Friday, October 27, 2017

Police investigating 'obscene' republican snowman image in Northern Ireland shop window

Police are investigating after a dissident republicans displayed snowmen armed with a rocket launcher and the message: 'Wishing you an explosive Christmas' in the window of its Londonderry headquarters.
DUP MP Gregory Campbell described it as "a highly offensive display which will be condemned by all right-thinking people".
Anti-agreement republicans this week completed the painting in the window of Junior McDaid House, where the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association is based.

Republican snowman image branded 'obscene'

The building also houses the dissident republican political party Saoradh and the youth group Eistigi Doire. It is named after IRA member James 'Junior' McDaid, who was shot dead by the British Army in 1972.
Police in Strand Road said they have been made aware of a window display.

Superintendent Gordon McCalmont said: “The Police Service of Northern Ireland recognise the hurt and offence caused by this window display. We are currently investigating and assessing the matter.”
Mr Campbell said: "Most people look on Christmas as a family time and republicans are equating it with terrorism."
"An image of snowmen with a rocket launcher to mark the season of peace and goodwill borders on the obscene."

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/police-investigating-obscene-republican-snowman-image-in-northern-ireland-shop-window-36266871.html

Armistice Day protest by Republican SF ‘shameful’ A poster publicising the protest on November 11 A poster publicising the protest on November 11 Published: 07:00 Friday 27 October 2017 A planned protest by Republican Sinn Fein (RSF) on Armistice Day at Lurgan police station has been branded “antagonistic” and “shameful”. The republican party called for the protest on November 11 to show “opposition” to what it described as harassment of their members by local police. However, the date and nature of the protest has been described as “deliberately disrespectful” and provocative. Upper Bann MLA Doug Beattie said that, while everyone, including RSF, has the right to protest, it was on Armistice Day that “we reflect upon those who fought for the right to protest and that is why we are respectful”. ADVERTISING “Those dissidents have the right to protest. It is clear that what they are doing is antagonistic and deliberately disrespectful.” Describing the protestors as “reprobates who are trying to provoke” Mr Beattie said: “It is shameful and disgraceful.” On Twitter there was a call for a counter protest but it was unclear who was behind this. Mr Beattie appealed to those who wanted to embark on a counter protest: “Do not give these people the oxygen of publicity.” He urged them instead to turn up “on the 11th hour of the 11th day to a dignified memorial”. Armagh Banbridge and Craigavon DUP councillor Phil Moutray said: “To hear of a dissident republican protest on such a poignant weekend is deeply upsetting, but not surprising. These low-lifes have no regard for or understanding of the events on Armistice Day. “Marking the end of the Great War and remembering our fallen soldiers is incredibly important. Young men from our shores, both unionist and nationalist, fought and lost their lives for the freedoms we have today. “Any attempt to politicise the remembrance events should be rejected.” Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly (SDLP) said she “just despaired that people were so self-interested that they would have no consideration for the local community”. Urging people to “be responsible” Mrs Kelly described any counter protest as “counter productive”. “There are those within the loyalist community who have a laissez-faire attitude to supporting the security forces.” Christopher Hamill, public relations officer for Thomas Harte Cumann (RSF) Lurgan said the date of the protest was of “no relevance”. “There is nothing disrespectful about it. It will be a peaceful public protest. It was called in response to recent cases of harassment,” he said. PSNI Chief Inspector Jon Burrows said: “We are aware of these reports and are monitoring the situation.”

Read more at: http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/armistice-day-protest-by-republican-sf-shameful-1-8216856

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Neo-Nazi and National Front organiser comes out as gay and reveals his Jewish heritage as he quits far right

Kevin Wilshaw was a National Front organiser and spoke at their events in the UK
He revealed his violent past in the group and also said he has Jewish heritage
Mr Wilshaw came out as gay and said that he has received homophobic abuse

A Neo-Nazi and National Front organiser has today revealed his Jewish heritage and come out as gay as he quits the far right.

White supremacist Kevin Wilshaw today opened up about his violent past after being involved with the far right his whole life.

The well-known National Front organiser in the 1980s was still active earlier this year when he would speak at events.

But speaking on Channel 4 News he explains for the first time why he is publicly disowning the movement and that he was subjected to abuse because he is gay.

