Immigrants Wanting To Settle In France To Sign A ‘No Burka’ Contract

By Ian Sparks
www.dailymail.co.uk
09th February 2010

Immigrants should sign a ‘no burka’ contract before being allowed to live in France, the country’s families minister has said.

It would be added to an ‘integration agreement’ that all newcomers already have to commit to, which also bans forced marriages and polygamy.

Nadine Morano said: ‘Equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of French society.

‘This applies to polygamy, forced marriages, female mutilation and the full-face veil.’

Her proposal came at a government conference yesterday following a three-month debate on national identity.

Last month a government committee said women who wear the garment should be barred from using public transport and outlawed from public buildings like schools and hospitals.

But the official inquiry by a group of MPs stopped short of recommending a total ban of the garments, saying they should still be allowed in private homes.

The committee’s head Andre Gerin said a full ban could enflame Muslim tensions and drive some to extremism.

Such a move could also backfire as it was likely to be challenged by the European Court of Human Rights, he said.

But he added: ‘We are recommending that all women must show their faces when entering public institutions or boarding public transport and keep their face uncovered throughout their presence there.

‘Failure to do so should result in a refusal to deliver the service demanded.’

Ms Morano has the backing of many prominent MPs in her call to have immigrants who wear burkas banned from staying in France. Read more…

Gordon Brown calls in Obama team for help with television debate

www.timesonline.co.uk

Gordon Brown is reaching for help from President Obama’s Democrats as he prepares for the televised debates that could determine whether he remains Prime Minister after the general election.

As talks about the format of the three debates enter a crucial phase, The Times has learnt that Joel Benenson, a polling and strategy adviser who worked in the “prep team” that readied Mr Obama and Joe Biden, the US Vice-President, for their election debates, is already heavily involved in tactical planning.

All three main parties are studying videos of presidential debates as they step up preparations for events that will be new to British politics and which many believe will electrify the campaign. The Times understands that Birminghan, Manchester and Bristol have been earmarked as the venues for the BBC, ITV and Sky debates, which are likely to take place on a Thursday or Friday in each of the three full weeks of the campaign.

Mr Benenson has already advised Mr Brown’s inner circle that the team chosen to help him to rehearse for the debates must be “tight and focused”, each with a specified role. The view of Mr Benenson and David Axelrod, who was Mr Obama’s chief campaign consultant, is that “having a room full of people, all throwing in ideas does not work”, a senior Labour insider said.

“You need to have lines to take on every subject, but you also need an overall strategy and that requires careful planning, even though in the end the way Gordon responds to the unexpected could be decisive,” a minister said. Mr Benenson, 56, is retained as a consultant by Labour and will be a regular visitor to London over the coming weeks.

He is believed to have told the Labour team that the debates are vital to the chances of David Cameron, Mr Brown and Nick Clegg, particularly because of their novelty value. In a rare interview recently he said that the first presidential debate in the September before the US election showed that Mr Obama would win. “Senator Obama just won the debate hands-down. He was more presidential.” Read more…

NATO-Israel cooperation, will the Arabs react?

thepeopleofpakistan.wordpress.com
February 8, 2010

If Israel succeeds in joining NATO, its regional belligerency would be backed by the collective strength of the entire alliance. Before that happens, will the Arabs react?

Israel wants to be a member of NATO. It no longer looks down its nose at military alliances. It no longer wants to stay away from Western military arrangements. It wants in.

A majority of Israelis believe NATO membership would boost Israel’s security as well as NATO’s strategic power. Interestingly enough, there has been no Arab reaction to Israel’s desire to join NATO, no Arab attempt to block the move, and no preparations to deal with its consequences.

Israel and NATO have grown closer over the past decade or so. In 2000, NATO expanded its Mediterranean Dialogue through talks with seven countries from the Middle East and North Africa; namely, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania. In 2004, NATO- Mediterranean talks were held under the name “Partnership for Peace”. Six new countries were included in the new dialogue: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Israel, in particular, was eager to use every opportunity the Partnership for Peace had to offer.

On 24 February 2005, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer became NATO’s first secretary-general to visit Israel. In the following month, NATO and Israel held their first joint military drills in the Red Sea. Within weeks, a flotilla of six NATO ships called on the Israeli port of Eilat. Israel (and Jordan) also took part for the first time in joint military drills held within the Partnership for Peace programme in Macedonia in the former Yugoslavia in February 2005.

According to the UK-based Jane’s military magazine, Israel’s “geopolitical position” provided NATO with a foreign base to defend the West, while NATO’s military and economic might enhanced the security and economic potential of the “host country”.

In June 2005, Israel participated in submarine manoeuvres off the coast of Taranto, Italy. At the time, US sources said that Israel was seeking to widen the “scope of its strategic alliance” with NATO in preparation for full membership in NATO. Israeli ground forces also took part in NATO drills lasting two weeks and a half in Ukraine. In 2006, Israel told NATO that it wanted to participate in “active operational efforts” conducted by NATO in the Mediterranean as part of the campaign to “confront terrorism”. Read more…

Internet Censorship: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom To New Zealand Users

Clare Swinney
Infonews.co.nz
February 7, 2010

Has Chinese-style internet censorship arrived in New Zealand this year? The question is posed because two major news websites, Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, both of which are run by documentary maker and radio show host Alex Jones, who is renowned for exposing the truths the mainstream media attempts to conceal, were found to be have been selectively blocked on Friday evening and were still unavailable at the time of writing.

