The Tory MP, an au pair and his £13,000 on expenses
Jonathan Djanogly, a millionaire, claimed up to £640 a month to pay a number of students, the Telegraph can disclose.
G8 leaders warn global economy is still in danger
Global economy faces “significant” dangers in coming months and a recovery from recession is still some way off,
Clegg: we’re throwing lives away in Afghanistan
Lib Dem leader breaks cross party consensus on British military mission, as Defence Secretary warned that more lives were likely to be lost.
Prince of Wales warned the next generation face a “living hell–Yes Big EAR’S YOUR COVER IS BLOWN! CLIMATE CHANGE FASCIST!!
Nick Clegg urges government to rethink Afghanistan mission
Nick Clegg has urged the government to rethink the military mission in Afghanistan, as Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, warned that more lives were likely to be lost.
By Andrew Porter, Political Editor
Published: 7:00AM BST 09 Jul 2009
After seven days in which seven British soldiers have lost their lives in the country, the Liberal Democrat leader has broken the cross party consensus on the mission, warning that young lives are being “thrown away” by politicians.
Until now, there has been agreement among the three main British political parties over the deployment of British troops in the fight against the Taliban.
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But the increased number of fatalities – including the most senior Army officer to die in action in almost three decades – has led to renewed criticism.
In an article for the Daily Telegraph Mr Clegg writes: “Recent events have led me to question, for the first time, whether we’re going about things in the right way.”
He adds: “We now need to ask whether the government has the will, strategy or tactics to do the job properly.
“Our young men and women’s lives are being thrown away because our politicians won’t get their act together.”
Mr Clegg maintains that he supports the aims of the mission and is not calling for British troops to be pulled out yet. However, he insists that the current course is wrong calling it “a halfway house.”
He says: “It is time to put real political will behind a new strategy, and a new commitment to Afghanistan. It is our last chance before it is too late.”
Mr Clegg’s comments come as Mr Ainsworth said success in Afghanistan would require “courage and patience”.
Denying that Afghanistan was turning into “another Vietnam”, he nonetheless conceded that there was “gloom and worry” over the number of British fatalities in the country.
In his first major speech as Defence Secretary, Mr Ainsworth said: “Let us be under no illusion. The situation in Afghanistan is serious – and not yet decided. The way forward is hard and dangerous. More lives will be lost and our resolve is going to be tested.
“If we are to succeed we will need both the courage and the patience to see it through. There is no defined end date – only an end state.”
He insisted that the Afghanistan campaign went “to the heart” of Britain’s own national security.
“Our troops are in Afghanistan to keep our country safe from the threat of terrorism. If we leave now the Taliban will take control and al Qaeda will return,” he said.
In his article, Mr Clegg also blames poor equipment for some of the deaths.
“I am appalled that so many of our soldiers have been killed because of inadequate equipment.”
Mr Clegg also believes that the American surge of troops will further marginalise the British effort in the same way that it did in Iraq when British troops were “relegated” to the background.
He says: “I can only imagine how demoralising it must be for British troops at all levels to feel they have to be bailed out by Uncle Sam.”
The seventh British soldier to die in the last seven days in Afghanistan was a serviceman from the Light Dragoons, who died in an explosion near Gereshk in Helmand Province on Tuesday night.
He was taking part in Operation Panchai Palang, or Panther’s Claw, a major assault against the Taliban in the central Helmand ahead of next month’s Afghan presidential election.
The sixth soldier to be killed was named yesterday as Captain Ben Babington-Browne, from 22 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers. He died in a helicopter crash alongside two Canadian troops in the southern Zabul Province on Monday.
The recent death toll also includes Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe who became the most senior Army officer to be killed on operations since the Falklands War.
Lt Col Thorneloe’s death has angered many who believe a lack of proper equipment is increasing the casualty rate. He was travelling in a Viking armoured vehicle when it was blown up by a road side bomb.
Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, said last night that despite Mr Ainsworth’s assurances, troops in Afghanistan still lacked essential equipment.
“There are real questions about whether the Government has fulfilled the pledge to give the armed forces everything they need to do the job,” he said.
“The bottom line from our troops is they don’t have enough armoured vehicles and they don’t have enough helicopters. The Government needs to act.”
AFGHAN BRITISH DEATHS
IRAQ BRITISH DEATHS
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DEATHS DON’T BOTHER BRITISH FILTH OF A DIPLOMAT AS HE SHAGS WHORES!
