Just a short one but something that I read today in a paper by a famous British comedian about the current furore over the European Court of Human Rights and the extradition of Abu Qatada to Jordan where he might be tortured.
“When your arch enemy is a court of human rights it might be time to take a deep breath and think for a moment what that makes you” – Frankie Boyle
His arrest came after a press release by WikiLeaks which said that both he and Alaa Abd El-Fattah an Eygpitian activist would be starring on the latest episode of “The World Tomorrow”, the interview show hosted by Julian Assange on Russia Today (a FSB / Kremlin front man as some commentators and newspapers have called it).
I would not expect to get any critical analysis of Russian political problems from Russia Today just like I wouldn’t expect much criticism of conservatism and right wing politics from FOX News.
The reason that I show so much RT video clips on this site is that they don’t expect you to ask for permission or require copyright and they provide an excellent balance to the mainstream media we are blasted with all day in our own countries. From the BBC, Sky News, the Guardian and Sunday Times in the UK to FOX, MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times and Wall St Journal in the USA, these outlets are all fighting the “infowar” for their own side.
Just as all these news outlets could be considered biased “fronts” or political propaganda for their own countries which was seen during the build up to the war in Iraq and Libya and recently again in their coverage of Syria. Russia Today is exactly the same for Russia and I would not expect to find critical analysis of Putin and the gangsterism rampant within Russian society being discussed in depth on their channel.
However it does provide a useful counter balance for anyone out there who wants to view both sides of a story or event before making up his or her minds. Which should in theory be everybody who has an open mind and doesn’t only read or view shows or papers that re-enforce their existing stereotypes and views on a subject.
If anyone wants to criticise me or my site personally for showing Russia Today material (which has happened many times) then I would like to point them to the permanent link on my home page entitled FSB Apartment Bombing False Flag Attack.
An article I wrote which looks at the false flag attacks which brought Putin to power and the deaths of those who tried to investigate him and the corruption endemic within his regime. I would argue from this article of mine that I am hardly a Putin supporter or FSB/KGB stooge.
However as a lot of the programming on Russia Today is from Washington and Europe and includes outspoken journalists and front men like Max Keiser an ex Wall St stockbroker who now revels in telling the world all the secrets of how Goldman Sachs and co use illicit and immoral methods to make money through their ponzi schemes.
This includes scoops and interviews with people investigating the massive financial fraud being played on the masses right now from front running to high frequency trading and even going as far as using their massive lobbying power to change the law retrospectively to ensure they are not charged when caught breaking it.
However it is clear from the arrest of Nabeel Rajab on his return from Lebanon at the Bahraini International Airport by Bahrani authorities, that the Bahrani state does not want it’s dirty secrets laundered in public. It is also clear that they see Julian Assanges show as a threat to their special status as “untouchable” Western allies who can do no wrong.
Maryam al-Khawaja, another Bahraini human rights defender said she and Rajab were discussing the possibility of his arrest as they left Beirut from their Twitter account knowing that the troubles in Bahrain were escalating.
As I said only last week when the Formula One was held in Bahrain. It seems that the only Human Rights that the West cares or wants to know about are from countries they already have foreign policy problems with such as Syria or Libya.
When it come to allies or countries that are homes to US military bases such as Saudi Arabi and Bahrain then we seem to skip over these countries as if they were inconsequential or irrelevant when it comes to the wider uprisings across the Middle East.
Maybe it’s because these countries are already part of the global empire and under our control that we tend to ignore them in our news, papers and TV shows whilst constantly reminding the world how awful it is in Syria and what a good job we did in Libya a country that is now a mess. A haven for terrorists and led by ex al-Qaeda terrorists, a mishmash of competing tribal gangs enforcing Sharia law and shooting it out for supremacy. Yes we did a great job there.
Bahrain is obviously one of these countries that the West choose to ignore and whilst we attack Russia for supporting Syria due to its arms contracts and naval base we are blind to the hypocrisy of our own naval bases and massive arms deals to authoritarian regimes. If we remember Saudi Arabia helped crush the Bahraini revolt last year and they did it all with Western made tanks, guns and bullets.
Now that Formula one has left Bahrain the 24 hour news channels in the UK have been silent on the Bahraini uprisings. Hopefully if one of these news channels has the balls to do so, the arrest of a prominent human rights activist such as Nabeel Rajab can bring the Bahraini uprisings back to the mainstream.
I don’t hold out much hope though. The whole world saw how the USA treats human rights when it clashes with big business and the people they owe money to. When the blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest, traveled hundreds of miles, crossed rivers and rocky terrain and managed to gain refuge in the US embassy to ask for help – how did the USA treat him?
