#uk

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

british politics: an new tory leader has arisen ...

#politik #uk #tories

Image/photoCharlie Stross wrote the following post Sat, 02 Nov 2024 13:58:09 +0100

REMINDER FOR NON-BRITS:

Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Consertive party, is a woman of colour.

But she's also:

— a climate change denialist

— denies institutional racism exists

— a militant transphobe who wants to strip transgender people of civil rights

— believes the British Empire was beneficial to its colonies

— opposes marriage equality

... She's the most right-wing leader the party's ever had.

(TLDR: She's the antithesis of Kamala Harris.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/nov/02/tory-leadership-election-results-live-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-new-conservative-leader

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

kernkraft ist sicher und günstig!

#sellafield #uk #kernkraftwerk

Image/photoFefebot wrote the following post Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:56:05 +0100

[l] Aus der Kategorie "Kernkraft ist billig und gut für die Umwelt", heute: England!

The cost of cleaning up Sellafield is expected to spiral to £136bn and Europe’s biggest nuclear waste dump cannot show how it offers taxpayers value for money, the public spending watchdog has said.

Achtung: billion. 136 billion. Pfund. Nicht Millionen. Milliarden.

Money Quote:

Europe’s most hazardous industrial site has previously been described by a former UK secretary of state as a “bottomless pit of hell, money and despair”.

Oh und sie hatten letztens auch ein Cyber-Cyber-Problem. Klar. Der Teufel scheißt gerne auf den größten Haufen.

#fefebot

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

The Media and the Secret State

Image/photoharry haller wrote the following post Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:07:08 +0100

“Unlike France, where secret service has always remained a less than respectable activity, consigned to the fringes of government, in post-war Britain it was at the very centre.” Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch in their detailed analysis of global intelligence conclude that “Britain remains the most secretive state in the Western hemisphere.” (...) Significantly, from the 1980s onwards, a raft of legislation has both reinforced the secret state’s growing powers and protected it from probing media.

The 1989 Security Services Act (actually drafted by MI5 lawyers) placed the service on a statutory basis for the first time and provided it with legal powers to tap phones, bug and burgle houses and intercept mail.

The UK Press Gazette commented (6 September 1993): “The greatest invasion of privacy is carried out every day by the security services, with no control, no democratic authorisation and the most horrifying consequences for people’s employment and lives. By comparison with them the press is a poodle.”

The 1989 Official Secrets Act (OSA) replaced the 1911 OSA, which had proved notoriously cumbersome, particularly after civil servant Sarah Tisdall was jailed in 1983 for leaking to the Guardian government plans for the timing of the arrival of cruise missiles in England.

Then followed the acquittal of top civil servant Clive Ponting charged under Section 2 (1) of the OSA after he leaked information showing the government had misled the House of Commons over the sinking of the Argentinean ship, the Belgrano, during the Falklands conflict of 1982.

The 1989 Act covered five main areas: law enforcement, information supplied in confidence by foreign governments, international relations, defence,and security and intelligence.

The publishing of Ponting-style leaks on any of these subjects was banned. Journalists were also denied a public interest defence.

Nor could they claim in defence that no harm had resulted to national security through their disclosures.

The Intelligence Services Act of 1993 created the Intelligence and Security Committee which meets in secret to overview services’ activities, reporting to the prime minister and not parliament. Following the 1996 Security Service Act, MI5’s functions were extended to “act in support of the prevention and detection of crime.”

The incoming Labour government then moved to extend the powers allowing the intelligence services and other government agencies to conduct covert surveillance.

THE MEDIA AND THE SECRET STATE | Richard Keeble - Academia.edu — https://www.academia.edu/10766319/THE_MEDIA_AND_THE_SECRET_STATE

25 page excerpt from a book. #uk #gb #assange #press #media #mi5 #mi6 #secretservices #academiaedu #richardkeeble

#britain #england #anglo-saxons #intelligence #spying #deepstate total #censorship #1984 #hisotry #humanrights is #Western fake

harryhaller@diasp.eu

“Unlike France, where secret service has always remained a less than respectable activity, consigned to the fringes of government, in post-war Britain it was at the very centre.” Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch in their detailed analysis of global intelligence conclude that “Britain remains the most secretive state in the Western hemisphere.”
(...)
Significantly, from the 1980s onwards, a raft of legislation has both reinforced the secret state’s growing powers and protected it from probing media.

The 1989 Security Services Act (actually drafted by MI5 lawyers) placed the service on a statutory basis for the first time and provided it with legal powers to tap phones, bug and burgle houses and intercept mail.

