Watch and read Jeremy Corbyn's full Labour conference speech here http://t.co/5jmoyyZChC pic.twitter.com/74Ga5mCfLj
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) September 29, 2015
In the word's of Bruce Forsyth: didn't he do well?
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Watch and read Jeremy Corbyn's full Labour conference speech here http://t.co/5jmoyyZChC pic.twitter.com/74Ga5mCfLj
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) September 29, 2015
Dear Coleen
I'm getting rather concerned about my husband.
First he lets some violent extremist Muslims loose in Libya, supporting them with our RAF and SAS, who then kill Colonel Gaddafi even though Gaddafi was giving the names of those violent extremist muslims to our MI6.
He then tries to do the same in Syria, but it's not worked out how he wanted, so he is becoming rather depressed.
But he also uses armed police to seal off a wood just so he can take it all out on and kill pigeons in secret!
And now my friends are telling me that there are photographs of him with his thingy in a pig's mouth, which if true would make him an easy target for blackmail. But I sat down with him last night after putting the kids to bed and asked him about this pig story, and he denies it all, but he is not going to prosecute the gossipmongers because he says he is "too busy".
But if he has nothing hide then he has nothing to fear, doesn't he?
Why doesn't he prosecute them for slander, if it was all lies? Because I would. Just think what all the gossip will do to our children?
I'm losing all respect for my husband. He is becoming a right fascist bastard.
What should I do?
Yours truly
Samantha from the Chipping Snorton set.
Report the sociopath to the police.
And get out of your marriage ASAP!!
I used to be a lot more critical of Israel until I stopped looking at the situation emotionally and looked at the facts.
I’ve made several videos about this subject, so I won’t go over it again here, except to say that I now believe that the only obstacle to a peaceful solution is Arab Muslim intransigence driven by crude religious hatred, and that the western world is collaborating with a monstrous lie.
In short, I support Israel, a civilised pluralist democracy where all citizens, Jewish and Arab, are equal.
Don’t believe the “apartheid” propaganda.
Here are a few videos telling the truth about Israel and “Palestine”.
From day one, Assad facilitated the rise of Isis to make the choice one of him v takfiris. Remarkably, his strategy worked over America's.
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) September 28, 2015
Daily Beast Senior Editor,
CNN Contributor,
Editor http://interpretermag.com ,
Co-author of NYT Bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
It would be good if the politicians and policy makers debating and proposing Syria policy actually understood the conflict, but alas....
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) September 27, 2015
#Assad is protecting [the non-Wahhabi] Syrian people.
#Putin has Assad's back
#XiJinping has Putin's back https://t.co/l8DmB6aupl
— Mark Sleboda (@MarkSleboda1) September 28, 2015
John Terry spotted parking his £200,000 Range Rover in a disabled bay http://t.co/RfiQvHU9hK pic.twitter.com/6kpBJa4IFR
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) September 27, 2015
Ukrainian Authorities to Open Criminal Case Against PM Yatsenyuk - Lawmaker http://t.co/8ED1yXUqiA pic.twitter.com/DYCZkoglbG
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) September 27, 2015
A TEACHING assistant has been locked up for engaging in sexual activity with a teenage pupil – after her husband secretly filmed the pair.
Sarah Candy, 36, was caught on a hidden camera “kissing and cuddling” the boy on the bed she shared with her husband James, 41.
Northampton Crown Court heard that Sara had told James – who set up the camera that snared his wife – she wanted to leave him just one week before he caught her in the act.
It’s claimed James – who had been married to his wife for 19 years – became increasingly suspicious about her relationship with the pupil at the school where she worked.
As a result, he turned detective and left his phone on record in the bedroom of their marital home in Corby, Northamptonshire.
Devastated at what was captured on the device, James handed his phone over to police – and his wife was charged with sexual assault with a boy under 16.
Sarah pleaded guilty in court and has been jailed for one year.
