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Quenelle - Golden

Dieudonne puts BBC Newsnight reporter in his place, issues verbal quenelle to British government

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Fans of the comedian have condemned the banning of his shows as censorship

The French comedian Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, he of the infamous Quenelle gesture, today sent a billet doux to the Prime minister following the Home Secretary's decision on Monday to ban him from entering the UK.

He had previously declared that he would travel to Britain to support the West Brom player Nicholas Anelka who used the gesture, an alleged reverse nazi salute, when he scored against West Ham. Anelka who denies any malicious intent, now faces an FA disciplinary hearing. Newsnight's Steve Smith hopped across the channel to Paris this morning to meet him in the theatre where he's performing.

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Mysterious illness in flooded area, U.K.: boy dies and parents in hospital

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The road outside the property in Thameside, Chertsey, has been cordoned off
Two adults, believed to be the child's parents, are in a serious condition in hospital after falling unwell in a house.

A seven-year-old boy has died and his parents remain in hospital after emergency services were called to a house in flood-hit Chertsey.

Officers were called to the property at around 3.30am on Saturday following a request for assistance by the ambulance service.

The boy, named locally as Zane Gbangbola, was declared dead at nearby St Peter's Hospital.

Gold Coins

Prosperity for Main Street, not Wall Street

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Our cities are not broke. They are struggling with onerous interest payments to Wall Street bankers who are nothing but middlemen. These interest payments impoverish your communities, while enriching Wall Street. This video shows how municipalities, counties, universities and states can significantly reduce their interest payments by creating their own public bank. This has already been done and proven, and could cut the costs of public projects by at least half.


Link to previous video:
http://www.endtheillusion.org/moneyno...

Comment: See also:
SOTT Talk Radio: Interview with 'Web of Debt' author Ellen Brown - How the banking system controls the world
California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Print Its Own Money
What does North Dakota have that other states don't? A $1.2 billion surplus (and its own bank)


Che Guevara

Zionism is big player in French establishment sez Dieudo

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A French political activist and comedy actor, who has been under pressure from the government for "racist and anti-Semitic remarks," has told Press TV about the extent of Zionism within the French establishment.

"...Zionism takes up a considerable amount of space in the French establishment...," Dieudonné M'bala M'bala said at the Golden Hand Theatre, where he runs his highly popular shows.

In recent weeks, Dieudo, as the actor is often called in France, has been accused of preaching the Quenelle, a gesture considered anti-Zionist in France.

M'bala M'bala is credited with creating and popularizing the gesture, done by pointing one arm diagonally downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the opposite hand.

Following the accusations, the French government banned his show. Now he is back to running his comedy show tours.

M'bala M'bala said, "A kind of a storm hit my family and my professional circles. All this because of one man, Manuel Valls, the interior minister. For how long, I can't say. But I hope for the shortest possible time. He attacked me and the freedom of speech and expression in this country in general. Therefore, it feels very strange to face the entire government."

Rose

UK propaganda: Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying

An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard

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Deceased: Dorothy Griffiths, 87
Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her.

But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait.

Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."

An ambulance was not called for nearly four hours after Mrs Griffiths fell from bed and cut her head and suffered a gash to her hip at the privately-run Valley Park Nursing Home in Wombwell, near Barnsley.

She died later in hospital. Mr Bhutto failed to appear at the inquest and a summons had to be issued for him to attend the resumed hearing later in the year.

Assistant deputy coroner Donald Coutts-Wood said he had contacted him during a recess and he denied being the duty nurse that night and said he had been there on a course.

Comment: Elder abuse and neglect: Warning signs, risk factors, prevention, and reporting abuse


Piggy Bank

California: Rare penny could be worth $2 million

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To most people, a 1974 penny is worth one cent. For one San Diego man, it could fetch millions.

Randy Lawrence found out the penny left to him 30 years ago by his father may be worth anywhere from $250,000 to $2 million.

Lawrence told KFMB-TV that for years, the unique penny was left inside a plastic sandwich bag with several other coins collected by his father. Lawrence's dad served as the deputy superintendent of the Denver Mint.

"We assumed he must have felt it was just another souvenir from his days working at the mint," Lawrence told KFMB-TV.

When Lawrence recently moved from Colorado to California, he left the coin in the trunk of his car for a month. When he discovered it, he brought it into a local coin shop to have it appraised.

At first, the shop owner, Michael McConnell, valued the penny at $300.

Cult

John Paul II notes published in defiance of pontiff's last wishes

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A controversial book of John Paul II's personal notes hit stores in Poland on Wednesday, compiled by his personal secretary in defiance of the late pontiff's dying wish that they be destroyed.

Titled "I'm Very Much in God's Hands", the 640-page book delves into often obscure theological notions penned by Karol Wojtyla between 1962 and 2003, before and during his papacy.

An enigmatic passage from March 1981 mentions sinful Catholic clergy, but stops short of revealing whether the pontiff had in mind the wave of paedophile offences involving priests.

"Don't the sins of bishops and priests burden Christ with a greater cross, than those of others?" says one entry by the late pontiff, who will be canonised as a saint in April just nine years after his death.

John Paul had asked his trusted aide, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, that the notes be burned after his death.

But Dziwisz, who is now cardinal, said he felt it would be "a crime" to destroy them, sparking criticism and shock that he would ignore the pope's last wishes.

Bizarro Earth

Why is it that the more technologically advanced society becomes, the longer hours most people have to work?

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© OJO Images/Rex Features'JS Mill advocated a gospel of leisure, arguing that technology should be used to curtail work time as far as possible.'
Our society tolerates long working hours for some and zero hours for others. This doesn't make sense

The focus of conventional employment policy is on creating "more work". People without work and in receipt of benefits are viewed as a drain on the state and in need of assistance or direct coercion to get them into work. There is the belief that work is the best form of welfare and that those who are able to work ought to work. This particular focus on work has come at the expense of another, far more radical policy goal, that of creating "less work". Yet, as I will argue below, the pursuit of less work could provide a route to a better standard of life, including a better quality of work life.

The idea that society might work less in order to enjoy life more goes against standard thinking that celebrates the virtue and discipline of hard work. Dedication to work, so the argument goes, is the best route to prosperity. There is also the idea that work offers the opportunity for self-realisation, adding to the material benefits from work. "Do what you love" in work, we are told, and success will follow.

But ideologies such as the above are based on a myth that work can always set us free and provide us with the basis for a good life. As I have written elsewhere, this mythologising about work fails to confront - indeed it actively conceals - the acute hardships of much work performed in modern society. For many, work is about doing what you hate.

Bad Guys

Skinny Puppy band demands $666,000 from US government after learning their music was used in Gitmo torture

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© zimpenfish / FlickrSkinny Puppy performing live at the London Astoria
Canadian electro-industrial band, Skinny Puppy, has invoiced the US government for $666,000, after its music was used at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility as an instrument of torture.

The band says its music has been played at the Guantanamo base in Cuba as part of the interrogation process for detainees. The facility was set up in 2002, in the wake of the 9/11 US terrorist attacks.

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Bosnia rocked by third day of anti-government unrest

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© Unknown. "People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Protesters set fire to a government building and clashed with riot police in Bosnia on Friday in a third day of unrest over high unemployment and two decades of political inertia since the country's 1992-95 war.

Demonstrators smashed windows and set fire to the offices of the local government in the northern town of Tuzla, while in the capital, Sarajevo, police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a crowd of several thousand.

Protests were called for Friday in towns and cities across Bosnia, in a sign of growing anger over the lack of economic and political progress since the country broke from Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and descended into war. More than one in four of the country's workforce were out of a job in 2013.