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Highlights of the news today Monday 2nd December 2013
Tory minister claims £6,000 in London hotel bills but has a home ONE MILE away from Parliament
Iraqis Win £800,000 After 'SAS Beat Them' In Hunt for Red Caps' Killers
Essex Social Services Forces Caesarean on Italian Who Suffered Mental Breakdown during
training course Jam-Packed Jails Force Norway to Free Criminals
Spanish Gov't Sets Heavy Fines for Violent Protests, Insults to Police and State
Man allowed to adopt despite sex crime past Abbott's Australian Government to Dump Laws
on Hate Speech 'Genderqueer' Rising: Colleges Welcome Kids
Who Identify as Neither Male Nor Female Study: Same-Sex Households Endanger Kids
Thought for the Day -- A little drinkie or a hundred?
And finally -- A Religious laugh!
UK News
Tory minister claims £6,000 in London hotel bills but has a home ONE MILE away from Parliament
Tory Cabinet minister Andrew Lansley claimed £6,000 in London hotel bills despite owning
a home ONE MILE from Parliament. The House of Commons Leader enjoyed dozens
of overnight stays on the taxpayer while the £1million flat he owns with his wife was
a 15-minute walk away sit empty.
Official records indicate ex-Health Secretary Mr Lansley -- who earns a ministerial salary
of £134,565 -- has no tenants in the Georgian property because he has not declared any rental
income from it. But it is believed that one Lansley family
member uses the flat in trendy Pimlico.
And at the end of his working day the MP could even return to his constituency home in South
Cambridgeshire, only a 50-minute train ride away from London.
Latest expenses records from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority reveal Mr
Lansley claimed £4,978 on hotel stays between April 2012 and March this year.
And in the first three months of the current financial year he claimed £972.All the time
the flat, believed to have more than one bedroom, was not rented out according to the Parliamentary
records.
W@8 'It's a good job if you can get it!'
Iraqis Win £800,000 After 'SAS Beat Them' In Hunt for Red Caps' Killers
Nine Iraqi police officers who said they were tortured by the SAS have been awarded a total
of about £800,000 in compensation.
Up to 40 soldiers, including a former SAS commander, are under investigation for alleged
brutality. If found guilty of actual bodily harm or grievous
bodily harm, they may be jailed.
The secret payout, which provoked uproar when it emerged last night, was arranged by the
Ministry of Defence and the Iraqis' solicitors. The claimants accused the SAS of strangling
them and beating them with rifles at a police station in Majar al-Kabir, in Iraq's Maysan
province, ten years ago.
W@8 'Ten years ago? What rubbish!
Just another self serving jibe at our Armed forces -- what compensation will our guys
get none because the Iraqis killed them and dead men don't need compensation do they?
Essex Social Services Forces Caesarean on Italian Who Suffered Mental Breakdown during
training course Social services forcibly removed a pregnant
woman's unborn baby by caesarean section and put it up for adoption after obtaining a high
court order on the grounds the mother had suffered a mental breakdown.
Essex council obtained an order allowing them to sedate the woman against her will before
taking her daughter and placing it into care.
The Italian woman, who was in Britain on a work training course, claims she had not even
been warned that she would be given a caesarean. It is not believed a natural birth would have
posed a risk to her or the child's health.
Social workers argue they were acting in the best interests of the baby, who is now 15
months old, and are refusing to hand her back to the mother despite claims that she has
made a complete recovery, The Sunday Telegraph reports.
W@8 'I am keeping out of this one until all the facts are given.
But this cost the NHS taxpayers money of course.
EUROPEAN NEWS Jam-Packed Jails Force Norway to Free Criminals
Police in northern Norway are being forced to release criminals back onto the streets
because of a shortage of prison spaces, the acting head of police in the city of Tromsø
warned this week. Einar Sparboe Lysnes cautioned in a statement
on Thursday that in the last few months the situation had reached a crisis point.
"We have several times discovered that there were no free spaces, and so simply had to
let them back out," he told VG newspaper. "As a result new criminal offences take place
that otherwise would not have happened. Our ability to prevent crime and ensure safety
is reduced."
Lysnes' warning followed a complaint earlier this month from the head of the police in
Vestfold county, near Oslo, who proposed freeing up space by converting old army camps in far-northern
Norway into emergency prisons for foreign criminals.
Spanish Gov't Sets Heavy Fines for Violent Protests, Insults to Police and State
The Spanish government has approved draft legislation that sets fines of up to 30,000
euros ($40,800) for offenses such as burning the national flag, insulting the state or
causing serious disturbances outside Parliament.
The draft Citizen Security Bill presented Friday by Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez
Diez has been heavily criticized by opposition parties, judicial and social groups as an
attempt by the conservative government to muzzle protests against its handling of the
severe economic crisis.
