Bloody hell. Read this. Brilliant.
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Clark
Just picked up your comments: thinking of you and here’s hoping you are feeling better. Take care.
Warm regards,
John
“Seeing that you want him interviewed by the whitewash (sorry Inquiry) do you believe that the Strelkov recording was a fake? Or not?”
Unlike you Mr Goss I believe that the inquiry should look at all the evidence before forming a view. But yes Strelkov has a case to answer and should be interviewed before being conveniently passed to the Hague so that they can try him for war crimes
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You answered a question, perhaps somebody else asked it. But it was not the question above the answer. Do you believe the Strelkov recording first posted in Kyiv Post was fake?
‘Questions to BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead about her role as a member of HSBC bank’s audit committee went unanswered last night. The Corporation was asked by the Guardian newspaper how much she knew about activities at the company’s Swiss private banking arm – where up to 100,000 wealthy clients from across the world had secret accounts.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2953328/The-millionaire-didn-t-pay-tax-24-YEARS-Property-investor-enjoyed-lavish-lifestyle-luxury-homes-helicopter-private-jet-without-paying-penny-HMRC.html
Has the whistleblower’s list been leaked yet.
His statement that he had e-mailed HMRC has been found to be correct.
France says it did not restrict UK from using HSBC files to pursue bank and criminals
Tory minister and tax office boss told parliament failure to prosecute was due to restrictions imposed by French authorities
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/13/france-says-it-did-not-restrict-uk-from-using-hsbc-files-to-pursue-bank-and-criminals
Too many lies are coming from Smoothface’s crowd.
Gauke is a Con Friend of Israel incidentally. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11633
My best wishes to you Clark, I hope you will feel better soon. A broken system cannot mend broken hearts and minds, only your actions alone can enable change.
@Johnstone
” Nor is there a mention of the two (plus) tier education system which though not necessarily by design nevertheless consigns many immigrants even second generation immigrants to lower income job opportunities. There are, I think, way more deep seated societal factors to this phenomenon than this article depicts.”
Please tell me what you know of a two tier plus education system, because as a german I do not recognise two tiers.
Firstly, nobody is getting education after they have learned and enjoyed to be a child, nobody is hot housed because mum and dad think its good for you. Age 6 is when you start going to school.
They will then go to Volksschule(grammar school equivalent) and when you have ploughed away until age 12 and are able to pass the exams for either Abitur, the most prestigious schooling, or Middle school, they will leave Volkschule and join either of the two.
Being allowed to join the Abitur is totally down to their results in the Abitur pruefung, (Abitur exams), it has nothing to do with ethnicity or nationality. If you are not good enough then you will not get to university.
There is a second staircase, so to speak, via Middle school and after you had two years in middle school, again via and entrance exam.
I do not recognise what you have described.
@Mark 11.17: I hope not. On the one hand propaganda is getting more intense, but on the other hand more people are disbelieving of big lies (confounding the Hitler philosophy?).
“do you believe that the Strelkov recording was a fake? Or not?””
I don’t know I haven’t seen all the evidence – but the first evidence of Strelkov’s involvement was his postings on Vkontakte from his account that subsequently disappeared – as did the openly racist Strelkov himself shortly thereafter. He certainly has a case to answer and he should do so.
Now I’ve answered your question you could do the common courtesy of answering the long outstanding one that you have avoided about your attitude to Solidarnosc at the time – or don’t the same rules apply when you are using the ends to justify the means?
You might also wish to acknowledge your past lies about Russian weapons being sent to Eastern Ukraine now that weapon systems that only the Russians had are referred to in the Minsk agreement.
“but on the other hand more people are disbelieving of big lies”
Like the one about Putin not supplying the rebels with weapons?
Mary – I agree that Fairhead should be required to answer the question or she should resign – especially given the has asked the same question many times to Lord Green. Similarly HMRC, Osborne and the Treasury ministers, the DPP and the Justice Minister have a lot of questions to answer as to why Bloomfield and other tax scroungers were not prosecuted.
Here is a good piece of investigative journalism by Miles Goslett.
Chapter and verse on the finances of the Kids’ Company founded and run by Camila Batmanghelidjh
The trouble with Kids Company
It’s a favourite charity of David Cameron and many celebrities. But does it do what it claims to do?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9437932/the-trouble-with-kids-company/
Miles Goslett 14 February 2015
Read the comments.
Tags: accounting, Camila, Coldplay, David Cameron, Department for Education, donors, Figures, handouts, JK Rowling, Joan Woolard, Kenbury Street, Kids Company, Morgan Stanley, Prince Charles, Richard Branson, transparency
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1068298&SubsidiaryNumber=0
Charity Commission website entry
Income £23,104,012
Spending £22,963,671
Staff salaries were £15,380,835 in 2013
One employee received £70k-£80k
One employee received £90k-£100k
The chair of the trustees none of whom are paid is Alan Yentob.
The report and accounts are literally very colourful!
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends98/0001068298_AC_20131231_E_C.pdf
Gauke’s position on Israel is just a diversion that I’m sure he would welcome.
Given Mary is so interested in charity accounting perhaps you could point me to where I can find the accounts for Mr Galloway’s charity?
RD
As I keep saying so you must know by now, THEY (not us) are ALL in it TOGETHER.
Yes, from 3 till 6 children can be children in the kindergarten system but this all ends abruptly at 6 and the pressure to jump through the hoops of a punitive education system begins. The cycle of exercises, learning, tests rolls on till at 11 when their school record determines which of the 3 tiers the child will enter. Many children with learning problems go to special schools (currently inclusion is doing away with these schools) but often those with less than perfect language skills will find themselves in Realschule (a sad is fact). Those with physical disabilities go to an Internat attached to a specialist hospital….
