Gold Stands Its Ground
Gold prices continue to climb and John Licata, chief commodity strategist at Blue Phoenix Inc., says he sees reason to be optimistic about gold's future. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, John says that as inflationary pressures present themselves, gold prices will continue their upward move. He also sees silver, platinum and palladium as interesting plays for investors.
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
U.S. Debt Crisis Startling Facts
FACT #1: The official national debt now stands at $12.68 trillion — an amount equal to about 88.5% of all the goods and services our economy produces in an entire year.
Continued...
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General Election: the only thing you won't hear in the next 30 days is the truth
At times such as this I am reminded of some words from Cardinal Newman: "We now have passed the Gate, and are within the House of Judgment." Yet one cannot make a sensible judgment without good information: and election campaigns are about assertion and not fact. Much of what you encounter in the next 30 days will be propaganda, and should be treated accordingly. Your intelligence will be insulted in a most insolent fashion. The truth will be kept from you on every possible occasion. Artifice will entirely overpower substance. No wonder so many of us long for May 7.
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More than a third of graduates are left without jobs after university
Over a third of graduates claimed jobseeker's allowance in the past year because of tough employment conditions, according to new figures.
A survey of 500 recent graduates found that only 6 per cent had found a graduate job, with two-thirds taking work just to pay bills.
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New tax year = more New Labour tax rises (06Apr10)
liarpoliticians — 06 April 2010 — Another tax year starts, and with it brings yet more tax rises to buy off New Labour's client state voters.
Recorded from BBC Breakfast, 06 April 2010.
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Attack Video Reveals Why Pentagon Wanted To “Destroy” Wikileaks
Aggressive surveillance of whistleblowers prior to release of damning footage
Covering Up Civilian Deaths
The recent news brought reports of two incidents in two countries where US troops killed civilians and then lied to cover up the evidence. These are but the latest of a steady stream of lies from military and Pentagon sources about the killing of civilians.
Welcome to Obama's War
So finally the truth comes out...sort of.
After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an Afghan home in Khataba in February had been discovered bound and slain by the Americans, the US military has admitted that they were actually shot and killed by those US troops--who then tried to cover up their “mistake” by carving the bullets out of the bodies with knives, removing other incriminating bullets from the compound’s walls, and then washing away the bloody evidence with alcohol.
Targeting Journalists in Iraq is Pentagon Policy
The Baghdad snuff video released by WikiLeaks has yet to receive much corporate media play. MSNBC, however, covered the video. In a discussion of the video, Brett McGurk of the Council on Foreign Relations and an NSC member for Bush and Obama, defended the mass murder episode. McGurk said the soldiers fired on journalists because they thought they saw an RPG launcher.
European Parliament: question on aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water
Subject: aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water but cause persistent milky veils, possibly due to the presence of barium, aluminium and iron
Is the U.S. on its way toward a Debt Disaster?
More than likely, and this will set the stage for the total demise of the dollar, which will usher in a world currency to replace the long-standing reserve currency status the U.S. has held. No matter how the Fed and Wall Street manipulate the markets with 'slight of hand' collaboration, backed by the approval of our current administration in order to mesmorize the American people into believing the economy is recovering - our AAA status will be downgraded, and along with it our way of life as a once prosperous nation!
Industries brace for peak water as peak oil hits
As though businesses didn't have enough on their plates dealing with peak oil in their strategic planning, production practices, and business models, now researchers from GlobeScan, after conducting a survey of 1,200 sustainability experts, have concluded that peak water is upon us and will worsen over the coming decade making every production process employed in creating the amenties of modern life more expensive
Organic Farmers Report Increasing GMO Contamination with Corn
A group of Midwest organic farmers is reporting increasingly higher levels of GMO contamination of organic corn, which is jeopardizing their ability to sell to organic grain buyers.
A spokesman for the group, which wishes to remain unidentified to protect their organic markets, says, "We're doing more testing and seeing increased low levels of GMO contamination."
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Draconian' digital bill can cut off Internet in fight for copyright
Britain is hoping to put itself at the forefront of the fight against internet piracy. The Digital Economy Bill, which will be debated in parliament later on Tuesday, will give authorities the power to block pirate websites and cut people off from the Internet for file sharing. But protesters claim the measures are too extreme and threaten the very future of the web
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UK MP: Web control bill a sledgehammer to crack small nut
British Labour MP Austin Mitchell in Westminster speaks out on the Digital Economy Bill, which could give authorities the power to block pirate websites and cut people off from the Internet for file sharing.
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Pensioners could be forced to show ID for bus travel
Pensioners could be forced to carry identity cards to qualify for free bus travel, a Government minister has said
(Papiere bitten!)
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Airline passenger conversations to be monitored under EU project
Airline passengers could have their conversations and movements monitored under a European Union project aimed at tackling terrorism.
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Collateral Pentagon
"We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force."
That was General Stanley McChrystal, supreme commander of United States forces in Afghanistan, late last month - during one of the virtual "town hall" meetings held with US troops every two weeks, as reported in the New York Times.
McChrystal added, "To my knowledge, in the nine-plus months I've been here, not a single case where we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it."
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Obama & Co. Want National Biometric ID
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators is teaming up with the Obama administration to legalize illegal immigrants and require biometric national ID cards for every American worker, prompting a swift and bipartisan backlash across the nation.
The proposal would unconstitutionally force nearly all Americans to obtain the new “tamper proof” Social Security cards while purporting to require that all employers purchase new $800 ID scanners. It would also provide a “path to citizenship” for the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants currently living in America.
Motorists leaving cars at home as petrol prices hit a new record
Motorists are cutting back on their car use as petrol prices hit a new record, according to the AA.
Come To Jesus Part Deux
The reason we have not seen an all-on collapse - yet - is that the government has stepped in and has borrowed and spent a literal $3 trillion over the last two years for the purpose of hiding the insolvency of virtually every bank and a good number of citizens in this nation, along with virtually every pension plan, annuity and other "defined benefit" plan and institution. They also changed the rules of the game regarding asset valuations - that is, they cheated.