The measures, an update of a 1992 law, also include fines of up to 1,000 euros for insulting
or threatening police officers during demonstrations.
Similar fines are planned for disseminating photographs of police officers that endanger
them or police operations.
The bill must be approved by Parliament, where the ruling party has an absolute majority.
Man allowed to adopt despite sex crime past Radio Sweden
Authorities in Helsingborg will allow a man to adopt his 10-year-old stepson despite the
man's numerous convictions, including one for sexually molesting a five-year-old girl.
News agency TT reports that the man, who is in his 60s, was convicted in 2004 of molestation
and is also suspected of ***, though never charged, and chatting with young girls online.
In total, he has been sentenced to prison four times for some 90 offenses, mostly economic
crimes. But a review by the municipality's social
affairs committee considered the crimes to be "old," even though the man was recently
released in spring 2013.
Chairman of the social welfare committee in Helsingborg declined to comment on the case,
but insisted that the committee goes through all cases thoroughly before deciding.
"I can not answer for how officials handle the case.
The social welfare committee makes thorough assessments in all cases and decisions are
made based upon the conditions that exist at the time," Anders Lundström told TT.
W@8 'Wouldn't have thought this a particularly good ruling myself'
WORLD NEWS Abbott's Australian Government to Dump Laws
on Hate Speech Australia's conservative Government intends
to dump laws that ban hate speech on the grounds that they inhibit free speech.
Amendments to the federal Racial Discrimination Act will be the first legislation put before
Parliament by Attorney-General George Brandis who, with Prime Minister Tony Abbott, was
angered by the conviction of right-wing columnist Andrew Bolt.
Bolt was found guilty before the September election of breaching the act by writing articles
that Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg said were not written in good faith and contained
factual errors.
Headlined "White fellas in the black" and "It's so hip to be black", the articles suggested
light-skinned people claimed Aboriginal descent to further their own interests.
Abbott said after the verdict that the "sacred principle of free speech" should not be restricted
and that free speech meant the right to say what others might not like, not just the right
to say something of which others approved.
The Coalition went to the election with the promise to change the act to ensure that speech
found to be offensive or insulting was no longer defined as racial vilification.
At present the act outlaws actions in public that, based on race, colour, national or ethnic
origin are likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate a person or group of persons.
This includes posting offensive material on the internet, publishing racially offensive
comments in the print media, making offensive speeches at a public rally, racially abusing
people in public places, or making racially abusive comments at sporting events...
'Genderqueer' Rising: Colleges Welcome Kids Who Identify as Neither Male Nor Female
The weekly meetings of Mouthing Off!, a group for students at Mills College in Oakland,
Calif., who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, always start the same way.
Members take turns going around the room saying their names and the personal pronouns they
want others to use when referring to them — she, he or something else.
It's an exercise that might seem superfluous given that Mills, a small and leafy liberal
arts school historically referred to as the Vassar of the West, only admits women as undergraduates.
Yet increasingly, the "shes" and "hers" that dominate the introductions are keeping third-person
company with "they," "ze" and other neutral alternatives meant to convey a more generous
notion of gender.
W@8 Utter ***!
Study: Same-Sex Households Endanger Kids A new study, authored by Associate Professor
Mark Regnerus from the University of Texas, shows alarming child endangerment in same-sex
households:
* Parental *** is widespread: 23 percent of children with a lesbian mother reported
having been touched sexually by a parent or adult, compared to 2 percent of those raised
by biological parents. * *** is rampant: 31 percent of children
raised by a lesbian mother and 25 percent raised by a homosexual man report that they
were forced to have sex against their will, compared to 8 percent from intact families.
* Sexually transmitted disease (STD) is epidemic: over 20 percent of those brought up by two
women and 25 percent raised by two men reported having contracted an STD, compared to 8 percent
from natural families. * Suicidal tendencies are startling: 24 percent
of children raised by homosexual men and 12% of children raised by lesbian mothers admitted
to having recently contemplated suicide, compared to 5 percent of those raised by biological
parents or even a single parent.
Published in the journal Social Science Research, the study of nearly 3,000 young adults is
perhaps the most scientifically credible study on the topic ever conducted.
W@8 ' I can understand this -- when you think that one of the reasons a yoot goes off the
rails is that he didn't have a pair of the right sneakers given to him at the time by
a young single female mother.......this lot well stands to reason'.
Thought for the Day- A little drinkie or a hundred?
Now the Season of Goodwill is nearly upon us I have a thought on an article written
in the Daily Mail -- that continuous source of the problems of the UK but rarely if any
are one of the solutions ever written!
