Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Why No Criminal Charges Against Maria Mallaband Care Group, Leeds ?

The owners of a care home have been fined £1.6m after a 91-year-old woman died from hypothermia.
Mrs Annie Barritt was found ill in her room at Oaklands Country Rest Home, at Kirk Hammerton near York, on 4 November 2012 and died later in hospital.
An investigation revealed problems with the home's heating system.
The home's owners, Maria Mallaband Care Group Ltd of Leeds, pleaded guilty to one breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
York Crown Court was told Mrs Barritt suffered from dementia and would have required 24-hour care.
When she was admitted to hospital her body temperature was 25.3C rather than the usual 37C.
An investigation by Harrogate Borough Council found that, in addition to the faulty heating system, Mrs Barritt had not been given any hot food or drink on the day of her death.

'Beggars belief'

Staff had also not updated her care plan after she was discharged from hospital a week before her death.
Tony Moule, environmental health officer at the council, said: "No fine can ever compensate the family for the loss of their mother in such shocking circumstances.
"For an elderly vulnerable person to suffer hypothermia, whilst in bed in her room under the care of a national care provider, beggars belief."
Mrs Barritt's sons, David and Anthony, said: "It is hard to believe that an elderly lady with dementia could be treated in such an appalling way in a care home that claimed to specialise in the care of such vulnerable people."
They added they hoped their mother's "sad and unnecessary" death would lead to an improvement of standards at the home.
Maria Mallaband Care Group Ltd said in a statement it wished to offer its "deepest sympathies" to Mrs Barritt's family.
It continued: "They trusted us to look after their loved one and we failed, and for this we are very sorry."
It said a number of improvements had been made since Mrs Barritt's death and the home was currently rated as 'good' by the Care Quality Commission.
In addition to the fine the company was ordered to pay the council's costs of £45,560.

Directors of MMCG - http://www.mmcgcarehomes.co.uk/company/staff/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-37498106?SThisFB&post_id=1264437955_10210404132080673#_=_

Monday, September 19, 2016

The most disturbing aspect of a sexual-abuse scandal at an elite, New England prep school.

