UK war on free speech..Press TV banned
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217824.html
The move comes a year after a leaked US Embassy cable highlighted for the first time London and Washington’s concerted effort to block Press TV in Britain.
Many observers have noted that the British government’s campaign against Press TV has its roots in the channel’s extensive coverage of the multiple crises created by London’s domestic and foreign policies.
Press TV covered the 2011 Royal Wedding from a critical angle, which highlighted its extravagant costs while many Britons were suffering from great economic hardship. The channel also provided in-depth coverage of the widespread protests and the ensuing unrest that gripped Britain following the police killing of a black man in August.
Press TV also interviewed many critics of the stance adopted by the British government vis-à-vis the revolutions in the Muslim world.
London clearly sided with dictators and monarchs and even invited the king of Bahrain for official visits and provided his regime with military assistance. This, as Bahrain’s Saudi-backed forces were torturing and killing peaceful protesters.
Britain also signed a scandalous military deal with Saudi Arabia back in 2006 to sell state-of-the-art military equipment to one of the world’s biggest dictatorships.
The British government with its Royal establishment has a long history of wars of aggression and support of monarchies and autocratic rulers all over the world.
In the Middle East, London together with Washington orchestrated Iran’s 1953 coup to bring the western-backed Shah of Iran back to power. Decades later the monarch was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution.
In Iraq, Britain joined the US invasion and occupation of the country that led to the killing of a million people.
Britain also followed the US into Afghanistan in 2001-a war that has yet to end despite strong opposition from the British public. A senior Afghan official recently told Press TV that the British military also played a significant role in the production and trafficking of narcotics in Afghanistan.
In Africa, Britain is still remembered as the brutal colonial power that crushed many local communities under the boots of its soldiers for decades. And today it is mulling direct military intervention in Somalia where people are already under intense pressure from natural disasters and U-S drone strikes.
In Asia, the Royal establishment killed as many people as it needed to set up its power base in the Indian Subcontinent among other regions.
Thousands of miles away in Latin America, London is still engaged in a potential military confrontation with Argentina over the Malvinas Islands three decades after fighting a deadly war with Buenos Aires over the UK-occupied archipelago.
The centuries of medieval-age aggression by British rulers have earned London global infamy.
The latest in a string of such UK practices is the Royal establishment’s war on free speech.
London has spared no effort in its two-year-long battle against Press TV. Its media tool, Ofcom, is now about to revoke the channel’s broadcast license, hoping this desperate measure will silence criticism.
But what the British government fails to grasp is that the truth cannot be concealed from the public, and those in the UK that want to hear Press TV’s alternative voice will inevitably find a way to watch the channel of their choice.
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ominous..do they think press tv might cover things from a different angle to what they want portrayed?
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Well maybe if we stuck enough postage on his fat ass we could mail Clinton over there. Haiti sure as fuck won’t miss him.
Hitlery or Bill ?
Well, I meant Bill of the 3 networks but by all means send them both!
2 birds with 1 stone.
Not that I support him, but at least be correct when referring to Bill Clinton as a fat ass. He’s a vegan now and skinny as hell.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/20/bill-clinton-why-yes-the-media-did-favor-obama-over-hillary-three-years-ago/
he may not be the ginormous porker of the past, but neither could he remotely be called skinny. And bloodsuckers are not vegan, sorry.
2012 ~ DEATH TO THE ECONOMIC ELITE starting with America
The Economic Elite Have Engineered an Extraordinary Coup, Threatening the Very Existence of the Middle Class
The economic elite have robbed us all. The amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.|
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” — Michael Lind, To Have and to Have Not
We all have very strong differences of opinion on many issues. However, like our founding fathers before us, we must put aside our differences and unite to fight a common enemy.
It has now become evident to a critical mass that the Republican and Democratic parties, along with all three branches of our government, have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer has political representation. The U.S. economy, government and tax system is now blatantly rigged against us.
Current statistical societal indicators clearly demonstrate that a strategic attack has been launched and an analysis of current governmental policies prove that conditions for 99 percent of Americans will continue to deteriorate. The Economic Elite have engineered a financial coup and have brought war to our doorstep…and make no mistake, they have launched a war to eliminate the U.S. middle class.
