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'Let's name the guilty men'

David AinsworthDate/Time: 10/01/25 18:06:00It's all very well for some people to turn accusations of what are obviously major sex crimes against children into a defence against so called politically (by the Conservatives) motivated racism against groups of Pakistani Muslims.To many the 'crime' of racism seems to be more heinous than the crime of child rape.However I have not seen such accusations made against other ethnic or religious groups.Now I know many will stop reading here for below are descriptions of these crimes and their perpetrators taken from today's MailOnline - a well known extreme right wing publication. (boo ! hiss !).What I cannot really understand is why these criminals cannot be deported to to their place of birth and origin.Can anyone explain ?"Violated all over again and haunted by the paedophiles who raped us: How the evil Rochdale Nine have been handed a fortune in legal aid so that a decade on only ONE has been deported - to the anguish of victims" 'Few people outside the town of Rochdale would recognise Abdul Rauf if they saw him. But for those in the know in this Greater Manchester town, the sight of the 55-year-old paedophile, a key figure in one of the UK’s most notorious child grooming gangs, is an utter outrage which strikes at their hearts.By rights this abusive monster should have been deported to his native Pakistan years ago but today, thanks largely to bureaucratic red tape and taxpayer-funded legal filibustering, he’s out of jail and back at home in his red-brick semi with his wife, five children and grandchildren – free to come and go as he pleases.Rauf himself was convicted in 2012 of trafficking a teenage girl and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child after driving one 15-year-old victim to different locations where he and some of his monstrous cronies had sex with her up to 20 times.The men, mainly British Pakistanis, often plied the girls with drink and drugs and passed them around for sex but police initially failed to investigate amid fears of being accused of racism.Mohammed Sajid was found guilty of conspiracy, trafficking, one count of rape and one count of sexual activity with a child.Hamid Safi was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking.Taxi driver Abdul Aziz, known as 'The Master' was found guilty of conspiracy and trafficking for sexual exploitation.Abdul Qayyum, known as 'Tiger', was found guilty of conspiracy.Kabeer Hassan was found guilty of conspiracy and rape.Adil Khan renounced his Pakistani nationality days before the Court of Appeal ruled he could be stripped of his UK citizenship.Shabir Ahmed was the ringleader of a Rochdale child sex grooming gang who cited human rights laws to appeal against deportation.Mohammed Amin was jailed for five years'.  

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Musk's 'disinformation' endangering me, says Phillips

"Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips has told BBC's Newsnight that "disinformation" spread by Elon Musk was "endangering" her but that it was "nothing" compared to the experiences of victims of abuse.The tech billionaire and adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump labelled Phillips a "rape genocide apologist" and said she should be jailed.Asked if the threat to her own safety had gone up since his social media posts and whether protections were in place, Phillips replied "yes".She said the experience had been "very, very, very tiring" but that she was "resigned to the lot in life that you get as a woman who fights violence against women and girls".She added: "I'm no stranger to people who don't know what they're talking about trying to silence women like me."The row between Mr Musk and the UK government concerns cases of groups of men - mainly of Pakistani descent - being convicted for sexually abusing and raping predominantly white girls around the UK.Mr Musk's intervention came in response to Phillips rejecting a request for the government to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham - which sparked calls from the Conservatives and Reform UK for a national inquiry into grooming gangs.Phillips decision was taken in October but first reported by GB News at the start of the year, and then picked up by Mr Musk on his social media platform X.Phillips defended the government's decision not to hold a national inquiry, arguing that local inquiries, such as one held in Telford, were more effective at leading to change."What I saw happen in Telford is the exact opposite of what I have seen happen because of the national expert inquiry for the last two years since it came out - I saw change happen," she said.She said she would be getting council leaders together to learn the lessons from Telford."When people say it's the council marking their own homework, it isn't."It is an independent inquiry led locally and it's the only model I've seen work, and I've worked in this field for 15 years."The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which lasted seven years and reported in 2022, made 20 recommendations - however, none has yet been implemented.Speaking to the Today programme earlier Prof Alexis Jay, who led the inquiry, said: "We've had enough of inquiries, consultations and discussions... we have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it locally and nationally.""BBC Jan 8th

