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About the Migration Museum
Call me by my name: stories from Calais and beyond
The refugee and migrant camp in Calais became a potent symbol of Europe's migration 'crisis'. But while it dominated headlines and polarised political debate, the lives and stories of individuals in the camp and on the move across Europe were often overlooked – and remain so to this day.
Originally staged to critical acclaim in London in June 2016, four months before the demolition of the camp, this updated multimedia exhibition from the Migration Museum Project delves beneath the headlines to examine the complexity and humanity behind the Calais camp and the ongoing migration 'crisis'. It is both a record of a complex temporary space that no longer officially exists and an exploration of the individual stories and creativity of those who temporarily inhabited it, many of whom remain in and around Calais – some sleeping rough – and continue to face an uncertain future. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands more individuals remain on the move, seeking new lives in the UK and elsewhere.
Through powerful works and contributions by artists and photographers, refugees, volunteers and members of the public, migrants emerge from a nameless group into named individuals, each with a unique story and set of reasons for being in Calais. The camp, meanwhile, is revealed as an intricate and organised settlement that existed in some form for nearly 25 years, with ever-evolving sets of communities, challenges, tensions and opportunities.
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Past displays of Call Me by My Name: Stories from Calais and Beyond include:
Migration Museum at The Workshop, London, 26 April–20 August 2017
Lightbox Gallery, Leicester, 19 June–23 June 2017
Londonewcastle Project Space, London, 2 June–22 June 2016
Acclaim for Call Me by My Name: Stories from Calais and Beyond
"What a powerful exhibition! I wish it could have been on for longer so that more politicians could have seen it. The exhibition brought home how the human spirit can triumph over the most appalling conditions. Congratulations to all who put this on" – Lord Alf Dubs
Pick of the Week – Metro
Pick of the Week – Royal Academy of Arts
"This exhibition is designed to put a human face to a news story that often focuses on numbers … [It] leaves a lasting impact on any visitor and does a great job of raising awareness and compassion towards migrants."– Londonist
"The most important exhibition you will see this year." – East London Lines
"This exhibition will challenge your misconceptions of the Calais 'Jungle'… [It] forces us to reconsider how we react to, and talk about the complexities of the refugee crisis." – Huck Magazine
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If you find any spelling mistakes, gender mistake, birth date error or any other informational error, you can update the Aadhaar card that has been given to you by the government in a hassle-free manner.
There is an online portal where information written on the Aadhaar card can be updated by individuals. It is called the Aadhaar Self Service Update Portal. After logging in, you can request for a change in name, address, surname or whatever is incorrect. As a proof of what you want to be rectified, submit scanned copies of supporting documents, attested by yourself. Once you successfully submit what needs to be updated, a number will be provided to you. With the help of this number, you can easily track your request status. The good thing about updating online is that you will not be charged any money.
If you intend to pay a visit to the enrolment center of Aadhaar in your city, both bio metrics and demographics can be updated by you. Don't forget to carry documents (original) to the centre of enrolment for updating. You will be returned the documents after scanning. Any of the permanent centres for enrolment can be visited by you. The charge is very less. For each correction, they will charge you just Rs 25.
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New York|De Blasio Says He'll Move to Gracie Mansion
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De Blasio Says He'll Move to Gracie Mansion
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that his family would move from their Brooklyn rowhouse to Gracie Mansion in Manhattan.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times
By James Barron and David W. Chen
The father got a big new job, only to face a seemingly agonizing choice: Should he stay in the house he owned in the neighborhood he said he loved, or move to the much fancier house that came with the job?
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio declared his intention on Wednesday, bidding farewell to his rowhouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and saying he was bound for Gracie Mansion, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The word came in a letter titled "Family Decision" that was posted on Mr. de Blasio's website and signed by all four de Blasios — the mayor-elect; his wife, Chirlane McCray; their college-age daughter, Chiara, and their teenage son, Dante.
His family's decision will make Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, the first mayor to live in Gracie Mansion since Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the first since the Sept. 11 attacks. By then, Mr. Giuliani's marriage to Donna Hanover had disintegrated, and he had moved out. His successor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, poured millions into renovations at Gracie Mansion without spending a single night there. Home remained his townhouse a mile and a half away.
For Mr. de Blasio, the decision was not just about a move from ZIP code 11215 in Park Slope to 10128 on the Upper East Side. It was about how that move would be perceived by the voters who elected him, after a campaign that channeled resentment against high-visibility wealth and the inequalities it has created — and, in particular, the disparities between Manhattan and the other boroughs.
"I live in the outer-borough neighborhood," Mr. de Blasio said in one interview during the campaign. "I drive my own car, I think I understand what a lot of people are experiencing and confronting every day, and how life in the outer boroughs particularly has gotten more difficult, less affordable."
The announcement also provided a window into Mr. de Blasio's way of arriving at a decision: slow, deliberative and private, with each person in the family having a say. He had said he expected to resolve the issue over Thanksgiving dinner when Chiara, a student in California, would be home. The discussion actually took place during a car ride to Connecticut that weekend, but the logistics were not hammered out until recent days.
The letter on his website, like Mr. de Blasio's comments on Wednesday at an impromptu news conference in front of his current home, was as much a homage to Brooklyn as it was a declaration of affection for where the family is going.
"This is our home," he said at the news conference. "This is our life. This is our neighborhood, and we're Brooklynites. We're obviously Brooklynites, and we'll always be Brooklynites."
In the letter, the de Blasios called their departure for Manhattan "a temporary move for us," and a spokeswoman said they wanted to continue to vote in Park Slope even after moving to their new home at East End Avenue and 88th Street.
The letter cited "logistical and security concerns" as the main reasons for leaving the Park Slope house, but did not detail them.
Nor did it explain how Dante, who attends Brooklyn Technical High School, would get there in the morning or how he would return in the afternoon. The spokeswoman, Rebecca Katz, said Dante would try different ways of going to school, including public transportation. The trip can be done on one subway line, with a brisk walk at each end. The station closest to Gracie Mansion, at 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, is more than three-quarters of a mile away.
As for the de Blasios' house in Park Slope, Ms. Katz said that the family would probably not rent it out, but that a final decision had not been made.
