Human trafficking come as such a risk to their life’s, They must be bad to detach themselves from their mainland. who know’s malnutrition, drugs affiliated, war, gangs or crime.
Ukraine war: The price of freedom is worth paying, says Boris Johnson
“The price of freedom is worth paying,” Boris Johnson has said when asked about the cost of helping defend Ukraine.
Speaking from a G7 summit, he argued that letting Russia “get away with” invading Ukraine would have “chilling” consequences and lead to instability.
Likening the conflict to defeating Nazi Germany in World War Two, the PM said that war had been “very expensive” but delivered “long term stability”.
It comes as the Ukrainian president calls for more military support.
Over a video link, Volodymyr Zelensky told the leaders of the world’s advanced democracies at the summit that his country needed more anti-aircraft defence systems to help repel Russia’s invasion.
He also said they needed to impose more sanctions to keep the pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
G7 leaders, meeting in Germany, are expected to offer more military support as well as further sanctions against Russia, with some planning to ban Russian gold imports.
Speaking to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason from the summit, Mr Johnson said there was “no alternative” to supporting Ukraine regain its sovereignty.He argued that the consequences of letting Mr Putin “get away with the violent acquisition of huge chunks of another country” would be “absolutely chilling”.”In terms of the economic effects, that would mean long-term instability and anxiety across the world,” he said.Asked if there was any limit on the amount of money or support the UK would offer Ukraine, Mr Johnson replied: “The price of freedom is worth paying.”He said defeating dictators in World War Two “took a long time” and was “very expensive” but brought “decades and decades of stability” and delivered “long-term prosperity”.The UK government has said it is spending £1.3bn ($1.6bn) on military support for Ukraine.And at the summit, the UK pledged £10m to repair damaged Ukrainian rail infrastructure, to create an overland route to get grain out of the country.
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has pushed up oil and gas prices leading to higher energy bills, while a squeeze on Ukrainian global grain production has pushed up the cost of food.
Addressing the repercussions on the UK at a time of rising costs of living, Mr Johnson said: “Just to reassure people at home, I think the economic impacts on the UK will start to abate. Cost pressures will start to come down.”
In an interview over the weekend, Mr Johnson was asked on Radio 4’s Today programme if there was any matter of principle he would consider resigning over, and he said if he had to abandon Ukraine because it became too difficult or the costs were too great, he would quit.
“If it was put to me that we had to abandon the Ukrainian cause, because it was simply getting too difficult and that the cost of supporting that people in their heroic fight for freedom was too great in terms of inflation, in terms of economic damage,” he said.
“I think I would, accept that I’d lost a very important argument.”
Mr Johnson is currently facing pressure from some of his own MPs after his party lost two by-elections last week – including the previously safe seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon.
Following the defeats, the Conservative Party chair, Oliver Dowden resigned telling the prime minister it could “not be business as usual”.
Earlier this month, Mr Johnson survived a confidence vote among his own MPs – although 148 voted against him.
But speaking from the G7 summit, he insisted he had the authority to continue governing and had a mandate from the public as well as his own MPs to stay in office.
He said he was focused on his job adding: “It is a huge, huge privilege to do it and nobody abandons a privilege like that.”
Conservative MP – and critic of the prime minister – David Davis has said he opposed forcing another confidence vote in the prime minister.
“He’s got to use the year he has to prove to us that actually, he can deliver on the promises we gave at the 2019 election – which was low tax,” he said.
“I have people, working class voters in council estates, saying you’re not behaving like a Conservative government… that’s a terrible thing to have to face down.”
Congratulations to our Prime Minister and Carrie on the birth of their new baby Girl. Extraordinary news just before Christmas.
Just wanna say what a prodigious man he is for our Conservative Government! Isn’t it abit ironic how many critics jump on the band wagon soon as our Prime Minister makes a single mistake but yet he’s coming up with untold phenomenal ideas that no other Prime Minister has yet to come. bigger better infrastructure bigger better policing, bigger better roads, more nhs staff and bigger better Hospitals and equipment, better schooling and education for children and adult learning! More public housing. Middle class drugs, class A drugs, putting a ban on Class A drugs bill which is taking away peoples driving license and passport, this is something that is needed to be done a long time ago to put a priority to the vulnerable innocent peoples life’s which is paramount.
Lets not forget his quirky whiity peculiar ways and his PMQs with Captain Highdsight.
Writer/Political/Analyst/J.Johnson an active Conservative Member
How can you acknowledge an impairment to your mental health?
The sense of negativity, the thought of failure, is the biggest sense of fear. We all search for accomplishments, the triumphant feel factor of winning.
I want to keep the focus on what’s makes us feel not accepting our thoughts, feeling disorientated. Do you wake up in the morning not knowing how to start your day? If the answer is a no?
