You have here a desperate
man, whose name is Vladimir Putin!
The leading Russian opposition
politician was a constant threat to Putin’s policy of supreme leader and
directorate
For all that goes on in
Russia today, Putin and his KGB collaborators literally control everything
Anyone who is opposed to his
extreme and harsh measures of dictatorship will be removed
Either quietly or publically,
it makes no difference to him
The killing of a main
opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who had to be removed, because his political
views were in total contrast to Putin’s
Boris Nemtsov was shot a day
before an opposition rally was to be held
Boris Nemtsov was an economic
reformer, a kind and honest man, but a fierce critic of Putin’s handling of the
Ukraine situation
Boris Nemtsov feared Putin
would have him killed and that is exactly what has happened
All of Putin’s opponents have
met with their deaths
Putin cannot stand any
opposition to his dictatorial ways and the Russian people always live in fear
They are surrounded by the
spy network which encloses them
Nobody dare speak out in case
they are removed, either imprisoned or killed. Such is the state that Russians
have always lived in
This is where brother spies
on sisters, mothers on their children and next door neighbours, all live under
this fear daily
Such is the invisible grip
that the state has on its citizens, so nobody can fall out of line least they
be reported
It did not matter when Stalin
ruled over them in the time of Hitler or when we had the cold war
Even up to present day the
Russian people live in fear
They have to accept the
propaganda fed to them by the state controlled media
The people are naive of the
outside world and are forced to believe what the state tells them
They have no freedom to speak
out
They have never known
democracy, only the change over from one dictator to another
The Communist rule is an iron
tight one and all those who live under this regime must bow down to its
dictates – none are exempt
Russia will never change
while it continues to have dictators for their leaders
That is why so many of their
neighbouring countries wish to free themselves from this corrupt system and
remain that way
All of Russian’s neighbouring
countries, who have found independence, fear Russia will invade them again
They dread the thought of
them being placed under this iron fist regime
The West needs to wake up and
unite together in a stronger way and to see the enemy that they are being
confronted with
Russia will retaliate
Putin might be fearful of
reprisals, but he does have a pumped up ego that the West will not touch him
No matter how much
provocation he administers
Sanctions and a closing down
of economic measures will see this Russian bear screaming, but Putin will never
surrender
He is too arrogant for that
In time, when the squeeze
really bites hard, will he ask for certain negotiations to take place?
He knows his enemies and will
seek to strike once again when he becomes stronger
The lesson here is that one
cannot ever allow this to happen!
The callous disregard for
culture and heritage is par for the course with the Islamic State
Their blatant destruction of
statues in Iraq and other archaeological sites is outrageous
It shows they have no
appreciation of other cultures – only their own
They are nothing more than
culturally devoid barbarians and have no place in society and this world
As world outrage continues to
grow against IS, they will soon find they are more alienated then they were
before
New improved strategies are
now in place to bring an end to their rule
Covert activities of the highest
nature are already in operation even though IS appears to be winning the war to
overthrow Governments
This is proving to be false
More fighters are being
killed over and above those who are being recruited
The policies and the tide of
disapproval is now changing and where IS was gaining quite frantically, they
will find themselves boxed in
There are several corners of
conflict with no exit strategy in sight as their escape routes are now being
blocked
A whole arm or division of
their military has collapsed. Another replacement is on the way
This is to try to assist in
their build-up of much needed reserves, but they are being pushed back and
what’s more important – held!
This will undermine their
confidence and strategy and the long painful start to demolish their sect is
being noticed
IS themselves have seen the
start of their decline as too many of their forces are scattered over too wide
an area
The world is now beating a
path to their door and they are gaining!
The report into sexual abuse by
Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital stated that ten complaints at a time
were given to staff
One of these complaints of
abuse was made to a nurse, a ward sister and a hospital manager
Nine reports were made to a
nurse alone with one more reaching a manager
Around 63 people were abused
by Jimmy Savile at the hospital. His victims included patients, staff and
visitors
One of his victims was as
young as eight years old and no one was there to protect them
To name and shame the people,
who were in charge at the time and did nothing, is not enough
These victims have suffered
grave travesty of injustice
Their lives have been
destroyed due to a culture that existed at that time
Celebrity status, as in Jimmy
Saville’s case together with money, means more than decency, right thinking and
action
Compensation by the NHS trust
to these victims is not enough. Their lives have been ruined for all time
Counselling for as long as it
takes for these victims to feel they can cope with life should be the main
criterion in getting them better
All of these victims feel
betrayed by a system which is flawed
Sexual predators hoodwink
people by their duel personality and the manipulative holds they have on people
They are psychologically sick
and dangerous and should never be put in a position where vulnerable people are
situated
This means schools and
institutions of care and hospitals
Lessons need to be learnt
throughout society and to drastically play down the celebrity culture
Too many perpetrators are in the
field of entertainment and use their celebrity status to great effect
They show one face to their
adoring public, while behind the scenes their darker perverse behaviour comes
out
We, as a society, need to
realise that abuse in this way can no longer be tolerated
The culture of sexual
harassment has been tolerated by too many
There were no safeguards in
place to protect the innocent and vulnerable
Females in the work place
have suffered sexual harassment for years & the establishment turned a
blind eye in acceptance of this practice
Until we as a society start
to educate respect for all people & to abide by these rights, perpetrators
on many levels will get away with it
This education starts at
primary level and should continue this education right throughout a person’s
schooling
Bullying is prevalent in all
schools, even though schools advocate a zero tolerance
It still goes on and that
means every school in this entire country, yet little is done to sort it out
The likes of Jimmy Saville
started young and so education must start young to guard everybody as to what
is out there
We must protect our society
at long last!
