Monday, 13 December 2010 10:06
'Harriet Harman has praised ‘heroic’ immigrants who claim welfare payments in Britain and use the cash to support families living abroad.
She said the Government should make it easier for them to send the money home and called for tax refunds to encourage more immigrants to follow suit, in particular those who paid for their children to be educated in the Third World.
The Labour Deputy Leader, who is also the party’s spokesman on International Development, derided ‘those who say we should look after our own first’ in the recession and vowed to fight any attempt to cut the £9.4 billion overseas aid budget. Last night the Government challenged her ‘bizarre’ conduct.'
Read more: Harriet Harman Praises 'Hero' Immigrants who Send Welfare Handouts Home
Monday, 13 December 2010 10:43
It's Finger Out Time
An interview from a few years ago that is as topical today - in fact more so - as it was then.
Monday, 13 December 2010 10:21
And this is what former British Foreign secretary, Robin Cook, wrote at the time of the London bombings in 2005 and four weeks before he conveniently died ...
'Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.
Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.'
This is not quite right because the long-dead Bin Laden was always an asset of the American-Saudi inner sanctum, but what Cook says about the origin of the mythical 'Al-Qaeda' is absolutely right.
For Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden see The Brotherhood and Emmanuel Goldstein from Orwell's 1984
In the story, 1984, Goldstein is purported to be a former member of the ruling class that rebels and becomes the leader of a group of rebels known as The Brotherhood. Likewise, The Brotherhood is never really seen and may not even exist. You see, both Goldsteinn and the Brotherhood are propaganda tools used by The Party to cement loyalty to Big Brother during an event known as The Two Minutes Hate.
In the story, War on Terror, Bin Laden is purported to be a former member of the ruling class that rebels and becomes the leader of a group of rebels known as Al-Qaeda. Likewise, Al-Qaeda is never really seen and may not even exist. You see, both Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are propaganda tools used by the Illuminati to cement loyalty to Big Brother during an event known as The Network News.
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