That’s the start to a negative downward spiral, staying methodical in practice is a highly motivational perspective! I wanna stress the fact that sleep is highly important as lack of sleep will make you fatigued, sometimes miserable and stressed. Your thinking mechanism becomes delayed, putting your shoes on forgetting your tie. Sending a formal email but forgetting the date or the addressee, even the title/headline of the email! You’ve sent an formal email now with no headline to the main body of information, could mean the message becoming irrelevant or miss read! Every day composure is the importance of acceptance, the acceptance to one’s self esteem, for accomplishments! Plenty of sufficient sleep, having a vision, striving ambition an not feariing failure or rejection.
I am firm believer we need to stay methodical to live a balanced lifestyle, we need to adhere to certain situations weather that be through, relationships, business, home life, hobbies or interests.
With the introduction at thought I want to draft a good Chemical-balance which will help you feel triumphant, and also draft up some bad examples!
I’m a sufferer from depression, anxiety so I will give some examples of the situations I had struggled with.
Their is no exterior motive to why I want to discover this book, no other then my compassion for humanity!
He was a former Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Our very own Maurice Macmillan. Maurice Macmillan Former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, was a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament. He was the only son of Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986) Chancellor of the Exchequer; Prime Minister: “When I hear the word culture I reach for my Gunn”
MAURICE MACMILLAN, M.P. AND PUBLISHER IS DEAD IN LONDON
Maurice Victor Macmillan, a scion of the British publishing empire and the only son of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, died Saturday in his sleep of complications after heart surgery, the family reported in London yesterday. He was 63 years old.
Mr. Macmillan was chairman of Macmillan & Co., the British publishing house, which is no longer connected with its American offshoot. Long active in Conservative politics, he also was since 1966 the Member of Parliament for Farnham, a prosperous residential district in Surrey, south of London.
Educated at Eton and at Oxford University, he served as an officer in British Army intelligence during World War II and set out on a dual career in the family business and politics, contesting seats in three constituencies before finally winning the one for Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1955.
As a backbencher in 1961, he was a critic of his father’s Cabinet. Taking it to task for being unable to cope with Britain’s economic ills, he once told the House, ”I feel that the country and industry have looked in vain for leadership from the Government.” Named to Government
When Sir Alec Douglas-Home replaced his father as Prime Minister in 1963, he appointed the younger Mr. Macmillan economic secretary in the Treasury. But the following year, the Labor Party won the general election, and Mr. Macmillan lost his seat in Parliament.
Until he joined the Government, Mr. Macmillan had been chairman of St. Martin’s Press in New York, a subsidiary his family’s publishing house established in 1952 when the New York Macmillan Company became the property of American investors.
The Conservatives won the elections in 1970 and the new Prime Minister, Edward Heath, named Mr. Macmillan chief secretary in the Treasury and promoted him to Minister for Employment in 1972.
It turned out to be Mr. Macmillan’s toughest assignment, for Britain was racked by strike waves that crippled whole industries, along with railroads and harbors. In 1973, Mr. Macmillan became Paymaster General, a job he held until a Labor victory a year later.
Last month, Mr. Macmillan became a viscount when Queen Elizabeth awarded his father an hereditary earldom on his 90th birthday.
Mr. Macmillan was married to the former Katherine M. A. Ormsby-Gore, who survives him. Also surviving are three sons, a daughter, and three grandchildren.
(The assassination of JK)
What happened to the President JFK?
Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas U.S. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
Who died on the same day as President Kennedy?CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died on 22 November 1963. No one noticed because John F Kennedy was assassinated the same day. 2. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third US presidents, died on 4 July 1826
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to his presidency.
