http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=125_1323962095 Items in channel 'VikingRapeSquad' Sat, 25 May 2013 13:33:57 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=125_1323962095 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:25:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8b_1369254012 VikingRapeSquad First picture of the 'red balloon' brother and sister 'murdered by their British father' in bitter French custody battle http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329123/First-picture-Hugging-smiling-brother-sister-murdered-British-father-bitter-custody-battle-French-mother.html Mathew and Carla Stevenson were popular pupils at school in rural France Both 'had their throats cut by their father during an alcohol-fuelled rage' Mother, Stephanie Morlet, leads emotional march in memory of her children Family moved to the village of Charantonnay near Lyon six years ago Julian Stevenson had not been allowed to see children for three years because of violent temper By Peter Allen In loving arms: The first picture of siblings Mathew and Carla Stevenson who allegedly had their throats cut by their father, Julian Stevenson, in France Hugging and smiling, they were a brother and sister who could not have been prouder of one another. Mathew and Carla Stevenson were two of the most popular pupils at their primary school in rural France and renowned for being extremely close.But last Saturday both allegedly became victims of a bitter custody battle between their English father and French mother. In a suspected double murder, 10-year-old Mathew and five-year-old Carla are said to have had their throats cut by their father, Julian Stevenson.The 48-year-old, who is originally from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, allegedly killed them both in an alcohol-fuel rage. Their mother, Stephanie Morlet, came to collect them from a visit - the first Stevenson had been allowed in three years because of his violent behaviour - and saw him escaping the murder scene in a suburb of Lyon on a pair of roller-skates. Today, a picture of the loving little brother and sister was on display in the village of Charantonnay, south of Lyon, where the children's former classmates took part in a 'white march' in support of the family.Many were in floods of tears as Ms Morlet, who is in her early 40s, walked at the head of a process of some 300 people carrying white roses and white balloons. M'They were hugely popular children,' said Marie-Jeanne Chesneau. 'Our aim today is to show how much they meant to us, and how much we miss them.'Mrs Chesneau said the Morlet family had moved to the village some six years ago, and Mathew and Carla enrolled at the local village school in 2010. This was around the time that Ms Morlet was divorcing Stevenson because of his violent behaviour. Mrs Morlet wore dark glasses today as she walked through the town surrounded by family members. 'Stephanie inconsolable - her world has fallen apart,' said one family member. 'What has happened is absolutely horrific.' Ms Morlet was badly beaten up by Stevenson in 2005 and 2010, when an order was made preventing Stevenson seeing the children without a third party adult being present. The 2010 order was said to have been reversed over the past few weeks, meaning Stevenson was allowed to have the children to stay on Friday night for the first time in three years. Stevenson has been formally placed under criminal investigation for the double, and is likely to be remanded in custody until his murder trial.Another judicial source said: 'We are presently holding back from the charge of premeditated murder but this could always change.' The source said all the circumstances surrounding the horrific crime would be investigated over many months. Julian Stevenson, accused of killing his two children in Lyon, France, seen on CCTV footage taking the children, Mathew, 10, and Carla, 5, to the bakers to buy sweets hours before their deaths Chilling CCTV. Two young children..with their father...HOURS from... Neighbours of the Stevenson said he had appeared 'calm and relaxed' as he wandered around the St Priest suburb of Lyon, where he lives, with the two children on Saturday morning. 'It was a warm day and he was in T-shirt and long shorts,' said one. 'The children were smiling happily, and appeared to be enjoying a day out with their dad. 'He was buying them little presents, including sweets, and did not appear in the least bit flustered.' When Mrs Stevenson, an accountant's assistant, returned to pick up the children from the second floor apartment at around 5pm on Saturday she saw Stevenson looking 'panicked and angry', according to a neighbour. 'He was in the stairwell of the block, and his clothes were covered in blood,' said the neighbour. 'He made off on a pair of roller-skates, leaving his car in the apartment block's garage.' The bakery in Lyon where Julian Stevenson took his children hours before allegedly killing them The block of flats where Julian Stevenson lived Following a short manhunt, Stevenson was found in Lyon's 8th arrondissement at around 8pm on the same evening. A judicial source said that a knife which was thought to be the murder weapon had been found in the flat. The source said the double murder was 'clearly linked to a painful separation' and 'legal procedures concerning the right to access to the children which the father deemed insufficient.' Stevenson has been living in France for 10 years and married in 2005. His wife was finally heard by prosecutors on Sunday, providing them with their details of her troubled relationship with her ex-husband. Investigators were particularly keen to know who gave the father legal authority to look after the children. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b8b_1369254012 VikingRapeSquad Scumbag Trash British Man-Child Murders His Two Children After buying Them Ice Cream uk, british, slaves, peasants, scum, white, trash, murders, his, children Wed, 22 May 2013 16:17:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aeb_1369253734 VikingRapeSquad 'Lamb sorted. Only Yorkshires needed now': Cruel friends killed sheep with hammer then butchered it in field so they could have a free roast dinner Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, admit mutilating the animal They were caught after sending pictures of the killing to a friend Sherratt boasted to the friend that the incident had been 'well funny' By Rob Cooper PUBLISHED: 09:22 GMT, 22 May 2013 UPDATED: 09:46 GMT, 22 May 2013 Comments (482) Share Two friends battered a sheep to death with a hammer and cut off its legs in a field so they could have a free roast dinner, a court heard.Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, stole the mutilated remains and paraded the animal's head around. But their drunken prank on a farm in Macclesfield, Cheshire, backfired when they sent photos of what they had done to a friend who alerted police. Mutilation: Matthew Davidson, 28, can be seen attacking the lamb which had two of its legs removed and its head torn off in Macclesfield, Cheshire The pair sent the friend five pictures of themselves slaughtering and mutilating the sheep with a blade. In a reference to their Sunday lunch, Sherratt said in a sick jokey text message: 'Lamb sorted. Only Yorkshires needed now'. He also said the whole incident was 'well funny' and they had been thinking about what they were going to eat the next day. More... The toothless loan shark: Market trader who ran illegal debt racket from his fruit and veg stall is spared jail because interest rates were 100 times LOWER than payday lenders Husband jailed for LOOTING his own wedding venue... and his heavily pregnant bride is standing by him Davidson and Sherratt, both unemployed and from Macclesfield, admitted criminal damage and theft of the sheep before magistrates in the town.Simon Pover, prosecuting, said: 'On April 26, the farmer discovered one of the hoggits (year-old lambs) had been killed and its body mutilated. Its remains were found on a footpath. Both hind legs and the head had been removed. Sick prank: Davidson, 28, shows off the head which was torn off the dead sheep Boasts: Kevin Sherratt, 33, jokes to his friend 'that's