Extinction Rebellion: From protecting the environment to criminal activities

 

For all the talk about peaceful demonstrations, Extinction Rebellion has turned up to be a criminal organisation. Armed with hammers and chisels they turn up to destroy private property. How long will it take for Extinction Rebellion to start attacking fellow human beings? There is a clear escalation. From blocking streets to breaking windows to.... what else?

They are becoming increasingly aggressive and they will have to be stopped before we have to lament loss of life. Present legislation allows peaceful demonstration, but peaceful demonstration does not allow mindless acts of violence. If Police forces are ordered to stop them from doing what they are doing they will not be able to claim that their rights are being violated because nobody has any right whatsoever to go on the rampage and do what these individuals are doing. The evidence is there, captured with very graphic images.

Is this they way they have to keep members of the public onboard to support their cause? At this moment in time, more and more people must be asking themselves what is are the real motives leading to this kind of actions. 

Bernie Madoff came to represent all that is wrong with high finances

 

From financial guru that led people to believe that they could make enormous amounts of profit to inmate convicted with a 150 year tag. Bernie Madoff's downfall was very much the outcome of his talent for persuading people like Steven Spielberg to invest in Ponzi schemes that sooner than later were going to be seen for what they were. 

In more than one way, the 2008 financial crisis was also the direct consequence of a gigantic Ponzi scheme implemented by lending institutions that offered mortgages to people that they knew from the start were not going to be able to afford to make payments. Overvalued properties, high commissions paid to brokers and also properties mortgaged several times. Very much like in Bernie Madoff's case the sole objective was to make huge gains no matter what.

Could Bernie Madoff have made huge gains without getting involved in fraud? He certainly had the knowledge to rise and stay at the top of his game, but he stabbed himself in the back. The real punishment for a man like him would not have been the years spent in jail, but the awareness of having wasted his skills in such a pitiful and shameful manner.

How many Bernie Madoffs are still out there dealing with American finances? Quite a few, but Bernie Madoff was the one that was famously caught. But Bernie Madoff is a lot more. Bernie Madoff represent the American madness. USA is a country that has debt amounting to trillion of US Dollars that it could never afford to pay. In spite of this, the USA keeps printing banknotes and spending vast resources to finance a military and security apparatus that is unavoidably leading the USA to its downfall. 

Wars like World World Two propelled the USA and helped the USA become a financial, industrial and military world power. Now, war could bring the USA crashing down and internal cracks of the edifice are plainly visible. The USA itself has become a gigantic Ponzi scheme.  

 

 

Ursula von der Leyen muss weg

 

To say that Ursula von der Leyen was incompetent as German Defense Secretary and has been incompetent as appointed President of the European Commission would be a gross understatement.

She started by making a mess in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland by going against established EU policies and later backtracking when she was bombarded with criticisms, including criticisms expressed by the German mass media. Shge managed to unite Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland against her.

With regards to the fight against Covid-19, she hasn't been on top of her brief and has stood paralized while EU countries stopped acting as EU countries and went against each other. Austria is leading a group of six EU countries that want to have access to Russian vaccines and Germany has now joined them while France and others remain stuck with rising number of infections, hospitals that cannot cope with the number of cases and rising deaths leading to further quarentine measures.

The latest chapter was the embarrassment during a meeting in Turkey. She allowed herself to be sidelines and later complained saying that she had been sidelined. She doesn't have the guts to act on the spot. Is she really the President of the European Commission? If she is the President of the European Commission she should start acting as the President of the European Commission. If she doesn't have what it takes to be the boss, she should put herself aside and allow somebody else to be the boss.

The office of President of the European Commission is being downgraded, the EU project is being downgraded, and her former boss Angela Merkel is doing no better. Hesitation, gigantic errors of judgment, followed by meaningless apologies that give way to more hesitation, more gigantic errors of judgment, followed by more meaningless apologies. Angela Merkel no longer has what it takes to be leader and voters are turning against CDU/CSU across Germany, election after election. Time for change, but what will replace them? The very authority of the German Chancellor as now former party leader - she had to resign the leadership of CDU to remain in power until the next German Federal Election - is being challenged by members of her own party. She had to come out and threaten members of her own party that were found working with Alternative fur Deutschland in several regions.

