Sweden - 'Feminist' Lofven Resorts to Bald-Faced Lies to Deny Invader Rape

ꕤ Article SOURCE Swedish to English Auto Translation: https://archive.is/ljibF#selection-2203.0-2347.243 Sweden 'Feminist' PM Lofven Resorts to Bald-Faced Lies to Deny Invader Rape of Swedish Women facilitated by  Swedish & European government Swedish to English Auto Translation: https://archive.is/ljibF#selection-2203.0-2347.243 Stefan Löfven: "Sexual assault is not related to immigration" Stressed that it does not have to do with immigration, "What is needed now is to be clear that this is not appropriate" Published: 21-01-2016 21:05 SWEDEN The international TV channel CNBC has interviewed Swedish Prime Minister Stephen Löfven the occasion of the recent attention on sexual abuse affecting girls and young women.  - Sexual abuse is not automatically related to immigrants and immigration, he explained to the television channel. After the media Sweden and international media attention on sexövergreppen [sex assaults] in Cologne and later similar events in a number of European cities, the debate has come to dominate the news the past few weeks. In Sweden, the substance had a major focus, especially after Nyheter Idag revealed that Dagens Nyheter known to abuse in the Kungsträdgården in August last year. Meanwhile, debate, not least in social media, put great debt of immigrant groups for what happened. But to point out the problem as related to immigration is wrong, according to Prime Minister Stephen Löfven. There he explained in an interview with the international television channel CNBC. - First, I want to clarify that sexual abuse is not automatically related to immigrants and immigration. We have had sexual harassment in Sweden for many years, unfortunately, explained Stefan Löfven of television channel in English. But despite this problem, according Löfven, been in Sweden for several years, there has not previously been recognized. Now he explains that "what is needed is to be clear that this is not appropriate," while he again said that the events should not be linked to immigration. - What is now needed is to be clear that this is not appropriate, it is absolutely inappropriate and we must take clear action to show these young girls and women to be able to go downtown or attend a concert or just outdoors without being subjected to sexual abuse.  We will not link this to the immigration, pointed Löfven. According to the police Nyheter Idag spoken with earlier, who worked to take action against sexual abuse at the festival "We are Stockholm" last year in the Kungsträdgården, it is mainly the guys with a Middle Eastern background who commit abuses. Swedish to English Auto Translation: https://archive.is/ljibF#selection-2203.0-2347.243 Sweden Invasion & Rape RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE Select:  'Open Link in New TAB' Use Magnifier tool for FULL ENLARGEMENT ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Sweden - Somali Rapes Sample LINK | Post Sweden: Rape Capital of the West by Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard February 14, 2015 at 5:00 am "2002, 85% of those sentenced to at least two years in prison for rape in Svea Hovrätt, a court of appeals, were foreign born or second-generation immigrants." http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape Sweden's Afghan "Rapefugees" by Ingrid Carlqvist January 20, 2016 at 5:30 am " ... , but the police and the media have chosen to bury the information. The men, it turned out, were mainly Afghan, and claiming to be "unaccompanied refugee children." In reality, many of them are much older than 18, and are now commonly referred to with the recently coined name, "Rapefugees," rather than "refugee children." It recently emerged that the Immigration Service urged its administrators to accept as a "child" everyone who looked under the age of 40 -- apparently without any thought as to how inappropriate it is to place grown men in elementary and secondary schools with teenage girls. " http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7260/sweden-rape-afghan-migrants ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Stefan Lofven and criminal European politicians like him have as good as raped, gang raped, mob raped, violently assaulted, robbed, harassed, and murdered Swedish and European women. It is these criminal politicians and the compliant, information-denying and propaganda-spreading European media that are responsible for facilitating the decades-long wholesale rape of European women and children, along with the rape of Europe, by lying and by denying European people the truth. Ordinary people in Europe: a) are being displaced by non-European invasion; b) are existentially threatened by such invasion; c) have been criminally assaulted for decades & raped for decades by state-sponsored (& taxpayer funded) foreign invader; d) have been otherwise bled for decades; e) have been denied information & have been politically suppressed for decades; f) have had their heritage usurped; g) have had their ancestral lands raped by invader; across Western Europe, over at least the last fifty years that European politicians (and their media partners) have been forcing genocidal immigration policies on European people. But these slimy, lying psychopathic politicians cover-up the rape of Europe by third world invasion which is domestic & foreign policy facilitated, and has been imposed upon Western Europeans over DECADES. And and when the scum that are elected to represent the people of Europe can lie and cover up no more, because they have been exposed COVERING UP mob RAPE of European women by invaders, the European politician filth that is not worthy of life resorts to denials and bald-faced lies that defy reality and logic,  as do their third world rapists counterparts, who also resort to denying rape of women -- even when caught raping & sodomising dead European women, the f*cking animals. ꕤ

