News you might not have heard

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 27 Sep 2014, 23:10

Mystery ball on Mars 2014: http://www.microfinancemonitor.com/2014 ... e-on-mars/

Mystery light on Mars 2014: http://news.discovery.com/space/mystery ... 140408.htm

Mystery spheres on Mars 2012: http://www.roundnews.com/science/space- ... -mars.html

More images of Mars: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Mars

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 01 Oct 2014, 11:03

On â€˜climate changeâ€™: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/ ... =obnetwork

Israel: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeas ... 41315.html

And this: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/28 ... ic-crimes/

German alcoholics offered beer to clean city: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/20 ... 14943.html

Trade agreements they don't want you to know about: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2 ... ments.html

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 04 Oct 2014, 21:05

Pakistani troops violate Jammu/Kashmir ceasefire: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-pa ... ys-2023580

The Lost River: http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standp ... st-2023285

For the slumdog millionaire? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Numbering_System

On vacuum cleaners: http://www.which.co.uk/news/2014/08/eu- ... er-377790/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 07 Oct 2014, 23:15

The Chief Constable for Scotland has admitted that political pressure from UKIPâ€™s campaign to prevent the Scottish police regularly carrying glock automatic pistols has been successful.

UKIP MEP David Coburn who led the campaign warned â€œwe must police by consentâ€. â€œWe donâ€™t want to turn Pittenweem into Dodge City. An unarmed police force being a proud British boast and the SNPâ€™s attempt to create a foreign, less tolerant, authoritarian Scotland is not the gentle Scotland that we know and love.â€œ

David Coburn also criticised other SNP authoritarian measures such as abolishing corroboration and the Named Person act which appoints a state guardian for every child in Scotland with the right to interfere in private family life.

This illiberal act was passed with the support of Labour and the abstention of the Tories in the Scottish Parliament.

The SNP want to change Scotland in an authoritarian way incompatible with the traditions of the Scottish people and UKIPâ€™s libertarian values which are old fashioned Scottish Values.

Alpine Joe · Post by **Alpine Joe** » 08 Oct 2014, 10:16

This is very good news, and many different groups, organisations, and individuals in Scotland had campaigned against this.

What is unusual is that the Chief Constable has apparently openly admitted that it was 'political pressure' that he bowed to in making this change to operational procedure. Even more surprising, and wrong in my view, is that he should specify that the political pressure from one group was any more successful in making him change his mind than the representations he received from anyone else on this specific matter.

http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.u ... ry-4364388

Given Gullscorers usual readiness to provide a link, it's disappointing that one directing us to the Chief Constable's admission, in order that we could study his words for ourselves, wasn't forthcoming on this occasion.

News we might not have heard is one thing, but misleading or disingenuous claims from a UKIP Press Officer should remain quite another.

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 08 Oct 2014, 13:36

Joe you are right to point out the shortcomings of my previous post. I normally try to provide links to other sources of news, but was extremely tired on this occasion; I happened to see the item on the UKIP website and felt it important enough to post without thinking of anything else but getting to sleep a.s.a.p.

Claims from any political party should of course always be taken with a pinch of salt. The same goes for the media, pressure groups, quangos and other official sources, who can all be occasionally disingenuous, inaccurate or misleading, sometimes deliberately so.

One Scottish paper referred to a campaign by an 'independence group' without specifically mentioning UKIP or any other party. There is no reason to doubt UKIP's campaign, led by their first Scottish MEP David Coburn, but the Scottish Liberal Democrats are also known to have similarly campaigned. In any event, a good day for democracy.

I managed to find these links:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... 1408015192
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotla ... s-1.605735
http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.u ... ry-4364388

Ideally, of course, for the reasons given above, people should undertake their own searches and research to check the accuracy of any report from any source and, hopefully, post their findings on this forum as you have done..

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 11 Oct 2014, 02:40

On the O'Connors and Caroline Nokes MP, injustice in the court, and disgraceful mis-reporting by The Independent newspaper:
http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/category/latest-news/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 15 Oct 2014, 14:42

Last month India put a space probe into orbit around Mars.

The $74 million cost of this mission was less than the budget of the movie Gravity.

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 16 Oct 2014, 13:27

The Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group, one of the main Eurosceptic groups in the European Parliament, which includes Britain's UKIP, has been dissolved by the EU.

A spokesman for the European Parliament, Jaume Duch, tweeted the news: "Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule left #EFDD group today. #EFDD no longer has members from at least 7 countries, so declared dissolved today."

It is not yet clear whether this is a result of bribery or coercion or threats by the EU on the Latvian MEP. What is clear is that Iveta Grigule is a passionate Euro-sceptic who would not take such an action on a mere whim. If there were strong personal reasons she would also have resigned as an MEP, and she has not done so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29646414
http://www.efdgroup.eu/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 16 Oct 2014, 13:50

Mysterious U.S. military space plane: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/15 ... -continue/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 22 Oct 2014, 15:41

The Government collects far more in vehicle-related tax than it spends on the roads:
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/44965/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 06 Nov 2014, 05:31

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/outrage-90-ye ... -days-jail

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 14 Nov 2014, 11:47

Canadian justice: http://www.ctvnews.ca/w5/justice-system ... -1.2079731

Jodi Arias: http://crimefeed.com/2014/10/jodi-arias ... begins-az/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 24 Nov 2014, 01:16

White Ribbon Fraud Day 25 November: http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/fe ... d-exposed/

Gullscorer · Post by **Gullscorer** » 03 Dec 2014, 00:34

The USS Donald Cook:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html

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