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Storbritanniens största fiskebåtar 2022

Storbritanniens största fiskebåtar 2022

De största fiskebåtarna i Storbritannien är i huvudsak pelagiska fiskebåtar som är hemmahörande i Fraserburgh, Peterhead och på Shetlandsöarna. De sistnämnda kan ha Lerwick eller nån hamn på ön Whalsay som exempelvis Symbister som hemmahamn. Den allra största båten är dock en demersal fiskebåt, H 72 Frank Bonefaas. Den enda övriga stora demersala fiskebåten är H 7 Kirkella. De flesta stora…

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"Disappointed" is the fourth single released by English alternative dance group Electronic.Like their first single "Getting Away with It", it features Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys as well as founding members Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.

It was released on 22 June 1992 on Parlophone soon after the demise of Factory Records.

The single was assigned the Factory catalogue number FAC 348, and the logo of the label remained on the artwork.Upon the song's release, it reached the top 20 in Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

It also peaked within the top 10 on three US Billboard charts - US Dance Club Play, US Maxi-Singles Sales & US Modern Rock Tracks.In July 1992, the song was featured in the soundtrack of the live-action/animation hybrid mystery movie Cool World and its inclusion both in the film and on its soundtrack album was advertised on the US single release.

The song was based on a piano riff by Marr's brother Ian; and worked up into a full backing-track by Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.They decided to ask Neil Tennant to complete the song and he wrote the lyrics and vocal melody.Some of the words ("Disenchanted once more...") were partly inspired by Mylène Farmer's 1991 hit "Désenchantée".

Tennant travelled to Manchester to record the lead vocal and a few weeks later went to Paris to attend the final mix of the song by Stephen Hague."Disappointed" was conceived just before the recording of New Order's sixth studio album Republic, and was performed live in December 1991 on Electronic's European tour: in Glasgow (sung by Bernard Sumner) and in London (sung by Tennant when Pet Shop Boys guested on three songs).

"Disappointed" was the last Electronic single to be released on all four major formats (7-inch, 12-inch, CD, and cassette).The content of the single was more dynamic than its predecessors, however; it had only one remix of the A-side (by 808 State; titled "808 Mix" in the US and "12-inch remix" in the UK), an additional treatment of a 1991 album track ("Idiot Country", with Ultimatum), and an earlier mix of "Disappointed" (called "Electronic Mix" in the US).The A-side of the single is itself a remix since producer Stephen Hague reworked the "Original Mix" for single release.

Although Electronic would enjoy three more top-twenty singles in the United Kingdom, "Disappointed" was the last major commercial success for the band on an international level, becoming a dance chart hit in the United States and reaching the top 20 in Germany as well as number six in the UK, their highest-charting effort there.

Until the release of Get the Message – The Best of Electronic in 2006, the track was not available on an Electronic album release.

However, since "Disappointed" was featured in the 1992 film Cool World, the song was available on the soundtrack album Songs from the Cool World.Roger Morton of NME was negative in his review, calling the song "effortless in the worse sense" and one that "drifts off into a no man's land of half-hearted disco miserablism".

He commented that Sumner and Marr "have programmed in the garagey synth lines and soft pedal Italian piano, and left out any semblance of melody", while Tennant "murmurs a few lugubrious lines with the enthusiasm of a narcoleptic jellyfish".

Andrew Mueller of Melody Maker felt it "sounds as if minimum effort was exerted over its creation" and concluded, "This sounds like a Pet Shop Boys album track. This yaws where they have stretched.”

"Electronic - Disappointed (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]