Thankfully, this draconian measure does not effect all internet users in New Zealand however. It appears to be confined to those whose internet server providers, (ISPs), use Asia Netcom for their international internet traffic. Telstraclear, Vodafone and Worldxchange Communications users are not effected, while Woosh, Orcon, Slingshot, Telecom and Ihug users are.

An avid fan of Infowars.com and a 9/11 truth activist, Jeff Mitchell, reported on Saturday that he contacted his ISP, Orcon, to establish what was causing the block, and was advised by a computer technician who did a traceroute, that the break in traffic to the two websites was found to be occurring at Asia Netcom’s router in Sydney. This technician also advised that as Telstraclear used a different route, their customers were still able to access the two sites.

There have been calls for the Internet to be censored and controlled – and for an Internet 2 by proponents of a one world government, or “New World Order.” This is because the internet as it is, is impeding the global elites’ ability to push their tyrannical, self-serving agendas through.

A clear indicator that the internet is regarded as a serious threat to global elite was evident when on March the 18th, 2009 Senator Jay Rockefeller of the Rockefeller dynasty, a family pivotal in the push for a one world government, [1,2] went so far as to suggest that it might have been better if the internet had never been invented and we went back to using pencils and paper, [3]. While it may have seemed like a ridiculous statement to make at the time, it was an indicator of what the global elite are aiming for and a warning. They want to make it increasingly difficult to get to the truth and they want to regain control of all media.

Consequently, it is of no surprise that Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com appear to have been selectively targeted, as these two sites present a huge threat to the global elites’ operation. They provide access to credible information, from a wide range of contributors, which has been crippling the elites’ agendas. They have been providing updates on what has been happening around the world, including access to the Alex Jones radio show, which is now the most popular radio show on the internet worldwide. They expose that 9/11, the bombings of 7/7 and Oklahoma City, and the underwear bomber, were inside jobs and that, in fact, many terror-related events are government-sponsored. Plus, they have been pivotal in exposing that man-made global warming and the H1N1 pandemic were hoaxes, and that the Federal Reserve bank is taking money from the taxpayers and putting it in the pockets of bankers, and that it should be shut down.

Hopefully, this block is merely a temporary problem. If not, action may be necessary. In the meantime, you can still pick the radio show up at GCNLive.com by proxy, and read some of the Infowars.com/Prisonplanet.com articles on Alex Jones’ other sites which are still available, including Infowars.net, Propaganda Matrix and JonesReport.com. Also, you can use www.ninjaproxy.com to read Infowars and Prisonplanet.com articles. Plus, Prisonplanet.tv is still accessible and you can still access the shop which sells his documentaries via the link here: http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/faofreprofba.html.

Keep getting the truth out!

In Peace.

British Banker Could Face Death Over Fraud Charges

A multi-millionaire British citizen is facing a potential death sentence in Indonesia on charges of corruption and fraud relating to the controversial collapse of one of the country’s leading banks.

By Philip Aldrick
www.telegraph.co.uk
06 Feb 2010

Rafat Ali Rizvi, 49, who grew up and went to university in the UK, has been accused of stealing assets from Bank Century after it was rescued from collapse by the state in November 2008 with $670m (£430m) of taxpayers’ money.

Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for Mr Rizvi at Indonesia’s request but he remains at large, splitting his time between the UK, where he has a property on London’s Park Lane, and Singapore. Neither country has an extradition agreement with Indonesia.

Mr Rivzi, believed to be worth around $600m, protests his innocence but friends say he fears standing trial in Indonesia because the Bank Century case has become highly political. Investigations have been launched into the original bail-out as well as alleged corruption surrounding the case.

According to Mr Rivzi’s lawyers, he believes he will be made a scapegoat for the bank’s failure.

Mr Rivzi was a major shareholder in Bank Century alongside Hesham al Warraq, a Saudi national, and Robert Tantular, a local entrepreneur. Mr Tantular has been jailed for five years on charges of not honouring a letter of agreement, but the government is going after Mr Rivzi and Mr al Warraq, who is also at large, on charges of corruption. His lawyers say that, if convicted, they could face the death penalty. Read more…

Germany Supports European Army: Foreign Minister

 

MUNICH, Germany (AFP) – – Germany supports the creation of a European army in the long term so that the EU can be a “global player,” Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

“The long-term goal is the establishment of a European army under full parliamentary control.

“The European Union must live up to its political role as a global player. It must be able to manage crises independently. It must be able to respond quickly, flexibly and to take a united stand,” he said.

“We want strong European crisis management. This is not intended to replace other security structures. More Europe is not a strategy directed against anyone. No one has any reason to fear Europe, but everyone should be able to depend on Europe,” he added.

He said however that this would require a pooling of resources and distribution of responsibility “even in times of ever scarcer means.”

