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This article is from Mairead Maguire, a northern Irish peace activists who is concerned that Julian Assange is being threatened with arrests should he even so much go out of the Ecuadorian embassy and get some fresh air.The US is busy destabilising Presidents Correas Government before the forthcoming elections there, supporting the opposition parties. Some believe that he is being undermined and targeted by the CIA, who is also trying their best to oust his best mate Hugo Chavez and his cabinet in Venezuela.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/29-8

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Except when it is for Syrians. Then human rights are rubber, terms that can be stretched as far as we like and who care''s about some Quatari ''terrorists'' who on behalf of their shareholders create false massacres and/or false chemical incidents.This is not reported in our press, because they are blithering cowards.http://garisullivan.co.uk/abroadathome/britam-chemical-weapon-propaganda-scandal.html

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The reason it''s not being reported, as the man says;

"When push comes to shove, its impossible to find the truth to some of these stories...."

It''s just hearsay.

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When push comers to shove, JG, we won''t even get to know it happened, unless we find out ourselves. Like for example News events in Spain, you would have thought people immolating themselves would be reported here, but it is not, too uncomfortable, just as the hundreds of disabled taking their own life''s due to having their working life''s taken away, scrapped.http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/19/289703/spanish-woman-set-self-afire-at-bank/And we have to get this news from a Persian news agency.

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This video explaining private Manning''s motives as to why he exposed the cowards who committed the collateral murder in Iraq, killing two Reuters journalists and more. It is those bloodthirsty cowards who give the US forces a bad name, just as those seen p....g on a dead Taliban soldier.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6L79wWAFUqg#!And this from wise up action, many more recordings and videos making it absolutely clear that Assange will never get a fair trial and is being thought for extradition to the US. Sweden is now trying to change its law to make it unlawful to expose confidential material, but the Swedish public is alarmed and is debating this hot topic on the internet.Meanwhile our MSM is still feeding us mother goose''s apple pie. http://wp.me/p1rtyw-1dA

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Turmoil in the Swedish prosecution system as s. Nye is being replaced by another prosecutor and a judge is dispatched to help the Australians see what they can expect from, ahem, not very much action at all.AA''s lawyer was sacked for not communicating with her, which in itself is a fine trick as she has been in hiding for some time for fear of being asked some pertinent questions about her accusations, ripped condoms without DNA and her jubilant tweets, after having had ''sleepy sex'' with Julian.This from the Sydney Morning Herald.http://www.smh.com.au/national/assange-prosecutor-quits-while-accuser-sacks-lawyer-20130328-2gwjk.html

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Talking of human rights it was nice to see TWERP was allowed a few column inches in the EDP today. Things are looking up[;)]

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[quote user="SHRIMPER"]Talking of human rights it was nice to see TWERP was allowed a few column inches in the EDP today. Things are looking up[;)][/quote]Have known him for over 20 years, a great and sharp character indeed, I have not read his letter yet, not buying the paper.... far too dear.This is a collation from a friend on the cuts that will hit a few hundred thousands of households next monday.

"The Guardian has revealed how jobcentre staff are under orders to

find any sanction to knock people off benefits.’ Photograph: Christopher

Thomond for the Guardian

Not many know what is about to happen on Monday: neither those about to

be knocked down nor those sailing too high above them to notice. But

historians will see it as the day that defines the Cameron government.

An avalanche of benefit cuts will hit the same households over and over,

with no official assessment of how far this £18bn reduction will send

those who are already poor into beggary.

In his 2009 Hugo Young lecture, David Cameron spoke with apparent

passion of the damage done by inequality: “We all know, in our hearts,

that as long as there is deep poverty living systematically side by side

with great riches, we all remain the poorer for it.” The wise saw the

wolf beneath the sheepskin: sure enough, once in power, the language he

and his ministers used to blame the poor for their plight was cruder and

fiercer than in Thatcher’s day. You need to go back to Edwardian times

to find ministers and commentators so viciously dismissing all on low

incomes as cheats, idlers and drunks.