Sunday dinner lamb sorted' after sending a friend a picture of what they had done 'On April 25 at 8pm, a friend known to both defendants received a text message from Davidson asking "you up for killing a cow, pal?".'At 11pm that same night he received a text message from Sherratt saying "seriously mate how much fun we had, oh my days". He then received five pictures of the men slaughtering and mutilating the sheep with a knife or blade.'In another picture Davidson was stood in Sherratt's home holding up the lamb's head. Another text said: "Lamb sorted. Only Yorkshires needed now".'Mr Pover said other messages bragged about the brutal killing. One text from Davidson said: 'I hope we didn't scare you with all this. We were a bit (drunk) and thought about Sunday dinner. It was funny when the hammer went through that skull. Think I might have found my new career as a butcher not a builder'.'Another from Sherratt said: 'It was well funny. I held it down and said do not hit my hand with that hammer. What does he do, but on the killer blow hit my hand with the hammer. It hurt my knuckle. He is a lunatic.'The police found bags containing the animal's body parts and bloodied tools in a shed at Sherratt's home. Mr Pover told the court: 'Sherratt told police they were drunk at home and decided they wanted a roast dinner. He said he had hunted smaller animals. Sick pranksters: Davidson, 28, (left) and Sherratt, 33, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and theft of the sheep when they appeared before magistrates 'They decided to kill a sheep and got a claw hammer and serrated knife. They went to a field during the night, caught a sheep by running alongside it, pushing it and pinning it to the floor.'He said the first blow killed it but they took an extra two or three strokes to make sure. They both skinned the animal. 'Davidson told police he had spent three days at Sherratt's house and been drunk throughout. He couldn't remember much but recalled being in a field with a sheep.'Trevor Feehily, defending, said the incident had been triggered by alcohol. He said: 'It doesn't excuse what either of them have done. Both said it was drunken and complete stupidity.' Police wanted to charge Davidson and Sherratt with animal cruelty, but they could not prove the sheep had suffered. They will be sentenced on June 7. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aeb_1369253734 VikingRapeSquad White Trash Low IQ British Scum Kill Sheep and Post it To the Internet. uk, british, white, trash, kill, sheep, retards, british, low, iq Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:24:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f0_1357157769 VikingRapeSquad David Cameron must return Falklands to Argentina, Cristina Kirchner demands in open letter David Cameron must return the Falkland Islands to Argentina, 180 years after the territories were "forcibly stripped" from the South American country, the country's president has claimed in newspaper adverts. In an emotional open letter to the British prime minister, Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's president, has called on him to honour a United Nations resolution dating from 1965 and start negotiations about handing over the islands. By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent 6:14PM GMT 02 Jan 2013 In an emotional open letter to the British prime minister, Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's president, has called on him to honour a United Nations resolution dating from 1965 and start negotiations about handing over the islands. The letter, which was due to be published in the British national newspaper The Guardian on Thursday, is timed to mark the anniversary of when on January 3 1833, Britain took control of the islands from the Falklands. The 212-word letter, copied to Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, repeatedly refers to the Falklands as the Malvinas, the Argentine Government's Spanish name for the islands. It says: "One hundred and eighty years ago on this same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercises of 19th century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000 km (8,700 miles) away from London. "The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule. "Since then, Britain, the colonial power, has refused to return the territories to the Argentine Republic, thus preventing it from restoring its territorial integrity. "The question of the Malvinas is also a cause embraced by Latin America and by vast majority of peoples and governments around the world that reject colonialism. "In 1960, the United Nations proclaimed the necessity of 'bringing to an end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations'. "In 1965, the General Assembly adopted, with no votes against (not even by the United Kingdom), a resolution considered the Malvinas Islands a colonial case and inviting the two countries to negotiate a solution to the sovereignty dispute between them. "This was followed by many other resolutions to that effect. In the name of the Argentine people, I reiterate our invitation for us to abide by the resolutions of the United Nations." The 3000-strong population of the Falklands are overwhelmingly pro-British. The islanders are due to be asked if they want to continue to be an overseas territory of the United Kingdom at a referendum in March this year. Mr Cameron has said the UK would "respect and defend" the result of the plebiscite. Dr Barry Elsby, Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, told The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday night: "We are not a colony - our relationship with the United Kingdom is by choice. "Unlike the Government of Argentina, the United Kingdom respects the right of our people to determine our own affairs, a right that is enshrined in the UN Charter and which is which is ignored by Argentina." Last night the Foreign Office said that it "strenuously denied" that Britain expelled Argentine citizens from the Falklands in 1833. A spokesman said: "The people of the Falklands are British and have chosen to be so. They remain free to choose their own futures, both politically and economically, and have a right to self-determination as enshrined in the UN Charter. "This is a fundamental human right for all peoples. There are three parties to this debate, not just two as Argentina likes to pretend. The Islanders can't just be written out of history. "As such, there can be no negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands unless and until such time as the Islanders so wish." The diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen - a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f0_1357157769 VikingRapeSquad President of Argentina Demands UK turn over Falkland Island (Malvinas) Citing UN Resolution in 1965. uk, colonial, imperial, conquest, malvinas, falkland, land, theft, argentina, british, thieves, criminals, Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:31:40 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad3_1357150482 VikingRapeSquad Not mentioned in the MSM...Both were Heroin junkies...go figure. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256072/Morgan-Gliedman-arrested-keeping-explosives-apartment-robbed-man-February.html Doctor's daughter who had baby in custody after she was arrested for keeping explosives in apartment 'robbed a man after meeting at a bar in February' Morgan Gliedman, 27, allegedly stole a laptop, cellphone, wallet and credit cards from a man she met in a Manhattan bar in February 2012 Just days later, she and Harvard-educated boyfriend Aaron Greene, 31, were caught taking heroin and in possession of a gun in a Washington Heights drug bust On Saturday, the well-to-do junkies were charged with keeping high-powered explosives in their apartment, where police also found a stash of weapons and terrorism how-to guides Gliedman went into labor while she was being handcuffed By Michael Zennie and Helen Pow PUBLISHED: 14:33 GMT, 2 January 2013 UPDATED: 14:48 GMT, 2 January 2013 Comments (5) Share A Park Avenue-raised heroin addict who was last week charged with keeping high-powered explosives in her Greenwich Village apartment was already a suspect in a robbery.Morgan Gliedman, 27, was also already on probation for drug possession after a Washington Heights drug bust in February, when she was taken into police custody on Saturday where she gave birth to a daughter named Melody.On February 17, Gliedman met a man at Johnny's Bar in the Village and went to his Midtown apartment where she allegedly took off with a backpack containing his laptop, cellphone, wallet and credit cards, which she used to make purchases.Scroll down for video showing an HMTD explosion Posh: Gliedman attended one of New York's premier prep schools and was raised on the exclusive Park Avenue Gliedman hasn't yet been charged in the theft, according to The New York Post. Five days after the robbery, on February 22, she and her Harvard-graduate boyfriend, and father of her child, Aaron Greene were arrested for possession drugs and found with a .223-caliber rifle, The Post reported. More... 