David Ainsworth ● 29d0 Comments ● 29d

Grooming Gang Rapist Defies Deportation

Unbelievable!!🤬How has this been allowed to happen?  Qari Abdul Rauf has been represented by tax-funded human rights lawyers (that we all pay for) who subsequently took the case to the ECHR.His lawyers argued that Rauf is stateless' having renounced his Pakistani citizenship and deportation would breach his right to private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.'Rochdale rape gang ringleader's VERY comfortable life in Britain a decade after he was released and told he'd be deportedThe ringleader of an Asian grooming gang is still living in the town where he committed his horrific crimes - almost a decade after he was released from jail and told he would be deported.MailOnline can reveal the 55-year-old has been working for a takeaway delivery app, prompting fears he might meet one of his victims during the course of his work.He is among nine members of the Rochdale grooming gang who were jailed for raping and trafficking young children across England in 2012.Rauf was told he would be deported to Pakistan in 2014 after serving two and half years of a six-year prison sentence.The presence of the former taxi driver adds fuel to the fire over demands that the Government hold a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.Rauf, who was stripped of his UK citizenship, was told he would be sent back to Pakistan following his release in November 2014.Immigration Tribunal judges have twice rejected his appeal against deportation in 2020 and 2022.However his lawyers argued Rauf is 'stateless' after him having renounced his Pakistani citizenship (crafty and effective), and deportation would breach his right to private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights.'https://mol.im/a/14258565

Sue Hammond ● 31d7 Comments ● 31d

Genuine? Jenrick!

"Jenrick shape-shifts on air with reality-bending Today interviewJohn Crace (Gdn, yesterday)Shadow justice secretary makes case for second child sexual abuse inquiry, despite ignoring the last one.Robert Jenrick brushed off the observation that he had never before even mentioned the subject in parliament.""You can tell that Elon Musk must have overstepped the mark when even Kemi Badenoch has taken a break from tweeting her support for the ketamine-riddled world’s richest man. The Tory leader’s reality is largely shaped by what she reads on social media, so unless she’s taken time out to help the Muskster find a drug counsellor, she’s decided that she’d be better off keeping quiet for a while. Quite the concession for a politician who never knowingly avoids the chance to make a bad situation worse.But you can always rely on Robert Jenrick to step into any vacuum. It’s hard to know who the real Honest Bob really is. Is it the fresh-faced David Cameron wannabe who was first elected in 2014? The soft-hearted liberal who was totally in favour of remaining in the EU. Is it the minister with no moral compass who was happy to expedite a planning permission for an erstwhile pornographer and Tory donor? Or is it the politician of the far right? The man who has never yet met an immigrant he didn’t want to deport?Not even Honest Bob really knows. There is so little to him that he can only approximate to what he thinks best serves his interests at any given time. And right now he has somehow got it into his head that he should be the next leader of the Tory party.What the Conservatives have done to deserve him is hard to fathom, but that doesn’t worry our Bob. He’s always led a gilded life. Assumes that people must always be thrilled to see him. Just by breathing he is doing us all a favour. And he’s come to the conclusion that his best chance of fulfilling his destiny is to shape-shift to the right. So that’s who he now is.Along the way, Jenrick has also become a useful idiot to people like Musk. While Elon works his way through his stash, Honest Bob is on hand to pick up the pieces of his increasingly deranged tweets. It’s win-win for both of them. Musk gets to feel as if he is as important as his ego demands while Honest Bob gets to kickstart another culture war. Along the way, reality has long since left the building. Not that either of them have noticed.With Musk’s tweets about child grooming gangs still dominating the news, it was inevitable that sooner or later Bob would turn up on the radio to be unpleasant and make a fool of himself. And sure enough, he was granted the prime 8.10am slot on the Today programme. Presenter Nick Robinson couldn’t believe his luck. It wasn’t a fair fight.Robinson began with a reminder that it wasn’t Elon Musk’s tweets that really mattered; it was getting justice for the girls and young women who were victims of sex abuse. A caveat that was wasted on Honest Bob as, like in all things, this was all about him and his ambitions.“We need a national inquiry,” Bob demanded. Labour were trying to cover up a scandal. Robbo looked at Jenrick as if he was a halfwit. Um … He was aware that there had already been an inquiry conducted by Prof Alexis Jay, wasn’t he? And that Jay had said there was no need for another one. What would really help was for its recommendations to be implemented.Honest Bob wasn’t to be distracted. The first inquiry had achieved nothing. Jay hadn’t really known what she was doing. Only he was in possession of the real facts. Except, as you will have guessed, he wasn’t. Robbo had to spell it out as simply as possible for him.Let’s get this straight, said Robbo. You are saying that child sexual abuse is still going on all over the place. Yes. So why didn’t you do anything about it when you were in power? You could have set up any number of inquiries if you thought the Jay inquiry wasn’t sufficiently wide-ranging. And why are you only talking about child grooming gangs now and not when you were a Home Office minister? You didn’t mention it once in parliament (he had checked Hansard). You’re just an opportunist.All this rather confused Bob. Logic has a habit of doing that to him. So he went back to the beginning. Could he have another inquiry please? For the first time, Robinson was taken aback. There was simple and then there was Jenrick. To recap. Inquiries took an age. Some had never reported after 10 years or more. Was that what he really wanted? For justice to be further delayed?“Absolutely,” said Jenrick. There was no arguing with him. And he wanted to correct one statement. The Tories may not have implemented any of the Jay recommendations but they had carried forward two of them. And how did that help the victims? Aha! Honest Bob wasn’t to be distracted. Carrying forward was a necessary first step. It was far too easy to get hung up on implementation.Robinson chose to move on. So had Bob had a chance to reflect on his remarks that Pakistani men were from an alien culture with medieval attitudes? It hadn’t gone down well with Samuel Kasumu, a former race adviser to the Tories.I stand by every word, Jenrick declared. So Sajid Javid had medieval attitudes? Well, maybe not him. Though he couldn’t rule it out. How about Sadiq Khan? Almost certainly. The thing was to keep the hate going. None of this was about achieving justice for the victims. Just a reminder to observe the two-minute hate. War is peace.Over on LBC radio, Nigel Farage was bewildered to yet again find himself to the centre of the Tory party on L’Affaire Musk. He tried to rectify the situation. He wouldn’t personally call Jess Phillips a rape-genocide apologist but he was happy for Elon to do so. Nige wasn’t going to let go of a multimillion-dollar potential donation that easily.“I too want an inquiry,” Farage said. “And if Labour won’t give me one, I will have one myself. We could get it up and running in a couple of weeks or so.” That’s £100m and the next 10 years taken care of."Good 'un from the Gdn.