The UK Press Gazette commented (6 September 1993): “The greatest invasion of privacy is carried out every day by the security services, with no control, no democratic authorisation and the most horrifying consequences for people’s employment and lives. By comparison with them the press is a poodle.”

The 1989 Official Secrets Act (OSA) replaced the 1911 OSA, which had proved notoriously cumbersome, particularly after civil servant Sarah Tisdall was jailed in 1983 for leaking to the Guardian government plans for the timing of the arrival of cruise missiles in England.

Then followed the acquittal of top civil servant Clive Ponting charged under Section 2 (1) of the OSA after he leaked information showing the government had misled the House of Commons over the sinking of the Argentinean ship, the Belgrano, during the Falklands conflict of 1982.

The 1989 Act covered five main areas: law enforcement, information supplied in confidence by foreign governments, international relations, defence,and security and intelligence.

The publishing of Ponting-style leaks on any of these subjects was banned. Journalists were also denied a public interest defence.

Nor could they claim in defence that no harm had resulted to national security through their disclosures.

The Intelligence Services Act of 1993 created the Intelligence and Security Committee which meets in secret to overview services’ activities, reporting to the prime minister and not parliament. Following the 1996 Security Service Act, MI5’s functions were extended to “act in support of the prevention and detection of crime.”

The incoming Labour government then moved to extend the powers allowing the intelligence services and other government agencies to conduct covert surveillance.

THE MEDIA AND THE SECRET STATE | Richard Keeble - Academia.edu — https://www.academia.edu/10766319/THE_MEDIA_AND_THE_SECRET_STATE

25 page excerpt from a book.
#uk #gb
#assange #press #media
#mi5 #mi6 #secretservices
#academiaedu #richardkeeble

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

OTOH, N. Korean troops might see this as a prime opportunity to get the hell outta N. Korea.


Ukraine War Bulletins and News - 2024-10-25 20:11:58 GMT

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⛔️🇰🇵North Korean military will be used in Kursk to “take it back” , and it would be “unwise” to not take them seriously, expert says (DW - Germany News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Germany #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #Mastodon #OSCE #CoE #PACE #CIA #SHAPE #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #UN #UNSC #America #UnitedNations #russiaUkraineWar
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

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King Charles tells summit past can't be changed as leaders ask Britain to reckon with slavery

by Associated Press

King Charles III told a summit of Commonwealth countries in Samoa on
Friday that the past could not be changed as he indirectly acknowledged
calls from some of Britain's former colonies for a reckoning over its
role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

The British royal understood "the most painful aspects of our past
continue to resonate," he told leaders in Apia. But Charles stopped
short of mentioning financial reparations that some leaders at the
event have urged and instead exhorted them to find the "right language"
and an understanding of history "to guide us towards making the right
choices in future where inequality exists."

"None of us can change the past but we can commit with all our hearts
to learning its lessons and to finding creative ways to right the
inequalities that endure," said Charles, who is attending his first
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, or CHOGM, as Britain's head
of state.

His remarks at the summit's official opening ceremony echoed comments a
day earlier by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the meeting
should avoid becoming mired in the past and "very, very long endless
discussions about reparations." The U.K. leader dismissed calls from
Caribbean countries for leaders at the biennial event to explicitly
discuss redress for Britain's role in the slave trade and mention the
matter in its final joint statement.

But Britain's handling of its involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave
trade is seen by many observers as a litmus test for the Commonwealth's
adaptation to a modern-day world, as other European nations and some
British institutions have started to own up to their role in the trade.

"I think the time has come for this to be taken seriously," said
Jacqueline McKenzie, a partner at London law firm Leigh Day. "Nobody
expects people to pay every single penny for what happened. But I think
there needs to be negotiations."

Such a policy would be costly and divisive at home, McKenzie said.

The U.K. has never formally apologized for its role in the trade, in
which millions of African citizens were kidnapped and transported to
plantations in the Caribbean and Americas over several centuries,
enriching many individuals and companies. Studies estimate Britain
would owe between hundreds of millions and trillions of dollars in
compensation to descendants of slaves.

The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis on Thursday said he wanted a
"frank" discussion with Starmer about the matter and would seek mention
of the reparations issue in the leaders' final statement at the event.
All three candidates to be the next Commonwealth Secretary-General --
from Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho -- have endorsed policies of reparatory
justice for slavery.

Starmer said Thursday in remarks to reporters that the matter would not
be on the summit's agenda. But Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia
Scotland told The Associated Press in an interview that leaders "will
speak about absolutely anything they want to speak about" at an all-day
private meeting scheduled for Saturday.