Kennedy’s administration included high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. As a result, he increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam. The Strategic Hamlet Program began in Vietnam during his presidency. In April 1961, he authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.[2] Kennedy authorized the Cuban Project in November 1961. He rejected Operation Northwoods (plans for false flag attacks to gain approval for a war against Cuba) in March 1962. However, his administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962.[3] The following October, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. He also signed the first nuclear weapons treaty in October 1963. Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He also supported the civil rights movement, but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
Kennedy lived in Brookline for the first ten years of his life. He attended the local St. Aidan’s Church, where he was baptized on June 19, 1917.[5][6] He was educated through the 4th grade at the Edward Devotion School, the Noble and Greenough Lower School, and the Dexter School; all located in the Boston area. JFK’s earliest memories involved accompanying his grandfather Fitzgerald on walking tours of historic sites in Boston and discussions at the family dinner table about politics, sparking his interest in history and public service.[7][8][9] His father’s business had kept him away from the family for long stretches of time, and his ventures were concentrated on Wall Street and Hollywood. In 1927, the Dexter School announced it would not reopen before October after an outbreak of polio in Massachusetts.[10] In September, the family decided to move from Boston by “private railway car” to the Riverdale neighborhood of New York City.[11][12] Several years later, his brother Robert told Look magazine that his father had left Boston because of signs that read: “No Irish Need Apply.”[13] The family spent summers and early autumns at their home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a village on Cape Cod, where they enjoyed swimming, sailing, and touch football.[14] Christmas and Easter holidays were spent at their winter retreat in Palm Beach, Florida.[15][16] Young John attended the Riverdale Country School – a private school for boys – from 5th to 7th grade, and was a member of Boy Scout Troop 2 in Bronxville, New York.[1][17] In September 1930, Kennedy, then 13 years old, was shipped off to the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, for 8th grade. In April 1931, he had an appendectomy, after which he withdrew from Canterbury and recuperated at home.[18]
In September 1931, Kennedy started attending Choate, a prestigious boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, for 9th through 12th grade. His older brother Joe Jr. had already been at Choate for two years and was a football player and leading student. He spent his first years at Choate in his older brother’s shadow and compensated with rebellious behavior that attracted a coterie. Their most notorious stunt was exploding a toilet seat with a powerful firecracker. In the next chapel assembly, the strict headmaster, George St. John, brandished the toilet seat and spoke of certain “muckers” who would “spit in our sea”. Defiantly Kennedy took a cue and named his group “The Muckers Club”, which included roommate and lifelong friend Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings.[19]The Kennedy family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with JFK at top left in the white shirt, 1931
During his years at Choate, Kennedy was beset by health problems that culminated with his emergency hospitalization in 1934 at Yale New Haven Hospital, where doctors suspected leukemia.[20] In June 1934, he was admitted to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the ultimate diagnosis there was colitis.[20] Kennedy graduated from Choate in June of the following year, finishing 64th in a class of 112 students.[12] He had been the business manager of the school yearbook and was voted the “most likely to succeed”.[19]
In September 1935, Kennedy made his first trip abroad when he traveled to London with his parents and his sister Kathleen. He intended to study under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics (LSE), as his older brother had done. Ill-health forced his return to the United States in October of that year, when he enrolled late and attended Princeton University but had to leave after two months due to a gastrointestinal illness.[21] He was then hospitalized for observation at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. He convalesced further at the family winter home in Palm Beach, then spent the spring of 1936 working as a ranch hand on the 40,000-acre (16,000-hectare) Jay Six cattle ranch outside Benson, Arizona.[22] It is reported that ranchman Jack Speiden worked both brothers “very hard”.[23][24]
In September 1936, Kennedy enrolled at Harvard College, and his application essay stated: “The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a ‘Harvard man’ is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.”[25] He produced that year’s annual “Freshman Smoker”, called by a reviewer “an elaborate entertainment, which included in its cast outstanding personalities of the radio, screen and sports world”.[26]
He tried out for the football, golf, and swimming teams and earned a spot on the varsity swimming team.[27] Kennedy also sailed in the Star class and won the 1936 Nantucket Sound Star Championship.[28] In July 1937, Kennedy sailed to France—taking his convertible—and spent ten weeks driving through Europe with Billings.[29] In June 1938, Kennedy sailed overseas with his father and older brother to work at the American embassy in London, where his father was President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s.[30]
In 1939, Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, and the Middle East in preparation for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He then went to Berlin, where the U.S. diplomatic representative gave him a secret message about war breaking out soon to pass on to his father, and to Czechoslovakia before returning to London on September 1, 1939, the day that Germany invaded Poland to mark the beginning of World War II.[31] Two days later, the family was in the House of Commons for speeches endorsing the United Kingdom’s declaration of war on Germany. Kennedy was sent as his father’s representative to help with arrangements for American survivors of SS Athenia before flying back to the U.S. from Foynes, Ireland, on his first transatlantic flight.
When Kennedy was an upperclassman at Harvard, he began to take his studies more seriously and developed an interest in political philosophy. He made the dean’s list in his junior year.[32] In 1940 Kennedy completed his thesis, “Appeasement in Munich”, about British negotiations during the Munich Agreement. The thesis eventually became a bestseller under the title Why England Slept.[33] In addition to addressing Britain’s unwillingness to strengthen its military in the lead-up to World War II, the book also called for an Anglo-American alliance against the rising totalitarian powers. Kennedy became increasingly supportive of U.S. intervention in World War II, and his father’s isolationist beliefs resulted in the latter’s dismissal as ambassador to the United Kingdom. This created a split between the Kennedy and Roosevelt families.[34]
In 1940, Kennedy graduated cum laude from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts in government, concentrating on international affairs. That fall, he enrolled at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and audited classes there.[35] In early 1941, Kennedy left and helped his father write a memoir of his time as an American ambassador. He then traveled throughout South America; his itinerary included Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.[36][37]
Politcal Analyst/Writer/Editor/Justin Johnson D.O.B 05/09/1983, Bona-fide-Conservatism.
