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Monday, January 6, 2014

In the news

The hot potato, immigration in the UK, numbers crunching upwards and it's effect on ethnic restaurants. A combination of illegal work practice, low skilled immigrants from poor countries is putting stress on the social fabric of certain areas.  It is weird to see the double standards being applied to word 'indigenous '. At the same, the issue of white flight has been discussed widely in the mainstream media , but without any meaningful context.

Mr Farage also claimed that there is currently “massive oversupply” of unskilled labour from across the EU in the UK which is handing big corporations “big profits” and pushing the wages of British people down.
Any correlation with the sweat labour in some of the Brick Lane restaurants?

Meanwhile a Russian cruiser tested the uk's defence, sending the UK navy into a spin as they had to send a warship 600 miles north to Scotland to intercept the Russians.   Defence has been cut back so much in the last couple of decades, and this is the result!  Meanwhile, money was plentiful in the government's chest, to supply and back the Free Syria Army (FSA).   Now we are seeing more battles between the FSA and the jihadi elements.  So, effectively, arms purchased with the money from the spineless countries including the UK  is being used in a sub civil war, in a bitter power struggle.

The 10 years of western intervention in Iraq is proving to more and more of a futile effort, largely due to the worsening spiral of violence.  The US was embroiled in a bloody and bitter fight for the control  of places such as Ramadi.  Deja vu has set in since there is again a battle for control, again between the government and jihadis.

Iraq is still an extraordinarily dangerous place. ‘I never imagined that ten years after the fall of Saddam you would still be able to get a man killed in Baghdad by paying $100,’ an Iraqi who’d been Iraq is still an extraordinarily dangerous place. ‘I never imagined that ten years after the fall of Saddam you would still be able to get a man killed in Baghdad by paying $100,’ an Iraqi who’d been involved in the abortive museum project told me. in the abortive museum project told me.

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