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Entries from June 2005

Blood Testing Racist?

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MINISTERS have said they will appoint an expert group to examine the case for compulsory blood testing of criminal suspects after receiving mixed views in a consultation.
Some groups think the move could lead to racism and homophobia.
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Tags: General · Politics

Labour City councillor faces third conduct probe

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A GLASGOW councillor, once suspended from the Labour Party for threatening behaviour, could face a third probe by a sleaze watchdog.
Parkhead councillor Elaine Smith has been reported to the Standards Commission over allegations concerning her conduct.
Three months ago, she was cleared of block voting with Labour colleagues over planning applications.
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Tags: General · Politics

Fury over city council ‘jobs for the boys’

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[Surprised no-one has claimed sexism over 'jobs for boys headline'-ed]
GLASGOW Labour councillors have been slammed for creating “jobs for the boys” - costing ratepayers an extra £25,000.
A shake-up of senior posts following the resignation of leader Charles Gordon has seen the bill for special allowances soar from £135,257 to £160,393.
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Machete mob on rampage in Scots hotel

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Machete mob on rampage in Scots hotel. Petrified guest suffers heart attack
By Charlie Gall
A COUPLE yesterday told of their terror as a gang wielding machetes and flame-throwers rampaged through their holiday hotel.
Frank and Pat Malone watched in horror as the 30-strong mob set fire to their chef.
As flames engulfed his whites, he dived into [...]

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Scotland allows immigrants a ‘back door into England’

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[Fresh Talent? Why can't Scots University Graduates get a job then?-ed]
JACK McConnell’s flagship Fresh Talent initiative could end up simply providing a “back door” way for foreign migrants to enter England, a migration lobbying group warned yesterday.
Migrationwatch UK, a right-wing think tank, dismissed the initiative as “completely unjustified” and argued that claims about [...]

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Tags: General · Politics

We’ll Build 20 Schools in Africa

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[What about Scottish schools?-ed]
SCOTLAND’s business leaders have pledged a record-breaking £1million to build 20 schools in Africa’s poorest villages.
The massive donation was announced at the star-studded White Ball in Glasgow’s Hilton, last night.
Entrepreneur Tom Hunter asked friends to come up with £40,000 to support one community or school development in Malawi and Kenya.
The cash will [...]

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Tags: General · International

Scotland celebrates refugee week

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Dozens of events will take place in the next few days to celebrate Scotland’s Refugee Week.
The planned programme includes theatre performances, book readings, exhibitions and open air carnivals.
It aims to deliver positive messages which will counter fear, ignorance and negative stereotypes of refugees.
The Scottish Refugee Council’s Sally Daghlian said the events would allow [...]

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Pervert interviewer goes free

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A BOSS who stripped naked to interview a woman ‘for excitement’ escaped a jail sentence yesterday.
A court heard Saeed Akbar’s life had fallen apart when he walked into his office naked except for a clipboard to see the 25-year-old woman who had applied for a job.
Akbar had lost his £25,000-a-year job, his long-term partner and [...]

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Asylum seekers ‘bring jobs boost’

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[Surely they would be better off creating jobs where they are needed most, like in developing countried-ED]
Asylum seekers have generated a jobs windfall for Glasgow, according to a report by economists.
Some 5,000 people are housed in the city, supported by almost £40m in Home Office benefits each year.
Much of this money is spent locally [...]

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Apartheid being set up in Scotland

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[There is a shocking incident of racism in the UK, they have just set up protected zones for the Red Squirrel, and are trying to stop interbreeding between the Red and Grey Squirrels! Racism!! They have done this to try to protect the Red Squirrel from extinction in the UK-ed]
Conservationists have come up with [...]

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Man Cleared of Flying Nazi Flag to Offend Jewish Neighbour

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A PENSIONER accused of racially aggravating his Jewish neighbour by flying an Albanian flag from a window of his home was found not guilty yesterday.
Ebenezer Melville, 65, claimed he flew the flag to welcome his newly married daughter and her Albanian husband on their first visit to see him.
But his neighbour, Christina Foster, 51, [...]

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Devil Worshipers Given Equal Opportunities Protection

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SATANISTS will get protection from discrimination under tough new religious laws unveiled yesterday.
Home Office Minister Paul Goggins said new proposals to ban discrimination against religious groups would apply to people of all religions.
But the move raised the prospects of devil worshippers being able to practice openly.
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Scottish Adoption law for Gays

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Same sex couples will be able to adopt children, under new legislation being proposed by ministers.
The move is part of a radical overhaul of Scotland’s adoption laws.
The Deputy Education Minister Euan Robson said that the adoption system needed to be changed to offer more children the chance to flourish and have a sense [...]

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Racist ‘joke’ in speech lands lawyer with £1,500 fine

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A SENIOR Scottish advocate has been fined £1,500 after he told a racist joke at a lawyers’ gathering.
During an after-dinner speech at a sheriff’s retiral event in Falkirk, George Wood asked the audience: “Has anyone else noticed how the jam tastes better now they’ve taken the black guy off the lid?”
The people attending [...]

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Bob Geldof ‘Racist’ ?

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Live 8 line-up ‘hideously white’
A campaign group has called the Live 8 London concert “hideously white” for not having enough black performers.
London-based group Black Information Link said organisers had “handpicked a virtually all-white line-up”.
But a Live 8 spokesman said: “Bob Geldof approached a number of urban and black artists to [...]

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Open Source Goes Gaelic

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Scottish schools to access tailored open source office software
Open source office software which has been translated into Gaelic using public funds is to be made freely available to schools in Scotland.
A version of the OpenOffice suite specially adapted to the Gaelic language was launched on 2 June.
The open source software was said to have performed [...]

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British TV owners blackmailed and fleeced by multicultural gang!

4:02 pm Comments Off

This may sound like a joke, but it isn’t. Like this article mentions, TV owners in the U.K. Have to pay every year a high tax to the multicultural propaganda machine called BBC. This article also mentions that while people without a TV license, watch a show like, Big Brother (isn’t that ironic), they may [...]

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