'Cannibal cop who plotted to kidnap, cook and eat women' demands names of 20 other 'diners' are released I am the Law, I have a drinking problem, Out on bail: The hilariously unfortunate T-shirts worn in booking photos (and what's with all the Scarface?) Smoking doesn't relieve stress... quitting does! Study proves benefits of nicotine are a myth The couple were spotted with another woman in a car that was parked at West 176th Street and Haven Avenue. Greene, 31, was seen injecting heroin while one of the women snorted the drug, a criminal complaint said.Police officers found empty heroin bags on the floor, marijuana and a digital scale with heroin residue in one of the women's handbags, according to The Post, and Greene admitted to having a gun.'I have a... rifle in the trunk,' he told officers, according to the complaint. 'Junkies': Morgan Gliedman, 27, and Aaron Greene, 31, are both admitted heroin addicts - even though Gliedman was heavily pregnant when the explosives were found at their apartment, police say Dangerous: The NYPD bomb squad was called in to remove the explosive that was discovered in the couple Greenwich Village apartment He was sentenced to five months in jail. Gliedman was due to complete pre-trial probation for drug possession next week, but that case now could be reopened because of the weekend's explosive find. Despite explosives and a cache of weapons being found at their apartment, police said Gliedman, the daughter of a top New York doctor, and Greene are not home-grown terrorists. Greene's father is the head of a top art restoration firm. He was also arrested in the apartment on Saturday and is being held without bail on Rikers Island.eighbors say the couple lived in squalor in their home in the pricy Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village. 'It looks like they're junkies, well-to-do junkies, not terrorists,' a police source told the Daily Beast. Prominent parents: Gleidman's father is Dr Paul Gleidman, the director of radiation oncology at Beth Israel Hospital's Brooklyn division. Her mother is Susyn Schops Gliedman, a top New York real estate agent Inside the apartment, officers found seven grams of the explosive powder HMTD, which was reportedly the substance used in the 2005 London Underground bombings.The building had to be evacuated while the bomb squad removed the highly-unstable explosive. Police also found a sawed-off Mossberg 500, a $1,000 Ruger over-under hunting shotgun, several high-capacity magazines, 60 shotgun shells, and a replica of an M203 grenade launcher. Several disturbing items were seized, including: 'The Terrorist's Encyclopedia V. 1.02,' 'Improvised and Modified Firearms: Deadly Homemade Weapons,' 'A Do-It-Yourself Submachine Gun,' and U.S. Army manuals for creating and planting booby traps and explosives. The New York Post reported that Greene was a member of Occupy Wall Street, though an NYPD spokesman told MailOnline that his connection to the group was still being investigated. Evacuation: All of the residents of the couple's building had to be removed from the area before a police bomb disposal unit could clear out the explosive Two spokesmen for the Occupy movement said they had never heard of Greene. Officers were tipped off about the explosives by someone who met Gliedman and Greene in Washington Square Park. The couple invited the informant to their apartment to take a shower, which is when he spotted the weapons, The Post reported.The apartment on Manhattan's West Ninth Street, is near the apartment where two rich young men accidentally blew themselves up while making a bomb for the extremist group the Weather Underground in 1970. Greene and Gliedman had no such plans, police sources are saying. They are just wealthy drug addicts with a twisted idea of what's 'cool,' according to the Daily Beast. Neighbors said Gliedman's mother, Susyn Schops Gliedman, a top New York real estate agent, visited her often at the Greenwich apartment. Big boom: YouTube video reveals that five grams of the explosive HMTD, less than was found in the New York apartment, can blow apart two bricks Her father is Dr Paul Gleidman, the Columbia University-educated director of radiation oncology at Beth Israel Hospital's Brooklyn division. Gliedman gave birth to her baby daughter on Saturday at St. Luke's Hospital, where she is currently resting. She has not yet been arraigned, though she remains under arrest, The Post reported.She attended Dalton School, an exclusive New York prep school attended by the likes of Anderson Cooper and Claire Danes. Her Facebook friend list is reportedly a who's-who of New York society.She went to New York University and then attended the Art Institute of Chicago for a masters in Creative Writing. Greene claims he went to Harvard University for his undergraduate degree and did graduate work at the Kennedy School of Government there. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad3_1357150482 VikingRapeSquad Occupy Wall Street Protest Organizer and Pregnant Girlfriend Arrested On Terrorism related Charges after police find explosives and terrorists 'how t ows, occupy, wall street, terrorist, violent, scum Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:29:55 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1f_1357143666 VikingRapeSquad NHS hospital 'dishonest' to parents of stillborn baby over failures in care Ombudsman condemns maternity unit for highly misleading statements as ministers prepare to impose 'duty of candour' Leighton Hospital near Crewe, which has been criticised by the health ombudsman for 'dishonest' and 'highly misleading' statements. Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian Managers at an NHS hospital misled the parents of a stillborn baby about failures in its maternity care, apparently putting the protection of its reputation above learning lessons from the mistakes, the health ombudsman has found.Dame Julie Mellor said the trust running Leighton hospital in Crewe had made "highly misleading" statements to the dead boy's parents, while its then head of midwifery had been "dishonest". The ombudsman's report - which covers the incident in May 2009, the subsequent investigations by the Mid-Cheshire Hospitals foundation trust running the hospital and an external review by another NHS trust - finds the trust guilty of maladministration. Mellor says the trust must acknowledge and apologise for its failings and pay the couple, identified only as Mr and Mrs D, lb1,000 as compensation for the "injustice" they suffered.The trust has already paid the couple lb30,000 in an out-of-court settlement in October 2010. It said it had identified a number of shortcomings in Mrs D's care, but was unable to say whether, but for these, the baby would have survived. It made no defence with regard to breach of duty or causation.The head of midwifery at the time, Sandra Smith, who still holds an important advisory role on antenatal care, was given a final warning by the trust for her behaviour.The couple reported Smith and five other staff to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, their professional disciplinary body, which said, after two reviews by investigation panels, that they had no case to answer. The General Medical Council told the couple just before Christmas it had investigated the case and