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Nice to see the growing tide against unbridled mass immigration, like any one nation can constantly absorb such numbers. It is mathematically impossible. Literally.
Source: BBC
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The government is “floundering around” on UK immigration because it believes the issue is an “electoral liability”, the shadow home secretary has said.
Where have we heard that before…
Mr Woolas, who became immigration minister earlier this month, told the Times: “It’s been too easy to get into this country in the past and it’s going to get harder.
“There has to be a balance between the number of people coming in and the number of people leaving.”
Why fucking DUH. Why has it taken so many years for the blindingly obvious to be said? Fucking wankers.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the population grew by nearly two million to 60,975,000 people between 2001 and 2007.
Various official projections predict this to rise to 77m in 2051 or 110m in 2081.
And that’s just immigrants who actually register.
The government recently introduced a new points-based system to attract migrants from outside the EU to certain jobs.
The Home Office said the UK’s new system provided “a powerful and flexible set of controls” which allowed it to “raise or lower the bar” according to needs.
Who’s needs? Attracting people from outside the EU? How about protecting the interests of British people. It’s supposed to be the fucking reason you get paid in taxes! It’s the reason for government! Corrupt self serving socialist CUNTS! Continue reading
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Source: Daily Mail
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If there were to be a British Statue of Liberty, it should be erected at Victoria coach station in London.
For it is here that most of the tired, poor, huddled masses of Eastern Europeans have arrived seeking what Michael Howard once called the ‘British dream’.
The influx of the past ten years has been the largest in Britain’s history, changing the country for ever.
Immigrants now make up a ninth of our population, produce a fifth of our babies and fill (or create) most of our new jobs.
It’s a situation that causes concern across the board. Recently an all-party group of MPs and peers, including Frank Field, made a desperate plea for ‘balanced migration’ — meaning that immigration should be linked to the number of people leaving the country.
They also suggested an annual limit of up to 20,000 non-EU immigrants and published the results of a YouGov poll which suggests that limiting immigration would be a vote-winner for any party.
If all this immigration were the product of deliberate policy, one might indeed expect a British Statue of Liberty to be in the planning stages, as a way of commemorating how Britain, in just a few years, became almost as much of an immigrant country as the vast continent that is the United States (an eighth of its population is immigrant).
Yet the truth is that this social transformation pretty much happened by accident. Not so much a ‘British dream’, as what happened when ministers were asleep.
Nonsense. This was planned, from the Marxists in Parliament to those they illegally sold our soverignty to, the unelected EU. This was always about destroying Britain. Globalisation and pulling down everybody below the political and corporate elite. Continue reading
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The words, nail, hit and head spring to mind.
Source: Daily Mail
There is no such organisation as ‘Al Qaeda’. The spooks know this, Cabinet Ministers know this and so do the ‘security correspondents’ who so readily trot out the spooks’ point of view on our broadcasting networks.
Of course, there are terrorists, and there are also fantasists, fanatics, low-lifes and camp followers who plot and attempt horrible things. Some of them even call themselves ‘Al Qaeda’ these days because they have learned that this is a good way to scare us.
But, while they are a menace, they are not as big or as organised a menace as the Government likes to make out.
The State and the vainglorious bureaucrats of the ‘security’ services need to pretend that the terrorists are a tightly organised and terrifying threat, to make themselves look big as well – and to help them get hold of new powers to snoop on us and push us around.
Some of you may remember the rather squalid behaviour, back in the summer of 2006, by the then Home Secretary, the unrepentant ex-communist brute John Reid.
Lightly tossing aside the wise tradition that in free countries Ministers stay out of criminal justice matters, he reeled out a boastful, alarmist statement about some arrests of alleged terrorists, using words so preju-dicial that I will not reproduce them here.
When, two years later, a jury was unconvinced by many of the claims made by the authorities in this case, the same nastiness re-emerged in a different way. Continue reading
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Note, what this preacher says is perfectly in line with true Islam.