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When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she’s forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Kylie Bucknell: Morgana O’Reilly Miriam Bucknell: Rima Te Wiata Amos: Glen-Paul Waru Graeme: Ross Harper Dennis: Cameron Rhodes Officer Grayson: Millen Baird Officer Carson: Bruce Hopkins Eugene: Ryan Lampp Judge: Ian Mune Hollis: Wallace Chapman Kraglund: Mick Innes Justin: David Van Horn Leslie: Nikki Si’ulepa Elizabeth Chalmers: Kitty Riddell Young Kylie (Voice): Lila Sharp Fitness Host: Louise Mills Film Crew: Editor: Gerard Johnstone Director of Photography: Simon Riera Production Design: Anya Whitlock Original Music Composer: Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper Second Unit Director: Luke Sharpe Production Design: Jane Bucknell Executive Producer: Chris Lambert Executive Producer: Ant Timpson Visual Effects Supervisor: Matt Westbrooke Set Decoration: Simon Vine Steadicam Operator: Joe Lawry Set Decoration: Stephen Jaimeson Art Direction: Lyn Bergquist Art Direction: Laura Smith Art Direction: Haley Williams Costume Design: Lissy Mayer Steadicam Operator: Alex McDonald Set Decoration: Graham Collins Gaffer: Nicholas Riini Gaffer: Tane Kingan Continuity: Rose Damon Steadicam Operator: Simon Tutty Executive Producer: Michael Kumerich Line Producer: Garett Mayow Executive Producer: Daniel Story Makeup Effects Designer: Jacinta Driver Assistant Makeup Artist: Kendall Feruson Makeup Artist: Vanessa Hurley Assistant Makeup Artist: Rachel Johanson Assistant Makeup Artist: Katie Jones Makeup Artist: Carly Marr Assistant Makeup Artist: Nikki Milina Assistant Makeup Artist: Miranda Raman Makeup Artist: Lauren Steward Production Manager: Ainsley Allen Third Assistant Director: Rachael Bristow Third Assistant Director: Esther Clewlow Third Assistant Director: Sarah Hough Third Assistant Director: Laurelle May First Assistant Director: Natasha Romaniuk First Assistant Director: Fraser Ross First Assistant Director: Katie Tate First Assistant Director: Craig Wilson Props: Shamus Butt Art Department Assistant: Meling Cooper Art Department Assistant: Hilary Crombie Assistant Set Dresser: Louise George Assistant Set Dresser: James Goldenthal Runner Art Department: Kathryn Lees Art Department Assistant: Brian Maru Assistant Set Dresser: Aimee Russell Art Department Assistant: Jaime Sharpe Concept Artist: Andrejs Skuja Art Department Assistant: Luke Thornborough Art Department Assistant: Wesley Twiss Dialogue Editor: Nich Cunningham Boom Operator: Matthew Dickins Sound Recordist: Phil Donovan Sound Recordist: Gabriel Muller Boom Operator: Stephen Saldanha Sound Recordist: Ande Schurr Sound Recordist: Mark Storey Sound Designer: Shane Taipari Sound Recordist: Ben Vanderpoel Digital Compositor: Stuart Bedford Digital Imaging Technician: James Brookes Digital Compositor: Johnny Lyon 3D Modeller: Rich Nosworthy Digital Compositor: Jesse Parkhill Stunt Coordinator: Aaron Lupton Stunt Coordinator: Steve McQuillan Stunts: Stefan Talaic Stunts: Shane Blakey Stunts: Joanna Baker Stunts: Daniel Andrews Lighting Technician: Sam Behrend First Assistant Camera: Nick Burridge First Assistant Camera: Alexander Campbell First Assistant Camera: Kelly Chen Lighting Technician: Tommy Davis Camera Intern: Woody Dean Lighting Technician: Hayden Dudley Lighting Technician: James Dudley Lighting Technician: Leigh Elford Camera Intern: Kalym Gilbert Camera Intern: Andrew Farrent First Assistant Camera: Julia Green Cinematography: Adrian Greshoff Lighting Technician: Mathew Harte Lighting Technician: Stacey Hui First Assistant Camera: Matt Hunt First Assistant Camera: Blair Ihaka Gaffer: Tony Lumsden First Assistant Camera: Tom Neunzerling Cinematography: Eoin O’Liddy Key Grip: Jeremy Osbourne Key Grip: Jim Rowe Lighting Technician: Richard Schofield First Assistant Camera: Richard Simkins First Assistant Camera: Cameron Stoltz Cinematography: Drew Sturge Camera Intern: Matt Thomas Lighting Technician: Jason Tidsw...

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Inside the mind of Donald Trump: his niece Mary Trump speaks to Andrew Marr | LBC

Feb 19, 2024 #AndrewMarr#DonaldTrump#MaryTrump

"Mary L Trump, niece of the former President Donald Trump, joined Andrew Marr on LBC to discuss her uncle's hopes at the next election and what that means for international stability. Mary Lea Trump is an American psychologist and writer. A niece of former US president Donald Trump, she has been critical of him as well as the rest of the Trump family. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough, sold nearly one million copies on the day of its release."

. Listen to the full show on Global Player: https://app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/...

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There's No Place Called Home (Wijlre)

“There’s No Place Called Home (Wijlre),” 2023

Tree, speaker, audio

Songs of a Peruvian Meadowlark (Leistes bellicosus) broadcast from a speaker concealed in a tree on the Kasteel Wijlre estate, Limburg, The Netherlands.

Around the time when fall bird migration nears its high point, the artist has inserted an iteration of his long-term project “There’s No Place Called Home” into the exhibition, “Spark Birds & the Loneliness of Species”. This exhibition of Webb’s work is paired with its showing on the exhibition, "Goodbye to Love," at Marres, Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur in Maastricht. For this, the artwork’s debut in The Netherlands in its 19-year history, the artist has selected the songs of a Peruvian Meadowlark, native to western Peru, Ecuador, and far northern Chile to occupy both sites creating an international, avian dialogue in Zuid-Limburg. Curated by Xander Karskens in a special cooperation with Kasteel Wijlre and Huis Marres in Maastricht.

Started in 2004, "There’s No Place Called Home" is a recurring, worldwide intervention wherein audio recordings of specific foreign birdcalls are broadcast from speakers concealed in local trees.

Courtesy Galerie Imane Farès, blank projects, Huis Marres, and Kasteel Wijlre estate.

Colophon: "There's No Place Called Home (Wijlre)" contains audio recordings of Peruvian meadowlarks made by Niels Krabbe used under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence; Andrew Spencer, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence; and by Santiago Barreto, Guy Kirwan, John V. Moore, Cristian Pinto, and Fabrice Schmitt, used under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence; in these latter recordings time has inserted between the songs to lengthen the tracks, and a light equalization was used.

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On this date in music history…the important stuff anyway…

April 29th

1963 - The Rolling Stones

Publicist Andrew Oldham and agent Eric Easton signed a management deal with The Rolling Stones after buying the rights to the bands first recordings for £90. They also persuade keyboard player Ian Stewart to drop out of the line up and become the bands road manager, (and still play piano at the back of the stage).

1965 - Jimmy Nicol

Jimmy Nicol, the drummer who stood in for Ringo Starr during a Beatles Australian tour in 1964, appeared in a London Court faced with bankruptcy with debts of £4,000.

1967 - Technicolour Dream Benefit Party

The 14 hour Technicolour Dream benefit party for The International Times was held at Alexandra Palace in London. Seeing the event mentioned on TV, John Lennon called his driver and went to the show. Coincidentally, Yoko Ono was one of the performers. Other acts to appear included The Flies, Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, The Move and Suzie Creamcheese.