Instead off standing up for our “commitment to liberty and freedom” we decided to throw him back out to the Chinese wolves whilst Hilary Clinton preferred to use meaningless words than real deeds when mentioning human rights in her speech to the Chinese.
God knows what is happening to him and his family now as he is back in the hands of Chinese authoritarians who have installed spy cameras in his house and electric fences around it to prevent him escaping again. Why they just didn’t execute him and remove his organs like they do with so many other prisoners is a question only they can answer.
Anyway I do hope Nabeel Rajab‘s arrest and his interview on The World Tomorrow with Julian Assange will bring the fate of those striving for change in Bahrain back into the mainstream news and his appearance on Julian Assanges’ show has certainly already caused controversy just as the first person did who Julian chose to interview – the leader of the banned “terrorist” group Hezbollah.
From being called a “useful idiot” by an ex partner in his document release – the Guardian – to a Kremlin stooge for working with Russia Today by Glenn Beck, the show has caused massive controversy in the west for the guests he has has already interviewed and he has been forthright about the controversy this would cause which you can watch here. The show has not pleased many right or left wing pundits in the Empire and the news outlets they control.
Episode one: He was heavily criticized for interviewing the leader of Hezbollah: Hassan Nasrallah
Episode two:Left and Right in the 21st century in which he interviews Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and former anti-communist dissident, who turned communist and David Horowitz a radical right-wing Zionist, who used to be a left-wing fundraiser for the Black Panther Party.
Episode three: An interview with the first pro-revolution President of Tunisia Moncef Marzouki in which he talks about human rights and the future direction of the country as well as the past including torture and the USA’s double standards when it comes to Human Rights and the Arab Spring.
Remember that you can view all the previous and hopefully future “The World Tomorrow” interview shows either on my site under this link: darkpolitricks.com/tag/the-world-tomorrow/
I have just watched the “Big Questions” on BBC1 which you can watch in a few hours on BBC iPlayer and there are ways to watch it from abroad if you are technical enough or know what a proxy server is.
However the show was about religion and mainly about whether Religion was good for Children. This included faith schools and how child’s brains are formed and can be indoctrinated during their younger years into religion. The debate was full of humanists, evangelical Christians, Muslims and Rabbi’s.
Whilst there is no doubt that in this country at least which has a long history the Christian religion has brought many good things as well as bad things to the overall culture of the country such as original schooling, charitable foundations and people who were moral Christians who went out into the slums to help the poor because of their faith.
However we now live in a multicultural society and “the age of reason” where faith schools are allowed to exist which can create their admission policy around the students religious background. You can help change this by signing this petition.
We have had stories over the years of the Saudi Arabian supported schools that undercover reporters found were teaching things about defamatory things about Jews and Christians and much more.
In my belief faith schools are a bad thing as they teach separation on the lines of indoctrination.
Kids at the age they go to school are likely to follow the beliefs and actions of their parents. If their parents are religious they are likely to unquestionably follow their parents including religion and going to a faith school will re-inforce that belief. They are also less likely to mix with children from outside their faith as friendships are formed within school at that age.
As we know from Northern Ireland and the Protestant and Catholic schooling systems that helped keep the country divided for years schools can be the places where child’s philosophies on life are formed (which is why many religious people take their children out of State schools to home teach as they believe they are too liberal).
For some children the school is the only place they receive any kind of mental stimulation or moral grounding as some parents are just too busy working all the time to pay for food, mortgages, clothes and other things that keep them alive.
Whilst many parent are not like that I have seen personally many children at the age of 5 that you can just tell are going to end up in prison as their parents only talk to them when they shout at them to tell them to shut up or sit down as they are too busy watching TV to play with them.
Therefore schools can be very important places and for some kids they are the only place they receive any kind of information, life skills and for some abused children any form of kindness and even love.
We all know from the statistics that many Church of England or Catholic schools in the UK have some of the top grades in the country for state schools which is why so many parents try to get their kids into them whether they are religious or not.
This is more a damming indictment on our state school system that a sign that faith schools provide a better education and moral grounding.
Our state schools are a mess and I personally can attest to that after being to one and it is through pure luck and my own brain that I didn’t end up in prison like so many others of my peer group.
Through my own thirst for knowledge I went out and taught myself what I now know in this world through reading books many of which were religious (e.g history of religion(s)), studying philosophy and then when the Internet arrived I probably learned more in a couple years of surfing the web than I did in the whole of my state secondary school education.
