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  • Republicofscotland

    Three police have been shot in northern Copenhagen during a meeting about blasphemy and free speech, where the French ambassador was speaking.

    The Krudttoenden café was hosting an event organised by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilk called “Art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression” when the shots were fired.

    Two men suspected of being involved in the shooting are reportedly on the run, although this has not been verified.

    Danish Police said the suspects spoke Danish and fled in a black car, according to journalist Camilla Fuhr.

    Danish channel TV2 reported seeing 30 bullet holes in the cafe window.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/three-police-shot-in-copenhagen-during-blasphemy-debate-as-french-ambassador-speaks-10046360.html
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    A genuine incident? or Denmark’s turn to ramp up the pressure, on Islam?

  • Republicofscotland

    Conceding to a federal lawsuit, the US government agreed to release a 1987 Defense Department report detailing US assistance to Israel in its development of a hydrogen bomb, which skirted international standards.

    The 386-page report, Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations, likens top Israeli nuclear facilities to the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories that were key in the development of US nuclear weaponry.

    Israelis are developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level,said the report, the release of which comes before Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech in front of the US Congress in which he will oppose any deal that allows Iran’s legal nuclear program to persist.
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    God forbid Iran gains nuclear weapons, but its okay for the genocidal maniacs in Israel to develop nukes, and for the US to condone it, and for the EU to ignore it.

  • Republicofscotland

    Should Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian’s Executive Editor, Opinion, take over the editor-in-chief’s post from Alan Rusbridger? Freedland’s instalment is rumoured to be a condition set by the New York Times if the two enlightened North Atlantic papers are to merge, but even without this his chances seem good.

    A central topic for both papers, as for the world in general, is Palestine, Israel, the Middle East. The topic is said by Freedland himself to have been his specialty for some twenty years. I have read through 100 of his writings on the subject in the Guardian, the Jewish Chronicle and the New York Review of Books and conclude that their content should worry the Guardian staff, its readers and his employer The Scott Trust.

    His support for Israel is unbalanced, violates the Guardian’s commitment to liberalism and is rooted in an ethnocentricity that enables him to alternatively ignore Palestinians and justify their forced transfer out of Palestine.
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    So whats new another pro-Israeli editor, of a supposedly British tabloid.

    That makes how many?

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Oh, it’s a genuine incident in Copenhagen as Vilks has a long history of insulting the Prophet.

    Hoped to provoke a confrontation with him when he spread his provocations again only against Muslims in a lecture at Uppsala but was unable to attend because I couldn’t get in.

    It’s all part of having a clash of civilizations so the West can take over what’s left of the world.

  • Republicofscotland

    A BBC reporter has faced calls to resign after he told the daughter of Holocaust survivors in Paris: ‘Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well’.

    Journalist Tim Willcox sparked anger during his coverage of yesterday’s rally in Paris, held in memory of the 17 victims of last week’s terror attacks, including four Jewish people in a siege at a Kosher supermarket.

    During a live report from the streets of Paris, Willcox was speaking to a number of participants in the march, including one woman who expressed her fears that Jews were being persecuted, and ‘the situation is going back to the days of the 1930s in Europe.’

    To this, Willcox, who was broadcasting on the BBC News channel replied: ‘Many critics though of Israel’s policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well.’
    When the woman, shaking her head, responded saying: ‘We can’t do an amalgam’, he told her: ‘You understand everything is seen from different perspectives.’

    She was identified during the broadcast as ‘Chava’, and told Willcox when she was introduced on screen that she had lived in France for 20 years, but was originally from Israel.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906539/Calls-BBC-reporter-resign-told-daughter-Holocaust-survivors-Paris-Palestinians-suffer-hugely-Jewish-hands-well.html
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    And there we have it in a nutshell, any slight deviation from the narrative, is met, with unquestionable hostility, you’ll be sacked imprisoned or ridiculed, for expressing your own opinion.

    You must believe what they tell, and never ever question it, and whatever you do, don’t mention Palestine and suffering in the same sentence.