David Ainsworth ● 31d1 Comments ● 31d

Could Starmer Be Any More Stupid & Insensitive? 😡

Keir Starmer's far-Right 'smear' on Rochdale rapists critics'Keir Starmer was last night accused of ‘smear tactics’ after claiming those wanting an inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal were jumping on a ‘far-Right bandwagon’.The Prime Minister triggered a furious backlash after saying Tory demands for an inquiry into the rape of thousands of white girls by gangs of predominantly Pakistani-origin men were ‘amplifying what the far-Right are saying’.Sir Keir also angrily defended his record as Director of Public Prosecutions after Tesla tycoon Elon Musk suggested he was ‘complicit’ in the failure to tackle the abuse. And he claimed Kemi Badenoch’s interventions on the issue showed she was ‘desperate for attention’.The Tory leader hit back, accusing the PM of ‘applying Labour smear tactics from 20 years ago’.She added: ‘That such a huge scandal could occur should prompt soul-searching not ranting that those of us who care about it are “the far-Right”.’ Mrs Badenoch revealed she will table a Commons amendment this week designed to force a vote on the need for an inquiry.Former police detective Maggie Oliver, who helped blow the whistle on the scandal in Rochdale, said she was ‘incandescent with rage’ at the PM’s comments.She told GB News: ‘I am no far-Right activist. I am a woman who gave 16 years of my life to the police and protecting children was No 1 priority in my life.'All the victims that I know and that we support have had their lives destroyed. To write them off as far-Right extremists is insulting in the extreme.’Former home secretary James Cleverly warned that the PM’s comments risked inflaming public anger over the issue.'Accusing those who disagree with him, or who seek legitimate answers about repeated failures of child protection, as “far-Right” is deeply insulting and counterproductive. He is the best recruiting sergeant for extremism,’ Mr Cleverly said'https://mol.im/a/14256619

Sue Hammond ● 32d10 Comments ● 31d

BBC tomorrow a.m. - Paedophile Information Exchange, or PIE - active in the 1970s and 80s