Former National Front organiser Kevin Wilshaw was still active earlier this year when he would speak at events

Kevin Wilshaw (pictured) opened up about his Neo-Nazi past and has revealed he is quitting the far right movement

Speaking on Channel 4 News he explains for the first time why he is publicly disowning the movement

He also revealed he is of Jewish heritage despite being a Neo-Nazi and shared a number of his secrets on the programme.

Mr Wilshaw said: 'On one or two occasions in the recent past I've actually been the recipient of the very hatred of the people I want to belong to.

'If you're gay it is acceptable in society but with these group of people it's not acceptable, and I found on one or two occasions when I was suspected of being gay I was subjected to abuse.'

He admitted that being a gay Nazi - with a Jewish background - is a contradiction of what he has spoken about for the best part of 40 years.

He added: 'It's a terribly selfish thing to say but it's true, I saw people being abused, shouted at, spat at in the street - it's not until it's directed at you that you suddenly realise that what you're doing is wrong.

'You have other members leading National Front who are overtly gay. And nobody could see the contradiction of it that you have an overtly gay person leading a homophobic organisation, makes no sense.

More recently he took to social media - and until the start of year was still speaking at rallies

Mr Wilshaw (pictured) was involved with the far right for most of his life and he has now revealed he has quit the movement

He also revealed he is of Jewish heritage despite being a Neo-Nazi and shared a number of his secrets on the programme

'Then you have someone like Nicky Crane, one of the hardest people who would be gay.

'Even when people found out, they'd rationalise it, 'He's not really gay' or 'gay and ok'.'

He also opened up about his Jewish mother and said that he wrote about his hatred of 'the Jews' on his National Front application form.

Mr Wilshaw said: 'She was part Jewish, maiden name was Benjamin, we have Jewish blood on that side.

'That term 'the Jews' is the global faceless mass of people you can't personalise it, not individuals.

'That's the generalisation that leads to 6 million people being deliberately murdered.

'I didn't have many friends at school, I wanted to be a member of a group of people that had an aim, and I thought getting involved in that kind of thing would be comradeship.

'Even though you end up being a group of people that through their own extreme views are cut off from society, you do have a sense of comradeship in that you're a member of a group that's being attacked by other people.'

He also revealed he had hurt people 'in defence' and smashed a chair over someone's head in a Leeds by-election.

Neo-Nazi, Mr Wilshaw (pictured), has revealed that he was subjected to abuse because he is gay

Mr Wilshaw (pictured when he was younger) said: 'On one or two occasions in the recent past I've actually been the recipient of the very hatred of the people I want to belong to'

He admitted that being a gay Nazi - with a Jewish background - is a contradiction of what he has spoken about for the best part of 40 years

But he denied ever approaching minorities and assaulting them.

Mr Wilshaw added: 'I'd never do that, but I have seen incidents where people were singled out because they were black by a group of people.

'It turned my stomach, I rejected that, I pushed it to the back of my mind.'

Mr Wilshaw was arrested for vandalising a mosque in Aylesbury in the early 1990s - and in March this year he was arrested for online race hate offences.

He joined the BNP after being part of the National Front and flirted with dangerous fringe groups like the Racial Volunteer Force.

Mr Wilshaw also said he remembers meeting David Copeland - the Brixton and Soho nail bomber.

Former National Front activist Matthew Collins, who now works for the anti-racist group Hope not Hate, said: 'One of things we noticed is there was someone who was struggling, he was becoming more and more extreme.

'We almost expected the phone call and a cry for help, and that's what he's done.'

Mr Wilshaw added: 'I feel appallingly guilty as well, I really do feel guilty, not only that, this is also a barrier to me having a relationship with my own family, and I want to get rid of it, it's too much of a weight.

'I want to do some damage as well, not to ordinary people but the people who are propagating this kind of rubbish - want to hurt them, show what it's like for those who are living a lie and be on the receiving end of this type of propaganda, I want to hurt them.'

Fearing some level of revenge, Mr Wilshaw says 'one or two would want to sort me - they'd see it as betrayal.'

'I am going to find it difficult, granted, to fill a void that has occupied my life since childhood.'

Gideon Falter, chairman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, told MailOnline:'The far-right sometimes offers a sense of community and purpose to damaged people who are often deeply frustrated or gripped by self-loathing.

'Anybody who turns their back on the senseless hatred of the far-right and publicly renounces their past activities is taking a brave step which we would welcome, however we would also expect to see evidence of contrition.

'That would especially be so if they were heavily involved in far-right activity very recently.'