Sweden - Somali Rapes Sample

ꕤ Article SOURCE as marked Sweden - Somali Rapes Sample ------- Swedish to English Translated https://archive.is/0gm10 The woman died during the rape - he continued to rape anyway Published November 27, 2013 at 20:25 A 34-year old man from Somalia accused of raping a dying woman in a garage in Stockholm. According to the prosecutor the woman died during the rape, but the man chose to continue the abuse. Prosecution has also brought for breach griftefriden. It was early in the morning of 27 September, police received an alarm that the two men had intercourse with a completely eliminated woman on the floor of a parking garage under the Sheraton Hotel in Vasagatan in Stockholm. When police arrived, they found a 34 year old man from Somalia, who was in the throes of an anal intercourse with the woman. Police checked the woman's pulse and found that she was dead. The man was arrested by police and detained two days later by the Stockholm District Court on suspicion of rape. The prosecutor had requested his detention for the murder, but the district court found that the evidence for the suspicion was not strong enough. Now the 34-year-old accused of rape and crimes against griftefriden [precise definition unknown:  crime relates to mistreatment of corpse]. According to the indictment, the woman was alive, but totally helpless on the ground such as drug and alcohol influence when the man began a anal intercourse with her. The prosecutor alleges that the woman died during the [assault], and the man then proceeded to have sex with the dead body. '"[34 year old] has ... carried out sexual acts after [the woman] died and thus insult literally treated the body of [the woman]" "wrote prosecutor in the part of the criminal act relating griftefrid [precise definition unknown:  crime relates to mistreatment of corpse] crime. The accused man denies that he would have been guilty of rape. According to him, the issue of voluntary sexual intercourse between him and the woman. But that explanation does not hold, says the prosecutor indicted 34-year-old. - She is dying, and the influence of various products so I mean that she can not give consent to a voluntary intercourse. She is in a vulnerable situation in which this should be classified as a rape, says prosecutor Daniel Jonsson for free times. At autopsy found that the woman had, among other things, alcohol, traces of cocaine and various prescription medications in the body when she died. No signs of external violence is not, according to Daniel Jonsson, who explains that the cause of death is listed as "addiction-related accident" in the autopsy report. The woman may have died of a combination of drug influence and that she was in generally poor physical condition. The other man who witnesses saw at the site has been cleared of suspicion, because the prosecutor deems that there is [not?] enough evidence to charge him with any crime. 34-year-old prosecuted even for another, similar rape alleged to have occurred on 13 August. At that time, the man allegedly sexually assaulted a man under indictment were in a vulnerable position because of "sleep and drunkenness." ------- Swedish to English Translated https://archive.is/0gm10 Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/5wRtO Somali robber raped and Swedish death of woman anally expelled by the Court of Appeal A Swedish woman who was the influence of both the one and the other died during a rape of the married 34-year old Somali Abdi Hakim Ali, in a garage under the Hotel Sheraton in downtown Stockholm in late September. Somali sentenced even for an anal rape of a man. Penalty; five years in prison and though there would not be anyone so deported now Somali. One of the anal rapes were committed against a heavily drunk, sleeping man at a night shelter. The second rape, partly on the film, took place in a parking garage below the Sheraton Hotel in Stockholm. Hakim Ali, has been sentenced to more than 40 (!) Offense since arriving in Sweden in 2006. The Somalis should have life imprisonment without possibility of release. Stockholm District Court sentenced, and the Svea Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of: Abdi Hakim Ali, 781212, address this, Spånga (Rinkeby). Citizens of Somalia. Interpreter Buyers in Somali.    Case No. B 2654-13, B 129-14 Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/5wRtO Moving onto another Somali Rapist: Somali immigrant to Sweden rapes 12-year-old girl, sentenced to community service' By LU Staff July 3, 2015 An 18-year-old Somali immigrant to that Scandinavian country who violently raped a 12-year-old female has been punished with a mere 180 hours of community service. According to recently released court documents, translated by The Daily Caller News Foundation, on Nov. 10, 2014, Guled Mohamud, a Somali citizen who now resides in Sundsvall, lured to his home an unidentified girl who had just days before turned 12 years old. He apparently was able to draw her into his apartment by having a friend claim to possess intimate photographs of her. Once the girl was in his home, Mohamud violently raped the preteen, tearing her jacket off and holding her to the ground while repeatedly striking her face. He then forced the girl to perform oral sex on him, while repeatedly taunting her sexually. When the girl returned home, she was covered with blood and bruises. Mohamud tried to claim he had been in a three-month romantic relationship with the girl, and that she had claimed to be 16 years old, and that he therefore had only committed the lesser offense of sexually exploiting a minor (Sweden’s age of consent is 15). The girl denied ever dating Mohamud, and the court dismissed his defense as not credible, finding that he fully