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20130308 Highlights of the News Today Friday March
8th 2013 * Falkland Islanders Defy Argentina With Sunday
Referundum * The Absurdity of Our Police and Media
* More Than 20% of Everyone’s Income Tax Bill Goes Straight to Benefits
* The Guardian Reveals the Contempt for Democracy at the Heart of Human Rights
* Danish Headmaster In Court For Sex Offenses * Copenhagen - Palestinian Girl Beaten For
Having Danish Boyfriend * Belgium: Man Sentenced For Tearing Koran
In Front Of Muslims * Apologies for Nick Griffin in the Belly
of the Beast * It Is Not A Good Time To Be Hindu In Bangladesh
* Osama’s Son-in-Law New York Court * Armenian Genocide to be included in Australian
school curriculum * Thought for the Day – Sexism, Racism and
Ageism in the Workplace * And Finally - World’s Strangest Towns
- Longyearbyen UK NEWS
Falkland Islanders Defy Argentina With Sunday Referundum
The Falkland islanders, well 1,649 registered voters, go to the poll on Sunday in the 1st
of 2 days of voting to express their wish to retain British rule.
The vote is expected to send a near unanimous rebuke to Argentina.
Reuters has reported Ladbrokes described the result as "the biggest certainty in political
betting history" and said no one had placed a bet on a "no" vote.
The confidence of the bookmakers on a ‘Yes’ result is such that a £1000 bet with most
online bookies on a ‘yes’ vote will earn you just £1 whilst if you are foolish enough
to place the same £1000 on a ‘no’ vote you could in theory win £50,000.
The Absurdity of Our Police and Media “If You Want to Weep for Your Children,
Start Here” refers to a BBC News Leicester article “Guerilla knitting in Leicester
'to reduce crime fear'”. The first article is obviously written by
an American and the second by our liberal Marxist friends at the BBC.
The BBC alongside Charlotte Bilby, a senior lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University,
and Sergeant Simon Barnes actually believe “Hundreds of pom-poms and knitted items
have been strung from trees and lampposts to help reduce the fear of crime in an area
of Leicester.” Ms Bilby, , said: “I think that making an
area look cosier certainly makes an area feel safer.” And “As we all know more officers
on the beat doesn’t actually have a massive impact on crime rates in [an] area.
Sgt Simon Barnes said: “I am really hopeful that the actions will reduce the fear of becoming
a victim of crime, as the perception really is much different to the actual reported levels
of crime.”
What our American friend added “Since when did that bit of blarney become criminology
theory? What we really “all know” via empirical
testing in places like New York City is that the presence of more police officers on the
streets, on foot, sent personal crime levels plummeting.
Mayor Giuliani became a national hero implementing those practical, common-sense ideas about
“criminology” and New York City became liveable again.”
WA8 says "Pathetic, stupid, ignorant people hanging balls of wool from trees, they probably
think it deters global warming as well" More Than 20% of Everyone’s Income Tax Bill
Goes Straight to Benefits From the Daily Mail The Prime Minister defended
cutting welfare spending, as MailOnline revealed a fifth of income tax goes straight to fund
Britain’s vast benefits bill. New Treasury figures reveal the average taxpayer
now spends more than £1,100 each on benefits, excluding pensions, while a further £370
goes on paying interest on the nation’s debts.
Chancellor George Osborne is coming under Cabinet pressure ahead of this month’s Budget
to find more savings from welfare as ministers resist deeper cuts to defence, police and
business. Today the Prime Minister said the country
would not be able to afford to fund care for the elderly if the nation is ‘squandering
billions on welfare for people who could work’. Speaking in West Yorkshire, Mr Cameron said
there was no ‘magic money tree’ that allowed the Government to spend and borrow more.
WA8 says "The magic money tree has been given to various nations in the form of £12 billion
per year in Foreign Aid whilst our people are going hungry"
The Guardian Reveals the Contempt for Democracy at the Heart of Human Rights
Cheradenine Zakalwe writing for Islam versus Europe says:
“After the Conservatives promised to repeal the Human Rights Act, the human rights agitators
quickly showed their sheer contempt for democracy. Here the Guardian tells us that it doesn't
matter what laws elected representatives pass in Parliament, even if their specific agenda
was endorsed by the electorate. The judicial apparatus can do what it wants
anyway, even ignore parliament or strike down laws.”