1976 - Bruce Springsteen

After a gig in Memphis Bruce Springsteen took a cab to Elvis Presley's Graceland home and proceeded to climb over the wall. A guard took him to be another crank fan and apprehended him.

1980 - Ronnie James Dio

Black Sabbath began their first tour with vocalist Ronnie James Dio, who had replaced Ozzy Osbourne.

1990 - The Friends of Distinction

Floyd Butler of The Friends of Distinction, died of a heart attack at the age of 49. Had the US No.3 single 'Grazing In The Grass' in 1969.

1993 - Mick Ronson

Guitarist, producer, Mick Ronson died of liver cancer aged 46. Ronson recorded and toured with David Bowie from 1970 to 1973. Released the 1974 solo album 'Slaughter On Tenth Avenue'. Ronson co-produced Lou Reed's album Transformer, also part of Hunter Ronson Band with Ian Hunter. And worked with Morrissey, Slaughter & The Dogs, The Wildhearts, The Rich Kids, Elton John, Johnny Cougar, T-Bone Burnett.

1997 - Keith Ferguson

American bass guitarist Keith Ferguson died of liver failure at the age of 50, due in part to a nearly thirty-year addiction to heroin. He was a member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds who had two hit songs in the 1980s, 'Tuff Enuff' and 'Wrap It Up.'

1998 - Aerosmith

Steven Tyler broke his knee at a concert in Anchorage, Alaska delaying Aerosmith's 'Nine Lives' tour and necessitating camera angle adjustments for the filming of the video for 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing.'

2001 - Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart asked for a change in wedding vows bringing them up to-date and to be treated like a dog licence. Stewart said 'a change is needed because they've been in existence for 600 years when people used to live until they were only 35'.

2001 - Dusty Springfield

A blue plaque was unveiled at 38 Aubrey Walk, Kensington, London to honor the musical heritage of the address where British singer Dusty Springfield lived between 1968-1972.

2003 - Creedence Clearwater Revival

A $5 million lawsuit against former Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty was dismissed after a personal-injury lawyer claimed that he suffered hearing loss in his left ear from attending a Fogerty concert. The Judge said the plaintiff assumed the risk of hearing damage when he attended the concert in 1997.

2009 - Queen

An anonymous Queen fan won a two-hour one-to-one guitar lesson with Brian May, after bidding £7,600 (approximately $11,900) at a private charity auction. The auction, in support of the Action for Brazil's Children Trust, of which May is a patron, was held at the exclusive Cuckoo Club in London.

2014 - Jail Guitar Doors

David Gilmour, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Philip Selway all signed an open letter, published by The Guardian, to keep musical instruments available to UK prisoners. Spearheaded by Billy Bragg, the singer-songwriter founded an "independent initiative" called Jail Guitar Doors in 2007 to provide instruments for the rehabilitation of inmates.

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Liam Fox welcomes Brexiteers' tests for Theresa May

Liam Fox welcomes Brexiteers’ tests for Theresa May

Source: BBC News

Liam Fox on Brexit delay: “If we have no option… then so be it”

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox welcomed a new offer from Tory Brexiteers as “a genuine attempt” to find “common territory”.

The Brexit-backing European Research Group has set out three tests it wants Theresa May to pass to secure its support for her deal with the EU.

They still want a time-limit to the…

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Bullsh*t and the Budget

By Sam Fowles

What’s the best way to drive an economist crazy? Tell them the government needs to “pay back” it’s “debts”. As Jonathan Portes put it, the idea is “complete nonsense”.

Yet this is exactly what Andrew Marr, a supposedly reputable broadcaster with a national platform, did on Sunday ahead of this week's  Budget, insisting “at some point we’re going to have to pay that [pandemic spending] money back.” Marr’s economic illiteracy, however, is symptomatic of a much deeper malaise: the widening gap between our national debate and reality.

Princeton’s Harry Frankfurt argues in his book, “On Bullshit”, that public debate is increasingly dominated by “bullshit” statements. A “bullshit” statement is one made to convince without regard for the truth.

Frankfurt attributes the rise of bullshit to increased opportunities to broadcast our opinions: With so many chances to share our thoughts, we feel under pressure to do so. We have, therefore, both more opportunity and more social pressure to promote “takes” that can be entirely specious.

On the flip side, our social media driven communications culture offers no real disincentive for dishonesty. It was almost inevitable that bullshit culture would be weaponised by politicians. Donald Trump epitomised this, achieving huge political success by ignoring reality and persuading his supporters to do the same.

Yet one of the most influential and established bullshit tropes is just as well established in the UK as it is in the US: That the economy is analogous to a household budget. We still believe that, like a household, any money borrowed by the government must be paid back in the short to medium term or else lenders might stop advancing credit to the UK or “call in” their loans.

The consensus amongst economists is that this is entirely wrong. Indeed, some of the country’s most eminent economists have written to the BBC pleading with it to stop promoting the trope.

One does not need to be an economist to see the problem: the state isn’t a household. It has far greater powers and an entirely different purpose. Unlike a household or business, it is almost impossible for the UK to go bankrupt because the UK controls its own currency. It can increase the amount of money in circulation to fund its own debt repayments.

It can even borrow money from itself (a substantial percentage of UK government “debt” is held by the Bank of England). In theory, the UK’s money supply is not unlimited because “printing money” can ultimately lead to inflation. Governments, however, can and do create huge amounts of money without triggering an inflationary reaction.