NWN: This character has been around on the fringes of nationalism for a number of years. We first noticed him in the very late 1980's when he lived somewhere around Workington or Whitehaven. He was really out in the sticks up there and peripheral. Over the last few years he took to wearing and having pics taken with him in such as swastikas like an 'Hollywood nazi' . A strange character really . He did used to post on Stormfront and VNN forums.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Eddy Adamson - North West nationalist from the 1970's

Has anyone got a picture of Eddy ? There doesn't appear to be one around at all.

There must be one around, as Eddy stood for the National Front in elections many times. Particularly for Blackburn in the early 1970's. So someone might have a copy of his election address ?

These early 'pathfinders' deserve to be remembered. Eddy possibly precedes the late 1967 formation of the National Front.

Eddy helped to re-start the BNP in the North West in the late 1980's by holding meetings in Todmorden.This helped Ken Henderson to form a nucleus to 'kickstart' the North West proper in the 1990/1991/1992 growth period.

Friday, October 13, 2017

Triple-exthnics

Nathan Abrams on Jews in the American porn industry

Nathan Abrams | Winter 2004 - Number 196

A story little told is that of Jews in Hollywood’s seedier cousin, the adult film industry. Perhaps we’d prefer to pretend that the ‘triple-exthnics’ didn’t exist, but there’s no getting away from the fact that secular Jews have played (and still continue to play) a disproportionate role throughout the adult film industry in America. Jewish involvement in pornography has a long history in the United States, as Jews have helped to transform a fringe subculture into what has become a primary constituent of Americana. These are the ‘true blue Jews’.
Smut peddlers
Jewish activity in the porn industry divides into two (sometimes overlapping) groups: pornographers and performers. Though Jews make up only two per cent of the American population, they have been prominent in pornography. Many erotica dealers in the book trade between 1890 and 1940 were immigrant Jews of German origin. According to Jay A. Gertzman, author of Bookleggers and Smuthounds:The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), ‘Jews were prominent in the distribution of gallantiana [fiction on erotic themes and books of dirty jokes and ballads], avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and flagitious materials’.
In the postwar era, America’s most notorious pornographer was Reuben Sturman, the ‘Walt Disney of Porn’. According to the US Department of Justice, throughout the 1970s Sturman controlled most of the pornography circulating in the country. Born in 1924, Sturman grew up in Cleveland’s East Side. Initially, he sold comics and magazines, but when he realized sex magazines produced twenty times the revenue of comic books, he moved exclusively into porn, eventually producing his own titles and setting up retail stores. By the end of the 1960s, Sturman ranked at the top of adult magazine distributors and by the mid-70s he owned over 200 adult bookstores. Sturman also introduced updated versions of the traditional peepshow booth (typically a dark room with a small colour TV on which the viewer can view X-rated videos). It was said that Sturman did not simply control the adult-entertainment industry; he was the industry. Eventually he was convicted of tax evasion and other crimes and died, disgraced, in prison in 1997. His son, David, continued running the family business.
The contemporary incarnation of Sturman is 43-year-old Jewish Clevelander Steven Hirsch, who has been described as ‘the Donald Trump of porno’. The link between the two is Steve’s father, Fred, who was a stockbroker-cum-lieutenant to Sturman. Today Hirsch runs the Vivid Entertainment Group, which has been called the Microsoft of the porn world, the top producer of ‘adult’ films in the US. His specialty was to import mainstream marketing techniques into the porn business. Indeed, Vivid parallels the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in its exclusive contracts to porn stars who are hired and moulded by Hirsch. Vivid was the subject of a behind-the-scenes reality TV show recently broadcast on Channel 4.
Nice Jewish girls and boys
Jews accounted for most of the leading male performers as well as a sizeable number of female stars in porn movies of the 1970s and ‘80s. The doyen of the Hebrew studs is Ron Jeremy. Known in the trade as ‘the Hedgehog’, Jeremy is one of America’s biggest porn stars. The 51-year-old Jeremy was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in Flushing, Queens, and has since appeared in more than 1,600 adult movies, as well as directing over 100. Jeremy has achieved iconic status in America, a hero to males of all ages, Jewish and gentile alike - he’s the nebbischy, fat, hairy, ugly guy who gets to bed dozens of beautiful women. He presents an image of a modern-day King David, a Jewish superstud who supersedes the traditional heroes of Jewish lore. No sallow Talmud scholar he. His stature was recently cemented with the release of a pornomentary about his life, Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy. As probably the most famous Jewish male porn star, Jeremy has done wonders for the psyche of Jewish men in America. Jeremy has also just released a compilation CD, Bang-A-Long-With Ron Jeremy. For £7.99 (including delivery), the lucky listener gets to enjoy Jeremy’s hand-picked favourite porno grooves along with narration by ‘the legend’ himself. As the publicity blurb gushes, ‘Out of the brown paper wrappings and into the mainstream’.