[source : Female teacher jailed for sex with pupil after hubby filmed them, The Sun, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/6661462/Female-teacher-jailed-for-sex-with-pupil-after-hubby-filmed-them.html, 26th September 2015]
Jeremy Corbyn: 9/11 was 'manipulated' http://t.co/4RLFGHLVyK pic.twitter.com/S0dZTngOYa
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 26, 2015
In keeping with this theme, guests were escorted on arrival into a large marquee containing a bar, red suede sofas and glass-topped coffee tables — designed, they were told, to aid drug-taking.
They were greeted by one of the Society’s 12 members — an old boy of Marlborough College, the £34,000-a-year boarding school once attended by the Duchess of Cambridge.
‘He was standing on a table, welcoming everyone to the party,’ recalls the English student.
‘Then all of a sudden, two men got on their knees in front of him, lifted up his toga and began performing a sex act while he was still speaking.
...But vast quantities of drugs certainly help loosen inhibitions — indeed, within a few hours, the party had degenerated into what one guest describes as ‘essentially, a mass orgy’.
He recalls: ‘People began having sex with complete strangers. It got progressively wilder, thanks to the social lubricant of alcohol and all the drugs in the world.
‘In the tents there were whole piles of people, writhing around on top of each other.
‘The next day, a male friend of mine admitted to having sex with 27 different people.’
Outside, things were barely different. ‘By the early hours of the morning, the sex tent was full and you could hardly move without tripping over groups of boys and girls fumbling, hallucinating and just drifting around,’ recalls another guest.
...All of which was, if nothing else, squarely in keeping with the Piers Gaveston’s upper-class tradition.
One of the Society’s original founders was Valentine Guinness, a brewing heir whose father was Lord Moyne and whose mother was Blackshirts political leader Oswald Mosley’s former wife Diana Mitford.
...he following year, the Evening Standard reported that ‘Lord Rothschild’s boy Nat led the way’ at the bash, ‘giving an exemplary performance as the High Priest of Pain, in so doing delighting Emily Mortimer [daughter of Rumpole author John and now a Hollywood actress]’.
Today, Rothschild is a billionaire famed for being thrashed with birch twigs while sharing a sauna with the then EU commissioner Lord Mandelson during a 2005 trip to Russia. Perhaps he got the idea from one of the Piers Gaveston bashes.
Other guests during the mid-Nineties included the future Tory MP Rory Stewart.
[source : Mass orgies, official drug dealers and the 'Lord High Spanker': Why THAT story about Cameron is nothing compared to the jaw-dropping debauchery of today's Oxford toffs, Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3249633/Mass-orgies-official-drug-dealers-Lord-High-Speaker.html, 25th September 2015]
Sky Poll: Support Rises For UK Troops In Syria http://t.co/j0hpVF67Lh
— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 26, 2015
#Poroshenko: #Saakashvili can become #PM of #Ukraine after December 11 #NewsFromDonbass http://t.co/ZGWkDXyth0 pic.twitter.com/ixVxkkargu
— News from Donbas (@NewsFromDonbass) September 25, 2015
The Pope is a political prostitute who is betraying Christianity & selling out the principles of freedom https://t.co/n3nWTvnyMd #PopeinNYC
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 24, 2015
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he has not yet made up his mind whether he will kneel in front of the Queen when he takes part in the ceremony that will make him a privy counsellor. Giving what he described as an “honest answer” to ITV News, Corbyn said he had yet to receive a formal invitation to the ceremony.
[source : Jeremy Corbyn 'has not decided' whether to kneel in front of the Queen, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/24/jeremy-corbyn-kneel-queen-privy-council-labour-conference, 24th September 2015]
I (name of Member) swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.
[source : Swearing in and the parliamentary oath, The Houses of Parliament, http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/swearingin]/
Tribunal May Be Formed for Malaysia Flight 17 Jet Lost Over Ukraine http://t.co/4LTUzXqytI
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) September 24, 2015
Swedish refugees are more than welcome in my house. http://t.co/CVrqbnKvM0 pic.twitter.com/qN0fM8pN7w
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 18, 2015
A glamorous teaching assistant has been spared jail despite admitting having sex with a teenage student.