This gambit has produced a veneer of recovery.
What does it mean to be Middle Class in 2010? – No College Degree, Massive Amounts of Debt, One Health Crisis from Bankruptcy, and Beholden to the Banking Elite.
Being middle class today does not carry the financial security that it once carried in the 1950s and 1960s. Interestingly enough, many Americans at that time did not own stocks yet somehow they managed well because they had access to affordable housing without toxic mortgages and many had the ability to work with one company and have some kind of security from their company. It was a mutual relationship as even Henry Ford shook the auto manufacturing world by upping wages for his workers. Yet today, we are being fed distorted information from Wall Street that we need to have this system where workers are disposable entities only to increase the profits of the corporate class. If people are hurting so much why are we paying billions in bonuses to a small group of people that really haven’t helped the country? In fact, many of these are directly responsible for our current economic problems. At the root, this has been the cancer that has eaten away at what it means to be middle class. Social government welfare for Wall Street and Darwinian capitalism for the rest of us.
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The Micro Chipping of Americans?
Relevant clauses of the House and Senate Health Bills
"The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the registry, to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that; (A) is or has been used in or on a patient; (B) is a class III device; or a class II device that is implantable."
In real world speak, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn't, allowed medical care in their country.
Tensions Mount Between Washington and its Puppet in Kabul
Thursday’s warning by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that US and other NATO troops could be regarded as “invaders” in his country provided a rare glimpse into the political realities in Afghanistan—and called forth a furious reaction from the Obama administration and the American media.
Karzai denounced those in the Washington and the Western media who have criticized the corruption and incompetence of his regime, complaining, “They wanted to have a puppet government. They wanted a servant government.”
ABC escalates Iran war propaganda: echoes unlikely CIA claim of “defected” Iranian scientist
ABC News reported as fact a CIA claim from unnamed US “officials” that a young Iranian nuclear scientist reported as abducted by his wife last year had voluntarily abandoned his family in Iran to allegedly defect to the United States. ABC doesn’t question the CIA’s truthfulness of such a report or the legality for holding Shahram Amiri
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General Election 2010: Gordon Brown's loose relationship with the truth
In his Downing Street statement this morning Gordon Brown said that one of the values he had learned during his upbringing in his “ordinary middle class home” was “telling the truth”. He did not learn it terribly well. His period as Chancellor was notorious for his manipulation of statistics – double counting and treble counting became routine. Since becoming Prime Minister, he has found it harder to get away with such slippery behaviour. Last month he was forced to issue a humiliating public apology for misleading the Chilcot Inquiry with his false claim (and he must have known it was false) that he had increased spending on the armed forces every year he was in the Treasury. And only last week he was rebuked by Sir Michael Scholar of the UK Statistics Authority for playing fast and loose with immigration figures. The PM used two sets of “not comparable” figures to back his assertion that immigration was falling; it meant the number of new arrivals was under-counted by 30,000. There was a time when misleading Parliament in this way was regarded as a heinous offence. No more. In his book Servants of the People, Andrew Rawnsley recounts an explosion from the then Chancellor after he had been challenged during a radio interview about what he knew of Bernie Ecclestone’s £1 million donation to the Labour Party. He knew a lot, but said he didn’t. According to Rawnsley, a highly agitated Brown afterwards yelled at aides: “I lied. If this gets out, I’ll be destroyed.” If lying upsets him so much, why does he persist in doing it?
TRUE VOICE OF BRITAIN
ENOUGH is enough.
Seven in 10 Brits now think we are taking in far too many immigrants.
Unemployment fears rise as job demand drops
Demand for new staff fell last month bringing an end to a period of slow growth and fuelling fears of another possible rise in unemployment.
Statistics from recruiter Reed.co.uk's job index showed a drop from 105 to 102 in March amid "mixed signals".
They want the Government to curb our shambolic open-door policy, according to Migrationwatch.
£1,400 a year added to mortgages
The average annual UK mortgage bill could go up by £700 - £1,400 if the Government does not reduce the amount it plans to borrow, think tank Policy Exchange has warned in its latest report ‘The Cost of Inaction'...
The UK currently has a budget deficit of nearly 12% of GDP. When deficits are very high, that adds a risk premium to interest rates, because of fears about inflation or default.
War on Terra could lead to WW3
Bob Chapman, the man who predicted 9/11, Iraq War, etc.... says :
Nuclear Terrorist attack on Major US city to Blame Iran could Start World War III which is very near and could be initiated with an Israeli staged nuclear attack on a major US city.
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£1TRILLION PENSIONS TIMEBOMB
TAXPAYERS are facing a £1trillion “black hole” in funding to cover the generous pensions of Britain’s army of public sector workers, business chiefs warn today.
Sterling falls amid fears over hung Parliament
Sterling fell against the dollar and the euro today as mixed opinion polls heightened fears over a hung Parliament after Gordon Brown called a general election for May 6.
Analysts warned that the pound could come under further pressure over the next month unless polls started to show a clear winner.
Labour’s Climate Change Act: A Conspiracy to Defraud
The revelation that the Government’s Climate Change Act will cost the taxpayer up to £18.3 billion per year between now and 2050, together with its sanitising “enquiry” into the Climate Studies Unit (CSU) scandal, proves that it is working hand-in-glove with the United Nations (UN) towards their “global governance” objectives.
Westminster bargaining to pass DNA Bill begins
Proposals to store the DNA profiles of innocent people for six years will be the focus of bargaining at Westminster as ministers try to pass key legislation before Parliament is dissolved.
Obama excludes Iran in ban on US nuke strikes
US President Barack Obama plans to release a review of the US nuclear arms strategy that purportedly restricts the use of its nuclear arms against most non-atomic states except Iran and North Korea.
