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Britain has announced it will attempt to engage Iran despite the Tehran government’s reaction to the country’s post-election violence.

“We continue to believe that the engagement we proposed with Iran is right, that we continue to say when we have concerns about treatment of the Iranians,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Saturday.

Speaking to reporters at the Greek island of Corfu, Miliband said, “We should leave no room for excuse. The debate taking place in Iran is in reality a debate between Iran and the West.”

The European Union and the United States have criticized the Iranian government’s response to protests that sparked following the victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12 with nearly two-thirds of the votes.

Defeated presidential hopefuls Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi rejecting the election result as fraudulent and demanded a re-run.

At least 20 people were killed and many others injured when some protests turned violent. Tehran blames ’saboteurs’ for the deaths of the Iranian protesters.

Iran has lashed out at what it calls the West’s ‘interference’ in the country’s internal affairs, saying the ‘biased’ attitude of European countries and their media incited the unrest following the June 12 election.

“They …did not condemn the killing of thousands of Iranians along with the country’s president, prime minister, judiciary chief and lawmakers by the MKO [Mujahedin Khalq Organization] in 1981 and 1982,” a statement from Iran’s embassy in Berlin said on Friday.

The MKO, which identifies itself as a Marxist-Islamist guerilla army, was founded in Iran in the 1960s but was exiled some twenty years later for carrying out numerous acts of terror in the country.

The group, known as the Rajavi cult after its leader Masoud Rajavi, masterminded a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, one of which was the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party in which more than 72 Iranian officials were killed including the then Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

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One hundred Roma Gypsies who fled their homes in Belfast after a spate of recent attacks have decided to leave Northern Ireland and return to Romania.

Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie said 25 people had already left and 75 were going to leave as soon as they could, 14 will stay in NI.  

Meanwhile, a man has been remanded in custody charged with intimidating Roma Gypsies in Belfast.

Shane Murphy, 21, of Donegall Road in the city, denies the charge.

His solicitor, who had applied for bail on his client’s behalf, said Mr Murphy also denied a further charge of acting provocatively by shouting racist comments at a rally held on Lisburn Road in the city last week.

The judge, sitting at Belfast Magistrates Court, refused a bail application because he said there was a danger Mr Murphy could interfere with witnesses.

On Monday, a 15-year-old boy appeared in court charged in connection with the same incidents.

A 16-year-old boy appeared alongside him accused of provocative behaviour at the anti-racism rally.

The Housing Executive is paying for the families, members of the Roma ethnic group, to return to Romania using emergency funds.

A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities said it was likely the remaining families would leave before the end of the week.

“We have all spoken to the the Roma Gypsies families and the majority of them want to go home,” he said.

City Church, which last week provided temporary overnight shelter for the ethnic Roma, was targeted by vandals on Monday night.

Three men, all aged 20, were arrested in connection with the attack but later released.

Police are not linking this incident to the ongoing investigation into the attacks on Roma Gypsies families in south Belfast.

They said there was no indication that the attack on the church was hate or racially motivated

Pastor Malcolm Morgan said the church was covered in broken glass.

“I arrived this morning to find windows smashed at the front of our church and our main glass doorway smashed as well,” he said.

“Stones were lying scattered on the floor inside and outside and obviously broken glass was everywhere.

On Monday night, another two youths, aged 16 and 17, were arrested in connection with alleged provocative conduct and intimidation. They were released on Tuesday.

Police do not believe paramilitaries were involved in last week’s attacks, which were condemned by all political parties.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8114234.stm

The staggering total of Britain’s national debt was laid bare yesterday  -  at least £2trillion.

That represents £33,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.

Bank bailouts will send debt ‘off the Richter scale’ at a staggering 147 per cent of national income, the worst figure since 1954 and one of the highest in the developed world.

The figures came from the independent Office of National Statistics, which said it was adding giant liabilities from two part-nationalised banks  -  estimated at between £1trillion and £1.5trillion  -  to existing debts.

The decision is a shattering blow to Labour’s reputation for economic competence and is likely to anger ministers, who argue taxpayers are never likely to have to pay back such sums.

