"The trial was abandoned after three days because staff at the department complained about noise from construction works, "the wrong kind of breeze" and the potential security risk."Do as we say, not as we do; business as usual at the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
"On Friday 14th a scheduled update contained a false positive on the HSBC's UK internet Banking Website.
As soon as Kaspersky Lab was alerted to this fact it was fixed in a matter of minutes and posted to our update servers.
We are currently seeing around 30,000 new threats everyday and so on rare occasions a fix for one issue can have unintended consequences.
Kaspersky Lab takes this very seriously and has rigorous systems, processes and testing in place to avoid such a situation for our customers and partners. Kaspersky Lab apologises to HSBC and it's UK customers for the inconvenience caused."
"It is simply accepted as perfectly natural that an unelected recidivist, twice forced to resign from the government in disgrace, should be parachuted into the House of Lords by an unelected, utterly discredited Prime Minister and proclaimed 'the most powerful man in Britain'.Not a fan then Richard?
The political pack has abandoned any pretence of proper scrutiny, preferring instead the soft option of taking dictation. I realise that even by writing this I could be accused of being complicit in this nauseating flying circus. But someone's got to do it.
Screaming Lord Mandelson represents everything rotten about our so-called democracy - arrogance, cynical contempt for the paying public, institutionalised dishonesty, an exaggerated sense of entitlement and the complete absence of shame.
National treasure, he ain't."
"British swimming pools are imposing Muslim dress codes in a move described as divisive by Labour MPs."That doesn't confuse me, it is divisive and labour MPs are now realising how many of their voters have left for the BNP and are trimming their sails accordingly.
"across the UK municipal pools are holding swimming sessions specifically aimed at Muslims, in some case imposing strict dress codes.Fisrt we are told that this is a "modesty" issue and that modest attire is required, then we are told that this is a "segregation" issue. Segregation is now acceptable public policy? Or only if it is to the benefit of Muslims? What is happening to this country have we lost our collective marbles?
Croydon council in south London runs separate one-and-a half-hour swimming sessions for Muslim men and women every Saturday and Sunday at Thornton Heath Leisure Centre.
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The practice of holding special Muslim swimming sessions has led to non-Muslims being turned away.
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defending the segregation policy, a Croydon council spokesman said: "We appreciate that certain religious groups, such as Muslims, have strict rules on segregation for activities including sports, so in response to requests from the local community, we have been running these sessions at Thornton Heath Leisure Centre." "
"I think it is preposterous that a council should be encouraging this type of segregation over municipal facilities.... Surely if Muslims want to swim then they should just turn up with their modest swimwear at the same time as everyone else."
"When sectarian tensions exploded in Belfast and Londonderry in the summer of 1969, trouble spilled onto the streets.I wonder if in November the BBC will run a piece to commemorate 26 years since one person died and almost 200 were injured in bomb attacks in London; one bomb blew up outside the Old Bailey and the other went off outside Scotland Yard. One of the convicted men, Gerry Kelly, later served on the Sinn Fein delegation that negotiated the Good Friday Agreement.
However, one street suffered more than most, as the homes of Catholic families living in Bombay Street in west Belfast were burnt by loyalists.
Four decades on, Conor Macauley speaks to those who were forced to flee."
"Lord Mandelson met Colonel Gaddafi’s son at a Corfu villa only a week before the announcement that the perpetrator of the Lockerbie bombing could be released from prison...It is odd how confusion and peculiar incidents of synchronicity seem to follow Peter Mandelson around; it is almost as if his whole being attracts controversy, rather like s**t attracts flies.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, widely seen as the Libyan leader’s most likely successor, was a fellow guest of the Rothschild family at its Greek property a fortnight ago in a wider annual gathering of powerful friends.
Stays by the two men overlapped by only one night, according to Lord Mandelson’s spokesman.
He said the pair spoke only briefly but they did discuss Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. “There was a fleeting conversation about the prisoner; Peter was completely unsighted on the subject,” he said.
