Man who ran over girl freed

An asylum seeker who knocked down a 12-year-old girl in Lancashire and left her to die while banned from driving has been freed from detention pending an appeal.
Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 31, was due to be deported after he was taken into the custody of the UK Borders Agency last October.

But the Iraqi Kurd claims it is too dangerous to return to his homeland and won a court appeal against being detained ahead of a final ruling on whether he can stay in Britain.

Amy Houston, of Darwen, was trapped beneath the wheels of Ibrahim's vehicle in November 2003 and died later in hospital.

Ibrahim, who ran off from the accident scene, was jailed for four months by Blackburn magistrates for driving while disqualified and failing to stop after an accident.

Amy's family have campaigned for his deportation since her death but Ibrahim has fought a lengthy appeals process to stay.

A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "We are extremely disappointed at the court's decision -- the UK Border Agency vigorously opposed bail for this man.

"Individuals with no right to remain in the UK will sometimes attempt to frustrate the removals process, but the public can rest assured that we will continue to work towards their removal as quickly as possible, presenting our position strongly at any appeals to ensure the appropriate outcome." continues here

Thought police muscle up in Britain

BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.

There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.

Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution's principal tasks was "to alter people's actual psychology". Britain is not Bolshevik, but a campaign to alter people's psychology and create a new Homo britannicus is under way without even a fig leaf of disguise.

The Government is pushing ahead with legislation that will criminalise politically incorrect jokes, with a maximum punishment of up to seven years' prison. The House of Lords tried to insert a free-speech amendment, but Justice Secretary Jack Straw knocked it out. It was Straw who previously called for a redefinition of Englishness and suggested the "global baggage of empire" was linked to soccer violence by "racist and xenophobic white males". He claimed the English "propensity for violence" was used to subjugate Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that the English as a race were "potentially very aggressive".

In the past 10 years I have collected reports of many instances of draconian punishments, including the arrest and criminal prosecution of children, for thought-crimes and offences against political correctness.

Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government's anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire in 2002: "If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you." Page was arrested, and after four months he received a letter saying no charges would be pressed, but that: "If further evidence comes to our attention whereby your involvement is implicated, we will seek to initiate proceedings." It took him five years to clear his name.

Page was at least an adult. In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher's first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: "It's racist, you're going to get done by the police!" Upset and terrified, the schoolgirl went outside to calm down. The teacher called the police and a few days later, presumably after officialdom had thought the matter over, she was arrested and taken to a police station, where she was fingerprinted and photographed. According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge. The school was said to be investigating what further action to take, not against the teacher, but against Stott. Headmaster Anthony Edkins reportedly said: "An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark. We aim to ensure a caring and tolerant attitude towards pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and will not stand for racism in any form."

A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boya "Paki" and "bin Laden" during a playground argument at a primary school (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000. The accused was so distressed that he had stopped attending school. The judge, Jonathan Finestein, said: "Have we really got to the stage where we are prosecuting 10-year-old boys because of political correctness? There are major crimes out there and the police don't bother to prosecute. This is nonsense."

Finestein was fiercely attacked by teaching union leaders, as in those witch-hunt trials where any who spoke in defence of an accused or pointed to defects in the prosecution were immediately targeted as witches and candidates for burning.

Hate-crime police investigated Basil Brush, a puppet fox on children's television, who had made a joke about Gypsies. The BBC confessed that Brush had behaved inappropriately and assured police that the episode would be banned.

A bishop was warned by the police for not having done enough to "celebrate diversity", the enforcing of which is now apparently a police function. A Christian home for retired clergy and religious workers lost a grant because it would not reveal to official snoopers how many of the residents were homosexual. That they had never been asked was taken as evidence of homophobia.

Muslim parents who objected to young children being given books advocating same-sex marriage and adoption at one school last year had their wishes respected and the offending material withdrawn. This year, Muslim and Christian parents at another school objecting to the same material have not only had their objections ignored but have been threatened with prosecution if they withdraw their children.

There have been innumerable cases in recent months of people in schools, hospitals and other institutions losing their jobs because of various religious scruples, often, as in the East Germany of yore, not shouted fanatically from the rooftops but betrayed in private conversations and reported to authorities. The crime of one nurse was to offer to pray for a patient, who did not complain but merely mentioned the matter to another nurse. A primary school receptionist, Jennie Cain, whose five-year-old daughter was told off for talking about Jesus in class, faces the sack for seeking support from her church. A private email from her to other members of the church asking for prayers fell into the hands of school authorities.

Permissiveness as well as draconianism can be deployed to destroy socially accepted norms and values. The Royal Navy, for instance, has installed a satanist chapel in a warship to accommodate the proclivities of a satanist crew member. "What would Nelson have said?" is a British newspaper cliche about navy scandals, but in this case seems a legitimate question. Satanist paraphernalia is also supplied to prison inmates who need it. continues here

Now let them stay! Humiliating defeat for Brown forces rethink over Gurkhas... but news comes too late for one hero

• 'Elation' as furious MPs turn on Government over its betrayal of veterans
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• But sadness for the 'exemplary' Gurkha who died without knowing he had won his last battle

Gordon Brown is under overwhelming pressure to scrap 'offensive' rules barring Gurkhas from Britain after Labour rebels dealt him a crushing Commons defeat.

He paid a heavy price for attempting to introduce guidelines preventing thousands of veterans who had risked their lives for this country settling here with their families.

In a sign of his faltering authority, a total of 27 Labour MPs rebelled, including a ministerial aide who quit. Following a heated two-hour debate called by the Lib Dems, MPs voted to scrap the rules by 267 to 246.

The result was symbolic as it is not binding on the Government. But it sent out an unmistakable message to Mr Brown that he urgently needs to rethink the Home Office guidelines amidst widespread public anger.

The result was announced amid shouts for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who is responsible for immigration rules, to resign.

The Labour rebels included Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz, ministerial aide Stephen Pound and former cabinet minister Andrew Smith.

Mr Pound said he had resigned as a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Work and Pensions to vote against the Government.

As many as 75 Labour MPs were understood to have abstained in a further sign of the Prime Minister's diminishing authority. This took the total number of Labour members who failed to vote with the Government to over 100.

In an emergency statement to the Commons last night, Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said 1,350 outstanding applications by Gurkhas to stay in the UK would be determined by the end of May.

He said proposals to reform the rules would be published before the summer break in July.

The High Court last year declared that preventing Gurkhas who had served in the Army before 1997 from living in the UK was unlawful.

Last Friday the Government came up with a new set of rules which campaigners said would allow only 100 veterans who were war heroes or badly injured to live in Britain.

Yesterday's vote brought cheers from 1,000 Gurkhas who had gathered outside Parliament.


Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and Tory leader David Cameron joined actress Joanna Lumley, who had campaigned on behalf of the Gurkhas, as she held aloft the regiment's distinctive Kukri knife in victory.

Mr Clegg, who had secured the emergency debate championing the Gurkhas' cause, said: 'This is a great, great day for everyone who believes in fairness and decency in this country.

'This is the kind of thing that I think people want this country to do - pay back our obligations and our debt of gratitude to generations of Gurkhas who laid down their lives for this country. People who are willing to die for our country should be allowed to live in our country.'

Earlier, Mr Clegg had torn into Mr Brown during Prime Minister's Questions, accusing him of 'doing a shameful thing' but not having 'the guts to admit it or change it'. He said it was symptomatic of a leader with 'no principles and no courage.'

The complex new guidelines state that Gurkha veterans who retired from the British Army before 1997 can stay only if they can prove a sufficiently 'strong connection' with the country.

The case must be made through bravery medals, combat injuries or serving at least 20 years, although soldiers from other Commonwealth countries can apply for UK residency after just four years in the Army.

The Government says about 6,000 Gurkhas and their family members have already been allowed to come to Britain under changes since 1997. The new guidance will allow in a further 10,000, including dependants, ministers argue.

Mr Brown claimed that axing the rules would open the door to 100,000 Gurkhas and their dependants, costing the taxpayer £1.4billion. But representatives of the Gurkhas believe that even if the rules are axed completely, no more than 6,000 would want to move to Britain.