To those who feel I am using extreme rhetoric, I ask you to please take a few minutes of your time to hear me out and research the evidence put forth. The facts are there for the unprejudiced, rational and reasoned mind to absorb. It is the unfortunate reality of our current crisis.
Unless we all unite and organize on common ground, our very way of life and the ideals that our country was founded upon will continue to unravel.
Before exposing exactly who the Economic Elite are, and discussing common sense ways in which we can defeat them, let’s take a look at how much damage they have already caused.
Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage
The devastating numbers across-the-board on the economic front are staggering. I’ll go through some of them here, many we have already become all too familiar with. We hear some of these numbers all the time, so much so that it appears as if we have already begun “to normalize the unthinkable.” You may be sick of hearing them, but behind each number is an enormous amount of individual suffering, American lives and families who are struggling worse than they ever have.
America is the richest nation in history, yet we now have the highest poverty rate in the industrialized world with an unprecedented amount of Americans living in dire straights and over 50 million citizens already living in poverty.
The government has come up with clever ways to downplay all of these numbers, but we have over 50 million people who need to use food stamps to eat, and a stunning 50 percent of U.S. children will use food stamps to eat at some point in their childhoods. Approximately 20,000 people are added to this total every day. In 2009, one out of five U.S. households didn’t have enough money to buy food. In households with
children, this number rose to 24 percent, as the hunger rate among U.S. citizens has now reached an all-time high.
We also currently have over 50 million U.S. citizens without health care. 1.4 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2009, a 32 percent increase from 2008. As bankruptcies continue to skyrocket, medical bankruptcies are responsible for over 60 percent of them, and over 75 percent of the medical bankruptcies filed are from people who have health care insurance. We have the most expensive health care system in the world, we are forced to pay twice as much as other countries and the overall care we get in return ranks 37th in the world.
In total, Americans have lost $5 trillion from their pensions and savings since the economic crisis began and $13 trillion in the value of their homes. During the first full year of the crisis, workers between the age of 55 – 60, who have worked for 20 – 29 years, have lost an average of 25 percent off their 401k. “Personal debt has risen from 65 percent of income in 1980 to 125 percent today.” Over five million U.S. families have already lost their homes, in total 13 million U.S. families are expected to lose their home by 2014, with 25 percent of current mortgages underwater. Deutsche Bank has an even grimmer prediction: “The percentage of ‘underwater’ loans may rise to 48 percent, or 25 million homes.” Every day 10,000 U.S. homes enter foreclosure. Statistics show that an increasing number of these people are not finding shelter elsewhere, there are now over 3 million homeless Americans, the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population is single parents with children.
One place more and more Americans are finding a home is in prison. With a prison population of 2.3 million people, we now have more people incarcerated than any other nation in the world — the per capita statistics are 700 per 100,000 citizens. In comparison, China has 110 per 100,000, France has 80 per 100,000, Saudi Arabia has 45 per 100,000. The prison industry is thriving and expecting major growth over the next few years. A recent report from the Hartford Advocate titled “Incarceration Nation” revealed that “a new prison opens every week somewhere in America.”
Mass Unemployment
The government unemployment rate is deceptive on several levels. It doesn’t count people who are “involuntary part-time workers,” meaning workers who are working part-time but want to find full-time work. It also doesn’t count “discouraged workers,” meaning long-term unemployed people who have lost hope and don’t consistently look for work. As time goes by, more and more people stop consistently looking for work and are discounted from the unemployment figure. For instance, in January, 1.1 million workers were eliminated from the unemployment total because they were “officially” labeled discouraged workers. So instead of the number rising, we will hear deceptive reports about unemployment leveling off.
On top of this, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently discovered that 824,000 job losses were never accounted for due to a “modeling error” in their data. Even in their initial January data there appears to be a huge understating, with the newest report saying the economy lost 20,000 jobs. TrimTabs employment analysis, which has consistently provided more accurate data, “estimated that the U.S. economy shed 104,000 jobs in January.”