On BBC news, Iain Duncan Smith, confronted with irrefutable cases of

hardship, said: “It’s about trying to get as many people as possible out

of the welfare trap and into lives they can control themselves.” As the

economist JK Galbraith observed: “The modern conservative is engaged in

one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search

for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

So far, public opinion seems alarmingly content with these cuts – but

before we despair of human kindness, many can plead ignorance. The

government relies on destitution staying silent and unseen, isolated in

families with no collective voice. Dear Guardian reader, you know what’s

happening because we report on the social security calamity almost

daily, as you would expect.

Readers of the Mirror have been briefed this week, and the

Independent covered the bedroom tax on its front page. But look back

through this week’s Times, Telegraph, Mail and Sun to see how their

readers are told nothing. They know a lot about immigrants. Sun readers

were told the welfare bill is soaring out of control. They read a freak

story of a woman refusing to take well-paid jobs to keep her children’s

free university places.

Times readers learned at length of Tanni Grey-Thompson’s ordeal of

hauling herself up 12 floors when her lift broke down, but only a very

short story on her admirable campaign against cuts leaving disabled

people £4,600 poorer. Telegraph readers were told “benefit claimants

should be forced to seek extra work”, with a battery of stories against

unfair budget treatment of stay-at-home mums suffering a “traditional

families penalty”. The Bishop of Exeter pleaded their cause for tax

relief, although surely he should be raising hell about the cuts?

People may read these papers to be protected from inconvenient facts

about growing inequality and the catastrophic falling behind of the

poor. The Brookings Institution reports that ever-worsening inequality

will be “permanent” from now on. Most people would be alarmed at a

never-ending widening of the gulf, if they knew. Most people want to

believe the equal opportunities myth, but are easily comforted when told

the poor are bad and the well-off deserving, so social justice prevails

in this best of all possible worlds.

Here’s an interesting brief story in the Telegraph: a report that

young children moving home three or more times suffer serious behaviour

problems. Unfortunately, the Telegraph made no mention of the many

families about to be uprooted and sent far from relatives, jobs and

schools, into temporary accommodation and B&Bs, then moved on each

time their rents rise. With virtually no takers for Cameron’s parenting

class vouchers, it’s the government that needs lessons in child

development.

No amount of IDS newspeak can turn the bedroom tax into a “spare

bedroom subsidy”. Frank Field calls for social landlords to knock down

walls or brick up rooms so people can keep their homes: it’s all a

fraud, since IDS knows that 660,000 tenants with a spare room can never

be found smaller properties, they will pay the extra or fall into debt

and arrears until they are evicted. From Monday, most of the poorest get

a new bill of an average £138 for council tax. Landlords expect mayhem

when tenants are paid rent directly every month: pilots show many fall

into debt.

Now add in these: disability living allowance starts converting into

personal independence payment with a target to remove 500,000 people in

new Atos medical tests. The Guardian has revealed how jobcentre staff

are under orders to find any sanction to knock people off benefits. New

obstacles are strewn in their path: people must apply for their benefits

online from computers they don’t possess; many of these claimants are

semi-literate. When in dire straits, there will be no more crisis loans,

only a card for buying food, with not a penny for bus fares. Trussell

Trust food banks expect a great surge of the hungry, so they ask

everyone to donate the price of an Easter egg.

Here is the final wicked twist: legal aid has been removed for advice

on benefits, housing, divorce, debt, education and employment. On

Monday the budget of Citizens Advice for such cases falls from £22m to

£3m. The few emergency cases still covered – families facing instant

eviction – can only use a phone service, not face-to-face legal help.

Law centres will close. There will be no help on school exclusions,

landlord or employer harassment, or failure to pay wages.