Source: Daily Mail
Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more babies and forcing a population explosion, it has been revealed.
The swollen Muslim population would be enough to conquer Britain from inside, they claim.
Fanatics told a meeting of young Muslims on the anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity, that it would then be easy to impose Sharia law on the population, the Sun newspaper reported.
Speaking at a meeting in London, Anjem Choudarry, right-hand man of exiled preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed, said: “It may be by pure conversion that Britain will become an Islamic state. We may never need to conquer it from the outside.”
He added: “We do not integrate into Christianity. We will ensure that one day you will integrate into the Sharia Islamic law.”
His comments were made as voice of hate Bakri warned that the next 9/11 would take place in the UK.
Speaking via video link the exiled cleric said Osama bin Laden had taught the Americans a ‘lesson’ seven years ago, but the ‘crusaders’ had not learned.
He said the next ‘9/11 will take place in Britain, the next 7/7 [London bombings] could take place locally’.
Bakri told a 100-strong audience of supporters in Walthamstow, east London this week that he believed the British government was trying to assassinate him and claimed to have foiled a bomb plot.
Technical difficulties meant much of his speech was inaudible, but his appearance was greeted by cheers of ‘faith’ and ‘god is great’ at the community centre. Continue reading
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Source: Daily Mail
Hundreds of confidential documents detailing the personal data of tax payers were discovered strewn on a busy roundabout.
Sensitive debt recovery papers containing names, addresses, money owed, monthly payments and court hearing dates were found by motorists blowing about in the breeze.
Letters to tax payers from council bailiffs chasing up unpaid tax bills were also found on Monday at the Gallows Corner roundabout in Romford, Essex.
The documents, which date from 1992 to June this year, should have been destroyed by Havering Council.
Car shop worker Colin Iszatt told how he gathered up more than 50 documents outside the shop. He slammed the council’s blunder, saying it left tax payers open to fraud.
He said: ‘I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There were hundreds and hundreds of these papers flying down the road.
‘What chance have we got against fraud when they’re doing this? It’s unforgivable.’
Havering Council has launched an urgent investigation but could not answer how the papers came to be at the roadside.
A spokesman said it was ‘a relatively small amount of data’ despite claims hundreds of documents were found. Continue reading
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I guess it is another one of those endless ‘isolated incidents’ all done by the followers of the same religion/ fascist ideology.
From the Daily Mail;
The Saudi Arabian preachers were secretly filmed ordering women to murder gays and ex-Muslims.
Undercover reporters from Channel 4’s Dispatches recorded the lectures in the women’s section of Regent’s Park Mosque in London.
An unnamed Saudi woman is seen mocking other religions – labelling Christianity ‘vile’ and an ‘abomination’. Another, known as ‘Angelique’, claims Britain is a ‘land of evil’.
Christians are disbelievers for believing in the divinity of Christ. 5:17
Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. 4:89
‘Only Muslims are Innocent’ says Muslim on BBC – Video
The investigators attended lectures for two months at the mosque, which had promised a clean-up after another Dispatches probe just 18 months ago exposed it for spreading extreme Islamic views.
What does ‘extreme’ views mean anyway? Why would a religion of peace(tm) have ‘extreme’ views? These commands are all written in the Koran and last time I checked, they were not under a specific chapter or Sura called ‘Extreme Views’. If it has such views then it obviously is not a religion of peace. Which it isn’t.
During one sermon, a woman called Um Amira says: ‘He is Muslim, and he gets out of Islam…what are we going to do? We kill him, kill, kill.’ Continue reading
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Source: Daily Mail
Our Brussels masters predict that Britain will soon be the most crowded country in the whole of Europe. Presumably this is what they want, since it is their laws that have destroyed our borders and abolished British citizenship and British passports (that wretched puce thing in your pocket is an EU passport, not a British one, and the further east you go, the easier they are to get).
The European Commission says there will be almost 80million people crammed into our landscape by 2058. Just imagine all that concrete, the thousands of square miles (or square kilometres as they will be by then) chewed up by bulldozers.