...
Lord Mandelson said through his spokesman that he had had no involvement in the decision and only learnt of it through the BBC. Mr Megrahi’s possible release was a decision entirely for the Scottish government rather than London.
“It was entirely coincidental,” the spokesman said. "
"news of the meeting could renew questions about Lord Mandelson’s affinity for rich and powerful individuals and his ability to create controversy."Now that's journalistic understatement!
"The picture was taken at the side of the stunning Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Canada.
Mrs Brandts said: "We had our camera set up on some rocks and were getting ready to take the picture when this curious little ground squirrel appeared, became intrigued with the sound of the focusing camera and popped right into our shot." "
"Parents have been urged not to put ham and other processed meat into their children's lunchboxes to avoid them developing a cancer risk later in life.
The World Cancer Research Fund said parents should act now to stop their children developing a taste for smoked, salted or cured meats.
Eating too much over decades can raise the risk of bowel cancer, they said.
...
Marni Craze, the charity's children's education manager, said: "It is better if children learn to view processed meat as an occasional treat if it is eaten at all."
She also wants to see a crackdown on high calorie snacks in school lunchboxes, as being overweight as an adult can also increase the risk of cancer later in life. "
"The Food Standards Agency, which advises the public on healthy eating, has published its own list of lunchbox menus - some of which feature ham.
An FSA spokesman said: "Processed meats, such as ham and salami, can form part of a balanced diet and parents shouldn't be concerned about including these in their children's lunchboxes now and again.
"However they can contain high levels of fat, particularly saturated fat, and salt, so we wouldn't recommend eating them too often. Parents should try to include a variety of sandwich fillings and only use processed meats occasionally." "
"An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law."manages to run without mentioning Islam, Muslims or Sharia law. The BBC do manage to mention Shia twice once with the (for the BBC) demonic prefix "conservative".
"Japan has come out of recession after its economy grew by 0.9% in the April-to-June quarter.There is much that is interesting in those four sentences. First that Japan's economy seems to be growing but this may be due to the "huge government stimulus package" and that there are doubts as to whether it is sustainable. Second is that Japan joins Germany, France and Hong Kong coming out of recession.
The growth comes after four consecutive quarters of contraction.
Correspondents say that the rise is due to a huge government stimulus package and it is unclear whether the momentum will be sustained.
Recent figures show other economies coming out of recession, including Germany, France and Hong Kong, a sign the global slowdown is easing. "
"They came for the palmists, but I wasn’t a palmist so I did nothing
They came for the bungee jumpers, but I wasn’t a bungee jumper so I did nothing
They came for the players’ agents, but I wasn’t a players’ agent so I did nothing
They came for the Charles Manson fans, but I wasn’t a Charles Manson fan so I did nothing
They came for the reflexologists, but I wasn’t a reflexologist so I did nothing
They came for the camp TV chefs, but I wasn’t a camp TV chef so I did nothing
They came for the RoMos, I laughed
They came for the martial arts enthusiasts, but I wasn’t a martial arts enthusiast so I did nothing
They came for Eamonn Holmes and I think I’m right in saying I applauded
They came for the fire-eaters, but I wasn’t a fire-eater so I did nothing
They came for Dani Behr, I said she’s over there, behind the wardrobe
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to
Turn a blind eye, sometimes it’s best to"
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. "Think on you supporters of Gordon Brown, the EU and/or Barack Obama.
"many of the teenagers at the camp have already experienced the impact of climate change first hand.That's odd I thought as my Indian relatives have been moaning about how cold it has been the last few years. So I looked for some documentary proof and found these articles: Thaindian News 31.01.08 -
Yashvardhan Gusani, 15, lives near Mumbai in India.
He says: "The cities are getting hotter all the time. I feel like we have hardly even had a winter"."
"North India continues to be under the grip of intense cold wave with some parts of the country experiencing sub-zero temperatures.Ok that's North India, maybe further south it was warmer...