Every new benefit system starts out with a high error rate: everyone

knows the complex universal credit will leave millions with incorrect or

no payments – and now, nowhere to go for help. Courts and tribunals

expect chaos as people try to make their own cases without any help. Try

to imagine the plight of people in debt because of the non-arrival of

payments, with no credit on their phones to call and inquire, no crisis

loan to buy phone credit, no internet access – and now no advice service

either.

I refuse to believe most people would not be shocked if they knew, if

they saw and if they understood. Even some of the 30% who always vote

Tory might be appalled if they weren’t so well deceived by their

ministers, MPs and newspapers, who lie knowingly and deliberately.

People should know that historians will record the earthquake of social

destruction that happened in their name, while they read of nothing but

“scroungers” and the “soaring benefit bill”.

Toynbee

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could we possibly imagine, Mossad has got over 30.000 spies. They have been hacked last week and exposed for what they are, Israels Stasi.But, human rights are for all, even human rights abusers who ignore international law as they like.http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/03/24/did-anonymous-hack-israels-mossad-spy-agency/

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LOL, Did you sit on the first Vicky Pryce trial?

"So what are we left with? Some claims by a few shadowy hacker groups, and a list of names that could be high-level Israeli spymasters or the guy who has the contract to clean the bathrooms at the Ministry of Tourism. Either way, I doubt Israeli intelligence operations will be disrupted by this.

This comes as part of Anonymous’s self-declared cyberwar against Israel. However, as I have written previously, it will be interesting to see Mossad’s response. Israeli intelligence has a long history of conducting lethal operations such as assassinations. Whether taking down a Web site will be considered grave enough to warrant such violent retaliation is another matter. But if it is, and Mossad does catch up with the hackers, they may wish the FBI had caught them instead."

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Now what do you do when your child is severely disabled, for the last twenty years and then you are cut off your benefits and get a letter asking you to come in and justify your illness and benefits?I think the Brazilian UN rapporteur asking this Government to scrap the bedroom/subsidy cuts has a point.party politics at its worst.http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10675128.Severely_disabled_man_told_he_must_take_medical_to_prove_he_is/

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maybe our not so resident Houston canary want to comment on the state of the nation as described by the ex secretary of the treasury Craig Roberts. Has he got a point?http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/09/16/police-are-more-dangerous-to-the-public-than-are-criminals-paul-craig-roberts/Whilst here beaming politicians are proud to open food banks, what a crying shame.http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-pride-of-britain/

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More news from Sweden, unreported in our press for the usual reasons of collaborative secrecy with scoundrels.The swedish prosecutor is comimng under attack from MP''s who are daring to ask why this unresolved calamity of Julian Assange''s alledged crimes is still festering under ''shelfed'', when there is virtually no evidence apart from two ripped condoms. Some well connected establishment lawyers treading water and the alledged victims play shy. add to that the confusion this is causing in the US, eager to try and arrest Assange for educating us on two faced diplomats, liars and politicians.He will get out of his self incarceration sooner or later, so why not act now and come to London to interview the man in his Ecuadorian hide out? Come on Anders Perklev, get your prescutorial act together.http://www.thelocal.se/20140203/prosecutor-pressed-to-speed-up-assange-case

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Below is an eyewitnes report by an ecumenial Accopanier. Just in case someone does not know what these people do, please read this.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_Accompaniment_Programme_in_Palestine_and_IsraelJust as the constant human rights abuses in Iraq have made the appeaser blush and cxan''t be ignored anymore by the media, this issue is not going to go away. Apartheid and violence towards children is just not something the world eshews to.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"As an Ecumenical Accompanier, recently returned from 3 months service