would not be taking further action.The ombudsman's findings, sent to the couple in November, come as ministers prepare to impose a "duty of candour" on NHS organisations and amid concerns over stillbirths, nursing care and the state of maternity services. In summer 2012, the Mid-Cheshire trust won an award from healthcare analysts CHKS, part of the Capita group, as the most improved in England and one of the top 40 trusts in the country. Mrs D, who was 36 when she became pregnant and 37 when her baby was stillborn, should have been treated as a high-risk pregnancy because of her age, history of depression and epilepsy, and high body mass index (BMI). The hospital's own review of the incident found the failure by a midwife to perform a particular scan had lost the opportunity "to deliver the baby possibly alive", the ombudsman's report reveals.The Guardian has seen the report, which says guidelines for women with risk factors were not in practice, guidelines for women with epilepsy were not in circulation, and electronic foetal monitoring was not performed as it should have been.An external review commissioned by the trust, issued in September 2010, said Mrs D should have been seen by a consultant, as she was high risk, there was no formal management plan of care and it was unclear whether she was on a high-risk pathway. The review said the trust should also consider whether there was a tendency for the hospital's obstetrics unit to dissuade women from coming into hospital until the last moment, and that the case gave the impression that staff were either concerned about workload or unwelcoming to women.In finding maladministration, the ombudsman said: "During their reviews, the trust identified several failings in Mrs D's antenatal care. However, I have found that subsequently gave Mr and Mrs D information that contradicted their findings and were inaccurate." The couple only discovered these contractions when they instigated legal action and asked for documents.The ombudsman said the head of midwifery had claimed she had discussed events with two midwives involved in Mrs D's care, which she had not; and that she had given "a false impression" that one midwife had been removed from clinical practice for two weeks when this was not the case.The ombudsman said that in the light of this, and taking account of the former chief executive's statement that the head of midwifery told "a number of lies" at a meeting, "it is clear that the head of midwifery made statements to Mr and Mrs D that she knew to be untrue".The trust had made "several statements that were highly misleading and they omitted to share important conclusions from their serious incident review". Having established the facts, "the trust failed to provide Mr and Mrs D with accurate evidence-based explanations and did not acknowledge their mistakes or apologise for them", said the ombudsman. "Their actions fell so far short of the applicable standards that they amounted to maladministration."The ombudsman also said she could understand why the trust's "lack of transparency and failure to take action to put things right left Mr and Mrs D with the sense that, rather than learning lessons to improve their antenatal care, the trust have prioritised protecting their reputation".By early next year, the trust must demonstrate it has learned lessons from its failings, and produce a plan and timescale to put things right. Mellor hoped her report would draw "what has been a long, complex and distressing complaints process to a close".Mrs D said that, when she learned the ombudsman's verdict, "I collapsed in a heap. I broke down in tears. This was the first time that the evidence provided to all regulators and organisations had been interpreted correctly. To think any couple could go through what we went through makes me shudder."Mr D said: "We were used to being disbelieved. For three years our evidence was questioned, queried and dismissed. It was like fighting a faceless monolith. This is a seismic shift."Eddie Jones of Manchester-based solicitors JMW, who represented the couple in the legal action against the trust and advised them in their complaint to the ombudsman, said the hospital had committed a "catalogue of clinical errors".Although he thought the NHS was more willing than in the past to admit mistakes, he said: "There are pockets of practitioners and managers whose immediate response is to not give too much away - 'let's not admit to what has happened'. This is the most glaring example I have come across. It is a prime example of why a duty of candour is required."Smith now works for the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan primary care trust and is the north-west England regional clinical lead on antenatal, newborn and child health screening for the UK National Screening Committee, which advises health ministers in the four countries of the UK. She declined to comment and referred the Guardian to the Mid-Cheshire trust, which said it would not comment on individuals.Phil Morley, the Mid-Cheshire trust's former chief executive, now at Hull and East Yorkshire trust, also did not wish to comment. The Mid-Cheshire trust, which said it had twice apologised to Mr and Mrs D for shortcomings, said changes had been implemented in its maternity services since the incident, most recently in refurbishment of the hospital's labour ward. It said the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the health service standards watchdog, had subsequently found maternity services to be "fully compliant" and the trust's complaints service robust.The CQC said it had met Mr and Mrs D in 2010 and their concerns had triggered a review of the hospital in December that year, which looked at two areas: care and welfare of people, and medicines management. "Moderate concerns" were identified in both areas. Inspectors also examined the hospital's complaints handling procedures and found evidence to suggest that the trust had learnt lessons as a result of investigating the incident and was working through an action plan to resolve the issues."CQC carried out a scheduled inspection in July 2011. As part of this inspection we followed up to see that these action plans were in place and the hospital was found to be fully compliant," the commission said. "CQC has carried out a further scheduled inspection at the hospital on 5 December 2012 and the report from this will be published in January 2013."The commission said it would determine the need for any further regulatory action in light of the ombudsman's findings. The strategic health authority for north-west England, which has a statutory duty to monitor midwives, said it was reviewing the history of the case. The regulator Monitor, which oversees foundation trusts, said it would consider whether the ombudsman's findings represented a breach of the trust's terms of authorisation. "We will then work with the trust to seek confirmation that any relevant action plan the ombudsman requires is fully discharged and that the underlying issues have been addressed."THE 'DUTY OF CANDOUR'A " duty of candour " will be included in all NHS commissioning contracts from April this year. Ministers say health organisations will be required to tell patients if safety has been compromised, apologise for mistakes and ensure lessons are learned.Campaign organisation Action against Medical Accidents (AVMA) believes this will not go far enough and says statutory rules should be introduced. The Department of Health may have to consider again whether these are needed with the publication in January or February of the final report of a public inquiry into what went wrong at Mid-Staffordshire NHS trust , where between 400 and 1,200 patients are thought to have died as a result of poor care over four years.The scandal happened despite the existence of a national standards watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, since replaced by what is meant to be a tougher body, the Care Quality Commission.AvMA's chief executive, Peter Walsh, has described the introduction of a duty of candour as "an apparently cynical attempt" to sidestep support for a statutory duty and pre-empt the public inquiry report. He points out that such contractual obligations will not apply to GPs or dentists. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1f_1357143666 VikingRapeSquad UK Government Healthcare NHS charged with being Dishonest and Highly Misleading In Case Of Infants Death. NHS, uk, healthcare, failure, lies, incompetence, government, Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:52:32 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c4_1355946372 VikingRapeSquad http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250579/Obama-tells-Cameron-Britain-stay-European-Union.html Obama tells Cameron why Britain should stay in the European Union US President and UK Premier use hour-long call to discuss rising tide of Euroscepticism in Britain White House is anxious that withdrawal from Brussels would damage transatlantic relations Barack Obama has warned Britain against leaving the European Union, it emerged today. The US President used a call to David Cameron to urge him to resist calls to abandon Brussels, ahead of the PM delivering a major speech on Europe in the New Year.But President Obama is understood to be backing Mr Cameron's approach in his fight for a 'better deal for Britain'. David Cameron and Barack Obama discussed growing levels of Euroscepticism in Britain during an hour-long conference call last night (file pictures) The White House is thought to be concerned that Britain would lose clout on the world stage if it was no longer part of the euro bloc.It could also harm the special relationship if London was no longer seen as an ally able to wield influence across Europe. Mr Cameron is under pressure from Tory backbenchers, and a surge in the polls for the UK Independence Party, to take a tougher line with Brussels.He is expected to use January's landmark speech to set out areas of policy controlled by the EU that he believes could be repatriated to Britain, before offering a referendum on a 'fresh settlement'.On Monday Mr Cameron told MPs the idea of Britain leaving the EU was 'imaginable' but not what he wanted. Washington is thought to be increasingly concerned about what is seen as Britain inching towards full-scale withdrawal from the EU.A Downing Street source said Britain's membership of the EU 'came up' in an hour-long video-conference call between President Obama and Mr Cameron last night.'The President was supportive of the PM's position,' the source added. President Obama backed the stance taken by Mr Cameron at a European Council meeting in Brussels last week Last week Mr Cameron told reporters at a European Council meeting in Brussels that the eurozone moving towards greater integration presented an opportunity for Britain.'As this plays out, this is changing the European Union,' he said. 'As it changes the European Union and the eurozone make changes that they need, so I believe there are opportunities for others, including Britain, to make changes ourselves.' The call also touched on the Sandy Hook school shooting, the news of the Royal baby and discussions on Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and the Middle East Peace Process. Officials in the US have stressed that the UK continuing to have a strong role Europe is 'in America's national interest'. The Obama administration views the EU as a 'force multiplier'.Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has also revealed the anxiety in the US and around the world at the prospect of Britain quitting the EU.'One of the things that has alarmed me recently in different parts of the world - America, China, India - there is a very large question that people are asking which is: "are you guys seriously going to get out of Europe?",' he told journalists in Westminster yesterday.He said Britain has a 'profound national interest' in staying in the EU and warned that a referendum could not be used by politicians to dodge tough decisions.'The first thing is we need to work out what it is we want Europe to be then we get to the referendum questions later,' he said. 'A referendum is not the way of alleviating the political responsibility of leaders to take a clear position and fight for it. 'If we start giving the suggesting that the referendum is an issue you are kind of probing for political reasons that's very difficult.' http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c4_1355946372 VikingRapeSquad Obama Tells Cameron That UK needs to STAY in The EU uk, obamas, bitch, lol, stay, eu Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:46:07 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73e_1355946160 VikingRapeSquad Jimmy Savile's former radio producer Ted Beston arrested on suspicion of sexual offenceshttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2250423/Jimmy-Saviles-radio-producer-Ted-Beston-arrested-suspicion-sexual-offences.html Police arrested producer this morning and took him to London police station Eighth arrest as part of Scotland Yard's Savile probe Beston, known as 'Uncle Ted', worked with Savile on his radio shows Producer has been bailed to return on date in February By Larisa Brown PUBLISHED: 04:25 EST, 19 December 2012 UPDATED: 13:06 EST, 19 December 2012 Share A former Radio One producer has been arrested as part of Operation Yewtree, an investigation into allegations of sex abuse surrounding Savile, pictured, and others Former BBC Radio One producer Ted Beston has been arrested by police probing the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. Mr Beston, 76, from Bromley, south east London, was detained at 6.30am as part of Operation Yewtree, the investigation into allegations of sex abuse surrounding Savile and others. He is the eighth man to be arrested as part of the investigation. Mr Beston was being questioned on suspicion of sex offences at a south London police station but was released on bail this afternoon until a date in February next year. Mr Beston, who worked with the late presenter on his Radio One shows in the 1960s and 1970s, including Savile's Travels, has been arrested under the strand of the investigation termed 'Savile and others'. In that show Savile travelled across the UK talking to members of the public. They worked together on the Jimmy Savile Old Record Club and the Double Top Ten Show. Mr Beston produced several shows for Savile and also used his skills producing hit shows for DJ Mike Read and latterly Simon Mayo's Breakfast Show in the 80s. Savile affectionately referred to Mr Beston on air as 'Uncle Ted'. Throughout the course of today there have been signs of police activity at Mr Beston's house. Three men in suits were seen leaving the premises in two cars carrying a large black holdall and three sealed black bin liners. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said today : 'A man arrested earlier today in connection with Operation Yewtree - has this afternoon left police premises. 'He has been bailed to return on a date in February 2013. Ted Beston's house in Bromley, Kent, as police take away black bags and a holdhall from the property today Beston is the eighth man to be arrested as part of the investigation. Pictured is a man in a suit carrying a large black holdall Throughout today there have been signs of police activity at Mr Beston's house, pictured 'The man, who is in his 70s and from London, was arrested at 06.30hrs on suspicion of sexual offences and taken into custody at a south London police station. 