  • John Spencer-Davis

    Republicofscotland

    14/02/2015 6:04 pm

    I don’t think he should be asked to resign. But there’s a time and a place. He sounds pretty bloody insensitive to me on the facts given.

    Kind regards,

    John

  • johnstone

    Nevermind
    I am not trying to run down the German system…the didactic education system is not dissimilar to mainstream education elsewhere but streaming by ability at 11/12 is an anomaly. It is deliberate academic discrimination but unintentional cultural. The OECD PIS study had a huge impact here; the school day has been extended and the work load and stress upon students has increased. I call it punitive because of the use of negative incentives in schools; students are motivated only by their grades indoctrinating young people with the competitive life-force that the OECD would see as a necessity for economic success; it’s training for capitalists and happening in the UK, USA, France, Japan, China and many other countries, perhaps the only counties bucking this awful trend might be Cuba and Bhutan.

  • Resident Dissident

    As to Putin supplying weapons to Ukraine, Russia supplied both sides before the civil war so there are bound to be Russian weapons there.

    Can you read?

    “This high-tech, longrange
    multiple-launch rocket system
    (MLRS) entered into service in the
    Russian Federation in 2012, and is
    operated by no other state.”

  • nevermind

    @ Johnston Which country are you comparing the German system to and what is your ire? I have yet to see a perfectly working system. look at the US Britain or France, none of them are perfect, nor is the Chinese/Japanese system.

    And what do you measure it by? the results as they come out of school? those who succeed at university? the amount of children who commit suicide due to pressure/

    What we have to realise is that not everyone will finish school, and that there are not enough jobs to go round, whether its for normal middle of the road school leavers or graduates, automation and modernity has seen to that.
    Just look at the lack of people input in modern agriculture, the robotics used in manufacturing.
    Should the question not be ‘why schools can’t cater for underachievers’ and ‘Is achieving the only way of passing on skills’.

  • Mary

    The corporate media are hoping with everything crossed that the war continues in Eastern Ukraine so that the demonization of President Putin can be continued. I don’t think they care one jot about the people. I have been watching a little of Sky and the BBC this afternoon.

  • Mary

    John Spencer-Davis. Whatever the logistics of the operation of Kids Company, I think the way that the donor referred to in Miles Goslett’s piece was treated was both dreadful and insulting.

  • Republicofscotland

    Guess which one was judged to be a “Scrounger” and lost their allowance.
    …………………

    1/ Esther McVey Minister, for disabled people, receives £400 per month food allowance.

    OR

    2/Olivia Porter, leg amputated, paralyzed in right arm, receives £281 per month disability living allowance, for special needs.

    http://munguinsrepublic.blogspot.co.uk/

  • John Spencer-Davis

    Mary
    14/02/2015 6:45 pm

    I absolutely agree with you, and if the charity is concerned about this donor’s mental health they should hand back her money immediately. It should not be accepting money from the vulnerable. It also shouldn’t be answering someone who is asking awkward questions by calling them a nutter in public.

    By the way, I can’t remember if I have said this to you before, so I will say it again now. You do a marvellous job on this blog, and no commenter has been more of a useful resource than you. Your particular strength is in ferreting out useful information and laying it out for everyone and you do it tirelessly. If you don’t do as much debating as you do providing information that’s neither here not there. You are well thought of: maybe we don’t say that enough.

    Kind regards,

    John

  • Republicofscotland

    Meanwhile under the SNP at least 27,000 public service workers in Scotland are on Zero Hours Contracts.
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    Is the SNP promising to end zero hour contracts no, is Labour and Jim Murphy promising to end them yes, a promise he can’t possibly keep, in fact Murphy can’t do a bloody thing, without first informing, and getting the all clear from London, and Ed Miliband.

    Look what happened to Johann Lamont, when she complained about her advisor, being removed from office behind her back, by her London bosses.

    Murphy has no power, the SNP have no London head office to answer to.