In 2020, for example, the Bank of England created £100 billion of new money, yet inflation remained at 0.8%. For this reason, investors are keen to buy government bonds even when state borrowing is high. In 2009, for example, the UK “deficit” (the difference between state debt and tax revenue) rocketed form 3% of GDP to around 10%. Investors, however, were so keen to “lend” the government more money that the interest rate on bonds dropped from 5% to 3.6%.

The modern version of the “household” trope came from a 2010 paper by Harvard’s Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. They argued that state debt above a certain level creates a drag on economic growth. This was seized on by politicians at the time. The Cameron government based its “austerity” policies substantially on Reinhart and Rogoff’s conclusions.

Just three years later, however, it emerged that Reinhart and Rogoff had made an error in their data. The International Monetary Fund has since rejected their findings and, to their credit, Reinhart and Rogoff have distanced themselves from policies based on their paper.

UK governments and media, however, have singularly ignored the fact that the “household” model has been debunked and abandoned. There are, of course, rational political reasons for wanting to limit government borrowing. But these are based on ideological preference, not financial necessity.

In the UK, however, we continue to conduct our public debate on the assumption that the government could run out of money (or ,at least, credit) at any moment. In May 2020 it emerged that Treasury officials (who one might expect to be relatively up to date on the consensus amongst economists) were already identifying spending cuts and tax increases to “pay for” the pandemic borrowing.

In November the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, warned that the “national credit card” had been “maxed out”. In his autumn statement, the chancellor cut overseas aid in the name of “fiscal prudence”. Even opposition politicians accept the trope.

The result is that our national economic debate increasingly takes place in a sort of parallel reality. Bullshit like this is dangerous for our democracy. Truth is an inherently democratic concept. If our debate is based on truth, then anyone can use facts and rational analysis to convince others.

Bullshit, however, is inherently undemocratic. When truth is sidelined, the influence of those with the most dominant platforms (like newspaper owners, those most able to fund big PR campaigns, or the state itself) is increased.

Unconstrained by the need to justify their arguments by reference to reality, those with the biggest platforms can convince us of anything. The Capitol riots, based on bullshit allegations of voter fraud spread from the presidential “bully pulpit”, show just how dangerous bullshit can become. While the UK is not there yet, our own form of economic bullshit sets us on a dangerous road.

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19 Years Since The United States’ Illegal Invasion of Iraq, Has “The Hypocite, Hegemonic and Double-Faced West” Learned Any Lessons?

Almost two decades and an estimated million deaths later, the media is beating the drums of war again

— Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump's Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.

In this July 11, 2017, file, photo, airstrikes target Islamic State positions on the edge of the Old City a day after Iraq's prime minister declared "total victory" in Mosul, Iraq. © (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

The US-led invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 was a war now accepted to have been built on lies and is said to have killed as many as one million Iraqis. However, despite the horrific bloodshed inflicted on the Iraqi people, the Western public seem to have forgotten so many of the lessons that should have been taken away from the disaster that was the Iraq War.

In the build-up to the war on Iraq, Americans were told that eliminating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was necessary for world peace. This was due to his alleged possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) as well as his alleged links with Al-Qaeda, among a number of other claims about Hussein’s genocidal ambitions. Britain’s then-prime minister, Tony Blair, even likened Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler; this was at a time when anti-Middle Eastern sentiment was high and the 9/11 attacks were ripe in the minds of the Western public, who had been informed by then-US President George W. Bush that the ‘war on terror’ was akin to a ‘crusade’.

It turned out that almost none of the major allegations about Saddam Hussein were true, despite the Iraqi president’s other crimes against humanity. Yet, with no evidence, Western media fell in line and presented the invasion of Iraq as a just war, despite the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva stating that it constituted a war of aggression and a flagrant violation of international law prior to the invasion occurring.

Likely due in large part to the media coverage at the time, which had demonized everything Middle Eastern and Muslim, US public support for invading Iraq prior to ‘Operation Iraqi Liberation’ was between 52-64%, jumping up to 72% support on invasion day.

In the first two months of the ‘Shock and Awe’ invasion of Iraq, more than 7,186 Iraqi civilians were said to have been killed. Yet, at the time, Western media outlets were celebrating the US-UK victory as if none of this death and destruction had taken place, never truly asking where the alleged WMD were. A BBC reporter, Andrew Marr, said on April 9 of British PM Tony Blair that “He said they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath and in the end the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both of those points he has been proven conclusively right.”

The blindly pro-US-UK government coverage went on, despite reports of US and UK war crimes. For example, on April 2, 2003, US aircraft struck a Red Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad, resulting in a massacre according to The Guardian.

Within less than two years of the invasion, it is said that as many as 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed, yet George W. Bush still managed to get re-elected in 2004. This was with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) not granting permission for the invasion, countless reports of civilian targets being hit, and calls from anti-war voices for the prosecution of Bush and Blair for war crimes.

On October 6, 2003, Time Magazine was still running cover for the Bush administration, only offering small criticisms of how President Bush miscalculated “fixing Iraq,” whilst The Economist went with a headline in May that read: ‘Now, the waging of peace’, which was endorsing the idea of nation-building in Iraq and ignoring the alleged war crimes.

Eventually, all the major news outlets in the West, including the likes of CNN, BBC, Fox News, and others, bowed their heads in shame of their one-sided reporting on what had occurred in Iraq and what Noam Chomsky called their participation in ‘manufacturing consent’.