British diplomat in Russia quits after being filmed with prostitutes
A British diplomat in Russia, James Hudson, has quit after being filmed having sex with two blonde prostitutes.
By Ben Leach
Published: 9:12AM BST 09 Jul 2009
Hudson, 37, resigned from his posting to the Urals over the video, which is thought to have been secretly shot by Russian spies.
The footage apparently shows Mr Hudson, wearing a dressing gown, kissing the two semi-naked girls while drinking champagne in a brothel.
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In one scene one of the prostitutes asks in heavily-accented English: “Would you like it?” In another, one of the girls is seen naked and straddling him on a bed.
The film, which could have left him open to blackmail, is believed to have been shot in a brothel in the city of Ekaterinberg, where Mr Hudson was Deputy Consul General.
The four-minute, 18-second video was posted on a local news website under the heading: “Adventures of Mr Hudson in Russia.”
A security source told The Sun that Russia’s FSB intelligence service, the modern KGB, may have carried out the sting to embarrass Britain.
The Foreign Office confirmed Hudson had resigned, saying staff were expected to “demonstrate high levels of personal and professional integrity”.
Mr Hudson, a father-of-one, joined the FO in 1994 and has been posted to Sarajevo, Havana and Budapest. He married wife Sally in London in 1996, but they divorced the following year.
The Ural Mountains area, 1,000 miles east of Moscow, covers Russia’s industrial heartland and is a key outpost for British trade.
NORE DO DEATHS WORRY THIS THIEFING WESTMINSTER TROUGHER
MPs’ expenses: the Tory MP, an au pair and his £13,000 on expenses
Jonathan Djanogly, the shadow solicitor general, claimed more than £13,000 from his parliamentary expenses to employ a foreign student who had advertised herself as an au pair, Telegraph can disclose.
By Holly Watt and Jon Swaine
Published: 10:05PM BST 08 Jul 2009
Mr Djanogly, a millionaire, claimed up to £640 a month to pay a number of students. The currently employed student, a Pole identified as Miss G, lives at Mr Djanogly’s designated main home in London and attends language school lessons. The MP said his expense claims covered the cost of Miss G cleaning his designated second home 100 miles away in his constituency of Huntingdon, Cambs, on three days a week — Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
However, he confirmed that the cleaning money — funded by the taxpayer — was the student’s only income and that she had sometimes looked after his children. They are now aged 12 and 13 and at boarding school but were of primary school age when the payments began.
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Miss G advertised for an au pair’s job on a website called newaupair.com. She described herself as a nanny hoping to work in London. “I’m from Poland but since 9 months I’m living in London. I would like to stay hier [sic] longer and help you with your children,” she wrote on the website. “I’m responsible, reliable, energrtic [sic], loving children person. I enjoy any sport activities, playing with children.”
The disclosure is likely to lead to questions about whether the taxpayer was subsidising the child care costs of Mr Djanogly, who is also a well-paid partner in a major firm of London solicitors. The Daily Telegraph has learnt that several Conservative activists in Mr Djanogly’s constituency have questions about the expense claims made by their MP to pay domestic staff.
Sir Peter Brown, the highly-regarded election agent who worked for Mr Djanogly’s predecessor, Sir John Major, resigned this week. He planned to retire after the next election but Mr Djanogly said he brought the date forward for health reasons.
The MP will meet local Conservative supporters today to discuss his expenses. He has already agreed to repay £25,000 — including, it seems, some of the £13,000 paid for cleaning — and said he would not claim the second home allowance until the system had been reformed. He had not made any claims since April.
The disclosure is likely to give David Cameron cause for concern coming soon after an investigation into the child care arrangements of another shadow Cabinet minister.
Caroline Spelman was censured by the parliamentary authorities and repaid £9,600 after it was disclosed that she paid Tina Haynes to work as a part-time assistant from her allowances. This meant that Mrs Haynes was her nanny without “additional or separate financial reward”, which was against the rules.
An analysis of Mr Djanogly’s expenses disclosed that he claimed an average of £400 a month for a “cleaner” for his second home. Some claims were up to £640, even though the family spent on average three days a week or less at the property.
Mr Djanogly provided a statement showing payments made to domestic staff by himself and his wife, Rebecca, on which the name of the member of staff for whom he was claiming was circled. For example, in May 2008, Miss G’s name was highlighted.