Official debt figures had already shown public borrowing spiralling to a new record, reaching £67.2billion between last April and January. The deepening recession also led to a £7billion fall in the amount of tax paid by individuals and businesses last month, compared to January 2008, leaving a yawning black hole in Government finances.

The shattering calculations came as the Bank of England’s deputy governor said there was a ’serious risk’ of a decade-long downward spiral of the kind that crippled Japan in the 1990s.

Sir John Gieve, who leaves the Bank at the end of the month, said the way the authorities handled the collapse of Northern Rock ‘may have owed more to John Sergeant than Fred Astaire’.

Gordon Brown, meanwhile, admitted the country had been ‘brought low’ by an ‘economic hurricane’ affecting the whole world.

Opposition MPs accused the Prime Minister of driving Britain towards bankruptcy and called for emergency reductions in Government spending.

Britain’s leading business organisation, the CBI, launched an extraordinary attack on the Government’s recovery plans, saying there was ‘little sense of a coherent strategy’.

It said: ‘The Government appears to have been fighting a series of forest fires rather than building a platform for economic recovery.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1150666/2trillion–terrifying-total-national-debt–thats-33-000-man-woman-child-Britain.html#comments

Gordon Brown today attempted to seize the political initiative on climate change by calling for rich countries to hand over $100bn (£60bn) each year to help the developing world cope with the effects of global warming.

In a speech at London zoo, the prime minister said the cash offer was intended to break the political stalemate over a new global deal on greenhouse gas emissions. He said the “security of our planet and our humanity” rested on such a treaty being agreed at key UN negotiations in Copenhagen in December.

“Over recent years the world has woken to the reality of climate change. But the fact is that we have not yet joined together to act against it. Copenhagen must be the moment we do so,” Brown said. “As always, this will involve a calculus of national and collective interests, with each yielding something for the common good.”

Aides said the speech was intended to provide fresh momentum to the stalling political talks on global warming. In exchange for greater action on climate as part of a new deal, the developing world wants money to help it cut carbon emissions and adapt to a warmer world. Earlier this month, EU leaders postponed a decision on such funds until October.

Brown said: “If we are to achieve an agreement in Copenhagen, I believe we must move the debate from a stand-off over hypothetical figures to active negotiation on real mitigation actions and real contributions.”

Under the plan, funding would begin in 2013 and rise to $100bn a year by 2020. The money would be raised from private and public sources, such as levies on international carbon trading schemes. Developing countries would be able to apply for funds for specific projects. “I would urge the leading developing countries to bring forward ambitious and concrete propositions … that could be financed by these sources,” Brown said.

Brown is expected to discuss the plan with world leaders including Barack Obama. Because the UK will negotiate at Copenhagen as part of the EU-bloc, the suggestion will have to be agreed in Brussels before it could be put forward as a formal offer as part of the Copenhagen negotiations.

The annual $100bn falls well short of what China and other developing nations have demanded in climate funding. The G77 group of nations has suggested that rich countries could hand over 1% of their GDP, a figure that British government sources consider unfeasible. “That’s a totally unrealistic number. It doesn’t even bring us to the negotiating table,” one said.

Green campaigners welcomed the speech but were unhappy with the reliance on carbon markets to generate the necessary funds.

Greenpeace said: “Brown is right when he says the scale of the money on the table for the developing world will make or break Copenhagen. By becoming the first major leader to put a figure on how much money is needed he has shown signs of leadership on climate change that have so far been sorely lacking.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/26/gordon-brown-climate-adaptation-cost

ATF raids home of W.A.R. Founder – Tom Metzger

Tom Metzger Interview 1

Tom Metzger Interview 2 

June 21, 2009 marks the 68th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa in which National Socialist forces from many nations in Europe under the leadership of Adolf Hitler invaded the Communists of the USSR. For the first year and a half they were destroying the Red death but when the United States entered the war on the side of the Communist butchers and atheists the tide turned against the White Race and National Socialism.

We salute the brave White men and women who took part in this giant effort to rid the world of Communism and the Jewish deranged and unnatural mindset that Communism is a symptom of. The Communists had plans to conquer the world for the twisted worldview of Communism. After they secured power in Russia and its surrounding countries they were focused on winning power in Germany. Once Germany fell all of Europe would then follow with the US close behind. The only thing that stopped them was Adolf Hitler and National Socialism! We are all greatly indebted to Adolf Hitler and all the brave and intelligent National Socialists who took part in Operation Barbarossa! (A great book that I believe you can find at amazon.com is Twilight of the Gods by former Swedish Waffen SS Man Thorolf Hillblad. It’s an incredible read and really wakes you up to the lies of the allies!)