It was also unclear how much access the public would have to Gracie Mansion once the de Blasios move in. The Gracie Mansion Conservancy, the nonprofit organization set up in the 1980s to restore and maintain the house, conducts tours, usually on Wednesdays ($7 a person for adults). It also arranges school tours with no admission charge. The living quarters, mostly off-limits when a mayor has lived there, have been included in the tour in the Bloomberg years.
A Mansion Without an Occupant
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The move itself will probably take a few months. Ms. Katz said she was not sure whether Mr. de Blasio's transition team had discussed the move in detail with officials of the Bloomberg administration or the conservancy.
The de Blasios are expected to send some of the furniture now at Gracie Mansion off to storage. They are said to prefer a different look. Among the family keepsakes that are likely to make the trip from Park Slope to the Upper East Side is an anti-apartheid poster.
Still, Ms. Katz said some things would not change: Dante and Chiara, when she is around, will still be expected to make their own beds and tackle other chores around the house.
But it is a distinctly different house than the one the de Blasios have lived in for the past 13 years. Theirs was a major symbol of Mr. de Blasio's political brand: unrenovated, unglamorous and unconcerned about looking showy.
Gracie Mansion, named for the colonial-era merchant Archibald Gracie, has chandeliers, antique bull's-eye mirrors and paintings by the likes of the 19th-century landscape artist Jasper Cropsey and the post-Impressionist Maurice Brazil Prendergast. The Prendergast is flanked by maquettes — small models — of statues of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. And, during the Bloomberg years, Gracie Mansion has been renovated extensively, with much of the money coming from the mayor himself.
Mr. de Blasio promised to return to Park Slope often to see friends. "I personally will miss the accessibility of espresso and the bakery and being able to walk down the street to the Y, things like that," he said, referring to the Prospect Park Y.M.C.A. on Ninth Street. "But, you know, you balance it all."
There is at least one obvious benefit of the move for Mr. de Blasio, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall. The ceilings are higher at Gracie Mansion than they are in the Park Slope house.


Restart SQL Server and SQL Server Agent from Command Prompt.
Many times I need to restart SQL Server service and SQL Server Agent service in my testing server.. Generally people used to go at Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services, find SQL Server service or/and SQL Server agent service and start, restart or stop it. This is general practice but I would like to do this from command prompt itself.
Above command is used to start and stop SQL Server Service. Now, here is the command for SQL Server agent.
Indeed I have one batch file which do this stuff for me. Just go to command prompt and run .BAT file is really easy than going to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services, find services and restart it.
Look at the screen below for more details.
Yesterday I got one question about how to find column name, data_type and maximum number of character used in that column if it is varchar and if it is numeric than maximum number in that column. Basically you can find column_name and Data_type from the Information_Schema.Columns but it won't return length of real data inserted into table so I tried to achieve it logically. Look at the script.
Some machines are really mess up with couple of successful and unsuccessful installation/un-installation of SQL Server and the result is you can find program files/Microsoft SQL Server folder in couple of drive. If you want to find current running installation of SQL Server than there are few different ways. Out of which I am going to show you couple of different approaches.
You can query sysaltfiles system catalog resides in MASTER database. You can see the path of system databases especially MASTER database. Most probably master database would be in the same folder of SQL Server.
There is a system stored procedure in Master database, named "xp_instance_regread" which can help you to read registry. There is a specific location in system registry which will give you path of the installation directory. This method is more appropriate than previous one. Here the code snippet of the same.
If the user you are using while running above snippet doesn't have permission to read registry, you might greeted with permission error.


Surrounded by immense oak trees, this lush rental community development features walking trails and extensive parklands nestled in Chicago's northern suburbs. Located along Route 45, this luxury multi-family development is only five minutes from the Interstate and walkable to the Metra. Recognized as one of the greenest residential rental communities in suburban Chicago, The Oaks of Vernon Hills earned the Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification.


There are many geothermal features near the southeastern shore of the Salton Sea in Imperial County, California. These include mud volcanoes, mud pots, and fumarolic vents that release carbon dioxide and in some places ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. The elevated temperatures that give rise to these features are due to a shallow magma body that underlies the Salton Buttes, five rhyolitic volcanic necks dating to around 16,000 years ago.
The largely forgotten field of steaming fumaroles and bubbling mud pots shown here was photographed during an airborne, thermal-infrared hyperspectral survey conducted on April 6, 2010. This visible image covers an area approximately 820 feet (250 m) across, with north being to the left. Dark subsurface mud is conveyed to the surface by rising carbon dioxide and flows out onto the bright white ground, composed primarily of salt, sand and calcareous silt. Several of the fumaroles continue to erupt boiling mud and clouds of steam.
The field of bubbling gas vents was a tourist attraction until it was submerged by the rising Salton Sea waters in about 1939. In recent years, the Salton Sea water level has dropped so that these geothermal features are now re-exposed though they remain largely inaccessible due to surrounding water-saturated mud.


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Q: Understanding Fourier Transfomation of $\sin(ax)$ I'm currently trying to understand time continuous Fourier transformations for my Signal Analysis class (Electrical Engineering major). In my Textbook we have a set of "useful FT-pairs", one of which being
$x(t)<=FT=>X(\omega)$
$\sin(\omega_0*t)<=>i\pi[\delta(\omega+\omega_0)-\delta(\omega-\omega_0)]$
I'm trying to derive this on my own, but I keep running into the same dead end. I replace the sine with $\frac 1{2i}(e^\left(i\omega_0t\right)-e^\left(-i\omega_0t\right))$ and drop that into the $\int f(x) e^\left(-i\omega t\right)$. Multiply the functions together by adding together the exponents and then finding the anti-derivative isn't hard, but don't understand how you get from that to the $\delta(x)$. I played around on wolfram alpha and found out that apparently $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^\left(it(\omega + \omega_0\right)dt$ doesn't converge except for $\omega = -\omega_0$, and then it converges to infinity. This seems close to the behavior of the delta function, but I don't think it's enough for me to replace them?
Could really use some help understanding this.

A: You should understand that the Dirac-delta $\delta(\omega)$ is not a conventional function. It is a generalized function or a distribution. The mathematical theory behind it is really involved and the guy who explained everything(Laurent Schwartz) got a Field's Medal for it.
