Varied headlines in this mornings papers.
The Times says that
Gordon Brown will fire the starting gun this week for a general election campaign that could run for six months. He will outline a programme of populist measures in the Queen’s Speech and challenge David Cameron to support them. adding that
The Prime Minister is to emphasise his determination to carry on governing with a political programme designed to exploit Labour’s differences with the Conservatives on health, education and the economy. He will use Wednesday’s speech to reveal plans to provide free care at home for about 350,000 of the neediest people and to tear up “risky” bankers’ contracts.
The Queen's speech also makes the front of the Independent as Nick Clegg writing in the paperissues a call for this week's Queen's Speech to be scrapped and replaced by an emergency programme of reform designed to "clean up politics once and for all".
the Liberal Democrat leader dismisses the pageant as a "waste of everyone's time" as Parliament will only sit for another 70 days before it is dissolved for the general election expected in the spring.
It's climate change in the Guardian as it reports that
.adding that
Barack Obama acknowledged todaythat time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December and threw his support behind plans to delay a formal pact until next year at the earliest
During a hastily convened meeting in Singapore, the US president supported a Danish plan to salvage something from next month's meeting by aiming to make it a first-stage series of commitments rather than an all-encompassing protocol.
Meanwhile the Times reports that Britain is set to plunder the lungs of the world to feed its growing hunger for wood to burn in power stations.
A series of biomass-fired plants are being built in the UK that will trigger a 150 per cent surge in timber imports from 20 million tonnes today to 50 million tonnes by 2015, according to the Forestry Commission.
The news that Nightstalker has been captured makes many of the papers
Detectives hunting Britain’s most prolific rapist, known as the “night stalker”, who is wanted in connection with up to 200 attacks on the elderly, have detained a 52-year-old man called Delroy Grant. says the Telegraph
A DAD of seven who cares for his invalid wife full-time was last night suspected of being the dreaded Night Stalker rapist behind more than TWO HUNDRED attacks.says the Sun
Texas accounts for half of executions in US but now has doubts over death row says the Guardian
The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year – is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by overturned convictions, judicial scandals and growing evidence that at least one innocent man has been executed.
According to the Independent this morning,the cosmetics trade may be under attack
In an astonishing attack on the booming cosmetic surgery industry, Nigel Mercer, president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps), and himself a practising cosmetic surgeon in Bristol, says it is time to call a halt to the unregulated trade.
Another institution under attack is the BBC as the Telegraph reports strict regulations on local media ownership will be swept away by a Tory government to create a Big Bang revolution in newspapers and television.
Cross-media ownership rules, which prevent local groups owning more than one newspaper or radio station, will be abolished. The changes are also designed to create more competition for the BBC nationally and in the regions, where newspapers and television companies are battling for survival.
Events over the weekend in Birmingham are analysed in depth with the Mail reporting that Council chiefs were accused of risking another Hillsborough disaster after a free concert they organised descended into chaos.after
More than 60 people were injured when thousands of fans broke through security fences and stormed the Christmas lights switch-on event in Birmingham.
The Sun reports that
drippy jail bosses were last night accused of bowing to the demands of hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza - by wasting £650 on new taps for his cell.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2731273/Abu-Hamza-is-treated-to-650-custom-taps-in-his-prison-cell.html#ixzz0X07SobPy
A parliamentary inquiry into phone hacking by tabloid journalists may have been seriously misled, it emerged yesterday when lawyers acting for a Scotland Yard detective denied that he had ever claimed that messages to 6,000 people had been intercepted.says the Independent
Finally the Guardian reports that American imperialism remains an issue but Hugo Chávez has identified a new threat to Venezuela's socialist revolution: obesity.
The president has sounded the alarm about his compatriots' expanding waistlines and called on them to wage battle against the bulge, saying the revolution needed them fit and strong.
"There are lots of fat people," he said in a televised speech, and they needed to diet and exercise. "Doing sit-ups. Eating well. One has to learn how to eat."
1 comment:
Guardian could not have been more in error.
There is nowhere near 140 DNA exonerations from death row.
8-9 inmates have been removed from death rows because of DNA exclusion.
The near 140 (really 139) is a blatant anti death penalty fraud whereby they claim 139 exonerated from death row because of innocence.
Death penalty opponents make up their own, deceptive definition of exonerated.
The reality, based upon a number of published reviews, is in the 25-35 range. I combined three of the studies and found that 25 would be the realistic number of actual innocents released from death row, because of an 83% error rate in the death penalty opponents "exonerated" or "innocence" claims.
It is impossible to get most of the media to fact check and clarify this, as with the Guardian. They won't fact check or correct.
Interestingly, the New York Times recognized this blatant deception and found about a 75% error rate in these fraudulent anti death penalty claims.
There is no growing evidence of an innocent executed in Texas. The reality is that all of the reports critical of the trial forensics in the Willingham case concluded that the origin of the fire was undetermined. However, that is without the full rebuttals of various state agencies, all of which are pending.
The reality is, based upon all of the facts that are known, today, the fire may have been arson and it may have been an accident, based upon the most critical reports.
No evidence of an innocent executed exists with Willingham, nor is it growing or pending.
Based upon all we know, today, that case cannot "become the first officially acknowledged miscarriage of justice which led to a man being executed." At worse, it will always remain in the undetermined category.
Again, reality interveens. The New Mexico Governor conceded that he may be wrong on the facts he gave to justify repeal. He was. He also conceded that the death penalty may actually save innocent lives. The anti death penalty leadership in New Mexico admitted that the reason the repeal passed was because more Democrats were elected in the last voting cycle.
Why did Gov. Richardson repeal the death penalty? His legacy.
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/03/31/why-did-gov-richardson-repeal-the-death-penalty-his-legacy.aspx
Rebuttal to Governor Richardson - Repeal of the Death Penalty in New Mexico
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/03/19/rebuttal-to-governor-richardson--repeal-of-the-death-penalty-in-new-mexico.aspx
Regarding Illinois, first, I suspect most state death rows have released more from death row than they have executed. Nationally, 34% of death penalty cases are overturned on appeal. 15% result in execution.
Secondly, in Illinois, the claim was that 13 actual innocents had been freed from death row, while there had been a total of 12 executions. This goes to anti death penalty deceptions and the lack of fact checking.
"The Death Penalty Debate in Illinois", JJKinsella,6/2000, http://www.dcba.org/brief/junissue/2000/art010600.htm
This article was not accurate in all of their case reviews, as we now know, but it makes the point that a number of the innocence claims were either false or there was no evidence for such claims, just like the 139 fraud.
I was not a founder of Justice For All and have not been with them for many years.
Yes, the death penalty is a greater protector of innocents.
"The Death Penalty: More Protection for Innocents"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/05/the-death-penalty-more-protection-for-innocents.aspx
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