Daily Mail
"British aid money was used by an African dictator to buy a £30million jet, it emerged last night. Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni bought the top-of-the-range Gulfstream G550 private plane in the same year ministers gave his poverty- ravaged country £70million. During the same period Uganda also received around £57million from the UK through the European Union.The autocratic 67-year-old leader – currently facing criticism for launching a violent crackdown against protesters demanding an Egyptian-style uprising – received the cash under the Labour government in 2008-09."
Sunday, 12 June 2011
102 foreign criminals we can't deport... because of THEIR 'right to a family life'
Daily Mail
"Over 100 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants have used the European 'right to a family life' to avoid deportation from the UK in the past year.Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights - guaranteeing the 'right to a family life' - has helped a total of 102 people frustrate the deportation process.These include a number of violent criminals and illegal immigrants who had no other right to remain in the country.In one case, a foreign criminal who used Article Eight was a violent thug and drug dealer who beat his girlfriend and failed to pay child maintenance.None claimed they would be in danger of torture or abuse if they were sent back to their home countries."
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Slovakia is now the country with most citizens moving to the UK
"New figures reveal 49,000 Slovakians came to live here in 2010, a massive 513 per cent increase on the 8,000 who arrived in 2004."
"Over 100 foreign criminals and illegal immigrants have used the European 'right to a family life' to avoid deportation from the UK in the past year.Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights - guaranteeing the 'right to a family life' - has helped a total of 102 people frustrate the deportation process.These include a number of violent criminals and illegal immigrants who had no other right to remain in the country.In one case, a foreign criminal who used Article Eight was a violent thug and drug dealer who beat his girlfriend and failed to pay child maintenance.None claimed they would be in danger of torture or abuse if they were sent back to their home countries."
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Slovakia is now the country with most citizens moving to the UK
"New figures reveal 49,000 Slovakians came to live here in 2010, a massive 513 per cent increase on the 8,000 who arrived in 2004."
J K Rowling Part II
In a departure from normal blogging, and due to the amount of moderated mail,it is in order to address a few questions that are cropping up. Mrs J Murray, aka J K Rowling, aka Joanne Rowling, was mentioned in an earlier blog post due to purchasing a 'holiday home' or two in Tasmania, Australia. While you and I may enjoy the dream of a caravan in Sandy Bay for our holidays, people with international lives have to look further afield. To get the peace and quiet that you and I take for granted, it is harder for well known folk to get when every odd bod wants to knock on your door. Tasmania is a good choice to make,but purchasing historical buildings is going to attract attention, just as it did for the late George Harrison when he bought a home on an island off Queensland. These things do get noticed, and in today's internet age that does not take long.... Good luck to Mrs Murray and family, and no, I will not be putting up the exact locations of their UK family properties. To close, Tasmania was largely built on convict slave labour, and now Port Arthur is to have a new detention centre for illegal immigrants that are flooding into Australia via boats. Peace and Quiet ?
Oh, and don't forget...."in Tasmania and the landscape is just stunning, wild and rugged, but it’s infested with snakes – if you get bitten you’ve got to get an antivenom shot within 35 minutes or you could die. Most people keep the shots on the farm"
Oh, and don't forget...."in Tasmania and the landscape is just stunning, wild and rugged, but it’s infested with snakes – if you get bitten you’ve got to get an antivenom shot within 35 minutes or you could die. Most people keep the shots on the farm"
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Labour spending: Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings and wasted billions
Telegraph
"Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings over the profligacy of their spending plans and the damaging impact of key tax policies, leaked documents disclose. "
"Gordon Brown and Ed Balls ignored warnings over the profligacy of their spending plans and the damaging impact of key tax policies, leaked documents disclose. "
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Microsoft told to pay $272m in patent case
Herald Sun (Australia)
"THE US Supreme Court says Microsoft Corp must pay a $272.6 million patent infringement judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company in a patent lawsuit. "
Ed: Well, well....
"THE US Supreme Court says Microsoft Corp must pay a $272.6 million patent infringement judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company in a patent lawsuit. "
Ed: Well, well....
Joanne 'Kathleen' Rowling...
Daily Mail
Harry Potter's JK Rowling could be magicking herself to Australia after buying £6.5m mansion in Tasmania
"Reports in Australia say the billionaire author has bought Symmons Plains, a Georgian mansion complete with 856 hectare farm. .....Australia's Woman's Day magazine also claims JK Rowling owns another Georgian-era Tasmanian property called Bowood at Bridport. It says the properties will be managed by one man, Stephen Cresse.The author, who is very guarded about her privacy, is believed to have bought Symmons Plains in March. .....They added: 'We believe she will use the property as a holiday hideaway.'