From the Guardian: At any rate, if the Human Rights Act were
repealed, it is not obvious that it would make much difference to how the British courts
act now. The judges here have developed a set of human
rights principles which are indigenous to the common law and which would almost certainly
grow to fill the gap left by the act's removal: judges deal in facts and real human stories,
not rhetoric, and so might be squeamish about sending people to places to be killed or tortured
or allowing the same here on the say-so of someone like Theresa May (or, by then, Nigel
Farage). In fact, some judges might even be emboldened
to strike down acts of parliament for breach of human rights, something that the current
legislation specifically prohibits and so would be easier with the Human Rights Act
off the scene. What would the Tories do then?
Withdraw from the legal system? She concludes by saying: “Human rights and
democracy are often mentioned in the same breath as if they were corollaries of one
another. The truth is they are polar opposites”
Hear, hear the World at 8 totally agrees! EUROPEAN NEWS
Danish Headmaster In Court For Sex Offenses The 36 year old headmaster of a private school
in Nørrebro, Denmark has been arrested and charge in Malmo, Sweden for allegedly exposing
his *** and chasing a 23 year old woman around a Malmo park in August 2012.
According to some websites the man is Shahid Mehdi leader of the Islamic Iqra school in
Nørrebro and former leader of an Islamic Cultural society.
News agencies in Denmark have condemned the naming of Mehdi before he stands trial.
He is well known to the Danish public for his distinctive, Muslim attitudes.
In 2007, he said in the DR2 program 'Talk to God' that women not wearing headscarves
are asking to be ***. Copenhagen - Palestinian Girl Beaten For Having
Danish Boyfriend From Denmark a Palestinian family’s honour
was offended when their 17 year old daughter chose to have a Danish boyfriend.
According to the Police the girl’s parents picked her up and took her to her uncle’s
home where the girl’s aunt and uncle were told it was OK to kill her as the father did
not want to see her again. The girls was then stripped, beaten with a
leather belt, had her hair cut off and was strangled with a belt.
After two hours of violence the young girl eventually escaped and reported her ordeal
to the Police. Her parents and aunt and uncle are in police
custody. Belgium: Man Sentenced For Tearing Koran In
Front Of Muslims. RTL Belgium report that a man named only as
Arne S., originally from Blankenberge, was sentenced on Wednesday, by the criminal court
of Bruges, to four months in prison for having torn a copy of the Koran in front of a group
of Muslims, in June 2012, in Ostende. On 8 June last year, in the early evening,
the accused participated in a demonstration in Ostende.
After the demonstration, he went into a café where he exchanged words with around a dozen
Muslims. In front of their eyes, Arne tore a copy of
the Koran. According to fde souche Arne claimed the Muslims
threw the Koran at his head, which provoked his action.
Olivier Ryde, the accused's lawyer, requested that his client be acquitted.
According to him, there was no question of any infringement of the law on racism.
DREUZ info reports “the judge deemed the act racist” and sentenced Arne to 4 months
and a 600 EURO fine. WORLD NEWS
It Is Not A Good Time To Be Hindu In Bangladesh Witness the headlines from Asia News Italy.
Bangladesh: dozens killed in clashes between Islamists and police .
Muslim anger explodes against Bangladesh's Hindu community.
Islamic party wants to expel minorities, reunify with Pakistan
In January this year the Islamic religious authority called for calm as “violence erupted
after the sentencing to death of a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Party), accused
of war crimes in 1971.” More than 800 people were injured as explosions
rocked several neighbourhoods of the capital.
Temples and houses were burned in the Hindu community in the southeast of the capital.
In early March the violence continued as scores of homes have been set on fire, women and
girls have been assaulted, temples have been desecrated and statues of the goddess Kali
have been destroyed. In Khulna (a town in the country's southwest),
various activists from the Jamaat-Shibir (Jamaat-e-Islami's youth wing) and the BNP (that is the Bangladesh
National Party) led protesters towards Dhopapara, a poor area largely inhabited by Hindus.
Rapidly, the Muslim extremists set fire to eight homes and looted ten stores before they
were dispersed by police. Since unrest began more than a week ago, 87
people have died-mostly police and peaceful protesters.
The atmosphere is increasingly tense after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the country's
main opposition party, decided to throw its support behind Jamaat and call for an end
of war tribunals set up by the ruling Awami League.
In addition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called for the death penalty imposed on
Jamaat's deputy chief Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to be dropped, and for the government to resign.