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Disabled mother forced to sell home to pay compensation after mobility scooter injures supermarket worker's knee
A disabled mother whose mobility scooter injured the knee of a supermarket worker has been forced to sell her house after she was sued for damages
Pressure mounts on Digital Economy Bill
Protests against the Digital Economy Bill have escalated as the controversial Bill is about to receive its second reading at the House of Commons
General election 2010: Facebook and Twitter to have unprecedented impact
Facebook, Twitter and other social media will have an unprecedented impact on the general election campaign.
Digital Bill to strip Britons of their rights
Britain is hoping to put itself at the forefront of the fight against Internet piracy with the new Digital Economy Bill, to be debated in parliament later on Tuesday.
The bill will give authorities the power to block pirate websites and cut off people from the Internet if caught file sharing.
But protesters claim the measures are too extreme and threaten the very future of the web.
UK Conservatives may reopen probe into Iraq war whistleblower’s death
The death of a whistle-blower who said the UK government had "sexed up" a dossier on Saddam Hussein's military capabilities in order to sell the Iraq war has been one of the most intriguing and confusing elements of the war's history
Santelli: $4 Gas, $150 Oil Coming This Summer
CNBC CME floor reporter explains investors could flee equity markets for commodities, including energy and put a hurt on consumers.
CNN Weather Guy Chad Myers Accuses Climate Scientists Of Corruption
CNN meteorologist Chad Myers accuses climate scientists of corruption, saying that because they “work for the government,” they might lose their jobs if they didn’t say man-made global warming was real.
Is Gordon Brown Proposing To Print Climate Money?
Monday, 05 April 2010 10:07 Ethiopian Journal — Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says the high level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing has identified various financial sources to help developing countries combat climate change and set directives for further activities.
Meles and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown co-chaired the first meeting of the group held in London last week.
Meles told the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency that the meeting assessed ways of getting financial sources through air and marine transport and the right of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to print money and implementation of new taxes, among others.
More “hiding the decline”
Re-reading Climategate and AR4 Review Comments, I noticed an interesting discussion about handling the Law Dome O18 record – a series used in Mann and Jones (2003) and Jones and Mann (2004) with a very elevated MWP
Revealed: Hospital has staff from 70 countries as nurses who don't even understand 'nil by mouth' forced to take English lessons
An NHS hospital has staff from a staggering 70 countries on its payroll.
The huge number of overseas nurses, cleaners and porters has forced health chiefs to send them on ten-week English courses because many do not understand basic medical phrases.
Among the terms some workers from countries such as Burma, the Philippines and Poland can't follow are 'nil by mouth', 'doing the rounds' and 'bleeping a doctor'
Wounded paratrooper told he may lose £25k compensation after he was pictured holding Carling Cup at Wembley
Paralysed in an attack in Afghanistan, Private Dave Tatlock was told he would never walk again.
But the 20-year-old drew on all his battlefield courage to prove the doctors wrong, making slow but steady progress over two difficult years with the aid of a stick.
In a salute to his bravery, he was invited to be a guest of honour when his beloved Manchester United played Aston Villa in the Carling Cup final at Wembley in February. He even carried the trophy on to the pitch.
(H/T Mr Waring for last two items)
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Quentin Davies' shoe-in....Nick Boles
Boles was a scholar at Winchester College before studying PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford, then winning a Kennedy Scholarship to study for a Master's in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
In 1995, he founded a small DIY supply small business—Longwall Holdings Limited—of which he is non-executive chairman, having served as the chief executive until 2000.[1] In 1998, he was elected to Westminster City Council for the West End ward comprising Mayfair and Soho. He was chairman of the Housing Committee from 1999 to 2001, before stepping down in 2002. During much of this time, Boles flatshared with fellow Conservative activists, Michael Gove and Ivan Massow. He and Gove, along with fellow Westminster Conservatives Ed Vaizey, David Cameron, George Osborne and Rachel Whetstone, are sometimes referred to as the 'Notting Hill Set' an influential group of relatively young Conservatives.[2] He founded the think tank Policy Exchange in 2002 and served as the Director until leaving the organisation in 2007 to avoid a potential conflict of interest. During his tenure Policy Exchange became one of the most influential think tanks in the country, especially after David Cameron was elected Conservative Party leader in 2005.[3]
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Keiser Report №31: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of Tony "No Blood for Oil" Blair lying about selling the UK gold supply on "technical advice of the Bank of England;" a millionaire tramp in Sweden and a casino that refuses to pay in America; and, finally, the Irish 'Bad Bank' and the 'Celtic Chernobyl.'
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Mass Depopulation, Genocide, WW3? Part 1- The link to the New World Order
UK, April 2, 2010 Palestine Telegraph - This heading may appear alarming to some people but is there a hidden master plan? Is it possible that some aspects of this has already started and if so how and who is involved. We hear so many times of the so called “New World Order and the “Illuminati” but does it actually exist? What ever you want to call this elite organisation one can say with some certainty that it does certainly exist. I also find it incredible that this relatively small group can change the course of history and we the millions may have no power to stop it.
So where does this start and who is involved?
Deflation on the prowl as Bernanke shuts down his printing press
The most audacious monetary experiment in modern history ended on April Fools' Day. America must walk without crutches, on gangrenous legs.
Public sector pension black hole to cost taxpayers an extra £330 a year
Workers will have to pay an extra £330 a year each in tax to help plug the growing black hole in the cost of public sector pensions, business leaders warned last night
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Eleven rapists and hundreds of other sex offenders 'let off with cautions'
Eleven rapists and hundreds of other self-confessed sex offenders have been let off with cautions over the past five years in one police force area alone, figures show.
(but you'll get a £1000 fine and a tag for selling a goldfish to a minor)
Fiddling those smoking figures again
Anti-smoking campaigners' use of statistics has become ever wilder
How to Survive The Three Most Imminent Disasters of 2010-2012
Needless to say, I'm delighted to see my book surge to #2!
But what pleases me even more is the fact that more investors are finally learning how to take urgently-needed steps to prepare for THREE major disasters — and profit opportunities — dead ahead
Banks to face 'excess profits tax' to help governments around the world raise cash
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considering plans for an 'excess profits tax' on banks worldwide to raise cash in the wake of the financial crisis, it was reported today.