Caroline Berriman came clean about the affair with the teenage boy - who is almost half her age -last year.
[source : Glamorous teaching assistant, 30, spared jail after admitting having sex with teenage pupil, Daily Mirror, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/glamorous-teaching-assistant-30-spared-6501013, 23rd September 2015]
Dixie in Danang
“We are fighting and dying in a war that is not very popular in the first place,” Lieutenant Eddie Kitchen, a 33-year-old African-American stationed in Vietnam, wrote his mother in Chicago in late February 1968, “and we still have some people who are still fighting the Civil War.” Kitchen, who had been in the military since 1955, reported a rapid proliferation of Confederate flags, mounted on jeeps and flying over some bases. “The Negroes here are afraid and cannot do anything,” Kitchen added. Two weeks later he was dead, officially listed as “killed in action.” His mother believed that he had been murdered by white soldiers in retaliation for objecting to the flag.
Kitchen’s was one of many such complaints, as the polarization tearing through domestic politics in the United States, along with the symbols of White Supremacy—not just the Confederate flag but the burning cross, the Klan robe and hood, and racist slurs—spilled into Vietnam. As early as Christmas Day 1965, a number of white soldiers paraded in front of the audience of conservative comedian Bob Hope’s USO show at Bien Hoa Air Base. “After they were seated,” wrote an African-American soldier protesting the display, “several officers and NCOs [non-commissioned officers] were seen posing and taking pictures under the flag. I felt like an outsider.” An African-American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, reported that southern Whites were “infecting” Vietnamese with their racism. “The Confederate flags seem more popular in Vietnam than the flags of several countries,” the paper wrote, judging by the “display of flags for sale on a Saigon street corner.”
Black soldiers who pushed back against such Dixie-ism were subject to insult and abuse. Some were thrown in the stockade. When Private First Class Danny Frazier complained of the “damn flag” flown by Alabama soldiers in his barracks to his superior officers, he was ordered to do demeaning work and then demoted.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in early April 1968 and American military bases throughout South Vietnam lowered their flags to half-mast. In some places, such as the Cam Ranh Naval Base, however, white soldiers celebrated by raising the Confederate flag and burning crosses. Following King’s murder, the Department of Defense tried to ban the Confederate flag. “Race is our most serious international problem,” a Pentagon representative said. But Dixiecrat politicians, who controlled the votes President Lyndon Johnson needed to fund the war, objected and the Pentagon backpedaled. Instead of enforcing the ban, it turned to sensitivity training. The Confederate flag, a black military instructor told a class of black and white soldiers at Fort Dix, does not necessarily “mean a man belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.”
The Sum of All Lost Causes
Back home, a backlash against the antiwar movement helped nationalize the Confederate flag. The banner was increasingly seen not just at gatherings of the fringe KKK and the John Birch Society, but at “patriotic” rallies in areas of the country outside the old South: in Detroit, Chicago, California, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. For instance, on June 14, 1970—Flag Day—pro-war demonstrators marched up Pittsburg’s Liberty Avenue with a large Confederate flag demanding that “Washington … get in there and win.”
For many, the Confederate flag remained an emblem of racist reaction to federal efforts to advance equal rights and integration. Yet as issues of race, militarism, and class resentment merged into a broader “cultural war,” some in the rising New Right rallied around the Stars and Bars to avenge not the South, but South Vietnam.
In 1973, shortly after the U.S. officially ended combat operations in South Vietnam, for instance, Bart Bonner, a conservative activist and Vietnam veteran from Waterbury, New York, met with South Vietnam’s military attaché in Washington and offered to raise “a private, volunteer force of 75,000 American veterans to fight in South Vietnam under the Confederate flag.” For Bonner, and many like him, that flag now stood not for the “lost cause” but all lost causes conservatives cared about, an icon of resistance to the liberal Establishment.
