Ashamed Of British Justice

We are quite insane in the UK, that's the only conclusion anyone can draw from the fact that someone already deported from the UK, can turn up in the UK again to claim asylum because he was a supporter of the old Gaddafi regime .....Yes Dr Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk, who was deported for his connection to the killing of a British policewoman PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984, has managed to enter the country and claim asylum for fraud charges in Libya. The new regime believe that Dr Ibrahim left Libya a few days before the fall of Tripoli, carrying around $200m (£130m) with him.

Dr Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk - Wanted For Fraud

What other country is so unable to close its borders? What other country has such legal loop holes based upon human rights laws, that they are forced to accept the worst from around the world, and then spend millions on housing them, giving them welfare benefits, and providing them defence lawyers to contest against our own laws?

We have still have Julian Assange ducking and diving in an attempt to avoid rape charges in Sweden, by claiming he faces persecution either there, or because they would then ignore his human rights, and deport him to the tyranny of the United Sates of America .... he has since done a runner and tried to claim asylum from that leader of democracy and human rights, Ecuador. I hope his backers lose their bail money, we certainly have lost millions trying to get him out of the UK.

Julian Assange - Democrat or sex offender

And to cap another great day in this human rights paradise, an American/Irish citizen who is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and sexually molesting two 11-year-old boys in Minnesota between 1993 and 1994, Shawn Sullivan, who the US wanted back to face court and treatment for his paedophilia, has been freed by UK judges.

Shawn Sullivan - wanted for Child Sex Offences

 
Sullivan, who has a conviction for sexually assaulting two 12-year-old girls in Ireland, claimed that the paedophile treatment programme he faced in Minnesota, would breach his human rights. The judges agreed, and he is now free to wander the UK. I expect that if he rapes any children again, they will be free to sue the government (but not the judges), for their human rights being breached, so that's OK then.

Oh, and the reason he can stay here? .... When he was arrested, he was living with Ministry of Justice policy manager Sarah Smith, she then married him while he was in prison, thus giving him UK rights. You can hardly credit it can you ...

All these episodes are reasons to be ashamed of our justice system, and not a matter of national pride as some politicians would have us believe.

Cold War Thinking

Its one of the more perplexing questions of the current strife in Syria that Russia continues to back the Assad regime against all comers .... there is no oil (and in any case Russia is a net exporter), and its not a rich country so why the reluctance to contemplate regime change? On the face of it, their siding with the regime is only likely to lead to the next regime (if anti Assad), rejecting them completely, and thus defeat any objectives that Russia has in the area.

A couple of reasons why the support, have been defence contracts of over $1bn, and continued access to the port of Tartus (a medium size deep water Mediterranean port that can't berth an aircraft carrier) .... but neither reasons hold water. The contracts would have to be honoured by any regime, and in fact if the regime is radical and Islamist then they will want the Russian weapons even more as insurance against Israel and to stop American influence over their foreign policies.

The Port Of Tartus In Syria - Worth Supporting Pres. Assad for?

No, the answer lies in the old cold war ... Russia's current leadership is all rooted in the Soviet era (Putin was a KGB operative), and this whole policy, which is obviously going to backfire as it stands, is based upon the old Soviet idea of stopping the west having influence and denying them another port .... as I have pointed out, there current policy may actually lead to the next regime rejecting them as allies, so it makes no sense to pursue this policy except as an example of old 'Cold War' thinking.

Car for Africar

In a sign that not everything in the African world is chaos, a western worker has encouraged investment in the Mobius 2 -

Mobius 2 - Car For Africa

A rugged range rover styled car for the African masses (well middle classes) ....... a no frills car, that's adaptable to Africans, and more especially to African roads. To me it still seems pricey, but there is a burgeoning middle class built on corruption in South Africa, but on more sustainable models in many other African states, for whom $6,000 is not an insurmountable amount.

Who knows, maybe this is the start of a revolution in Africa, whereby it starts making its own things .... if so, its about time.

Signs From The Gods

If you do happen to believe in auguries and don't happen to live in Saudi Arabia then the signs for the resolution of the Greek Debt crisis are not good.

Mr Samaras and Mr Rapanos - Sign From Goddess Adikia

The new Prime Minister apparently found that he couldn't see straight, and went in to hospital to have surgery on Saturday morning. The surgery was to repair a damaged retina in one of his eyes and he's expected back at work by Tuesday at the latest.

Then, if that wasn't enough, the new Finance Minister, Vassilis Rapanos was also admitted to hospital after apparently fainting on Friday, and complaining of nausea, intense abdominal pain, dizziness and weakness. He was originally due to be sworn in on Saturday, but obviously won't be until next week now as his condition is said to be "stable and improving".

So it appears that the prime minister took one look at the problems and damaged his eyes, while the finance minister, also took a look for himself and collapsed ..... all this as Greece prepares to receive a team of auditors from the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank to assess reforms.

Coincidence, or just a sign from the goddess Adikia?

Multitasking - Definitions

Womans definition: A woman performing several tasks, all at the same time, and achieving perfection in all - an ability that no man can ever master.

Multitasking - the womans view of their skills.

Male Definition: A woman performing several tasks, all at the same time, badly - an inability to manage tasks that no man would want to master. Often requires a man to go and correct all the damage done when the woman has left.

Multitasking - A mans view.