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Highlights of the news today Wednesday 10th July 2013
Abu Qatada's family plans to move to Jordan Theresa May Bans Two extremist groups
Royal Mail Sale: Cable Outlines Flotation EU Commission proposes giving itself far-reaching
powers to solve banking crises Outrage over Malta's plan to kick out asylum
seekers Riyadh tells foreign workers to "respect Ramadan
or be expelled" A brand-new U.S. military headquarters in
Afghanistan. And nobody to use it. Thought for the Day � It just isn�t fair
is it? And finally � Allo allo allo!!!
UK NEWS Abu Qatada's family plans to move to Jordan
The wife and children of hate cleric Abu Qatada, who faces trial on terror charges in Jordan
following his deportation from Britain, are planning to move to Amman from London, a family
friend said on Tuesday.
�Abu Qatada�s wife and five children want to leave Britain and come to Jordan.
They are currently preparing for that,� the family friend told AFP, asking not to
be named. W@8 states�Not a moment too soon. Let�s
hope it is the entire tribe of vipers this time.�
Theresa May Bans Two extremist groups Two extremist groups - UK-based Minbar Ansar
Deen and Nigeria-based Boko Haram - are to be proscribed in the UK under terrorism laws,
making membership and support for them a criminal offence.
Home Secretary Theresa May is to lay an order which, if approved by Parliament, will ban
both of the radical Islamist organisations from operating in the UK from midnight on
Friday morning.
Minbar Ansar Deen - also known as Ansar al-Sharia UK - promotes�terrorism by distributing
content through its online forum, which encourages individuals to travel overseas to engage in
extremist activity, specifically fighting, the Home Office said.
The Government said banning Boko Haram, which aspires to establish Islamic law in Nigeria,
will prevent the group from operating in the UK and give the police powers to tackle any
UK-based support for the group.
Royal Mail Sale: Cable Outlines Flotation Royal Mail staff will get free shares under
the Government's plans for the privatisation of the service, despite strong opposition
to the sell-off among the workforce. The Business Secretary Vince Cable confirmed
in a statement to MPs the intention to float a majority stake in Royal Mail initially,
with the rest following depending on market conditions.
As he announced that staff would hold 10% of the business under proposals� first revealed
by Sky News , members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) took to an open-top bus
in the City to denounce the sell-off. Some of the protesters - most of them employees
of the postal service - held placards reading: "Save our Royal Mail" or "You own it, don't
buy it."
W@8 says �Perhaps this is a way that Cable can recoup some of the cuts inflicted on his
department? Not a very popular one by all accounts�.
EUROPEAN NEWS EU Commission proposes giving itself far-reaching
powers to solve banking crises. The European Union�s executive branch in
Brussels has proposed giving itself far-reaching powers to decide what happens to banks that
need rescuing, a key part of a plan to restore confidence in the region�s financial system.
Under the proposal detailed Wednesday, the EU Commission would act to rescue or wind
down a bank, but only after hearing advice from a board consisting of the European Central
bank, its own officials and national authorities.
Based on that recommendation, �or on its own initiative, the Commission would decide
whether and when to place a bank into resolution,� a Commission statement said.
Some see it as another move by the EU authorities in Brussels to erode member countries� national
sovereignty and the proposal is likely to run into opposition from Germany and others.
W@8 comments �Be afraid be very afraid!�
Outrage over Malta's plan to kick out asylum seekers
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has blocked Malta from a "push-back"
of Somalian asylum seekers. It issued the injunction on Tuesday (9 July)
amid advanced plans by authorities to put 45 of the would-be refugees under police guard
on flights to Mitiga in Libya. They were part of a group of 102 men, women
and infants picked up by the Maltese coastguard earlier the same day after crossing the Mediterranean
Sea. Malta has cancelled flights it had booked
to return migrants to Libya, after an emergency intervention by the European Court of Human
Rights. The government had planned to send back people
who had arrived by boat, but said it would abide by the ECHR order.
W@8 states �France sent some back around 2 years ago and defied the EU ban but only
got a slap on the wrist and a small fine � deport them and just apologise. It is easier to obtain
forgiveness than permission�.
WORLD NEWS Riyadh tells foreign workers to "respect Ramadan
or be expelled" In timidly reforming Saudi Arabia, the Interior
Ministry imposes strict observance of fasting on non-Muslims.
Food, water, cigarettes and chewing gum are banned from public areas from dawn to dusk.