To sum up, a mess in Germany and a mess in the European Union. 

Extinction Rebellion: yet more disruption as if we hadn't had enough disruption

Diane Abbott MP's participation during a LBC radio programme became legendary when having been asked how much money was going to be necessary to increase the number of Police officers she gave a figure that would have been the equivalent of spending £10 per Police officer.  

Since then, the Labour MP has complained that she has suffered torrents of abuse during her political career. When she was asked on radio, pressed for time, she gave a figure from the top of her head because she hadn't actually calculated beforehand how much it would be necessary to recruit Police officers that the Labour Party had been talking about for so long in Parliament and outside Parliament when criticizing Conservative governments past and present.

Policing rallies and demonstrations, enforcing Lockdown meaures and dealing with chaos and disorder while protecting public and private property does not come cheap. Police officers that would normally be carrying out regular duties have to be concentrated in big numbers on the streets to prevent public disorder and to deal with cases of violence when violence unavoidably erupts. Extra hours are piled up and all the monies invested in big deployments, arrests and legal proceedings consume even faster a very tight Police budget. As if the number of rallies and demonstrations we have been dealing with was not enough, the news kids on the block - Extinction Rebellion - are now threatening us with further actions and this time focusing on banking institutions. You can bet that, yet again, sizeable amounts of money will be taken out of the Police budget to prevent disorder and to deal with unavoidable confrontations on the streets. As we come out of the quarentine imposed to deal with a pandemic, and as numbers of peoples walking around rise, spring and summer don't look like seasons of the year that you will be able to enjoy, but more as seasons of the year that you will have to suffer thanks to people who believe that generating chaos and disorder they are promoting a healthier environment.

As new legislation is being introduced to tackle disorder, the very same people whose actions serve to justify the passing of stricter legislation are once again creating chaos on the streets and are now going to be joined by the new kids on the block and by other individuals who couldn't care less about any cause and are only around to engage in disreputable behaviour including violence and destruction of public and private property. As always, policing and clean up operations will be paid for by Joe Public.

Council Tax letters were already sent by local authorities including increases of the fees house owners have to pay at a time when local authorities are under additional financial stress, party because of the pandemic, partly because of expenses that rise year on year. So, less money for Police services and less monies for local services delibered by local authorities and this at a time when the Treasury is struggling with vast amounts of borrowing to deal with the pandemic and to protect peoples' jobs. Furlough schemes are basically state subsidies to support those who have lost their income and to keep those who are still working at work.

Any actions that could undermine the operations of vital financial services are a direct attack against the United Kingdom. Such actions can be said to be carried out to promote a healthier environment, but are the de-facto acts of terrorism at a time when the country is slowly, but surely heading towards relative normality. This is a time when we should be supporting the creation of new jobs. Extinction Rebellion doesn't care about jobs and this is also a way to say that Extinction Rebellion could not care less about millions of families in the United Kingdom that have lost their incomes or are struggling to survive with reduced incomes.

   

London Assembly Elections 2021 - Record number of candidates and of political parties

 Record London-wide Assembly Member list

Official list of London Assembly List parties/candidates for 2021 elections

 

A total of 18 political parties and 171  candidates are standing to win the 11 London-wide London Assembly seats for the next three years.  In 2016, 12 political parties stood.

 

• A list of parties and independent candidates standing for the 11 London-wide Members of the London Assembly contest is below.
• The 14 Constituency Returning Officers will each publish their lists of Constituency candidates
• The complete list of all Mayoral and London Assembly candidates is published together on the London Elects website.