Amnesty International has
urged the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their
power of veto…
…in cases where atrocities
are being committed
Their annual report shows the
global response to an array of catastrophes in 2014 had been shameful
It is the richer countries
who are guilty of taking an abhorrent stance by not sheltering more refugees
Amnesty International pointed
out that 2014 had been a catastrophic year for victims of conflict and violence
World leaders needed to act
immediately to confront the changing nature of armed conflict
Amnesty International stated
that the UN Security Council had “miserably failed” to protect civilians
The Security Council must
surrender their veto on issues relating to mass killing and genocide
Had this been in place, then
Russia would have been prevented from blocking UN action being put in place
against the violence in Syria
President Bashar al-Assad
would have been referred to the International Criminal Court
Then the process of getting
badly needed humanitarian aid to the thousands affected by the war would have
been distributed
The Security Council must now
act to stop mass atrocities and crimes against humanity otherwise give up their
position in the world
What is the point of having a
Security Council, who do nothing and allow atrocities like Syria and Palestine
to continue?
Their noncompliance in not
acting in the right and proper way makes their position untenable
Another organisation that has
credibility should be formed, who are prepared to have the teeth to do
something about these mass atrocities
Syria has four million
civilians displaced by the war and thousands of migrants are left to die in the
Mediterranean
2014 is one of the worst
years for refugee crises in history
The Security Council, through
not taking the right action, have blood on their hands
There is a total lack of
outrage about their performance
The war in Syria could have
saved many civilians had the right action been taken
They simply do not care and
so the continuing brutality of wars carries on
It is the people who continue
to die needlessly, because nobody will take the responsibly to act
They use instead their own
political interests over and above what is morally right
It is obvious the Security
Council do not have a conscience, as someone would have made a public statement
As nothing was forthcoming,
it shows how the Council has let humanity down
Something they should
consider!
Until a Security Council can
be free to act independently and not be controlled by other parties, nothing
will ever get sorted out
This organisation is a
disgrace to Mankind!
The head of the United
Nations climate change panel (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri has stepped down over
sexual harassment allegations
Indian police are
investigating a complaint from a 29 year old woman working in his office in
Delhi
The harassment includes
unwanted emails as well as text and phone messages. Dr Pachauri denies all the
allegations
Dr Pachauri has chaired the
IPCC since 2002 and was in his second term of office, which was due to end this
October
In a letter to the UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon, Dr Pachauri said he was unable to provide strong
leadership and therefore must resign
The IPCC chair is one of the
most gruelling and controversial jobs on the international stage
The chair spends much of his
life in mid-air flitting between capitals…
…whilst suffering relentless
attacks from campaigners challenging climate science
After Dr Pachauri did his own
scientific research he too realised that climate change is a real thing
It deserves more action from
political leaders
He was supported by
developing countries, who appreciated his willingness to prod main perpetrators
on climate change
He was always outspoken
Whatever the result of this
investigation, the IPCC have lost a good advocate
His voice resonated with so
many that he will be sorely missed
In this day and age and
especially where the public persona is always on show…
…one has to remain squeaky
clean to maintain credibility within the public office
The office itself demands
that, as one is in service to others
The IPCC will emerge stronger
from this incident and will not be tarnished by the scandal
The Grand Imam of Egypt’s top
Islamic Institution has called for a radical reform of their religious teaching
This is to tackle the spread
of Islamic extremism
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb of
Cairo’s al-Azhar University said that the historical misreading of the Koran…
…has led to intolerant
interpretations of Islam
He was speaking at an
anti-terror conference. He called for unity among Muslims
Egypt’s President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi has said that a pan-Arab military force is needed to combat
terrorism
The needs for a unified force
was “growing and becoming more pressing
every day”
It is high time and long
overdue that major Muslim clerics around the world come together as one voice
to speak out
There are flaws within its
own teachings of the Koran and the many misinterpretations continually go on
There are debates among
Muslims themselves, who have their own version of the Koran
They become misled and often
confused as to what to believe
Other faiths, such as
Catholicism, Buddhism and Hindu etc., are all taught the same versions of their
religion with one creed and one mass
It is high time top Muslim
Clerics came together to sort out their own Koran
They must stipulate one way,
not multi aspects, where misinterpretation leads to fanatical behaviour
The entire world is suffering
the backlash of these misinterpretations & the Muslim Clerics have been
silent in their attitude towards this
The world hears very loudly
the voices of radical Muslims, who summon up fellow Muslims to fight their
cause