When you factor in all these uncounted workers — “involuntary part-time” and “discouraged workers” — the unemployment rate rises from 9.7 percent to over 20 percent. In total, we now have over 30 million U.S. citizens who are unemployed or underemployed. The rarely cited “employment-participation” rate, which reveals the percentage of the population that is currently in the workforce, has now fallen to 64 percent.
Even based on the “official” unemployment rate, just to get back to the unemployment level of 4.6 percent that we had in 2007, we need to create over 10 million new jobs, and most every serious economist will tell you that these jobs are not coming back. In fact, we are still consistently shedding jobs, on just one day, January 27, several companies announced new cuts of more than 60,000 jobs.
Due to the length of this crisis already, millions of Americans are reaching a point where the unemployment benefits they have been living on are coming to an end. More workers have already been out of work longer than at any point since statistics have been recorded, with over six million now unemployed for over six months. A record 20 million Americans qualified for unemployment insurance benefits last year, causing 27 states to run out of funds, with seven more also expected to go into the red within the next few months. In total, 40 state programs are expected to go broke.
Most economists believe the unemployment rate will remain high for the foreseeable future. What will happen when we have millions of laid-off workers without any unemployment benefits to save them?
Working More for Less
The millions struggling to find work are just part of the story. Due to the fact that we now have a record high six people for every one job opening, companies have been able to further increase the workload on their remaining employees. They have been able to increase the amount of hours Americans are working, reduce wages and drastically cut back on benefits. Even though Americans were already the most productive workers in the world before the economic crisis, in the third quarter of 2009, average worker productivity increased by an annualized rate of 9.5 percent, at the same time unit labor cost decreased by 5.2 percent. This has led to record profits for many companies. Of the 220 companies in the S&P 500 who have reported fourth-quarter results thus far, 78 percent of them had “better-than-expected profits” with earnings 17 percent above expectations, “the highest for any quarter since Thomson Reuters began tracking data.”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national median wage was only $32,390 per year in 2008, and median household income fell by 3.6 percent while the unemployment rate was 5.8 percent. With the unemployment rate now at 10 percent, median income has been falling at a 5 percent rate and is expected to continue its decline. Not surprisingly, Americans’ job satisfaction level is now at an all-time low.
There are also a growing number of employed people who, despite having a job, are still living in poverty. There are at least 15 million workers who now fall into this rapidly growing category. $32,390 a year is not going to get you far in today’s economy, and half of the country is making less than that. This is why many Americans are now forced to work two jobs to provide for their family to hopefully make ends meet.
A Crime Against Humanity
The mainstream news media will numb us to this horrifying reality by endlessly talking about the latest numbers, but they never piece them together to show you the whole devastating picture, and they rarely show you all the immense individual suffering behind them. This is how they “normalize the unthinkable” and make us become passive in the face of such a high causality count.
Behind each of these numbers, is a tremendous amount of misery; the physical toll is only outdone by the severe psychological toll. Anyone who has had to put off medical care, or who couldn’t get medical care for one of their family members due to financial circumstances, can tell you about the psychological toll that is on top of the physical suffering. Anyone who has felt the stress of wondering how they were going to get their child’s next meal or their own, or the stress of not knowing how they are going to pay the mortgage, rent, electricity or heat bill, let alone the car payment, gas, phone, cable or Internet bill.
There are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.
These are all basic things every person should be able to easily afford in a technologically advanced society such as ours. The reason we struggle with these things is because the Economic Elite have robbed us all. This amount of suffering in the United States of America is literally a crime against humanity.
vegan lol..hny mike
Shite post. Why does it small detail always get left out?
http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/30/ofcom-iran-press-tv?cat=media&type=article
PRess TV’s handling of the London protests was total bullshit and anybody in the uk will tell you that.
A bit like this story
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/02/iranian-tv-fake-drone-somalia?cat=world&type=article
If you want to talk about free speech how about the same freedoms which are given to Iranians. Whom have no choice of tv channels and satellite dishes are confiscated.