 The full list of parties standing in the London-wide contest are as follows:

• Animal Welfare Party
• Christian Peoples Alliance                                  
• Communist Party of Britain                               
• Conservatives                            
• Green Party                                                           
• Heritage Party
• Labour Party                              
• Let London Live                                       
• Liberal Democrats                    
• Londependence                                                                               
• London Real Party                                                             
• National Liberal Party                                                     
• ReformUK
• Rejoin EU                                                                             
• Social Democratic Party                                                                               
• Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition                                                      
• UKIP                                                                         
• Women's Equality Party

 

Voters will receive three ballot papers when they go to vote: one for the Mayor, one for the London-wide Assembly Members and one for the Constituency Assembly Members.  

 

18 political parties are standing to win the 11 London-wide London Assembly seats.

 

Fourteen London Assembly Members are also elected to represent London’s 14 Assembly Constituencies.  There are 78 Constituency candidates – so 249 London Assembly candidates in total.

 

Nominations for the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections closed at 4pm on Tuesday 30 March. The Greater London Returning Officer is required by law to publish the list by 4pm on Thursday 1 April.

 

London Elects will send an information booklet to each of London’s 6 million registered voters. This will begin arriving in letterboxes from next week and includes a ‘mini manifesto’ from 17 of the Mayoral candidates, the full list of Assembly candidates and information about how to vote. 

 Important dates:  These dates apply to both the Mayor and the London Assembly.

 

Polling station voting:                    Thursday 6 May (polling stations open from 7am to 10pm)

Count commences:                         Friday 7 May (9am) and continues Saturday 8 May (8am)

 

If you are registered to vote, you should have received your poll card already.

 

The last day to register to vote in the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections is 19 April 2021.

 

To vote by post, electors need to register as a postal voter by 5pm Tuesday 20^th April.

 

For more information, please contact the London Elects media office.

 

London Elects Head of Media:

 

Alison Bell - 07887 832 918 or 020 7983 4228 – City Hall

media@londonelects.org.uk

 

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Why Anti-Semitism activists are working together with the British Far Right?

 

Paul Besser and outspoken anti-Semitism activists 

Anti-Semitism campaigners in the United Kingdom appear to be working together with elements of the British Far Right and they appear to have a common interest in terms of going against Muslims and Pro-Palestine campaigners.

Paul Besser has been seen with Paul (former British National Party activist and organiser and present leader of Britain First) and with Jayda Fransen (formerly Britain First Deputy Leader and now involved in the leadership of the British Freedom Party due to stand in elections in Scotland to challenge Nicola Sturgeon for a seat in the Scottish Parliament).  

It can be said that Anti-Semitism campaigners are very close to Tommy Robinson (Stuart Lennox) and have been involved in campaigning for Tommy Robinson and have participated in rallies supporting Tommy Robinson. Anti-Semitism campaigners have also been involved with Anne Marie Waters (leader of For Britain) that also has an anti-Muslim narrative and has supporters that usually attend rallies, supporting Israel and are not favourable to the cause of Palestine. Former members of National Front and British National Party have publicly joined Anne Marie Waters. It must be said that Anne Marie Waters is a former member of UKIP that became disassocited from UKIP because of her views on Islam.

We know from the media (i.e. The Independent newspaper online) that there have been reports of threats made by Tommy Robinson against journalist like Lizzie Dearden that constantly classify Tommy Robinson as Far Right activist.

All three - Tommy Robinson (former BNP), Paul Golding (former BNP) and Jayda Fransen (former BNP and now associated with Nick Griffin (former BNP Leader) and Jim Dowson (former financial supporter of the BNP and founder of Britain First), have been convicted for incidents against Muslims in the United Kingdom. The question to ask is: are pro-Israel and anti-Semitism activists in the United Kingdom actively cooperating with the British Far Right to go against Muslims and those who support the cause of Palestine?

Tommy Robinson - Pro-Israel and anti-Islam

The links are apparently everywhere. It looks like some media are playing both sides at the same time. On the one hand they condemn Far Right activists for engaging in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, but they don't seem to want to talk about the obvious marriage of convenience between some anti-Semitism activists and the Far Right engaged in campaigns against Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Many politicians and many in the mass media are being less than honest by talking about issues when it suits their agenda and looking the other way when it doesn't suit their agenda.

Paul Besser and Jayda Fransen