The best way to go around it is to find out the inverse Fourier Transform of $i\pi[\delta(\omega+\omega_0)-\delta(\omega-\omega_0)]$. It comes out to be $\sin(\omega_0t)$ without any problems.
This gives you the mathematical closure over an intuitive understanding.
The wiki page on Dirac Delta mentions the same integral that you are asking, but the IFT approach looks more natural to me.

A: Your observations are right. The Fourier transform of $x\mapsto\sin(ax)$ is not defined by the integral but rather in a weak sense or in the sense of distributions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(mathematics)#Tempered_distributions_and_Fourier_transform). This is also explained on the Wikipedia page on the Fourier transform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform#Tempered_distributions).

A: Here are two ways to look at it.

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*Assume that whatever mathematical trickery is used to define it (distribution theory) the result should be consistent with the inverse Fourier transform formula, and $$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} dk \delta(k-k_0) \exp(ikx)\frac{1}{2\pi} = \exp(ik_0x)\frac{1}{2\pi}$$

*Think about this happening in a finite range. $$\int_{-L}^{L}dx \exp(-ikx)\exp(ik_0x) = \frac{2\sin(k_0-k)L}{k_0-k}$$ is sharply peaked at $k=k_0$ with a peak of size $2L$, the length of the interval. For large $L$ this acts just like a $\delta$ function. (Integrate it against another continuous function and take $L\to\infty$ to prove this and check out the normalization.)

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Bardolatry and anti-blackness: can modern audiences ignore Shakespearean racism?
We cannot ignore the racism written into Shakespeare's works, argues Vanessa Braganza – but modern theatre-makers can reinvent it
Hugh Quarshie as Othello, and Lucian Msamati as Iago in 2014KEITH PATTISON
by Vanessa Braganza
Saturday February 25 2017, 9:00am
"I think this play is racist and think it is not."
Shakespeare critic Virginia Vaughan's echo of the titular character's words in her analysis of Othello rings with irony and truth. If one thing is certain about Shakespeare and race, it is that nothing is certain – or so many critics would have it. Chronicling a fraught tension between racial hatred and human dignity, Shakespeare's ethnic minority characters lay bare this tension.
There is a Bardophilic tendency to resist deterministic judgments on Shakespeare's treatment of racial difference. But the collision of black and white in his writings does not produce the moralistic grey area that many would like to believe. Rather, it chronicles part of a liminal moment in the history of racial discrimination.
"There is a Bardophilic tendency to resist deterministic judgments on Shakespeare's treatment of racial difference"
The language of black and white checkerboards across Othello. The hero's downfall comes partly because he cannot manoeuvre across it. He moves through a minefield of racial hate speech, from being accused of witchcraft to being lewdly described as a black ram copulating with a white ewe. The racial loathing of Iago eventually undoes him, and rebuilds the racial barriers that his interracial marriage to Desdemona had demolished. Even the singularity of a black protagonist is subverted by the fact that Othello was played by a white actor in blackface on the Renaissance stage.
Lola Olufemi in the gender-bent Cambridge production of Othello, which used intersectional oppression to highlight the tragic hero's struggle against racist power structuresJOHANNES HJORTH
What often differentiates Shakespeare's depictions of race in the eyes of audiences and readers is their contrast with the grotesque racial caricatures of other Renaissance writers. Barabas, the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, is a cartoonish figure: he is first seen greedily counting his gold, and numerous references are made to his large nose – for which the actor would have worn a prosthetic. What a far cry from Shylock's impassioned "Hath not a Jew eyes?" – an appeal to a shared humanity.
But at times, it seems that Shakespeare himself is most deaf to his character's plea. Shylock, too, lapses into cartoonish cliché. Discovering that his daughter has eloped and stolen his money, he reportedly devolves into a comically alliterative mess, squawking, "My daughter, oh my ducats, oh my daughter!" The temptation to invoke a derisive stereotype, albeit through the mouthpiece of a minor character, was too much for Shakespeare to resist.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: we must keep creating BME space in student theatre
Contemporary Shakespeare productions have opened up a spectrum of new interpretations by refracting the language of the plays through different perspectives. Jonathan Pryce's 2015 run as a cruel and extraordinarily poignant Shylock at The Globe in London is a case in point.
"Shylock tries to get revenge, sure," Pryce told The Guardian, "but Antonio and the Christians, I think they're monsters – those Bullingdon Club types who've persecuted him for years, spat on him, kicked him."
Other productions alter Shakespeare's intended chromaticity entirely. The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2014 production of Othello cast Hugh Quarshie as a black Othello and Lucian Msamati as a black Iago. In 1997, Patrick Stewart staged a "photo negative" production, with a white Othello and an entirely black cast. These modern productions show the plays, not just from the Renaissance perspective, but from multiple racial perspectives.
This term sees a fully BME production of Macbeth, which director Saskia Ross describes as an attempt to 'decolonise' the Shakespearean stage traditionJOHANNES HJORTH
How do the racial politics of the past provide a lens to view the present? Shakespeare's depictions of racial difference are not ambiguous – nor should Bardolatry delude us into claiming that they are not, in part, racist. In fact, they show the collision of completely unambiguous perspectives: the friction between racist animosity and universal humanity. In doing so, they set a precedent for what comes after. Seventeenth-century productions of Othello were among the first examples of blackface, a tradition that would evolve into the clowning of vaudevillian blackface minstrel shows. The xenophobic language directed against Shylock and Othello anticipates centuries of hate speech, bigotry and racial violence.
Vaulting Ambition: power and politics in Macbeth
From Jim Crow and the lynching of African Americans, to the Holocaust, to the Amritsar Massacre and other human rights abuses by the British Empire, to discriminatory policies by current world leaders targeting Muslims and minorities, the issues in Shakespeare's plays are still at play. The plays present us not with ambiguities, but with a choice between unequivocal alternatives of hatred and humanity. Re-viewed in the present day, they compel us to realise that issues of racism are morally black and white – there is no grey area in questions of human dignity


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The death of Dr. David Kelly is officially the result of a suicide. However, there are many – including medical professionals – who simply do not accept that ruling. The microbiologist would face accusations of leaking information to BBC journalist, Andrew Gilligan, that the UK government had "sexed up" claims of Saddam Hussein's possession Weapons of Mass Destruction – and perhaps more to key, their capabilities. This was to make a stronger case for joining the United States in the eventual invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Following his appearance in front of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, whose findings would state he was unlikely to be the source of the leaks, the discovery of Kelly's dead body in woods near his home raised an eyebrow or two in the conspiracy community. It quickly came to light he had taken his own life. Some, however, firmly believe it was murder – of a "professional" kind.