Well-organised, Jamaat has a large pool of supporters.
On a number of blogs, many of them are openly calling for reunification with Pakistan and
the expulsion of Hindus, atheists and Christians. Instructions are also provided on how to sabotage
railway lines, attack security forces, and cause unrest during strikes.
W@8 comments ‘Oh dear Partition all over again with the same lousy players!’
Osama’s Son-in-Law New York Court Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law
and Al Qaida spokesman following the Sep 11 attacks was captured in Jordan and flown to
the USA by the CIA. He will appear in US Federal Court in New
York charged in a conspiracy to kill Americans. USA Today reports Federal law enforcement
officials did not elaborate on the details of Ghayth's arrest, but Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y.,
who first confirmed the operative's capture, said he was taken into custody a week ago
in Jordan. "I commend our CIA and FBI, our allies in
Jordan and President Obama for their capture,'' King said in a written statement."
I trust he received a vigorous interrogation and will face swift and certain justice."
King, who is on the House intelligence committee, said the "propaganda statements" issued by
Ghayth and bin Laden that lauded the attacks in 2001 are "alone enough to merit the most
serious punishment." If convicted, Ghayth faces a maximum punishment
of life in prison. "Ghayth was not a field marshal, but he could
certainly shed light on that part of the operation," Hoffman said.
Assistant FBI Director George Venizelos, the bureau's top agent in New York, said Ghayth
held "a key position in al-Qaeda, comparable to the consigliere in a mob family or propaganda
minister in a totalitarian regime." "He used his position to persuade others to
swear loyalty to al-Qaeda's murderous cause," Venizelos said.
Armenian Genocide To Be Included In Australian School Curriculum
ARMENPRESS, the Armenian News Agency, are reporting:
Australia has launched a campaign in order to include the topic of Genocide committed
against Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in times of the Ottoman Empire in the Australian
school curriculum.
The campaign follows the decision of the country’s education council, according to which from
2014, the Holocaust will be included in 10th grade’s educational programs, Armenpress
reports referring to dunyabulteni.net (Turkish World Bulletin).
Turkish organizations, which are against the campaign, have published statement in the
internet, noting that some circles want to present “controversial historical events”
as Genocide. It has been also noted that calls of Armenian,
Greek and Assyrian organizations in Austria have caused the Turkish reaction.
In response to the announcement an online petition “NSW Board of Studies: Don't include
the alleged Armenian, Greek, & Assyrian 'Genocide' as part of the school curriculum” has been
set up. World at 8 notes that most of the signatories
appear to be Turkish. The W@8 agrees with the New South Wales Board
of Studies that this should be taught. It would appear that even a hundred years
later the Aussies have not forgotten the Turks at Gallipoli and ‘our’ European government
are about to let the buggers into the EU. This presenter notes that the Turks shot her
half brother at Gallipoli in the throat and he took 2 days to die on the wire so what’s
that about the Turks? Thought for the Day
Racism, Sexism & Ageism in the Workplace A short ‘thought’ today on truisms and
facts of racism, ageism, sexism and other ‘isms’ in the workplace.
We all know the new religious rule or anti Christian rule for our workplaces, that of
not wearing a crucifix if you are Christian. Of course in today’s PC society, the peoples
of all other ‘new’ religions to this country are allowed to wear ‘whatever’ in the
name of their religions, habibs, bracelets, knives, naqibs, burkas, full face coverings,
bits of string and more – all of which are apparently more ‘socially’ acceptable
than a simple cross around ones neck. Because as we also know to let others know
you are a ‘working’ Christian is simply not on!
Sexism in the UK workplace is rife, and I don’t mean the happy slappy on the backside
interchanges of yesteryear – I mean a climate of fear in most workplaces in case one oversteps
the mark and the company is sued. These suings can be about anything even slightly
off side – and often are storms in teacups but very expensive ones, both in legal fees
and court appearances, which is why most of these even spurious claims are settled out
of court to avoid ‘publicity’ from the media which would inevitably be ‘adverse’
towards the employer. There have been several prosecutions of late
from those of ethnic origins against fellow workers or employers who have not apparently
come up to scratch over promotions or have dropped an offside remark.
So you also have the ‘racist’ side of things rearing its unnecessary head – although
of course it should be classed as religious hate crime – oh dear – already my poor
head is spinning!