The IMF is expected to recommend the tax as a means of raising significant sums of money from the banking sector without dramatically affecting the work of the financial system.
It will sit alongside a global levy on bank balance sheets as the grip tightens on the sector following the mammoth bail-outs seen during the meltdown
Good riddance to this rotten Parliament
There will be no weeping, wailing or gnashing of teeth when this Parliament finally croaks its last. Nor will there be any mourners around its death-bed.
Rarely - if ever before - in this nation's history has a Parliament earned so much contempt and scorn from the people it is supposed to represent.
I have been reporting at Westminster for just a few months short of half a century and never, during that time, has there been such a backlash of fury from the British voting public.
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Bio Marine scientists: ocean acidification most dangerous affect of global warming
Ocean acidification is described as the ongoing decrease in the pH or salinity of the Earth's oceans caused by the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
HAWKINS: Global warming is back
After two years of rau-cous meetings at great ho-tels and re-sorts around the world, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) failed to deliver a treaty in Copenhagen in December. The clash of national interests over who would be required to cripple their economies to "save the planet" from the chimera of global warming proved insurmountable. The flawed process should have ended, but UNFCCC is pressing on. Talks will open again in Bonn on Friday, to be followed by several more negotiating junkets before a grand sequel to Copenhagen is held next December in Cancun, Mexico.
Last Stand Against UK Digital Economy Bill and Dangerous Internet Restrictions
Today, adverts in the Guardian and Times will call on Government MPs to make sure the Digital Economy Bill (DEB) receives full debate, rather than being rushed through ‘wash-up’. DEB, which is designed to tackle online copyright infringement, could spell the end of public / open Wi-Fi Hotspots, force legitimate websites to close (potentially this might even affect Google and YouTube) and could result in innocent broadband ISP users being disconnected from the internet.
Food Crisis Looming Around the Corner
An aggressive push in agriculture is essential
In a report prepared for the first-ever meeting of the Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), researchers paint a bleak picture of the future. They say that, unless immediate action is taken on increasing the world's food supply, we could soon be faced with a crisis unlike any other we ever witnessed. The largest amount of work needs to be placed in poorer nations, which have been kept subservient for centuries, but which now need to become able to feed themselves. Most of these areas do not contribute to the global food supply in a noteworthy proportion.
Labour's blown £1.5 Billion on advice
MINISTERS have blown a huge £1.5BILLION of taxpayers' money on ADVICE over the past five years.
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We're part of the Union, but our politics are very different
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Managers in the NHS' should be paid more'
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UK house prices face prolonged bear market
The housing market may now be trapped in a long-term bear market and may not bounce back to the peaks it reached in 2007 for generations, a leading economic consultancy has warned.
CBI issues 100-day challenge on public sector pensions
The CBI has issued a warning to the next government: reform public sector pensions or watch a £1,000 billion taxpayer liability spiral out of control.
Millions prepare to count the cost of new tax regime
People returning to work after Easter face a series of tax bombshells set to detonate today as the Chancellor seeks to pay down public debt.
Virtually all of the new charges, such as the 50p rate of income tax and the freezing of tax thresholds, have been planned for some time — but this will not do much to ease the pain as taxpayers see nearly £20 billion disappear from their pockets over the next couple of years.
Here Comes The Pound Roller Coaster Now That U.K. Election Day Has Been Named
The U.K. just entered its election season and the pound could be rocked by further poll anxiety as the May date comes closer.
13 years on, new Labour has come full circle
It’s just like the 1997 election. The only tactic the governing party has left is to sow the seeds of fear
PETROL PRICE HITS RECORD HIGH...AND WORSE IS TO COME
THE price of petrol reached its highest ever level over the Easter weekend, with rocketing oil costs set to bring even more misery to motorists.
More than 50 suspected war criminals living in Britain, says Aegis Trust
More than 50 suspected war criminals are living freely in Britain after Scotland Yard was unable to prosecute them.
Member of Hollie’s Army targets Malcolm Chisholm SMP
Thanks to the very fine efforts of Mark Welsh (an active member), Hollie’s supporters have now been able (via Mark) to not only air their concerns and views but also had the opportunity to hand over a brief to Malcolm Chisholm SMP the member for Edinburgh North and Leith.
Impending GMO Contamination of the Food Chain
Farmers and Consumers Demand Prohibition of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
“The US economy will not recover for at least another decade” – Engdahl
American bankers see themselves as the gods of money, a class above mere mortals, and they can do what they wish, said renowned economic researcher and historian William Engdahl in an interview with RT.
National debt seen heading for crisis level
Health care may have been the last big bang of the Obama presidency.
With ferocious speed, the financial crisis, recession and efforts to combat the recession have swung the U.S. debt from worrisome to ruinous, promising to handcuff the administration.
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A new charity that suits female job-hunters
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Soldier, 26, dies after fall from rickshaw
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Monday, 5 April 2010
Wikileaks leaked video of Civilians killed in Baghdad — Full video
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com/
Amazing Presentation On The End Of The Copper Era
Death Camps Warned Being Prepared As Millions In US Left Hopeless
VKS satellites had been tasked with overseeing this vast area of the United States after Obama had ordered all of these 13 million acres not to be flown over by aircraft or trespassed upon under threat of life imprisonment. A chilling Russian Space Forces (VKS) report prepared for Prime Minister Putin is warning today the United States is in the process of constructing at least 300 massive “death camps”in 11 of their Western States secret documents had previously revealed President Obama’s Department of the Interior was preparing to take over in a massive 13-million acre land grab against his own people.
These reports further state that the US Northern American Command has been put in charge of this “death camp” project and in their largest logistical deployment since World War IIare moving massive amounts of equipment from their war zones to America in preparation for “relocating” nearly 30 million of their citizens into them over the next 3 years.
