Christians 'would rather vote BNP than Labour'

Reverend George Hargreaves, who leads the conservative Christian Party, said people were “sick” of “Labour’s anti-Christian, anti-free speech agenda and laws”.

Hand-ringing lefties of NuLabour only need to look in the mirror to discover why the BNP is picking up support. It's not just Christians. Nearly everyone I talk to outside the Public Sector enemy class hates this Government. I mean really hate. Despise. Loathe.

Remember Labour, you freedom-hating socialist parasites, when you point your finger at the BNP, three fingers are pointing back at YOU! Most people don't hate immigrants or asylum seekers and certainly not people from different races. They hate YOU. And the CON-servatives and LibDem riff-raff are not far behind.

When the vile Margaret Hodge was in charge at Islington 1982 to 1992 she orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse that had occurred in State care homes there. She waged a smear campaign against one of the victims of State sex-abuse Demetrious Panton who said"I've experienced, personally, politics of the gutter" Hodge was forced to apologise over the smear campaign when she was threatened with court action over secret letters she had written smearing Mr Panton.

Christians 'would rather vote BNP than Labour', pastor claims

Christians would rather vote for the British National Party than Labour because they are so disillusioned with the Government’s discrimination against them, a pastor has claimed.

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Published: 3:18PM GMT 17 Nov 2009

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Rev George Hargreaves said Christians would prefer to vote BNP than Labour in Barking Photo: JOHN TAYLOR

Reverend George Hargreaves, who leads the conservative Christian Party, said people were “sick” of “Labour’s anti-Christian, anti-free speech agenda and laws”.

Rev Hargreaves said: “Christians in the past may have voted Labour, but [they] have silenced Christians and their anti-traditional family policies have created a vacuum which Nick Griffin can fill."

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Earlier, this week, Mr Griffin, the BNP's leader, announced he was to stand against Margaret Hodge, the culture minister, in her constituency of Barking, in east London.

Mr Griffin claimed Labour had “let the borough down in a catastrophic way”.

Rev Hargreaves said Gordon Brown should stop Mrs Hodge from seeking re-election and let his party’s candidate, Paula Watson, stand against Mr Griffin, as she had the only chance of “stopping the racist”.

Mrs Hodge has a majority of 8,883. The BNP won its first two seats in the European Parliament last June.

Last September, Shirley Chaplin, 54, a Christian nurse, felt forced to leave her job for an administrative position at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, after her managers ordered her to remove her crucifix for health and safety reasons.

Rev Hargreaves is a former musician who wrote and produced the 1980s hit 'So Macho' for the singer Sinitta as well as the theme tune for the BBC television programme Pebble Mill At One.

Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower'

Let's face facts: We always knew that once introduced Tasers would eventually become part of routine police use. Cattle prods for crowd control next...

Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower'

A police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a 10-year-old girl in her own home.

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles
Published: 12:12AM GMT 19 Nov 2009

A police officer using a Taser gun Photo: PA

The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her mother because she was behaving in an unruly manner and refusing to take a shower.

In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said the mother gave him permission to use the Taser.

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When he arrived, the girl was curled up on the floor, screaming, and resisting as her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.

"Her mother told me to take her if I needed to," the officer wrote.

The child was "violently kicking and verbally combative" when he tried to take her into custody and she kicked him in the groin.

He then delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back," the report said.

The girl's father, Anthony Medlock, who is divorced from her mother, said the girl showed signs of emotional problems but did not deserve to be "treated like an animal".

He said: "Ten years old and they shot electricity through her body, and I want to know how the heck in God's green earth can they get away with this.

"If you can't pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don't think you need to be an officer. She doesn't deserve to be treated like a dog. She's not a tiger." Local Mayor Vernon McDaniel said the FBI should investigate.

He said: "People here feel like that he made a mistake in using a Taser, and maybe he did, but we will not know until we get an impartial investigation." The local Police Chief Jim Noggle said no disciplinary action was taken against Bradshaw.

"We didn't use the Taser to punish the child, just to bring the child under control so she wouldn't hurt herself or somebody else," he said.

He said if the officer tried to forcefully put the girl in handcuffs, he could have accidentally broken her arm or leg.

Mr Noggle said the girl will face disorderly conduct charges as a juvenile.

Aid we give to the Third World is more harmful than helpful

Philip Stevens: Aid we give to the Third World is more harmful than helpful

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Despite record levels of foreign aid for health, almost no progress is being made in improving child mortality in the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

Many countries are going backwards. This is not surprising. The UN and British government – egged on by NGOs and activists – has bet the house on the daft idea that if western governments transfer enough money to governments in poor countries, health systems will magically improve and medicines will get to sick kids. As far as strategies go, this is a turkey.

Once it makes it to the recipient government, what happens to that money is anyone's guess. There is almost no data on how aid money makes its way through recipient health systems.

We do know, however, that much of it is lost to corruption – from ministers skimming off their share of grants, to local health workers charging patients for nominally "free" services. Then the Western consultants and NGOs need to take their cut.