I took a very quick look on the web at the structure of the RACIAL *** and RELIGIOUS
HARASSMENT and decided against looking again! I did see however a small paragraph at the
end which reads: This definition was accepted by the government
and was added to all forms of Discrimination legislation.
The various separate Anti-discrimination laws have now all been unified into the Equality
Act 2010 and claims of Harassment in Discrimination law cases will in future will be decided by
Tribunals applying a standard definition of harassment set out in section 26 of this Act.
I look back with fondness at the old days when if you took a job in say an Engineering
Firm which I did and was in fact the youngest girl out of the 7 women in a firm of hundreds
of men. I can remember my days there with affection.
Those of course were the days when women or girls had doors opened for them and for the
most part if a guy told a sexist joke it was not the end of our world as indeed the odd
slap on the bum wasn’t either! There was an air of tolerance around then
which is missing now, there was also humour which has fallen by the wayside.
Men were men with all their failings and we were the weaker sex with all ours, but both
appreciated that we were working alongside each other and you either got on or you got
out, quietly and quickly, without all the fuss and bother it entails now.
Now the climate of fear in most workplaces is palpable, which concerns over the lack
of jobs and the new ‘office racism’ problems do not make any easier.
You would have thought in the Care Industry, that much maligned and much needed sector
of the workplace – workers would have things easier, especially considering the failure
of Care in the Community and the shutting down and taking over of hundreds of Care Homes,
Mental Homes and Homes for special needs people – you would think it would band people together,
like Hell!
The son of a friend of mine works locally in an area in Hants which only boasts one
small Old People’s Home which turned itself into a Dementia Care Home in the last year.
Bearing in mind it has no full time Nurse on duty it really shouldn’t be calling itself
a Nursing & Dementia Care Centre. He has worked there one year, he has had a
lot of experience in mentally challenged young people and elderly care and done a Dementia
training course. He also has an NVQ but he also is the only
guy in the place. Bad, very bad.
His fellow female workers don’t like men around if they are married or simply not interested
in their fellow slappers and my friend has gathered information from previous male workers
there , one of which lasted a whole month before being driven out back to his old job
and their experiences run along the same lines.
This band of harpies alter shifts so that James as I shall call him has to work late
one day and early the next, that is stop at 10.00pm Monday and go in 6.30am Tuesday for
8 hour shifts, try this in quick succession over the course of a few months with only
a day off in between and anyone would find it exhausting.
Put that with continued harrassement and bullying, finally reducing hours down to part time,
extending a probationary period from 3 months to 1 year, continually holding ‘meetings’
for discipline and best of all – arranging a disciplinary hearing for amongst other things,
‘racist comments’ and ‘inappropriate handling of an elderly woman’ and that says
it all. Suffice to say the ‘customers’ adore James
as do their relations and at no time has any ‘handling’ occurred certainly not of the
inappropriate kind. As to the ‘racist comment’ this comprised
of James reading aloud a Daily Mail headline to some other workers when there was a Nepalese
worker present and a Romanian one – one of which or both obviously took exception
to what was printed.
How can these women get away with it? Well there are two ways to skin a cat and
of course James is well under way with arrangements to leave the area but his mother, my pal,
is understandably very upset that he has been forced out by lies and nasty ones at that.
There is no recourse but to go, not for James the luxury of appointing a solicitor and taking
them to Court for defamation of character – there is apparently no Union he was told
but it later transpired there is one but no representative for him to consult.
Luckily or unluckily for the other inmates this home is being investigated at present
– but that is too late for James and the other guys who have been forced out.
The only surviving man in there now is a new Polish guy who speaks no English and just
smiles and waves – so therefore is not worth going after by these females.
James is not alone especially in that industry which is run by women for women in mind.
Many care homes and similar need men to do the heavy lifting and attend to the elderly
males, so why don’t they treat them better? They do however in the true spirit of multiculturalism
employ people straight off the banana boat who have no qualifications at all and certainly
have no investigations into possible criminal records carried out before they join.
James had to wait 2 months before his CRB was passed and yet ‘laughing Polish persona’
walked straight in unchecked 2 weeks ago.
This was why I joined the British National Party, not because I hate Muslims because
I don’t, but because my own mother suffered terribly when this multicultural mess came
into our hospitals, nursing and care homes – because the owners deemed it preferable
to import their un-carers cheaply rather than pay local agency rates.
Well, this way of employing practically anybody if they are female and foreign has not gone
away and it is getting worse. We have reached the stage in this country
now of putting our own out of work in favour of foreigners and in most cases these foreign
workers are no better that our own people and in some cases don’t work as hard.