Seymore Butts, aka Adam Glasser, is everything that Jeremy is not: young, handsome and toned. Glasser, a 39-year-old New York Jew, opened a gym in 1991 in Los Angeles. When no one joined, he borrowed a video camera for 24 hours, went to a nearby strip club, recruited a woman, then headed back to his gym and started shooting. Although the movie stank, with a bit of chutzpah and a few business cards he wangled a deal with a manufacturer and started cranking out films. Within a few years, ‘Seymore Butts’ – his nom de porn which is simultaneously his sales pitch – became one of the largest franchises in the adult-film business. As the king of the gonzo genre (marked by handheld cameras, the illusion of spontaneity and a low-tech aesthetic meant to suggest reality), he is today probably the most famous Jewish porn mogul. Seymore Inc., his production company, releases about 36 films annually, most of them shot for less than $15,000, each of them grossing more than 10 times that sum. Glasser employs 12 people, including his mother and cousin Stevie as respectively genial company accountant (and matchmaker for her single son) and lovable but roguish general gopher. Glasser currently even has his own reality TV show (also broadcast on Channel 4), a ten-episode docu-soap called Family Business, whose opening credits show Glasser’s barmitzvah photo.
In search of a buck
Jews became involved in the porn industry for much the same reasons that their co-religionists became involved in Hollywood. They were attracted to an industry primarily because it admitted them. Its newness meant that restrictive barriers had not yet been erected, as they had in so many other areas of American life. In porn, there was no discrimination against Jews. During the early part of the twentieth century, an entrepreneur did not require large sums of money to make a start in the film business; cinema was considered a passing fad. In the porn business, it was similarly straightforward to get going. To show ‘stag’ movies or loops, as they were known, all one needed was a projector, screen and a few chairs. Not tied up with the status quo and with nothing to lose by innovation, Jews were open to new ways of doing business. Gertzman explains that
"Jews, when they found themselves excluded from a field of endeavour, turned to a profession in which they sensed they could eventually thrive by cooperating with colleagues in a community of effort . . . Jews have for a very long time cultivated the temperament and talents of middlemen, and they are proud of these abilities".
The adult entertainment business required something that Jews possessed in abundance: chutzpah. Early Jewish pornographers were marketing geniuses and ambitious entrepreneurs whose toughness, intelligence and boundless self-confidence were responsible for their successes.
Of course, the large number of Jews in porn were mainly motivated by the desire to make profits. Just as their counterparts in Hollywood provided a dream factory for Americans, a blank screen upon which the Jewish moguls’ visions of America could be created and projected, so the porn-moguls displayed a talent for understanding public tastes. What better way to provide the stuff of dreams and fantasies than through the adult-entertainment industry? Performers did porn for the money. As ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman commented, ‘Those Jews who enter the pornography industry have done so as individuals pursuing the American dream.’
Secular sex
Like their mainstream counterparts, Jews who enter porn do not usually do so as representatives of their religious group. Most of the performers and pornographers are Jewish culturally but not religiously. Many are entirely secular, Jews in name only. Sturman, however, identified as a Jew - he was a generous donator to Jewish charities - and performer Richard Pacheco once interviewed to be a rabbinical student.
Very few, if any, porn films have overtly Jewish themes, although Jeremy once tried to get several Jewish porn stars together to make a kosher porn film. The exception is Debbie Duz Dishes, in which Nina Hartley plays a sexually insatiable Jewish housewife who enjoys sex with anyone who rings the doorbell. It has sold very well, spawned a couple of sequels and is currently very hard to buy - perhaps indicating a new niche to exploit. Indeed, according to an editorial on the World Union of Jewish Students website,
"there are thousands of people searching for Jewish porn. After things like Jewish calendar, Jewish singles, Jewish dating, and Jewish festivals comes ‘Jewish porn’ in the list of top search keywords that GoTo.com provide".
Sexual rebels
Is there a deeper reason, beyond the mere financial, as to why Jews in particular have become involved in porn? There is surely an element of rebellion in Jewish X-rated involvement. Its very taboo and forbidden nature serves to make it attractive. As I written in these pages before, treyf signifies ‘the whole world of forbidden sexuality, the sexuality of the goyim, and there all the delights are imagined to lie . . .’ (‘Reel Kashrut: Jewish food in film’, JQ 189 [Spring 2003]).
According to one anonymous industry insider quoted by E. Michael Jones in the magazine Culture Wars (May 2003), ‘the leading male performers through the 1980s came from secular Jewish upbringings and the females from Roman Catholic day schools’. The standard porn scenario became as a result a Jewish fantasy of schtupping the Catholic shiksa.
