747th day of the Tens

Alistair Burt Makes Clear The Foreign Office's Position on Human Rights With Respect To Syria


If the UK believes that an individual should take responsibilty for violence and repression against the Syrian people, according to good evidence, then the UK and EU partners shall take action to impose travel bans and the freezing of assets. 
 
“Of the 74 Syrian military and intelligence officers named in the December Human Rights Watch report,” says Alistair Burt, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, “17 are already subject to EU travel bans and a freeze on assets, including President Assad.”
According to the Rt. Hon. Burt, The UK declares that those accused of the most serious of international crimes must account for their actions. He said, “there must be no impunity and we will continue to work with our international partners to ensure this.”

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, made clear in his statement on 1 December, that EU sanctions, agreed to date, targeted on President Assad, his regime and those who support them, aim to increase pressure on the Syrian regime to stop the continuing violent repression of the Syrian people. In light of this Mister Burt said: “I welcome these moves which send a clear message that the Syrian regime's actions have left it isolated.”

SOURCES:

{1}. http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/syria.htm

{2}. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2012-01-16a.89229.h&s=Intelligence#g89229.r0

A full list of individuals listed by the EU can be found on the HM Treasury website, as above {1}.

746th day of the Tens

The Anti Defamation League Welcomes Supreme Court Decision Ensuring Victims Of Discrimination Their Day In Court

The ADL welcomes a U.S. Supreme Court decision ensuring that employees of religious organizations receive the opportunity to assert their claims in court if they believe they fall victim to discrimination. It gets dangerous to share beliefs these days it seems.
“We are gratified that the court articulated a view of the ministerial exception consistent with what we recommended in our amicus brief,” said Deborah M. Lauter, ADL Civil Rights Director. “The burden of showing that an employee is not entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws is now rightfully on the religious institution.”
The case, 'Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School vs. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission', involves the right of a teacher to bring a claim against her religious employer under the law of the United States Constitution in line with the Disabilities Act.
In its decision, the Court affirmed that a religious institution can claim exemption from anti-discrimination laws as these laws may apply to employees whose work advances the religious institution's mission.

SOURCE:

{1}. The Anti Defamation League, New York, NY, January 11, 2012 { http://www.adl.org/PresRele/SupremeCourt_33/6218_33.htm }

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

NB. What does the Amicus Brief entail?

NUJ Elections

Barry Fitzpatrick has been elected NUJ Deputy General Secretary.

Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ General Secretary said: “I congratulate Barry on his election, and I am looking forward to working with him in his new role. He is widely known and respected across the media industries, and has been a determined champion of journalists and journalism. His previous career as a leading print union official and activist means he has plenty of experience and the ability to work with all our colleagues in the media in defence of jobs, conditions and ethical standards.”

Barry Fitzpatrick, NUJ Deputy General Secretary said "I am immensely proud to have been elected as Deputy General Secretary of the NUJ with a vote of confidence from our membership. Journalists today face enormous challenges in defending both their jobs and professional standards in the public interest. I look forward to meeting these challenges and working hard with Michelle, all of our officers and staff and most importantly our chapel officials and lay activists without whom there would be no NUJ."

Link to information on NUJ website: http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=2363

RESULTS:
FITZPATRICK 2444 ELECTED
GAVAGHAN 473
YOUETT 1326
TOTAL 4243

Number of eligible voters: 29190
Total number of votes cast: 4308
Turnout: 14.8%
Number of votes found to be invalid: 65
Total number of valid votes to be counted: ४२४३

741st Day of the Tens

{ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AQohnTUa98 }

Breakqore died; Divte*h killed it for good. Qan anyone parallel this genius, Ipsissimus, of the genre of no genre? Anyone who hears Breakqore should know what it does. It moves. Divte*h moves me. Up there with Ladys*raper (why does he do soft most rexently?) and the likes of Eraserhead et al.

{ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBFsdmo9rko&feature=related }

See U l8r, I'm on Rotator!

NB. 'c' is out of the alphabet for the war ...

736th day of the Tens

Mossad Chief: Nuclear Iran does not pose ‘existential’ threat

The current head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency pulls the rug from under the feet of Israeli neoliberals - who keep their company with the likes of the 'presidential celebrity' - who want to attack Iran and/or Syria in order to orchestrate a third world war.

According to sources quoted in the 29th December Haaretz, Mossad chief Tamir Pardo told an audience of Israeli diplomats that a nuclear Iran does not necessarily present an existential threat to Israel. This view contrasts with that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that a nuclear Iran might lead to another holocaust.

Pardo reportedly made his comments in a closed forum of 100 Israeli ambassadors on 27th December. According to Haaretz’s diplomatic sources, Pardo says that Israel [uses] various means to undermine Iran’s nuclear program, but [questions] the use of the term “existential threat” if Iran's nuclear power presents a threat to Israel's national security.

“What is the significance of the term existential threat?” Pardo asks. “Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely. But if one said a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands was an existential threat, that would mean that we would have to close up shop and go home. That’s not the situation. The term existential threat is used too freely.” Pardo did not comment on the possibility of an Israeli military strike against Iran.

According to the sources, Pardo sees the European and world economic crises as a more serious and immediate threat. While devoting five minutes in his presentation to the Iranian threat, Pardo spent no less than 20 minutes on threats to the Israeli economy.

Reports of an all-out brawl over plans by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Netanyahu, to launch a preemptive attack against Iran, rage within the Israeli military-security establishment. Pardo’s predecessor, Meir Dagan, makes the point against Barak and Netanyahu and last month said Israel should only resort to military force “when the knife is at its throat and begins to cut into the flesh," warning that their drive for a war could drag Israel and the entire region into a major war that would be disastrous.