Bonner told Soldier of Fortune magazine that he had the financial support of Texas millionaire Ross Perot and 100 men, including former Green Berets, Air Force commandos, and Navy Seals, ready to “show the people of South Vietnam … that not all Americans are cowards.” He added: “The Stars and Bars—the Confederate flag—is a beautiful flag.”
[source : Before It Was a Symbol of Racist Backlash, the Confederate Flag Was a Symbol of Endless War, In These Times, http://inthesetimes.com/article/18153/the-confederate-flag-at-war, 7th July 2015]
The first example of the JBS campaign to oppose the Civil Rights Movement is an advertisement in the October 31, 1965 issue of the Palm Beach Post titled, “The John Birch Society Asks: What’s Wrong With Civil Rights?”
The half-page advertisement begins with the statement that nothing is wrong with civil rights, just with the Civil Rights Movement. According to the JBS, it constituted a communist plot to build a “Negro Soviet Republic” in the United States. The “average American Negro,” according to the JBS in 1965, “has complete freedom of religion, freedom of movement, and freedom to run his own life as he pleases.” Moreover, “The pursuit of happiness enjoyed by the average American Negro has been far superior to that of any race or any people among at least ninety percent of the earth’s population.”
The ad continues, “So what is all the complaining about?” The problem, according to the JBS, is that communist agitators are beginning to see the results from “patiently building up to this present stage for more than forty years.” The reader is informed that this Soviet strategy in the U.S. is a continuation of anti-colonialism fermented by communists in Africa and Asia and conducted by those who have no interest in civil rights. According to the John Birch Society, both the push for civil rights in the U.S. and anti-colonialist activism in Africa and Asia are a communist plot to destroy all that is good and holy—namely, capitalism.
The advertisement then seeks to expose the “big-lie” of anti-colonialism: “Its specific core of falsehood has been that the colonial peoples of Asia and Africa wanted and deserved their ‘independence’ from the nations of Europe which were oppressing and exploiting them. Actually, by 1926, the French in Indochina or Algeria, the Dutch in Indonesia, the Belgian in the Congo, and other ‘imperialistic’ powers, were giving their colonial subjects a very enlightened and benevolent rule.”
The next step in this communist plot, as stated in the ad, is the formation of a “Negro Soviet Republic” in the U.S. that would include the major cities of the South. JBS claimed this to be the real intent of American civil rights leaders. The ad continues, “A careful study quickly reveals that every part of the civil rights program has been designed, and in is being carried forward, as a step in the Communist strategy for these purposes. And the current leaders of the nationwide civil rights campaign have such extensive records of affiliating with Communists of Communists, of being guided, trained, and supported by Communists, and of themselves supporting Communists agents and causes, as to make their real purposes as obvious a sunrise to anybody who will simply use honestly the intelligence that God gave him.”
The JBS authors close by stating that “American Negroes as a whole” did not plan this or want this and and “are no bigger dupes in yielding to the propaganda and coercion of the comaymps among them, than are the white people in the United States in swallowing the portions of that propaganda which are labeled idealism. “Comaymps” was JBS shorthand for communist sympathizers.
Across the bottom of the half-page ad is marketing of other JBS pamplets and books through American Opinion publishing, including It’s Very Simple and New York: Communist Terror in the Streets, both by Alan Stang. Stang published many works through the John Birch Society’s American Media, and also wrote widely on Christian Reconstructionism. Stang was a contributor to the Gary North-edited The Theology of Christian Resistance, one of many examples of the overlap between the JBS and theocratic Christian Reconstructionism.
Stang passed away in 2009 and was eulogized in the pages of the JBS’ New American magazine. Yet other 1960s-era JBS leaders are again leading the charge in a contemporary state’s rights projects: nullification. Leaders who were involved with the organization in the 1960s include its current president, John McManus. McManus was the surprise guest speaker at the Ron Paul Rally for the Republic, the counter-rally to the Republican National Convention in 200. In his remarks, he told the audience, “If you like Ron Paul, you’re going to love the John Birch Society.”
