04 Sunday Mar 2012
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29 Wednesday Feb 2012
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Mark Duggan’s family were not told of his death, says police watchdog. The IPCC upholds complaint by Duggan’s family who say they were not told that he had been shot dead by police.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17208397
If the television pictures are to be believed Britain is burning.
A post 9/11 generation aware of the power of the media image have attacked their town’s iconic buildings setting them alight.
Trouble began in Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm Estate when a young Black man was shot dead by police.
When the dead man’s family approached their local police station to get some answers – amazingly the police had not spoken to them -a young girl was alleged to have pushed aside and then suddenly there was a night of looting.
The police did not overact – that was the one thing they have got right in this very sorry saga. Small scale rioting – awful for the people trapped in this – followed in some of the poorest boroughs of London, and has touched Liverpool and Birmingham also.
The police will get criticism for everything – but they should have…
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29 Wednesday Feb 2012
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■James Murdoch has resigned as executive chairman of News International http://t.co/LAHhZXPh 1 hour ago
Polarising figure no more?
An eighty-year-old man appeared before a parliamentary committee earlier today to answer questions about how the organistation that he ran had managed to hack into the phones of so many people, including that of the dead schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
No he was not to blame, he said, he had been let down by the people he had trusted.
And he was very, very sorry for the harm that had been caused.
This was, he said, the worst day of his life.
As you watched this giant of the media world being humbled by a parliamentary process of country that was not of his birth, somehow you were aware that you would never look Rupert Murdoch in the same way ever again. Great Power is only great when it is behind in the shadows, when it is exposed to the sunlight it can wilt, that was the…
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29 Wednesday Feb 2012
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Austerity, Britain and austerity, Distant Echoes, Illegals, Migrant Crisis, Migrants, Nayab Chohan, NayabChohan, NayabChohanLIVE, Politics 💼 🗳 🪖, Template News
China and India are said to be the rising stars of the economic world and if last night’s Piers Morgan’s programme on Shanghai is anything to go by, this will all mean some people are going to get incredibly rich.
Trouble is that in this arena of winners and losers, there are an even larger number who will not and who will suffer in this brave new world.
BBC News carried a report through out the day about illegal workers from India who had come to Britian to get work and perhaps a better life.
Well, the recession has paid put that idea and since those illegals burned their passports when they arrived here, they are trapped because the Indian government says that since they do not have the correct paperwork they can’t return home either.
The pictures of despair and sheer desperation that were broadcast were perhaps the most disturbing to be shown on terrestrial television yet.
One young man who said he was 21 had just been released from prison and was back on the streets – clearly for him the free world had nothing to offer. How did he get into trouble in the first place – shop lifting to get him the drugs that get him through the day.
Then, the reporter took us to the place where many of these illegals, non existents, spend the night in the cold exposed to the weather, with little more than drugs and an appalling sound born of misery to get them by.
It just so happened that these poor people are from India, there are others also Russia Today broadcast report last December about Polish people getting by eating rats.
No doubt there are others from every corner of the Third World, including of course China.
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28 Tuesday Feb 2012
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Twelve people have died in riots near the north-western city of Kashgar in Xinjiang province, the BBC reports.
It quotes Chinese state media which says that rioters killed 10 people, while two of the rioters were shot by police.
The Xinhua news agency gives no detail as to what triggered the violence.
Security has been high in the north-western province since riots in 2009 in the capital Urumqi between the Muslim Uighurs, who are the largest ethnic group, and Han Chinese migrants.
Nearly 200 people were killed in that unrest, most of them Han, according to officials.
Today’s violence took place in a market in Yecheng county, according to Xinhua, which says police are still hunting some of the rioters.
Almost half of Xinjiang’s residents are Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims with cultural and ethnic links to Central Asia.
Many complain that large-scale migration of Han Chinese workers from the east has cost them jobs and is eroding their culture.
China has invested heavily in Xinjiang and the region’s rich oil and gas deposits are vital to its booming economy.
Uighurs say they are suffering discrimination and marginalisation, and this has been behind anti-Han and separatist sentiment in Xinjiang since the 1990s.
Further violence broke out in July 2011 and left 32 people dead.
A hostage-taking incident in December led to the death of seven kidnappers – part of a “terror gang,” according to Chinese state media.
China claims it faces an organised terrorist threat from radical Muslims in Xinjiang, but Uighur activists say citizens are angry at Beijing’s heavy-handed rule in the region.
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27 Monday Feb 2012
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Elections, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia and elections, Russia and oligarchs, Russia and Putin, Russia 🇷🇺, Vladimir Putin
The jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has written in today’s Guardian newspaper arguing the Arab spring had inspired peoples everywhere including Russians. He called on voters to reject Vladimir Putin in next weekend’s Presidential elections. He also claimed that the middle class who it is said will be in a majority in ten years time will no longer accept Putin’s ‘managed democracy.’
According to The Guardian, Khodorkovsky has emerged as “a siren voice of freedom and democratic change”, though it adds for balance that he has also become a divisive figure for ordinary Russians who remember him as a billionaire oligarch.
All this may be true, but when Vladimir Putin came to power Russia which had been a superpower had just defaulted, it was also within the iron grip of a number of business men who appeared to have no other interest than amassing more wealth for themselves and it was of course ordinary Russians who suffered as a consequence.
So, if someone like Khodorkovsky appears to be a divisive figure to the not so well-heeled, they may have a point.
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25 Saturday Feb 2012
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23 Thursday Feb 2012
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17 Friday Feb 2012
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10 Friday Feb 2012
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ANALYSIS – With the Leveson Inquiry currently revealing everything that is wrong at the heart of journalism, one case has just concluded that has just shown exactly the opposite, namely when a newspaper gets all the elements right, public interest and a cracking story which you can sell.
Banker Nathaniel Rothschild has just lost his libel action against the Daily Mail who reported that he had set up a meeting between Lord Mandelson and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The newspaper portrayed him as a ‘puppet-master and suggested that he had helped smooth a £500 million aluminium deal in 2005.
The article claimed that Mr Rothschild used Lord Mandelson – then European Commissioner for Trade – to impress Oleg Deripaska, the billionaire owner of Russia’s biggest aluminium plant, during a visit to Siberia.
The 40-year-old heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty had demanded ‘very substantial’ damages.
Anyone want to regulate the press now?
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