Peter Van Buren, a former US State Department official based in Iraq for a year, was asked about whether the Western media had learnt its lesson from Iraq and said the following:

“Lessons learned? No. La [‘no’ in Arabic]. Nyet [‘no’ in Russian]. As a State Department officer in 2003, I watched in horror as the mainstream press acted not only as stenographers for government lies but amplifiers of those lies, employing anonymous sources at the expense of their own credibility to create and then service a narrative demanding war. When their true editor-in-chief, George W. Bush, stood up, a mix of Ben Bradley and Lou Grant, to proclaim ‘you were either with us or with the terrorists,’ the media stifled dissent in their ranks nearly completely. In 2022, little has changed. The media again beats the drum for war, albeit this time as stenographers for the Ukrainian government’s propaganda. Almost all of the video and imagery out of Ukraine comes from their government and those anonymous sources of 2003 have been replaced by no real sourcing at all. Crushing dissent has caught up with the times, so voices for restraint are not just left off the New York Times op-ed page, they are canceled, deplatformed, and sent down the social media memory hole, unemployable as Putin-lovers.”

Today, the crimes committed in Iraq are well known to the Western public, yet the former leaders of the United States and United Kingdom have never faced consequences for the chaos they caused. Not only has the war left Iraq divided, in terms of de-jure and societal ethno-religious division, but US forces are still stationed in Iraq in their thousands. NATO even announced early last year that they were expanding their own mission to 4,000 personnel in Iraq.

In addition to this, Iraq has faced the rise and fall of ISIS, a sectarian Sunni-Shia war, US occupation, torture centers, and chemical weapon deployment against civilians, and this has stained the new collective memory of the new generation of Iraqis. The young generation of Iraqis now also face a corrupt Iraqi elite, installed into a confessionalist [sectarian] system of government, which has largely been based on a manufactured political culture of nepotism.

Has the US even been able to claim victory in Iraq after 19 years of destruction? Absolutely not. Washington is still battling to hold enough power in the country in order to combat the role of neighboring Iran, which jumped in to fill the power vacuum with its allied forces who were established to fight ISIS and Al-Qaeda.

Prior to the removal of Saddam Hussein, Iraq was not a country divided on sectarian lines and did not have a problem with Al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups. The country has been torn apart since 2003 and the same media organizations which religiously took the side of Western governments are today working as the same propaganda machines. The active undermining of the Iraqi experience of war, with countless Western journalists saying things like, we should care more because the bombs are dropping on “relatively civilised” people, can be put down to racism, and it is this sort of dangerous rhetoric which enables Western audiences to ignore the alleged 6 million victims of the failed ‘war on terror’. Until the perpetrators of the Iraq War are brought to justice, the US government cannot claim the moral high ground over its adversaries, and its position on the world stage shall forever be tainted.

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Storbritanniens största fiskeriföretag 2022

Storbritanniens största fiskeriföretag 2022

I det brittiska fisket är det vanligt att fiskhandelsföretag äger andelar i många olika fiskeriföretag och fiskebåtar. Det är vanligt att fiskebåtar kan ha flera delägare, både bolag och privatpersoner. De kan också ha managementavtal för många fiskebåtar, även en del som de inte är delägare i. Dessutom kan de ha avtal om att sälja olika fiskebåtars fångst. Det kan då handla om både såna de är…

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China fails to meet promises on missing Xinjiang children

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China fails to meet promises on missing Xinjiang children

Over the past two years, the Chinese authorities have repeatedly promised to help trace any children reported to be missing in Xinjiang, to prove that they haven’t been forcibly separated from their parents. Those promises have not been met, reports John Sudworth.

The first time China made a public promise to help find Kalbinur Tursan’s children was in 2019.

“If you have people who have lost their children, you give me the names,” China’s then-ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, told the BBC in a live television interview in July that year.

Mr Liu denied that China’s policies in its far-western region of Xinjiang could be leading to the large-scale separation of children from their parents but, he said, if we had any such evidence, he would investigate.

“We’ll try to locate them and let you know who they are, what they’re doing,” he said.

Kalbinur – a member of Xinjiang’s largest Turkic ethnic group, the Uyghurs – now lives in Turkey, working late into the night in her tiny one-room apartment sewing clothes to support what is left of her shattered family.

She arrived in 2016, eight months pregnant with her seventh child, Merziye, conceived in violation of China’s family-planning laws.

“If the Chinese authorities had known I was pregnant they would probably have forced me to abort my baby,” she told me.

“So, I prepared my body by wrapping my belly to hide the bump for two hours every day and we managed to pass the border control like that.”

Although Kalbinur had applied for passports for all of her children, China’s tough restrictions on travel for Xinjiang’s ethnic groups meant that only one – for her two-year-old son Muhammed – was granted.

With time running out, she had little choice but to leave the others behind, hoping they could follow with her husband once they’d been given their documents.

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As she boarded her flight, she had no idea that she wouldn’t see them again.

Kalbinur, pictured with Merziye, sews clothes to support what is left of her shattered family

Out of sight, sweeping silently across China’s vast western region, a campaign of mass-incarceration had already begun with a rapidly expanding network of what were, at first, highly secretive “re-education” camps.

A parallel network of boarding schools was also being built with the same aim; the forced-assimilation of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minority groups whose identity, culture and Islamic traditions were now seen as a threat by the ruling Communist Party.

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One policy paper, published the year after Kalbinur’s departure, made clear that the purpose of such boarding schools was to “break the influence of the religious atmosphere” on children living at home.

A few weeks after her departure, her husband was detained and – like so many thousands of other members of the Uyghur diaspora watching their family members disappear from afar – she found herself in exile.

Almost overnight, even calling relatives became impossible because, for those still in Xinjiang, any overseas communication was seen as a potential sign of radicalisation and a key reason for being sent to a camp.