Imagine the unending 24-hour whoosh and grind of traffic, the bulging trains, the seething, noisy, litter-strewn parks on hot summer Sundays, the crowded schools, the endless waits at enormous polyclinics to see a doctor you’ve never met before and will never see again, who probably doesn’t have English as a first language, and the multicultural schools where half the class will always be from somewhere else. I’m quite glad to think I’ll be dead by then.
I’ve always been unmoved by arguments that immigration benefits’ the country economically. Maybe it does, if you eat at restaurants rather than working in them, and then hurry away to expensive areas where no immigrants live. But for most people it’s an unmixed curse.
For the migrants themselves it is often a journey into exploitation and squalor, miserable pay and ten-to-a-room living conditions. It holds down wages and puts unwanted pressure on services, transport and housing which are already under strain.
But there’s something else about it that is profoundly, heartbreakingly sad. When so many of our fellow creatures don’t speak our language, don’t understand our laws and customs, don’t know our history, can’t read our facial expressions or work out when we’re joking, we live at a lower level than we did before. Continue reading
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Source: Daily Mail
Abu Qatada will no doubt argue that this is not a breach of the strict bail conditions which ban him from using a mobile telephone.
But is the fanatical preacher – once described as ‘Osama Bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe’ – obeying the spirit, as well as the letter, of the law?
On a shopping trip this week near his London home, the 47-year-old was photographed in conversation with a friend, who then appeared to relay Qatada’s words via his mobile to another person.
An onlooker said: ‘It was clear to me that the man with the mobile phone was speaking to Qatada before speaking to the person on the other end of the phone.
‘He would speak to Qatada holding the phone in his hand away from his ear and then put it to his ear and speak to whoever was on the other end of the line.’
Qatada, who was granted asylum 15 years ago, was freed from a high-security prison in June after the courts ruled that sending him home to Jordan would breach his human rights. He has already been convicted of terror attacks and bomb plots there in his absence.
The eight-page bail order set out a series of stringent rules which placed him under virtual house arrest.
The father of five, whose family are living on benefits of an estimated £50,000 a year, is allowed to leave his rented £800,000 four-bedroom semi for just two hours a day. Continue reading
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This just never seems to let up…
Source: Daily Mail
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Personal details of more than a million bank customers have been found on a computer sold on eBay.
Highly sensitive information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers was stored on the machine’s hard drive.
It includes names, addresses, mobile phone numbers, bank account numbers, sort codes, credit card numbers, mothers’ maiden names and even signatures.
It was described as ‘a data thief’s treasure chest’, with everything a criminal needs to assume a customer’s identity – and clear out their bank account.
The massive data loss – one of the worst ever in Britain – is a clear breach of the banks’ obligation under the Data Protection Act to keep all personal information secure.
Coming just days after the Home Office admitted losing the details of 127,000 criminals, it is certain to fuel public concern about how Government and businesses look after our secrets.
Last night it was revealed that a second computer from the same site has gone missing, meaning yet more information could have been leaked.
IT security expert Adam Laurie said: ‘This is appalling. This information is worth millions – a thief could easily use it to go on an enormous shopping spree.’
Liberal Democrat spokesman Tom Brake said: ‘This is yet another example of a seemingly trusted organisation appearing to be sloppy with people’s personal information. Continue reading
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I have added some information the article neglects to mention.
Source: Daily Mail
The Government wants 40 per cent of England’s water supply to be fluoridated to reduce high levels of tooth decay. But its critics say it has been linked to conditions such as hypothyrodism (underactive thyroid gland). Here we explain what you should know.
Q: What is fluoride?
A: A naturally occurring mineral found in water and some foods (such as tea and fish). It can also be chemically produced – as in toothpaste. Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel and makes teeth more resistant to acid attacks.