The List Episode 1 of 6In Dark Corners Series 2 Tomorrow January 8th on BBC Radio 4 at 9.30 AM."Journalist Alex Renton is shown a secret document, containing the names and addresses of people signed up to a pro-paedophile group called the Paedophile Information Exchange, or PIE, which was active in the 1970s and 80s.That’s not all: weeks after getting the membership list Alex meets a contact who gives him bags full of documents, crammed with reports, contact details, letters.As Alex starts following up on leads; detail of the criminal activities committed by some of PIE’s members, and those connected with them, begins to emerge.It’s a lot to take in. Alex is not only a journalist, he’s a survivor of child sexual abuse. All of this information about PIE; it feels like a heavy weight to carry. Are children still at risk?Alex sets off on a dizzying journey into the dark history of the Paedophile Information Exchange and uncovers abuses committed by PIE's members: teachers, clergy, social workers, government advisors.As Alex finds out more, he starts to wonder: where are all those hundreds of members now?He meets the former deputy editor of Private Eye, journalist Francis Wheen: he has a long memory for news and a nose for stories that people in power want to keep secret. What does he know about PIE?Archive credits: Newsnight, BBC, August 1983Details of organisations offering information and support for victims of child sexual abuse are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00272c5

David Ainsworth ● 32d3 Comments ● 31d

The first mention of "grooming" on the Forum?

The first mention of "grooming" on the Forum was apparently in 2014. It was by Iftikhar Ahmad whom some may remember. "Sexual Grooming Forum HomePosted by: Iftikhar AhmadDate/Time: 27/06/14 15:40:00Sexual GroomingChildren as young as 10 are being sexually exploited by organised gangs of men in cities across the UK, a leading charity says.Barnardo's says it is working with more than 1,000 children who have been groomed, abused and trafficked for money, and the problem is growing. This is sickening. It's no wonder Great Britain is in such a bad shape. Ten years old British girls are having babies out of wedlock. They are not allowed to get married but are allowed to have babies.Why don't we just report the rapes, rather than have to say MUSLIM rapes? When non Muslims commit rapes, do we say white rapists, Christian rapists etc? So why the need to label?  Or is it only when a rapist happens to be Muslim, some of us feel the need for whatever reason, to say MUSLIM rapist? When grooming paedophiles happen to be white (btw this is the MAJORITY), nobody mentions that either, or saying hmmm we need to study why so many white men take part in grooming little girls. But if it happens to be a Muslim or Asian, oh well, we must say Muslim, we must say Asian, and we must study why these things are happening amongst their community, lol, what a load of baloney. Sadly, many people don't actually care about the rapes itself, they want to politicise the rapes as a means to target specific communities, i.e. Muslims, Asians etc.Under the law of Islam, the punishment for rapist is "stoned to death" in public by public --- no matter what religion the criminal is affiliated. Rape is considered as a serious offense in Islam warranting death to offenders, more than just "illegal sexual intercourse" commonly known as adultery."There is much more, but this first part seems enough.

David Ainsworth ● 32d1 Comments ● 32d

Prosecute professionals who stay silent on child abuse claims – Starmer

"This article is more than 11 years old""Prosecute professionals who stay silent on child abuse claims – Keir StarmerFormer director of public prosecutions calls for change in law to prevent more victims slipping through netJosh HallidayMon 4 Nov 2013 00.01 GMTTeachers and health workers should be prosecuted for failing to alert the police to allegations of child abuse, according to the former director of public prosecutions, who is calling for an overhaul of the law to prevent more victims from slipping through the net.Keir Starmer QC, who left his role as Britain's top prosecutor last week, becomes the most senior official to call for the introduction of mandatory reporting following a string of high-profile cases, including the Jimmy Savile scandal, in which victims of the TV and radio star were repeatedly failed by the social care system.In an interview with BBC1's Panorama programme to be aired on Monday, Starmer says: "I think the time has come to change the law and close a gap that's been there for a very long time. I think there should be a mandatory reporting provision."Starmer says Britain should be brought into step with countries such as the US, Canada and Australia, where it is a criminal offence for care professionals not to report child abuse allegations to the authorities."The problem is, if you haven't got a central provision requiring people to report, then all you can do is fall back on other provisions that aren't really designed for that purpose and that usually means they run into difficulties. What you really need is a clear, direct law that everybody understands," he says.His intervention comes a year after it was revealed that Savile, who died in 2011, had abused hundreds of victims at schools, hospitals and BBC premises over five decades.Savile was never apprehended, despite high-level concerns over his behaviour and complaints to police and care workers."https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/04/child-abuse-keir-starmer-prosecute-professionals