Using Government figures, this would cost the country £230million - less than half of the £540million wrongly paid to Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance claimants last year.

Furious MPs from all parties turned on the Government over their 'betrayal' of the veterans.

LibDem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: 'We can play the numbers game, and if we do the Government will lose the argument because its figures, frankly, are fantasy.

'But the numbers are not the point. The point is a simple one. It is that Gurkhas have given an unconditional commitment to this country. They have put their lives on the line for us time and again.'

Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green said: 'The underlying reason why the Government is having to behave in such an unfair and ungenerous way to this group of people is that its overall immigration policy has been out of control for so many years.

'It boils down to this. Why are they trying to stop Gurkhas coming here? Because they have failed to stop so many much less deserving people from coming here - and what is worse, staying here.'

Mr Cameron said: 'Today is a historic day when Parliament took the right decision. The Government now have got to come back with immediate proposals.

'Gordon Brown has misjudged the mood of the public about the Gurkhas. The Government has been in power for a long time and has lost touch with public opinion.'

Miss Lumley, whose late father Major James Rutherford Lumley served with the 6th Gurkha Rifles, said she and everyone involved in the campaign were 'elated'.

'Just before this vote was taken our spirits were nearly at zero,' she said.

'When it came through I can't tell you the sense of elation, the sense of pride - pride in our country, pride in the democratic system and pride in our Parliament.' continues here

So what do you think, should the Gurkhas come here, so many voices cry out in support all citing bravery as reason, so what is your view, surely in times past they fought alongside us but didn’t others, are we to permit the influx of mass non-whites merely because at one time or another we fought together, in that case lets bring in the world, lets sink Britannia under a sea of wriggling brown bodies.

Nepal is a poor country, four in ten live in poverty and the income received from salaries and pensions paid by the British government is vital to some families and tribes, moreover, available places for military personnel are limited and highly oversubscribed, many rather crestfallen young men must return to the hills empty handed. We see from this, that rather than bravery or patriotism the initial motivation is purely financial, there can be no doubt that at certain times the Gurkhas have acted bravely, many beyond the call of duty, yet individual valour occurs across all sections of society.

Many individuals of all races and creeds display courage, bravery, what makes the Gurkha any different, after all shouldn’t we questioning our exploitation of these people rather than shipping them in to further erode our resources. They fought one must remember, not for the flag but for the money, the complete reverse of why most of our own youth enter the services, many motivated by patriotism, although poverty amongst the working classes plays its part. Hopefully the working class has learned its lesson and it will never again fight or bear arms for tyranny, though I fear this is a wish rather than a statement of truth.

It is my view that the Ghurkhas warrant no special treatment, that they as with others only wish to comer here to escape their own countries failings, again perhaps a building up of infrastructure, rather than importing a problem may be the answer. We have no room, we face the impending danger of extinction and yet still we bring in more, still we the people, let them seal our fate. So no, much as I admire and respect their proud history, much as I comprehend the many occasions of bravery, I still after all, can not sanction the importation of alien elements into the country, all again hell-bent on availing themselves of our resources, so what do you think?

Recession could spark riots and civil disorder, minister warns

The recession could tip Britain towards riots and civil disorder unless voluntary organisations are handed extra resources, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears warned today.

Promising to come up with sustainable sources of funds by the summer, Ms Blears said the economic downturn could either drive communities apart or bring them closer together.

‘Economic recession has the power to do one of two things to a society,’ she told Community Service Volunteers (CSV) in the Edith Kahn Lecture.

‘It can either drive people apart, with an increase in distrust between individuals, more naked competition for jobs, and a fracturing of community spirit.

‘We witnessed this in the 1980s and early 1990s, and at its most extreme, it culminated in cars and buildings burning on the streets of Brixton, Birmingham, and Liverpool.

‘In some wards in my own city of Salford, we had 50 per cent male unemployment, and it has taken a decade to repair the damage.

‘Or economic recession can be the catalyst for communities to come together, for neighbours to construct new forms of collaboration, and for citizens to discover new reserves of courage and kindness.

‘Which end of this spectrum we tilt towards will depend on a decisive factor: the role of the government in valuing volunteering, in creating space for local action, and in promoting innovation and experimentation.’

As well as transferring assets such as disused buildings, markets and leisure centres to community groups, they needed to be assured of the funding needed to make proper use of them, she will say.

She had asked her officials to ‘bring forward by the summer a package of measures to give communities sustainable sources of income, through the recession, and into the recovery.

‘In the wake of our mistrust of global financial institutions, there are new opportunities now for community shares and bonds, U.S.-style community reinvestment programmes and a much closer look on how we measure the social return on public investment.’

‘The US Community Investment Act, whereby financial institutions must plough some of their profits into communities, might serve as an interesting starting point,’ she will suggest.

‘My conviction is that our route through this recession must be characterised by greater devolution of power, and more opportunities for communities to take control.

‘Not “on your bike” like previous recessions, but how can we help you open a bike repair workshop, start a social enterprise to encourage cycling, start a bike-share scheme in your neighbourhood.

‘In the light of the failure of the institutions of the free market, these institutions of co-operation are truly in tune with the spirit of the age.’

She will concede that the row over MPs’ expenses and the ‘smeargate’ scandal were ‘as corrosive to our democracy as the row over bankers’ bonuses and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Woolworths and so on is corrosive to our economy’ but will express hope that they will prove a turning point.

‘My hope is that the public’s response to the crisis of legitimacy characterising our politics will be as constructive as at the moments of fulcrum in our democratic development: when rejection of the Rotten Boroughs led to the Reform Acts, or when women’s demands led to us getting the vote.

‘I am optimistic that the long, loud howl of outrage at the state of our politics can find practical expression through positive reform of the political system.’

Liz Atkins, director of public policy at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations said: 'Hazel Blears is absolutely right.

'As we have always argued, voluntary and community organisations will play a critical role in supporting communities through the recession. continues here

Girl, 15, 'raped near Burnley mosque'

A 15-year-old girl was raped by a man after he dragged her down a Burnley back street late at night, a jury was told.

The girl, who had earlier been with friends at a youth club, was said to have been walking alone up the slope to Daneshouse Road, speaking to a friend on her mobile, when Muhaamed Ansari, 34, struck next to a mosque, Burnley Crown Court heard.

The hearing was told how the alleged victim, who told police she had had a litre and a half of vodka, was said to have arrived home just after midnight crying and shaking after the incident in February last year.

Ansari was arrested the next day when he pulled up to speak to a police officer who was driving the 15-year-old around the area to see if she could identify her alleged attacker. Ansari, of Allen Street, Burnley, denies rape.

The jury was told Ansari allegedly took the girl’s mobile phone off her, turned it off and gave it her back.

He is said to have raped her on a pathway which ran between the mosque and sheltered housing in Hebrew Road. continues here

Anti-Israel protesters in Edinburgh face racism charges

Four protesters who tried to disrupt an Israeli music concert in Edinburgh are due to appear in court next month to face racist allegations.

The new accusations on charges of breaching the peace were dropped last month against Michael Napier, 62, Kevin Connor, 39, Niel Forbes, 54, Vanesa Fuertes, 34, and Sofia Macleod, 38.

The case against the four, who are members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), relates to a demonstration again a performance by the Jerusalem String Quartet in the Scottish capital last August.

The SPSC has reacted strongly against the new charges of allegedly following a racist course of conduct or acting in a racially aggravated manner, while the two men and two women have denied committing any offense.

"We just think it's totally ridiculous. Our actions and campaigning are based on international human rights," Macleod told the Scotsman newspaper. "There is no question whatsoever that any of our actions are racist in any way," she said.

It was claimed the four caused alarm and distress to the musicians and audience by shouting at the players while they were performing at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall.

The protesters, who reportedly numbered several dozen, claimed the musicians were affiliated to the Israeli Army and said they wanted to raise awareness of the plight of Palestinians.

The picket outside the concert hall came after the SPSC lobbied for the performance to be canceled, but organizers and managers of the venue, which is owned by the city council, decided to go ahead with the show. continues here

Stephen Lawrence national day for UK

Murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence should be commemorated with a national day, his mother told MPs yesterday.