The National Socialist Movement carries on the eternal natural struggle for our beautiful Aryan People.

When army group north was at the gates of Moscow December 1941 and the Wermacht and SS recon squads could see the spheres of the Kremlin in the far distance the dreaded Russian winter set in, the same kind of cold and snow  that stopped Napoleons invasion in the last century. The Germans beleived with good reason the Russians were almost beaten. They had captured millions of Russian prisoners in the summer campaign and thought the Russians could have no more reinforcements. But unknown to the Germans  Stalins extensive excellent spy net work in the far east Richard Sorge a Soviet spy in Japan let the Red intelligence organization know the Japanese were not going to attack the Russians on their eastern flanks at this time. This let Stalin turn  loose several well equipped Siberian Divisions used to the extreme weather that he had kept in reserve for such an occasion. Even though the Germans were surprised by this massive reinforcement and  not well equiped for this severe winter fighting they gave a good account of them selves. The old saying the German soldier  is invincible in defense has much truth to it. During this time of extreme adversity on the German soldier such was the strength and charisma and belief in  their leader Adolf Hitler that rumours abounded that he was actually physically there and had been seen dressed in disguise in a privates uniform passing ammunition and actually fighting with his troops. This helped steel the Germans and they held their positions for the most part thus preventing a route that had destroyed Napoleon from his retreat from Moscow mentioned above.

When Lenin was on his death bed Stalin, Beria and other high communists were at his side. They all beleived and knew europe would never peacefully accept the ever  expansive Soviet system and knew the europeans could only be coerced by the firy destructive sword of Soviet communism using Soviet bayonets. At that time they made their permanent foreign policy to encourage the western democracies to war against each other then “in the name of Soviet peace and saviour” the Russians would march west to beaches of Normandy with the democracies bled white from war with each other they would have no serious obstacles to stop them. America, naive with the criminal FDR appointed president never could see the deadly threat to the europeans, FDR who actually gave in to every Soviet demand without reciprocation, made fun of by his own cabinet that helped make foreign policy, could not and would not make an effort to stop them. By the time this danger was recognized Soviet power and the Russian language would be spoken from Asia to Warsaw to Cologne to Paris. Churchill, and  the French and Americans were never that politically sophisticated to the point to be aware  to see Soviet power was the murderous serpent it truly was. Due to “subversive ethnic influence and espionage in their own govts” and jealousy of the Germans successes their tunnel vision could only see the Germans as enemies. As has been said before and europeans will only grudgingly admit it if at all, it is only through the sacrifice and deaths of millions of German and their allies soldiers that they dont speak Russian as a major language on the continent of europe. Some day when real history is taught this will be recognized and these heroes will be revered as quite a few of us do now. The lie that was perpetuated that a unaware peacefull Soviet nation was attacked with out reason or provication is a Soviet fabrication. Russian offensive act s such as having massive airborne armored and infantry formations close to their borders bring this out. Russian historians now admit that an attack was planned not later than August 1941, the Germans seeing this danger and being directly in the path of the Soviet beast,  beat them to the punch by a short time,  and if not for degeneracy of western govts helping the Soviets would have annhilated this beast. 

NICE issued its final appraisal determination advising against NHS funding for Tyverb® (lapatinib), a treatment for an aggressive form of advanced breast cancer (ErbB2-positive).1 Lapatinib (in combination with Xeloda® [capecitebine]) offers a new treatment option for women whose disease has returned despite treatment with standard chemotherapies and Herceptin® (trastuzumab).2 There are very few treatment options available for these women and lapatinib offers a chance of additional time without their disease progressing.3 Lapatinib is the only licensed ErbB2 targeted treatment* for these patients.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will consider appealing the decision. Simon Jose, General Manager, GSK UK commented; “We disagree with the NICE decision and believe Tyverb is a valuable and important treatment for eligible women. In recognition of the cost effectiveness challenges with drugs that treat patients with a short life expectancy, we offered the Tyverb Patient Access Programme to help ensure it was made available on the NHS. It is difficult to comment without the appearance of self interest. However, there is clearly more work to be done by all parties when flexible access programmes from industry and the recent changes by NICE for patients with a short life expectancy still fail to give them access to valuable medicines.”