British People Put Last: £1.1 Billion Cut in Schools Budget — But £3 Billion for Afghanistan War
The schools budget in Britain has been cut by £1.1 billion while Government spending on the war in Afghanistan has risen to £3 billion per year.
More Surveillance: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Buses
Brown hails move on global bank tax
Gordon Brown on Sunday said the large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks that would cost the financial sector billions of pounds a year but played down expectations that a deal could be struck at the next Group of 20 meeting in June.
(A very important milestone on the road to Global Government-ukws)
Greenpeace To Global Warming Skeptics: “We Know Where You Live”
An article carried by the official Greenpeace website written by a Greenpeace member urges climate activists to resort to criminal activity in an effort to reinvigorate momentum for their stalling global warming agenda, while ominously threatening climate skeptics, “we know where you live”.
The article, written by Greenpeace activist “Gene” from India, calls for “mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism”.
“Gene” then has a special message for roughly half of Americans who, in the wake of the climategate scandal, are now skeptical of man-made global warming – “We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few.”
“Gene” quotes another climate activist who calls for an army of greenies to break the law and take retribution against anyone who stands in their way.
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Labour is 'worst government ever', says Mark Serwotka
The Labour government has been branded the "worst in the history of this country” by the head of one of Britain’s biggest trade unions.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said the government’s poor treatment of public sector workers meant it was a worse employer than the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher or John Major.
In a bitter attack, he called for unions to take “united industrial action” as a last resort to defend jobs, pensions and services.
In scenes reminiscent of union rallies of the 60s and 70s, teachers chanted “the workers, united, will never be defeated” as they gave Mr Serwotka a standing ovation
(ukws has, and will be, searching the video channels for this speech and will post when found-nothing on the BBC tho-how odd! if anyones got a link let me know)
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Harriet - Debate The Digital Economy Bill
Harriet Harman MP, Leader of the House of Commons, will – on Thursday afternoon – have to explain the Government’s plans for the Digital Economy Bill.
The Bill has suffered from huge manipulation by lobbyists, including insertion of entire new clauses at the behest of music lobbyists the BPI, and accusations that Lords amended the Bill without declaring their interests.
The Bill still includes highly controversial measures to disconnect families from the internet after allegations of copyright infringement. There are as yet unknown measures to block websites, with the potential for censorship. Such measures should not be rushed through during ‘wash up.
Harriet Harman, as Leader of the Commons has the power to recommend the Parliamentary timetable. That’s why we are asking for her to guarantee that the Bill receive full, line by line scrutiny. Nothing less will do. Take action now – email Harriet. It’ll take you less than 2 minutes.
(Click link above to participate)
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U.S. Treasury Bond Market Alert: This Should Scare The Heck Out of All of Us Right Now
Interest rates in the bond market are rising. The issue is now center stage according to a fresh article on the subject at MarketWatch. I'm afraid hell has arrived, while the market is still doing its best to ignore it. Its easy to explain and understand why and it is frightening to consider the coming consequence. More so, it is a timely issue currently being ignored by the markets but ready to rear its ugly head.
State Services Start To Collapse Across The US and Europe
Reading the pages of the financial news, you would be forgiven for imagining the dawn of a new golden age was breaking. The Dow Jones hits a new high each week. Optimism is back in vogue. All memories of the recent Lehman and Bear Stearns collapses, and subprime defaults are missing from the front pages.
The Long Wave (aka The K Wave) “Jubilee” Cycle
The long wave debate rages on. Meanwhile, the global debt berg, the chief product of crony state capitalism, has begun to block the profligate paths of listing ships of state. The confident captains of crony state capitalism are at the helm, sailing into the foggy financial abyss of cascading sovereign debt defaults. The growing black hole of sovereign debt threatens to pull the global economy into its collapsing vortex, the quintessential black swan event. Coming out the other side of the black hole of collapsing debt beyond 2012, we suspect the world will be a very different place. A new golden age will dawn.
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UK Rapper eXposing Surveillance Madness
UK Rapper eXposing Surveillance Madness Grate Britain featuring LOKI
When Freedom Radiates & Truth Resonates, Tyranny Falls.
Big Brother Surveillance Society is NOT there to "protect" you, but to protect the NWO Mafia, they know YOU gonna be -Mad as Hell- about their abuse of power !
Hijacked Governments Legalize Corporate Crimes & Criminalizing Real Solutions: Suppressed inventions & Alternative Cures, google "When Healing Becomes a Crime" & "Hemp Revolution"
From Ekomatrixtv
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PM’s ‘sneaky tax’ rise claims
GORDON Brown was yesterday accused of hammering hard-working Brits with a series of sneaky tax rises.
Tory figures showed average National Insurance receipts have risen FIVE TIMES faster than income tax since 2001.
And the average family has seen its NI contributions soar by TWELVE TIMES as much as its income tax bills.
Does Labour expect taxpayers to pay for the NI rise in the public sector, too?
Private-sector workers will have to pay twice for Labour's tax rise on jobs.
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VC hero refuses to shake Gordon Brown's hand because of 'disrespect' for Armed Forces
Victoria Cross hero Johnson Beharry revealed today he refused to shake Gordon Brown's hand in protest at the PM's 'disrespect' for the Armed Forces.
The lance corporal said he turned round and walked off as the Premier offered his hand during a Remembrance Day service last November.
L/Cpl Beharry told The Sun he was 'absolutely furious' at the way Mr Brown fidgeted and moved during the two-minute silence, adding: 'All that was going through my head was to knock him out.
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U.K. Housing Heading For A Double Dip
Real estate agent Savills believes that U.K. housing prices could be in for a multi-year bull market... after they've double dipped (fallen again) first
IMF: This Recovery Will Die Without More Stimulus
The global recovery, and all the good data we've seen, depends heavily on government stimulus.
Still.