Facing almost certain detention if she returned to Xinjiang, and with her children now parentless, she’s had no contact with them at all – except for one shocking discovery.

Kalbinur has had almost no news about her missing children in years

Searching online in 2018, she came across a video of her daughter, Ayse, now two years older than when she’d last seen her, in a school more than 500 kilometres from the family home.

With her hair shaved short, she was with a group of children being led in a game by a teacher speaking not in Uyghur – her mother tongue – but in Chinese.

For Kalbinur, the video brought both relief – a tangible link to at least one of her lost children – and deep anguish, as a painful, visual reminder of the guilt and grief that have never left her.

“Knowing she was in a different city made me think it’s impossible to find my children, even if I do go back,” she told me.

“To my children, I want them to know that I didn’t abandon them, I had no choice but to leave them behind, because if I had stayed their new-born sister wouldn’t have lived.”

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Kalbinur’s story is just one of a large number of similar accounts of missing children gathered by the BBC from members of Xinjiang’s Uyghur and Kazakh diasporas in Turkey and Kazakhstan.

Having first sought their permission, we sent Ambassador Liu Xiaoming the details of six of our interviewees, and attached copies of passports, Chinese ID cards and last-known addresses.

Three of the cases involved parents who had reason to believe their children were now in the care of the Chinese state.

Although his 2019 TV-appearance marked China’s first public promise to investigate, similar assurances had already been given in private a few months earlier, when the BBC was taken on a government-organised tour of the camps in Xinjiang.

China’s network of “re-education” camps has drawn intense international scrutiny

The initial secrecy had given way to a new strategy, with China insisting that the camps were, in fact, vocational schools in which those under the influence of separatist or extremist ideology willingly had their thoughts “transformed”.

The Deputy Director of Xinjiang’s Publicity Department, Xu Guixiang, denied that a generation of Uyghur and Kazakh children were being effectively orphaned as whole extended families – including all adult caregivers – were detained or stranded overseas.

“If all family members have been sent to education training centres, that family must have a severe problem,” he told me.

“I’ve never seen such a case.”

But when we passed on the details of some of our cases – again, with their prior permission – the officials promised to look into it.

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One of the cases – handed to the officials in Xinjiang and sent to Ambassador Liu – involved not only missing children, but 14 missing grandchildren.

Originally from the village of Bestobe in the county of Kunes in northern Xinjiang, 66-year-old Khalida Akytkankyzy – like many ethnic Kazakhs – had family ties across the border in Kazakhstan.

In 2006 she and her husband, along with their youngest son, decided to emigrate, leaving her other three sons – already married and with children of their own – in Xinjiang.

But in early 2018, the relentless machinery of mass internment caught up with them too.

Khalida Akytkankyzy left Xinjiang in 2006

Khalida received news that her three sons and their wives had all been detained “for political education”.

She tried desperately to get information, including calling the Communist Party official in her old village, but no one would tell her who was looking after her grandchildren.

By 2019, when China began claiming that the camps had been successful in combating separatism and terrorism and that almost everyone had “graduated”, for Khalida the news only got worse.

Khalida Akytkankyzy not only misses her sons but her 14 missing grandchildren too

With the massive, parallel increase in Xinjiang’s formal prison population continuing unabated, her two eldest sons, Satybaldy and Orazjan, were sentenced to 22 years each, and her third son, Akhmetjan, to 10 years.

The village official told her they’d been convicted for “praying”.

If there were other reasons for their imprisonment then the authorities have provided no details.

China is accused of linking ordinary religious expression in Xinjiang to extremism or political separatism

China’s UK embassy confirmed receipt of the letter and documents we’d addressed to Ambassador Liu but, although we sent follow-up emails in November 2019 and again in February 2020, our questions remained unanswered.

The officials in Xinjiang told us there was a “discrepancy” in the information we’d handed to them, and advised us to tell our interviewees to contact their nearest Chinese embassies instead.

In July 2020, Ambassador Liu appeared again on the same, live television programme, and was asked what had happened to his promise of a year earlier.

“I never received any names since our last show,” he told the interviewer, Andrew Marr.

“I hope that you can give me the names, we certainly will get back to you.”

He went on to suggest that his counterparts in Xinjiang would be able to facilitate such requests with ease – “they respond to us very quickly,” he added.

So, we followed up again, sending emails in August and September 2020 and in January 2021.

“Chase-up email received,” reads the latest response from an official at the embassy. “I regret no progress has been made so far.”

Nowadays, Khalida wakes early and takes a number of interconnecting buses to the Chinese consulate in the city of Almaty, just as the officials had advised us to tell her to do.

Carrying photographs of her three sons, however, she finds her daily attempts to seek answers blocked by a line of police.

“It’s not just to me,” she said in a video interview from her home.

“I’m often there with 10-15 other people and the Chinese consulate doesn’t give any information to anyone.”

In Turkey, Kalbinur is also still fighting for information about her husband, Abdurehim Rozi, and her five missing children, Abduhalik, Subinur, Abdulsalam, Ayse and Abdullah.

Kalbinur organised a 400km walk from Istanbul to Ankara in a bid to break the silence of the Chinese authorities

She recently took part in a 400km walk from Istanbul to Ankara with other Uyghur mothers, in a bid to break the silence of the Chinese authorities about their relatives.

Her campaigning has at least prompted a limited response, in a press conference – chaired by Xinjiang’s deputy propaganda chief, Xu Guixiang – denying that her daughter is in a boarding school and insisting instead that the children are being looked after by a relative.

But Kalbinur is still unable to contact them and so China’s claims are impossible to verify.