Furthermore, as Orthodox Jew and porn gossipmonger Luke Ford explains on his website (lukeford.net): ‘Porn is just one expression of [the] rebellion against standards, against the disciplined life of obedience to Torah that marks a Jew living Judaism.’ It is also a revolt against (often middle-class) parents who wish their children to be lawyers, doctors and accountants. As performer Bobby Astyr put it on the same website, ‘It’s an “up yours” to the uncles with the pinky rings who got down on me as a kid for wanting to be musician.’
As religious influences waned and were replaced by secular ones, free-thinking Jews, especially those from California’s Bay Area, viewed sex as a means of personal and political liberation. America provided the freest society Jews have ever known, as manifested by the growth of the adult industry. Those Jewish women who have sex onscreen certainly stand in sharp contradiction to the stereotype of the ‘Jewish American Princess’. They (and I’m speculating here) may have seen themselves as fulfilling the promise of liberation, emancipating themselves from what feminist Betty Friedan in 1963 called the ‘comfortable concentration camp’ of the household as they set out into the Promised Land of the porno sets of Southern California. It signified their economic and social freedom: they were free to choose to enter, rather than coerced into it by economic and other circumstances. Once they had lain down, they could stand on their own two feet, particularly as female performers typically earn twice as much as their male counterparts.
Sexual revolutionaries
Extending the subversive thesis, Jewish involvement in the X-rated industry can be seen as a proverbial two fingers to the entire WASP establishment in America. Some porn stars viewed themselves as frontline fighters in the spiritual battle between Christian America and secular humanism. According to Ford, Jewish X-rated actors often brag about their ‘joy in being anarchic, sexual gadflies to the puritanical beast’. Jewish involvement in porn, by this argument, is the result of an atavistic hatred of Christian authority: they are trying to weaken the dominant culture in America by moral subversion. Astyr remembers having ‘to run or fight for it in grammar school because I was a Jew. It could very well be that part of my porn career is an “up yours” to these people’. Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw, said (on lukeford.net), ‘The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don’t believe in authoritarianism.’ Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged. Porn is no longer of the ‘what the Butler saw’ voyeuristic type; instead, it is driven to new extremes of portrayal that stretch the boundaries of the porn aesthetic. As new sexual positions are portrayed, the desire to shock (as well as entertain) seems clear.
It is a case of the traditional revolutionary/radical drive of immigrant Jews in America being channelled into sexual rather than leftist politics. Just as Jews have been disproportionately represented in radical movements over the years, so they are also disproportionately represented in the porn industry. Jews in America have been sexual revolutionaries. A large amount of the material on sexual liberation was written by Jews. Those at the forefront of the movement which forced America to adopt a more liberal view of sex were Jewish. Jews were also at the vanguard of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and Paul Goodman replaced Marx, Trotsky and Lenin as required revolutionary reading. Reich’s central preoccupations were work, love and sex, while Marcuse prophesied that a socialist utopia would free individuals to achieve sexual satisfaction. Goodman wrote of the ‘beautiful cultural consequences’ that would follow from legalizing pornography: it would ‘ennoble all our art’ and ‘humanize sexuality’. Pacheco was one Jewish porn star who read Reich’s intellectual marriage of Freud and Marx (lukeford.net):
"Before I got my first part in an adult film, I went down to an audition for an X-rated film with my hair down to my ass, a copy of Wilhelm Reich’s Sexual Revolution under my arm and yelling about work, 'love and sex'."
As Rabbi Samuel H. Dresner put it (E. Michael Jones, ‘Rabbi Dresner’s Dilemma: Torah v. Ethnos’ Culture Wars, May 2003), ‘Jewish rebellion has broken out on several levels’, one being ‘the prominent role of Jews as advocates to sexual experimentation’. Overall, then, porn performers are a group of people who praise rebellion, self-fulfilment and promiscuity.
What are we ashamed of?
This brief overview and analysis of the role and motivations behind pornographers and performers is intended to shed light on a neglected topic in American Jewish popular culture. Little has been written about it. Books such as Howard M. Sachar’s A History of the Jews in America (New York: Knopf, 1992) simply ignore the topic. And you can bet that the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Jews in the United States did not include any celebrations of Jewish innovation in this field. Even the usually tolerant Time Out New York has been too prim to deal with it, although the more iconoclastic Heeb plans an issue on it. In light of the relatively tolerant Jewish view of sex, why are we ashamed of the Jewish role in the porn industry? We might not like it, but the Jewish role in this field has been significant and it is about time it was written about seriously.
Nathan Abrams is a Lecturer in Modern American History at the University of Aberdeen. He has just completed a book on neo-conservatism in the United States.