Before we look deeper into the circumstances leading up to and surrounding Dr. Kelly's death, check out the video below. It features former intelligence agent, Annie Machon. She is speaking mainly about the death of Princess Diana here. However, it is a good peek into how dark life in the intelligence community must be.
Leaked information to the BBC strongly suggesting that the case for war in Iraq had been "sexed up" – in other the threat was greatly exaggerated to say the very least. While the BBC refused to name their source, they strangely refused to deny it was Kelly. In doing so, they had basically ousted him as the person responsible. Many people, however, believe he was, in fact, the scapegoat. Kelly admitted to having met Gilligan but didn't believe he was the source he mentioned.
Kelly would eventually receive orders to attend a hearing in front of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee so that the matter could face investigation. On 15th July, in front of the world's media no less, Dr. Kelly would defend himself against being the source of information to the BBC.
His demeanor was one of great nervousness. He spoke quietly and was clearly uncomfortable in these surroundings.
The committee would ultimately find that he had "unlikely" been the source, and he was free to go. He returned home. Two days after first attending the hearing, he was dead. Official reports would state he had cut his own wrists and ingested large amounts of painkillers. As you might imagine – and it is hard to blame them – some refused to accept these explanations for the microbiologist's death.
The video below is just one of many brief news clips available online. It shows, how years after the events, the persistence of those who suspect foul play continues.
When paramedics, Vanessa Hunt and Paul Bartlett, who attended to the body of David Kelly, read the official verdict of his death, they each took exception to the findings. So much so, that in December 2004, they spoke openly about their doubts in an interview with The Observer newspaper.
On top of an apparent overdose of painkillers (which we will look at in a moment), the report stated that the microbiologist had died as a result of a self-inflicted wound to the ulnar artery, and had bled to death. Hunt and Bartlett both stated hardly any evidence of major bleeding at the scene existed. Hunt elaborated that whenever an artery is cut "blood pumps out everywhere!" While Hunt states there was a wound to Kelly's wrist, she also asserts it was "incredibly unlikely" that Kelly died as a result of it.
Their doubts would receive support from other medical professionals, in particular, trauma surgeon, David Halpin. In an open letter (signed by several doctors) Halpin stated that the ulnar artery would simply not have released enough blood to cause death before the body's own defenses closed the wound. On top of this, the ulnar artery is deep in the wrist, under other ligaments. Halpin suggests it is unlikely that Kelly would have even managed to cut the artery in question.
The short video clip below shows the two paramedics, Vanessa Hunt and Paul Bartlett, who would make their concerns public.
Contributing to his death, at least according to initial reports, had been the ingestion of twenty-nine co-proxamol tablets. However, official toxicology results clearly showed Kelly had hardly any of the painkillers in his system. Not only that, only one-fifth of one individual co-proxamol tablet would show in his stomach during the autopsy. On top of this, close friends of Kelly's all spoke of how he had an "absolute aversion" to swallowing tablets. He would always use liquid or dissolvable medication if possible.
Volunteer searchers came across the body of Dr. David Kelly first, who then notified the police. However, with reports to the public, differences began to show themselves. Not least perhaps were differing accounts as to the positioning of Kelly's body when found.
According to the volunteers, Kelly was "slumped" against a tree, and perhaps more importantly, there was nothing around him. However, when speaking to the media, DC Coe stated Kelly to be lying flat on his back upon discovery. Furthermore, around his person lay a knife, a wristwatch, and an opened bottle of water. He even went on to name the brand as Evian.
Obviously one of those two accounts, for whatever reason, is incorrect. Was the volunteer simply mistaken when he located the body? Or had someone re-arranged the scene so it appeared more in line with a predetermined scenario?
Another strange aspect concerning the official records of the case, despite the array of items found around and on his person, were that no fingerprints were present on any of them. If Kelly had cut his own wrist and opened the bottle to take the tablets, then full or partial fingerprints should have been on all of them. None came to light if indeed testing had taken place.
Further to this, there appeared to be very little forensic activity at the scene or presented later as evidence. No testing seemed to take place for "foreign DNA" samples. And the surrounding area – essentially a crime scene until proven otherwise – was surprisingly open. Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, even went as far as to call into question "irregularities and actions of the coroner", as well as why the investigation that followed was not subject to usual rules and processes.
Interestingly enough, there were no fingerprints on the watch or his mobile phone either. In fact, his mobile phone is at the center of another interesting point.
The use of Kelly's mobile phone by police during the investigation also came into question. The studying of phone records had helped incriminate those responsible for the Soham Murders the previous summer. In fact, mobile phone records were the "new fingerprints" of the modern world, according to the police!
Strange then that there appeared to have been no attempt to use Kelly's phone records to try and piece together his last movements. When taking into account the level of information Kelly would have been privy to, it is unlikely that these records would have gone overlooked.
The video below features Norman Baker lecturing about his theories.
Perhaps one of the strangest aspects to the suicide of David Kelly was the fact that the search for him – codenamed Operation Mason – began at 2:30 pm, thirty minutes before he had even left his home on that fateful last walk.
Further to that, Kelly's family would not even report him missing until just after midnight. At this point, the operation had already been active for nine hours. To some, Operation Mason may not have been a search mission at all, but a search-and-destroy mission! Given Kelly always took an afternoon walk at the same time each afternoon, intelligence services, presuming they were monitoring his movements, would have been aware of this.
For reasons that are still unknown to the Kelly family, intelligence agencies would temporarily be evicted them from their home in the middle of the night, while they conducted an intense search of the property. It remains unknown if any sensitive information or papers left the premises with the agents.
A forty-five-foot antenna went up in Kelly's garden, again with no explanation offered as to what it was. Nor why it was there. Interestingly, senior police officers from Scotland Yard were also at a loss as to its purpose, or who would give such an order.
