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Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads play has grown in stature since its premiere at the Almeida in April. Now we’ve got over the titillating shock of seeing living royals presented on stage, we can see that the play offers a meditation on the inviolable solitude of monarchy and uses a dense tissue of Shakespearean references to acquire a tragic dimension. I still find the premise a touch dodgy: that within a few days of becoming king, Charles would be so naive as to refuse royal assent to a parliamentary bill restricting press freedom. But once we are past that hurdle, the play ingeniously explores the constitutional crisis that would result from Charles’s interventionism. Bartlett also goes beyond parodying Shakespearean verse to evoke memories of specific plays. Charles reflects on the clash between the private man and the public role in the manner of Shakespeare’s kings, ghostly predictions remind us of Hamlet and Macbeth, and there is even an allusion to Hal’s rejection of Falstaff on the threshold of his coronation. But the play transcends spot-the-bard jokiness to explore the unresolved contradictions of monarchy even in an age when it is largely ceremonial. Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Tim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his distinguished career as Charles. He eschews mere impersonation to convey, in the first half, a tormented idealist struggling to come to terms with his new role. He then grows into a movingly tragic figure in his baffled rage at being outmanoeuvred by members of his own family and his realisation of the hollowness of the throne. Oliver Chris as the deceptively gauche William, Richard Goulding as a roistering Harry and Lydia Wilson as a secretly manipulative Kate also carry conviction, and Rupert Goold’s superb production, played on Tom Scutt’s empurpled dais, shows how memorable effects can be achieved through carefully choreographed grouping. The costumes are virtually all black and white – but there is nothing morally simplistic about a play that raises urgent issues about the monarchy’s future role in a country without a defined constitution.Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads

Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads So, what happens when two lamps become one? The answer is, “More light!” (if not, “More lamps!”). Product designer Sandro Lominashvili of Tblisi, Georgia, used 3D-printed components in the most ingenious and oddly romantic way to create a chic, contemporary looking two-in-one lighting fixture. He calls it or, rather, them, the “Love Lamps.” Lominashvili, who studied mechanical engineering at King’s College in London, UK and worked for several years for a number of architecture and design companies before setting up his own studio last year, is an ardent advocate of 3D design and printing. In his leisure time, the energetic Lominashvili studies design and architecture magazines to spot the latest trends in innovative design, sketching every day and developing ideas into successful products. He incorporates digital and manual processes, including the use of 3D modeling software like Grasshopper, SolidWorks, and Rhino, the latter of which he utilized to design the Love Lamps. Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads When he’s not flying solo, Lominashvili works with different craftspeople and makers both in Tbilisi and abroad, building a community of forward-thinking designers using the latest technological tools to produce a range of products. He also exhibits his work as he did with the Love Lamps, which were showcased at the Ventura Lambrate show during Milan Design Week 2015.Lominashvili’s Love Lamps are meant to represent, he explained, “the constant togetherness of couples in love.” He created three different versions of this endearing design concept. In each, the two seemingly separate lamps, they interlock or intersect in different ways via the angular arms and the shades. All were 3D printed using transparent resin as he wanted the cables, fixtures and bulbs to be visible. The design of the these individuals pieces were inspired by the classic Anglepoise Lamp, a balanced-arm lamp created by the British designer, George Cawardine in the early 1930s. Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads When asked why he chose 3D printing as the manufacturing method of choice for his Love Lamps, Lominashvili said, “3D printing seemed like the best option because it made it possible for the design to be very clean, with almost no extra parts, and I had very few constraints with the shape.” He chose i.materialise to do the 3D printing job as he found the printing material–in this case, the transparent resin–ideal for the Lamps. As his studio is new, Lominashvili does not yet have an extensive portfolio that he can share via his website, but we imagine that will change as he adds new products like the Love Lamps and the sleek, Modernist chair already showcased on the site. What do you think of these uniquely designed lamps? Discuss in the 3D Printed Love Lamps forum thread on 3DPB.com. Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads

Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads BASTROP, Texas — The office of the Bastrop County Republican Party is in an old lumber mill on Main Street, with peeling brown paint and a sign out front that captures the party’s feelings about the Obama administration: “WISE UP AMERICA!” Inside, county Chairman Albert Ellison pulled out a yellow legal pad on which he had written page after page of reasons why many Texans distrust President Obama, including the fact that, “in the minds of some, he was raised by communists and mentored by terrorists.” So it should come as no surprise, Ellison said, that as the U.S. military prepares to launch one of the largest training exercises in history later this month, many Bastrop residents might suspect a secret Obama plot to spy on them, confiscate their guns and ultimately establish martial law in one of America’s proudly free conservative states. They are not “nuts and wackos. They are concerned citizens, and they are patriots,” Ellison said of his suspicious neighbors. “Obama has really painted a portrait in the minds of many conservatives that he is capable of this sort of thing.” Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Across town at the Bastrop County Courthouse, such talk elicits a weary sigh from County Judge Paul Pape, the chief official in this county of 78,000 people. Pape said he has tried to explain to folks that the exercise, known as Jade Helm 15, is a routine training mission that poses no threat to anyone.Pape chaired a public meeting this spring and invited a U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman to answer questions about Jade Helm. The meeting drew more than 150 people carrying signs that read “No Gestapo in Bastropo,” “Keep America Free” and “Dissent is Not a Conspiracy Theory.” Some asked whether the Army was bringing in Islamic State fighters, if the United Nations would be involved, and whether the military was planning to relieve local gun owners of their firearms. “I’m sensitive to the fact that some of our Bastrop residents are concerned, and I’m confident that they are very sincere about their concerns,” Pape said. “But how did we get to this point in our country?” Race and economic anxiety Here in the soft, green farmlands east of Austin, some say the answer is simple: “The truth is, this stems a fair amount from the fact that we have a black president,” said Terry Orr, who was Bastrop’s mayor from 2008 to 2014. Orr said he strongly disagrees with those views, and he supports Jade Helm. But he said a significant number of people in town distrust Obama because they think he is primarily concerned with the welfare of blacks and “illegal aliens.” “People think the government is just not on the side of the white guy,” Orr said. Bastrop’s current mayor, Kenneth Kesselus, who also supports Jade Helm, agrees. Kesselus said the distrust is due in part to a sense that “things aren’t as good as they used to be,” especially economically. “The middle class is getting squeezed and they’ve got to take it out on somebody, and Obama is a great target.”Dock Jackson, 62, an African American who has been on the Bastrop City Council for 24 years, grew up when the town was still segregated, literally by railroad tracks. Today, Bastrop is 34 percent Hispanic and 8 percent black, and a wonderful place to live, he said, a place where the races generally get along. But the Jade Helm backlash has been a “red flag” that our county “still has a lot of things they need to come to terms with,” Jackson said, including the anger and disrespect being directed at the president. At a recent family reunion at a Bastrop community center, Mark Peterson, who is black, said he has been “shocked” by what he views as racist undertones in much of the objection to Jade Helm. Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads “What I hate to hear most is, ‘We want to take our country back.’ This is still your country. Where did it go?” said Peterson, 42, a technology manager for a financial firm in Austin. “If it were any other president but Obama, it would not be an issue.” [It isn’t just Jade Helm 15: The varying and misunderstood roles of state-sponsored militias] Jade Helm’s troubles started with a map, released by the military, which depicted the area of operations. It showed seven southwestern states colored red for “hostile” (including Texas) and blue for “permissive” (including California). The map sent the conspiracy-minded into overdrive. At the public hearing this spring, military spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria explained that those designations are part of a fictional scenario: Jade Helm is intended to simulate U.S. Special Forces helping resistance fighters restore democracy in an imaginary country. The operation’s logo, which features a Dutch wooden shoe, is meant to represent anti-Nazi resistance in World War II Europe. Lastoria patiently answered questions for nearly three hours, explaining that while Jade Helm would involve 1,200 troops across seven states, no more than 60 would be training in Bastrop County. Moreover, the The Texas operation would be confined to military bases — including Camp Swift, a large Army National Guard base in Bastrop — as well as private property where the military had secured the landowners’ permission. “All service members take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and we put our lives on the line every day to uphold that oath,” he said. “So for people to come up with irrational ideas and try to associate them with the United States military, it does our troops a disservice.” The hearing failed to tamp down the paranoia, however. Ellison, the GOP chairman, said “the fear factor is justified.” Obama “doesn’t take national threats seriously enough,” Ellison said, ticking off Obama’s policies toward Russia, Iran, Cuba and the Islamic State, as well as illegal immigration across the U.S. southern border and the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. “What he views as alarming instead is conservatism,” Ellison said, alleging that the Obama administration has used the Internal Revenue Service to attack the tea party and other conservative groups, been hostile to gun owners, issued what conservatives consider an illegal executive order to avoid deporting illegal immigrants, and “been complicit in stirring riots” in racially charged situations in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore. “The Obama administration has a history of attacking Texas” on issues from education standards to environmental regulations to Obamacare, he said. “It’s not that much of a leap to believe that he would try to employ the military like he does the IRS.” Others suspect Obama wants to establish martial law to cancel the 2016 presidential elections and extend his term in office. Terry Wareham, head of the Bastrop County Tea Party, said she fears that the Obama administration might deliberately instigate violence between soldiers and Texans as a pretext for establishing martial law. “We’re not against the military. This community is very supportive of the military,” Wareham said. “But who’s the commander in chief of the military?” A ‘toxic’ politics Some in Bastrop dismiss the talk of martial law as the delusional rantings of saucer-eyed loons. But others see it as the logical outcome of the Texas political climate, where they say the state’s Republican leaders have eagerly stoked distrust of the federal government, and especially of Obama. “They are trying to convince people the federal government is coming after them,” said state Sen. Kirk Watson, a Democrat who represents Bastrop County. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has ordered the Texas State Guard to “monitor” Jade Helm 15. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican presidential hopeful, has said he understands “the reason for concern and uncertainty, because . . . the federal government has not demonstrated itself to be trustworthy in this administration.” “They say the government is coming after you,” Watson said, “so why would you be surprised if the government shows up with guns?” Carol Schumacher, a Bastrop artist whose property backs up onto Camp Swift, laughed when asked about the Jade Helm conspiracy theorists. “I think those people are crazy,” she said. “I’m more worried about them taking over.”Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads

Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads Doctors have raised fresh concerns about the level of support people with dementia and their carers get from the NHS and social services in the UK. And the Royal College of GPs says until the situation improves, doctors will have to weigh up whether there is any advantage in early diagnosis. The college was responding to a survey of GPs for the Alzheimer's Society. The poll suggests some patients are forced to rely on family, friends and unpaid carers due to gaps in services. The government said dementia training had been given to 600,000 NHS and social care staff. GPs have a key role in co-ordinating care for people with dementia, but the Royal College of GPs says in some places services are collapsing under the pressure of more diagnoses.The online survey, of around 1,000 family doctors, found they had wide-ranging concerns about levels of care. Some felt there weren't enough local services to help their patients. And when these services were not available, a quarter of doctors warned they would be less likely to refer a person with suspected dementia to specialists to make a firm diagnosis. Agreeing with these concerns, Prof Nigel Mathers, of the Royal College of GPs, called for improvements in the "patchy provision of support services in some areas". He warned: "Until this can be delivered to all patients, regardless of where they live in the country, GPs will have to continue weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of early diagnosis." He argued previous evidence had shown that unless a patient's wellbeing was improved by being given a diagnosis, one should not be forced upon them.Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads 'All-consuming battle' The Alzheimer's Society, the charity that commissioned the survey, said the GPs' answers revealed a "deeply worrying lack of support available from health and social services, with relatives left to pick up the pieces alone". Jeremy Hughes, chief executive at the society, added: "People can need a lot of help to live well with dementia. Families and friends are a vital source of support but they mustn't be relied on to do everything." But Stephen Blakeburn, from Darlington, who cares for his mother, said he felt he had been failed by the system. He said: "Since my mum was diagnosed with dementia, it has been a constant, all-consuming battle to get her the support she needs. "After two care assessments which led to nothing, I've been left with no option but to drastically cut down my hours at work so I can take care of her.Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads "I love my mum dearly and want to do everything I can to support her but sometimes it gets too much and it is very overwhelming." A spokesman from the Department of Health said: "We are already expanding access to named clinicians and dementia advisers to help patients and their families, and giving the option of personal budgets - and we want to see these things being offered across the NHS."Click & Close Ads Click & Close Ads

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 DomisLive and iCrazyTeddy just showed GTA fans a brand new Gameplay Concept Mod. This mod also includes the DLC elements for the III Gotten Gains DLC that was made known to the public. The Gameplay Concept Mod mirrors the Enus Windsor paint jobs and the DLC designer one. If you are interested to check out this mod you can get it from gta5-mods.com, if not then you’ll just have to wait for the official launch of the lll Gotten Gains DLC (it will take place in the following week). Note: The Gameplay Concept Mod is hitting it off with GTA 5 (this is the computer variant) and you cannot copy it on older or newer game consoles.