David Ainsworth ● 33d1 Comments ● 33d

Forget Latin: Labour's education plans

'Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson was last night accused of taking a ‘simplistic’ approach after she said that top exam results alone will not make children ‘happy’.Laying out her vision for schooling in her first address to academy trust leaders since Labour came to power, Mrs Phillipson said that while a string of A* grades may ‘open important doors’, pupils need a ‘wider’ set of goals for a ‘healthy and happy life’.In a clear swipe at the Tories’ former regime, she accused them of having ‘tunnel vision’ when it comes to exam results - and said she wanted to promote ‘collaboration’ rather than ‘competition’.She has called for a review of the school syllabus and the emphasis to be placed by schools on teaching in general.She is to be aided in this by a committee lead by Professor Becky Francis.Prof Francis, who criticised the Tony Blair government for “an obsession with academic achievement”, and the committee leading the review are now considering proposals suggested by teaching unions, school groups, think tanks and Royal Societies.From Andrew Pierce in Mailonline - "Labour appoints academic (Prof Becky Francis) who specialises in equality and gender issues and accused the Tories of being obsessed with improving exam grades in charge of overhauling school curriculum"On her watch, the conventional orthodoxy on education will be turned upside down, with less reliance on rote learning and even less emphasis on exam grades.Don't take my word for it, just note what Francis wrote with co‑author Louise Archer in her 2006 book about schools, ­Understanding Minority Ethnic Achievement: Race, Gender, Class and 'Success'.In the preface, they say: 'Our intention is to help lever social justice concerns back into mainstream educational debates that have been dominated by the neo‑liberal language of 'quality' – in which concerns with ­'equality' have been evacuated and consigned to the margins.'So the new education supremo is more concerned about equality than quality. Improving grades will take second place to tackling so-called injustice.In the book, Francis also despairs over what she regards as the then Labour government's 'obsession with academic achievement'.She wrote: 'This is amply illustrated by the proliferation of testing regimes, academic league tables and the regular high profile publication of achievement statistics, from children's earliest years through to GCSEs.'Indeed, we would assert that achievement is not just an educational issue for the current government it is the educational issue.'

John Hawkes ● 34d2 Comments ● 34d

Antisemitism

"The term ‘antisemitism’ is being weaponised and stripped of meaning – and that’s incredibly dangerous"by Rachel Shabi"When the international criminal court issued arrest warrants for Israeli officials in November, the response from the country’s government was all too familiar. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected outright the warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza against him and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, calling them “an antisemitic decision”. The ultranationalist national security adviser, Itamar Ben-Gvir, declared that the court had shown “once again that it is antisemitic through and through”. And the transport minister, Miri Regev, chimed in, claiming: “This is modern antisemitism in the guise of justice.”Bleakly, none of this was a surprise. Over a year into Israel’s assault on Gaza, which some experts have described as a genocide, accusations of antisemitism raised to counter criticism of Israel have gone into overdrive. Such claims have been made against protesters crying out for an end to the bloodshed in Gaza and against the UN and aid agencies warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. They have been levelled at global news channels and the international court of justice; against actors, artists, pop stars and even British-Jewish film-makers. So sweepingly and speech-chillingly are such claims made by Israel’s diehard defenders that the very term “antisemitism” is losing its meaning. It is exactly as the British-Jewish philosopher Brian Klug warned 20 years ago: “When antisemitism is everywhere, it is nowhere.” Blanket misuse has, troublingly, turned the term into a feature on an Israeli politician’s lingo-bingo scorecard."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/antisemitism-israel-gaza-war-right

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Destroy Food, Water and Power Sources in Gaza