On top of this, surveillance teams kept a constant watch on their home and had done so for some time. It certainly gave the impression that there was more going on behind the scenes than even Kelly's family were being privy to.
The video below is a quick overview of the details of the case.
David Kelly was a practicing member of the Baha'i faith, and according to all that knew him, he took his religion very seriously. They refused to accept he would end his own life simply because the Baha'i faith would forbid such an act.
Although it certainly isn't proof – after all, in most cases, if someone is contemplating suicide then it is perhaps a given they are not thinking with absolute clarity – those close to him stressed repeatedly just how strong Kelly's bond to his religion actually was and refused to believe he would have carried out an action so against his faith, regardless of the circumstances.
On top of this, many witnessed Kelly's behavior in the immediate days leading to his death, and all agreed he did not look at all suicidal.
What's more, others in the intelligence community openly stated that Kelly was a threat. He was a threat both to the upcoming invasion of Iraq, and support from the European Union for it. Further, still, UN weapons inspector (to whom Kelly had made his prediction of being found in the woods), Richard Spertzel, felt compelled to inform Attorney General Grieve that Kelly had been on a "hit list" and that there were extremely "mysterious circumstances" surrounding his death.
The video below is worth watching. It looks at some of the alternative ideas on the death of David Kelly.
Although caution is paramount, one particular "whistle-blower" was happy to provide key information on the death of David Kelly. Appearing on the controversial Alex Jones' Info-Wars in 2004, barrister and intelligence expert, Michael Shrimpton, stated with no uncertainty that Kelly was a victim of professional assassination.
Shrimpton even went as far as to implicate the French intelligence services and the use of mercenary assassins. They were then likely killed themselves following Kelly's murder. What's more, he claimed that the overdose and the cutting of his own wrist were classic covers used by intelligence services. According to Shrimpton "a favorite method of intelligence service murders" was to use lethal injections of dextropropoxyphene and succinylcholine (a muscle relaxant).
There is also a further – and ongoing – conspiracy regarding Dr. Kelly's death. According to some, his untimely end wasn't because of leaking information to the press. Many believe his assassination occurred due to his profession as a microbiologist. For reasons that even the conspiracy theorists can't fathom, there appears to be a growing number of mysterious deaths in this particular field. There are certainly too many to be merely a coincidence. And while there is nothing to link other than their area of expertise, perhaps that alone should be cause for concern.
Check out the video below it is a good, but chilling overview into the case.
Back in the 80's and perhaps into the 90's there were several mysterious "suicides" of Marconi and BT engineers who were involved in in highly classified R & D military projects.
A book transpired from the investigation called "Open Vedict" written by Tony Collins. It's still available on Amazon. The whole scenario stinks.
"Open Verdict is definitely worth a read.


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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said its top priority on intellectual property issues is pushing Congress to pass a law that tackles online copyright infringement and trade in counterfeit goods, setting up a potential clash between business interests and free-speech advocates.
Chamber officials also want to ensure that any U.S. free-trade pacts contain strong protections for U.S.-made goods and that the White House gets additional resources to fight copyright crime, according to letters that Chamber officials sent to the White House and Congress today.
Some members of the nation's powerful business lobby — from record labels to Hollywood studios to the pharmaceutical industry — are ailing because of online copyright infringement and the sale of counterfeit goods on the Web.
Topping the Chamber's IP priority list is for lawmakers to pass legislation this year aimed at shutting down websites that offer pirated goods or infringing content. The group supported Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy's Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which the committee approved last fall but which was not brought to the floor. The COICA would allow federal authorities to seek court orders to shut down websites with infringing content by seizing their domain names.
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The Soviet invasion of Poland: September 17, 1939
The blacklist resulted in hundreds of workers losing their jobs and being unable to secure new ones after being deemed troublemakers while raising legitimate workplace issues.
Huh. SFA about Communism.
It took a google search 1/1000 of a second to find this story.
Spend a whole second next time, and find one that has anything to do with communism.
I don't think there are any current Communists active on babble, are there?
Best that nobody hypothesize, until this whole "red baiting" silliness gets put to bed.
I couldn't live with the idea of a fellow babbler being fired from their job, and losing their family, because I flippantly referred to them as "comrade".
Todrick of Chatsworth wrote:
The German-Soviet invasion of Poland was an example of cooperation of socialist nations against Anglo-French imperialism.
- The Communist International
(An appeal issued by the Communist International on October 7, 1939 - that is, the 22 Anniversary of the October Revolution.)
http://www.17september1939.com/
Er...I assume that you realize that nobody here is follows the line of the CPSU, circa 1939. And that none of the small handful of posters here who might defend some aspects of the Soviet Union still defends the Pact.
I mention this because it appears that you started this thread in order to shame the left of 2016 for the actions of Josef Stalin in 1939. There are no Stalinists on this board and the USSR was dissolved a quarter of a century ago, so none of us deserve what you seem to be trying to do with this.
Bec.De.Corbin
For the record Polish calvery never charged German tanks during the invasion.
BTW, anyone who know my posting here knows I've been one of the most anti-Stalinist(and anti-Putin)voices on this board.
I destest everything Stalin and his ilk did and everything Putin is doing now.
And from that viewpoint, I join all the others who are calling bullshit on this thread.
Whatever Stalin did and Putin is doing, even while I regard the Pact as an abomination and Soviet history after 1921 (when the Krondtstadt rising in defense of libertarian socialism and the autonomy of the local Soviets was crushed) an utter betrayal of the still-heroic ideas of socialism and even communism(in the form Marx envisioned it) I still recognize that Naziism was only defeated because the people of the Soviet Union crushed it(Hitler would never have been defeated by the the US, the British and Dominion/Imperial forces and the Free French alone-not that the troops from those countries, many of them men of the left didn't fight valiantly). You don't have to be an apologist for any dictator in Moscow to show respect to the heroic sacrifices of the Soviet people, including the Red Army in the decisive battles.
In the OP, what those people did was utterly pissed on. The loss of millions of lives was treated by Todrick as if it was nothing.
There is good reason to call out people for defending Putin.
There is no good reason ever to disrespect anyone who died fighting against the Third Reich.