An independent report released on September 1 detailing the long-term sexual abuse that went on at St. George's School, an elite boarding school in Rhode Island, shed light on the policies that fostered an environment where faculty and staff took repeated advantage of students.
The report, commissioned by St. George's and an organization called SGS for Healing and conducted by an outside law firm, found that six employees abused at least 51 students, and that students sexually bullied or hazed 10 others.
Among its findings, the report determined the rules and standards in place at the school — which "paved the way for abuse of students" — were common among most boarding schools during the 1970s and 80s, and the school's leaders "did little, and certainly not enough" to remedy the situation, according to the report.
For instance, the school allowed faculty to take students on overnight and weekend trips at the school's expense, and dorm parents – adult advisers who live in student dorms  – often let older students supervise dorms in their absence. These practices were, according to the report, not unique to St. George's, and l eaders at the school were not found to have "acted differently than the leaders of many other boarding schools in New England or elsewhere in the United States."  
While the nearly 400-page report paints a disturbing picture of the "private hell" many students experienced, it also investigates how a scandal of this scope could have happened in the first place.
"...[T]he most relevant question is whether school leaders took the steps necessary to prevent, to the extent possible, teachers or staff from molesting students, or to prevent older students from sexually assaulting younger students," the report reads. 
Despite its overall inaction, the school took some steps to address the abuse, according to the report. It fired three employees: Howard White, the associate chaplain; Al Gibbs, the athletic trainer; and Franklin Coleman, the choirmaster and music teacher. A fourth employee and English teacher, William Lydgate, was "likely fired" for the same reason, according to the report.
St. George's, however, continued to support Gibbs and Coleman after their departures. St. George's found that Gibbs was abusing girls, taking naked photographs of them, and circulating those pictures among male students, and at least 31 girls made firsthand reports of abuse at Gibbs' hands, according to the report.
Despite being aware of Gibbs' misconduct, however, the school continued to award him a $1,200 annual grant for "distinguished service," a grant he received until his death in 1996. 
The school's Dean of Faculty also continued to recommend Coleman for other teaching positions. Coleman joined St. Georges' during the 1980-1981 academic year and worked there until May 1988. He "sexually abused at least one student in each year of his tenure at the school," according to the report. 
"But we believe there is no credible justification for the actions the school took to help Coleman and Gibbs after the school fired them," the report reads.
The revelation of such widespread abuse at the school prompted investigators to question why officials ignored the reports and why these issues were not brought to light earlier. The tendency of administrations to look the other way is not unheard of though.
"Often, in these environments, it's common to have victims report the crime and not be taken seriously, or be silenced by the administration and have their reports buried," Terri Poore, policy director at the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, told Business Insider.
"What we've seen historically is that whenever there's a closed system, whether it's the military, or in this case, a school, there's a strong hierarchy and a sense of secrecy and authority," Poore said. "The need for the organization to protect its own reputation can trump the well-being of the victim." 
Pennsylvania Penn State University Students Sexual Assault Fraternity Protest Rape PSUStudents and others demonstrate on the Penn State campus. AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Soon after the report's release, St. George Headmaster Eric Peterson announced that would not renew his contract, set to expire in June 2017, and essentially step down from his role.
Despite the school's previous mistakes, the investigation itself was thoroughly handled, according to Anne Scott, whose account of being raped repeatedly as a sophomore by Gibbs in the 1970s was the key to bringing about the investigation.
"It was very well done, in terms of how the investigation was conducted and the final report itself," Scott told Business Insider. 
"I am happy with the steps the school has taken, especially the fact that they're going to remove Mr. Zane's name from the girls' dormitory, which was very important to the Gibbs survivors," she continued.
Scott was referring to Anthony Zane, headmaster of the school during her years at St. George's. Saying Zane represented a "massive failure" in child protection when he was headmaster, Scott cited his seemingly lenient behavior toward Gibbs, as well as his alleged dismissiveness toward another victim, Katie Wales.
Although Zane was aware of allegations of sexual abuse against Gibbs, he signed off on a recommendation letter for him and approved a stipend Gibbs received annually until his death, according to the report. 
"When Katie Wales went to Zane, she was not believed and not treated well at all," Scott said.
Zane "has said it was he who approached Wales, after a senior boy happened to catch Gibbs photographing a naked girl with a towel over her face and reported him, and said that he never called Wales crazy," according to Vanity Fair.
Zane did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment. 
Since the report's release, St. George's also noted it's taken action to improve the school's culture. A representative for St. George's pointed Business Insider to a letter sent to the St. George's community on September 1 by Leslie Heaney, Chair of the Board of Trustees. Heaney highlighted several steps the school would implement in light of the report's findings. 
First, she announced that St. George's would retain "David Wolowitz, an attorney who specializes in this area, to review the school’s reporting procedures and policies and to conduct additional boundary training of faculty and staff."
The letter points out that a training session occurred in June. 
St. George's would also conduct more extensive and ongoing background checks of employees and volunteer staff and create a "Community Response Team" to handle allegations of sexual abuse in partnership with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
"It's a very good idea and an effective tool for schools to partner with local rape crisis centers to better address sexual violence on campus," Poore said. "Along with that, they should also find ways to improve the conversation itself around sexual assault."
While Scott expressed relief the school has address the issue, she said "there is always more to be done, and that applies to how schools make it a habit to be ever vigilant .... This isn't something that just happened decades ago; it happens today. And schools, including St. George's, need to be vigilant in keeping children safe."
When asked about steps that can be taken on a larger scale, Scott stressed the need for legislative reform in addressing sexual violence.
"We need mechanisms to regulate private schools, we need to reform reporting laws, and we need to put forward a legislative and regulatory reform agenda," she said, underscoring the flaws in current Rhode Island law, particularly on the civil side."
http://uk.businessinsider.com/st-george-abuse-scandal-2016-9

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Hinch names paedophiles during maiden speech

Hinch names paedophiles during maiden speech

BHD Labour Party AGM on July 9: The reception area at City College





Warren Morgan, leader of the Labour Group on Brighton and Hove City Council, alleged "venue staff were spat on". The innocent young member accused is carrying a small rucksack, wearing a t-shirt, and holding a mobile phone. No spitting, barging, or shoving.







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how the body struggles to digest processed foof.



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Friday, September 09, 2016

Why And When Was Keith Vaz Disbarred ?