'The individual falls under the strand of the investigation we have termed "Savile and others".' The force is leading the national probe into claims made against the disgraced TV presenter and figures in the entertainment industry. It is understood that up to 25 celebrities have been named to police. A source with knowledge of the inquiry told the Sunday Times: 'They all tend to be white men of the Savile generation'. In some cases victims will not be identified or press charges. But in at least a dozen cases, police are reported to believe there is enough evidence for the celebrities to be arrested. The investigation has three strands, one dealing with allegations directly involving Jimmy Savile, the second involving allegations against associates of the disgraced DJ and the third involving 'others'.Operation Yewtree has already cost around lb2million and involves a team of 30 officers. PR guru Max Clifford (left) leaves his Surrey home after being arrested by police. (Right) Former BBC producer Wilfred De'ath was arrested at an earlier date. Both were bailed Dave Lee Travis (left) was arrested at his Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire home in November. Gary Glitter (right) was arrested and bailed in October Last week a man from London in his 60s was arrested on suspicion of sexual offences. PR guru Max Clifford was arrested earlier on suspicion of sexual offences but was later bailed as part of the probe. A man aged in his 80s from Berkshire was interviewed by detectives three weeks ago. Gary Glitter, comedian Freddie Starr, DJ Dave Lee Travis and a man in his 70s, reported to be former television producer Wilfred De'Ath, have been arrested and bailed as part of the probe.Officers are looking at claims against Savile, those against Savile and others, and those against others. Last week police revealed a total of 31 allegations of rape have been made against Jimmy Savile. Detectives said they had received 199 complaints of sex attacks against the late BBC star from 450 different people. Savile is said to have carried out the attacks in 17 police force areas. Detectives said that 589 complainants - the majority of whom were young girls at the times of the alleged incidents - had contacted police as part of a wider inquiry into sexual attacks carried out by Savile and others. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=73e_1355946160 VikingRapeSquad Yet Another BBC British Broadcaster That Worked With Knighted Savile Now Arrested For Sex Offences,. uk, british, knight, pedophile, arrest, bbc, ted, beston Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:42:10 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af8_1355945926 VikingRapeSquad 'It looks like we're hiding': Revealed, Jeremy Paxman's furious email row with BBC Newsnight editor who shelved Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation Jeremy Paxman was involved in furious bust-up with editor Peter Rippon over decision to shelve the report 'It looks like we're hiding,' he said in an email, but his boss replied the story was 'not worth the fuss' Email exchange revealed in Pollard report which probed why Newsnight shelved its Savile abuse investigation Report finds decision was 'flawed' and plunged corporation into 'chaos' Other findings reveal former BBC boss George Entwistle was sent an email in May 2010 warning him about the 'real truth' behind Savile When presenter died in October 2011 Entwistle was warned again that Savile had a 'darker side' BBC PR machine worked to protect Entwistle and pin blame on Newsnight editor Peter Rippon for dropped programme By Paul Revoir and Martin Robinson PUBLISHED: 19:00 EST, 18 December 2012 UPDATED: 14:37 EST, 19 December 2012 Comments (164) Share Jeremy Paxman attacked his own boss at the BBC for trying to defend his 'seriously flawed' decision to scrap an investigation into decades of abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile, it was revealed today. In a series of emails, the ferocious interviewer accused Newsnight editor Peter Rippon of caving in to his superiors, telling him: 'It looks like we're hiding'.Mr Rippon - who was shoved out of his job - replied that a story on Savile's years of sexual abuse was 'about a dead guy.. and not worth the fuss' and dropping it was 'the least worst option'.The Paxman vs Rippon row developed in a series of emails on October 2 after Mr Rippon had tried to explain why the Savile story had been dropped by Newsnight on his blog.Paxman attacked the blog as failing to answer 'all of the accusations laid against us' and added: 'If we don't tackle it, it looks like we're hiding'. The Pollard review today published the email exchange as part of a report into why the probe was shelved, concluding the decision was 'flawed' but made in 'good faith.' The BBC claims the programme was axed in December 2011 because the Crown Prosecution Service dropped its case against the DJ claiming there was not enough evidence to prosecute him. It then ran several tributes to the late TV host over Christmas. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Scandal: The BBC discovered damning evidence that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile but a Newsnight investigation was dropped suddenly Pollard also found that failed BBC Director-General George Entwistle was warned of 'the real truth' about child abuser Jimmy Savile as early as May 2010 - but failed to ask any questions about it, it has been revealed.Jeremy Paxman's stand-off with his boss was launched because he disbelieved editor Peter Rippon's October 2 blog on why he dropped the Savile abuse investigation. The editor was forced to defend himself after ITV announced they were running their own programme on the DJ's abuse the following day. More... BBC Trust slams Newsnight for 'failure of basic checks' over botched McAlpine report BBC news deputy director resigns over Newsnight scandal (but still NOBODY at the Corporation has been sacked) Lord McAlpine receives total of lb310,000 in libel damages from BBC and ITV for wrongful child sex abuse allegations Challenging Rippon an hour after the blog was published, Mr Paxman said: 'It must have been a corporate decision - whatever you say in blog', adding: 'if we don't tackle it, I fear it looks like we're hiding.'I have to say, I think we make a problem for ourselves by running away from this story'. Mr Rippon replied: 'It wasn't corporate honestly. I guess I may be guilty of self-censorship. In the end I just felt what we had ... Forty year old contestable claims about a dead guy was not a Newsnight story and not worth the fuss.' Plea: Jeremy Paxman (left) begged his Newsnight editor Peter Rippon (right) to show the Savile programme as it looked like the BBC was 'running away' Mr Paxman begged his editor to reconsider the story in a passionate defence of good journalism. 'It raises questions about the way in which the claims of child abuse victims are treated,' he said. 'It raises serious questions about journalistic ethics. We have a locus (Latin for position) on the story, which needs explaining if we're going to lay the "patsy" accusation (to rest).'Can I ask you to reconsider?' Later that month Mr Rippon was forced to correct three elements of his blog, including false claims that there was no evidence against the BBC and all those interviewed by his reporters had also spoken to the police.He also said that there was not enough evidence that would have helped the police. Mr Paxman's comments reveal the deep resentment felt by BBC journalists, who aimed their anger at their bosses over the scandal. In other findings, Mr Pollard's report criticised 'a complete breakdown in communication all the way up the chain' and 'a lack of trust between the news management and the people who had actually done the story'.He went on: 'There was a serious problem in Newsnight - and it wasn't just organisational; there was an element of personal difficulty between the key personalities as well. 