For shame, Todrick.
For shame.
Why are you so obsessed with what Putin says? This is Babble...not the RT.Com talkboard. Nobody here is an agent of Putin.
The people who post things here that you don't like(and that I don't agree with, either) are doing that on their own.
Nobody gets "Moscow gold" anymore.
And the damn Cold War is over.
It's time to move on.
6079_Smith_W
Really, Ken?
We aren't supposed to even talk about history, or about lies that are being told right now or fascist movement that are being promoted right now because why?
Because of the divine memory of the honoured war dead? Do you really think turning a blind eye to fascism, or ignoring lies from someone you just called a dictator honours them?
(and funny, I have never called Putin a dictator; I know he was elected)
I appreciate your honesty; it is better than some here, but that's quite the taboo if you don't dare say anything to those people you claim you disagree with.
Or in this case, challenge endless and open trolling.
Oh FFS, Ken.
Who is showing disrespect toward the sacrifice of the Soviet people? Show me where anyone has said anything remotely like that.
You're talking like some American who wraps himself in the flag rather than have an honest conversation about that history because even though you yourself acknowledge it, it would be sacrilege.
Now the posted article IS completely fucked, in that it spins the Nazis and Soviets in a noble effort to fight imperialism. That ain't quite how it happened; there was nothing noble about it. And they made things far worse - in Poland, in the Baltics, in Finland, and in Western Europe, and in the end made far more death and sacrifice necessary.
You can talk about Soviet sacrifice to end Nazism all you want, and I will agree with you.
And ikosmos can amen and hallelujah all he wants, but none of that changes the fact that this happened.
Why is it important? Not because I or anyone here hates the Russians, or denies that they were crucial to ending the war, or disrespects their sacrifice, but because ever since Barbarossa their leaders have spun this lie that they are the only nation which is truly opposed to Nazism, even though they were one of the greatest collaborators, and even though they turned a blind eye to that collaboration when it suited them.
In that, they are no different than our governments.
They still use that lie about others being Nazis, even as Putin's government funds neo-Nazi organizations in Europe.
You can be as outraged and cry shame as much as you want, but it doesn't change what Stalin did, and how their nation has used that lie since then.
Of course we can talk about history. I just did in the first post you responded to. And it's fine to challenge trolling. It's even fine to be anti-Putin(I'm probably more anti-Putin than you are, it's just that I reject the neo-Cold War way you are doing it. I called him a dicatator because I see the guy that way myself).
But that's not what you guys were doing. You were bringing up the Pact(even though nobody today, including the posters you're calling out here, actually defend it to my knowledge)and both of you were essentially saying that the Soviet Union deserves no significant credit for Hitler's defeat.
I agree that the Pact shouldn't have happened. But the fact that it happened does NOT mean that the Soviet people didn't play an epic role in the defeat of the Reich(Hitler would have done everything he managed to do even if the Pact hadn't happened
The way you and Todrick made your arguments here ended up disrespecting a lot of people who bore no responsibility for Stalin's crimes and who would never be supporting Putin if they walked the Earth today. It would have been one thing to say "the Soviet record on this was mixed, although the Soviet people themselves were heroic". But you didn't do that. It sounded like you were both saying that the USSR shouldn't get any real credit at all for the defeat of Naziism, and that the Soviet state was on the same moral plain as the Third Reich.
You could have made the points you were trying to make without swinging so wildly and sounding so dismissive.
Why not just start a thread called "Enough Already With The Pro-Putin Trolling"? Why take in this ugly direction, instead? It's not as if this board is in danger of being taken over by Putin supporters. Were basically talking one or two people here. And if the repetition in their threads is that much of an issue for you, you could simply have gone to the mods about it.
Instead, you've ended up sounding like Adlai Stevenson making a bloody fool of himself at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Russia is simply one other country. Putin is just one other head of state. There is no horrific global conspiracy afoot.
I asked you once already to back up that false statement with evidence.
No one said that. I have pointed out numerous times in this thread that no one made that smear, and I said myself that they were critical to the defeat of Nazism.
Repeat it again and you can expect to get called for knowingly telling a lie.
That sacrifice does not change the fact that so many want to ignore - that they started the war as aggressors, and working to help the Nazis. You know it, and I know it. What is the problem? Do you think we are too stupid to deal with that discrepancy in a mature way, and that we can't talk about it without dishonouring the dead?
If this is just some other country and some other leader and there's nothing special here how come people are getting so twitchy and insisting we be quiet and move on?
Perhaps you should follow your own advice and just ignore people you disagree with.
And gee, I wish I could set such a bad example as Adlai Stevenson.
And no, I suppose ikosmos didn't defend the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pakt. He called it "karma".
From post #18:
"Maybe I'll spell it out again, just in case anyone else claims that Russia was a bulwark against Nazism, and saved the world."
You didn't say "Stalin".
You didn't say "The Soviet State".
You said "Russia"...which clearly implied(before you slightly modified your stance later) that every ethnic Russian(and by small extension, every Soviet citizen of any ethnicity) was complicit in the Pact and the (temporary) collusion with Hitler and that the entry of the Soviet Union in the anti-Nazi effort(including the millions of lives lost in the winter battles against the Reich) were of no real importance to the outcome.
Opposing Putin is a legitimate stance, but a stance that could have been taken without writing Soviet heroism out of the defeat of fascism. If the USSR hadn't ended the Pact, Hitler would have been victorious in Europe. Naziism would never have been stopped without the decisive blow the Soviet troops inflicted on the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad and the other places where Soviets fell. Yes, Stalin should never have aligned, even temporarily, with the Reich. Yes, Stalin was a monster. But the Soviet people still played the key role and some of us think that their valour and their deaths atoned for the Pact a million times over. Without them, North America would be under Nazi military occupation to this day.
It isn't necessary to diminish the Soviet role between 1941 and VE Day to challenge pro-Putin spammers. And honoring the Soviet dead doesn't equate to whitewashing Stalinism or giving Putin a stamp of approval.
I get what you were trying to do, but it was a totally inappropriate way to do it. You didn't just nail minor online nuisances(do you really think it's possible to cause a global Putinist takeover by posting on a small left-wing Canadian discussion board? By that logic, Babble should have caused a socialist revolution in Canada within six months of the site launch), you insulted a whole nation and its war dead-most of whom have done nothing to you or to anyone else.