Doreen Lawrence wants the US-style honour to recognise the huge changes his killing brought about.

Stephen, 18, was stabbed at a bus stop in South London in a suspected racist attack in April 1993. None of his killers were brought to justice. But his death lead to an investigation into the Metropolitan Police by Sir William Macpherson in which he famously branded the force "institutionally racist".

His report lead to big efforts to recruit black and Asian officers and change Met culture.

Mrs Lawrence said: "Stephen's name has produced a lot of changes. What I feel would be nice is a Stephen Lawrence Day. I'm not saying we should have a public holiday but a day that recognised his name and the achievements that have come out of his name." She told the Commons Home Affairs select committee at a hearing to mark the 10th anniversary of Macpherson, that police still often assume black victims are linked to crime and treat families like witnesses not grieving relatives. continues here

Should we have a Stephen Lawrence national day?

Now even Top Gear could fall foul of Harman sexism law

The BBC and Channel 4 could be forced to use more female and ethnic characters and presenters in TV shows under controversial reforms of equality laws.

The change could hit programmes such as Top Gear, which has an all-male presenting team, and EastEnders, which has screened episodes featuring all-black, all-Asian and all-female casts.

State-funded organisations are being ordered to boost the proportion of female, black and gay staff to reflect the make-up of the UK population under plans unveiled by Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman.

But there are fears that the decision not to exempt broadcasters from the proposals in the Government's Equality Bill will compromise their editorial independence.

Critics fear programmes will be forced to hire actors, presenters and producers on grounds of gender, ethnic background or sexuality, rather than suitability for the show.

Now Tory culture spokesman Jeremy Hunt has written to Miss Harman and Culture Secretary Andy Burnham highlighting the 'very serious implications' of the shake-up.

Mr Hunt said: 'Allowing broadcasters creative and intellectual freedom over the content of their programmes is vital in a free society.

'Both the BBC and Channel 4 have an important role in focusing attention on important social issues, but editorial independence must be sacrosanct.'

He added: 'In terms of their public functions, such as their employment and procurement practices, they should act as any other public authority. However, for the sake of editorial independence their content is another matter.'

The Equality Bill, which was unveiled on Monday, encourages employers to take 'positive action' to widen diversity in the public-sector workforce.

Earlier this month a leading academic said the BBC should employ more women to help make shows such as Top Gear 'female-friendly'.

Dr Louise Livesey, tutor in sociology and women's studies at Ruskin College, Oxford, accused the BBC2 motoring programme of 'entrenched, institutional sexism'.

As well as being hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, the Sunday night show has a 'boys' club' production team and fewer female than male guests.

But executive producer Andy Wilman claimed it was 'utter drivel' to suggest that Top Gear excluded women, saying: 'If the show is allegedly female-unfriendly, why is almost half the audience female?

'Secondly, if we are to have a female presenter just to represent the sexes, then by that logic Loose Women needs a bloke in the line-up pretty sharpish.

'I actually believe these sorts of mandates are patronising to women viewers, because they assume that women can't enjoy a show's presenters on merit, but can only appreciate a programme if spoken to by one of their own sex.' continues here

Strong Message on Racism Sent From Top Models Direct to Fashion Industry

The world of high fashion may have begun to embrace models from all ethnic backgrounds, but according to supermodel Naomi Campbell, there is still a long way to go.

 In a recent interview in Glamour magazine, Campbell spoke candidly about how she has to work harder than her Caucasian colleagues to be treated equally. 

She has worked hard to establish her very successful modelling career, but she believes that favouritism for "blond, blue-eyed models" over women of colour in general is still all too common in the fashion industry.

"You know, the American president may be black, but as a black woman, I am still an exception in this business. I always have to work harder to be treated equally," she says. “In magazines, on the catwalk, I see blond, blue-eyed models everywhere."

The issue of racial discrimination in the fashion industry has long been a hot topic. While a number of black women have managed to launch high profile successful modelling careers, for example Campbell, Liya Kebede, Tyson Beckford, Noemi Lenoir and Chanel Iman, white models still make up the vast majority of catwalk models.

It is clear that while breakthroughs have been made in the past, the fashion industry is still a long way from fully embracing and reflecting modern society’s ethnic diversity.

Things are a little better in other areas of the modelling industry outside high fashion, according to Managing Director at UK modelling agency Models Direct Damian O’Connor. continues here

UK govt urged to ease limits on Gurkhas in Britain

Opposition parties and some government lawmakers called on the British government Wednesday to ease restrictions on the right of Nepalese Gurkha soldiers to settle in the country.
The opposition is urging authorities to overturn a recent decision which loosened, but didn't eliminate, immigration restrictions for the Nepalese veterans of Britain's armed forces.
Several Labour Party lawmakers were expected to defy the government and vote with the opposition following a debate on the issue in the House of Commons later Wednesday. Any vote would not be binding, but a defeat would embarrass Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour government.
We should be honoring our veterans, not rejecting them, said Labour legislator Martin Salter.
The government says new rules announced last week will allow about 4,000 more former Gurkhas to live in Britain. But Gurkha advocates say the actual number is much smaller.
The Nepalese soldiers have fought for Britain for almost 200 years, most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, and have a reputation as fearsome warriors. They enjoy wide public support in Britain.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said there was a simple moral principle at stake.
If someone is prepared to die for this country, surely they are entitled to live in this country, Clegg said during the prime minister's weekly question-and-answer session in the Commons.
Immigration rules introduced five years ago allowed Gurkhas with at least four years' service to settle in Britain, but the rules didn't apply to veterans who left the army before 1997.

Under the new rules, Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 _ more than 30,000, according to government estimates _ can settle in Britain if certain conditions are met. Those could include having served 20 years, receiving a military award or having been injured while serving. continues here

We need to wake up and tackle BNP poison head on

Unless the rest of us get our act together, the British National party could easily win three seats - and quite possibly six or more - in June's European elections. To win in the north-west it needs just 8% of the vote, barely 1.5% more than it got in 2004 - the days of near full employment and before the credit crunch; in the West Midlands only an extra 1.6%; and in Yorkshire and the Humber just 4.3% more. Recently the party has won council seats in byelections, polling - according to the BBC - an average of 14% in 60 wards: close to the threshold necessary to get a seat in almost every European constituency in Britain.

Electorally the BNP has become the most successful fascist party in Britain, gaining 800,000 votes in the 2004 European elections and 238,000 votes in the 2006 local elections - up from 3,022 six years earlier. And last year it won its first seat in the London assembly, doubling its support to 130,000 votes. And now the BNP is looking to benefit from a collapsing Ukip vote; in 2004 the combined BNP-Ukip vote stood at 21%.

Winning European seats would secure an unprecedented platform, and entitle the BNP to draw hundreds of thousands of euros from Brussels indirectly to buttress its full-time personnel and organisation. At the moment, apparently, the BNP's sole London member has to spend much of his time building up support for the party outside London.

It would also be able to work with other far-right and fascist parties in Europe, as Jean-Marie Le Pen's party has done from its base in France since winning 10 European seats in 1984.

With unemployment and job insecurity rising, some major construction sites appearing to bar local unionised labour, and affordable housing in short supply, there are classic conditions for the BNP's racist and fascist politics to thrive.

Thirty years ago rising unemployment and economic decline under Labour saw the BNP's predecessor, the National Front, also do worryingly well in elections. I helped to found the Anti-Nazi League in 1977 to target the National Front, and a mass campaign helped to put it out of business a few years later. Anti-Nazi League supporters developed their own initiatives, from Miners Against the Nazis to Skinheads Against the Nazis. There was even a Skateboarders Against the Nazis. With its sister group Rock Against Racism, the ANL organised huge national carnivals and local gigs, as rock music culture reaching millions was successfully fused with radical politics that traditionally had reached only thousands.

The lesson of the Anti-Nazi League's success is that the BNP needs to be confronted wherever its supporters march or appear in public; and they must also be denied platforms to spread their hate. This was the lesson of the 1930s when Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley targeting Jewish communities in London's East End were physically stopped in Cable Street in October 1936.

But the BNP leaders are more sophisticated than the old National Front. They wear suits rather than openly flirt with nazism. They sound smooth and plausible on radio or TV. They are exploiting alienation from Westminster politics, particularly among the white working class.