"Non-Muslim residents" must respect "the holiness of Ramadan and the feelings of Muslims," said
an interior ministry statement, or be expelled.
According to Islamic tradition, the month of Ramadan marks Allah's revelation to Muhammad
of the first verses of the Qur'an. Every person above puberty and in good health
has to fast from dawn to dusk. Compliance with these rules is one of the
five pillars of Islam, a basic duty for every Muslim.
The measure, adopted by the Interior Minister and confirmed by sources in the Committee
for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the muttawa or religious police),
primarily affects 8 million foreign workers, mostly Asians, who are living at present in
the country. Foreigners caught breaking the fast in public
"will be subject to deterrent measures that include terminating their employment contracts
and expelling them from the kingdom," the ministry said.
For the start of Ramadan, more than 30,000 men will be deployed around the Grand Mosque
in Makkah "to ensure the safety and security of the guests of God. The Interior Ministry
has also instructed the muttawa to intensify checks on the streets.
W@8 says �Well this just shows the way of Islam � very little understanding of foreign
workers in that country � many of whom are not Muslim. It is like the UK making Muslims
and Jews eat pork or telling Sikhs to cut their hair or Buddhists to eat meat and Hindus
eat beef and stop celebrating their festivals and all observe Easter and Christmas by attending
our Churches. These are often poorly paid Indian workers and not very well fed ones
at that. How would the Saudis react if we inflicted our Christianity on their fellow
Muslims that live over here?.
A brand-new U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. And nobody to use it.
The U.S. military has erected a 64,000-square-foot headquarters building on the dusty moonscape
of southwestern Afghanistan that comes with all the tools to wage a modern war.
A vast operations center with tiered seating. A briefing theater.
Spacious offices. Fancy chairs.
Powerful air conditioning.
Everything, that is, except troops.
The building was completed this year at a cost of $34 million.
But as the military draws down, it will sit empty.
Commanders in the area, who insisted three years ago that they did not need the building,
now are in the process of withdrawing forces and see no reason to move into the new facility.
And it is not only the only white elephant the USA has wasted money on.
In Kandahar province, the U.S. military recently completed a $45 million facility to repair
armored vehicles and other complex pieces of equipment.
The space is now being used as a staging ground to sort through equipment that is being shipped
out of the country.
In northern Afghanistan, the State Department last year abandoned plans to occupy a large
building it had intended to use as a consulate. After spending more than $80 million and signing
a 10-year lease, officials determined the facility was too vulnerable to attacks.
A W@8 writer comments �Unbelievable. All these buildings will do is provide better
accommodation to launch terrorist attacks for Al Qaeda when we all leave. Is the Obama
administration clear on that do you think?
Thought for the Day- It just isn�t fair is it?
There was an article in the Mail today about some asylum seekers or rather illegal immigrants
who were discovered in a cross Channel ferry�s tanker this morning � in fact 15 of the
blighters! It has been classed as a 'critical incident'
and warranted the call out of six fire engines, specialist equipment and members of the Kent
Police force! They were called out at 8.45am to the ports
eastern docks � you try getting a policeman to your house after a burglary at 8.45 in
the morning but hey ho they all turned up for these *** because several of them
appeared �unwell�. Now I know you would say the milk of human
kindness doesn�t run in my *** and as far as immigrants go you would be absolutely
right! Thankfully for the more humane amongst us
none of those found was in a life-threatening condition and ferry services have not been
affected by the �critical incident�.
Oh that�s ok then � not for them the old turn around and go back oh no.
Although not mentioned in the report in the Mail all 15 will be sent on to centres to
be processed � how can you �process� people who have stowed away in an oil tanker
let alone give them medical treatment for which they will not pay?
It shows that the Spirit of France vessel and others should be searched thoroughly before
every sailing to our shores � no exceptions and those found sent back immediately ill
or not! They were well enough to travel thousands
of miles to France and well enough to either pay a driver or fool him so fair do�s back
home boys!
This news item slots in very well with the so called report on ITV about the NHS and
the A&E departments of Hospitals throughout the UK and how much strain they are under
and the unspoken and mainly unreported cost to us of foreign health tourists and indeed
the growing immigrant population and their toll on our health services � which of course
is another non hyped fact � except that is in the case of a white American who cost
us �20,000 for *** treatment. All the while of course the ethnic cost is
being mainly ignored and those estimates range from �12m to �200m a year.