GSK proposed the patient access programme in the UK when NICE indicated early on in its review that it did not consider lapatinib to be cost effective in treating this patient population. In an effort to achieve a positive outcome for patients and greater value to the NHS, GSK bears the cost of lapatinib, for all eligible patients under the scheme, for up to the first 12 weeks of treatment. The NHS would commence payment only for the patients who continue to receive clinical benefit beyond 12 weeks. GSK will continue to honour the patient access programme for NHS trusts in the UK.

During the lapatinib assessment NICE proposed new advice for the assessment of treatments in small patient populations with a short life expectancy.4 Lapatinib is licensed for a particular type of breast cancer that affects around 2000 women a year.1Therefore lapatinib qualified for review under the new advice.

GSK submitted a sub-group analysis that met the overall survival criterion of this new NICE advice. However NICE concluded that whilst the data analysis could be useful in guiding future research, as it stands it would not change their conclusions. NICE’s decision reflects the difficulty in demonstrating significant survival benefits in patients at this advanced stage of disease.1 Furthermore, trials are often halted early for ethical reasons to allow patients to cross over to the

active arm because of the effectiveness demonstrated by the medicine under study, as in the case of lapatinib.5

In its final appraisal determination NICE acknowledges that lapatinib is a clinically effective option, noting that lapatinib plus capecitabine demonstrated improved time to progression (TTP) and progression free survival (PFS) – significantly delaying the progression of the cancer and controlling the disease.1

GSK’s NICE submission demonstrated that lapatinib, in conjunction with the patient access programme, could actually save the NHS money in patients who would have received trastuzumab (Herceptin®) containing regimens. NICE acknowledged this is the majority (>50%) of eligible patients, however NICE concluded that trastuzumab is not likely to be cost effective in this setting and therefore lapatinib plus capecitabine would not be cost effective.

Safety Information

Lapatinib plus capecitabine is generally well tolerated. The most common adverse events associated with lapatinib plus capecitabine were diarrhoea, rash, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and hand-foot syndrome.2,3 Diarrhoea and rash were more common with the combination whilst the incidence of hand-foot syndrome was similar between the two treatment groups.2 A decrease in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was reported by 2.5% of patients receiving lapatinib plus capecitabine vs. 1% of patients on capecitabine alone.2 Hepatobiliary events (mainly raised liver enzymes and/or bilirubin levels) have been reported commonly in association with lapatinib plus capecitabine therapy.2 Lapatinib has also been associated with reports of pulmonary toxicity.2

About Tyverb

- Tyverb, in combination with capecitabine, is indicated for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose tumours overexpress ErbB2 (HER2). Patients should have progressive disease following prior therapy which must include anthracyclines and taxanes and therapy with trastuzumab in the metastatic setting.2

- Healthcare professionals should refer to the Tyverb Summary of Characteristics (SPC) for full prescribing information, including warnings and precautions.2

- * Tyverb received a conditional marketing authorisation in Europe, June 2008.2

GlaxoSmithKline – one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. For further information please visit http://www.gsk.com

Tyverb® is a registered trademark of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. Herceptin® and Xeloda® are registered trademarks of F. Hoffmann-La Roche

GlaxoSmithKline – one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141403.php

LONDON (AFP) – Britain pledged an extra five million pounds (8.2 m dollars, 5.9 m euros) in aid to Zimbabwe Monday, hailing the “great signs of progress” since a unity government took office but urging more reform.

Speaking after talks with premier Morgan Tsvangirai — the first such meeting with a Zimbabwean leader for over two decades — Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed more help “if the reform programme on the ground gains momentum.”

The extra aid brings to 60 million pounds the transitional aid to Harare this year, said Brown, whose government long opposed the regime of President Robert Mugabe in the former British colony.

“We are prepared to respond when the Zimbabwean government takes action which is in conformity with the long-term ambition,” he said in a joint press conference with Tsvangirai in his Downing Street office.

