Police said they have made more than 20 arrests at a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in London Friday. Twenty people have been held on suspicion of being members of a banned group and another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder. A police spokesman declined to confirm a report that the protesters were members of Muslims Against Crusades, a fringe Islamist group.
The group, which was banned by Home Secretary Theresa May last month, are notorious for a 2010 protest during which it burned poppies on Remembrance Day and chanted "British soldiers, burn in hell." It had previously held a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
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Thousands of patients in the NHS are put onto the Liverpool Care Pathway each year in their last days and hours.
It aims to give patients a 'good death' by avoiding unnecessary and burdensome medical intervention but there have been accusations it hastens death because it can involve the removal of artifical hydration and nutrition. That's a three-syllable apiece way of saying they starve or die for lack of water...
A report into palliative care in the NHS found that in one, unnamed hospital trust, half of families were not told that their loved one had been placed on the LCP and in a quarter of trusts, one in three families were not informed. "Back off, lady! I'm a trained medical professional!"
Dr Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist at East Kent University Hospitals, said it was vital that more information was made available about the use of the Liverpool Care Pathway in the NHS. "Eventually we all come under review, y'know."
He said: "We need to know how frequently it is being used. Data should be released showing the proportion of patients who die in hospital who were on the Liverpool Care Pathway and how many were on it against their will or that of their family." You can starve to death or die for lack of water at home. It's cheaper and they don't wake you at 3 in the morning to check your blood pressure. Continued on Page 47
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Oh Boy, I guess that means they've found a cure for the Social Security shortfall?
Reminds me of Logan's Run.
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Since authoritarian regimes are big on paper work, hopefully the leadership of the NHS have appropriate (*) by their names so when they show up finally for their 'care' they'll be given exactly what they dish out for others. [Yeah, yeah, I know they'll find a weasel way to avoid what they've dictated for others. They always do.]
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Police said they have made more than 20 arrests at a demonstration outside the U.S. embassy in London Friday. Twenty people have been held on suspicion of being members of a banned group and another two were detained for obstruction and violent disorder. A police spokesman declined to confirm a report that the protesters were members of Muslims Against Crusades, a fringe Islamist group.
Thousands of patients in the NHS are put onto the Liverpool Care Pathway each year in their last days and hours.