In places in Southern states of America where religion is supposedly so strong, schools are evangelically christian by nature and children hold “purity rings” to show they won’t have sex until they are married as they are taught by their Christian religion they have some of the highest levels of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, anal sex and other signs that the kids are breaking the rules or bending the indoctrination to fit in their hormones.
At the time of their life when the urge to have sex suddenly arrives but a moral code forced on them forbids it – what happens? They try to “bend the rules” and end up having anal or oral sex as they see it as not having “real” sex as it doesn’t lead to pro-creation.
As many religious people on all sides claim, morals are linked to religion and without their religion they wouldn’t have a moral grounding. This really annoys humanists and atheists as it signifies that moral behaviour is somehow only available to followers of a certain belief system.
Obviously this is hogwash as not only would it mean that without the religious belief the person would become a murdering, raping, lunatic which is plainly crazy but it would mean that all the millions of people who are not followers of a religion would be non-moral unethical walking anti-christs.
Humanists do what is right because it is right not because an old book or myth handed down Chinese whisper style before it could be written down says so.
What I found interesting from the debate was what one person said about linking a moral code to a belief system, as many religions do. That when, as many do, people leave the religion they are likely to leave the moral code behind as well because the two have become so intrinsically linked together in that persons mind.
In this scenario the person might engage in immoral behaviour to spite the religious teachings they had forced upon them, which might be the root cause of this belief of religion equals morals.
This could be the “lack of morals” that some religious people see when they talk about the lack of morals in humanists and atheists but it but it is also a good reason why ethics and morals should be taught on their own right at school without any linkage to religion at all. People should be taught that doing good things is good for their own sake not because Jesus or Mohammed said it was good.
Good ethics and morals are something I cannot ever remember being taught at school and it should be a parents jobs to teach right from wrong without indoctrinating the child into a belief system anyway.
The school however should realise that in this day and age, when riots are occurring around the land and the economy is collapsing and whole estates are no-go areas for the Police that they should be a backstop in case of these missing “home lessons” that undoubtedly so many kids today don’t get at all.
I remember my own Religious Education lessons at school and they were just a time for winding up our very religious (Christian obviously) teacher.
I remember one lesson trying to be the critical and questioning child that we should all want our children to be and on the subject of heaven I asked “what happens in heaven”.
The teacher replied that in heaven we were all given jobs to do by God and went around working for him. I replied that it all sounded very boring and I didn’t really want to go to heaven if that was all that happened and that hell sounded a lot more exciting. I was sent out of the lesson in disgrace – no questioning my indoctrination in this class please.
As a book writer on the subject talked about on the show, at the age we are at school our brains are forming and in the “questioning, critical analysis” stage which should be nurtured not stubbed out through indoctrination and blanket yes/no answers to big questions that kids want to know at that age.
Questions we still ask such as “where did I come from” , “why are we here” and “what is the meaning of life and does there even need to be one”. These are all questions that some of us are still trying to find the answer for but through reason, science and logic not fairy tales and ancient stories.
At that time in our lives we undoubtedly live in a mystical age where we are likely to believe anything we are told. This is the reason we believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and read books about magicians, dragons and other Harry Potter style fantasies.
However we all grow up and whilst the myth of Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy were dispelled by me either sleepily catching my parents filling my stocking or being told at school at a young age it was all a myth the religious myths continued.
The main reason I suppose was that older people, people in authority were still believing these religious stories and as a child it is hard to disagree with authority (for some at least) when they tell you black is black or God exists. Case closed.
In my opinion, and I cannot see how we could do this unless we banned faith schools, banned home schooling and then countered any home time indoctrination by teaching ethics, morals, philosophy, psychology, sociology and even religion from a historical and cultural point of view. At least this way we ensure our kids get some useful knowledge from the time they spend at school as well as a moral grounding that might be missing at home in all in a non religious way.
Of course if we taught these lessons instead of the mundane and boring lessons that I can remember from my state school education it might even help solve the problem we currently have of parents feeling guilty by not being able to pay for their child to go to a private school and replace the loss of Grammar schools for the clever kids that have to suffer state school teaching. We must churn out those drug dealers and factory line workers…
It would raise state education standards for all pupils and also give our kids a grounding in morals and ethics that are not linked to any belief system they might discard later in life.
I am not against people choosing to believe in religion or the Flying Spaghetti Momster in the sky if they are old enough to make their own decisions.
I am however against children being indoctrinated into any religion at an early and particularly susceptible age in your life.
I am also against little boys and in some regions of the world girls being genitally mutilated by being circumcised when they are too young to make their own decision. Something that would be considered child abuse in any other context.