Yet their politics are fundamentally similar: the scapegoating of black people, Muslims, Jews, foreigners, gays and lesbians for social and economic problems. Whenever they are ascendant locally, racial violence and racial hatred are barely beneath the surface.

Although desperate to conceal its fascist and racist instincts, the BNP is the National Front reincarnated - albeit using modern spin and the internet, coupled with a community-based politics that thrives on grievances about "British jobs for British workers".

To confront the BNP's threat, the priority must be grassroots campaigning. Labour must win back trust by fielding candidates rooted in their communities and pledged to deliver on local issues. That was successful in Tameside, Keighley and Telford, for example - but sadly not in Sevenoaks last February, where the BNP took a "safe" Labour ward.

All the main parties, Labour especially, must shake off their complacency and take on the BNP directly. Its poison should be combated on the doorstep, through leafleting and campaigning. Labour candidates and campaigners should work with those from Unite Against Fascism (uaf.org.uk) and Stop the BNP (stopthebnp.org.uk). Both organisations are mobilising a new generation of activists and concerned people from trade unions, churches and other organisations. continues here

You see they tell us we live in a democracy, that each man has a voice and then, they tell us who to vote for, more than even this they launch a campaign of smears, lies and intimidation against their opposition. The British National Party need to succeed in this election, they need to get at least one MEP elected, this augments party funding and will perhaps help to disseminate, at the very least a quasi-nationalist message. It is of the utmost importance, that the stranglehold upon this nation, be broken and we must do whatever it takes in order to make it so.

I could rail all day about the BNP’s direction, about their lack of advocacy of the race realist position, “although I have to say, “this may of changed of late”, I could jump really quite easily, upon many of the anti-griffin bandwagons however, I simply don’t care. I take my position, from what I perceive to be right for the people, sometimes this means I take a contrary BNP line and at other times not, in this instance, placing even populist nationalism within the very citadels of power can only aid nationalism and indeed the people.

It may very well be that once they are there, if they go that far, I may lament their inaction or disagree with their approach however, just in them achieving victory in the forth-coming elections, may give hope to the many millions left behind in this race to dystopia. We must I believe, support, encourage and indeed promote the BNP in their endeavours, to do otherwise aids no-one, no-one that is except the current regime, of course in return for support the BNP must address issues of concern, primarily at least to me the race issue.

We're Back

Welcome to the new, revamped and hopefully improved Awaiting A Western Renaissance, its taken nearly two days, to almost completely alter her and I hope that you the reader find the new look to your liking. Many aspects remain the same, in relation to post pages, although the site itself has I, believe utterly changed, there is a better navigation system with dropdown tabbing, a large and vastly extended footer to display pertinent information, it is a little easier on the eye and I believe overall more accessible.

Some things have been lost, working to display as a web 2.0 compliant site, taking on board some aspects has meant some loss, I believe that sites these days have lost the idea of scope and almost all newly developed sites, seem considerably smaller in size. None more so than weblogs, for this reason, I had thought of what is known as a magazine style layout, creating a page chock full of divided content, however, in the end I opted for user accessibility, losing even when pitted against the old look AAWR, the sense of space.

So I needed AAWR to function cross browser, as we had, had some difficulty with MSIE prior, further, I wanted AAWR to present as modern, tidy and user friendly, “as much as it can be on Blogger”. So quite simply layout was quite important and I believe we have achieved our aim, some abilities we were unable to do with the old layout we are now able, such as post truncating, in order to load faster and present better to the eye. As previously stated we now have an extensive footer section, an impossibly with the old template, I believe the navigation section is much better than the old HTML coded dropdowns ,although I still use them on post pages to display links and suchlike.

Hard work:

I find that this layout to has some issues with the Blogger platform, primarily, that it fails completely to respond to the drag and drop facility offered by Blogger, so consequently it is impossible to move elements to a new layout and save them, this means much hard work merely to present elements in the right order. Also Blogger displays the backend as too wide and one finds that they have to scroll some considerable distance to use any functions. This of course is due to styling issues between one or the other most probably with AAWR as a site such as this was never meant for Blogger.

Blogger is a rudimentary platform in comparison to other platforms, it has some catching up to do in comparison with other providers however, Blogger seems at least to some degree, to uphold the concept of free-speech, when set against other providers. Another aspect is that Blogger is continually improving, currently a “read more for posts” is not offered as it is on other platforms and one must hack into site coding to provide it for readers, in fact almost all of the changes one can implement involve substantial re-coding in order to achieve them.

Yet in the case of AAWR I believe it to be worth it, after all the public have been trained to reject the nationalist message, so it is in our interest to at least attempt to maintain a well-presented site, in order to in some way, negate such programming. Of course the vast majority of users pass on by, never to return, must will not even take the time to read articles or engage with the site, yet some may very well have their eyes opened and it is for them that AAWR exists.
It is not for the nationalist per-se, quite simply because preaching to the already converted serves little purpose, although it does help to form our community bonds and present us as a united voice to opposition. No, AAWR I hope, could serve to awaken at least one or two individuals to our plight that is the reasoning behind it, to steal a march whilst we can, on the owned press and present our case whilst time permits.

So I would hope that regular readers like the new design, I shall place a poll at the end of this post for user feedback, please remember to bookmark AAWR and interact with the site, it both makes for a better user experience and our job worthwhile. In order to facilitate interaction, I have placed the comment form below posts (on post pages), this means that readers can stay upon the site to post without pop-ups. Also I have added a newsletter facility so that readers can stay abreast when away from home, the topic area still needs work however the site is to the best of my knowledge functional.

Currently it is in an embryonic stage, in need of content, so if you feel you can help please contact us, also try if you can to promote the site, link to it, tell friends and those who may find it of interest. For now I am done, two days work, I’m tired and if I ever look at code again, why I’ll, I’ll…

What do you think of our new look?

Jury sees Kinsella stab footage

CCTV footage of teenager Ben Kinsella moments after he was fatally stabbed has been shown to a jury in the trial of three men charged with his murder.

The 16-year-old was stabbed 11 times after leaving a bar in Islington in June last year, the Old Bailey heard.

Juress Kika, 19, and Michael Alleyne, 18, and Jade Braithwaite, 20, all from London, have all pleaded not guilty to his murder.

Ben's sister, former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella, was also in court.

'Argument broke out'

The court heard that Ben died after leaving the Shillibeers bar in York Way on 29 June 2008.

An argument had broken out in the bar between a youth known only as Alfie and a friend of Mr Braithwaite's named Osman Ozdemir, the court heard.

Prosecuting, Nicholas Hilliard QC said: "Alfie and Ben Kinsella knew each other although Ben Kinsella was not part of the dispute."

A boy called Michael allegedly heard Mr Braithwaite say: "Tell your boy if he wants trouble, I've got my tool on me and it will open you up."

The court heard that Ben and his friends left the bar shortly before 0200 BST, when they were chased by the defendants. They allegedly caught up with Ben and killed him.

Mr Hilliard said: "They managed to catch up with the deceased, knocked him from his feet at the rear of a parked van and, as he lay on the ground, launched a lethal attack upon him in which a total of 11 stab wounds were inflicted."

One of the stab wounds was to Ben's heart, two went into his lungs and damaged an artery, the court heard.

CCTV footage showed Ben stumbling from behind a van after being fatally wounded.

Mr Hilliard added: "No-one suggests Ben Kinsella was anything other than totally blameless. continues here

Jury sees Kinsella stab footage

CCTV footage of teenager Ben Kinsella moments after he was fatally stabbed has been shown to a jury in the trial of three men charged with his murder.

The 16-year-old was stabbed 11 times after leaving a bar in Islington in June last year, the Old Bailey heard.

Juress Kika, 19, and Michael Alleyne, 18, and Jade Braithwaite, 20, all from London, have all pleaded not guilty to his murder.

Ben's sister, former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella, was also in court.

'Argument broke out'

The court heard that Ben died after leaving the Shillibeers bar in York Way on 29 June 2008.

An argument had broken out in the bar between a youth known only as Alfie and a friend of Mr Braithwaite's named Osman Ozdemir, the court heard.