understood the girl had not consented and was under 15 years of age. He was convicted June 24. Even in famously lenient Sweden, the punishment for rape is supposed to be a minimum of two years and a maximum of six (the maximum is bumped up to ten years for aggravated rape). Mohamud, however, will spend no time in prison. Instead, the court used its power to impose non-prison punishments and sentenced him to 180 hours of supervised community service, the equivalent of about 22 days of unpaid work. He will also have to pay his victim damages of about $15,000 for physical and psychological suffering. The court justified Mohamud’s light punishment by noting that he was 17 years old at the time, had no prior convictions, and had “some trouble with anxiety and sleep problems” for which he took medication. Based on this, the court ruled him fit for community service rather than prison. While the court’s judgment would almost certainly appal Americans, it was not considered unusual even by Mohamud’s prosecutor, Christina Edlund Nilsson. “There is nothing shocking or surprising [about this],” Nilsson told the Fria Tider, a Swedish newspaper. She said the ruling reflected precedent for how the country treats juvenile offenders. Punishments that are shockingly lenient by American standards are a modern Scandinavian tradition. Even Anders Breivik, the Norwegian who butchered 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree in 2011, received a maximum sentence of 21 years, and will be eligible for parole after a mere 10. This report, by Geoffrey Ingersoll, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation. ------- http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/07/03/somali-immigrant-to-sweden-rapes-12-year-old-girl-gets-community-service/ ------- http://www.nyatider.nu/gruppvaldtakt-pa-finlandsfarja/ Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/KtgYg Amorella Nya Tider reveals: The four "Swedes" who have been detained for gang rape are Somali nationals Blazing headlines in Aftonbladet, Expressen and other media proclaimed that "six Swedes", later "eight Swedes" had been arrested for a rough gang rape of a Finnish ferry. Nya Tider is now the first newspaper to reveal that not even nödlögnen that the arrested Somalis are "Swedish citizens' right - all the detainees are Somali citizens, and all suspects have only a Swedish citizenship. Published: February 6, 2015 14:43 It was the night between Friday and Saturday last week that the suspected rape took place on the Finnish ferry Viking Amorella, which was on the route between Stockholm and Turku. A 45-year-old woman should have been tricked in a cabin of one of the perpetrators, and then gang-raped when more penetrated the cabin. Media, which tends to be overzealous in their eagerness to follow the point in the "press ethics" that explains that you should not emphasize the person's ethnic origin or nationality if it "has no significance in this context and is disrespectful" made rapidly interpretation that it was important to emphasize the arrested rapist be Swedish. "Six Swedish men raped the woman in the cab," declared Aftonbladet. "Six Swedes arrested for the rape of ferry" trumpeted Expressen. Metro had the same title but with "finland ferry" instead of just "ferry". "Many Swedish men suspected of raping Finnish ferry," read DN's heading. While the TT was meant by "Six Swedes were arrested for ferry rape". It seems that the original proposition, that there were six Swedes who were arrested, were not the Swedish media figment, but stemmed from statements made ​​by the Finnish police made ​​the Ilta-Sanomat. Soon, however, it became clear that there were few ethnic Swedes who were arrested. In social media came up data from the Swedes, who has been on the cruise that the perpetrators were of Somali origin. This did not, however, continued to shout from the rooftops perpetrators' nationality. "Six Swedes" became "eight Swedes" when more suspects were arrested when the ferry came back to Sweden. "One informant stated Aftonbladet that the woman should have been tricked by the cab of one of the offender. Once in the cab joined several men who pushed her down on her back and pulled her clothes. Then raped her, according to the woman's information. "So wrote Aftonbladet Richard Aschberg and Victor Stenquist February 2nd. "Already during the weekend arrested a total of eight Swedish men suspected of involvement in the gang rape," they wrote in the same article. At this point, it was already known to readers of alternative media, or nätfora as Flashback, that the alleged perpetrators had names like Mohamed, Ahmed and Abdullahi. Still adopted, however, the majority of the Swedish media have not lied straight out, but had simply failed to write ethnicity but wrote their proper, formal nationality - they were Somalis with Swedish citizenship. Nya Tider can now reveal that this too is a lie. All four men currently detained, on probable cause suspected of aggravated rape, have Somali citizenship. Declaration by the old media? Nya Tider has sought [comment of] Aftonbladet and Expressen editorial managers, news directors and the Aftonbladet head of the newsroom, but to arrive. TT's editorial director Mats Johansson succeeded, however, we receive answers from, but he explained while he himself is poorly versed in this specific case. Disco Aluminum, Amorella Rapists made overtures towards the Swedish woman, but when she turned down those they raped her. NYT: First, you wrote "Six Swedes were arrested for ferry rape". Since it emerged in social media and in other ways that these men were not Swedes, but Somalis. As it says in the next article: "Once detained for ferry rape" and he described as a "man" of a certain age. Why it was [this] considered more relevant [than] to state nationality when it was assumed to be Swedish? - I can not know the details of that, but perhaps we can say that it was a ferry between Sweden and Finland. Typically, the well much swedes and a large part pimples. NYT: I was ready to buy that argument on at least some level about ed of Swedish citizens, but it does it's not. Is not it just as important for a collection Somali citizen commits a gang rape on a ferry between Sweden and Finland? - I do not know what information we had at the beginning, so I can not answer that. NYT: Now is the detention hearing against three of the suspects today. Will you indicate nationality when you write about it? - I'm in other meetings today, so I really do not know. I have not been directly involved in that. We ask Mats Johansson, who in this case we should turn to our questions, and he promises to call back later. At this writing, we still hope that he will deliver on his promise. When Aschberg and Stenquist published his article in Aftonbladet had, as I said already emerged in the social media that the perpetrators were Somalis. It is hard to escape the suspicion of an attempt at "damage control" when the two writers instead began to emphasize men allegedly Swedish citizenship. They went so far as to falsify what authority people would have said to them. "She will now request that the matter be investigated in Sweden when both the victim and the alleged perpetrators are Swedish citizens," they wrote about the prosecutor Elisabeth Brandt. Prosecutor: Aftonbladet lying, rapists are not Swedish citizens - Yes you do, it will account for Aftonbladet in that case, said prosecutor Brandt as Nya Tider asks if she really said so, given that the men not at all Swedish nationals, with the exception of one of the suspects who have already been released. NYT: You do not recognize that you would have said then? - No, what I said in that case that they are resident in Sweden. Neither Lars Andersson, group manager at the City Police's sexual crime group - Aftonbladet also referred to for preparing the Somalis as Swedish citizens - recognize that he would have said so, but he's not as confident as Brandt that he could not have said wrong. Update: In one case, uncertainty arose as to the nationality, as the Tax unlike arrest petition stated that Somali became a Swedish citizen in 2010. In the other three cases, the Swedish Tax Agency and arrest request unanimous: they are Somali citizens. Continued in the next paper edition of Nya Tider. http://www.nyatider.nu/gruppvaldtakt-pa-finlandsfarja/ ------- Swedish to English Translation https://archive.is/KtgYg ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT A random sample of Somali rapes in Sweden. Somali Rape - A - Hakim Ali - Dead Woman | & Passed Out Man We have a drug impaired woman that's died during sexual assault No. 2 (of two), during anal rape by Somali, who continues to rape a dead body and is caught in the act by police (after police were called by passer-by who witnessed two perps assaulting woman on floor of undercover parking lot). Perpetrator has extensive criminal history in Sweden, including sexual assaults history.  History of deportation from South Africa (according to other source).  Given over 40 crimes perpetrated in Sweden since 2006, Swedish authorities appear negligent for not deporting this criminal well before this renewed round of rapes. The first perpetrator in that assault scenario took off and it appears the Swedish police couldn't manage to find anything to prosecute him for, but it doesn't sound like they tried too hard when (a) he surely would have left DNA and (b) when the dead woman being screwed in the underground car-park in Stockholm was, clearly, in no position to give consent owing to the high level of intoxication, drug & alcohol. Nonetheless, Swedish authorities don't even make anything stick re Somali anal rapist perp No. 2 (as I understand) ... but they got him on a rape of a male victim, who was anally raped at a shelter, while vulnerable:  drunk and passed out.  Anyone see a pattern here?    Sentence for anally raping a drunk, passed out guy in Sweden is:  5 years of cosseting in a Swedish prison. Somali Rape - B - Minor (12 years old) 17 year old Somali male lures 12 year old victim to his residence and violently sexually assaults victim: -- violent rape / sexual humiliation -- tearing clothes -- holding down to ground -- repeatedly striking face -- forced oral sex -- victim covered with blood & bruises Said Somali rapist attempted to lie his way out, but the authorities don't buy his lies. Nonetheless, Somali violent rapist of Swedish minor (a mere 12 year old), is given the equivalent of 18 hours (22 days) community service as a sentence for violent rapes:  ostensibly, because he's had insomnia and has no prior convictions.  But, hey, it's early days:  he's 17. Somali Gang Rape -  C - (Finnish Ferry - 'Viking Amorella') Six to 8 gang Somali gang rape of 45 year old woman on ferry, who was lured and attacked, having declined earlier advances. Swedish media portrays this as a gang rape by 'Swedish' men although it was soon discovered via social media / alternate media that the perpetrators were not Swedes and, as I read this translation, although the perpetrators were not even Swedish citizens (not that this would excuse what amounts to misleading to the public, given that 'citizenship' is a mere legal formality totally divorced of facts that are vital to making informed decisions re (a) safety (b) criminality (c) policy (d) and much more). The Swedish politicians that allow this to be committed against unsuspecting Swedes (and probably other Europeans, given the Shengen open borders arrangement) are negligent pigs. ꕤ