My reply to RD was to his previous comment at 12.27pm
He can find out about Galloway’s charity by entering a name here. It’s really easy.
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/registerhomepage.aspx
Mary
14/02/2015 12:27 pm
“Staff salaries were £15,380,835 in 2013” (Kids’ Company)
No, that’s not correct. I worked out that that meant an average staff salary of over £30K, which for a charity is impossible (or at least, outrageous). Staff salaries were £11,820,733 (which is still an average salary of about £24K, which is no small beans for a charity.) The rest is other human resources related expense.
Kind regards,
John
Mary
By the way, I would be very interested to know exactly how that £11m is distributed. Averages are all very well, but they don’t tell you if a number of people at the top are very well rewarded and people at the bottom get a pittance. Which would not surprise me.
Warm regards,
John
@Clark: total agree about electronic voting.
Do we trust humans on matters of power?
Then why should we trust computer programs written by humans.
Also, voting should be seen as a joyous commitment to something greater. The ballot box is the only way, and no better example than South Africa and Desmond Tutu’s demeanour that day.
Regarding the current debate on improving Russia, do they use ballot boxes in elections?
Has there ever been general agreement about anything on these endless, bickering threads?
Its clear yonatan was pre-prepared for the IDF trainee’s addendum at Galloway Question Time. But for Dimbleby to go along with such juvenile chicanery, it’s spelt the death knell for Question Time.
Election Day, South Africa, 1994…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2cu3BALLVU
No reason to listen Clark and myself about electronic voting. Listen to Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking about the dangers of too much Information Technology.
Sorry, I thought you were being offensive when you questioned my support of Solidarity RD, and yes I supported Lech Walensa and Solidarnosc at the time. For the record I do not believe Russia should have intervened in 1956 in Hungary or 1968 Czechoslovakia, I am not and never have been a Stalinist (I know of at least three poets of the Silver Age who died in the camps, or in transit in the case of Mandelstam, and one Nikolai Gumilev, who was shot by the Bolsheviks). How could I support Stalinism. As a toolmaker I worked with a Hungarian, Lawrence, who set and operated the Bridgeport next to mine in a contract toolroom. He was an excellent toolmaker and spoke good Russian. His family had left Hungary in 1956.
I treat people as I find them wherever they come from. And I was in the AUEW (later AEU) and then the Transport and General Workers’ Union because it was more left-wing and finally the Association of Scientific and Technical Communicators after university. I wish I had known some Russian when I worked with Lawrence.
As to Putin supplying weapons to Ukraine, Russia supplied both sides before the civil war so there are bound to be Russian weapons there. What should not be there is white phosphorous which the Fascists used, and Senator McCain approves of even though it is banned by international law.
John Goss
14/02/15 1:19 pm
Osip Mandelstam’s life is of particular interest to my wife, who studied Russian language and literature and is fluent. His terrible story is so valuable, because most of the hundreds of thousands or millions who suffered in the same way did so in a grey silence, but his is so well known because he was a creative intellectual and a public figure.
Warm regards,
John
Would discussing leaker David Carr’s demise, especially the possibility that he was murdered too, like Robin Cook, slow down the bickering?
For Clark, in response to the deep, dark lyrics of Recoil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2cu3BALLVU
Osibisa, “Sunshine Day”… scroll to about 3.30 if short of time.
Anyone here seen Osibisa live?
John Spencer Davis. I thought the actual accounts took second place to all the coloured graphics etc.
Most organisations list the number of staff and the number in each pay band. Also whether full or part time. From memory I cannot recall this type of info and to be honest, I do not want to wade through it again. The charity certainly has a very large income.
Mary
14/02/2015 2:58 pm
I understand that, but you quoted staff salaries as if they were important, and I agree: they are. People want to know where their money is going when they give to a charity. If it’s funding expensive lifestyles for the executives, why should I hand over my cash?
The figure you quoted was more than the true figure by almost a third (30%). If I discovered that, other people certainly could have, and they wouldn’t have been as polite about it as me.
Charities disclose the number of people remunerated above £60,000 per year in bands of £10,000. So the top 50 people in the organisation, under the chief exec and CFO, could be drawing salaries of £58,000 per year for all we know. I would like to know. Distribution of income in charities is interesting to me, because the people who actually get their hands dirty usually get the least money, of course. I looked on the charity’s website and there are no current vacancies advertised to the public at the moment, so I can’t see what kind of money is offered to people. I actually find that really weird. 500 employees, and there are no current vacancies, none at all? Odd. However, the annual report quotes a 96% staff satisfaction with the charity, which should be fully heeded.
Warm regards,
John
From Mr Goss’s link
( https://www.facebook.com/notes/mykolas-alutis/the-strange-case-of-carlos-the-spanish-air-controller-please-share/10152592548993659 }
” On friday 18th at 7 pm (Lithuanian time) I was at home watching BBC World News and it appeared a flash with the breaking news, a Boeing of Malaysia Airlines crashed somewhere near the Russian border in the Donbass region. ”
The aircraft was shot down the previous day, Thursday the 17th. at about 1320 UTC I’m sure not even the BBC were treating it as “breaking news” 24 hours after the event.
Mad Jim Murphy has promised to end zero hours contracts, if you vote for the London Labour branch in Scotland, Murphy said he abhors zero hour contracts, and would love to see the end of them.
Strangely though Labour did nothing about zero hour contracts, in 13 years they were in government.
when it comes to Labour and Murphy, its a case of say anything promise anything.
Here’s somebody who clearly saw the writing on the wall back in 2010;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1315318/As-Ukrainians-force-Russians-turn-their-language-change-names-I-ask-Is-worlds-absurd-city.html