The ITV report was a carefully and politically correct filming of a Birmingham Hospital A&E
department. The staff were mainly ethnic except the Emergency
room and triage staff who were mostly white � but all without exception were working
their little socks off and owing to clever filming which must avoid any hint that the
immigrant population in Birmingham (which is practically wall to wall Asian) is taking
part in any of this � they filmed many white retards who were sitting around with sprained
wrists or needing prescriptions, which is hardly A&E material � I know because I have
seen enough lately of A&E departments and they work for excellently for emergencies.
I don�t know about you but I have never thought of going to A&E because the hint lies
in the title Accident and Emergency � not out of hours GP surgery departments.
Jeremy Hunt was interviewed and slid out of virtually everything asked of him whilst congratulating
the programme for bringing this to the public�s notice � yup and biased although it was
it will fool the sheeples completely!
Only one out of the ten pictures of �unnecessary� visitors to that A&E was Asian all the rest
were us in all our glory � do you really believe that, in that area?
Where the BBC found that a Birmingham practice manager was selling places to that GP�s
surgery for �800 a pop and sold to an undercover guy who promptly obtained an MRI free at probably
the hospital showed on TV! So we do have a black market web throughout
the NHS which I don�t believe was here 40 years ago.
Why? Because although never perfect the GP�s
did their jobs some years ago, which they are not doing now!
Take the case of our local GP surgery or surgeries because they are busy taking over all the
other practices in the area so have around 3 now � all large ones.
They have even built on a section in our waiting room this year.
Now there are around 4 partners and more locums I would imagine and some nurses.
Compared to my last one in Surrey this waiting room is always almost empty and still they
are running late. You cannot get an appointment that day ever
unless it is an emergency and then you have to go along at 5.30 and wait.
They seem to run on one or two GP�s at best because the others, instead of staying in
one practice spread themselves over three other surgeries � because of what?
Greed my friends, greed. It is more money for more patients but for
less doctors because they are still getting paid by the NHS for taking NHS patients.
I have never sat in a doctors waiting room with just one other person and still run late.
The GP�s most of them are not what they used to be � most don�t work weekends
even Saturday mornings which used to be the norm and you wouldn�t see a GP dead in an
A&E situation � well maybe literally!
The staff at any A&E are right � GP�s need to put their time where their money is
and get working harder with their patients not taking over other surgeries which they
can�t handle. Hunt must put more onto the GP�s and it
must be stipulated that A&E is emergency only preferably via ambulance or GP�s recommendations.
Hunt is supposed to be bringing in new rules for health tourists like:
* Restricting free treatment for people from outside the European Economic Area citizens
to those with indefinite leave to remain in the UK
* Allowing anyone living abroad who has paid National Insurance for at least seven years
in the past to get free treatment while on UK visits
* A "health levy" on migrants from outside the EEA staying for up to five years of at
least �200 a year - unless they have private health cover
* Improving how non-EEA short-term visitors are identified and charged for hospital treatment
* Extending hospital charges to GP practices and other NHS treatment for non-permanent
residents * Treatment for infectious diseases and sexually
transmitted infections to remain free for all
* Improving current "flawed" systems for enforcing current charging rules
* Considering sharing personal information relevant to NHS charges between the NHS, government
departments and other agencies The government says the NHS is one of the
most generous systems in the world and is also "open to abuse by those intent on cheating
the system".
Now this looks good but it is too little too late.
These rules or similar ones should have been brought in concurrently with the growing problems
of immigration over the last 40 years. Hell they even inspected the Europeans in
Ellis Island for disease and if they were ill they were not �hopitalised� but sent
home! Vis a vis the channel ferry debacle!
It could be that in Birmingham one of our more heavily populated areas for immigrants
� that selling of places in GP�s surgeries has had more of an impact than ever because
of the sheer numbers taking this black market up � forcing GP�s to back down and cut
their work levels and put a large percentage of their work along to 111 lines � which
are facing criticism now. I personally found 111 when I couldn�t get
hold of our GP last May for my better half � very helpful and they sent around an ambulance
immediately � but then I thought he had indigestion!
I cannot fault the emergency services in the UK they are superb � the falling down factor
is aftercare and the time it takes for notes to reach the GP � but this could be down
to the fact we have no typists even old ones in the UK apparently and notes are sent to
sodding China to be typed up! The NHS, our NHS is a wonderful thing, it
has its flaws but generally if it wasn�t the best thing in the world next to paying
exorbitant amounts of money for private care � we wouldn�t have every tom *** and
harry coming over here for them and their families to cash in on would we?
