Bankruptcy: UK Army to Lose 17 Units amid Job Cuts

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LONDON - Britain gave details Thursday of major army cuts which will see it lose 20,000 regular soldiers by 2020, taking force levels to their lowest since the early 19th century. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told the House of Commons that 17 major units would be axed as part of an overall reduction from 102,000 regular troops to 82,000.


The cuts come as Britain battles to impose budget savings across the board in a troubled economic climate. "After inheriting a massive overspend from the last government, we have had to make tough decisions to implement our vision of a formidable, adaptable and flexible armed forces," Hammond said. "After a decade of enduring operations, we need to transform the army and build a balanced, capable and adaptable force ready to face the future."


Four infantry battalions are among those which will be scrapped while a fifth will be reduced to carrying out public duties only. The changes will also see Britain become more reliant on part-time soldiers, with the number of reservists expected to double to 30,000. That will give a combined force size of 120,000. The extent of the cuts has been known for a year but the decision to axe famous battalions of the British army has provoked sharp criticism.


The BBC reported that they will leave the regular army around half the size it was during the Cold War era - in 1978, it was 163,000 strong. Brigadier David Paterson has written to General Peter Wall, the chief of the General Staff, to say that he is "bitterly disappointed" by proposals to axe some of the country's most celebrated battalions, the Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.


"It cannot be presented as the best or most sensible military option," wrote Paterson, the honorary Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Richard Dannatt, a former head of the army, told BBC radio that the cuts would entail "some risks."


"It (the army) won't be capable of conducting two operations simultaneously of the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan as we have done over the last 10 years," he said.


"It will mean that we can do less but we will still do an enormous amount."
Britain currently has around 9,500 troops serving as part of the international force in Afghanistan. But Wall defended the plan, saying it would allow the army to become "better integrated and fully adaptable".


"The changes... will demand resilience, flexibility and genuine adaptability from our talented and committed officers and soldiers," he said. "It is inevitable that some units will be lost or will merge but we have done this in a way that I believe is fair across the whole army."

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Missiles, Spy Drones and Warships; All set for the London Olympics

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Spy drones are just the tip of the security iceberg for the UK as it readies itself for the greatest sporting show on earth. Taking the danger of terror seriously, London's Olympic preparations are calling on all corners of the nation's defenses.

"2012" in the official logo when arranged in the order
 above clearly states ZION.

There will also be warships anchored on the Thames; attack helicopters on standby, and ground-to-air missiles ready to launch. All that, before you even get to the security on the ground. Such measures, however, may not only turn the capital into a city under siege, but simply prove to be ineffective.

Spectators may know for whom they are rooting at the Olympics, but they will not know who is watching them while they are at it. With the possibility of surveillance drones circling the skies of London and police using spy cameras that will leave no place unwatched, privacy campaigners fear it is the start of a slippery slope.

“I think it'll be an absolute tragedy for Britain if the largest part of the Olympics legacy was a surveillance legacy, where we install all this equipment in the name of national security and when the Olympics are over we keep using it,” Nick Pickles, director for Big Brother Watch told RT.

One-eyed symbolism evident in the London Olympics 2012 mascots.

The capacity of London’s Olympic stadium is 80,000 people. Ground security for the Games will be enough to fill over 60 per cent of that. Inside Olympic venues there will be over 23,000 security guards and 7,500 military personnel.Outside the venues, another 6,000 troops and 12,000 police. The grand total just shy of 50,000.

The spy in the sky has been piloted before in Britain by police forces, but it never took off again after one drone crashed into a river and the UK aviation authority denied granting the necessary licenses.

Those licenses are the only legal requirement before this sort of surveillance at the Olympics becomes reality. A minor hurdle for what is already Britain's biggest peacetime security operation, with the total cost topping $1.6 billion.

“It is worrying that the security bill has increased so drastically from initial estimates,” says Emma Boon of the Taxpayers' Alliance. “One of the reasons being given for this is the heightened risk of terrorism, which seemed incredible as an excuse at a time when the original estimates were made around the time of the London bombings, when London was considered to be a very high risk. It seems incredible they got the estimates so badly wrong in the first place and now taxpayers are facing an even bigger bill.”

The budget has ballooned by 100 per cent because initial estimates were woefully inadequate. However, that still could not stop two fake bombs being sneaked in under the radar at the stadium’s dummy runs. Not exactly great value for money. 