Says the IMF's managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn:
Russia Warns US Communist Threat Endangering Entire World
In a chilling speech to Russian defense experts on March 1, Prime Minister Putin ordered the buildup of strategic weapons and warned that the growing threat of the expansion of American Communism is endangering the entire World and bringing the Motherland closer to war than at any time since the1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Putin had previously warned the United States against its planned adoption of Communism during his January, 2009 speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland upon Obama taking office, and had stated:
“The concentration of surplus assets in the hands of the state is a negative aspect of anti-crisis measures in virtually every nation. In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”
Unfortunately though, Obama, and those Communist forces backing him, do want to see this monster of a system repeated and have in the past year accelerated the United States descent into the abyss of total state control over all aspects of Americans lives and have created one of the most all encompassing “surveillance societies” our World has ever seen.
While America Drowns, Obama and the Elites Party
There is, yet again, something very Romanesque about the state of the Americans, their empire and their collapse. As the US continues to sink in its co-UK created economic armageddon, the ruling regime enjoys the fruits of its labour of looting and swindling. This is the great “Democracy” they sell us, overseas.
Inflation warning etched in steel
Rising steel prices -- a symptom of the nation's money printing -- are a harbinger of increases in other industries
UK ‘Could Not Fight A War With Iran’
Britain does not currently have the military resources to engage in a conflict with Iran, according to a leading defence analyst.
Influential Senior Tory Dismisses David Cameron’s Party as “Demented, Un-British” and “Inspired by Leftist Subversive”
Influential Conservative Party journalist Gerald Warner, who served as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland during the John Major administration, has dismissed David Cameron’s party as “demented, un-British” and “inspired by [a] leftist subversive” who “dedicated his work to Lucifer.”
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Economic Doomsday 2012 In The Cards
Many of you surely remember that in 2008, the world elites urged a coordinated action to tackle the threatening down turn, plunging their respective countries deeper into debt to give the bankers an unlimited amount of blank checks, while convincing taxpayers to foot the bill under the guise of acting to save their jobs. Now that the bailouts' side effects are spreading like wild-fire and have obviously become global, the odds are setting us up for a day of reckoning the like of which has never been seen. Liquidation of the Western middle class is unavoidable; let alone the developing countries: for them it will be a lot worse as they have borrowed (from now bankrupt empires) since the end of the colonies. They earned not their independence but a colonization of another kind. If there is no major wake-up call, the entire planet will be left in the hands of a few fascist banks and corporations at the head of a World Government. The wolves in sheep clothing have worked on this for more than 300 years. Money doesn't mean anything to them, but power
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BROWN SHAM ON MIGRATION
WHEN Gordon Brown unveiled an immigration crackdown last week, clearly he really meant to announce a crackdown on immigration officers
Britain's Brown says bank levy accord close: report
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the world's large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks to help prevent another financial crisis, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
Global warming: Greenpeace abandons reality--lies, libel and scummy behaviour are more fun, I guess
Greenpeace is an environmental organisation that thinks global warming is the challenge of our age. It is natural for them to combat opposing opinions, and vigorously. We would think less of them if they didn't.
But they have just published a report that flings mud in all directions, obscuring the issue they need to highlight. What they have done in this report is wrong, and will serve them badly in the future. The main target of their report is Koch Industries, a private oil firm that has contributed close to $25 million over the past 4 years to what Greenpeace calls 'a climate denial machine.'
Many families ‘living on a financial precipice’
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Climate Change Act has the biggest ever bill
Ed Miliband's legislation will cost us hundreds of billions over the next 40 years, says Christopher Booker
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Power of the pupils: Child 'spies' allowed to sabotage the careers of teachers
Pupil 'spies' are attempting to rid schools of strict teachers by sabotaging their promotions and snitching on their lessons, it has been claimed.
Number of British troops losing limbs in conflict rising sharply, report shows
Last year, 54 men lost at least one limb, more than the total for the last three years, according to official statistics
Big Brother and the Hidden Hand of the "Free Market"
"Managing" Data and Dissent in America
Labour throws £18bn at doomed crime fight as fewer offenders are brought to justice
A leaked dossier has revealed that a justice system which swallows unprecedented sums of money is failing to catch or properly punish millions of criminals
Alistair Darling got his forecasts all wrong, IMF will say
Britain's economic growth will be a full percentage point below the Chancellor's rose-tinted forecast, according to a leaked IMF report.
Almost 150 grasping MPs to retire at next election with average £1m pay off EACH
MPs who were caught fiddling their expenses will be among those receiving a share of £153million in golden goodbyes when they stand down from Parliament at the general election.
Bill for police pensions soars as officers retire earlier
The cost of pensions for retired police personnel has increased sharply due to early retirement, according to figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats
GORDON BROWN’S IMMIGRATION SHAME OVER PLANS TO CUT BORDER AGENCY STAFF
GORDON Brown’s promise to crack down on immigration was in tatters last night after secret plans to slash Border Agency staff emerged.
OBAMA- A CHICAGO SCUMBAG IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
Brown risks all in attack on Tory tax cut plans
Gordon Brown will launch a make-or-break assault on Conservative economic plans today as he seeks to re-energise the Labour campaign after its worst week of the year
US special forces 'tried to cover-up' botched Khataba raid in Afghanistan
US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened
Conservatives call for 'in your face policing'
The Conservatives will signal that they intend to make crime a central issue of the general election by demanding “in your face policing” to combat social disorder
Reporting the Dirty, Nasty, Stinking, Accurate Truth About Our Government
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Greenland's melting ice?
Breathless reporting last week of a new estimate of Greenland's melting ice.
It's higher than it was before:
"The changes on the Greenland ice sheet are happening fast, and we are definitely losing more ice mass than we had anticipated," says study co-author Isabella Velicogna of the University of California-Irvine.
Matt Ridley - click to read in full.
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The Griffin, the Righteous and Hercules the Parrot.
This is a very tangled one. Even a mustachioed Belgian detective would have trouble with it. Columbo would call it a five-cigar job. However, I think the BNP come out of it rather well, in the end. I cannot say whether it was devised or accidental but it has 'Agatha Christie' all over it.
