VIDEO - "With Open Gates: The Forced collective Suicide of European Nations"

ꕤ With Open Gates:  The Forced collective Suicide of European Nations Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vzMNG2fZc [I don't have the requisite plug-in to check video via Blogger.  If it has not loaded properly on this site, video is available for viewing at link provided above] Anders Borg Minister Finance Sweden 2006 - 2014 "Basically the US is providing these flows for us:  you make war and we get the refugees." Nick Griffin MEP 2009-2014 British National Party "Since then, an unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists & Zionist supremacists has schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation with the deliberate aim of breeding us out of existence in our own homelands. First, their immigrant pawns were 'temporary guest workers.' Then it was a 'multiracial experiment.' Then they were 'refugees.' Then the answer to a shrinking population. Different excuses.  Different lies. But the real aim stays the same:  the biggest genocide in human history. [comment:  accused of 'xenophobia' and 'racism' by emotional female MEP (bent on promoting destruction & rape of Europe), gesticulating and speaking English with accent] It's you that's shouting, because, obviously, the truth hurts. I have a constructive suggestion to help those poor asylum seekers from Africa: Yes, make it clear they can't come here so they don't try to cross the sea and drown in huge numbers; The best way for them is to get the banks of the backs off their countries, so they can live in peace in their countries and we Europeans can live in peace in ours.  Thank you." ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Nick Griffin Chairman British National Party Lost seat MEP North West region, May 2014 BNP lost heavily to UKIP However, UKIP: 1) is not opposed to invasion; 2) is anti working-class. Nick Griffin --  6.13% less votes than BNP won in 2009 election Griffin:  "Our food banks are there for our own people. Do you know how many charities there are for the English in Britain? Just one. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/bnp/10856013/BNP-leader-Nick-Griffin-loses-seat-as-MEP.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT I've only skimmed over parts of this video. I've seen much of this footage before and can't really handle watching it again in full. Find this extremely disturbing and anger provoking to watch. ꕤ

UK - BORIS JOHNSON LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

Boris says EU deal to get power back is 'easy' BORIS Johnson last night said it should be “easy” to claim British powers back from Brussels. By Sam Christie / Published 8th August 2014 He urged the Prime Minister to “go hard into the tackle” in his talks with EU leaders. Mr Johnson has been accused by some Tories of trying to set a trap for David Cameron with unrealistic demands for changes in Brussels.  [Cameron's already set that trap, hasn't he?  He was the Juncker challenger recently and he supposedly wants British to have more say.] But the London mayor said: “I’m not so pessimistic. If you don’t go in hard to the tackle, you are never going to come out well. You’ve got to go in hard and low.” This week Mr Johnson announced he is to stand as an MP in the election. While many Tories believe that BoJo is paving the way for a leadership charge, he insisted he was committed to supporting Mr Cameron. He added: “When Dave steps down in 2030 or so, I will be too old. There’ll be a very wide field, probably including babies yet unborn.” Nonetheless, pals reckon he will play a key role in the battle against Ukip. And, if the Tories win, he could be rewarded with a role in the Cabinet. But Lib Dem boss Nick Clegg took a swipe at BoJo yesterday. Speaking on his regular LBC radio phone-in, Mr Clegg said: “He treats his political ambition a bit like he treats his hair. “He wants everyone to think that he doesn’t really care, but he actually really, really does care.”  [LOL] http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/393298/Boris-EU-deal-to-get-power-back-easy

Should be dirty and very interesting fight then.  Bring it on!   LOL

New UK Foreign Secretary - Philip Hammond

 Global Post Article

Agence France-Presse July 16, 2014 1:01pm

Eurosceptic named new UK foreign minister as EU vote looms

British Prime Minister David Cameron named eurosceptic Philip Hammond as his new foreign secretary on Tuesday in a major cabinet reshuffle ahead of next year's general election.

Former defence secretary Hammond, who replaces William Hague, supports Britain leaving the European Union unless significant powers are returned to London before a referendum promised for 2017.

The prime minister has pledged to hold a referendum on Britain leaving the EU if he is re-elected.
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It also saw the government turn more eurosceptic as Cameron seeks to face down the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), which many lawmakers fear could take seats from the Conservatives at the election.
"Belatedly, the prime minister has understood that his too-male, too-southern, too-posh cabinet is a serious political liability," wrote The Times.
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In his first public comments as foreign secretary, Hammond vowed that his approach to the EU would be one of "enthusiastic engagement with the reform agenda".

"But our position is very clear," he told reporters at the Farnborough airshow south-west of London. "It won't be the politicians in smoke-filled rooms who decide whether the deal is the right one.

"It will be the British people in a referendum who decide whether the deal is the right one."
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"But the fact that someone who has said that they'd vote to leave (the EU) if substantial powers were not returned to the UK in the renegotiation is now foreign secretary sends a clear message to the rest of the EU."

Hammond has been replaced as defence secretary by Michael Fallon, a veteran loyalist.
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Hague will remain in parliament until the next election but his resignation as foreign secretary marks the end of the political career of a man Cameron called "one of the leading lights of the Conservative Party for a generation".

A former Tory leader, Hague was a leading voice urging the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before the House of Commons last year voted against conducting missile strikes.

EXTRACTS - FULL Article - Global Post - here.

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HAMMOND

Accountant - [Source - Daily Mail - here]

Oxford educated

• Philosophy
• Politics
• Economics

Connections

director of Speywood Medical Limited in 1981

• Castlemead Ltd
• Castlemead Homes
• CMA Consultants

Business interests in:  house building; property; manufacturing; healthcare; oil & gas.

Consulted in Latin America for WORLD BANK in Washington DC.
Consultant for govt MALAWI 1995-1997.

