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Judge takes “points based system” a bit too literally

1Jul

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IMMIGRATION, United Kingdom

Judge takes “points based system” a bit too literally

The headnote from KB (Art 8: points-based proportionality assessment) Albania [2022] UKUT 161 (IAC): Although judges in the immigration jurisdiction should adopt the “balance sheet” approach to ECHR article 8 proportionality assessments, they must not ascribe points to factors weighing on either side of the balance. The judge in this case had assigned points out of 10 to each of the factors weighing for and against the removal of KB to Albania. With all the government’s talk of points based systems one can perhaps understand why a judge might have gone down this road. But it’s not actually a very good way of deciding cases. The Upper Tribunal decision is worth reading for the elucidation and endorsement of the correct “balance sheet” approach. And for the finding in...

Home Office policy on no recourse to public funds found unlawful, again

1Jul

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IMMIGRATION, United Kingdom

Home Office policy on no recourse to public funds found unlawful, again

The High Court has declared that Home Office policy on allowing migrants to have access to public funds is unlawful for failing to take account of the best interests of children, or of a previous judgment along similar lines. The case is R (AB & ors) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2022] EWHC 1524 (Admin). Background It is almost a decade since the introduction of the ten-year route to settlement for people granted permission to stay in the UK on the basis of their family or private life, and the application of the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) restriction to grants of permission on the ten-year route. Since then, there have been numerous challenges to the no-benefits policy. It was most recently held to be unlawful i...

1Jul

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Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

The utter uselessness of world churches: Western Christendom loses all credibility as Israeli theft of the Holy Land continues

By Stuart Littlewood Exactly five years ago the National Coalition of Christian Organisations in Palestine (NCCOP) issued a final plea for help in an open letter to the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the ecumenical movement. It was signed by over 30 organisations in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. It summed up the cruel and lawless situation in the Holy Land. “We are still suffering from 100 years of injustice and oppression that were inflicted on the Palestinian people, beginning with the unlawful Balfour Declaration, intensified through the Nakba [Palestinian “catastrophe” – the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of 1948] and the influx of refugees, followed by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza and...

1Jul

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China

China’s Stubborn Coal Addiction

BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by veeterzy. Mother Earth’s affair with coal goes back in time to when swampy forests predominated the planet 360 to 299 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period of the late Paleozoic Era. Over the course of millions of years dead plant matter submerged in the ancient swamps transformed by way of geologic forces of heat and pressure into moist low-carbon peat, and over considerably more time, voilà! It transformed into jet-black coal. It took millions of years to compress the coal into a carbon rock that takes approximately 16 hours to burn in a stove or furnace. The resultant heat caused by burning a lump of coal is felt in the atmosphere within 95 days, which is the time it takes for its carbon emissions to trap enough heat in the atmosp...

Report from Capitol Hill: Still the Trump Era

1Jul

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USA

Report from Capitol Hill: Still the Trump Era

BY PAUL STREET Image by Clay Banks. It’s up to Merrick Garland– Ro Khanna, June 23, 2022 The Trump Republicans’ Amerikaner fascism marches on in the face of passive resistance from the Inauthentic Opposition party, the dismal, dollar-drenched Weimar Democrats. Two days ago, I spent hours in a Capitol Hill bar and restaurant doing jail support for three Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (RU4AR) activists arrested by Capitol Police outside the United States Supreme Court. I was a curious sight for US Congressmen and their obsequious staffs as I sat bedecked in green bandanas (see below), working my phone and taking notes from teeth-pulling conversations with jail officers while I downed one overpriced IPA draft after another. Unlike everyone else in the establishment, I wasn’t ...

Putin Says Western Sanctions Speeding Up Russia-Belarus Unification

30Jun

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Belarus, Russia

Putin Says Western Sanctions Speeding Up Russia-Belarus Unification

Belarus started moving closer to Russia after the US and EU rejected the 2020 elections results and started imposing sanctions. By Dave Decamp Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that sanctions and other pressure from the West have sped up the “unification process” for Russia and Belarus. The two nations signed an integration treaty in 1997. The process has been sped up since the US and its allies rejected the result of Belarus’ 2020 presidential election that saw Alexander Lukashenko win another term. After the election, the US and EU started imposing sanctions on Belarus and threw support behind an exiled opposition leader. As a result, Lukashenko drew closer to Putin, and Russia was able to launch the initial phase of its invasion of Ukraine from Bela...

West bars Kiev from thinking about peace

30Jun

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Russia, Ukraine

West bars Kiev from thinking about peace

The US and its allies still bet on a continuing conflict. By Russia Today The US and its allies are still interested in continued conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. Western nations effectively prevent the government in Kiev from even thinking about any potential peace talks, the official added. When asked about potential reasons that have led German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron to no longer call Russian President Vladimir Putin, Peskov called this another sign suggesting that western leaders are not interested in achieving peace through dialogue and negotiations. “At the moment, the western nations are actively betting on the continued war,” Peskov told the TV show ‘Moscow. Kremlin. Puti...

Ukraine accused of ‘arbitrary restrictions’ against journalists

30Jun

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Human Rights, Media, Ukraine

Ukraine accused of ‘arbitrary restrictions’ against journalists

Media are being denied access to certain areas, banned from filming, and occasionally detained, Reporters Without Borders said. By Russia Today Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticized Ukrainian authorities over “abuses” against foreign and local journalists covering the conflict with Russia. It urged Kiev to swiftly eliminate obstacles for the media. “Some 9,000 or so reporters covering the war in Ukraine have difficulties gaining access to certain places and difficulties filming or taking photos, and even are occasionally detained,” the organization, which safeguards freedom of information around the globe, said in a statement on Friday. Those “arbitrary restrictions” are complicating the work of the press in the field and sh...

Who Really Makes US Foreign Policy? Who Benefits and Who Loses?

30Jun

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USA

Who Really Makes US Foreign Policy? Who Benefits and Who Loses?

The truth is the powerful Israel and Saudi Arabia lobbies have been able to steer US policy in directions clearly at odds with the best interests of the American people for decades. By Joseph Solis-Mullen In a piece of news that shocked the mainstream media, but which shocked no one familiar with the academic industry writ large, retired US Army general John Allen was forced to resign as president of the Brookings Institution after it was revealed the FBI was investigating him for lobbying on behalf of the Qatari monarchy. Of course, the real news, scarcely noted by the Washington Post, New York Times, or any other purported paper of record, is that Allen was only really in trouble because he hadn’t fulfilled the pro forma legal requirements for those...

Russia has made a decisive break with the West and is ready to help shape a new world order

30Jun

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Europe, Russia, Ukraine, USA

Russia has made a decisive break with the West and is ready to help shape a new world order

Russia is now focusing on developing its ties with Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. By Russia Today Just before the G7 leaders met at Elmau Castle in Bavaria, last week, their counterparts from the five BRICS countries held an online summit under the Chinese Presidency. Russia had been discussed as a threat at the G7 gathering but was a key participant in the latter. Long gone are the days when Moscow could straddle the divide between the West and the non-West. Following the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the G8 reverted to its previous G7 format; in the wake of the Russian military action in Ukraine last February, Russian-Western confrontation degenerated into a full-blown “Hybrid War,” complete with an actual confrontation – if so far a proxy one. Having...