Prosecuting, Nicholas Hilliard QC said: "Alfie and Ben Kinsella knew each other although Ben Kinsella was not part of the dispute."

A boy called Michael allegedly heard Mr Braithwaite say: "Tell your boy if he wants trouble, I've got my tool on me and it will open you up."

The court heard that Ben and his friends left the bar shortly before 0200 BST, when they were chased by the defendants. They allegedly caught up with Ben and killed him.

Mr Hilliard said: "They managed to catch up with the deceased, knocked him from his feet at the rear of a parked van and, as he lay on the ground, launched a lethal attack upon him in which a total of 11 stab wounds were inflicted."

One of the stab wounds was to Ben's heart, two went into his lungs and damaged an artery, the court heard.

CCTV footage showed Ben stumbling from behind a van after being fatally wounded.

Mr Hilliard added: "No-one suggests Ben Kinsella was anything other than totally blameless. continues here

What's in a name? Governments debate 'swine flu' versus 'Mexican' flu

• Israeli minister concerned over sensitivities to pork
• Mexican ambassador complains about alternative

With governments around the world struggling to find the appropriate response to the new flu danger, it might be assumed that they had more important things on their mind than what to call the virus. Not so.

Trouble began yesterday when a health minister in Israel raised an objection to "swine flu" on the grounds of Jewish and Muslim sensitivities over pork. Yakov Litzman, a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, came up with his own alternative: "Mexican flu."

That had the advantage of sparing Jews and Muslims discomfort. It had the disadvantage, however, of causing Mexicans even greater discomfort.

Mexico's ambassador to Israel, Frederico Salas, was duly dispatched to register an official complaint over the suggestion. The move prompted a hurried retraction from the Israeli government, which insisted it had no intention of changing the name.

If the virus is not, after all, to mutate into "Mexican flu", what then is it to be called? Swine flu looks likely to hold for the time being, though as it changes and spreads its connection to pigs will become increasingly tenuous.  continues here

Ten homes an hour needed to keep up with immigration

The UK will have to build a house every six minutes around the clock for 20 years to keep up with immigration, an ex-Labour minister claims.

Frank Field yesterday said 70 per cent of population growth in that time would be down to the influx. .

That amounts to seven million people - or seven new Birminghams. The former Welfare Minister blamed political correctness for silencing ordinary Brits' concerns - and giving extremists a toe in the door.


Mr Field said: "The losers have been the citizens of this country, those with the longest roots and those who have newly arrived." And the Birkenhead MP warned: "If the Government does not adopt a policy of balanced migration, our population will rise to a level to which the vast majority of people are opposed. continues here

Labour Party embroiled in race row after candidate told she was 'too white and Jewish' to be selected

The Labour Party has become embroiled in a race row after a prospective female councillor was allegedly told she was 'too white and Jewish' to be selected.

Elaina Cohen claims that Labour councillor Mahmood Hussain said he would not support her application for an inner-city ward because 'my Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish'.

Mrs Cohen, 50, has made an official complaint about the alleged remarks made by Mr Hussain, a Muslim and former lord mayor of Birmingham.

She said: 'I am shocked and upset that a member of the Labour Party in this day and age could even think something like that, let alone say it.

'People should not be allowed to make racist comments like that. If someone in the party feels I cannot represent them because of my colour or religion, that's ridiculous.

'I felt particularly aggrieved because I have worked across all sections of the community, particularly with the Muslim section, and have been on official visits to Pakistan.'

Mrs Cohen had applied to stand as a Labour councillor for the Birmingham ward of East Handsworth and Lozells, which has a high Asian and Afro-Caribbean population.

As one of Labour's safest seats on Tory-led Birmingham city council, the final candidate would be almost certain of victory at the June 4 by-election.

But when Mrs Cohen telephoned 57-year-old Mr Hussain for his support, she was astonished to be told that she was too 'white and Jewish' to be considered.

Lorraine Briscoe, who runs a local community association, was sitting next to Mrs Cohen when the conversation took place on speakerphone last Tuesday.

'I was disgusted that a councillor could make comments like that in 2009,' she said.

'He told her, "They will not vote for someone who is white and Jewish. My Muslim members don't want you because you are Jewish".

'Elaina then asked him if he had talked to his Muslim members about it and he said, "I don't want to talk about it with you" and hung up.

'Elaina does a lot of good work in this community and she does not see race or religion, she just sees people.'

Two days after the alleged conversation, Mrs Cohen and another candidate were rejected by a pre-selection panel after failing to gain the support of the local party.

Instead, members were presented with one candidate, black South African Hendrina Quinnen, who was selected by an almost unanimous vote.continues here

AAWR is going to sleep

AAWR is going to sleep, when she awakens she may be a beautiful princess or she may simply be the same, in any event work lies ahead and we’re sorry we cannot take you with us, please rest assured that we will be back, hopefully better for the work that lies ahead. As I write

, some poor souls limber up ready for the intricacies of coding myself included, I have a particular vision ,a specific idea and I hope very much that it can be achieved upon this platform, what we had managed with AAWR was in itself remarkable ,given that a weblog is primarily a static page, we managed to create a rudimentary multi-faceted website.

The overall design was based upon a specific template, a template altered to such a degree, as to be a completely new species, however, she had certain limitations, such as flawed integration with “new Blogger” an inability to accept or display re-coding and many other issues. It maybe of course, that we endeavoured to alter so much as to make the overall design defective, this most especially given the CSS coding recently attempted. We may simply re-code the site as before recognising her limitations and living with them however, this remains to be seen, I wasn’t happy with many aspects and feel that experimentation is the order of the day.

Regrettably whilst such work is in progress I feel that it would be most unfair to our visitors to submit them to such, therefore AAWR must become unreadable, inaccessible through necessity, I would hope you understand. I personally had hoped that this measure would be avoidable, however, I find that it is not and in order to repair or redesign we must become non-accessible. Whilst I am here I would like to elucidate further, maintaining a weblog or indeed a website is incredibly hard work, to the layman or general user all they see is the front end, that is to say the face of the site.

However, it is the backend where all the real work occurs, weblogs or blogs as they are known are much simpler to maintain physically, although content is as equally difficult to maintain as a multi-page site. Yet a weblog I feel, does not have much depth, does not offer much to either the user or indeed its creator, if you look around at other weblogs you will find by and large that the layout is basic and many weblogs look the same, this is because it is a step-into-template, that is to say it is pre-created and the user merely accepts the design. In AAWR’s case it was somewhat different, we took an idea for a template and altered it, we re-coded much of it, rather painstakingly and created more depth by offering multi-faceted aspects.

For instance, to the layman all they saw was a poll-page whilst the steps involved to create that page were immense and considered impossible upon the Blogger platform, there were other instances aswell. Much of the sidebar content was written, created, one by hand,” or should I say by computer” wrote the code that enabled easy navigation of the site, this platform had other deficiencies aswell, such as links opening within the current window instead of another tab, this meant that a reader left physically left the site upon clicking a link. Try it on other weblogs and you will understand, so here at AAWR we looked at each link specifically, to most we added an attribute, which in simple terms opened links in a new tab, whilst you the reader remained here at AAWR.

Anchor tagging, that is to say, links that we wished readers to use to access other areas of AAWR, we wrote to open within frame, that is to say, they opened in the same window.

Work



For you the reader much of the work remained unnoticed, one would I suppose, have to have some knowledge of this platform to appreciate the work that went into AAWR, what you must remember is that we have no access to the root directory, which means that all work must take this into account. We have no server to store information on, such as poll data or e-mail functionality and so we must circumvent and create in order to provide it. Many, many hours that in turn led to days they to weeks and they in turn to months, went into AAWR and I have to say to reach this point as to begin again is an immense disappointment.

For this reason I hope you will stay with us, that you will if you can appreciate the work involved, it isn’t I assure you easy, so why do I do it, after all I am not forced to, why not go down other avenues, perhaps seek monetary reward rather than bewail our plight. Well its quite right no-one forces me however, I am forced ,not by any individual but by a sense of right and wrong, I see wrong and I must contest it, I must fight my corner, I know no other way. Let me tell you, nationalists face the prospect of imprisonment for telling the truth, they face the very real danger of personal calamity, so why, why do nationalists accept such a danger and still address issues, because we must.