Remember it is not about religion it is about teaching right from wrong. And neither are linked to the story of Abraham and the 3 faiths that flowed from that story and make up the majority of religious believers today – Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
As Ghandi famously said: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”
On Sunday as I watched Andrew Marr interview David Cameron about the current state of Britain I found some interesting topics to talk about. These included the influence of lobbying and lobbyists on the new government especially his personal relationships with members of the Rupert Murdoch “team”, the economic crisis which has seen the UK enter a double dip recession and the state of broken Britain in general.
Thinking of this interview and the state our country is in at the moment and with a bit of previous thought that has always remained in my consisouncess I believe we need to come up with a basic plan of steps that can help to restore our country.
These steps should not be ideologically bound and should be considered in a “what works, works” conceptiuial basis. Whether you are a Tory, Liberal or Socialist we all are suffering under the same problems and a solution that works should be considered whether or not it neatly fits inside your ideological view box or not.
The Economy
1. The private sector has not rushed into fill all the public sector jobs that are being lost. People are being put on the dole which increases government payments for jobseeker allowance and housing benefit and in turn increases the amount we need to borrow and therefore increases national debt. Therefore the question needs to be asked whether or not in makes more logical sense (and in turn basic mathematical sense) to keep on this track.
Many people might blame our tax rates and they might be right. If it can be proven that lower company taxes or a flat tax rate system will bring in more actual revenue to the governments coffers then I have no problem with it.
However corporation tax has already been dropped, our tax free allowance raised twice already, the higher rate of tax dropped from 50% to 45% and no influx of private sector jobs has occurred yet.
Here is something that ought not to be just a thought experiment. I would love to know if some university professor with too much time on his well paid hands has tried workig this out or not and please if anyone knows the answer let me in on it.
In the 1980′s our PM of the time Maggie Thatcher went to war with the miners. Many mines were unprofitable but they supported whole villages and towns and were often the only place for people in the local area to work.
Therefore when the mines were closed whole swathes of the country were made unemployed and in time due to the 3 million unemployed people on the dole the government told the employment agency to shift people onto disability allowance if there were eve the slightest thing wrong with them so that the figures were reduced and they could claim success in the war against unemployment.
This is the same government (although a different generation) that is now trying to get people off the disability allowance they had put them on to help win elections. Hypocrisy?
There were no private companies in these places for the people to go to work in and most of the miners were unskilled manual labourers with little other skills. The only “fix” given by the government of the time was from Norman Tebit who said “Get on your bike” and look for work.
Many of these miners are still jobless and many of the towns and villages that were based around the mines are now desolate wastelands full of empty or broken houses, drugs, drink and other social problems.
Now if someone at the time of this massive descission could have done the maths and worked out whether over the next 20-30 years the amount of money spent in dole money, sickness and housing benefit, extra police, court and prison costs and all the other long term costs that come with massive social deprivation and compared it with the subsidies or lost money from the mines which would come out on top?
Is it better to have a town full of people all working, all feeding their familes, all with a sense of pride in their community living in a town with lower social deprivation at the cost of a government subsidy?
Put aside your libertarian or socialist views and consider it from a basic mathematical point of view. Which do you think costs more?
This is the question we should be asking now with the current public sector cuts. Without knowing the actual true cost of the massive mine closure over 30 years I would surmise that it is cheaper to keep people working and off multiple government subsidies (dole, housing etc) and keeping a loss making mine open – another government subsidy.
So it comes down to a simple question of which subsidy is more benefiial for society? The subsidies handed out in dole money, prison buildings and wages for wardens and policemen due to the social deprivation caused by the closure of the only place of work in town and the social problems caused by it.
Or the subsidy required to keep open the mine or public sector workplace in the first place. A loss leader which may require propping up but which also serves as the main source of employment for the town. Take away the mine or the hospital and you take away the income for the town, the pride of having a job, trade for the local shops, pubs, and other retail outlets who all rely on the wages of the workers and if there are no retraining schemes (they cost money so the government doesn’t do them) then even if private companies come to these empty towns the jobs will be filled by migrants and other people moving into the area who already have the skills to work at these places.
At the moment we have whole swathes of Britian particularly Wales, Scotland and the North where the only jobs available are Public Sector ones. Take them away and replace them with nothing and we are left in the same situation as the 80′s.
Remember that the higher cost of current government subsidies for unemployed people has brought our borrowing levels up NOT down and it is only our low interest rates that have kept our heads above water and not turned the UK into a permanent London riot all year long like Greece and Spain.
When I hear George Osborne or David Cameron, both millionaire toffs tell us “we are all in it together” it makes me puke.