Our Lawyer of the Month is the barrister-turned-solicitor, Keith Vaz, who is the Member of Parliament for Leicester East and chairman of the House of Commons influential Home Affairs Select Committee, which examines the expenditure, policy and administration of the Home Office and its associated public bodies.
Keith was born in Aden, Yemen, on 26 November 1956. His parents were originally from Goa, India, and his father was a foreign correspondent for The Times of India. Keith came to Britain from Aden with his family in 1965.
He was educated at Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA in 1979. He went on to qualify as a barrister, later disbarred and became a solicitor. He obtained his MA in 1987, also from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
Keith’s legal practice has been in the public sector. He was solicitor to Richmond Council until 1982, when he then became a senior solicitor for the London Borough of Islington, a position he held until 1985. Between 1985 and 1987, he was a solicitor at the Highfields & Belgrave Law Centre in his home town of Leicester.
In 1983 and 1984 consecutively, he unsuccessfully contested the Conservative safe seat for Richmond and Barnes in the General Election and Surrey West for the European election. In 1987 he was elected MP for Leicester East, defeating the right-wing Conservative candidate Peter Bruinvels and became the first Asian MP since Shapurji Saklatvala lost his seat in 1929. He was also the only Asian Member of Parliament until 1992.
During his time as an MP, Keith has held a number of shadow front bench as well as Government posts, including Minister of State for Europe (1999-2001); Parliamentary Secretary (a Minister) at the Lord Chancellor’s Department (May-Oct 1999); Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General, John Morris and Solicitor General, Lord Falconer QC (June 1997-May 1999).
He previously served as a member of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee, as chair of the Sub-Committee for Courts and the Judiciary, and was a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee from 1987 until 1992. Between 1993 and 1994 Keith was a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He is a member of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee and is Chair of the Labour Party’s Ethnic Minority Taskforce.
Keith has also been at the centre of controversy surrounding financial wrongdoings and in 2001 a report by the Parliamentary standards watchdog cleared him of various financial wrongdoings, but he was accused of blocking investigation and two minor breaches of failing to declare business interests. In 2002 an inquiry concluded that Keith had “committed serious breaches of the Code of Conduct and contempt of the House (of Commons) and was suspended from the House of Commons for 30 days.
Ambitious and hardworking, Keith has campaigned against violent video games and is a strong anti-racism campaigner. In July 2007 he was appointed the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee. He has been strong in his campaign for solicitors and has expressed his deep concerns about the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and the “disproportionate number of investigations” it conducts into ethnic minority firms as well as its failure to act sufficiently quickly on claims that it investigates a disproportionate number of black and ethnic minority firms. He has called on Bridget Prentice, the Justice Minister, to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the SRA’s work. This appears to have stung the SRA into action and it now states that “black and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors are over-represented in its regulatory investigations, and is concerned to address this”. The SRA has accordingly set up a working party, chaired by Anesta Weekes, QC. Lord Herman Ouseley has been named as the Independent Reviewer.
Keith is married to Maria Fernandez, a solicitor and they have two children.
Below is our interview with Keith:
BLD: Why did you choose a legal career?
KV: I chose law because I felt that the knowledge gained through studying the subject would be useful for any career that I pursued.
BLD: What made you leave law for politics?
KV: I have been involved in politics from a very early age, my mother was the first Asian councillor in Leicester. I would say that politics is in my blood and I find it immensely fulfilling.
BLD: What was the worst career advice you were given?
KV: I haven’t received any bad advice – so far!
BLD: What is the best career advice you would give to others?
KV: To do what makes you happy and to ensure that you are doing something useful.
BLD: If you were to choose another job/role, other than what you are doing, what would it be and why?
KV: I would find it hard to suggest another profession, as politics is what I have worked hard at all my life. Perhaps I would return to law.
BLD: There have been extensive changes in the last 10 years, particularly on Legal Aid reform which has disproportionally and adversely affected ethnic minority practitioners and their vulnerable clients. What should Parliament be doing to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place when passing such legislations?
KV: I think that the changes made to Legal Aid were a disappointment and I tabled an EDM in July to express this. I would like to see better provisions made in the future.
BLD: What was the most famous/interesting case(s) you have handled to date?
KV: Defending a local Leicester shopkeeper against the City Council who wanted to remove it.
BLD: Tell us your professional high point(s).
KV: I think being elected to Parliament would be the highest point. I am deeply honoured that the people of Leicester have chosen me to be their MP in four consecutive elections.
BLD: What was your worst moment as a lawyer and/or politician?
KV: Being a Member of Parliament is always a challenge but I would not be able to ever say that I haven’t enjoyed any of it.
BLD: How do you cope with the media attention?
KV: Media attention is part of being an MP. It can be very useful and raises issues that are important to my constituents.
BLD: The person you most admire (dead of alive) and why?
KV: My mother, Merlyn, who arrived in Britain as a first generation immigrant with three children, who was widowed and had to work as a teacher.
BLD: What are you most passionate/happiest about?
KV: My family is the most important thing to me.
BLD: What are your dislikes/makes you angry?
KV: I never like it when my football team loses!
BLD: Any professional regrets?
KV: No, you can never talk of regrets because that would assume that you would act differently if you had another chance. I could never say that as I may not be the person that I am today otherwise.
BLD: If you could rule the world for a day what you change/do?
KV: I would let everyone have the day off.