[source : The John Birch Society’s Anti-Civil Rights Campaign of the 1960s, and Its Relevance Today, Political Research, www.politicalresearch.org/2014/01/21/the-john-birch-societys-anti-civil-rights-campaign-of-the-1960s-and-its-relevance-today, 21st January 2014]
"Civil rights" is a perfect example of Communist strategy and Communist tactics at work - so far successfully - in making an anti-Communist people help to fasten the tiny but almost infinite chains of a central Communist tyranny around their bodies and their lives. And we think it is time for our fellow citizens, white and black, throughout the whole United States, to wake up to the real meaning of what is happening all around us.
A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union.
The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A.D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then *a free, sovereign and independent nation* [emphasis in the original], the annexation of the latter to the former, as one of the co-equal states thereof,
The people of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, on the fourth day of July of the same year, assented to and accepted said proposals and formed a constitution for the proposed State, upon which on the 29th day of December in the same year, said State was formally admitted into the Confederated Union.
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?
The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slaveholding States.
By the disloyalty of the Northern States and their citizens and the imbecility of the Federal Government, infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law, to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States.
The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refuse reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas.
These and other wrongs we have patiently borne in the vain hope that a returning sense of justice and humanity would induce a different course of administration.
When we advert to the course of individual non-slave-holding States, and that a majority of their citizens, our grievances assume far greater magnitude.
The States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa, by solemn legislative enactments, have deliberately, directly or indirectly violated the 3rd clause of the 2nd section of the 4th article [the fugitive slave clause] of the federal constitution, and laws passed in pursuance thereof; thereby annulling a material provision of the compact, designed by its framers to perpetuate the amity between the members of the confederacy and to secure the rights of the slave-holding States in their domestic institutions-- a provision founded in justice and wisdom, and without the enforcement of which the compact fails to accomplish the object of its creation. Some of those States have imposed high fines and degrading penalties upon any of their citizens or officers who may carry out in good faith that provision of the compact, or the federal laws enacted in accordance therewith.
In all the non-slave-holding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party, now strong enough in numbers to control the affairs of each of those States, based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery, proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color-- a doctrine at war with nature, in opposition to the experience of mankind, and in violation of the plainest revelations of Divine Law. They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.
For years past this abolition organization has been actively sowing the seeds of discord through the Union, and has rendered the federal congress the arena for spreading firebrands and hatred between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States.
By consolidating their strength, they have placed the slave-holding States in a hopeless minority in the federal congress, and rendered representation of no avail in protecting Southern rights against their exactions and encroachments. They have proclaimed, and at the ballot box sustained, the revolutionary doctrine that there is a 'higher law' than the constitution and laws of our Federal Union, and virtually that they will disregard their oaths and trample upon our rights.
They have for years past encouraged and sustained lawless organizations to steal our slaves and prevent their recapture, and have repeatedly murdered Southern citizens while lawfully seeking their rendition.
They have invaded Southern soil and murdered unoffending citizens, and through the press their leading men and a fanatical pulpit have bestowed praise upon the actors and assassins in these crimes, while the governors of several of their States have refused to deliver parties implicated and indicted for participation in such offenses, upon the legal demands of the States aggrieved.
They have, through the mails and hired emissaries, sent seditious pamphlets and papers among us to stir up servile insurrection and bring blood and carnage to our firesides.
They have sent hired emissaries among us to burn our towns and distribute arms and poison to our slaves for the same purpose.
They have impoverished the slave-holding States by unequal and partial legislation, thereby enriching themselves by draining our substance.
They have refused to vote appropriations for protecting Texas against ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a slave-holding State.
