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This Pro-Saudi Tory MP Was Paid £15,000 For His Work On A Conference Criticising Qatar
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This Pro-Saudi Tory MP Was Paid £15,000 For His Work On A Conference Criticising Qatar

Daniel Kawczynski, a strong defender of Saudi Arabia, took the money from the organisers of a Qatari opposition conference, which he also spoke at. He told the audience he was only attending to learn more from the individuals taking part.

#arabie_saoudite et pas de ça chez nous

UK after the rain - Counterfire
▻http://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/18400-uk-after-the-rain-brexit-referendum

With the Remain vote largely framed as the anti-racist vote among young people, especially during the last week, as well as being the favourite to win the preceding night, it was inevitable that there would be frustration as people woke up on Friday morning to the news of the Leave win. However, the level of vote shaming, abuse and refusal to acknowledge an alternative view point has been disgraceful and uncharacteristic of many of my peers both in the left and more broadly. I can only assume that they feel justified in behaving this way because they truly believe that the vast majority of 17 million people that voted to leave are racist and/or pensioners who stole the futures of the youth.

Well, as a young Muslim immigrant living in London who voted to leave, I would like to address some of the reactions I have come across. Moving past some of the more vitriolic comments that have been directed towards me and others who voted like me, the arguments that are popular on social media are incredibly patronising. No, I did not find out just yesterday morning that Farage had no intention to save the NHS. No, I did not think that our borders would be closed down until a Tory MP came out and said they wouldn’t. My vote to leave the EU was not based on that. And it is arrogant for anyone to assume that in London we are smart enough to have seen through the mainstream campaigns, but 17 million people around the country were too stupid to have done the same and lack the agency to know what they voted for.

Raquel Rolnik is an USP urbanist, a major academic figure in Brazilian urban studies... called a loopy leftist in the british press

Via la la liste de géographie critique

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Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain: She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights | Mail Online

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Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain: She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights

Iain Duncan Smith said Raquel Rolnik undermined impartiality of the UN
Work and Pensions Secretary wants UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon to investigate
Tory MP Stewart Jackson said Miss Rolnick was a ‘loopy Brazilian leftie’
Her country has 54million living without clean water or sanitation
There are an estimated 30million homeless in the city of Sao Paulo and 625,000 live below the poverty line

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Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx | Mail Online

▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418204/Raquel-Rolnik-A-dabbler-witchcraft-offered-animal-sacrifice-Marx.html

Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx

Academic brought up a Marxist and offered an animal sacrifice to Karl Marx
The architect appears to follow Candomble, an African-Brazilian religion that originated during the slave trade

Libby Porter, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science in Monash University, Australia

"Well, these are outrageously disgusting and insulting media reports of a highly respected activist and voice for housing rights for the poor. We should note in particular, the use of ’loony leftie’, ’raised in violent slums’ and ’witchcraft’ as a means to denigrate and undermine Rolnick along class, gender and political lines. Rolnick is quite right to launch a significant attack on Britain’s housing policy, because that policy is frankly appalling, just as she mounts similar cogent arguments and critiques in countless other places and has done so for years"

#racisme #royaume-uni #arrogance

This shocking NHS bill is without sense or mandate | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/07/nhs-bill-no-mandate-lords?INTCMP=SRCH

Westminster Bridge, joining parliament and St Thomas’s hospital, will be blocked on Sunday at one o’clock by a UK Uncut sit-down protest against the NHS bill that reaches the House of Lords next week.

The Lords have the last chance to amend the health and social care bill’s most egregious clauses. Despite its gigantic size, basic questions remain unanswered. The Tory MP and GP Sarah Wollaston once called it “a hand grenade thrown into the NHS” – and so it is proving. The Lords should be alarmed by the constitutional enormity of this largely unscrutinised bill for which there was no manifesto mandate.