We are pounded, as a people or tribe, tribes whatever -- of the general awfulness of living
in the UK -- I am not including the vast array of immigrants in this -- but what passes for
the average English family nowadays. All the norms we took for granted in the good
old days (which were good for many but of course not all) have gone, vanished into the
ether -- either because of new government laws and authorities, a completely new way
of living which has had at least 3 generations having a different set of standards, a new
culture in education and work and an all out 'attack' in the new class war of belittling
the Middle classes of this country.
The most insidious and heinous of these is the battle against old traditions, whether
good or bad and the downgrading of any form of standards or morals which is pushed onto
and into our younger generations.
We hear Broken Britain again and again and the fact is that apparently by 2014 we will
be classed as a Third world economy. We live with Boom or Bust and our young cannot
even afford to consider buying a house, let alone having the 2 point whatever children
that we need to produce from our own tribes to just keep our head above the genocide capacity.
We are propagandised from cradle to grave with bad messages -- most of which I would
say are not the fault of the general population let alone the Middle classes, poor buggers!
I attribute a lot of our newer ills on immigration, note what I said, immigration not the immigrants
although if the cap fits wear it. Our governments and law givers have a lot
to pay for although many more countries are in a worse state than us, especially EU member
states. But we cannot feed ourselves without vast
amounts of imported matter from the other side of the world, we apparently cannot clothe
ourselves either and in fact have been made to believe that the UK would fall apart of
anyone if these imports failed or the supermarkets closed.
Now I am not an economist far from it my figure work is atrocious but even I can see that
if we as a nation rely too heavily on foreign goods for which we pay through the nose even
as our economy dwindles and because we are not producing anything the rest of the world
ie: China, India or the EU wants -- then we are as a country in a far from enviable position.
Now with all this do you wonder we drink?
I don't I really don't! But in this article the same Blame the Past
mantra is being aired as an excuse -- rather like be anti immigration is being anti British
or anti English , even anti human -- as we are all apparently children of migrants from
hundreds of years ago. Yup I really like that one, the establishment
or Diversity thinkers are really pushing the envelope on that one, liking Celts, Vikings,
Gauls, Romans, Scots, Irish, Welsh, Jews, Italians and whatever who formed our melting
pot in the Middle Ages to the hordes of Africans, Indians, Arabs, Chinese and whatever passes
for in betweeners today as being the same ethnicity is a load of codswallop.
The odd African slave in the early 19th century has now produced all of the contents of Brixton
just by themselves! Plus of course with the contents of the Windrush
in the 50's and it is all our fault innit? And wait, while you rush out for a large bottle
of whatever from your local Asian corner shop remember it is our fault they are here because
we all wanted them!
Now back to the *** -- it has always been an English thing to have wee drinkie but I
remember back in the early 60's (I forgot to tell you that I evolved at the time of
the invention of the wheel) drink was not a social problem as it is nowadays.
It was a class thing believe it or not, with the rise of the Middle sections wine became
de rigour for meals on occasion, the rich always kept wine cellars and the lower Middles
kept drink trolleys. The poor who are always with us although their
status has been shoved up and down have always resorted to the bottle in times of stress
namely Friday nights and weekends.
But now the shift has been subtle and complete -- now everyone drinks apparently to excess!
Even our much maligned 'elderlys' are reaching for the bottle too much and this is much publicised.
And guess who they are blaming? The Georgians, no not the people who inhabit
that part of Russia but the citizens of England under George 1st.
Now I was reading Hogarths original volumes in my stepfather's parents house in Richmond
when I was 6 so am very well acquainted with Hogarth and the Seven Stages of Sin and the
Rakes Progress -- which all very well illustrated the mode of the very rich and titled and also
the very poor in London at those times. And those were the debauchers and totally
out of their minds, the rich did the debauching and the very poor in Gin Lane were totally
out of their skulls and in those days if I had been very poor I would have been as well!
Gin was the tipple of both these classes or rather wine and gin for the uppers and beer
and gin for the poor if they could get the gin which was very cheap.
And believe me it was a class thing even then -- the East enders and others who inhabited
that part of London were overcrowded, very, very poor and their life expectancy was virtually
nil -- so hey ho bring out the gin bottles or rather jugs as it was served in then.
You cannot blame a 'drinking culture' from the 17th century on the plague we now have
with drink. Both these sections of society drank and still
do -- they haven't changed. But the social structure and ages have changed
considerably. Now I am not getting on a moral high horse
here, I have been really drunk several times in my life and because I have been so ill
-- it remains just several --but that is not because I can limit myself my body does it
for me which is probably just as well. I am of the double vision feeling sick variety
well before the pleasure so that is why I am the cheapest drunk in the world!
But drinking has been made to be attractive over the past decades through massive advertising
as with cigarettes. And this advertising, although now mainly
halted -- has had an effect on millions of people through the last years.