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Justice Scalia spent his last hours with members of this secretive society of elite hunters.

By Amy Brittain and Sari Horwitz February 24

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 12 days ago at a West Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.
After Scalia’s death Feb. 13, the names of the 35 other guests at the remote resort, along with details about Scalia’s connection to the hunters, have remained largely unknown. A review of public records shows that some of the men who were with Scalia at the ranch are connected through the International Order of St. Hubertus, whose members gathered at least once before at the same ranch for a celebratory weekend.
Members of the worldwide, male-only society wear dark-green robes emblazoned with a large cross and the motto “Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes,” which means “Honoring God by honoring His creatures,” according to the group’s website. Some hold titles, such as Grand Master, Prior and Knight Grand Officer. The Order’s name is in honor of Hubert, the patron saint of hunters and fishermen.
[Texas sheriff’s report reveals more details on Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s death]
Cibolo Creek Ranch owner John Poindexter and C. Allen Foster, a prominent Washington lawyer who traveled to the ranch with Scalia by private plane, hold leadership positions within the Order. It is unclear what, if any, official association Scalia had with the group.
Inside the ranch where Justice Scalia died
View Photos The Texas resort ranch spanned 30,000 acres.
“There is nothing I can add to your observation that among my many guests at Cibolo Creek Ranch over the years some members of the International Order of St. Hubertus have been numbered,” Poindexter said in an email. “I am aware of no connection between that organization and Justice Scalia.”
An attorney for the Scalia family did not respond to requests for comment for this article.
Two other private planes that landed at the ranch for the weekend are linked to two men who have held leadership positions with the Texas chapter of the Order, according to a review of state business filings and flight records from the airport.

After Scalia’s death, Poindexter told reporters that he met Scalia at a “sports group” gathering in Washington. The U.S. chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus lists a suite on M Street NW in the District as its headquarters, although the address is only a mailbox in a United Parcel Service store.
[How St. Hubert’s encounter with a deer inspired the society]
The International Order of St. Hubertus, according to its website, is a “true knightly order in the historical tradition.” In 1695, Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the society in Bohemia, which is in modern-day Czech Republic.
The group’s Grand Master is “His Imperial Highness Istvan von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria,” according to the Order’s website. The next gathering for “Ordensbrothers” and guests is an “investiture” March 10 in Charleston, S.C.
The life of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
View Photos Antonin Scalia, the influential and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died. He was 79.
The society’s U.S. chapter launched in 1966 at the famous Bohemian Club in San Francisco, which is associated with the all-male Bohemian Grove — one of the most well-known secret societies in the country.
In 2010, Poindexter hosted a group of 53 members of the Houston chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, according to a Houston society publication. A number of members from Mexico were also part of the ranch festivities that included “three days of organized shoots and ‘gala’ lunches and dinners.”
Poindexter told CultureMap Houston that some of the guests dressed in “traditional European shooting attire for the boxed bird shoot competition” and for the shooting of pheasants and chukar, a type of partridge.
For the hunting weekend earlier this month, Poindexter told The Washington Post that Scalia traveled to Houston with his friend and U.S. marshals, who provide security for Supreme Court justices. The Post obtained a Presidio County Sheriff’s Office report that named Foster as Scalia’s close friend on the trip.
Sheriff Danny Dominguez confirmed that a photograph of Washington lawyer C. Allen Foster is the same man he interviewed at the ranch the day of Scalia’s death.