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 The renowned and highly appreciated Youtuber iCrazyTeddy has also shared more info about this Gameplay Concept Mod for the Ill-Gotten Gains DLC. So according to his sayings, the Concept Mod details the clothing styles and the paint makeovers that gamers will get once the lll-Gotten Gains DLC (just for part 1) will be unveiled. The video lets you see how exactly you can experience these DLC Gameplay Concept Mod elements by using the wardrobe, once you get to a safer establishment. So, you can mod the skin of Dinka Jester Classic by choosing the Enus Windsor paint job to pair up with the shades as well as the texture of your designer jacket in GTA 5. Neat right? How can you get this cool paint job for the Dinka Jeste in the GTA 5 game? We’ll tell you how:
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 Start by driving your automobile from Franklin’s garage to Los Santos Customs. Then you can personalize the car with a bunch of different textures and neat skins, if you want the car to go perfectly with what you are wearing. The shades of your automobile can be changed as well (blue, red, yellow, pink and a lot more hues are available). As a final note, we inform you that lll-Gotten Gains DLC will roll out on PC, Xbox One and PS4, Xbox 360 as well as PS3.
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    Raikkonen qualified third after team-mate Vettel fell by the wayside in Q1 with an MGU-H failure. While Kimi’s life was undoubtedly made easier as a result of his team-mate’s demise, the Finn had been faster in FP3 and saw off a strong challenge from Valtteri Bottas to claim the position. Despite it being his best qualifying position so far this year, Kimi said: “We still have some work ahead, obviously we are not happy to finish third in the grid but in the race we’lll try to do better. It’s hard to say what will happen tomorrow but at least we did a better qualifying than normal and we’ll be in a better position for the race.” Ferrari, running an upgraded power unit this weekend, have looked strong throughout the event. Nico Rosberg & Lewis Hamilton have both commented on how Ferrari appear to have raised their game, and Kimi says that the weekend has been smooth sailing so far:
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 “The car has been feeling good all weekend. We had no problems, apart from the one Sebastian had in qualifying, and everything ran smoothly. We have been making sure that all the small details were correct, we have learned from the past difficult races how small things can make a big change and enable you to get the result you want . So far it has been ok but tomorrow is the big day. I expect that we can be stronger and challenge for a competitive race . The weather has been tricky these days, so it will be a bit of uncertain tomorrow. Tonight we are going to analyse a lot of data and will try to make the right decisions”. While Raikkonen will be keen to challenge the Mercs, Sebastian Vettel faces a much tougher task. After falling out of contention during Q1, Vettel was called in front of the stewards to answer charges of overtaking Roberto Merhi under red flag conditions in FP3. He was found guilty, and hit with a five place grid and three penalty points. “Right from the start we didn’t have the full power available, so when I went out for the first run we tried to fix the problem, but we couldn’t.” said Vettel afterwards. “Due to the lack of power we couldn’t make it further. For sure we have to investigate but I don’t think that there’s anything to do with the engine. I think it has more to do with the electronical side, but I am confident that we can fix the problem in time for tomorrow’s race. We have plenty of tyres and anything can happen. We have a strong car and a strong pace, so I should be able to score good points. The problem we had this morning in FP3 was completely unrelated.”
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 Pentagon’s prime contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT - Analyst Report), will join forces with Bombardier and Raytheon Co. (RTN - Analyst Report) to contend for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation JSTARS replacement. For now, Lockheed Martin has secured a big contract modification to develop the ballistic missile defense command and control program. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII - Snapshot Report) broke ground for building a new joint manufacturing assembly facility in Newport News, VA. (Read Defense Stock Roundup for Jun 16, 2015 here.) Recap of the Week’s Most Important Stories
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 1. Lockheed Martin Corp. secured a big pie from the Pentagon’s daily funding list, worth $870 million. The U.S. military awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to continue developing the ballistic missile defense (“BMD”) command and control program that enables senior U.S. officials to plan BMD operations. The company will continue engineering, development, test, integration, fielding and on-site operations and sustainment support for the command and control, battle management and communications (“C2BMC”) system located worldwide for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. This is a modification contract that brings the total cumulative contract value to $2.1 billion from $1.2 billion. The work is expected to be completed by Dec 31, 2021. 2. Lockheed Martin will collaborate with Bombardier and Raytheon to compete for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (“JSTARS”) Recapitalization program. The team will build a replacement for the aging JSTARS aircraft. Lockheed Martin will act as the lead systems integrator, while Raytheon will bring its expertise in ground surveillance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, mission systems integration, and JSTARS communications. Bombardier for its part will provide its ultra-long-range Global business jet platform that is less pricey to operate than modern airliners. Meanwhile, Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC - Analyst Report) recently announced that it would team up with General Dynamics Corp. (GD - Analyst Report), Gulfstream and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL - Analyst Report) to compete for the program. This means Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin will confront each other on both the B-3 bomber program and the JSTARS recap. The contract from the Air Force has not yet been awarded. 3. Raytheon Company has won a multi-year contract from the U.S. Navy to produce 53 maritime, littoral and overland surveillance radars, known as AN/APY-10, valued at $153 million. The radars will be used in Boeing’s (BA) P-8A Poseidon aircraft. So far, Raytheon has delivered about 62% of the previous order of 58 AN/APY-10 radars from the U.S. Navy. Last week, another category of Raytheon’s radars – AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar – received a green signal from the U.S. government for its use in forward-based mode by its allies (read more: Raytheon Wins Surveillance Radar Orders from U.S. Navy). In another development, Raytheon announced that along with the U.S. Navy, it has completed operational testing and evaluation of live fires of the AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II infrared air-to-air missile. The U.S. government is now finalizing the approval, acceptance and delivery of Block II missiles to the U.S. and foreign allies, which are scheduled later this year. Block I missiles have been delivered to nine U.S. allies, while seven customers have already signed up for deliveries of Block II by the beginning of this year (read more: Raytheon Completes AIM-9X Missile Testing with U.S. Navy).
