Archive for March 2011
‘Slaves’ rescued in police raids across England
Officers took part in raids early on Tuesday at two addresses in Gloucestershire and at caravan sites in Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
Three men aged 50, 28 and 22, and a woman, 46, were arrested under anti-slavery laws.
More than 200 officers took part in the operation.
‘Complicated operation’
Assets totalling £2m, a number of vehicles and other evidence were seized by police.
The suspects are being questioned at an unnamed police station in Gloucestershire.
Det Ch Insp David Sellwood, of Gloucestershire Constabulary who is leading the investigation, said the arrests and recovery of victims marked the culmination of many months’ work.
Italian Nationalists Stand against African Immigrant Invasion
Thousands of North African immigrants are swamping the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, but Italian nationalists have done what their government has failed to do and come to the aid of local people.
Boatloads of Tunisians arrive every day after the short journey across the Mediterranean, in a crisis that continues to deepen.
Newspaper reports in Italy and France have drawn parallels between the real-life invasion and the prophetic novel ‘The Camp of the Saints’, written in 1974 by Jean Raspail. In the novel, an armada of ships from India lead a ‘peaceful’ but devastating invasion of the West by the Third World.
Leftist Group La Raza Demands Congress Sign ‘Pledge for Respect’ for Latinos
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), a leftist Latino rights group, is launching a campaign to get members of Congress to sign a pledge opposing “irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric toward Latinos,“ reinforcing Hispanics as ”an integral part of the fabric of America, and vowing to denounce “politicians who dehumanize and scapegoat Latinos.”
(Watch video of La Raza protesters screaming “Nazi” and “racist” at the Arizona attorney general.)
Besides affirming the importance of Hispanics, the document, part of the Pledge for Respect campaign, also includes a clause that members of Congress will “meet with advocates and leaders from the Hispanic nonprofit and business communities to hear a Latino perspective on the issues and to find areas of common ground based on our shared values and interests.”
In order to sell the pledge, NCLR hired the Latin funk group Ozomatli to create a PSA-style YouTube video. In it, the group uses scare tactics to make it some some wacky campaign ideas are mainstream political thought.
Doctors That Can’t Speak English Continue to Endanger British Lives
Hospital bosses have admitted what the vast majority of Britons already know, that many foreign doctors’ standards of English are “absolutely awful”, with some not even able to communicate with patients.
Management at Queen’s Hospital in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, revealed their doctors’ terrible levels of English after complaints from both staff and patients.
Helen Ashley, chief executive of the Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said many of the problems centred on the doctors’ inability to understand English sufficiently.
The hospital is struggling to employ middle-grade, registrar-level doctors, and has often had to employ a locum doctor to cover shifts, Ms Ashley said.
Local townspeople have also complained about the issue. Trevor Hathaway, the chairman of East Staffordshire Borough Council’s health sub-committee, told a meeting at Burton Town Hall that a relative of his could not understand a word a foreign consultant was saying. “Not only that, the nurse had to tell him what to write on the paperwork,” he said.
Last year it was revealed that some NHS hospitals had to run taxpayer-funded language courses for their staff because they came from up to 70 different countries and could not speak English properly. Clearly such schemes are not working and are just another drain on indigenous people forced to pay for their own demise via the immigration swindle.
New census milestone: Hispanics reach 50 million
Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50 million, or 1 in 6 Americans.
Meanwhile, more than 9 million Americans checked two or more race categories on their 2010 census forms, up 32 percent from 2000, a sign of burgeoning multiracial growth in an increasingly minority nation.
The Census Bureau on Thursday released its first set of national-level findings from the 2010 count on race and migration, detailing a decade in which rapid minority growth, aging whites and the housing boom and bust were the predominant story lines.
Analysts said the results confirmed a demographic transformation under way that is upending traditional notions of racial minorities, political swing districts, even city and suburb.
“These are big demographic changes,” said Mark Mather, an associate vice president at the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau. “There is going to be some culture shock, especially in communities that haven’t had high numbers of immigrants or minorities in the past.
