Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

B52's Haystack, they were not mucking about.

ok, back to the present.



Follow the money:


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c

Stop being evasive H/S and answer the questions.

Max
There is a lot of guesswork and admitted speculation in that article. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

OK you can go to bed now, but I expect the questions to be answered tomorrow.

Activist group linked to Jeremy Corbyn has accounts closed amid fears it may be funding terrorism

Co-op Bank said that Palestine Solidarity Campaign's accounts failed due diligence checks to ensure funds were not 'inadvertently funding illegal or other proscribed activities'



By Camilla Turner

7:30PM GMT 29 Nov 2015







An activist organisation which has Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as patron has had its accounts closed down over fears that it may be inadvertently funding terrorism.


Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), whose patrons also include the Oscar winning actress Julie Christie and the playwright Caryl Churchill, was told by the Co-operative Bank that “risk-appetite” was the reason for closing its account.


In a statement, the bank said that due to the “high risk” locations in which PSC operates and send funds to, it had to carry out “advanced due diligence checks” on their accounts to ensure that funds do not “inadvertently fund illegal or other proscribed activities”.


The statement concluded that it was “not possible to complete these checks to our satisfaction and the decision to close a number of accounts, including the PSC and some of its affiliates, is an inevitable result of this process”.



Mr Corbyn has long supported various Palestinian causes, including the PSC which says on its website that he “regularly speaks at rallies” and praises him for being "tireless in his support for Palestine".

The organisation has courted controversy in the past. A PSC meeting in 2004, following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin, led to Baroness Jenny Tonge being sacked from the Liberal Democrat party's front bench for claiming that in different circumstances, she might consider becoming a suicide bomber.

She went on to hold a minute's silence in Yassin's memory at the meeting, which was also attended by Mr Corbyn who claimed he left before the minute’s silence took place.



Mr Corbyn has been criticised for introducing members of Hamas and Hizbollah – terrorist bodies according to the United States – as “friends”. He says this was “diplomatic language in the context of dialogue”.

In February 2013, Mr Corbyn and his wife travelled to Gaza thanks to a £2,800 gift from Interpal, a British charity banned by the US government as “part of the funding network of Hamas” and as a terrorist organisation in its own right.



Interpal is allowed to operate in the UK after claiming it has broken its links with Hamas, a claim accepted by the Charity Commission.

PSC has announced that it is now launching legal action against the Co-operative Bank on grounds of discrimination.

ITN solicitors, acting on behalf of PSC, state the bank failed "to provide any reasons for the closure of PSC’s account, which has been compounded by [their] failure to provide appropriate disclosure".

They claimed that the decision to close its accounts was based on PSC's belief in "Palestinian rights" and "the nationality or religion of the Palestinian people"and was therefore contrary to the Equality Act.

Sarah Colborne, PSC’s Director accused Co-op of "turning its back on its ethical principles" by closing down their accounts.

Tom Wilson, a resident associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank, said: "The Co-op has highlighted the due diligence that it must show regarding the accounts of groups operating in 'high risk locations', of which Gaza and the West Bank would certainly be included.

"Among the concerns a bank would have in these kinds of cases will likely be fears about funding reaching illegal, extremist or terrorist activities.

"The PSC claim that this is an act of discrimination seems particularly unconvincing given the support we’ve seen the Co-op give for the Palestinian campaign in the past."

..And you CC.. -):

MERKEL wants to fast track turkey into the eu.

get us out now .their is more scum in turkey than the rest of the world
they will destroy any country they go to filthy people

the uk will be flooded with turks if they are fast tracked into the eu

its crazy she is a lunatic

they target old women and rob them they have no morals .

I basically agree tanker she's a witch .

Welcome back Tanks, but I disagree with the previous 4 posts, having said that I don't want Turkey in the EU, and never have done.

turkey to be given eu statues by 2019 /2020 merkel wants to save Germany
and turkey to get 3 BILION IN AID

She's as dangerous as ISIS .

Behave you lot!

STAN I have spent many months in instanbul its a shit hole the people have no respect for anything ,
they are going to be allowed to join if the uk votes to stop in then the uk is finished
has you no it .

it will be a very dangerous place to live
crime on the streets will be normal
holiday makers only see the holiday side not the real turkey of crime and muggings

I am off this weekend but change of plans we are all going to florida

max - sorry; i obviously misread your question ....... IS strongholds and the like ..... will there be innocents killed as well? ..... i'm afraid inevitably so, no matter how accurate modern techniques allow

however, in very simplistic terms, i think that doing nothing at all is a complete cop out and will bring just as many unforeseen and unforeseeable consequences as taking action

mccluskey
good to see unite openly showing its hand as controlling corbyn and his acolytes
i wonder what effect this will have on the oldham by-election

i certainly hope that a good number of labour MPs will refuse to be bullied into submission by threats of some union leader ..... this sounds worse for the labour party than the good old days of red robbo, derek hatton and arthur scargill et al

Oh dear.. another gutter press rant from our Bamber

no .... it came from the guardian actually

"Unite boss warns Labour MPs ‘they are writing their political obituaries’ if they continue to show leader lack of respect"

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of more important concern is if MPs - and this applies to all MPs from all parties - are bludgeoned into line on this exceptionally important issue

even fred admits it should be a free vote