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 4. United Technologies Corporation’s (UTX - Analyst Report) unit, Sikorsky Aircraft, completed the delivery of six CH-148 Cyclone helicopters to the Canadian government. The helicopters are the first batch of an order of 28 Cyclone aircraft that Sikorsky is scheduled to deliver to the Canadian Armed Forces (read more: UTX's Sikorsky Delivers 6 Cyclone Helicopters to Canada).5. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.’s Newport News Shipbuilding segment broke ground for building a 250,000-square-foot joint manufacturing assembly facility. The facility’s first two phases, to open in 2017, will support work under current contracts for the Navy's new Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered carriers and Virginia-class submarines. It will be among the largest at the shipyard. Meanwhile, as a part of its planned incremental availability, Newport News Shipbuilding clinched a $23.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy for nuclear propulsion and complex modernization work on the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The modernization work is expected to be completed by Nov 2015 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Performance The last five trading days have seen gains for the sector overall led by Northrop Grumman and followed by Boeing. The picture in the past six-month period is mixed with gains as well as losses. Only Boeing and Rockwell Collins have been able to register double-digit gains. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and L-3 Communications on the other hand have failed to end in the green. General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Textron registered single-digit share price appreciation. The following table shows the price movement of the major defense players over the past five trading days and during the last six months.Click & Close Ads
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Defense operator L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. LLL said that its National Security Solutions ("L-3 NSS") business has been awarded an integration and technical support contract worth $117 million for the U.S. Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) program. MC4 system provides important details to the medical personnel for quick and accurate access to patient histories, ensuring that deployed soldiers receive appropriate medical treatment from the battlefield through recovery and beyond. MC4 also provides automated tools to facilitate patient tracking, blood management, medical reporting and medical logistical support. Timeliness and accurate medical details are crucial for saving lives of critical patients. Also, providing the right medical treatment during the golden hour could help save lives. The MC4 program with its timeliness and accuracy had helped save the lives of wounded soldiers.
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 Per the new contract, L-3 NSS will extend its support for this program for the period that runs from Jan 2015 through Dec 2019. In addition, L-3 NSS will expand its current engineering and integration efforts to further strengthen this critical program for medical communications. L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. exited fourth quarter 2014 on a positive note with its earnings per share and total revenue of $2.19 and $3,208 million beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3.7% and 1.8%, respectively. L-3 Communications expects to maintain the strong performance in 2015 as well, supported by the defense contract wins at regular intervals. L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). Other better-ranked stocks in the space are API Technologies Corp. ATNY , Rockwell Collins Inc. COL and AAR Corp. AIR . All of these stocks carry a Zacks Rank #2.
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Le maire de Grand-Yoff ne lâche pas l’Acte lll de la décentralisation. Selon Pape Madiop Diop, ce texte élaboré par le régime de Macky Sall comporte des problèmes dans sa mise en œuvre. Au -delà des critiques formulées sur le texte, le premier magistrat de la dite commune a invité les force vive pour évaluer l’Acte lll de la décentralisation. Il a réuni notables, délégués de quartiers, jeunes et femmes de sa localité, hier, à l’hôtel de ville pour échanger sur les difficultés auxquelles tous les maires de Dakar sont confrontées. « L’acte lll est venu avec des difficultés. C’est une réforme incomplète. Nous avons des problèmes pour agir normalement. Notre véritable difficulté est un problème financier. Depuis très longtemps, ce sont les communes qui collectaient les taxes sur l’eau et la patente. Mais maintenant, l’Etat veut créer une Agence pour y verser tous ces fonds. Nous pensons c’est anormale. L’Etat doit nous laisser nos taxes. Si l’Etat nous retire toutes ces taxes, mais comment allons nous fonctionner ? Voilà notre inquiétude », a expliqué le maire de Grand Yoff à sa population.
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 Les difficultés financières commencent à impacter dans certaines communes qui ont du mal à payer le salaire de leurs personnels. C’est le cas à Grand –Yoff même si le maire continue toujours de résister. Des solutions alternatives ont été élaborées. « J’ai payé les salaires du mois passé. Et je vais payer aussi ceux du mois de juin. Mais, si l’Etat ne nous laisse pas ses taxes là, nous aurons des difficultés pour payer les salaires. Parce qu’actuellement, ce sont ces taxes qui nous permettent de fonctionner. Je ne le souhaite pas, mais je pense que d’ici peu de temps, nous aurons des difficultés pour payer les salaires », s’inquiète Pape Madiop Diop. Les fonds de dotation se sont également invités dans les débats. Mr le maire juge que la répartition n’est pas bonne. « Grand Yoff recevait 220 millions de fond de dotation et 130 millions de fond d’équipement. Cette année nous avons reçu 43 millions de l’Etat comme fond de dotation et 9 millions pour le fond d’équipement. L’écart est grand. Voilà notre inquiétude », se désole Madiop Diop. Une désolation partagée par les populations. D’ailleurs certaines parmi elles pensent que c’est le chef de l’Etat qui est en train de déclarer la guerre à Khalifa Sall. Les forces vives de Grand Yoff ont aussi fait savoir à leur maire, qu’ils vont porter le combat. Ils n’excluent pas de descendre dans les rues pour crier leur colère. Le maire en a profité pour éclairer la lanterne des populations sur la masse salariale. Elle est revue à la hausse en passant de 11 millions Fcfa à 43 millions Fcfa. Cette hausse s’explique par le redéploiement de certains agents de la ville de Dakar à la Commune. 154 agents ont été redéployés à Grand Yoff dont 79 agents de santé. Mis en ligne par Mamadou Fall Cette entrée a été publiée dans Politique. Vous pouvez la mettre en favoris avec ce permalien.