As the Meteorological Department has predicted colder day’s ahead. Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 3.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday.
The season’s lowest was recorded at 1.9 degrees Celsius on 2nd January."
"Chilly conditions continued to prevail in north India today with some cities recording sub-zero temperatures while the mercury plummeted in Mumbai to a record low in 45 years.So that would be the north and Mumbai, but maybe Indiainfo is mistaken, surely there can be no other articles saying similar things...
While cold wave conditions intensified in Shimla which witnessed a fresh spell of snowfall, icy winds from northern hills brought down the minimum temperature in the national Capital to 4.1 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal. The minimum at Shimla stood at -2.2 degree celsius.
Kolkata and its adjoining districts were lashed by continuous drizzle cutting short the Republic Day parade which saw only a few visitors at Red Road outside Eastern Command headquarters, known for its huge spectator crowd.
The unusually cold spell in north and central India lowered the temperature abnormally in Mumbai, which has maritime climate conditions and is used to temperate climate even during winters. The city recorded season's lowest at 10.8 degree Celsius.
Though people in some parts of Punjab and Haryana had a bit of relief as minimum temperatures increased slightly from close to below freezing point for the past over a week, the cold wave conditions still prevailed in the region. Karnal in Haryana was the coldest at 2.2 degrees Celsius.
The desert state of Rajasthan continued to reel under icy winds, with the mercury dipping to the freezing point in Sriganganagar and northerly cold wave continued to sweep the state."
"India's largest city experienced a record low temperature nearly two weeks ago, part of a stretch of cold weather that has gripped the city much of this month
The financial hub of India saw temperatures plunge to 6.5 degrees Celsius February 8, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the city. The previous low, recorded January 27th, 1962, was 7.4 degrees. Such temperatures are almost unheard of in the subtropical city that rarely experiences cold due to its coastal position near the hot Arabian Sea."
"But do the young people really think they can succeed with green ideas, where past generations have failed?
"Yes, because we know we have to do something right now," says Yashvardhan. "
"UK IN RECESSION
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"Mr NotaSheep found himself in hospital very recently with a severe allergic reaction. Once pumped full of antihistamines and pain killers what I really wanted to do was to sleep, but sleep on a NHS Acute Observation Ward is not easy to come by. One patient talked to himself all night; "Ow, ow, I wanna go home, go home, I wanna go home" for six hours, he was not a well man but the nurses did nothing, surely a side room could have been found for him. Then there were the nurses who chatted all night about this and that, only occasionally looking in on a patient who needed treatment, I was visited not at all that night, it was Mrs NotaSheep who gave me water and a few bites of an apple. To make sleep harder to come by, the ward lights were left on all night in the male ward (although they were off in the next door female ward - same nurses' station). In the morning after some of the nurses had discussed career paths, spoken to their various family members about the day ahead and chatted to the cleaners, Mr non-stop talk was moved to a proper ward and the lights were turned off, leaving the ward in semi darkness for half an hour before the sun came flooding in. I would have thought that sleep was a good medicine, if so I was denied it during my stay. The staff were generally friendly and competent and out of the half a dozen or so nurses and two doctors I saw, at least one spoke English like a native. The instructions from the East European Doctor re tablet taking were no helped by his inability to cope with English tenses, which made our conversation over when I should take tablets as opposed to when I had taken tablets, slightly surreal. "
"What has happened within the last 48 hours is what Cameron has feared most because it lays bare the Tories' deep ambivalence towards the NHS."The Labour party love to call Conservatives unpatriotic when they disagree with Labour policy, remember the similar Labour slurs when George Osborne said that Labour Government policies could trigger a run on the pound?
"Using Public Transport (Unit 1)etc.