So racism and sexism have hit the care of the elderly, mentally challenged and physically
challenged in this country. So called ‘PC office politics’ have spread
and ruined what was once a good thing in Britain.
It was getting bad in the blue chip company I worked for some years ago but the funniest
thing I heard was when I had left that this firm paid thousands of pounds for Standing
Boards to be imported from the States. Now these are an idiots dream, instead of
having chairs at the coffee sites, they brought in upright boards which leaned backwards and
instead of sitting and having your coffee in solitude – you leaned against these boards
and as they were placed opposite one another – you had to talk to someone else in that
office about preferably business! So you even lost your coffee break time!
How stupid is that?
Of course ageism in offices has always been there but now it is peculiar in its polarity.
You have people who will not employ anyone over 25 if they are female or 35 if male.
Both financial and hi tech companies excel at this, get em young, drain them and then
throw away! On the one hand we have the government extolling
us to work until we are really old around 70 odd and yet can you get a job over 50?
No – so the whole point of that is useless and just a balm to put on workers who will
get lousy pensions. Very few people will have a job when they
are 60 to carry on working with until 70.
In fact if you are over 50 and female you can look forward to working in a doctors reception
if literate, oh joy all those bloody ill people no thanks.
Working in a supermarket at the till – or a charity shop which is virtually no money
at all. If male what is there?
If you have a HGV licence you can drive a lorry.
You can even do what a friend of mine does and compete with the followers of Islam in
the chauffeur game or there is always voluntary work of course.
I am not talking about the professionals - you can be doctor until you are virtually too
bloody old to write a prescription or even see the patient properly and if a lawyer or
barrister the field is open until you can barely crawl to the Courts.
And you’ll find that all the professor bods employed in experimenting in various fields
can also be ancient. Teachers don’t last the course with all
these awful schools and even worse pupils and retire or go barmy relatively early.
And of course in the brave new multicultural world all us oldies will be encouraged to
go out onto a hillside and freeze to death to leave our homes for immigrants who need
them for breeding. There problem solved, I am already practically
Soylent Green!
So there we have it a short précis on the unfairness of the workplace today.
It is a fatal combination of politically correct politics and multi ethnic and multi religious
conflicts, which is a perfect world we would not have in this country unless we had imported
the people and religions to do it. Differing cultures do not mix well in everyday
life let alone in a cramped surrounding of an office or workplace.
Some do many do not. Combine that with a new Marxist social order
and the movement of actual work and manufacturing to the East, the complete high jacking of
our High Streets and you have the largest case of socio-economic engineering imposed
on a country apparently by other countries both in and out of the European Union.
As an update a friend of mines daughter of 17 has just managed to get a job to help her
Mum out and she gets £4.00 an hour. The minimum wage for 16 is £3.68 you don’t
get £6.00 an hour until you are over 21. Now this could explain why most of our young
immigrants are over 21 doesn’t it?7 We British were known for our sense of humour,
our manufacturing and our shops – what have these been replaced by?
Humour Nil. Manufacturing.Nil and Shops Nil!
I can be heard muttering into my hot chocolate, it is all in the Plan my friends all in the
Plan! And Finally.
World’s Strangest Towns - Longyearbyen From Travel and Leisure our World at 8 team
found this interesting titbit about Longyearbyen in Norway otherwise known as Longyear City
at least until 1926, not because their year is any longer than anyone else, but because
of John Munro Longyear from Lansing, Michigan in the USA.
He was a noted developer of timber and mineral lands in America and the central figure behind
the Arctic Coal Company in Northern Norway. Anyway on to Longyearbyen.
There is no dying allowed in this remote Arctic town—well, you can die, but you can’t
be buried here. You heard that right: no body has been buried
in the local cemetery in almost a hundred years.
Why? The perpetually frigid temperatures prohibit
corpses from properly decomposing. Following the influenza epidemic of 1917,
Longyearbyen banned burials in the town’s graveyard.
The local polar bear population rivals the human one, and it’s not abnormal for the
townspeople to shoot a bear in self-defense (hunting is illegal).
So, even after a polar bear takes its last breath in this mining town, it must also be
sent away for its final resting spot.
You have been listening to the W@8. I am Lynne Mozar and I and the team at W@8
and Radio Britain wish you all a very happy and safe weekend.
W@8.08.03.13.
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