Monday, 11 February, 2006
- 11 Feb 08, 06:00 PM
9/11
Is the decision of the Pentagon to over their alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks a seminal moment in the so called "War against Terror"? The US authorities promise a fair and open trial, but will evidence gained through "waterboarding" be acceptable to the military court, what rights will the defendants have and can justice be done and be seen to be done?
Non-Doms
There has been an extraordinary lobbying campaign in the City over the issue of non-domicile residents - foreign nationals living in the UK who don't pay income tax on their earnings abroad. They are trying to persuade the Treasury to drop its proposals to charge so called "non-doms" a flat rate of 拢30,000 a year and to disclose details of their tax arrangements. There have been claims that City high fliers will leave the country and we could all suffer - so what鈥檚 the truth?
Kenya - John Githongo speaks out
On the eve of a possible peace deal in Nairobi, we have a rare interview with a former insider of President Kibaki's government who was forced out of the country for revealing evidence of widespread corruption. He has some frightening predictions for the future of Kenya.
Art Bluffing
How to bluff your way through the world of art - an idiot's guide by Steve Smith.
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That idiot's guide to art sounds good- but I don't think I will ever appreciate some modern and 'conceptual' art- I can't see what pleasure much of it can bring!
So what if a non-dom only earns 拢30 000 from abroad- he will have to give it to the treasury?
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I really don't understand this sanctimonious pontification about waterboarding. All it is is surfboarding upside down. Not only that but one's chances of drowning are far greater when surfboarding
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So the non-dom stock market parasites are squealing like stuck pigs because they are going to be required to pay a measlely flat tax on the false money they generate. Let them go if the want to, our country would probably be better of without them and the false money they invent. The stock market parasites are a key cause of inflation, using borrowed borrowings to inflate the price of commodities. It could be argued that we would be better off if the stock market was closed down entirely and then the economy could focus on real money.
Perhaps the stock market parasites see lean times ahead and perhaps 30k could represent a significant amount. The FTSE has dropped like a stone since the start of the year to just over 5700, but I predict that it could fall to less than 5000 before the end of the year. However, the government could continue to base policy on a stock market parasite wish list. They have to, many prominent politicians are invested heavily in the hedge funds likely to implode at the expiry of futures unless some government lends them some cash.
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I have been watching `Newsnight' this evening [11/02/08] with respect to the discourse of detainees currently subject to a US martial court and the potential admission of evience aquired under means that could be considered to be torture...
I am sure, at the end of the debate between two US interviewees, I heard words which deserve quotation; and I paraphrase 'you might shoot him'.
Why was this quite shocking comment not interrogeted further, surely that is jounalism?
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I have know idea why we help save your ass from Hitler.
Your Welcome for nothing !
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Outstanding Jeremy tonight (57/10) particularly with Brig.Gen Hartmann on the GitMo detainees and also with Michael Ratner & Jed Babbin too. Always fantastic to see Irwin Steltzer on Newsnight :-) talking about non-doms. However, Stephen's report was hillarious!
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Bush, Cheney & Co. should be on trial. 9-11 were demolitions, and the Pentagon "plane" was the biggest joke. It was a missile.. What happened to the real flight? Middle of the ocean.
Truth too hard to grasp, right? Well, blame the Muslims then. We are busy getting drunk and watching football. Who knows... we might even get cheap oil and gas, for the ride.
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Putting Detainees on Trial.
I do not see these people as alleged criminals , I see them as Alleged war criminals why ?
Both sides have declared war on each other ,but one side sends Agents/Saboteurs in civilian cloths which deliberately targets civilians .Breaking all the agreed laws of warfare.They even had a state before the Americans and Allies removed them from power in Afghanistan.
So alleged Alien Unlawful Combatants fits there legal status rather well in my view.
So roll on the trials , if these people are guilty I say it should be the firing squad for them.
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SECRETS & LIES
You know something's not quite right when comparisons are made with Nuremberg where the normal rules of evidence did not apply, see articles 19,20,21 of the Charter to The London Agreement (1945) and we are reminded of how eager we (the UK) were back then (when Churchill had wanted the leaders summarily executed, and Stalin, in 1943 at the Tehran Conference, had wanted 50-100,000 'liquidated'. Within a few years we were in a Cold War, which lasted nearly half a century, and nearly brought about Armageddon all over secrets and lies.
Plus ca change...
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ADRIENNE
"Nicely" put. I found myself thinking: "If only we had had a motto in WWII." But we did! And it fits as well now as it did then (with a small adjustment to the nature of combustion).
KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING!
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