In May this year, The Daily Telegraph asked Mr Djanogly whether any of the staff he had paid from expenses had “ever acted as a childminder or nanny for his children”. He replied: “I do not employ a childminder or nanny”.
The newspaper was then approached by someone claiming that a member of his staff had looked after his children. “This person is not based at the Huntingdon home, but travels up at the weekend with the family,” the source said. “Lots of people know that she looks after the children some of the time. They don’t understand why he can’t just employ a cleaner in the constituency if that is all that she does.”
Earlier this week, The Telegraph put further questions to Mr Djanogly asking whether the taxpayer had subsidised his child care. He said: “I can confirm that I have not claimed for child care. The Huntingdon cleaner does have a room available for use in our London home. Ms G was only paid for cleaning out of ACA [additional costs allowance].”
He was asked again whether Miss G had looked after the couple’s children and was his au pair. He replied: “What Ms G does or does not do inside or outside of our main home is simply not relevant. What is relevant is the cleaning work that she undertook in my second home — which is what I claimed for.”
Mr Djanogly was asked a third time whether Miss G had looked after his children and whether she was paid separately for this work. The MP said: “Given that Ms G worked and lived with us in the second home during the weekends, there would clearly have been times during evenings when she would have been there with a child alone, but this was not her job or what she was paid to do.”
During a fourth interchange between the Telegraph and Mr Djanogly, he said Miss G did not receive any other money apart from wages for cleaning. He asked the newspaper to “refrain from calling Ms G an au pair” as the description, “has a specific legal meaning and would mean that Ms G would not need to pay PAYE — which you can clearly see from her payslips that she did”.
The MP said his £25,000 repayment to the authorities for cleaning and gardening was “in recognition of my part in Parliament’s collective failure to address the expenses system” and not because his arrangements were improper.
CHARLES TRY STAYING PUT AND CEASE FLYING ACROSS THE WORLD-THEN TELL THE REST OF US TO CHANGE OUR LIGHT BULBS TO SAVE THE PLANET—-AS IF- THICK SHIT INBREEDER–BRAIN DAMAGED MORON AND TRAITOR!
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centurean2 // July 9, 2009 at 5:46 pm |
Take a look at USA Bases…..THE CASPIAN SEA WARS..OIL PIPELINES..
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=32187
The US and NATO had advanced plans to bomb Yugoslavia before 1999, and many European political leaders now believe that the US deliberately used the bombing of Yugoslavia to establish camp Bondsteel in Kosovo.. According to Colonel Robert L. McCure, “Engineering planning for operations in Kosovo began months before the first bomb was dropped.” (1)
is quite clear today that the United States and NATO had advance plans to bomb Yugoslavia long before the ethnic conflicts emerged there. The Kosovo Liberation Army and NATO were determined to foment violence, and no concessions by President Slobodan Milosevic would have prevented the bombing. Building Camp Bondsteel was the US mission, and, by whatever means necessary, it would be built to ensure the completion of a pipeline to the Caspian Sea.
AMERICA CAMP BONDSTEEL KOSOVO……CASPIAN SEA.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7941
SACRIFICED SOLDIERS FOR AN OIL PIPELINE!!
TURKEY UK AND USA WANT THEM IN EU……………..AGAIN..
Article: OIL: CASPIAN SEA OIL PIPELINE TO CROSS TURKEY?
Article from:Europe Energy Article date:March 20, 1998 |
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-48368565.html
Advising Niayzov during the early nineties? None other than former
NATO commander and US Secretary of State Alexander Haig. In 1993
Haig actually formed a consortium to build a pipeline from Turkmenistan
through Iran. Haig’s project did not involve U.S. companies; Haig’s
pipeline enterprise was registered in the British Virgin Islands.
The idea foundered on the opposition of the Clinton administration.
But the idea of new routes for the Turkemenistan oil and gas did
not end with the Haig plan. In an article dated 11/25/97, Voice of
America reporter Joan Beecher writes that top government officials
and oil company executives from the United States, Turkey, Great
Britain, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Central Asia met to discuss an
issue of great mutual concern: Pipeline routes for Caspian oil and
gas.
The Washington Post in 1998 reported that “The initial enthusiast
for the Afghan route was not an American, however, but Carlos
Bulgheroni, the short, workaholic chairman of the Bridas Group, an
Argentine company. In 1993, a Bridas joint venture with Turkmenistan
had begun laying more than 2,000 miles of seismic lines to map the
geology of a potential gas field in eastern Turkmenistan. Two test
wells confirmed a huge gas deposit 150 miles from the Afghan border.