Im re-searching some heroic Presidents of some of the most deprived countries throughout the inequalities of the Global sphere. It saddens me to release these unsung hero’s who stepped before their own safety within their Nation. As many humanity’s throughout the deprived Country’s are feared from their own life’s through hunger, homelessness, water drought, global climate, fires, flooding or terrorism. Gangs, guns, bombs and war.. Many people become deceived of the pressure the Presidents have to put before them self, with this in thought i am hoping to run some recognition to form some renaissance of the essence of one’s wellbeing at the realm..
Firstly we are going to look at Venezuela Hugo Chavez?
Brasília-DF, 06/06/2011. Presidenta Dilma Rousseff durante Cerimônia oficial de chegada do presidente da Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. Foto: Roberto stuckert Filho/PR.
The agony of Hugo Chavez: details emerge of his final days.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez slid into a coma the day before he died of respiratory failure after cancer spread into his lungs, sources say.
Residents are seen near a graffitti that reads, “Chavez is alive” along a street in Caracas March 9, 2013. Venezuelans of all stripes called on Saturday for a quick presidential election as acting President Nicolas Maduro tries to benefit from an emotional outpouring for his late mentor, Hugo Chavez, and step into his shoes. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Chavez’s precise condition was one of the world’s best-kept secrets since his cancer was announced in June 2011.
Since his death this week, however, details have emerged of the 58-year-old president’s battle with cancer and the last moments in the hospital with close family and senior aides.
“They used iPads and other tools to give him policy presentations,” one government source told Reuters, referring to ministers’ visits to the Havana and Caracas hospitals where he spent his final weeks, unable to speak and breathing through a tube.
When appointing a new foreign minister, aides showed Chavez a list of several possible names, and he put a tick mark beside one – Elias Jaua – before signing the document, the source said.
After announcing in 2011 that cancer had been detected in his pelvic area, and a “baseball-sized” tumor removed, Chavez insisted on extreme privacy over the details of his health.
That was one of the reasons he chose to be treated in Cuba, where his friendship with past and present leaders Fidel and Raul Castro and the ruling Communist Party’s firm grip on information guaranteed him discretion.
Chavez spent several months there on various visits, and underwent four operations, the last of which on December 11 was the most complicated.
His last words to aides before flying to Havana for that operation were: “I’ll be back for sure.”
METASTASIS IN LUNGS
Chavez did, indeed, fly home, but in such a bad state he could not be seen in public. He died of respiratory failure on Tuesday afternoon after the cancer had metastasized into his lungs, two sources said.
During two initial operations in mid-2011, Chavez had a tumor removed from his intestines, and was diagnosed with sarcoma in the psoas muscle that runs from the lower part of the vertebral column to the pelvis, a medical source said.
Though chemotherapy and radiotherapy kept the disease at bay and allowed him to run for re-election in October 2012, Chavez took heavy doses of medicines to enable him to make some heavily-staged campaign appearances – in a lot of pain.
On the last day of campaigning, standing for hours under a heavy rainfall, Chavez could bear it no longer, and a final rally was canceled. After the October 7 win, by an impressive 11 percentage points, an exhausted and suffering Chavez made few more public appearances before returning to Cuba weeks later.
The December 11 operation lasted six hours and left Chavez in a dire state, with hemorrhaging and a severe lung infection. He lost his pulse several times during the surgery and had to be resuscitated by doctors.
Cuban medics designed a special antibiotic to counter the infection, the medical source said, but even so Chavez had to undergo a tracheotomy to enable him to breathe through a tube in the windpipe.
In his last few days, a heavily-dosed Chavez met only with his closest family and aides despite a clamor from Venezuelan supporters – and opponents – to see him.
Even one of his closest friends and allies, Bolivia’s leftist leader Evo Morales, was not allowed in to see him on visits to Caracas and Havana.
On Saturday, ministers were with him for about five hours, before a rapid deterioration began. He slipped into a coma on Monday and died at 4:25 p.m. local time (2055 GMT) on Tuesday.
Hugo Chávez/Cause of deathHeart attack‘ The head of the presidential guard said Chávez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and had inaudibly mouthed his desire to live.
The Heroic Effort’s from Hugo Chavez, from myself doesn’t go unwitnessed. Hugo Chavez tries to show he’s serious about drugs.
Powering through Caribbean swell in a heavy gray patrol boat and toting new Kalashnikov guns, soldiers scouring the craggy coves of Paria peninsula for cocaine smugglers look like they mean business.