Whites as I have said before face extinction, this is not hypothetical, this is not the ravings of a conspiracy theorist, this is fact, we have too few children, let in too many and we are being literally bred out of existence. It is my view and that of others that this is quite simply unfair, we were given no option and the powers that be still engage in actions that will herald in such a catastrophe. You must remember here that they have access to much more information, have facilities way beyond that of a nationalist Blogger such as myself, yet even with such information they continue with their actions, this dear reader is tantamount to treason, yet more than this, to murder, they by their very actions commit calculated genocide.

Genocide


Genocide is the killing off of a people, by action and by policy, it is the wilful crushing of opposition and the enactment of measures that can only result in population replacement, yet does it matter, does it matter if we are all mocha, all coffee-coloured, yes. No-one has the right to wipe out a people, a civilisation, based upon a plan, a scheme, that they in their madness believe to be right, surely successive governmental policy has been and still is murderous in intent. So I write, I post relevant articles and I, in the tiniest of ways, scream powerlessly at the heavens, on my own of course I am nothing, not even an inconvenience but united with others I become a force, a layer between true evil and the people, a buffer that has become known as nationalism.

Ironically the very forces that nationalists oppose, have managed to place their own crimes upon the head of nationalism, it is we you are told, that wish destruction and death, we, with our policies, that would usher in tyranny, we through our actions that would commit evil. Let me tell you, most nationalists first become stirred in a desire to thwart evil, they, once they comprehend the enormity of our situation, feel almost a calling to warn others, at no time does nationalism as a movement seek to injure or harm other peoples, certainly and I make no bones about this, I desire a return to a white Europe, I see it as a right of not only myself but of all peoples to have a homeland. Yet I wish others no harm, moreover as a nationalist I support fully others who also oppose tyranny and attacks upon their culture or nation-state.

Western governments know, they know that we will die out and they do not care, that my friends is the greatest evil, that dear reader, is why I use up so many hours of my life creating a site. I know that perhaps our time has gone, that the tipping point has been reached, however, I cannot stop, cannot stop trying, until extinction engulfs me. You see I love my people, love Europe, love our culture, traditions and history, this does not make of me a hater, this does not mean I desire conflict, wish to harm or have designs upon others. Certainly should others step in front of me as I seek my survival, then I would have no hesitation, none at all, at endeavouring to prevail in such circumstance, so I will forever contest, in which ever way I am able.

The goal of AAWR was always to warn, always to present nationalism correctly, certainly we wished to keep within the law, however, should the law be incorrect, “as is the race act” then we cannot possibly hope to. Quite simply AAWR existed to warn about our racial demise, we were never there to play into neo-conservative hands and berate Islam, as many are prone to do, nor were we there to praise only the flag, whilst forgetting the people under it. It was not our goal to continually disparage, the British National Party nor its leader, or to present as thugs when we are not, our goal has always been to warn, to contest and to protest.

Amongst we whites, there are many who I personally would not give the time of day, many who are scum of the lowest order, amongst non-whites there are many splendid individuals, however, does this mean that we, as a distinct race should die out for them. Does it mean that any have the right to kill us and we have no say, at first they told us that migration would make little difference, that it would not affect our way of life, now they tell us how to talk lest we offend, they tell us how to live lest not in line, we are not permitted to object. By whose authority do they kill off my family line, mine and yours, who has ever had the right to murder us, I have little care indeed for their scheme, for their twisted dream ,their vision, what I care about is living, about passing on all that I am and we are, intact.

I am white, we are white, that is our culture and our genotype, yet we are worth so little that they would kill us and frighten us into petrified acceptance by draconian legislation, isn’t that tyranny, despotism, an autocracy of true evil, so AAWR exists and will hopefully again, a small voice crying out against evil maybe but a voice. So in my own ponderous way I got there, never simple I, always saying too much, so pop back, hopefully we will be back, preferably better but back nonetheless, I hope that you will stay with us, now time to write a web-page…

A work in progress

AAWR is going to sleep, when she awakens she may be a beautiful princess or she may simply be the same, in any event work lies ahead and we’re sorry we cannot take you with us, please rest assured that we will be back, hopefully better for the work that lies ahead. As I write, some poor souls limber up ready for the intricacies of coding myself included, I have a particular vision ,a specific idea and I hope very much that it can be achieved upon this platform, what we had managed with AAWR was in itself remarkable ,given that a weblog is primarily a static page, we managed to create a rudimentary multi-faceted website.

The overall design was based upon a specific template, a template altered to such a degree, as to be a completely new species, however, she had certain limitations, such as flawed integration with “new Blogger” an inability to accept or display re-coding and many other issues. It maybe of course, that we endeavoured to alter so much as to make the overall design defective, this most especially given the CSS coding recently attempted. We may simply re-code the site as before recognising her limitations and living with them however, this remains to be seen, I wasn’t happy with many aspects and feel that experimentation is the order of the day.

Regrettably whilst such work is in progress I feel that it would be most unfair to our visitors to submit them to such, therefore AAWR must become unreadable, inaccessible through necessity, I would hope you understand. I personally had hoped that this measure would be avoidable, however, I find that it is not and in order to repair or redesign we must become non-accessible. Whilst I am here I would like to elucidate further, maintaining a weblog or indeed a website is incredibly hard work, to the layman or general user all they see is the front end, that is to say the face of the site.
Work



For you the reader much of the work remained unnoticed, one would I suppose, have to have some knowledge of this platform to appreciate the work that went into AAWR, what you must remember is that we have no access to the root directory, which means that all work must take this into account. We have no server to store information on, such as poll data or e-mail functionality and so we must circumvent and create in order to provide it. Many, many hours that in turn led to days they to weeks and they in turn to months, went into AAWR and I have to say to reach this point as to begin again is an immense disappointment.

For this reason I hope you will stay with us, that you will if you can appreciate the work involved, it isn’t I assure you easy, so why do I do it, after all I am not forced to, why not go down other avenues, perhaps seek monetary reward rather than bewail our plight. Well its quite right no-one forces me however, I am forced ,not by any individual but by a sense of right and wrong, I see wrong and I must contest it, I must fight my corner, I know no other way. Let me tell you, nationalists face the prospect of imprisonment for telling the truth, they face the very real danger of personal calamity, so why, why do nationalists accept such a danger and still address issues, because we must.

Whites as I have said before face extinction, this is not hypothetical, this is not the ravings of a conspiracy theorist, this is fact, we have too few children, let in too many and we are being literally bred out of existence. It is my view and that of others that this is quite simply unfair, we were given no option and the powers that be still engage in actions that will herald in such a catastrophe. You must remember here that they have access to much more information, have facilities way beyond that of a nationalist Blogger such as myself, yet even with such information they continue with their actions, this dear reader is tantamount to treason, yet more than this, to murder, they by their very actions commit calculated genocide.

Genocide


Genocide is the killing off of a people, by action and by policy, it is the wilful crushing of opposition and the enactment of measures that can only result in population replacement, yet does it matter, does it matter if we are all mocha, all coffee-coloured, yes. No-one has the right to wipe out a people, a civilisation, based upon a plan, a scheme, that they in their madness believe to be right, surely successive governmental policy has been and still is murderous in intent. So I write, I post relevant articles and I, in the tiniest of ways, scream powerlessly at the heavens, on my own of course I am nothing, not even an inconvenience but united with others I become a force, a layer between true evil and the people, a buffer that has become known as nationalism.

Ironically the very forces that nationalists oppose, have managed to place their own crimes upon the head of nationalism, it is we you are told, that wish destruction and death, we, with our policies, that would usher in tyranny, we through our actions that would commit evil. Let me tell you, most nationalists first become stirred in a desire to thwart evil, they, once they comprehend the enormity of our situation, feel almost a calling to warn others, at no time does nationalism as a movement seek to injure or harm other peoples, certainly and I make no bones about this, I desire a return to a white Europe, I see it as a right of not only myself but of all peoples to have a homeland. Yet I wish others no harm, moreover as a nationalist I support fully others who also oppose tyranny and attacks upon their culture or nation-state.