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centurean2 // July 9, 2009 at 6:11 pm |
AND GAVE EUROPE …
Is there a haven for Islamists in Europe’s backyard?
30 March, 2009, Update:
There are fears that after becoming independent, Bosnia-Herzegovina is becoming a breeding ground for Islamic fundamentalism. Many of the biggest terrorist attacks of recent years have links to the country.
At least two of the 9/11 hijackers trained and fought in Bosnia. And all of those involved in the Madrid bombings five years ago passed through Sarajevo. The explosives used were also produced in Bosnia.
“When we’re talking about the global increase in radical Islamic fundamentalism, we can’t leave out Bosnia-Herzegovina. Starting from the 1980’s until today, it’s been evolving,” says Gostimir Popovic, Serbian political analyst.
He adds: “Muslims here are involved in every action connected to Islamic radicalism in the world. Muslims in Bosnia are the primary source of Islamic extremism in Europe, especially in the southeastern part. It’s becoming very dangerous.”
PLANTED WAHHABI ISLAMISTS IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE
…..SAUDI FUNDED FORCE!
centurean2 // July 10, 2009 at 6:23 pm |
ANOTHER SOLDIER KILLED TODAY–MAKING 10 IN 9 DAYS AND BROWN THE FABIAN THINKS THATS OK!
179 EQUAL TO THE NUMBER KILLED IN IRAQ 358 HOW MANY BRITONS WON’T BE BORN?
TIME WE TOOK TO THE STREETS JUST AS AMERICANS DID TO STOP THE VIETNAM WAR ….
CASPIAN SEA OIL PIPELINES ARE NOT WORTH ONE LIFE.
IRAN NEXT THEY ALSO HAVE THE CASPIAN SEA CONNECTION?
centurean2 // July 10, 2009 at 9:44 pm |
5 MORE BRITISH SOLDIERS DEAD- BROWN THE FABIAN THINKS IT ACCEPTABLE!
184 TODATE ALREAD MORE THAN IN IRAQ WHICH WE HAD 179 DEATHS
TALIBAN CREATER AND OBAMAS ADVISER..THE EVIL HE LAUNCHED ON OUR TROOPS- NOW HE SITS AT OBAMAS TABLE.
centurean2 // July 11, 2009 at 1:33 pm |
Hamid Karzai
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Hamid Karzai was appointed interim president of the Afghan Transitional Administration in December 2001, to serve until official elections took place in June 2004. At that time he became the elected president of Afghanistan. Karzai was born on December 24, 1957, in Kandahar into the prestigious Popolzai (Popalzai) clan of the Durrani tribe of ethnic Pashtuns. Karzai’s father, Abdul Ahad Karzai, lead the Popolzai, and also served in several high-level government posts in Kabul, the Afghan capital, under monarch Muhammad Zahir Shah, who reigned from 1933 to 1973. Hamid Karzai spent most of his childhood in Kandahar and Kabul. He studied political science at Himachal Pradesh University in Simla, India. As a student Karzai became fluent in Urdu, English, French, and Hindi; he also speaks Pashto and Dari, Afghanistan’s two official languages.
In 1979, while Karzai was a student in India, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Karzai’s family fled to Quetta, Pakistan; where he gave financial support and worked as a key planner and strategist, helping to route supplies to the anti-Soviet Islamic guerrillas. When the Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, Karzai returned to his homeland. Karzai served for a time in the cabinet under Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani. In 1996, the Taliban took control of his country. Karzai briefly aligned himself with the Taliban, but as a moderate Muslim and advocate of women’s rights, he soon joined his father and younger brother in opposition to the Taliban. Karzai became leader of the Popolzai, a clan of about 500,000 members in 1999 when his father was assassinated by people Karzai believed to be Taliban agents. The following year, Karzai testified before the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate on the urgent need to replace the Taliban. In 2001, following the September 11 terrorist attack, Karzai worked with the United States to overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan and muster support for a new government. Karzai helped negotiate the Taliban’s surrender of Kandahar, its last remaining stronghold, in December, 2001. On December 22, Karzai was sworn in as interim prime minister of Afghanistan. In June 2002, a special session of more than 1,500 Afghan representatives, voted overwhelmingly to appoint Karzai transitional head of state until the country would hold its first-ever general elections, in 2004.