FBI Caught Pants-Down - FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear

ꕤ FBI Caught Pants-Down FBI Illegal Practices 1970s - the 'Hacktivists' of Yesteryear 1971 FBI Illegal Tactics Program Exposed city:  Media, Pennsylvania, USA Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI ('CCIF') -- leftist activist group USA early 1970s -- breaks into 2-man FBI office Media, Pennsylvania -- theft of over 1,000 classified documents -- documents mailed anonymously to several USA newspapers -- some news outlets refused to publish info Stock rationale: -- related to ongoing 'operations' -- disclosure might 'threaten lives' of agents or informants Complete collection published for first time 1972 -- publisher WIN Magazine -- WIN mag associated w. War Resisters League FBI COINTELPRO op revealed (ie counter intelligence program) EXTENSIVE list of FBI POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE  etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Led to: 1.  Church Committee inquiry 2.  FBI cessation of op Noam Chomsky statement re analysis of FBI docs: -- 1% re organised crime (gambling) -- 30% manuals, forms etc -- 40% POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE     - x2 right-wing groups     - x10 immigrants     - x200 left or liberal groups -- 14% draft resistance -- 15% serious crime: murder, rape, robbery etc FBI documents self-incriminating: use of postal worker snitches use of switchboard operator snitches use of like civilian services snitches to spy on: -- black college students -- various non-violent black activist groups Statement to media: EXTRACT "These files will now be studied to determine: one, the nature and extent of surveillance and intimidation carried on by this office of the FBI, particularly against groups and individuals working for a more just, humane and peaceful society. Two, to determine how much of the FBI's efforts are spent on relatively minor crimes by the poor and the powerless against whom they can get a more glamorous conviction rate. Instead of investigating truly serious crimes by those with money and influence which cause great damage to the lives of many people—crimes such as war profiteering, monopolistic practices, institutional racism, organized crime, and the mass distribution of lethal drugs. Finally, three, the extent of illegal practices by the FBI, such as eavesdropping, entrapment, and the use of provocateurs and informers." FBI Fail: -- 200 FBI agents investigation followed -- investigation was closed when 5-year statute of limitations ran out -- unsolved *Members of group revealed IDs recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Don't think anything's changed since the early 1970s. Take a look at UK political policing and New Zealand political policing, also.  It's much the same thing, even today. The leftist activist groups of the early 1970s are a lot like the 'hacktivist' & whistleblower groups of today:  only difference is technology. It looks like the American agencies that serve plutocracy may regard the left as the most dangerous threat to maintenance of power by the American elites ... going by the 1970s. Mainstream Western media has a long history of failing to go to print and of  unreliability as far as whistleblowers are concerned.   So how is this any different to the suppressive techniques of the governments that are maligned as 'repressive regimes' by the US and West, the hypocrites? ꕤ

US-Iran Prisoner Exchange

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html SUMMARY 17 Jan. 2016 x7 dual US-Iranian citizens Iran prisoner SWAP DEAL release from USA federal prison part USA-Iran deal to free x4 Iranian-Americans held Iran: USA Iranian Prisoners for RELEASE: Ali Saboonchi, formerly of Parville, Maryland electrician & PhD student MOrgan State Uni convicted:  exporting goods & services to Iran, 2009 - 2013 sentence:  2 years prison Nader Modanlou, formerly of Potomac, Maryland convicted:  conspiracy to illegally send satellite tech to Iran - 2013 allegedly:  scheme helped Iran launch a satellite w/ camera from Russia in 2005 sentence:  8 years prison Others: Bahram Mechanic Khosrow Afqahi Arash Ghahreman Touraj Faridi Nima Golestaneh held for allegedly violating US trade embargo imposed on Iran { incl. helping Iran launch first space satellite } UN announcement Iran obligations under nukes deal met  PRECEDED  deal to free:  x4 Americans held Iran UN announcement aftermath: = sanctions lifted & Iran can access billions in frozen funds = $50-b frozen assets & oil revenue (mostly Asia banks) for release = foodstuffs import / export (+ other) to USA lifted = otherwise, USA embargo on trade w/ Iran continues = Iran may rejoin international banking system = EU to allow trade:  software, gold, metals, transport equip. = Iran may sell oil & other energy on open market Iran to rejoin 'global economy' USA lifted Interpol red notices & dismissed charges re x14 Iranians Iran x4 detainees to be released include:  Jason Rezaian, journalist, Washington Post (Tehran)  - held since 2014 facility:  'notorious' Evin Prison reason detained:  "attempts to help the U.S. Senate to advance its regime change plots in Iran." Amir Mirza Hekmati, former US Marine reason detained:  alleged sping for CIA Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor reason detained:  *** not specified Nostratollah Khosravi, *** not specified reason detained:  *** not specified --- USA still waiting for Iran to find American #5:      Robert Levinson      disappeared Iran 2007      working on 'unauthorised' CIA op   ======= NOTE dual citizenship is not recognised by Iran x4 jailed US-Iranian nationals treated by Iran as Iran citizens ======= Iran Foreign Minister:  Javad Zarif Nukes Deal Obligations: -- almost entire enriched uranium stockpile in Iran -- shipped to Russia for reprocessing -- plutonium-producing heavy water reactor (at Arak) - destroyed -- 1,000s uranium enriching centrifuges dismantled Above measures:  more than triple time required to produce nuke weapon ======= NOTE -- x10 USA sailors captured in Iranian waters in Persian Gulf -- subsequent release by negotiation b/w foreign ministers ======= *US & Iran - no formal diplomatic relations since 1980 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This was a good article.  Wonder if that x10 US sailors captured in Iranian waters helped swing things in Iran's favour at all? Looks like Iran has a 'law of return' of it's own:  return to Iran for [alleged] US spying & expect prison, whatever the adopted citizenship ... lol. It looks like Asian banks cannot be trusted with money, as they back US agenda. And it looks like Obama's keeping US farmers happy (ending sanctions on foodstuffs), as well as keeping the Jewish/Israel lobbies happy by otherwise maintaining Iran trade sanctions by the sound of things, despite some exemptions in addition to foodstuffs? It is highly unlikely that the Levinson guy is still alive. ꕤ