The same cannot be said of
other clerics, who should be equally vocal against this form of extremism
It is as if they have almost
turned a blind eye to these events
King Abdullah of Jordan found
he was being invaded by Islamic extremists many years ago
He and his military forces
removed these extremists from his land to keep his citizens safe from their
destructive ways
These Islamic extremists have
been around for decades, yet nothing on a united front has been forthcoming
It has been the case of too
little too late
Until Muslim countries unite
together as a whole to combat extremists, then mass slaughter for all is the
result
It is high time the Muslim
world put their own teachings in order and sorted out those who take God’s name
in vain
The three girls missing from their homes
and are reported to have travelled to Turkey, will bring much distress to their
families
The girls have been
influenced, not necessarily radicalised by a Glasgow Muslim called Aqsa Mahmood
She is 20 and went to Syria
to become a jihadi bride
The girls aged 16 and 15
years old are naïve, but not necessarily innocent of their decisions to travel
to Syria to join IS
The pain and suffering now
being inflicted on their families is beyond belief
Young people have high
emotions
They see daily on the
television the atrocities that occur around the world and feel compelled to act
in some way
They have no idea of the
mental, emotional and physical scars they will encounter
These three girls have never
lived in a war torn country before, having enjoyed living in a stable country
as Great Britain
The culture shock from a safe
haven to a war torn country will see them out of their depth
None of them are
psychologically equipped to endure the horrors of what they will see
To sacrifice their lives for
a cause which is doomed, will not give them the salvation or the satisfaction
they seek
Their roles either as slaves
or jihadist brides will damage their delicate natures
Nothing but glory for the
cause is their only argument
They can do nothing to change
the course of IS’s strategy nor the violence that IS inflicts on others
These girls will have the
stains of blood of the victims on their hands and it will change them forever
Up to now they have not yet
entered into Syria, but they are on the verge, at the door of entering of which
there is no recovery
To be wilful against one’s
parents is one thing, to put oneself in mortal danger is quite another
Their fates are now in the
hands of a Higher Power of which their emotions will not be considered
IS militants are hard and
aggressive, they have no room for love or compassion in their hearts
That is a sign of weakness
and cannot be allowed according to their creed
IS’s ideology of a loving
state, which values life and all that is sacred according to God and its texts,
is not accepted in their ideology
God is love in bountiful ways
and compassion and forgiveness high on the lists of its teachings
Unless one adheres to these
principles none can say they are a follower of God!
It is high time that retailer
Benetton contributes to an international compensation fund for the victims of a
collapsed factory
The factory that collapsed in
Bangladesh resulted in 1,138 people losing their lives
The nine storey factory
collapsed in Dhaka on the 23rd April 2013 after warnings from workers and local
journalist that it was unsafe
Their pleas were ignored
The decision for compensation
has occurred due to pressure from campaigners
They accused the company of
dragging its feet over providing financial aid
Benetton together with
Walmart, Primark and Matalan were the fashion brands linked to the Rana Plaza
complex
More than one million people
have signed a petition on the campaigning website Avaaz
They are urging the company
to pay into the Rana Plaza Trust Fund
If Benetton does not pay they
will face embarrassing protests during the Milan fashion week
Benetton is now working with
a globally recognised third party to establish how much they should pay
The company is UN’s
International Labour Organisation
So far they have raised $21m,
but still need $9m to meet compensation commitments
Benetton and the other fashion
houses should do what is morally right and compensate with compassion –
something they have not done
It is obvious that Benetton’s
policy is profit over decent working conditions for factory workers
They are paid a pittance to
supply their goods
It is an absolute outrage
that factory workers are thought so little of that their working conditions are
not even vetted
Compensation from these
companies is nothing
What is important, are the
lost lives of all these families, who have been torn apart due to the greed of
these companies
No amount of compensation can
eradicate their pain & suffering & the very idea that Benetton can
still be dragging their feet is deplorable
It takes pressure from people
to push through the moral picture before Benetton is prepared to do anything
about it
Shame on you Benetton. Who
really in their right mind would want to do business with a company like yours?
Britain & the EU have
been accused of a catastrophic misreading of the mood in the Kremlin in the
run-up to the crisis in Ukraine
The House of Lords’ European
Union Committee claimed Europe “sleepwalked” into the crisis
The EU had not realised the
depths of Russian hostility regarding the Ukraine
The Lords Committee’s report
said Britain had not been active or visible enough in dealing with the
situation
For too long now EU’s
relationship with Moscow had been based on the “optimistic premise” that…
…Russia was on a trajectory
to becoming a democratic country
How naïve can Britain be and
for that matter the Foreign Office
You just have to look at
Putin to understand his character and how he operates in his own country and
how he deals with his people
Mr Putin is the ex-KGB chief.