The concept of a European army was set out in the 27-nation EU’s reforming Lisbon Treaty,” he said.

Read more…

Terror on Campus – Special Branch monitoring London Universities – “funding queries” at several Islamic Societies

www.thelondondailynews.com
05 February, 2010

Special Branch officers are operating in British universities.

Higher Education Minister David Lammy said the government was concerned about a number of institutions.

Mr Lammy has refused to be drawn on whether university Islamic societies should be monitored more closely.

The London Daily News also understands that there are “funding queries” over several Islamic societies at various high profile London Higher Education institutions.

“Universities are autonomous,” he said. “They work closely with the police and the intelligence services, and I’m not going to comment further than that.”

He told BBC Radio 4’s The Report:

“We have identified universities for whom the risk is greater and they have to work closely with Special Branch, and so I think it is a partnership between leadership at universities and the police.

We do not recognise a caricature of a significant risk across Britain.

But we do recognise that threat levels have been raised and that this is an extremely serious issue and that there are particular institutions – and those institutions are aware of this because we have brought it to their attention – where the risk is greater and those institutions are working very closely with the police and are working closely with Special Branch and those institutions (police and Special Branch) are present on campus.”

Blacklisted Collages take Border Agency to court

Numerous State and private collages are set to take the Border Agency to court after they were suspended.

142 organisations had been blacklisted – including all applications from northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

This move came soon after news broke that failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was allegedly radicalized whilst studying at University Collage London.

The Home Office and Border Agency have long tried to clamp down on bogus students and phony collages that resulted in overstayers and present a security risk.

A ‘surge’ in applications led to the suspension of student visas from these areas – but the affected institutions claim this was because of a switch to an online system

Several UK colleges are taking the UK Border Agency to court after they were suspended from approving student visa applications.

Under the government’s points-based immigration system, properly accredited colleges were able to give a visa-sponsoring license – essentially a letter verifying that a student was enrolled, and had paid, for a course in the UK. The student could then take that offer letter to their local embassy or consulate to get a UK student visa. If they didn’t get a visa, the money would be refunded.

52 of these state collages apparently did not even have a licence to issue verification to embassies.

Read more…

Pakistan PM urges calm after deadly Karachi bombings

 

Footage shows the moment when the second blast occurred

news.bbc.co.uk

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appealed for calm after two bombings in the city of Karachi killed 25 people and injured dozens more.

The attacks – the second at a hospital where victims of the first attack were being treated – targeted Shia pilgrims.

A period of mourning is due to begin, amid fears of growing tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Pakistan is home to al-Qaeda-linked Sunni militant groups.

The first of Friday’s blasts – caused by a motorbike laden with explosives targeting a bus carrying Shias to a religious procession – killed 12 people.

Then, another bomb exploded outside the entrance to the emergency ward of the hospital where the victims of the first attack were being treated. At least 13 people were killed in that attack.

The bombings happened in spite of tight security across Pakistan as Shias marked the end of the Arbaeen religious festival, with Friday the final and most important day of 40 days of mourning for the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. Read more…

Ukraine Security Service Averted Terrorist Attack In Kiev

KIEV, February 5 (RIA Novosti)

Ukraine’s National Security Service (SBU) prevented on Friday a terrorist attack on Kiev’s Independence Square, the Unian news agency reported.

SBU chief Valentyn Nalivaichenko told the Inter TV channel that his service detained a Georgian national, born in 1968, who had TNT and electrical detonators.

Investigators suspect the man had “intended to commit a crime or organize an explosion in one of Kiev’s venues for mass events.”

The detained man had a Ukrainian passport, and the SBU is checking into how the foreign national received the passport.

Outgoing Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko earlier today put into force a decision of the National Security and Defense Council to enhance security measures for the presidential election’s second round slated for Sunday.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych will face each other in the runoff. Yushchenko received just 5% in the first round of the current vote.

http://en.rian.ru/exsoviet/20100205/157788087.html

AC/DC Frontman Brian Johnson Has Lashed Out At Charity Work Done By Bono And Bob Geldof

AC/DC’s Brian Johnson Bags Bono And Bob Geldof For Public Charity Work

www.heraldsun.com.au

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson has lashed out at charity work done by Bono and Bob Geldof, saying they should do it in private. DO YOU AGREE?

In his only Australian interview, the outspoken singer said he and his Grammy-winning band prefer to help in private with no press conferences.

“I do it myself, I don’t tell everybody I’m doing it,” Johnson said.

“I don’t tell everybody they should give money – they can’t afford it.

“When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa.

“I’m sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry. I become all tyrannical.”

Johnson said AC/DC’s aversion to playing at charity events goes back to turning down a slot at 1985’s Live Aid.

“Bob Geldof is a canny lad. He did what he thought was right at the time but it didn’t work,” he said. “The money didn’t go to poor people. It makes me mad when people try to use politics or charity for publicity.

“Do a charity gig, fair enough, but not on worldwide television.”

With the band’s Australian tour – their first since 2001 – starting in Melbourne next week, Johnson also shot down reports that he was contemplating retirement. Read more…

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