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 DOWNERS GROVE, lll. — Imagine being able to pull a plane out of your garage door, drive down your driveway and take off on a trip. No driving to the airport. No security lines. No waiting at all. Well that’s just what happens in one suburban community. From one side it looks like any other Downers Grove, Ill., neighborhood. But on the other you can see what makes it so unique.
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 Hangars are attached to houses, and small planes sit in driveways. This is Brookeridge Airpark, where plane enthusiasts come to live. The airport has a primary runway that’s about 2,800 feet, along with a secondary runway, and its own fuel tanks. It’s owned by a group of the residents who live here… and has been around since the early 1960s. Pilots can simply pull their planes out, taxi to the runway and take off. It isn’t the only neighborhood of its kind in the area. There are others, in Naperville and Monee, Ill., to name a few. Some of the pilots say they offset the cost by being their own mechanics.
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The United Dixie White Knights of Mississippi contacted the city of Laurel to express its interest in holding a rally at the Jones County Courthouse this summer. The group is listed as an active chapter of the Ku Klux Klan by the Southern Poverty Law Center and is registered with the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office, with Brent Waller listed as the registered agent. The city of Laurel's Special Events Coordinator Lauren Stewart said the group e-mailed the city asking for a special events permit to hold a rally where they would also sell some items. "The City of Laurel is not sure if we can permit them on the premises of the county because they're actually wanting to host it at a county building in the city limits," Stewart explained. In the email, Waller identified himself as the "elected Imperial Wizard of the United Dixie White Knights LLC, Realm of Mississippi." Waller stated that the rally will be "in regards to current Federal Court cases that are attempting to circumvent Mississippi's Constitution in regards to Gay Marriage, and illegal Federal intervention into our States right to enforce Illegal Immigration laws." In February, the Mississippi group issued a "call to arms in Alabama" in response to the federal court ruling that an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The post on the group's website praised Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, who ordered the state's probate judges to defy the ruling on the day same-sex marriages were expected to begin in Alabama. Stewart said the group had not picked up a permit application as of Thursday. An e-mail to the Leakesville-based group was not immediately returned.
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 Brandiilyne Dear of The Dandelion Project, an LGBTQ support group based in Laurel, said she started organizing a counter-protest when she first heard of the possible rally. Dear said the group is waiting to see what date the group chooses to hold the rally so it can host its own. "We are very hopeful we'll have a Supreme Court decision by that time so we'll be able to perform same-sex marriages that day as part of the protest as well as heterosexual marriages," she explained. She said area ministers will also be at the event to bless any families who wish to participate.
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 "Love is louder than hate," Dear said, noting even if the group decides not to hold the rally, The Dandelion Project will still hold its own. According to the website for the United Dixie White Knights, the group seeks "an end to all illegal immigration, race mixing, the loss of American sovereignty, the fed, IRS and all powers not granted the President in the original constitution ... We only bow to one king and that is Jesus."
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 GETTYSBURG, Pa.-- Scout Troop 210 out of Springfield, Illinois carried its own flag this week as it re-enacted Pickett's charge at Gettysburg Battlefield. But the battle flag that the Confederate Army carried 152 years ago today is not hard to find here. In a Gettysburg shop you can even find it on a bikini. With calls in some parts of the country to ban the flag, here there's been little protest and only modest change."We feel strongly there will always be a role for the Confederate flag at Gettysburg in our museum exhibits, on monuments," said Katie Lawhon, spokeswoman for Gettysburg National Military Park. There have been changes in what's for sale inside the park. The Confederate flags are gone, leaving only the Stars-and-Stripes. And you can buy a mug or a t-shirt with the rebel flag -- but only if it also displays the American flag. The Confederate flag, though, is still widely displayed in the museum and on the battlefield itself.
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 "We've always told both sides of the story here at Gettysburg National Military Park," said Lawhon. "It is our passion to tell the whole story." Civil war reenactor Lee Houser wears the elaborate uniform of Confederate General Isaac Trimble, a key figure at Gettysburg."To me it is heritage and history," said Houser. "I had ancestors on the Confederate side. All that I am doing is honoring them by flying this flag." Scott Wilson plays a mid-level officer. Both men say they are pained by the fact that some people -- including the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists, such as alleged killer Dylann Roof-- have long used the flag as a symbol of hatred and racism. "Sometimes people pervert it and use it for other things, which is an injustice," said Wilson. Houser added: "If I could take the flag away from the KKK I would tomorrow, in a heartbeat. But I can't -- freedom of speech, you know." But they say here at Gettysburg that flag is an important part of an educational experience intended to inspire Americans to learn about their past.
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 The three men -- Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb -- each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, according to a statement from Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's office. Investigators said that late last year Driver handed a picture of the inmate, who was at that time out on supervised released, to an FBI informant who had infiltrated the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Driver told the informant he had a fight with the inmate and both he and Moran wanted the former inmate "six feet under." Over the next few months, the FBI said their informant met with all three men, discussing plans to kill the man. One alleged plan involved shooting him during a ride to Palatka; another plan was to inject him with insulin and make it look like he died in a fishing accident. "My statewide prosecutor, acting in conjunction again with the FBI, staged a homicide scene where they took photos of the victim who was out of prison, now, of course, making it appear that he had been violently murdered," Bondi said. "Those photos were then shown to the corrections officers, who are alleged members of the KKK, and were very proud of this killing."