Off Topic - Hair GIF

ꕤ Goodbye Hair Yikes! ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Gross.  I don't even like the look of my own hair on surfaces, in the basin, on my clothes and pretty much everywhere else it has wound up these last 2 or 3 years I've been losing MASSES of hair. That lot is AFTER loads of hair came off me while washing it in the shower. I'm freaking ... how am I supposed to leave the house if I go bald???? !!   I don't care much for public places at it is, but my public place and outdoors 'phobia' of sorts is likely to get worse if this keeps up.  I may never leave this chair.  lol In other news:  finally have a throw-away SIM so I can hopefully access my Twitter account again (assh*les). Will activate it when I get around to being bothered fiddling with accounts and passwords etc.  ... which I also detest. ꕤ

UK - Guardian Article - Terrorism Act 2000 - Schedule 7 para 2(1) vs. European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10 (freedom of expression)

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/terrorism-act-incompatible-with-human-rights-court-rules-in-david-miranda-case UK - Guardian Article - Terrorism Act 2000 - Schedule 7 para 2(1)  vs. European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10 (freedom of expression) Headline: "Terrorism Act incompatible with human rights, court rules in David Miranda case" "Appeal court says detention of Miranda was lawful but clause under which he was held is incompatible with European human rights convention" Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent @owenbowcott Wednesday 20 January 2016 00.02 AEDT http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/terrorism-act-incompatible-with-human-rights-court-rules-in-david-miranda-case IN SUMMARY [per my understanding + links & extra info] Terrorism Act 2000 aimed to detain & question travellers where there is insufficient information to justify making arrest 60,000 per year = detained in such stops  / from approx. 70-million transiting per year / abt. 164 such 'stops' per every 24 hours Heathrow Airport - May 2014 info, Express.Co.UK: Heathrow Airport operation costs:  £975-million per year Heathrow Airport upgrade costs:  £660-million per year Heathrow airport income:  £2.3-billion per year *income includes:  landing charges, departure fees, shops, property rental, parking Over 70 million passengers transit every year six million more than the UK population Heathrow third busiest airport in world, following: Atlanta USA Bejing China Heathrow employs:  76,000 (equivalent to population Guildford, Surrey) [comment:  photo of Heathrow ... looks like my nightmare:  crowds, foreigners & officials] LINK | Source http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/475537/London-Heathrow-the-best-facts-stats-and-trivia-behind-the-UK-s-busiest-airport Background: David Miranda -- domestic partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald -- transit b/w Berlin & Rio de Janerio (via London) -- The Guardian made his travel reservations & paid for trip -- Miranda detained Heathrow airport 2013 -- carrying encrypted Snowden (US NSA whistleblower) files -- "58,000 highly classified UK intelligence documents" -- Berlin connection:  Laura Poitras - recipient Snowden leaks -- detained 9 hours -- seized material included personal info -- which would allow 'security staff' to be identified -- incl. those depoloyed overseas -- NOTE:  to date,  tiny proportion of Snowden material released Laura Poitras - recipient Snowden leaks  "Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including ... 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post." (here) "2013 Poitras was one of the initial three journalists to meet Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and to receive copies of the leaked NSA documents. Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald are the only two people with full archives of the NSA, according to Greenwald." (here) UK Court of Appeal ruling: -- UK police entitled to detain Miranda -- pursuant to the laws in place at the time -- Police were within those laws Court's only issue is: para 2(1) of Schedule 7 (lack of safeguards re arbitrary exercise of stop power) Terrorism Act 2000 - key clause incompatible w/ European Convention on Human Rights: " ... stop power conferred by paragraph 2(1) of schedule 7 is incompatible with article 10 of the convention in relation to journalistic material in that it was not subject to adequate safeguards against its arbitrary exercise.” [The Guardian] at issue: -- disclosure of journalistic material -- (whether source identified or not) -- undermines confidentiality inherent in such material therefore necessary to: -- avoid 'chilling effect' re disclosure -- protect Euro Convention on Human Rights:  Article 10 rights [freedom of expression] European Convention on Human Rights Convention for the Protection of Human Rights & Fundamental Freedoms amended by provisions of Protocol No. 14 (CETS no. 194) as of entry into force:  1 June 2010 *and reference to other amendments European Court of Human Rights Council of Europe F-67075 Strasbourg cedex www.echr.coe.int Article 10, Freedom of Expression = page 7. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/Convention_ENG.pdf Schedule 7 - STOP POWER -- permits questioning of travellers (to determine if terrorists) -- no right to remain silent -- no right to legal advice -- travellers may be detained to 6 hours Stop Power used re journalist info / material incompatible w/ Article 10 Euro Convention on HR [freedom of expression] b/c not 'prescribed by law' [comment:  not sure what he's getting at:  'prescribe' - established law, direction / to set down as rule, law, direction ... which law?   Must be referring to 'international law' ... but this isn't even binding / Russia has overridden provisions of international law to declare that national law has primacy] According to Guardian, Judgment refers to protection of journalistic sources (ie expectation of confidentiality) & public interest factor: “If journalists and their sources can have no expectation of confidentiality, they may decide against providing information on sensitive matters of public interest.” DEFINITION of 'Terrorism' - Court of Appeal Guardian reports: court of appeal ruling rejects the broad definition of terrorism court of appeal definition:  'terrorism' requires intent to cause a serious threat to public safety such as endangering life Otherwise, detention of Miranda pursuant to schedule 7:  lawful & proportionate & police actions to 'protect national security' supported by appeals court Judgment   what is at issue is that Schedule 7 did not provide sufficient protection re examination of journalistic material (as time of incident) Stop power of police (ports & airports) not constrained by sufficient legal safeguards to prevent arbitrary exercise of stop powers Appeals court grants:  'certificate of incompatibility' which handballs to UK PARLIAMENT  to decide how to provide a 'safeguard' to prevent arbitrary use of STOP POWERS -- likely via: 1. judicial means; or 2. other independent scrutiny *in a way to protect confidentiality in the material Says John Dyson, master of rolls, appeal court Judgment 'Lord' = courtesy title bestowed on all justices of Supreme court (here) Court judges in appeal court decision: Lord Dyson - most senior civil judge, England & Wales Lord Justice Richards Lord Justice Floyd Legal challenges re Miranda sponsored by: 1.  