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A "death spiral" for warmists
Jonathan Leake in The Sunday Times picks up on the news that the size of the Arctic ice cap has increased sharply to levels not seen since 2001, putting the ice extent two days ago almost at the average level for 1979-2000.
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Burnt breakfast sees fire crews sent to Tony Blair's £6m stately home
Three fire engines were sent to Tony Blair’s £6m stately home in Buckinghamshire after the former prime minister triggered smoke alarms while cooking breakfast.
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Stock Market Crash of 2014
More than $8 trillion in U.S. government stimulus stabilized the financial system and has restored $6 trillion to stock market valuations since March 9, 2009. Shares prices continue to be buoyed by cheap money as the Federal Reserve keeps its target rate for overnight loans between banks near zero and worker productivity climbed at the fastest rate in seven years. Inflation remains contained, with consumer prices excluding food and energy below 2 % . Home prices increased seven straight months through December, 2009 according to the Case-Shiller Index.
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Will the baby-boomers bankrupt Britain?
It is the election issue that dwarfs all others: the post-war generation is coming up to its retirement and it is the rest of the country that must foot the enormous bill for looking after them. Paul Vallely (born in 1951) wonders how on earth this demographic timebomb can be defused
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On the impact of online advertising
Seamus McCauley is horrifed by the effect of online targetted advetising upon politics. Essentially, it's possibly to target such advertising so precisely that only the losers from a particular political proposal will see the ads. So instead of everyone considering said policy, only those who would suffer are alerted to it and of course, only those who would lose from it are likely to start shouting about how it shouldn't happen.
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MPs begin the Climategate whitewash
To anyone who watched or read the hearings of the Commons committee looking into "Climategate", the scandal over leaked documents from the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, two things might have been obvious. The first was that all but one of the MPs (Labour's Graham Stringer) were hopelessly out of their depth in their efforts to understand this not very complex story. The other was that their chief purpose was to find that the CRU and its director, Professor Philip Jones, had done nothing wrong and that the case for man-made global warming remained intact.
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AIDS vaccines stop working after a few months, shocked researchers discover
An experimental new AIDS vaccine is proving to be effective for only a very short time, according to researchers who have been finding it difficult to explain whether or not the drug is actually useful. Dr. Nelson Michael, a colonel at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute of Research in Maryland, and his team observed only a minor, temporal benefit in patients who took the vaccine, followed by a decline in efficacy.
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Report: Islamic Jihad to stop rocket fire on Israel
Islamic Jihad on Sunday announced that it would cease firing rockets into Israel, Channel 10 news reported.
An Islamic Jihad spokesman, Daoud Shihab, made the announcement in an interview on Islamic Jihad radio, during which he reportedly said the militant group, "stopped the rocket fire into Israel for internal Palestinian purposes - first and foremost to help end the siege on the Gaza Strip."
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GREEN “BULLIES” ARE PLANNING TO KILL OFF WASTEBINS AT WORK, THE TORIES CLAIMED YESTERDAY
GREEN “bullies” are planning to kill off wastebins at work, the Tories claimed yesterday.
They accused ministers of wanting to introduce draconian rules on recycling that are already imposed on householders.
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Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps
Reports about the melting ice caps are distressing, but for the most part climate change remains abstract. The poor polar bear has been trotted out as the tangible face of global warming so often that we're beginning to see "polar bear fatigue." How about bringing the effects of Arctic melt close to home, as in what it will cost? A new study does just that, and the results are alarming, not just for Arctic dwellers but for all of us. According to lead author Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., over the next 40 years Arctic ice melt will take an economic toll of between $2.4 trillion and $24 trillion. Unless we change course — and fast.
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Scotland Week event clash gives rise to claims of Westminster spoiling tactics
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Tory election candidate quits over party's 'nest of vipers'
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Sunday, 4 April 2010
Peter Mandelson makes an idiot of himself
Unelected peer Peter Mandelson gives an interview where he makes a complete idiot of himself, attacking the Conservatives, but strangely silent on what New Labour have ruined over 13 years. If he believes in New Labour, why does he not relinquish his peerage, and stand to be an MP. Or is it that life is too cushy as a peer, and he remains a peer for life, and is accountable to NOBODY.
Recorded from Sky News, 04 April 2010.
From Liarpoliticians
Webster Tarpley Covers Globalized Terrorism to usher in a Total Police State on Alex Jones Tv
From Popwau
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David Cameron's Big Society is a grotesque fantasy inspired by leftist subversive Saul Alinsky
“This plan is directly based on the successful community organising movement established by Saul Alinsky in the United States and has successfully trained generations of community organisers, including President Obama.”
Human rights taking over our laws, warns chief judge
Lord Judge made the remark in a defence of Britain's sovereignty
Britain's most senior judge has urged the courts to save common law from being overtaken by European human rights rules.
Brown tells illegal migrants: 'You are not welcome'
Gordon Brown: "The debate is about controlling immigration for a fairer Britain"
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stepped up his pre-election rhetoric on immigration by telling would-be illegal migrants: "You are not welcome."
In a staunch defence of national sovereignty, the Lord Chief Justice declared that this country's courts must have the final say.
BROWN'S BETRAYAL TO BLAME FOR VANISHING PENSIONS
ONE in five people retiring this year expect to receive a pension of less than £10,000 a year, research revealed yesterday.
Buying votes is easy when the bill isn't yours
Labour has embarked on a spending plan that Britain can ill afford, says Jeremy Warner.
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Taxpayers facing pensions burden as local government deficits hit £60bn
The depth of the funding crisis facing public sector pension schemes has become clearer after a new study found local authority deficits have soared to almost £60bn.
Tony Blair irks villagers again... this time after three fire engines are sent to put out burnt toast
Three fire engines were called to Tony and Cherie Blair's £6million mansion this weekend after toast in the former Prime Minister's kitchen caught on fire.