https://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articled325.html?articleid=38

Oi veh ! What's going on here ?

A message from history............................................

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

An aircraft carrier with no aircraft..................so they close down a large chunk of our advanced aircraft industry that produces jet fighters !

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PETER HITCHENS: An aircraft carrier with no jobs is the least of our worries...

I should have been thrilled by the maiden voyage of the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. I grew up among warships and naval bases and normally love such things. But I wasn’t. Partly it was the fact that, gigantic as she is, she has all the grace and style of a floating hypermarket, or a seaborne car park. When did we forget how to make ships look beautiful?

But much more important was the knowledge that this painfully expensive leviathan is worse than useless. We madly got rid of our Harriers, the only aircraft we had that could have flown from her decks.

An aircraft carrier which has no planes is a metaphor for uselessness, like a pub with no beer, or a car with no wheels. But that is not the most miserable thing about this event.

British Royal Navy aircfaft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth as she conducts vital system tests off the coast of Scotland

Even more important, it is almost a century since we were so unprepared, on land, at sea and in the air, for the unpredictable dangers we face. It has, by the way, been Tory governments, which preen themselves for their own supposed patriotism, who have reduced us to our present pitiful state. The Government knows it has done this.

Retired chiefs of all the Armed Services, speaking with immense knowledge and authority, have publicly warned about it in the House of Lords. Such men generally keep quiet. They must be genuinely distressed to have spoken out. What they say openly will be mild compared with the private views of current admirals, generals and air marshals.

So listen to Lord Craig of Radley, former Marshal of the RAF. Recalling how we were able to sustain severe losses in the Falklands and the first Gulf War because of carefully amassed reserves, he said: ‘Losses today, from a very much smaller order of battle than that of the Eighties, on a scale or rate such as those, would all too rapidly decimate our combat power, our resilience and our stamina.’

In other words, we simply do not now have enough kit to cope with a major war.

He added, tellingly, that it is not much use maintaining a nuclear deterrent unless we maintain our conventional strength as well.

HMS Queen Elizabeth as she conducts vital system tests off the coast of Scotland

Lord West of Spithead, a former First Sea Lord, had still worse news. He was even blunter: ‘The Navy has too few ships and men and is having to make incoherent cuts to keep within the budget.’ Important ships (including the former flagship HMS Ocean) were being paid off, and – astonishingly – we will not even have any surface-to-surface or air-to-surface missiles for the next few years. ‘This is not an abstract issue. For a number of years, we will have ships deployed around the globe that may suddenly come across an opponent because things have escalated, and they will have to fight. I have done this, as have many of us here. We will have ships sunk and people killed. I have been in that position. We are standing into danger.’

Lord West also rightly underlined the Navy’s severe manpower crisis. Years of cuts and skill shortages have made life almost intolerable for experienced men and women, seriously overworked, who have left the service and not been replaced. As for Britannia ruling the waves, forget it. Not long ago, the policy was that we should have roughly 50 major surface ships. Not now. Lord West revealed: ‘We have only 19 escorts. This is a national disgrace for our great maritime nation.’

Remember, these are not the words of some tub-thumper on a street corner, but of a senior naval officer of great knowledge and experience.

But I have not finished. Lord Dannatt, a former head of the Army, joined in the sad chorus. Warning that there were ‘just not enough’ serving soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, he was as plain as his brother officers, he said: ‘We have cut the size of the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force too far.’