[Did sleep apnea contribute to Scalia’s death? A breathing machine was near his bed.]
From Houston, Scalia and Foster chartered a plane without the marshals to the Cibolo Creek Ranch airstrip. In a statement after Scalia died, the U.S. Marshals Service said that Scalia had declined a security detail while at the ranch.
The friend, Louisiana-born Foster, is a lawyer with the Washington firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston. He is also known for his passion for hunting and is a former spokesman for the hunting group Safari Club.
In 2006, Foster was featured in The Post when he celebrated his 65th birthday with a six-day celebration in the Czech Republic. He flew his family and 40 Washington friends there to stay in Moravia’s Zidlochovice, a baroque castle and hunting park. The birthday bash included “tours of the Czech countryside, wine tasting, wild boar and mouflon (wild sheep) hunts, classic dance instruction and a masked costume ball.”
A secretary at Foster’s law firm said he is traveling in Argentina. The firm’s director of marketing, Mindee L. Mosher, said Foster was traveling and she would try to contact him. A woman answering a phone associated with Foster hung up when asked for comment.
Planes owned by Wallace “Happy” Rogers III and the company of A.J. Lewis III left from San Antonio and arrived at the ranch just after noon Feb. 12. The planes departed the ranch about 30 minutes apart Feb. 14, according to flight records provided to The Post by FlightAware.
Rogers owns the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum in San Antonio. He has donated $65,000 to Republican candidates since 2008. Lewis is the owner of a restaurant supplier company, also based in San Antonio. He has given $3,500 to GOP candidates since 2007.
Rogers and Lewis have both served as prior officers in the Texas chapter of the International Order of St. Hubertus, according to Texas business records. Rogers spoke to a Post reporter briefly on the phone and confirmed that he was at the ranch the weekend of Scalia’s death. He declined to comment further.

Lewis did not respond to several attempts for comment.
The Presidio County Sheriff’s Office released an incident report to The Post on Tuesday that revealed Foster’s name as Scalia’s traveling companion and provided details about the discovery of his body.
Poindexter and Foster told the sheriff that Scalia had traveled to Texas the day before to go hunting. Poindexter told the sheriff that they “had supper and talked for a while” that evening.
Scalia “said that he was tired and was going to his room for the night,” the sheriff wrote in his report.
When Scalia didn’t show up for breakfast that morning, Poindexter knocked on his door and eventually went in and found the Justice dead in his bed, Poindexter said.
Law enforcement officials told The Post that they had no knowledge of the International Order of St. Hubertus or its connection to Poindexter and ranch guests. The officials said the FBI had declined to investigate Scalia’s death when they were told by the marshals that he died from natural causes.
Alice Crites in Washington and Eva Ruth Moravec in San Antonio contributed to this report.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html

Monday, September 05, 2016

Largest Paedophile Ring in History, 70,000 Members, Heads of State.

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Millions read the news today, the pedophile ring “busted” or the earlier article about how the FBI actually ran it for several weeks, expanding it, drawing in tens of thousands. Those who read it thought they knew, thought they were getting the story but as is so often the case, the truth goes so much further. 
When Veterans Today tied the murder of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia to a White House blackmail plot and a strange tale involving the Keshe Foundation, it became clear that the highest and most powerful in Europe, the US and around the world, were tied together in a web of ritual child abuse on a massive scale. For the Scalia tale, refer to Appendix I.
Today’s story is one more aspect of this. VT’s involvement goes back to 1991 when key VT staffers worked for America’s intelligence community. A GOP high level staffer approached the CIA claiming that President George H.W. Bush was being blackmailed. It was said that the President was at a political fundraiser in St. Louis where, unknown to the President, top GOP campaign donors were having sex with young males, some of whom had been spirited away from Boys Town in Nebraska of Father Flanagan fame.
The rumors became more than rumors when Bush 43 took office and brought with him, according to a high level White House informant, a virtual army of Neocon pedophiles and “nancyboys” who set the tone for 8 years of crushed civil liberties. staged economic crashes and the dirtiest wars in America’s history.
The door didn’t open again until Iranian physicist, Mehran T. Keshe came to us with his own story. Invited to Belgium, sponsored by the Royal Family, Keshe was introduced to internet guru Sterling Allen and Belgian “fixer,” Dirk Lauressens. Within a short time, it became clear that he was there as a prisoner, not a guest, having fallen into a web of pedophiles that control public life in Belgium and the Netherlands, control corporations, courts, the police and do so rather publicly.
With Keshe’s story, we traced Sterling Allen, through his work with Belgium’s Royal Family, to his questioning by the FBI, to the seizure of his computers and eventually to his real task in life, webmaster for a massive pedophile ring that supplied children for the members of secret societies that control our daily lives through suppression of technology and the waging of endless war.
From NBC News:
Massive pedophile ring busted; 230 kids saved – US news – Crime & courts | NBC News
An Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members — thought to be the world’s largest —has been uncovered by police, a security official said Wednesday.
The European police agency Europol said in a statement that “Operation Rescue” had identified 670 suspects and that 230 abused children in 30 countries had been taken to safety. More children are expected to be found, Europol said.
A pedophile ring, 70,000 strong, has been identified and hundreds arrested, an organization run on the internet, centered in the Free Energy Community, including websites run out of Paris, the Netherlands and Belgium.
What isn’t being told is that this same organization, also known as the Red Circle, runs through secret societies around the world:
  • Bilderberg
  • St. Hubertus
  • Federalist Society
  • Knights of Malta (Rome, not KMFAP in Budapest)
  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Federal Reserve Bank
  • NATO
  • Royal Families of Belgium and Netherlands
  • SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States)
So much of this story revolves around Mehran T. Keshe, whose plasma related defense technologies, threaten the military balance of power, disabling American stealth drones and even leaving an AEGIS destroyer floating, dead in the water, in the Black Sea.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/08/24/vt-exclusive-largest-pedophile-ring-in-history-70000-members-heads-of-state-the-rats-scramble/#ifrndnloc#ifrndnloc