They torture people who are against them
The Russian people do not
have rights. They have no freedom of speech
They are under the powerful
observation of the KGB and everything that the Russian people do is monitored
Russians cannot speak out
openly or against the state of Putin. They would automatically be imprisoned
Any subversion is strongly
opposed and dealt with harshly
Mr Putin has groups of youths
under his employ to upset situations that are not to his liking
It is very similar to the
Hitler Youth at the time of the rise of Adolf Hitler
These situations are normal
in Russia and the people have no choice as the regime is too powerful against
any form of criticism
Putin does not want
democracy, he wants to be the dictator and rule Russian with an iron fist
Another Stalin, he wants to
be greater than Stalin
He will do everything in his
power to achieve a greater Russia, not for the people but for him alone
With this kind of bullying
mind-set, how can the West then treat him with a softly, softly approach
They have to be out of their
minds
European trade has helped
Russia prosper from its oil and gas supplies
This has left the West
dependant on Russia and this has been their greatest mistake
Now they cannot afford to be
bullish against Putin for fear he could and would cut off their supplies
One must never underestimate
the enemy of old
It is Vladimir Putin, who has
played a canny game
The foolish West and Europe
have fallen into the trap and now he is showing his true colours and the EU
don’t like it
Putin’s background, as a
Soviet spy, means there can be little surprise…
…at the blatant resurgence of
an aggressive surveillance state in Russia
The collapse of the Soviet
Union had filled Putin with horror and rage
That is why when he came to
power in 2000 he transformed Russia into a giant spy state
In 2006 the GB hit squad
murdered the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium
210 in his tea
Now Whitehall are deeply
concerned about the number of Russian spies, formal and informal, who are based
in London
To say that the EU Committee
have been “sleepwalking” through the Ukrainian crisis is now extremely relevant
One must know one’s enemy and
one cannot afford to take one’s eye off this aggression
Ukraine is continually being
destabilised, because Putin does not want Kiev to become westernised
He will do everything in his
power to avoid this happening
Peter Oborne was the chief
political commentator of the Daily Telegraph. He has recently resigned
His statement that the
Telegraph lacks coverage into the HSBC tax scandal is a fraud on its readers
The paper had deliberately
suppressed stories about the banking giant including last week’s revelation on
its Swiss subsidiary
The Daily Telegraph is the
most important conservative-leaning newspaper in Britain
Its traditional distinction
between advertising and its editorial departments have now collapsed
The Telegraph’s coverage of
HSBC put the interests of this major international bank over its duty to report
the news
This is the fraud on its
readers
The paper’s owners actively
discouraged stories critical of HSBC since 2013, when the bank suspended its
advertising
The Telegraph was following
its investigation into accounts held with HSBC in Jersey
A former Telegraph executive
said that HSBC was the advertiser you literally cannot afford to offend
For three years the Telegraph
investigation team received a tipoff about accounts held by the bank in Jersey
This investigation was
similar to the Panorama investigation into the Swiss arm of the bank
HSBC then suspended its advertising.
Winning back the HSBC advertising account had become urgent priority
It was eventually restored
after twelve months
The Telegraph readers are
intelligent, sensible and well-informed people. They buy the paper because they
feel they are able to trust it
If advertising priorities are
allowed to determine editorial judgements, how can readers continue to feel
they have any trust?
It is thanks to the likes of
Peter Oborne, whose conscience is a measure of the decency of this man
He cannot stand idly by and
see good investigative journalism being destroyed because of money
The Daily Telegraph had
always had a brilliant reputation with its journalists and its readers, who
have a high regard for its journalism
We have to thank the Guardian
newspaper, who won’t be bought
They stick their neck out to
get to the truth and are respected by their colleagues in the industry
Something the Telegraph needs
to consider again!
Swiss police are now
searching the offices of the Geneva subsidiary of HSBC bank into what looks
like money laundering
Prosecutors have also said
they are investigating HSBC for any money laundering
The bank’s chief executive
said last week that the bank had closed down accounts of clients, who did not
meet their high standards
If it was not for the
whistle-blower none of these revelations would have come to light
This police raid comes after
a week of allegations, which first emerged that HSBC’s private bank helped
wealthy clients evade tax
How can anyone in their right
minds ever trust banks? They are only there to serve themselves
It is always profits before
decency and honesty which comes first, transparency is not even on their radar
Repercussions to HSBC will be
far-reaching even though they have put in a full page advert in several papers
apologising for their conduct
It really is too little too
late, nobody will believe them
They have been caught hands
down and so they deserve the loss of revenue which now faces them
The banks naively think that
because they were able to get away with wrongdoing for many years they are
unstoppable, a law unto themselves
A prominent Afghan female
politician died on Sunday following a bomb attack
Angiza Shinwari was a
provincial councillor in Afghanistan
She was the voice of hundreds
of thousands of women, who are living with no voice heard and no opinions
stated
She was badly injured by the
bomb, which was attached to her car and then exploded. Her driver and four
others were all killed
She sustained severe injuries
when she lost both of her legs. The gross amounts of blood lost made it
impossible for her to survive
Angiza Shinwari campaigned
for women’s rights, human rights and justice
She spoke out against ‘opium
brides’, where impoverished poppy farmers sold off their female relatives to
settle their debts
Angiza Shinwari was also
active on social media and this is where friends and followers have been
posting their tributes
Female politicians,
professionals and activists are regularly targeted in Afghanistan
Until the culture of decrying
women their rights in Afghanistan starts to change, women will only be regarded
as chattels
They are no higher in status
then an animal
The men of Afghanistan are
afraid to lose their rights over women, who are their slaves
Everything that is possible
for women to have in the way of equality, rights and a voice is denied to them
They are nothing and they
must remain in their place by the decree of the culture under which they are
shackled
The culture refuses to bend
Even though we are in the
21st century we might as well be in the dark ages for Afghanistan refuses to
move on
How can the international
world allow for this to continue while so many suffer under the servitude of
man?
The brutal murders of 21
Egyptian Christians have again outraged people around the world
These beheadings show no sign
of abating & although air strikes do hold IS back for a while their system
of fighting re-emerges elsewhere
There needs to be a more
constructive and decisive plan of action
More countries that surround
the perimeters of IS need to bring in greater forces on the ground to combat
this military action
What is being done is not
enough to silence IS’s objective
That is to sweep great sways
of land to increase their might for their caliphate
Their ideology is wrong and
very base and narrow. All they care about is their strategy and their way of
thinking and working
Credible Muslim clerics need
to stand up and openly denounce IS’s ideology, which is wrong
Therefore in the eyes of God
cannot succeed or be a worthwhile cause
It is high time that high
ranking Muslim clerics, who are respected throughout the Muslim world, came
together
They must quash IS’s ideology
from its grass roots
These Muslim clerics need to
put their necks on the line to do their responsible bit for the entire Muslim
world
Until this happens in a
constructive way more innocent people will lose their lives
IS is not an easy pushover.