Pointing out that one day we would need an army in a hurry, he said: ‘I worry about the number of soldiers that we have – or, particularly, do not have. We are carrying too much risk. The last Government from 2010 and this present Government might get away with it, but the future will catch us out at some point and the verdict of history will be damning.’

These are words that it took some courage to say and are far more important than most of the minor squabbles now dominating much of our political life. We have been warned. Do we act, or do we pretend we have not heard? We will pay for this, or our children will. We are standing into danger.

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BAE set to cut a total of 2000 job, claim firm

BAE are set to cut 2,000 jobs

BAE Systems is planning to cut almost 2,000 jobs in its military, maritime and intelligence services under moves to streamline its business and have a "sharper" competitive edge.
The biggest cutback will be in the military air business, with 1,400 jobs set to be axed across five sites over the next three years, including Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire, where the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft assembly takes place.
Jobs will also be cut at Brough in East Yorkshire and at RAF bases in Marham, Norfolk, and Leeming in North Yorkshire.
Around 375 proposed redundancies were announced in BAE's maritime servicing and support business, mainly affecting Portsmouth.
Some jobs will also go from the company's cyber intelligence business in London and Guildford.
Chief executive Charles Woodburn said: “BAE Systems is a world leader in technology, advanced manufacturing and engineering and our diverse portfolio provides a strong platform for future growth.
"The organisational changes we are announcing today accelerate our evolution to a more streamlined, de-layered organisation, with a sharper competitive edge and a renewed focus on technology.
"These actions will further strengthen our company as we deliver our strategy in a changing environment.

“Separately, we are also announcing actions at some of our UK sites to align our workforce capacity more closely with near-term demand and enhance our competitive position to secure new business.
"Those actions are necessary and the right thing to do for our company, but unfortunately include proposed redundancies at a number of operations.
"I recognise this will be difficult news for some of our employees and we are committed to do everything we can to support those affected.”

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/15586537.BAE_set_to_cut_a_total_of_2000_job__claim_firm/

NWN: The continual harassment of Army veterans some who left the army over 40 years ago and the continual cutting of our defences. Now this further example of the treason that they do. More evidence if evidence were needed, that the breaking up of the United Kingdom and making us entirely defenceless is continuing apace. Madness !!!!!

round 2,000 jobs to go at BAE Systems A BAE Systems Typhoon A BAE Systems Typhoon Tim Gavell Email Published: 10:13 Tuesday 10 October 2017 Share this article Union leaders have called upon the Government to intervene after BAE Systems revealed the full extent of its plans to cut jobs in Lancashire. The Unite union demanded that the Government end the uncertainty for thousands of BAE workers and manufacturing communities across Britain by committing to build the next generation fighter jet here in the UK. Yesterday the news leaked that the company was planning to cut more than 1,000 jobs, the bulk of which would be at the Warton and Samlesbury sites, due to the slowdown in orders for the Typhoon and Hawk aircraft. This morning the defence giant issued a trading update to the city which revealed that 2,000 jobs in its military, maritime and intelligence services will be axed under moves to streamline its business and have a "sharper" competitive edge. The biggest cutback will be in the military air business, with 1,400 jobs set to be axed across five sites over the next three years, including Warton and Samlesbury in Lancashire, where the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft assembly takes place. ADVERTISING Jobs will also be cut at Brough in East Yorkshire and at RAF bases in Marham, Norfolk, and Leeming in North Yorkshire. Around 375 proposed redundancies were announced in BAE's maritime servicing and support business, mainly affecting Portsmouth. Some jobs will also go from the company's cyber intelligence business in London and Guildford. BAE is facing an order gap for the Typhoon so production is being slowed ahead of an expected order from Qatar. Production of the Hawk jet aircraft is ending in the next few years, affecting the Brough site, although Qatar could place a new order which would keep production going until 2020. Around 400 redundancies are being planned at Brough. Most of the military air job cuts will go in 2018 and 2019, with some planned for 2020 and BAE said its goal is to achieve as many voluntary redundancies as possible. BAE's cyber intelligence business will cut 150 jobs, split between sites in London, Guildford in Surrey, and overseas. The total number of proposed redundancies is 1,915. Chief executive Charles Woodburn said: "The organisational changes we are announcing today accelerate our evolution to a more streamlined, de-layered organisation, with a sharper competitive edge and a renewed focus on technology. "These actions will further strengthen our company as we deliver our strategy in a changing environment." Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said: “The UK government can end the uncertainty surrounding the future of thousands of British BAE defence jobs at a stroke by committing to building the next generation fighter jets here in the UK. “Ministers should be under no illusion. Once these jobs are gone, they are gone for a generation and with them the skills and ability to control our own defence and manufacture the next generation of fighter jets and other defence equipment in the UK. “The ripple effects down the supply chain and through our manufacturing communities would be immense too, hitting the workforces in other cutting edge companies that are involved in the manufacture of one of the best fighter jets in the world, as well as depriving communities of decent well paid jobs. "These planned job cuts will not only undermine Britain's sovereign defence capability, but devastate communities across the UK who rely on these skilled jobs and the hope of a decent future they give to future generations. "These are world class workers with years of training and expertise on which an additional four jobs rely upon in the supply chain. "The UK government must take back control of our nation's defence and with it, play its part in supporting UK defence manufacturing jobs. "Too much taxpayers' money earmarked for defence spending is going to factories overseas. By 2020, 25p of every pound spent on UK defence spending will find its way to American factories alone rather than being spent here in the UK. "This state of affairs is not only hollowing out Britain's sovereign defence capability and British manufacturing, but leaving the nation's defence exposed to the whim of foreign powers and corporate interests. "The British government can and should do more to defend UK defence jobs by investing in Britain and committing that long-term projects, such as the next generation jet fighter, future support vessels and Type 31e frigate are built here in the UK. "A failure to do so and take back control of our own defence needs will be a complete betrayal of the Government's primary responsibility to defend our nation and destroy decent jobs, skills and the communities that support them in the process."