Saturday, September 03, 2016

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Two members of Fitzwilliam Hunt in court charged with hunting offences.

Two men have appeared in court charged with hunting offences after foxes were killed during the Fitzwilliam Hunt. 

George Adams (65) and John Mease (44) appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court this morning (Wednesday). Both men are charged with hunting a fox with dogs on New Years’ Day this year, while Mease also faces a count of causing unnecessary suffering to a fox, when a golden eagle killed the animal in November 2013. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges, and will stand trial later this year. Sam Wooley, prosecuting, told the court: 

“These are two separate offence.
“The first offence took place on January 1 2016, when the defendants were with the Fitzwilliam Hunt. “It is said that the hunt used hounds to kill a fox. It is said the hounds were not called off quickly enough, and they killed the fox. “We say Mr Adams’ role was he was leading the hunt. He was the person who gives commands to the hounds.” 

“The second offence relates to the use of a golden eagle by Mease. It is said the eagle killed the fox in an inhumane way.” The court was told there would be two trials covering the matter - one for each offence. The trial involving both men will take place at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Monday, December 5. The trial only involving Mease will take place at the same court on Thursday, December 8. Both men were granted bail by District Judge Miller until the trial date.

Read more at: http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/two-members-of-fitzwilliam-hunt-in-court-charged-with-hunting-offences-1-7554105

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Post-Rotherham, whistleblowing in social care needs an urgent review

By Martin Morton
from 204 but more relevant today, methinks.

When Community Care wanted to revisit the topic of whistleblowing within social care, I was informed by the journalist reporting that, as a social worker who was prepared to speak openly about my experience, I was a rare case. The resulting report’s title said it all: “Fear of bullying prevents social workers from whistleblowing”.

Now following the harrowing revelations of child abuse and exploitation in Rotherham, it appears to me from reading the Jay report that whistleblowing remains anathema within social care.

Findings from the report that “the environment at the council was described as macho, sexist and bullying” and “within social care the scale and seriousness of the problem was underplayed by senior managers” were infuriatingly familiar.

What struck me, as these type of revelations always do, is how Rotherham Council and other agencies involved in safeguarding vulnerable children managed to keep serious concerns hidden for so long, when it was clear that many social workers and their managers knew there was a serious issue of abuse, and had known for a very long time.

As sure as night follows day, I discovered that Unison had made claims of widespread bullying within the social services department of Rotheram council in 2010. A survey by the union shows that 75% of its members thought bullying in their department was a “serious” or “very serious” problem.

As this publication wrote in 2012: “Despite the existence of laws designed to protect those who speak out against malpractice, whistleblowers still risk their careers by doing the right thing.”
“On one hand social workers are bound by their professional code of conduct to protect service users, but on the other some employers and organisations use the unspoken threat of personal and professional ruin to keep them schtum.”
In the face of  savage cuts to services, I can’t think of a profession that needs to whistleblow more – especially about the impact on the most vulnerable people in our communities and the risks to health, wellbeing and indeed lives. However the issue of bullying is only part of the answer to the question: “why don’t social workers whistleblow?”.

Is it because social workers are not listened to or because they don’t whistleblow loudly or shrill enough?

Might it have something to do with the fact that social work training steers away from the controversial but absolutely vital area of how to safely raise concerns?
Or is it that some of our institutions are now so fundamentally broken that social workers’ ability to speak up to those in power, in the name of protecting children and safeguarding vulnerable adults, is now fatally compromised?
I believe there was an opportunity to raise some of these  – admittedly big – questions  with the setting up of an independent review “Whistleblowing in the NHS” chaired by Sir Robert Francis QC. The review intends to provide independent advice and recommendations to ensure that:
  • NHS workers can raise concerns in the public interest with confidence that they will not suffer detriment as a result
  • Appropriate action is taken when concerns are raised by NHS workers
  • Where NHS whistleblowers are mistreated, those mistreating them will be held to account.
It is significant that this review only came about as a result of sustained lobbying by high profile NHS whistleblowers.