'That's quite shocking in a way. Newsrooms can only operate on the basis of trust and mutual confidence - and discussion that continues through a process. A lot of that was missing.' Findings: Nick Pollard speaking about his report this afternoon revealed that George Entwistle was warned about Savile and that BBC management completely failed to cope with the scandal BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten added there was 'a lack of professional camaraderie, a lack of collegial behaviour' in some parts of the BBC which he found 'surprising'.Former Sky News chief Nick Pollard's lb2million investigation into the scandal also revealed 'eye-opening' text messages between the corporation's director of communications and the head of press who tried to save the job of then Director-General George Entwistle. The decision to drop Newsnight's report into Jimmy Savile's decades long campaign of sexual abuse plunged the BBC into 'chaos and confusion', he said, adding management 'proved completely incapable of dealing' with the fallout.'The decision by their editor (Peter Rippon) to drop the original investigation was clearly flawed and the way it was taken was wrong, though I believe it was done in good faith. It was not done to protect the Savile tribute programme or for any other reason,' he said. BBC director general George Entwistle (left) was forced to resign in November over issues surrounding the corporation's handling of the Savile case To come to this conclusion he examined 10,000 emails and documents which shed light on the events. Sensationally, he found George Entwistle was first warned of 'the real truth' about Savile in May 2010, in an email from BBC executive Nick Vaughan-Barratt - but crucially he failed to ask further questions about it.HOW SAVILE ABUSE CLAIMS RUINED CAREERS AND DIVIDED BBC May 2010 - BBC director-general George Entwistle is sent an e-mail telling him about the 'real truth' about paedophile Jimmy Savile October 2011 - Jimmy Savile dies and Entwistle is warned again that he had a 'darker side' - but Entwistle didn't read it December 2011 - Newsnight shelves its investigation into Jimmy Savile Christmas 2011 - The BBC runs several tributes to the late TV host October 2, 2012 - ITV runs its investigation into the DJ's abuse claims - sparking a host of allegations against Savile and eventually leading to a police investigation October 2, 2012 - Paxman's furious stand-off with his Newsnight bosses begins because he disbelieves editor Peter Rippon's blog into why he dropped the Savile abuse investigation November 2, 2012 - Newsnight runs controversial report which wrongly linked former Tory party chairman Lord McAlpine to child abuse allegations November 10, 2012 - BBC director general George Entwhistle resigns December 19, 2012 - Peter Rippon replaced as editor of Newsnight Head of events Mr Vaughan Barratt told Mr Entwistle: 'I understand Jimmy is very ill. We have no obit and I am not sure we would want one. What do you think. 'I have a personal interest here: my first job was on a JS (Jimmy Savile) show - I know him well and saw the complex and sometimes conflicting nature of the man at first hand - if you know what I mean! Do you have an opinion?' He later said: 'I'd feel v queasy about an obit. I saw the real truth!!!' A later email sent on the day after Savile died in October 2011 also warned Mr Entwistle about the pervert entertainer's 'darker side' - but the man who ran the corporation for 54 days this year claims he never read it.Commissioning Editor for Music and Events Jan Younghusband told Mr Entwistle: 'I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story. So something celebrating a particular part of his TV career is probably better than the (life) story as there are aspects of this which are hard to tell.'Instead Mr Entwistle decided there was no need for a quick obituary and BBC1 controller Danny Cohen even suggested a special Christmas edition of Jim"ll Fix It.Speaking about the warnings Mr Pollard said today: 'If he had read the email...it would have given Mr Entwistle some pause for thought about the planned Christmas tributes.'As part of the report's finds, Mr Pollard examines texts sent between BBC staff and found staff had tried to 'protect' Mr Entwistle as the scandal began to engulf the corporation. Spotlight: BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten said he accepted all the report's findings Address: Nick Pollard alongside (left to right) Alison Hastings Chair of the BBC Trust Editorial Standards Committee, Tim Davie Acting Director General, Dame Fiona Reynalds BBC Senior Independent Director and Lord Patten BBC Trust Chairman He uncovered revealing messages showing how press office executives tried to avert the blame on to Newsnight editor Mr Rippon. Julian Payne, the BBC's head of press, texted the director of communications Paul Mylrea to say: 'Thought of the hour. PR (Peter Rippon) changes blog and accepts he was wrong and goes. GE (George Entwistle) then goes into Select (committee) saying he backed his editor as you would expect. Turns out he was wrong sad but he did the right thing and we all move on???' Criticism: Newsnight editor Peter Rippon wrote a blog on dropping the Savile investigation only for it to be corrected because of inaccuracies Two days later, after the blog correction had been made, another message was sent from Mr Payne to Mr Mylrea saying: 'Think am going to need to brief hard today that PR blog was the basis for all ourposition on this. Only way to protect GE.' The Pollard Review comes on the same day a separate investigation revealed why Newsnight later ran a second controversial report, which wrongly linked former Tory party chairman Lord McAlpine to child abuse allegations.It resulted largely from a failure by members of the team to follow the BBC's own editorial guidelines, the BBC Trust said today.The broadcast on November 2 was a 'grave breach which had been costly to all concerned' and resulted in the public being misled, the Trust's Editorial Standards Committee (ESC) found.It also cost George Entwistle his job. The then director general had a series of disastrous interviews on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5Live and admitted he did not see the Newsnight show, had missed all tweets linked to it and also the Guardian front page from the day before.That evening he resigned and received a lb450,000 pay-off for doing the 'honourable thing' after just 54 days in the job. The lb2million Pollard report has also revealed how the BBC's management failed to cope with the revelations that their journalists found Savile was a paedophile,'Newsnight's inquiry into Jimmy Savile last year started a chain of events that was to prove eventually disastrous for the BBC,' the report said. 'It led to one of the worst management crises in the BBC's history and contributed to further chaos that led eventually to the resignation of the Director General a few weeks later over the McAlpine affair. 'The Newsnight investigators got the story right. They had found clear and compelling evidence that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten said the BBC accepted the review in its 'entirety'. He said the corporation will publish the evidence it gets from Mr Pollard with redactions for 'legal reasons'. He said the report had looked at the failings of the BBC with 'pretty searing honesty'. Mr Davie said the organisation had taken 'a hit', but remained trusted by the public.Steven Mitchell, the BBC's deputy head of news, resigned today after he was criticised for removing the Savile investigation from a list of projects deemed risky enough to be viewed by senior BBC bosses.He will not be receiving a pay-off but will still get his pension. The Newsnight editorial team will also be replaced but none have been sacked. Tough reading: A Journalist holds a copy of The Pollard Report - which firmly aimed its guns at the BBC's management Journalists who worked on the shelved Savile investigation have turned on the bosses who shelved their findings - despite being sure that they could prove he was a paedophile.Newsnight producer Meirion Jones said: 'Last Christmas, Newsnight knew, the BBC knew, that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. We knew there had been a police investigation - they had taken it seriously. 'We had interviewed a victim - a very good victim on camera - we had corroboration, we had footage of victims with abusers on BBC premises - and yet the BBC decided to pull the investigation and run tributes to Jimmy Savile instead. 'I hope the BBC takes measures to make sure that nothing like that will ever happen again. What I do feel confident about though, is that the BBC has now taken measures to make sure that children are safe here.'Newsnight reporter Liz Mackean said: 'The decision not to run it was seriously flawed, but it was more than that. I think the decision to drop our story was a breach of our duty to the women who trusted us to reveal that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. 'Many found it difficult to share their experiences as vulnerable girls. Our editor didn't watch the main interview with our witness. Nick Pollard did, and found her credible and compelling - as did we. 