In completing the unit the student has demonstrated the ability to:
1. Walk to the local bus stop.
2. Stand or sit at the bus stop and wait for the arrival of a public bus.
3. Enter the bus in a calm and safe manner.
4. Be directed to a downstairs seat by a member of staff
5. Sit on the bus and observe through the windows.
6. Wait until the bus has stopped, stand on request and exit the bus. "
"New guidelines for Irish media to cover the Lisbon Treaty referendum take effect at noon Friday (7 August).Fairness, democracy, equality; just three words that seem to be alien to the EU.
Announced by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI), the new guidelines clarify that there is no requirement to allocate an absolute equality of airtime to opposing sides of the referendum debate during editorial coverage.
The proportion of airtime allocated to opposing sides must however "be fair to all interests and undertaken in a transparent manner."
The Irish are to vote on the Lisbon treaty for a second time on 2 October, after a majority rejected the document in a referendum 12 June 2008.
In previous referendum campaigns public broadcasters were obliged to give equal coverage of both the Yes and the No campaigns, after a former professor at Trinity College, Anthony Coughlan, made a complaint at Irish courts in June 1997 over unbalanced media coverage by the public broadcaster RTE, which gave 42,5 minutes coverage to the yes-camp and 10 minutes to the no-camp in a referendum on divorce."
"Even the proposed plebiscite was scarcely fair - the ballot slips only had ja printed on them. Austrians wanting merger with Germany would have had to bring their own nein scrawled scraps of paper to the polling station."Another idea for the democrats in the Irish and EU governments.
"... in a nutshell, The UK Government told the Isle of Man bank to put half a billion pounds in the bank which it subsequently forced into liquidation."I am not sure how much of the tale is 100% accurate but it is a riveting read.
"I have no prospect and no plans of standing as leader of the Labour Party.... I am a member of the House of Lords. There is no opportunity for me to divest myself of my life peerage. A peerage is for life. A life peerage is a life peerage.... "It is me officially ruling it out.... In this country, if you are made a life peer, it's for life. It's like a life sentence."The odd thing is I think he may have still left himself a get out; at present he is correct to say "There is no opportunity for me to divest myself of my life peerage. A peerage is for life. A life peerage is a life peerage" but once that barrier is lifted could he say that now the law has changed and because the Labour party and the Country needs him...
"Gordon Brown, neither a fool nor a slouch, knew that the end had come. He announced his resignation that lunchtime. With only a few months before the last possible date for an election, the headless and fear-stricken MPs acted swiftly to prevent the unions and members having any say. Johnson had backed out; nobody wanted Miliband, at least not yet. Mandelson was their choice, and the only one offered. There would be an emergency bill to let him renounce his peerage, and he would parachute into Durham North-West, where Labour’s 53 per cent majority might just get him back in the Commons."
"Need a weekend away with your cutie? Planning a fantasy honeymoon? Celebrating an anniversary? Coordinating your destination wedding?Now I need to book a romantic week away with Mrs NotaSheep so I thought I'd try their serice... I was not impressed.
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"My name Igor Marxomarxovich I come from old country Russia one year ago. I thank you for freedom has been given me in my new country.
I here only this time but have already vote. I vote five times already in last election with the help of new friends at ACORN. They tell me OK I become citizen later. Never in my country can I do this. They give me new name each time I vote. Give me American cigarette to smoke in line. Sometimes even find Igor place at front of line.
Such freedom. My uncle die three year ago. With help of ACORN he still able to vote (but not get American cigarette)"
"Chief constables across England and Wales have been told to ignore a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights and carry on adding the DNA profiles of tens of thousands of innocent people to a national DNA database.Nice isn't it, every criminal and asylum seeker seems to have their human rights protected but not innocent Brits.
Senior police officers have also been "strongly advised" that it is "vitally important" that they resist individual requests based on the Strasbourg ruling to remove DNA profiles from the national database in cases such as wrongful arrest, mistaken identity, or where no crime has been committed.
European human rights judges ruled last December in the S and Marper case that the blanket and indiscriminate retention of the DNA profiles and fingerprints of 850,000 people arrested but never convicted of any offence amounts to an unlawful breach of their rights.