in the West Bank, I can tell you that my colleagues and I witnessed

this harassment of children by the Israeli military on a routine basis,

every day in Palestinian villages, bedouin communities and refugee camps

across the West Bank. One of our regular duties was the Unicef funded

Access to Education ‘school run’, to provide protective presence for

Palestinian kids going to school. Each morning at school time, the IDF

sends fully armed soldiers with teargas cannons and stun grenades into

villages, targeting the school entrances to intimidate, taunt and

harass the kids and teachers. This frequently escalated into

teargassing, whole communities being terrorised and kids being

detained and taken away. Another tactic is that Palestinian municipal

authorities in these villages are denied permission to construct school

crossings or road safety warning signs or do anything to improve safety

for kids near schools. At one of our regular schools, the Israelis

issued a demolition order on a safety barrier that the school had

erected at its entrance after a 7 year old girl was killed by an Israeli

settler car. When we asked soldiers why they came to the villages, they

always replied that it was because the kids threw stones. This was

absurd. This harassment of children and other human rights violations we

observed, like the cutting of hundreds of olive trees, were clearly

strategic military actions targeting Palestinian villages in locations

where the Israelis want to expand settlements. The military were clearly

working in concert with the Israeli Settlers. And of course, a number

of Israeli government officials, such as Avigdor Lieberman, have homes

in West Bank settlements.

In January 2014, in his unequivocal final report as the UN special

Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk

sets out Israel’s numerous violations of International Humanitarian Law

and human rights law and its non-cooperation with the UN. He describes

Israel’s oppressive occupation as ‘designed to encourage residents to

leave Palestine, which is consistent with the apparent annexationist,

colonialist and ethnic-cleansing goals of Israel, especially in relation

to the West Bank including East jerusalem.’ He goes on to say, ‘It is

past time for the United Nations to take action that seeks to protect

the rights of the Palestinian people…"

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You just keep worrying about that small strip of land in the Middle East and you can safely ignore the Elephant in the Room;

Worst Countries for Human Rights;

10, Nigeria

9, Yemen

8, Myanmar

7, Iraq

6, Afghanistan

5, Somalia

4, Pakistan

3, Democratic Republic of the Congo

2, Sudan

1, Syria

Myanmar is a mainly Buddhist country.

The D.R.o.t.C. is a mainly Christian country.

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Nice list of interferred with countries, but why are the warmongers who get their kicks in any which way, not be happy with what they are doing abroad? Now they are worried that we don''t play their game anymore.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdownOnwards forwards with brand new 4x4 Toyotas, modern weapons and a goal to take down the pesky Shia Maliki, before they will turn east and go for Saudi''s biggest bugbear, Iran.All of this suffering is down to Tony Bliars and Bush''s intervention, killing over a million people, now closer to two million. ISIS is a western/Saudi construct and airstrikes on them will never happen, well, they might hit the wrong targets, on purpose, Maliki has yet to grasp what he has been asking for.http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/natos-terror-hordes-in-iraq-pretext-for.html

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Fighting IS by bombing them from the air will not achieve very much, a slap on the wrist, it will not be destroying the network of death.IS should be fought in the City of London''s square mile by sanctioning the backers of IS, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, UAE and some backers in Turkey. No good bombing the hell out of civilians again and not dealing with the reality of the situation, IS is funded privately by those who have a different agenda and who want to bypass the UN.Assad is their target as much as Iran and they have powerful allies who use IS to light the fuses before  joining in. Al Nusra, stationed on the Syrian Golan, has been saved from bombing yesterday by its neighbourly allie Israel who shot a Syrian jet down over Syrian territory, the hotheads can''t wait!

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/09/bombing-is-good-for-you/#comment-482636

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The IS is funded by foreign donations, not only by those you mentioned but by criminal and ''charitable'' activities in the rest of the World. In fact, donations from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar have lessened since the shift of power from A.Q.I. to I.S. and their subsequent different objectives. Let us not forget that various government agencies are also monitoring and shutting down these financial supply routes.

I.S. also receives a lot (the majority) of money from extortion and ''taxation'' of the local populace and Oil sales to locals and neighboring countries (such as Turkey). There are also the multi-million dollar ransoms paid by various countries France for hostages.