It is also significant that social care is excluded from this review.
In consideration of reports emanating from Rotherham, Rochdale and other places the fact that the review does not consider whistleblowing issues relating to social care is, regrettably, not only a missed opportunity but an extremely telling statement of the way social care remains the “poor relation” of healthcare.
Martin Morton is a social worker who blew the whistle on the overcharging of disabled adults in Wirral council and was forced to resign. 

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2014/09/08/post-rotheram-whistleblowing-social-care-needs-urgent-review/

Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Militant Tendency in Liverpool: Books, Pictures, and Videos.

The Militant Tendency in Liverpool: Books, Pictures, and Videos

Michael Parkinson, Liverpool on the Brink: One City’s Struggle Against Government Cuts(Policy Journals, 1985);   Peter Taaffe and Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool: The City That Dared To Fight (Fortress Press, 1988);   Diane Frost and Peter North, Militant Liverpool: A City on the Edge (Liverpool University Press, 2013);   Dave Sinclair,Liverpool in the 1980s (Amberley Publishing, 2014).
Dave Sinclair 29 March 1984 Budget Day 50000 march through Liverpool in support of the Socialist Council
Budget Day Demonstration in Support of Council (March 1984) – Dave Sinclair
Dave Sinclair Youth Training Scheme Protest Liverpool 25 April 1985
Youth Training Scheme Protest (April 1985) – Dave Sinclair
Militant Rally at the Town Hall June 1985 big
Town Hall Rally (June 1985) – Dave Sinclair
 https://thoughtsofaleicestersocialist.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/the-militant-tendency-in-liverpool-books-pictures-and-videos/

‘Leave no one alive’: Senior rabbi calls for execution of all Palestinians - Defend Democracy Press

‘Leave no one alive’: Senior rabbi calls for execution of all Palestinians - Defend Democracy Press

Friday, August 26, 2016

Named: Scots police chiefs linked to disgraced ‘Spycops’ unit.

The identities of senior police officers in Scotland linked to a secret Metropolitan Police division under investigation are revealed today by The Ferret, prompting renewed calls for the Pitchford Inquiry to be extended to Scotland.
A Police Scotland response to questions submitted under Freedom of Information legislation reveals the names of high ranking Scottish police officers who attended meetings of the Association of Chief Police Officers’ Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, aka ACPO TAM.
ACPO TAM is responsible for counter terrorism and oversaw the UK’s national domestic extremism units whose activities are being investigated by Lord Justice Pitchford.
The committee’s remit covered undercover officers with the Metropolitan Police who infiltrated campaigning groups and spied on animal rights activists and environmentalists, among others deemed domestic extremists.
The Ferret – publishing this information today in tandem with the Daily Record – also obtained details of Police Scotland’s command structure for the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in 2005 when the undercover Met Police officer Mark Kennedy was operating in Scotland with colleagues.
Kennedy was one of several undercover police officers who entered into relationships with women during covert operations.
Another called Bob Lambert fathered a child with a woman he was spying on and the actions of officers with the disgraced Met Police unit led to the Pitchford Inquiry being set up.
The ferret subscribe narrow
The public inquiry will investigate the policing of domestic extremism and also alleged miscarriages of justice linked to police spies in England and Wales.
However, revelations that undercover Met Police officers – including Kennedy – also worked north of the border led to calls for Pitchford to cover Scotland too.
Sir Stephen House – who stepped down as Chief Constable of Scotland last year – also attended ACPO TAM meetings.
Former Assistant Chief Constables Colin McCashey and Ronnie Liddle – both now retired – were also listed in the Police Scotland FOI reply.
DCC Iain Livingstone still serves with Police Scotland and was also named as having attended ACPO TAM meetings.
Senior officers were members of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) which ceased to operate on 1st April 2o13 when Police Scotland was established.
The Police Scotland FOI reply also said that DCC Livingstone, along with Sir Stephen House, ACC Ruaraidh Nicolson and new Chief Constable of Scotland, Phil Gormley, have all attended ACPO TAM meetings since the formation of Police Scotland.
It emerged last weekend that Chief Constable Gormley is expected to give evidence during the Pitchford Inquiry.
In 2006, his role at the Met Police included oversight of both the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit(NPOIU).
Both of these now defunct units investigated domestic extremism and will be scrutinised during the Pitchford Inquiry.
Mr Gormley was head of Special Branch when the SDS was running Carlo Neri, an undercover officer who had relationships with two women who are now taking legal action against the Met.
Campaigners calling for the Pitchford Inquiry to be extended to Scotland said senior officers should have known that Met Police spies were operating in Scotland and should be questioned.
Senior officers leading the policing of the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in 2005, when the SDS was in Scotland, included ACC Ian Dickinson who was closely involved in counter terrorism.
Paddy Tomkins was also involved in policing the G8 Summit. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Police Service.
 