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The advice to senior officers comes in a letter from the Association of Chief Police Officers criminal records office. The letter, seen by the Guardian, tells chief constables that new Home Office guidelines following the ruling in the case of S and Marper are not expected to take effect until 2010.
"Until that time, the current retention policy on fingerprints and DNA remains unchanged," it says. "Individuals who consider they fall within the ruling in the S and Marper case should await the full response to the ruling by the government prior to seeking advice and/or action from the police service in order to address their personal issue on the matter.
"Acpo strongly advise that decisions to remove records should not be based on [the government's] proposed changes. It is therefore vitally important that any applications for removals of records should be considered against current legislation."
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."Let's face facts that boot will be stamping on our collective faces until we somehow show some gumption and force change.
"First they came for the JewsThey will come for us all eventually, so it is time to stand up now.
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me."
"When Queen Anne died on 1st August 1714, her successor, the Elector of Hanover (George I), was in his German dominion. Baron Parker of Macclesfield was designated Regent of Great Britain, Ireland and the realms beyond the seas until the new King was able to take the Crown. He reigned until 18th September, and was the last Peer to exercise sovereign power...
...until the advent of The Right Honourable the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the County of Durham, First Secretary of State and Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business and Secretary of State for Innovation and Skills.
As of Monday, the Royal Prerogative will rest with him."
"
POLICE plans to quiz thousands of people in a seaside resort to check they are not terrorists were branded “Gestapo-style” tactics last night.
Squads of officers will carry out door-to-door interviews to weed out potential threats to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton next month.
Home owners and workers will have to produce passports, birth certificates, driving licences, proof of employment, and even provide the names of referees to show they are of good character.
They will also be quizzed on their religion to see if they have connections with Muslim fanatics. Critics said the “Gestapo” tactics were another sign that Britain is lurching towards an autocratic state.
Guy Herbert, of campaign group NO2ID, said: “A door-to-door search for those whose papers aren’t in order is the sort of thing that in the 20th century only the worst dictatorships did.”"
"The man who blew up a Brighton hotel in the IRA's most deadly attack in Britain has been invited back to the city for the 25th anniversary of the blast.I wonder if Gordon Brown and some of his Cabinet were blown up by Muslim terrorists during this year's party conference whether in 2034 the terrorists would be free and invited to commemoration events? What has happened to the British sense of justice? Or is it because it was "Thatcher" that was being targeted that the bombing is excusable to the touchy feely left?
Patrick Magee killed five people when he planted a bomb at a hotel hosting the Conservative Party conference in October 1984.
He almost succeeded in assassinating the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and killed government whip, Sir Anthony Berry, with his 30lb bomb."
"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
1. YouTube
2. Google
3. Facebook
4. Sex
5. MySpace
6. Porn
7. Yahoo
8. Michael Jackson
9. Fred (YouTube star)
10. eBay
"There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. Allah mobilizes the Muslim nation of Turkey and adds it to the European Union, that's another 50 million Muslims... Europe is in a predicament and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time or else declare war on the Muslims."
"I tell you we have learnt from past mistakes.... Just as you cannot spend your way out of recession, you cannot, in a global economy, simply spend your way through a recovery either.... losing control of public spending doesn’t help the poor".Gordon Brown in his 1996 conference speech just before he became Chancellor following the 1997 general election.
"According to Ronnie Biggs' son in a radio interview the other day, his father is dying and cannot speak and is all but immobile; time will tell. His lawyers have said that he has recently suffered two strokes and has facial paralysis, which means he cannot speak or eat."So I was not hugely surprised to read that (my emphasis): "Freed train robber Ronnie Biggs may be moved to a London care home as early as this weekend after a remarkable improvement in his health.