Western governments know, they know that we will die out and they do not care, that my friends is the greatest evil, that dear reader, is why I use up so many hours of my life creating a site. I know that perhaps our time has gone, that the tipping point has been reached, however, I cannot stop, cannot stop trying, until extinction engulfs me. You see I love my people, love Europe, love our culture, traditions and history, this does not make of me a hater, this does not mean I desire conflict, wish to harm or have designs upon others. Certainly should others step in front of me as I seek my survival, then I would have no hesitation, none at all, at endeavouring to prevail in such circumstance, so I will forever contest, in which ever way I am able.

The goal of AAWR was always to warn, always to present nationalism correctly, certainly we wished to keep within the law, however, should the law be incorrect, “as is the race act” then we cannot possibly hope to. Quite simply AAWR existed to warn about our racial demise, we were never there to play into neo-conservative hands and berate Islam, as many are prone to do, nor were we there to praise only the flag, whilst forgetting the people under it. It was not our goal to continually disparage, the British National Party nor its leader, or to present as thugs when we are not, our goal has always been to warn, to contest and to protest.

Amongst we whites, there are many who I personally would not give the time of day, many who are scum of the lowest order, amongst non-whites there are many splendid individuals, however, does this mean that we, as a distinct race should die out for them. Does it mean that any have the right to kill us and we have no say, at first they told us that migration would make little difference, that it would not affect our way of life, now they tell us how to talk lest we offend, they tell us how to live lest not in line, we are not permitted to object. By whose authority do they kill off my family line, mine and yours, who has ever had the right to murder us, I have little care indeed for their scheme, for their twisted dream ,their vision, what I care about is living, about passing on all that I am and we are, intact.

I am white, we are white, that is our culture and our genotype, yet we are worth so little that they would kill us and frighten us into petrified acceptance by draconian legislation, isn’t that tyranny, despotism, an autocracy of true evil, so AAWR exists and will hopefully again, a small voice crying out against evil maybe but a voice. So in my own ponderous way I got there, never simple I, always saying too much, so pop back, hopefully we will be back, preferably better but back nonetheless, I hope that you will stay with us, now time to write a web-page…

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Hello, well many readers will have noticed limited access for a while now, this is because here at AAWR we’re having some unanticipated problems, problems that may take a while to solve. It may be the case that we strip AAWR down to the absolute basics and start again or indeed re-code and create an entirely new look, this of course is time dependent and at present, none of the individuals connected to AAWR have the time needed to commit to the work.

Please rest assured that it will be done but for the moment users may experience incompatibility or a strange layout whilst accessing the site, for this we apologise we find the Blogger platform is improving however, there are still many issues, in passing, may we state that we hold a dislike for internet explorer, any version. We shall keep AAWR open for now as closing it may lose us our regular readers, please rest assured issues will be fixed as soon as we are able, thank you.

Girl, 3, has heart operation cancelled three times because of bed shortage

A three-year-old girl awaiting heart surgery has had her operation cancelled three times this month because of a shortage of beds.

Ella Cotterell was due to have aorta-widening surgery on Monday at the Children’s Hospital, Bristol. But 48 hours beforehand, the operation was cancelled for the third time as all 15 beds in the intensive care unit were occupied, her parents said.

A hospital spokesman said that procedures would be reviewed, but the case highlights a growing problem of cancelled operations in the NHS.

More than 57,000 surgeries were postponed for non-clinical reasons, including a lack of beds, last year – 10 per cent more than the previous year.
Latest figures show that the problem persists. At least 43,000 operations were cancelled in the first nine months of 2008-09, with nearly 1,800 patients not being treated within 28 days of their original scheduled date.

Among the excuses for cancellation the previous year were a hospital running out of shavers to prepare patients for surgery, a surgeon going missing following a fire alarm, and a patient’s translator failing to turn up.

Ella needed open heart surgery when she was nine days old to repair her aorta, the body’s main artery, which had not formed properly in the womb.

At 18 months old she suffered a stroke after falling down the stairs at her home and banging her head, temporarily paralysing the left side of her body.

Her parents, Ian Cotterell and Rachel Davis, were told last October that she would need an operation within 12 to 18 months.

Doctors carried out two angioplasties, where small balloons are inserted and inflated to clear a blocked blood vessel, but neither was successful.

Further surgery was initially planned for April 2 but was cancelled because of emergency cases and rearranged for four days later, the couple said. However, the operation was cancelled again for the same reason. continues here

Drug dealers could see prison sentences cut under new reforms

Drug dealers will face shorter jail sentences, with some offenders getting as little as two years behind bars, under proposals published today.

Offenders selling heroin, ecstasy and crack cocaine in large quantities are expected to get jail terms cut by around two years.

It will bring the time behind bars into line with terms dished out for rapists and those causing death by dangerous driving.

A panel of legal experts have put forward the proposals after finding there was 'no evidence' that long jail terms were an effective deterrent or cost-effective.

Instead, the Government's Sentencing Advisory Panel believe courts should seize their cash and any assets bought with drugs money.

Currently less than 15 per cent of drug offenders have had their assets taken by the courts.

Under the new proposals, couriers and drug mules who bring illegal substances into Britain will face shorter sentences if the courts ruled they had a minor role in the criminal organisation.

It would mean someone caught with 5kg of cocaine could be jailed for as little as two years if the court believed they were a 'naive' subordinate.

The panel, made up of judges, academics and other senior figures from the criminal justice system, questioned whether sentences for importing class A drugs should exceed those for rape or causing death by dangerous driving.

In their report, Sentencing for Drug Offences, they said: 'Imprisoning drug offenders for relatively substantial periods of time does not appear to represent a cost-effective response.'

For more than 30 years, judges have followed a Court of Appeal ruling which said 'anything which the courts in this country can do by way of deterrent sentences on those found guilty of crimes involving class A drugs should be done'.

In 2004 the average sentence for importing drugs was seven years.

Rapists were on average jailed for six years and eight months and the offence of causing death by dangerous driving brought an average term of three years and eight months.

Panel chairman Andrew Ashworth said: 'We are not suggesting in any way that drug offences have become less serious or that a robust sentencing approach is not appropriate.

'But our provisional view is that current sentencing levels sometimes go beyond the levels that are justified by the seriousness of individual offences.

'We have compared them with the starting points for other serious crimes such as rape and grievous bodily harm and we want to know what other people think about comparative levels of sentences. continues here

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You know opinions matter, especially now in these days, for this reason most comments are left, some however use our site to increase traffic, within reason AAWR doesn’t mind this, after all it’s why we tinkered with the html, removing the “nofollow” attribute. For the uninitiated, the “nofollow” attribute is a piece of code found within the template upon which this site is built, what it means is this, altering the code allows others who own a site to be linked to via user generated content, in this case our comment area.

Originally the larger search engine providers Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, came together to discuss ways of thwarting spammers, they came up with the rel="nofollow" attribute, which is now automatically placed within bloggers coding. Of course, altering this tiny bit of code results in links being indexed by search engine spiders, which increases traffic to the sites concerned. Of course, I have some issues with it, primarily because some comments are unadulterated advertising however, I feel this can be the case regardless and one can always delete such spam.

So as long as comments left relate to the article they shall be left however, this is an ongoing situation and AAWR may change this policy at any time, primarily this post is to talk about opinion and as ever I drift off onto other things, for which I can only apologise to the reader. For most readers all this talk of SEO manoeuvring and related issues may appear quite, quite baffling however, I would like to assure such readers that it is important, without such stratagems AAWR would not have the search engine rank it currently does and it must be remembered, that we almost always appear within the first page of Google and this site has featured prominently on major news sites as linked content.

This an amazing achievement given we are nationalist in orientation and output and as readers may be aware, nationalism functions on an uneven footing to all other political ideologies, in fact it is safe to say that our viewpoint is censored. For this reason I feel we must give out the correct image, not the image conceived in the minds of tabloid story-tellers, nationalists are by and large decent people, hold absolutely no desire to harm others, we are protectionist and preservationist by nature. Yet we are given no platform and political opponents have absolutely no qualms, in agitating for and achieving this aim, they will say that we “should not be given the oxygen of publicity”, yet in a very real sense this is denying the people a voice.