And, finally, by the combined sectional vote of the seventeen non-slave-holding States, they have elected as president and vice-president of the whole confederacy two men whose chief claims to such high positions are their approval of these long continued wrongs, and their pledges to continue them to the final consummation of these schemes for the ruin of the slave-holding States.
In view of these and many other facts, it is meet that our own views should be distinctly proclaimed.
We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
That in this free government *all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights* [emphasis in the original]; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states.
By the secession of six of the slave-holding States, and the certainty that others will speedily do likewise, Texas has no alternative but to remain in an isolated connection with the North, or unite her destinies with the South.
For these and other reasons, solemnly asserting that the federal constitution has been violated and virtually abrogated by the several States named, seeing that the federal government is now passing under the control of our enemies to be diverted from the exalted objects of its creation to those of oppression and wrong, and realizing that our own State can no longer look for protection, but to God and her own sons-- We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have passed an ordinance dissolving all political connection with the government of the United States of America and the people thereof and confidently appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of the freemen of Texas to ratify the same at the ballot box, on the 23rd day of the present month.
Adopted in Convention on the 2nd day of Feby, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and of the independence of Texas the twenty-fifth.
[source : The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States - Primary Sources, Civil War Trust, http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html, Accessed: 22nd July 2015]
Swedish refugees are more than welcome in my house. http://t.co/CVrqbnKvM0 pic.twitter.com/qN0fM8pN7w
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 18, 2015
If Europe does not seal its borders, what is to stop the Islamic world and third world coming and repopulating the continent with their own kind, as the shrinking native populations of Europe die out?
We should be honest: nearly all our assumptions about Syria crisis have been wrong. And I find it very difficult to see any solution soon.
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) September 17, 2015
Queen long to reign over us? The truth about monarchy, money and guns @JohnWRees | http://t.co/fDdxVPnTfg pic.twitter.com/s9ACe0BE3o
— Stop the War (@STWuk) September 20, 2015
Jeremy Corbyn was under intense pressure last night after his peace movement published a “disgraceful” diatribe against the Queen.
A poem on the front page of the Stop the War Coalition website alleges that the Queen has a “criminal record” and is “lubricating Britain’s wars”, while the Royal family are arms dealers and “friends to despots and dictators”.
[source : Jeremy Corbyn's 'shame' over Queen slur, Daily Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11877539/Jeremy-Corbyns-shame-over-Queen-slur.html, 19th September 2015]
.@GeorgeSoros: Losing #Ukraine would cause irreparable harm—It could create a failed state of more than 40mill people pic.twitter.com/45KvlAZEkw
— Fred Kempe (@FredKempe) September 19, 2015
Jeremy Corbyn is making more people interested in politics
52%
22%
26%
Jeremy Corbyn should have sung the national anthem at the Battle of Britain memorial
50%
29%
21%
Jeremy Corbyn offers a positive difference from other politicians
41%
31%
28%
At 70 years old, Jeremy Corbyn would be too old to be Prime Minister at the next General Election
40%
41%
19%
Jeremy Corbyn is being treated unfairly by the media
37%
37%
26%
Jeremy Corbyn should smarten up his appearance by shaving off his beard
22%
54%
23%
[source : No poll bounce for Jeremy Corbyn, The Independent, http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2015/09/19/no-poll-bounce-for-jeremy-corbyn/, 19th September 2015]
A more radical proposal still would be to remove the ZLB constraint entirely by abolishing paper currency. This, too, has recently had its supporters (for example, Rogoff (2014)). As well as solving the ZLB problem, it has the added advantage of taxing illicit activities undertaken using paper currency, such as drug-dealing, at source.
...One interesting solution, then, would be to maintain the principle of a government-backed currency, but have it issued in an electronic rather than paper form.
...Would such a monetary technology be feasible? In one sense, there is nothing new about digital, state-issued money. Bank deposits at the central bank are precisely that. The technology underpinning digital or crypto-currencies has, however, changed rapidly over the past few years. And it has done so for one very simple reason: Bitcoin.