"****CAMPAIGN JOBS FOR OBAMA'S HEALTHCARE PLAN! ($10-$15 /hr) FT****Paying people to campaign in support of his healthcare proposals, it's the American way. I presume we'll still get people talking about the power and money of the private healthcare companies, ignoring the power and money of organisations such as CALPIRG.
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We need people like you to become involved with healthcare reform—and make some money in the process. Joining this campaign will allow you to work with some of the most motivated people in the region. Together, we can make change happen. Earn $4,000-$6,000 this summer! "
"If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a permanent electoral majority. By “dependent”, I don’t mean merely welfare, although that’s a good illustration of the general principle. In political terms, a welfare check is a twofer: you’re assuring the votes both of the welfare recipient and of the vast bureaucracy required to process his welfare. But extend that principle further, to the point where government intrudes into everything: a vast population is receiving more from government (in the form of health care or education subventions) than it thinks it contributes, while another vast population is managing the ever expanding regulatory regime (a federal energy-efficiency code, a government health bureaucracy) and another vast population remains, nominally, in the private sector but, de facto, dependent on government patronage of one form or another – say, the privately owned franchisee of a government automobile company, or the designated “community assistance” organization for helping poor families understand what programs they’re eligible for. Either way, what you get from government – whether in the form of a government paycheck, a government benefit or a government contract – is a central fact of your life."The land of the free is about to become the land of state dependency; welcome to socialism America.
"0852 Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson, Trotsky and Stalin, Queen Anne and her servant Sarah.'nuff said?
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8147000/8147089.stm"
"Independent experts believe cuts will happen whoever wins the next election. "and they do quote Kenneth Clarke saying "it was a "childlike deception" to pretend the PM would protect public spending in the face of a "serious debt problem".
"a 10% spending cut would mean "44,000 fewer teachers, 15,000 fewer police, 10,000 fewer soldiers and, each year, 32,000 fewer university places"."Gordon Brown being unable to admit or conceive that cuts could be made in bureaucratic positions rather than front-line roles. Ken Clarke is then quoted as saying that
"Now if the prime minister was stupid, I would forgive him. But he's not stupid.I am sorry but I must disagree with the man who may as Chancellor have left Gordon Brown an economy in a better state than any other previous Chancellor had bequeathed to an opposition party. Gordon Brown is not "a highly intelligent man", he's a bully and a fraud whose "genius" was invented by himself and his acolytes and repeated ad nauseum by much of the media. Now the public are realising the truth about Gordon Brown and they are rightly angry at him and those that fooled them.
"He's a highly intelligent man and it's a kind of child-like deception that he is somehow continuing to maintain public spending if he's allowed to keep in office. "
"An Israeli man is mounting a landmark legal challenge to demand European Union compensation for damages caused by Hamas rocket attacks on his home.Absolutely correct, I look forward to the fools in the EU who see Israel as an inconvenient blot on the Middle Eastern landscape and who connive in the destruction of Israel being held to account. Of course in reality nothing will change.
Israeli and Belgian lawyers acting for Eyal Katorza, who is also a French citizen, are preparing a legal case demanding that the EU does more to protect the 300,000 Europeans living in Israel.
Legal documents, seen by The Daily Telegraph, have accused the EU of indirectly funding Palestinian terrorism because of a failure to "prevent the misuse of European funds by non-profit organisations which use these funds to finance terrorism".
Mr Katorza has demanded EU "reparations for lost job income, reparations for physical and psychological damages, reparations for property damages, monies for reinforced buildings against missiles or any other military projectiles".
The dual French-Israeli citizen, from Sderot in Israel's Negev region, has lost his job and family business because of Qassam rocket attacks launched from the Gaza strip by Hamas.
His lawyers have cited clauses in the EU Treaties that offer protection to Europeans even while they are living abroad.
Mordechai Tzivin, Mr Katorza's Israeli lawyer, has appealed to other EU-Israeli citizens to join the action, to be launched later this week, a call that has been supported by the European Citizens Council in Israel.
"We plan to add to the claim any Israeli who holds a European passport and who lives within terrorist-rocket range," he said.