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2011/12/eutelsat-irib/
RT might be full of crackers conspiracy theorists and Al Jaz is a professional valences news organisation but press tv is Iranian fascist propaganda at best.
You drank the kool aid. Aj or rt are no better or worse than press. The uk is a plague on earth and it’s people are being fucked hard by ruthless Fabians. There will be no alternative news in your brave new world.
Ha!
Enjoy your Ron Paul fantasies on your little WordPress blog.
Press TV….. L O FUCKING L!
ron paul?? wtf are you on about..go back to sleep..i match your press tv and raise it with the BBC..i win..game over..
Why should it matter who wrote the article if its facts are correct? UK is banning PressTv. That’s the only salient factor here. When any government decides it has the right to censor information it’s a bad sign for the liberty of that country, whether it’s Iran, UK, North Korea, or the US. Yet supposedly I should not be concerned because it is so much worse somewhere else? There is no logic in that. The root of censorship is a desire to control, and it grows and spreads from where it is planted in any soil. Where it is not eradicated completely it flourishes. If the UK stands for this, it will only be the first such banning.
thanks nomnomnom..well said
“But what the British government fails to grasp is that the truth cannot be concealed from the public, and those in the UK that want to hear Press TV’s alternative voice will inevitably find a way to watch the channel of their choice.”…If the Brits are not too busy taxing tea, they are now preoccupied taxing free speech. If the kitchen is getting too hot to cook in…then get out of the kitchen. “Damn the press and the truth ta boot, ti’s more than we can handle.”
@Dingdong, re your link to iranhumanrights.org whose website shows that it is run by
Staff
Hadi Ghaemi – Executive Director
Aaron Rhodes – Policy Advisor
Hadi Ghaemi formerly sat on the advisory board of the National Iranian-American Council, a lobbying group that took over $250,000 from NED.
Maybe you are willing to believe someone who has sat on a board of a group that takes cia money is not a catspaw, but I am not so readily assured that this time he has no hidden agenda.
Aaron Rhodes is the former executive director of IHF.
http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/7189.htm
“It’s not so necessary for managers of American funds to announce their preferences publicly – Russian human rights know by theirselves who “needs or needn’t defense”. For example, the Chairman of International Helsinki Federation (IHF) L. M. Alekseyeva “knows” them. She and the rest of the leaders of IHF advised Serbian human rights activists in an open letter not to blame NATO bombings, even at the time when NATO bombs had been dropping on their heads (http://www.ihf.org/). But what should she do if six of the ten donors of IHF were the “charity” funds managed by the governments of the countries–members of NATO? Moreover, American Human Rights Watch financed by George Soros, collecting “materials on genocide and ethnical sweeps” in Bosnia and Kosovo is a member of this International Helsinki Federation. And George Soros himself is a member of the Board of Directors of IHF.
That’s not exactly my idea of who to go to for ethics. Just sayin.
nice work nom..sadly he is indicative of a lot of people..so he linked us to a soros run PR campaign site..quality work dingdong!
FREEDOM ~ 2012
Guillotine Congress and the Executive Branch…
The Daily Reckoning Presents
Vive La Revolution!
The Occupy Wall Street movement is getting a fair amount of press. The movement, as you know, dear reader, is a loose assembly of the jobless, the homeless and the shiftless. Troublemakers, every one of them, with no coherent or sensible view of what is wrong or how to fix it. But what’s wrong with that?
The Occupy Wall Street protests started on Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Since then, hundreds have set up camp in a park nearby and have become increasingly organized, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper, the Occupied Wall Street Journal.
About 100 demonstrators were arrested on Sept. 24 and some were pepper-sprayed. On Saturday police arrested 700 on charges of disorderly conduct and blocking a public street as they tried to march over the Brooklyn Bridge. Police said they took five more protesters into custody on Monday, though it was unclear whether they had been charged with any crime.
On Monday, the zombies stayed on the sidewalks as they wound through Manhattan’s financial district chanting, “How to fix the deficit: End the war, tax the rich!” They lurched along with their arms in front of them. Some yelled, “I smell money!”