I think the first order of business is to take the whole Tory/Lib Dem government and force them to live for a month on Jobseekers allowance of just over £120 a fortnight and see how long they manage without all their luxuries and all the things they take for granted that most of the country could only dream of having.
I’d like to see how in touch with the common man and woman they’d be once their chauffeur driven cars, cooks and butlers are taken away from them. Where a night outs worth of money has to last them a fortnight. Watching them shop at LIDL in the cheap food section aisle for tins of beans with mini sausages in them as a “treat” instead of salmon or steak. Not being able to drink expensive Brandy or Port after their dinner but instead being derided by society for drinking cheap cider instead just to blot out the daily boring grind of life without a job in this most excellent and happy country. Would they cope not going out to the theatre or opera at night for entertainment but instead having to suffer watching Eastenders and Britain’s Got Talent like the rest of us on a cheap TV on second hand furniture in a damp squalid flat.
Only then, once they had actually experienced life without a well paying job in a desolate part of Britain could they actually know what it is like to live like the 99%. To know that the bus route they are planning on shutting will mean an extra 30 minute walk in the morning or the local sports centre that relies on council funding that is being cut means that they have even less to do with their day apart from stare at jobs in papers that they have no qualifications for or transport to get to.
Stimulating the Economy
Just a few off the top of my head.
Tax breaks for UK companies that make their products within the UK and don’t offshore them to slave labour camps like China.
A “human rights” tax break for companies who don’t offshore their workers to countries that pay less than minimum wage in this country. Companies that only hire people on “living wages” who have proper labour rights and work benefits instead of giant nets to catch staff members trying to kill themselves by throwing themselves off a building.
Tax breaks for companies who hire long unemployed people – e.g if you have been unemployed for over 1 year or even 6 months.
More emphasis on ensuring companies are not hiring illegal migrants and keeping UK citizens out of jobs through the use of slave labour. A National Insurance card must be provided, photocopied and saved for every employee and provided on demand by people who’s actual job is to prevent slave labour from occurring in the first place.
Closing all tax loopholes and ensuring any international company who wants to sell their goods in one of the biggest markets in the world has a UK company setup on these shores and all relevant corporation, VAT and other related taxes paid to our treasury from that company. A simple tax code would mean less loopholes for the lawyers to work around and deliberate avoidance through convoluted mechanisms should be made a criminal offence.
Setting up a UK PLC company that is owned by all the taxpayers of the country who will recieve dividends from the company each year – which will be used to stimulate the economy. They would battle in the private sector like any other company for work but for government contracts they should get first dibs – and why not I ask? The Labour government has shown us through PPI how much money was (and still will be for the next 20 odd years at least) wasted on these private public investment schemes. The UK PLC company would be filled with UK workers with valid national insurance cards, the long term unemployed, ex prisoners, other people struggling to get work AND any other workers who apply to vacancies when required. The only benefit this company would have compared to others is in the public sector e.g government contracts.
It gets first refusal on any government contract whether it be an IT system or new Hospital building or even just a maintenance role at a school. Why pay a private company hundreds of pounds to change a light bulb when we should be able to do it cheaply? Believe me through Gordon Browns PPI system we do pay hundreds of pounds to change light bulbs in hospitals and schools all around the country. We shouldn’t be paying companies billions of pounds for huge computer systems that don’t even work and then get scrapped anyway when we can hire IT University graduates and other IT staff to work for UK PLC which will be run like any other company but without the motive to rinse the UK government for every penny it can squeeze out of them.
If it makes a profit the profit is divided between expanding the company and paying dividends to us taxpayers who will then use that money stimulating the economy in the private marketplace. The employees have an incentive to do well for this reason alone and it would also incentivise people to get jobs for the yearly dividend cheque.
It is a first port of call for the long term unemployed and other skilled people without a job or at the end of their careers to have a chance to re-enter the workforce and put their skills to good use.
Banking.
We need to create a national bank that has proper interest rates for savers and encourage people to save money again at a rate that makes it worthwhile.
We need a bank that is owned by the people of the country and is willing to loan out money to small businesses who are the companies who give people jobs.
We need a bank that is owned by the people that’s job isn’t to make money purely from money e.g gambling, as we know all the big players do with their high frequency trading and front running.
We need s bank that is owned by the people where the profit is given out to the shareholders of the company each year (the taxpayers of the country) and not in million pound bonuses to a few of their best AND most of their worst gamblers.
We already have huge stake-holds in more than one bank. We should take the whole thing over and turn it into a bank run for the people of the nation for the benefit of the nation.