"Controversial 'Generals' Plan' in northern Gaza picks up steam.The proposed strategy involves several steps: First, encircling and evacuating the population. This would be followed by the remote destruction of all energy sources, including fuel and solar facilities, and the elimination of food sources such as warehouses and water reservoirs. The plan also calls for the remote elimination of anyone moving in the area who does not surrender with a white flag during the siege.Eight members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee have recently signed a letter demanding that Defense Minister Israel Katz immediately replace the operational plan in Gaza.A situation report presented to committee members recently reveals that Hamas is swiftly rebuilding in every area from which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has withdrawn, including rearming in Khan Yunis and Nuseirat.Likud Member of Knesset (MK) Amit Halevi initiated the letter, which was signed by MKs from all coalition factions. It contains harsh criticism of the war's conduct thus far and demands that Katz himself replace the current operational plan, which Halevi describes as "stagnation," with a strategy focused on "victory and decisive action."Members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, who closely monitor IDF operations since the start of the ground offensive, argue that the ground operation that began on October 27, 2023, and its subsequent execution, "fails to achieve the war's objectives as defined by the political echelon – dismantling Hamas's governmental and military capabilities." They note that these goals remain unrealized, despite the operation taking place in a relatively small area against an enemy lacking the tools and capabilities of a modern army.The signatories contend that the IDF's current approach, relying on focused raids, allows Hamas to repeatedly rebuild its capabilities. This strategy, they argue, has resulted in a war of attrition that does not bring about a decisive outcome."....................."Katz, who due to the war's intensity has not received the customary 100 days of grace in his new role, is now tasked with reevaluating the operational plan alongside the Prime Minister. They are expected to lead the implementation of the "Generals' Plan" to defeat Hamas wherever the IDF needs to engage.The proposed strategy involves several steps: First, encircling and evacuating the population. This would be followed by the remote destruction of all energy sources, including fuel and solar facilities, and the elimination of food sources such as warehouses and water reservoirs. The plan also calls for the remote elimination of anyone moving in the area who does not surrender with a white flag during the siege.Only after these actions and a period of siege on those who remain should the IDF gradually enter for a complete clearing of enemy strongholds. This approach, the signatories argue, would minimize unnecessary risks to IDF soldiers' lives.""Katz, who has not shied away from confrontation with the IDF chief of staff, now faces perhaps his most significant challenge in shaping Gaza operational decisions – a domain previously led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Katz's predecessor.The prolonged nature of the Gaza war, now exceeding a year without achieving its stated objectives, has become a source of deep concern for many Israelis. This includes parents of soldiers, families of hostages, and residents of communities bordering Gaza. Committee members, who field repeated inquiries on this matter and compare them against IDF responses, fear that the current approach will fail to achieve the war's objectives, both in the near term and long term."To date, IDF representatives in the committee have failed to provide satisfactory explanations for why they are not taking the necessary actions to decisively defeat the enemy, nor have they outlined clear plans for the future," the letter concludes. "We therefore request your immediate intervention to address these questions and provide appropriate directives to the IDF. The goal must be to achieve a decisive victory and halt the unjustified risk to our soldiers' lives.""https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/01/02/knesset-committee-pushes-for-controversial-generals-plan-in-gaza/Don't worry, Trump's a-coming to help!

David Ainsworth ● 36d5 Comments ● 36d

Definition

Genocide is quite often mentioned in the Forum, so I thought that it would be worthwhile quoting Rafael Lemkin, who coined the word during World War Two:-"New conceptions require new terms. By "genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its formation to such words as tyrannicide, homicide, infanticide, etc. Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group.(Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, by Raphael Lemkin, 1944)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_definitionshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin

David Ainsworth ● 37d0 Comments ● 37d

Freezing This Christmas By Sir Keir Starmer & The Granny Harmers

Freezing This Christmas by Sir Keir Starmer and The Granny HarmersThis brilliant spoof is the #1 downloaded song of this year. The MP3 can be purchased directly from iTunes, or from Amazon for just 79p and all proceeds are being donated to AgeUK.👏🏻The song is also #3 in the normal charts despite it being banned by the British Biased Company aka BBC 🤬LyricsTry to imagine a house that’s full of cold,
Try to imagine being 80 years old,
That’s where I’ll be since the cure left me,
I wish tears could heat my home.What can I do without fuel?
I’ve got no place, no place to go,
It’ll be freezing this Christmas without fuel at home,
It’ll be freezing this Christmas while K-Star is warm.
It’ll be cold, so cold without fuel at home this Christmas.And she told me that she doesn’t get out of bed till midday,
Because she didn’t want to turn the heating on.
Each time I remember, I’ve paid taxes all my life,
I cry as I wonder: Will I make it?
 Will my wife?I just break down as I look around,
And the only things I see are foreign walls and open doors,
And a freezing OAP.
It’ll be freezing this Christmas while the money goes abroad.
It’ll be freezing this Christmas while Rachel Reeves is a fraud.
It’ll be cold, so cold without fuel at home this Christmas.We inherited a situation where there was a £22 billion black hole in the public finances. (Reeves speaking).
Do you remember last year when Rishi was here?
We never thought there’d be an end.
And I remember looking at you then,
And I remember thinking that next Christmas things won’t be this bad.
For us, but darling, this year things are even worse.
And we really, we really need warmth.
But two-tier here doesn’t care at all.It’ll be freezing this Christmas without fuel at home,
It’ll be freezing this Christmas while K-Star is warm. Watch the video on Guido Fawkes here:https://order-order.com/2024/12/12/watch-freezing-this-christmas-starmer-parody-song-tops-itunes-chart/

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