First legal challenge:  The Guardian Result:  x3 high court judges dismissed the initial challenge (2014) on grounds of:  "legitimate and “very pressing” interests of national security." [Guardian] 2.  Second legal challenge - Court of Appeal: First Look Media, publisher Intercept online magazine First Look Media = owner:  Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder Omidyar & wife = frequent flyer Obama White House visitor to senior officials & members of Obama National Security Council 2011-2013, Omidyar Network co-funded with USAID regime-change groups in Ukraine that organized the 2014 Maidan revolution. Omidyar is the chairman of eBay/PayPal, which boasts of its own private global police force that works “hand in glove with law enforcement agencies," including the DEA Meet Pierre Omidyar! A handy primer for new First Look hires By Mark Ames  |  February 28, 2015 LINK: | here The Guardian quotes: The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Alistair Carmichael MP, said: “The Terrorism Act should be used in dealing with terrorists, not for journalists or whistleblowers. The ruling recognises the important role journalists play in holding government to account and shining a light on a range of issues.” SOURCE http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/terrorism-act-incompatible-with-human-rights-court-rules-in-david-miranda-case READER COMMENTS - THE GUARDIAN Found these either interesting or amusing ... thought the 'Nazis' comment was quite funny: ---  exhypothesi 1d ago Actually, it is not a victory for David Miranda. He lost his case. Section 4(6)(a) and (b) Human Rights Act 1998 makes it clear that the declaration of incompatibility with a Convention Right made by the court under Section 4(2) thereof does not (a), affect the validity, continuing operation of enforcement of the provision in respect of which [a declaration of incompatibility] is given and, (b), is not binding on the parties to the proceedings in which it is made. In other words, the impugned para 2(1) Sch 7 Terrorism Act 2000 remains valid and enforceable until such time as the Act of 2000 is amended by Parliament which has delegated to the Home Secretary the power to amend it using the fast-track procedure under section 10(2) of the 1998 Act by issuing the appropriate statutory instrument. That will depend upon whether or not the government intends to appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court which could take anything up to 12 months. In short, notwithstanding the declaration, If, tomorrow, a journalist is stopped at Heathrow or any other port of entry into the United Kingdom, the authorities are well within their rights to deploy para 2(1) of Sch 7, and that will remain the case unless and until the Home Secretary makes the appropriate order amending it. ---  exhypothesi RBHoughton 20h ago Even if the Supreme Court were to uphold the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Miranda, it has no power to strike down the impugned section. It remains extant until struck out by executive amendment. The Home Secretary is perfectly within her rights to ignore the judgment altogether and to allow Sch 7 to stand unamended. Much will depend on whether and to what extent the prospect of its executive repeal makes the Prime Minister as physically ill as he was after the judgment of the ECHR in the case of Hurst v United Kingdom (votes for prisoners). //  vindicate - uphold, defend  / rare:  to claim ---  'exhypothesi Zabka' 23h ago No, the Tories are evil and devious but they are not stupid. They are not going to leave the Council of Europe. That would cause unquantifiable damage to the Kingdom's international reputation, They are simply going to do what Tories do best by retaining substantive rights but make them worthless. If an individual believes he is possessed of a right, then that is as good as the real thing until he or she finds it impossible to vindicate in practice. It is a tried and trusted method of constructive destruction which operates effectively throughout much of our jurisprudence. --- stepsbackinamazement 1d ago Has anyone actually read the judgement - I have. He lost his appeal on virtually all points (invasion of privacy, unlawful detention etc.) except for the very narrow technical point relating to the lack of safeguards for examining of 'journalistic material' in Sch. 7 which can be easily put right if they would even be bothered (it can be examined under other provisions). So the guardian's reporting of this as a 'landmark victory' is absurd as well as basically dishonest. It was quite clearly a resounding victory for the Government and another substantial loss for Miranda and his supporters. Can we trust any media outlet to report impartially these days??? The Court of Appeal most emphatically did NOT declare that the Terrorism Act is incompatible with the ECHR, quite the opposite. ---  Valedictorian 1d ago Security services brutally cause minor inconvenience to Greenbergs boyfriend's travel arrangements because he is carrying classified documents stolen from the state. It's the Nazis all over again! ---   GodfreyRich Valedictorian 1d ago Rather over-the-top statement. The judge said that the detention was 'lawful'. "Miranda was carrying encrypted files, including an external hard drive containing 58,000 highly classified UK intelligence documents" Seems to me the security service was doing the right thing. ---  Vizzeh 1d ago You know we have an Orwellian law when freedom & whistle blowers are suppressed under terrorism. This is Bolshevik communism all over again. ---  HellisEmpty Vizzeh 1d ago "This is Bolshevik communism all over again" Minus the mass killings, gulags, and torture. Get some perspective please. ---  Vizzeh HellisEmpty 1d ago Semantics. We certainly have similar Plutocracy/Oligharchy. ---  Kevin Schmidt HellisEmpty 1d ago Yeah! Some perspective says it's really a kinder, gentler fascism.

