
Betcha many Brits would just love to whack this bleeding heart. Hell, I’m not a Brit and I’d like to. I kinda doubt the Brit govt. bad though it is, will go along. But who knows? The govt. is one of the left and nothing they do would surprise anyone anymore.
Just another nail in coffin of the UKs sovereignty if they approve this opinion.
Yes I know I keep banging on and repeating myself on the subject but .... Keep ur eyes opened America, and clean ur ears. There are folks at home who are very happy to give up some American sovereignty in exchange for what they think is world harmony and peace etc. You won’t find em on the right so that should narrow the field a bit.
Meanwhile txpayers, chew on this excerpt from my embassy newsletter.
New USAID Chief Dr. Rajiv Shah, Sees U.S. Forging Deeper Partnerships Overseas
Shah says the U.S. government now wants to give foreign countries more control over how American aid is spent. But, he also says measures will be in place to make sure that money is used wisely. “As we, and if we, give up control to some extent in order to support country leadership, we should have high standards and we should have strong ability to track outcomes to monitor resources and how they flow and to ensure that we’re generating real results in a sustainable way for American taxpayers,” he said.
USAID currently provides $20 billion in annual aid to development projects around the world. The Obama administration plans to expand that to $50 billion a year by 2012 for healthcare, education and agriculture.
By William Ide
VOA News
The U.S. Agency for International Development has sworn in a new administrator, Dr. Rajiv Shah, at a ceremony January 7 in Washington. In an exclusive interview with Voice of America, Shah talked about the Obama administration’s plans to deepen its partnerships overseas and listen more to the countries the agency serves.
A 36-year-old medical doctor by training, Shah comes to USAID with expertise in agriculture. He previously served as the director of agricultural development with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and later in a top post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
But, he says, the mission of USAID is his passion.
As a son of Indian immigrants, Shah says that he started visiting India and other parts of the world at a young age and saw firsthand the kind of extreme conditions of poverty and human suffering that exist across the globe. “The opportunity to join an agency that has as its core mission working on that problem, working in a way that it’s respectful of the people who live in those environments and learns from them, is a great, great honor,” he said.
As head of USAID, Shah says he plans to hire several hundred new development experts and individuals with technical expertise to expand the agency’s work capacity.
Very busy next several hours so I’ll leave you with this article I just found in our paper. Madness! Lunacy! MOONBATS everywhere.
WIVES OF TERRORISTS MUST GET THEIR BENEFITS BACK: IT’S A HUMAN RIGHT, SAYS EURO LAW CHIEF.
By James Slack
Last updated at 7:02 AM on 15th January 2010Wives of suspects who Britain says have links to Osama bin Laden have appealed against Treasury restrictions
Europe’s law chief wants Britain to reinstate the payment of tens of thousands of pounds in State handouts to the wives of suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban fanatics.
Ministers have halted benefit payouts made to the families of suspected terrorists to prevent the money falling into the hands of banned groups.
The Treasury says the power is a vital weapon in the war against terrorism. It stems from a crackdown on terrorist financing launched in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
However, the senior advocate of the European Court of Justice, Paolo Mengozzi, yesterday declared the decision to stop the payments was unfair on the grounds of human rights.
His opinion is likely to prove crucial when Europe’s highest court considers three test cases brought by the wives of British-based terror suspects later this year.
In eight out of every ten cases, the court has agreed with the Advocate General - making it highly likely the UK taxpayer will soon begin forking out hundreds of pounds a week to the families.
Whitehall officials have refused to name the families involved in the test cases - but all three of the husbands are foreign nationals on the United Nations list of international terror suspects.
They have been linked by security officials to Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban
The payouts to their wives include income support, child benefit and housing assistance worth ‘several hundred’ pounds a week.
Last night, campaign groups said it would be outrageous for the European courts to once again water down Britain’s anti-terror laws.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘It is absurd that this unaccountable European court is trying to dictate to the British Government how we spend our own money. British taxpayers are already sick of bankrolling the lifestyles of people who preach hate against our country, and there is no way that they should be able to fund their activities or their families through milking the welfare system.