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 Driver and Moran are current correctional officers of the Department of Corrections at the Reception and Medical Center in Lake Butler. Newcomb was a corrections officer trainee who was dismissed in January 2013 for failure to meet minimum requirements. “We are moving swiftly to terminate the employees arrested today and working closely with Office of the Attorney General to assist in their prosecution," DOC Secretary Julie Jones said. "Our department has zero tolerance for racism or prejudice of any kind. The actions of these individuals are unacceptable and do not, in any way, represent the thousands of good, hardworking and honorable correctional officers employed at the Department of Corrections.” Driver and Moran were arrested in Union County and Newcomb in Alachua County. The case will be prosecuted in Columbia County. Click & Close Ads
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 The wide-ranging investigation included the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, the Florida Department of Corrections Office of Inspector General, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. The FBI's office in Jacksonville said it would not comment on an open investigation. The charges for the three men mark the latest black eye for the Florida Corrections Department. Last fall, DOC officials fired nearly 50 prison employees, including several over allegations that they punched and beat inmates. The deaths of inmates Randall Jordan-Aparo and Darren Rainey also drew attention. Rainey, a mentally ill prisoner, was punished in 2012 with a shower so hot that his skin separated from his body. Jordan-Aparo was reportedly gassed while in a confinement cell. Witnesses say guards at Dade Correctional Institution left Rainey alone for two hours in a locked, scalding hot shower as punishment for defecating in his cell and refusing to clean it up. The warden at Dade Correctional was fired.
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 The Ku Klux Klan is using the Internet to ramp up its calls for violence to compensate for their decreasing rank and file membership, a special RadarOnline.com investigation has uncovered. The evidence in the nefarious new strategy is illustrated in a sickening recorded message that greets recruits calling the phone number for the North Carolina based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — the country’s largest and growing Klan group. The evil message, heard by Radar, congratulates 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof who coldly executed nine worshippers at a Charleston, S.C., church using a .45-caliber handgun to cut down the victims attending Bible study class on June 17th.The recording blathers about Roof doing “what the Bible told him” by exacting revenge against minorities before rallying the listener with these evil words of encouragement: “If we had 10,000 more men like this young man, America would not be in the shape that it is in now!” Radar can now shine a bright light on the dark and sinister playbook of the Klan’s new “guerilla war” of encouraging lone wolf psychos to kill instead of doing it themselves, like they did years ago. Radar’s in-depth investigation has also uncovered the KKK operating in 26 states. “No organized hate group wants to be directly implicated to a terrorist attack that will have their return address on the envelope,” renowned KKK expert Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino told Radar. PHOTOS: Celebrity Racist Rants Click & Close Ads
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 “So the Klan and groups like it are very happy to indirectly influence radicals who then blow up on their own.” The brainwashing tactic is also evident in Roof’s 2000-word screed where he explains why he took matters into his own hands: “We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the Internet,” he wrote. “Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.” “That’s the beauty of having the group on the Internet,” Levin explained to Radar. “You don’t have to ensnare someone into membership — they just want to ensnare people into their ideology.” The Klan, which once boasted more than four million members in the 1920s, has been steadily shrinking with an estimated 4000 to 5000 haters spread out into dozens of splintered groups, experts say. PHOTOS: Church Mass Murderer Dylann Storm Roof Smirking During Extradition In 12 Photos –– Sicko’s Smile Might Disappear After Officials Say DEATH PENALTY Charges Expected “As the Klan has shrunk and lost their viability….It has become more desperately radical and overtly violent,” Dr. David Cunningham, professor and director of Social Justice & Social Policy Program at Brandeis University told Radar. Encouraging the lone wolves is essentially “guerilla war,” added Cunningham, who wrote the book Klansville, USA: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan. “In a lot of ways it’s just a signal of their desperation and their sense that this is their only choice because they are not going to build a mass following in any real way.” “What they’ll lack in numbers they’ll certainly make up in terms of danger, combustibility and unpredictability,” continued Cunningham. “There is an encouragement of this kind of action and there’s no real sense of predicting where it might pop up or explode in any given situation.” Roof, who faces federal hate crime charges, most likely got introduced to the Klan 12 years ago when his family moved to Lexington, S.C., the hometown of Horace King, longtime leader of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. PHOTOS: American Psycho: Church Murderer Dylann Storm Roof Hated America — 21 Sickening Photos “The Klan is still alive and active out there,” one of Roof’s former neighbors in Columbia, S.C., told Radar. “The Klan is a shadow of its former self but that shadow is cast diffusely across society,” Levin added. “Their Internet presence, which gives them a far greater reach to disseminate their hatred to unstable loners who will act on this hatred.”
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 America is the land of the free, but you know what’s not free? Hiring non-union labor to protest on your behalf. That’s what the Brooklyn-based Jewish Political Action Committee did — they enlisted Mexican workers to hold anti-homosexuality posters at the New York City Pride Parade while dressed as Orthodox Jews. Ironically, the hired hands pretended to be someone they’re not to protest people proudly being themselves. Also ironically, they dressed in ethnic drag to protest gay pride. The organizers could have paid them a little more to learn Hava Nagila and make it a package deal: Protest by day, bar mitzvah band by night. It is touching to see people reach out across lines of faith, race and class. All it took was their hatred of another group. Isn’t that the American way? Persecute strangers until you join them in ostracizing the next group of strangers? Hate can really bring people together. Americans hated the Irish until they saw the Germans coming. Then those Germans didn’t look so bad when the Eastern Europeans arrived. Americans hated Jews until they remembered there were still black people here. Most Jews look white anyway, so it’s hard to keep track. No doubt that the tide of Latinos and Muslims will change our tune again. We’ve got to band together with the folks who already overran the country to keep others from overrunning the country. Don’t take my word for it; ask a Native American. One hero in Montana is taking a stand. John Abarr founded a new KKK chapter that won’t discriminate based on race, religion or sexual orientation. What kind of country are we living in when you can’t even count on the Klan to be racist and homophobic anymore? So much for the good old days. I’m sure Jews, blacks and gays are clamoring to sign up, but I don’t think I want to belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member. (Where is Groucho Marx when you need him?)