Donal O’Driscoll, of Undercover Research Group, has been researching and exposing police spies while calling for Pitchford to cover Scotland.
He said: “This information shows that through ACPOS, Scottish police officers played a role overseeing undercover police officers such as Mark Kennedy and cannot deny knowing about their activities, including in Scotland.”
“We know that many of the spycops were active in Scotland or holidayed there with the women they targeted for relationships. For those most affected by these injustices it is vital for the full story of the abuse to come out, and for this reason alone the Pitchford Inquiry must be extended to Scotland.”

Labour MSP Neil Findlay has also campaigned for the public inquiry to cover Scotland. He said: “Evidence of Scottish involvement in the undercover policing scandal grows by the day.”
“We now must have all of this brought out in the open with a full public inquiry in Scotland. We cannot have people in England and Wales having access to justice but people in Scotland denied.”
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “We do not routinely comment on covert policing operations.”
“It is a matter for the public inquiry into undercover policing who is called to provide evidence and that request will be considered if received by Police Scotland.”
The Scottish Government has said it would explore the possibility of extending Pitchford to Scotland with the Home Secretary, Theresa May.
When asked what progress had been made a spokesperson for the Scottish Government, said: “Discussions concerning extending the Pitchford Inquiry to cover the activities of the Metropolitan Units in Scotland are ongoing.”
In January, The Ferret revealed that Ronnie Liddle – Scotland’s former counter-terrorism chief– was seconded to a controversial undercover Met Police unit now under investigation.
Mr Liddle was head of CID at Lothian and Borders Police before being appointed to lead counter-terrorism in Scotland in May 2012.
But he was seconded to the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit (CTIU), responsible for undercover police, seven months later.
Part of his remit was overseeing domestic extremism, including officers spying on protest groups in Britain.
Mr Liddle’s secondment to the Met Police was detailed in the minutes of a Lothian and Borders Police Board meeting in 2013.
It says Liddle was: “Temporarily promoted to Assistant Chief Constable from 23/4/12 upon secondment to CTIU for the period 23/4/12 to 15/12/12.”
Part of his remit at CTIU included responsibility for national domestic extremism.
Last month, more than 100 people signed a letter demanding that the Met Police revealed the fake names used by police spies ahead of the inquiry beginning.
The 133 signatories also called for a list of protest groups infiltrated by undercover officers to be made public.
The people who signed the letter will each play a key role in the Pitchford Inquiry.
People who signed the letter include Harry Halpin who told the Sunday Mail that an undercover officer called Mark Kennedy duped him into allowing access to his personal computer.
At the time, Haplin was a climate change activist studying for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Another signatory was Jason Kirkpatrick, an activist who befriended Kennedy and suspects the officer interfered with his media work during the 2005 global summit at Gleneagles.
The letter was published on a website called Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (Cops).
In our view, the police’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy is less about protecting individuals and far more about blocking exposure of misdeeds.CAMPAIGN OPPOSING POLICE SURVEILLANCE
It begins: “Dear Lord Justice Pitchford, As 133 of the inquiry’s core participants, we write to share our collective view that a fundamental requirement for the inquiry’s success is to instruct police to disclose, as soon as possible, a list of names of all the organisations about whom intelligence was gathered; the cover names (not the real identities) of the individual officers responsible for infiltrating and reporting on activists and campaigns; and the individual Special Branch reports for each core participant group or individual.
“Core Participants and other current and potential witnesses are likely to struggle to provide testimony as long as there remains inadequate or non-existent information available to them.”
“We are deeply concerned that a unique and historic opportunity may be lost unless the inquiry is able to provide the vital details we seek.”
The letter criticises the Met Police for failing to reveal the names used by undercover officers, accusing the force of obstructing the inquiry to serve its own interests.
It says: “We appreciate that the police will use every possible argument against providing greater openness and transparency, although there is no evidence that the public exposure of any undercover officer to date has either placed them at personal risk or posed any threat to national security.”
“In our view, the police’s ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy is less about protecting individuals and far more about blocking exposure of misdeeds.”
The Met Police has refused to release the names of undercover officers as they have a policy of protecting covert tactics and the safety of officers and their families.
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