They are an organised and brutal force, so an equally organised force needs to meet
them head-on
Respected Muslim clerics can
no longer afford to sit on their hands and do nothing
The world needs to see they
are actively involved and openly vocal, that IS is no longer acceptable
IS has to answer to God, not
as martyrs to their state of ideology, but to stand before God as brutal
murders of Mankind
Ukraine’s ceasefire will not
hold as the objective by Vladimir Putin is to exert his authority on the area
He cares little for peace
talks only what is on his agenda
He wants to reach out and
control more opposition territory, to expand and procure his Russian borders
Ceasefires are there to allow
him to regroup and strategize his position from where he sits and sees
strategically his best next move
Further sanctions will hurt
his people, but not him, as he has already invested well enough to withstand
years of financial oppression
He still has the people
behind him and there are no comparable persons, who are able to overthrow his
regime and mandate
All his opposition are either
in jail or have been quietly removed
Such is his strength and
determination to be the supreme leader of all Russia
This madman is not going
anywhere. He feels superior to all other dictators
He is the only one he feels
who can be in a commanding position and rule the world
Increasing his domain is his
prime objective and no amount of talking will dissuade him from doing it
NATO and the West have their
work cut out for them. They cannot underestimate the sheer will and
determination of this man
He wishes to be better than
Stalin in every way
To be feared is his prime
objective then the West won’t be so flippant where he is concerned
At this time the rat is
playing with the mouse
President Zuma is still
determined to advance on his own personal spending regardless of his people’s
failing situations
South Africa’s parliament saw
clashes from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) against the ruling ANC
Mr Julius Malema demanded
answers from President Zuma over the spending scandal
President Zuma wants a further
state funded multi-million dollar upgrade to his private residence
The outbursts by Mr Malema
and his MP’s in parliament over President Zuma’s spending scandal…
…prompted the speaker to get
police in to remove them – something that should never have happened
As a result of the eviction,
the largest democratic party, the Democratic Alliance, walked out in support of
those MP’s
Mr Malema feels his outbursts
are about defending democracy
EEF MP’s accuse President
Zuma of benefitting unduly from taxpayers money for further upgrades on his
private residence
This is a disgrace and a
scandal
Last year an independent
inquiry found President Zuma had unduly benefitted from these expenses…
…to his swimming pool and
cattle enclosure to a cost of $23 million
All this was done despite
criticism of the upgrades and where South Africa’s economy is stagnant
Mr Malema has demanded
President Zuma pays back the money to the taxpayers
Until decency and moral
behaviour is set as an example and adhered to nothing in South Africa will get
better
The late Nelson Mandela did
not sacrifice his life away for some greedy callous and self-opinionated
person…
…should benefit over the
people of South Africa
Nelson Mandela wanted justice
and freedom from depravation and not for abuse on his people
It is up to the people of
South Africa to demonstrate their disgust at President Zuma blatant disregard
for them
The retrial of the two
Al-Jazeera journalists is about to begin
They were convicted last year
of spreading false news to help a terrorist group
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher
Mohamed were imprisoned together with their colleague Peter Greste, who has
just been released
It was the appeals court that
had ordered this retrial, because the original court’s verdict had no evidence
to justify imprisonment
Mr Greste was released last
week under a law allowing the deportation of foreign nationals to their home
countries
He was and still remains
innocent of the crime he was accused of
This makes their justice
system a mockery in the eyes of the Law and of International Law
The journalists were jailed
simply for reporting the news, all of which is out in the open
It can be verified that their
reporting remains unbiased. Egypt has nothing to fear but fear itself
The Court of Cassation has
now ruled on 1st January that the proper legal procedures were not followed in
this case
The Judge in the Court of
Cassation said prosecutors failed to present conclusive evidence that the
defendants helped the Brotherhood…
…or even promoted them
It’s time that Egyptian
courts started acting according to the Law & not continue to remain a
kangaroo court for the entire world to abhor
Mr Fahmy and Mr Mohamed
should be released from prison
Mr Fahmy should keep his
Egyptian nationality as a token of consideration for being wrongly imprisoned
for crimes he never committed
At the end of the day the
world stands behind the innocent!