Can you imagine as a working tax payer being given a yearly cheque for a few thousand pounds to spend as you wish because you as a taxpayer are also a shareholder in a national bank?
This is one way to stimulate the economy as well as incentivise people without jobs to get jobs and to start paying tax.
The European Union
We should leave the European Union as soon as possible. We should give them an ulimatium either make the whole shaky house of cards what is should have been a free trading zone, with free movement of people and goods and not a semi quasil supra government in which unelected people can weild enormous power and the elected EU government can weild little.
The Euro should never have gone ahead as it was clear to many people at the time that the North and South European countries were two totally different systems that would never mesh together and it was only with the help of the criminals at Goldman Sachs that allowed countries like Greece to hide their huge debts and get on board the Titanic with no-one noticing.
We will save money and keep our own embassies and seats at the UN instead of what is surely on the EU’s roadmap a huge polical union like the USA in which the EU is the only embassy in each country and the EU Foreign Minister makes descisions for all European nations.
Whilst there are some good things in the EU there are plenty of bad and I cannot see the balance being tilted the other way anytime soon. Before that happens the EURO will most likely crash or we will end up in another European war.
The case of Abu Qatadar brings me onto the legal system in the UK.
We should create our own Bill of Rights on the same lines as the US Bill of Rights and that every single person wether they be a policeman or royal is covered by the Bill and everyone in the UK is equal under the law.
I want to know 100% that I will be given the same treatment by the judiciary as the Queen if she let her pack of Corgi’s maul a child to death or drink drive into a bus stop full of people killing many of them. Only when we are all equal under the same law – a British made law and one that is the highest law in the land can we call ourselves free and equal.
Alongside this the true “Freedom Bill” should be implemented post haste not the weak and feeble cut down version making its way through parliament at the moment. It is a disgusting stain on the Lib Dem’s character that they allowed the Tories to rip out everything good about the bill and turn it into a wheel clampers justice bill.
These reforms will rebalance our extradition treaty with the USA, restore our right to silence under police interview, give back our right to protest near parliament and many more important laws the pro-surveillence governent of Labour (and now seemingly the coallition) had brought in.
The English should have their own parliament to solve the West Lothian question and to prevent Scottish MP’s voting to raise UK students tuition fees whilst they can keep University free in their own country.
We should do away with this mismash of devolution which Tony Blair started and go the full hog. We should have full devolution for all 4 parts of the UK in which citizens of those countries vote for their local MP to sit in their countries parliament on matters that affect their country alone and then sit within the Westminister parliament when the matter is UK wide e.g whether to go to war, to sign treaties with other nations and other important UK matters.
The English parliament can sit in the Houses of Parliament in Westminster and matters covering the whole UK will involve members of parliament from the Scottish parliament, the Welsh parliament and the Northern Irish one.
Immigration
I live in a town that due to Joanna Lumley is no longer recoognisable due to the ex Gurka veterans (who I have no problem with at all) bringing their whole families over to live in this country. This would be fine if:
They could speak English.
They were not all given houses straight away, houses some of us have waited decades on the housing list for and then removed from (me being one of those people who was told by letter that people with higher priority such as single mums and immigrants would get housing first).
They were not overloading our already strained and mercilessly cut public services.
They would at least try and learn our culture and fit in. A thank you wave when you let someone through a door or in a car at a junction is not too much to ask – I know a little thing that many other people don’t do but it’s little things like this that really grind my gears (quote Peter Griffin)
People come to the UK from Africa with HIV and turn up at the nearest hospital and then given the best treatment around for free whilst someone who has live in this country their whole life and can trace their history back hundreds of years is treated contentably by the NHS when they have a serious illness.
I am not against immigration as it was badly needed after World War II and when English people won’t take the jobs someone needs to do them.
What I am against is the fact that whole swathes of the UK are now ghettos where a white person would feel threatened to walk at night.
Where on a bus ride in certain towns you can hear a myriad of conversations, that is apart from English.
Where if you go to certain places in London you would think you were in India or Pakistan if it were not for the Red buses that fill the roads.
Where if you open a door to a woman in a head scarf or let her pass in the street she won’t even look at you in the eye let alone say thank you. I know their culture forbids it but this is Britain not Saudi Arabia and we treat women as equals not slaves therefore we should expect some modicum of “fitting in” if we are going to allow tens of millions of people all from various cultures into our country.
Is it too much too ask in these cash strapped times when far right groups like the English Defense League are growing that we try and save money by only printing council literature in English, don’t put up road signs in Punjabi instead of English and don’t spend millions on translators for job centers and police stations? We could save all this money if we only ensure that before you enter our country you can speak basic English.