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From Hero to Zero
When the sniper opened fire, Michael Clohessy reacted first and fastest. It was the summer of 2004, and the 26-year-old private from Walton in Liverpool was serving with the 1st Battalion the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment in Basra. In the clipped assessment of one officer, he was “a cracking soldier, super-fit, bags of potential, and very mature”.
Indeed, during the battalion’s deployment at Basra’s Old State Building, when the British Army were engaged regularly by insurgents, Clohessy had more than proved his worth.
So, when a sniper started taking pot shots at a joint British Army and Iraqi police patrol on a patch of wasteland, Clohessy knew what to do. He shouldered an injured Iraqi policeman and took him to safety behind a nearby wall, before pushing two of his colleagues, who had momentarily frozen as bullets thudded around them, out of harm’s way. He then moved into the open ground and returned fire on the enemy with his machine gun. “I don’t know whether I hit him or not, but I pretty much took down the building with him in it,” he remembers. Either way, the sniper was silenced.
Nine months later, Clohessy stood before a judge at Liverpool crown court, on trial for grievous bodily harm with intent and affray. He had just begun his second tour of Iraq when he was pulled home to appear in the dock. The court heard that Clohessy had committed a violent assault outside the Barlow Arms pub in Walton, in Liverpool, on December 31, 2003, at a New Year’s Eve party that had gone haywire. His victim, William Littlemore, suffered a fractured skull and permanently impaired vision as a result of the attack.
During the proceedings, the court also heard about Clohessy’s valour. He was, said his barrister, a hero who had “saved the lives of two young soldiers and also an Iraqi policeman” in a display of great courage. Nevertheless, the soldier was found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison. The judge took one year off his term on account of his service. He spent three years “rotting in a bastard cell” before being released in 2008.
Clohessy has since returned to the streets of Walton where he grew up. When we meet, he is unemployed, psychiatrically unstable and bitter. Physically, he does not betray symptoms of breakdown — he is fit and tanned, with close-cropped hair, large ears and a flashy smile. But he drinks heavily. During our interview, he downs vodka with a friend before noon. His mother, who now sees him rarely, thinks he is also using cocaine.
When Clohessy speaks, he does so in rapid-fire bursts, before losing concentration. The tour of Basra with the Cheshire regiment was, he says, the only time in his life when he felt a true sense of purpose. But when he closes his eyes he can still picture dead Iraqis. He can still smell the cordite from expended rounds. He remembers being particularly shaken when he was assigned to collect the body of Gordon Gentle, a 19-year-old Royal Highland Fusilier, whose Snatch Land Rover was hit by a roadside bomb in Basra. An official inquest would later say that Gentle’s death was avoidable — the army had failed to install an electronic countermeasure against IEDs called element B onto his vehicle, which might have saved his life — and his mother, Rose Gentle, is now one of Britain’s most vocal anti-war activists. Clohessy remembers kicking her son’s boot as he lay in the hospital, and battling with the reality of what he was witnessing. “Jock was alive this morning,” he says. “Now he’s dead. I thought, ‘What the f*** is going on here?’”
Clohessy tells me he is prone to fits of guilt and depression that started in prison, when he was locked up with nothing to do but “go over and over in my head about the war”, and which continue to this day. Four years ago, after a series of violent incidents and flashbacks, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by a doctor who visited him in prison. Sometimes his rage becomes so intense that he shuts himself in his house and refuses to see anyone for days. Meanwhile, he struggles to maintain relationships, including his relation-ship with the mother of his six-year-old son. This is unsurprising: Clohessy sleeps with a sword under his pillow.
We send too many ex-servicemen to prison. How many, nobody is sure. A recent study by the National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) estimated that there may be as many as 8,500 ex-servicemen in prison out of a total prison population of 92,000. Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the organisation, believes that around 8% of Britons in jail are from the forces. The vast majority of these offenders are from the army, and a large majority of the ex-army are from the infantry. But other groups have taken issue with Napo’s findings. The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defence conducted their own survey, which they published in January, concluding that only 3% of the prison population were former members of the military — around 2,500 veterans in total.
Who to believe? Fletcher brought attention to the issue after hearing anecdotal evidence about the problem. He conducted his own inquiries via email with probation officers. On the basis of his calculations (supported by the fact that America’s ex-service prison population is around 9%), Fletcher believes the government has underplayed the numbers.
Certainly, the issue was striking enough for the Howard League for Penal Reform to begin an inquiry. “We began on the basis of the Napo figure, which has now been cast into doubt,” says Andrew Neilson, of the Howard League. “But
I suspect the truth is that the figure is somewhere between 3% and 8%. And that still makes servicemen by far the largest occupational group in prison. That is well worth investigating.”
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Tea Party spirit firing red-state Britain
If only these extremists had an outlet in mainstream politics and their ideas challenged in a serious way
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Has the standard of living reduced in the UK?
Over the last two years, since the onset of the credit crunch and the recession, there is no doubt that UK consumers and UK businesses have struggled with their finances. We have seen, and continue to see, the cost of living in the UK move higher and higher with concerns about value for money and the future. But has the standard of living in the UK fallen over the last decade?
Labour secretly planning to cut front line immigration officials
Conservatives can today reveal that Gordon Brown has asked for voluntary redundancies from front line immigration officers working for the UK Borders Agency.
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Tracking the Illuminati on Facebook
"I found myself at home amongst the Rothschild clan, as if inadvertently ambling into the family estate on an evening stroll."
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The Cashless Society - Alex Jones on Economics 101
corbettreport — 25 March 2010 — Syndicated talk radio host and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones joins us on Economics 101 to discuss the cashless society. We discuss the looming reality of the scientific control grid and how people can fruitfully resist it.
Salbuchi - We, The People Fighting You, One-Worldlers...
arsalbuchi — Some practical ideas for a Globally coordinated Action Plan
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Government for the People or Over the People?
How can you tell whether a government is for the people or over the people? Here are some tell-tale signs:
The Truth about Facebook!
Do you have a Facebook? Do you use it regularly?
Do you think what happins in Facebook stays in Facebook?
Watch this..
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