Yet the five Venezuelan National Guard soldiers led by Sub-Lieutenant Douglas Maldonado are outnumbered and outpaced. Their work is mainly preventative, they patrol only three times a week, and they almost never capture any drugs, despite Paria being one of the world’s trafficking hotspots.
“They have faster craft than us,” Maldonado, 23, said from the recently refitted boat on the coast of Paria which juts out from Venezuela to just 11 km (6.8 miles) from Trinidad and Tobago.
Washington accuses Venezuela of leniency in the drugs fight and collusion with Colombian rebels financed by smuggling. Hurt by a blockade on sales of U.S. military equipment and spare parts to Caracas, the government of President Hugo Chavez recently bought millions of dollars worth of radar and other gear from China. Authorities have also captured a significant number of alleged traffickers and “capos.”
“Venezuela has a PR interest — it does not want to be seen as a country that facilitates the drugs trade. New purchases and new initiatives are part of this trend,” said Anna Gilmour, crime expert at Jane’s Intelligence Review.
Chavez may also be worried the corrosive power of cartels could weaken his anti-U.S. socialist revolution.
Venezuela’s drug-fighting capacity took a big blow when relations between the United States and Chavez soured. In 2005, after the U.S. withdrew its radar systems and imposed an embargo on arms sales, Chavez stopped cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
“We had no radars — we were left blind,” Venezuela’s anti-drugs chief Nestor Reverol told Reuters.
The United Nations estimates 40 percent of cocaine that reaches Europe now passes through Venezuela, much of it shipped first to Africa. A big drop in traffic to Africa and Europe in 2008 is largely due to a small Colombian coca crop that year.
Drugs experts also talk about a bubble effect, as a Colombian clampdown backed by $8 billion in U.S. aid pushes traffickers to seek new routes and locations for laboratories.
Chavez is trying to claw back lost ground against the smugglers, some say belatedly, with new Chinese radars and jets, proposed laws to shoot down suspected drug flights, a tax on companies for funds, and plans for special drugs tribunals.
Some European diplomats in Venezuela praise Reverol, but he has a long way to go before the traffickers are suppressed.
Venezuela’s reputation as a key link on the global drugs trade was enhanced in November with the discovery of a burned out Boeing 727 jet containing traces of cocaine on a patch of Mali’s desert frequented by militants with links to al Qaeda. The United Nations says the jet hopscotched around Latin America and stopped to pick up fuel in Venezuela.
Wedged between the world’s top cocaine producer Colombia and the islands of the Caribbean, Venezuela has long been a conduit for the drug. How much now gets through is hotly disputed, with the United States saying shipments rose five-fold from 2004, to 250 tonnes in 2007. Reverol puts the annual number below 50 tonnes.
Venezuela said it seized 28 tonnes of cocaine last year, down from 34 in 2008. In 2005 it confiscated 58 tonnes.
The U.S. blockade on selling Venezuela military equipment led to the cancellation of a deal to buy a fleet of Tucan renaissance jets from Brazil as they featured U.S. electronics. Two dozen Chinese planes with similar specifications arrive in January and 10 Chinese radars are now mostly up and running.
BEHEADINGS, CROOKED COPS
Reverol says radar coverage will reach Paria in January, but apart from a small navy camp and a handful of patrols like Maldonado’s, traffickers are for now mostly free to move drugs for shipment to Europe and the United States.
Nearby tourist island Margarita has frequent flights to Europe which drug gangs use to ship cocaine and has also been used by at least two aircraft flying or attempting to fly cocaine to Africa. Last year police nabbed a British couple traveling with their four children after finding over 20 kilos of the drug in their luggage.
At night, fishing boats and high speed launches take Colombian cocaine from roadless fishing villages in Paria to islands like Trinidad and Venezuela’s Margarita.
Similar tactics are used along the 1,739 mile Caribbean coast. Large shipments also leave Venezuela’s sea and air ports, despite new body scanning equipment.
“They use silent motors and travel at night,” Maldonado said, ordering a small fishing boat to halt over a crackling radio. His men boarded with guns cocked, demanding papers from the scared crew and searching the hold. Nothing was found.
The lawlessness is increasingly evident in Paria.
Charismatic kingpins, gory executions and crooked cops have pushed the peninsula and the surrounding region toward the type of violence and corruption found in Colombia and other cocaine corridors such as Central America and Mexico.
In October, police found the decapitated head of a man in an icebox in the coastal town of Carupano, along with a note linking the crime to drug gangs. It was just the latest mafia-style murder in the town, where suspected capo Aurelio “Yeyo” Labrador was killed by 15 bullets in 2007.