The Great Wipeout of 2012 begins

Pardo recognises the global economic collapse facing Israel—and the world— as its existential threat. The financial body count of 2012 looks even worse than the horror of the past year. In 2011, global stock markets wiped out assets to the tune of US$6.3 trillion — a loss of 12.1 per cent, according to the January 1 Financial Times. But these losses, as dramatic as they seem, barely mark the beginning of the blowout to come early this year, in 2012. In the first quarter of the year alone, the countries of the Eurozone shall face 457 billion euros in sovereign debt rollover, with Italy alone scheduled to pay 113 billion euro. This seems impossible, especially with Italy paying more than 7 per cent yields on 10-year bonds at an auction over a week ago.

Sources at one of the regional Federal Reserve banks in the United States — upon which China depends for its growth and Australia for virtually its entire income — completed a study for internal circulation, which indicates that the housing collapse shall continue unabated, real unemployment shall equal the levels of that which the worst of the Great Depression saw, and inflation shall rise. The official government claims play these sombre facts down. Concerning Main Street, manufacturing remains at the same level of collapse as in September 2008, at the time of the Lehman Brothers blowout.

Sources:
[1]. Citizens Electoral Council of New Zealand {Wednesday, 4 January 2012, 11:40 am}::
[2]. Citizens Electoral Council of Australia {Media Release 3rd of January 2012}::

NB. Which Federal Reserve Bank in the US does Australia depend on for virtually its entire income?

721st day of the Tens

What would my father say? If only he knew ... What do the police say? "Being stupid and gay"

A fifteen year old won £4,000 in compensation this week after his arrest back in June 2010.

The schoolboy took photographs at a public military parade during Armed Forces Day when the attending police decided to pick on an easy target.

Initially officers pulled rank on the boy, stating that he "invaded the privacy" of the soldiers, who marched down the high street in full dress uniform, fronted by a brass band in front of a crowd of hundreds of people. When challenged, the police came up with 'anti-social behaviour' in their move against the boy. When the plucky lad continued to protest his innocence, the inspector lost his rag and justified the action by saying: "You were being silly, you were running around being stupid and gay".

Well, hey.

SOURCE: http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/Crap-Arrest-of-the-Week/ (16th December, 2011).

467th day of the Tens

Just a personal entry, nothing newsworthy... the last act of the day!
My 'the' favourite .gif artist, James Murray, aka Eraserhead, in his manifestation as a digital purveyor of vices that make you laugh alone to no one in front of a screen, on which there might feasibly be nothing at all (because it's virtual), makes you consider getting up from a chair, to stare, to stare at what might not be there. In fact, no one is sitting in the chair at all when you stand up to observe what has taken place but it does leave you with a sense that you might need to do something else instead. That's my review of Eraserhead.
A critical review of the artist, not my response, would lead one to discover that Murray stands on the frontier of this type of digital media. According to one idea. A professional artist who doesn't sell a commodity. Even some of his DJ mixes are for free. If I knew him I'd probably want to emulate him.
I'm reminded of the words of Hakim Bey, who said that immolation was preferable to emulation.
I have a very one tracked mind. If I end up repeating the sentiments of another writer, in such emulationary fashion, then I probably need to do something else instead. Like get to bed...
"Where did you come from?"
"I came from bed. He came from bed. She came from bed. Where did you come from? I came from bed."
I'm convinced that if you use Google Translate to transliterate any English text to make it an arcane one that is either Hebrew or Arabic then you can make it literally word perfect by going via the other arcana, Latin, and then into either of the ancient languages.
Going from one language straight to the desired outcome using Google Translate churns out a word-for-word translation, culturally inept. If you put one in between the two then it creates a cognitive dissonance similar to a local inner monologue vernacular that operates in a foreign speaking place.
Perhaps going via the arcana would make it too common, since Latin was the universal language of an entirety of occident populations once. Bless the Ostrogoths!
If we experiment with the English dialogue above, perhaps it would be more relevant to render a German translation by going via French, since, geographically, one has to travel through France to reach Germany from England.
"where did you come from?"
«où venez-vous?»
»Woher kommen Sie?«
The second conundrum for would-be transliterators, language traitors, and border stretchers is Google Translate's response to the occurences of capitalization within text and even punctuation. It alters the context entirely.
"Where did you come from?"
«Où êtes-vous venu?»
»Wo kommst du her?«
It requires discretion on behalf of the user to consider grammar.
Ah! Ah! The grammarye and the error'er, the bastardization and the corruptor, ever the linguistic phenomenonizer. Yiddish was the bastardization of the Malachiym Messianic Hebrew. It simply vocalized German ideas with Hebrew characters. Interference with Freyja's design for her people caused her great jealousy towards Michael and his people, hence the persecution. Hegel's church steeple. Wrong people.
I reckon a large percentage of Hebrew stored on Google Translate is the bastardized and Latinized vocabulary alongside the ancient portion of what could be words from the Chaldee lexicon added to compensate for the popularity of English in the western speaking world.
It requires discretion on behalf of the user to consider grammar. Or a Latin arcana to make it truly ancient. As above.
"I came from bed. He came from bed. She came from bed. Where did you come from? I came from bed."
»Ich kam ins Bett. Er hatte gerade gelesen. Sie hatte gerade lesen. Wo kommst du her? Ich kam ins Bett.«
I wonder whether we've even got half a translation? I didn't include the French mediatory translation for effect.
If you're German and you're reading this and you think it's bollocks then don't blame Google Translate. Blame me entirely.
Yours.
I'm off to laugh at virtually nothing.