"The EU grants hundreds of millions of euros a year in aid to Gaza, and it is inconceivable that European citizens should be harmed by money supplied by the EU. It's time that the EU takes responsibility." "
"...I've learned from experience that you can defeat people without killing them."What an interesting turn of phrase.
"I accuse the United Nations environmental program in general and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in particular of creating a huge hoax, “global warming”, in order to reduce energy use and to create a phony market for so-called “carbon credits,” based on the lie that carbon dioxide plays a role in the alleged warming process.
The Earth is not warming. It is cooling. Meteorologists, climatologists, and solar physicists agree that it has been cooling for at least a decade and predict the cooling will continue for several decades to come."
"is paying part of the cost of a meeting at the Hilton hotel in Brighton — which is being promoted publicly as an event by Bectu, the broadcast technicians’ union, and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ)."I resent any part of my licence fee being spent in this manner, if the BBC cannot even report accurately maybe they should spend money in that area.
"Campaigners have welcomed an idea to give poorer students a two grade "head start" to help them get places at the leading universities."That should kill off what remains of Labour's middle class achiever vote. But then maybe Labour are more interested in shoring up their core "working class" (for which you can often read "not working and have no intention of doing so class") vote for fear of losing even more votes to the hard left BNP. "Hard left"? Have you read their policies, they are a party of the extreme left not the extreme right; don't let the Labour/BBC narrative that racism is a "right-wing" issue fool you.
"He was handing out flags to anybody who wanted them...The SEIU guy came up to him and said, "Why is an n-word like you handing out these flags?"Here's some video that seems to be of the same incident
"Kenneth didn't say anything to the guy. Before Kenneth could even say anything or act in any way shape or form, the SEIU representative punched him in the face."
"He went to the ground. Subsequently, two other SEIU representatives or members, however you want to say it, jumped on top of him, yelled racial epithets at him...kicked him, punched him.""
"In the video, a black man in a tan polo shirt (Gladney) is clearly being picked up and pulled to the ground by a much larger white man wearing the signature purple SEIU t-shirt (:05).
A black man and a white man, both wearing SEIU t-shirts walk away from the melee after other protesters bring attention to it, and call for police. The black SEIU member, rubbing his shoulder, says at one point, "He pushed me," as protesters accuse him of attacking the man in the tan shirt. The black SEIU guy sounds like he's looking for his "keys," but I can't be sure. In the background, the white SEIU guy is in a verbal argument with someone in a white polo who says, "You attacked him. You're going to jail!," which elicits and "F*** you" from the white SEIU guy.
When Gladney is brought back over to the scene, this time with an escort, he yells, "Where are my glasses?" at which point the black SEIU guy seems to hand something over to him, but it's obscured.
"What the hell is wrong with y'all?" Gladney exclaims. "Why'd you hit me? Did I bother you?" (0:43)
The camera then pans back to the man in the white polo and the white SEIU guy:
"You attacked that guy for nothing," says white polo.
"No, we didn't attack him for nothing," SEUI guy replied, adding something I can't understand. (:53)
As the camera pans back over to a bewildered Gladney and surrounding witnesses, you can hear White Polo say, "Two of you attacked that poor guy."
SEIU: "No, we didn't."
White Polo: "Yeah, you did!"
SEIU: "He attacked America!" (1:01)
At around 1:25, the person filming asks Gladney what happened.
Gladney: "That guy attacked me."
Cameraman: "Which guy?"
Gladney: "The black guy, there."
Cameraman: "Why?"
Gladney: "I don't know. I was standing there, you saw me. You saw me, I'm standing here selling my flags."
He flags down a cop car, at which point the rest of the video is of police cuffing a protesting white woman (not sure what her role was) and the white SEIU guy, who protests that he didn't attack Gladney; he was simply removing him from his fellow SEIU member. The police are also detaining White Polo, but don't cuff him or anything in the video."
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