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 The imperial wizard of the United Klans of America said Abarr’s inclusive KKK is absurd. Ironically, the progressive Montana Human Rights Network agreed. And there you have it: Another bridge built by hate. (On a related note, I’m thinking of changing my title from “Rabbi” to “Imperial Wizard.” It’s more whimsical.) But our hate is still small potatoes. It’s time to take it to the next level: Hate global, act local. What we need is something to inspire us to make common cause with our fellow humans, someone we can loathe together. That’s why I hope we find life on other planets. Imagine how it will expand our hate horizons. Picture all humanity locked arm in arm against the threat of illegal aliens from outer space. If we’ve learned anything from the movies, extraterrestrials are bloodthirsty conquerers. Don’t be fooled by E.T.’s charm — first he came for the Reese’s Pieces and I said nothing because I prefer M&Ms. Does that mean we are doomed to perpetual war? Or could there yet be a higher level of hate, a universal contempt, to unite us across species and galaxies?
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 If we turn our thoughts to the creator of all, asking why in God’s name there is so much strife and suffering in the universe, then the spark of hate will begin to glow within each of us. When that hatred glows brightest, then at last the messiah will come. God’s anointed one will ascend the throne of glory to find all of creation in concerted resentment against him, wondering what took him so long, already. As Isaiah prophesied: “And the many peoples shall go and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the Mount of the Lord, to the House of God, and ask, “Why are you still in your house? Have you seen what’s going on out here?”’”
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 In light of the recent national conversation about the Confederate battle flag brought on by the horrific Charleston S.C. shooting, Middle Tennessee State University students, alumni and faculty are petitioning the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest Hall. RELATED: Building honoring KKK Grand Dragon renamed by U. of North Carolina Forrest Hall was dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1958 for his involvement with the Confederate Army. While his Confederate involvement has stirred feelings, it’s Forrest’s role as the Ku Klux Klan’s first Grand Wizard — the organization’s highest ranking member — that has students protesting. Students vigorously took to social media early this week to petition against the name, starting the Facebook group “Change the Name of Nathan Bedford Forrest Hall MTSU,” which has received nearly 650 likes since its creation. Students are also debating the issue on the university’s Class of 2018 Facebook page. One student even posted a photo of the battle flag being burned, prompting the page’s moderator, Laurie Witherow, who is an assistant dean at MTSU, to comment. “I’ve had requests to remove both the flag post from Rebecca Gibbs and the flag burning post from Jeremy Dobbs,” Witherow wrote. “I’ll leave them both and trust you with the healthy discussion of what kind of country you’re going to build for me to live in. I trust you.”The exchange also prompted response from the university. “In light of the horrific killings in Charleston, and the national discussion that has ensued in the aftermath, it is right and appropriate to revisit this matter with the university community, our alumni and supporters, and state officials, who by law must approve any change,” University President Sidney A. McPhee said in an email statement.
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 McPhee said the issue has been brought up periodically throughout the years. But after a series of discussions and a Student Government Association vote, the name was left unaltered. In the wake of the renewed civil rights discussion, MTSU students do not seem to be discouraged by past failed attempts to rename Forest Hall. The organization had its first meeting on June 26 and later released a statement explaining that they believe Forrest Hall to be an “inappropriate” name for MTSU’s ROTC building. “Nathan Bedford Forrest is a symbol of white supremacist violence across the United States and the world,” the statement read. “As the nation comes to grips with the power of white supremacist symbolism, we are calling for Forrest’s name to be removed from the building, just as other symbols of his legacy have been removed from campus in the past,” they said in the release. “It is perplexing to many that a figure associated with a massacre of black American soldiers and the most notorious terrorist organization in our nation’s history could be honored on an ROTC building.” RELATED: Newsome: Confederate flag ‘banner of racial intimidation and fear’ The organization created a petition on June 27 to have the hall’s name changed and has “[called] on President Sidney A. McPhee, the State Legislature, the Board of regents, the SGA, and the Department of the Army to support our campaign and help to promote justice on MTSU’s campus.” As of June 30, it has been backed by 170 supporters. MTSU student Lane Matthews created a counter-petition to preserve the name of Forrest Hall, arguing that Forrest left the Klan soon after joining and became “reformed and reestablished much like others in history.” He says that the name has too much historical value to remove from campus. His petition, which launched June 25, has been backed by nearly 50 supporters. Click & Close Ads
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 Forrest has now been condemned to upheaval from all instances of his likenesses and name,” he says. “I understand that this fight is long standing, but the new revival is most certainly associated with the violence in South Carolina, and due to a man’s crimes we are now associating these actions with great heroes and people who fought and died for something they believed in. I can almost guarantee that the shooter did not take a stroll through Nathan Bedford Forrest Park that morning nor did he stand outside and admire the great works of MTSU’s Forrest Hall. Why due to one man’s actions do we have to fly off the handle and remove heritage from every instance in America?”This article comes from The USA TODAY College Contributor network. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of USA TODAY. You understand that we have no obligation to monitor any discussion forums, blogs, photo- or video-sharing pages, or other areas of the Site through which users can supply information or material. However, we reserve the right at all times, in our sole discretion, to screen content submitted by users and to edit, move, delete, and/or refuse to accept any content that in our judgment violates these Terms of Service or is otherwise unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons.
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 By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri Posted 1:00 AM Eastern July 5, 2015 © 2015 NewsWithViews.com At a time when the nation is still reeling from the racially-motivated attack on a black church in South Carolina that left nine churchgoers, including their pastor, dead, a black male suspect, who tried to pass off his racist threats as being made by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested by ColoradoSprings, Colorado, police officers on Tuesday. The 44-year old man is being held for posting the offensive signs at a predominately black church, according to law enforcement. Click & Close Ads
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 Vincent Broughton, a resident of Colorado Springs, is accused of posting signs near a church at the 200 block of East Platte Avenue, according to a police statement on Tuesday. One of the signs read: [sic]"HELP This church identified 6 Devils for the K.K.K The Police." The homemade signs appeared on three consecutive Sundays outside the New Covenant Church, a Pentecostal Christian denominational church. The congregation's pastor, Rev. Roland Joyner, told police that he believed the signs were hung up outside of his church during the Sunday afternoon service. He told police that one of the signs said "Black men be aware, you are the target." A woman, Holly Garvin, who lived in the neighborhood close to the church but was not a member of the congregation, said that she replaced the racist messages with positive, Christian signs such as: "no more violence" and "God loves us all."