‘Whether you agree with the judgment or not, it is a choice that should be made by our country, not these lawyers who are answerable to nobody.’
Under the Treasury’s rules, social security payments cannot be made available ‘directly or indirectly, to, or for the benefit of’ anyone who is on the UN terrorism sanctions list.
This has been applied to the wives of as many as ten terror suspects, who have been hit with licences restricting their access to state funds.
In the case due before the EU court, the three women claim this amounts to a violation of their human right to a family life.
Their first appeal was rejected. But in a second appeal to the House of Lords, Britain’s highest court, judges had concerns about how the law was being applied.
In April 2008, they asked the European Court of Justice to provide a ruling.
Any decision by the European court, which is expected to issue a final judgment in three to six months, will be binding on the House of Lords and on courts throughout the EU.
In advance of this decision, Mr Mengozzi issued a 26-page written opinion in which he argued the phrase ‘directly or indirectly, to, or for the benefit of’ suspected terrorists was very widely drawn.
He acknowledged that the payments made to the wives could benefit their husbands, but disputed whether those benefits could easily be converted into funds to finance terrorism.
Mr Mengozzi advised the European Court of Justice to rule that the extra restrictions were unjustified and violated the right to respect for family life.
Earlier this week, the European Court of Human Rights dealt a separate blow to UK anti-terror policy when it ruled the stopping and searching of suspects without grounds for suspicion was unlawful.
The searches had been a key plank of policing for over a decade.
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Now these are clearly dumb-heads of the first degree but fine. Let em block the roads with rotting bodies (as they are doing) because they somehow thought that relief was permanently stationed off shore just in case Haiti needed help.
I can’t say as I blame them if that’s what they really think altho I made that part up all by myself. See the thing is, those folks have been getting handouts from the world at large (and especially the USA where they think money grows on trees) for so long, that they think all they have to do is hold out their hands and the help is immediate. Well it usually worked that way in the past.
So there they are, protesting by blocking the very limited roads they have where help might come through. Smart thinking. doh.
The upside of what some will see as tragedy, is that there are now far fewer who will breed. Of course that’ll change very fast and they’ll double the lost number in short order.
Downside? You betcha.
I M M I G R A T I O N !! And where oh where will they be headed to? Oh let us see. Gee whiz this is a hard one. Now let me think. Hmmmm
Haiti earthquake survivors blockade roads with piles of corpses in protest at lack of aidBy Liz Hazelton
Last updated at 11:09 AM on 15th January 2010* Hundreds of criminals on the streets after prison collapses
* 7,000 corpses are dumped in Haiti’s first mass grave
* Aid workers pour on to island as emergency fund launched
* Fears for British woman Ann Barnes who worked in collapsed building
* Reports of looting as situation spirals out of control
*Britain pledges £10m in aid as Brown describes ‘tragedy beyond imagination’
Desperate Haitians have set up roadblocks of corpses in Port-au-Prince to protest at the lack of emergency aid reaching them after the catastrophic earthquake.
Although billions of pounds has already been pledged to the devastated country, help is only just beginning to trickle through.
Rescue efforts have been blighted by poor infrastructure and lack of heavy lifting equipment - as well as the damage wrought by the disaster.
Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least two roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.
‘They are starting to block the roads with bodies. It’s getting ugly out there. People are fed up with getting no help,’ he said.
You probably have this on TV 24/7 so I’m keeping it short. Below is the link to the article source.
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No knee jerk reactions please but … I oppose this suggestion to fund Auschwitz memorial.
This caught our eye this morning and for some reason it really surprised me.
Whoever this person is, and obviously he is somebody knowledgeable about his subject, he is crackers. Why the hell should the Brit taxpayer fund a memorial and pay anything to preserve that place? What? There aren’t enough things for Brits to do and fund in their own country?
This man with a name I can not hope to learn to pronounce, should try and find commercial backers. Or play some more on German feelings of guilt. Those folks are always prime after generations of left wing guilt trips.