It is not racist to feel this way and anyway calling me that can suck my right fist but as the last election showed we cannot have a grown up debate about immigration without being called a racist or someone who wants to wipe out the English race – no inbetween at all.
So along with tighter border controls we should ensure that anyone wishing to migrate to this country should be able to pass an entrace exam on our history and culture as well as know basic English before being allowed on our soil – not after. What do we have foreign embassies in every country for if we cannot use part of them as exam halls for potential migrants?
Once they have completed their exams they should be given a citenship ceremony in which they are presented their national insurance card. A card by the way which should be mandatory display at any doctors, hostpital or benefits agency.
This is not an ID card that can be demanded by Police Officers that holds genetic material, iris scans and other Labour big brother plans but a basic piece of plastic we all get when we turn 16 with a unique number that identifies us in the workforce or benefits office. Any new immigrant should be proud to achieve the right to hold one.
They are a sign you are entitled to work, pay tax, claim benefits and this should also include the right to health care at the NHS. If you turn up half dead then I don’t expect you to have to show the card but people who use the Accident and Emergency service as a doctors should have to bring their card with them. This will prevent NHS migrants and hopefully reduce the stress on our already strained health service.
Not only will this help social cohesion it will install a sense of pride at achieving British Citizenship.
We should abolish the stupid tests Labour brought in which were more about how to claim benefits than the history of our country and make the tests hard enough so that people willing to move here will take them and when they do they will hopefully fit in with the existing community. Labour ruined this country in more ways than can be counted and this stupid test of their is one of them.
We want people who want to live here and accept our way our life. I don’t want our government sending troops to foreign lands so that they can say that “we fight them over there so we don’t fight them over here” whilst at the same time we have thousands of men and women within our shores looking at our culture in disgust and planning payback for all that “collateral damage” we do across the world. It goes both ways and I definitely don’t agree with the wars we are in. Stop the wars and stop the hate at home.
There are so many other things I could go on about including more about our endless war on terror, ending the surveillence state, removing our tongue from the USA’s ass and much much more but I think I have said enough for one essay. Lets cross our fingers and pray to the great big Spaghetti monster in the sky that some of it becomes true.
I am glad the Formula One race took place in Bahrain this last weekend as it actually brought some focus back to one of the places the world seems to have forgotten about during the uprisings across the Middle East.
It seems that the Middle East Spring, to some people at least, only includes countries we would like to see political change occur within. Countries we might say “require regime change” due to their political allegiances or non complicity with Western foreign policy objectives.
It is in these countries that we have little control over, countries that stick two fingers up at hypocritical UN votes or biased one sided nuclear agreements such as Iran and Syria that require the change we all can believe in. These are countries who are supported militarily and politically by our old cold war enemy Russia and deserve our chariatable presents of democracy, NATO bombs and Western subservience raining from the sky like bombs over Dresden before they can be totally free from evil dicatorships.
Bahrain and Saudia Arabia have had just as bad problems as many of the other countries we have supported in the mainstream media so much over the year it is just that they are both:
Allies which means we stay quiet during the suppression, killing and brutality of their governments against their people.
The majority of those people fighting for their rights are Shi’ites and we don’t really like them in the West. Out of the various Muslim sects they are the ones who we seem to care the least about. Plus of course Iran is Shi’ite and Iran is evil. Always remember that! Iran is evil – Iran is evil – Iran is evil – open your mind – Iran is evil…..
So actually having some focus put back on the country that the Middle East Spring forgot in the West is a good thing even if it does come at the expense of Formula One, a massive multi million pound industry that brings in huge advertisers and media coverage.
We must not forget that the reason the West is secretly arming and supporting the Syrian rebels.
Various groups that include true protesters as well as al-Qaeda members, false flag and terrorists apt at using social media and western gullibility to blame attacks they themselves have committed on Syrian forces. These are groups backed by the west and as it was once said – all roads lead to Rome, in this case Iran.
The last thing the US/UK/Israel axis of war want when they finally move towards attacking Iran is for Syria to join in and attack Israel from the North and West whilst Iranian rockets reign down on it from Iran as well as Hezbollah rockets fromLebanon.
Remember this war on Iran has been long in the planning and was supposed to occur many years back not long after we went into Iraq.
It was only the facts that the lies that that the Iraq war were based on were uncovered along with a poor strategy for Iraq after the invasion that led to a huge insurgency. Plus military fatigue through multiple tours of duty and all the political protest against the war across the world that Israel didn’t get their desired war with Iran.