“I want the authorities to let me see my children,” she told me over a video call as she took a break from her protest walk at the side of a busy highway.

“In this information age, why can’t I contact my children?”

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One of the cases we sent to Ambassador Liu did not involve missing children, but a missing mother instead.

In 2017, Xiamuinuer Pida, a 68-year old retired engineer with a long service record at a Chinese state-run company, was sent to a camp, where she was interned for 18 months before being released.

Her daughter, Reyila Abulaiti, who has lived in the UK since 2002, says the authorities are still refusing to grant her mother a passport, keeping her – like many other former camp inmates – under close surveillance in her home.

Reyila Abulaiti was born in Xinjiang, and now lives in the UK

During our 2019 visit to Xinjiang, Chinese officials insisted that she was entirely free but simply suffering from ill health, with one of them telling us that many elderly Uyghurs suffer dietary problems – “too much meat and milk,” he said.

It was a suggestion that infuriated and saddened Reyila, who told me that her mother had, in fact, lost 15kg (33 pounds) in weight as a result of the harsh conditions during her incarceration.

“They’re trying to hide what they are doing,” she replied, when asked about the authorities’ failure to explain why Xiamuinuer had been sent for re-education.

“She’s a well-educated, retired woman, she doesn’t need vocational courses. She’s been in a camp and they don’t want my mum to speak out.”

Earlier this year, Liu Xiaoming completed his tenure as Chinese ambassador to the UK, with an online farewell to British politicians and dignitaries and with his promise still unmet by the Chinese authorities.

Meanwhile, I’ve been forced to leave China as a result of the increasing pressure from the authorities over my journalism and, in particular, a growing number of threats to sue me over my reporting on Xinjiang.

Liu Xiaoming has now completed his tenure as Chinese ambassador to the UK

Some of those threats have come directly from Xu Guixiang, the official I’d interviewed two years previously in Xinjiang.

The BBC had produced “fake news” and violated professional ethics, he told China’s Communist Party-run media.

Yet despite the continued insistence of Chinese officials that – if we provided names – a quick search would easily disprove that families were being forcibly divided, they have offered only silence.

In addition to those already mentioned, we’re still waiting to learn the whereabouts of a number of other children, including those of Yasin Zunun, who suspects that Muslima, Fatima, Parhat, Nurbiya and Asma are in a boarding school.

Merbet Maripet has heard nothing from her four children, Abdurahman, Muhammad, Adila and Mardan since 2017, and also believes they’re now in the care of the state.

We asked the Chinese Foreign Ministry why no branch of government has been able to deliver on the clear promises to provide information about the missing individuals.

No response was received before this report was published.

Producer: Kathy Long

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There's No Place Called Home (Maastricht)

There’s No Place Called Home (Maastricht)

2023

Tree, speaker, audio

Duration: variable

Songs of a Peruvian Meadowlark broadcast from speakers concealed in a tree in the garden of Marres.

This iteration of the artwork forms part of the group exhibition, "Goodbye to Love," at Huis Marres in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Curated by Valentijn Byvanck. The exhibition was produced by Rosa van der Flier, and installed by Ralph Nevels, Bas de Wit, Jeroen Evertz, Daniel de Jong, and Didianne Leusink.

Photograph by Gert-Jan van Rooij

Courtesy Galerie Imane Farès, blank projects, and Huis Marres.

Colophon: "There's No Place Called Home (Wijlre)" contains audio recordings of Peruvian meadowlarks made by Niels Krabbe used under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence; Andrew Spencer, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence; and by Santiago Barreto, Guy Kirwan, John V. Moore, Cristian Pinto, and Fabrice Schmitt, used under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence; in these latter recordings time has inserted between the songs to lengthen the tracks, and a light equalization was used.

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Matt Hancock AVOIDS Commons amid MPs' fury over proposed 1% NHS pay rise

Matt Hancock facing the fury of MPs over a proposed 1 per cent pay rise for nurses today by sending his deputy to the Commons instead. Labour demanded the Health Secretary answer an urgent question over the Department of Health's recommendation to an independent pay review body last week. The offer, which amounts to a pay cut once inflation is taken into account, sparked widespread condemnation and threats of strike action from nursing unions, coming after a year of backbreaking efforts to save lives from coronavirus. But Mr Hancock sent Social Care Minister Helen Whately in his place this afternoon to answer questions from MPs about an offer that has been branded 'insulting'. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: 'I am grateful for the minister, but where is the Secretary of State? 'Why isn't the Secretary of State here to defend a Budget that puts up tax for hardworking family and cuts pay for hardworking nurses? 'The Secretary of State has stood at that despatch box repeatedly waxing lyrical, describing NHS staff as heroes, saying they are the very best of us, and now he is cutting nurses' pay. 'Last summer, when asked by Andrew Marr if nurses deserved a real-terms pay rise, he replied ''well of course, I want to see people properly rewarded, absolutely'' - and yet now he is cutting nurses' pay.' Ms Whately hit back by saying that 'this International Women's Day it is a shame he hasn't got as female colleague at the despatch box on his side.' Ms Read the full article