You never needed to use this tactic to make your point.
"This tactic"?
Ken, if you read back I explain exactly why I used those words: because they are the same ones ikosmos used (and pulls out every time they are handy) about Western barbarians, and that Russia saved the world from Nazism.
It's right there in the quote you pulled, for heaven's sake. I am holding our good friend to task for his claims. I can't do that without being seen as attacking Russia?
So the problem is not that I am failing to make the argument using the words you think I should use. I used those words advisedly.
It's not even alleged "cold war mentality", an odd charge, considering I said quite clearly that Russian leaders lie and twist history just as much as ours do.In short, bringing them down from ikosmos's superhuman and divine (Amen, after all!) heights to where the rest of us are.
And if you think I am blurring Stalin and "The People", maybe you should re-read my argument.
(self-delete. dupe post.)
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There is some relevant info being omitted here. First, Stalin was negotiating with France and Britain to establish a mutual defence treaty. Unfortunately, the negotiators sent by France and Britain went by ship and were not of a senior rank. This seemed to have sent a message to Stalin that they were not serious. And indeed they weren't. They were several problems to the pact. First, Poland refused to give the Soviet army transit rights. Without this ability it would be very difficult for the Soviets to offer any serious help to the Western Allies. Second, Stalin's purges of the late 30's had damaged the reputation of the Soviet forces. Some in the West thought that the Polish army would do just as well against the Nazis. Though that sounds foolish now it must be remembered that the Soviet forces were dreadful in the first few months of the war as as well against the Finns. Stalin had murdered many officers and the ones who remained tended to be skillful only in their slavish devotion to Stalin. There were some exceptions as in the example of Zhukov. So, there was some basis for this belief in the West about the lack of effectiveness of the Soviets. Finally, anti- communism made many in the West reluctant to make a deal with the Soviets. At this point Stalin decided to make a deal with Hitler hoping that the war would drag on and that by 42 or 43 his reorganized and re-equipped army could take on Germany while she was occupied with France and Britain. That is why he kept his forces in forward bases. Of course the quick collapse of France upset all his calculations. His decisions were to have disastrous consequences when the Nazis invaded. Of course many in west were hoping that Hitler would turn against the USSR. This belief was especially prevalent in the late 30's as France and Britain fed Czechoslavkia to the Nazis. In other words France, Britain and the USSR were all acting out the need for self preservation hoping that the beast would eat one of their neighbors first. None of it particularly noble but understandable.
It isn't being omitted from my argument, since all I am arguing is that Russia was no better than the rest of us when it came to appeasement and collaboration - contrary to the myth they have built their reputation on since then.
And yeah, I have heard that theory; I won't challenge it, but it does not account for everything Stalin did.
A bit of a tangent, but on the subject of denying history, the Polish government just passed this law:
(the story is from February when it was introduced)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35581708
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It isn't relevant that the USSR had tried to join an alliance with the US and France against Hitler in the late Thirties, but weren't ALLOWED to?
You don't see that as a cataclysmic blunder that may well have CAUSED Stalin to make the choice he made in '39?
So... Stalin wasn't quite the monster you said he was? We made him do all that?
Look Ken, I just said I didn't want to challege that theory because it doesn't account for everything Stalin did, and as I said, it isn't relevant to my main point, which is about that big lie that Russia Saved the World from Nazism.
Do you really want to talk about the fact they had been playing poker for months before August? That France also offered to let Russia invade Poland? That Stalin dismissed Maxim Litvinov (who proposed the the Allied agreement), in part because he was Jewish, in part because Stalin didn't trust the capitalists (fair enough) and began negotiations with Germany in May?
None of this came down to an 11th hour gaffe on the part of Britain and France.
And when I say it doesn't account for everything he did, surely I don't need to repeat again the far more bloody things that happened after the Pact.
Again, I am kind of surprised at the notion that I am somehow desecrating millions of war dead by simply pointing out that someone isn't telling the truth, and that I should do anything - anything - to avoid mentioning it.
This is Basil Fawlty territory.
Sadly, it is also reality in Russia, which now has a law against "Denigrating Russia's Second World War record".
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/worldpolitics/vladimir-putin-cracks-down...
A letter from Ivan Kurilla, head of the Free Historical Society, mentioned in the article above:
http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/201408_Kurilla
The law also uses exceedingly vague language. The ban against desecrating symbols "of Russia's military glory" seems distant from the "rehabilitation of Nazism." Equating hooliganism to the whitewashing of Nazism erodes the meaning of the latter as a unique evil. Also, the clause about "spreading information on military and memorial commemorative dates related to Russia's defense that is clearly disrespectful of society" is simply difficult to understand. How can information be "clearly disrespectful of society"?
Finally, the new law is dangerous even to the dominant Russian historical narrative. The Great Patriotic War is the focal point of the nation's memory; it plays a socializing role and unifies Russians. A legal ban against addressing that history turns the central part of Russia's historical narrative into a blind spot, ruining the whole edifice. If nobody will ask new questions about the war—if it is in the public space only in the form of ossified sacred texts and untouchable memorials—it will cease to represent the actual past and lose its significance.
France was willing to let The USSR invade Poland? I would like to know the source of that claim. I am not saying it is not accurate I just never have read that before.
I hadn't heard about that specific point either before I started getting into this. The bio of foreign minister Georges Bonnet has a good summation of the terrible mess those talks were:
During the ultimately failed talks for an Anglo-Franco-Soviet alliance in the spring and summer of 1939, Bonnet and the rest of the French leadership pressed quite strongly for the revived Triple Entente, often to the considerable discomfort of the British.[122] In the spring and summer of 1939, Bonnet very strongly believed believing that a "grand alliance" of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France would deter Germany from attacking Poland.[123] At a meeting with Lord Halifax on 20–21 May 1939 in Geneva, Daladier, Bonnet and Saint-Legér pressured the British Foreign Secretary repeatedly for a "grand alliance" as the only way of stopping another world war.[124]
In the spring of 1939, Bonnet went so far as to inform Moscow that he supported turning over all of eastern Poland to the Soviet Union regardless of what the Poles felt about the issue if that was to be the price of the Soviet alliance.[125]
It is in the section on the Danzig crisis. In the last weeks before the war, Bonnet actually told his government to lie to the Soviets and tell them the Polish government had given them permission to go into Poland. That didn't happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bonnet
It is worth reading, if one can keep one's head straight, because it shows that they really were all in bed together, and no party trusted any other party.