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling plans to build Hagrid's hut in her back garden
"According to the Sunday Times she bought her home in Edinburgh for £2.5 million in 2009 after seeing just two of the 31 rooms along with a neighbouring house for £1m so that she could knock it down to improve security and increase space."
ED: It cannot be easy to find space in our crowded world....
Harry Potter's JK Rowling could be magicking herself to Australia after buying £6.5m mansion in Tasmania
"Reports in Australia say the billionaire author has bought Symmons Plains, a Georgian mansion complete with 856 hectare farm. .....Australia's Woman's Day magazine also claims JK Rowling owns another Georgian-era Tasmanian property called Bowood at Bridport. It says the properties will be managed by one man, Stephen Cresse.The author, who is very guarded about her privacy, is believed to have bought Symmons Plains in March. .....They added: 'We believe she will use the property as a holiday hideaway.'
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling plans to build Hagrid's hut in her back garden
"According to the Sunday Times she bought her home in Edinburgh for £2.5 million in 2009 after seeing just two of the 31 rooms along with a neighbouring house for £1m so that she could knock it down to improve security and increase space."
ED: It cannot be easy to find space in our crowded world....
Monday, 6 June 2011
Cash-strapped council spending £250,000 of public money in U.S. courts to silence Twitter 'whistleblower' may have an awful lot to hide
Daily Mail
"For more than two years, South Tyneside Council has been trying to uncover the identity of an anonymous blogger known as Mr Monkey, who has mercilessly criticised and ridiculed Cllr Malcolm and his colleagues. .....Papers lodged at the Superior Court of California spell out, in black and white, their intention to seek an ‘award of money’ for ‘damage to their reputations’.
This, despite a 1993 Law Lords ruling that councils should not be allowed to take action for libel because of the ‘inhibiting effect on freedom of speech’. Individual councillors and employees can choose to do so, but not local authorities with taxpayers’ money.
Doesn’t the role of South Tyneside in this increasingly grubby tale — namely its decision, taken in secret, to fund the entire cost of these ill-judged proceedings — make a mockery of the Law Lord’s ruling?
For whoever Mr Monkey may be, surely the real scandal here is that taxpayers’ money is being used to defend the reputations of controversial politicians like councillors Iain Malcolm and David Potts."
"For more than two years, South Tyneside Council has been trying to uncover the identity of an anonymous blogger known as Mr Monkey, who has mercilessly criticised and ridiculed Cllr Malcolm and his colleagues. .....Papers lodged at the Superior Court of California spell out, in black and white, their intention to seek an ‘award of money’ for ‘damage to their reputations’.
This, despite a 1993 Law Lords ruling that councils should not be allowed to take action for libel because of the ‘inhibiting effect on freedom of speech’. Individual councillors and employees can choose to do so, but not local authorities with taxpayers’ money.
Doesn’t the role of South Tyneside in this increasingly grubby tale — namely its decision, taken in secret, to fund the entire cost of these ill-judged proceedings — make a mockery of the Law Lord’s ruling?
For whoever Mr Monkey may be, surely the real scandal here is that taxpayers’ money is being used to defend the reputations of controversial politicians like councillors Iain Malcolm and David Potts."
Weary Rhodri Giggs emerges from marital home after 'dumping his wife for eight-year affair with brother Ryan'
Daily Mail
*'Devastated' Rhodri 'in a bad way' after discovering details of affair
*Manchester United star slept with Natasha Giggs the day after his daughter was born
*'Squeaky clean' footballer continued affair while he was also seeing Big Brother housemate Imogen Thomas
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The injunction farce goes on! Irish paper flouts gagging order obtained by married entertainer who used it to cover up affair
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Ed: It seems that anyone with a computer can find the information now......
*'Devastated' Rhodri 'in a bad way' after discovering details of affair
*Manchester United star slept with Natasha Giggs the day after his daughter was born
*'Squeaky clean' footballer continued affair while he was also seeing Big Brother housemate Imogen Thomas
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The injunction farce goes on! Irish paper flouts gagging order obtained by married entertainer who used it to cover up affair
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Ed: It seems that anyone with a computer can find the information now......
Friday, 3 June 2011
Why Barack Obama may be heading for electoral disaster in 2012
Telegraph
"On a recent visit to London I was struck by how much faith many British politicians, journalists and political advisers have in Barack Obama being re-elected in 2012. ...But back in the United States, the reality looks a lot different. Many political leaders in Britain fail to understand the degree to which the American people are deeply unhappy with their president’s poor handling of the economy. Nor have they grasped the epic scale of the defeat suffered by the president in the November mid-terms, and the emphatic rejection by a clear majority of Americans of the Big Government Obama agenda.
Just seven months ago, the United States was swept by a conservative revolution that fundamentally transformed the political landscape on Capitol Hill, and gravely weakened the ability of the president to pass legislation. This revolution is not in retreat but gaining ground, ....."
