46 Pound Award for Innocent Man's 27 Years in Prison 'Sean Hodgson, wo spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, has been given just 46 pounds by the government with which to restart his life. The Prison Service has awarded the mentally ill former prisoner the equivalent of less than 2 pounds for every year he was wrongly imprisoned. The payout, a resettlement grant to help ease the victim of one of Britain's gravest miscarriages of justice back into society, was condemned as "the final insult" last night.' UK Population Must be Cut to 30 Million Says Porritt 'Jonathan Porritt, one of Gordon Brown's leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society. Porritt's call will come at this week's annual conference of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), of which he is patron. The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably. Porritt said: "Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure".' Police Arrest 300 in Paris Riots Over Economic Crisis 'More than 300 rioters were arrested in Paris as baton-wielding gangs clashed with police in protests over Sarkozy's handling of the financial crisis.' 'Down the Memory Hole,' Alan Greenspan Style 'He's back and in denial in a March 11 Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined: "The Fed Didn't Cause the Housing Bubble." He lied, the way he did throughout his career and for 18.5 years as Fed chairman. How else could he have kept the job, be knighted in the UK for his "contribution to global economic stability, wisdom and skill," then afterwards be extolled by the Money Trust he enriched. So now he's preserving his "legacy" by expunging its dark side the way Orwell described in 1984 - "down the memory hole," a convenient slot for "any document....due for destruction," politically inconvenient truths to be erased to preserve only sanitized versions for the public. It's called historical revisionism, but even some on the right aren't convinced.' Obama: US Will Collapse Unless We Give The Bankers Another One Trillion Dollars 'US President Barack Obama says the country would collapse should the government not intervene to prevent large banks from failing. "I think that systemic risks are still out there," Obama said Sunday, in what was viewed by many as an attempt to justify his administration's plans to buy as much as USD 1 trillion in toxic assets.' Read more...New UK Anti-Terror Strategy Launched 'A new counter-terrorist strategy which is designed to be tougest in the world will be launched by Jacqui Smith this week. Mr Brown said: "Today, not only the police and security and intelligence officers and our armed forces, but also the emergency services, local councils, businesses and community groups are involved in state-of-the-art civil contingency planning. Tens of thousands of men and women throughout Britain - from security guards to store managers - have now been trained and equipped to deal with an incident and know what to watch for as people go about their daily business in crowded places such as stations, airports, shopping centres and sports grounds".'
Monday, 23 March 2009
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