The US is probably getting ready for a revolution. Back in the Cold War days, the CIA was asked to do a portrait of a country that might have a revolution. It decided that such a country would have three characteristics:
A big gap between rich and poor.
A middle class that was disappearing…or one that never existed in the first place.
A lot of people with a grudge.
The US fits each of these criteria. And then some others the spooks hadn’t thought about. The U6 broad measure of unemployment is going up…with 16.5% of the population without work. There are 6.2 million people who have been looking for a job for more than 6 months.
Americans are $7 trillion poorer, according to David Rosenberg, than they were 4 years ago — and property prices are still going down.
Yes, there’s also a Great Correction in progress. It, along with the policies of the US government, grind the faces of the poor.
Millions of marginally successful people think the system has failed them. Youth joblessness is at Great Depression levels. More than 45 million are on food stamps.
“A big gap between rich and poor.
A middle class that was disappearing…or one that never existed in the first place.
A lot of people with a grudge.”
i see those 3 points..
2012 AWAKEN PROTECT YOURSEL & FAMILIES ~ death to the elite…
An awakened populace is the enemy of the would-be Controllers. The war on terror is a war on human freedom by a dystopian state structure disguising itself as a protecting surrogate parent from an enemy of their own making.
It’s all by assumption and generations of conditioning. But the veil is coming off.
Thanks to their own military invention called the internet millions are discovering the full truth. History is a lie. Religion is a control system. Money is a hoax. Government is a for profit corporation.
And we don’t need their goddamn hierarchy. Conscious Truth Cannot Be Stopped!
Like they say, you may kill my body but you can never destroy my soul. Fear is the number one tool of the Powers That Would Be. If we don’t fear they have no power.
The cornucopia of laws and rules written, unwritten and subconscious is their method of entrainment. Crime, punishment. They define what a crime is, and people get in line for fear of punishment.
Socially it’s the same. Break the social norms and be shunned or called out. Use the “wrong” language and you can face incarceration. All restrictions put in place by these would-be Controllers. Screw ‘em.
They’re arrogant lying bastards and the truth is they’re scared to death of us.
Wanna know their mindset? The monster George Bush Senior said the following in an interview published by Sarah McClendon in 1992:
“If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.” Damn straight, buddy. The NWO Is Backfiring!
People are noticing the PTBs (Powers That Be) seem to be stepping up their program of late. While revolution spilling into the streets is often of their own making to bring about draconian crack downs and to foist new control systems on the populace, what we’re witnessing now is different.
Police brutality and even several recent attempts by agent provocateurs have been ferreted out by demonstrators armed with cameras and internet access. Bankster funding of police has been exposed. And even efforts by the Democratic Party, MoveOn.org and ACORN have been identified and snuffed.
This is huge. It’s All About Personal Empowerment
People wonder why things don’t change. It’s because people observe and follow, observe and follow. Same old same old, hoping someone will do something. Choice is within carefully constructed confines to where they think they’re free, but it’s all within a tightly restricted playground created by social engineers and executed via their academic and media minions. Yes, it’s that controlled. Or so they attempt it to be.
The wild card is the all-powerful eternal human spirit. When we come to the realization of what we truly are, we are an unstoppable foe to these tyrannical beasts. They’ve turned our planet into a human farm with the people hypnotized to behave as cattle convinced of their own helplessness.
Sorry, boys. The jig is up. This marvelous planet is OUR space station and you have no business trying to take it over, so get the hell outta here. Humanity is rising…and you’re in the way. The Elites Are The Truly Enslaved
What differentiates the psychopathic controlling elites from true humanity is a lack of empathy. They are possessed by a self-serving, self-preserving mindset that they are literally enslaved to. They know they’re usurpers and subject themselves to self-flagellating rituals and mind control to be sure they’re not influenced by any real sense of humanity that might deter their plan.
In turn, they must exercise this Machiavellian control over others since they themselves are subjected to it in order to get what temporal power they’ve been loaned by their higher ups. Yes, the abuse cycle. The abused become the abusers. In their case it’s off the charts wickedness.