The fluoride they use for fluoridation is not naturally occurring. It is called Hydrofluosilic acid. More information about it can be found below, from No To Fluoridation;
Hydrofluosilic acid (H 2 SiF 6 ) and other fluorosilicates are not naturally occurring. They are waste products derived from the industrial manufacture of aluminium, zinc, uranium, aerosols, insecticides, fertilizers, plastics, lubricants and pharmaceuticals.
Professor Kaj Roholm , former Chief of the Toxicology Committee for the National Research Council the author of the first and most comprehensive monograph on fluorosilicates classifies hydrofluorosilic acid and hexafluorosilic acid as “extremely toxic.” One chemical company selling fluoride to water suppliers describes it as “a colourless to straw yellow, transparent, fuming, corrosive liquid with a pungent odour and irritating action on the skin.”
Hydrofluorosilic acid is listed as a Part II poisons under the Poisons Act 1972. As such its use as a commercially ingestible product in water contravenes UK and EU pharmaceutical legislation governing the regulation of medicinal substances, as well as the Poisons Act.
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Source: Daily Mail
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Secret personal details of Britain’s most dangerous criminals have been lost by the Government.
The public could now face an enormous bill to protect paedophiles, rapists, drug runners and killers from vigilantes or rival gangsters.
The names, addresses, details of convictions and even jail release dates of almost 130,000 people were all in Home Office files lost when a computer memory stick went missing.
It was being used by an employee of a private contractor working for the department.
The astonishing security blunder plunges Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who was told of the scandal on Tuesday, into the greatest crisis of her career.
Miss Smith informed the Metropolitan Police – who are now frantically hunting for the portable data storage device – but chose not to tell the public immediately.
It took the intervention of a whistleblower for details to emerge. The delay is likely to lead to damaging questions for the Home Secretary, whose mood last night was described by aides as ‘livid’.
The Office of the Information Commissioner said the data – a list of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales, plus details of 43,000 most serious and persistent offenders – was a ‘toxic liability’.
Tory spokesman David Ruffley warned of huge costs for taxpayers if criminals sue the Home Office for breaching their privacy and the Data Protection Act.
Mr Ruffley added: ‘This shambles proves this accident-prone Home Secretary hasn’t even got a grip of what goes on in her own building. Taxpayers will be absolutely outraged if they are made to pick up the bill for compensation to serious criminals.’
It is the latest in a string of cases where the Government has lost highly-sensitive data, most seriously the personal details of 25million child benefit claimants.
The latest shambles centres on a Whitehall project known as JTrack, to share details of the country’s worst offenders.
A private firm working on the project, PA Consulting, was sent the convicts’ personal details by the Home Office. Continue reading
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Another example of the pathetic health and safety culture decimating British society. EU Directive, anyone?
Source: Daily Mail
She is 5ft 5in and only seven stone, but Mia Cousins had no problem carrying bags of grass cuttings 50 yards from her garden to the roadside ready for disposal.
The same did not apply, however, to the four burly binmen on the council’s ‘green’ collection run.
The three loaders and a driver left a note on the recycling sacks saying they had not been moved because they were too heavy.
The council at Fareham, Hampshire, has defended its binmen claiming they were acting within their rights under Health and Safety Executive rules on ‘ excessive manual handling risks’.
But Mrs Cousins, a 41-year-old widow and head of retail for the clothing chain Warehouse, said: ‘I’m incensed by this. If I can carry the bin bags then so should they.
‘Binmen are supposed to be quite strong. They’re supposed to pick things up. They wouldn’t be able to do their job if they were weedy.’ Continue reading
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Source: Daily Mail
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One in eight pupils speaks English as a second language, a report has revealed.
The Government survey highlights the ‘disunited nations’ in classrooms as teachers battle to educate a massive influx of immigrants. In some areas more than 70 per cent of pupils arriving at the school gates do not speak English as their mother tongue.
MPs and unions immediately called on ministers to take urgent action to prevent primaries and secondaries being overwhelmed by the pressure. They warn that schools are being forced to juggle resources as migrant children take longer to understand lessons and divert the teacher’s energies from other pupils.