As for bombing civilians, no doubt the strike teams will be aiming to lessen collateral damage but at the end of the day how many of those ''civilians'' welcome the brand of Islamic governance that I.S. bring?

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Sorry to rain on your parade,JG, but there are common factors running through IS, or whatever its called. They lead to ''doing time'' under US auspice in Iraq, Abu Ghraib probably was not the only detention centre were people were radicalised by torture.http://syria360.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/the-mysterious-link-between-the-us-military-prison-camp-bucca-and-isis-leaders/

IS have robbed banks, they extort and steal and sell oil, they are criminals elevated to terrorists, so we can get at Assad and Syria. Meanwhile the mentally unstable Netanyahu is startling the UN arguing opver Iran again, claiming that Iran is more dangerous than IS......Claptrap, Iran has not attacked anyone for 250 years, whilst... ahh why botherHere is a good speech from Ms kirchners UN address, in it she derides IS as a western contraption, she is also critical of Obama''s America''s policies. Its long and you can listen in various languages.http://gadebate.un.org/countries/argentina

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[quote user="Joanna Grey"]The IS is funded by foreign donations, not only by those you mentioned but by criminal and ''charitable'' activities in the rest of the World. In fact, donations from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar have lessened since the shift of power from A.Q.I. to I.S. and their subsequent different objectives. Let us not forget that various government agencies are also monitoring and shutting down these financial supply routes. I.S. also receives a lot (the majority) of money from extortion and ''taxation'' of the local populace and Oil sales to locals and neighboring countries (such as Turkey). There are also the multi-million dollar ransoms paid by various countries France for hostages. As for bombing civilians, no doubt the strike teams will be aiming to lessen collateral damage but at the end of the day how many of those ''civilians'' welcome the brand of Islamic governance that I.S. bring?[/quote]

 

If they are so well funded why did William Haig want to give them some of our money?

 

 

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So the Tories want to opt out of their own history and join the hobnail boot brigade to take the wind out of  UKIP voters sails? Fact is not many know what the ECHR really does, sadly, their interests lie with more ''come trivia'' than politics.These are the comments from all parties ex experts and wannabe justice ministers.

” These plans make no sense. You can’t protect the human rights of

Brits and pull out of the system that protects them” Simon Hughes on the

proposed changes to the ECHR by Camerons cabinet.

Sadi Khan derides the document as muddled and said’The Tories are

betraying their own history as the party with a central role in shaping

the liberal Europe we live in today’

Kenneth Clark said ‘bewildering’ deswcribing the ECHR as ‘one of the

fundamental underlying principles of liberal democratic values across

the whole of the continent’

Dominic Gtrieve’ It seems to me it is factually inaccurate…that is

unfortunate, because if one is going to approach a complex subject I

think its very important we should all collectively adopt a moderate and

measured approach towards explaining what the issues are and what can

be done’

FACTUALLY INACCURATE! will not be pushed under the table because

immigration is also an issue the Australian Guru is ‘short listing’ as

appropriate issues at the next GE.

Here are a few cases were the ECHR has appropriately interfered in our affairs and sorted them out.

what is wrong with the ECHR Anon£1?

It held the police to account, ruling that indiscriminate retention of

fingerprints and |DNA failed to balance public and private interest, as

‘disrporpotinate interference out of place in a democratic society.

It safeguarded childrens right before that of social services who

failed to protect them and had a resposibility to deal with their

accounts of abuse, tat they have to be com[pensated a breach of article 3

and 13.

It upheld the case of Smith and \Grady vs. UK who were dismissed from

the forces for being homosexual, breaching article 8 and 14, the right

for respect and privcy.

Local Government was held over a barrel for their indiscrimanate use

of CCTV. then there is the case Hillingdon council vs. Neary, which made

it clear to each and every public officer that they cannot apprehend

people against the wishes of their family members, whether autistic or

not.

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