Generally my views are not that different to that of the man and women in the street, although this is changing and what were once commonplace views are now considered beyond the pale or in reality, individuals have been frightened into silence, in writing, my views perhaps appear more extreme given my use of expressions not now commonly used, such as the word negro. Yet I will not call them niggers, as it is not my place to offend and such offensive language aids only nationalisms enemies and helps to lower we all to thug status. So I use the term negro, I mean it as non-insulting and can think of no other term, we ourselves are Caucasian and this term itself is used a lot on AAWR, although primarily the term white is used in preference, I could therefore use the term black, although again it has negative connotations, so in the interests of all I use the term negro principally.

You will find that racially disparaging terminology is not used on AAWR, quite simply because we are nationalist, that is to say we respect all races and creeds and have no wish to create conflict or denigrate others, we are though as a matter of course realists, a subject I have referred to before so shall leave for the moment. Yet should you read the newspapers or watch television, the image portrayed is somewhat different, there nationalists are anti-group, violent in the extreme and mere savages, yet one must question to what fiddle does the media dance, could a pro-nationalist television channel even exist, never mind be conceded airtime, legitimate parties are denied even venues, so a fair playing field is out of the question.

So it is left to nationalists themselves to endeavour to present the argument, although each nationalist will present their case as they see it, for this reason I believe there can never be consensus, never be that much sought after unity, not that is until we are forced by dint of circumstance to fight physically for our survival, a situation I am sorry to say that may indeed transpire. So opinion is important, vital, especially in such Orwellian times. We live in unique times, times in which free-speech has moved from the physical world to the cyber but please remember the freedoms we enjoy now to read, watch or create our own material will in the future be almost non-existent, do you for one moment believe that they will continue to permit cyber-freedom.

Today freedoms our ancestors took for granted, such as the freedom of association, is now no-more, today should nationalists meet, they are photographed, corralled and in some instances physically attacked, this of course works on two levels the first is direct intimidation and the second intimidates indirectly those that would-be. Our freedoms are dying for a myriad of reasons but they are dying, today we have many gadgets, many ways of communicating yet we seldom interact, society has become closed off, compartmentalised and I see no benefit, see no gain.

Today you can read this site, access it and read opinion, news and comment, in the future this will not be the case, should they wish to, the internet can be simply switched off and already they seek to create a new world-wide-web, one more controllable, one less free. So it is vital that you use your freedoms, vital that you have your say, both on AAWR and indeed other sites. On AAWR there are many ways to interact, to promote nationalism and to have your say, firstly you have the ability to comment, not just to those around you but to the world, this site is global and many will have chance to read your opinion. Secondly AAWR has a poll-page this is a way of gauging user opinion on various matters, generally it is UK specific, although some questions may be more wide-ranging, so we hope you will utilise this feature.

Thirdly you have the option to write for AAWR, remember in doing so that we are a nationalist site, that is to say you must address issues from such a position, although counterviews expressed in a dignified manner may be published in order to promote debate, generally I must say the comment field is best for this. You can have your say in other ways to by contacting AAWR via e-mail or you may send us relevant news articles, links or information, all in all please do not self-censor yourself, AAWR is there for you. Interaction is quite easy, no personal information is kept and we moderate only the profane, the illegal or the disparaging.

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Russian journalist blasts 'Big Brother Britain' and compares it to life in the old Soviet Union

A Russian journalist believes the level of surveillance is worse in ‘Big Brother Britain’ than it was in Russia during the Soviet era.

Irada Zeinalova, who is based in London, said she felt she was being constantly spied on by security cameras.

She highlighted how in the UK the level of monitoring is such that even rubbish bins have computer chips fitted so councils can check what householders are throwing out.

‘Security has got absurd,’ she said. ‘I don’t like that level of intrusion into my private life.

‘London is a Big Brother city. It is all watched by cameras. Even in the days of the USSR you couldn’t imagine such a number of cameras or observers. Your moves are even monitored by your bus tickets. There are CCTV cameras on every building and computer chips on the rubbish bins.

‘They can tell a lot about your life by studying your rubbish bin. All aspects of your life are plainly visible here.’

Mrs Zeinalova, 37, an award-winning correspondent in London for the Kremlin-controlled Moscow TV station Channel One, accepted that some Russian journalists in London face close monitoring by British counter-intelligence.

One, from the Vesti TV programme, ‘had a full-scale spying operation on him. It’s a normal thing here’.

She said Londoners seemed reassured by the level of security and imagined that if some calamity occurred they would be rescued by the emergency services.

‘They explain the CCTV cameras on every corner by fighting terrorism and crime – but sadly it doesn’t solve the problems,’ she told the Moscow newspaper Komsololskaya Pravda in an interview.

‘Watching the rubbish bins, they waste more money than on the actual fight with the problems.’

On a different note, Mrs Zeinalova added: ‘And as for smokers – they are treated like lepers here.’

She said the English believed they were ‘masters of the world’.

‘The Englishmen’s position is: let all the rest of the nations argue about who is the master of the world, we won’t take part in it. We know who is the master.’

The British were also proud of their reputation for being stand- offish. ‘The British are a very special separate-nation,’ she said. ‘I have been here for two years and I communicate closely with quite a lot of people. But no matter how closely we chat, they never let me in.’

Mrs Zeinalova said the British worship TV and football.
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Being a ‘safe society’ exciting things don’t happen very often, so the British become obsessed with TV.

‘Recently, one of the TV show participants – a small and not very famous one – decided to leave,’ she said.

‘The papers were going on about it for a week. We would never have it like this in Russia. It is a completely different perception of life.’continues here

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UN 'regrets' Ahmadinejad speech

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "misused" an anti-racism conference at which he called Israel a racist state.

The Iranian president's speech sparked wide condemnation and a walkout by EU delegates. Iran criticised Mr Ban's comments as "one-sided".

The UN said Mr Ahmadinejad had dropped language from his speech describing the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious".

Meanwhile, conference delegates adopted a resolution against racism.

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said the declaration, which also covered issues such as xenophobia and intolerance, was an answer to Mr Ahmadinejad's tirade.

She said the document included a line stating that "the Holocaust must never be forgotten," and that Iran, as a participating state, had signed up to it.

But the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the controversy surrounding the Iranian president's comments turned what should have been a shining example of the UN at its best into a bitter and divisive farce.

'Very regretful'

The original text of Mr Ahmadinejad's speech said that after World War II, Western nations had "resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless, on the pretext of Jewish sufferings and the ambiguous and dubious question of Holocaust".

But UN officials said the Iranian president had dropped the terms "ambiguous and dubious", speaking instead of "exploiting the Holocaust".

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Nevertheless, during a trip to Malta on Tuesday, Mr Ban said it was "very regretful that the conference was misused by the Iranian president for political purposes".

"Before the speech I had a long bilateral meeting with President Ahmadinejad and urged him to give a balanced and constructive contribution to the conference because he was the only head of state present," he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

Mr Ahmadinejad spoke on Monday at the start of the five-day UN conference in Geneva.

Jewish migrants, he said, had been sent from Europe and the US after World War II "in order to establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine".

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He continued: "And in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive racist regime in Palestine."

His comments prompted a walkout by delegates from at least 30 countries, and a raft of condemnation from Western officials.

Diplomats who remained, however, applauded as Mr Ahmadinejad continued his address.

Some countries, including the US and Israel, had boycotted the conference because the Iranian president was appearing.

On Tuesday US President Barack Obama said that the kind of rhetoric Mr Ahmadinejad had used was "harmful" to Iran's relations with the US and its position in the world.

But he also said the US would "continue to pursue the possibility of improved relations and a resolution to some of the critical issues in which there have been differences - particularly around the nuclear issue".

Earlier, Mr Ban had expressed dismay at both the boycotts and Mr Ahmadinejad's speech.

He said the speech had been used "to accuse, divide and even incite".

Iranian state TV quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying that Mr Ban's comments "displayed a one-sided and unreasonable approach".

Mr Ahmadinejad returned home on Tuesday to what was officially described as a "sensational" welcome.continues here

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