These people are not stupid but we are however very stupid in putting up with it.
It isn�t all the fault of immigrants and immigration but on my research I would put
that fault down to 80% immigration and 20% mishandling and mismanagement both locally
and nationally of local Hospitals and GP�s. ITV were looking at the Queen Elisabeth Hospital
in Birmingham, Why? It's a big new �500 million building with
over 1,200 beds. It sees 730,000 patients a year, nearly 100
000 of them coming through the "front door" (that's what they call A&E).
If you go to Birmingham Council website the official stats are worrying.
They class Birmingham as a young city with 45.6% persons under 30.
Couple this with the 42% non white residents and 22% residents born outside the UK and
21.8% Muslims and the expected growth of 300,000 more people whether by birth or immigration
in the coming years and you can see why they built this wonderful new Hospital in this
area � not for us however. Birmingham is also in the process of building
a railink that will make it easier for our immigrants to get out of their state funded
cars and travel to London, wonderful at the cost of �32Billion.
The Queen Elizabeth A&E has entered the world of the web and if one wants to be pedantic
a Clare Stajlla with a bite on her foot left untreated after 4 hours whilst a Aysha Rafi
left after 45 minutes with a passel of medication for her bite on her foot! See my point?
There was a Ms Wade a rather large young lady with chest pains and I frankly don�t wonder
at that and an odd assortment of obviously picked out for their Britishness people who
should not have been there in the first place but who have now their 15 minutes of fame!
For years certain papers nationally have touched on the subject of health tourists and then
stopped when in fact there have been health tourists for the last 30 years to my knowledge
� but the earlier ones were the Harley Street paying kind not the leaches that go to our
NHS now. Nowadays it is the people in the areas of
high immigration that are benefitting from brand new and expensive hospitals being built
whilst in areas of low immigration they are shutting down local small cottage hospitals
and even ones built in the 80�s to accommodate the spread in the ethnic areas.
Is this fair? No it isn�t � we as a people are paying
through the nose in these times of austerity for foreigners, whether they choose to live
here or merely come in on the banana boat to cash in.
The mere fact that the NHS employs thousands of ethnic workers (not necessarily medical
staff) means that the whole shift of our NHS is towards the third world and those standards
� why because standards come from within an
organisation and stem from the top and if we have some ethnic personnel in places of
importance within the NHS � their bias is going to be very different from ours.
We need our governments and councils to stop running the NHS for foreigners and accommodating
the inevitable rise in ethnics from future immigration.
Cut down monies spent in large ethnic community areas and put it where it can be made use
of by Brits � outside the larger cities. Make rules about A&E and stick to them despite
the immigrants being allowed to think they have a right to take advantage of our healthcare
systems when for the most part they have not paid in a penny!
Bring in proper rulings and bring them in quickly otherwise there will be no NHS for
us Brits. There is only so much stress this system can
take and it shows that during the years of heavy immigration the result so far is not
good and we need to acknowledge that before we can adopt adapt and improve.
We have dedicated staff in these A&E departments and all are working under a pressure that
should not be there � whether it be from Brits with sunburn or immigrants with insect
bites.
My advice, take a pill and lie down � don�t bother A&E guys, they work hard enough!
And finally- Allo allo allo! A police chief�s retirement party sparked
chaos when they celebrated by recreating a *** scene - which locals mistook for the
real thing. Residents in the rural Lincolnshire town panicked
when they saw their local pub covered in police tape and the outline of a body drawn in chalk
outside. The pub was suddenly inundated with phone
calls from concerned members of the public convinced a major incident had taken place.
If any tried to call the police they may not have been able to through, as most were ironically
already in the pub, as the scene was a farce to celebrate the retirement of the Sgt Stuart
Brotherton. Pete Williams, landlord of the Punchbowl in
Spalding, even placed mock floral tributes for the non-existent *** victims and spread
ketchup on the floor to recreate splatters of blood last Wednesday.
Mr Williams - who has ran the pub for the past 15 years - said: "I must have had 20
or so phone calls from people throughout the evening and they genuinely thought something
had happened.
This presenter says �And they say the Brits aren�t gullible? �
You have been listening to the W@8. I am Lynne Mozar and I wish you all a very good night.
W@8.10.07.13.