Labrador, a former member of the National Guard, became a notorious figure in the east of Venezuela and was rumored to be planning to run for mayor in Carupano. In typical capo style, he handed out cash and washing machines in poor neighborhoods and had a folk ballad dedicated to him and his deeds.
“Obviously it affects us, a big part of our town is involved in this,” said Jose Guerra, mayor of neighboring Rio Caribe. “There are many fishermen who prefer to act in the darkness of the night to earn more money, rather than spending their whole lives fishing.”
Guerra, a Chavez ally, says he received death threats for opposing local smugglers. His patch includes San Juan de Las Galdonas, a scruffy village with idyllic beaches backed by cocoa plantations. Officials say it is a trafficking center.
San Juan is guarded by just one full time cop armed with a rusty shotgun. He said it was not safe to talk about drugs.
“What is needed is a greater amount of land and maritime monitoring — more human resources,” Guerra said at his headquarters in Rio Caribe, a small town of pastel colored houses. He says tourism to nearby powder sand beaches is depressed by the reputation for smuggling
SOME HIGH PROFILE ARRESTS
The government’s investments so far have brought some results. Body-scanning equipment at airports means more low level traffickers are caught, although corruption is almost certainly responsible for larger shipments getting through.
In the last year, police arrested 15 mid and high level traffickers, including a senior member of the Sicilian mafia and a former associate of Pablo Escobar with a $5 million U.S. reward on his head. Most of these men were deported to Colombia, Italy or the United States.
Police in 2008 broke up a major trafficking organization with links to a Chavez-allied governor which U.S. authorities say shipped 10 tonnes of cocaine a month to the United States.
But in the same year, based on Colombian intelligence, the U.S. Treasury named two senior Venezuelan government officials and an ex-interior minister as “Tier II Kingpins” for helping narcotics trafficking by Colombia’s FARC rebels.
Venezuela, which says the charges are politically based, has ended millions of dollars of trade with Colombia over U.S. access to military bases for operations against drugs and rebels.
This month, Chavez said he scrambled two F16 fighter jets to intercept an American P3 aircraft — a plane used to seek and track drug traffickers — which he said had twice violated Venezuelan airspace. He says the United States and Colombia are using anti-drug operations as a cover for a planned invasion of his oil-rich country. Washington and Bogota deny the charge.
Violence linked to the international drugs trade is nowhere near the levels seen in Colombia and Mexico, but Venezuela has one of the world’s highest murder rates and most killings are linked to fights between low level drug gangs.
The bloodshed and mayhem consistently register as Venezuelans’ most serious concern, and Chavez’s failure to solve the problem is a weak spot. The government says police commit a fifth of crime.
“The problem of violence converges with the problem of illicit drug trafficking,” Reverol said.
Chavez ended cooperation with the DEA in 2005, accusing agents of spying. Venezuela has cooperation deals with dozens of nations and still works with U.S. forces in international seas but defiantly says it can do without the DEA.
“Since the DEA left we have fought against drugs like never before,” Reverol said.
But it seems that for traffickers, tense relations with neighbor Colombia and the lack of cooperation with the United States mean Venezuela is still an attractive place to work.
One of my all favorite’s Nelson Mandela,how he pursued and supported inequalities throughout race,culture, deprivation. I feel still today his message has been heard but not yet fully negotiated. As you can be poor, full of optimism, flamboyant, cognitive skills and have all the essentials for a life purpose, but yet you will not always succeed with life chances, in a position as a critical thinker within a job prescription. They seem to cultivate the populace and working class through money elegance rather then an intelligent authority..
What did Nelson Mandela fight for?
Former South African president and civil rights advocate Nelson Mandela dedicated his life to fighting for equality—and ultimately helped topple South Africa’s racist system of apartheid.
What caused apartheid?
Nelson’s Witty characteristics embed his prosperity at the realm to hierarchy receive an audience with abundance!
Various reasons can be given for apartheid, although they are all closely linked. The main reasons lie in ideas of racial superiority and fear. … The other main reason for apartheid was fear, as in South Africa the white people are in the minority, and many were worried they would lose their jobs, culture and language
What was Nelson Mandela’s famous speech?”I Am Prepared to Die” is the name given to the three-hour speech given by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964 from the dock of the defendant at the Rivonia Trial. The speech is so titled because it ends with the words “it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die”.
What according to Mandela is true freedom?Answer: According to Mandela, true freedom means freedom not to be obstructed in leading a lawful life. … Later, Mandela found that his freedom had been taken away from him. As a student, he wanted freedom only for himself but slowly his own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of his people
What comes more naturally to heart According to Mandela?According to Nelson Mandela, Love comes naturally to human heart than hate. People must be learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can taught for love for love comes naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
What are two enemies of a person?Quotation: “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.”