"On a recent visit to London I was struck by how much faith many British politicians, journalists and political advisers have in Barack Obama being re-elected in 2012. ...But back in the United States, the reality looks a lot different. Many political leaders in Britain fail to understand the degree to which the American people are deeply unhappy with their president’s poor handling of the economy. Nor have they grasped the epic scale of the defeat suffered by the president in the November mid-terms, and the emphatic rejection by a clear majority of Americans of the Big Government Obama agenda.
Just seven months ago, the United States was swept by a conservative revolution that fundamentally transformed the political landscape on Capitol Hill, and gravely weakened the ability of the president to pass legislation. This revolution is not in retreat but gaining ground, ....."
Thursday, 2 June 2011
The Bank of England’s Great Inflation Swindle
Guido Fawkes
"Guido believes it is the deliberate policy of the Fed and the Bank of England, with the complicity of their political masters in the US Treasury and HM Treasury, to inflate their government debts away. Inflation is a pernicious form of taxation, it punishes the old and those who save and leads to a worse reckoning in the end. We are being deliberately swindled by the political elite."
"Guido believes it is the deliberate policy of the Fed and the Bank of England, with the complicity of their political masters in the US Treasury and HM Treasury, to inflate their government debts away. Inflation is a pernicious form of taxation, it punishes the old and those who save and leads to a worse reckoning in the end. We are being deliberately swindled by the political elite."
Greece Default Risk Raised to 50% at Moody’s as EU Readies Second Bailout
Bloomberg
"Greece’s risk of default was raised to 50 percent by Moody’s Investors Service as European officials rushed to put together the second bailout plan in two years to stave off renewed financial turmoil in the region.
Moody’s downgraded Greece to Caa1 from B1, putting it on a par with Cuba, according to a report published late yesterday. The move came after policy makers considered asking investors to reinvest in new Greek debt when existing bonds mature.
Twelve years after the currency was started, European leaders are trying to prevent the euro area’s first sovereign default. A 110 billion-euro ($158 billion) rescue in 2010 failed to prevent an investor exodus from Greece, and the country now faces a funding gap of 30 billion euros of bonds next year with its 10-year borrowing cost above 16 percent.
“Taken together, these risks imply at least an even chance of default over the rating horizon,” Moody’s said in a statement. “Over five-year investment horizons, around 50 percent of Caa1-rated sovereigns, non-financial corporate and financial institutions have consistently met their debt-service requirements. Around 50 percent have defaulted.”
"Greece’s risk of default was raised to 50 percent by Moody’s Investors Service as European officials rushed to put together the second bailout plan in two years to stave off renewed financial turmoil in the region.
Moody’s downgraded Greece to Caa1 from B1, putting it on a par with Cuba, according to a report published late yesterday. The move came after policy makers considered asking investors to reinvest in new Greek debt when existing bonds mature.
Twelve years after the currency was started, European leaders are trying to prevent the euro area’s first sovereign default. A 110 billion-euro ($158 billion) rescue in 2010 failed to prevent an investor exodus from Greece, and the country now faces a funding gap of 30 billion euros of bonds next year with its 10-year borrowing cost above 16 percent.
“Taken together, these risks imply at least an even chance of default over the rating horizon,” Moody’s said in a statement. “Over five-year investment horizons, around 50 percent of Caa1-rated sovereigns, non-financial corporate and financial institutions have consistently met their debt-service requirements. Around 50 percent have defaulted.”
161,000 asylum seekers allowed to stay in the UK in amnesty after blunders by Border Agency
Daily Mail
"Tens of thousands of asylum seekers have in effect been granted an amnesty to stay in Britain because of blunders in the immigration system, MPs said last night.
They are among 450,000 whose case files were found abandoned in boxes at the Home Office five years ago. Of these, 430,000 have now been considered, and 161,000 immigrants have been given the right to stay – many simply because they have been here so long. On top of that, another 74,500 people have been ‘lost’ because officials do not know whether they have left the country or died. They are placed in a ‘controlled archive’ for six months while checks are carried out before they are put in storage – in effect, written off.In a damning report, the Commons home affairs select committee said: ‘In practice an amnesty has taken place, at considerable cost to the taxpayer.’
"Tens of thousands of asylum seekers have in effect been granted an amnesty to stay in Britain because of blunders in the immigration system, MPs said last night.
They are among 450,000 whose case files were found abandoned in boxes at the Home Office five years ago. Of these, 430,000 have now been considered, and 161,000 immigrants have been given the right to stay – many simply because they have been here so long. On top of that, another 74,500 people have been ‘lost’ because officials do not know whether they have left the country or died. They are placed in a ‘controlled archive’ for six months while checks are carried out before they are put in storage – in effect, written off.In a damning report, the Commons home affairs select committee said: ‘In practice an amnesty has taken place, at considerable cost to the taxpayer.’
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