Dominique Strauss-Kahn denies
charges of pimping, he has told the court in northern France
He has stated prosecutors had
greatly exaggerated the frequency of his licentious evenings
Mr Strauss-Kahn has a
reputation of being a bully and a liar
He only cares for his own
skin and what he feels he is entitled to get away with
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s life
style is now catching up with him in a big way
Four years ago in a New York
hotel, a maid accused him of sexual assault and rape. All this he denied
The maid would not be
intimidated by this powerful man and sought to get justice for herself against
his appalling behaviour
She took out a civil court
action against him and won
It was settled out of court
for a figure of $1,440,000. She also was awarded an out of court settlement
from a newspaper
While Miss Nafissatou Diallo
has more money than she needs, she would have preferred to stay as a chamber
maid
She wishes nothing had
happened to her
Powerful men like Mr
Strauss-Kahn feel they can bully and intimidate those whose lives he feels are
beneath him
In this recent trial, Mr
Strauss-Kahn is accused of supplying sex workers for a prostitution ring based
at a hotel in Lille
Again he denies that they
were prostitutes
Evidence of an ex-prostitute
describes how she was paid to go to these parties and was specifically chosen
for Mr Kahn
His treatment of her was
unpleasant and the way she was dressed up for the party it clearly stated that
she was a prostitute
Nobody else would go to a
party dressed in the way she was
Mr Kahn’s antics have lost
him his job as the IMF boss, his marriage and his dream of becoming a French
president
Until these powerful men are
brought down there can be no decency in this world
They continue to ride
roughshod over those who, in their opinion, are of no count
Fortunately the legal system
is above these antics and if found guilty he could face ten years in jail and
be fined €1.5m
Australian adventurer and
charity fund raiser Huw Kingston faces more milestones in his bid to
circumnavigate the Mediterranean
All this is done by human
power
Just now Huw Kingston is in
Tunisia where he is training to row from there to Turkey
The distance is some 1,200
miles where he will pass by Malta and Cyprus. It is estimated it will take him
50 days to complete the task
He will try to reach there on
the 25th April
Turkey celebrates Anzac
Centenary when the Australians and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli
in 1915
The money that Mr Kingston
will raise for his efforts is for ‘Save the Children Fund’
It is a very worthwhile
charity that helps all children around the world
Mr Kingston was born in the
UK, but is a resident of Australia
This amazing man has paddled
the Corinth Canal and trekked through the European Alps which included an
ascent of Mont Blanc
He has crossed the straits of
Gibraltar and cycled 1,500 km under two weeks through Algeria
On his journey to Turkey he
will be joined by a fellow adventurer, a Slovenian by the name of Marin Medek,
who will share the rowing
It is to be expected that
there will be harsh condition on the Mediterranean Sea
The bravery and determination
of Huw Kingston to prove against the odds what people are prepared to do to
raise funds for worthwhile causes
Huw Kingston is an
inspiration to us all. His many wonderful escapades will be remembered for all
time with appreciation and thanks
He is a role model that this
world needs right now
There is good out there
amongst all the darkness of ignorance, greed and hatred. A beacon of light for
all to see!
Thanks to a whistle-blower,
who leaked the truth on HSBC’s practice to provide their clients with the means
to evade paying tax!
Millions of pounds have been
deposited in HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland and this was notified by the
whistle-blower in 2007
Panorama has seen thousands
of these accounts from this private bank
The bankers helped clients to
evade tax and helped tax dodgers stay ahead of the law
HSBC having been found out
says it is fundamentally changed
The bank now faces criminal
investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina
It also says it is
co-operating with the relevant authorities
HSBC, which is based in the
UK where no action is being taken against it, raises cause for alarm
One wonders when there is
absolute proof that this has been going on for years
Then whose pockets is the
bank lining to avoid UK investigation?
The bank says it has put
compliance and tax transparency ahead of profits
Panorama has spoken to a
whistle-blower, who says there are still problems with tax dodging
That person stated that HSBC
did not keep its promise to change and this was pointed out to them
The result being that that
person lost their job. She has since won a tribunal hearing for unfair
dismissal
Verbally HSBC are doing all
the right things, but they are not putting them into practice, because it suits
them not to!
Documents stolen in 2007 by a
computer expert working for HSBC in Geneva contain details of more than 100,000
clients
All from around the world
were hiding their cash from tax authorities
The French authorities that
assessed the stolen data concluded in 2013 that 99.8% of its citizens on that
list were evading tax
HM Revenue and Customs were
given their leaked documents and have identified 1,100 people who had not paid
their tax
Some five years have gone by
and, although £135 million in tax has been recovered, there are still large
amounts outstanding
HMRC have certainly not been
tough enough in securing monies for the British taxpayer
Thousands of pages of this
data was obtained by the French newspaper Le Monde
Now, in a joint
investigation, the documents have been passed to the International Consortium
of Investigative Journalists
Also they were passed to the
Guardian newspaper, Panorama and more than 50 media outlets around the world
They will be the ones who
will be able to get to the truth and root out this crime of tax avoidance
It is banks like HSBC, who
continually break the law, that need to be closed down
Normal citizens, who bank
with HSBC, are not dealt with in the same way. They are often denied loans to
help them with their businesses
It is only the rich who evade
tax, while HSBC get their rich payoff
Double standards and greed is
the policy of these big banks
While they continue to get
away with it, because nobody stops them, they feel they can and do act with
impunity!
A woman with a rare disease
has been spontaneously cured in an event that doctors say is impossible
The woman who was in her 50’s
had been plagued by warts and infections as part of the WHIM syndrome
This is caused by a defective
immune system
US doctors say a fluke DNA
mutation reported in the cell, effectively cured her in her 30’s
The odds of this happening
are highly improbable
Those who suffer from WHIM
syndrome have a defect in a single section of their DNA
They are still able to make
cells to form their immune system, but they get stuck in their bone marrow
where they are produced
This leaves patients
incredibly vulnerable to infection, which then leads to warts and an increase
risk of cancer
The woman sought out a team
of researchers in the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
to get her daughters tested
This is because she had
passed down her condition to her two daughters
The doctor in charge could
not believe that she said her warts had disappeared 20 years ago
The research team tried to
find out the reason for this miracle
The cure was tracked back to
a mutation in a single cell in her bone marrow – an event called “chromosomal
shattering”
This is where a part of her
DNA was rearranged and it led to 163 genes being taken out together with the
mutated cell
Research continues into
finding out at what role the other 163 genes that were affected by the mutation
had
All this “chromosomal shattering”
took part in a stem cell that manufactures immune cells
The cell was able to take
over the bone marrow
It became the starting point
for a new immune system that was able to get into the blood stream
This could not have happened
in a muscle cell as it would not have made any difference to her
The fact it took place in the
stem cell made all the difference, because it manufactures the immune cells
The woman no longer has
warts, is no longer susceptible to infections and no longer has blood abnormalities
This now gives excellent
insight into the syndrome
It goes to show that
miracles, no matter how small, can have life changing effects in a very big
way!