“We want to see Zimbabwe prosper, we want to see the emergence of a free society and genuine democratic politics.”

London is Tsvangirai’s final stop on a tour of Europe and the United States to drum up support for the “new Zimbabwe,” after his agreement with Mugabe to set up a unity government four months ago.

Britain has sounded a cautious note, saying it will support the inclusive government despite its concerns about Mugabe but that it will not lift sanctions until Harare proves it is on a path to democracy.

“There are great signs of progress: a budget and economic plans are in place; schools are reopening; children are once again filling the classrooms,” said Brown.

“As a result of the progress, we will increase our support to help Zimbabwe move from mere survival towards a genuine recovery.

“We are prepared to go further, in offering more transitional support, if the reform programme on the ground gains momentum. I want to see the government taking further rapid steps forward.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090622/wl_africa_afp/zimbabwepoliticsbritain_20090622111251

President Obama announced today that the United States will provide $73 million in aid to Zimbabwe, saying the economically-wracked nation has made progress since Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai entered a power-sharing arrangement with longtime President Robert Mugabe four months ago.

“We’ve seen progress from the prime minister,” Obama said, after meeting with Tsvangirai in the Oval Office.

The $73 million in assistance will not be going to the government but directly to services for citizens, Obama said, because “we continue to be concerned about consolidating democracy, human rights and rule of law.”

Obama renewed sanctions against Zimbabwe in March, in an effort to press Mugabe into making changes to improve human rights.

Tsvangirai’s visit to the White House came as part of his weeks-long tour of capitals in Europe and the United States to raise money to help rebuild his tattered country.

Tsvangirai became prime minister in February as part of a power-sharing deal with Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe for 29 years. The arrangement was a bitter compromise struck after Tsvangirai outpolled Mugabe in presidential elections last year, but the president was unwilling to cede power.

Mugabe was once hailed as a freedom fighter responsible for ushering the formerly white-run nation into black rule. But through his years as president, Mugabe has been accused of crushing his political opposition and implementing land redistribution and other policies that have triggered hyperinflation and shattered the once potent Zimbabwean economy. In recent years, the country’s health and education systems have all but crumbled.

“There was a time when Zimbabwe was the breadbasket of Africa. And it continues to have enormous potential,” Obama said. “It has gone through a very dark and difficult period politically. The president, President Mugabe, I think I’ve made my views clear, has not acted, oftentimes, in the best interests of the Zimbabwean people and has been resistant to the kinds of democratic changes that need to take place.”

Still, Obama said, Zimbabwe’s people are in dire need of basic humanitarian assistance. “The people of Zimbabwe need very concrete things: schools that are reopened, a health-care-delivery system that can deal with issues like cholera or HIV/AIDS, an agricultural system that is able to feed its people,” Obama said.

For his part, Tsvangirai said his country is making real, if unsteady, progress. “Zimbabwe is coming out of a political conflict and economic collapse or decay, and that the new political dispensation we have crafted is an attempt to arrest this decay, but also mindful of the fact that it is a journey,” he said. “This is a transitional arrangement. We want to institute those reforms that will ensure that in 18 months time, people of Zimbabwe are given an opportunity to elect their own government.”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/12/obama_pledges_73_million_to_zi.html?wprss=44

More than 100 Romanian Gypsies people who fled their homes in south Belfast have been moved to a leisure centre.

The group of about 20 families spent Tuesday night in a church hall after a spate of racist attacks on their homes.

Police have said they do not believe paramilitaries were involved in orchestrating the attacks.

The attacks were condemned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown who said he hoped the authorities would take all action necessary to protect the families.

Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, who has met with the families, said the attacks were a “totally shameful episode”.

These gypsies are called “Romanians” by the political correct media, but they are in fact gypsies from India which migrated to Romania some centuries ago. By all means they are not Romanians. Romanians are white European people.

“We need a collective effort to face down these criminals in society who are quite clearly intent on preying on vulnerable women and children,” he said.

The police have met Belfast City Council and social services to discuss how best to care for those affected by the attacks.

http://news.ronatvan.com/2009/06/18/romanian-gypsies-attacked-in-belfast-northern-ireland/#more-2331