Thanks. I agree that the lack of trust allowed Hitler to play the others.


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Characterism And Symbolism In The Lottery, By Shirley Jackson
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Uighur Camps and the Belt and Road Initiative
On July 11th, 2019, twenty-two "Western countries", countries marked by substantial European heritage, signed a letter condemning major human rights violations in Chinese Xinjiang Uighur camps. The next day, thirty-seven countries signed a response in support of Xinjiang's policies, calling out the "Western letter" as slander. With allegedly 1 million Chinese Uighurs in camps, the legitimacy of these claims could set a disastrous discriminatory precedent for other minority groups in China. While the letter can be viewed as a western versus non-western ideological battle, it can also be viewed through an economic lens. Allied countries with deep economic ties to China support the CCP actions in Xinjiang, countries insulated from direct Chinese investment have the freedom to denounce the camps, and countries like the US, Turkey and Indonesia, feel pressured to stay neutral. China's international economic influence contextualizes these otherwise counter-intuitive international dialogues.
Much of the publicity regarding the Xinjiang Uighur camps originated from the testimony of Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby on December 4th, 2018. There is massive detention of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang," said Busby. "Some of the worst human rights abuses are occurring unchecked." Through public reports and witnesses Busby estimated that since April, 2017, anywhere between 800,000 and 2 million minority groups are held in internment camps.
Busby also reported "relentless indoctrination and harsh conditions…forms of torture, or cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment, including sexual abuse." Most importantly perhaps, Busby's testimony maintained that "one common goal in reports from former detainees seems to be forcing detainees to renounce Islam and embrace the Chinese Communist Party." Since Busby's damning reports, outcries against the Uighur camps have not been uncommon, for example the letter signed by twenty-two western nations, however alongside international denunciation, many nations, even primarily Muslim nations, have publicly supported China's policies toward minority groups.
Of the 37 countries who signed the letter in defense of China's human rights policies, the most notable were Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the UAE, Syria, Egypt and Tajikistan, who are all members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a group usually vocal in defense of Muslims around the world. In contrast, the letter against Xinjiang Uighur camps had zero signatories from majority Islamic nations. Other signatories include countries from around the world, including those from Latin America, Central Asia, South East Asia, and East Africa. The support for Xinjiang's Uighur policies is global and diverse, while its criticism seems limited to European democracies and their allies.
In addition, some Indonesian and Islamic groups "see the reports of religious persecution as Western propaganda aimed at denigrating China while it is locked in a trade dispute with the United States." Because of this, Indonesia has remained neutral on the Uighur issue. Indonesian President Joko Widodo claims that "to engage in their [Uygur persecution] narrative…it would only empower the Islamists and radicals belonging to the opposition." Others, like Indonesia, are hesitant to become locked in the middle of the United States and China as the trade war rages on so they refused to sign either letter.
Turkey, one of the only majority Muslim nations to denounce the Uighur camps, did not sign either UN letter either. Turkish President Recep Yayyip Erdogan's Foreign Minister stated that the camps were "a great shame for humanity" where prisoners were subject to "torture and political brain washing." While Turkish President Erdogan was ready to condemn the camps, he also cautioned against "acting emotionally" in response to "those who would exploit the issue." Erdogan's recent caution is contrasted by previous statements against alleged Chinese abuse against Uighurs. In 2009, Erdogan said that the Chinese treatment of Uighurs was "tantamount to genocide." Now, China is Turkey's second largest importer, in addition 3.6 billion in loans to Beijing, while currently "negotiating massive infrastructure deals with China, ranging from high-speed railways to nuclear power plants." These trade deals have been a strong deterrent against the former harsh criticism.
Many of the thirty-seven signatories, are set to benefit from China's eight trillion-dollar expansion project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which stretches from South East Asia to Turkey, throughout all of Asia and into Africa. One of the major trade routes flows directly through Xinjiang.
The United States has also succumbed to trade pressure from China, calling off planned human rights sanctions against the country. The November Senate bill was shelved because of its potential to "disrupt trade talks." A new bill was reintroduced in the Senate earlier this year, but with little progress thus far. It is clear that Beijing is throwing its considerable economic weight against any accusation against its policies in Xinjiang, and many nations are being forced to choose between speaking out against human rights violations and Chin's eight trillion-dollar infrastructure project.The international economic implications for critics of the Uighur internment camps are only part of the complex situation in Xinjiang. They do,however, raise concerns about China's growing global influence. Countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan refused to recognize the Uighur camps, while Indonesia and Turkey are wary of being manipulated in global trade wars—United States called for sanctions but failed to follow-through because of potential economic backlash.
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Milton Keynes To Benefit Homelessness Prevention Grant Worth Almost £2 Million
Monday, 21 December, 2020
Milton Keynes is set to receive almost £2 million as part of the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2021-22.
The extra £47 million across the country will bring the total funding to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping next year to more than £750 million.
Local MPs Ben Everitt and Iain Stewart have welcomed the news with MK already benefitting from more than £7.7 million in funding from the Government in 2020.
This also builds on the ongoing 'Everyone In' campaign, which is protecting thousands of lives during the pandemic by housing rough sleepers. By September, it had supported over 29,000 vulnerable people, with two-thirds now moved into settled accommodation.
Ben Everitt, the MP for Milton Keynes North and a member of the APPG for Ending Homelessness, said: "I've said plenty of times that one person spending a night on the street is one too many so this extra funding going into homelessness prevention is vital, especially here in MK.
"We want to end rough sleeping and homelessness and the significant investment in Milton Keynes across the last year alongside the wonderful work local charities do will help us achieve that."
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Ben Everitt MP Meets Members Of Milton Keynes Tamil Community At The Start Of Thai Pongal
Ben Everitt, the MP for Milton Keynes North, has met with members of the Tamil community in Milton Keynes on the day the festival of Thai Pongal begun.
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