King Charles said in Friday's speech that nothing would right
inequality "more decisively than to champion the principle that our
Commonwealth is one of genuine opportunity for all." The monarch urged
leaders to "choose within our Commonwealth family the language of
community and respect, and reject the language of division."

He has expressed "sorrow" over slavery at a CHOGM summit before, in
2022, and last year endorsed a probe into the monarchy's ties to the
industry.

Charles -- who is battling cancer -- and his wife, Queen Camilla, will
return to Britain tomorrow after visiting Samoa and Australia -- where
his presence prompted a lawmaker's protest over his country's colonial
legacy.

He acknowledged Friday that the Commonwealth had mattered "a great
deal" his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, who was seen as a unifying
figure among the body's at times disparate and divergent states.

The row over reparations threatened to overshadow a summit that Pacific
leaders -- and the Commonwealth secretariat -- hoped would focus
squarely on the ruinous effects of climate change.

"We are well past believing it is a problem for the future since it is
already undermining the development we have long fought for," the king
said Friday. "This year alone we have seen terrifying storms in the
Caribbean, devastating flooding in East Africa and catastrophic
wildfires in Canada. Lives, livelihood and human rights are at-risk
across the Commonwealth."

Charles offered "every encouragement for action with unequivocal
determination to arrest rising temperatures" by cutting emissions,
building resilience, and conserving and restoring nature on land and at
sea, he said.

Samoa is the first Pacific Island nation to host the event, and Prime
Minister FiamÄ Naomi Mata'afa said in a speech Friday that it was "a
great opportunity for all to experience our lived reality, especially
with climate change," which was "the greatest threat to the survival
and security of our Pacific people."

Two dozen small island nations are among CHOGM's 56 member states,
among them the world's most imperiled by rising seas. Her remarks came
as the United Nations released a stark new report warning that the
world was on pace for significantly more warming than expected without
immediate climate action.

The population of the member nations of the 75-year-old Commonwealth
organization totals 2.7 billion people.

#uk #king-charles #commonwealth #british-commonwealth #slavery #reparations #CHOGM

christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

German submarine hunters to be based in Britain for first time over Russian threat

To quote someone from Twitter

Germans hunting submarines with planes based in Britain on its face sounds like a parallel history plot-line but here we are I guess.

#uk #Germany

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/22/german-submarine-hunters-based-in-britain-russia-threat/

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

https://expose-news.com/2024/10/21/charles-iii-and-keir-starmer-must-step-down/

Last month, Steven Ward delivered a letter to King Charles III and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stating they have violated the rule of law. By doing so they have #acted #unconstitutionally.

Using #MagnaCarta and the English Bill of Rights as the foundational documents for the rule of law in the UK’s constitutional arrangements, Ward explains to the two men why they have violated it. The violations centre around the covid so-called vaccines and allowing foreign influences to cause harm to British subjects.

In the case of Charles III, his violations of the rule of law also includes entering into arrangements with #foreign #governments and organisations, such as the World Economic Forum #wef to initiate and promote The #Great #Reset.

Ward has called for them to both “ #stand #down” as, constitutionally, they are #untrustworthy and #unfit to proceed with matters of the #State.

The uncodified constitution of the #UK is understood by few. And few will be familiar with the concepts raised by Ward in his letter. So, we have dived in and attempted to provide context and background that will help our readers understand Ward’s ‘Letter Upon #Constitutional #Principle’.

It’s a long one folks, so grab a cuppa and then settle in.

Charles III and Keir Starmer have violated the rule of law and must step down

part_of_you@diaspora.psyco.fr

#UK #US #EU #Israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

Les premières images de ce terrible massacre perpétré contre des civils innocents : les avions d'occupation israéliens ont complètement détruit un bloc d'habitation à l'aide de ceintures incendiaires, ciblant les maisons des familles Al Sharif, Hindi, Al Kalkhout, Dreewi et Obeid. Les frappes aériennes ont entraîné la destruction totale des maisons, avec plus de 73 morts, 100 blessés et plusieurs autres disparus sous les décombres

The first images of the horrific massacre against innocent civilians: Israeli occupation aircraft completely destroyed a residential block using fire belts, targeting the homes of the Al Sharif, Hindi, Al Kalkhout, Dreewi, and Obeid families. The airstrikes resulted in the total destruction of homes, with over 73 people killed, 100 injured, and several others still missing under the rubble.

https://xcancel.com/BdGEORGES/status/1847870430498972104