Women in the media face a
hard time. Many women journalists in the front line are often harassed by men,
who think they know better
They believe that by
undermining women by their constant level of bickering and abuse they can bring
these women journalist down
More safeguards are being put
into place to secure women journalists from these online threats, which they
face almost every day
A senior official from the
European security body, the OSCE, has warned that this is already happening
The messages are abusive,
violent and are often sexual
Online abuse against women
journalists is a global phenomenon and growing
The online bullying is done
by cowards, who are inept at facing people with their comments and should be
seen as pathetic human beings
They cannot face up to what
they consider is their right, but in fact is a blatant disregard for human
respect
Female journalists are
targeted mostly on their reporting of crime, politics and sensitive issues
The time has come for
harassment of this kind to be investigated
The perpetrators must be
exposed for who they are. This will be the first step into dealing with them
A name and shame scenario is
required
The law will start to bring
in a form of punishment to highlight this, because it will not be accepted in
today’s world
Hundreds of children, forced
to work in “inhuman conditions”, have now been rescued from factories in
southern India
At least 350 children were
removed during raids on leather tanning and plastic workshops in Hyderabad
The children are forced to
work 12 hours a day with no respite
They are kept in unhygienic
and unventilated dark rooms and monitored by the employers using video cameras
Any child that stopped
working was beaten
India now has laws aimed at
fighting child labour and it is illegal to employ a child under the age of 14
years old
This is due to the work of
Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in 2014
He has long campaigned
against child labour and he has rescued children from servitude
India still has millions of
child workers and a census in 2011 put the figure at about 4.35 million
Mr Kailash Satyarthi says the
figures are as high as 60 million
One child goes missing every
8 minutes and nearly half are never found
A labour welfare official
said raids on factories to check for child workers are now being carried out
twice a month
India is taking effective
measures to eradicate the Mafia behind bringing children from other states to
work in these hazardous industries
The Human Rights of the child
in India are absolutely appalling
The Government should be made
responsible for their blatant acts of negligence
What can any child do? They
are often kidnapped and forced to work
The West abolished the slave
trade, but it obviously did not get as far as India
India has the population and
man power. Do they have the will to eradicate slavery in their country?
All civilised countries have
evolved to this state of being long ago
It is about time that India
followed suit, if they wish to be thought of as serious in world affairs
The Serious Fraud Office has
opened up a formal criminal investigation into accounting errors at Tesco
There is a £263 million
overstatement of its first-half year profits, which has led to eight senior
staff being suspended
When the SFO launches a full
criminal investigation against a company or individual…
…it has to be satisfied that
there are grounds of serious fraud or bribery
This has now happened and the
SFO are looking into Tesco’s accounting practices
The 95 year old group has
dominated the British high street for years
It is now battling a severe
slowdown of trading, which has led to profit warnings
Tesco’s new chief executive,
who is only seven weeks in the job, says he cannot provide a full year profit
forecast
He does not know how much it
would cost to rebuild the company
He is trying to stabilise the
giant retailer, which some analysts say it’s now too destabilised to invest in
The Financial Regulator has
the power to prosecute people who deliberately or recklessly mislead statements
to the Stock Exchange
It was a whistle-blower who
had alerted a senior lawyer over optimistic accounting of payments from
suppliers and business costs
Tesco has admitted to
overstating its profits by over £250 million
Tesco’s shares have now
fallen every day and have already lost a fifth of their value
Many suppliers have been hit
with unexpected additional charges for Tesco’s shortfall
They have had to suffer
long-term delays with receiving their own payments – some have nearly gone out
of business
One supplier, who had waited
nearly a year to be paid, had to put the situation into the hands of a
solicitor
Even with the solicitor’s
letters Tesco still did not pay up
It was only when the
solicitor threatened to bring Tesco’s down under the law that Tesco immediately
paid up
Tesco wants the general
public to believe this oversight in their accounting has only just happened
In fact it has been going on
for years
Thanks must be given to the
whistle-blowers, who are the saviours of the public
Tesco has been known for its
ruthless handling of public land and development for its own ends
Often they put small
shopkeepers out of business
Tesco’s only thought is for
their own profits and greed no matter what the cost to others
This has been shown to be the
case over many years
Now finally Spiritual Law has
come into position and their ruthless behaviour is coming to bite them hard
There will be no mercy shown
to this group as they did not show any mercy to those whose livelihoods they
destroyed
China had the foresight to
see that and so Tesco was refused permission to open up a store in that country
– China looks after its own!