In any Court Legislation they would already discovered a Drama Triangle. X,Y,Z,
Drama Triangle always consists off?
Victim-Alienated Parent, the one whom made the court proceedings.
Persecutor, The opposition, the narcissistic manipulative other, who always say he/she can’t or always say he/she won’t
The Saver/Legislator, The safer, the one who obligates the differences but amends Parental alienation syndrome.
some significant things you’ll need to understand within a a family judiciary?
Section 7 report may be ordered by the Court when the parents cannot agree matters in respect of the children and the Court requires further information about a child’s welfare, what is best for the child an sometimes where there are certain risk factors or concerns raised in relation to a child, parent or other.
Section 8 Orders
Residence Order- Sets out whom the child will live with. In the past this was known as ‘custody’. Contact Order- Indicates the person or person 9s 0 the child’s interest, contact may be supervised
Section 37
Where, in any family proceedings in which a question arises with respect tp the welfre of any child, it appears to the Court that it may be appropriate for a care or supervision order to be made ith respect to him, the court may direct the appropriate authority to undertake an investigation of the child’s..
Prohibited Steps Order
A Prohibited Steps Order (PSO0 is an order of the court providing that certain action control cannot be taken by a parent in meeting their parental responsibility (PR) for a child, without express permission of the Court
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Labelling theory argues that criminal and deviant acts are a result of labelling by authorities – and the powerless are more likely to be negatively labelled.
The labelling Theory of Crime is associated with Interactionism – the Key ideas are that crime is socially constructed, agents of social control label the powerless as deviant and criminal based on stereotypical assumptions and this creates effects such as the self-fulfilling prophecy, the criminal career and deviancy amplification.
Interactionists argue that people do not become criminals because of their social background, but rather argue that crime emerges because of labelling by authorities. They see crime as the product of micro-level interactions between certain individuals and the police, rather than the result of external social forces such as socialisation or blocked opportunity structures.
Four Key concepts associated with Interactionist theories of deviance
Crime is Sociology Constructed – An act which harms an individual or society else only becomes criminal if those in power label that act as criminal.
Not everyone who is deviant gets labelled as such – negative labels are generally (deviant/ criminal) are generally given to the powerless by the powerful.
Labelling has real consequences – it can lead to deviancy amplification, the self-fulfilling prophecy and deviant careers.
Labelling theory has a clear ‘value position’ – it should aim to promote policies that prevent labelling minor acts as deviant.
1- Crime is Socially Constructed
Rather than taking the definition of crime for granted, labelling theorists are interested in how certain acts come to be defined or labelled as criminal in the first place.
Interactionists argue that there is no such thing as an inherently deviant act – in other words there is nothing which is deviant in itself in all situations and at all times, certain acts only become deviant in certain situations when others label them as deviant. Deviance is not a result of an act or an individual being ‘uniquely different’, deviance is a product of society’s reaction to actions.
As Howard Becker* (1963) puts it – “Deviancy is not a quality of the act a person commits, but rather a consequences of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an ‘offender’. Deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label.” (*The main theorist within labelling theory)
Howard Becker illustrates how crime is the product of social interactions by using the example of a fight between young people. In a low-income neighbourhood, a fight is more likely to be defined by the police as evidence of delinquency, but in a wealthy area as evidence of high spirits. The acts are the same, but the meanings given to them by the audience (in this case the public and the police) differ. Those who have the power to make the label stick thus create deviants or criminals.
Becker provides a more extreme example in his book The Outsiders (1963) – in this he draws on a simple illustration of an anthropological study by anthropologist Malinowski who describes how a youth killed himself because he hand been publicly accused of incest. When Malinowski had first inquired about the case, the islanders expressed their horror and disgust. But, on further investigation, it turned out that incest was not uncommon on the island, nor was it really frowned upon provided those involved were discrete. However, if an incestuous affair became too obvious and public, the islanders reacted with abuse and the offenders were ostracised and often driven to suicide.
To be clear – in the above example, everyone knows that incest goes on, but if people are too public about it (and possibly if they are just disliked for whatever reason) they get publicly shamed for being in an incestuous relationship.
You could apply the same thinking to criminal behaviour more generally in Britain – According to a recent 2015 survey of 2000 people, the average person in Britain breaks the law 17 ties per year, with 63% admitting speeding, 33% steeling and 25% taking illegal drugs – clearly the general public is tolerant of ‘ordinary’ deviance – but every now and then someone will get spotted doing ‘ordinary’ criminal activities and publicly shamed.