Former Marine Foils Attempted Smuggling of 13 Illegal Aliens in Military Uniforms (Video)
Clad in U.S. Marine uniforms, the illegal immigrants were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif., according to a March 15 report by California’s El Centro Border Intelligence Center.
An alert plainclothes U.S. Border Patrol agent who previously served in the Marine Corps foiled a brazen attempt by 13 illegal immigrants and two suspected U.S. smugglers to enter the United States by asking the driver a simple question that every Leatherneck knows: When is the Marine Corps’ birthday?
On Nov. 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of the Continental Congress, according to the U.S. Marines’ website. Formal recognition of the event, however, did not occur until 1921. Prior to that year, it’s unclear whether any celebration was held.
But every Marine is taught to remember that historic date — and the incorrect answer tipped off Border Patrol agents at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif.
Another agent later noticed that passenger Jose Guadalupe Ceja Jr., a suspected smuggler, seemingly did not understand English. Ceja and the driver of the white van both wore Marine uniforms bearing nametags reading “Lopez.”
Video provided here.
Exaggerating US Border Violence? by Chuck Norris
After a decade of playing one on television, I, along with my brother Aaron, was blessed a few months ago to become a real Texas Ranger in the presence of Gov. Rick Perry, fellow Texas Rangers and many others.
Perry mentioned at that induction: “As the drug cartels have turned up the heat on the other side of that border over the past few years, we have invested significant state resources to secure our border, looking to local police departments, county sheriffs, game wardens and even Texas Military Forces. However, when it was time to take the fight to the bad guys, there was only one choice to lead our efforts, so we formed our Ranger recon teams. It is reassuring to know that our Rangers are on the job, especially in light of ongoing reports of deteriorating conditions, with kidnappings, assassinations and terroristic acts just miles from Texas communities.”
Only weeks later, on Jan. 31, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asked public officials to stop exaggerating claims of violence on the U.S. side of the border and “be honest with the people we serve.” She added: “Let’s stick with the facts. We need to be upfront and clear about what’s really happening along our borders.”
Report From Occupied America: Jared Taylor’s Open Letter to Alexandra Wallace
Dear Miss Wallace,
Welcome to fame you never wanted.
By my count, since you posted your YouTube video about Asians at UCLA on March 11—10 days ago—some six million people have watched it. You took it down two days later, but it went viral anyway. There are now scores of “replies” and “parodies” on YouTube, most of them vile, many of them obscene.
National newspapers have held you up to ridicule, and UCLA’s vice chancellor for student affairs Janina Montero [Email her] says she is “appalled and offended.“ After a week of enduring what you say were “the harassment of my family, the publishing of my personal information, death threats and being ostracized from an entire community,” you have decided to drop out of UCLA. [UCLA student who made controversial video says she'll leave school | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Time, March 18, 2011]
None of this would have happened if you had been caught stealing books from the library or cheating on an exam. It would not have happened even if you had been arrested for bank robbery or murder. In the times in which we live, what you did was far worse. You were “insensitive.”
Video: ‘Americans Stole Our Land’ - AZ Senator Reads Shocking Letter from Teacher
Sen. Lori Klein
Aurora leaders try to avert racial unrest after police shootings
SWAT team members and other Aurora police officers surrounded and apartment where a suspect held a family of four hostage. The family escaped and police shot and killed the suspect.
Aurora officials convened a meeting of volunteers, police and the U.S. Department of Justice office that helps prevent racial tensions in the wake of recent officer-involved shootings in which at least two minorities were killed.
Barbara Shannon-Banister, chief of the city’s community-relations division, said her office has not heard reports of unrest from the community and that Monday’s meeting was standard procedure after a major incident such as an officer-involved shooting.
Among those in attendance were members of the city’s Key Community Response Team, a group of volunteers who meet regularly and respond in times of civil disorder, as well as the city’s human-relations commission and representatives of the local faith community.
Also participating was a representative of the Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service, which is described on its website as the department’s “peacekeeper” for community conflict and tension arising from differences of race, color and national origin.