In the early 60's I was sitting in a coffee bar in Brighton one weekend at about 3ish
in the afternoon -- I was 15 with a school friend -- and in walked a group of the hunting
shooting fishing set probably off from university, Ascot or some social event -- and one of the
young woman threw up on the floor -- and we were all shocked that they were paralytic.
Now this now would not cause a stir, we are all faced with pictures of young girls from
certainly humbler stations falling around, puking up and peeing in the street with monotonous
regularity -- not only up North but down South as well!
The entire class structure of drinking has taken a new and nastier turn for the worst.
Up to the late 60's most drunks were confined to Pubs or their homes depending on their
status. Now this has changed.
Pubs are closing down with the Smoking Ban having a detrimental effect but 'Designer
pubs' and Clubs for youngsters are on the increase and open all hours.
24 hour drinking officially hit the UK some years ago coinciding with the selling of ***
all hours from corner shops, supermarkets and even petrol stations.
Gone are the Pubs and Drinking Clubs that moderated certain drinkers namely the very
young and the very poor.
Looking at the Rake's Progress picture by Hogarth in the DM -- you will note these people
are from the moneyed class of Georgian society -- thus the term Rake!
It was well known that most scions of society if they had three sons, one would go into
the Church, one would go to Court and one would be a Rake or just plain useless!
It is in the English nature to drink but not as much as it is in the Celtic nature, the
Irish and Scots taking the first prize in those drinking competitions.
It has been said that the Irish would have ruled the world had it not been for their
drinking problems and that is probably right! And the average working class Scot wouldn't
be seen dead outside of Sauchihall street on a Friday night!
But that doesn't explain the rise of very young women being taken to hospitals with
various forms of liver disease or addiction to alcohol and these youngsters can be from
any class but usually from working or lower middle class regions.
Those who are not at school are working and Friday night is 'let down your hair night'
or pull a guy night whatever -- and they need copious amounts of *** to do either it would
seem.
Our young men are the same -- and the blame doesn't lie with us English -- it lies with
the powers that be and the media who denigrate everything young, white and indigenous, whether
by failing to bolster up our own or highlighting everything that is wrong with them.
No one section of society has come under the torch of diversity, political correctness
and propagandised multiculturalism like our youth and in the preceding years previous
generations.
Don't blame our past for the mis-directions of today.
Our young drunks are not imbued with any sense of pride in their country or their people
-- however they are told to admire and try to adhere to the rules of different cultures
and ethnicities regardless of whether they want to or not.
They are told if they get older there will be no jobs, no houses and no family life for
them. They are told they will be waiting on the
sidelines for crumbs being handed down from the ethnic elite and the so called moneyed
classes -- which results in the celeb culture or rather anti culture.
Our true history and beginnings are not taught, Christianity is not taught in our schools
and you will have a hard time finding any reference to any of our Christian holidays
in the public eye. Our young are not given a fair chance and
I am the first to say it. It isn't the British way of life now to value
anything other than an I-pod or a tablet or place any value on human life if it isn't
multi-racial and that is a fact.
Our old drink because they are told they are worthless and the society they have paid into
all their lives is old hat and useless. They are forgotten and demoted in UK society
-- so why not get bladdered on a regular basis?
Don't blame the Georgians blame the new Elizabethans -- us, our governments and our new Diverse
culture. Our drunks are the direct result of changing
habits and our environment to suit multiculturalism and self genocide -- which is the Marxist
message -- denigrate what is originally that culture and re-educate the young to be what
Marx would have wanted -- a helpless addicted and lost people.
Well that isn't our young and it isn't us English -- where there is life there is hope
and our country will be great again -- nothing not even self destruction lasts forever and
our future does not lie in the bottom of a glass for our people and they will realise
it in good time.
And finally- Religious joke!
Three little Boys were concerned
because they couldn't get anyone to play with them.
They decided it was because they had not been Baptized
and didn't go to Sunday School.
So they went to the nearest Church.
But, only the Janitor was there.
One little Boy said, "We need to be baptized because no one will come out and play with
us. Will you baptize us?"
"Sure," said the Janitor.
He took them into the bathroom and dunked their little heads in the toilet bowl, one
at a time.
Then He said, "You are now Baptized!".
"When they got outside, one of them asked, "What religion do you think we are?"
The oldest one said,
"We're not Kathlick, because they pour the water on you."
"We're not Babtiss, because they dunk all of you in the water."
"We're not Methdiss, because they just sprinkle water on you."
The littlest one said, "Didn't you smell that water!"
They all joined in asking, "Yeah! What do you think that means?"
"I think it means we're Pisspatarians..!
You have been listening to the W@8. I am Lynne Mozar and I wish you all a very
good night.
W@8.02.12.13.