Comments by "leafy" (@leafy803) on "BBC News"
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If two officers are holding his arms, restraining him and another then purposefully prepares himself physically to punch his head is that not similar in premeditation or awareness of serious harm as strangulation, which is, can be first degree murder, or does their proffessional capacity prevent that, or other factors. Would the other two be included as they took part in that part. Why did that happen, was it revenge, anger, embarrassment, frustration of him getting away or being caught by there own pepper spray. Is that then motive so premeditation? ( I watched video a while ago so please correct me if wrong, misleading interpretation )
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Arson or not, climate change can still create the fuel, difficulty controlling, vast wildfires.
Report explains locals concerns that "these temperatures are lasting, more severe and far more frequent are things they're scared about and how that may progress".
Long, hot temperatures, dry weather means more dry vegetation which is fuel for fire, more violent fires that are difficult to control leading to vast wildfires. Whether it starts from arson, human error, a spark, lightening or sun. Climate change is relevant to the cause or at least severity of wildfires.
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'In July of 1801, Elgin wrote to Giovanni Battista Lusieri, an Italian painter he employed to coordinate his marble collection in Athens: "I should wish to collect as many marble as possible. I have other places in my house which need it, and besides, one can easily multiply ornaments of beautiful marble without overdoing it."...
1816 parliamentary committee convened to evaluate Elgin's request that the British government purchase the Parthenon marbles from him. (Parliament went on to vote 82 to 30, to buy them and give them over to the British Museum)'
According to the paper, the government's committee report stated an Italian translation of the permit for removal was signed by the Ottoman Empires Acting Grand Vazier Abdullah Kaimacan, however as it is a translation, it's unlikely signed.
Title: DID ELGIN CHEAT AT MARBLES?, By: Rudenstine, David, Nation
Source: brown edu online
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Financially motivated?:
'ELGIN, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl (1766-1841). Autograph letter signed (‘Elgin’) to C.R. Broughton, B[room]hall, 13 June 1812.
Two pages, 224 x 183mm, bifolium, integral address leaf (repaired seal tear).
Lord Elgin eagerly reports on the arrival of the Elgin Marbles and the possibility of their sale to the British Government. After expressing some frustration at the state of his accounts, Elgin announces triumphantly the arrival of his Marbles: ‘I am very happy to say, all my Marbles are safe arrived – So that nothing is now in the way of an arrangement with Government – By which, I trust, to be very shortly above all the Embarassement in which you have so kindly helped me. What I now want is only till that transaction’.
Following the removal to Britain in 1812 of his final collection of Parthenon marbles – a shipment totalling around 80 cases – Elgin’s flagging hopes of negotiating a sale to the nation were revived, and with them, his chances of clearing the large debts he had incurred since 1801, when he first encountered the marbles. His financial difficulties would not be alleviated immediately: it would take until 1816, after a select committee of the House of Commons pronounced that Elgin had not misused his powers in removing the marbles, that the government would commit to their purchase, entrusting them henceforth to the British Museum.'
Source: Christie's Auction
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'The UK has provided more than £1 billion in aid to Yemen since 2015. However, UK assistance has fallen from a peak of £260 million in 2019 to £77 million in 2022. For 2022/23, the UK has pledged £88 million compared to £87 million in 2021/22. At the UN pledging conference in February 2023, the UK was the fourth largest donor to the country, again pledging £88 million for 2023/24.'
Research Briefing
'UK aid and Yemen’s humanitarian crisis'
Published Monday, 25 September, 2023
UK Government:
'Over the next financial year, the UK hopes to match last year’s budget and will pledge up to 88 million pounds.
This will feed at least 100,000 Yemeni people every month, provide lifesaving health care and nutrition services through 400 health care facilities, and treat 22,000 severely malnourished children this year.'
Published 27 February 2023
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'A teenager has been found guilty of stabbing 15-year-old Alan Cartwright to death as he tried to steal his bicycle.
Joshua Williams, 18, used a blade to attack Alan, as he rode along Caledonian Road, north London, with friends in February.
At the time of the attack, which was caught on CCTV, Williams had been on police bail on suspicion of possessing a 4in lock knife, although he was never charged.
..Following Thursday’s verdict, Alan’s family called for more police stop-and-searches and tougher, 10-year mandatory sentences to deter young people from carrying knives.
..On 4 March, Williams went to Islington police station with his parents to hand himself in, the prosecution said.
When asked why they were there, his mother told an officer it was about the incident in Caledonian Road, saying: “Yes, he’s involved, he did it.” As he was taken into custody, Williams, who lived off Holloway Road, north London, was heard by another officer to say: “It’s the right thing to do, isn’t it?”.
..But in his defence, Williams claimed he was at a youth club that night and he only went to the police station to tell them that he was not involved in the incident.
His parents and brother also gave evidence to back up his claims. However, the apparently religious family did not all swear on the bible in the witness box.
Rees told jurors that Williams’s alibi was in tatters and the evidence from his family was disappointing, because they had “decided to abandon their principles to support him in his lies to the court”.'
Guardian 17 SEP 2015
'Alan Cartwright murder: teenager found guilty'
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