The Financial Conduct
Authority has handed out this year in fines of £307 million. It has the teeth
to do it and to hurt Tesco
Let this be a lesson to Tesco
in future. They cannot expect to ride roughshod over everybody and still get
away with it
The head of the UN inquiry
into potential war crimes committed during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict has
resigned
Pressure by Israel on
Professor Schabas that he is biased against Israel, because of work he did for
the Palestine Liberation Organisation
The UN inquiry’s panel, which
was commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council, is due to issue its findings
in March
Mr Netanyahu has said the
Council are “an anti-Israel body” and wants them scrapped
It is not surprising that
Israel has refused to co-operate in this investigation
Professor Schabas did not
want the issue to overshadow the work of the inquiry, which is at a decisive
stage
Many UN buildings in Gaza,
which were sheltering Palestinian women and children, were targeted
indiscriminately
This was in spite of the UN
continuingly giving Israel their co-ordinates, which were repeatedly ignored
In a previous war on Gaza, an
Israeli tank fired shells into the Al-Aqsa Hospital…
…killing five people,
wounding 60, which included 30 medical staff
The Israeli military said it
had the right to attack Palestinian hospitals and schools in self-defence
The UN said that Israel
violated International Law
The findings of this inquiry
will give the truth as the world looks on with eager anticipation
Israel’s bully boy tactics
cannot continue to go unchallenged and un-reprimanded
War crimes have been
committed on both sides and justice now needs to be seen to be done
Israel cannot continue to
think it is a law unto itself and everybody has to abide by their dictate
What is the point of justice
in this modern world if it continues to fail the innocent?
We might as well all continue
to act like savages for nothing changes!
The British Parliament will
vote later to decide whether to allow the creation of babies using DNA from
three people
The UK could be the first
country to legalise three person babies and could help 150 couples a year
If a Yes vote is given it
would help women like Sharon Bernardi from Sutherland, who has lost seven
children to the mitochondrial disease
Mitochondria are the tiny
compartments inside nearly every cell in the body that converts food into
useable energy
They have their own DNA,
which is separate to their own characteristics such as appearance
When you have a defective
mitochondria, which is passed down by the mother…
…it leads to brain damage,
liver dysfunction, muscle wastage, heart failure and blindness
The patient is in
considerable pain all the time until death relieves them of their misery
The modified version of the
IVF combines the two parents with a healthy mitochondria from a donor woman
This will allow for a
permanent change to be passed on for generations
This research has been
suggested by patients, supported by patients and is for patients
The Church wish to block the
MP’s vote on this pioneering research and technique
As is so often is the case,
the Church proves once again that they are completely heartless
They will not endorse this
life changing research
They would prefer women to
continue carrying this dysfunctional mitochondria and to pass it down with each
generation
Like Haemophilia, which is
also passed down by the mother, this is being cured by gene therapy and there
is now hope for the future
This disease is where the
patient’s blood cannot clot and so they could bleed to death in severe cases
They experience extensive
bruising and internal bleeding
This process still needs to
be perfected
The day will come when a
person with Haemophilia will be taken to the treatment centre and leave without
the disease
Where is the compassion by
the Church for those who have these diseases, who suffer endless hours of pain
and suffering?
As is usual, the Church is
nowhere to be seen!
God’s Infinite Intelligence
is behind these pioneering techniques
It is the saving grace to
guide those whose research is for the Greater Good
Something the Church as usual
fails to see and advocate
The Al-Jazeera journalist
Peter Greste has been finally released
International pressure has
been brought to bear on Egypt’s judicial system
The injustice and sham of his
trial has been broadcasted throughout the world
How can anyone survive when
the law is constantly being violated and abused?
Egypt clearly has no
standards and therefore the world can look on it with disdain
Peter Greste was falsely
accused of spreading false news and aiding the Muslim Brotherhood
All journalists who work for
Al-Jazeera have the highest moral and professional standard of reporting and
are known for their impartiality
Al-Jazeera journalists have a
reputation, which is acknowledged and respected globally
What is now needed is
continued pressure, so that Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed will also be
released
We hope that the Egyptian
Courts will see sense and not use fear to pass on ridiculous trumped up charges
which hold no water?
The eyes of the world
continue to look down on Egypt and hope that sanity will prevail
That law and order starts to
formulate into real justice for all
That same justice will be
used in the cases of their own judges, should they ever need it!
At this time we send our best
wishes to Peter Greste on his release
We further hope that his
amazing reporting will continue once he has fully recovered from his arduous
ordeal
The gun fiasco just keeps on
running in America
This time it is a three year
old American boy, who shot his father and his pregnant mother with the same
bullet
The bullet passed through his
father’s buttock and then went on to hit his mother’s arm
The toddler was reaching into
his mother’s bag to get the iPod and picked up the gun instead
The toddler’s two year old
sister, who was in the room at the time, was not hurt
While the parents were
treated in hospital for their injuries, the children were put into care so
their parents could recover
The District Attorney’s
office will decide whether the parents will face negligence charges
In December a woman in the
state of Idaho was killed by her two year old son who accidently shot his
mother with a gun found in her handbag
The shooting took place while
they were in a Wal-Mart store
What is the mentality of
these people, who take so little precautions with these dangerous weapons?
They really have no need to
have them in the first place
The stupidity and lack of
responsibility by these parents is beyond belief
How can the American law
continue to accept the freedom of gun laws by putting so many people at risk by
reckless people?
There are more guns than
common sense in America. God help the victims every one of them!
