Bush, Blair wanted for war crimes: Boyle
A Pakistani citizen, who is being supported by the London-based human rights group Reprieve and represented by solicitors Leigh Day & Co, has brought a legal case against the British government over its practice of passing over intelligence to the US for deadly drone attacks in the Asian country, which have claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians.
Noor Khan, the son of Malik Daud Khan, who died in a CIA-operated assassination drone attack in Waziristan region of Pakistan on March 17, 2011, is seeking to take legal action against the UK government due to its role in the strikes that involves exchanging intelligence with the US.
William Hague is expected to appear in court on Tuesday 23 October in order to answer questions about the role of the British intelligence services in US assassination drone attacks in Pakistan.
"He [Noor Khan] is calling for the veil of secrecy around Britain's drones’ policy to be lifted so that he can keep his community safe,” Reprieve legal director Kat Craig said.
Furthermore, Rosa Curling of Leigh Day & Co stressed that the case is seeking to challenge the legality of Britain’s intelligence sharing for lethal drone strikes.
Meanwhile, a recent study conducted by Stanford and New York Universities, found that only one in 50 people killed by US assassination drones are militants in Pakistan while the rest are innocent civilians.
Earlier this month, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik also said that only 20 percent of those killed in drone attacks were militants while the rest were innocent people.
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IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers
So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan.
One could slash private debt by 100pc of GDP, boost growth, stabilize prices, and dethrone bankers all at the same time. It could be done cleanly and painlessly, by legislative command, far more quickly than anybody imagined.
The conjuring trick is to replace our system of private bank-created money -- roughly 97pc of the money supply -- with state-created money. We return to the historical norm, before Charles II placed control of the money supply in private hands with the English Free Coinage Act of 1666.
Specifically, it means an assault on "fractional reserve banking". If lenders are forced to put up 100pc reserve backing for deposits, they lose the exorbitant privilege of creating money out of thin air.
The nation regains sovereign control over the money supply. There are no more banks runs, and fewer boom-bust credit cycles. Accounting legerdemain will do the rest. That at least is the argument.
Some readers may already have seen the IMF study, by Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof, which came out in August and has begun to acquire a cult following around the world.
The rest of the story at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9623863/IMFs-epic-plan-to-conjure-away-debt-and-dethrone-bankers.html
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