  • Herbie

    Dear, oh dear.

    Now the Kiev junta have appointed on the run former Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili as ‘non-staff advisor’

    Things must be bad.

    http://rt.com/news/232275-poroshenko-saakashvili-advisor-appointment/

    Saakashvili believes that with US weapons, Ukraine can “conquer all of Russia”.

    Yup. He actually said that.

    http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/saakashvili-says-ukraine-could-conquer-russia-provoking-official-outcry/515578.html

    Bit of a loser this guy:

    http://rt.com/op-edge/177772-us-georgia-saakashvili-sob/

  • johnstone

    Nevermind

    Well exclusion policies (fortunately now changing) and the selection policies (one laender I think is experimenting with abolishing this) do raise my ire. They are children and a wonder, all of them! No there will never be perfect system when the measure of perfection is in terms of how well the students have performed academically, and when academics are about exam success. Exams are only a measure the child’s ability to pass exams. If we believe that there are and design systems that turn out underachieving children then there will be underachieving children. If we believe that they are all wonder children then they will all be wonder children.

  • Trowbridge H. Ford

    Well remember when Lars Vilks was working with ‘Jihad Jane’ aka Colleen LaRose, Vilks himself, and Swedish-Amewrican counter terrorists to set me up as her whitey assassin of the loony, totally unprincipled cartoonist in Sweden.

    Fortunately, thanks to my being otherwise occupied, not prepared to have a drunken orgy with her, and a bit of good luck, it didn’t succeed.

    Now he is just trying to drag angry, poorly informed Muslims into the slaughter.

  • RobG

    @ Mary

    I always thought that the ‘head’ part of Clark’s avatar looked like Tintin.

    And of course the guy’s mad on Citroens.

    Clark is obviously mad, like me.

  • John Goss

    “Can you read?”

    Well I need glasses nowadays but thanks for your concern.

    The Guardian has a copy of the agreement. But I think you will find that only Poroshenko has said tornadoes have been used and that was just before the peace talks through his Kiev Comic “Kyiv Post”.

    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/poroshenko-enemy-hits-in-kramatorsk-neighboring-residential-areas-by-tornado-380159.html

    In actual fact the Vineyard of the Saker tells me that this is another Poroshenko false-flag lie. While it shows the rockets the Ukraine president claimed had been launched by a tornado delivery system which landed in a residential area of Kramatorsk it is most unlikely that they were delivered by a tornado system. This is how the tornado system delivers its rockets.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtFCsWeO1Lc

    You will note that with all the weapons it shows the tail section with the fins separates which probably enables further distance. But the ones sticking out of the ground are the same as all the other rockets I’ve seen striking the poor residents of Eastern Ukraine with the fins intact. My guess is when the OSCE accompanies the withdrawal they will find as many tornado delivery systems as weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

    If I am wrong I will admit it.

  • Resident Dissident

    “But I think you will find that only Poroshenko has said tornadoes have been used”

    So that’s why the Russians agreed to their withdrawal! Please don’t confuse Saker with facts – he has already made it clear that it is ok to lie about Russian involvement (as linked to many times in the past).

    “My guess is when the OSCE accompanies the withdrawal they will find as many tornado delivery systems as weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

    Of course there were WMDs in Iraq – asked the families of the Kurds who were gassed and the UN were never able to account for all of those that were declared – they were just moved somewhere else. Do you really think that the OSCE has the resources to follow all Russian troop and equipment movements???

  • Resident Dissident

    “Clark is obviously mad, like me.”

    I’m afraid I find Clark’s madness rather more endearing.

  • Peacewisher

    Yes, Herbie, there’s a lot of fake news. A lot of people are so naïve they can’t believe our media could possibly do that. As they say “Ignorance is Bliss”.

    I assume that those who come to this site don’t come into the category and wish to share their truth.

    Here’s a little of mine… or rather that of a breathtaking female volunteer called “Phoenix”, interviewed by the remarkable Graham Phillips

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfP-vF9OlCM

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