London organizers have tried to play down fears London-2012 will be a city under siege, but with such a massive security operation, the traditional Olympic legacy of international friendship may not be the one that is actually left.
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Unfair wedding threatens Royals' future in England

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Analysts are questioning the 'fairness' of imposing the astronomically huge costs of the Royal Wedding on common British taxpayers amid growing public weariness of the wide coverage given to the 'unpleasant' event. While there are fictitious claims promoted by the Zionist chain of media outlets that the royal wedding will at the end of the day benefit the British public both economically by triggering retailers' sales as well as attracting interested tourists and socially by spreading happiness London-based writer and journalist Peter Carty believes the opposite is true. Carty said in an interview with Iran's Press TV that as the widely hyped event is not going to “bring in more income in the country as a whole” one comes to believe “it's quite clearly unfair” on the populous.

“I don't think it is going to bring in more income in the country as a whole. Our overall income will probably go down by six billion pounds and the amount of extra revenue we're going to get back from tourism, sales of memorabilia etc, would be about one billion pounds best estimate - something like 1.5 billion USZ dollars, so overall the country is going to lose out very heavily. The question of whether that's fair on the populous as a whole - It's quite clearly unfair”, he said.

Carty also said, to add insult to injury the media are giving a pointlessly wide coverage to the event despite the solely symbolic and ceremonial position of the royal family in the British politics and the low opinion of the people about the monarchy. “It's [the royal wedding] extremely unpopular with a substantial proportion of the population. A poll has been conducted by a republican group that indicates that approximately 80 percent of British people really aren't very interested in the wedding at all. So to ask everyone to finance it is very unfair when you look into the issue closely”, he said. Carty then stressed focus on the royal wedding is not only politically inconsequential for the moment it is deemed also to hurt people into hatred of the royal family eventually leading to a public push for the removal of royals.

“The way the [state-funded] BBC is pumping out massive coverage of the run up to the wedding is highly likely to alienate people from the monarchy that normally wouldn't be too concerned about this institution that's mostly in the background and you don't have to pay attention to it if you don't want to. To really rub people's noses in it the way the media is doing at the moment I think will backfire and might produce more impetus toward the eventual disbandment of this institution”, he said.

Carty stressed “huge numbers of British people are really getting 'annoyed' at the “saturation” of media coverage of the nuptials that will 'ironically' lead to change. I'm not saying that's going to happen overnight or even very soon, but inevitably over time as we become a more educated and developed society, support for the monarchy is likely to fade away. Ironically I think the royal wedding might actually be speeding that process up.”

Official figures show the price tag for the wedding ceremony of Prince William and Kate Middleton including the security costs will hit tens of millions of pounds which will be imposed on the British taxpayers despite the multi-billion pound wealth of the royal family. Many among the public and campaign groups have already expressed their displeasure with the royal wedding proceedings as the activists from the anti-monarchy group Republic has organized rallies on Friday April 29 to hit the wedding.

One British citizen commented on the Press TV Post:

You don't represent British people who have expressed their disgust with through more medias than one. For this parasite family who are not even British but German who trained the Nazis with their eugenics ideas. Now Alias why don't you just continue to be the old Zionist propagandist that you are don't bother to start defending the Brits. They know how to defend themselves. Fair enough?

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UK blames USZ for killing its aid worker

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Reports say that Britain has confirmed that an American soldier was responsible for the death of a kidnapped British aid worker in war-ravaged Afghanistan. British Foreign Secretary William Hague has told the parliament that Linda Norgrove was killed by a grenade thrown by a USZ soldier during her rescue operation. Norgrove was taken hostage in Afghanistan in September. Her death was initially blamed on her captors. Hague added that Norgrove was killed by injuries to her head and chest.

British aid worker Linda Norgrove who was killed by an American soldier in Afghanistan

Hague also said the soldiers initially covered up the use of a grenade on orders of their commanders. This, he noted, is a breach of the USZ military law. "The investigation team found that the failure to disclose information that a grenade was thrown breached USZ military law", he said. In a separate development, Afghan Puppet President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into NATO's killing of a local Afghan official in the country's south.

According to Puppet Karzai's office, troops broke into the house of a former district governor in the province of Helmand earlier this week. They killed him and arrested six members of his family. Local officials say preliminary investigations have revealed that the man was innocent. They say NATO forces have not responded to inquiries about the killing. USZ-led forces have some 150-thousands soldiers deployed in Afghanistan. They are often accused of killing civilians during operations against the country's militants.


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