The figures give the sharpest snapshot yet of the scale of the challenge facing schools around the country.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families statistics showed that 815,450 schoolchildren – or 12.5 per cent – did not speak English as their mother tongue as of January this year.
For primary schools, the proportion was 14.3 per cent, or one in seven, compared with 10.5 per cent in 2004, the year before European Union expansion.
Meanwhile, in secondary schools 10.6 per cent of pupils, or about 450,000, have English as a second language. Two years ago, the proportion was 9.5 per cent. Continue reading
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The British Government, stripping you of all of your birthrights and pushing the nation into a Communist Dictatorship ‘to protect you’.
Source: Daily Mail
Council snoopers will be given even greater powers to pry into our phone, email and internet records – landing the taxpayer with a bill of almost £50million.
Town halls, along with the police, security services, health authorities and other public bodies, will have access to ‘ communication’ records of anyone suspected of involvement in even the most minor crime.
The powers, which stem from an EU directive supposedly designed to catch terrorists, will even allow police to track down those who have told friends they are planning to harm themselves.
Well surprise surprise! From an EU Directive. Did you get a say in this, did anyone ask you? Of course not. What you think is irrelevant, you exist only to give your Rulers Money and Power so they can pursue their dream of unelected, unaccountable global government (at your social, financial, legal, psychological expense), so shut up and do what you are told, serf. It is to ‘protect you’ from terrorism after all.
But it will cost the taxpayer £46.58million over eight years to compensate mobile phone companies and internet firms for storing and providing the data.
Critics said the measure took Britain a step closer to becoming a surveillance state. Continue reading
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Source: Daily Mail
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It is like the end of The War Of The Worlds, when the terrifying, invincible Martian monsters suddenly perish.
The New Labour Monster lies powerless and broken on the ground.
Tiny, unconvincing creatures, like the Euro-fanatic David Miliband, scurry squeaking about the twisted wreckage but they cannot get it to work.
From beyond the political grave, the sugary voice of Anthony Blair is to be heard claiming that if only he were still in charge, this would never have happened – an idea that could be accepted only by someone suffering from total memory loss about this fraudulent warmonger.
And now, when almost anyone in a suit, and with normal facial features, could lead the Opposition to a smashing triumph, what have we got?
We have the Useless Tory Party, dedicated to the proposition that its only hope of getting into office is to copy the last 11 years of idiocy.
All the logic of the Blair years shows us that what is called ‘the Centre Left’ is bankrupt.
The European Union has been an expensive disaster for this country, ruining swathes of our economy, destroying our independence – and then having the nerve to charge us for it. Continue reading
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Do not expect these EU Kommissars to ask you for your opinion on this subject either (like everything else). They just expect you to comply.
Source: Daily Mail
Vast amounts of personal data on British citizens will be sent abroad, under advancing plans for a European-wide police force.
EU ministers have also called for top-secret intelligence to be pooled between the 27 member states – and shared with US authorities.
National police forces would be integrated, and a European-wide police force or ‘gendarmerie’ set up to fight crime across national borders.
They say the controversial proposals for an ‘Euro-atlantic area of cooperation’ would help control terrorism, organised crime and illegal immigration.
But critics fear exchanging volumes of intelligence material would be detrimental to Britain’s security.
The 53-page report was drafted by ministers from six member states – Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
A blueprint for security policy over the next five years, it took 18 months to prepare and has already been sent to all EU heads of government.
It argues that European police forces and intelligence services should be far more closely integrated, and ‘coordinated’ from Brussels.
The plans do not rule out foreign police officers being allowed to patrol British streets. Continue reading
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Is this what it has sunk to? Students in university that are so bad at spelling that a senior lecturer is calling for an amnesty, to re-categorise these mistakes as merely variations on the word? Teachers are flooded with students of such a low calibre that they must now start making suggestions like this?
This of course plays into the hands of the Communists running the country. A dumbed down population is much more likely to capitulate to authority and not likely to be thinking for themselves or asking pesky questions.