All of this has led labelling theorists to look at how and why rules and laws get made – especially the role of what Becker calls ‘moral entrepreneurs’, people who lead a moral crusade to change the law in the belief that it will benefit those to whom it is applied. However, according to Interactionists, when new laws are created, they simply create new groups of outsiders and lead to the expansion of social control agencies such as the police, and such campaigns may do little to change the underlying amount of ‘deviant activity’ taking place.
In summary – deviance is not a quality that lies in behaviour itself, but in the interaction between the person who commits an act and those who respond to it. From this point of view, deviance is produced by a process of interaction between the potential deviant and the wider public (both ordinary people and agencies of social control).
Application of the concept of ‘social constructionism’ to drug crime –
Looking at how drug laws have changed over time, and how they vary from country to country to country is a very good way of looking at how the deviant act of drug-taking is socially constructed…
In the United Kingdom, a new law was recently passed which outlawed all legal highs, meaning that many ‘head-shops’ which sold them literally went from doing something legal to illegal over night (obviously they had plenty of notice!)
Meanwhile – in some states in America, such as Colorado, things seem to be moving in the other direction – it is now legal to grow, sell and smoke Weed – meaning that a whole new generation of weed entrepreneurs have suddenly gone from doing something illegal to something legal, and profitable too!
There’s a lot more information about the social construction of drug use out there – think about the difference between coffee, nicotine, alcohol (all legal) and cannabis.
Discussion Question
Do you agree with the idea that there is no such thing as an inherently deviance act? Work your way through the list of deviance acts below and try to think of contexts in which they would not be regarded as deviant.
– Violence
– Theft
– Fraud
– Drug taking
– Public nudity
– Paedophilia
– Vandalism
2 – Not Everyone Who is Deviant Gets Labelled
Those in Power are just as deviant/ criminal as actual ‘criminals’ but they are more able to negotiate themselves out of being labelled as criminals.
NB to my mind the classic song by NWA ‘Fuck Tha Police’ is basically highlighting the fact that it’s young black males in the US that typically get labelled as criminals (while young white kids generally don’t)
Back to Labelling theory proper – the key idea here is that not everyone who commits an offence is punished for it. Whether a person is arrested, charged and convicted depends on factors such as:
Their interactions with agencies of social control such as the police and the courts
Their appearance, background and personal biography
The situation and circumstances of the offence.
This leads labelling theorists to look at how laws are applied and enforced. Their studies show that agencies of social control are more likely to label certain groups of people as deviant or criminal.
Eating Disorders Have ‘Thrived’ During The Pandemic. This Is Why
The tragic death of Nikki Grahame highlights how many others are silently suffering
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People with eating disorders have faced a hellish time during the pandemic, socially isolated and facing reduced services, just when changes in routine have put them at their most vulnerable. The heartbreaking death of former Big Brother contestant Nikki Grahame at the age of 38 has only brought to the fore how many others have been silently suffering.
Grahame had struggled with anorexia nervosa since childhood. Just a week before her death, her mum Sue Grahame spoke of how lockdown restrictions had impacted her daughter’s mental health – from the social isolation to the closure of gyms.
“Last year really put the cap on it,” she told This Morning. “The isolation… it’s been really hard for her. Really hard. She felt very cut off and spending too much time on her own with not enough to think about other than food and that took a grip as well.”
In March, when her illness had worsened, Grahame checked into a private hospital after a group of friends crowdfunded money to pay for her care.
Tragically, she passed away on April 9.
political and human analysts, nutrition. mental health, is it the mind or just palin eating habits that forget the mind to eat. I am currently under weight which is the main reason I find this a traumatic time for the big brother co star. A huge miss and such a shame it couldn’t be helped and so young.
There are an estimated 1.6m people in the UK suffering from an eating disorder – however this figure is likely to be higher, as some may not seek help. While the pandemic has been stressful for many people with poor mental health, those with eating disorders have faced a range of triggering factors, including gym closures, food shortages and a massive disruption to everyday routines.
A spokesperson for eating disorders charity Beat confirmed to HuffPost UK that they’ve seen a 302% rise in demand for helpline services since the first lockdown in March 2020.
Beat’s director of external affairs, Tom Quinn, says: “We know the pandemic has been particularly difficult for people affected by eating disorders … It is not surprising, as those affected and their families have had to cope with extreme changes to their daily routines, support networks and care plans, all while also dealing with the additional stress the pandemic has brought.
“It is now more essential than ever that anyone struggling gets the help they need without delay. We would urge anyone worried about their health to contact their GP at the earliest opportunity.”
But help isn’t always available, as Jemma Meeson, founder and clinical director of mental health practice The Family Treatment Service, points out.
“Public sector eating disorder services are so overburdened and underfunded,” she says. “They have seen increases in referrals of up to 75% and it is just not possible to give people the care they deserve, or that the clinicians would like to deliver.”
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