Read more at: http://www.lep.co.uk/news/business/around-2-000-jobs-to-go-at-bae-systems-1-8796462

Wednesday, October 04, 2017

News

British Home Secretary to Lock Herself Up?

When you avoid the obvious answers to terrorism, you end up tying yourself in some pretty strange knots.

Ruddy Hell!

There is a good reason that George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” was written in the UK. This was because there is definitely something “Orwellian” about a lot of Brits, like, for example, the present Home Secretary (Minister of the Interior) Amber Rudd.
Even though she comes from what is technically the “center-right” Conservative Party, Rudd is one of those dead-eyed apparatchiks who believes that ever-increasing state power, censorship, and “thought crime” legislation will move us all one step closer to the beautiful multicultural utopia that we have been denied for so long.
Her latest Orwellian initiative is to push for a ludicrous tightening of the law that could see people jailed for up to 15 years merely for viewing “terrorist” content online. For comparison, think about some of the ridiculously lenient sentences handed out to grooming rape gangs and people who lock women in their car boots.
Speaking at the Conservative Party conference, Rudd shared her anarcho-tyrannical vision with the press:

“I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law,” said Rudd. “There is currently a gap in the law around material [that] is viewed or streamed from the internet without being permanently downloaded. This is an increasingly common means by which material is accessed online for criminal purposes and is a particularly prevalent means of viewing extremist material such as videos and web pages.”

What laudable aims! What noble goals!
Of course, the British government would never in a million years think of using such an open-ended and subjectively interpreted law for locking up someone it just didn’t like, now, would it? And, naturally, it would never stoop to using such a nebulous law as a convenient way to balance the “oppression books” by locking up a few harmless White people so that actually dangerous minorities didn’t feel too “discriminated” against.
I mean it’s not like the Home Office abused its power to ban potential terrorists from traveling to the UK when they also banned the likes of Richard Spencer, Matthew Heimbach, and Pamela Geller from entering the country, is it? I mean all those people are exactly on a par with ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists and their groupies, except possibly for the lack of UK funding.
Really, I would be all for the law if only it were imposed objectively, with everyone who repeatedly viewed actual terrorist content being locked behind bars — that would, of course, include the Home Secretary herself, who, as part of her job, has to repeatedly view terrorist material. I mean she must be completely radicalized into hating her own people by now. It certainly looks like it.
https://altright.com/2017/10/04/british-home-secretary-to-lock-herself-up/

NWN: But what about the UK Government allowing and encouraging the 2,000 + Al Qaida people that included the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi to actually live and still live in Manchester and which they have done for over 20 years ? And then either denying this, or ignoring this info and ensuring this information never really got out ? Because if the 'controlled media' allowed this info to get out properly as it should the Government would fall.Both Labour and Conservative parties would find numerous of their number in jail.Bloody hell, even the BBC has alluded to this but this has never been allowed to be developed as a story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-40037830

Also see this video;

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