Source: Daily Mail
Dr Ken Smith is urging colleagues to turn a blind eye to the 20 most common slips – such as ‘Febuary’, ‘ignor’ and ‘speach’ – and view them instead as variants of standard spellings.
Writing in the Times Higher Education magazine, the senior lecturer in criminology at Buckinghamshire New University said: ‘Teaching a large first-year course at a British university, I am fed up with correcting my students’ atrocious spelling. Aren’t we all?
‘But why must we suffer? Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I’ve got a better idea.
‘University teachers should simply accept as variant spellings those words our students most commonly misspell.’
He added: ‘Either we go on beating ourselves and our students up over this problem or we simply give everyone a break and accept these variant spellings as such.
‘All I am suggesting is that we might well put 20 or so of the most commonly misspelt words in the English language on the same footing as those other words that have a widely accepted variant spelling.’ Continue reading
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You just keep telling yourself it’s for your safety and that you’re still free.
Source: Daily Mail
Unmanned spy planes could soon be used to carry out covert surveillance on UK citizens, under controversial new Government plans.
The MoD is working with defence firm BAE Systems to make so-called UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) safe enough to be used to help police operations in the UK.
The sophisticated unmanned aircraft are able to get clear images of the ground even when flying at up to 50, 000 feet.
However, even though they are widely used by British troops in warzones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, until now they have not been cleared for use in civilian airspace.
The plan to use UAVs in Britain has worried civil liberties groups who say that they could be used to spy on innocent civilians.
Gareth Crossman, director of policy at the civil rights watchdog Liberty, told The Independent: ‘The question is not so much about the technology but what one does with it.
‘We have quite definite laws about where CCTV can be used but of course with UAVs you have much greater ability to gather material in private spaces and this would lead to concern.’
He added: ‘If they are used to simply hover to gain random information then that would obviously be a matter of worry and a civil liberty issue.’
If approved, UAVs could be for disaster relief, crowd control and anti-terror surveillance maritime searches as well as supporting Coastguard, police, fire and intelligence services, the committee heard.
The MPs’ report says the MoD is ‘closely involved with the development of procedures and regulations which allow UAVs to operate in national and Nato airspace. Continue reading
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I am truly fed up of these convenient mistakes the State keeps making in regards to so-called terrorist attacks. Anyone would think they were doing it on purpose to create a dialectic in which the State can implement totalitarianism. Our government is infested with communists afterall.
Source: Daily Mail
A chance to stop the 7/7 bombers may have been missed when a secret services fax to police went missing.
A damning report is expected to reveal that the MI5 document, sent to West Yorkshire police, raised suspicions about ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and accomplice Shehzad Tanweer.
But the information was either lost or not followed up and the opportunity to monitor the men was missed.
Well what was it? Did the fax arrive at the police? Faxes leave a digital trail should it shouldn’t be hard to find out (unless of course finding out what happened was never the true goal). If it did arrive then it must have been picked up by someone.
Survivors of the attacks have been told the findings of the Intelligence and Security Committee are ‘devastating’ and suggest the men could have been stopped long before their bombs tore through three Tube trains and a bus.
News of the report, which has already been sent to Gordon Brown, emerged as the three-month trial of the only three people charged in connection with the 2005 attacks ended dramatically at Kingston Crown Court yesterday.
After 15 days of deliberation the jury of eight women and four men were unable to agree a verdict on a charge of conspiracy to cause an explosion. More than three years on from the atrocity, which left 52 dead and hundreds injured, and after a painstaking police investigation which has cost almost £100million, the victims are no closer to justice. Continue reading
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While doing some research on EU Directives I came across this press release from the EU website, dated 2004. It is regarding the use of biometric indentifiers in passports, using EU Directive 95/46/EC.
And there I was thinking it was the governments idea (and the idea of all of the other governments in the free world simultaneously pushing for similar police state ID systems). Silly me. Especially considering that estimates put the number of new laws actually coming from Brussels (and not our ministers) at about 85%.