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Just as interesting reading the reader comments as it is the article itself.  I love comments.

Not sure what to think.  It doesn't sound like much of a win, and at the end of the day the government writes the rules ... and will write rules in its favour, I guess. 

The comment where the powers that be give the great unwashed the impression of having rights, while ensuring they gear things up so such rights can be denied, is really cool.  I'm guessing that's how things stand ... lol.

Find it extremely hard to buy the credibility of the following crew:  Snowden, Greenwald, Guardian, Germany, Poitras, Pierre Omidyar (eBay / Paypal / USAID & White House, First Look - Intercept ).  

Sounds like a big CIA or Mossad psyop to me ... especially with US-serving totalitarian Stasi Germany in the mix as the 'safe' port of call for US 'dissidents' ... LMAO.

While all these American and mainstream media sources are untouchable and receiving accolades for what is purported to be 'NSA reporting,' WikiLeaks publisher, Australian journalist, Julian Assange, is the target of US & allied political persecution (including five (5) years detention WITHOUT CHARGE) and the subject of a US grand jury sealed indictment (confirmed January 2011).

As such, Assange can expect US extradition, CIA torture, a potential death penalty sentence (or the rest of his life in prison), for 'espionage' (ie journalism redefined by the US as 'espionage' and American legal jurisdiction defined as stretching all over the globe). 

Something's not right here.

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ꕤ Chicken Biryani ... again [CLICK image for clarity / enlargement] ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- The biryani I made the other day was really good ... especially for snacking on the left-overs the next day. Was going to see if I could find an Asian variation to do, but I've left it a bit too late to bother messing around.   So it's the Indian version once again -- modified as I please. I'm going with dried figs (chopped & soaked in a little hot water in advance) & sultanas, and toasted cashews. This time around I've ground my species, rather than putting them in whole.  I don't fancy picking out husks etc from my mouth as I'm trying to eat.  But cinnamon stick and bay leaves will be whole.  Doesn't matter, as they're easy to pull out when done. Feel like something green, so I'll probably throw in a bag of spinach leaves this time around, as well. Chicken will be sliced up Asian-style, as if I were preparing a chicken green curry.  I prefer a fine sliced result to bite sized cubes, I think. Took some bad photos of the process:  stage one of the kitchen op ... lol PS  ... dried figs have been stored forever in a jar.  Hoping they'll be OK.  If not, I'll blog about the hospital visit. .... not puking so far.   Not as nice this time around.  Don't know what I've forgotten.  Tastes bland. ꕤ