I think I’m allowed to say that coming from the background I do. How many more holocaust museums do we need? The fact that the place is now in a bad state is evidence that there just aren’t many people who care that much. If private donations along with the monies already promised by the hapless Germans aren’t enough, then tough. There are already more then enough demands made on taxpayers everywhere. Besides which, the Brits did not build that place. Duh.
When I say people don’t care that much, I don’t mean to say that they are all unmoved by the suffering inflicted on millions of people. But I don’t think they want to be burdened with the idea that they owe something in perpetuity. Especially when they had nothing to do with it and have concerns of their own in the world they live in today.
A thousand years from now, the only people to whom the holocaust will mean anything, will be we Jews. Cos ( as I’ve learned ) we never forget anything that has anything to do with Jewish suffering. I hate to say this and I damn well know it’s gonna look bad but ....
I think the world at large (except for the left) is tired, tired, tired of hearing it. Even I have begun to think, I know, I know, I know!
One person has written in the commentary for the Times, that the buildings speak for the dead. Really?
I was under the impression, mistaken apparently, that ISRAEL DID! A very living memorial, even if a troubled one.
Auschwitz asks Britain for help to preserve decaying death camp
Roger Boyes
The TimesThe guard towers of Auschwitz are splintering, the barracks are waterlogged: the concentration camp where one million Jews were slaughtered is decaying so fast that conservationists have called on Britain to help to save it.
The theft last month of its distinctive, sinister sign, Arbeit macht frei (work sets you free) has underlined the vulnerability of the Nazi death camp, stretching over 20 hectares (50 acres) of southern Poland.
“Nobody could have imagined such a horrific act of vandalism,” Jacek Kastelaniec, director-general of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, said. “Now try to imagine the public outcry if one of the barracks started to fall down, impossible to restore.”
Auschwitz was built on boggy ground between two rivers; as a result the high groundwater and bad drainage has rotted the foundations. Walls are blistering and starting to lean, roof frames are buckling, plasterwork and wall-paintings are flaking.
Mr Kastelaniec will go to the Cabinet Office tomorrow to press the Government on Gordon Brown’s promise to contribute to a €120million (£110million) endowment fund that will guarantee the preservation of one of the main sites of the Holocaust.
Mr Brown visited the camp last April, and, plainly upset by what he had seen, declared: “We will join with other countries in supporting the maintenance and retention of the memorial at Auschwitz.” No figure has been suggested publicly for Britain’s possible contribution, but Polish sources say that the conservationists are hoping for about €10million.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has said that her country would put up half of the costs, but the managers of the Auschwitz museum need other commitments. Mr Kastelaniec will also visit France, Belgium and the United States. The Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, has sent an appeal to 40 heads of government.
“The conservationists say we need to start work in the next two years if we are to avert irreparable decay,” Mr Kastelaniec told The Times, “and that will only be possible if the money is paid into the fund now.”
The decay of the camp is politically sensitive. The current trial in Munich of the alleged Sobibor camp guard John Demjanjuk is being seen by the public as the last for Nazi war crimes — the 89-year-old defendant is wheeled into court on a hospital bed.
Holocaust survivors are dwindling. “In ten years there will be no witnesses,” Mr Kastelaniec said, “and it will be easier for the crazy people who say nothing happened in the camps.” Only the buildings will remain.
Auschwitz cannot simply have a makeover because that would undermine its claims to authenticity, and open the way for those on the far Right who try to deny or trivialise the Holocaust. The strategic point of the restoration is to use its almost over-powering sense of menace as a clinching counter-argument against anti-Semitism and racism.
The portfolio to be presented to the British Government underlines the vast scale of the camp. The priority is being set on 45 brick barracks. The managers estimate that it will cost up to €890,000 to restore a single barracks building. On top of that come 22 wooden barrack rooms — where inmates were crowded into bunks up to the ceiling. Each will cost €310,000.
Then there are the remains of 210 barrack buildings. Some sheds have collapsed, but there are concrete outlines where floors and chimneys stood. Without some strengthening, these foundation markings will disappear. Cost: €78,000 per barrack room. The 27 wooden guard towers need to be reinforced at an annual cost, for the next 14 years, of €62,000.
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