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 When the racist signs were first discovered posted outside of New Covenant Church, Pastor Joyner told reporters that out of fear for the safety of his "flock" he locked the doors while the churchgoers were inside worshiping. "While this incident doesn't rise to the severity of the South Carolina black church slaughter by a white racist suspect, it nonetheless caused great concern to the Christians in Colorado Springs as well as to the police department," said Ronald Faisel, a former New York State police officer and member of the religious organization Cops for Christ. Broughton was taken into custody by police without incident on Tuesday after he was a suspect in the posting of more signs in the Colorado Springs downtown area, according to reports. police said. "I did it. Probably about 100 or so, I'd come downtown everyday and put up the posters." said Broughton. "I want people to know how corrupt these people that run the town are, the police department, city council and people in the community," said Broughton. However, he didn't mention why he wished the pastor and the churchgoers to think the Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the hateful messages.The suspected KKK impersonator is charged with perpetrating a biased-motivated crime, disorderly conduct, harassment, and littering, according to the police. He was served with a Desk Appearance Ticket (DAT) to appear in court and released, police said.
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 More than 100 asylum seekers locked up in immigration detention centres are expected to be released as a result of the immediate suspension of the Home Office’s fast-track detention system, ministers have announced. They are among more than 800 asylum seekers, detained in Yarl’s Wood and other such centres, whose cases will be urgently reviewed after the immigration minister, James Brokenshire, ordered the temporary suspension of the system. 'The happiest day of my life': women of Yarl's Wood celebrate abrupt release His announcement came in the face of legal challenges over the lack of sufficient safeguards to prevent victims of torture and trafficking being caught up in the system. The appeals part of the system was ruled unlawful last Friday by the court of appeal, which declared its limit of seven working days as “structurally unfair”. “In the light of these issues, I have decided to temporarily suspend the operation of the detained fast-track policy,” said Brokenshire. “I hope this pause to be short in duration, perhaps only a matter of weeks, but I will only resume operation of this policy when I am sure the right structures are in place to minimise any risk of unfairness.” Campaigners, including the Detention Action charity that brought the successful legal challenges, said they hoped this would mark the end to Britain’s routine detention of asylum seekers. Click & Close Ads
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 Most of the asylum seekers held under the fast-track system are expected to be re-detained without leaving the removal centre as they are already held because they are at risk of absconding or face imminent removal. But it is expected that more than 100 will be released from detention centres including Yarl’s Wood, Harmondsworth and Colnbrook. The detained fast track belongs on the scrapheap of UK human rights history Bamidele The asylum seekers likely to be released are expected to be those who have only recently entered the system. Foreign offenders being deported, others being sent back to a safe third country, or those facing a high chance of removal are highly unlikely to be released. Ministers will urgently put in place stronger safeguards to ensure that vulnerable people such as torture victims are screened out from the fast-track process. Brokenshire said the government was committed to its underlying principles “and believes for the most part that it is operating well and is removing back to their own countries those whose asylum claims are clearly unfounded. But we must be satisfied that our safeguards for dealing with vulnerable applicants throughout the system are working well enough to minimise any risk of unfairness.” The fast-track system has been used by the Home Office since 2000 and thousands of people have been removed from the country in the last 15 years. The suspension is a major victory for campaign groups and charities which have argued that the fast-track system risked unfairly detaining victims of torture and trafficking.Jerome Phelps, the director of Detention Action, said: “We welcome this announcement. We hope that today will mark the end of the UK’s routine detention of asylum seekers. It is a further step away from the systematic overuse of detention that was rightly criticised by a cross-party parliamentary inquiry this year. “We hope that the Home Office will accept the judgments of the courts and work with civil society to build an asylum system that is both fast and fair, with alternatives to detention that are both cheaper and more just.” Bamidele, a member of the Freed Voices group whose asylum claim was rejected under the fast-track policy, said: “The detained fast track is nothing short of a kangaroo court. I received no fair trial. The result was fixed from the moment I walked in the room. “The stress left my health in tatters – so much so that they eventually had to release me. Four years later, with time to properly make my case, I was given leave to remain. The detained fast track belongs on the scrapheap of UK human rights history.” Sile Reynolds, Freedom from Torture’s lead asylum policy adviser, said: “Freedom from Torture strongly welcomes this admission by the Home Office that the detained fast track is not working. The immigration minister has now committed to review the system, but we question whether review can tackle fundamental flaws which are in the very nature of the system. “Although survivors of torture are not supposed to be processed through this system, our medico-legal report service, which documents torture forensically, received 240 referrals for potential torture survivors in the detained fast track last year.” Protest to close Yarl’s Wood and other detention centres held in London on 15 June. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A protest to close Yarl’s Wood and other detention centres held in London on 15 June. Photograph: Thabo Jaiyesimi/Demotix/Corbis The detained fast-track system lets the Home Office detain asylum seekers whose claim for refugee status it believes can be decided within weeks. They are kept in detention while the accelerated process is going on.
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 But the courts have found that asylum seekers were seriously disadvantaged by the lack of time to prepare appeals from detention, while the safeguards were inadequate to prevent vulnerable people, such as torture and trafficking victims, from being wrongly fast-tracked. Any asylum seeker, from any country, could be placed on the detained fast track, which is restricted to cases considered weak or without merit. Many on the fast track were from countries experiencing conflict or violence, such as Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. On Friday, the high court said the appeals part of the system was “structurally unfair”, because lawyers for the asylum seekers were expected to take instructions, prepare statements, translate documents, make bail applications, arrange expert witnesses and make representations to be taken out of the fast track within seven working days. The use of the detained fast track has rapidly expanded in recent years. The latest published figures show that 4,286 asylum seekers were locked up in Yarl’s Wood, Colnbrook or Harmondsworth under the scheme in 2013. This is a 73% increase from 2012, with almost one in five of all asylum seekers having their claims heard through a process with a 99% rejection rate.
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