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Brian Cox admitted Brian Cox says people are ‘configurations of atoms’ The controversy whether or not clever life – separate to people – exists has raged for years. Individuals draw on a number of sources and logic to conclude that someplace in some unspecified time in the future a developed civilisation should have been current. They level to traditionally important and sometimes unexplained phenomena: Historic cave artwork that depicts otherworldly beings; tales of international lifeforms falling from the sky. And whereas scientists are inclined to rule-out these typically wild speculations, many use statistics and likelihood to argue that there’s extra of an opportunity of alien life than there may be of nothing. The twentieth century physicist Enrico Fermi devised the ‘Fermi Paradox‘ to argue this – the contradiction between the dearth of proof for extraterrestrial civilisations and numerous excessive estimates for his or her likelihood. Others say people are merely phenomena, an opportunity and uncommon atomic system. Physicist Professor Brian Cox holds this view, having beforehand advised Joe Rogan on his ‘PowerfulJRE’ podcast in 2019 that he believed people have been the one clever life within the galaxy. Brian Cox: The scientist stated people are the one clever life-form within the galaxy (Picture: Getty/Youtube/@PowerfulJRE) Milky Method: Cox thinks clever life is sparsely unfold out throughout the galaxies (Picture: GETTY) Requested whether or not he believed there to be extraterrestrial life like us, he stated: “I have a tendency to limit myself to the galaxy, as I do suppose it is attainable that in the mean time that there’s only one civilisation within the Milky Method, and that is us. “And I feel that is vital, and this goes again to astronomy and cosmology being the framework for inside which it’s a must to suppose, if you happen to’re in search of that means or how we must always behave even. “Think about that we’re the one place the place there may be intelligence on this galaxy – how ought to we behave? “However we’re tiny and fragile issues and insignificant bodily, ought to we think about ourselves extraordinarily useful in that respect? JUST IN: Cox admitted ‘science would not have solutions’ as hole left open for God Physics: Prof Cox has turn out to be a family title within the UK (Picture: GETTY) “There’s nowhere else the place ‘that means’ exists within the Milky Method. “It is a type of issues scientists do not speak about very a lot, what’s self evidently true is that that means exists right here as a result of it means one thing to us. “However I feel it’s a native and momentary phenomenon, I feel it emerges from a configuration of atoms, which is what we’re, we’re nothing greater than that – we’re a really uncommon configuration of atoms. “So meaning we’re the one island of that means within the galaxy.” DON’T MISS Succession’s Brian Cox reveals how Logan feels about his kids [REPORT]Black holes: Brian Cox uncovered how Einstein’s concept ‘breaks down’ [INSIGHT]Britain’s ultimate fantasy pub quiz staff revealed [ANALYSIS]  Joe Rogan: Cox shared a few of his most advanced concepts through the 2019 podcast (Picture: Youtube/PowerfulJRE) Galaxies: There are tons of of billions of galaxies within the observable universe (Picture: GETTY) He went on to say he was “certain there are different civilisations on the market within the universe” – there are, in spite of everything, two trillion galaxies that we all know of. The query for a lot of, together with Prof Cox, is how usually clever life comes into being, and the way extensively spaced out it’s. He stated: “I feel they’re very extensively spaced, and I feel there are one or two per galaxy as a mean.” The argument, it has been famous, primarily guidelines out the potential of a God or any non secular inclination, as a result of the considered a God or spirit bigger than a human is, as Prof Cox put it, “you – you’re that factor” as a result of people are the ‘that means’. And whereas Prof Cox stated this implies the whole lot people do is all the way down to them and proves it’s a must to “take advantage of the whole lot”, he beforehand left open the argument for the existence of a God. Fermi paradox: The paradox proposes that aliens would possibly effectively already know we exist (Picture: Specific Newspapers) It got here as he talked about working throughout the “framework” of science. Prof Cox stated: “What we must always say is that science, we do not know all of the solutions, so we do not know the place the legal guidelines of nature got here from, and we do not know why the universe started in the way in which that it did, if certainly it had a starting. “We do not know why the Massive Bang was very extremely ordered which in the end exhibits that the one distinction between the previous and the longer term – the so-called arrow of time – is that previously the universe was actually ordered, and it is getting extra disordered. “And that vital state of order initially of the universe, which is de facto the explanation we exist – as a result of the universe started in a selected kind – we do not know why that was. Phenomenon: A picture of two distant galaxies gravitationally interacting (Picture: GETTY) “We’ll most likely discover out in some unspecified time in the future and it will most likely have one thing to do with the legal guidelines of nature.” He continued: “However I am all the time cautious, science can typically sound boastful, it will probably sound prefer it’s the self-discipline of claiming to folks, ‘Effectively you are not proper., nevertheless it’s not that, it is truly saying, ‘That is what we have came upon.’ “I wish to say it supplies a framework by which, if you wish to philosophise otherwise you need to do theology – you need to ask these deep questions on why we’re right here – it’s a must to function in that framework as a result of it is an observational framework.” Prof Cox and his colleagues have popularised science, making lots of physics’ usually incomprehensible concepts into simply digestible programmes, books and podcasts. He just lately spoke on the BBC’s Andrew Marr present about STEM topics turning into in style attributable to Covid-19, and the way mother and father would possibly assist their kids excel in these fields. if(typeof utag_data.ads.fb_pixel!=="undefined"&&utag_data.ads.fb_pixel==!0)!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments);if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window,document,'script','https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js');fbq('init','568781449942811');fbq('track','PageView') Supply hyperlink #admitted #Brian #Cox

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Storbritanniens största pelagiska fiskeriföretag

Storbritanniens största pelagiska fiskeriföretag

De flesta stora pelagiska fiskeriföretag i Storbritannien finns i Skottland och på Shetlandsöarna. De är i de flesta fall familjeföretag. Men även några riktigt stora internationella fiskerikoncerner har också verksamhet i Storbritannien. Det gäller exempelvis nederländska Cornelis Vrolijk och brittiska Andrew Marr International Ltd. Det två företagen är iofs också familjeägda. I en del brittiska…