'As for what he called the chaos caused by the inaccurate blog of October, I welcome the recommendation that the BBC should trust its journalists.' It has also been revealed that no-one at the corporation, at the time, bothered to tell police what their own staff had discovered.Pollard's report criticised the way BBC bosses did not share information with other senior executives about the Savile claims. Mr Pollard said the 'most worrying aspect of the Jimmy Savile story for BBC was not decision to drop the story itself. It was the complete inability to deal with the events that followed.'In a stinging attack on the BBC's management he said they were thrown into 'chaos and confusion'. The document paints a picture of a top-down organisation with rivalries and faction fighting. The report added that getting to the bottom of the situation proved 'beyond the combined efforts of senior management'. 'In particular, crucial information about the basic facts of the case was not shared,' he said, adding no-one could 'grasp' what to do with the information.The report said efforts to deal with the situation were 'hampered' by 'rigid management chains' and a reluctance to 'bypass them' and a 'critical lack of leadership and coordination'.'When the full force of the affair broke in October this year, the BBC's management system proved completely incapable of dealing with it,' he said. 'The level of chaos and confusion was even greater than was apparent at the time. Leadership and organisation seemed to be in short supply. 'Efforts were hampered in part by an apparent adherence to rigid management chains and a reluctance to bypass them. 'The fallout from Newsnight's Savile investigation generated a great deal of disagreement and, in some instances, personal animosity within the BBC.' http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af8_1355945926 VikingRapeSquad More Disgusting Coverups at British Media BBC Protecting Pedophile Rapist Knight Sir Savile uk, british, pedophile, culture, BBC, coverup, knight, jimmy, savile Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:15:44 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a9a_1350061984 VikingRapeSquad Jobless Claims Number Doesn't Include California http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/11/bls-fail-jobless-claims-number-doesnt-include-california Print Article Send a Tip by Mike Flynn 11 Oct 2012 192 post a comment I didn't buy into the idea last week that the Labor Department "cooked the books" on the September jobs report. If you were going to go to the trouble of fixing the numbers, wouldn't you come up with good numbers for both parts of the report? The household survey, upon which the unemployment numbers is based, is historically very volatile. Its suggestion of 800k new jobs in the month is obviously an outlier. Even if you accept the number at face value, an oddly precise 2/3rds of these jobs were part-time. You don't build a recovery on part-time jobs. But, today, I admit, I'm starting to wonder. This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that initial claims for unemployment benefits, i.e. jobless claims, fell a staggering 30k to 339k for the week. It's the lowest level of claims since January 2008! Analysts had expected the number to remain essentially unchanged at around 370k, where it's been pretty much for more than a year. The media, of course, swooned at the news. NPR bellowed the report through my car speakers this morning and I swear I could hear high-fiving in the background of their studio. You would think we'd posted double-digit growth in GDP for the way the media greeted the news. The long-stalled economic recovery had appeared on the horizon at preciously the moment Obama needed it to. Except, um, it turns out that number wasn't right. They forgot to include CALIFORNIA , the most populous and economically depressed state in the country. A source at the Labor Department brushed aside the omission by saying that, sometimes, if a state office is under-manned they don't complete all the jobless claims in time to report them to BLS. In other words, the dog ate their homework. I have long marveled at the slow-march disintegration of the once Golden State, but has the state really become so utterly dysfunctional that it can not process jobless claims in a timely fashion? More importantly, shouldn't BLS have noted this somehow? Shouldn't there have been a big neon asterisk at the top of their press release? Billions of dollars move in the market on reaction to these reports. Should we really have to wait hours into the trading day to find out the numbers don't include the biggest state in the country? It reminds me of the great Marion Barry line when he was Mayor of DC: crime in DC isn't that bad if you don't count the murders. So, we had the lowest number of jobless claims in over four years... if you don't count the claims from the biggest state with one of the highest unemployment rates. I hadn't realized that the Keystone Kops took over leadership at BLS. Very convenient that all these aberrations are potentially helpful to Obama. A bit too convenient. Follow me on twitter http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a9a_1350061984 VikingRapeSquad More Obama/Left Wing Media Lies...Latest 'awesome' Job Numbers DIDNT INCLUDE CALIFORNIA! THE BIGGEST WELFARE STATE IN THE COUNTRY! LOLOLOLOL!!! Desp desperate, democrats, lie, again, jobless, rate, scam, california, welfare, main, stream, media, propaganda, sheeple, democrats Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:12:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c34_1350061811 VikingRapeSquad Democrats Lie. You would have to be a complete moron to ever vote for one. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c34_1350061811 VikingRapeSquad Mother Of Navy Seal Assassinated In Libya Says Obama, Clinton LIED TO HER FACE and She Demands Answers.. DEVASTATING for Democrats and Obama. democrats, lie, death, navy, seal, mom, demands, answers Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:06:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d6_1350061438 VikingRapeSquad So many lies being spewed by the democRATS and their clown car obama administration its easy to catch these RATS in a trap :) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d6_1350061438 VikingRapeSquad Caught LYING: Obama Propaganda Minister Ben LaBolt Hangs Up During DISASTEROUS Interview! LOL! democrat, cult, voters, are, ignorant, sheep, ben, labolt, lies, hangs, up, runs, away, lol, interview, ohio Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:35:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=072_1348853624 VikingRapeSquad Tory minister in computer games console fury http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4561138/Tory-minister-Ed-Vaizey-in-computer-games-console-fury.html By GRAEME WILSON, Deputy Political Editor Published: 17 hrs ago 66 A TORY minister has sparked outrage by demanding a taxpayer-funded computer games console in his Whitehall office. Culture minister Ed Vaizey, 44, said he already had a TV there - so he should be able to have an Xbox or PlayStation too. He moaned his request had been turned down by the "powers that be" in his department in case it looked "frivolous". But he vowed to press on with his demands. In an interview yesterday Mr Vaizey, a keen gamer whose responsibilities include the industry, said: "I think I will renew my campaign. "I have a television so why can't I have a games console?" Shadow Culture minister Dan Jarvis said: "This reminds me of my nine-year-old who wants a Game Boy. I keep saying no but he keeps asking. "If I was in his shoes, I would be focusing on the job that taxpayers pay me to do - not asking them to buy me games consoles." A Department for Culture spokesman said: "I wouldn't take the comments too seriously. "He is minister responsible for the games industry, which is one of our big economic success stories, so it's not surprising he would like to be able to show off the best to visitors. "But having a console is not his highest priority at the moment." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=072_1348853624 VikingRapeSquad British Left Wing Elite Ruling Class Demands and XBOX for His Office...Let the British Taxpayer Eat Cake! LOL! british, brits, bent, over, peasants, slaves, owned, ruled, left, wing, elite