*appointed to front bench -- as spokesman Health - by William Hague in 1998.

Minister of Defence 2011-2014.

Claim to fame:

Reckons banks are not responsible for the financial crisis:  "they had to lend to someone".

[WIKIPEDIA]

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Daily Mail Article

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At first sight, his replacement by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is bizarre, when Britain badly needs to build European alliances.

Hammond is an accountant who displays the warmth of an undertaker and less personality than most laptops. [LOL]

On reflection, however, we can see a logic in his appointment.

Hammond is no fool, and a paid-up Eurosceptic. When he tells European governments that if Britain does not secure a renegotiation of its EU membership he, for one, will vote to get out, they will need to believe him.

And if it all goes wrong and the Prime Minister finds it expedient to ditch Hammond downstream, there will be few mourners to make a fuss.

His replacement as Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, seems a good choice. ...

Fallon inherits Armed Forces demoralised by Hammond, who seemed to care only for numbers rather than people. If Fallon, a bright and decent former Business Minister, can restore the confidence of our soldiers, sailors and airmen that they are not mere turkeys in Downing Street’s eyes, being fattened up for redundancy, he will earn his corn.

Of course, it is welcome that Cameron has promoted a string of women to ministerial roles. All that is now needed is that they should prove themselves worthy of them. [LOL]

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Source - Daily Mail - here.
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 Daily Mail Article - Quentin Letts

...  richest member of the Cabinet — his fortune, mainly from property development, is sometimes put at £7million but is probably more — yet there is nothing showy about Mr Hammond.

He has a mournful visage, cadaverous limbs, the shoulders of a hungry heron — and the resilience, as yesterday’s reshuffle appointment showed, of a mollusc on a storm-tossed rock.  [LOL]

... young Philip won a scholarship to Oxford University from his state school.

,,, The voice has a faint John Majorish twang and like Major he is proud, particular, not to be underestimated.

He is discreet. Wary. Reliable. These qualities will earn him  trust in diplomatic circles but  the embassy dinner party circuit should not expect an injection  of garrulous wit.

The new European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker may not find sober Philip much of a boozing companion.
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Some say that if the Prime Minister came to grief, a Hammond-Theresa May ticket — the Dull Duo! — may be in the offing.

But which would be the boss? Now he is Foreign Secretary, he is at least on level pegging with Home Secretary May.

Significantly, Mr Hammond  has also spoken, briefly, of his desire to leave the EU. For the man now in charge of our Foreign Office, this is a potentially explosive position, yet somehow nothing with P. Hammond ever explodes. Rhetorically, he is the king of ‘phutt’. [what? LOL]

Yet the Euro News agency yesterday described him as ‘l’eurosceptique Philip Hammond’. In recent years, though, Foreign Secretaries have invariably ‘gone native’. Even William ‘Save the Pound’ Hague lost his zeal there.

History suggests Mr Hammond will go the same way, but if he can bring the same determination to EU renegotiation as he did to defence cuts ... 

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Source - Daily Mail - here.

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Source:  The Sun - here.

 COMMENT

Sounds an interesting sort, Hammond.

DM doesn't sound too keen on Hammond.

Steve Coogan on Angelina Jolie's humanitarian efforts

CLARIFICATION - ALISTAIR CAMPBELL - STEVE COOGAN INTERVIEW - see Tokyo Rose current post - for interview clarification particulars - here.  GQ clarification - here.
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Steve Coogan brands Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian efforts 'off putting': 'I have more respect for a star that does something difficult

Wednesday 09 July 2014


Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian efforts have been the subject of high praise by most of her peers.

Most recently, the actress was honoured with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governor's Ball in November 2013 – a renown accolade she earned for her work as the co-founder of the Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative and as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

But not all are as impressed by her charity work. In discussion with Tony Blair’s former Director of Communications Alastair Campbell – published by British GQ – Steve Coogan called Jolie’s effort’s "off-putting" and called for "celebrities" to butt out of international affairs and stick to their day jobs.

"Though I have been involved politically, I find people who are in the public eye for something else who suddenly start voicing opinions about everything else quite irritating," Coogan is quoted as saying.

"What? Like Angelina Jolie going out campaigning with William Hague?" Campbell added, referencing Jolie’s tireless campaigning to address the issue of rape in war zones.

"I do find it a bit off-putting," Coogan responded.

"If you are trying to do something charitable there is always a double-edged sword, because it is good PR for the celebrity.

"Better to do it than not do it, but I have much more respect for a celebrity that goes out [campaigning] about something really difficult."

Elsewhere in the interview, Coogan also voiced his opinion on the controversial Scottish Independence debate. His vote in the September referendum, if he had one, would resolutely be a "no".

"I don't want them to become independent," he said. "The reason I don't like Ukip is because I think we should be pro-European, a more not less cohesive world. Insularity isn't good."

source:  Independent
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COMMENT

Coogan's an entertainer/producer.

The issue isn't whether or not the PR benefits the celebrity.

The issue is the worldwide platform and PR machinery that these celebrities command; the degree of influence on public perception; and the political (or other) agendas behind the emotive issues and causes etc that celebrities endorse.

The celebrity-politico-humanitarian aspect of Hollywood (and beyond) deserves its own study.

So he's bought into the notion of 'European' and 'cohesive' identity, while nationalism is now considered 'insularity'?






Wow.


MATERIAL REFERRED TO IN THIS POST IS AFFECTED BY FOLLOWING:

THERE'S BEEN A CLARIFICATION OF INTERVIEW WITH STEVE COOGAN BY ALISTAIR CAMPBELL.

ALISTAIR CAMPBELL'S GQ - CLARIFICATION ... HERE.