Yes, the controllers are all controlled even more than humanity. But that isn’t gonna be our problem any longer. We should ship this wicked 1% or whomever or whatever they are to their own little island, take away all their toys (and boats) and let them have it out between each other. Freedom of tyranny over other tyrants I always say. Ha!
Seize Control – Jump Now!!
It won’t be long now. They’ve got so much crap going it’s gonna be hard to avoid seeing these psychopaths try to take the whole world down in their mass death ritual madness. We may have to muster through some really rough times ahead, but I really believe the wake up is scaring the shit outta these bastards and they’re having to step on the gas to push their program through.
What’s interesting is hurry and haste is not their strong suit. Their strength has always been the slow burn without the people noticing the noose being tightened around their necks. Their plans for global control go back centuries and even millennia. Pesky humanity has been a tough animal for them to fully corral, we seem to keep busting out with new life and consciousness in spite of their war on our minds and bodies.
Isn’t that cool? They can’t control us. Must drive them nuts!
They can try as hard as they want but they’ll never do it. In spite of their fluoridating our pineal glands, genetically modifying and poisoning our food supply, chemtrailing our skies with toxic metals and monstrous germs and nano strands, killing off our youth and innocents in wars, introducing viruses into populations, shooting us up with anti-human cocktails and shoving drugs down our throats, and attempting to paralyze our hearts and control our minds with fear and propaganda……
They can’t keep us down! We’re like a population of frikking Rasputins! The Key..Wake Yourself Up Fully And Everyone Around You! The only way to fully wake up is to take action. Period. If you don’t open the spigot of your life by researching the Truth, communicating, withdrawing from the system, turning off the mainstream media in every form, alerting others as to what’s going on, you’ll go back to sleep. It’s that simple, and it’s that urgent.
The conscious awakening of humanity is unfolding at an exponential rate and is having an impact we’re seeing manifest daily before our eyes. But if you’ve ever tried to push a heavy car to jump start it, or attempted to get a big boulder moved, the most crucial point is when the momentum is just beginning to roll and it’s make it or break it to get to that magical kick start speed.
We’re getting there. Push harder…..and call others to get on board, in any and every way you can. Write, talk, get out of banks altogether, not just go into smaller ones, at least as much as you can. And use your money as a weapon against them. Buy local, don’t buy corporate crap as much as possible. Start a garden and grow your own food. Tell others around you to do the same.
And if you don’t know what to do, send help to those you believe are doing what needs to be done so they can commit their full time to doing it if they’re not already, or to help them do even more. Everyone needs to participate.
I guarantee you as you do these things it’ll come back to you bigtime – in fulfillment, happiness, increased conscious awareness, love and even financially! You’re tapping into the ultimate free energy system of the Universe! Let yourself go and watch a marvelous synchronistic loving world unfold around you! Act on your heart…the time is now.
good articvle:
“you may kill my body but you can never destroy my soul. Fear is the number one tool of the Powers That Would Be. If we don’t fear they have no power.”
““If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.”
“Sorry, boys. The jig is up. This marvelous planet is OUR space station and you have no business trying to take it over, so get the hell outta here. Humanity is rising…and you’re in the way. The Elites Are The Truly Enslaved”
http://cryptogon.com/?p=27453
“Britain: Talking CCTV Cameras In Camden To Be Turned Off
In a statement issued this afternoon, Camden Council claimed that the camera’s pre-recorded American message should never have been turned on in the first place.
“All flash cameras have the capacity to deliver voice messages when activated but in this instance it appears that voice messages were inadvertently activated… The voice messages will be deactivated as soon as possible,” the council said.
The cameras, in the Walker House estate near London’s St Pancras, were installed in September. An American voice warned users to leave, including residents and legitimate visitors. The pre-recorded message says: “Stop, this is a restricted area and your photograph is being taken. It will be sent for processing if you don’t leave the area now.”
Yes it is only Americans who demand totalitarian control of the masses. One is sure the Queen and her
naziconsort would never stand for such a thing.looks like somebody stuffed up..