...These questions do not have easy answers. That is why work on central bank–issued digital currencies forms a core part of the Bank’s current research agenda (Bank of England (2015)). Although the hurdles to implementation are high, so too is the potential prize if the ZLB constraint could be slackened. Perhaps central bank money is ripe for its own great technological leap forward, prompted by the pressing demands of the ZLB.
[source : How low can you go?, Andrew Haldane, Bank of England, http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/speeches/2015/840.aspx, 18th September 2015]
US says ready to negotiate with Russia, #Assad on Syria
http://t.co/goXa8vdQa0
#SyriaCrisis pic.twitter.com/vSZL0dUkEY
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) September 19, 2015
Don’t play Putin’s game in Syria. That way calamity lies | Natalie Nougayrède http://t.co/oVIcQjxD88
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) September 18, 2015
Ok guys, let's see how many RTs we can get for this. #IStandWithJeremy pic.twitter.com/JI1ndg1i3A
— chelley ryan (@chelleryn99) September 18, 2015
💀 MOURNING 💀
#WorshiporDie pic.twitter.com/ZLATknViSt
— Kim Jong Camer-Un (@KimJongCamerUn) September 19, 2015
Just one fifth of the "Syrian refugees" are actually Syrian. pic.twitter.com/BSDTmU6uGy
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 18, 2015
According to the rules on All-Party Groups (http://www.parliament.uk/documents/pcfs/all-party-groups/guide-to-the-rules-on-apgs.pdf) section 32(b), page 13: The information which must be made available on receiving a request such as yours is as follows:
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I can inform you that no commercial organisations have made donations of this kind to the PCAA Foundation in the past 12 months. The APPG itself does not hold any funds.
READ: NATO's New Strategy: Stability Generation → http://t.co/MsR2XhSZH6
— AtlanticCouncil (@AtlanticCouncil) September 18, 2015
Jeremy #Corbyn is a patriot – unlike Tony Blair he would never have waged the illegal war that killed my son http://t.co/oiYeN1M8Aw
— Stop the War (@STWuk) September 17, 2015
SHOUT THIS TO THE HEAVENS! Saudis want to CRUCIFY a juvenile for Christ's sake! http://t.co/a0hy5XwHpt Brits want to be friends @Reprieve
— Clive Stafford Smith (@CliveSSmith) September 16, 2015
How difficult is it to answer a question, particularly if answering could lead to a safer world?
And what are we to think of someone who doesn't want to answer some questions when answering could lead to a safer world?
And particularly if that someone wasn't asking any questions either?
Advances in technology are allowing terrorists to communicate "out of the reach of authorities", the head of MI5, Andrew Parker has told the BBC.
The serving boss of the UK's home security agency told Today it was becoming more difficult to obtain online information.
He said internet companies had an "ethical responsibility" to alert agencies to potential threats.
But MI5 was not about "browsing the lives" of the public, he added.
Ministers are preparing legislation on the powers for carrying out electronic surveillance.
...Mr Parker also told the BBC:
The terrorism threat is the "most serious threat Britain faces in security terms"
Six alleged terror plots have been foiled in the past six months, which Mr Parker said was the highest number he could recall in his 32 year career "certainly the highest number since 9/11"
MI5 had to "make choices" about where to put resources, and make sure they were "focused where the sharpest threat is"
On the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby: "There cannot be a guarantee that we will find and stop everything. That's not possible. We can't monitor them all the time."
He rejected the suggestion that security service tactics can lead to radicalisation saying it was "completely untrue"
He paid tribute to the people who work at MI5 and their work "which so often goes unrecognised"
[source : MI5 boss warns of technology terror risk, BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34276525, 17th September 2015]
Atlantic Council to Honor @JuanManSantos , @DraghiMario, Kissinger, and Yu Long @ #GCA15 #ACawards http://t.co/s7ElvnjswW
— AtlanticCouncil (@AtlanticCouncil) September 15, 2015