Karzai is married to Zinat Karzai, a doctor by profession. He received an honorary doctorate in literature from Himachal University in 2003.
Last updated: January 14, 2009.
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Home > Library > Miscellaneous > Columbia Encyclopedia – PeopleKarzai, Hamid (hämēd’ kär’zī) , 1957–, Afghan political leader, president of Afghanistan (2002–), b. Kandahar. Karzai’s father and grandfather, who both served in the government of King Muhammad Zahir Shah, were heads of the Populzai, a powerful Pashtun clan, and his family fled Afghanistan (1979) after the Soviet invasion. Karzai studied (1979–83) at Himachal Univ., Shimla, India, then lived in Pakistan, where he supplied money and matériel for the fight against the Soviets in the Afghanistan War. After the Soviet withdrawal he returned home and served (1992–94) as deputy foreign minister under President Burhanuddin Rabbani. In the mid-1990s Karzai initially supported the newly ascendant Taliban, but soon turned against the fundamentalist group and refused (1996) a UN ambassadorship. He again joined relatives in exile in Pakistan. In 1999 his father was assassinated, allegedly by the Taliban, and Karzai became head of the Populzai. He supported American intervention in Afghanistan and when U.S. bombing began in 2001 returned home to organize Pashtun resistance to the Taliban. Later that year a UN-sponsored Afghan conference named Karzai, who had strong U.S. support, interim head of the new government. In 2002 a traditional Afghan council [loya jirga] convened by the former king elected Karzai president. He won (2004) Afghanistan’s first democratic presidental election, but his victory was marred by voting irregularities. His government has been weak, dependent on foreign forces for support and with relatively little authority outside Kabul. Karzai has been the target of several assassination attempts while in office, most recently in Apr., 2008.
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USA TOOL BEGGED THE US FOR REGIME CHANGE!!
centurean2 // July 11, 2009 at 1:40 pm |
NICE MAN-NOT!
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centurean2 // July 11, 2009 at 1:44 pm |
2003-6 YEARS ON….184 BRITISH DEAD..
Friday, 6 June, 2003, 12:38 GMT 13:38 UK
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Queen gives Karzai knighthood
The honour marks the esteem the UK Government has for Karzai
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been awarded an honorary knighthood by the Queen in a ceremony at Windsor Castle.
The Queen handed the president the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George – a senior knighthood.
The honour had been recommended by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
As she presented the honour, the Queen said: “This is a token of friendship.”
A grateful Mr Karzai asked of the insignia: “Do I get to wear this on my jacket some time?”
The Queen said it could sometimes be arranged.
President Karzai cannot use the title “Sir” as he is a foreign national.
The ceremony in the Oak Room, the Queen’s private sitting room at Windsor Castle, was a mark of the esteem in which Mr Karzai is held by the British Government.
Al-Qaeda threat
Mr Karzai is on the final day of a three-day visit to Britain.
He spoke earlier on Friday on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, warning that Osama bin Laden was probably still alive and that al-Qaeda operatives were still capable of individual terrorist attacks.
Can [al-Qaeda] operate in large groups? No they cannot do that anymore. That’s gone
Hamid Karzai
However, Mr Karzai said al-Qaeda could no longer operate as a large organisation.
“Sometimes we hear [bin Laden's] along the Afghan border, sometimes we hear that he’s in some other countries,” Mr Karzai said.
“I can’t say [whether he's alive]. Probably he is. But I can tell you one thing, that terrorism is defeated.”
Mr Karzai said al-Qaeda was no longer in Afghanistan.
“They are on the run, they are hiding. A hiding person is not a victorious person,” he said.
Tony Blair recommended the knighthood to reward Mr Karzai
The president admitted it would be impossible for any government to prevent all incidents of individual terrorism by al-Qaeda operatives.
But he added: “Can they operate in large groups? Can they have other similar activities that would take an organised form of large people? No they cannot do that anymore. That’s gone.”
Mr Karzai also defended his support for action against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
“The Iraqi people were suffering like hell under him. My support came primarily because I wanted the Iraqi people to be free from that sort of oppression.”
Mr Karzai met Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday and received a pledge that Britain would continue its commitment to the post-war reconstruction of Afghanistan.
“I think the signs of a very stable future for Afghanistan are already there and the signs are in the enthusiasm of the Afghan people,” Mr Karzai said.
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She hands out awards to any filth that enters the palace!!