Commission proposes inclusion of biometric identifiers in EU citizens’ passports
While I’m at it, I thought I’d drag this up from 2006.
Source: Daily Mail
The memo indicates that by then EU biometric passports will be “the norm throughout Europe (though politically I think it would be difficult to have an explicit link with an EU directive – especially one from which we are technically excluded)”.
Under the Schengen Agreement of 1985, Margaret Thatcher won the right for Britain to retain control over borders and passports from the EU.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said last night: “The cat is out of the bag on ID cards. The Government has constantly changed its mind over why ID cards are being introduced and what they are for. Until now they have always said that they are being brought in for the good of the country.
“This memo reveals the truth: this whole exercise is subordinate to a European Union diktat. Furthermore it is one which we do not even have to obey.”
If you are curious as to what the big deal is with the National ID Card register (apart from the massive cost to the taxpayer) then read this: Police officers to be microchipped and the plan to chip YOU and this: No2ID Campaign
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Political correctness is a Marxist tool designed for speech (and as a consequence, thought) control. It is also known as collectivist protectionism. It simply stops people criticising or highlighting issues with a particular group or groups, giving them higher social status and power than other groups that are not protected. The State can then use this to play groups off of each other, and using every negative consequence to expand the power of the State.
Source: Daily Mail
Britain’s most famous atheist has blamed devout Muslims for importing creationist theories into the country’s science classes.
Professor Richard Dawkins, who wrote the bestselling book The God Delusion, believes that children should be taught the theory of evolution instead of the idea that God created the universe.
Dawkins, who holds the chair for the understanding of science at Oxford, thinks that political correctness has made it impossible for teachers to criticise Islam because they will be branded as being racist.
‘The government could do more but it doesn’t want to because it is fanatical about multiculturalism and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come.
‘The government – particularly under Tony Blair – thinks it is wonderful to have children brought up with their traditional religions. I call it brainwashing.
‘It’s almost impossible to say anything against Islam in this country because if you do you are accused of being racist or Islamophobic.’
He added: ‘It is fine to teach children about scientific controversies.
‘What is not fine is to say: “There are these two theories. One is called evolution, the other is called Genesis.”
‘If you are going to say that, then you should talk about the Nigerian tribe who believe the world was created from the excrements of ants.
‘Because we are all brought up to respect faith, it leaves open a gap through which fanatics can charge.’
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One of the issues with government controlled databases is the potential for abuse. You should assume your privacy is now gone the minute some personal data of yours ends up on one of one of their systems.
Source: Daily Mail
Town hall snoopers obtained the details of more than 270,000 motorists from the DVLA database last year in a bid to trap people for ‘environmental crimes’.
The officials wanted to link car owners via their number plates to offences such as littering, dog fouling and noisy stereos.
Critics say the scale of the inquiries is a ‘terrifying’ example of the lurch towards a Big Brother society.
Councils were originally given 24-hour access to the DVLA’s huge database, via a computer link called the Web Enabled Enquiry System (WEES), to make it easier to trace the owners of abandoned cars.
But a document produced by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs reveals this access has recently been ‘enhanced’ to allow authorised council staff to police environmental crimes.
The DVLA said WEES was accessed last year by a total of 271,563 by local councils – at the rate of more than 700 checks every day.
North Cornwall District Council used the system in an attempt to trace somebody suspected of horse fouling. Test Valley Council in Hampshire used it in a graffiti inquiry, while Chorley Council in Cheshire used it to check on the owner of a car leaking petrol in a car park.
Bexley Council in London checked the system 44 times last year to trace people illegally advertising cars for sale in the street. Other councils have used the system in an attempt to trace the owners of out of control dogs, bogus callers and benefit cheats.
This is a variation of function creep. The process of a system, initially being used for one thing, gradually expanding its scope. It always happens with government system. Always. Next they will be using this system to identify potential dissidents.
Shadow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said: ‘State intrusion is becoming the norm not the exception as we witness the slow death of our privacy. Continue reading
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