Therefore the US/UK/Israel axis couldn’t rush in to attack Iran whilst already bogged down in two wars already and whilst surrounding Iran perfectly from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Georgia and Afghanistan they were ill equipped to do anything about it – especially under a democratic US Presidency.
One which supposedly wanted to make the world a more peaceful place, end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and especially one in which their President had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (why?) and gave a speech in Cairo claiming a new relationship with the Islamic nations of that region.
Even the mud hut dwelling 7th century tribalists who we call “Taliban” and “al-Qaeda” in Afghanistan have proven a harder force to defeat than a conventional ancient army like Iraq had.
Vietnam showed the world that the best form of defense against big over reaching and high tech based war machines is simplicity. There is no harder enemy to defeat than one which is led by popular resistance and whose soldiers are indistinguishable from civillians.
Therefore the war with Iran has had to be planned over a longer period. Much longer than the Israeli’s would have liked.
In reality we are already at war with Iran (although covertly) and all the Stuxnet viruses, assassinations on nuclear scientists, threats of nuclear war and our supporting of terrorist groups like Jundullah and the MEK have shown our hypocrisy to the world.
Whilst we designate groups who we dislike terrorists we have no problem training those who have been busy blowing up Iranian military installations and murdering Iranian civilians and soldiers.
“The attacks, which have killed five Iranian nuclear scientists since 2007 and may have destroyed a missile research and development site, have been carried out in dramatic fashion, with motorcycle-borne assailants often attaching small magnetic bombs to the exterior of the victims’ cars.” - rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com
And proof of our support of such terrorists is not hard to find as within one year we already have already found ourselves fighting two wars on the same side as our mortal enemy al-Qaeda.
As Seymour Hersh said in the New Yorker in a story about the Bush administration providing MEK operatives terrorist training at secret facilities in Nevada starting in 2005:
“We did train them here, and washed them through the Energy Department because the D.O.E. owns all this land in southern Nevada,” a former senior American intelligence official told me. “We were deploying them over long distances in the desert and mountains, and building their capacity in communications
The Iranian dissident agents received the full panoply of spook training offering by U.S. Special Forces operatives:
They got “the standard training,” he said, “in commo [communications], crypto [cryptography], small-unit tactics, and weaponry—that went on for six months…” – Global Research.
This is the same Seymour Hersh known for breaking stories such as Dick Cheney’s personal team of assassins and the false flag attacks discussed to start war with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
Therefore we are left with our allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Saudia Arabia who lest we forget helped to crush Bahrainian protests with Western bought military equipment including tanks, guns and rockets. As the Telegraph notes:
The Armed Forces Minister, Nick Harvey, said that the UK Government could not rule out the possibility that British-trained Saudis took part in the Bahraini operation.
He said: “The Ministry of Defence has extensive and wide-ranging bilateral engagement with Saudi Arabia in support of the Government’s wider foreign policy goals. The Ministry of Defence’s engagement with Saudi Arabia includes training provided to the Saudi Arabian National Guard, delivered through the British mission.”
“It is possible that some members of the Saudi Arabian National Guard which were deployed in Bahrain may have undertaken some training provided by the British military mission.”
So not only do we crticise countries like Syria and Libya when they crack down on protesters as they are “enemies” we would love to control we also help the allied Middle Eastern countries we do control crack down on their own protesters.
In the rush to gather up the propaganda for war with Iran. A war that will de-stabilise the whole region, possibly cause a nuclear conflict, and at the very least drive up the price of petrol and bring huge risk of terrorist response attacks to the streets of London and New York. We seem to forget that Bahraini protesters have been dying constantly for the last year in their drive for human rights and dignity.
A man has been killed in Bahrain during overnight clashes with the security forces, activists say, a day before Sunday’s F1 Grand Prix.
Officials said an investigation had been launched after his body was discovered in a Shia village near the capital, Manama.
Tens of thousands on Friday took part in at times violent protests demanding an end to the crackdown on dissent.
On Saturday, police fired tear gas to disperse new rallies, eyewitnesses say.
The mainstream media has no problem attacking Russia for supporting Syria due to the ancient Russian naval base in Tartus but they are less adapt at criticising their own governments for blacking out the uprisings in allied nations like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia where US bases reside – unless of course a major sporting event arrives in town and brings a huge amount of press along with it.
So the last weekend was two days that the Bahraini protesters were heard loudly by even the mainstream press and it should be our duty to ensure they continue to be heard whether a large sporting event is being played their or not.
If the Middle East Spring is really about democracy and human rights and not just about preparing the way for war with Iran then we should be helping the Bahraini’s in the same way we helped Egypt and Libya and not holding double standards and revealing our governments hypocrisy to the world.
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