When some aid money does make it to local clinics, World Bank research shows it is most often the educated, urban classes who benefits, rather than the rural poor for whom it is really intended. To cap it all, the influence of Western NGOs on donors has also meant that "fashionable" diseases such as HIV get the lion's share of funding, to the detriment of less high profile problems such as pneumonia, which kill many, many more.

In the short-term, donors could spend taxpayer's money more wisely by bypassing governments altogether, instead putting health services out to competitive tendering amongst the voluntary or private sectors. In the long term, we can't hope to improve child mortality by simply beefing up aid. There is no way western aid agencies can fund a clean water supply, health services and a decent daily meal for every child in Africa. Even if such a thing were logistically possible, such large inflows of hard foreign currency would wreak havoc on fragile local economies.

In the end, the only way to solve child mortality is by fostering economic growth.

The author is Senior Fellow at the International Policy Network. This is taken from the Independent's World Vision blog: www.independent.co.uk/theaiddebate

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Here is the evidence

thomas78 wrote:

Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at 06:13 pm (UTC)

I would refer your readers to the book "Dead Aid" by Dambisa Moyo. She clearly outlines how aid creates negative incentives, breeds corruption and wipes out the fledgling entrepreneurs who would have previously gone on to become Africa's big employers.

It is refreshing to see more people waking up to the reality that Africa is not merely a playground for NGOs looking to make a name for themselves and take all the credit for what little improvements there have been.

Your readers can find out more about alternative solutions to aid at http://www.dambisamoyo.com

The Left hates...

Bizarre Dave Spart-speak comment on http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/16/teaching-refugees-ho.html

The problem with this type of model is that it assumes that globalization is good. What are the socio-cultural implications. It's pretty clear that these type of organizations advocate a new form of racial subordination by creating a savior complex for "Western" society. Leila is from LA she did not grow up in these communities nor will she ever be able to understand all the cultural nuances of "uplifting" them. When is Leila going to empower the individuals she employs to be able to do the work that she does? The true measure of success will be when these women no longer need Leila.

John Stossel - Hallowed be thy name

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  Bogus Stimulus

  Kudos to the Washington Examiner. They’re keeping tabs on the Obama administration’s phony stimulus claims. They’ve set up an interactive map that documents instances of government exaggeration-- or lies --over how many jobs were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package.

  The Examiner has found that just over 10 percent of the jobs supposedly “created or saved” are bogus. I’m not surprised.

  Here’s the White House’s reaction, or explanation, or excuse making.

  Here are some particularly egregious examples from the Examiner:

  Sacramento Bee: The California State University system received $268.5 million in stimulus funds and claimed that the money allowed them to save over 26,000 jobs. But when pressed, the University officials admitted they weren't really going to lay off half their workforce, and that in fact, few or none of these jobs would have been lost without the stimulus. "This is not really a real number of people," a CSU spokesman said. "It's like a budget number."

  The New York Times: A $1,000 grant to purchase a single lawn mower [in Arkansas] was credited with saving 50 jobs.

  Tacoma News-Tribune: Of the 34,500 jobs allegedly saved or created by the stimulus in Washington State, 24,000 belong to state teachers already under contract to finish out the school year, whose jobs were never in jeopardy ….

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A joint venture [in Oklahoma] that received six military contracts counted the same 10 jobs six times.

  Chicago Tribune: [S]timulus funds were said to have saved the equivalent of 382 full-time teaching jobs -- 142 more than the [Dolton, Ill.] district actually has.

  Chicago Tribune: The city claimed to have saved the jobs of 473 teachers with its $4.7 million education stimulus grant. The [North Chicago] district employs only 290 teachers.

  Greenville News: "The Greenville Housing Authority ‘saved or created’ 118 jobs by use of federal stimulus money, according to the Obama administration. The agency only has 35 employees."

  Even if the jobs really were “saved or created”, that’s not real job creation. There is no new wealth created. All the stimulus did was shift resources to stimulus recipients, at a hidden cost. That money would have been spent or invested privately by other people if it hadn’t been taxed away. It’s Bastiat’s broken window fallacy in a nutshell.

The UK Libertarian Party

LAConf09, Chris Mounsey: "The UK Libertarian Party" from Sean Gabb on Vimeo.

I was upbeat if a little skeptical when I first heard about the LPUK (UK Libertarian Party). None of my libertarian friends in either LA's seemed to know who was behind it. A lot of libertarians eschew party politics altogether and see a political party as an anathema. However, I then met Max Andronuchek at a meeting and had seen a couple of his videos for LPUK on YouTube. He was involved - and is now South East Campaigns Director - and I became more interested.

In the past had some strong opinions which I voiced to whoever would listen in the importance in involving young people, particularly students at University. In fact some of my ideas - targeting students with posters and mugs were dismissed by some (Tim of the LA as I recall) as 'a bit studenty' whereas others (Jan Lester of the 'other LA) said 'its the students we need to reach'. The Libertarian Alliance had a policy of targeting the movers and shakers (link to follow) - convince the opinion-makers and they will convince the rest. I wasn't convinced and it must be pointed out it hasn't worked so far; Statism is getting worse day by day.

Welcome to the Three Wise Beards blog

We three wise beards met for the first time at this year's Aulde Holborn's November 5th stroll.